Task of the month for August 2009

I had a lucid dream the other day that got me very close to this task. I must have subconsciously remembered it.

It was one of those half-lucid dreams I often have. I know it is a dream, but I just don't care. It feels so natural to be in a dream, I don't have any shocking realizations, or change my behavior much. It is either a step below lucidity, or a step above. I haven't, yet, decided which ;)

I was having a dinner party on the roof of a tall building. There were about a dozen friends seated around a circular table enjoying the standard dinner conversations. I felt a drip of water just as someone said, "It looks like it might start raining." We all stopped to look at the sky. Dark clouds were rolling in, and small sprinkles were beginning to fall. My girlfriend turned to me and said, "You'll take care of this, right?" I knew what she meant.

The man sitting next to me laughed and made a comment about not wanting to get his hair wet, or it would look messy and stand straight up, like mine. I looked him in the eyes and said, "You want to know why my hair is always messed up, like this? Because I can FUCKING FLY."

With that, I shot straight up into the air, spinning around with my arms out to my sides, like a helicopter. I hovered several hundred feet above the building, rotating slowly to get a good look at the surrounding skyline and gathering clouds. I raised my arms, and pushed outward in all directions, sending fierce winds howling in all directions. The clouds disintegrated, rolling back below the horizon line.

As the last of them retreated, I took off after it, like a bullet. It was retreating away from me, in terror, but I soon caught up. I entered the boiling storm cloud, and was instantly knocked around in the violent turbulence. I was surrounded by a gray darkness, with lightning flashing all around me.

It wasn't until I woke up, some time later, that I realized this was the tornado imagery and feeling I had been incubating. Close, but not quite a success.

I've never heard a better comeback. :lol: That's funny.

During the dream I realise that I am dreaming...there are two people at the bottom of the stairs: a woman and a man.
I remember this task and I ask them:
- "Do you know that you exist only in my dream?" I feel almost sad for them (like that I'm saying a death sentence to them).
However, they are really calm and do not take it tragicaly at all. The women just says something like:
-"O, is it so..?" and she looks untouched by my words.
However, the man is telling me something but I do not understand. ...then I see him behind some window and I come closer, and he tells me something like this:
-"I do exist in your dreams, but I do so ALL the time, even when you are awake I still exist in your dreams. Dreams do not disappear just because you are awaken-you just leave for a while and all your dreams are waiting for you to come back and notice them when you are asleep again. While you are awake- I am still in your dreams. I do look different in your dreams so you may think that there is a lot of the different folks in your dreams...But it is always me! I am with you all the time, and I am - you. You will recognise me in your next dream by this sign...", then he shows me a pendant on his neklace and says:
-"I'll show you this sign in some other dream in order for you to recognise me...to know that it is still me, even if the dream is different and I look or feel different"
The feeling is so nice and warm... I wake up with a good feeling.
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So, during the dream I realised I am dreaming. ...I saw some DCs and remembered this month's task to talk to them... After that, I really got involved into the conversation...and being lucid wasn't important anymore (so I don't know if I stayed lucid during the rest of the dream)
The point was to get the answer to my question, and I felt that wonderfull conection with my DC and it was great!
So, what do you think...?:lol:
have nice dreams
http://www.mydreamview.blogspot.com

Basic task achieved. This was a really weird dream in general, and the first lucid dream I've had in a while. Lucid part of the dream is in orange.

I started out playing Texas Hold'em in a casino, and I was getting amazing hands, even impossible hands. I got a full house, Kings full of 8's and scraped a big pot. The next hand I got was 4 7s, but I some how managed to get 4 of a kind before there were enough cards out (I didn't become lucid despite this obvious dream sign). After a while I decided to cash out. I went to get a chip caddy to collect my chips. When I came back I couldn't find my chips. The dealer pulled me under the table and showed me her bag and told me that I should get something similar to protect my money. I wandered out of the casino to an old pawn shop. I was looking at an old guitar case, but when I opened it there was no guitar. I closed the case and re-opened it and part of the guitar appeared (still didn't become lucid). I started to walk towards the back of the store when an old Indian appeared and pointed a bow and arrow at me. I put my hands up and he kind of chuckled then walked into the back room. I followed him into the back room and started looking at different things. There was a middle aged man that was looking for something specific. I followed along without saying anything because I knew the Indian had something specific to show me. After the man left I waited for the Indian to show me what I needed to see. After a while a red headed kid showed up and told me that the bow was a special device that would allow me to see special things. I let the Indian point the bow at my face and had no fear. As I stood there I had a number of visions that I can't remember. Eventually the Indian shot me, which I knew he had to do and I was ok with it. There is a gap after which I ended up on the road near my house. Most of my lucid dreams are triggered on this section of road. I was riding a horse past a series of strange animals: Llamas, camels, lions. I thought I might be dreaming and held my nose. I couldn't breath, so I figured it must be real. As I continued along I saw more strange animals and did another RC which also told me I was awake. I realized that I was dreaming despite the failed RCs...

I decided to try to teleport. I thought of the place to which I tried to teleport, but I couldn't get there. I jumped off the horse and saw a cheetah staring me down. I told myself it was a dream and just ignored the cheetah. I decided to try disaparating like they do in Harry Potter, but couldn't remember exactly how it was done. I then thought about clicking my heels together like in the Wizard of Oz. Before I tried it I saw a car coming and decided to talk to my DCs. I ran up to the truck as it pulled over. There was someone already standing at the drivers door, so I shoved him out of the way. The occupants of the car asked why I did that. I explained that I was dreaming, and that he wasn't real so it didn't matter. I stepped onto the running board of the truck and continued talking to the dream characters as we drove away. In the truck were an old man, a young man, and a young woman. They might have been Mexican or Indian. We started to drive down into my neighborhood, and the woman commented on the new "Ale House" that had gone in. She said that she hadn't seen it before. I told her that I had dreamed of it being there once before and that I had a feeling it would be built in the future in the real world. The driver told me that he was sick of looking at the default image of the inside of the car and asked me to look inside so that it would render. I looked inside and the interior of the truck became detailed. The driver thanked me. I asked them what it was like being dream characters, if they had thoughts and feelings of their own. The young man explained that they did, and that their existence was not significantly different from mine. I asked him how that was possible since they did not have physical bodies. I noticed that the other two DCs had disappeared, and the young man asked me if I believed in Heaven and Hell. I didn't really give him a definitive answer. He started to explain the nature of his reality, but I was starting to wake up and lost focus on what he was saying.

ATTEMPT #2: SUCCESS

11.08.2009

Benevolent Whirlwind (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

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When I open the front door I see a remarkable mountain vista, majestic peaks rising in the horizon beyond the neatly manicured lawn of grass that comprises the front yard. The view is sullied somewhat by scattered dark clouds, but the very sight of these jump-starts my memory and makes me think of the DreamViews task of the month of creating a tornado.

Emboldened, I put my preconceived plan of how to do this into action. Slowly and carefully, I point my finger at the clouds and spin it around in a circle, bidding the clouds themselves to follow suit. I do this for a solid minute, going faster and faster with my finger as the whirlwind builds momentum. Finally, when I judge the time to be right, I make a sharp downward motion with my hand. As I hoped, this causes the whirlwind to touch down and become a tornado before my very eyes! And what a beautiful tornado too, for instead of being dark and gritty like real-life tornadoes, it's clear and transparent, visible mainly by the blurring of the objects behind it and a few green leaves it has picked up along the way.

Not content to merely watch this from a distance, I want to prove to myself that this is the real deal. So I run up to the tornado and throw myself into it, putting myself completely at it's mercy. To my delight, I'm swept up in the current of air, ascending ever higher while spinning - but not for a moment feeling fear. On the contrary, it's great fun, kind of like a roller coaster. When I get to the top of the cyclone I'm spit out, but I have the prescence of mind to hover in the air for a while before gently floating back to the ground.

Apparently I had a spectator during this whole episode and I find upon landing a girl of about college age smiling and clapping earnestly. She tells me what an accomplishment I've achieved, and I swell with pride. But soon her friend appears and she ignores me, listening to her friend blabber about some environmental conference her parents are attending in New York City, called BUILD or something. Feeling like my moment is over, I once again return inside the house.
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read the full dream at my dream journal

Nice job guys, you'll have access to the super secret club soon :D

Hmmm. I sort of did the first task, I might do summoning a tornado. Well, I did do the first task, but I didn't get very interesting replies. The excerpts from my DJ:

Attempt #1: I remembered this month's monthly task (ask a DC how they feel about existing only in the dream), so I looked around for a DC and chose a girl I know, Alina, who looked the same as normal but had red hair. "I'm dreaming," I said to her. "How do you feel about being in my dream?" She seemed very doubtful, and said that she had once thought she was dreaming when she was in a car crash, and something about a hundred dollars. Apparently she thought my brain had been mixed up, or that was my impression anyway.

And attempt #2: I finally remembered my goal (ask a DC how they feel about existing only in my dream) which I wanted to get a different response out of, and made it clear that I was dreaming. She didn't believe me. I asked her how she felt about existing only in my dream, but she laughed and said that she was certain that I wasn't dreaming. I tried showing her how I could fly but I failed and really hurt my foot, and she said it just proved her point, and that I was sort of crazy.

Not that much success, but at least I did it and they responded. It was fun, anyway.

i did the advanced task :D

17.08.2009

tornado ld (MILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

i was with one of my friends in my backyard and we were makking stuff out of grass. Than i saw that he had a scrolled up piece of paper that said im dreaming on it. I got lucid and than tried to make a tornado. All i did was move my arms around in a circle and i got my freind to do the same. All of the dust started to rise and spind. And it formed into a tornado. Then it started ripping out the grass and it also ripoped out our apple tree. I could hear and feel the wind on my face becasue it was a very vivid dream.

I was lucid this night, but couldn't remember the task of the month >_< Hope I'll be lucid again soon...

*raises hand shyly*

Uhh...ninja? I can haz badge plz? legonut got hers and she completed hers after me. I'm sure you just glossed over it or whatever...

Thanks.

*Also shyly raises hand*


Uhh, since we are getting our badges late, do we keep them later into september? :)

I cant remember much about the dream. I was apparently fighting some guys in an open field with hills surrounding us so we couldn't get out. It was kinda like Neo vs all those agent smiths. Just then i realized i was dreaming. (I don't know how but i never have to do RC's) So to take care of them faster, i summoned a volcano from behind the hills. It grew up to about 2,000 feet. Then i did some weird chanting thing and stuff came spewing out of it. After that i tried making a tornado. It didnt work at first, so i rotated my hands around each other and concentrated on making one and it happened :banana: but unfortunately i also got sucked into it :( does that count?

I completed the Advanced Task here is my entry...



August 21, 2009
Lucid Dream 88: Trip Twisters
DEILD

Category - Exploration/Task
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Once the dream ended I layed completely still and jumped immediately into a DEILD. I stood up and noticed I was in the same colonial style farmhouse from my "Justice League" dream. I dove head first out of the nearest window and landed outside. I was standing in a massive field and I could see three people walking in the middle of it. There was an older woman and two young boys. The sky was gray and sinister looking. I immediately thought of the ToM and I held my right arm out in front of me as if I were summoning some great power.

The clouds began to swirl and formed three tornadoes. I controlled the paths of the tornadoes with my outstretched arm. I pulled the tornadoes toward the three people in the field and they were each sucked into one of the funnel clouds. It tossed the people in opposite directions and I quickly sent the three tornadoes over to suck up each person before they hit the ground. The kids and lady were flipping around in the air like ragdolls. I was tossing them back and forth between the twisters, and trying not to let them hit the ground. It was like a game of volleyball except, humans were the ball/s and the players were the tornadoes, lol. After a while I dismissed the twisters and looked up into the sky.

I saw a house fly across the sky, high above me. I lept into the air in an attempt to enter the flying house. Just before I reached the house it set fire and burned up in a matter of seconds. I attempted to enter two more flying houses, but each time the house burned to ash just before reaching them. Slightly frustrated, I gave up on entering the numerous flying house that would soar above me every so often.

I instead, flew down the street and came upon a small snow village. The village reminded me of a full scale christmas decoration. There were candy canes on each telephone pole. The houses were decorated with wreaths and whatnot. There was a large castle/cathedral in the center of the town. I walked up to its door and rung the doorbell. Suddenly circus/clown music started playing and I feared the clown "It" may appear. The door swung open and there was a lady in a red dress standing in the entrance. She said, "Merry Christmas!" I awoke shortly after this encounter.

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Originally Posted by sanjar

During the dream I realise that I am dreaming...there are two people at the bottom of the stairs: a woman and a man.
I remember this task and I ask them:
- "Do you know that you exist only in my dream?" I feel almost sad for them (like that I'm saying a death sentence to them).
However, they are really calm and do not take it tragicaly at all. The women just says something like:
-"O, is it so..?" and she looks untouched by my words.
However, the man is telling me something but I do not understand. ...then I see him behind some window and I come closer, and he tells me something like this:
-"I do exist in your dreams, but I do so ALL the time, even when you are awake I still exist in your dreams. Dreams do not disappear just because you are awaken-you just leave for a while and all your dreams are waiting for you to come back and notice them when you are asleep again. While you are awake- I am still in your dreams. I do look different in your dreams so you may think that there is a lot of the different folks in your dreams...But it is always me! I am with you all the time, and I am - you. You will recognise me in your next dream by this sign...", then he shows me a pendant on his neklace and says:
-"I'll show you this sign in some other dream in order for you to recognise me...to know that it is still me, even if the dream is different and I look or feel different"
The feeling is so nice and warm... I wake up with a good feeling.
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So, during the dream I realised I am dreaming. ...I saw some DCs and remembered this month's task to talk to them... After that, I really got involved into the conversation...and being lucid wasn't important anymore (so I don't know if I stayed lucid during the rest of the dream)
The point was to get the answer to my question, and I felt that wonderfull conection with my DC and it was great!
So, what do you think...?:lol:
have nice dreams
http://www.mydreamview.blogspot.com

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Holy crap....that reminds me so much of The Matrix...like its Neo telling you that the dream world is the "reality" and your world is an illusion

So, ever since seeing Waking Life, I had the idea to ask a dream character what it's like to be a character in a dream. I have done this on multiple occassions. At first they would change the subject or ignore me. I kept doing it, and after awhile the would say things like, "Well, it doesn't really matter, " or, "How does that pertain to the conversation?" Recently, they just give me a knowing smile. Because I have done this so many times, I really wasn't interested in getting another knowing smile from a dream character.

I tried WILD'ing for the first time yesterday, all day. I had stayed up late the night before and not slept much. My WILD dreams were for the most part blurry, dim, and short. I didn't feel totally immersed. I still had partial awareness of my physical body for all of them except one. Sometimes when I have a DILD, I have awareness of my physical body, and I wake up, but I have been able to go back to sleep totally, and lose my physical awareness.

I meditated in shavasana (sp?), yoga corpse position, wore a sleep mask and ear plugs, focused on breathing very slowly, and brought my gaze up to my third eye. I also kept the tip of my tongue on my palate.

I had a series of short tornado dreams. Some people said they got bored of their tornadoes, so as I was falling asleep, I told myself I wanted to make a tornado that I would love to sit and watch. I decided to try and make a purple tornado with lightning coming out of it.

I also looked at my hands saying, "Look at your hands. This is a dream. Make a tornado."

Tornado Dream #1:
( Third person perspective ) I am inside my dream house, a living house made from a banyan tree. I sleep in an egg shape made of banyan tree roots. The banyan tree is on a steep mountainside in Hawaii. I look like a creature in that movie Wizards, or a character by the graffiti artist Katch 1 whose art I just looked at on Saturday. I stick my head out of my egg/room and see a giant dark grey almost black tornado on the plain.

Tornado Dream #2
(third person view) I tried to astral project this time. I think I just dreamed. I flew up into outer space. I met Hal Jordan, one of the Green Lanterns from Detective Comics. He said, "You need to become a Green Lantern." I said, "I know. Hmm, I don't have a power ring."
Then I started thinking about the hassle of having a Power Battery to charge my ring, and how annoying that would be. Then I said, "or I could just become Ion.' Then, Ion, a green glowing symbiote entity of pure willpower, appeared about two feet long hovering in front of me, looking like a catfish. He then swam into my torso, merging with me. A green force field covered me, hovering about an inch off of my skin. Suddenly Hal Jordan and I were on Earth. We sat on a mountain. He pointed his ring at the ground. Something like a sunbeam came out. He pointed to a spot on the the plain below. It reminded me of using a magnifying glass with the sun. A little smoke or vapor came out of the bright spot on the ground, and then a grey tornado formed out of it. I thought, "How do I do that without a ring? Well, it looks boring anyway. I don't care about doing that."

Tornado Dream #3
(First person) I was at this Arts Center I hang out at. I was standing in front of the bar, looking into my palm. A tiny purple tornado, about four or five inches high, was moving back and forth across my hand in figure-eights. It reminded me of a top, and it kind of tickled. It felt like a top spinning on my hand.

I am including the next WILD because it was so very vivid, though it has nothing to do with a tornado.
I am in a barbershop where I got my head shaved (just the top) for a role in a play (in waking life). A woman walks in with a plastic grocery bag. She takes out an ulu (breadfruit) and gives it to me, saying, "Have a nice trip!"

I like the idea of WILD's. I have never heard of the concept before. I have tried it before hearing its name, but I often wake up as soon as it starts. These WILD's were probably about five or ten seconds long each. Reading about it has helped me a lot.

Nice job, Nomad! And three different times, very impressive.

Advanced Task Completed!!! YEAH! (forgive me if I get a little excited. I'm still new at this. :) )

Here's the entry:

25.08.2009

Tornado (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was driving along a highway on the side of a mountain and I thought "Where am I? This must be a dream." I looked at my hands and sure enough they were all deformed.

I ditched the car by floating out the passenger side window and out into the open. There was a valley below me but it was difficult to see because of a fog bank. I decided to explore the valley so I floated down through the fog.

I was having major stability issues and had to constantly look at my hands or focus on one of the cliff walls to keep my vision clear.

Once I was below the fog I could make out my surroundings. They were much different than I expected but not surprising. (This is a dream.)

The bottom area was about 50 feet wide and maybe 200 feet long. It was open but had multiple levels. Some levels had small ladders connecting them. I was standing on the back wall on a lower level. Cliffs rose up on all sides but the fog blocked my view of the sky. The cliffs were squared off like they were skyscrapers made of rock. They had rectangular caves for every floor. I made a point of just standing and looking around me trying to engrave that image into memory.

Once I was done looking around and felt stable enough to move on I tried to summons my DG once more. This almost knocked me out of the dream again so I calmed down, stabilized and figured I would just try that again later.

Then I remembered the task of the month. The biggest thing I've done up until now is change the weather so this would be cool if I could pull it off.

I saw some particles floating in the air nearby and whipped my hand around in circles to get them to move. It took a few moments but the particles did start to move. Then a funnel cloud appeared and slowly grew up farther than I could see. I was thrilled and just marveled and my accomplishment for a moment. Then I got bored and let the twister disperse.

Next I wanted to run at super human speed so I took off but nothing spectacular happened until I went to hop up onto the next level. I jumped about 20 feet up in the air did a back flip and landed. (Considering I usually fly everywhere I guess this wasn't that impressive but it sure felt cool. )

I decided to do another trick.
I wanted to try time control and since there weren't any people around I figured I would just throw something up in the air and try to make it slow down or stop. It didn't. I tried a few more times but gave up.
Next. Pyrokinesis.
Just as I was concentrating on making fire in my hands my vision went away. I tried to look at my hands but everything dissolved away.

All in all this was a pretty successful dream but I need to keep working on my control.

You had better hurry, ninja. Soon august will be over!:shock:

Simon, that is awesome that you could remember so many things you wanted to do! I've been only able to remember one thing per dream!

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Originally Posted by WakingNomad

Simon, that is awesome that you could remember so many things you wanted to do! I've been only able to remember one thing per dream!

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Thanks, I had just finished editing my goal list the night before so it was still fresh in my head. Unfortunately I seemed to have forgotten many other stabilization techniques that could have prolonged my dream. :whyohwhy:

I'm making a cheat sheet now with my goals and different techniques to read over during my WBTB. Hopefully that helps.

I'm so happy that I finally completed one of the tasks of the month.

25.08.2009

completed basic task (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This dream started off with me just standing in darkness. I wasn't quite sure what was going on at first. Right in front of me I though i saw the outline of my computer. I just stared at it trying to make out what was in front of me. All of a sudden everything came into focus and i was standing in my room right in front of my computer.

I just knew that I was dreaming. I turned around and walked out of my room. I thought it was a good idea to do a reality check just to make sure. I lifted up my left hand and inspected it. The hand was backwards so it looked like it was my right hand and the little finger and ring finger were half the length they should have been. I continued on my way and went up stairs. When I got upstairs I walked through the wall and went out into my back yard. It was dark outside and there were thick black clouds in the sky. I reached my hands up toward the sky and was about to move the clouds away when i remembered i had wanted to try something different. Instead of clearing the clouds away and expecting the sun to be there I wanted to try pulling the sun up over the horizon with telekinesis. I concentrated on pulling the sun up, but I realized i was facing south and for some reason i had the thought that I wouldn't be able to pull the sun up because it rises in the east and not the south. (i have no idea why i thought this)

As soon as i started thinking about where the sun should rise there was a light coming from the east. I couldn't see what it was so i walked to the other side of my garage, but i still couldn't see because trees were in the way. I jumped up onto the roof of the garage to get a better view. What I saw was pretty amazing. Filling the eastern sky was a bright yellow/orange nebula. There was also two planets orbiting very close to earth. They looked like mars and jupiter. They were so close that they looked larger than the moon. There were also several shooting stars overhead. Over all it was an amazing thing to see. After watching it for a while I looked down and saw that there was an old diner next to my garage. It had no roof so i could see inside. There were two people sitting at a table. Seeing the people reminded me of the basic task. I jumped down off the roof and landed inside the diner. I sat down at the table and waited for the man and woman to stop talking. I then asked the man if i could ask him a question. He said yes. I asked him "What is it like to only exist in my dream?". He thought about it for a moment and said "It's ok. Yeah, that'd be ok." After that I got distracted by something and looked out the window. When I looked back the man I was talking to was gone and there was a cupcake sitting on the table that had a human face. It was smiling at me. For some reason this causes me to completely lose lucidity. The dream continues for a while, but its kinda confusing and difficult to remember.

Congrats, Simon and FF, great detail on both of your dreams :)

I had completed the basic task in about a week when i had my first epic LD and forgot to post here, lol.

I attempted a MILD and after the first portion of the dream i awaked up and managed to do a DEILD.

When i reentered the same dream i found myself in my room surrounded by 2 people that i didn't know who were. I managed to stay lucid and decided to go through the door while thinking that i would be in the same place i was dreaming before.

I managed to do it and i found myself again in a building with a pit in the middle (couldn't see it's ground, so i assumed it was really deep). The building was made of stone and made from layers (different levels) with a lot of corridors and stairs that would take you to the upper levels or the lower levels. The corridors were full of people walking across them without looking to any place other than the end of the corridors. I could see the different levels of the building full of them. (I think this represented my conception of the non-lucid dreamers. As they spend their time while sleeping in the dreams roaming nowhere without being lucid).

I decided to enter a room nearby and found 2 women in there. They were trying to continue their walk when i remembered to ask them what they tought of being DC and not being real. They continued to walk but suddenly one of my teachers appeared and answered the question. He said to me "Well, there are a lot of people who believe in god although there aren't any concrete evidence of his existence. Yet you, who are in front of us, seeing us and talking to us don't believe in us". (I thought this was a nice answer).

Then i left the room and decided to try to fly. Didn't know how to do it so i simply runned and jumped trying to float in the air. I failed. Then i tried to do it again and again. Both times i jumped and fell on the ground violently. In the last attempt i did i managed to float a bit, so i think i kinda succeeded.

After this i noticed that the people were disappearing as time was passing. I sensed that something was wrong and started to be scared. I runned to some stairs and 3 big black dogs with giant jaws appeared and started to follow me. I runned the oposite direction and decided to try some Dream control. I summoned 3 other Dogs with spears to kill the ones pursuing me. They appeared from a room nearby and killed the Giant dogs.

After this i went to another room where there were some of my mates having a reunion. Don't know exactly wath they were doing because soon after i was awaking.

For now this was one of my best dreams. Hope i get more like this soon as this was really nice xD.

^^Nice response you got there.

I've been getting good with Reality Checks now, I'm exhausted, and theres the tail of a hurricaine passing over the UK.

Conditions are perfect. I really want to do this tonight.

Might even get some binaural beats on the go beforehand.
:banana: