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** I finally went back through my dream journal and actually counted the number of times that I got lucid. 12 over 3 months almost exactly, this one being the only one I actually accomplished something I set out to do. Will backlog only those and another day as this takes too long haha.

150104 1:00AM Lucid # 12 - Task of the Month

8:32AM

Myself and a roommate arrive in a parking lot in a former roommate's car. I immediately begin to question my reality (it feels like a dream).Tell him to do a reality check and do the same. Confirmed.

"What should we do?" I ask. "I dunno," he replies. Typical. (He is one of my best friends and the closest to my interest level in lucid dreaming. He's been in my dreams before and is never any help at all.)

"We can do anything, here, check it out." Remembering the task of the month I make a crate appear in front of me next to the car. I open it, remove a firework (8" classic looking rocket), stick it into a nearby patch of grass, and light it. In hindsight I never had a lighter or even considered that I might need a lighter. The daytime sky lights up even more with a massive explosion as I say "BOOM" and make an explosion gesture with my arms.

Not able to remember any other tasks I turn to him and say, "lets drive to the moon." "Yes!" He replies immediately. At least he isn't working against me. I get into the car, making sure to sit in the drivers seat (my first lucid with any amount of control, #7 when I get around to posting it, he was a getaway driver for me and was absolutely terrible).

Start the car. The former roommate's (whose car it is) girlfriend is standing in the middle of the parking lot. RC. Still dreaming. I'm excited and want to get to the moon so I just mow her over. My companion is upset about this. I tell him that since it's a dream she is completely fine. I swing the car around to prove it and she is standing right where she was before. I hit another car on the way out of the parking lot and onto the road.

At this point my companion has changed from my roommate to the former roommate whose car it is. I tell him to upgrade the car. He does nothing (this is basically exactly the same as what happened in lucid #7). I continue driving. We are driving down a hill on the side of a peninsula with an incredible view of my current city across a bay. And I mean incredible. I can see everything.

"I'm pretty sure that we aren't going to be able to drive to the moon..." I tell my companion as we drive. At this point I remember the task of the month with the crystal ball but decide that it wouldn't be safe for me to attempt that while driving. I tell him to upgrade the car again, and again nothing.

"Just push a button and say 'Upgrade'." He complies. As he does the car is thrown into the air and we are very airborne over the bay. Mid air the car switches into a helicopter and I begin to fly towards the city. After about 10 seconds, however, the helicopter disappears and we plunge into the water below.

I try to stay calm and remind myself that this is a dream but eventually succumb to panic and wake up.

With a visual migraine, I lay in bed watching the pretty colors swirl around in fractal patterns of beautiful blues, reds, and yellow geometric shapes that grow and pulse with bright color. Suddenly I'm in a dream and am trying to use metal chop sticks on an electrical outlet... I get electrocuted of course and wake up.

150106 11:00PM

6:25AM Rather vague

Side of road waiting to get into Minivan. Monarch butterfly migratory event. Nearby trees are full of colour (I grew up near Point Pelee national park which has a similar event every year). Mom is driving. Car is full, I shotty bucket seat. MP3 player.

Arrive at waterfront marin/terminal to pick up drugs. Attendant says that the guy who sells isn't in today. Asks us to clean flood/boat for him. "Definitely not". Go check if guy is there. Family (5 people) at cash register instead of dealer. Go back and ask why they don't help him clean. Grab backpack with cousin. Ask about plan.

Porn scene. Girl is acting strange because she wants to finish. Beach house. Girl leaves and then comes back at night. I exit the room and enter a classroom. Kids are dressed as if for Halloween. Teacher tells me that I shouldn't be there. Say that I should and demonstrate knowledge of class through observation.

150105 10:45PM

1:46AM Missed dream sign (confusion)

Am on a house tour with my mother and grandmother. The house is painted completely white except with very colourful borders and drawings (like children might paint). One drawing is of iPods. Painting incomplete. Owners upstairs. I;m looking for a washroom. Done tour. Given keys and directions and told to get car to pick people up. Leave house.

Start following directions and arrive at a building and try to go through. Is an old hotel/church that has been converted into a pool party. Get through rooms by walking through holes in the walls. The maids are dancing around in swim suits but are still cleaning. Eventually manage to get out of building. Was given bad directions and have to change where I am going to find car.

4:25AM

Dark souls II type dream. I am running around trying not to get killed. I'm not as strong as my roommate so I have to just run through while being followed by lots of bad guys.

Mr. Noodle/Instant soup discussion. The pros/cons of keeping the steam trapped.

6:23AM Strangest dream for me in a while...

We have arrived at Pemberton (a music festival). I am walking around to try and get a feel for the grounds. 1st encounter is with a very drunk girl from Calgary. I can barely understand her. I make fun of newfies with her for a bit then dump her with a mutual friend.

Need to go to washroom. Toilets are nasty and full of people doing drugs (cocaine, oxy). Go to washroom. Person jumps into the stall just as I finish but before I leave and starts snorting MDMA.

Go into the hallway. Person throws volleyball at me. Wants me to spin it. Person w/ kid drops sunscreen. Try to catch it.Slide it back to him.

Run into roommate and tell him what I am up to (getting a feel for the grounds). He confirms that the date is June 31st. He is poiing (which he can do IRL) and is amazing.

There is a kids concert going on during the day. They are playing EDM but with people singing covers of the vocal tracks. Needless to say it's terrible.

Go around back towards washrooms. Very dark. See someone as say we should put some lights up her tomorrow for people's safety. Guy jokes about rats. I look around and notice 3 orphaned lambs wandering from bush to bush. I follow them and arrive at a decaying sheep carcass. There are worm/flies/slugs scattered around. Flies begin to touch my head and I begin to feel maggots growing in my scalp. Disgusted. Wake up.

Fall back asleep into cut scene of myself as an old man arriving at a shore in a canoe and collapsing. Hear tiger sounds. A huge animatronic tiger with robotic spider legs appears from over a ledge (it's legs are taller than me, torso about eye level) that first tries to intimidate then welcomes me. End.

I have a paper DJ. Have been meaning to put some here for a while so I;ll just start at the most recent and work backwards.

150109 11:45PM

7:20AM Very vague dream fragments. Went to the washroom before focusing on recall (this happens way too often)


- Boating in a canal. Water feels higher than normal, possibly flooding.

- In a hotel room with my cousin. I hand him a bong-key chain that was supplied to me by my rugby team.

- Bunch of tulips and a single rose on the ground in front of me. Under an underpass (recognize the area from past dreams). Am texting my father and sister about an electronic drum set. Also talking about an event that I missed because I thought that it was tomorrow.

150108 10:30PM No Recall

150107 11PM

6:20AM Very hectic, disorganized but detailed dream

I am in a hotel room with some coworkers who are trying to get me to listen to a guided meditation that one of them has recorded. I listen to it for a bit (there were either cartoons on the TV or the person's voice was cartoonish) but then call it quits and take a nap. I need to head a few blocks away for my half sister's birthday party but decide to leave my change of clothes at the hotel room knowing that I have to do something later but that I'll be able to get back in time to change.

I arrive at the birthday party and enjoy it for what seems like seconds before I realize that I need to leave and that I'm going to be late for something! But first I need keys!

I head outside to look for them. My friend's car is blocked into an awkward parking spot but it's small and we can lift it out with ease. We are surrounded by cats as we do so. I get the keys from him and begin to walk home.

I arrive in a building and observe so dream characters being administered a set of math based logic problems. One keeps trying to answer the question using triangles while the tester keeps hinting that he should be using circles. I go upstairs with them where I explain that the test proves that we are 9x smarter than the previous generation and that the generation that follows will be 27x smarter than us. We play video games but soon I am late again and need to leave.

I start walking towards home but realize that I will never make it in time and need to take a car2go (this is a ride share program in parts of Canada and the US). The first 3 that I find are all taken. I finally manage to spot one that hasn't been claimed on a side street, sprint over to it, and sign in.

I get into the car and the road in front of me is immediately blocked by a mother unloading her car. I reverse to the main street. Start driving again. Someone is pouring asphalt into a pothole. Swerve around. The next block a group of people are crossing the street with a fully erect fence. Swerve around that also. Finally make it out of the neighbourhood into where there is more traffic flow and...... I can't remember where I am going. I am extremely frustrated (my #1 dream sign, damn) and call in sick to work since I will be late anyways. I calm down and then begin to drive again. Brief awakening.

I am a low key house party with some of my friends and decide that I would like to go for a walk. There is roomba on the curb by the house playing music to indicate where the party is. As I near it I notice some more people coming to the party. I duck behind a tree because I don't really want to talk to anyone and thinking that they will be disappointed with the quality of the party that they are arriving at.

I walk into a random house a few doors down. There are large men cheering loudly around a pool table. My in dream guess was that they were kiwis and rugby players. I grab a rather expensive pool cue and wait for my turn to shoot but get bored and decide to leave with it as well as a cowboy hat.

I return home to hide my loot. Everyone is gearing down to watch a boring movie. I decide to leave again and walk over to a nearby apartment building. As I enter the building I sense that the big guys I've stolen from are following me however both the people and what I have stolen has changed. I have the loot on me so I leave it by the entrance with an apology note and begin to climb the stairs. They don't accept the note and want to catch and punish and begin the climb the stairs after me. I eventually reach the top and am soon cornered. I don't want them to catch me so just as they arrive I burst out from where I am hiding out of a window. As I do so I pull the shoot and base jump (stolen) to safety while peppering them with yellow paintballs (also stolen). I land safely and begin to run away while a DC girl from the party earlier chases after me and tries to get me to stop. Wake

*Phew. That took a while to translate from my shorthand into something that was readable (almost an hour). I'm gonna continue transferring these over as they're written (shorthand) to save some time. I'll have to work on my storytelling at a later date...

From what i can recall i was in the kitchen getting popcorn. My nephew was around and he was about to go downstairs to play games with my brothers and their friends."Wait! Do you want popcorn?" I ask him. He thinks about it "Uhh....Ok!" he said taking some with his hand out of the bag than running downstairs.I decide to go downstairs too but after i finish walking down a hand grabs me. I turn to see an old friend of my brother that i don't see anymore. I than turn away."Why won't you look at me?"he asks."Just let go of me!"I say than walk away.

I walk to the room that was my younger brother's room. But when i look inside it is my parent's room now. They were trying to sleep with the lights on. I try to take a device that looks like a GameCube but can't get it loose. My dad gets annoyed and tells me to hurry up."Wait, Wheres the plug?" I ask. For some reason though i just drop the cube thing and start moving boxes from the left to the right."These boxes are hard to move"i say as I'm picking up a box.

Suddenly a man who seems to be the delivery man appears."Here, let me help you."He said than took the boxes and put them to the side."Be careful!You almost stepped in the toilet!" shouts my mom. I look down to see a toilet on the floor
"Ew.I almost put my feet in there."I think to myself. I leave to the room in front of the room i was in and notice someone banging on the door that leads to the backyard."Mom...There's someone trying to break the door down!" I said than put another white door in front of the door the guy was banging on.He laughs than takes out a gun ready to shoot me. "Mom!!!"I shout.

My mom than changes to a pregnant blonde lady. She sighs than says "Fine...I guess i'm going to have to help you out." The bad guy breaks in and the pregnant lady changes into a dark skin teenager than beats the bad guy up."Next time you won't be so lucky!"she says than laughs. She makes it clear she doesn't like me and leaves with a guy who I assume was her friend. I get up than look to the backyard. My cousin is around and I see a red 3DS sitting on a chair."I wonder what game is inside" I think than turn the power on. On the screen a small rpg like hamster is chewing on the dirt making the area pink. I laugh than notice my cousin looking at me."I'm going to play the 3DS for now."I tell her than look at the screen.

Now I'am viewing everything as if i'm inside the game."Ooooo~" This place was different but it reminded me of super Mario 64 because i could run around in a 3d type of environment. I started to collect stars that randomly popped up. I could hear my cousin's voice saying i was doing really good and that i had collected more stars than her."Yayy!" I say happily running around and jumping."This is my new favorite game!The creators did a good job in making this game!" I say. After a bit i stop playing and i'am now in the hallway walking to my older brother's room. But its different and i feel like its my room.When i go into the room i see my uncle looking in a closet at colorful shoes and my dad there talking about how i have so many shoes."Why are you guys looking at my shoes?" I ask. I than notice one of the sneakers has a golf mark on it. I think about how cool it is than close the closet and walk upstairs.

When i go upstairs into the living room i see a tall guy with a male kimono like garment and he is wearing white paint or a mask that's decorated.He is sitting on a chair casual like,talking to a female in the kitchen who is either washing the dishes or getting ready to cook something. I stare at his piercing eye. It is like a silver clear light blue color with the pupil looking like a owl or cat shape eye."Come on!" he says to the female trying to persuade her."I said no." she says. He than notices me and lays his head on the table either pretending to be asleep or pretending he is dead."Oh, so your going to act like you had a heart attack now?" the female says than laughs.I walk closer and the guy opens his eyes. His eyeball's were moving around sort of funny as he was observing me.

"Hello wandering traveler!What brings you here into this wondrous world filled with adventure?" I say to him. He says hello than just stares at me than looks away."You have beautiful eyes.Why won't you look at me? I have beautiful eyes too you know?" I said to him. It seemed like he didn't really know what to do or say so i said to him "Its a great day for adventure! Tell me. What do you think is your life purpose or your destiny? Let us go fulfill it together!" I said cheerfully. "My life purpose huh...."He says thinking than stands up and a small wind blows. I look at his face and it looks like a bird mask is on him now."My life purpose is to show you where the hidden treasure is!"he says taking my hand."Follow me!" he said than took me downstairs to my brother's room but it feels like my room. Although there are bunk beds present and it sounds like people are trying to escape something outside."Wait here. I'll be right back."He says than leaves. I wait for a bit than wake up. OTL He ditched me.

The Cat Witch

I was on my bed ready to go into the kitchen to eat some breakfast."I wonder what i'm going to eat today..." I think to myself. I can hear my family talking and wonder why my mom hasn't gone to work yet. When i look in the kitchen everyone is preparing themselves a breakfast. But than my mom pushes my older brother."Don't touch me!" she says. Everyone is surprised. My dad asks whats wrong to my mom but she stays quiet."Mom...Why did you push him like that?" I ask. It seemed as if she was really disgusted by him."He was too close to me." She replied. "Oh...So...Why didn't you go to work today?" I ask. She gives me a answer that is related to Christmas.I start to notice her hair changing too."But Christmas vacation is over already" I say.

"Wait a minute!Your not my mom!"I say pointing at her. She tries to run down stairs but i grab her. It almost appears as if she is getting a buzz cut hair style on her head."Let go of me!" She says than changes into a cat. I try to grab her than yell "Witch!" just for the fun of the chase. I manage to grab her and give her a hug. My older brother was trying to help me catch her too so he was by my side. I told him "Look the old witch lady is going to change into a nice person just by me hugging her." I can see now she is very short and looks like a cartoon/anime witch. She is laughing happily but than changes into a bluish grayish cat and tries to get away again."Come back here!" I say trying to catch her. Me and my brother finally manage to catch her before she went under a dining table. I hold her and look at her face. It looks like she is smiling at me. My vision begins to swirl and the setting changes.

It is night time and I'am now a anime school girl in a anime world. But i feel like i'm inside a dream. I'm outside a school and notice a guy yelling out the window at some other guy. He seems like a bully so i stand up for the guy that seems like the victim."What did you say!?" Says the bully who starts chasing me. The world seems like a maze of houses put in random places. I run inside a building and a couple of guys go inside. There are lots of people and game looking characters inside the place that looks like a airport/lunch room.

One of the bully's friends walks with me and asks me what i think of the place. I say its cool than walk over to a lunch table
There is a guy laughing who says "You know me! I watched Stephanie's two porn videos. She sounded really good!" Than a chubby chick in a yellow sleeping gown says "Look, I can make a good sound too!" I think about how weird they are and wake up.

Candy Land

I was watching a video about the upcoming release of a adventure time movie where princess bubblegum puts a secret ninja candy girl person in jail.But she breaks out and trys to save the kingdom. It felt like I was inside the video and i thought to myself "Wow...This is really good.I have to watch it when it comes out." As i'm thinking that i'm also running through the candy land's market place. I jump over things and bump into people but stop when i notice my mom.

She shows me a market place where a dark green blackish feather colored small chubby birdie was."Can i touch him?"I ask.My sister than appears and says "Of course you can touch him. That's why they put him there."I grab him but than he hops off. "Oh no! Where'd he go!?" I ask looking frantically on the floor. I see a piled of feathers and assume its him. "Hes still alive.Look hes right over there"My sister says pointing in a direction.I than see a anime guy with long orange hair.He puts a scarf around me than takes it off as if it was a trick. Than walks me to what seems like my house.

I suddenly want to kiss him and do other things with him and he starts to hold me in the corner of what is now my parents bedroom. But before we can do anything Dawn walks in the room."Oh no." I said.I tried to get the orange hair guy to let go but he held me back."Let go of me!"I shout. He lets me go and Dawn walks to a bed to the side of the room and lays down in a way that makes him seem like a cool guy."You don't have to say anything.Its sort of like how humans like to get drunk. They show their love-"Dawn said but i cut him off and told him i wasn't going to do anything than left the room and woke up.

I'm walking along a hall filled with exhibits - first, fragments of stones covered with hieroglyphics; then statues of Dumuzi; then a small section filled with art based on myths from various old African and Middle Eastern cultures, done by artists from the current African and Middle Eastern cultures - a reclaiming sort of thing. A painting of Eve holds my attention. Here I meet a very influential man and a woman who he has some claim on, but who seems mentally elsewhere - she speaks only nonsense. I feel protective of her, and I follow her out to a field where she gathers flowers and speaks nonsense at me for a while, but eventually that influential man and his followers come outside and she has to return. She hands me the flowers she's gathered and indicates I should eat them. Heather, foxglove, peony and violet. I put down a plank for her to walk across to return to him, and she hands me the traditional few coins for her passage.

A scene involving statues who came to life ends with a man speculating about whether it's possible for something carved in stone to change its role. He thinks it's possible, within limits. He speaks in a manner that's difficult for the people around him to understand - they say he speaks in riddles, but that's not intentional.

As I'm listening to him speak, the scene transitions; I'm in a dark stone room, listening to someone else speak to himself. I've lost track of what he was actually talking about, too busy focusing on his mannerisms and speech patterns, because I/Rumpelstiltskin recognize this scene - this is the man who I'll steal some of my more showy mannerisms and speech patterns from. Eventually he says a phrase that he uses very often, and recognizing it, I join in with him word for word. I've got his tone down very well, though my voice echoes, an effect of the spell I'm using to stay hidden - helps distort the location. He startles when he hears me, and I say, "Chilling, isn't it?" The similarity in our voices, I mean.

He looks around to try to find me, unsuccessfully, but he looks deeply unimpressed. "Expressing affection?" he asks.

"Precisely. But as an aside-" I drop the spell and step into the light as I speak.

(Woke up. Back to sleep.)

Me and Jules are meeting as strangers - a man led us down to a room displaying various things that were important to each of us in the past. He wants us to go over our own displays to make sure there's nothing that needs to be changed. When we take a break, however, I wander over to some of the objects that are on the wall. There's a statue of a golden lion - something Jules made. He explains that it was based on an ancient model, but it's difficult when you can't be exactly sure of the symbolism each detail had to that ancient culture. I sympathize - I'd once studied the original pair of lion statues he based this one off of.

After several scenes on the streets of New York, I wander off into some hills, go lucid, and start to fly. Once I gain some altitude, I come across a river with several boats making their way downstream. I'm aware that if I follow the river downstream, it'll lead me back into the city; upstream, elsewhere. I'm torn, but then a large boat on the river draws my attention. Marie Antoinette's leaning on the railing, drinking an immense glass of pink champagne, and generally looking very inviting. I land on the boat and we go inside. Unfortunately, although I hear her meaning instead of her actual words, she complains that she can't understand what I'm saying - she's hearing the actual English words. I have to deliberately switch to speaking French - she can understand me well enough now, but my vocabulary's limited. I join her husband at a buffet table where he explains the various delicacies to me - they all sound fascinating, though I'm not eating. I leave him to go remove my overcoat; I meet a handsome guest and we enjoy some extremely unsubtle flirting. Eventually he leaves to rejoin his boyfriend, and as I'm admiring the pair of them I have a false awakening.

(Woke up. Back to sleep.)

There's a witch sorting through various moments of time from her past. The first one she selects isn't the one she's looking for - it's the moment when she was taken to the castle, associated with a sense of pain, before she became a witch. She puts that moment back.

The second moment she selects - her daughter's choice between death or banishment. I think of Sleeping Beauty, converting a curse into something that's still a curse, but survivable. The daughter herself would have chosen death - young romantic type, I think of Romeo and Juliet - but her mother the witch says, "I gave him the terms quickly." By him, she means me/Rumpelstiltskin. She struck a deal with me to get her daughter away safely, before the daughter could choose a 'noble' death. The scene changes - I'm standing in the shadows at the very edge of a forest, looking at the castle on the hill in the distance. Despite the various fairy tale references in this scene, this castle's no fairy tale confection; it's a squat, practical thing. The daughter was somewhere inside at this moment in time.

(Woke up. Back to sleep.)

After uncovering a secret lab leaking some kind of contamination that was killing the rats in the neighboring building, and making a quick escape out a second floor window and over a series of rooftops, I've wound up coincidentally coming across a scientist from that same lab and having a civil conversation on the subject of traveling through portals. We passed through one without her realizing it, and I'm baffled as to how she could not have noticed, but also baffled as to how to explain that moment of transition to her - I compare it to a change in air pressure, something you feel rather than something visible that you can point to.

She's excited about having found someone to talk to about this, someone who's used to traveling between worlds, and she asks me a variety of questions. But her expectations are so wildly different from my experiences that we're having trouble communicating - she seems to have a worldview straight out of Lovecraft. She asks me first about Old Ones, and I had no idea what she was talking about - the ancient beings that created the world, she explains. She describes them very specifically. That's something I've never come across, sorry. So then she asks about some other creature I've never heard of, and this one she explains as the demon lords that currently run the world now that the Old Ones are gone. This is hilarious. Again, sorry, no - if there are any demon lords running the world, I have yet to meet them. I start wondering if this story is actually a misinterpretation of some of my own past actions.

Have a bit of a sore head, think it has affected my recall - which is normally pretty solid. I will write down what I remember in a quick update during this Wbtb. This is all non-lucid btw

It's dark out, we're in the city I currently live, in the middle of the night during peak drinking hours. People are bars and pubs and me and my friend from high school are walking with a few others. Leon has always been a bit of a character, he likes to make fun of people in front of other for recognition. However, outside of that he does actually have a decent sense of humour and an crack a joke from time to time. We're walking together, in our group and he decides to start throwing insults at these two big dudes. They were black and he was throwing racist insults, shit! The guys turns around and start getting aggressive with him, and Leon is like "what!? calm down, it's not that bad". As the two guys decide to leave it alone, Leon fires another insult, again racist and at this point I grab him by the scruff of the neck and throw him in a whole in the ground, which happens to be full with water, enough to completely submerge him. The two guys leave, and I try to get leon out with some rope in the water. He was not there, he has slipped through a hole in the inside frame is is heading out to the bay and is most likely dead. It's at this point his other friends admit they were smoking pcp...

... I need to get back to sleep but to cut a long story short, I rescue him and I specifically remember his eyes. His pupils were so small you could barely see them and the colours of his eyes were a significant colour of blue green. They looked like they pierced your soul.

I will update this later if I remember, I will leave some mental reminder notes at the bottom.

- Talking with girl she refuses me for sex, i bring it up again she compliments me.
- evil guy fucking with people for no extra cost
- pokemon, save squirrel, help reach goal
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going back to attempt another wild, wish me luck.

To bed very late, more holiday-related alcohol consumption, very busy days, stress, so dreaming is not perfect. But came away with two fairly long vivid coherent dreams, probably much detail forgotten.

+ new guy at a new company, give them a false name, tour the facilities and observe the huge workbenches and covered with huge plots

I'm settling in my cube at a new job, the boss calls me in to a meeting. In a conference room, sitting around a long table, I tell them my name is "Kirill," but they can call me "<my real name>", it's my nickname. Why did I tell them a false name, will that cause a problem?

I don't really know what's going on at this job. I should ask JL who also works here and used to be my manager at another job (real memory), but I think no, I should figure it out on my own.

I'm standing by a printer station, this is a printer that has many different names, all of which comes to this one device. A 3-ish page document comes out from a young woman, I pick it up and set it to the side of the printer, she comes by and I imagine she'll find it.

I'm given a walking tour of the company. It is extremely crowded with workers who all work very hard and long hours. It's a computer hardware company apparently. Everybody's desk is really long, and their work areas are covered with huge very wide (2-3 meters) plots of the systems their designing. The plots are colorful and are made up of large numbers of lines arranged mostly in rectangular grids, like this:



Discussing a particular circuit with somebody. It's a 9x2 or 9x3 arrangement of cells, it's a multiplier.


+(f) walking outside a company outdoors in daylight

+ performing a concerto at a concert in a very steep concert hall, should I use music?, conductor goes on first

I'm performing a solo at a concert. I'm climbing down a steep practically vertical audience area almost like a ladder. I pass by the principal orchestra <my instrument> player, and nod to her. I look down to the stage area and see a music stand has been placed on the stage next to the chair I will sit in. Hmm, should I play with music? I'm trying to decide, it's less professional to play with music but there's less risk of forgetting the music.

Later I'm down on the stage level it's darker waiting to go on stage with the conductor, the announcer introduces the conductor and I start on to the stage but they indicate I should wait until my turn. There are no curtains and everyone can already see me so i wonder why I should wait.

I’m not exactly sure how to describe this dream, but it felt like I appeared in somebody else’s lucid dream in the fully lucid state. I had a similar experience once before (which I need to journal), and it sort of feels like the dream environment is different than how I would normally perceive it. It has very distinct edges and boundaries, seems very solid, and feels like I’m in a large fish tank, because there’s very little background, if any. Usually my dream environment is as large as the universe itself (literally) with no boundaries. Here’s what happened.

I appeared in the backseat of car with my wife as we were being driven someplace at night. I was facing my wife. I was perfectly lucid, and the clarity and vividness were perfect. I thought to myself this sort of feels like an OBE, but I didn’t do an OBE exit, and this doesn’t feel like an LD, so how did I appear here perfectly lucid (I was confused, but loving it). My wife was young and beautiful, and she looked the same as she did when I first met her 30 years ago. I was really taken back by her beauty. My father in-law was driving; everything in the interior had warm lighting, and I could only see blackness out the windows. Then I saw some hair sticking up above the front passenger seat, so I leaned forward to see who was there. My dear daughter was there! She was half turned, tucked down, with her face pressed against the seat back, and she looked like she was hiding! I said her name with excitement, and then she sat up smiling at us. I reached my left arm around the front seat and gave her a warm hug.

During the lucid dream, I remembered wanting to hear my daughter sing her new song. As a bit of background regarding this; my dear niece is also a lucid dreamer, and a couple of weeks ago, she said my daughter sang her a song in her lucid dream that she had written in Heaven. I leaned forward in the backseat of the car and asked my daughter to sing the song her cousin (my niece) told me about. Next thing I knew I was remote viewing, or 3rd person, in front of a nicely lit, little, wooden stage, surrounded by blackness, and my daughter was standing there ready to sing in her cute dress. I was totally unable to move around or change the view, and it felt like I was looking out somebody else’s eyes. There was a couple of stage props neatly placed here and there. She started to sing a melody by repeating a phrase like ‘A-Meah-Ah’ over and over, and then she went into the verse, all while she danced and spun around the stage and props. It sounded absolutely beautiful and very modern! She made it to the start of the chorus, and then she stopped singing and said, “Oh crap, I forgot the words.” I then woke up, and I didn’t try to stabilize the dream because it didn’t feel like I was driving. I really enjoyed her song and dance.

For several months now I've not done any lucid-related activities, at all. I feel as if I actually forgot how fun lucid dreaming is and how it greatly improved my life always being excited for what might happen next night. Mid-term exams are done, they were a little more than a month ago but I think it's still something to mention because they were so good I'm quite relaxed for the rest of the year, my last year. Not sure if university-life will allow me to continue my lucid efforts but we'll see later.

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Maybe once a month I could still boot another LD up using DEILD/WILD but the thing that really motivated me was not the low frequency of my LDs but the shockingly low vividness of the few I had. (It is annoying looking around in a dream when your right eye doesn't work...) So yeah, my goals are to write some more crazy stories down that happen deep inside my complex mind, built my DR back up to standards and have a lot of fun.

[These empty space really help don't they?]

Another goal is not to learn LDing anymore cause I did that in my previous "chapter" but instead to actually start utilising my abilities for various things like:

-completing TOTMs
-Improving learning capabilities even more
-Have fun

I hope you didn't miss me too much (Not sure why anyone would care) and a happy new year.

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #262: Arcade Action

I’m walking through an arcade, heading somewhere but in no particular hurry. It’s a huge place with a very high ceiling and lots of cool-looking games. I come to one beat-em-up game that looks sort of interesting. It’s got a pair of joysticks (one for each player) and a “Kick” button. The “Kick” button looks sort of messed up and mashed to one side.

I notice an odd message flashing on the screen: “Press Kick to Start”. It looks like someone left a credit in this machine! I look around to see if the credit belong to anyone nearby. There’s a black guy in his late 40s walking by and I ask him whether this is his game. He seems confused by my question, so I turn back to the machine, and become lucid as I reflect on my good fortune.

I press “Kick” to start the game, slightly nervous that the dream won’t be stable if I play games. I start singing an impromptu song about dreams and video games (in my lucid dream voice, which is much much better than my waking life voice!)

The game begins and rather than a beat em up, it’s some kind of shooting gallery game where you have a little video game hand with a gun. The graphics look 8-bit, and there are these little circular targets that I’m supposed to be aiming at. When I move the joystick, the gun moves, and pressing kick makes the gun shoot. I miss a couple of times, and then hit a target, which shatters!



The shooting gallery attendant walks out and resets the targets. Unlike the rest of the game, she’s completely lifelike, a petite Asian woman with a medium build, probably in her late 20s. I do another round of shooting. Aiming the gun is kind of a pain, but I eventually shoot two more targets, and the attendant walks out to reset the targets.

I think about trying to change the game into a beat-em-up, but the attendant turns to face me. I see that she looks Thai or Cambodian, and her appearance is very vivid and attractive. She asks me…

Spoiler for Sexytime:

... whether I want to have sex with her. I have no idea how I’m supposed to do this, but sure, I'm interested! As sexytime commences, I find that my dream body’s able to be in two places at once; I’m both standing in the arcade playing the video game and living in the game and doing things with the shooting gallery attendant. (This goes on for about 90 rather action-packed seconds.)

Afterward, I emerge fully back into the video arcade and wonder whether I can play the game some more. The attendant looks toward me, seemingly ready to set up another round. As I’m messing with the controls, the attendant wanders off, leaving the shooting gallery in sort of a half-ready state. I mess a bit more with the game controls, but I’m feeling less tied into the dream, and pretty soon I’m awake.

Working at some new job involving answering the phones and a square table with a few people standing around it. We are putting parts together sometimes, answering phones other times. I decide not to wear the uniform - some tan shirt with a collar. There are some other people out of uniform also. We get to talking a bit, but don't get along. Then I find out that they are the highest corporate bosses in the whole company, and they are upset about me not being in uniform! I tell my coworker if he thinks it'd make a difference to get in uniform. He's not sure. I tell him to wait here and I'll be right back then take off sprinting to my locker. I'm not sure what my locker combination is. I think it's 27, 3, 33 or something with a 17 or a 29 in it. I manage to get it right, and open the locker. Inside, no uniform. It must be in my other locker... I leave the lean-two locker room and run across a field at night to another small lean-two with lockers inside behind a small counter / cafe / bar where someone is serving food or drink. This time my locker is not even locked. Inside is the lock, with the combo set to 1337. I leave it inside and grab my shirt. It someone takes my lock, I don't really care, I just keep my work shirt in here. I put it back on and return to my post after what seemed like 20 minutes of trying to get the first locker open.

Kind of a lame lucid dream, but I had it.

Something to do with Lego People in Minecraft or Minecraft people in a Lego world or something like that.


I was in the family van with my mom and dad. They were driving over these steep sandy hills preforming jumps. This was the first sign that I was dreaming; I began to question how the family van, being almost as old as I am was able to handle 20-foot jumps and landing on its nose with no sign of damage or distress.

At one point we drove through a barn. I got worried not only that this might be reckless and damage our van, but that an angry owner might show up.

At one point we stopped because my dad had to check the engine. I preformed a nose pinch. I could breathe fine. Dreaming. I looked up at the sky and saw five moons in the daytime sky. One of them was huge, obviously. I looked away and looked back and saw that the moons had somehow become conjoined together.

"Uhhh... that doesn't' look right."

"What are you talking about? It's just the moons sticking together. That's what all the craters on the big one are for, so all the little ones can fit nicely in the basins."

It was my mom. I told her that this was a lucid dream that I was going to leave her and go fly. I started climbing up one of the sandy hills. She started begging me to show her how to lucid dream like I do, thinking that it was really cool. At first, I told her no, but after she asked three or four times, I gave in.

I decided to teach her one of the first things that I had ever learned in lucid dreaming; how to run at high speeds. We found a black asphalt path. I explained to her that part of it is preforming the correct physical motion and part of it is having the correct mental state, knowing that your dream control has to work.

She took off running. I tried to go after her, but she didn't look back to see that my high-speed running had actually failed. But I still went after her for a minute. This led me through the woods, over a wooden bridge and to a small gas station/cafe place deep in the woods. There was a small lot with some strange cars in it nearby.

To be honest, I find that my parents, in lucid dreams make for pretty annoying DCs. In hindsight, I probably should have made an effort to get rid of her or distract her. She asked me why my running hadn't worked. I told her that I didn't know, but if we went into that gas station, we might be able to cheat the dream into giving us what we want.

I started to walk in, I pushed the door open and tightly squeezed the metal handle with my hand, picking up some dream stabilization. "A good friend of mine works here, I think she'll be able to help us." Luckily at this point was actually the last of my mom that I saw in the dream.

I came in. It was a small convince store that sold candy, chips and the likes. I saw a menu above the counter and apparently they sold a variety of common hot foods. (Pizza, hot dogs, hamburgers, etc.) There were a couple of dream characters waiting in line. I just cut in front of them and they didn't care.

The person at the check-out counter was a short black lady with straight hair. I think she had the face of one of my old gym teachers from middle school. (Man parents and middle school teachers, this whole dream is just a host of awkward and uncomfortable dream characters.) She also had a bionic arm on one side. I kept looking at it, though she didn't seem to appreciate that. (She didn't seem particularly cheerful to begin with.) It kept changing sides.

"Are you going to buy anything or just stare?"

"No, I'm not hungry. Is Manei off her shift yet?"

"Yeah, I'll let you in."

Success. Manei was in the back room. She had on one of those really heavy native American ponchos for some reason. She was talking with this really short black boy who I assumed was the woman's son, and this fat girl with brown hair. I said hello and she said goodbye to her friends.

"What I tell you? No meet me in gear room! Meet me in bedroom! I tell you ten times! Now I cannot *do something* for ten days. Why you no listen?"

I open my mouth to talk.

"Come, we talk downstairs, in private."

She takes me back out front of the store and to the women's bathroom. I look in and there is a toilet filled with poo. (And I mean filled, like a mountain of poo.) There was also a lot of pee and *ahem* other liquids on the floor.

She closed the door and then opened it agian to reveal a flight of stairs with a bed at the bottom. She asked that the both of us jump at the count of three and land on the bed. We do it. Completely pointless but we do it.

"Now, Atakonk yatoo tahuatok bararr satago izquen lavis al Ukatok. Urtem kaso aleey" (Something or other.)

"Manei, I don't understand your dreamspeak all that well, remember?"

"I know, but I want you to listen- I want you to listen- I want you to Lis-Lis-Lis-Listen."

"Katago Lalataktaktak. Katago Lalataktaktak. Katago Lalataktaktak. Katago Lalataktaktaktaktaktaktak..."

Manei.exe has stopped working. Would you like to close the dream or check online for a solution?

The dream faded to black slowly around here. I tried to squeeze the pillows and blankets on the bed we were in to hang on, but I guess that's no different than squeezing the pillows and blankets in your waking life bed.

Sitting in the living room on the couch by the fire, my friend is busy doing something with headphones on. I take my headphones off and they want to eat. I have a few shopping bags with various kinds of chicken and cabbage, but think it'll be too hot to cook it inside, even though frying it is the best. Rather than decide what to do, I pick up my guitar and start learning how to play. I don't remember the chords after 7 years. I make up what I think is the A chord, barring my first finger across the 2nd and 3rd strings of the 4th fret, and playing the 3rd fret of the 5th and 6th strings. I strum with my thumb as a pick, and then see a pick stuck in between the strings near where I'm strumming. Perfect! I use it and play the chord and then the individual notes of the chord to a peaceful rhythm. It sounds awesome. I find a chord diagram and stand up to play so I can see it, but without a guitar strap, I don't yet have the strength to hold the guitar and play it. The B chord is wonky. The diagram indicates that B is just the 1st and 3rd fingers on the 12th fret of the 2nd and 5th strings with the rest open. Seems too far along the neck to be right. Before I can play it, another friend comes in and does a really fast yoga routine right on the wood floor. Looks like a pro. I take in the moves for later reference: Cobra, Downward Dog, and others. Then I go back to playing with the too open because I'm always worried that everything I do is displeasing to others.

Train. Class. Responsibility.

NOTES:

I wrote down keywords but can barely read them when I fully woke up.