July 2019 Competition Thread

[LeaoLouro]

https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/lea...019-7-6-87291/ 1 non lucid fragment = 0.5 points total: 0.5 points a meh start also my personal goal is going to "the valley" (as in the unigine benchmark)

[Saizaphod]

night 1 no points, had 4 hours of sleep before boarding a train

[RelicWraith]

Well, not a bad start I suppose. Spoiler for July Competition 2019 - Night 1: Scrap 1 Walking around locally. The shopping centers looked different. WBTB LD 1 At work. I soon found I was floating around, confirming my dream state. I flew out of site, but the dream collapsed. Dream 1 Wandering through the Bronx. My brother was there, as were Elaine and Kramer from Seinfeld. We went up an incline past an old, abandoned parking garage. Apparently, George got himself trapped there. Later on, my brother and I walk by a hill adjacent to train tracks. I thought for a second to jump to the other side. Around then, I noticed our old home. The area had been converted into a commercial site. I float towards there, only to almost get rundown by a huge Pepsi truck. There were scenes near my aunt's old home as well. Fragment - 0.5 points Non-LD - 1 point Flight(Non-LD) - 1 point First LD - 10 points DILD - 5 points WBTB - 1 point Flight (LD) - 4 points Sub-Total: 22.5 Total: 22.5 EDIT: Whoops. WBTB was scoring for too much. Fixed.

[dolphin]

wbtb (non-lucid)-1 point dream-1 point Spoiler for dreams: dream-I was in a golf tournament. I had already hit the ball on to a green and was waiting for other competitors in my group to do so as well. Once they did, I tried to putt, but an interviewer wanted me to first answer a question. I was annoyed and woke up. first ld-I was writing down a dream during a false awakening when I woke up. I stayed still and tried to DEILD. I could feel the dream coming back. I started trying to roll out of my body as a reality check and was able to do that. The dream was very fuzzy so I waited until it cleared up, which it did. I summoned a young lady and was able to get some hugs and kisses from her. I tried to transform into a dolphin, but transformed into more of an alligator instead. My perspective shifted outside of my body so I tried to get it back to first-person perspective but woke up. second ld-I heard a dc saying something about the echos of Disneyland and I felt myself falling into a body of water, when I became lucid. I decided to let myself sink to the bottom. It was a long way and it became dark but I could see bubbles as I was sinking. I hit a muddy bottom and looked up to see where I was. It was now light and I could see I was in an underwater city, which seemed to be a capital city as I could see a capitol building. I decided to try to swim all the way to the surface, which was a long ways away. I tried to swim back up into the dark water but woke up. first ld of night-10 points wild-5 points reality check-5 points summon dc-5 points partial transform-3 points lucid dream-5 points night 1 total-38 points

[Dalcom]

Can't be bothered to write my dream journal entries a third time (phone, hard copy, and here) so I'm going to shorten the entries a lot for this competition. Spoiler for Competition DJ 7/5/2019: 1. I'm in some kind of hotel. I'm walking in a hallway that seems to be endless and covered in fog. I come across a dog, black with brown spots. I'm anxious around the dog at first but the dog is especially friendly and begins to follow me. My mother calls me up on my cell and asks me to come to her room to help her open her room door lock. Once I get there, I notice the lock on her hotel door looks like a thermometer with a knob that turns similar to a safe's. I remembered that she sent me the code to her room door to my phone, so I check my phone but notice A bunch of single 5's in a long column. 2. I'm with my brother, playing some sort of video game recommended to me by him. The game works similar to the choose-your -own adventure games by telltale. I made a few dialogue decisions and realized the game was about a scientist who is confronted with magical phenomenon and doesn't know how to react I became curious about the different possible endings of the game so I looked online for a flow chart with all the different meaningful decisions in the game. I noticed in the bottom right corner of the flow chart was an ending where the protagonist could commit suicide. 3. (FRAGMENT) I'm watching a video from the youtuber "markiplier". He's doing a review on a sonic game and talking about how the day portions of the levels aren't so bad. 4. (FRAGMENT) Had a dream where I woke up from sleeping at my parent's house. My father wakes me up and tells me he needs my help with installing a safe into his car, in the area where the passenger's legs rest. I looked at my phone and noticed it was 9:34 a.m. 5. Had a dream where a government special forces unit calls upon these two very rich people, a man and a woman who have become "superheroes" of a sort by using their money to buy supersuits(like Iron Man). The man arrives in a blue and white helicopter in a blue and white suit and walks in front of the special forces commander. His personality is extremely flamboyant, and gets upset when the special forces commander doubts his abilities. The rich man charges into a line of special forces soldiers and they go flying back. 6. I'm at some kind of party gathering, the host decides to gather everyone into my room. He then decides to demonstrate something to us by taking the clothes in my hamper and throwing it throughout my room. No one knows this is my room, but after the demonstration is over I feel shameful having to pick up all the clothes and put it back in the hamper. Score for 7/5/2019: Recall a non-lucid dream (4.0) Recall a non-lucid dream fragment (1.0) WBTB not resulting in lucidity (1.0) Help someone in need (1.0) Total = (7.0)

[Sensei]

3 non lucid dreams 3 wbtbs. 6 points for night two. Didn't get enough sleep last night. I might sleep some more later. Do you get points for non lucid old personal goals? answered yes by dolphin Old personal goal in non lucid Read 1/3 = 2 points Made it back to sleep, not gonna count staying up from 4-830 as a wbtb. Lol. First lucid of the night = 10 points Wild = 5 points Fly = 4 points Total for night = 27 points Spoiler for Dreams Night 2: At a library, reading with my friends. Watching my friend disappear at library. Being a little girl, trying to find my friends at the library. Doing a dry run on how they could have been stolen, I notice all the papers have turned into blueprints, all the books have changed as well, lots look blank. All the people disappear, they must have bene projections to lure people here. Staff stops me and measures me, they then tell me i am too small, but soon I will be able to join my friends. I can see all the staff watching, their faces are too dark to make out features. Calling for help. I feel different as I call for help. A different set of lungs other than the small one I have. It is harder to make words with them. I am screaming for help, but all that is coming out is short bursts of air. My wife wakes me up. Tells me I was breathing heavily and saying no over and over. Looking at going to the gym. Trying to find a good way to get there. Mat and vrbas show up. Vrbas is talking about doing a hookah in a car. For some reason I have a memory of that. He is saying things in a weird way. Shooting a movie, cool set in the middle of a city. Before this I was trying to escape the area. I think Darth Vader was trying to get me, I was running. As soon as I escaped, cut, and then I am fine, talking to director about the next scene. Lucid I am unable to get back to sleep after my nightmare I stay in bed for a couple hours and then I get up for a bit. Then I finally feel able to sleep. I put some headphones on and an audiobook. After about 5 minutes I am listening to the audiobook in an elevator. It is going down really fast. Looks like it is coming from space. The audiobook is detailing the sculpture of the gods on the side of a mountain and I see the mountain. There is a little village next to the mountain. I realize I am not in my body anymore, I am floating through the village. Watching the people, I am then sitting in the back of a car, heading down a mountain. No one is driving. The radio is playing the audiobook. I watch as the car makes the appropriate turns on its own. I want to get to the front seat, but can't seem to make it there. My kids wake me up.

[RelaxAndDream]

I really need to journal throughout the night... my recall is not what it was anymore... Spoiler for dream: I am outside and kind of working, a dude comes and takes something to drink? I get pissed and tell him in a not very nice way that he has to pay right away. he does but with weird money and I feel that I am the ass know to make a sense out of the money. 06.07.19 1 dream - 1 point dream goals: old - fly higher than 500 m with deasent speed old - use a portal old - use the void to change the dreamscene old - invite a DC to accompany you for some time and see if he might be helpful new - spell all 4 elements in one lucid new - meet a a recurrent character new - meet a constructive/useful /wise person new - meditate vipassana with open eyes for more than some seconds without distraction

[dolphin]

Do you get points for non lucid old personal goals? Yes, you get 2 points for non-lucid old personal goals.

[Sensei]

Yes, you get 2 points for non-lucid old personal goals. Awesome! I'm udpating my original post, so I only have one post each night.

[zelcrow]

Saturday, July 6th, 2019 Spoiler for Dream Journal: Dream 1(fragment): I was playing the original Playing for Keeps while Harley was listening and he said he was really liking it. I think we were in the apartment in the valley. Dream 2: I am talking to David on the phone. We are talking about hanging out. He says he can't make it today because he has a tick in his pubic area that had big eyes and a big mouth. And then I am suddenly I am walking along train tracks and I see him to my left. He then throws the tick and I see it. It is more angularly shaped than a normal tick. Dream 3: I am at the coffee shop I see Jack momentarily. While passing through before going into a door and shutting it, he mentions the code to some door is 4392. Maybe to go through a door to play racquetball, but I can't recall for sure. David, I think, wanted to go and do that. I think Liz that worked at Cottonwood was behind the counter complaining about Jack a little. Then someone asks me what the code was. I see Cami. We start talking. She mentions that I'm acting differently than I used to since she moved away and moved back. I explain that it's because of things I've been through and I say we should talk. She asks what I'm doing the next morning and if we can meet at Whataburger at 9:30. I say yes but then remember someone else has already asked me to meet them at Whataburger at 9:30. I ask if we can hang out after lunch and she says yes. I think about it being a Saturday, though, and I realize that will be hard with Alex. She seems a little tanner in the dream than in waking life. I can't remember who I was going to be meeting at 9:30 originally. Dream 4: I am with Dad at a drive-thru. Alex wants a biscuit with avocado on it. Honey is mentioned too. Alex is in the back seat and I'm going to order for her. Dad talks about Dale. He says he's been watching the '68 Comeback Special. I hear it as '58 at first. He said he had been enjoying watching it. Then as I'm ordering at the drive through I am no longer in the car but standing in the drive-thru window somehow. Alex seemed unsure about getting food at first but then decided age wanted some. Points: Recall a full non-lucid dream - 3.0 Recall a non-lucid fragment - 0.5 WBTB not resulting in lucidity - 1.0 TOTAl = 4.5

[Saizaphod]

night 2 1 dream - 1 point Got back home late from a trip, but tonight I'm free to ld again

[13WAR08T]

Sunday 7th July morning: Recall a full non-lucid dream = 2 WBTB not resulting in lucidity = 1 Ask for advice (both dreams) = 2 Discover a new life form/species = 2 Walk on a trail in a forest = 3 TOTAL: 10

[Dalcom]

Nothing better than waking up to do a WBTB after 4 hours of sleep....and find you can't fall back asleep. Spoiler for Competition DJ 7/6/2019: 1. Was in a warehouse full of huge aluminum pipes that held water and gas. Wandering the warehouse, I accidentally bump my head into one of the aluminum pipes and begin to fear that my blood is contaminated with aluminum. The dream cuts to me attending a physics class about aluminum and making parallel plates out of it (think capacitors). The physics teacher is a young man with dark hair and begins to explain that each and every technological item has a pair of parallel aluminum plates. Score for 7/6/2019 (night 2): recall a non-lucid (1.0) Total (1.0)

[LdForMe]

https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ldf...s-house-87298/ Recall a non lucid dream = 3 points Recall a fragment = 0.5 Wbtb resulting in not lucidity = 1 point Total = 4.5 points I hated sleeping in this room at my grandma's it was hard to fall asleep at both instances, though I'm still having those feelings that I'm getting better and better. I feel I've improved a lot over the past week or so.

[Sensei]

My phone is dead. Like dead dead. I don't know how this will effect me going forward. I am gonna be traveling to America tomorrow and without my phone... I don't know how often I will have my laptop. I might get a phone in a few days though, but I also might not. So I will do my best to update, but I have no idea what that will look like.

[dolphin]

Spoiler for dreams: dream 1-I was on a roller coaster, an inverted shuttle coaster. First it went backwards from the station up a lift hill on a vertical track a couple hundred of feet high. the train dropped, went through the station and up another vertical track a couple hundred of feet high before going backwards again up the other vertical track dropped down to the station. dream 2-I was the top of a lift hill on a roller coaster, which seemed to be supported by clouds. Next thing I remember, I got back to the station, but apparently I got off at the wrong place, because the ride operator told me to wait for the next train because they were making me ride the coaster again. 2 dreams-2 points go to an amusement park-3 points night 2 total-5 points

[DoctorFoxy]

Spoiler for DJ: Dream1: Im at my hometown and Im elected as king fuhrer bradley, I get to choose some abilities and have to change because someone told me to, then i go to the church and fight a ton of monsters. 1x non LD = 1 TOTAL = 1

[NyxCC]

July 6th 1 LD/DILD/1 NDL/2 Frags = 10/5/1/1= 17 points July 7th 3NLDs/3 frags = 4.5 points https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/nyx...enguins-87301/ Surprisingly, I got an increase in recall once making the effort to recall. It was the weekend, but let's see if the comp effect continues.

[Bridger]

Morning of 7/7 Dreams: 7/7 Dream #1 Non- Lucid: 1 Summer Special Task - Walk on a trail in a forest: 3 Total for the night: 4 Grand Total: 4 New Personal Dream Goals: Experience the essence of Summer Experience the essence of Fall Experience the essence of Winter Experience the essence of Spring Old Personal Dream Goals: Walk through the Golden Gate

[zelcrow]

Sunday, July 7th, 2019 Spoiler for Dream Journal: Dream 1(fragment): Someone thought I had broken my arm in my dream. I can't remember any surrounding details.\ Dream 2 (fragment): I remember seeing Jason and Jeff Stevens. Jason looked as he did when he was a teenager. I said his name to him. Dream 3: I am in my car and Audrey walks up trying to get in. I lock the doors and she's trying really hard to open them. I am on the phone with mom but I end up calling the police. I had trouble dialing 911 the first time and had to open up the phone app again. I'm trying to hide that I am calling 911 by holding the phone down below the window and closer to the door. I eventually get them on the phone and I'm telling them someone is breaking into my car as we speak. I don't know where I am parked, though, so I am trying to pull up Google Maps. I pull it up and I press the "my location" button. She starts getting the window down at this point. But I'm still yelling for her to get away. She ends up in the car. We drive over to Jeff Steven's place. For some reason, they have bought and given me a brand new refrigerator. They were pulling the plastic sheet off of the front. I remember feeling thankful but also a little uncomfortable with the idea. When I got there it was a black refrigerator that's wasn't too large. I thought I could fit it into the refrigerator space on 128 Nicholas Street. Jeff's mom was there too. Jeff pulled out a video camera and was filming Audrey I think. Once he set it down I picked it up and started going through the contents. Once he notices I am looking through the video camera, he takes it back from me. The layout of Jeff's house looks different to me than in waking life. Points: Recall a full non-lucid dream - 1.0 Recall a non-lucid fragment - 1.0 TOTAL: 2.0

[RelicWraith]

Not much today. Spoiler for July Competition 2019 - Night 2: Scrap 1 Walking through a steel corridor. Various Steven Universe characters popped in and out, including Yellow Diamond. They each made sudden demands of me, much to my frustration. Scrap 2 Vaguely recall being at my job. Dream 1 Watching the film What's Eating Gilbert Grape. I supposedly watched this before (I've really only seen a few clips of it). In addition to having trouble with Arnie, an older brother (or cousin?) of Gilbert also made life hell for him. This starts when his "cousin" steals a vehicle owned by Gilbert's girlfriend's family. Later, the cousin hits Gilbert hard enough to give him a concussion. While Gilbert was in a daze, the cousin drags him in a party, where he frames a photo of Gilbert "cheating" with another girl. Cue friction between Gilbert and his girlfriend. Later, something about the cousin finally getting arrested for his misdeeds. Scrap 3 Something about computer problems. Dream 2 Wandering the hallways of a highschool. I go into a bathroom, but was told by security to vacate the area immediately. Staff members were investigating something or other, and sealed all restrooms to do so. Cloaking myself, I sneak off at a (much larger than normal) bathroom within the lower levels. Teachers were scurrying around in panic. Oddly, the place was rather clean. Anyway, the assistant principal, a suave looking guy with a buzzcut, seemed to almost be aware of my presence.b I slink away to some stairs oddly placed in the center of the room. Cut to a courtyard, overcast sky visible above the blue canopies covering the pathways. A patch of land was surrounded by pits, accessible via rusted steel panels. On there was locked cellar. False memories "reminded" me that monsters dwelled below. I "knew" that I was one of the only people allowed down there. Just then, I was knocked hundreds of yards away from the school in a wilderness site. A vampire ( one with bone white skin and grey spiky hair, and dressed in a leather treanchcoat and high boots) was responsible. He gloated on about being the strongest in the world, and dared me to go all out on him. I explode into the form of a dragon, an innocuous looking serpentine creature, yet one I was sure was immune to psychic assaults. Figured the vampire would rely on such. Indeed, he seemed rather exasperated. Dream 3 In a fantasy world. I'd gathered a merry band of unseemly types to assist me in various schemes. We operated from an outpost in the middle of dangerous wilderness. By then, we'd gained a name for ourselves as saboteurs and mercenaries. Now, we were moving towards conquest. Our current mark was a dark fortress occupied by goblins and demons. A Dwarf Fortress interface revealed a map of the known land, as well as estimated positions of active agents. One such agent arrived, and revealed a previously unmarked town in the south-east. It was as if the town just sprung up overnight. I send someone to investigate this unusual place further. Fragments (3) - 1.5 points Non-LD (3) - 3 point Flight(Non-LD) - 1 point Invisibility (Non-LD) - 1 point Transformation (Non-LD) (Dragon) - 1 point Command DC (Non-LD) (Command Agent) - 1 point Sub-Total: 8.5 Total: 31

[13WAR08T]

8th July 2019: Recall a full non-lucid dream: 1 Recall a non-lucid fragment: 0.5 Recall a non-lucid dream for three consecutive nights: 3 TOTAL: 4.5 Grand Total: 19

[Saizaphod]

night 3 2 dreams - 2 points 2 fragments - 1 point wbtb - 1 point NLD Discover a new life-form/species(glowing space-seacucumber) - 2 points Comp Total: 1 + 6 = 7 points No ld this night, but no work tomorrow so I can sleep as long as I want and do as many wbtb's as I like

[spellbee2]

Night 1: 1 NLD, WBTB - 2 pts Night 2: 2 NLD - 2 pts Night 3: 2 NLDs - 2 Lucid (via DILD) - 10 + 5 Successful RC - 5 Fly - 4 Night 3 Total - 26 Spoiler for Night 3 Lucid: At my old house after a previous (unrecalled) dream. My clock says it's after 10am, and I'm worried that I'm late for work, but my watch says it's only 8. So I RCed and found I was dreaming. I spent a good amount of time stabilising to make sure this dream would last a while, including rubbing and licking my hands. I then start with some fairly easy dream control and try to fly. It's a little shaky at first, but I finally get the hang of it. I float around the room for a bit, and then fly downstairs and through a couple rooms. Mom is over at her desk talking to me fairly normally. I ask if she noticed that I'm flying, and she says not particularly. I demonstrate for her, and she seems fairly unimpressed. I then decide to explore somewhere else, so I start heading outside, where it looks like there's a huge storm coming. I decide to head to work to explore. I think about teleporting, but decide to run there since I know the route. During the run, the dream blurs out, and comes back on a scene of some grass along a path. I decide that this path is part of the parking lot at work, and sure enough, the camera zooms out to show my work building. I badge in like normal, but decide to take a different door inside to explore a bit. I pass by a few windows into this big factory area which seems to be off limits. So I jump out the window and fly around in the middle of it, swooping between obstacles and the like until I wake up. Nights 1-3 Total: 30 Looks like this comp is already paying dividends - last night's lucid was the longest I've had in a few years.

[LdForMe]

I wasn't able to get much sleep last night due to personal reason's and I've woken up with a headache, so I can't remember any tangible pieces of anything. so 0 points today