Moonflower

its been a long time since i have posted in my DJ on this site, i had been recording my dreams in my voice recorder before but i sorta slacked off there for a few months. anyways this morning i woke up at 6:00 and since i was still sleepy i went back to sleep and slept until 8 something in the morning. i had a short slightly fuzzy LD during this time.

the dream started with me in my house, i was looking out of the front window and i saw a large strangely shaped space ship that was colored red white and blue. i have recently in waking life been interested in UFOs so i was quite excited about seeing something so plainly and something so big. but then i thought "what if this is just a dream?" i did an RC but i had to do a few of them before i really believed i was dreaming. in fact i did the nose plug RC so much that i started to feel dizzy and felt i might wake up from breathing too hard so i stopped. but just to be on the safe side i did two more RCs one was to look at some text on something sitting on the counter and looked away and looked back a few times, i was almost convinced i was dreaming, but i needed just one more thing to truly prove it. i tried levitating, at first it didn't work and i was about to conclude that it might not be a dream but i eventually was able to float a bit above the ground cross legged while holding my feet. funny thing is i had read on DV that someone couldn't fly very much so they just floated everywhere cross legged like a, i might have somehow remembered this in my dream.

anyways i was now convinced i was dreaming (that took a lot of convincing huh?) i think the reason i was so skeptical is because i tend to do a few too many RCs in a row in waking life just to make sure i am actually awake. maybe i should bring that down a bit cause it makes me skeptical in my dreams too. anyways after i was sure i was dreaming i went out into the backyard, someone else was with me, possibly a friend of mine but im not sure. i found that i was getting around by grabbing things and pulling myself along with my feet off the ground. at some point my friend challenged me to climb the side of my house on the side where the gate is which is a lot higher than other parts. i climbed up the gate and tried climbing the side of the house which was just brick, i dont remember if i was able to do it or not. i dont remember how i got there, maybe as i was climbing my surroundings changed, i found myself in a building of offices and there were people around. i remember talking to them although i dont remember what they said or what i said. to try and stabilize the dream i was touching things, i picked up a small block of sticky notes feeling it and i took one off and felt that too, but my touch felt slightly numb and i knew the dream wasn't stable and i was losing lucidity or the dream was fading into another. i eventually lost lucidity, i dont remember much after this, at least nothing worth mentioning that has enough details to put down. the only one i remember being more vivid is i was over at my neighbors house, the one whose house i had never been into in waking life but oddly i visit it occasionally in my dreams. my and some other people were having a sleepover and there was food and i was making some sort of chocolate dessert, my mom was there.

thats all i remember but its a start to getting back into lucid dreaming. the lucid dream was a short lucid to medium length lucid dream. i can never tell how long i am in a dream by seconds or minutes, i cant even ballpark it oddly enough. to me it was maybe a few minutes maybe five maybe two so i really dont know. didn't achieve any goals. still like i said, its a start.

hi i hope i am doing this right, anyways i had a short semi lucid dream last night which i will write here. its not much but I'll write it anyways since its the first lucid dream i have had in a while.

i don't remember much of how it started out but i remember i was in my house and there was someone else there who i didn't know, he started to chase me so i ran to the front door, at first the door wouldn't open and i panicked trying to unlock it by unlatching the lock, i finally forced the latch almost breaking it and opened the door. i noticed that i was running almost in slow motion, the more i tried to run the more it felt like i was trying to run through water. i used the side of the house to push off of hoping to give me more speed and ran into the street. it was there that i started to wonder if i was dreaming, or maybe i was just wondering if i could fly but didn't realize at that point i was dreaming (either one). i tried to fly and to my surprise it worked, i floated across the street and onto the drive way of one of our neighbors. it was then i did a reality check to help me fly, because if i knew for sure it was a dream i could fly easier. at first i had a hard time getting off of the ground, but then i imagined i was getting lighter and concentrated on the sky. soon i was rising slowly at first then faster and faster until i was soaring, at this point i was lucid i believe, maybe not at the highest lucidity but lucid enough to really enjoy it and know i was dreaming. i flew over rooftops and i saw a building by the ocean in the distance so i flew there. one thing i might note is that this time there was no "sky cieling" that i usually encounter i was able to fly freely. i also noticed that flying as high as i could wasn't my goal this time, my goal was just to get away from the person chasing me, i didn't even think about the barrier at first. anyways i got to this building, it was brown and had large windows like in a medieval castle, it wasn't very wide but it was long and tall, i flew into one of the rooms and looked out the window on the other side (i dont remember what the room looked like) i think at this point my lucidity was slipping now i was only semi lucid. i saw people standing around below and they were swinging these orbs on strings, i knew that were magical orbs and this was some sort of contest they were doing. everyone had one of the 6 magic classes just like in Wizard 101 (an online game i play) which were: life, death, myth, storm, fire, ice. i got one of these orbs on a string and started swinging it here and there. unfortunately this is where the dream becomes fuzzy although i feel there was something about a mermaid whose tail was made of a carrot and had lettuce for fins at the end, or was it a merman?

to be honest describing this was quite hard, there are a lot of details i left out, like where exactly the people were standing and what the contest was like, but its something i would have to draw, and i am not good at drawing so, a written description will have to do.

this dream lasted for about 2 to 3 minutes as far as i could tell but i could never tell how long i have been in a dream no matter how hard i try. basically it was a short to medium length lucid/semi lucid dream.

today about an hour ago i attempted another WILD. still no success although i got a bit further (each time i try it i get a little further) and your right, SP isn't necessary for WILD, im soooo glad i found out about that would probably have been waiting for all those vibrations and sounds to indicate if i am near the dream state. i did experience the beginning of REM Atonia though, but unfortunately my foot was in a crooked position and i couldn't help but move it thus ending the attempt, also there planes going overhead. i live near an airport which makes WILD extremely hard, maybe i can time it to inbetween the times they go overhead cause i know their all on a schedule. anyways i am pretty sure it was rem atonia i experienced, i was in hypnagogia pretty deep i had nearly lost consciousness, then i suddenly felt my body becoming numb and a tiny bit tingly, it was a weird feeling but nowhere near as intense as SP which i have or used to have. i could move which is why i tried to lay as still as i could, at first i got excited cause i knew i was near the point where i would enter the dream, and i think that also played a part in the reason this attempt failed. i managed to calm down and try drift back into the state of consciousness i was in earlier repeating "1 i am dreaming 2 i am dreaming 3 i am dreaming" ect, it seemed to work and at some point i felt like i was floating and the feeling of the bed started to fade a bit, but the noise outside was too distracting and my foot too. so thats as far as i got for now but i got soooo close! pretty sure I'll get it within the next few tries now.

this is my first entry here, feel free to comment, i always look forward to feed back.