Thread: Clyde Machine's Dream Journal

17.03.2010

53: 3.17.10; 4:14PM Stylo. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I went to have an afternoon nap and had a dream with no recall-able images, though I know it was based on the Gorillaz song "Stylo" because it was running through my head before I fell asleep and after I woke up.

I woke up with my eyes closed, and knew I was awake. I tried to V-WILD by imagining a dreamscene, and pictured (among other things) a white owl that I stood on the back of as it flied. This was one of those "memory footprint" kinds, where it's more than just an imagined scene, it's a vision. I had it land so I could try entering a dream, but the image disappeared. I opened my eyes thereafter.

18.03.2010

54: 3.18.10; 7:04AM Part 1: House of Guitars, Guarded by a Panther and Tiger. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I dreamed (vividly) that I was walking around a redneck, run-down area of Kentucky late in the evening, looking for houses I could sell either healthcare or some kind of heart-specific insurance to the owners of. None of the "houses" were more than a porch and a small structure with a door attached to it, with the exception of a very dark building. Night had fallen and I wandered behind the building which kind of put me inside it, where I ran into the owner in the darkness.

She was a very friendly and welcoming woman, though one I didn't recognize. She invited me into her living room and turned on a light, which prompted her large gray/silver panther to come in and inspect me. I froze and watched the panther sniff me out, finally leaving me alone after determining I was a trustworthy person, as the woman explained. A small white tiger appeared and behaved similarly to the panther, inspecting me then being friendly to me, wanting me to pet it.

I walked around her house and discovered many guitars of decent quality sitting about. She sat down and began telling me about them, saying that as we age our fingers become better (I don't recall what word she used), but that she couldn't keep with the guitar or bass. She picked up a thick-necked 5-string bass and gave the bottom string a wild pluck, making it vibrate hard. I kept looking over the guitars and wondered if she might let me have one. I woke up thereafter.

18.03.2010

54: 3.18.10; 9:00AM Part 2: Japanese Woman + Portal Gun + FFVII + House Party (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I dreamed that my brothers Jeff and Jeremy as well as my sister Sarah had come over to my house to visit. I seized the opportunity to tell my mom that I was done waiting for Sarah to hand over the keys to her car and wanted to take the car from her immediately. Ma went along with it, and let me retrieve the keys from the car. Sarah showed up and demanded that I give her the keychains on it, to which I agreed, making sure to only take the car key and the house key. She acted very apathetic to the whole thing, not caring that she had just lost her vehicle, and openly saying so.

After this dream, I transitioned into a lucid dream in which I made myself into a Japanese woman who was also a warrior with a long sharp katana. I forced myself to go first person after I controlled myself/her from third person to cut down a tree. Knowing I was lucid, I wanted to exercise my lucidity by willing myself in first person to cut down trees with one clean cut, and was successful in bringing down many of the trees in my front yard. I thought about the Portal gun, and went third person again, now seeing myself (still as the woman) holding the Portal gun in my hands, it looking every bit like the real thing. I aimed for two stock trailers and made the orange and blue portals appear, expecting them to behave visually as the real portals do. While they looked like they were supposed to (I could see what I was supposed to see through them), I didn't get a chance to jump through them before the dream transitioned.

The dream then put me, non-lucid, in a Final Fantasy VII-esque game where I was running to catch a train going to China, believing it to be heading to a place called "Mako Village." After getting on the train, then running through the cars and hopping off again, I discovered a field with a tall structure on wheels that resembled a construction scaffold. I understood this to be used to crash into something to access a secret area in the game, so I grabbed on and pushed off with my feet.

The thing rolled and carried me with it smoothly down a hill, crashing into a plastic gravestone. While the destruction of the gravestone didn't activate anything noticeable, I understood that to be what was supposed to be broken to initiate the access to the secret area. The scaffold fell over and I went into a CG animation as Cloud, lying there with Zack, hanging on for dear life after the accident, talking with Zack while I lay there losing focus. This losing of focus turned into a moment where I know I was dreaming again, and transitioned to a new dream.

I was still in some sort of game, now in third person again and watching myself lying in bed in someone's house, the dad and the brother in the family being the only other people in the room. I woke up and sat up, the father talking to me. To prove I was lucid, I killed him at the earliest opportunity by standing and striking him hard with an uppercut to the head. I believe I now had a knife and used it to, yes, kill the brother as well. The dream transitioned for a moment into some sort of movie, then it transitioned again into a dream where I was with Julia at a house party of some sort, featuring an odd band made up of a violinist, an odd electric viola (looked like a big black rectangle with strings and springs all over it), a big board with many drums, cymbals, and tambourines on it, and other peculiar instruments. (During this dream I was still lucid, though not as clearly as earlier, and I retained control, but didn't exercise it much from this point on.)

Before they started a movie on the giant flat-screen TV, I was sitting with Julia and heard my phone vibrate from across the room. I looked over to it with a serious look of concern, to confuse or intrigue others in the room. One teenage boy looked at me and said, "Saw an angel?", referring to my expression. I ignored him for a bit, then looked to him with an evil smile, while he looked away from me.

A video began playing on the TV for us to watch of a horror-themed attraction at Disney World that strongly resembled a zombie apocalypse. The movie ended with us understanding that we would be going there and would be split up into groups once there. To this, Julia looked over to me and said, "Okay, no sex," and gave me a long look to make sure I understood.

My speech-class instructor picked up my phone and told me he'd turned it off because it had "bad vibes," meaning it was vibrating in an odd way. I took it, remembering that I had some corrupt music files put on it before I went to sleep that night (I put an album on my phone to listen to it before going to bed, only to find out that my phone recognized the files as corrupted), and saying that they may have been the cause for the odd vibrations.

The dream started to end, and I wondered if I wanted to wake up then. I knew I'd had two lucid experiences in one very long dream, so I figured I'd best wake up and write them down before something got lost. I woke up then.

19.03.2010

55: 3.19.10; 10:32AM Hybrid Keyboards. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I dreamed I was on a beach, swimming/floating in the water with Paul, and I had a computer keyboard with me that made music when the keys were hit. Paul had one as well, and started swimming around with it while making a song. As the dream progressed, the song continued and our keyboards transformed into computer keyboard/electronic piano keyboard hybrids. Paul swam far out into the water and continued to play. I stayed in the shallow water, and while I'd figured out how to swim a short ways in the shallow water, I wasn't confident I could swim into the deep water. My mom came and picked me up after a bit, and I found her listening to what I understood to have been Steve Vai. She asked if she was hearing her music or mine, not knowing she had my CD playing in the van. I told her it was her music that was playing, and woke up thereafter.

21.03.2010

56: 3.21.10; 10:16AM Class-related Nightmare. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I had a very stressing and terrifying dream that I was having great difficulty doing some homework that involved counting tally marks in a book and adding them together. I couldn't count the first set of marks, simply because I couldn't focus and keep from getting distracted. A kid sitting next to me said, "You really need some help, don't you?", which didn't help matters. The more I tried to work on it, the more I got stressed and couldn't focus. I then remembered that I had a Math class that I had forgotten to attend in many weeks. In shock, I checked my schedule, and sure enough I had a math class on Tuesdays that I had only gone to the first day, then forgotten about entirely. I continued to stress and worry while trying to work, and woke up thereafter. None of the dream was true, leaving me very relieved.

23.03.2010

57: 3.23.10; 7:07AM RPG Launcher Demonstration. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I dreamed I was within a GTA game, explaining to Paul what all I could do with various weapons. He was impressed by my using an auto-targeting RPG launcher, so I made extensive use of it to show it off. The dream did a mini transition and found me sitting in an office chair, reading a newspaper clipping Paul had found talking about an event for musicians and artists going on in Detroit that he was very excited to attend. I read through some of it, then was asked by a man standing next to me about video-editing software. I told him that I was the right person to ask, as I could recommend Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 for him to use. I woke thereafter.

24.03.2010

58: 3.24.10; 6:36AM Motivational Compositions. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I had a dream that involved composing music while looking at others' artwork, which I understood to have been from the art group the Luminarium. Two of the members were having problems with anger and depression, so I sent out a couple pieces in the hopes of making them feel better. One of those pieces inspired some of the other people in the room with me to sit down and start singing a song in which the main and most memorable line was, "It's what society says." After hearing Vlad Dolezal speak, I woke up.

25.03.2010

59: 3.25.10; 7:05AM Showing Off With Parkour. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I dreamed that I was sizing up a building, getting read to climb it using parkour, because B4k4 was in one of the rooms and I wanted to take a creative approach to go see him. I was approached by my high school band director, Mr. DeRees, and began talking with him a while. He left shortly thereafter, and I noticed a couple boys jumping up on some structure of the building, trying to grab onto a part of the building, obviously trying to climb it. One fell and I went over to ask if he was alright, seeing him touching his front two teeth as if they had struck the cement. At first he wasn't very responsive, figuring I was going to tell them to stop or at least was going to put down what they were doing. The second of the two boys fell also, landing a little more cleanly than the first one. I asked them to come a little closer, and asked if they were doing PK. They said yes, and I responded with "sweet." They took off running and flew down some stairs, so I gave chase to show them I could do PK as well. I took a different set of stairs and beat them down them, and found myself running through a mall.

They were behind me, so I looked for things to do some moves on. There were some beds set up in my path, so I jumped over one, launching myself off one bed with my foot and clearing it easily. I looked for a wall to do a "tic-tac" off of, preferably over a person sitting or laying (there were numerous people laying near the wall to my right) but didn't find a good spot. I looked to make sure I was still beating the boys - I was, though they were catching up. I woke up thereafter.

26.03.2010

60: 3.26.10; 7:02AM Part 1: Gloria and Santa (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I dreamed I was talking with my friend Gloria about why she had been so mean to her sister earlier in the dream, and had discovered that it was someone I didn't recognize that had been mean to the other girl. After talking with her a while, I found myself inside a school with a lot of my friends, trying to convince them that Santa Claus would never disappear from our culture. This argument was received with much laughter. The dream transitioned once more, and I woke up.

26.03.2010

60: 3.26.10; 9:48AM Part 2: An "Obscure Tasks" Lucid. (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I had a dream that I found a ton of pictures of the female characters from Naruto, Chobits, .Hack, and other mangas, and was scrolling through them in a forum topic. (I understood it to be at the CZ.) I came across a protected post that obviously contained pornographic images of these characters, and gave the password to input to see them. I made the wise decision to get off of that page, just as my dad looked down the hall to see what I was doing.

Just then I had a false awakening, and decided right then I wanted to become lucid. I transitioned back into a dream, and acknowledged that I was inside a dream. I gave a smirk, thinking "Sweet, sixteenth lucid." To ensure/prove I was lucid, I found myself on my roof and jumped down onto a board on the ground below, and landed cleanly, finding I was in full control. I heard Ruffian mooing (he's my pet cow, a steer the size of a very large calf) from the barn, and wanted to ride on him around the pasture. I was teleported instantly onto his back, and had the idea that this dream would be my "obscure tasks lucid", in which I just thought of the oddest things to do, and did them. I pictured myself lighting a pile of logs on fire out in the pasture, and was teleported there. I imagined that I wanted to douse the pile in gasoline to make them all go up in flames, and watched as they did so. I imagined being in the woods nearby, lighting dead leaves on fire as well, starting a small fire and letting it grow. I forced, with my mind, a ring around the leaves of dry ground to appear to ensure I didn't start a forest fire.

I thought about other tasks/goals/obscure things I could do and the first that came to mind was a task of the year: witness the end of the world. I smiled darkly, and after relishing the idea of my pyromania being the cause of such an event, tried to imagine myself lighting everything on fire with my own thoughts. However, this did not happen, and the environment disappeared, leaving blackness all around and signaling the dream was coming to a close soon. I focused (still dreaming) and tried to recreate the environment near my house and the pasture, but was unsuccessful. The rough image of a comet flying toward me/earth appeared in front of me, appearing as a ball of light, much like those seen during hypnagogic hallucinations. It didn't hit anything, as it was all I saw in the blackness, and I woke up thereafter, knowing I had pretty much come out of the dream by that time anyway.

First TOTY attempt; I'll try again next lucid.

27.03.2010

61: 3.27.10; 6:29AM The Grand Lucid. (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I dreamed I was in a classroom watching a guy giving a speech, who had said something to that I understood meant he was lying to us about some personal freedom. I started talking with a student behind me about it, and the presenter called me out on it, wanting to know what I said. I obliged, giving him as much attitude as he was giving me, and that got him fired up about it, making an impromptu speech about it. He ended the impromptu speech with a call-to-arms kind of conclusion, asking if the class supported freedom. Of course, we all raised our hands - I stood from my seat and raised mine, in support of what he was now saying. I had been under the impression that he was demeaning this freedom, but he changed his tune throughout that speech.

The dream transitioned and I was standing on my home road at night, having either walked or driven, and had stopped because I saw dancing lights like those from a fire in the woods nearby. They were coming from a glowing fountain or geyser that seemed to behave more like a red and white and cyan fire than water. I was reminded of Mako from Final Fantasy VII. I loved the lights I'd seen, and wanted to get a video of what I was seeing, lights on the trees and grass dancing about.

I looked to the fountain and felt I'd been there in a previous dream (I hadn't that I know of) and had been playing World of Warcraft there, because there were monsters patrolling the area. I wanted to approach the fountain but had no weapon to defend myself with. A skeleton reminiscent of the Skeleton Champions from Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion came out of the woods, directly toward me with a green ax and green shield. Both I understood to be excellent quality pieces of equipment, and were dangerous. I had to do something, so I met the Skeleton halfway across the road and just slapped him on the skull, and wrestled him for his ax and shield. Once I'd taken both, I ran down the road a ways to lose his attention.

It worked (he went back to the woods), and at this point I'd become lucid. Wielding the equipment I'd just picked up, I discovered a silver blade, a large and wide-bladed knife with a blue jewel embedded in the handle, lying on some rocks off the side of the road. I picked it up and started swinging around with it. I wanted to attack something with it, and turned around, expecting a small animal like a rat to be on the road. When I looked down, there was a rabbit coming toward me, and I attacked it a couple times, causing it to cease moving. I then threw the blade into the woods, and once again had an expectation that it would sound like it hit the brush and leaves and such things when it landed. When I threw it, that's exactly what it sounded like.

Lucidity now "proven", I'd moved back toward the fountain and thought about the tasks of the year, and strained to remember all of them. I had written them down before going to sleep to avoid this exact thing happening, but hadn't memorized them. This lucid was strong and vivid, and I felt I could do any one of those tasks. The first that came to mind was to beat Neil Armstrong down the ladder, but I wasn't keen on doing that one. Instead, I figured I'd do the death of the dinosaurs task, seeing how I'd seen monsters by the fountain earlier.

I arrived at the fountain and found that the environment changed entirely, to a barren stone field of gray, under an overcast broken-looking sky. Dinosaurs were roaming about, and there were fires lit all over the place indicating that something was very wrong - as in, an asteroid collision with earth was imminent. There were flames in the sky as well, and because the overcast sky was broken I could see a bit of outer space. In the sky coming toward the earth, where I stood, was a black fiery ball I understood was THE asteroid, very far away still. I knew I had to watch that hit to complete the task.

The fires I'd seen around me had gotten much larger and were moving around rather quickly, as if dinosaurs themselves were running around on fire (they weren't, by the way, it just seemed that way) toward other dinosaurs. There were fewer dinosaurs now, and the asteroid had moved to a different place in the sky, now much much larger than before, still coming right at me. I kept imagining it being drawn closer to the earth so it would crash, terrible as it sounds.

At this point, all I saw was fire and explosions, as the asteroid had finally reached where I was standing. The fires cleared from my vision and I'd turned around as if nothing happened, and found the barren wasteland void of dinosaur life. The asteroid had hit as far as I could tell (it was coming right at me!), and yet there was no sign of damage to the environment behind where I'd stood - the only destruction must have been right where it hit and nowhere else, 'cause I didn't look at the impact site, just looked at the entire environment around me.

Now that the dinosaurs were gone, I wanted to attempt the April tasks of the month, both in the same dream. I knew it was going to be funny to try these, and started with the basic one. In my mind, I thought I'd read usernames next to the tasks in the topic, and noted how similar yet different they were, just like the tasks were similar but different. (There are no usernames next to the tasks, go look if you don't believe me.) I found a white wall in this barren land and figured I should try the basic task with a wall first rather than just going for it straight out.

I laid down on the ground, a little worried about losing lucidity, and tried kicking my feet up against the wall to stand on my head. I'd managed to get upside down like I'd wanted to, but to make sure I did it I wanted to get away from using the wall for extra support. I did not, however, get a chance to get away from the wall to ensure I did the task right, and lost lucidity. I was on my head though!

The dream transitioned to a non-lucid where I was at Paul's house, waiting anxiously to see Julia in person for the first time in four months. I wasn't ready to talk to her, unsure of what I wanted to say to her. I was also stressing a great deal that a music piece I'd made for the Luminarium had been made with an intro that was a clip of one of NEO's songs, reversed and effect-laden to disguise it, which meant that I was an unoriginal musician.

Mike called saying he'd left Paul's (we were supposed to be practicing as a band) and he'd left his drumset there. Me and Paul got into a small heated discussion about Mike's toms - Paul thought they weren't all that necessary, whereas I thought they were important. I woke up thereafter.

Pretty epic dream! Nice sig too btw.

I thought so too, thanks! And thanks for the comment on the sig as well!

29.03.2010

62: 3.29.10; 8:00AM Backwards Music Video. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I dreamed I was attempting to record a song and music video for it simultaneously, but I was recording the video backwards and singing it backwards, so when it was played correctly you'd hear lyrics, and reversed music. It was pretty sweet.

30.03.2010

63: 3.30.10; 6:58AM Devil Boy Siezes Chocolates! (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I dreamed I was searching my older sister's room for things to take and discovered a cache of chocolates. Getting real excited, I grabbed a handful and started eating one of the sizable chocolate squares. It was a light-coloured chocolate and took a while to get through, and tasted wonderful. I had a red light on in the room, making the entire scene very evil looking. I thought about telling Emily about what I'd found, but I kind of wanted all the chocolate for myself. Before I left the room, I called myself a "devil boy" for being in such an evil-vibed situation. I found Emily and shared a chocolate with her, then woke up.

31.03.2010

64: 3.31.10; 7:34AM Love Me Dead + Subconscious Tries To Use Music Theory. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I dreamed I was with B4k4 listening to "Love Me Dead" by Ludo, and I was playing some of the notes to it on the keyboard, finding out the last note of the song was an E. After I played the E, he mentioned that he'd been trying to add the 8th of the scale to the final E note to finish out the song when he'd played it, but couldn't figure out the correct note. I played a G on the keyboard after a moment and said, "oh, well the 8th is G." (For you musicians reading this, the 8th of the scale would be E an octave higher, not G. G is the minor third. I guess my music theory is just distorted badly in dreams!) Behind us, my history teacher Mr. Shahin from high school was going through a collection of what appeared to be music theory books. He noted to me that he was going to be tied up with the books for a while thanks to me talking about music. I woke up thereafter.

01.04.2010

65: 4.1.10; 8:03AM Part 1 Console Window. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I dreamed I was in a game where I was fighting black-coloured monsters with maces. I came upon a room with a "boss" monster, all black, wearing a lot of leaves on its body, which I was able to fight against and defeat by swinging my own mace in a circle as often as I could to deflect any attacks from my opponent.

After defeating the "boss", I ran out of a temple to go find a woman that I understood I had to earn the affection of in-game. She had become angry that I'd neglected to visit her sooner, so I pulled up the console window for the game (for those of you who've never used one, it's a kind of "debugging" window that allows for direct editing of values in the game you're playing; therefore, can be used as a cheat device. This shows up in my next dream too, if you're interested.) and searched for the affection variable so I could edit that and make her have the necessary affection. This window was light brown, and was very reminiscent of the window themes of the game Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, though with typical sans serif black text. I found two variables for money, and had a little over 6600 "G" to my character, but didn't find the affection variable, and woke up.

01.04.2010

65: 4.1.10; 8:13AM Part 2: Back To The Past, Like In Back To The Future. (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I had mostly woken up from the last dream and knew I wanted to become lucid, so I forced myself completely out of the non-lucid dream and into a DEILD, knowing I was in control of myself enough to be able to do so. After a smooth and excellent transition into the lucid, I found myself driving in first person perspective on a road in a city I wasn't familiar with. To make sure I was lucid, I swung my left arm up and out from my side and punched where the "escape" key would be on a computer keyboard; a black keyboard had been generated in front of me for this purpose. I called this the "console" key, and hitting it brought up a window from my previous dream. (See previous dream for description of this window.)

Even though the console was up, I didn't use it. I instead kept driving, quite fast, on the road ahead of me, and thought of the task of the year once again, recalling that before I'd gone to bed I'd looked over the list and chosen to do the "dawn of man" task during my next lucid. Since I was driving, there was only one logical way to go back in time: Back To The Future style!

I kicked up the speed of the car and raced toward an oncoming car with the intent to jump into the past before the collision. As the shiny blue car came at me fast, I braced and charged full-speed forward.

When the jump completed (somehow I kept my eyes open through the entire thing!), I was still driving, and still in a city, but everything was different. I had to find a cave of some sort to find the first people to show them how to make fire, and drove around looking for one. The road turned off to the right, and went downward into the ground, which led me to an area of the city where there was a garage door, silvery metal and made up of horizontal bars, with an awning above it. I figured the first humans would be here, so I got out of the car - I just went third person and saw myself standing there without a car anywhere in sight.

I saw a couple people standing there, very clearly of the dawn-of-man era, and began collecting up things around me to show them how to make fire. I was about to just spark something to light up a pile of trash when I figured, I don't need to do it this way, I just need to show them how to make fire! I imagined myself blasting the trash as if I were holding a flamethrower, lighting up everything around me. There were three people here now, and each smiled and clapped at the sight of the fire.

I suddenly looked like Homer Simpson as I continued lighting things on fire, and some character I didn't recognize I assumed was from the Simpsons as well showed up and said a couple things, one of which made me laugh hysterically in my lucid. That was a first, and it did sound like me despite my appearance, and I made myself wake up afterward from laughing so much, figuring someone in the house might have heard me. Would've loved to have seen myself during that lucid to see if I did laugh!

02.04.2010

66: 4.2.10; 9:30AM Part 1: Shooting Game, Minus Firearms. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I dreamed I was in some kind of game that involved shooting at others to make them lose lives. Prior to actually finding people to shoot, I found myself driving a minivan, and backed into a mailbox. The mailbox was atop a white pedestal and wasn't mounted, so it just fell over, but even though there wasn't damage I felt the great need to get out of there quick before anyone could see it was me. After driving off, I left the van and joined in the game.

I was doing great - while none of us had guns, we had to think about shooting at others and make the sounds, and I was doing great at getting people before they could get a shot in. One guy I knew but didn't recognize, wearing combat camo, had some kind of grenade in his hand when I shot at him and took him out. It was about five inches long and was nothing more than a black cylinder that he held in his right hand above his head while he sat on the ground. He smiled when I shot him because he'd thought he'd be able to make me lose my lives by just having that grenade, but he couldn't use it after he had lost his own.

He apparently had been learning how the game worked as he played, as he asked how many lives everyone got and how many bullets as well (three per player for both), and was surprised when I told him how few bullets we got. I woke thereafter.

02.04.2010

66: 4.2.10; 8:55PM Part 2: First WILD. (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I attempted WILDing when I found free-time in the late afternoon. I did LaBerge's adaptation of progressive relaxation, deeply breathed many times to slow myself down and clear my mind, and had my first feeling of a floating sensation during the onset of SP. I was being pulled up from my body, and got a visual cue (an overlayed darkness enveloping everything behind my eyelids) that I was beginning the transition into the hallucination stage. I started having images appear before me, and kept myself alert throughout by watching them come and go, occasionally checking to see if I could still contact my physical "touch" sense (checking if I was awake or dreaming).

The images progressed into small scenes, one of the first ones of which being the most important: when I saw this particular image, I'd slipped - more like, it drew me into it and it developed into a proper dreamscene, into a lucid dream.

I was in the parking lot near the Little Caesar's pizza shop in my town, facing a car with two people near it. Both were men, one was much older, and one was getting into or out of the brown-coloured car. I couldn't tell if the second was just standing behind him while the door was open or if he was trying to drag the other out of the car, but I ran toward the car as my first lucid act, and became fully aware of my dreamstate. This awareness made me disconnect from the dreamscene as I got an initial excitement of knowing I wasn't awake, yet had been awake not moments before.

I was lying awake in my bed with my eyes closed once more, and knew that even though that was my first lucid, I should continue to attempt to have more WILDs before I moved and logged it in my dream journal. It only lasted a few seconds, but that was indeed and unquestionably my first WILD. I continued my attempts, but my mind was too excited (about my first WILD for the 90 Days WILD Project as well as for a new computer I'd be playing with soon) to bring about more lasting imagery.

Huzza! Congrats man. Takes a while but it can be done eh? I was close the other day and didn't realise until after I slept more i was in that state XD

Yeah, that took surprisingly long to accomplish, but when it happened it seemed so easy. Now to keep attempting it to get better at having control over everything, so I don't get too excited again.

Congratulations, Clyde! Looks like a very smooth, first WILD.

I don't really have very much luck with WILD, though I've had a few. Judging by that one, I'm sure you'll take to them much better than I did. Haha. Nice going.

Yeah? Sweet! I'm looking forward to working with WILDs more. From talking to others who've been experienced at the WILD method, it sounds like the perfect technique for me to use, as the more it is done the easier and more fluent it becomes. Thanks for the comments!