Twoshadows' Lucid Dreams

[Twoshadows]

Because my Dream Journal is getting quite huge, it is becoming difficult to go back and find certain dreams. I have decided that I would really like to have my LDs all together in one place. I'm taking these from my current Dream Journal and will continue to add them as I have them.

[Twoshadows]

My first LD:</SPAN> April 19, 2006 4:50am I just had my first Lucid Dream a few minutes ago. In the dream I was lying in bed. Suddenly something felt funny in my mouth. I felt my teeth with my tongue and, sure enough, my upper left bicuspid was cracked and loose. I pulled a piece of the tooth out of my mouth, thinking, "I can't believe this is happening!" Then I thought, "That's it ! I don't believe this is happening. This must be a dream. This always happens in my dreams." [NOTE: This was the dream sign I kept telling myself I needed to recognize because it happens so often in my dreams. And I have now started using this as a reality check during the day...to feel if my tooth is loose]. Nothing else strange happened, but at that point I knew I was in a dream, and I realized I was lucid. As one might expect, I got very excited. I then thought about this website and how it says that when people first start having these experiences, they get so excited that they wake up. Well, as soon as I thought that, I felt myself wake up. Next thing I knew I was lying in bed saying, "Darn." But then I reached up and felt that same tooth. It was still loose. I had had a false awakening. I was still in the dream. I finished pulling out the tooth, and took a moment to sit and think about what was happening. Some of my thoughts were: So this is what it feels like to be in a dream and know it is a dream. It feels amazingly like real-life...yet there is a difference that I can't quite pin-point. Okay, what I really need to do is to try to float". I concentrated on the feeling I have had in dreams where I have floated. Next thing I knew I was floating (horizontal...because I had been laying down). At this point I really wanted to get outside. Too many of my recent flying dreams had taken place indoors (what a waste). I wanted to fly high. I floated out of the bedroom. Suddenly there was a little neighbor girl there pulling on me and asking for her ball. I reached in my pocket and pulled out a little pink bouncy ball and gave it to her. She took it and went away. [Note: Since this makes no sense to me, it shows that my subconscious mind was still doing its thing. If I were more lucid I'm sure I would have noticed that this was strange-- or that it wouldn't have happened at all.] I floated to the back door. As I reached for the door handle, I thought, "I don't want it to be cold outside...I can control that too, can't I?" I pulled the door open and floated out and took off flying. The weather was perfect. It was early morning...cool, but not cold. All around me the music from Peter Pan started playing, "You can fly...you can fly...you can fly...". I was feeling so happy that I started singing along. [Note: I remember thinking "I hope I am not singing in real life in bed and waking everyone up". I think that shows how lucid I really was...not forgetting that my real body was still laying in bed somewhere else.] I flew up over some trees, and grabbed some leaves off the top of a really tall one and told myself to fly higher. I did for moment, then the next thing I knew I was back near the ground. I told myself I had the power to go higher. And I was then able to go quite high. I looked down and could see the roads. I remember thinking, "I'm glad I have done Google Earth so much so I know what this is all supposed to look like from above". I decided I wanted to travel. I started following the highway, but realized that I was going to have to learn to fly faster or I wouldn't have time to get anywhere before I woke up. And sure enough, at that point I did wake up. But I didn't really mind. I was truly excited. I now knew that lucid dreaming was possible for me. And that this was just the beginning.<!-- / message -->

[Twoshadows]

First WILD attempt....a Success!!! May 1 2006 2:00am I just had an amazing experience. I wrote it down on paper when I first got up, but then decided to get it right on the computer. Here it is: I was awaken at about 12:15 and was having trouble falling back asleep, so I got up and did a few things and then laid back down in bed. Laying awake in bed at night has always frustrated me. I feel like I am wasting time, yet I know I need to try to sleep. But this time I thought I would make use of this time. I decided to try to WILD. It had been quite a while since I had read about WILDing, so I wasn't really sure what to do. I did remember something about counting down back from one hundred while laying real still. I figured it was worth a try since there was nothing to lose. So I got in a comfortable position on my back and slowly counted down from one hundred. But I kept having itches and found myself scratching them. I got down to one and started again. At about 50 I thought, "This isn't working. I must be forgetting to do something." So I stopped counting. I laid there for a few more minutes and then I suddenly felt very sleepy. I figured I'd try one more time. This time I didn't even count. I just laid there staring at the ceiling and focused on the feeling of myself becoming more and more "detatched" from my body. I heard a noise that was like a "hum", and I saw the ceiling "bouncing". Or maybe I was the one bouncing. Which ever it was, the ceiling would come closer then go back, then closer and then back, until finally I reached out my hand to see if I could "physically" feel it. Sure enough, I could feel it...even the texture of the plaster. When that happened I knew that I had successfully WILDed and I was in a Lucid Dream. I did the first thing that seems to come naturally for me in LDs. I flew out of bed and down toward the door. This time it was still dark outside. I remembered that in my last LD I was able to control the weather so it wasn't cold outside. I did the same in this dream. I opened the door and flew out in the not-so-cold night. I could see the house lights and street lights around me as I started to fly higher. Finally I looked over toward the city and saw all the city lights. I realized that this was not my city, but a much larger city. I decided it didn't matter. In this dream my house was on some sort of hill overlooking the downtown area. I had to fly across the hill before the ground dropped away, and I was over all the city lights. That was pretty cool. But then everything changed. I wasn't expecting this. My last LD seemed so perfectly real except for the fact that I was flying. But this one got a little strange. I was suddenly in a big dark room flying over these board games. Everything was huge, like I was the size of a fly in comparison. I didn't like it. I wanted to go back outside. I tried to change that, but was frustrated that I couldn't. I also wanted to see other people, since my LDs don't seem to have other people in them (except for that little girl that just passed through in the other one). But I couldn't make anyone show up. I decided to try one more thing. I remembered that the Lucid Dream task for April was to swallow a goldfish (It didn't dawn on me that I was now at least an hour into May). So I decided that I would fly into the next room, and that I would see a fish tank full of goldfish by the wall. And....yes.....this time I was able to do it. So there it was...this fish tank in an otherwise empty room. I landed on the floor beside it and looked at the fish. There were about 8 in the tank. They were a little more like Koi than the typical goldfish, but I figured that I had done pretty well considering this was only my second LD. They were all about 3 inches long and white in color with little spots of gold and black. When I had read about this task I had wondered if "dream goldfish" felt or tasted anything like real goldfish. I was actually very curious to find out. I stuck my hand in the water and grabbed one. To my dismay, it felt exactly like a real fish...cold, wet, and slightly slimy. Without looking at it closely, I popped it in my mouth. I stood there for a moment not knowing what to do next. I had hoped that once I got it into my mouth I could wish it into a cookie and chew it up and swallow it. But instead I had a very large, very real goldfish wiggling around in my mouth. It was too big to swallow whole. Yet the idea of chewing it was too gross to consider. I finally thought, "If I can make myself fly in a dream, I certainly can make myself swallow a goldfish!" and with that, I swallowed. The huge goldfish went about halfway down my throat before stopping. I started to gag. Unfortunately, the gagging made me wake up. But again, I wasn't upset. I suddenly realized the significance of what I had just accomplished....my first WILD....and how easy it had come. I had felt slightly frustrated that a week and a half had gone by since my first LD, and I had nothing else close to an LD since then.....until now. I am definitely going to try this again. <!-- / message -->

[Twoshadows]

5-3-06 I had my third Lucid Dream</SPAN> last night. Last night marks the two week anniversary since my first LD. So three in two weeks...I'm happy with that. I am slightly frustrated because recall wasn't very good on this one. I didn't think that that would happen to me on a lucid dream, especially this early on. I had awakened at about 5:00, and had decided to WILD. Wednesdays are a sleep-in day for me, so I thought it might work. But it was hard to concentrate. I had the window open, and it was already getting light, and there were dogs barking, and the birds were all singing so loudly. I finally decided that I wouldn't WILD. But as usual, I was hoping that I would DILD. So I did fall back asleep and start some normal dreams. In one of the dreams I was flying. Not by myself, but in some sort of open topped flying car. And I was with several other people. Recall on that part of the dream is poor. It was doing this flying that triggered lucidity. I remember thinking, "This is a dream. I'm Lucid." And the next thing I knew I was out flying on my own. Yesterday, I had made it my goal that if I had an LD I would work on changing scenery...and if that didn't work I would patch a hole in a bucket (May's Lucid Task). And this is where I wish I could remember details! I do remember being sucessful to the point of changing things so that I was instantly really high in the sky. I have never been that high in any dream. Comparing it to Google Earth, I would say that I was about 15,000+ feet altitude...which is pretty amazing for me since my normal flying altitude in dreams is a couple of hundred feet tops.And that is basically all I remember of the lucid part of that dream. I somehow lost lucidity and went to other dreams that involved my grandma and having a toothache. But knowing I had a lucid dream at all makes me happy, and it makes me realize that this is starting to become more natural. And that it will only get better from here. <!-- / message -->

[Twoshadows]

5-10-06 Fifth Lucid Dream</SPAN> This makes LDs two nights in a row. Pretty cool. I went to bed at around 11:00 and got up at 5:45. I wasn't planning on going back sleep, but at 7:45 or so I laid down again for a little power nap. And I had this dream. It started as a non-lucid dream. I was driving up a hill in my car. I was looking for a graveyard. (I have a friend in Rhode Island who I have been doing some research with involving graveyards in RI. And this had to do with that research.) As I was driving I suddenly thought, "Wait a minute--how is it that I am acutally in RI ????" At that point I realized that I was in a dream and that I was now lucid. I remember thinking "Hey, this is getting easier. It doesn't take much to get me lucid these days". I looked down at my arms and hands holding the steering wheel and noticed I was wearing my red long sleeved shirt. In all my past LDs, as soon as I find I am lucid I take off flying. But I was in a car this time driving down the road. I was actually curious about what I would do. I decided to focus on the windshield with the intent to change the scenery outside. The road in front of me become fuzzy and then changed to clouds and sky. I was proud of myself. I now needed to get out of the car (for some reason opening the door didn't come to mind). I wanted to make the car around me disappear. I focused again on the windshield and made the windshield disappear. That was good enough for me as I now flew straight out into the sky. I noticed it was strange that I couldn't feel the wind or the coolness of the air like in my first two LDs (That's something I have to work on. Flying isn't the same without the wind in your face). The thought now hits me that it is not the middle of the night for my sleeping self, but somewhere near 8:00. I was afraid someone would disturb me and I would wake up, and I wasn't ready to wake up. I knew I needed to hurry. I decided that since this dream was originally about finding a graveyard, I wanted to fly to a certain graveyard in RI (EX022). I knew from my first LD that I couldn't fly the traditional way or I would never make it in time. In fact I didn't even know where I was at the moment. I would have to instantly make myself appear there. So I concentrated once more on the sky ahead of me and tried to make it appear as Exeter, Rhode Island. It started to get fuzzy and change.Then I woke up. I am never ready for these dreams to end. This dreams gets me excited in several ways. First, it is the second lucid dream in two nights. Second, I didn't have to have one of my traditional dreams signs to get me lucid. It happened without a lot of thought. Third, I was able to remember my goal of trying to learn how to change scenery. Fourth, I was actually able to do some scenery change. I'm hoping that with practice I can master it. I am getting better, and more confident with this ability. <!-- / message -->

[Twoshadows]

6-13-06 FINALLY...... I had another Lucid Dream</SPAN>. I went to bed thinking about how it had been a long time since I had had an LD, and how I really wanted to have one...tonight. I also thought about what I wanted to do if I did have an LD. I usually like to fly, but I had been a little disappointed by the lack of details in some of my recent LDs, and I was wondering what I could do to be more observant. I fell asleep thinking about that. I woke up at 2:30 and realized that I hadn\'t had one. I decided to WILD. I tried for a while and an hour went by and I was frustrated. I finally decided I really just wanted to go to sleep. I did....and LDing must have been on my mind. My 7th LD: I was in a car. Jeff was beside me in the back seat, and one of the people in the front may have been Marie A. We were driving on a road that winded though a canyon. We passed a place where there were two waterfalls. I looked closely at the rocks by the waterfalls. One looked just like a big Triceratops head. I mean, exactly like a triceratops head. I suddenly realized that things like that just don't happen in nature....this was a dream. I looked around at everything. Here I was in a car again like my last memerable LD. I thought about flying. But everything around me looked so intensely real, I wondered how I could possibly make it disappear like the time before. I looked at Jeff. I reached out and took his hand and felt his skin and touched the hairs on the back of his hand. So very real. I touched the leather seat in the car. It was a tan color. I could feel the light shiny texture. I touched the shiny metal door handle...and wondered how I could possibly be in a dream when this was so real. Everything was so solid...so touchable. I looked down to see what I was wearing. I had on a grey sweatshirt. I also had on some grey sweatpants. The color of the sweatshirt was a lighter grey color and the material was much heavier than the pants. I laughed and said to Jeff "Why am I wearing sweatpants??" (I never wear sweatpants, plus it was the middle of summer). He shrugged and I think I told him at this time that I was having an LD with him in it. I'm not sure where the dream went from here. I must have lost lucidity. I remember going on to other dreams. But I found it interesting--this was my first LD with other people....and the first I didn't fly in. My mind remembered that my main goal was for details. And I feel I got quite a few details. This wasn't a very long dream, but I feel every LD is practice for better future LDs. <!-- / message -->

[G0MPgomp]

My first LD: April 19, 2006 4:50am I just had my first Lucid Dream a few minutes ago. In the dream I was lying in bed. Suddenly something felt funny in my mouth. I felt my teeth with my tongue and, sure enough, my upper left bicuspid was cracked and loose. I pulled a piece of the tooth out of my mouth, thinking, "I can't believe this is happening!" Then I thought, "That's it ! I don't believe this is happening. This must be a dream. This always happens in my dreams." [NOTE: This was the dream sign I kept telling myself I needed to recognize because it happens so often in my dreams. And I have now started using this as a reality check during the day...to feel if my tooth is loose]. Nothing else strange happened, but at that point I knew I was in a dream, and I realized I was lucid. As one might expect, I got very excited. I then thought about this website and how it says that when people first start having these experiences, they get so excited that they wake up. Well, as soon as I thought that, I felt myself wake up. Next thing I knew I was lying in bed saying, "Darn." But then I reached up and felt that same tooth. It was still loose. I had had a false awakening. I was still in the dream. I finished pulling out the tooth, and took a moment to sit and think about what was happening. Some of my thoughts were: So this is what it feels like to be in a dream and know it is a dream. It feels amazingly like real-life...yet there is a difference that I can't quite pin-point. Okay, what I really need to do is to try to float". I concentrated on the feeling I have had in dreams where I have floated. Next thing I knew I was floating (horizontal...because I had been laying down). At this point I really wanted to get outside. Too many of my recent flying dreams had taken place indoors (what a waste). I wanted to fly high. I floated out of the bedroom. Suddenly there was a little neighbor girl there pulling on me and asking for her ball. I reached in my pocket and pulled out a little pink bouncy ball and gave it to her. She took it and went away. [Note: Since this makes no sense to me, it shows that my subconscious mind was still doing its thing. If I were more lucid I'm sure I would have noticed that this was strange-- or that it wouldn't have happened at all.] I floated to the back door. As I reached for the door handle, I thought, "I don't want it to be cold outside...I can control that too, can't I?" I pulled the door open and floated out and took off flying. The weather was perfect. It was early morning...cool, but not cold. All around me the music from Peter Pan started playing, "You can fly...you can fly...you can fly...". I was feeling so happy that I started singing along. [Note: I remember thinking "I hope I am not singing in real life in bed and waking everyone up". I think that shows how lucid I really was...not forgetting that my real body was still laying in bed somewhere else.] I flew up over some trees, and grabbed some leaves off the top of a really tall one and told myself to fly higher. I did for moment, then the next thing I knew I was back near the ground. I told myself I had the power to go higher. And I was then able to go quite high. I looked down and could see the roads. I remember thinking, "I'm glad I have done Google Earth so much so I know what this is all supposed to look like from above". I decided I wanted to travel. I started following the highway, but realized that I was going to have to learn to fly faster or I wouldn't have time to get anywhere before I woke up. And sure enough, at that point I did wake up. But I didn't really mind. I was truly excited. I now knew that lucid dreaming was possible for me. And that this was just the beginning.<!-- / message --> I thank you for shaing this! So similar to my own experiences.. Fun how what one think of just might happen instantly.. Like waking up, and such.. Loose thooths has been a re occuring thing for me, and I am told I grind theets some times at night. I wonder if it might be related. I also lost a tooh in real life.

[Twoshadows]

GOMP, thanks for the comments. Funny, I haven't had a loose tooth dream for a while now. They kind of come and go. I just hope I can keep recognizing them for what they are. Good luck, GOMP, I hope the loose tooth dreams keep you LDing as well.

[Twoshadows]

9-17-07 Lucid Dream while Camping. As I thought I did wake up in the middle of the night. I had to go to the bathroom. It was cold and I didn't want to leave my sleeping bag and tent to go out ot the bushes, so I laid there and suffered for at least an hour. Finally I relaised that if I was going to get any more sleep that night I would have to get up. The stars were brigth and I didn't even need a flash light to find my way 50 yards or so to my "bathroom spot". After that I felt so much better I fell right to sleep. Since I was a bit cold, I fell asleep on my stomach, which I find is the warmest and also the most comfortable postion while laying on hard and uneven ground. I started to dream. I remember that I was walking down the street with two friends, when we suddenly saw a group of children dressed in Halloween costumes going Trick-or-treating. The following thougths went through my mind: "Oh my gosh--it's Halloween. How did I not know? Now it's way too late for me to decorate the house or carve pumpkins. This is such a nightmare--it's just like all those dreams I have about it being Halloween and I'm not prepared. If only this were a dream. But this is too real to be a dream. I mean, if this were a dream, I owuld have already started floating by thinking about the possiblity of it being a dream. But I'm not floating...and I can't imagine floating becasue this is too real....But just for fun, maybe I should try floating....." And I took off with a big jump and tilted backward until I stopped in a horizontal float on my back. That was such a thrill to be able to do that when I was so sure that it was real life. The first thing that came to my mind at that point was to do the Advanced Task of creating an animal out of water. I looked in front of me and saw a drop of water form, floating at about eye level. The drop started to grow until it was a little bigger than a basket ball. At that point I started to see it form into the shape of a cat. It was kind of a blobby cat. The legs and tail were all connected to the body and not separate. It was a bit triangular in shape--kind of like a pyramid. (I need to draw a picture and post it). As soon as it was finished, it landed on the ground....and I woke up. <!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

[Twoshadows]

9-16-07 Lucid dream: I remember I had been talking to this lady about something. And then I suddenly said, "I'm lucid dreaming". I have no idea what triggered that realization. I decided I wanted to do the Advanced Task again. I was suddnely by a swimming pool. I wanted to make an "snake" of water come out of the pool, then I would form it into an animal. I focused and I don't think i was able to do it. I was then in a bedroom. I was trrying again. I got that droplet of water started like last time. I focused again. And I suddenly saw a seal that the drop of water turned into. It was no longer made out of water, but was a stuffed animal toy. I then had a FA and went on to other dreams.

[Twoshadows]

6-19-10 I had a lucid dream two nights ago. It wasn't that great. I didn't even remember it until later in the day. And I did the wrong lucid Task of the Month. Oh well... But this is what I do remember: Something made me lucid and I was flying around. (No memory about where I was) But then I remembered that I really should be trying the task of the month. Since I hadn't been keeping up on it like I should I was having a hard time remembering what it was. I finally decided that it was "to give someone a gift". At this point I was in a store. I looked over and saw Robert. I reached in my pocket to see what I could find to give him. I was wearing shorts, and the pockets were shallow and empty, except for some lint and crumbs. I saw a shelf next to me. I reached around behind the shelf to grab something to give him. I didn't want to see it ahead of time. I wanted to be surprise of what my mind would chose. I felt a package and pulled it around so I could see what it was. It was full of little metal beads for making a bracelet. I handed it to Robert and said, "Here is a gift for you". But I wasn't satisfied so I reached around again to find another gift that seemed better. But it was another of the same things. So I kept trying. Eventually I lost lucidity in my frusration to find another more interesting gift.

[Twoshadows]

7-7-10 Lucid Dream from a couple of nights ago: I don't remember a lot from this dream. At one point I was doing the thing I do a lot in dreams where I fall backwards from standing position and catch myself before I hit the ground and go back up to standing position. I really love to do this in dreams. It feels really good and it seems so natural to be able to do this that sometimes I don't realize that I am in a dream. However this time I did realize that I was in a dream after doing that for a while. Sometimes even after I know I'm in a dream it takes a while to really sink in. So I thought about the fact that this was a dream as I fell backwards a few more times. But then I realized that I could do whatever I wanted. I flew up, but then I saw my grandpa. He has been dead for a while and I felt really happy to get a chance to see him again. So I went up to him and started to hug him. Hugging him made me think of my dad who is also dead. I don't remember if I made my dad appear, or if he just automatically appeared by thinking about him. But there he was. I went up to him and put my arms around his neck and held him close and put my cheek against his. Suddenly I was overwhelmed my emotion and I started sobbing and sobbing and I couldn't stop. I finally woke up.

[Twoshadows]

7-8-10 This one seemed to be long and complex, but I only remember the end. I remember waiting for this cruise type ship to arrive. On it were many important people. Finally I saw it pull up. Every one I saw was black. Later I ended up with the most important person on the ship. He was some kind of prince. He was not black. He had short sandy blond hair and was about 35-40 years old. And he was very nice looking. Somehow I ended up lucid. I tried to remember the Task of the Month. I thought it was "to ask a DC a question". So I asked the prince, "So do you know that this is my lucid dream?" He knodded at me knowingly and said, "Ah, yes." I felt like I needed to ask another question, so I asked, "Do you want to kiss me?" Next thing I know we are kissing rather passionately, and as we kiss I notice we have less and less clothing between us. I remember rubbing my hands on his bare back. At one point I even wondered if we were having sex. But I was never sure. Funny how that works in dreams. Then there is an unknown transition. I am trying to get dressed and my foot keeps getting caught in the stretchy material of the shorts I was putting on. I'm not sure if I was lucid here...or even where the dream went at this point.

[Twoshadows]

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[Twoshadows]

7-11-01 Lucid Dream: I'm not sure what triggered lucidity, but when I became lucid I was a the dinner table with several people including my sister. I remembered recently reading a post here on Dreamviews about whether you can taste things in dreams. Even though I have eaten in dreams before and tasted food I wanted to put this to the test again and really try to notice. I picked up a block of cheddar cheese and popped it into my mouth. I remember thinking that I could distinctly taste the cheddar flavor, but it was not as strong as in real life, like it was somehow "muted". I then decided I wanted to eat cookies. There weren't any on the table so I went to a cupboard and opened it up. Sure enough, there was a plate of cookies. I started stuffing them into my mouth. I was a little disappointed to find that they were store bought, like a chewy Chips Ahoy kind of cookie. I tried to transform them into homemade, and they changed slightly, looking a little more irregular. But they still tasted like store-bought. I then tried to find a plate of brownies, but I didn't have any luck with that, so I went outside. I thought about the fact that I don't have to "try" to fly. I just think about it and an instant later I am in the sky. I paid close attention to that now. As soon as I walked out the door, I was pulled up into the sky fairly quickly. I slowed to a stop at about three stories up, which is in the range I usually fly at (1-4 stories). I don't often fly too high. I have to really work at it to get higher than that "normal" range of mine.

[Twoshadows]

I just remembered that I had a dream with a little low level lucidity involved. It's all very fuzzy, though. I was outside and wanted to show off for these people. I think I became lucid and jumped up in a very tall tree and jumped around from branch to branch. Seems a bit odd, but that's what I remember.

[Twoshadows]

Lucid Dream: I was walking down the road from my house and saw a house for sale. I didn't remember seeing this house before. It was very large and old and interesting. It had a very big lot. I decided to go look at the house. I wondered if it was something that I could buy. It was big, but also old, so maybe affordable for me. I remember looking inside. The owner was suddenly with me and showing me the rooms. It was almost castle-like inside. At one point she showed me a suit of armor and told me tht the man who wore this haunted this house. I thought that was really cool, and it made me want to buy the hosue even more. At one point I was outside. The house was suddenly on this big sandstome hill. I walked around the house. At one point it was very narrow, and the house was on what looked like the edge of the Grand Canyon. I tried to scoot around that part of the house. But I had to hang on to this sandstone rock and kind of hung over the huge drop off. I think it was this that made me lucid. I knew I was dreaming, but the drop still scared me. I knew that I should be able to let go and I could fly. But it felt so real. And I felt so heavy. I was afraid I would start to fall if I let go. Later when I was back to the level wide ground I walked over to the edge again. I felt cautious. But I stepped back again and took a slow run toward the edge again. This time I made sure I started to fly before I got to the edge. By doing it this was I wasn't afraid. I started to soar over the huge canyon. I remember enjoying the feeling of flight. But that's all I really remember.

[Twoshadows]

I haven't put as much thought and effort into LDing lately. That needs to change. I need to think up some cool goals.

[Man of Shred]

try this: switch to 3rd person view, make copies of yourself, and send all your dream selves in different directions.

[Twoshadows]

try this: switch to 3rd person view, make copies of yourself, and send all your dream selves in different directions. Sounds tricky. I remember that Task of the Month to "Split your Consciousness". That was one of the harder things I have done in a dream. But at this point I am just needing to get lucid at all. I feel so out of practice. I was thinking that if I got lucid I would go through a list of things that I have done before in LDs to see if I can still do them--things like breathing fire, shooting fireworks out of my hand, making things move with my mind, creating fire and walking though it, etc. I'm thinking that since I have had success doing them before that I will have the confindence to do them again, and by doing them gain even greater confidence. So that's the plan anyway. I really need to try to WILD again. To stop being lazy about my LDing and ACTIVELY do it. I never can understand why I don't try harder.

[Twoshadows]

Lucid Dream: It all started with some hippos. Three hippos. Someone I knew had gotten them and put them on the land we supposedly owned to help eat down the bushes and clear the land. I was there close to them with my sister (who then changed to be one of my good friends). I could see that they had done an amazingly good job eating down the bushes. I wondered what would happen to them when the bushes ran out--which would only be a few days at this rate. I was feeling frustrated and almost angry. Hippos were dangerous. It was a dumb idea to get three and have them here. One would be bad enough...but three? While I was thinking this, there was just one left and I realized that the other two had been sold. But I still was unhappy with the idea of hippos at all. I watched the hippo. It was moving towards me and my sister/friend. It moved faster. I suddenly realized that we were not in a good position. There was nowhere to go but to climb up on the wooded fence. It wasn't very high. As the hippo charged, I could see that I could jump to another fence right behind it, and the hippo wouldn't be able to get me. It seemed to work--until the hippo realized that it could just go around the fence and get to the other fence that I was on. So at the last minute I jumped back over to the original fence. I did this several times. This was keeping me safe, but I didn't want to keep doing this. The next thing I remember is being in a car and trying to get away from the hippo. As we drove the hippo ran right by us. I realized that the hippo had to have been running about 60 mph. The next thing I remember is hiding from the hippo in a trailer. Finally...finally... I realized that I might be dreaming. I looked out the window and saw snow on the ground. At that point I knew I was dreaming (funny how it was "snow", not the "hippos" made me sure I was dreaming....) As soon as I realized that this was a dream I flew out the tiny window. I remembered just talking to someone about my flying style, so I tried to pay attention to how I flew. I saw that I was "swimming" through the air using a kind of breaststroke. This wasn't very fast or practical, so I put my arms to my sides and imagined rockets comingout of my feet like I have done in the past. I saw that I was moving a bit faster, but not as fast as I would like. Then I remember the goals I had made. I decided to give flying a break and focus on something else. The first thing I wanted to do was make a fire with my mind. I was now in a small rocky canyon. I pointed to a rock and concentrated. After about five seconds I saw a small fire start to form. I was proud of myself. I was glad that I still had it in me. I then remembered that I wanted to burn my hand off. The fire was about 15 feet away, so I decided to make a closer fire. There were a couple of boulders right next to me at about waist height. I pointed to a flat spot on them and focused again. Another small fire began and grew to about one foot square. I put my hand in. I waited for it to burn. Nothing happened. I shifted my hand until I felt heat. Suddenly my hand was really hot. I jerked it out. But then I forced myself to put it back in. I found the hot spot again and waited. After what seemed like a long time I saw my fingernails had turned black and were smoldering. I was suddenly impatient to do something else, so I decided not to burn my hand anymore. I also forgot that one of my goals had been to heal myself after I was burned. But I did remember that I wanted to try to shoot fireworks out of my finger like I had done in the past. I pointed my finger out and concentrated. After a moment I was green sparks come shooting out. They didn't go very far, but I felt satisfied. And I thought it was cool that they had been green this time instead of red like the last time. Then I forgot what else I wanted to do so I did my fun dream flips and falling like I do a lot in dreams--both lucid and not. After doing the flips and enjoying them I "woke up". I walked around for a bit until I saw a pull up bar. I went up to it knowing that I needed to be practicing my pull ups. I grabbed the bar. I liked the grip. It was easier to get my hands around than the bar I used at home. It was also more stable. It was at a better height, and I liked the hand grips. So I started doing pull ups. I was amazed at how much easier they were for me than they usually are. I thought, "Dang, I've to get a bar like this. I'm actually good at pull ups after all! I just had the wrong kind of bar." So I counted my pull ups as I did them. I loved that I didn't seem to be wearing out at all. Suddenly when I was counting out my 19th pull up I had this suspicion come into my mind. What if I wasn't good at pull ups after all...and this was just still part of my dream? And then-- I was absolutely sure that I was dreaming. At that point I had another FA. I wondered if I was really awake this time or if I was still dreaming. There was only one way to find out. I needed to find another pull up bar. (It didn't matter that I was in a strange house, it was going to take pull ups to convince me, apparently.) I went around the corner from the living room to the kitchen. And there in the doorway was another pull up bar. I started to do pull ups again. They were way too easy. I knew I was dreaming still. So I did five more pull ups. But before I could think of my next goal I woke up for real.

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I did an unplanned WBTB. I had trouble going back to sleep. Two hours later of telling myself that I was going to lucid dream, I was suddenly in a dream. I remember nothing of the transition. Only the "oh, cool. I'm in a dream now." This wasn't my best LD. I didn't seem to be as "aware" as I was in my previous LD. And when I awoke I did the "oh crap--how am I going to remember everything I just did?" thing. But I backtracked the best I could and came up with this: Lucid Dream: As soon as I realized that I was dreaming I started to fly. I was outside in the desert. I landed next to a car and looked at my reflection. I could see myself and I could see a person standing behind me. It was Tom from AVA. For a short time I watched him, and he watched me. I had this feeling that if I turned around to see him, he would be gone. It was a bad thing to think, because I was right....and he was gone. I decided to go look for a full sized mirror next because my current goal was to make a Mirror Portal and go to the moon. I flew just a short ways and saw a clothing store. I knew that there would be lots of mirrors inside. I went in and ran at the first mirror I saw. I hit the glass and fell back into the store. Determined I ran at it again...but hit the glass. I knew I just had to believe and I would be able to go through it. But time after time after time I kept hitting the mirror. Finally a store clerk came up to me. She told me that I needed to leave the store. I ran at the mirror again. I wanted to show this lady that I knew what I was doing. But I bounced off the mirror again. I was starting to get frustarated. The lady threatened to get the police if I didn't leave. I ran at the mirror again and bounced off. I finally decided that this wasn't working and that I needed another plan. I tried to leave the store, but the lady had barricaded the doors. I guess she had called the police about this crazy person that kept runing into her mirrors. Maybe I don't blame her. I was able to fly over the stuff she had put in front of the doors. We were both suddenly outside the store, but now in this small corridor that seemed to have no way out. I looked at the walls of the corridor. They were all mirrored. I looked at my reflection again. This time I was Tom. I looked carefully at my eyes and my hair. I squinted a bit and changed my expression fascinated by this unexpected transformation. I reached up and ran my fingers through my short hair. Then the dream shfts. I am outside trying to fly. I am having all sorts of difficulty getting any elevation at all. I'm frustrated bacause flying is my specialty in dreams. I should have trouble with this. There are these teen aged boys that keep trying to grab my legs. I try to fly out of their reach but can never quite do so. Finally I picture rockets on my feet. I seem to go somewhere. I am now in a canyon with this huge arch in front of me. It looks a bit like Birthday Arch that I have hiked to and climbed on. I fly through the arch and touch my fingers along the rock as I go by. That is very satisfying. I fly to the cliff above the arch and jump down to the arch. I remember being really nervous in real life about climbing to this point. And I feel slightly nervous again. But then I tell myself that I can fly if I fall. So I jump down and run across the arch then fly off the other side. I must have started to lose lucidity around here becasue I remember landing by the arch and talking to Kyle about fossils. And I know I wasn't lucid by the end. My Reflection: The Arch (me at the top):

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Well, something must be working with my renewed dedication. Lucid Dream: I did a WBTB. I was too tired to WILD, so I just let myself fall back to sleep with the intention of becoming lucid at some point in my dreams...and I did. I don't remember what I was dreaming about or what caused to be get lucid. And, unfortunately this LD went on to many many other dreams that I lost some of the details. But this is what I remember. I knew that I was dreaming. I remembered that I had wanted to keep practicing certain powers so that I didn't become rusty. The first thing that popped into mind was to make a fire with my mind again. I looked down at a crumpled towel that was in front of me and focused. Instantly the towel was on fire. I was pleased that I was able to create the fire so quicky. This skill was obviously something I could consider mastered at this point. I then decided that I wanted to practice levitation since it had been a while since I had tired. I was in a dining room. I looked at the table. There was a glass that was about two thirds full of orange juice. I pointed my finger at it and mentally lifted it carefully in the air. I got it about two feet in the air and made it travel across the table where I gently placed it back on the table without spilling a single drop of juice. Again I felt pleased at my accomplishment. Next I saw that at another table sat a group of people. I remember that I wanted to ask DCs questions. I started with the young man at the end of the table. I asked something like "Do you know that this is a Dream?" He nodded and said yes and something else which I have now forgotten. And I went around the table asking other questions. I don't remember the details of that was asked or what was answered except that I kept thinking that none of the answers made any sense. I finally asked one of the DCs if they wanted to fly with me, and we took off and started flying around outside. I decided I wanted to look for someone that I knew in real life. And that's the last thing I remember from this dream.

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10-18-10 Lucid Dream: I became lucid and flew out the window. I remember that the window wasn't open and that I had flown through the glass. I was curious, so I did it again really looking at what was happening. The glass looked a bit like clear jelly and I was just gliding through, with it stretching a bit. I'm pretty sure that I spent more time in the dream putting my hand through solid objects. I remember feeling proud of myself for it being so easy (when in the past I had had trouble). I think I did some experiments with flyiing too. But I don't really remember. I also remembered a part of that last lucid. One of the things I did while flying was to free fall. I decided I wanted to do that. So I looked for a tall building to fall backward off of. But I found that there was nothing near me to land on. So I just sort of landed in the air and then let myself fall back. I remember feeling the total rush as I felt myself falling. I remember thinking how powerful this feeling was. I also remember knowing that I would just fall and fall and never land. And I think I let myself fall until I woke up. I love that feeling. Remind me to do it again. And again.

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10-21-01 I'm finally getting around to writing up my Lucid Dream from night before last. Unfortunately I can't find my notes. But they weren't very long. Even when I was writing down the notes I realized that I didn't remember too much. So here's what's left in my head. Lucid Dream: This was actually a long LD. I do remember thinking that several times during the dream. I remember walking up to a table where several guys were sitting. At the time I knew who they were. I don't anymore. But I do remember asking them questions. I wanted to hear the crazy things that deram character say. So I asked one of them to say something. He didn't disappoint me. He said, "Busy Nolan." I had no idea what he was talking about. I then asked him if he knew this were a dream. He gave a little knowing laugh and nodded his head. I then asked the guy next to him to say something. He said something like "As you like it". And that's all I remember from that part. I know I flew a bit. Then I lost lucidity. I then remember questioning if this were a dream still. I did the "poke my hand in my palm" RC. At first my finger just pushed on the skin like it would in real life. But I really had a strong feeling that this was a dream, so I kept pushing until my palm turned into rubber like Silly Puddy and stretched way out the other side. I felt glad. But I don't remember what I did after that. But later I remember pulling on my nose, and it was like Silly Puddy, and I pulled a small piece and watched it stretch way off. I remember saying to someone, "Hey check out my nose" as I was holding the piece of my nose about about a foot way with it still connected by a little string of puddy. I also remember going over the dream in my mind at least twice while I was still dreaming so I wouldn't forget it. Maybe I wouldn't remember any of it if I hadn't. I think I woul have forgotten the "Busy Nolan" part if I hadn't.