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Lucid #149: Chicken Fight

I'm working as a consigliere and fixer for a 20-year-old Filipino billionaire. He's a natural genius, a derivatives trader that controls a global financial/oil and gas empire. He relies on me and a talented, resourceful woman named Rachel as his on-the-ground "problem solvers".

I'm in a dark room watching a movie projection on a wall. The presentation is talking about some aspect of derivatives trading. I get some kind of message or phone call with a new assignment, and I hurry out of the room. There's somebody that I need to apprehend and speak to that's a spectator at a nearby cockfight. I know that both my boss and Rachel are counting on me to handle this and I feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to get it done right.

It's night, and I take a set of metal stairs down to a dusty street, hanging a right into an alleyway. I see a metal door to my right and hear some faint crowd noise -- that's where the cockfight is being held. I detect movement to my left and I sense that a huge man is lunging toward me to tackle me. I twist my body around and throw a right-handed haymaker that catches the man right in the mouth, stopping him short. I knee him underneath the short ribs and he staggers back. Something tips me off that this is a dream and I become lucid.

The man comes stalking back toward me, as fat and muscular as a bear. I'm struggling with what to do next. I have a strong urge to get right to lucid goals but I'm trying to process in my mind what will become of my boss and Rachel if I fail this task. I slowly retreat from my assailant, not ready to act until I'm sure that I'm not letting down real people who depend on me.

I finally convince myself that Rachel and my boss are just dream characters. My attacker is about four feet away when I wind up and hit him with a two-handed force push that sends him flying violently back, where he lands in a heap. His body has gouged a nearly foot-deep furrow in the dusty ground and, more surprisingly, has turned into a huge roasted chicken!



I walk onward as calmly as I can. I hear a few DCs chattering in surprise behind me but I try to put it out of my mind. They don't care. They're just looking.

Walking between two compact cars and onto an empty paved road, I look up at the sky. The stars are out tonight and I can see far more of them out here than I can with all of the city lights that are near my home IWL. I jump up, getting a good fifty feet into the air. I'm on the edge of a much larger city, one where I'm sure that I can find the means to accomplish my Task of the Month and Task of the Year goals.

I hit a second jump, this one slightly higher than the first, but start to sink down again. No, now I'm flying. I imagine myself catching an updraft the way a hawk would catch a thermal. I shoot upward, high above the city. The sky becomes thick and bright with stars and I know that I can go anywhere that I want. I decide that the Colosseum is just a little ways off in a darkened portion of the city. I begin flying that direction when I suddenly feel Wife's hand slam into my pillow in waking life. She rolls over a couple more times. I try to go in for DEILD but I'm a bit too adrenalized to make it back under.

I’m climbing up a rock face that is above a large lake. I climb up and as I get to the top I grab a rock and it slips out of the rock wall. I say “the rocks are slipping,”, as I’m hanging on with one arm. Whomever I said that to replies, “well they all aren’t going to be solid”. I reach the top and stand up. Somebody is saying, “well come on back down”. I’m thinking that I’m scared because Its more difficult to climb down. I say, “but I’m not harnessed in”. Whomever is on the bottom says, “just do it”. I start my decent… I’m near the bottom and something falls into the lake from my pocket…I’m riding the boat back from the rock wall and am upset because I lost my bag of whatever it was…I’m in the water and its only up to my waist. I say that we need to go back if the lake is only this deep… We are back at the rock wall and I am in the water. I quickly find the white bag that I had dropped.

I was in my apartment in Hialeah in the backyard on my patio that over looks a big lake when all of a sudden I remember walking to the edge of the patio and saw fishes in the water. These fishes look like half bass and half giant shrimp which was mad weird and saw them eating bits and pieces of califlower. Then on the side of the patio still overlooking the water there was a shed made out of concrete and I opened the door and saw my dad in a recliner watching television I guess and then walked away since he was busy. After that I went inside the apartment but still had clear view of the lake which a weird cloud formation over the lake was forming and moving very rapidly. Which at that point I saw a tornado formed form out of nowhere and I remember shouting "water sprout" but was very excited because I had my phone out which was recording it. After that I regain consciousness when I get back to my elementary school Ben Sheppard right around the corner and saying we just got back from a field trip and everyone was in the lunch room talking about the experience. At the lunch room I remember seeing Alexandra, Giloli, Ramon, and Ndir who most of them went to that school and had the same classes almost through all of middle school. At one point the bell rang and everyone rushed out like kids do when they was to get to the bus first but I was just relaxing since I didnt take the bus to school because my house was 2 blocks away. I remember the empty hallway and a long line of buses that were full of kids already and were leaving to do their routes. I started waling to the right and saw Christian but as a lil kid around 5 or 6 and his mom was sitting next to him and another lil kid who beamed him in the face really hard which at that point he started crying but the mom didnt notice. After that I remember passing a playground in front of the school then I woke up.

I was with my dad walking from a building to a field and he looked a bit mad not sure why. After getting to the field I remember a bunch of jws playing in the fields and my dad and I started to see who we can play with. Then my dad started forming a team to play and we were up next since the match that was playing already finished. I saw a couple of friends I hadnt seen in a long time like Silvia, her mom, her brothers William and Tony and then Salas out of nowhere chasing a soccer ball I had kicked. When we were getting on the field I was talking to Silvia about how was everything going and she said something about mailman and then I responded with a sarcastic remark while twirling my finger right next to her mom who didnt notice and we both started cracking up like crazy.

Hello from the UK

I had a nice lucid dream last night (is it ok to post lucid dreams here?) - an attempted shared dream with my daughter:

I get out of my bed, from a WILD, and go to find her - but her 3 year old self runs through the door and I pick her up in my arms and tell her 'no, this is the wrong you' and smile, and walk toward her old room when my 8 year old daughter (current age) walks in and sees herself. I tell her we should get off to the tree.

We walk out of the front door, she seems to be cold (because in real life she is suffering from a cold) and is a little scared because it is dark out. I point toward the sun and show her that it is coming up.
As we walk out of the house toward the field the scenery has changed, there is a farmer's house where it shouldn't be blocking the way. 'ah, what can you do? dreams are unpredictable things' I tell her.
' we need to fly over' I say
'but I don't know how to fly' she replies (of course, she usually flies on her dragon!) I take her hand, get a run up and we both fly over. As we land the scenery is still different/wrong so I decide that we need to create a portal. 'let's sing your song' I say. So we both start singing the main song from (Danny Elfman's) Alice in wonderland and the portal starts to open. My daughter jumps through first (although the portal does not LOOK fully formed) and I jump in straight after her.

Ahhh, this is better, the sun is shining, the sky is blue and we are surrounded by beautiful clear water. We need to search for that tree though - where can it be? I scan the area... that tree looks wrong - 'perhaps THAT tree' I point toward the tree, but it is mutilated, it's branches are cut - not the one we visit in real life. But my daughter is pretty confident it is and walks over to it and calls out for the bird. (the bird we buried beneath the tree in real life) straight away the bird comes up from near the tree, beneath the blue water. It is happy to see her and flies straight to her. She in turn is very happy to see the bird - it has been one of her dream goals. At this point I also notice another bird on her shoulder - a seagull perhaps? It must have come with her from before.

We talk, I then tell her that she needs to do something, trying to prompt her - and out of nowhere a friendly farmer pops out and smiles at her and says 'remember remember' And she laughs and says 'yes I know, 'remember, remember' 'we need to keep on reminding ourselves what has just happened or we will forget as we go along' I say. I look at my daughter at this point and her eyes are small, she looks dazed or ill. 'who is he?' she says referring to the farmer. ' I don't know, I think either you or I have made him subconsciously perhaps?' The farmer then gives us some jelly beans, and my wife appears who is also eating jelly beans, in fact I continue the rest of the dream eating them!! I can taste all of the flavors - they are delicious.

Our previous plans of going into a jungle to find treasure is foiled because yet again the path ahead is blocked by a building. We all walk into the building which seems to be somekind of playhouse. There are 3 or 4 (human sized) clear tubes that start from the floor and reach up to the ceiling; it seems to be our only way forward. My daughter then walks up to the tube and climbs in, it is full of jelly beans, the higher she climbs the more blocked it becomes until she has to come back and we decide to retreat from where we came from.

But at this point I feel dream slipping away, I cannot hold on and wake.

What's with all the jelly beans?

side note: My daughter dreamed that we met at the tree (she had no trouble finding it) she arrived as the HULK. She called for the bird who came up from some kind of sinking sand, it came to her straight away, she remembers a conversation we had about dreaming, and that we would meet up again soon, but she had to go at this point because she felt too ill to continue and left.

side side note: she also recalls a dream she had a month ago about seeing her 3 year old self in the bedroom.

Hello from the UK

I had a nice lucid dream last night (is it ok to post lucid dreams here?) - an attempted shared dream with my daughter:

I get out of my bed, from a WILD, and go to find her - but her 3 year old self runs through the door and I pick her up in my arms and tell her 'no, this is the wrong you' and smile, and walk toward her old room when my 8 year old daughter (current age) walks in and sees herself. I tell her we should get off to the tree.

We walk out of the front door, she seems to be cold (because in real life she is suffering from a cold) and is a little scared because it is dark out. I point toward the sun and show her that it is coming up.
As we walk out of the house toward the field the scenery has changed, there is a farmer's house where it shouldn't be blocking the way. 'ah, what can you do? dreams are unpredictable things' I tell her.
' we need to fly over' I say
'but I don't know how to fly' she replies (of course, she usually flies on her dragon!) I take her hand, get a run up and we both fly over. As we land the scenery is still different/wrong so I decide that we need to create a portal. 'let's sing your song' I say. So we both start singing the main song from (Danny Elfman's) Alice in wonderland and the portal starts to open. My daughter jumps through first (although the portal does not LOOK fully formed) and I jump in straight after her.

Ahhh, this is better, the sun is shining, the sky is blue and we are surrounded by beautiful clear water. We need to search for that tree though - where can it be? I scan the area... that tree looks wrong - 'perhaps THAT tree' I point toward the tree, but it is mutilated, it's branches are cut - not the one we visit in real life. But my daughter is pretty confident it is and walks over to it and calls out for the bird. (the bird we buried beneath the tree in real life) straight away the bird comes up from near the tree, beneath the blue water. It is happy to see her and flies straight to her. She in turn is very happy to see the bird - it has been one of her dream goals. At this point I also notice another bird on her shoulder - a seagull perhaps? It must have come with her from before.

We talk, I then tell her that she needs to do something, trying to prompt her - and out of nowhere a friendly farmer pops out and smiles at her and says 'remember remember' And she laughs and says 'yes I know, 'remember, remember' 'we need to keep on reminding ourselves what has just happened or we will forget as we go along' I say. I look at my daughter at this point and her eyes are small, she looks dazed or ill. 'who is he?' she says referring to the farmer. ' I don't know, I think either you or I have made him subconsciously perhaps?' The farmer then gives us some jelly beans, and my wife appears who is also eating jelly beans, in fact I continue the rest of the dream eating them!! I can taste all of the flavors - they are delicious.

Our previous plans of going into a jungle to find treasure is foiled because yet again the path ahead is blocked by a building. We all walk into the building which seems to be somekind of playhouse. There are 3 or 4 (human sized) clear tubes that start from the floor and reach up to the ceiling; it seems to be our only way forward. My daughter then walks up to the tube and climbs in, it is full of jelly beans, the higher she climbs the more blocked it becomes until she has to come back and we decide to retreat from where we came from.

But at this point I feel dream slipping away, I cannot hold on and wake.

What's with all the jelly beans?

side note: My daughter dreamed that we met at the tree (she had no trouble finding it) she arrived as the HULK. She called for the bird who came up from some kind of sinking sand, it came to her straight away, she remembers a conversation we had about dreaming, and that we would meet up again soon, but she had to go at this point because she felt too ill to continue and left.

side side note: she also recalls a dream she had a month ago about seeing her 3 year old self in the bedroom.

09-21-13 I had such a long vivid LD last night. I however am not having very complete recall. I do know that I ended up having to stabilize the dream through my sensory reduction trick no less than 6 times. Every time I attempted to get sexy with a DC the dream would start to collapse as soon as I was getting anything out of it.
High points in this very long dream:
-Studying transformation with my DG first of objects then on myself. I gave myself angel wings at one point. They were not allowing me to travel super fast, so I grew little wings on my feet like Hermes. I was able to look down at a very vivid ground and see my shadow. The shadow showed all the details of both sets of wings. I also noticed that I could see individual blades of grass and other fine detail on the ground. I mostly flew from roof top to roof top, but also flew along rail road tracks.
-Early in the dream before my DG showed up I had attempted to get some action with a DC of a woman I used to know. Not only did this destabilize the dream before long, but my subconscious took over the DC and bitched me out. The DC ranted about how I was never going to marry her, then told me I had gotten her pregnant. I was completely aware that this was a dream, so I just listened with no anxiety to see what my brain would say using this DC.
-While my DG was coaching me on transformation I remembered a task suggested in a thread where I asked for advanced tasks. The suggestion was to rapidly age someone. I looked around for a child and immediately found a very young girl (perhaps 4 or 5 years old). I used the same kind of mental work I do when transforming in a mirror. It worked and she morphed growing bigger and changing over about 20 seconds, until she reached an age of about 30. At that point I stopped aging her and attempted to feel her up. This caused the dream to destabilize and I had to focus on reducing inputs to stabilize. I was so close to loosing the dream I ended up having to reduce down to looking at a single letter 'U' and just maintaining that until the dream came back.

I assume the reason I had no luck fooling around was the presence of my DG. He often forces me to pay attention by such means. he also asks why the hell I think anyone would put up with me doing gross things when they were in the middle of trying to teach me.

I think the entire dream could have been no less than 30 minutes, but it could have been up to an hour.

I technically had 3 LDs last night but I was so tired that my memory was rough. I only vaguely remember some fragments of the first two but the last one was much better.

Lucid Fragments:

In the first one, I only remember trying to stabilize by rubbing my hands in the dark. Then some vibes and my arms felt like pins and needles like I had poor circulation. I waved them around trying to start the dream back up.

The second one, I got lucid and flew around a room that looked like my bedroom in Texas when I was a teenager. I then phased out the window, but there was a thick white fog that enveloped me and the dream ended.

#233 - DEILD - 6:00AM

I have a brief awakening realize that I keep dreaming of being at work. I was irritated that wasn't lucid so I concentrated on the imagery with my usual mantra. I thought of work again so that I could re-enter the dream. I told myself that this is Sunday, so if I find myself at work then it has to be a dream. I see a strong image of a bundle of electrical wires up close. Then, there was some other confusion.

I have a short memory gap here, but for some reason I am looking at a bottle of some sort of chemical; though I am completely lucid. Maybe this is actually where the dream started? I realize I am standing in the shop at work and still saying my mantra. I stop and become curious what is in my hand. I focus on the wording and see that it is an ingredients list. The names of the chemicals are so completely ridiculous that I can't remember most of it. However, I do remember the first one on the list was something like, "cherryvodkarifiousulfatmate". I giggle out loud at this craziness! As I study the wording more and more, I begin to see an actual sentence. I feel there is some importance to it though these words strike me as completely crazy as well. I concentrate to remember it, but I forget almost instantly.

Now, I remember my main goal; to find Dolce and ask him some predetermined questions. I wonder around the shop a bit and notice that nothing is where it should be. As usual, I am extremely near sighted and anything very far away becomes blurry though I can still tell what I am seeing. During my exploration, I almost run into Efrain working on something at a form-board. I think that maybe he knows where Dolce is. So I ask, "Hey man. Do you know where Dolce is?
Efrain looks up from whatever he is doing, "Uhhh. Yeah, he's over next door in the back room."
I begin to think that I'll never make my way all the way over there and a part of me decides to give it up, but I am still curious what he's talking about. In case I decide to try, I ask, "What room is that?"
He looks at me like I should know, "The Melaluma."
I pay close attention to the odd word. I repeat it in my mind a few times and then ask, "The Melaluma? What the heck is that?"
He looks slightly annoyed now, "Just enemy me. Ok?"
I know that he means to say, "Just humor me" and I laugh out loud. Efrain joins in and we laugh together for a few seconds. Then, to be funny, I throw something I am holding in my right hand on the floor in exaggerated exasperation. Was is the chemical bottle? It bounces like a rubber ball and hits Angie, who is coming out of the womens restroom, square in the crotch! She freezes and looks around. I am laughing so hard on the inside, but I play it cool; I look away like I didn't notice.

Suddenly, one of the engineers comes franticly storming in the area looking for a blueprint. All the commotion confuses me and the dream destabilizes.

I have a false awakening in that old bedroom in Texas again. I am lying next to someone but I don't move because I feel horribly tired and weak. I have a hard time opening my eyes, but I manage. I see an alarm clock with an orange light going off; there is a slight sound then it stops. This seems really odd and I decide that I am still dreaming. I worry that if I don't wake up soon and record my dream, I will forget it like the others. I try really hard to wake up but SP gets me and the vibrations start up. I just relax while recalling the dream in my mind.A few seconds later I wake up.

I have some other intensely vivid non lucid dreams. I didn't record them but here's a brief summary of the two I recall from memory.

In one, I was collecting bugs like, praying mantis, grubs, and other strange things I don't recognize to cook them. They all looked dead and gray. There was cooked corn and potatoes mixed in all in a large aquarium. I felt confused and grossed out so I started throwing it all in the trash.

In the other, I was riding a bike but caring a car tire with me. I tried to help a kid who was struggling with his. I began to wonder how I was able to carry mine. Then, I was in school but the teacher was a guy I know from work. The subject was cycling and I assumed I must have somehow failed this class. The teacher talking about studying for the final and too look at the old test to study. I looked in my folder but could not make sense of what it said.

I may have just had my first lucid.

In the dream, I was in a first-person video game. The backstory: I am an old, undead man whose wife is afraid of him and I need to catch her. I could see myself (well, my undead, dream self) in a mirror in a bathroom. The bathroom looked like my grandmother's, but nothing else did. Eventually, something happened and I was in front of the mirror again, but I looked like an Asian man. I said, "Wait, we're Asian now?" and, "Wait, am I dreaming again?" I plugged my nose and could still breathe (though it felt strange), so I knew I was dreaming. I closed my eyes and said, "Clean slate," and the dream world became a blank, white space. I closed my eyes and said my crush's name and she appeared. I immediately started having sex with her, but it felt strange. I felt detached. It didn't feel like I was *ahem* thrusting. In fact, the dream switched to third-person and ended quickly. Unfortunately, I wasn't tired enough to re-enter the dream.

Now, I'm not entirely sure this was a true lucid. I didn't feel truly concious and felt detached, as I said before. Also, the sex part didn't go as I had planned it; I had planned to do a bit of romance and foreplay, as opposed to mindlessly diving into it.

I think I either a.) was dreaming about being lucid or b.) attained lucidity, then lost it. Either way, it's progress!

Dream recall from today's WBTB/nap.

Dream 1(fragments):

I was on my PC and there was something about picture of a golden dragon.

Dream 2(fragments):

I was at home and i thought about doing RC, so i looked on my hands and they were rather normal. Dream faded out seconds after.

Dream 3(fragments):

Some stuff was going on at home again, also something with BSODs.

Dream 1 :[COLOR="#800080"]I was in a dungeon and there was a person near me who put on a mummy costume.[/COLOR]

Dream 2 :[COLOR="#800080"]All I remember from this one is that It had my best friend in it and that it was night outside.We were supposed to go somewhere I don't remember but she refused to come and I told her to at least get on the YM.She nodded then she left,I entered on the computer, opened kvirc and started to tell everyone about my mummy dream :/ .[/COLOR]

Now I know Ed’s running short of material. I found myself in an Ed-made episode of “Only Fools and Horses.” I had a nice fat wad of cannabis and Dell and Rodney (who were potless) were slavering over it. (I don’t remember this in any episode?)

They tried every trick in the book to procure it (even though I was sharing with them) They rolled ridiculously fat reefers (which I objected to of course) and finally my wad disappeared completely and I tackled them "Where is it…C’mon, who’s got it?”

I sat here wondering why my brain turns out such feeble (and, apparently pointless material) then I’m struck by the obvious again. The cannabis had gone…I couldn’t find where it had gone and one major dream sign for me is mislaying or not being able to find something…it was that DS that triggered my first lucidity. Doh!

There are, so far, crumbs of comfort in most barren nights. One was the fact that I’d confidently not written this dream down (famous people…won’t forget it) When I finally got up it was gone and I cursed myself for not writing it down. I sat there for a while, trying to mentally reach out (as you do)…and it came back to me.

Sometimes I think the brain works against me…then I realise that dream signs are being proferred all the time and and dream scenes built around things that could trigger lucidity if I wasn’t so “unaware” in the dream.

So…put it there Ed….I love yer buddy…although you do seem to be too “soap-opera” in your output and you know how much I hate them…are you listening? You’re worse than the wife…at least she doesn’t know that lucidity isn’t a complete crock of shit, but you do…don’t you? You better do else what is this whole thing about?…if I can’t rely on you then who can I rely on you grey wrinkly splodge of fat (fade out)

1. Kazemaru and Hiroto (from Inazuma Eleven) lying on their backs fully clothed in a made-up bed. It was kind of like they were on stage, you could ‘feel’ the audience’s assumption, but when the characters open their mouth and say something deadpan, it turns into a comedy when you realize what’s going in, and everyone laughs.

2. I thiiink the setting was like in a cave on slab-like beds and maybe it was in a game. We were ‘watching’ some Saw-like horror movie. When I saw a character holding a device that cut out tongues (looked like a tongue cleaner), I had to bury my head under something. I remember at one point I ‘swam’ through the tunnels. I think I realized there was no water, and that’s when some seemed to appear to carry me. That’s when it seemed like in a game somehow.

3. Rane came in while I was on the computer, asking for help. I scrolled through an area in Firefox like ‘Group Your Tabs’, only I was scrolling through my tab pages like a picture slideshow. I was trying to find a ‘safe’ page to open and leave it on. Near the beginning, I passed by a page thumbnail showing a chest-up hentai girl with orange hair. I remember thinking that how would Rane know that was one of my pages, I could be anywhere on the net and it could be someone else’s content.

~Dipping a finger in creamer and tracing it around text on a yellow sticky note. Rane says “you’re weird”. I realize that I had used my dad’s French vanilla creamer instead of my own.

I walk into a new room and realize that mom is the one who needed the help. She wanted me to get her some corn, and ‘milk instead of water’ (or the other way around).

I just spent the last two day hiking at the Grand Canyon. The only dream I remember while sleeping at Phantom Ranch at the bottom of the Grand Canyon was a brief fragment involving a cat.

(I'm pretty sure the reason for this is because my friend and I saw a ringtail cat before going to bed.)

Actually I know that I had a couple more dreams right as I was waking up, but I no longer remember them because as soon as I woke up my mind was completely on the fact that I was in the Grand Canyon.

Dream Fragment 1.
Kayley mentioned that she couldn't live with her boyfriend as he drank too much and argued. She asked me if I thought it would work out between the two if she was to live in a separate house.

Dream Fragment 2.
Saw Luke B.