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      Decided to share my dreams with this excellent community. I have begun using Banhurts very handy DreamJournal 2.0 which makes posting the journal entries in the forum easy.
      I will begin afresh with my most recent lucid dream and work forward from there.
      I will try to include all lucids in as much detail as I can and a selection of non-lucids that seem to be appropriate.
      The dates at the top right of posts are the day after the dream, unless it is WILD then it is the same day - probably...
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      Summary from 22/06/2009 - 21/7/2009
      Dreams Journalised [31]
      Non-LD   [27]
      LD       &nbsp ;[4]
      DILD [2]
      WILD [1]
      EILD [1]

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      Spoiler for Dreamsigns:

      Spoiler for Obstacles to lucidity that I am working on:

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      My dream recall over the past week or so has been TERRIBLE. Have to sort that out.
      Last edited by madeofparts; 07-21-2009 at 03:06 PM. Reason: Updating

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      Short DILD with some missed dreamsigns

      22.06.2009
      Short DILD with some missed dreamsigns (DILD)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      Was sharing a room with a one-armed man (left arm missing) like the guy from Twin Peaks(TV). For some reason I felt oppressed by him, but then he was prety weird. Anyway I was being polite. I remember that in a previous dream that led to this one I was involved in some major building construction/demolition (common in my dreams - a dreamsign but I missed it this time)
      I took some laundry to the laundrette and put it in the washer. My mother was there advising me about soap powder (another dreamsign I missed - she has been dead for years).
      While leaving the launderette I was walking very fast and I had to step aside to avoid a young woman coming the other way, I think this made me more aware. As I was walking down the street I started to pay attention to my footsteps - they were a bit lighter and longer than usual (another of my dreamsigns) - I checked them more closely and decided they were pretty normal and I was not dreaming but then
      I decided to try to extend them in a floaty way and it then became obvious that I was dreaming. I flew up into the air to prove it.
      I then proceeded to explore the dream world but I was not careful to increase lucidity and stabilise the dream, and after a short dream walk through some kind of festival I lost it and woke up.
      Previous Lucid Dream --- Next Lucid Dream
      Last edited by madeofparts; 07-15-2009 at 05:06 PM. Reason: Tidying
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      Just a couple of Non-Lucids

      23.06.2009
      Just a couple of Non-Lucids (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      Dreamed of being at a Dharma study group I go to. Venue is different (Dreamsign) also some students are different. Teacher was same. My girlfriend was there (she goes in Waking Life). She was talking about some work some builders had been doing (from previous dream (Dreamsign)).
      An old lady student challenged My GF saying that it is meaningless what My GF is saying. My GF gets defensive and comes up with some defense that is pretty lame but a good effort - she is upset and I get the impression that people want me to take her side - but the old lady is right and she made some good points in the argument. I talk Dharma with the old lady for a bit. She is very sincere and determined, she challenged my GF out of compassion it is clear but she doesn't say so.
      I go into another room and notice that my hair (which is quite long) is very wet and dripping with water (Dreamsign). I try to dry and tidy it but I have no towel - I do find a mirror, nothing odd about the reflection but I am concentrating on my hair. I do something else and my dream changes....

      ...Sometime later I am eating outside in some kind of large park-like area (Dreamsign). I am sharing food with a companion. There is a group of (other homeless people (Dreamsign)) some distance away I am looking at them accross a lawn. They seem to be inviting/challenging us to join them but I don't want to. My companion communicates with them and there is some interaction between all of us - I get drawn in to some interaction, people are curious about me and asking questions. I give short answers and try to make it clear I am being solitary. Some of them are more challenging than others but I manage to be friendly and they seem to get the idea I am ok but just want to be left alone.
      A tall smiley loud Irishman who looks a bit like Johnny-Jack from the last series of Sapphire and Steel(TV) but genuinely charismatic and open - he is their leader - tries to draw me into thier group quite aggressively but also being friendly. He is testing me - asking me to do some makework/meaningless/menial task for him (something to do with pulling up grass?(wtf?)). I say no, he says why?(pushing). I look at him straight in the eye and put on a strong Irish accent and say 'Because I am not fecking Irish!'
      He gets the idea and we have a fight. No-one is hurt and there is much amusing mutual piss-taking.
      It seems we are more of a group now that we have established where we are with each other. We all share food. I am still being solitary but it is accepted now there is mutual respect.
      I wake up.
      Last edited by madeofparts; 06-30-2009 at 02:35 PM.
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      Two Near Misses

      26.06.2009
      False Awakening (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      went to sleep with earbuds in with 6 hour delayed lucidremix.mp3 but I woke before it went off, remembered following dream.
      I am lying in bed, False awakening. I have dreamed that I heard the mp3 and it made me lucid and I have woken up (I am not lucid) My girlfriend is there and she is afraid.

      29.06.2009
      Attempted WILD in nap (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      Trying to WILD in the afternoon... surfing the border for a while but then begin to dream non-lucidly
      In an apartment with girlfriend in dream. I fiddle with the controls of an audio hi-fi but it is not working properly. I try to talk to my GF I think I am close to becoming lucid, but sleep paralysis (more accurately - some awareness leaking in to my dream of REM atonia) gets me so I am struggling to speak (I hate it when that happens) so I wake up fully.
      Should have tried to DEILD right then but maybe next time...
      Last edited by madeofparts; 07-01-2009 at 05:54 PM.
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      Covert Op Weirdness

      01.07.2009
      Covert Op Weirdness (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I am walking around in a town or city (picture UK city, not US) with an empty attache case hidden in my coat like it contains something. A guy is following me - I am on my way somewhere and I walk down a quiet area behind some buildings. The guy confronts me and demands the case and pulls it from me. I run off, looking back I can see him opening it and discovering he has been tricked.
      I get to a friend's house (John C) As he lets me in I talk normally to him but I write on a piece of tissue paper that I think I am bugged. He doesn't get what I mean, thinking I have an illness type bug or something.
      I am worried he will say something we don't want picked up on the bug. I am not sure I am bugged but I can't take the risk that the guy earlier didn't slip some kind of bug on me.
      I write on another piece of tissue paper 'I am bugged - you know wired' or something. I think he gets it as he starts to talk joining in my innocent sounding BS for the sake of any secret listeners.
      I notice there is lots of snot that has been coming out of my nose and I think that is what you get for thinking about bugs in a dream - but I am not lucid. I wake up.
      It is a strange dream, John and myself are conspirators and yet we are not - kind of making it up as we go along like a game.
      This is near the end of my last REM of the night and I feel a lot happened in this dream previously and it was linked to previous dreams but I only remember fragments. I have not been getting much sleep lately and I think it is affecting my recall and I feel too tired in dreams to put effort in to lucidity. May try WILDing more.
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      Forgotten Joke

      02.07.2009
      Forgotten Joke (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I am in this huge waiting room - Like at a large airport but quite sparse. I am sitting on those waiting room type chairs in a row.
      There is a young girl (15 or so) sitting next to me. She strikes me as being homeless or traveling. She is very unhappy so I tell her this really funny joke which we laugh at together quite a lot. Many people in the huge room seem to notice this and appreciate it. I think that I really must remember this joke when I wake up (I am not lucid) a short while later I do wake up.
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      Band Practice

      03.07.2009
      Band Practice (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I am walking up some stairs in a house. It is not decorated and there is no carpet so my footsteps are very noisy on the wooden stairs.
      I have a small drum im my hands. I enter a room and there is my girlfriend with the guitarist of a local band we sometimes help out with In Waking Life. I get the feeling there is supposed to be a practice but there is no-one else there. I do not play in this band IWL and I don't feel as if I do in the dream, anyway he starts to play the guitar and I think that seeing as I have this drum I may as well join in and try to complement his playing. It is all improvised and is sounding good.
      I notice out of the window (which is quite high up) that it looks as if the local football (soccer) stadium is on fire. I say something like "hey the stadium's on fire" and we stop playing. We all look out of the window and it now looks like there is just some pyrotechnics display there and it is not on fire at all.
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      Singed Eyebrows

      03.07.2009
      Singed Eyebrows (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I am sitting in a large room - like the reception room of a mansion. People begin entering the room , putting on coats and leaving the building, saying goodbyes and see you laters and stuff.
      People are leaving because it is the end of a Dharma study group but all different people to In Waking Life (I don't notice this at the time) I do notice that the teacher is new - A large man. He comes in and I ask him how it went, I also remark on how lucky he is to be teaching such a bunch of sincere practitioners. He is not really paying any attention to me.
      Alex, A friend IWL enters the room and is about to leave. He is looking for a pen and I offer him mine, but it appears he has this really nice pen and lighter set. Looks like gold.
      He notices me admiring it and begins to demonstrate the lighter to me. It is one of those wind-proof turbo lighters with a flame like a rocket engine. This one seems to get more elaborate the more I examine it. I give it a try and singe my eyebrows and hair.
      ...
      "Just as there is room in the sky for a thunderstorm, so there is room in the vast space of our mind for a few painful feelings. And just as a storm has no power to destroy the sky, unpleasant feelings have no power to destroy our mind." - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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      Pianos

      04.07.2009
      Pianos (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I am in this room with lots of different pianos and keyboards. I get the feeling I have been invited to try them out. I play something classical on one of them. I try another and it sounds a bit like a honkey-tonk harpsichord (wtf? Nice sound though), it seems just right for some ragtime or boogie-woogie so I play some of that...
      I am a much better player in my dream than In Waking Life. I start to pay more attention to which keys I am playing to see if it corresponds to how it would be IWL. I am playing quite fast and i am surprised that even though this is a dream it is so technically accurate. I am in no way lucid though.
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      Musical Key Finding

      04.07.2009
      Musical Key Finding (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I am in a room where there are a number of people listening to a 12ish year old girl playing a piano (I think this dream follows on from a previous piano dream). She is playing this really good little tune she has made up. Some of the other people there encourage her to submit it for something (a competition I think).
      I help her by figuring out which key it is in (Dm) and we work together on this for a while.
      A missed dreamsign here is that when I am trying to figure out the key it is very hard to do so. For some reason it is very hard to concentrate on the keys and see which ones are which. It takes a titanic effort to finally identify the D key and then work out that she is playing a minor scale from that, but when I figure it out all of a sudden the keyboard appears really clearly.
      ...
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      Two Adventure Dreams

      04.07.2009
      Road Trip and Back Problems (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I am at home (different home to In Waking Life) packing for a road trip. John drives round and picks me up. We load the car.
      We are on our way. I don't notice at the time but even though it is a standard family hatchback there are at least five of us in there and there is somehow room to stand up and move around a bit.
      There is myself and John (he is driving) and two or three girls (early 20's). John is concerned that he won't be able to drive anymore because he has hurt his back - a slipped disk or something. He takes his shirt off so I can try to manipulate it back into place. The girls take thier tops off too, which pleasantly surprises me.
      Somebody notices the weather has changed and it is going to rain so we decide to go back to pack some rain-weather stuff. I am thinking that I left my umberella behind and I need to pick it up...


      This dream has a similar feel to a dream I had last month, that for some reason I didn't post.... Here it is.


      25.06.2009
      Weird Boat Adventure (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I am buying fruit in an asian shop, there isn't much there worth buying it is all a bit rotten. I am buying it to help my friend (who looks a bit like PJ - an old friend I haven't seen for at least 20 years) he is weak from helping me from a long adventure and needs to eat some fruit.
      The old asian shop lady is behaving strangely, she won't sell me the last pears, even though they are barely sellable anyway she seems to want to keep them.
      In the adventure with 'PJ' at one point we were on a boat in a river (I think we had escaped from somewhere) It was a small speed boat sized boat that appeared to be made of brushed steel - very heavy. It was sinking but the river was turning into a path (small bricks like a driveway or pedestrianised road) We were then out of the boat exploring opposite sides of the river, which is like swamp/jungle/everglades. He finds something and throws it to me saying 'check this out' it is a clay snakes head that looks a bit like a stylised dragon head. he asks me if (on this planet) this is as big as they get. It was pretty normal sized for a snakes head so I say 'yeah', thinking that where he comes from they are probably much bigger, like dragons. Actually he reminds me of Kefl - another friend of mine with dreadlocks, or Cyote from the Red Mars books by KSR.
      ...
      "Just as there is room in the sky for a thunderstorm, so there is room in the vast space of our mind for a few painful feelings. And just as a storm has no power to destroy the sky, unpleasant feelings have no power to destroy our mind." - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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      Dream Recall

      Well, for the last few days my dream recall has been practically zero. Normally I would remember two or three dreams per night.
      I have been very busy IWL and have been sleeping hours less than I normally do.
      When I wake up I just have some vague shadowy recollections of my dreams, but they don't seem to solidify enough to write anything meaningful down.
      Anyway, This is a post really to explain to the journal why there is a gap.
      I expect that with a return to more conducive sleeping patterns then recall will improve.
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      Disturbed WILD

      08.07.2009
      Disturbed WILD (WILD)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      Not sure if this is a WILD or DILD, but anyway I am classing it as a WILD because it arose from me attempting a WILD in conjunction with some binaurals using sbagen. Just the binaurals and pink noise - I have found that if I try to mix binaurals with waterfall or river or wave sounds I just dream about water, and the mixes with music and verbal suggestions just seem to nag me out of sleep. So I have begun experimenting..

      Things got a bit hazy while entering the dream, I may have been properly asleep for a minute or two (hence it being a possible DILD) but anyway I am
      in a room with some people I know from IWL, there is some kind of party and we are expecting more people to turn up. It is getting dark very quickly, like someone is turning the brightness down. I think "it worked I am dreaming", and I know that I will have to stabilise the dream because it is getting really dark now the visual environment is nearly gone. I try to spin but this seems to speed up the waking process. I try to touch something in my dream and connect to the dream envronment but I become aware of my waking hand. I think - I am going to have to open my eyes and do a RC to check for FA - which I do using my watch. It seems I am awake, I try to DEILD, and it is going well, I am drifting through HI and I can feel that "dreamspace" around me, some dream begins to form around me which is some kind of wide open space, but then there is a loud noise which pulls me back to waking. I try to drift back to the dream space and am having some success but the noises continue (someone outside). It is very distracting and frustrating. I decide to wake properly and do WBTB.
      Last edited by madeofparts; 07-15-2009 at 05:07 PM.
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      Town Night Adventure

      10.07.2009
      Town Night Adventure (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I am wandering around this strange yet familiar town. It is night. The town is like London or Bristol. Big Victorian town houses.
      I have knocked on a friends door (Belinda) and we have gone out for a nightime walk. There is a sense of adventure - we are hiding from something or someone, a group of people? that is roaming/hunting the streets. We find a good place to rest up - looks as if it might be overlooked and is quite defensible - an alley with iron railings. Then I realise that my companion(s) have gone off somewhere else and I am alone. I think to look for them but I have no idea which way they went. There is no sense of fear, more of exitement....
      ...
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      Fixing Windows

      10.07.2009
      Fixing Windows (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I am fixing a computer for this businessman type guy. He is a huge man, very powerful and self-assured. Looks a bit like the LE guy from the film Abre los ojos crossed with this other guy I know (big Steve).
      Anyway I am at his house fixing his PC. It has a huge screen. I am thinking that there is nothing wrong with his PC, it is just that his Windows install has rotted and I am thinking "bloody typical" etc. Anyway, I fix it and go to tell him it is all fixed.
      He is in his living room watching tv. He is wearing some kind of mask (a bit like the mask the guy at the end of Morrowind wears). He starts to lecture me on business - how to network, take advantages of opportunities & stuff. I think he is acting like a bit of a nutter the way he is speaking. I do a RC but I notice how realistic the mask he is wearing is and think "there is no way I am dreaming but this guy is definnitely not for real - [duh!]"
      He starts to tell me about his collegue who set himself up as a PC repair man with some kind of stall in a mall or something - he is being very forceful. He starts to tell me about some other pc of his that keeps having problems with the regional settings and I am glad to get out of there and start fixing it for him. His son shows me where his other PC is....
      ...
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      Lucid in the Country

      11.07.2009
      Lucid in the Country (EILD)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I had gone to sleep with Pheonlelai's Lucid_3.3.mp3 - (see this thread) on a five hour delay with earbuds in, it had started playing (it woke me up at first, I reduced the volume and went back to sleep) so I count this as an EILD...
      ...I am walking along a path in English countryside when suddenly I know I am dreaming. It is a beautiful sunny day. The first thing I do is say to myself "I am dreaming". I have a firm realisation of how important it is to stabilise and increase the lucidity.
      I look around, taking in the scenery without focusing on anything in particular but just being present. I rub my hands together and roll my shoulders - getting a feel for the dream-body, all the time walking along. I am impressed by how detailed and realistic everything is. I make an effort to use this experience to remember that doing RC's by simply checking realism is a waste of time.
      I walk some more, just enjoying the sensation of being in a dream and trying to discover just how lucid I can be. I feel the lucidity weakening so I begin to repeat to myself "I am lucid dreaming" and saying my name. I decide to actually do something with this dream now, so I decide to meet a particular person I know from IWL and I wonder how I am going to do this.
      There is a grit box near the farm-track I am walking along and I open it with the expectation that they will be hiding inside waiting for me, however it is empty. I think that this is not really surprising (I mean, how realistic is that?) I feel lucidity weakening again so I walk some more appreciating the detail of the countryside, trees and clouds and stuff, and repeating "I am lucid dreaming, this is me enjoying a lucid dream" and so-on.
      It is worth mentioning that around this point I begin to be in two dreams at the same time, the non-lucid dream is taking place in some kind of school or college. I think this may be the beginnings of some kind of dream transition - it sort of feels as if this other non-lucid dream has been going on anyway but without me being aware of it, I assert myself in the lucid dream and for a moment or two I can see into the other dream from my position in the lucid dream with extreme clarity, but then I let it go and it fades
      I decide to continue my mission to meet this person. I remember reading on DV that someone drew a door in the air and walked through to somewhere else. I draw a rectangle in the air with my finger, which appears as if drawn on glass with a grey wax crayon. I think it is a bit too narrow to walk through but this is a dream and I will manage. I give the drawn-in-air rectangle a sturdy thump and it pings out of it's hole like a cut piece of glass (like that bit in the film Hancock where he cuts a hole in the visitors barrier in prison and flicks it out).
      However, the new 'doorway' just leads through to the path ahead I can see anyway, as if a normal glass doorway had appeared in mid air rather than a portal to somewhere else where my friend is.
      I think "I am going to have to do this differently", however I am starting to lose lucidity really quickly now. I can't stay in the dream and I wake up.

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      Third Person in Mudland

      12.07.2009
      Third Person in Mudland (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      Third-person dream. Picture a landscape that is mud-flats that are mostly dried out or just damp, and boulders, shallow valleys. No vegetation, clear light-blue sky.
      Mel Gibson is there, asleep, curled up next to a large boulder, covered in a thin layer of dried mud but otherwise naked. Everything is covered in a thin layer of dried mud.
      He has been asleep for years. He wakes up and is really thirsty and hungry. He starts running around looking for something, something he has hidden, muttering things like "I am sure I left it around here somewhere.." He looks for a long time getting ever more desperate, hoping that no other scavengers have found 'it', which is some kind of small stash of personal belongings including clothes, water, food, weapons... (it is a harsh world)
      He has pretty much given up searching when he finds a small cave entrance in a mud-covered rock wall. He is hesitant to enter it as it is only just big enough to fit into and any such feature in such a landscape is bound to be used by someone or something. He crawls in anyway. Inside down a short narrow crack it widens into a square shaped not-very-muddy room cut into the rock, lit by a candle which he examines to see how long it has been burning - no way to tell but there is an hour or so left on it.
      Leading off of the room are some steps that lead to a very narrow passage at the end of which is a small crack in the rock through which can be seen another room. In this other room are some traders/smugglers/slavers who can be heard talking but not seen.
      Mel decides to ambush whoever is obviously soon going to be returning to this cave/room he has found.

      At this point the dream goes first-person but it is still Mel Gibson...
      I am waiting trying to stand perfectly still just inside the entrance, thinking that this is a crap ambush setup. I am naked with no weapons and only a small chance of surprising anyone. I hear someone coming and just before they appear I rush out roaring loudly to try to get surprise on them. 'They' are a small goblin-like creature dressed in furs and leather who is not at all bothered or surprised to find this large mud-covered naked man charging towards him roaring. He calmly draws a knife and would stab it deep into my stomach but I catch it - deeply cutting my thumb. He is very strong for his size and a battle for control over the knife is beginning when the goblin's companion enters the room/cave.
      This new character is a large man also dressed in leather and furs with weapons. He takes in the situation with a glance that clearly says "this mud-covered man in our cave is a sleeper who has recently woken, he is tired, weak, thirsty and hungry after his long sleep. My goblin friend has cut him, this is inconveinient but he will still fetch a good price", his glance also clearly reveals that upon reflecting like this he comes to a decision.
      He commands the goblin type to put away the knife and gives me a look that says - in a not particularly nasty way - that it would be stupid to try any funny stuff. I think, fair enough there will be better opportunities to escape and it seems these people want me in good shape so they will have to feed me and give me water.
      The man hands me a small lizard the size and shape of a toy plastic dinosaur - which begins to lick the wound on my thumb which is bleeding. I somehow know that this is healing but also that it will keep me weak (some poison in it's saliva?) and that if I get a chance to recover properly I will have enormous strength. I resolve to take advantage of this later to get the better of them and make my escape...
      There is more to this dream but my recall of it is bad and the fragments don't come together into a story... The dream fades and I wake up and try WBTB
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      American Cinema Trip

      12.07.2009
      American Cinema Trip (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I am in this cave/room like area with these three girls (early 20's) they are foriegn - American I think. There was more to this dream before but I can't remember.
      Anyway, one of the girls is looking for a working shower (we are all a bit muddy, carry-over from previous dream maybe, feels similar in some ways)
      I seem to remember seeing a working shower and go looking for it with her. We walk down some tunnels and find it and she is overjoyed and has a shower.
      We are all going to the cinema - me, these three girls and some guy who I don't know but am really good friends with (he reminds me saying that we are friends from a previous dream, I say oh yeah I remember (I do)) he tells a story from when we were in this other dream where we were sharing a bottle of beer and I had an injured eye and pretended to drink the beer through my eye-socket - everyone thinks this story is hilarious. We are all walking to the cinema getting on great with our arms over each others shoulders talking and laughing.
      We get to the cinema, it is huge. We find our seats and there is a lot of that settling down to watch a film stuff going on - it is like a party - lots of students and drinking and smoking. I leave my seat to go to the toilet and on the way down these wide stairs there are a lot of people in my way so I jump lightly over them (I normally notice this as a dreamsign but not on this occasion), I land just in front of this usherette pushing a trolly so I slide under it and walk to the toilet. All very athletic.... Dream memory fades...
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      Weird Marina Dream

      12.07.2009
      Weird Marina Dream (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I am by the sea, some kind of marina. A beautiful sunny day, blue sky and sea. Lots of people in the water, swimming, small boats, peddloes, and dingys and such like.
      I am like a third persom flycam or something - I don't remember having a body and my perspective is panning and zooming over and in amongst it all.
      There is this big afro guy with dreadlocks and a bright spandex type swimsuit. He is becoming the centre of everyones attention. He is wearing these skates that are like mini jet-skis, some new invention. He is skating on the water posing lots and impressing everybody, I think he must be making an advertisment for those new skates or something but I think he is actually being a bit dangerous and people are getting a bit pissed off with him after a bit of his antics....I wake up...
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      Historically Important LD #1

      NON-DREAMDREAM LUCID

      Well, my dream recall has been zero over the last couple of days. I wake up and there is just fading fragments that are gone despite my doing all the stuff that normally works to get my recall going. I think that this may be because I have stopped sleeping with audio aids - binaural and/or suggestions - but it could also be stress (waking life has been turbulent and busy). Anyway I am going to not use any aids for a while to see what happens and try to get my recall back. I will, however work on improving my RC's and do some MILD practice in conjunction with programming myself to recall drerams.

      Meanwhile, here is an accounting of a LD I had a couple of years ago. I pick this one because it is probably the most lucid I have been in a dream since I was a child, and remembering it helps me with my LD practice.

      I am walking down a spacious corridor. It is constructed from sandstone blocks and well illuminated from sunlight pouring in through tall arched windows in the left wall. I am feeling pleased with myself as I have just acted in a very heroic way in the dream I am walking away from. Can't remember exactly but it was something to do with me having a choice to do something selfish or make a significant sacrifice to help someone else. Anyway I am thinking to myself 'nice one, that was really kind..., you are really quite some guy...' and feelings like these when I suddenly think,
      'Hang on, this is just a dream you muppet.'
      I immediately begin to appreciate my surroundings more and have that tingle that comes with anticipating the joy of a lucid dream.
      I turn my attention to the sunlight streaming through the windows and the way it makes the sandstone glow and decide to look out of the windows.
      There was glass in them but it has gone now that I am looking out (the act of looking past the glass made it dissappear) - the view outside is of beautiful rolling green countryside. The window is quite highly placed and the horizon is some distance away. The sky is blue and all the colours are more saturated than they would be IWL. I appreciate this but lucididy fades slightly so I decide to fly out of the window.
      I now begin to have serious doubts about whether I am dreaming or not. I think that I really should be sure I am dreaming before I jump out of the window. How do I know I am not having some kind of trip? Maybe I am out somewhere and somebody spiked my drink or something (I consider this possibility because the scenery is quite trippy)
      Thinking like this makes me really question the nature of my reality in the 'ok, who am I, how did I get here really' kind of way, rather than the visual way which I no longer trust.
      Thinking like this I realise that I am dreaming, I am in bed in my room (I picture my room) and unless I die in my sleep I will wake up there very soon (I immediately stop thinking about waking up)
      I fly out of the window and float down to the ground.
      I consider my memory of my bedroom and think that actually, I have no certain knowledge that that memory is where I will wake up, It is just a dream memory and if I try to examine it in any detail the lucidity starts to fade so I stop. I pay more attention to my dream surroudings looking for some clue as to what my waking life may be like but I am pretty lucid and I tell myself that there is nothing in the dream that can tell me. I feel that the colours are too bright and that I don't live in some kind of large gothic building in the middle of the countryside. I think that even if I found a tunnel leading to my room it would be just a dream room and the only way to find out is to wake up.
      I feel a bit sad as the certainty of me soon waking up somewhere that I feel is not as nice as this settles on me and the dream begins to fade and I wake up...

      When I wake up I immediately have complete recall of this dream.
      I am not in the bed or the room that appeared to be my waking life in the dream, that was my bedroom when I was a child.
      The room I wake up in is my adult room.
      The memory of that LD has stayed with me since as being the most lucid I have ever been in a dream. Especially the reality check mentality. I know that if IWL I practice reality checking like I did in that LD, REALLY trying to say, 'ok, I am assuming I am now dreaming, who am I when I am awake?', that type of RC'ing really improves my dream recall and frequency and quality of lucid dreams.
      So I will try to renew that habit again.....
      [This dream is not included in my LD stats on this forum because it happened before 22/06/09]
      Last edited by madeofparts; 07-21-2009 at 02:55 PM.
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      Oriental Erotica

      21.07.2009
      Oriental Erotica (DILD)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      For the last few days I have not been able to recall more than dream fragments. This morning when I woke up I went through the, by now, familiar process of failing to remember my dreams. I had just about given up, I could recall fragments of dreams, especially a couple of what seem to be really vivid adventure dreams with an engineering twist (fairly common), but frustratingly just fragments, then a memory of a Lucid Dream I had appeared very clearly.
      I am in this room with this young oriental (early 20's) very beautiful girl. This is near the end of an adventure I have been on that I can't remember, I suddenly realise I am dreaming. This girl and I are walking towards each other, we are both completely naked and there is good flirty eye-contact, we are just about to have sex, I know I am dreaming and I think "Excellent, what a perfect time to become lucid". I am careful to maintain awareness of my surroundings in general as I know from experience that getting absorbed into sex dreams kills lucidity.
      We have some sex (without going into details) we try out a few positions. The physical sensations are very realistic, and my efforts to maintain lucidity work well, telling myself I am dreaming, trying to remain present in my physical body (not difficult) while being aware of general surroundings (requires some effort).
      I am not aware of it at the time, but my memory of it suggests that I was visually able to see her from some angles that would have been impossible IWL.
      Anyway, the dream lasted for a while so I tried out a few things. After a few minutes I was thinking "this LD is lasting for a long time..." and I start to wonder how long it will last for, but lucidity begins to fade at this point and I can't sustain it. I wake up.
      I am awake for a minute or two and then fall back to sleep, to wake some hours later.
      What strikes me about this dream is the stability, vividness, and realism. Unusual for a sex dream. Also the intensity of the bliss was very high and enhanced by a dreamlike extra dimension that I cannnot put into words.
      Also, I only remembered it just as I was about to give up trying to remember my dreams. I very nearly forgot it, that would have been a real shame!
      Finally, I have a strong feeling that there have been a few other lucids over the past few days that I have forgotten..
      Need to work on recall.......
      Previous Lucid Dream --- Next Lucid Dream
      Last edited by madeofparts; 07-21-2009 at 04:37 PM.
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