inowheeno
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Unfortunately, I have been slacking with my discipline and efforts to have lucid dreams and therefore didn't just have no lucid dreams in a long time, but even started forgetting my non-lucid dreams again. This morning, however, I woke up and remembered this dream:

Standing in our newly purchased manufactured home with my wife and some other people (In my dream it was only about a third as wide as in real life and a lot more mobile home like), I was on the phone with someone when suddenly the whole house jolted. My first reaction was "What the hell is going on?" and looked out the window as the whole house started rolling. I saw it hitched to something and remembered "right. it is a mobile home after all, but why are we being towed?

Being that I had been talking on a more traditional land line phone, I tried to figure out if the phone still worked, but it didn't. I had been disconnected. The telephone line was also rather loose, so I started pulling it to see why. I pulled and pulled and found a backpack on the other end which looked like a construction-site phone-in-a-backpack with several buttons on it. The blinkythingies it seemed to have were dark so I figured it had run out of battery.

Looking up again, I found myself in a train of sorts. I guess my house decided that it if was moving, it might as well transform into something that did it properly. There were other people in the train, too. We stopped, the door opened, and something I had dropped, something small, cylindrical, started rolling towards the open door, and someone was nice enough to kick it back to me to keep it from rolling out of the train. I picked it up. My wife decided to go investigating what happened to our house and walked towards a staircase descending into the floor of the train as we started rolling again. I ventured on to find some answers on this level. I quickly reached the end of the train and sat down. An ugly girl appeared behind the sliding door of the end of the wagon and hesitated to come in. Maybe because I didnt invite her in. After all, it was my house. So I nodded to her and she came in and sat down. She explained that because she's ugle, she is used to not being welcome everywhere.

Eventually, we reached a train station somewhere in the city and got out. Neither of us were familiar with the place but decided to find our destination together. Our journey first lead through some darker garages of sorts and then alongside the masonry structure around a cathedral. On the far side of the cathedral, going down the hill, a group of people, quite a fuzz, stormed the other way. Amongst them were a few policemen and women. I tried to get the policewoman's attention but she just sprayed me with something in excitement. Upon seeing my dumbfounded reaction, she just said that's what the police do when there's a tumult.

Accepting that I was going to get any help from her, I walked on. The end of the hill lead to a street and I turned and followed the sidewalk. The girl which accompanied me had turned into my niece from Colorado and suddenly, the place didnt seem so strange anymore. It was her home town. I noticed there were a lot of broken light bulbs on the ground. They were all over the place, like it was the colorado version of the occasional piece of litter on the street. I had already stepped on a few small ones, breaking them under my shoes and my cousin commented that here in Colorado, they didnt have recycling programs for light bulbs and people didnt know what to do with them.

Thats all I remember.

SUCCESS!!! My first solid lucid dream.

I dont remember the beginning of the dream, i only remember the moment right before i got lucid. I was inside a room with my dad and cousins and maybe a few more people. Everyone was busy doing a particular taks, except for my dad, and for some reason, i was thinking of the tv show 'the fall guy'. I was thinking of the american title of the show and tried to remember what the german title of the show was. Suddenly i hear my dad hummung the theme song, and i thought: holy shit! This is the first time in like 20 years i notice anyone beside me recalling that old show and its right when I'm thinking about it. What a coincidence! Then, my cousins started singing along with the tune and they all knew the lyrics!! By heart!!! I thought: no freaking way! This must be a dream. Within a second, i was so convinced, I didnt even have to do a reality check. I just thought "I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming" and rubbed my hands, but the dream was so solid, there was not even any need for that.

I just left the room and went on to see what i could do with my lucidity. I walked out of the building and found myself on the plaza in front of an urban mausoleum or so in a city the felt like san francisco but wasnt. There was a four lane street with lots of traffic in front of the plaza and i had no problems flying over. I knew that I had flown in dreams before and that all I had to do was t9 jump and straighten out my arms on the side like an irish tap dancer, to start floating.

I looked around. It was a beautiful day. I obbserved the traffic to see how realistic everything was. It was remarkable. I looked at the lighting and reflections of the cars as if i was scrutinizing game graphics and noticed my dads car, a 93 Suzuki sidekick, pulling a bug trailer of sorts. I hovered across the street and focused on some flowers that were growing there. I looked at the buds and the petals and the detail in the sunlight was really all there (although i noticed a thin hair coming off of the side of one petal and wondered if it was maybe a fake flower).

Next i though what am I gonna do now that I'm lucid? Immediately i decided to go somewhere where there are a lot of girls. Sooo i decided to go and find a university or sports arena. But I didnt know my way around the city. I thought maybe i could ask someone. Then i thought i could maybe summon my android phone. That would have the maps app. 'SUMMONING, right.' I thought. That was another exercise i could do. So i concentrated on my left hand but nothing happened right away. I almost gave up and then thought 'man! Give it a real chance!' So i tried again and balled all my mental energy up in the palm of my cupped hand. I saw a little spark in it. So i concentrated some more. The spark became bigger and turned into a calculator. It looked a lot like the replicator process on the enterprise. I thought yay, success. But i knew that a calculator wasnt really of all that much use to me right now, so I threw it away and started walking with a group of people who I thought would probably walk into the right direction. We walked around a pedestrian bridge which looked a little like a aqueduct, white, curved and with nice arches we walked through. Then i thought "here is a great example of someone who cant think of something creative and amazing to do with their lucid dream. By the time I get to that university, i'll have run out of lucidity long time.".

So I decided to change my environment a little. I used telekinesis to shrink the archways we were walking through. It was weird; I didnt really see them shrinking but when i tried to walk through the next one, i got stuck. Suddenly, i was lying on my back trying to squeeze myself through. Once on the other side, i expanded them again. And yet again, while I didnt see any change in side, suddenly I could walk through again without problem. It was like an illusion of perspective.

Theeeen my wife's alarm went off.... oh well

After having tried to have lucid dreams for easily over a month now, i have started slacking on my bedtime schedule and dream journal disciplines and suddenly, I have my first lucid dream.

FIRST LUCID DREAM!!!!!!!!

<non-lucid>
i was in the living room and it was night time. I dont remember how i got there because the previous dream didnt connect. It was dark and I was alone. I was trying to do something with my computer, turn it off or something but something was strange about it. Suddenly when i tried to sit down in my chair, i noticed there was a whole shebang of naked computer hardware hooked up and running lying on my chair, connected to my computer (which was on the other side of my desk) and i get reaally shocked and shout "was ist das denn!?!?!?!?!?" (what the hell is that in German) It was definitely not put there by me and i got worried that somebody broke into our house and that these were the leftovers of my laptop and i had just fried them by sitting on them. I wanted to see what was going on so i went to the light switch but it didnt work. I tried the other lights in the living room and all were dead. I wondered if me sitting on the computer parts could have popped the fuse in the living room so i tried the bedroom light. Also dead. Suddenly it dawned on me <\non-lucid><lucid>"AM I DREAMING?? THIS IS A DREAM!!! I AM DREAMING I AM DREAMING I AM DREAMING..."

I closed my eyes and in excitement, i started rubbing my hands,.. i rubbed them and rubbed them with my eyes closed saying (i am dreaming i am dreaming i am dreaming...) and when i slowly opened my eyes i was on my bed at night. I thought shit... i woke up. But i decided to give it a try anyway. I was breathing very heavily from the excitement and i scooted down to the bottom edge of the bed and tried poking my finger into my palm. the experience was very diffuse but i didnt feel the poke. Light was on in the bathroom and living room but both doors were closed. our bedroom mirror was right ahead of me but it was very dark in the room and i was scared to look into the mirror. after all, not seeing yourself in a mirror, or in a distorted way, i imagine to be a very spooky experience. I tried to pull myself together for whatever might happen now. I could hear myself breathing. Just when i wanted to get up, my wife moved in bed and ripped me out of my dream...<\lucid><awake> i noticed and tried spinning and spinning in my mind, because i wasnt standing yet and because i was already hearing her breathe now next to me... i woke up for real and immediately knew: i just blew my first lucid dream! dang!!!<\awake>

this could be tricky for me because i pop out of dreams very quickly. i can very quickly be wide awake when i hear a sound, and then take forever to fall sleep again. i suppose my wife moves all night long and i dont notice when im asleep. but it might be different when im lucid.

i tried to meditate myself back into another lucid dream, focussing on the occurences in the first one, but i concentrated so hard that i couldnt fall asleep. i suck at meditation. it takes way too much concentration for me and its not relaxing anymore. i even moved into the living room couch, put ear plugs in and tried it there but the only way for me to fall bavk asleep was to just relax and let my mind go do its own thing. And thr next hing i knew was its was morning.