luke

So, I read about ADA, and as i was walking to my gf's house, I was practising it. I really enjoyed the walk so much more than I would usually. It seemed like everything was actually happening instead of my mind being elsewhere. It takes alot of effort however, so it will be quite a chore at first to keep it up. But I enjoyed it so much that I continued doing it the whole night, and when I went to sleep, i was feeling like a lucid dream would definitely happen. However, it was a shit dream.

All I remember was that I was spooning Jen, with my arm tucked around her, as we were facing the door to her bedroom. Someone poked their head in and I pretended to be asleep. The door was open for some reason.

I was visiting my grandmother's old vacant house early in the dream. Later me and my family were in a car, driving to a particular street, where we were doing something a rather, I think we were visiting my grandmother, even though she is dead. Before we left to get into the car, I was busy trying to pick a book to read, but couldnt make up my mind. Everything I saw looked bad. Jennifer held up a copy of the 1st book in a fantasy series, and I remember rolling my eyes and saying "...really? is that any good???" In the car, my dad was being a dick for some reason, and we got to the stree and found my younger brother paul riding around on a bike. He had left earlier to go to a party of his friend, which he was now late because he couldnt find the house and was riding around trying to find it. The street was very irregular, and had lots f Australian bush throughout it. We had to get out of the car and climb along the outside fence of the properties. We met animals as we climbed along the fence. Especially guard dogs that were madly barking at us, and fighting at the end of their chains, but we were out of reach. Also, sheep, cows, goats, that came right up to us, and nuzzled us. We were quite scared, but quite safe. We reached the house were Paul's friend lived and Paul entered. We kept going along this irregular fence, mostly bush around us and houses through the trees.
Later we must have entered one of the properties and were in a hospital like, labyrinthine building, and we found a room where my grandmother and grandfather were. I was so happy to see my grandmother. I hugged her so hard, and I felt so happy, and there seemed to be a mutual, non-vocally-expressed, love between the two of us, and I was smiling a mile wide. For some reason, my Dad was being a real dick. He was being the disappointed, sardonic father type, which is definitely not him. He would say things about me which were really mean, in a way to try to make me out to be a bad person in front of my grandmother. I let in slide most of the time because I didnt want to make a scene but as I left to go somehwere, dont know quite where, I hard him say to my grandmother "but he's still got a lot of maturing to do." I was going to let it slide, but then as I was in the corridor, i turned around and re-entered the room and yelled in anger, "yeah, I've still got alot of fucking maturing to do!!" I just left, leaving everyone in shock. I was very angry.
I walked through corridors, and I came to a cafe/pool type facility and saw my mother. I yelled out to her, she didnt hear, i yelled again and she turned around and told me she was trying to get to my grandmother's room. I continued on. I seemed to be going somewhere and taking a shortcut through the swimming pool. The pool was very big and shallow. There was giant gumtrees in the middle, with huge diameters. Some of the branches, medium hanging, were burning. Kids were playing around the trees, looking up a the burning branches. I passed the lfeguard, who was quite cute, and I pointed out to her that they shouldnt let people in the pool while the trees are burning. I went on and I waved to Henry and some other kid from my high school who were sitting on the grass talking. As i left the facility and was crossing the road, another lifeguard, not the one i spoke to, had followed me and asked me if i was single, and was trying to chat me up.
I went on my way, and hapenned to get a bike. I was heading to somewhere I had been before, getting something I had forgot to get last time. I was waiting at an intersection, and all my backpck and stuff was on the ground, I was looking for something in my backpack.

It was my younger brother's party. We were in a big, grandiose house, setting up for the party. Lots of arrangements were being made, and everybody was bustling around the house getting things ready before the guests arrived. There was an outside pool, which seemed to have been dug out of the ground. Someone had peed in it, and I asked Joel if he knew where the anti-colouring tablets were, so we could put them in the pool to remove the disgusting yellow tinge.
When the party started, there were alot of 12-14 year old girls walking around, and my family were still running around doing things.

Ok, so on the success of my first lucid dream just less than 12 horus ago, I went to sleep again, and tried to WILD. I was having limited success, but I entered a DILD in which for some reason, the setting looked exactly like the lucid dream I had earlier> It was probably because I was so excited about my first lucid dream, that I instantly went back to that same scene upon dreaming. Because I linked that scene with lucid dreaming, attaining lucidity was instantaneous.

I rubbed my hands together, and performed some RC's. I was breathing fine while blocking my nose and closing my mouth. And my hand wasnt stopping my finger going through my palm. I decided to experiment. Because I was still laying in bed, I looked around. I tucked my arms both under my armpits in the attempt to produce two revolvers, one in each hand. This was successful, although the revolvers were transparent. When I pulled the trigger, nothing happened. This was disappointing.

So I had an afternoon nap earlier that day. But then I was laying in bed with the gf, eventually I fell asleep. Since I had already had sleep not long before, I went straight to REM sleep, and i was dreaming. I remember being really tired in my dream.

I was walking up the stairs in my flat. I was trudging along going so slow up the stairs, with my head lolling to the side like some drunk guy really wanting a place to crash on. I didn't even get to the bend in the stairs when I fell down on the stairs and went to sleep. Here is the interesting bit. As soon as I fell down and lay down (yes, on the stairs) I went into a DILD. Because I was sleepy in my dream, as soon as I fell down to sleep, my dream self went into a dream (yes, we're getting into Inception stuff here, a dream within a dream). And I knew that I was dreaming because I was following what was going on in the walking up stairs dream. So bang, I realised I was dreaming and LD.

I was in bed, like I had just opened my eyes, but not as clear. Although I wasn't in my gf's bed, I was in my bed, in my flat, but some furniture had changed. I was to happy to be lucid dreaming. First, to try clear some things up, I rubbed my hands together, and it had medium amount of success. Suddenly, however, I was at a complete loss as to what I should do. I never really thought this far, yeah I want to battle dragons and explore fantasy worlds, but right now, I was cozy in bed, with a whole lot of things that could scare me "out there", so I decided just to lay there. I decided to pray to God, and thank him for allowing me to lucid dream, because this has been a long time coming. Then I decided to get up, and when I tried to get out of bed by moving my body, my physical body was moved and i broke from the dream to be back in RL.

But I am happy, and I look forward to building on this progress.