Thread: Clyde Machine's Dream Journal

14.05.2010

94: 5.14.10; 9:15AM Part 1: Flying Consciously. (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I become lucid in a dream and am flying through space, past beautiful magenta and indigo nebulae, each surrounded by floating, glowing words. I go in for a landing, and come out of the dream.

14.05.2010

94: 5.14.10; 9:15AM Part 2: Flying Consciously Again. (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I go back to sleep from the previous lucid and I find myself in the same place through using the DEILD method. I'm in a dark area of space that seems to have a black floor/ground and a charcoal-coloured ceiling with a texture like the surface of the moon. I start walking and jump up, consciously trying to fly. I start a slow descent when I hit the peak of my hop, and don't get results by flapping my wings, so I shoot my arms straight up above me, making me soar straight for the ceiling. I plant my hands on the ceiling firmly, observing the clearly crater-covered surface, and push off to fly around somemore through space.

14.05.2010

94: 5.14.10; 9:15AM Part 3: Black and Tan Puppy. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I find tons of puppies out on some of our farm implements. One in particular really likes me, the rest running off to hide. He's a black and tan puppy with a beagle's face and long floppy ears.

14.05.2010

94: 5.14.10; 9:15AM Part 4: Alerion. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am in a dark classroom, filled with students, and instead of doing work we're talking about techno music. "Alerion" by Asking Alexandria begins playing and some of us start singing/screaming along with it, myself at the forefront. I get comfortable sitting sideways in my desk and continue to listen to the music being played for us after Alerion ends.

14.05.2010

94: 5.14.10; 9:15AM Part 5: Touching Music Video. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am watching a music video that fills me entire field of vision. The music is clear in my head, and the video and song are of a sad subject: a bandmate who died in a car crash. The video features a light blue car in which he was sitting in the backseat, the song saying that one of their most loved memories of him being the first day they went to the studio. The video shows him in a hospital bed, and after several changes to the scene involving the room and the people in it, the camera heads out the door and back to the road, the song ending.

The song had a very current-Hawthorne Heights sound to the music and vocals. It was VERY touching.

15.05.2010

95: 5.15.10; 11:41AM Part 1: A Warrant For Her Arrest + A Morbid Experience with Harry And Hermione. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Julia and I are preparing to arrest and man and woman for some abduction-related crime. They both had an abnormal fascination with their victims' feet, and kept them locked away after abducting them for that reason. I stall the man and woman while Julia goes to secure a warrant for the woman's arrest, but after she leaves and is gone a while, Julia seems to have disappeared, and I go searching for her, as I can't arrest them without a warrant.

I wind up in my house and remember that I can use my cell phone to call her and find out where she is. I find my phone charging on the floor of my hallway. I unplug it and take it to my desk, sitting down, and discover that I have 40 new messages, none apparently from Julia. From what I could tell, most of them were screenshots of a game from a contact by the name Uchimaru.

Watching these screenshots for a bit, the dream transitions inside them, taking me into a Harry Potter video game, where Harry is to steal a dragon's egg. Harry and Hermione are both there, and their characters keep dying from either jumping off the tiny cliff they're on within this giant cave, or from somehow falling from great heights onto that very cliff.

15.05.2010

95: 5.15.10; 11:41AM Part 2: Attempt to Jump Off a Skyscraper. (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I come out of the previous dream and visualize another scene, going into a lucid where I'm next to a road that cuts through a dead corn field in the mid-afternoon. There's a girl there I recognize who is trying to DEILD as well, so someone (it could have been me who told her, but I don't recall) explains to close her eyes, visualize a scene, and walk around to get lucid. I take this advice myself and walk down a path adjacent to the road, which convinces me that I'm lucid.

I turn around and I think of putting myself on a skyscraper to jump off it. I use the previously mentioned method to put myself on top of one, but I find myself still in a field after I walk around a bit. I visualize the skyscraper again, complete with an aerial view of a skyscraper with a beautiful sprawling metropolis surrounding it, and wake up from the dream.

15.05.2010

95: 5.15.10; 11:41AM Part 3: Over the Edge of a Skyscraper. (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Dissatisfied that I'd only had one lucid this morning, I continued my DEILD attempts, all trying to place me on a skyscraper - a simple white/grey square building top with blue sky all around. Several attempts saw me get too excited for the experience of falling from a skyscraper, and I would stay awake with my eyes closed. However, I succeeded in one attempt and got into a lucid, walking atop the skyscraper I'd envisioned. I walked right up to the edge and peered down, not seeing that sprawling metropolis at the bottom I'd hoped for, but chose to hop down anyway. My body felt that convincing, exciting, very real lurch as I slipped into the air, over the edge, and started falling down the side of the skyscraper. The excitement from that lurching feeling of falling brought me out of the dream.

Further attempts at DEILDs brought me no closer to more lucids than a few hallucinogenic visuals.

Originally Posted by Clyde Machine

My body felt that convincing, exciting, very real lurch as I slipped into the air, over the edge, and started falling down the side of the skyscraper.

I love that.

Glad you liked it!

16.05.2010

96: 5.16.10; 9:43AM Suburban Garden. (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I'm at my picnic table with both my sisters when we see a basketball team walking by, the players on each others' shoulders in three-person stacks. My dad waves us over to follow them and to watch them play a game, so I run over toward them.

The dream transitions slightly, changing the environment to a suburban scene with a great deal of plant life and shrubbery, lit up by the bright morning sun. On my way following the basketball team, I dodge into a small concrete garden/park to sit and think, knowing that I'd wanted to get lucid (but not yet aware I'm dreaming). When I sit down, I close my eyes and realize I'm lucid, feeling the great warmth of the sunlight on my face.

Some people walk by me and I get taken back into the dream's plot when I run into a man from the group and start a gunfight with him. He falls against a small iron picket-style fence, where he dies, dropping the gun and saber he carried.

17.05.2010

97: 5.17.10; 7:39AM Viola Reclaimed. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I'm arguing with a man who has my viola, and I devise a way to get it back from him. I look at the way he's holding it, which appears to be like a baseball bat or like another hand-held weapon. I start to shout at him, saying that something's wrong with the instrument's tuning pegs, using a few profanities to startle him. I take the instrument from his hand, to which he offers no resistance, and I continue to freak out, accusing him of causing damage to the instrument.

18.05.2010

98: 5.18.10; 8:21AM Part 1: Without a Trace. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was hanging out with a few girls I recognized, one of which being an ex-girlfriend of mine. We walked through a parking lot toward a movie theater, and she passed out cold on the pavement, in the line of on-coming cars. One of the other girls stopped the cars while I picked up my ex. We rushed to the theater and everyone but me and my ex, still passed out, had disappeared. I asked an attendant for assistance, but she said I should go next door for a phone and to get to the hospital.

A little traveling around outside, still carrying my ex, told me the entire area was desolate, and after exploring a few alleys and coming out of one at the side of a freeway, I realized I should use my cell phone to call an ambulance.

I debated if I should call an ambulance or try to find a hospital, as it would take time for them to arrive at my location and I didn't know any nearby addresses to give them a reference point to find me. Julia called while I was thinking, so I explained to her what was going on. By the time I got off the phone, which wasn't more than a minute's time, my ex was missing, without a trace.

Later in the dream, I heard a radio station saying she was arrested for a traffic-related offense, which I suspected had to do with passing out in front of those cars back in the parking lot.

At one point earlier in the dream, I had passed by a pawn shop with the group of girls plus my ex, and saw some dark-cyan/teal shirts on display that I knew were clothes Julia had left behind/sold some while ago, and it made me miss her to see them.

18.05.2010

98: 5.18.10; 8:21AM Part 2: Magic Stove. (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I began waking from the previous dream and remembered wanting to go lucid. I did a DEILD after adjusting my legs quick and visualized, putting myself behind what appeared to be my stove. I wanted an M4 assault rifle to appear behind it - but no luck. Then I figured it was because I had clear view of where it would be, so the solution was to expect it to appear within the stove itself, somewhere in the back of the appliance. I reached into a slot in the back and pulled it out successfully, and woke up.

18.05.2010

98: 5.18.10; 10:30AM Part 3: Steve Vai Shows His Prowess. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

A short dream in which I watched Steve Vai playing his guitar in my music room, showing that he could play two different lines of music at once: he did left-hand pull-offs on the high-e string while wildly tremolo picking the open low-E string.

18.05.2010

98: 5.18.10; 10:30AM Part 4: Julia's Letter + Out to Dinner with my Dad. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I dreamed of getting an especially lengthy letter from Julia while in a kind of classroom setting, but wasn't able to read it there.

The dream transitioned and I was helping two girls open their van door - come to find out, the lock/unlock switch was partially locked, which was the cause of their problems.

The dream transitioned again and I was out to dinner with my dad, and saw my high school history teacher Mr. Shahin there.

18.05.2010

98: 5.18.10; 10:30AM Part 5: Dating Assistant Clyde Machine! (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Coming out of a dream, I visualized a new one and found myself in a field of red and yellow flowers. I wanted to do the task of the month, but I wanted it to be more interesting than merely handing a flower to someone, so I put a couple in the field in front of me. Unaware of my presence, they faced away from me and were naked, appearing almost as cartoon characters, sitting next to one another, unmoving.

I pulled up a yellow flower and tapped the young lady on her shoulder, holding up the flower where she could see it. She turned her head, enough to see the flower but not enough for me to see details of her face, and waited a few moments before her hand shot up and plucked the flower from my hand. I watched and waited, expecting her to give the flower to the young man next to her, but the dream faded out before I saw anything further.

18.05.2010

98: 5.18.10; 12:15PM Part 6: Clyde's Art on Public Display. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was outside the local mall with my little sister Emily when she handed a piece of folded paper I'd sworn I'd seen before in a dream. I tried to chase her down to tell her so, but found a couple of men arguing, which I figured was a welcome opportunity to intervene and put an end to the argument. I found a giant coloured drawing of a flying bird hanging from the side of a building, and when I approached it I identified it as one of my own works.

18.05.2010

98: 5.18.10; 12:15PM Part 7: Fun with Revolvers, Computer Incompetency, and a Shared Dream Attempt. Sorta. (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Coming out of a dream once more, I went back into one, visualizing myself sitting up in my bed with my laptop. I typed "dial.org", trying to get to a site I used to use every now and then some years ago (I believe "failblog.net" is what I meant), but I couldn't type it correctly no matter how many times I tried. When I gave it one last try and found my computer saying "Porn" in my URL bar, I gave up trying to type it.

I realized I only had one eye open, so I opened the other and found everything to be very clear around me, very satisfying. I was enjoying the lucid, so I kept a very serious face to avoid coming out of it prematurely. Done with my computer, I reached under my pillow, looking for a pistol. Of course, I pulled out a beautiful, big black revolver and aimed it first at my computer screen, then out my window, figuring even in a dream I shouldn't shoot my only computer.

I cocked and fired it - but it sounded like a .22 rifle. (As in, not a very strong gunshot sound.) I cocked it and expected it to sound like a heavy gun when I fired it this time - it made a satisfying, loud boom like it should have. I went for a shot once more, this time expecting it to sound like a cannon - but this time, it sounded like the last shot I'd made, which, while satisfying, wasn't as incredibly loud as I'd hoped to hear.

I cocked the gun harder and pulled the trigger harder, still firing out my window into the bleak overcast sky, and found that I could fire multiple rounds with one pull if I pulled the trigger proportionately harder, much like an assault rifle. I did this several times, making the bullet chamber spin like a high-speed carousel, for several minutes, then I put the gun down to consider other things I could do while lucid.

I knew this was going to be a longer lucid than other recent dreams, so I was determined to make it good. At this point I thought about all my goals that I'd considered before going to bed that night, and sat there on my bed, fully lucid, thinking and taking my time. I wanted to try to contact Julia, so I screamed her name loud. It was so loud I could've sworn I'd heard myself shout it in the real world. I put my hand on my head and felt my hair was really soft while I thought about it - I realized I couldn't have a shared dream with her because she wasn't asleep this time of day.

While I thought, I closed my eyes in the dreamworld, and felt the lucid fading. I tried to open my eyes, expecting a false awakening to occur, but I woke up for real.

Interesting thought: While lucid and trying to open my eyes, I felt like my lucid eyes were behind my physical eyes, and when I tried to open the lucid ones, they started to open one of my physical ones, which made me come awake, but only after I woke up did I feel like I was fully back in my own body and was seeing the proper perspective from my physical eyes.

I was outside the local mall with my little sister Emily when she handed a piece of folded paper I'd sworn I'd seen before in a dream.

I am interested to know anything else you remember about that folded piece of paper. I have actually been carrying one in my pocket since 5/18/10 - for the purpose of dream induction.

When I gave it one last try and found my computer saying "Porn" in my URL bar, I gave up trying to type it.

LMAO! - This LD is a fantastic framework for experimentation. Being able to play with technology, play with your eyes, and even wake yourself up is all very awesome. Makes me want to suggest a lucid task for next time Clyde...

Originally Posted by MrDreamsX

I am interested to know anything else you remember about that folded piece of paper. I have actually been carrying one in my pocket since 5/18/10 - for the purpose of dream induction.

It was plain white (appearing to have no lines), appeared to have torn edges (like it wasn't cut from a larger piece, it was torn from one), was folded like a hot dog (3"-5" long), and had a short stub of Scotch tape on it, as if it was meant to be taped closed after being folded like a hot dog, but the tape wasn't stuck to the other side of the paper - it was just sticking up, like it was taped to something else instead of being taped closed.

LMAO! - This LD is a fantastic framework for experimentation. Being able to play with technology, play with your eyes, and even wake yourself up is all very awesome. Makes me want to suggest a lucid task for next time Clyde...

XD It felt somewhat like I was experimenting with it, though I don't usually conduct my lucids as experiments - at least, not as often as I probably ought to. What's your idea for a lucid task? I'm assuming you're talking about the task of the year/month?

Originally Posted by MrDreamsX

I am interested to know anything else you remember about that folded piece of paper. I have actually been carrying one in my pocket since 5/18/10 - for the purpose of dream induction.

It was plain white (appearing to have no lines), appeared to have torn edges (like it wasn't cut from a larger piece, it was torn from one), was folded like a hot dog (3"-5" long), and had a short stub of Scotch tape on it, as if it was meant to be taped closed after being folded like a hot dog, but the tape wasn't stuck to the other side of the paper - it was just sticking up, like it was taped to something else instead of being taped closed.

LMAO! - This LD is a fantastic framework for experimentation. Being able to play with technology, play with your eyes, and even wake yourself up is all very awesome. Makes me want to suggest a lucid task for next time Clyde...

XD It felt somewhat like I was experimenting with it, though I don't usually conduct my lucids as experiments - at least, not as often as I probably ought to. What's your idea for a lucid task? I'm assuming you're talking about the task of the year/month?

20.05.2010

99: 5.20.10; 8:55AM Racing Older Cars + Arcade Game. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I dreamed that I was in a really nice car of an older model, and was racing it down an incredibly packed and busy street in a city I didn't recognize. I saw other hot cars racing alongside me, so I kept up with them to see who was driving them - but never got to see their faces.

The dream transitioned and I was at Paul's house, his mom setting up an old arcade game cabinet called "DJ Pookster," which I found to be very funny. Julia was there with me, and we all talked and reconnected.

21.05.2010

100: 5.21.10; 8:55AM Part 1: Running Down Bleachers + 6twitter Virus. (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I dreamed I'd left my Sociology class early, and as a result had failed it. (It's an online course so I don't know how I could've left it, but I somehow managed to do so.) When I found I'd failed the class, I found myself in my high school gym, running down the bleachers. The bleachers were far too steep for me to be running down, and I wound up jumping off of them due to my momentum, about 10 feet from the floor. I braced for impact, and doing so made me gradually lucid. This immediately slowed my descent. The dream transitioned and I found my computer to have a virus. I found two files named "twitter" and "6twitter" that were irremovable, placed by the virus.