Thread: My little hut of insanity

The night between October 15th and 16th

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I'm inside this huge dome-like building with an artificial sea and beach. I think I was there with my family and we went for a swim. There were enormous waves there. I think I had a contest with people from my school and an odd mixture of video game characters (I've forgotten who, though) on who could get highest up on one of the waves.

I couldn't be bothered getting up and writing this dream down after I had it so the details have faded. The dream was extremely vivid though, as were all the other dreams I had this night. I've recently been having more vivid dreams than before, possibly because of my acne medication or the cortisone that goes along with it? I certainly hope it isn't the latter since I only have two weeks' worth more of that stuff whereas the former might give me vivid dreams for months.

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The quest for the Chrono Trigger

I'm in an art gallery of some sort. The room I'm in is cramped and branches of to several other rooms. There is a spiral staircase in the middle. My art teacher is present. I take a look on the paintings on the walls and somehow I know they all depict some kind of emotion. (you tell me what emotion a flower vase on a table is supposed to represent <.<) As I scan through the paintings, I spot one that I somehow know is my own: it's a black-and-white picture of a hallway seemingly drawn with a pencil. There is a bureau leaning against a wall and a mirror above it and at the end of a hallway and an old-fashioned oak door at the end. Naturally, since I'm the artist, I know the drawing is about loneliness, although why, I don't know.

I've apparently had enough and walk up the spiral staircase. I don't know what happened inbetween, but the next thing I know, I'm running for my life through our backyard. I hide behind the empty gate waiting for my pursuer and it's pitch-black outside. I want to slam the gate in the face of whoever is after me, but I'm too slow and fail to do so so I just make a run for it. As I run down the street, I take a look behind me and there's a watch dog after me it quickly catches up with me, but it doesn't seem aggressive at all, nor does it seem happy. The dog is showing absolutely no body signs, which is very odd for a dog and so I realize I must be dreaming. As soon as I come to this conclusion, however, the dream scene fades out and suddenly, I'm standing face-to-face with my pursuer in a non-lucid state. He was a short- rather chubby man, but his face was covered. Next to me is another person whose appearance I don't remember, but I think she was Kid from Chrono Cross. The man mocks us because apparently he had fooled us somehow to which Kid replies: "And you trust just anyone who calls themself a radical dreamer." The man seems shocked by this reply and starts digging behind his ear, apparently searching for something, but to no avail. I glance at Kid and she seems to be holding the Chrono Trigger. (or the Time Egg or whatever you want to call it, anyone who has played Chrono Trigger or Chrono Cross knows what I'm talking about) Suddenly it struck me that this is what we had been after all along and I get a feeling of accomplishment.

Suddenly the dream fades and I'm back in my bed in the clutches of sleep paralysis, something which is not all that uncommon for me after lucid experiences. (even very brief ones) I decide now is a perfect time to try out a DEILD and so I begin imagining myself back in my dream, but I just can't seem to fall asleep. Finally I get up and leave my room. I go to the kitchen to get myself a drink and as I pass the dining room, I notice there's a plate of hotdogs and a glass of strawberry soup (I seriously tend to drink that stuff in the morning, so sue me) there for me. As I sit down to take a bite of the first hotdog, I wake up for real.

Well, this dream sure was trippy. It's a shame that ever since I've been consciously trying to have lucid dreams, my mind usually boots me out of the lucid state before I even have the chance to try stabilizing the dream. Only two of the lucid dreams I've had since starting my dream journal has actually lasted longer than two seconds max and excitement definitely isn't the reason this happens to me as I've had at least 6 lucid dreams before I even knew what they were called and all of those lasted long enough for me to actually do something. Oh well, if I keep getting moments of lucidity as frequently as I have since starting my journal, I'm bound to have some good ones, right?

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The concert of a lifetime

I'm in a huge crowded room. The place is full of people who seem to be between the ages of 7 and 15. I've never seen the place before, but I know it's in my school. There is a stage there and a young man in his twenties is up on the stage with a guitar. He's playing these really simple children's songs... and failing miserably at it. As his ungainly performance comes to an end, he gets up and apologizes for how badly he played and said in his defense: "I'm not that good with riffs."

I wake up again. I look at the clock and it's about 8:45 in the morning so I decide it's time to get up. I even did a reality check and passed, but I still have an odd feeling, but I dismiss it as paranoia after the first false awakening, but just in case I tell myself that if this is a dream, something unexpected will happen when I open my door. As I reach for the handle of the door of my room, I suddenly become paralyzed and the next thing I know, I'm staring at the ceiling of my room. The paralysis wore of after a matter of seconds.

Not much to say about this dream, but I had my first two false awakenings this night, which is just mind-blowing. Heh, maybe I should try chaining false awakenings the next time I become lucid. To be honest, I wasn't the least bit disappointed to find out I could have become lucid if I had just been more thorough with my reality checks due to how awesome it is to get up from bed only to wake up right after. =P

After nearly a week of little to no dream recall, I seem to have gotten some of it back after having tried out the Brainflooder. I created a folder full of pictures from Kingdom Hearts to see if I would have any dreams related to it and I got what I asked for and a little more. =D Unfortunately I can't remember quite a few of the dreams I had, but I'm content with this night's recall. The interesting things about tonight's dreams is that I know exactly which pictures from the Brainflooder created certain elements in them.

October 23 - 24th

But I don't want this controller!
I'm downstairs at home with my friend. Apparently he has lte me borrow his Playstation 2 and we're about to play some two-player game on it. He has a wide variety of controllers, but they are all oddly shaped and extremely uncomfortable.

Just one decoration... please?
It feels like I'm watching some kind of video game from inside the game and two people from school are also there although I can't see them. We are apparently making a group project together (despite not even being on the same class) and we're designing some kind of castle. There is an editor window from which we choose various decorations and such. We've already built a huge castle on a cliff by a lake and although it looks great, I insist on adding some statues to make the castle look even more magnificent. However, neither of the people in my group agree with me and we keep on arguing. Suddenly we're transported onto the castle wall and both me and my schoolmates have bodies now. We walk to this huge balcony with a great view over the lake still arguing about the decorations and I have a small statue of a lion in my hand. I place it on the railing and say I'll stop arguing if we can keep that lion there and they agree.

One thing to note about this dream was its intense vividness. I was rather disappointed with the landscape as it looked like it belonged in a really old 3D game, but the texture of the bricks on the castle was incredibly detailed not to mention how awe-inspiring the lighting was. The little stone lion was also beautifully detailed and somehow I felt a strong sentimental connection to it, as if it was something I had owned all my life.

Burn, baby, burn
I'm standing on the beach that's only a few dozen of meters away from my house. Someone is standing next to me, though, who, I don't remember. Apparently I've done something wrong and the next thing I know, I'm lying on the beach engulfed in flames. I know I'm not going to die because the next part of the punishment for whatever it is I did is throwing me into the sea so I lie there completely still and let the flames lick my body and I notice it doesn't hurt, not one bit. In fact, I only feel a pleasant warmth spreading through my body so I just shut my eyes and lie there completely still.

One awesome trailer
Me and my friend are watching the latest trailers for Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days and Birth By Sleep on a computer. For some reason there's a clip of Sora fighting Bowser from the Mario series and I accidentally push a button on the computer keyboard and realize I can actually control Sora and that this trailer is actually interactive and once you've figured that out, you can play a demo of Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, BBS and Coded. Somehow I get the demo of 358/2 Days on my DS and me and my friend go to this basement... thing because his cousin (possibly his brother, neither of which I've ever even seen) needs help with Kingdom Hearts. My brother starts instructing the cousin/brother/whatever as I play the demo. I notice the battle system is an odd mix between that of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories and the traditional battle system, but I'm too excited about actually getting to play the game to consider that weird so I carry on. In the game, Roxas is in an odd kind of world that seems like a mix between Beast's Castle, Hollow Bastion and Neverland and from time to time, he seems to transform to Sora. I finally reach the boss, Guard Armor, which should be familiar to anyone who has played KH 1 or Chain of Memories. I defeat it with ease and I see the familiar camera effect from Kingdom Hearts II after you defeat a boss. Then a The World Ends With You-style battle report pops up and I'm happy to see I got a star on both damage and time. I start telling my friend how I won't stop playing this demo until the real game comes out and then the dream ends.

I woke up after this feeling awesome. Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is a game I'm really looking forward to and my dream demo of it sure lived up to my expectations. I was still feeling tired though so I tried getting some more sleep when I got an odd ringing sound in my ears. This is something I've experienced from time to time, but today I figured for the first time that it might be related to sleep paralysis so instead of reacting to this sound like I usually do, I let it grow stronger and shortly after, I felt vibrations through my whole body. I let them intensify, but then it struck me that it's probably time to get up soon and having a WILD end in getting woken up only minutes after falling asleep would probably suck so I cancelled my attempt, but for ten seconds or so, my body remained paralyzed which confirmed that I was on the right track. I haven't tried WILDing before since I was worried unsettling imagery or sounds could rob me of my night's sleep, but now that I know the effects of sleep paralysis on me are relatively mild, I don't have to worry anymore.

October 29th - 30th

It's been a while since I had any noteworthy dreams as I've been rather stressed due to school lately. Last night, however, was fairly good. I tried autosuggestion before going to sleep as well as during the night when I woke up after my first dream. (the first one was for recall, the second one for lucidity)

So terribly late
I'm out at town with my bicycle when I suddenly realize there's somewhere I have to be and I'm going in the wrong direction. It was something school related and I felt like I was going to be late. I then spot two of my classmates and decide to tag along. I have no idea how we ended up there, but suddenly we're on this dirt road next to the sea leading up to a cliff. Suddenly I'm not party of the dream anymore, but I'm watching it in third person and I can see the number 5000 (possibly 50000) floating up in the air in orange.

After this I wake up and as I try to fall asleep again, I repeat the following sentence in my mind: "I will be more aware of my surroundings and will become lucid" with the following result:

The Keyblade master...?
A dream scene is forming in front of meand I'm fully aware of what's happening. I find myself in my room at the bookshelf and to gain some stability, I lean against the shelf with all my weight and try to feel it with my hands. When I'm done doing that, I rub my hands together just in case. I float out of my room towards the kitchen (who needs to walk? =P) and once there, I start thinking of what to do. The first thing that pops up in my mind is that I should try summoning a Keyblade so I attempt to summon one to no avail so I get up in the air and fly through the ceiling thinking that there will be one outside on the roof and there actually is, but to my disappointment, it seems to be made out of cheap plastic. Not exactly what I had hoped for. For some reason I get the urge to fly down onto my backyard and as I do so, I concentrate too much on what to do next and forget my surroundings and so the dream fades.

Well, it was a lucid dream, but on the downside, it wasn't very vivid at all and apparently I have to work on my dream control a bit. However, it was one of my longest lucid dreams yet, and for that, I'm happy. Seems like I'm starting to get the hang of extending my lucid dreams although since my lucidity was rather poor, I forgot a lot of things I should have done before starting to explore my dream world.

November 03rd - 04th
Soo, after a while of no notable dreams and rather bad vividness, I had two extremely vivid dreams, one of which I've unfortunately mostly forgotten due to the second dream being so awesome. After the first dream, I briefly wake up and try to fall asleep again when I hear a familiar ringing sound in my right ear: something I know recognize as a hypnagognic hallucination and decide I might as well try to WILD. As I lie on my bed, I hear something that sounds like someone shouting in the background and the ringing sound grows stronger. Soon my whole body seems to vibrate, but that feeling soon fades. Soon after, I feel pressure on my chest and it feels as if I'm floating in the air, and then I can suddenly see despite having my eyes closed. As I get up from bed, I feel my body resisting, something which is not all too uncommon for me during lucid dreams where I wake up in bed and false awakenings. I manage to get up and suddenly my body feels really light. Although I'm completely sure I'm asleep, I glance at my hand and can count up to six fingers.

I walk out of my room and I'm truly amazed of how vivid the dream is. I've had quite a few lucids before, but they've often been blurry and I always have huge memory gaps in the dream. In this dream it felt exactly as if I had really been awake. I feel like walking into my parents' bedroom and waking them up just to see how they'd react, but despite having done a reality check, I'm still unsure of whether or not I'm dreaming due to how realistic everything feels. Instead, I go (float) to the living room and on the way there, I notice the older one of my two big brothers is in the kitchen making tea, something he always does in the middle of the night, which makes me even more doubtful about my state. As I reach the living room, I just float there and take a look at my reflection in the window and in my reflection, I'm standing, not floating. By now, I truly wonder if I'm going crazy or if I'm really dreaming. I leave the living room and decide to go downstairs, but I stop in the staircase to decide what to do next. As I sit there, my dog approaches me and I hug her to see if the dream can simulate the texture of her fur. It kinda did, but her fur felt greasy and there was an odd smell surrounding her. I let go and go downstairs, thinking that a friend of mine will appear behind the corner. To my disappointment, she doesn't. I do, however, see the younger one of my brothers sitting at his computer. I ignore him, though, as I here sounds from the shower and head there only to see my older brother, who just a moment ago was upstairs. I try to tell him that I'm dreaming, but my voice sounds muffled and the sound of the shower seems to grow louder the more I try to make myself heard. Then my brother tells me to "get the hell out and go play Puzzle Bobble or something." I do as he tells and go to my other brother instead and tell him I'm dreaming, to which he replies something along the lines of "lolwut?" His answer annoyed me as it was so obvious to me that I was telling the truth so I try to prove it to him by walking through a wall. I jump towards our piano with my head first only to find that I cannot pass through it. Annoyed, I decide to try changing the scenery so I start spinning around trying to visualize Hollow Bastion from the Kingdom Hearts series in front of me, but when I open my eyes, instead of Hollow Bastion, I see my real room in the real world.

The interesting thing about this dream is that even though this dream was extremely vivid and I had greater lucidity than ever before, I couldn't control anything barring my own actions in it. The only thing I've mastered so far is floating. I'm definitely going to start paying a lot more attention to WILDing now that I've seen what it can lead to. Never have I had such a vivid or long lucid dream before.

For some reason I always seem to forget about my dream journal until I have a lucid dream, which I really shouldn't since I don't have an offline dream journal.

November 12th - 13th

Tonight I tried WILDing after waking up in the morning earlier than I would have needed to. In matter of seconds I find myself in my dream bed. I know I'm dreaming, but I do a reality check anyway and my hand had seven (I think) fingers on it. Since I'm curious to do how other reality checks work for me, I pinch my nose and find that I can breathe just fine. As I open the door of my room I try to imagine a friend of mine behind it, but like in my last LD, with no success. Frustrated, I try to float like I've done several times before and find it extremely hard, but eventually I manage to get myself a few centimeters of the ground. I go to our grand piano to see what playing it would be like in a dream. I try to play Loss of Me from Final Fantasy IX, a piece I know quite well, but the piano ends up playing completely different notes than the ones I'm trying to play. It was quite a beautiful melody, but not what I wanted. I tried playing Aerith's theme from Final Fantasy VII as well, but this time it sounded simply horrible. I decide to leave piano playing for a more vivid and clear lucid dreamand I head for the stairs. My dog is there so I tell her to follow me and she does. Downstairs, I head towards my computer and notice a piano chair on the floor behind my computer. I approach it cautiously because I have the strangest feeling it's going to attack me and it's wiggling in an odd way. I tell it to back off and it does. However, I want to meet a dream character and the house seems to be empty so I try changing the scenery by spinning. Halfway through my first spin, I suddenly go stiff and can't move my muscles at all. Shortly after, I wake up.

This dream unfortunately wasn't very vivid, but I gained some more much needed WILDing experience. Hopefully I'll learn to WILD more consistently as the two I've had have come to me very effortlessly.

Okay, I'm hopeless with keeping a dream journal. I only ever seem to remember it when I have a lucid dream. =P I wasn't even planning to type down this one, but then I realized I completed one of my lucid goals in this dream so here we go:

November 22nd - 23rd
I'm sitting in the backseat of a car, but I'm under the impression that I'm watching a movie. There are two men in the front seats. The driver is holding a cellphone and the guy sitting next to him is threatening him with a knife. Suddenly I realize that if I'm watching a movie, I shouldn't be sitting in the backseat of the car. I take the driver's cellphone and the calendar is open. For some unexplainable reason, I look at it and what do you know: it showed yesterday's date. (it was only a couple of hours off) I decide to ignore the people in the car (don't know why, though, since I really want to have a discussion with a dream character) and step outside. I'm outside a store not too far away from my house and as I start walking down the street, I get the sudden urge to make it rain so I say out loud my desire and soon I can feel cold rain drops on my skin. (the cloudy sky probably made it easier, I'd imagine) I then start flying around a bit, not too fast due to bad experiences with flying at high speeds. I then decide it's time for another test and try making it sunny. It didn't quite work: the rain disappeared and I could see a glimmer of light behind the dark clouds, but I wouldn't call that sunny weather. I fly higher into the sky and just for a moment, my mind wanders and I wake up.

A lucid goal (controling the weather) completed! I didn't have full control, but I did control the weather so it kinda counts. =P

Good job in doing that! That's more Dream Control than I've ever had, so congratz!

My lucid dreams don't let me control them as well as yours do...I need to send my subconscious to obediance school.

EDIT: Btw so sorry for interrupting your DJ pleasedon'tkillme