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Journal Entry non-lucid #9 Dream, non-dream (Comments)
Background:I slept late, and I woke up at 4am. I read some of Stephan Labergs book and went to sleep about 6:00am. The first dream was fueled by emotion because I was angry that day. Again 2nd dream I have no idea where it is coming from. I get celebrity appearances for some reason. Of course false awakening because I do reality checks when I wake up. I don't know where the "sign" dream came from.

Dream fragment 1 from 11:00pm-4:00am" Racist Black Guy": I was in a classroom, and my old math teacher from Calc II was passing back grades. Everybody was happy about their grades, I was also. My math teacher walked to me and said something funny then left. We were just sitting there waiting for something to happen. This girl, teacher's assistant, from Chem 120 walked in and told us to get to a chair. We all sat on same table. I sat next to, TO, he got up and asked me if I can hold his seat for him. As soon as he got up this black guy steals the seat, and he says, " I ain't even about to give back to him". He looked like a basketball player, way taller than me. I got mad after he said that, and I told him to get up from the seat. He started backing out with the seat because it was a rolling chair. He got up and he said," For real! you ain't going to stick with your own kind?" I told him that it is not about color or race. He got mad and said," You dark ass n*gga". I looked at my skin color, and then his. I started laughing because he was darker than me, and I thought he was joking. I then told him, " I love him for that" (for the joke). Despite my change of attitude towards him, he didn't change, he was still angry. He murmured something before he went in a different class room that got me mad. I went to this wall, they had little advertisement nailed to the wall. I picked out the nail, it was about the size of my fingers. I put them in between my fingers. I was now very angry. I didn't do anything though because he went inside the classroom. I carried this negative energy when I went back into the classroom. I tried to find the movable chair for my friend, but he already was already sitting down. I then put the nails next to him and sat down. The teacher's assistant then kept blabbering about how I am going to get a bad grade in class if I do that again. She told me what do you do everyday? do you waste your time? I got up and I wanted to brag about my grades, but I reminded myself very briefly that showing off is not for me and success is defined by me.

Dream fragment 2 from 6:15am-8:11am" Mr. White's Hit list": I was at a gas station with Walter White from breaking bad. He wanted to kill this man because their was a hit on him. The man was heavily surrounded by private security guards. When we got their, me and a couple of other people convinced Mr. white to leave. It seemed at first that he would listen, but instead he became desperate and tried to run him over. The security guards immediately took him inside a building. After being a little shaken by the incident, he backed up the car and parked a block away. He wasn't deterred by failing. We wanted to leave. The man with the hit on his head tried to scramble to a car. While his security guards were rushing to get going this man shows up to the car and smashes the mans face with a piece of plank. His head was torn off. It looked gruesome because it was blood and stuff mean just gushing out, but it wasn't "accurate". In waking life the skull would have been fractured and stuff like that. Instead it was like he didn't have any bone on him. White wanted to make sure he was dead, he grabbed his gun and walked out the car. He walked very slowly and very calmly, while his face looks furious. The private security guards blame his and started opening fire on us.

Dream fragment 3 from 6:15am-8:11am " False awakening": I woke up from my dream and started writing my dream in my dream journal. My sister shows up and starts talking to me about something. I wasn't listening, but instead trying to remember my dream. Then I woke up.

Dream fragment 4 from 6:15am-8:11am " Sign": I was with my dad inside a car. I started having this nasty cough. I felt it to my bone. I told him I am going to need medicine. He advised me not to take any type of medicine. I was trying to get a very light cough medicine. We arrived at our house while I was asking him. The neighborhood looked very dark at first. It looked like sun was setting. People were running back and forth. I saw this sign outside of my house, on the side walk. I think it read "Here is proof for actual claim to this property" (I assume it was talking about the sidewalk). I then questioned why it would be there. I rationalized it by saying that my uncle must have put it there. I forgot that my uncle has moved out about a couple of months ago. I then tried to remove and realized that I wasn't strong enough and I went to my garage door. Incredible details in this dream, very clear, and I actually felt more connected to this dream.

There's a man coming down from his room to breakfast at an inn, somewhere expensive and in the mountains, there's snow visible outside, the place looks like a ski lodge. The woman he checked in with is sitting at a table, and he's surprised to see that she's still here, he half expected her to have left during the night. He goes and sits down with her, starts talking with her, but he's distracted, noticing that the innkeeper and his husband are watching them, not being at all subtle about it. This woman is someone in the public eye, and she's married or engaged to someone else, and the innkeeper looked a little scandalized when they checked in together last night.

He says to the woman now, "That... Well, it wasn't an accident. And will you just leave?" By 'that', he's referring to something that happened between them at dinner last night that made it clear he wants her - but it's something small, like a touch on the cheek or the leg; they aren't having an affair, despite the impression they've been giving people. He stands up and as he leaves he gives her this sort of very slight bow, and says "Sleep tight, Sonja."

Tips: Today I don't have a video. But I have an amazing article I'm quite sure a bunch of people (including myself) could use! It's about setting dream intentions and unless you get everything you want to get done in your lucid dreams completed. Here's the link:5 Ways To Strengthen A Basic Lucid Dream Intention


Entry:

1) I'm a reindeer. (this is my first reindeer dream lol) I'm in a field type place with my reindeer brother and he's talking about flying and travelling. "We need to fly around! I wanna see the world!" I'm the grumpy reindeer. "No we don't, we just need to survive." Then a crazy witch comes in trying to catch us and kill us. We run away and get away from her. (Now my perspective has changed to that of a man in a car driving, I'm wearing a black suit and black glasses.) The grumpy reindeer is riding in my passengers side. I'm trying to take him to a safe place. The other reindeer is flying over a traffic light in plain view. He tells his brother "I'm going off to be with Santa." Then the witch sees him flying and she's in her car. The traffic isn't moving so he gets away. Then there is another reindeer in a car, she sees him and pursues him without him knowing. The driver speeds off towards the safe place.
We're at a swampy place, it's foggy and dark but I can see that the "water" is a deep green and mucky. I think I (the person) has to walk/swim through it while the grumpy reindeer flies over it. We're now in a white room and I'm the reindeer again. The man in the now clean again black suit is sitting in a black leather couch. I have a phone now and the man has changed into my mom, while I'm now myself. There is a small tv on a cart in front of us now. There is some explicit content playing on the tv. I feel awkward because my mom is just like sitting there ignoring it. Then it freezes on the most awkward picture. I walk around and look at my cheap phone. The same thing just popped up on my phone and I hit the exit button really fast. I look out of a window and the sun is rising and I think "Oh my gosh, it's sunrise and I still haven't WILDed! So I wake myself up.

2) I'm with a large group of people (around 20-30 people) and we're in a forest type place with a road, we're near a stop sign. I'm Billy from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy ...lectedIndex=17 - Bing Images (The little boy with the hat on.) Some extra characters are here (Erwin and someone else). They tell me to take something from the thugs. They have something that looks like a ball of burgundy hair lying on the ground in front of them, it looks kinda personal though. I walk up to them and look at them and say "I'm not gonna steal your thing I just wanna see if I can take it." Then I do some crazy quick move, like swing my leg out and spin on the balanced one to kick the item into my hand. I smirk at them, and kind of taunt them. I guess they're angry now. So one of them tries to punch me but I block it and punch him at least five times before he can back away and he's kind of confused. His friend just looks at me. The other guy tries to punch me but I grab his arm, and throw him on the ground, grabbing his leg and stepping on his balls, not hard enough to hurt just a warning that if he moves then it's gonna end bad. His friend walks up to me and I see a card floating beside his head that's twice the size of his head. It says "Leaf Storm" a pokemon move, in my mind. I say "If you use that on me his balls are gone." I guess he thought I was bluffing and I saw him move to use it and I crush his friends testicles. The attack hits me but it doesn't hurt at all, it just stirs up a lot of leaves, and now I'm ready to kill him (this is happening more now) I walk out of it and look at him and his friend and say "Oh. Now you will feel my rage." This is where awesome murder scenes usually happen but this time it gets blurry and I remember walking over their limp bodies, I don't think I killed them I just beat them senseless and they've passed out, I mean they didn't even hurt me, they just pissed me off a little. I walk back to my personal group of Grim, Erwin, and some girl. Someone yells out that I should fight "Charla" and she looks like a black version of Mandy, the blonde in the picture, Charla has black hair and she's tan. But the girl in my group says "No, don't! I want you to exist!" then they pull out Mandy and she's heated! Like yelling and flailing, and I know how strong Mandy is so I decide to back down...



Goals!

- Remember something from IRL in a dream
- Succeed with WILD and learn more about the relaxation stage
- Meet Juroara and practice dream control

(I completed my second goal from yesterday!)

Morning of January 20, 2014. Monday.



I consider this dream somewhat precognitive, as I checked and found an enhanced version of the table of wavelengths I had been using until now which goes much higher and is far more viable to what I am presently working on (without needing a calculator).

This dream is primarily physical/sensual, so there is not much else regarding plot. However, it seemed to last for at least an hour or more. It is basically like a climax that stretches out over nearly an hour, but at a different level.

The main aspect is that my wife is touching me intimately and there are two specific frequencies that are reaching me in a “perfect” way. They have nothing to do with an actual reason of any kind, but relate oddly to some recent work I was doing in sound manipulation.

I am aware of the main frequency reaching me through a certain area, which turns out to be 7,902.132 Hz. The other is 987.767 Hz. There is no logical reason for this, it just turns out that way in my dream. Both represent a “B” note. (Fifth and eighth octaves under the C = 16.351 Hz = 0 octave table).

Again, there is no logical reasoning to this other than being relative to the expansion of waveforms I had been doing which involves a special “trick” of polar inversion (mutual silence - which is sort of like how the higher dimensions work) and then opening up expansion points to solely bring out intended ranges in the waveform, which can be used to isolate frequency bands or particular instrument nuances (even a single guitar string in a chord if you are so inclined) in a recording or “remake” something in a different tonal range to fit another recording. All in all, this was a very blissful experience.

Dream of: 14 January 2014 (3) "Childhood Games Abandoned"

I'm at a house where a bunch of people whom I've known throughout life are meeting for a banquet. Three square tables - similar to card tables - are set up in a room. One table is in the middle of the room and the other two are in opposite corners - like three x's in a diagonal line on a tic-tac-toe board. People are sitting at all three tables. Members of my family are sitting at the table in one corner while I'm sitting with five or six people at the table in the middle.

As we are eating a meal, I notice that no one talks across the separate tables. I wish that we could all talk to each other, but something seems to be preventing our doing so. I turn around to the table in one corner (not the table with my family members) and I holler, "Hey!"

Everyone at that table seems half asleep and they suddenly jump when they hear my voice. I tell everyone that we all need to sit at the table in the middle of the room. The people in the corner table stand up to come to the table in the middle, but my family sitting in the other corner table doesn't move - they say that we'll have to come to their table. I don't want to argue so I say, ok. The problem is that part of the family table is sitting against a couch which would have to be moved. It looks as if the people at the family table might give in and move to the middle.

I have the idea that once we're all in the middle of the room, we'll all form a circle, hold hands, and somehow bring God into the picture.

Someone has a list of the people who are present. I notice that the list contains the names of people from all over the world. Someone suggests playing a game which I recognize as a childhood game. I realize, however, that the game is not going to work. This is a new situation and not appropriate for old games which we used to play when we were children.

Dream Commentary

This dream portrays the web sites which I use: the Dream Journal, Dream Views, Facebook, and my own Dream Epics web site. The table in the corner with my family is Facebook, the table in the opposite corner where the people are half asleep is the Dream Journal web site, and the table in the middle is Dream Views. My Dream Epics web site is represented by the potential circle of all the people holding hands in a circle and injecting God into the formula.

Dream Epics Home Page

Dream of: 14 January 2014 (2) "Chosen Of God"

I'm living in the middle latitudes of Africa and I'm looking at a map of all of Africa. The bottom half of African looks more like the isthmus of Central America with a string of four or five small countries which stretch from coast to coast. I'm thinking of traveling to Tanzania, which is the second or third country from the bottom of the map. It turns out that the Jews are now not only in Israel, but that they have taken over much of Tanzania. It seems strange to me that the Jews have established a new center of power in Tanzania.

I start looking at a piece of paper which describes a place where I can visit in Tanzania. The paper contains a program of events which will happen at this place. The first event of the day will be a long reading of a passage from the book of Genesis. After the lengthy reading, people in the program will have the opportunity to actually construct something. On a table in front of me I can see what appears to be a construction kit of the thing to be constructed. Many pieces look like steel girders. Apparently the end product will be some kind of Jewish monument.

I reflect that I've never really understood why people who are born Jewish continued to remain Jewish once they were old enough to understand their religion. It seems to me that when someone was old enough to understand the Jewish religion, he would give it up, because the religion really didn't make much sense. Now, however, I'm beginning to comprehend the religion a little better. I see that the Jews actually do feel as if they are the "chosen of God" and as if they were born Jewish because they have a special role in the world. Contrary to my previous assumption that the Jewish religion was fading away, I now perceive a new resurgence in the Jewish religion and I think I would like to learn more about it.

Dream Epics Home Page

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Dream of: 14 January 2014 "Liaison"

I've just stepped outside onto a sidewalk which seems to be in a city in France when I notice a thin blonde-haired woman walking along the sidewalk. I can't tell at first how old she is, but when I move closer, I see that she's not young and that she's probably in her late 30s. She's still attractive - not beautiful - and she's dressed provocatively. She looks a bit worn with wrinkles around the corners of the eyes.

I begin walking along fairly close to her, and when I realize that she's a prostitute, I ask her to come up to my room with me. I'm living on the third or fourth floor of an older building which seems like a rooming house. I have my own room in which I've been living for a while. She agrees to accompany me and we continue talking in French as we head for my room.

As we talk about our arrangement, she mentions the word "baiser". I think she is asking if I want oral sex. I respond, "Tout," meaning that I want everything. I think to myself that I don't want anal sex, but I would like to have regular sex and have her perform oral sex. I want to get that straight before we reach my room.

The subject of cost arises and she responds with what sounds like the Spanish word, "Seis."

I think I need to clarify that. I think she means "60", but I need to make she that she doesn't later say that she meant "600". I say in Spanish, "Sesenta?"

She doesn't say anything, but I can see that she's calculating in her head. She says something about interest, and I tell her that if she will simply put the money in the bank for a while, she will end up being rich.

As we walk toward my building, we pass a park where a family is sitting at a picnic table. The woman says something to the family. I can tell by the frown of the woman sitting at the table with her children that she doesn't appreciate this woman approaching her family in that fashion.

Just before we reach my building, I start thinking that I have a condom somewhere in my room. I think the woman might have one of her own, but I'm uncertain whether she supplies those. We reach the building and head up the stairs.

Dream Epics Home Page

3 scenes I can remember:

*Dad comes into the bathroom while I am doing number 2. He walks all the way in sits down on the bathtub rim, lights up a joint and tells me he is smoking weed. Then our dog comes into the room and gets on my lap and he has a ciggarette in his mouth, and I am like WTF...

*I am trying to escape from some wolflike creatures, by climbing up a pole/tree. Eventually I get down, and we (me and some other dogs) capture a lone wolf, and make him til our land. But while he is tilling the land, it is me in his perspective doing the tilling. Then I get back to the dirt room with our tree/pole in it and the areas were I have tilled are growing poppy and wheat alternating and one of the little female dogs is yelling "no this is all wrong! you can't alternate them like that! this is a disaster!" or something akin to that.

*Me and a few other guys are equiping lightsaber like weapons, and awaiting Darth Maul or someone sinister. I invent a lightsaber "cage" that surrounds my body so that Darth Maul cannot cut me in half like in the movie. A while later a large group of us are in a courtyard in two teams battling each other with all sorts of futuristic guns. But it is more like a game not actual war, and we are aiming for the other peoples guns to deactive their energy cells. It is a back and forth contest. My old stepdad is on the opposing team I think.

January 20, 2014

Review: Adventure, nightmare, an apocalyptic future where formless creatures threaten mankind at every turn. We jump from pillar to pillar to stay safe. Hindu demi-gods and demons.

Double-Jump or Die
I don't know anything about this apocalyptic future, it's like I just woke up and I'm trying to understand whats going on. My dad (a random DC and not my real dad) is going out to collect supplies. I insist on going with him and learning about surviving in this future.

The buildings are empty and very quiet. As I learn more about this dangerous place, there doesn't seem to be anywhere safe. Outside is dangerous because a monstrous titan roams the streets. So we only go outside to run from building to building.

Naturally, the shadows are dangerous. But the biggest and most surprising rule is, stay away from windows.

There's something really weird about that rule, because a window is a long time dream sign for me.

We find a staircase leading to a cellar. It must have food and supplies! But its completely dark down there. We take one step in, when the device I'm holding in my hand goes off. This device has a screen and its measuring the monsters. The screen has hundreds of dots approaching us fast!

We run back up into the light but we aren't safe yet. From the corner of my eye I see that the monster is a fuzzy formless orb. That was my only brief glimpse of one of these monsters. For the most part, they remain unseen in the shadows.

We climb up on a pillar. I can sense the monsters are below us. As long as we stay up here were fine. Luckily the pillar as a narrow ledge that leads straight back to our hideout.

Mom *not my real mom* opens the door and lets us in. Our hideout is our home and its a real hole in the wall. There are no windows. And the only light source was a single candle. It was dark and kinda eerie in here, but the monsters can't reach us and that's what matters.

I curl up and take a short nap and mom begs me to stay inside, safe and away from the monsters. But I can't stay in this box. I have to go back outside.

I leave the hideout with the my sisters and they want to show me something special. How to jump.

We climb up a pillar. It's a bit like a zelda video game in that there's lots of pillars for me to jump on. But there pillars are all different heights and very far apart. There's a pattern you have to follow or you'll fall down and you'll have to start over again.

My sisters explain to me "out there, if you fall down, that's it!"

Sis hands me a pen and makes me draw an imaginary line in the air, connecting my pillar to the next. She tells me when I reach the half-way point of my imaginary line, to jump again.

The instructions leave me confused, and although I'm jumping, I keep falling short of that next pillar! Finally I understand, they're trying to teach me a double-jump. Just like in video games, double-jump for a longer distance!

I climb back up the pillar and perform a flawless double-jump! This is a lot of fun! By jumping again in mid-air I can jump longer and higher. I jump all the pillars, climbing higher and higher.

My dream gets fuzzy at this point.

At some point, I went on a venture with my sister, mom, and grandma, but we got too close to a window. Hordes of formless monsters pour through the window!

We quickly run away and make it back to an area with pillars. But something is wrong with mom and grandma. They're non-responsive, like zombies. The formless monsters must have attacked them, consuming their minds in an instant.

Sis helps them across the pillars anyways and leads us to a door. This door isn't our hideout! What is this door?

Sis says "I'm in charge now! This is the door I've chosen! I'll go inside first and check it out."

We open the door and there is nothing on the other side but a chute (or a hole), going down and down and down into blackness. Were both hesitant to even poke our heads inside. What's down there? Sis thinks this door leads to the source of our problems and answers.

I consider turning back, but my monster device starts to blip again! There are swarms of formless monsters coming at us from all directions!

"We have no choice! Its jump or die!"

I jump through the door and down the hole, but sis doesn't follow. I slide past through formless monsters and land in a pit below.

I'm face to face with a giant head buried in the earth.

My dream is playing music, an indian chanting I've heard before, its about Ayurveda. Beautiful music but it made this scene seriously creepy.

The head is slowly emerging from the earth. I'm trying to move my character but nothing is happening. Like a zelda game, this is a boss fight cut-scene and I have to wait for the cut-scene to be over to move.

The giant emerges from the earth, dressed in indian garb. I prepare to fight the giant but he disappears in the shadows.

Instead, he summons hundreds of hindu demi-gods and demons from the earth. Oh shit. The chanting is getting louder and louder. Their demi-god and demon eyes turn to me. Is this what the formless monsters really look like?

I try as fast as I can to run through that demi-god and demon crowd! Their hands reach out for me! This is impossible! Its like trying to run in rock fest!

I see a pillar up ahead. If I can just reach it and start jumping - I'm kicked down by a giant. The demons run at me like ravenous wolves. There's too many of them! I'm not fast enough! The chanting won't stop.

I somehow manage to climb that pillar, I just need to jump. I try to jump but the demons grabbed my ankle, they bite down and pull me down. Thats it, its over. I can't bear this madness any longer. I close my eyes and wish myself awake.

It's a FA. A friend hands me a video game, the apocalyptic future I was just in! I look at the games ratings. There are different boss levels. Some are labeled easy, difficult or advanced. But mine was simply labeled "MAD".

I woke up shortly after and I could still hear that chanting.

1.19.14 Sunday

Last night bed around 10:30 - 9:20

Lots of dreams. i put my dream log on the bathroom sink, coz I got sick and tired of me not writing my dreams down. I woke up from a dream but didn't have to pee. So just hoped to remember it later, and made mental note to put the log next to bed.

Still remember last dream of the night, and as I was browsing DV, I remembered another one, as someting reminded me of it.

DR1:

I'm outdoors with few people. Like a nature walk. Ground is dusty, dry, only few bushes. We see a snake camuflaged by being wrapped in shiny aluminum foil. There is a lizard in front of him and I think snake is after this lizard. The lizard changes into bigger one. He looks prehistoric, flat head like a frog. I tell someone its an agama, although I know it is not.

Then we see another cute lizard. He is small and almost black, but has some very dark green on him too. He is morphing as well.

We come to someones garden. Somebody points out 2 kittens sleeping in a shade of a straberry plant. As they see us, they start walking up the stairs into the house, where i see their mom cat.

These people start picking up the kittens and a small dog to take with them. I tell them they are not theirs, they can't take them. So there is a scuffle of sorts.

DR2:
I'm with some people in a house. Talking about how they left the water heater on while going on vacation and how I'm in trouble for using hot water.

I walk into a basement room, not having my glasses on, can't see clearly and I say so, then the people in the room say hi to me so I know who is there.

Kids we are with suddenly disappear. As we look for them, we come to a large indoor hall. On the other side, there is some shed with it's door moving. As if to lure us or trick us into thinking kids went that way.

So I go in, pick up a 4x4 and start smashing my way through the place. the walls are made of boards that have gaps, so I can kinda see whats in next rooms. One wall has an opening higher up and piece of wood is propped to it, as a walkway. I see 2 yellow glowing eyes on the other side of the wall. I say fuck it, I'm going throught the opening, which is a trap. I start smashing walls with my fists and swinging the 4x4 I smash everything, including the monsters. I have no fear.

I exit on the other side, into a quiet street in some modern city. People walking by, looking at me, as if they don't wanna have anything to do with me. As if I have just discovered their secret of keeping those monsters there. They shouldn't have, they are advanced and peacefull society, they should have dealt with their monsters in more civilized ways. And now I have discovered it, and they are kinda ashamed and relieved, that it's over.

Jan 19-20 2014

Lord of the Rings Fragment
I'm having a dream about a new Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit. Aragorn and Legolas are both in it.

Psych Sub-Box and the World's Largest Flamin Hot Cheeto

Later, I get a box that's supposed to be like a Loot Crate, but for that's weeks corresponding Psych episode. I tell myself I need to watch the last 2 episodes or so because I don't want to open the box and spoil it. It is supposed to, contain little momentos or items from the episode.
I went grocery shopping with my friend T to like a Safeway, and they must have been almost closed because some lights were off and certain aisles were cut off. All I was really getting was some flamin hot Cheetos and some other food item (I think either salad or yogurt). As I'm looking for flaming hot Cheetos I see a box containing the worlds largest flamin hot Cheeto. It was about 4-6 inches thick diameter and maybe 5-6 feet tall, according to the picture on the box it was in. The price tag is only like $15 so I send a pic of it to T and he heads over. I grab a small bag, then something else and T shows up so I show him the Cheeto. He picks one up and it falls over and we realize there are two sizes. The $15 ones are like 2-3 feet tall, and the 5-6 foot one is actually just under $170, but is a pack of 4.
Soon an old high school friend D shows up and I go to talk to her. She says she's busy and tells me to go wait at the front, and it was rude and I was offended, so I tell her I'm leaving and say goodbye, while heading to the other checkout. After a minute or two of checking out, D shows up and apologizes saying Target made her lose her manners. We catch up a bit on if she's in school, still working at Nordstroms and such. Then I wake up.

Basketball Camp
I'm at a camp or get together with a lot of old friends,and it's at a basketball gymnasium. I show up with my friend T, but a lot of old friends come too, such as B, and also P, my cousin, is there. I remember there is a basketball challenge and my group is out in like 15 seconds. When leaving we have a ton of bags and I notice T left one. I call after him and he says he is coming back. I had a free hand so I figured I'd help. I think it's heavy, because in a little bit I hit some chairs and it throws me off balance. I dramatize it a little bit for attention, but then I actually fall and people rush up to me feeling bad. I was fine, and get up.

Semi-Truck Crash
At one point I'm driving and as I'm driving there is this massive semi-truck wreck. I was like the only one on the highway besides one other car. I see it all in slow motion like on a video and it's flipping long ways and such. Cops come and soon there are tons of cars in the area all stopped. Eventually they get the guy out of the semi, and he's supposedly famous, one of his eyes is stitched shut, and does stunts and tricks in YouTube. Some guy asks him with a microphone how he feels and he says ok. The guy who owned the mic mentions he just came from an injury as well or something and gets shut down by the famous guy.

January 2014 TotM, Random New Years Resolution
I walked in front of a man and thought what if he a duck bill on his face, and sure enough he did, and I instantly realize then I'm dreaming. It woke up me up, but I just visualized going back into the dream. Walking along that little corridor, and I slowly reformed. It started black, but I just kept feeling the walls knowing my sight would come in, and it did. I made a right turn, looking for the next DC I could find, and I came to a pool at a giant waterpark. I found a guy with long blonde hair who just came from the pool and was probably getting ready to leave.
I said "hey what's up" and he kinda just acknowledged me, but didn't give me a response. I wanted to stay positive to get a good response, so I say, "I've got a question for you when you have a moment." I get back "ok, just let me finish and find my shirt." He turns around and I realize if I don't force it, he won't give me an answer, so I just grab him by the shoulders and say "what's your resolution this year?" He looks at me with confusion and says "uhhh captain TV collar" ad walk away. Very odd indeed.

Snowboarding Uphill
I'm in Colorado or someplace snowy and am with my dad and my little sister. My dad has some sort of motorcycle with him, but it's also like a motorized scooter. Somewhere in between, I guess. It's slightly malfunctioning and wanting to go full speed even when not squeezing the throttle, and wants us to try riding it. I try first because I don't want my little sister getting hurt, and when I get on it, it shoots forward.
As it does so, I realize I'm going backwards up a mountain where skiers and snowboarders are coming down. I keep going and get to a point where I'm at a steep hill (it basically angles vertically after a bit), and I go as fast as I can at it, to make it up. I make it just high enough to grab the ledge with one hand. The cycle falls back down, and my sister takes it. I tell her to go really fast to make it up, but she just goes to the right where there isn't as steep a hill. At this point I'm just snowboarding, but it's uphill, which is a really interesting sensation.
After I get to the top of the hill, I want to go back down it because I see some people doing really cool tricks off the jumps here and I want to try them. My dad and sister could care less so they leave. I go to strap into my board, but I realize I don't have my boots with me. I talk to the DCs around me, but I just give up since I can't board without the boots. I go back to the place we were staying.
A couple of my friends are outside where we were staying and I hang out with them outside as well. The weather was extremely nice, just nice and cool, but no wind. I recall eating fruit roll ups at this point (it's weird because I haven't eaten fruit roll ups probably for over 5 years). I'm just taking big bites out of it, and it's extremely chewy, sticks to my teeth and what not. I remember that fruit roll ups usually have shapes in it that you pull out, and I recognize the face of Spongebob on it. My brother shows up later at some point.

Just a quick entry mainly for myself! Don't neglect the daytime work! I did have a strong cold Monday night and Tuesday(1 week ago) that didn't help me feel like doing daytime work, but I slacked way too much on my daytime self-awareness work (a la Sageous) and it showed, taking me 8 days to get my next lucid. I strongly believe that after you have the necessary experience and knowledge, that dry spells are either self-induced or related to things changing around you (new job, new task, sickness, travel). Of course consistency is not to be expected when you are first starting off. I am only talking about after you have some significant consistency. For me, partly because I was sick but mainly because I wasn't putting in enough daytime work towards LDing. Looking back, I could have done some quick RRC check-ins no matter how sick I felt.

SSILD, *swinging visualization(motion based) WILD attempt becomes DILD

I was so close to wild this morning but at some point I realized that I was just a little too far from sleep, the most crucial element! So I focused on drifting off and lost awareness but was able to DILD. I was getting my teeth checked for some issue that had been bothering me (only according to my dreaming mind) related to the teeth pushing up against my lips. The dentist took me to the x-ray machine and I mentioned the braces I had as a kid and he asked if I had the old x-rays and I said that I could give him the name of the orthodontist to request them. Anyway, this x-ray machine apparently swings you around the entire office as it x-rays your teeth (you've seen those, right? haha) and I think I was semi-lucid at this point, going around the office in my underwear on this machine. I see this odd guy looking in the window of the office and immediately realize yep, this is a dream, awesome machine (I think my swinging visualization during the wild attempt brought on this amazing x-ray machine/theme park ride thingy). I decide to really look around at all the details of the office (influenced by daytime work where I really look around in wonder) as I am being swung around. I also decide to go nude and made my underwear disappear (no flasher IWL, haha). There are several people working in the office including a good looking receptionist (reminds me of walking past some people dining on an outdoor patio of a restaurant IWL and my thought of all the things I would do if this were a lucid dream right now!..awesome feeling of empowerment.) I remember my goal to fly over some local landmarks and scenery and fly up from the machine (the roof is immaterial...or was it?). In flight my vision started fading and I begin to think that the dream may be ending, visualize the swinging of the x-ray machine, maybe I can go back there and stabilize) but slowly but surely I feel myself returning to my sleeping body. It may have also been the end of my REM cycle, but I want to work on stabilization in moments like the above. 98

1. I was walking down this dam and out of
no where the sky got really dark, despite
it being a sunny day. Then a tornado came
out of no where and I hit the deck. It
actually passed RIGHT over me, but it was
weird because I felt no suction whatsoever
and it was actually kind of funny. Should have
realized this and become lucid.

2.I first remember being at this buffet type place
with only a couple people there. I can distinctly
remember grabbing my plate, then getting a piece
of chicken parm pizza, potato wedges (which the guy
had JUST put out, so they were fresh and yummy), and
then went back to get a piece of chocolate pie. I then
walked outside and realized I had forgotten to pay.
Then I went back inside to do so and everyone working
there was all freaked out for some reason and packing up.
Then the dream got a little less concrete and I remember
going out back and helping some guy replace the water heater,
which I'm not sure what had to do with anything else but yeah.

3. I was at school and in the restroom there were a bunch of people
texting, not too unreasonable. However I then went back to lunch and
the bell rang, and for some reason I was just moving really slow
(happens to me a lot in dreams, despite my best efforts) and I
was late to class. Then the teacher came running out of the room and
said he had the wrong class and told everyone to wait in the cafeteria.
Then a bunch of cops showed up (some of which were my teachers, weird)
and began this big investigation of I'm not sure what. That's about all
I remember.

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #182: Office Snacks

I walk into a meeting where most of the attendees are cast members of The Office. I realize that this has to be a dream. Jim Halpert is leading the meeting and as I enter, he says, “Glad you could join us.”

The meeting drones on in the background, but my attention focuses on a large box of snack foods. Each kind of snack food is in its own big cereal bag, clipped shut with a clothespin. Interested, I grab one off the top, remove the clothespin, and open it. The bag has to be unrolled several times (enough times to worry me), eventually unfurling to a length of about two feet.

The bag is full of some form of Chex Mix, and I happily start munching away. As I’m eating, Michael Scott takes the floor and says that “And of course, Pam’s default job will be in engineering.” Most of the meeting stays as a drone as I crunch away on the snacks.

My vision fades out after a bit, but I’m able to keep eating, so I just plow right on ahead. Now the Chex mix that I pull out seems to contain peanut butter on the inside! It’s incredibly delicious and I just keep shoveling it down my pie-hole until the dream ends.

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #181: Big Band

As I’m leaving a shopping mall, there’s an announcement that the mall is under lockdown because someone has stolen a baby from a stroller. This all seems too strange to me and I become lucid.

I’m in a large, empty room that looks a bit like a warehouse, a bit like a mall entrance. It’s only half lit but I can make out the ceiling maybe fifty feet above me. I remember that I wanted to make the dream as vivid as possible so I slowly rub my hands together, nothing how real they look and feel. The one difference I notice is that they leave visible streaks across my vision when I move them.

I can’t remember any goals beyond vividness, so I raise my hands to the ceiling and say, “I’ll take whatever you have to give me.” Nothing happens, so I add, “Show me something amazing! Anything!” Again I wait, and I start to feel a twinge of nervousness.

“I think we need more light,” I say, and the light comes up a bit. Now I hear music behind me, like something from a band. I turn and see a large open-air exit from the mall with a big band playing on a set of risers near the exit. I make my way over to the band, only partly able to hear the music. The risers go up about 3 levels and there are maybe 20 or 25 band members there. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to how they’re organized.

The band members are wearing these cool suits with thick, vertical black and white stripes. “Nice suits,” I say. “I’m wearing one too!” And when I hold out my arms, sure enough I’m dressed like I’m part of the band.

On the top level I spot the only female in the group, a woman with dark, curly hair drawn back in a ponytail. I can’t remember what instrument she plays, but she has a cool vibe and smiles at me in acknowledgement. I float up to her level on the riser and we briefly kiss. Afterward I probe at her temples, forehead, and scalp with my fingers as a sort of vividness-enhancing thing. She wrinkles her nose and squeezes her eyes shut when I do this.

Looking out past the risers I see the ocean. I pick her up and carry her with me, floating toward a strange beach where some huge metallic device has somehow permanently trapped a wave just as it crests. A dozen surfers stand happily atop the wave, gliding back and forth while moving neither forward nor back.

As I reach the edge of the water, the woman from the band shifts uncomfortably. “Do you want to go with me or stay here?” I ask. She says that she wants to “stay here”, so I set her down at the shoreline. I float/swim further out into the water, my feet dragging along as I go. Eventually I start swimming, and the visuals fade from the dream. The sensation of swimming continues for a while, though, before the dream ends.