lucidinius' dream journal

[lucidinius]

After having my 4th prelucid dream (5th lucid dream, if you call every conscious dream 'lucid', regardless of the grade of control), I've decided to put up a public dream journal here. So, let's start with the aforementioned dream from yesterday night: My memory starts in my room at home. I stood there in the middle of the room and looked at my hands. I decided to do an RC and counted 7 fingers. I counted them a second time and again, I said to myself it was 7 fingers. I started counting them a third time, very slowly, and looking at every single finger as i pointed at them with my other hand. And as I pointed at my forefinger, I saw a sixth finger popping out behind it. Weird! The longer I looked at the hand, the more fingers appeared. I saw every single one of them sprouting. At that point, I realized that i was in a dream. The first thing that came into my mind was that I wanted to fly. I tried this in every PLD or LD I have had before, but it never worked. I soon recognized there wasn't enough space in my room to practice, so I tried to change my environment through closing my eyes and spinning around with my body. I first feared I would lose dream control through this, but that didn't happen, and when I opened my eyes, I found myself on a strange square. There were three different buildings, one obviously coming from Russia, one from the UK and one from Italy. Each of that buildings had at least one very high tower attached to it. On the plaza there also were many people and I noticed my mother was one of them. From this point of the dream, I can't remember many details. Something happened that decreased the vividness and lucidity of the dream rapidly, and I only remember I held my mom responsible for that (this thought came up during the dream, not afterwards!). This is the way one of my most vivid dreams ever ended. Now that I have spent some time to think about the dream, I came to the conclusion that I would have had very good chances to fly if I jumped down from one of the towers in my dream. Probably that's the reason my teleportation brought me to that mysterious place. I'll call it Aviation Plaza from now on

[lucidinius]

Dream recall is very bad at the moment. The only dream I can partially remember I had three days ago. I was heavily arguing with some person I know in real life. I think I was standing on some sidewalk in that dream. I hope I'll have better recall this night.

[lucidinius]

I'm happy because I can recall a quite vivid dream from last night (sadly, it is the only one I can remember). I don't exactly remember where or when the dream started. My memory begins in a room that looked very similar to mine but had some quite cool differences to it. First, the layout wasn't perfectly rectangular because some of the walls, built of glass, were of a sinuous shape. I could see that the house sheltering the room was located in the mountains and that there was a blizzard going on outside. The bed in the room, located next to the glass walls, was a loft bed (I don't have one in reality) and the room had a parquet flooring (my room has a carpeted floor). Next to the normal walls, there were some red and white plastic boxes standing. In the dream, I was working on some placard for a school presentation together with my younger brother and sister. The presentation had something to do with the ancient Arabian imperium. I'm not sure if I left the room in the later progress of the dream, but I can remember the door to the next room stood open all the time. Sadly, I did no RC, but I'm quite delighted about the dream because of it's vividness.

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The dream I can recall from this night was neither long nor vivid. I was in my room in this dream and telephoned with some guy to ask if I could do an internship at his company during summer holidays. I had my headset on and used Skype to call the man. My father was also listening to the talk (don't ask me how ) My PC which stands on my desk seemed to be switched on, but the screen was black. Then, in the middle of the talk, my internet connection shut down. The conversation ended. This is all I can remember...but I can give you some additional information: First, I am really looking for a company to make my internship, secondly, my WLAN crashes all the time

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This night I had 3 dreams I can recall The problem is that they had very long and extensive storylines, so I can't ensure you will understand the following journal entry. Well, let's start: In my first dream, I was at home, looking for my brother's or sister's gameboy to play some old games because I had took my own one to pieces. I can remember a "Pokemon" game cartridge I held in my hand while searching my room. I can't remember more details from the first dream, but the second was much more interesting because it was a false awakening. I woke up in my room and remembered the first dream. I went to my desk and saw a piece of paper lying where usually my keyboard for the PC lies. I instantly began writing down the first dream in all its details and filled a whole page with the text. I also took a closer look at the single letters, but they seemed quite normal to me. Then, my third and longest dream began. In the first part of it, I was playing an oldschool-fashioned video game together with my brother (and maybe my sister). As we often do in reality, we started quarreling over which way to take in the ingame dungeon and such things. The interesting thing is that we seemed to be in the game world for some moments. I can remember standing in a dark hall, some black creatures approaching...weird At any time, we stopped playing the game because of our dispute. At this point, some elements from my first dream reoccurred. I was again looking for an opportunity to play my old games, now asking my father to help me. He showed me some weird website on his notebook where I could download the games. But during the download, some problems occurred. Maybe my connection got lost as it did in the dream from the last post here. At the end, I still wasn't able to play my beloved games But I'm really happy, I haven't recalled three dreams in a single night for months

[lucidinius]

I had my fifth prelucid For those who call every conscious dream lucid: 6th lucid It was short. Really short. I lay in my bed in the dream and did an RC with closed eyes. I felt it wasn't five fingers. I did a "blind one" again, and felt there were more than five fingers. So I finally opened my eyes and did a third RC which resulted in six fingers (as in my 4th PLD, I could see an additional finger pop out of the hand). I was so happy...but then, as I stood up and walked around to think about what to do next, I lost myself in my thoughts and awoke. Damn. I'll better stick to the things I always try to do in prelucids. Flying, superpowers and such. I hope I'll have my next successful RC soon.

[lucidinius]

As you may have already seen in my signature, I've decided to distribute my present dreams into lucids and prelucids now. I had quite nice recall this night although I wasn't able to remember anything until I breakfasted I can recall one whole dream and one little detail from another. Let's start with the little part. I was standing in my room and looked at my tortoise's terrarium (yes, I have one in real). There was a really weird insect flying inside it, scaring me half to death It was about 15 cm long and looked like some sort of giant wasp but also had some sort of scales on it's back. Really scaring. My tortoise was also in the terrarium, but looked quite normal. I quickly ran outside my room when the monster insect started flying faster and faster... The second dream was later that night, I think. I was on a "foreign week" (sorry, don't know a better word) with my school class in a country with a hot but moisty climate. We first headed through some sort of mountain path to reach our apartments, which were some small buildings with palm trees besides the doors. The first room in the main building was the lobby with a big bar inside, I sat down there with some classmates. One of them ordered a pizza and ate it, but then accidentally dropped the porcelain plate. It broke and another of my classmates went angry because of that. Then we went to the next room to see our dorm rooms. The boys instantly started rushing inside the first room and argued who was allowed to sleep in it, although the room was kinda small and dark. The girls went to another room. I and some friends decided to look for another room because some guys were still battling for the first room. We found a quite big and light room and selected it as our dorm. The only bad thing about it was that the beds were really small and didn't look very solid. One of the girls in my class came into the room and threw herself in my bed and it nearly collapsed...weird. But in general, the room was very cool. Its walls were made of flagstones. Later, I learned that some of my male classmates who haven't been able to find a room had to sleep in the apartments' cellars I'm happy about the quite good recall, I hope I'll be able to refresh my DJ again tomorrow

[lucidinius]

Recall is as bad as it can be at the moment, die only thing I can remember from this night is that I've dreamt of one of my classmates finding my lost iPod in his pencil case. Yes, I've lost it in the real world... Hope the coming night brings more memories.

[lucidinius]

Again, I've dreamt of my lost iPod I was in my school, searching the corridors for my iPod. My mom was also in the school but for some other reason I can't remember. In the dream I felt like I had already searched the whole cellar floor. I wasn't able to find the damn iPod, but discovered some other cool stuff in a 'lost property' box, for example an old-fashioned pocket watch with red and white hands. While I searched this box, I started feeling like I wasn't allowed to seek for my iPod and I heard my music teacher's voice getting louder and louder. I was really scared and the dream started becoming indistinct at this point. I hope my next dreams will be more vivid and last longer...

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Able to recall 2 dreams In the first dream, I was planning to play a tabletop game with two friends and we were discussing out who should play which faction. I can remember that one of the factions was some orc-like folk, the second was an oriental nation. This is everything I can remember from the first dream... ...but the second was all the more vivid and long. I dreamt of being in an MMORPG, playing a multiplayer mission. I saw myself as one of the party members from the third-person-view. In the mission, the party had to get to the boss enemy of the level under time pressure. I remember trying the mission again and again, everytime failing because I didn't know what to do in the end. The challenge of the game was that the party members were infected or diseased in some way, losing health points, and there were only a few healing spots in the level. The first one was on a stone plateau under some trees. I can remember gathering there with the other party members to regain some health points. Following a path through the savannah-like territory, I and the group got to some small hole in a huge rock face. After climbing through it, we stood in a shallow lake and were able to see a giant rock construction which led up to a mysterious portal. We managed to reach the top only one time. As we stood there on the top of the construction, a wide but thin stone plate, I was able to consciously look at the other party members for the first time. I can remember some of them were animals, as large as pigs and with large horns or tusks (I can't exactly remember). The other group members were human, and at least two of them looked like magicians. One of them had a long, white beard and carried a wand with him. I think he was wearing a red cape. One of the other humans carried a sword, I think. I can also remember that at least one of the party members was female. But, back to the mission. Almost every time we reached the stone construction, a timer said we had only 3:30 minutes to complete the task. When we managed to get on top of the construction, we had time to heal ourselves with magic water drops, but we didn't know what to do then. It was like I had forgot that there was the portal to the boss enemy right behind me! So I and the other party members stood there and wasted our time. Sadly, this is where the dream ended. I would have gladly seen what was behind the portal and who was the villain I would have faced. I hope I'll get more control in my next dream, maybe I'll get lucid...

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Recall sucks like never before The only thing I can remember from this night is that I was in a dream conversation right before being woken by the alarm clock. As I realized I was slipping out of my dream, I answered my conversation partner's last question (which I can't remember) with "yes, for sure".

[lucidinius]

Recall was quite ok, although I'm starting to get grumpy about doing no RCs in my dreams. I do them regularly in reality, but in my dreams, I seem to not be very aware of my environment. Anyway, let's talk about my last dream. I was at home, celebrating some relative's party with my family and some other elder people I didn't know. I went out into the garden with my brother and sister. In the garden, I found one of these 'Wanted'-sheets you'll know from every wild western film. It said one of the guys who was also in our house was wanted for committing burglary. We were shocked and ran back into the house to tell our parents. They stood in the kitchen, preparing some appetizers, little pieces of bread with pricy fish parfait. When we told them about the wanted man, they were really shocked. My father started thinking what to do but looked relaxed, my mum said "Oh, I think I need a cognac now". This was the point where I really should have done an RC because in reality, my parents don't drink anything alcoholic but wine or prosecco. But I didn't do anything. And the dream ended... I hope I'll do an RC next time...

[lucidinius]

I feel I had a very long dream this night but can only remember a very short part of it. I discussed with my friends which background music they should play in the fitness center we go to. I still hope I'll do an RC next time...

[lucidinius]

Sorry for not updating the journal so long...life is stressful at the moment Recall is also very bad at the time, I hope I can improve during the next weeks...wish me luck.

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I had a quite sucking LD tonight I lay in my bed in my room, counting my fingers, and counted five, but after I said the word "five" aloud, all fingers except the thumb disappeared. "Weird", I thought, and did an RC the second time, and again, four fingers disappeared after I had finished counting. I was just starting to realize I was in a dream as I felt myself slipping out of the dream world. I did a third RC, trying to stabilize the dream, but it failed (I counted 5 fingers) and I lost consciousness. From that point on, I can't remember anything... This experience was quite miserable, but anyway I'm happy having LDs at all...next time, the LD won't be so short. By the way, as you can see, I've now stopped distinguishing LDs and pLDs. As they all were conscious dreams in which I was able to make decisions on my own, I count them all as lucid dreams...

[lucidinius]

Well. I'm back, trying to update my DJ daily, after having a longer break than expected. I was quite stressed out in real life and had unbelievably bad dream recall. Now I'm back after having one of the best dreams I've ever had. I hope my dream recall will return to a normal level during the next days. So let's start with the dream from this night. It started with me and some friends riding the bus, we were on the way to a billiards club. One of the friends was a shy classmate of me, let's refer to him as 'Phil', who never ever left home on Saturday evening to go out. In the dream, me and my friends only managed to get Phil on the bus by also taking his best friend with us. Well, nothing interesting happened on the bus drive until Phil and the others got out and I, for any reason, didn't notice that and had nearly stayed. I suddenly realized I had to get out when I saw Phil and his friend standing at the sidewalk and arguing over something. Well, I managed to get out of the bus on time. The dream continues in our school. Me and some of the friends who have also been on the bus tried to find our classroom but didn't have any idea where to look because our school looked totally different to how it did usually. It was way more luxurious, having several big elevators for pupils and obviously at least four floors (there were huge stairways to the lower levels, never seeming to end). There were also lots of cleaners and technicians, trying to keep everything perfect for the pupils (for example, we saw two engineers repairing defect elevator although there were several others at this floor). Well, let's return to the story. Phil, the "stay-at-home" guy, was with us when we met some slightly older pupils at the stairway. For some reason, some of them started to offend Phil and asked him why he never went out on weekends. Some younger students also joined the discussion and kidding Phil. One girl, I know her from real life school, even said "Phil, your life is shit". This was too much for him and he, still believing, his life as homebody was better than the others', cried out "Someone must protect me!". He raised his arms and knelt down in despair. Henceforward, Phil didn't appear in the dream again. But the last part was the best. The crowd of students was still there and started a big party after Phil had disappeared. They danced around and talked and one girl, obviously of the same age as me, hugged me. For some reason I knew her name was 'Crystal' without talking a single word with her. Well, the dream went sexual and we had some fun in the middle of the crowd. You can imagine the rest of the dream Well, I hope my next dreams will be as long, vivid and hot () as this one. Feels good to be back here, I was already starting to miss Dreamviews

[lucidinius]

Bah, recall was frigging bad. I can only remember one single dream which described a situation similar to one I had in real life long time ago. I dreamed of forgetting to change my underpants at morning, weird I was in school, realizing I was still wearing old unterpants from last day and got shocked because they had a strange, very noticable red color. Well, I hoped nobody in the dream noticed that strange thing. Please, god of dreaming, better recall next time

[lucidinius]

Sorry for not writing yesterday, here come the last two nights: 06-27-09 The dream had almost no story, but I can remember some details of the dream world. I was standing in front of a security woman together with some friends, we wanted to see the shooting of an action film. The woman didn't let us pass for some reason I can't exactly remember. Well, I took a look at the environment and saw a big, muddy mound left to the woman behind a low iron fence. I could also see some police cars standing behind the fence and there was a big white tent somewhere in the restricted area. 06-28-09 Much more interesting dream due to its storyline. Well, the dream was set in the world of Lord of the Rings. It started with a videogame-like dialogue scene where I saw an elf talking to me, having his words displayed as text at a black bar which was situated at the bottom of my field of view. The elf was wearing a splendorous robe and had a serious expression in his face. I'm not sure, but I guess he gave me some sort of task to do. The next scene I can remember is me standing in front of a big tavern, hearing some laughing and talking from the inside. At the horizon I saw a big, black fortress, mysteriously being visible although it was night. I walked into the inn and went to the second floor. There I saw how the two hobbits Merry and Pippin disguised themselves as a man in a modern suit and with a patch on one of his eyes. Then, they walked over to another man in suit who was leaving the second floor over the stairs. They quickly snatched the big case the man was carrying and ran away. The man didn't try to chase them because he knew he was to old and slow for such an action. Well, next thing I can remember is that I left the building and again saw the big fortress at the horizon. In the far, I heard some mysterious screams. They reminded me of the Nazgul from Lord of the Rings. Quite good recall this night. I hope I'll soon have the opportunity to do an RC.

[lucidinius]

Recall sucks. I had no memorization of anything last night and just a miserable, single piece of memory from this night: In the classroom, I sat next to the best Biology student of the class. Yeah, that's everything I remember. I really hope recall gets better...but now that the school year is almost over, I'm optimistic

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This night I ultimately had some recall. The dream (or was it just multiple dreams?) had three big parts. In the first, I was on holiday with my family in Italy. We were driving through a barren landscape on an old highway. I remember I was arguing with my parents where to have dinner because we were going to stay in a city we had visited multiple times before and we already knew some good restaurants to go. In the second part, I was shopping in the city with my father, looking for a special item I needed for my computer to work (I also need some USB stick in real life!). The city looked very modern and seemed to have dozens of shops in each street. We visited many of them, but didn't find the item, so we finally went to a gas station where they also sold some PC hardware I found some products similar to the one I was looking for, but they weren't exact the same and also cost more I had supposed, so I didn't buy them. Well, the third part was the longest and the most complicated. A girl from the internet contacted me in MSN and told me she had a crush on me. I was really happy because she seemed nice to me (her pic looked very hot ) and agreed to swap our telephone numbers. Well, from there on, the dream was getting weird. I tried to send her my number but always forgot some numbers to enter. After some failures, I wasn't even sure if I had ever known my number! I decided to write it down on a sheet of paper and then enter it in MSN. Well, I also failed at writing it down with my pen, writing not the numbers I wanted to. Several times I even wrote a letter instead of the correct number, so my plan with the paper didn't seem to work. At least I was sure to know the right number after putting the paper away, but when I looked at my PC, I saw that it had disconnected from MSN due to internet problems. I had to reconnect and then quickly apologized for the complications. In the end, I obviously managed to enter the right number and send it. Congratulations to myself! Well, only a short time after that, the dream ended. If only I had the chance to continue the dream another time... By the way, I'll maybe edit this post to give you some more details of the dreams. It's late and I'm very tired, so please excuse me for the miserable writing style...

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20th entry and a quite epic dream this night - very nice The dream I had tonight was very long and vivid, had a continuous story and could have been the script for a fantasy film. I'll try to explain it as detailed as possible. In the dream, whole mankind had been annihilated except for a few hundreds of men and women who were all held inside a small medieval town by intelligent creatures looking like Orcs from the Lord of the Rings movie. The difference between the creatures and orcs is that the dream creatures were much more intelligent - at least they had managed to capture whole mankind in the past. So let's return to the town. The main reason why nobody obviously had ever succeeded in escaping was not the fact that the whole area was surrounded by walls - they were made of wood and not very high - but the billions of bloodthirsty creatures who waited outside the town. In the dream, me and some friends were also held in the town and planned to escape but soon came to the conclusion that it was simply impossible. During these days the number of human incessantly decreased because the creatures sometimes came inside the town and took single men with them to torture and execute them. We were able to see these terrible actions through small, rectangular holes in the walls. Shortly after, we were told that the creatures were planning to erase the rest of the town during the next days. Because we didn't wanted to be tortured and killed, we decided to immure ourselves in a smaller area of the town. All surviving human helped to quickly build up a place the creatures wouldn't be able to access. After finishing the restricted area, we just stayed there to wait for our deaths. This dream was one of the most fascinating I've ever had. I'm still wondering about the fact that I didn't wake up in the middle of the story, like I would do in a "normal" nightmare. Dreams of this kind are really interesting and improve recall so much...

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This night, recall wasn't very good. I can only roughly remember the background story of the dream. I was a soldier in a strategy game on the PC in which three nations fought each other: France, Pakistan and a third state I can't remember. I fought for the French troops and was sent to a big cave in a wood to fight the Pakistani soldiers who had captured a shrine in the cave. Me and some other French soldiers tried to assault the Pakistani and get hold of the shrine but we were driven out of the cave by a huge monster with a snake's body and a women's head. I have no idea where the monster came from or why it was on the Pakistanis' side, but I was quite frightened and ran for my life. I can't remember anything more... I didn't like this dream very much, it really scared me at first...

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Sorry, I had no recall last two nights except for some weird single pictures I can't connect to each other. My general recall is so confusing at the moment... two days after remembering a movie-like film, I only have fragments in my memory...

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I've had no real recall until this night. Finally! I can remember two short dreams. In the first, I was at a party with some friends. The party was at someone's house whom I can't remember. An interesting fact is that I saw some younger children running around in the house which means the host of the party wasn't alone at home. We drank some beer and then went to another room to inhale N2O from some balloons. If you don't know how it works: You take one of these capsules you use for cream in your coffee, put it on some bottle-liked construction and cover another hole of the apparat with the balloon. It gets filled with N2O gas which puts you in a state of comfort for some seconds if you inhale it. So, each of us got a filled balloon, but just as we wanted to inhale, the dream stopped. Weird. In the second dream, we (me and most of the friends which also appeared in dream #1) sat in a classroom at school with some pupils from a higher class. I started talking to one of my classmates about a shy but hot looking blonde girl which sat vis-a-vis to me (the desks were positioned in a semi-circle). We started talking about girls in general and I continued to look at the blonde girl because she looked at me with a strangely seductive expression. It's a pity the dream ended at this point Hope recall won't go away again for so long...

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I had dreams both this and last night. The older one was way longer. 07-16-09 It was a very long and weird dream, I hope you'll understand my explanations. In the dream, I wanted to go to a club where three classmates also went. I met with some friends to go to the club but it turned out that none of us knew where the club was. So we decided to just go to the city and look for our 3 friends to find the club. We had met at a big hill where some old houses were and we couldn't find a road heading towards the city, so we decided to climb over a fence and run through the garden of one of the houses. As we did, an old woman appeared at the house's door and started laughing like mad. I made a step on the grass and felt that the blades were spiky like barbwire. We started running for our lives and jumped over the next fence. That evil granny with her garden of hell had frightened my nearly to death The next thing I can remember is that we were running along an old road, still at the big hill. Somewhere under a tree we saw a girl from my class, sitting on a park bench and playing with some little children. We sped up and passed. My memory continues somewhere in the city. Obviously, we had made it to the area where our 3 friends had also gone, but we still couldn't find them. Well, someone in our group (meantime, some girls had obviously joined us) suggested to rest in one of the houses in the street we were at because he knew the guy living there. We went there and met the man he had talked of. He seemed a little bit older than us and, this was very weird, looked like he was twice as tall as most of us. I told my friends "wow, look at his size", but for them, he seemed to look normal. The next thing we did was having a look-around in the house. In one room, I think it was the bedroom, we had some cocktails the guy had mixed. It's a pity I can't remember how they tasted But then, the last and craziest part of the dream started. I opened a door in the bedroom and found myself at the public open air pool! My friends followed me and we went to the locker room. The toilets there were just weird, they consisted of a bicycle-like construction you sat on and a pipe you pissed in. Difficult to describe in detail. Well, we went out to the pools and finally saw our three friends. One of them pushed me into the water, but after I had climbed out, I saw that both my iPod and my handy were dust-dry. This is where the dream ended... 07-17-09 Much shorter than the last dream and more confusing. Me and my family were at a big hayfield and tried to catch a criminal who had fled into the woods. I had some binoculars and could see the guy, he was wearing a black mask. He ran down a street and had already some headstart. A female police officer then came to ask my mother if we had seen him and my mother explained we were looking for him too. I can't remember what happened next, but I know there were more police officers coming down the street...