First Successful WILD: Extremely Amazing and Realistic Dream!! :D
So I wake up after a vivid non-lucid dream, and write down that dream into my dream journal. I don't want to look at the time, I'm too lazy and excited over this good non-lucid dream. Then after about 10 or 15 minutes of excited wake time of writing this dream down, using the washroom, getting a drink etc, I feel awake, but not too awake. I go back to bed. I'm like, well it's a coincidence to be waking up in the middle of the night and having this huge impulse to try WILDing again. I take that as a sign. I go back to bed where I try to WILD. I don't even feel SP, but the vibrations and sounds etc I do feel slightly. I don't see any hypnagogic hallucinations however. I am purely letting my impulses guide me, with very little effort.
(By the way, if you want, you can skip the dream and go to the green coloured notes I have at the end because I know it's really long. I didn't want to leave anything out) :)
Then after about 5 minutes, I think I might be in a dream because the vibrations stopped. So I will myself to feel them again just to make sure, and slowly there came on a very strong vibration feeling like normal, and it quickly went away. I said, okay maybe this is a dream now. I calmly do a nose RC and it works! I FREAK OUT. I quickly sit up in my bed super excited and freaking out. I observe my room which looks exactly like my real life room. I do another nose reality check. The fact that I can breathe through my fingers is really cool. I don't see anything in my room though, it's very dark. I remember to rub my palms together, it doesn't really do anything to enhance the dreamscape but it feels so damn real!!! Then I notice how my room is still really dark, there should be something lighting it up. The moment that thought comes into mind, I notice some sunlight in the middle of my room, which is actually looking sort of like a mirror or a view of really nice tall townhouses.
I'm like, those are really nice houses. Hey, I could make those houses be my neighbourhood now! So I do. I look outside my window, it's not super vivid this part, but I see this new neighbourhood.
Seamlessly, the dream takes me to the back seat of a car driven by my dad, with mom sitting next to him. I am sitting in the middle seat of the back seat. My friend Hannah is sitting right next to me on the left. I say hi! She says hi! I tell her about my successful WILD and how this is all a dream and how sooo excited I am about having my first LD in 2 years, let alone a successful WILD done in 5 minutes after less than a week of practice! I keep ranting about this on and on. She is very interested and appears to be almost as excited about this as I am. She laughs so much. I do weird sounds with my mouth because I'm having fun freaking out, and she laughs about that forever. Haven't seen her laugh so much before. Then I notice I'm getting a little caught up in the dream reality. I don't notice that I'm letting the dream have control of where the dream takes me, but I'm just ecstatic to be conscious in this dream and that everything is just as real as in real life! I hear the car vrooming, I see the trees passing by outside and everything! My parents aren't talking though. Nobody is talking unless I start talking about something to them. It's like everyone is much more obviously now, just projections that are much lower than me because I'm the one conscious in my own dream.
Anyway, I have the intent of scanning my surroundings more. I want to observe the trees go by through the window. Seamlessly, and without even being able to notice, Hannah and I switched seats. She watches me intently. Everyone who isn't driving is watching me intently, like they find my presence very interesting, or like since I like positive attention in real life, the dream works it out perfectly for me. I watch the trees outside, noticing every detail, every leaf, branch, etc. The trees are too tall and too dense to see the sky. I'm done observing, time to continue to chat excitedly with Hannah. We talk about normal things too, but she is completely fine with talking about anything at all. So I talk about this dream again. I am amazed that the feeling of the car is the exact same as in real life. Then I continue to watch things go by outside. I am still aware that this is a dream, but due to my more passive nature, I'm letting the dream take me where it wants for now. I see the shape of an elephant in a black bag atop some large machine on a farm. "Hey look, there's elephants on this farm." More elephants appear on the farm. Hannah looks and reacts the same way I am to it, fascinated, yet a little bit bored.
The car stops at a bulk barn looking place that I've seen in another non-lucid dream before. It's my future school, Max the Mutt Animation School in a dream form. We walk in. Seamlessly, Hannah and I are now in that high school that Blaine from Glee went to. IT'S SO COOL yet neither of us realize that this school looks like Glee, and Hannah didn't probably because I didn't. We explore the area, meet new people, I make a new friend. There's a cafeteria at this school which is also a room where they make awesome motivational speeches and proud speeches about their school. Everyone is wearing a Warblers uniform, or something with the same colour themes. We continue to explore, and I get caught up in the dream.
Then I am at the other version of this school, the version that does not look like glee, but like how I picture an arts college in the dream I guess. I am with my parents this time, and Hannah is off somewhere. I remember, "Oh that's right this is a dream. I can't forget that!" Those were just my thoughts, and my parents nod their heads in agreement... even though those were just thoughts and not aloud. Everyone is quiet and watching me intently, and talkative only if I subconsciously want them to be. Then I think "I haven't fiddled with my surroundings yet, this would be a good time to do that." My parents agree. Everyone agrees. Whatever I say goes.
So the room looks like a plain art room first seeing it without observing it. Then I start to observe my surroundings, and I'm surprised that it's fancier than I thought it was. I close my eyes, think of changing the wall to another colour, open my eyes, there it is. I look at the objects, close my eyes, think of changing them to this, open my eyes, they become this. I change the white marble floor to beige marble, and then a red carpet because I find that a very fancy flooring. I change the room to a very fancy art room. I move to the next room.
I want to change the room, but again the dream seamlessly takes me to another place, which is the cafeteria place of the Glee warblers dream-version school again. Mom and Dad are there somewhere. Hannah is near me. There is a band performing on stage.
I suddenly feel strange. First I slightly forget that it's a dream again, and I am called to perform a song or something at the microphone, and I feel a little heavy, and I collapse. Everyone, my parents, Hannah, are surrounding me trying to get me to wake up from passing out. In that passed-out state, I tell myself, well this is just a dream. But what if the extreme vividness and realism of the dream causes me to get stuck in the dream because my mind can't distinguish if I'm awake or not? I push those worries aside. I know that if I wanted to wake up, I would because I could. For now I still want to enjoy this dream, and I am amazed at how long this dream has lasted already. It felt like hours have gone by.
Then some other stuff happens that I can't exactly grasp. Then I wake up in my bed again. I think, holy crap what an awesome dream OMG I WILDed!!! And then my mom comes into my room, and puts up a poster that I saw at the bulk barn-looking Max the Mutt animation school. It's a Halloween poster. She puts it up right across my bed so I can see it. She asks me if this spot is okay, I say yes. Then I realize, but wait, didn't I just wake up from that dream? I do an RC. Holy crap I'm still dreaming!!! Oh my god what a looong dream and super realistic oh my gosh okay.
I rub my palms together once again, and observe my room. The sun is rising. There appears a random overweight girl sitting next to my bed, watching me. I think, what is she doing here?
Then I wake up again. I do an RC. I'm still dreaming. "Holy crap!" I think. Then I try to think of a place I could go to. I remember, oh that's right, I'm obsessed with Tron: Legacy! Let's go there! I imagine the scene where Sam Flynn walks out of the arcade on the grid. I don't place it in my surroundings though, I imagine it with closed eyes, and nothing happens. I remember that the way it worked before was that I played with my surroundings to get there. I was about to, and then...
I wake up for real. HOLY MOTHER OF GOD I have been thinking to myself all day.
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The Notes and Questions:
Seriously, this has been the most realistic dream I have ever had. Especially at the beginning. Most dreams I have normally feel like just memories of the dream events, but this dream I remember experiencing all the things that happened. I remember the feeling of this and that exactly, and I felt myself waking up and coming back into my body, where I have feelings of memories of the dream also. I don't know exactly how to describe it, it's a very particular thing.
Also, once going back to sleep and waking up for the last time today, I have 14 hours of sleep which is a little bit strange? Do you think the WILD didn't count as sleeping because my mind was almost fully awake?
Have any of you had the stuff with the projections watching you in awe, reacting to things the way you subconsciously best want them to, not talking unless spoken to by you, and agreeing with everything you say, laughing at your every joke etc happen to you? As if the dream was truly revealing that they are all merely projections that look up to you, the dreamer conscious in your own dream, as if you were a God?
