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Some personal Examples of what actually happened:

Spoiler for DILD:

Good times
Method: DILD
Recall: good
Lucid Ability: 6
Vividness: great
Dream Length: average
I'm with D, and theres this golf course up ahead that some guys are playing at. As soon as the ball goes into the hole, BAM an alligator pops out of the hole and tries to eat everyone! The guys hop right over the fence and escape, and the scene replays again. Obviously, I'm dreaming. I RC, and we continue walking around this place. We get to the street, and my sister and cousins are there and they're going shopping or something. I RC'd a couple of more times just to get that effect of not having pressure build up with the nose pinch, and then I tested out some flying. It was so easy, almost as if I was weightless. The wind picked up, and It carried me. Everyone else who was with me was walking of course, and I was positioned on my back climbing horizontally through the air as if I was walking on stairs...it was so strange. I was flying all types of directions.

Then we came up to a cross walk, and I kept going into traffic, and they all said the store was the other way, so I turned around, and headed back. We entered a store, but the only thing it had was an two really big TV screens and a bunch of people in it. I remember the walls were dark brown, and I had no idea what this store cold have been. We left and the dream faded.

Spoiler for WILD and DEILD:

WILD

I was getting sleepy in the middle of the day and decided to omega 3, green tea, and a banana before I laid down. I turned on my PS2 and let the default noise play. I felt really close to sleeping, and then quickly coming out of it as I laid there. Finally (after what could have been 2hrs) I felt the transition.

When I opened my eyes I realized that I was in my room, and my vision was still fuzzy. I didn’t move much because I didn’t want to mess anything up. Since I was already lying on my side, I moved my hands towards my face, and I started rubbing them, and then I started look at the patterns in them just to stabilize. Things got more clear, and I headed to the living room. My vision was still weird, like fuzzy on the peripheral areas, and I felt almost like I was floating.

When I got out of my room and headed down the hallway everything was really bright. Like the sun was at the perfect angle to burst through the house. I continued on and headed outside where I saw my pops and my sister. The scene looked almost real at this point. I saw and old bicycle that was black, and it had dark purple peddles, and I wondered if it had been something from my past. I was just about to get caught up in the dream, and realized that there are other things I could be worrying about. I headed out towards the road, and flew up in the air for a while. Then I tried meditating. I sat down, and began to focus on nothing.

There were sprinklers across the road, and the water from them hit me in the eyes, and everything started blacking out. I quickly DEILD and found myself in my bed (staring at the wall) again. I could hear the voice of a child…she almost sounded like she was praying for me. I reached back and I could feel her hand. Then the dream ended. But it was weird…because I don’t remember opening my eyes. It was like the scene that was going on never stopped or something. My shadow was in the same location as when I was dreaming, I was facing the same direction, ect ect.