I'd say that counts as a successful summon. Nice work using the reach behind technique!
You get huge points for that one: 3 for a lucid summon + 1 for first, x2 for the double points bonus... so 8 points total!
I'll update your score later, congrats!
I'd say that counts as a successful summon. Nice work using the reach behind technique!
You get huge points for that one: 3 for a lucid summon + 1 for first, x2 for the double points bonus... so 8 points total!
I'll update your score later, congrats!
Awesome!
Thank you Hope I can do it again tonight to finally get those wings
I had a lucid dream where Dreamer narrated the non-lucid portion. (A journey by boat around Australia!) Quite a cool dream! Just wish I'd still had my lucidity intact when she showed up.
Originally Posted by Dreamer portion
Dreamer starts narrating: “Parts of Australia are dirty, polluted, and not as nice as you might think.” As she says this, I notice oily water lapping against the side of the boat.
I set sail away from the city, staying close to the shoreline, Dreamer narrating here and there. The water is clear and beautiful now. Dreamer says that I’m trying to find my way to the islands of the “Hawthorne Formation” but I don’t know my way there. The sea is calm and I feel peaceful and relaxed. Eventually my boat lands on a sandy beach where Noah Bennet from Heroes is working at a carpentry table. I think he’s my dad and that he’s counting on me making this journey to the Hawthorne Formation to get help for my mom and sister.
Woot, right you were, had only my 2nd double LD night last night, where 1st was epic, and 2nd was a victory for 1) getting back to sleep late in the sleep cycles after being stimulated from recalling and recording the first LD, 2) parlaying what was probably a waking moment into a full blown LD for a while, a real stabilization workout. No lucidmats, though, spent #1 on
Had 2 lucids last night, 1 including ThreeCat and the other including trying to find him :p
Will update with the full dreams soon, right now I'm on vacation and don't have much Internet.
Had 2 lucids last night, 1 including ThreeCat and the other including trying to find him :p
Will update with the full dreams soon, right now I'm on vacation and don't have much Internet.
Nice work, Fris! Looking forward to it!
Canis and I both have a backlog of updates to make here soon...
Updates! First, I had a successful Dreamer summon the night before last. All this practice has made it easier and easier to transform random DCs into Dreamer whenever I remember to do it. I always seem to start with the hair! I hope I'm not becoming completely hair-dependent, ha ha...
Originally Posted by Speedboat Summon
I spend a couple seconds enjoying the wind, the speed, and the outdoors, but now it’s time to get down to business. I intend to summon Dreamer, so I look to my left to see if I have any DCs to work with. There’s a woman seated to my left, looking away from me out over the water as we race along. She has long, blonde, somewhat sun-damaged hair.
“Hey look, you’re becoming Dreamer,” I say, stroking my fingers through her hair and leaving purple streaks where I touch. After two or three strokes, her hair is completely purple-ified and when she turns to face me, it’s Dreamer! “You’re here!” I say.
She’s wearing a huge smile and vaguely seems to be trying to talk, but seems somehow tired and unable to speak clearly. I wonder if she needs more time, so I turn to the right and think about doing a couple of dream control tasks before doing anything further with her.
I also did a partial Dreamerl summon/transformation that I woke up too soon to see completed. (I'm not awarding myself points for this one, but it was close)
Originally Posted by Partial transformation
In the neighbor’s yard I find a woman in her late 40s standing around as 4 small dogs scamper happily at her feet. She nods a casual greeting. I remember my goal of summoning Dreamer, so I say to the woman, “Ahh, you’re Dreamer.” She seems confused at first, but even as I watch I see her becoming friendlier, younger and more familiar. She’s starting to look like Dreamer, but the transformation’s not complete.
“I will be soon,” she says, smiling. I smile back and we walk through the yard together. I drape an arm over her shoulder as I explain (to her and to myself) the plans for this dream. I lose the dream, though, and wake up.
So here is the dream involving ThreeCat Getting a look at ThreeCat - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Probably some writing errors, since I used Google Translate and didn't mind going over it very detailed
As I said, I had another lucid one the same night, but I woke up fast because I couldn't speak.
I had a podcasting-themed dream that featured both Dreamer and OpheliaBlue!
Originally Posted by Podcast NLD
I’m on a Skype call with Dreamer and OpheliaBlue, talking about lucid dreaming. The conversation is covering a lot of great topics and we say how we should have been recording this whole thing as a podcast. I think it’s a shame that we missed the opportunity..
Now suddenly the call transforms into a podcast. I’m really pleased that the whole thing is going to get recorded after all. Dreamer and Ophelia go off down a really interesting side tangent, something to do with dream control. It’s awesome content and I think, damn, they are good at this.
I think this contest's a lot closer than it looks, assuming this lead is even real. I know Dreamer's got a few she hasn't listed here, so I may even be behind!
So not much luck for me lately, haven't had a lucid in a couple of weeks, and no members of DV in my dreams either! I'm persistant though, I'm falling asleep to my mantras and my non-lucids have been vivid and exciting. Perhaps tonight is the night!
Goals - 5 LDs in August 2021 [ ], Play guitar with a DC band, write a song, and remember the melody [ ], Teleport to a peaceful place and meditate [ ].
I decided to push myself the furthest out of my comfort zone I can imagine, and record a video of myself dancing for CanisLucidus. I am extremely uncomfortable about dancing, even in front of my closest friends and family, so it was a big display of trust to do this.
I wanted the video to be completely raw, so I turned on some music and just moved my body in whatever crazy ways felt right in the moment. I directed all my energy into this dance, and my limbs were flailing everywhere and I'm sure I looked completely ridiculous.
I was wearing really daggy clothes too, and was conscious of the fact that I was jumping around without a bra on. I tried not to think about those things, and thought it probably added to the raw nature of the video, which was my intention.
I recorded myself dancing for about 4 minutes.
I got distracted from the video in the middle of this dream, but I can't remember what happened.
Later, I met up in person with Canis. He knew about the dancing video, but he was yet to see it. I was getting cold feet and considering not showing him the video after all, especially because it would be extra embarrassing to have to face him in person after he watched it.
I had a false memory that Canis and I had been sending each other videos for a while now. Canis told me he was making a compilation of these that he intended to broadcast on a huge screen at a film festival, with the story of our budding friendship as a motivational piece. I was comfortable with him sharing the other videos, but I was worried that he would include the dancing video if I gave it to him now.
I realised that Canis might already have access to the video on Dropbox, and I wasn't sure if we were on the same page about him not sharing it on the big screen for a full audience. I considered quickly deleting the Dropbox link so he couldn't access it...
Canis had cottoned onto my discomfort and started grinning and giggling. He was being very cheeky and teasing me about his plans to broadcast this embarrassing dance video for all to see.
He looked at me and said, "Aw, come on! Some people might really like it!"
I was squealing by this point and begging him not to share the video.
Canis had now morphed into Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother, and was wearing big Aviator sunglasses. He lowered his shades and repeated his previous line, placing different emphasis on the words: "Some people might really enjoy watching this video..."
I realised that he was trying to tell me that he was actually watching the video right then as we spoke - it was playing inside his sunglasses!
I was sooo embarrassed! I definitely did not want to be present during the viewing!
The mood through the whole dream was very fun and playful; I was laughing a lot and was never actually stressed, despite my extreme embarrassment.
I was even considering rolling with it, if it turned out that he wasn't bluffing about broadcasting my video. I thought it might actually help me to overcome my fear of dancing in public, since anything I did from that moment forward couldn't possibly be as embarrassing as what had already happened on this day.
It turned out that Canis was just teasing and never intended to share my video, but I was still embarrassed about facing up to him after he'd watched me dancing in his Aviator movie theatre!
Once I felt the dream was stable, I started descending and landed in a playground.
I decided the next DC I saw was going to be Canis. I walked up to a guy and planted a big kiss on him without looking too much at his appearance, for Hukif's lucid dare to kiss a DV member.
I looked at this face now and he was morphing into Canis, and within a few seconds he became fully Canis-like, in both appearance and energy. He had a bit of a curious look on his face. "That was for Hukif's dare, if you were wondering..." I quickly explained.
He didn't looked phased by it and seemed keen to lead me somewhere. He grabbed my hand and began striding through the playground. I thought this was interesting because he's not usually so assertive. I'm not sure if he had a destination in mind, but the walk helped to ground me in the dream.
I started thinking about other goals. I could summon Sensei for his dare to fight him, but I wanted to wait for another dream.
I remembered the tasks of the month.
Travelling to an alien planet sounded fun...
Riding an elevator is something I've never done in a dream before...
But then I remembered Basic Task i: Get naked in public (in front of at least 1 DC). Report the reaction. I knew this was the one I'd been looking forward to!
I looked around and saw that there were a lot more people than I realised - parents and kids just playing at the playground. I thought this was perfect, because there were so many angles of discomfort I needed to overcome.
I let go of Canis' hand and walked a little further away. I was wearing winter clothes. I pulled my arms inside my sleeves and struggled a bit - the sleeves were tighter than they should have been. I was also a little wary of pulling my top over my head, in case I lost my vision again. But I tried to do it as quickly as possible and my vision wasn't affected.
I looked around and everyone was still occupied in the playground and hadn't noticed yet. Canis had wandered off too, but I was keeping an eye on him on the other side of the playground.
I was still wearing a bra, so I started unclipping it. One of the clasps was stuck, but I made sure not to get distracted trying to fix it. I just slid it down to my waist instead.
I heard a giggle behind me and turned around to see two young girls. They were pointing at me and laughing.
I turned back around and continued with the task of removing my pants. As I pulled them down, I was horrified to realise that it was 'that time of the month' and there was a sanitary pad stuck to my undies. This almost psyched me out, but I tried to ignore the embarrassment and got on with the task at hand. I had a bit of trouble fully removing my pants because they got stuck near the bottom of my leg, but I shook them off. I'd pulled the bra down with my pants too, and checked to make sure I was completely naked. No socks or shoes, and a pretty accurate representation of my naked body.
I looked around, and now ALL the DCs had noticed. Everyone was staring at me with interest.
I did a proud pose and then wiggled my body around a bit for show.
Canis came over at this point and grabbed my hand again. I considered putting my clothes back on, but I realised it didn't matter in a dream.
Canis and I strode confidently away from the playground. I started skipping a little, enjoying the light feeling of being naked.
I thought about what task we should do next... Elevator or planet?
I chose Advanced Task i - Enter a building and take the elevator. Describe where it takes you, how it behaves, etc.
I hoped that an elevator would form around us if we started free falling. The ground opened up around us and we started floating down, but before an elevator formed, I saw a big sign in the middle of the air. We flew towards it and I saw it read 'Red Planet.'
I remembered seeing the title of INeverWakeUp's DJ entry about the blue planet (I haven't read the entry yet, I wanted to see what my own mind would come up with for the planet task) and thought it would be interesting to explore the mirror planet for Advanced Task ii - Travel to another planet and report what it is like.
I looked over at Canis as we flew, and when I looked back at the sign, I saw it now said 'Red Death' and it quickly changed again to 'Red Deant' by the time we reached it. The individual letters of the name were coming from the ground, and they were illuminated, kind of like the sign for Moron Mountain Space Jam.
The sign was coming from a small chunk of land floating in the sky, but we flew straight through the letters and missed stopping on the floating island... It was smaller than I was expecting. I thought the whole planet would be attached, but maybe it was just directions? We started flying back to make sure, and saw there were now 3 floating signs at different distances from us. They all had different words, but I can't remember what they were.
I thought there might be a portal to Red Planet near the sign, so we flew towards it once more.
I was fading from the dream by this point so I didn't get to visit the planet.
29th July: LD = 3 points
I can't post this one yet because it contains spoilers for the project we're working on. I've sent it to Canis for proof.
Here's the placeholder DJ anyway: DJ Entry: Can't Post Spoilers
• I was at my grandparents' old house with CanisLucidus.
There was a big pile of leaves, and I found a bunch of my old shoes buried there.
Canis was asking about my old blog. I said I used to have several blogs for different types of writing (false memory) and I was telling him about each of them. There was one that I couldn't remember the password for, so I could no longer access it.
Instead of a computer, I was expecting the blogs to show up on the brush fence for Canis to view.
This dream was semi-lucid... I was aware that I was dreaming, but I was still going along with the dream content/logic, and didn't have a moment where I 'gained awareness' and took control:
• I was in America with CanisLucidus. He was driving me somewhere, and his wife and son were on their way in a separate car, a while behind us. After every few buildings we passed, there were empty blocks on the side of the road, each full of bright green grass like AstroTurf.
We stopped at one of these blocks and got out of the car. This wasn't our final destination, but Canis wanted to show me something on the way. We approached a building that looked like an old, empty warehouse. We walked in the front door, and I was surprised that it was actually a really nice looking home on the inside. There was an entrance hall that reminded me of the ballroom in Beauty and the Beast.
We walked up a staircase as Canis told me about the house. It was some kind of holiday home that his extended family owned.
There was a set of drawers upstairs that Canis opened and started rummaging through. He wanted to show me something, but I can't remember what it was (see following dream for one possibility.) At one point, he held up something that looked like a cork board. It had a list on it, or maybe a display of some sort. I wondered if Canis and I were having the same dream right now, and why he would want to show me that.
We had a fun conversation about Australian vs. American words.
We had only intended to stop at this house briefly, and we knew we were getting side tracked and wouldn't have much alone time left. The thought of 'alone time' made me question what we were actually doing here. I wasn't 100% clear on Canis' intentions... I tried to broach that subject without making it sound weird, but his vague answer didn't help. He had a cheeky smile on his face, but I thought he was probably just up to his usual antics.
He led me back downstairs and out the door. I wanted to take my phone with me for some reason... I think I wanted to make sure that I could record this dream when it ended. I was now wearing SleepPhones that were plugged into my iPhone. I looked at the screen and saw that I only had 1% battery remaining. I asked Canis if it was okay for me to duck back inside for a few minutes to charge it. He said sure, the charger was upstairs, and he'd come in with me so we could hang out while we waited. I looked back at the iPhone and saw that it now said 15%, but it quickly changed to 5%.
I felt like my shoes had mud on them, so I rubbed them vigorously on the welcome mat before entering the house. I saw that there was actually an older brown doormat there too, and I wondered if I should have used that instead, because the one I was using was more like a bathmat - bright colours, mostly blue, with some nice patterns on soft fabric. We walked inside and I noticed that my shoes were still leaving wet footprints, so I tried to tiptoe toward the stairs. Canis laughed and said it didn't matter, we'd fix it later. I remembered his wife was on her way, but I wasn't sure whether she'd be meeting us at this house or the next. I didn't know how fussy she'd be about messy floors, but I wanted to make sure we left the place clean.
False awakening:
• I was on Skype talking to CanisLucidus about the dream I just had. He said he had a dream where we found some dinosaurs in the pyramids. I was really excited to hear him mention dinosaurs, because I remembered (not sure if this is a true or false memory) that he was talking about dinosaurs in my previous dream, when he was rummaging through the drawers. I thought that dinosaurs were too obscure to be a coincidence, so I was excited about this irrefutable sync. Canis' dinosaur dream was non-lucid though, and I wondered if that's why we didn't recognise each other as being present when we were dreaming.
2nd August: LD = 3 points
I feel a bit cheap claiming points for this one because I couldn't fully recall it, but I also had another LD with Canis later in the night which I'm not claiming points for, because there's a small chance it was a false memory from an FA where I recalled my previous dreams. DJ Entry: Mind State Experiment
Spoiler for Dream:
I was talking to CanisLucidus and Alysendra about lucidity and dream control. I knew I was dreaming at the time, so I thought we could do some experiments in real-time. We were testing how much different states of mind and thinking patterns impacted my level of dream control.
I don't remember what powers we were testing because I woke into a false awakening and had several non-lucid dreams before waking up.
There were also lots of fragments in between involving CanisLucidus, but I'm only going to count the full dreams I recall.
Huge update! The DV competition was sucking up all of my energy so I didn't swing by here to give a proper update. So here is a giant update! This is the most motivating thing I'm involved in, so I'll try to do a better job of keeping it up to date from now on so I don't have to lay down these mega-posts!
Okay, I think that this should cover everything! There were some seriously fun dreams in here. (I've spoilerified the extra long ones)
August 3, 2014 - 2 NLDs
Originally Posted by Dreamer Pops a Squat
I’m having a voice call with Dreamer on Skype. We’re laughing and doing these escalating threats about the crazy stuff we’re going to lucid dare one another to do. Somehow there’s mentally shared imagery we can both see that fits with the conversation.
As the dares escalate, at one point I claim that I’m going to dare Dreamer to “pop a squat”. (Meaning to pee somewhere non-ideal, probably outside in a bush somewhere.) I change the visual imagery to a picture of a charred, blackened bush. We both start laughing really hard.
Originally Posted by I Am Dreamer
This is transcribed from a chat description
I dreamed that I was you (Dreamer) and surfing around on DreamViews on a PC with a really skinny monitor
I thought oh hey, maybe I'm on here because I'm dreaming
"I" or you or whoever this was wanted to stabilize so I started looking up stabilization tips. Most of the text was pretty stable, which surprised me. Some stuff would swirl around but mostly it was readable. The posts links were weird and you could drag then to the left and right of the screen to visit them.
Eventually the screen because a little brighter and less distinct so I wound up waking
And of course at this point realized I wasn't actually you, ha ha
August 5, 2014
Originally Posted by Pen Envy
I’m watching Dreamer use a pen to write something on a piece of paper. It’s some kind of important note about a project. “See why I’m glad you got that little set of pens for me?” she says.
I think she’s speaking to Sensei. I think, Hey! How do I get pens?
August 6, 2014
Spoiler for Faaaaaake:
This is transcribed from a chat session:
CL: We were working on a new title that was a MMO of some kind and there was a vivid view of the opening scene where all the characters crowd into the world entrance and ride down an escalator, anticipating being let out into the wider world
CL: We'd been doing all this research into how to make our players feel really at home in the game and excited to get started and apparently had this whole plan designed around subliminal sounds
CL: You were actually working for us as our sound engineer! So you and I were sitting next to each other at a long table in front of a screen showing this beginning scene. We both had headphones on.
So in our research we'd concluded that people felt best going into the game if behind the music at "20% volume" you mix in recordings of women enjoying the big O
CL: So we were listening to these potential sound clips being played through headphones. On the first one we turned toward each other and went, "Faaaake!" lol
Dreamer: This is so freaking funny
CL: Second one: "Faaaaake" You said something about how these must have been pulled out of a bad porno. Third one got a tho, ha ha
CL: That was where it ended
August 7, 2014
Spoiler for Dreamer's Table:
This is transcribed from a chat session:
Okay, this one started off as I was exploring this cool fantasy RPG-ish realm that I somehow knew was hosted inside of your lucid dream
CL: There was one brief outdoor scene where I got a quick look at a couple of characters. Some warrior type guy with a mustache. Didn't spend much time there but the outside looked really nice.
CL: Your brain pumps out good graphics, kudos
CL: Then it switched to another part of the dream where it was a 4-lane MOBA style game (a style I'm not that well-versed in) which I played for a while, just sort of improvising and testing it out.
CL: Then my perspective backed up and I realized that I'm actually reading your Dream Journal entry on DV and imagining all of this cool stuff that I'm reading.
CL: So I keep reading/visualizing. I can sometimes see the text and most of the time I see visuals.
CL: There's a huge table labeled "My Power", and it represents your dreamscape. It's divided into these different realms that are labeled with a simple piece of paper that has a big label printed on it, a lot like the "My Power" lable at the front of the table itself.
CL: I'm panning around and at some point see you beginning the LD. (I don't know why you were beginning it again, maybe I started over reading!)
CL: And you were breathing in and out for a long time through a nose plug, me thinking "Nice!!"
CL: Then you go off exploring in this ultra stable dream, walking through whatever environments you want.
CL: I notice that there's a big chunk of the landscape that's a forest and I think that's an area where I'll be found. I eagerly skip ahead in the dream (bad, I know, I was going to come back to the other stuff, ha ha)
CL: Then you summoned me and we talked a little bit. You said something like "Hey, this is the first time I've summoned you as dream guide!"
CL: You described me as handsome and I am embarrassed to say I beamed with pride, ha ha. There was more exploration after this and something about PercyLucid or a realm of his...? Things started skipping around a bit. At some point I got back to the text and then something seemed off to me, and the dream ended.
Including the "Magical Fox" NLD, one of my all-time favorites.
August 10th, 2014
Originally Posted by The Bathroom Brawl
I'm watching two genetically engineered men get ready to have a mixed martial arts fight in a bathroom. They're both big, hulking brutes and before the fight there's lots of conversation about how they were created by recombining the DNA of other fighters through lots of trial and error. One is a squat, hulking blonde giant and the other is a taller, thinner, but still freakishly large man, a black guy wearing orange pants and no shirt.
These two guys fight, and it's a rough, ugly close battle where they grapple and smash one another into toilet stalls. Finally the black guy smashes the blonde guy's head into a urinal. The urinal cracks in half and the blonde giant slumps to the floor unconscious. The half dozen or so people standing around start chatting about the melee.
Dreamer is standing here now, looking slightly disturbed by all of this. She says, "Fortunately, I’ve never had to memorize every combination of <brute / animal> out there." I take this to mean that she thinks that people spend way too much time thinking about and talking about this gene-mixing combat sport.
August 11th, 2014
Originally Posted by Dreamer Productions
Chat transcript describing a big film project that Dreamer was working on
CL: It was a business and had a lot if employees, maybe as many as a hundred
CL: And we all spent the day outside with video equipment making these amazing films
CL: The one I was either working on or observing was a light painted waterfall
CL: Everyone was dressed like it was a big swimming party too
CL: We had to produce 1000 films and you insisted that they be accessible enough for a grandma to grasp
I have pretty much given up on this challenge, but I'm keeping my LD frequency which has improved lately. Soo, you won't see me in this thread any more I guess Just wanted to tell you.
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