Longest LDs yet! (30 minute LDs and other fun events)

[Matchbook]

(Long, as usual, but I appreciate those that read it all) Last night I had a long string of LDs, which broke a small dry spell I was having. I woke up in the morning and decided to WILD. It ended up to be much easier than I anticipated. It was scarcely 15 seconds before I felt vibrations, which, as usual, vibrated me off the bed. My first LD I simply ended up in my room and walked out into the living room where my mom's dog was sitting. For some reason, since I knew I was dreaming, I decided to pick it up and throw it against the wall, which is NOT normal behavior for me, don't worry. He never got hurt, so I spun him around like a discus and launched him out an open window. (bear with me here) I momentarily woke up but immediately went into WILD again and stood up in my room. I flew out my window, but it was dark outside so I came back in. I yelled out "BRIGHTEN!" but nothing happened. So I jumped through the ceiling and each time I did there were really bright bolts of lightning and swirls everywhere. It was really beautiful but weird. I looked out the window again and this time it was light outside. I flew out my window again and this time it was light. From this point on I stayed in my LD for a good 20-30 minutes. I went into a shopping mall, talked to lots of people, flew around outside, did a whole lot of things. I woke up a couple times, but each time I would go back into the dream and have about a 30 minute LD each time. I finally realized the technique to stay in an LD. Each time I began to feel or see that things were starting to fade, it happened at times when I let me mind drift momentarily. At that point I would stare intently at my surroundings until it came back into focus. Then I would stay concentrated on whatever I was doing. Several times things seemed like they were fading, and even a couple times things faded almost completely but if I kept the previous dream image in my head and stared ahead, it would come back. I found this most helpful. In one dream I was flying over this one area and decided to try spinning to see how much the scenery would change. I looked down below and then spun a 360 in the air and looked again and was amazed to see everything was EXACTLY as it was before. I did it again, looking at this unique tree and then spinning again, and the tree was again identical. I found this amazing mostly because as I was spinning I was seeing things at all 360 degrees, and when I returned to where I was first looking, nothing had changed. Another weird thing that happened was that as I was going to sleep a couple times I realized I had to go to the bathroom, but I did not want to get up, for fear that I would not be able to go into another LD. So I would lie there with my eyes closed. After a minute or so I would feel myself getting up to go to the bathroom (I really thought I was doing this). I looked at myself in the mirror and noticed I looked really freaky. At this point I remembered I was still in bed and this vision disappeared. This happened a couple times. I would be laying there, deciding whether to go to the bathroom or not and then would "decide" to get up to go and walk to the bathroom and then have this vision disappear. It was really really weird, hard to explain. Lastly, I am wondering why each time I WILD I end up in my room. Usually when I WILD I don't wait to simply enter a dream, I will just get up and find myself in my room, every time. But if I do wait, I end up somewhere else. Why do I end up in my room everytime I "get up" from a WILD?

[themindsi]

Unfortunately, I can't tell you why that's happening. When I enter the dream world I am just sort of abruptly "placed" into a situation. Last time I WILD'ed I was in my bed vibrating one second, and the next driving a car down an empty highway in the middle of the night. It was kind of like I just dropped down into the car through the roof of it and my hands landed on the steering wheel. When i plopped into the car it started swerving until I was able to grasp and assess the situation (quite a change of scenery, don't you think ) and gain control of the vehicle. Then as I sped down the highway the car started to pick up and fly off into the sky. I tried to keep it from levitating because I wanted to see if there was a reason why I was driving down that road and where it would lead me, whereas when I fly I lead myself to wherever. Sorry, enough about me. When you get up in your room is your sleeping body still in your bed? That would point towards an OBE. The thing with you and the bathroom...read my post in Beyond Dreaming! Sounds kind of interrelated maybe. The roof thing sounds awesome and fun, I've never tried to fly through anything. I'm going to do the WBTB method and then WILD tommorrow morning, I'll try to fly through the roof then and see what kind of results I get. Glad you broke your dry spell, and get back to my PM!