Thread: Simon's Lucid Ramblings

25.06.2009

On the bike (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was on the bike sitting in traffic.
It was raining.
I was with someone that was following me in a car but I don't know who it was.
I noticed someone too the right of me get out of her car.
It was a teenager that seemed to be mad at her parents.
She came over and jumped on the back of the bike. I laughed and said she could ride for a while but would have to get off at the next gas station.
When the light turned green I hit the gas and felt a huge wave of fear go through me like I was loosing my balance.

That's when I realized I was dreaming.
I started to loose the dream so I immediatly tried to spin.
Since I was on the bike I floated up off the seat so I could spin without upsetting anything.
It didn't work and I started to wake up anyway.

This was my first LD after starting the pursuit and hopefully I will have longer ones in the future.

26.06.2009

On the Mountain (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This was a quick dream because I dosed of on the couch not long after I got up in the morning.

I was up on rainier again but at a different camp. I was climbing up through some very deep powder and I could feel everything. This was very vivid. I think I was attached to someone but I couldn't see anything but the rope. I didn't really care either.
The area was completely covered in snow.

I suddenly realized that I was dreaming. I remember thinking wow I can feel the snow, the cold, the wind. I could smell it too. I was all so realistic I couldn't beleive it was a dream.
Although I knew I was dreaming, I didn't try to control it. I just let things go and enjoyed the scenary.

Then I woke up.

I think this was a product of not having a list of goals to do once I attain an LD. I'll have to try to do something next time.

06.07.2009

Scifi Tunnel (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was in a tunnel with lots of metal piping and doors. Kind of a dark slimy green color.
I was traveling fast through the tunnel trying to get to a specific door. I had been to this door before but this time the route had changed. It seemed like there was some extra piping in the way. It was a yellowish color.
I got the door and there were four buttons that looked like foot pedals. This was different too. I hit the first lever and an alarm sounded. The door was beginnig to open. First the bottom portion moved away then it began to twist open like on a spaceship.

Then I became lucid.
Almost imediatly everything started to fade.

I tried staying very still and going back to the dream but nothing worked.Ahhhhhh!

09.07.2009

First WILD (with SP) (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This is my first successful WILD but it took almost 2 hours of sitting still for it to happen. (I don't fall asleep to quickly.)

First thing was the SP. I felt it come on like a freight train. I started feeling this weird moving sensation then all of a sudden I felt like I was flying down a very twisty waterslide in the dark. This only lasted for a few seconds and when it was over I opened my eyes to find myself inside of a large underground tunnel.

Everything was so vivid. I knew instantly that I was dreaming and I started getting excited. Then it started to fade. I tried looking at my hands but they were all messed up like they were melting. I had no fingers on one hand and 2 nubs on the other. That freaked me out a little so I tried spinning. This was the key. I could really feel the effect and when I opened my eyes everything was better.
The first thing I did was fly. I didn't have as much control as I thought but I also didn't bump into things. Just passed right through them.

I decided to fly up into the sky which took me out of the tunnnel I was in. It was night and I think I was over some water. I remember trying to go to this giant house on a hill. It looked like something out of an old horror movie.

I don't think I made it to the house because the next thing I remember is being in the tunnels again. I remember going up and looking at one of the rocks real close and touching it. I could see every detail but I couldn't touch it.

I was having trouble running. I had dream legs. It was very fustrating. Instead I tried teleporting. That didn't work either.
My vision started to fade so spun again. That worked but only momentarily. Then I wiped my eyes and everything cleared up. Focusing on things seemed to work too.

Suddenly the area I was in was full of people. I was in some sort of factory. I thought cool. I'll try to talk to someone. I went up to a girl that was near me. I said "hey I want to talk to you". She said "really is that so?" I could see every detail in her face. Then I just wanted to see if she were real. I reached out to touch her jacket and I could feel it. I pulled her close and her face changed.

Then I woke up.

One thing I noticed is that every once in a while my dream eyes would feel heavy and when I tried harder to opened them I would see light from my bedroom.

10.07.2009

Bicycle on I40 (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was riding my bicycle down interstate 40 on my way to a birthday party. I was about to take highway 52 when realized how insanely dangerous this was. I was angry at getting myself into that situation. The highway was different too. There was a tall wall on the right of the exit and almost no shoulder. At any time a car could come hit me. I needed to get out of there and couldn't figure out how.
I decided to see if I could fly so I thought real hard and started floating up in the air.

Bingo. Lucid.
Just to make sure I looked at my hands. Yep. All screwed up.
Everything got very clear and I started flying up a little higher. While I was flying I noticed it was hard to breath but it didn't bother me much, just an observance.
When my sight started to fade a little I focused in on part of the highway and it cleared up again.
Then I saw a park over to my left. I was still about 200' up but I could see a person with long green hair. I flew down to the park and landed just under the platform that the person was walking. I looked up and the person looked like some strange humanoid figure with an extra large nose and small eyes. They were wearing a dark green robe and had long green hair.
I started to fly up to the person and poof I was out of the dream.

30.07.2009

Digital Clock. (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was sitting behind a desk with a digital clock on it. I couldn't read the clock no matter what I did so I thought I must be dreaming.

Bam lucid.

I calmed down and thought of my goals.
I looked at my hands to stabilize but this time they were fine. Normally while lucid they are all screwed up. Either way it helped me gain some clarity.
I wanted to meet my dream guide so I floated over to the lobby where I was. Which happened to be my old employer.
There was an old Woman there. I asked if she was my guide and she said no.
I rubbed my hands together to stabilize. Then I thought I would eat a cheeseburger. (dreamviews july goal) But I couldn't make one appear.
Fearing I would wake up I decided to look for my guide again. I tried to fly out the door and actually hit it the first time.
I tried again and floated past the wall.
I went to crowed city street. It was night. I landed behind a family of three. They were scared of me. I passed them and went through a paper stand. The boy that was with the family tried to give me some money as the father tried to stop him. I turned and laughed at him.

Woke up.

My vision in this dream was not as clear as my other lucids.

15.08.2009

Met My Guide (I think) (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was in some kind of hotel trying to sleep when I decided to get up and go outside. For some reason I realized I was dreaming and was suddenly lucid.

I stayed calm and thought about my goals. I wanted to try to eat a cheeseburger again. I looked down at the bed and calmly thought about what the burger would look like and it just formed right there. Cool. I picked it up and took a bite. Tasted like a cheeseburger. I wasn't hungry so I put it down.

Then I flew up to the top of the house. I wanted to teleport so I tried but kept failing. Then I decided to seek out my guide again. I looked up and saw a young woman with black hair walking below me.
I flew down to her and was careful not to interact too much. (this has caused me to wake up in prior LDs) I asked if she were my guide and she said no but there was a red head over at a table that was.

As we walked to my guide I asked the girl what it was like only existing in my dreams. She laughed at me in one of those "you really have no clue what's going on" tones. I still wonder what she meant by that.

I followed the girl over to the table and there was the girl sitting with others that I didn't even look at. I picked her up and she was very giggly. I ask if she was my guide and she said yes. I took her to another room so we could talk. It was full of leather furniture and I asked her if it was OK to sit there. Then she turned into a cat. I asked her what her name was but she just hissed at me.

I decided that i was going to teleport again but I asked my guide to help me. I closed my eyes and opened them and I was In a different room. Cool. I tried again and was back where I started. When I tried again I put too much effort into it and woke myself up.

Notes:
I used my hands as stabilization this time but really didn't need it that much. Just staying calm seems to do the trick. I also noticed that I could look at my hands occasionally and they would not be messed up as normal. I'm also not completely convinced that the person I thought was my DG was. I will continue my search until I am able to have a conversation with her.

22.08.2009

Robbery (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

My memory of the dream before I became lucid is less clear but here is the gist.

There was a team of us that had just robbed a large amount of gold from an old rundown building in some city. We were taking it to a dropoff somewhere in a large hotel across town.
I was driving the truck and at one point we got stuck in an alley because of another truck. I spoke to the other driver and she moved out of our way and we made it to the hotel without any trouble. Once the gold was unloaded I had to take the cart up to the 200th floor. The cart was very heavy and took everything I had to move it. As I was taking the heavy cart too the elevator when I suddenly realized I was dreaming.

I looked at the cart, put my hand on it and just picked it up as if it were a feather. I went to an elevator and got in. I needed to got to floor 200 but I couldn't see the numbers on the keypad. I knew that it wouldn't work because I was dreaming but I was still irritated by it. I tried to make the number change with my mind and it actually changed and looked correct. I started down the hall when I got to my floor but decided I had enough with the dream.

I tried to float up through the ceiling but I just started crumpling the wall instead. I then went over to a window and busted it out. Everything just feels like it is made of cheap styrofoam and very easy to break.

I got a little frightened when I looked out the window even though I knew how to fly. As I got ready to jump I realized that it was raining really hard outside. That won't do. I looked out and tried to imagine sunny skies and after a couple tries the skies cleared and the sun came out. (that was one of my goals)

I jump out the window and start floating over the city. Then the other robber that was with me flew up after me. I just made a small motion with my hands and he fell back to earth an went splat. After that I decide to go see my guide again. I started flying off and must have used too much effort because it blinded me.

First I descended until I could feel the ground at my feet. I bent down and felt some grass. In order to stabilize I tried spinning but I was still blind. When I tried to open my eyes harder I just opened them in the real world and saw my bedroom.

I tried sitting there without moving hoping that I would re-enter the dream but it didn't work so I grabbed my iPhone and made the journal entry.

25.08.2009

Tornado (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was driving along a highway on the side of a mountain and I thought "Where am I? This must be a dream." I looked at my hands and sure enough they were all deformed.

I ditched the car by floating out the passenger side window and out into the open. There was a valley below me but it was difficult to see because of a fog bank. I decided to explore the valley so I floated down through the fog.

I was having major stability issues and had to constantly look at my hands or focus on one of the cliff walls to keep my vision clear.

Once I was below the fog I could make out my surroundings. They were much different than I expected but not surprising. (This is a dream.)

The bottom area was about 50 feet wide and maybe 200 feet long. It was open but had multiple levels. Some levels had small ladders connecting them. I was standing on the back wall on a lower level. Cliffs rose up on all sides but the fog blocked my view of the sky. The cliffs were squared off like they were skyscrapers made of rock. They had rectangular caves for every floor. I made a point of just standing and looking around me trying to engrave that image into memory.

Once I was done looking around and felt stable enough to move on I tried to summons my DG once more. This almost knocked me out of the dream again so I calmed down, stabilized and figured I would just try that again later.

Then I remembered the task of the month. The biggest thing I've done up until now is change the weather so this would be cool if I could pull it off.

I saw some particles floating in the air nearby and whipped my hand around in circles to get them to move. It took a few moments but the particles did start to move. Then a funnel cloud appeared and slowly grew up farther than I could see. I was thrilled and just marveled and my accomplishment for a moment. Then I got bored and let the twister disperse.

Next I wanted to run at super human speed so I took off but nothing spectacular happened until I went to hop up onto the next level. I jumped about 20 feet up in the air did a back flip and landed. (Considering I usually fly everywhere I guess this wasn't that impressive but it sure felt cool. )

I decided to do another trick.
I wanted to try time control and since there weren't any people around I figured I would just throw something up in the air and try to make it slow down or stop. It didn't. I tried a few more times but gave up.
Next. Pyrokinesis.
Just as I was concentrating on making fire in my hands my vision went away. I tried to look at my hands but everything dissolved away.

All in all this was a pretty successful dream but I need to keep working on my control.

Wasted Lucid

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Supplements Taken Before Bed:
800mg Valerian
120mg Ginkgo

I was standing in a bathroom in a very nice hotel. I thought "What am I doing here?" I looked at my hands and I was missing my pinkies. Cool lucid

I took a second to look around and stabilize. The walls were white as well as the tiled floor. Everything was so clean it kind of glistened.
I walked out the door and to my right was a huge staircase going down about three floors and to my left was a staircase going up one floor.
Before I went anywhere I asked aloud if my DG was there but received no answer.
I went left so I could get to the roof or a window and fly out.
When I got to the top there was a lady standing there and she asked me if I wanted her to open a window for me. I said sure but she disappeared around a corner. I kept roaming aroud until I did find a window but it led way down into the lobby. I passed it up and kept going. I turned another corner and was right back where I started.
Since I had already gone up I decided this time to try downstairs. I looked down the staicase and decided to try and teleport.
First try rendered nothing but screwed up my stability. I rubbed my hands together and yelled clarity now. I should have left it alone but I had to try it again.
Woke up.

Notes:
It was kind of irritating that I knocked myself out of the dream so quickly again. I think I'm going to leave teleporting alone until I can get my stability under control.

The dreams I had prior too this were very vivid as was this one. I'm going to try the same cocktail above with some galantamine during a WBTB.

Walking the Highway (DILD)

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I had decided to walk down the highway to go to work.
I was wearing flip flops but decided that I didn't like them anymore.
I took off the left one and then the right one. Then another one appeared on my foot.
I took it off and held it as well.
When I got to work another flip flop appeared on my foot and then a dress shoe.
Something's not right.

I look at my hand and I have too many fingers. Great I'm in a dream.

I walked down to the yard outside.

I want to teleport so I try clapping my hands and at first nothing happens.

Then everything fades real fast and I can't get it to come back.

Once again teleporting has thrown me out of an LD.

Old Room (DILD)

Monday, October 19, 2009

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I don't remember any of the dream leading up to becoming lucid.

I was in my old room only it was bare.
It was also in the wrong spot but I could tell I was in my parents house.
I could look out and see the living room.
There was a blue couch on the left but nothing else.
The walls were white.
I was determined to keep this one going so I calmed down got a good look at everything and walked slowly out the door.
To my right was the kitchen. It looked the same.
It must have been night and only one light was on.
I looked down the hall and saw my daughter.
She came over and I picked her up.
She said she had a bad dream and I told her it was ok and she could do anthything in a dream.

Then I woke.

Old House (DILD)

Friday, October 23, 2009

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was in an old abandoned house.

For some reason I instantly knew I was dreaming.
I tried to stay still to make it last.

I was looking at an empty wall. There was a dim light coming from behind me. The room was fairly dark. I could only make out what was in front of me.

Saw shadow of lamp. It became real.
Saw shadow of desk. It became real.
Then I started to lose control and it started getting dark.

I tried to look for light but woke up.

Corn Field (DILD)

Sunday, October 25, 2009

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was driving a tractor when I realized I was dreaming.
I tried rubbing my hands together to stabilize but it wasn't working very good.
This time I remembered to spin but I could only go back and forth in the seat.

As the tractor drifted through the field I tried to summons my guide.
A woman appeared in front of me with dark hair and blue shirt.
She was facing away from me.
When I tried to grab her shoulder I woke up.

Unexpected WILD (WILD)

Friday, October 30, 2009

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This WILD happened within the first 30 minutes of going to bed. I was just daydreaming trying to get sleepy when it happened.

I was in a hallway with a door.

I started to open the door when I could feel SP setting in. I rode it out and appeared in an empty room. I couldn't stabilize quick enough and it started getting darker. When I tried to open my eyes wider I woke up.

I did a couple RCs to make sure but unfortunately I was really awake.

A jungle beneath the school (WILD)

Monday, November 30, 2009

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

About an hour after my WBTB I felt the onset of SP. I let it ride out expecting to drop into a LD but nothing happened. Everything was just black. I opened my eyes wider and could then see the back of my sleeping mask. I thought I had woken up but then I noticed a small bug crawling on the inside of the mask. When I tried to focus in on it I felt the rush of SP again.

I set it pass and suddenly I was floating up towards my ceiling.

I directed my floating towards my wall and then passed through to what I thought would be my front yard.

It wasn't. I was in a jungle. Determined not to screw this one up I decided against trying to teleport out. (I forgot about spinning once again.) I looked at my hands and stabilized as best I could and started to look for a way out.

The jungle was full of sounds but the path I was following was not very thick and easily travelled. I decided to fly up over the canopy to see where I was but realized that I was actually underground in some gigantic cave. So much for that. So I walked on.

At some point I came to a spot where the cave went straight up. No problem, I just floated up to the next where it went horizontal again and continued to walk.

This is where I noticed that everything was a little to dim. I shouted clarity now and looked at my hands but it didn't seem to do much. That's when I realized that I was wearing sunglasses. ( I could see the edges in my peripheral vision) I went to take them off but when I did there was a new pair behind them. After a dozen tries and seeing a pile of glasses on the ground in front of me I gave up. I could still see pretty well.

Again the path lead straight up but instead of flying I decided to climb it. This turned out to be tremendous fun. In real life my arms would be pumped after doing a couple overhangs but here I never got tired and my grip was almost always solid.

As I reached the top I grabbed ahold of something sandy and slipped, falling towards the floor. For a moment I was actually scared. Then I remembered I could fly.

I went ahead and flew all the way up to the top when I realized I was behind the walls of some kind of school.

I found an opening and crawled through into the hallway. Though I could hear people all around I couldn't actually see anyone. I was wandering the halls looking for a way outside when I came across a door with a lot of light behind it. I went through but found only another hall with lots of lights in the ceiling.

That's when I noticed my sunglasses again. This time when I took them off they stayed off and everything was much brighter.

At this point I noticed a hallway with a bunch of pipes running along the walls. I figured it was a maintenance area and had to have a way to the roof. I was tired of walking so I decided to fly down the hall.

I took off running but when I leaped in the air I was jerked backward by something. This was very shocking but not necessarily frightening. I looked down at my hands and saw that they had become pipes and were attached to the floor. I looked up and back down and they were back to normal (I had 7 fingers on one hand and 3 on the other but that's pretty normal for dream hands)

Once again I tried to fly but it was really hard to lift off. Suddenly everything went dim and it was over.

I tried staying still and reentering but after about 30 min gave up.

This was one of my longest LDs and one of the most vivid. I throughly enjoyed it but I would like to have had more control.

Next time I have to remember to spin.

On the Lake (DILD)

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

After a 2 1/2 hour failed WILD attempt I gave up and passed out.

I was by a lake where I once lived playing in a yard with my daughters. In this yard, near the lake was a pond with a small pier. Suddenly a car driving along the road to our right veered off narrowly missing my kids and flipped into the pond. After making sure my kids were alright and telling them not to go near the road I ran over to the pond to help.

I took my phone and wallet out and set them on the pier before jumping in. I was expecting the water to be freezing but it wasn't uncomfortable at all. I swam into the car and unbuckled the woman from her seatbelt and pulled her to the surface.
On the pier I thought the woman was dead but tried doing CPR anyway. As soon as I touched her chest she coughed up a bunch of black liquid and started breathing normally again.
At that point I tried to call 911 but all I got was a busy signal. I tried again and got a pizza delivery guy.

I decided to try and drive for help. I got into a full size pickup that was parked nearby and took off. I must have blacked out because suddenly I was driving through someone's driveway which then turned into a sidewalk. I tried to turn around but there was only a sidewalk behind me. As I drove back down the sidewalk it started to enter a tunnel that kept getting smaller and smaller.

At this point I realized it was a dream and gunned the truck through the narrow walls of the tunnel and crashed out onto a small beach. I drove into the water sinking up to floor. Even though I was that far under I was still doing pretty good speed because I caught up with some kind of water skiing show they were having on the lake. I pulled right up next to the speed boat which was pulling two girls on skis and loudly playing some 70s era rock.

This is when I remembered my intention to try spinning a new dream scene. I got up on top of the truck and spun around saying "when I stop spinning I will be at camp muir". I could picture where I wanted to be and really expected to be there. Unfortunately that damn music messed up my spinning and when I stopped I was still on the lake. I looked over at the boat and yelled SHUT UP! The music stopped. I tried spinning again but when I stopped I was still on the lake. I blamed the boat and the skiers so I flew over to the boat intending to do something about it.

When I got to the boat everything started fading away very quickly and then all was black.

I tried to stay still and reenter the dream. I started seeing static images that started switching so fast I could actually see the lake scene forming. But before it fully materialized everything went black again.

At that point I realized that my left arm was in a strange position and had completely fallen asleep. After repositioning my arm so it could get blood again I tried to reenter the dream again but was unsuccessful.

My first DEILD (DEILD)

Monday, December 7, 2009

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

The dream prior to waking was a very long in depth sequence about me fighting with a large group of bad cops.

In the later stages of the dream I was chasing two guys up into an office building. When I got to one of the higher floors they had met up with some of their colleagues. Instead of coming after me they just laughed and yelled "In here, they're shooting at us". Then they all shot themselves in the head.

At that moment I realized who they had been yelling at. A small army was coming up the stairs form me. I decided to make a break for it by jumping out a window.

I crashed through relatively easy and was able to slide down the brick to the street below. There were a row of motorcycles parked and their riders siting around talking. Without hesitation I jumped on the nearest one ( a black Ducati Monster) and took off.

That's when I woke up.

I liked the last part of the dream so I thought about the part where was jumping out of the window again.

I felt myself falling again but this time I was falling off a large house in some suburban neighborhood. Before I hit the ground I just slowed down and started floating. My neighbor saw me fall and asked if I were ok. I floated up over my fence and told her I was fine. She just laughed and went back to raking her yard.

Since I've been having control issues in my lucids I decided to try a few simple things for practice. I flew over to my front yard and started to spin to clear things up. I spun very fast and when I stopped I was actually dizzy.

When the dizziness wore off I realized how vivid everything was. I reached down and picked up some leaves off the ground. It never ceases to amaze me how real everything is in these LDs.

Just then I noticed a monkey in a tree across the street playing with a ball. I decided to try summonsing another ball to throw over there. I tried a couple different techniques but the one that worked was holding my hand out of site, imagining that I was holding the ball and when I closed my hand I could feel it there. I tossed it over to the monkey.

Just when I was about to try changing dream scenes by spinning another neighbor came over complaining about something he let me borrow. I was trying to understand what he was talking about but I think I was trying too hard.

Everything faded real fast and I suddenly opened my eyes in RL. A quick RC proved I was awake.

At school again (DILD)

Monday, December 14, 2009

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was between classes at some school.
I decided to go to my car to get something only every time I walked up to it, it would change into another car.

I gave up and went to my next class only when I got there it was some kind of office. I thought "that was weird, maybe this is a dream".
I looked at my left hand and it was fine. I looked at my right hand and it had 9 fingers.

Everything instantly cleared up.

I decided to go outside so I tried to walk through the door instead of opening it. I bashed my head into the glass and the door opened anyway.

Once I was outside I decided I wanted to be somewhere with lots of snow. I started to spin and tried to imagine where I wanted to be. When I stopped I was still in the same spot.

I tried again and still no luck.

At that point I tried to summons my guide but that didn't work either.

Ok, nothing works so I'll just fly around and explore. Luckily flying is never much of an issue.

I took off and saw a woman in a long red dress floating up at the same time.

I flew over too her and asked if she was my guide. She said yes then started talking real fast and I couldn't make out what she was saying. At that point I could tell she wasn't my guide. She just seemed like another one of those one dimensional DCs.

Everything started getting dark so I spun around a couple times and it was clear again.

Unfortunately it was only temporary and it started fading again.

I rubbed my hands together but it was too late. I was looking up at my ceiling again.

A couple RCs proved it was over.

Notes:
Still need to work on dream control. I'm letting too much doubt creep in and keep things from happening.

Living Painting (DILD)

Thursday, December 17, 2009

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I awoke to find myself in my childhood bedroom. This can't be right. I look down at my hands and my right one has 7 fingers.
Since this was my first FA and I want to see what I look like in the bed. I get up and turn around but I only see the bed. Oh well.

I walk through the house to the front door and open it. The world outside looks just as it would from that portch except it's all as if I were in a paintaing. The style is very Vangough. I walk out into the yard and reach down to feel the ground. It's wet paint. I walk over to the truck and it is the same. The sun is a swirl of orange and yellow. (this reminds me of a scene from 'What Dreams May Come')

The world starts to dim so I spin around to brighten it back up. When I stop I am still in the same place but everything is normal. No more paint.

I decide to try to build a snowman. For that I will need snow. I spin around and try to change to place where there is snow. Nothing happens. I try again trying to picture the place I already am covered in snow. This works.

Everything is white, covered in a deep blanket of snow. Since it doesn't snow enough where I live in RL I decide to build this snowman by hand instead of just summonsing it. I reach down and touch the snow. It is cold in my fingers. I create a ball and start rolling it across the ground. When I get a large enough base I begin to make the second part.

Instead of rolling another ball I decide to try "magically" creating one with the surrounding snow. I point at the ground and start making swirling motions. Snow starts to swirl around at the place I'm pointing at and begins to form the second ball. Suddenly everything starts to go black and I can't stabilize fast enough to save it.

I open my eyes and see my bedroom. I do a couple RCs but it's over.

Grandma's House (DILD)

Monday, December 21, 2009

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I look at my hands and realize I'm lucid. I don't recall any of the previous dream.

I'm at my Grandma's old house. I haven't been here for many many years. I walk through the living room and out the front door.

The world outside is very bright. The grass is perfectly green. The trees have all their foliage. The yard looks much like the front yard I expected to see.

Things start dimming a little so I spin around to clear things up. (this works really well)

I decide to fly off to explore this world. As I float up I see a friend I worked with years ago walking on the ground. Once I get up over the trees I notice two elderly people flying as well. Since I don't see too many flying DCs I decided to go talk to them. As soon as I touch the woman on the shoulder I feel a sensation very close to that of going into SP. Then everything starts to dim very quickly. I try to spin but I'm frozen in place.

I can feel my bed. I look at my hands and realize I'm awake.

Mountaineering (DILD)

Sunday, January 10, 2010

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am climbing some glaciated peak but I am only in street shoes and without my gear. I am still making good time and keeping up with the guide in front of me. As I reach the top I realize that I don't have my parka and have to descend.

At the bottom of the mountain I get a room to rest. As I enter the room I realize I am dreaming.I look at my hands to be sure and they have way too many fingers. As I walk back into the hall I run into a small cat. Now the cat becomes larger, the size of a jaguar. The cat leaps at me but before it strikes a young woman with blond curly hair grabs my arm and spins me around. The cat never lands and is nowhere to be seen. The blond smiles at me, says something incomprehensible and then walks away.

I decide I want to go climbing.

A young man walks by with a pack full of climbing gear. I yell at him, hey you need a partner. He says 'yeah go get your stuff'. We both walk through the lobby doors into a huge area with rows and rows of packs already ready to go. I need to find mine so I start walking down the rows. As I walk the packs start getting closer and closer. I realize that I'm losing the dream and try to spin but it all goes dark and I can suddenly hear the sounds of my house in RL.

The Mansion (DEILD)

Monday, January 11, 2010

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I do not recall the dream prior to this one but as I awoke I kept very still and a vision started instantly appearing.

I am walking on the grounds of a large colonial style mansion. It must be spring because everything is green and blooming. The sky is clear and I am alone. Across the grounds there is a large body of water and train tracks just beyond that.

I look down at my feet, I'm wearing ostritch skin boots. How strange. I lift off the ground and hover for a moment. Hmmm...what to do. I see a train on the tracks across the water. Let's see how fast I can fly over there. I take off, gaining speed as I near the tracks. Just as I reach the train it moves through a tunnel under a small building. I fly up to the roof and land.

As I turn around I notice that the water has turned into an ocean and the mansion is gone. There are incredible waves and it looks as if a great storm is occurring. I see a small ship being tossed around way off shore. Then I spot two large racing boats speeding past me. I take off after them and catch them with almost no effort. It would be more fun if I surf along side them. I land on the surface and realize there is a surf board under me.

It starts to get dark. Rather than spin on top of the surf board I decide to dive into the water and see if that will awaken my senses enough to keep the dream going. I could feel the water all around me. It was very comfortable. I could breath as well but couldn't see. I tried opening my eyes but it just woke me up.

I lay as still as possible.

Almost as fast as I had awakened a scene starts forming before me. I am back at the mansion staring at those strange ostrich skin boots. I laugh out loud.

This time I am not alone. There is a grand function happening at the mansion. There are people everywhere dressed in tuxes and evening gowns. Everyone here is of advanced age. Then a thought, I can do the TOTM. I look around for some drinks. All I see is an empty high ball glass on a nearby table. That will work. I pick it up and walk over to a small group of partygoers and hand my glass to a small elderly woman. Before I even say anything she smiles and hands the glass back to me only now it is a champagne flute full of champagne. The others hold up their glasses and make a short toast I don't understand. As I go to drink mine I notice that it has changed to a blood red color. I drink it anyway. It does not taste like anything I've ever had. It's indescribable. It's as if I am drinking pure energy. In one instant I feel every cell in my body. I need more. I turn to ask the woman to pour me another glass but it all goes dark and instantly I'm awake.

I lay there trying to get back into the dream but it's no use.

Office Building (DILD)

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am in an office building surrounded by cubicles. I think I'm dreaming but I look at my hands just to make sure. Hmmm....there is nothing wrong with them.
I lift off the ground with relative ease so I am definitely dreaming. Once again, I want to be somewhere else. I lift straight up and crash through the floor like it is styrofoam. I continue my ascent until I reach the roof of the building. As I crash through it pushes back and everything becomes dim.
I quickly gain control and start spinning. As I spin I think that I want to search for my guide again. When I stop I am forced backward at a preternatural speed, winding down a spiral staircase until I'm on the bottom floor of the building. There room is large and contains many segmented cubicle areas. There are many people walking around in business attire. In one small group a girl drops her papers. She bends down to pick them up and then looks up at me. I instinctively look away but I realize that I know her. I do not know her name or even who she is but I have this overwhelming since of familiarity. I look back but she is gone. The other two persons are still there but she is gone.
Now I have a mission. I begin to wander through the complex, peeking in meeting rooms, walking through cubicles. No one seems to mind but they also refuse to help. When spoken too they look up with their lifeless expressions and babble some unintelligible phrase and walk away.
I see a wall of computer monitors. I'll just look up the location of this girl. Unfortunately, no matter how hard I look at the screen I can not make out anything on the display. I get up and take off towards another wing of the building. Suddenly everything starts to get dim.

I look down at my hands but it's too late. Everything is gone and I can hear the sounds of my house.