I forget what exactly the first part of the dream was about, it had to do with a trip on a bus, but I had a false awakening and I remember feeling really disoriented and I looked at my hands, and I had only three fingers on my right hand and I moved it around and saw it changing and I went lucid. Suddenly I was standing upright thinking about how I read in the maintaining lucidity section that I needed to spin around to hold on to it, but it didn't really seem to work. I felt like I was losing control of the dream and I realized that I probably had just enough time to quickly attempt the task of the month, so I looked around for a pumpkin and sure enough I suddenly found myself in my kitchen with a pumpkin in front of me that was already cut open. I got excited because I was REALLY hoping I would be able to do the task of the month but I wasn't sure if I would be able to go lucid the way I usually do until this weekend, which is waking up and then sleeping in. I opened up the pumpkin and looked inside, and inside I saw cotton lining the pumpkin with tiny black dots, like black seeds in the cotton. I remember being really disappointed that the pumpkin was empty and that was when I lost lucidity. In the next part of the dream, I remember being on the yard at my middle school and really not much else.
I have had some pretty bizarre dreams before involving dreams within dreams. This one was so bizarre that I knew I had to come back to this site to discuss it. To begin, I want to mention that I had this dream after waking up and then sleeping in today, saturday, which is how I usually am able to Lucid Dream. The dream began with me at my school and I was watching a horror movie on the TV. It was extremely realistic except for the fact that the lights were off and I was laying on the ground on my side. I then had a false awakening, and in the dream I was in my bed on my laptop. Usually when I pull out my phone in a dream, I just see a multicolored screen and never am I able to actually look things up on the internet. At most there will be a video playing that I then find myself becoming a part of. However, this time I was actually handling my laptop and looking at videos on Youtube. I remember one of the videos was about albino ostriches and a variety of facial expressions that they make. I then dreamed that I was practicing WILD, and tried to control what I was dreaming but ended up dreaming that I was still in my room, only I wasn't sure if I was dreaming or sleepwalking. This is actually a common theme in my dreams due to how detailed they can really be when I am lucid, I know I am dreaming but still worry if I am sleepwalking. I was outside my house and fell down on my front lawn. I then had a faulse awakening again and was back to being in bed with my laptop. The laptop then fell over and broke the screen, and I had a second false awakening to find the laptop fixed again. I went back to sleep in the dream and this time was near my neighborhood, only as usual in dreams familiar places become bizarre and twisted. I came across a large mansion which I somehow knew was my cousin's house. (To clarify my cousins do NOT live in a large mansion.) As I was approaching the house, a car pulled up behind me and a man got out and started shooting a gun at me. I ducked and was able to actually hide behind the sidewalk curb, which was now a few feet high. I then again had another false awakening, and this time in the dream I was on my laptop writing a dream journal about all of what had happened so far. The last dream was so realistic though that I couldn't believe how detailed it really was. Usually when you are reading a book or something, it will change. This time it remained constant. I was in a classroom, for reference it looked like one of the classrooms from my elementry school, and the teacher was a man who was teaching us about the occult. I remember him wearing a blue vest with a shirt underneath with the sleeve rolled up, and him being rather muscular. He handed out these printouts that were stapled together, like an activity book but each page was related to monsters and demons. I remember I was just looking through the booklet while the girl across from me was almost done, and I looked at her completed booklet to try to figure out what I was supposed to be doing. She commented that I should be glad I didn't reach near the end of the assignment where you have to draw various demons and symbols for their summoning. I page I looked at showed a monster destroying a city, and had instructions to draw a skyscraper in it's hand. A man who somewhat looked like the tenth doctor (Doctor Who.) started questioning out teacher about his background and how he had a history of controversy with his teaching methods, and how he was in danger of losing his teaching license.
In the dream I was looking into the mirror in my dad's room and I knew I was dreaming and wanted to see what my face looked like in a dream. At first it looked completely normal but then it started to get mixed up like a Picasso paining. I then left the house and was debating if I wanted to go to my neighbor's house, but I was debating if I actually was able to choose if I wanted to go there or not and concluded that I was by choosing not to go there. In the next part, I lost lucidity but was suddenly playing Left 4 Dead 2 and at the part before the concert where you have to fight all the zombies in the line. I remember my teammates and I just agreeing to not leave the safe room. In the last segment, I was walking home but this creature was following me and by being afraid of it it would grow in power but by not being afraid of it the creature was weakened. I was then Dexter and I was given a blood sample that I knew was my own but also left behind at a murder scene and all the characters from Dexter were standing around me and I had to fake the test to prove that it wasn't my blood. The blood ended up being somehow altered by an "Electric whip" which I assumed was a power line used as a murder weapon.
So, I should probably start this off by explaining that literally all of this is a dream. There was at no point of this where I actually woke up and no point where I was lucid. Anyway, here it goes, one of the freakiest and bizarre dreams where I was aware I was dreaming but not lucid. The dream started off with me in an apartment which I hardly recognized. I went to the stairs and suddenly knew I was dreaming, but I also couldn't control it and tried to see what I could do. I then had a false awakening where I was in front of my friend Sonam's house and he just arrived and found me on the front steps. He took me inside and into what looked like a therapist's office and shone a light in my eyes, saying that my pupil's were pinpoints and that I had been sleepwalking and was not fully awake. Then, I found myself in a movie theater watching a play apparently. My friend Kevin was sitting next to me talking to me about how I was probably slowly going insane from too much lucid dreaming, and how you really shouldn't be walking around in your own mind since it's a very erratic place. I then had another false awakening where I was in my room but there was like a metal shelf full of chips a soda next to me. I realized that this was another dream and had yet another false awakening. Now I was outside my house and all the houses next to me looked extremely real minus a few strange details such as them changing if I looked at them for too long, but I remember looking closely at my handrail and the pattern of the corroded metal looking very real. I worried that I might be sleep walking and in danger so I tried to find someone who could wake me up. I started walking in a direction to see if it would take me to some surreal place but it was just my regular neighborhood and I began to get worried that I might really be half awake and sleep walking. Suddenly, I find myself walking down a dark street and thinking about a meme I saw where a girl is being grabbed by a zombie and the caption reads "Try lucid dreaming they said, it will be fun they said." I look down into a sewer and somehow know that if I go down into that sewer there be that same scene. I then found myself walking towards what looked like a school and it's daylight and I somehow know it's graduation day at the school, and a bunch of people I know are there heading towards the school. Inside the school it's like a maze, and a little person shows up and tells me that I am still dreaming and that I should try to force myself away. I have yet another false awakening but this time my vision is horribly impaired and I am having difficulty navigating my room. Everything goes black and finally I wake up for real.
So, in the dream, I actually started out lucid and with a full understanding that I was dreaming. I remember fighting for control to stay in the realization, even screaming at the other dream AI that this was all a dream. I was in a comic book store trying to do what I usually do in lucid dreams; Basically play Battlefield 4 in a dreamscape environment. However, this time when I tried to control the dream, I couldn't do it and was suddenly being carried out of the store and to what looked like a classroom by two girls. In the classroom, the teacher told me that I had been asleep for about 4 hours so far (Which actually wasn't true.) and I told him that I was having problems controlling my dreams. He told me that if I eat a piece of cheese before I go to bed, I could control my dreams better. I responded by closing my eyes and trying to concentrate on the dream I wanted to have, and when I closed my eyes I actually saw darkness. When I opened my eyes I was still in the same room only everyone else was running away and one of the dream AI's said that he saw the kind of dreams I had and was laughing. I then got really freaked out and tried really hard to force myself to wake up and actually did wake up.
The dream started with me in a jungle retreat of some kind swinging on vines. I remember that I was afraid I went too high on the vines and that I would fall off and hit the ground. Then, there was all this panic about a virus on the island and there being infections. I walked into a restaurant which actually looked like a restaurant (Usually when my dreams have me go to a location, it will be another location pretending to be that location. Forget the term for this.) and all around me there were infected people with lizard like skin. I was warned not to touch them but then I realized I must be immune to the virus. Soon I found myself in a world populated only by the other survivors, and I was at my high school where we were fighting like we were at war. I remember thinking about how it was just like in "The Stand."
The dream started out with me and Captain Mal from Firefly/ Serenity getting into a pickup truck that I somehow knew was a time machine and we had to escape from an area. So, in the pickup truck we drove to my school, but it was abandoned and I wanted to see what it looked like in the future. I remember saying to Mal that I remember the school having financial difficulties due to budget cuts and that's why they had to close it. Then it was like the pickup truck was on a roller coaster and suddenly I was at some kind of amusement park but I started to realize it was a dream and wanted to see if I could make objects appear. So I walked up to a man and told him that I would pay him 20 dollars if he could figure out which hand held a penny. Each time he would choose, I would drop the penny from that hand and imagine feeling a penny in the other. However on the third guess I couldn't make the other penny disappear and he started laughing saying that he never guessed that both hands held a penny. I was suddenly in my shower but the shower curtain was now a solid tiled wall and I remembered someone on this site saying that you can walk through walls in dreams so I closed my eyes and tried to walk through it but I couldn't get though it and banged my nose which actually hurt.