I picked a fight with a DC!
After a 12 night dry spell I finally had another LD!
I went to sleep at 9.30pm. I suspect I was a little REM deprived from the previous night having only had 6 hours sleep. I woke up after about an hour. I woke up again at 2.30am and recalled a nonlucid dream fairly well. I went back to sleep and the next thing I knew I was in a LD :boogie:
I don’t remember becoming lucid. The dream had been going for quite a while so by the time I woke up I had forgotten the first part of the dream. The first thing I remember is being in the lounge of a small house with my husband, C and two random DCs – a guy and a girl. I was lucid. I had a piece of paper in my hand with some words written on it and I decided to see if the text would change. I looked away and looked back and sure enough the letters had changed! I did it again and they changed again. For some reason I found this little activity quite entertaining and kept doing it for quite a while. Sometimes the letters and numbers would change before my very eyes. I was really quite fascinated by it.
I then decided to play a little mind game with the male DC so I started telling him how this was just a dream and I could prove it. I showed him the letters and carefully read them out then moved the piece of paper away and back again but he wasn’t paying full attention and I was having a hard job convincing him the letters had changed. So I showed him a couple more times because I really wanted to see his reaction. He kept trying to claim I was wrong and that the letters weren’t changing but finally he couldn’t deny it any more and conceded that they were. I then asked him very deliberately “why do you think they’re changing?” so that he was forced to answer me. Somewhat reluctantly he admitted, “because it’s a dream”. I then asked, “So whose dream is it? Yours or mine?” He appeared quite stumped by my question. I was finding the whole conversation so comical! He finally replied with “I don’t know”. I then asked, “well, are you conscious?” knowing full well that he was a DC and therefore not a separate conscious entity to myself. He just sat there looking blank. So I told him it was my dream. Hilarious! :laughhard:
I then decided I’d had enough fun toying with this poor DC who was only trying to protect the whole “dream façade” :therethere: So I walked over to my husband C who was sitting on another couch. I suddenly felt quite warm and so I removed my pink cardigan (which seems to be a common garment for me to be wearing in a dream). Then I suddenly realized that I should be making the most of this lucid time and I should try to see my late brother D. So I told C that I was going outside to try and summon D.
I walked out the front door and down the steps onto the street. I could see a small garden behind the house next door so I walked over to it to get well away from the DCs in the house. I then tried to will D to appear but he didn’t. I shut my eyes to try again but realized shutting my eyes was a bad idea as it would be likely to wake me up. I called out to D. He still didn’t appear. In the middle of the garden was an overgrown concrete well. Every time I looked away and looked back the well appeared different. I then realized I wasn’t going to be able to summon D and so I should move on to something else. At this point I suddenly felt cold and I didn't have my cardigan with me. I was about to make one appear so I could put it on but then I thought "hang on, this is a dream so I don't have to feel cold" and I stopped feeling cold.
I decided to take a short flight. I then decided that it would be more satisfying if someone was about to attack me and I escaped from them by flying. I turned around and saw a cobblestone street. It was kind of an alley with slate grey buildings on both sides. There were quite a few people around. I started walking along the street specifically looking for someone who appeared as though they’d respond accordingly if I picked a fight with them. I saw a guy who looked like a bit of a crim and willed him to come over and harass me. He just walked past. Then I saw a girl walking along in the same direction as me with attitude written all over her face so I started walking alongside her annoyingly close, almost bumping her. Sure enough she started getting pissed off and went to give me a shove so I levitated up into the air away from her as planned. It felt great! :flyaway: Then I woke up. It was 4.21am.
Total lucid time = 10 minutes
This dream was interesting for me because I’ve read about how text is unstable in dreams on this forum but have never actually seen it myself. In the only dream I remember looking at text it was perfectly legible and stable and it was a complicated word! It was the real name of a medication “diclofenac” written on a medicine bottle.
Beautiful Children: A meeting with my subconscious
Monday 2nd February 2009
Wow! I got lucid three times in one night! :banana::banana::banana:
The night before I had a light, healthy stir-fry for dinner with heaps of the special type of Apple Juice that has given me success previously. I took a moment before bed to study my husband’s face closely, really looking at him and intensifying my conscious awareness level. I went to bed at around 10pm. Woke up at 3.45am. Got up, went to loo and did 10 minutes of logic puzzles. Went BTB and WILDed into a nonlucid dream.
I’ve just arrived at Warehouse Stationery to buy an ink cartridge for my printer (something I’d done in RL two days ago). I go in and ask a male shop assistant to direct me to where they are in the store. He tells me and I start walking through the store. Then I look at my watch. It is a gold analogue watch. It is not my RL watch but I don't notice this. It reads half past ten in the morning which is later than I had thought it was. I realize I’m due to start work at 12 and I’m going to have to go home first to get tidied up and put on some makeup. I wonder why I didn’t just come to the shop ready for work so I could carry straight on. I start walking towards the exit. I have apparently borrowed the store’s telephone to make a phone call because I’m carrying a portable handset in my hand. I walk past the counter and into the foyer/office on the way to the exit and I replace the handset on the base. It is a metallic aqua-blue colour. I think about how anyone with the same phone type could easily steal the handset.
I then walk outside and over to my car where lo and behold I see that I have parked it in such a manner that the driver’s door is inaccessible. It is parked with the drivers side only few inches away from a large rubbish skip. I think “Wtf? How can my car be parked like this? How did I get out? I would have had to climb over the passenger seat. Why would I park like that? And why don’t I remember climbing over the passenger seat and getting out of the passenger door?” :hrm: As I’m thinking all this I’m walking round to the passenger side and there’s a trolley parked up against the door. I do a reality check but I’m fully expecting it to pass because everything is so real. I pinch my nose and I can breathe! I’m completely amazed by this but refuse to be fooled like the last two times I’ve been able to breathe. (I have spent a lot of time priming myself in real life to accept that if I can breathe when I pinch my nose then I’m definitely dreaming no matter how real it seems.)
So I am now lucid. Yippee! I see a male shop assistant standing outside the store on the sidewalk. I walk over to him. I can’t believe how real everything is. I ask him “Excuse me but did you happen to see my brother in the store?” willing him to answer yes so I can go talk to my brother. He says “no”. I turn away from him and look down the road considering what to do next. I then remember one of my lucid goals which is to test out some specific reality checks for future use. I try the first which is to click my fingers - I can do it but it sounds dull and my skin feels funny. It's sort of rubbery. I then stand on my left leg and rotate my right foot in circles – it feels normal and my balance is fine. I start walking down the road and as I do I rub my tongue on the roof of my mouth – it feels normal. I decide I might be able to use clicking my fingers as a back-up reality check in case I ever doubt the nose pinch test again.
I then think about what to do next. I remember another lucid goal which is simply to examine something closely. I look around me. The road is slightly overgrown with foliage growing through cracks in the tarseal. I see a flower :sunflower: in the middle of the road and I walk over to it. I can hear a car coming from further down the road but I know I’m okay because I’m dreaming. I bend down and pick the flower but before I can look at it properly the car has approached. It is a red car with a family in it. The father is driving and he has slowed right down. I call out “just drive through me!” He slowly drives towards me but I somehow worry that the impact of the car knocking into me might wake me up so I step aside. They drive past but suddenly I feel this urge to go and meet them because they are a product of my imagination. I turn and call out “wait!” The car stops. It is now a convertible. I run over to it and ask “what are your names?” There are four people – the male driver, his female companion, a young girl of about nine and a young woman. The young girl replies “Stacey”. Then the young woman tells me that they really must go as they are attending a family emergency. They drive off.
I keep walking along the road which is more of a country lane now. I see some children walking in the opposite direction as me. I go over to three young girls who look about seven years old. I stop and talk to the one in the middle who is blonde and sweet in appearance. I say “wow this is so cool! You are all part of…” and before I can finish my sentence she finishes it for me “your dream”. “Yeah” I reply and I stroke her hair back from her forehead lovingly. I am marveling at the fact that she is actually part of me. I consider how some of the people on the dream forum believe that DCs are separate conscious entities and I can see why they are fooled. I then say to her “I’d better keep moving because I don’t want to… you know” and she confirms what I’m hinting at by saying “wake up”. I jokingly say “shhh” as if saying it out loud might make it happen.
Then I turn and keep walking and all these beautiful young children are walking past me. I see a very young girl carrying a small torch. I ask her if I can have it. I want to see what happens if I switch it on. Big mistake! As soon as I switch it on a bright light floods everywhere waking me up.
It was 6.30am. Total lucid time = 3 minutes. I could easily have done DEILD but if it didn’t work and I ended up in a nonlucid dream I may have lost recall of my lucid.
It’s funny because when I first started lucid dreaming I would avoid DCs like the plague because I found them to be a distraction. Now however I love interacting with them.
Went BTB at 8am. WILDed but just slept unconsciously for 20 minutes. Woke up at 8.30am. WILDed again. Went into a nonlucid dream where I was back at the Warehouse Stationery shop thinking how interesting it was that this is where I’d been in my LD. Unfortunately the dream ended and I entered a new dream. I was play wrestling in bed with my husband when I glanced up onto the wall and saw a large tea-coloured stain. I knew we didn’t have a big stain on the wall like that and it seemed to be spreading before my eyes so I did the nose pinch test. I could breathe. I told my husband to jump off me, stood up and tried to will my brother to be behind me. I turned around but he wasn’t there. I called his name a few times then I had a brief awakening.
I entered a new dream. I was at home and mum had obviously visited the house while I’d been out because she’d left some things there including a cabinet by the front door and some cutlery in a drawer. I walked outside and saw an insect caught in a spider’s web. Then I saw a large black spider come out and start trying to eat it but the insect grew into a miniature brown horse about six inches tall. I thought this was pretty weird so did the nose pinch test. I could breathe but then I woke up.
I could have done DEILD again so easily. I had to fight to stay awake. However I wanted to get up and on with my day! It was 9.30am.