Thread: Hello!

Originally Posted by ThreeCat

.... That will make it so much easier for you to know what your dreams are like, and what dreamsigns to look for.... Keep it up!

Haha well I've made up a list so far and I'm looking around for a way to remember them more clearly. I can recite the list easily and I do so before sleeping a few times, yet I've still managed to dream through about 5 or 6 instances of them already since I formally wrote down the list in my DJ...

On the super duper up side, last night I managed to WILD Got a good five minute of lucid time out of it as well. Unfortunately managed to go into a "DEILD loading screen" in another dream when I tried to DEILD back in, losing my lucidity

I was thinking about tasks I had set myself (ToTM basic i: Smelling something that smells strong IWL and my own permutation of that: Eating something that isn't meant to be eaten by humans IWL) and managed to remember to try the second ones. It turns out that plant pots taste like onions with a slight aroma of cat pee that you find in gardening patches, and have the texture of undercooked hash browns.

Dream below:

Spoiler for Full dream:

I felt the "noise" rushing up past my like I was in a river/water flow. To hold onto consciousness I visualized holding onto my mantra as if it was a pole sticking up in the flow.

I appeared in the world of Skyrim, with the beautiful mountains and snow around the place. Lots of trees as well. I was 3rd person and appeared as a sort of blocky/ low resolution man with a bald head and a rough beige shirt (Like the prisoners in the game in WL). I was being thrown around a bit like a ragdoll. I think at this point I was acclimatizing myself to the dream world (a bit confused). Like I had the impression that I was dreaming but I didn't have control or at least wasn't exerting it. I'm still counting this as lucid though.

Once I regained control, I got up into the air to go fly, and basically just picked a direction. I flew over a lake that had a giant on the shore watching me, and then it occurred to me that this might be like what the perspective of a flying arrow might be like. I upped my speed a bit and looked forward to feel what it was like, and my vision sort of tunnelled and stretched as I went really fast toward a mansion. I landed next to a man who was throwing a rock in the air and saying "What the ****?" when it slowly glided back down to the ground next to him. I kind of laughed to myself because I knew the gravity was a bit off because of this being a dream. I wandered over past the front door of the mansion to see what was around the place and could feel the soft grass on my bare feet. There were also little flowers in the grass, like daisies or something.

At this point I remembered my task, so looked around for something to eat, seeing the wall next to the door first and thinking of a dream I read on DV where the dreamer (Xanous I think?) was having a "relationship" with the ground and ate a bit of pavement to stabilize the dream. I tried to grab a chunk of the wall and I could feel and see my fingers slide into the stone. It felt kind of warm/tingly, but I couldn't actually grab anything. When I pulled away, the chunk I had "grabbed" just disappeared and all I could see in my hand was a sort of shimmering blob. I tried again snd tried to tell myself that this is a dream therefore I have a rock in my had. Didn't work so I moved onto my next snacking target.

I saw a little tray of the small black plastic plant pots you get in gardening centers that you buy flowers in. They had soil and flowers in them so I grabbed one with a purple flower in it and took a bite. It made my teeth twinge, like the feeling you get when the dentist pokes a nervy bit. Also, it tasted strongly of onions and had this kind of cold, lumpy, raw hash brown texture. it wasn't good, but I kept chewing as I walked a little bit further.

I walked while thinking about the taste and what to report about it and ended up on a golf green. A man in the distance just hit the ball and it was flying toward the green. I stepped back quickly and then went "oh wait no this is a dream so it won't be a problem if it hits me". I didn't get hit, and as it landed I did "magic hands" and a whoosh at it, which did nothing

I flew up and away from the golf green and nearly got caught in a telephone line as I moved toward a modern(ish) residential area. I flew up and as I did I realized it was getting to be quite dark so I thought "I'll just make it day time again!". I closed my eyes and willed it to change but as I did so, I felt myself waking up. I thought about how some people wake up when they close their eyes, so I just resigned myself to DEILDing. I did the DEILD, it all felt right but then I went into a DEILD loading screen which was basically a computer application reloading the DEILD. I didn't realize this was a new dream: I think I successfully woke and slipped into another dream but confused myself along the way.

The loading screen zoomed out into a cafe where my old computing teacher from a few years back was raving about how the advert that I had just tried to skip was important to watch because it starred a girl that one of my WL friends was dating (He wasn't actually and I had no idea who the girl was). I woke up for real shortly after this, unsuccessful in getting through my mind's DEILD loader

Hope you enjoyed! I certainly did (minus the taste...)