Thread: Dreams of Dreaming

The night after I was on the site me and my boyfriend watched a scary movie and then we went to sleep. I told myself that I would dream lucidly and would control my dream...

That night I was dreaming that I was walking down a scary staircase and before I rounded a corner I just knew there would be something scary on the other side, so I started thinking "No, it won't be scary it won't be scary at all" and suddenly a funny giant cartoon character appeared and the whole room went white. I then was lucid for a while but it was just a plain white room and I woke up soon after.
I was very excited that I went lucid and I quickly went back onto DV and read up on WILD.................

Around 7 am on this particular morning I woke up briefly and decided to go back to sleep but wanted to attempt a WILD. So I got really comfortable, put my eye mask on, slowed my breathing and counted a little and said "I'm dreaming" or "I will control my dream" I did this for a while but soon I just let myself fall asleep (or so I thought)...

I didn't feel vibrations or anything but suddenly I noticed the hypnogogic images swirling before my eyes I realized I must be beginning to dream so like DV said I told myself to focus on one of the swirls, so I focused on a round one and suddenly it turned into a bright red apple, I got excited but remained calm and said "Ok I'm dreaming" and then the apple sucked me in and I entered my dream.
I entered into a mall/office type place. People were everywhere and there was stuff being sold in different rooms. I knew I had to keep the dream alive so I focused on everything I passed by, I saw a green scarf and felt it, I rubbed a women's fuzzy sweater and I held a magenta jeweled pin in my hand. Then I found myself at a jewelry kiosk where a very cute guy named Kevin was working. I asked him to buy me some diamond earrings and he wrote down their price ($160) haha I wish that was the real life price. Then I asked him what he wanted to do and he said "You”, lol. I thought it would be nice to meet up with him later so I told him so and went on with my dream.

At one point I had a false awakening in a hotel room with my brother and sister and then re-entered the same dream, with full lucidity, except everything was distorted and the rooms weren't laid out in the same way. I was a little annoyed because I wanted to find Kevin again but everything was different. So, still being lucid, I thought "when i turn this corner, the jewelry kiosk will appear" sure enough I went around the corner and boom there it was! Kevin was busy with customers ,lol, so I decided I would try to fly but didn't really succeed.

Then it started becoming too difficult to hold the dream so I decided I would wake up and I did, in my real bed in my room. I was very excited and wrote it down.

This was a very vivd, real and very consious lucid dream...

Before the LD - My sister called me at 8am telling me she found a dog running around on a busy street and needed my help. We are both animal lovers and yes, I always stop when I see a dog running around as well. So I got up and put on some jeans but then she called back and said some ladies at a near buy office had a leash and would keep the dog there until the owners came (he had a collar on and lived near by) Anyways...... I had a headache and wasn't quite ready to get up so I put on my pjs and went back to bed.

I thought about having a lucid dream and lay there comfortably thinking about a dream scene and I kind of drifted off but then after feeling like I had fell through my mattress I sat up and looked around my room. It looked the same but had a sort of fog, not blurriness, to it and I immediately knew I was dreaming. So I stepped out of bed and went out to my living room. I live in an apartment and the living room is right outside of my room. It was so strange, everything was the same, the smell, the feel of the carpet, the creaks in the floor boards, the layout of the place. But, since it was a dream, there was something slightly off about everything.

The haze was all over the apartment and there was clutter on the coffee table, the floor, the corners of the room that in real life is never there. My cat was there like usual, but when she came up to me I realized she only had one eye in the middle of her head. I didn't think all that much about it but thought it was pretty funny.

Then I decided to let her out, she's an inside cat, but not this time. I flew around and picked her up and flew around with her and then I began flying down the road and somehow ended up in a library type place. There was a lot of people there and I told them we were all dreaming but they looked at me like I was crazy.

After that, I ended up in a keg/college party with a lot of people I went around and told everyone there we were al in a big dream but they all thought I was drunk. I poured beer on a lot of them, haha. I saw my friend Britt there and then her boyfriend appeared. We all did a three way kiss (random, yes) and then I false awoke, but with out even having to reality check I knew i was dreaming again. Then I don't remember much but I know that at one point I did a RC with the light switch but the light turned on and off! So I woke up, and scribbled everything down quickly

This was an awesome LD. It was soooooooo real and amazing. My mind boggles me. It was like I was in another dimension, like, it was my apartment, but on another plane. In real life we always call my cat an alien, because she meows very strangely and will just stare at nothing with her big green eyes for hours. So, in this dimension, she really was an alien cat. I interpreted all of the clutter as memories I’ve had in the apartment, non-physical things that, in this dimension, my mind had made physical.

I love lucid dreaming!

Not sure if this was a WILD, it wasn’t a DILD, I’m not sure. I simply began the dream knowing I was dreaming…

I was outside somewhere and knew I was dreaming and I immediately began to fly (this is now becoming my reality check). One of my goals was to fly up in to space and so I did and it was awesome! I flew way up and saw all of the stars around me and then I was like in a middle of a comet field or something because all of these amazing pink/yellow stars were flying around me.

After that and throughout the dream I kept going in and out of lucidity.

At one point I found myself on top of a building and thinking I was dreaming but not being convinced. I wanted to jump off the building and fly but then began thinking “Wow, people could really kill themselves this way if they thought they were dreaming but really weren’t” (haha, of course you would KNOW in real life) Well, then I turned my head and there hanging on another building was a giant clock. REALITY CHECK! I looked at it, saw the time, looked back, it changed. I was convinced, I jumped off and flew. Then I must of lost lucidity again as I don’t really remember much after that.

It was a cool lucid either way 

This happened on early Monday morning Feb 23, about 5 am....

I got up to lock my cat in her crate because she was scratching, purring, being annoying... I locked her up, used the bathroom, took my dog out and then crawled back in bed. My alarm was going off at 6, so I knew I only had an hour left of sleep. This knowing was probably what kept me in a light sleep. Around 5:35 I woke up in complete sleep paralysis, I've been experiencing this for many years so I knew what it was but now (thanks to DV) I have the knowledge to control it...

So I lay there and told myself I would be dreaming soon. I got the suffocation feeling, every breath felt like a huge chore to get through, I also felt electric currents going through my body, I felt it in my bones! Then I felt myself slipping backwards and I knew it was working... Then I guess I was trying to seperate from my physical self because I thought I had tumbled off my bed onto the floor, another time I was somersaulting on top of my bed. It was very dark and I began to think,"Ok, I'm dreaming, but I need light".... Suddenly I found myself walking down a dim lit hallway but atleast I was away from my bed, once I mantained full control I began to fly and I flew down the stairs and out the door of the random house I was in...

When I got outside, I was still flying and what I saw was very strange... The first thing I saw was a grassy platfrom hover by. On top of this platform was a strange looking cat, a green dog and mini-wolves. I said hi to them and they kind of scowled at me and continued on thier way. Then I noticed that the entire place was filled with these flying platforms and they all had little beings on top of them. Like some wierd animal city.

Then I found myself flying through a warehouse type place and the flying platforms were still there but giant humans had now appeared. Still lucid, I flew up to the head of one of these humans and said "hi!". It was a guy with long hair and he offered me a plate of hors d'oeuvres

BEEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEEEEEP

My alarm went off and I woke up sluggishly but very excited

Damn Alarms...

Good short lucid.

I've always wanted to fly. How does it feel?

Weird Animal city

Damn alarm eh?

Congrats on poppin that WILD cherry

[Finally transferring from my written DJ]

This happened on the early morning of 2/23...

I had woken up in sleep paralysis again, I stayed calm and didn't struggle. I felt my body fall backwards and felt a weird sensation all over, like I had just slipped to a new world...

I got up and looked around, I'm in a empty field somewhere and I have full consciousness, I know I'm dreaming. I see a house in the distance and I walk up to it. Its more like a cabin, really old and broken down, holes in the roof, pipes sticking out... I walk in, there are a bunch of what I can only describe as rednecks. They all had camo gear and denim on, they had trucker hats and horribly crooked teeth. They were celebrating something and welcomed me in. I didn't have a particular lucid goal in mind so I thought it would be fun to just see where the dream took me. It began to get too crowded so I left.

Then I'm transported to a new scene, I'm walking down a dirt road and I see some horses in the distance. I walk up to them and I see its a few of my "friends" waiting for me. We are all about to ride the horses bareback. I climb on mine, he is a gorgeous brown stallion. I climb on his back and situate myself. We begin to go but I find it very hard to hold on. I grab his mane, it feels so real! I yell out "I will ride this horse" and sure enough he bolts and we gallop down the dirt road into a forest. I now have full balance. I can feel every gallop and the wind swishes through my hair so vividly. Soon I'm thrown off and I FA in my bed.

I quickly realize I'm still dreaming and I'm now transported in a train. At this point, for reasons unknown, I feel very sluggish and lazy in my lucid. It becomes hard to hold the dream so I decide to sit down in the train and just take in the scene. I look out one of the windows, it is night time but the way the sun/moon is hitting the water in the distance is amazing. It is a beautiful purple color. It stretches across the horizon, I think to myself how cool it is that in my sleep I can be sitting here on some destination unknown train looking at a beautiful moonset. I wake up soon after....

The most lucid lucid dream ever -I didn't want to control or change anything, I loved the scene I was in and wanted to just follow the dream on whatever trip it would take me... (I'm not going to count this as a LD, for reasons known only to me )

We started off in a hotel room, a really fancy old money been around since the 1920's kind of hotel. It had a little living room attached to the bedroom with the king size bed. There was a mini-bar in the living room, a desk where I guess I placed my laptop on.....then we had some orange juice and some candy, but it was gross, it tasted like rotten mushrooms, but in a good way....

Then we were walking down the street by the hotel. We were in a big city, sky scrapers with strange architecture, painted pigs and coffee shops were everywhere! As we walked down the street I saw that there was the ocean at the bottom o the hill. We had to make our way down....

Things suddenly began to change, they didn't look quite right......The water turned this very cool rainbow color, the street and the walls began to sway and everyone around began to morph into non human like beings... I realized I must be dreaming!

We kept walking down the streets, every thing looked realy weird, but it was cool. We kept walking, and I was just looking at everything, taking in what my mind offered me Then suddenly a giant mushroom appeared in the distance, and at closer glance I realized it was the space needle! So I figured I was in "Seattle", but this version of it was very different. Slightly creepy like Gotham City, but also with a very cool vibe, if that makes sense.

Well then we walked around a corner and there was this city park on the right, with an old chainlink fence and graffiti written on the swing set. Suddenly some really creepy music came on, it was booming in my ears and some really creepy bum type guys came around the corner. I think I may have lost lucidity because I got scared and didn't think that I could control it and make it go away. We walked quickly away and soon things were fine and I laughed because I realized I was still dreaming.

Then I ended up back in the hotel. The room looked very different, the walls were vibrating, there was crazy paintings everywhere.... I decided to try the laptop out, that didn't work so well. Nothing seemed to work when I tried and it was very difficult to concentrate on it, even though I was lucid. Funny how technology never seems to work.....

So after a little bit of exploring the room, we ventured back out into the city. This time, Seattle looked more normal and looked like the one I'm use to We walked around, flew down the ally ways, where we also smoked a joint

It's blurry after then and I woke up as I caught one last glimpse of the moonlit ocean.

Awesome Lucid!!!

This past week I was determined to LD on the weekend, since I work M-F and get up early, I can't really do it then. So, had a late night out last night, probably drank too many beers because I woke up at 6am and had to a little

After that I felt better, it was about 7 am and awake enough to attempt to LD. I laid in bed and repeated my mantra.... Then I woke up briefly in SP, but I didn't struggle at all, I kept my eyes shut and told myself I would be dreaming soon, then I saw all of these swirls in front of my eyes and suddenly I woke up and jumped out of bed, I walked out to my living room but then quickly turned around because I heard a noise coming from my room, I walked back into it and suddenly an arm from under my bed, grabbed my leg. Startled, I jumped back and realized immedietly I was indeed dreaming. I did a quick nose plug, it failed so I went back into my living room.

I basically walked around the room for awhile, looked at stuff, wrote some things down on papers that were randomly falling from the ceiling...
Then I decided it was time to go outside, I called for Bradley (my dog) to come with, he happily came along. When I got outside, it wasn't my regular apartment complex, instead I was in my parents neighborhood. I began walking around and then a lady pushing her child in a stroller appeared walking down the street. We had a brief converstation, I can't really recall. Then I decided to start flying, I managed to hover off the ground for a little while. The lady looked at me like I was crazy and said "Your weird" and continued on her way. Then I finally was able to fly better but Bradley was just looking at me, upset that he couldn't join. I tried to get him to fly, or have wings appear on him, but it didn't work.

Then somehow I found myself in a house, an old Victorian style house. It was yellow everywhere and had old antiques cluttered around. There was a tea party going on, little pastries, cheeses and chocolates were every where. I tried the cheese, it was really gooey, I had a pastry and it was sooooo sweet . As I was eating, I suddenly remembered the March task - eat green eggs and ham. I began yelling, "I need green eggs and ham!". I began wondering through the house and asked any random person that crossed if they had any eggs or ham. No success So I went back down to the tea party room and under a coffee table I found an already cooked egg sunny side up. It was very small and I tried to turn it green, I was concentrating so hard but all I managed to do was have the egg bubble up and some red stuff oozed out. It was gross and I admitted defeat....

Then my sister, Drea, walked through the door. I was like "Drea, your in my dream!" She got excited and said she'd be my little tag along

We began wondering through the house and for some odd reason I began singing "A Whole New World" from Disney's Alladin (which is my fav old school Disney movie) As I was singing, I thought that it would be really cool to visit Jasmine's palace in the movie. I turned to Drea and told her that when we walk outside I was going to have the palace appear. So, we walked outside, it was night, but sure enough I could see the top outline of the palace! Next to it was the big Cinderella castle from Disney Land. It looked sooo real and full of detail. We took in the scene for a little bit and then went to go explore it. We found ourselves on a cliff and couldn't figure out how to get down to the palace. I was probably semi-lucid at this point because we should of just flown down there. Then my boyfriend Phill called me from the house we were just in, he said he found Bradley, that he must of followed me. Things get confusing here, I remember having a headache in my dream and I was thinking that I must have one in "real life". Then we all ended up back in my room in my apartment...

I grabbed my laptop and went on to DV I was in the chat and told everyone "I'm in a lucid dream right now". I then went to post something about beign lucid at the moment but finally reasoning caught up with me and I realized that it wouldn't really post because I was actually sleeping. After this, I false awoke in my bed. This really creepy baby thing like the one from Benjamin Button, was in my bed, I covered he/she/it up and tried to do a nose plug but my arms didn't move. I thought "I need text" sure enough there was a poster on my wall and I did the text RC, the words changed and I was relieved to be dreaming again but then I woke up for reals.....

Very fun lucid, I wish I was able to get to the palace, but atleast I made it appear.... OH and yes, I had a headache and still do

I don't know the exact date on this one but it was in the early AM hours of the week of April 6th.....

So I'm walking in a mall, for some reason, and I have no idea what triggered it but I thought "I'm dreaming!", I did a nose pinch and I could breath so I began walking around...

There are giant escalaters everywhere, atleast 5 coming from all directions. The floors are made out of white marble and the escalators and the walls are in a gold finish. I start riding up one of the escalaters but want to do something more exciting so I fly off. I fly straight up and then shoot down, it was hard to control. I'm frusterated because I know i'm dreaming but the control isn't very good (DILDs for me are never as good as WILDs - thus far)

I lose lucidity for a little bit and then I find myself walking in one of the departments, lucidity back. I notice a couple men walk by, I just stare, take them in, wonder where I've seen them before. Then I walk around and look at the clothes, its all a little blurry.... then I wake up

The non lucid preamble...

I'm in a store, like a Target. I'm with my sister and a couple random DCs. We are locked in and some bad guys are holding us there. We spend this part of the dream sneaking around, finding others hiding and trying to find a way out. Then, suddenly my parents are there and they are like "we need to get out". So we find an exit, there is snow everywhere and snowmobiles happened to be lines up for us, ready to go. So we all hop on and cruise down the snowy slopes. We arrive at a new community, there is a guy there, he greets us and says we are safe now. I notice there are a lot of people here (its like a beach type place now). Suddenly I realize I forgot clothes and I'm naked

I run into a nearby building (an old building like an old school or something) and tell my sister to come with. She happens to have a skirt and a tank top in her purse. I put it on and then we begin wondering around the house. Suddenly the bad guys from the store appear, they grab my sister and throw her in their car, I run after and they grab me and throw me in as well.

They speed off with us and we are driving down a very windy road. Then we come to a huge hill, they gas it and we fly down the hill, suddenly the car begins to lift off the ground and I think.... " Wait, I'm dreaming!"

LUCID

I immediately get out of the car and fly off. Then I find myself walking through a city, I conclude that is Seattle. I'm just happy to be dreaming and I take in all the scenery, I look at the buildings, they are soo real. I am amazed at how accurate my mind remembers things. I see people walk by and I wonder "Have I met you, are you a random face I've seen at a bar, a store....?"

I continue wondering (bits and pieces are not clear) I find myself in another building, there are a TON of people around. I try summoning some friends, but nothing works, I kept getting people that looked like them, but it wasn't them....

Then I wonder outside, I look up at the sky, it is so beautiful, a perfect day. I then remember the April task "ride a rainbow? ride a cloud?" But then someone distracts me and I forget

I'm wondering again... and I see a bunch of policemen all over this bridge, it is closed off, but being that I'm dreaming, I don't care. I walk over to them and asked what happened. They tell me there was an accident and two girls died. I look forward and see that the car is the one me and my sister were kidnapped in (right before I went lucid) and I see both of us lying there, dead!

Then I hear a guys voice calling my name, I try looking for it but I don't see anyone, then I notice this body in the water, it is submerged but it is definitely calling my name. I look down to it and the body says "I'm sorry"....

Then I hear my text message (IRL) go off and I feel myself back in bed. I keep my eyes closed (I have my mask on as well) I say to myself "keep dreaming, keep dreaming". Then I feel this really weird jolt, almost like the room tipped. I sit up and my boyfriend is awake looking at me, I ask him "what was that" he looks scared, I think that maybe an earthquake is coming. I ask him again "what the hell was that" then he said "the crash".... I'm really confused now and then I think "Wait, I'm sooooooo still dreaming" I do a nose pinch, fail, , then I look at my hands, they are on the wrong arms, left on right - right on left, eek, and my one of my pinkies was growing out of my ring finger, needless to say, I was definitely still dreaming.

I got up and left my room, I must of lost lucidity for a second because I suddenly found myself riding in my car, Phill was driving and I was lucid. We were on our way down to Seattle (I went to a mariners game last night which is why I probably kept dreaming of downtown) So, I'm still lucid and excited of course, I turn to Phill and ask him "what's it like being in my dream" he doesn't answer and looks annoyed. I laugh at what his "DC" says.

I decide that I want to do something slightly more exciting in the car. My sunroof is open, so I climb out of it and crawl on the top of my roof. I lay on my stomach and hold on to the front of the car as we speed through traffic. I then stand on the car but a sudden jolt sends me flying forward, I twist in the air and hover for a minute before crashing down on the pavement, I laugh as I bounce back up.... I then awake for reals

This wierd lucid/non lucid happened during the early hours of 4/20....

I'm in a big warehouse type place, almost like an old school gym used to be here. I"m with a lot of my friends who I hang out with now and with some from past years i.e. highschool/middle school. We decide on playing a massive game of capture the flag, or so it starts out that way. We split into two groups, soon the game becomes really intense, and I"m now running for my life. I stick with my sister and another girlfriend. We try finding a way out, my friend gets tagged, she down!

Then I find a big empty room, I tell my sister to find a way out, suddenly she jumps down the garbage shoot and dissappears. I really don't want to land in a pile of garbage so I look for another way out. I see a hole in the wall right above a ledge. I climb up the ledge and I'm almost out but I'm spotted by a guy from the other team. He tags me and I fall down in pain...
Then I "wake up: in bed but I'm holding a foreign hand. I get scared but I can't movie, I'm in SP. Then I sit up (I'm in a hotel room) and I notice a dark figure in the corner of the room. I know I'm dreaming and I know it is a hallucination but I'm still freaked out. Maybe it was because it was a new room, it was really dark and I was most likely semi lucid. Then I got paralyzed again and I kept saying "enter my dream, enter my dream" I started to get these really strong vibrations and chills up and down my body then boom I found myself in a dream again, but without lucidity.

Now I'm with my sister, my mom, my aunt and my grandma (who passed a year ago). We are going out somewhere and I realize I need a black purse. My aunt gives me one of my grandma's purses. I take it and look in it. It is full of stuff, medicine, make up, tissues, cards, pens etc... I ask "Well can't I empty it first" my aunt simply replies "no". So I keep digging through the purse and suddenly I find a plastic baggy, in it are two little weed chunks. I chuckled in confusion and show my sister.

Then I look over and my grandma pulls out this very strange looking glass pipe. Its like a flattened steam roller and its the size of a brick. My grandma puts the pot in it and takes a hit, then she passes it to my sister, then my dad, my aunt and finally it comes to me. I'm holding the pipe and I realize that in the glass there are a bunch of insects. They are moving around, its disgusting. I say "I"m not going to hit this, its so gross" everyone tells me to just do it, that the bugs are in the glass and can't touch me.

So I hold the pipe up to my mouth, close my eyes and take a hit. I can feel the smoke fill my lungs, it feels great . Then I feel a bug in my mouth, its crawling around, I scream and wake myself up!!!

Dreaming of WILDing

This is what works for me:

~ Get in the mind set (obviously!) read about WILDing, read about other people's experiences, wrap your head around the WILD!

~ I have a weird sleep schedule, M - F I go to sleep anywhere from 11-1 and wake up at 6:30. Come Friday/Saturday and I'm usually up until 3am and sleep, usually, until 10, but sometimes noon! So, what I'm getting at,is that a strict sleep schedule doesn't necessarily matter, I believe that it is all about the------
------> Wake Back To Bed

~ I do this every chance I get, aka, on Sat and Sun mornings; but any time you know you can get at least 7/8 hours of sleep, attempt a WBTB.

~ I sleep for at least 4 hours before I either naturally wake up (which is always) or something wakes me up (dog, cat, boyfriend, bodily needs), I never use an alarm. But that's me, if your not a light sleeper then set a damn alarm!
~ Once I wake/get woken up, I get up out of bed. I use the restroom, go out to the kitchen and get some water, I may send a random early AM text message, I may log on DV real quick, take my dog out .... The point is, I DO something that entails a tiny bit of brain function.
~ Then after at least being up (out of bed) for 5 minutes I make my way back to my bed, grab my sleep mask (I highly recommend using one) and crawl into bed.
~ My thoughts are all about dreaming and going WILD. I tell myself as I get comfortable that "I will be dreaming, I will WILD, I will know...."
~ Once comfortable, I keep thinking similar thoughts and repeating them, like a mantra. I change mine all the time now so use whatever works for you. A good, easy one is "I'm dreamingofdreamingofdreamingofdreamingofdreaming.. ......"
~ Like most WILD tutorials will tell you, I don't worry about lying perfectly still, ignoring every itch or never swallowing. Instead, I allow myself to move slightly if I want, I swallow etc... The key is to remain IN YOUR HEAD; imagine your body as separate from your head/mind. If you have to swallow or itch or whatever, do it very nonchalantly, try to do it with out thinking about doing it. Just keep repeating your dream thoughts.
Check out this link http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...d.php?t=56263; for some posts on this...
~ It will be natural for your mind to wander, in fact, I love it when this happens. All of a sudden I'm picturing some random scenario, or thinking about the most out there things. I will come to and continue with the Mantras, to me, the drifting away is getting me that much closer to a dream.
~ I also notice HH imagry is way intense when I WBTB. A lot of light flashes, swirls, morphing shapes (its from being still half asleep probably). I watch these like a movie but don't really focus on one image, TOO MUCH FOCUS will only keep you up. REMEMBER THAT
FOCUS but DON'T FOCUS too much
~ Soon, I either find myself in a dream scene and know from the beginning that I am dreaming (a quick RC always helps)
~ Or (most commonly) I will be in my bed and weird things begin to happen i.e. I'll hear the radio turn on, I'll hear my cat come in or I'll find that I had just fell off my bed, have turned the other way in it all of a sudden I'm somersaulting on it! Of course, really, I'm paralyzed and asleep, but my dream body is moving around. When this happens, I do a RC, or I simply pull myself up and get on my two feet, and boom I'm dreaming. I can walk around, go out my door and have an awesome lucid!

Don't expect anything to happen, don't keep waiting and waiting. That will only keep you up, if you fall asleep and it doesn't work, then whatever, get over it. That still happens to me, all the time. I'll attempt a WILD, but I just fall into a non LD....
But, the hope here, is try these methods, see what works for you and I believe that you can WILD!!

To me, its the best form of LD out there, my DILDs are short and my control is bad. In WILDs, it is the clearest you will ever see the world and it is the most in your head you will ever be IMO

Hope this helps!!

So when I first began this I was only going to keep a lucid dream journal because I was having a lot of success and some really great lucids.

However, due to my recent adoption and to wanting to enhance my lucid dreaming even more I think it is best that I start writing down EVERY dream I have.

I'll try to keep this as up to date as I can. My recall is good but some nights all I remember is fragments but I'll write down anything I can recall.


Comments welcome, as always

5-8-9
I remembered more this morning, should of wrote it down but always in a hurry for work

I'm in a bar with a lot of my friends. Its crowded. There is a band playing. Then something happens, we are all rushed out. I'm now standing outside in a parking lot. There is a huge green tarp in front of us. Something is going on, on the other side. My boyfriend is next to me, he tells me to stay. I wonder why... Then everyone leaves me, I"m upset and confused. I keep staring at this green tarp. Soon, my boyfriend comes back. He takes my hand and says "come" then I wake up....

5-9-9

No Recall Last Night.

5-10-9

Dreamt I was in SP early this morning, I hate that!

In the dream I was in my old bed from college. I couldn't move and could only see tunnel vision. I concluded that I was in SP, so I stayed calm and told myself I would be dreaming soon (ofcourse I was already in a dream )
Then I felt a jolt and I was suddenly on the floor of "my room", I did a nose plug but I couldn't breath so I concluded that I was awake. I then got up to get ready for the day (still dreaming). I went to my sink to wash my face and I one of my eyes had bright blue eye shadow on it(DS -Mirror), I was thinking "why in the world do I have blue eyeshadow on one eye, I don't even wear blue eye shadow". Then the scene changed and suddenly I'm on my University campus, I"m walking around in a dirty Seattle Storm jersey. Some peers come up to me and ask me to be on thier team and then ask me "why are you wearing that dirty jersey, dork?!" I can't answer and I walk away to find a different shirt to wear. Then I run into this girl Katie I knew from middle school. She's talking to me about who knows what and all I care about is finding another shirt to wear. Suddenly I cut her off and ask "do you have an extra shirt?" She doesn't answer, and then she hands me a stuffed animal it looked like an anteater, haha, then I wake up.....

5-11-9

I Recall a few fragments from last night...

I was in an office building and this guy I work with remotely, Nigel, he's stationed in London, was there. We were working on a project and something came up and we had to fly somewhere. We get in this plane, its very small. I feel us go very fast then a little jump and then a big jolt and then everyone starts unloading, shortest flight ever....

I'm at the new location now and suddenly the "project" turns into a sort of big government coverup. This girl I know, Janna, is there and she begins questioning me about what I know. I notice she has my dream journal in her hand! I get upset and take it back and say I know nothing and kick her out of my hotel room.

Now, I'm like watching a movie/video game still around the same government cover up conspiracy. I see Janna again but she creates a new identity for herself on the video game. The new identity is a very tall asian women with short black hair. Her partner is with her and he too creates an "avatar" to use. Suddenly the game looks very much like second life...

** Just remembered another part; I was in Mexico, around all of the resorts and I was walking around and everything was completely empty. No people around, nothing was open, just big empty restaurants, pools, rooms etc...

I don't remember much after this. I wake up to my alarm and try to hold on to as much details as I can...

5-12-9

Some strange ones last night....

First dream/scene - There was something with babies. Babies everywhere. There was this one particular baby who me and my boyfriend were watching. She spoke very well althought I wish I could remember what she was saying...

Then from babies I guess my mind thought of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt because now I'm in a room with Angelina and we are talking about her movies. I tell her how I like her as an actress, especially the last movie she did with Brad Pitt which I referred to as Babel. (Angelina wasn't even in that movie hmmm) Then she leaves, to go check on the babies and Brad comes in. I tell him what I was telling Angelina about thier movies. I remember distinctly saying "The cool thing about your movies is that one forgets its 'Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt', like in Babel, I forgot Angelina was even in that movie, because your performances were so raw' (still odd why I thought she was in that movie, Kate Blanchett was) Brad looked like his picture on the cover of Benjamen Button and he didn't say much...

New scene/dream - totally random, I'm in a store like Wal Mart with my sister. I'm getting a bunch of stuff and proceed to the check out. The lady at the check out looks at the glasses I picked out and tells me I have the wrong prescription. I put them on and realize that sure enough I can't see the words in the distance very well. She says I need a "1 x 1" not a "1/2 x 1" LOL! So I go back and try on the "1 x 1" but when I put them on I see complete blurriness, I decide I'll just use the first ones I have and think to myself that if I want my perfect prescription I'll have to go to a doctor and not just pick out the generic ones sold at Wal Mart, hehe. I also remember trying on the first ones again in front of a mirror, they were bright red frames and very big, my hair was up in a ponytail and I had a green and white striped polo shirt on (that I dont' even own)...

FA - I get up out of bed and go to use the bathroom ( I have the master bedroom in my apartment so the bathroom is right there). The bathroom door is closed and the light is on. I put my ear up to the door and I hear heavy breathing. I try to knock but I can't make a sound. Then a pen appears in my hand and I try using it to knock on the door. A faint sound comes from it but then I wake up for reals.....

Final dream/scene - I'm now with my family and Phill (my boyfriend) and we are getting ready to ride this strange airplane contraption. Phill had just finished the lessons for it and we had all paid to rent the thing. We all climb in and Phill takes the wheel. We fly around, not very high, do flips and turns, go up and then dive down. The contraption stalls and we all get out, my dad starts complaining that we should get our money back. I wake up to my alarm and that is the last thing I remember....

Originally Posted by dreamingofdreaming

Not sure if this was a WILD, it wasn’t a DILD, I’m not sure. I simply began the dream knowing I was dreaming…

I was outside somewhere and knew I was dreaming and I immediately began to fly (this is now becoming my reality check). One of my goals was to fly up in to space and so I did and it was awesome! I flew way up and saw all of the stars around me and then I was like in a middle of a comet field or something because all of these amazing pink/yellow stars were flying around me.

After that and throughout the dream I kept going in and out of lucidity.

At one point I found myself on top of a building and thinking I was dreaming but not being convinced. I wanted to jump off the building and fly but then began thinking “Wow, people could really kill themselves this way if they thought they were dreaming but really weren’t” (haha, of course you would KNOW in real life) Well, then I turned my head and there hanging on another building was a giant clock. REALITY CHECK! I looked at it, saw the time, looked back, it changed. I was convinced, I jumped off and flew. Then I must of lost lucidity again as I don’t really remember much after that.

It was a cool lucid either way 

These both sound great. How was the space experience? Are there anymore descriptions? I like the quote "Wow, people could really kill themselves this way if they thought they were dreaming but really weren’t"

Originally Posted by dreamingofdreaming

[Finally transferring from my written DJ]

This happened on the early morning of 2/23...

I had woken up in sleep paralysis again, I stayed calm and didn't struggle. I felt my body fall backwards and felt a weird sensation all over, like I had just slipped to a new world...

I got up and looked around, I'm in a empty field somewhere and I have full consciousness, I know I'm dreaming. I see a house in the distance and I walk up to it. Its more like a cabin, really old and broken down, holes in the roof, pipes sticking out... I walk in, there are a bunch of what I can only describe as rednecks. They all had camo gear and denim on, they had trucker hats and horribly crooked teeth. They were celebrating something and welcomed me in. I didn't have a particular lucid goal in mind so I thought it would be fun to just see where the dream took me. It began to get too crowded so I left.

Then I'm transported to a new scene, I'm walking down a dirt road and I see some horses in the distance. I walk up to them and I see its a few of my "friends" waiting for me. We are all about to ride the horses bareback. I climb on mine, he is a gorgeous brown stallion. I climb on his back and situate myself. We begin to go but I find it very hard to hold on. I grab his mane, it feels so real! I yell out "I will ride this horse" and sure enough he bolts and we gallop down the dirt road into a forest. I now have full balance. I can feel every gallop and the wind swishes through my hair so vividly. Soon I'm thrown off and I FA in my bed.

I quickly realize I'm still dreaming and I'm now transported in a train. At this point, for reasons unknown, I feel very sluggish and lazy in my lucid. It becomes hard to hold the dream so I decide to sit down in the train and just take in the scene. I look out one of the windows, it is night time but the way the sun/moon is hitting the water in the distance is amazing. It is a beautiful purple color. It stretches across the horizon, I think to myself how cool it is that in my sleep I can be sitting here on some destination unknown train looking at a beautiful moonset. I wake up soon after....

Pretty nice lucid, sounds like the scenery is wonderful as well

Originally Posted by dreamingofdreaming

This is what works for me.....

My method and a few tips on WILDing

~ Get in the mind set (obviously!) read about WILDing, read about other people's experiences, wrap your head around the WILD!

~ I have a weird sleep schedule, M - F I go to sleep anywhere from 11-1 and wake up at 6:30. Come Friday/Saturday and I'm usually up until 3am and sleep, usually, until 10, but sometimes noon! So, what I'm getting at,is that a strict sleep schedule doesn't necessarily matter, I believe that it is all about the------
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Wake Back To Bed

~ I do this every chance I get, aka, on Sat and Sun mornings; but any time you know you can get at least 7/8 hours of sleep, attempt a WBTB.

~ I sleep for at least 4 hours before I either naturally wake up (which is always) or something wakes me up (dog, cat, boyfriend, bodily needs), I never use an alarm. But that's me, if your not a light sleeper then set a damn alarm!
~ Once I wake/get woken up, I get up out of bed. I use the restroom, go out to the kitchen and get some water, I may send a random early AM text message, I may log on DV real quick, take my dog out .... The point is, I DO something that entails a tiny bit of brain function.
~ Then after at least being up (out of bed) for 5 minutes I make my way back to my bed, grab my sleep mask (I highly recommend using one) and crawl into bed.
~ My thoughts are all about dreaming and going WILD. I tell myself as I get comfortable that "I will be dreaming, I will WILD, I will know...."
~ Once comfortable, I keep thinking similar thoughts and repeating them, like a mantra. I change mine all the time now so use whatever works for you. A good, easy one is "I'm dreamingofdreamingofdreamingofdreamingofdreaming.. ......"
~ Like most WILD tutorials will tell you, I don't worry about lying perfectly still, ignoring every itch or never swallowing. Instead, I allow myself to move slightly if I want, I swallow etc... The key is to remain IN YOUR HEAD; imagine your body as separate from your head/mind. If you have to swallow or itch or whatever, do it very nonchalantly, try to do it with out thinking about doing it. Just keep repeating your dream thoughts.
Check out this link http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...d.php?t=56263; for some posts on this...
~ It will be natural for your mind to wander, in fact, I love it when this happens. All of a sudden I'm picturing some random scenario, or thinking about the most out there things. I will come to and continue with the Mantras, to me, the drifting away is getting me that much closer to a dream.
~ I also notice HH imagry is way intense when I WBTB. A lot of light flashes, swirls, morphing shapes (its from being still half asleep probably). I watch these like a movie but don't really focus on one image, TOO MUCH FOCUS will only keep you up. REMEMBER THAT
FOCUS but DON'T FOCUS too much
~ Soon, I either find myself in a dream scene and know from the beginning that I am dreaming (a quick RC always helps)
~ Or (most commonly) I will be in my bed and weird things begin to happen i.e. I'll hear the radio turn on, I'll hear my cat come in or I'll find that I had just fell off my bed, have turned the other way in it all of a sudden I'm somersaulting on it! Of course, really, I'm paralyzed and asleep, but my dream body is moving around. When this happens, I do a RC, or I simply pull myself up and get on my two feet, and boom I'm dreaming. I can walk around, go out my door and have an awesome lucid!

Don't expect anything to happen, don't keep waiting and waiting. That will only keep you up, if you fall asleep and it doesn't work, then whatever, get over it. That still happens to me, all the time. I'll attempt a WILD, but I just fall into a non LD....
But, the hope here, is try these methods, see what works for you and I believe that you can WILD!!

To me, its the best form of LD out there, my DILDs are short and my control is bad. In WILDs, it is the clearest you will ever see the world and it is the most in your head you will ever be IMO

Hope this helps!!

Thanks for the WILD tutorial. I've read a lot of tutorials and your WILD one is one of the best ones. I do think WBTBs are effective, but, I haven't had SP before, so, I don't know if I'll be able to get it if I go back to bed. I'll be trying it tonight though

Last thing to note, you mentioned the date "3-12-09", I think you meant 5-12-09" unless you were putting old dreams in, but, I think it's just a typo Overall, great lucid dreams and they've gotten me excited for my 2nd one whenever it happens

Originally Posted by BigFan

These both sound great. How was the space experience? Are there anymore descriptions? I like the quote "Wow, people could really kill themselves this way if they thought they were dreaming but really weren’t"

Haha yah, its funny how irrational your thoughts can get even when your trying to be rational in a dream. I wish I had a picture to describe what I saw in space, it was awesome and beautiful. The pink and yellow stars were so vibrant, almost like animation but not cartoon-like, more like CG. If only we could record our dreams...

Originally Posted by BigFan

Thanks for the WILD tutorial. I've read a lot of tutorials and your WILD one is one of the best ones. I do think WBTBs are effective, but, I haven't had SP before, so, I don't know if I'll be able to get it if I go back to bed. I'll be trying it tonight though

No problem - hope it helps!!

Originally Posted by BigFan

Last thing to note, you mentioned the date "3-12-09", I think you meant 5-12-09" unless you were putting old dreams in, but, I think it's just a typo Overall, great lucid dreams and they've gotten me excited for my 2nd one whenever it happens

Haha, wow, I dated all my recent entries as March, thanks for pointing that out - time flies toooo fast

5-13-9

Barely any recall...

I'm walking through the woods with someone, I can't remember who but I know it was a male figure. We were stranded somehow, perhaps our car broke down. We walk a while and then we end up in a small town. We walk into one of the stores/houses. There are children inside and a lady, they all look like they are from 1800's. The house is all white inside, I remember white cupboards and drawers... I have to use the restroom and I ask the woman. She shows me the bathroom, I go in it but its very dark and I can't find the toilet. I then wake up to use the bathroom for reals

Originally Posted by dreamingofdreaming

Haha yah, its funny how irrational your thoughts can get even when your trying to be rational in a dream. I wish I had a picture to describe what I saw in space, it was awesome and beautiful. The pink and yellow stars were so vibrant, almost like animation but not cartoon-like, more like CG. If only we could record our dreams...

Yes, true, if only we could record them. That sounds great, but, what's CG?

Originally Posted by dreamingofdreaming

Haha, wow, I dated all my recent entries as March, thanks for pointing that out - time flies toooo fast

Time does fly by fast

5-14-9

Ughhh recall is bad this morning....

I'm in some house, at a table with my dad and sister. My mom comes in and hands us each boxes of candy. Mine is two boxes filld with peeps. So random... I wish I could remember more...