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So I was watching a horror/thriller film. The story was about a man who murdered his girlfriend. Supposedly he had only done so after cheating on her, then shot her with a bow and arrow multiple times to kill her.
About a month later, this man got contacted by a corporation, and invited to a meeting. When he arrived at their corporate headquarters, he learned that the company was actually run by supernatural beings who looked to make humans better as a species.

He got assigned to work with this woman who was for the company. She looked a bit strange, having curly blonde hair, and wearing a TON of makeup so that she looked like a living doll. The woman explained that the company would somehow work to make this man a better person by killing him over and over, and bringing him back to life.
I got to see the man's deaths like a montage. I can remember him being decapitated, suffocated, stabbed, shot, cut apart by lasers, poisoned, etc. All of the deaths took place in unique locations that were fitting with how the man was actually killed. Somehow, all of these unique looking areas fit inside the corporate office building.
The woman, even though she was "evil" in the fact that she was killing this man over and over, decided that for the last death of the day would be quick and painless. She had the man sit down, and cut his head off with a woodcutters axe in one swing.
After the last death was over, the man was really losing it. He told the woman that this was no fair, because he thought that the woman had never experienced quite how horrible it was to die. The woman acknowledged him and said that she had never experienced death. The man made a deal with her, that he would allow her to kill him one more time. Then, the man would get to kill the woman one time. Then, the man's time at the company would be over. The woman agreed to the deal.
The man willingly drove back to the company the next day. The man asked if for his one death he could have his head cut off with the axe again, because it was quick and painless. The woman told him that they got rid of that death from their company because it was too easy on people.
Instead of an actual death, the man would experience what it was like to be a single-celled organism. In order to do this, they hooked the man up to some kind of VR simulator. As soon as I did, the dream lost track of characters, I was suddenly the man who we have been following in this story.
I got to experience being a single celled organism. It was kind-of like being a big green blob drifting on a wind current. Though uncomfortable, it was not necessarily painful in any way. I ran into some other organisms but I couldn't absorb them or anything.
Eventually the simulation ended, and I was back in my own body (not the body of the man from the story, my own body) and the dream took on a whole new story. Now, I was in this very surreal mountian looking area with a massive waterfall and all of these temples on either side of a large canyon, connected by rope bridges.

Spoiler for A very poorly drawn temple valley:

There were a large group of kids all wearing karate uniforms. I was working with some other adults to give the kids a tour of all the temples. Supposedly all of the kids were martial arts students who were supposed to be uncovering ancient wisdom by exploring the temples.
But I had gotten split from my group. When I found out I was with the wrong group, I looked at my belt (I was wearing a karate uniform too) I was a green belt. That meant I was supposed to be with all the other kids who were green belts.
I could see them way in the distance. They were at the last temple that was on a small rock that was actually an island in the river, just before the river went over the waterfall. I began making my way along the rope bridges to the group, but eventually I came across this small mountain on the side of the gorge.
The mountain was entirely frozen over. It it looked almost like water had erupted out of the top of the mountain like a volcano, then the water had frozen. The ice had formed frozen steps, small pools of water that had frozen.
I tenaciously climbed the mountian, and when I reached the top, I was disappointed to find that the ice had a yin-yang symbol under it. The ice was darker in some spots than others, and it made a yin yang.

Anyways, I had much more difficulty climbing down. I tried to use the ice-steps, but they were very slippery. Eventually I made my way down to a small section of pathway where a couple of the rope bridges met.
Then I noticed the woman from the death company was standing there. She started talking about how nobody should try to escape the death company until their punishment was complete.
"We had a deal!" I exclaimed.
("We" as in her and me, because at some point I had gotten mixed up with the young man from the other story. I'm just as confused as you are. )
Then I realized the woman had played a trick. The specific deal was that she could only kill "me" one more time. But in the amoeba simulation, she hadn't killed me. So that was her trick, she was going to simply torture me and never kill me so that our deal would never go through.
But then I remembered, the story with the woman and the death company was just a movie, and if I wanted it to go away, I just had to stop watching the movie. (Even thought the "movie" was "real life" now.) I began saying to myself that the woman and the death company were not real.
I woke up.

(4 fragments with slight memory failure in the 3rd)

-In the top office of a large office building
-late evening
-Zombies creeping they're way up to the top floor
-I used an outer staircase to make it to the bottom
-Found some a co-worker trapped in her car surrounded by zombies
-sneaked into my car, and rammed the zombies out of her way
-instead of a steering wheel playstation controller (Like men in black 2 )
-picked up another straggler being chased by zombies: balding fellow.

-More zombies deeper in a large city
-Most inner city people hadn't heard about zombies yet
-Big fireworks display viewed from the roof of a shorter building
-"they're on their way here now!!"
-gridlocked streets
-Took refuge inside adjacent building: Tall With big bright red advertising (damn coke's subliminal adds )
-Many estranged children in the building
-A splinter group attempted to escape on the roof
-"Can't leave those kids behind"
- Went back to try to help them
-could hear moans of zombies inside stairwell
- led kids to the top floor and tossed anything large I could find down stairs to block the stairs
-pre-awakening stillness.

-exiting prep assembly reunion
- kids stand gasping at exit
-"what more zombies?"
-"No just sports team here on an away game"
- wanted to leave but couldn't because a fleet of buses were blocking the exit
- wandered around the 'rearranged' halls of the prep
-chilled in the courtyard with my old english classmates and jammed to some dubstep
-teacher said that buses had right of way but I snuck out regardless.

-Spanish salsa parade
-watched from inside car as the floats drove passed
-detached 3rd person view of each float. (or as i like to call it "Ghost cam")
-Women in long red flowing dress dancing atop one of the floats.

in the first dream i was in a kind of forest area with a river (i think)? i was reading a poem that was accompanied by victorian-style engravings. i felt that this poem/drawing was incredibly significant. a sense of nostalgia pervaded this segment.

in the second dream i was on a beach bordered by a forest. it was sunny and bright. i was recording a wildlife video with my phone. i recall swimming in the water while two swans followed me. later i was editing the video to add a title and credits. the graphic design was kind of 70s-esque.

when i had finished recording my boyfriend showed up and i showed him the video. soon we were inside of the video. we were both swimming with the swans when my boyfriend noted two penguins in the water. we were surprised that there were penguins here. these penguins had a large yellow crest and a dolphin-like beak. we decided they were emperor penguins. my boyfriend wanted to go closer but i was afraid they would attack us. i had a vision of large, fanglike spines on their undersides, which were arranged in concentric circles. this prompted me to leave the water and watch them from the edge of the beach.

Dream recall from today's nap. A couple of lucids, ultralow awareness though.

Dream 1(fragment):

I was trying to nap but was getting constantly interrupted in one way or another.

Dream 2:

I was in some modern white skyscraper-style building, there were some anime characters i was talking to and then i was going down the stairs and reached some office-like place. Shortly the building started crumbling, i was going further down the stairs while avoiding holes, then the view switched to third person and i was apparently anime character as well, i was about to exit the building but i noticed child Gaara, just standing on stairs and not moving, i told him to go out but he was ignoring me. I (still in third person)walked back up and tried to move him, but he was like glued statue, i even did ended up doing some quick transformation like huge wing for a second, but all useless. I walked out of building and was back to first person view, i got into some red car and was driving on the road. Then it went back to third person and camera rotated around the car, moving further and further away i realized that i am dreaming but it was kinda 'cutscene mode' and i haven't done much in the end. Shortly dream faded out.
I woke up at home and was immediately distracted by family(As always... That would make stable dream sign but it doesn't happen IWL, so...), there was something about going out of home, i agreed at first but then was like 'nope' and got back home.

Dream 3:

I was in some version of Doom 3(According to dream at least, it didn't looked like Doom 3 at all), in editor mode. I opened level that was one of the endgame ones, which was happening in some tall techno-style dark building. I was noclip flying around looking for boss rooms to check scripts and stuff, i got through some boss rooms and soon i was in some different area, metallic with yellow lighting.I realized that i am dreaming because i had feeling of dream and walked around for some time, navigating through some dark passageways with pipe-like structures in walls and grating, soon dream faded out though.
I woke up and(forgot to RC) was in some restaurant place, alot of stuff was colored white and there were various challenges related to food. I selected one challenge in which i had to bring some food to small cylindric container that sucked in all food that was dropped into it, i filled it halfway through and then i...
Wake up at same restaurant place again, though this time SilentEternity is here... and another SilentEternity... and also another one of myself. We start discussing something and then dream ends.

Alright, so I'm done with my break for the challenge. I celebreated a lot with my friends but now they all went to other countries and stuff.

During the last few days I had a lot of time to think about myself. I realized that I shouldn't fight my 'traits' but rather use everything to my advantage. I also thought about my LD-past a lot to figure out why I'm not a natural anymore (There was a period of about a month where I was a natural with LD's daily).

So last night I got a epiphany. I already wrote it in the IOSDP-thread so I'm gonna copy&paste it:

When I went to bed I thought about this 'less is more' theory. I remembered that there was a time, where I used to have DILDs daily without putting any effort in at all other than doing 'something' for about 10 seconds each night. I had forgotten what this 'something' was, but last night I finally figured it out again: Back then, I experimented with Tulpa and created my own Tulpa. He was supposed to make me lucid in each dream. And for some strange reason it worked! I got lucid every night for a period of about 3-4 weeks. After that I went into an emotional crisis and it stopped working forever. I became a victim of my own self-fulfilling prophecy when my Tulpa told me that he will never ever make me lucid again.
So last night I thought about something...

What if it wasn't the Tulpa itself that made me lucid rather than just me needing 'permission' to become lucid?

And then it all made sense. I've always needed 'permission' for everything I did so far. And almost everybody is like this. The human mind always searches for permission to do something. Everything needs to make sense to keep the order in your mind.
And by giving the responsibility to my Tulpa, I kinda bypassed giving me permission.
In a way, it all makes sense (at least for me lol). Even doing RC's isn't for doing the RC's itself, but for being able to tell yourself that you 'earned' the right to lucid dream. You feel like you need permission.
Somehow even this 30-Day challenge is like this. We are 'earning' ourselves the right to be a natural (at least subconsciously). It all comes from this frame of mind we grew up with that you gotta work to achieve something.

But this isn't the point I'm trying to make here. When I realized this whole 'permission' theory, I tried to analyze myself again. Who am I? How do I act in certain situations? How can I become a natural?
What I found out was (I even made a list of my 'traits' and possible solutions) the following:
I'm almost always just observing my dreams, I get doubts if I think about something too long, I'm really good at visualizing things, I'm lazy and in most of my DILDs, I got lucid through some kind of trigger. I've never really done any RC or became aware just like that. I always needed some kind of 'event' to happen in the dream to get myself to do a RC.

For some odd reason I've never realized this before. The solution seems so simple to me now: Instead of bringing myself to do a RC by saying a stupid mantra, I need to manipulate the dream in a way that makes me do a RC.
And in addition to that I need to: set an alarm or do it before going to bed (lazy), I need to do it for about 5-10 seconds (getting doubts) and I need to create many dream signs that make me lucid, maybe even create a whole dream-scene (visualizing).

I really think that this will work for me. I mean, it's created based on my true personality.
Manipulating the dream...sounds kinda nice to me

Sadly I couldn't try this out last night as I was so tired from not sleeping the night before. I went to bed at 7pm and slept till 6am without waking up a single time.

Here are the dreams I remember from last night:

1st: I was playing Arma 2. I don't remember it in much detail because it was early in the night. Apparently me and a couple of other people had to clear out a hideout of some other players. I had a sniper rifle. That's about all I remember.

Interpretation: Again, Arma 2. Also, if I dream about video games I'll never to ADA as I'm not 'IRL'. At least that's my dream logic. Another reason for me to try out this new theory.

2nd: I will call this dream 'The rollercoaster of doom!'. It's pretty short but when I woke up I found it to be really hilarous even though I was scared to death.
The dream was about some kind of movie. The movie was about a rollercoaster that was possessed by a ghost and it killed every passenger. In the dream I was just observing again. I watched how people got on the rollercoaster and the horror began. The rollercoaster started to drive really fast and then it stopped instantly. Through the force of the sudden stop, some passengers were killed already. It looked like they were cut in half by the iron bars that were supposed to protect them...yummy.
Then the rollercoaster started again and it was now above some kind of sea or lake. At first I thought that people were going to drown (I tried to guess what would happen in the movie as I was just observing it) but then nothing happened to build up tension. Somehow I got really scared just by watching this. Now the rollercoaster was in some kind of huge factory. It was above water again but there was something swimming in the water. I got scared as I guess that this was some kind of creature. The rollercoster turned upside down and all the passengers were right above the water with their heads now. Some old lady was like "Hey, there's somebody swimming in the water!" and tried to reach for this 'thing'. I got extremely scared for no reason and woke up from this 'nightmare' just as something was jumping out of the water. When I woke up I was scared to death for some reason. Then I noticed that this is so hilarous and that I got scared from a rollercoaster...crazy how your mind can fuck with you lol.

Interpretation: I got no idea. Just me watching a movie I guess...the rollercoaster reminded me of a rollercoaster I've been to as a child. And the sea/lake looked like something I've seen in TV a while ago.

Only dream fragments this night, i was at a shop O.o and in the woods looking for something xD

In this fragment I recall some sort of card game about dreaming and there was magic involved. It does not help that I thought I had written this dream down, but apparently had not.

I was never going to be one of those "hit the ground running" LD'ers but I've seen enough here to guess that there are probably more baby-steppers like me than there are wunderkind ...people who can instantly fly at a whim

I can now spontaneously wake 3 maybe 4 times a night, usually not spring up and often gather in a few dreams. I am gradually finding my natural REM times. I discovered this The REM cycle, combining rules, and age. [Sleep. 1982] - PubMed - NCBI

Despite its jargon I take it to mean that old males have half the number of REM cycles but twice the REM period length. That explains why my plotting of dreams seems to spread across the night rather than clumped in 5 or more "sweet spots" Interesting.

I'm still succumbing to WBTB + WILD attempts for my (perceived) REM window of 5.30 am but the hot weather here (yes we occasionally have some) is hampering my attempts...even with a fan. The "rushes" have notably diminished at the moment, so I really must lay off WILD's for a while and concentrate on the other methods

I've taken 2 tabs of super-choline (choline+pantothenic acid) two nights running. There may have been a slight improvement in intensity of dreams but certainly not worth mentioning really...I'll try it for a while longer.

Still trying to make sense of my strange dream of 13/7/13...it could be caused by the choline or it might mean that I'm closer to one night picking up on one of the dream signs. So...I'm not disheartened. Slow but steady improvement on waking after a dream...discovering that maybe my REM periods may be spread out further across the night than youngster's dream periods (one up for the oldies perhaps) Sensing that my brain needs time to adapt (maybe with a little help from my friends)

Ever onward!

1.
I think I had some sort of false awakening again, but I don't quite remember it clearly enough.

Fragments:
May have been browsing the internet

I saw a dream about a close friend of mine, that [in real world] She had an appointment with me and she didn't come and also hasn't answered my angry messages yet...
In dream I was angry... fortuitous I saw her activities on "facebook" and I understand that she now can answer my messages and she doesn't do this
It was interesting that she also like some post of mine looks like it's a contradiction.

i was in the school and went with teachers. I was a teacher. Soon i understood that i didn't know that place, so it may be a LD. I even didn't make a RC, made a door in the ground thinking about volcano, made a step, felt myself in the portal and awoke.

Sunday 7/14/13

Last night bed 12am - 9am

DR - long and detailed. But all I recall now is there was a lots of people eating first course. We were debating to make rice for second course or wait. Lot's of people milling around, we were baking something too.

If you asked me to describe what I would consider to be the most beautiful girl, she would be blonde with hair to her shoulders, with light blue eyes and smooth, pale skin, a few inches shorter then me, kind of thin, but not like unhealthy thin, kind of curved, and well... her chest and bottom wouldn't be too big. Something would be there, just not a lot. She would have a delicate face and despite all that, she would be strong on the inside, defiant, be independent. But still smart, and be teasing and having a gentle, caring side.

Anyways... I dunno if the girl in my dream was quite all those things last night... but the physical part and a lot of her personality seemed like that from what I recall. I don't remember everything... but I remember her face and figure pretty well... usually I don't remember details like that. In the later part of the dream, we are in a car, with my mom, and we are at this busy road with like four lanes, two and two with some roads in between to allow you to get to the other pair of roads... and for some reason... she gets out and runs off. I run after her, and she goes into this dark forest, unafraid even at night. I follow her, worried about her. She eventually ends up at this large cliff, which almost looks like it has giant steps. She starts climbing and teases me, trying to get me to come with her. I am afraid of heights though and the top is so high up. We had no equipment and even if we did, I still wouldn't have gone. She sighs and frowns, and continues going up anyways. I'm torn between following to make sure she stays safe or my fear, but then we spot a guy and his little sister, who is hurt. They both have kind of darker skin, but it seems natural. So I guess they are part hispanic or something? And he has short, spiky, black hair and she has dark brown, straight hair which goes to her upper back. Her brother and I help the little girl down gently, and the beautiful girl comes back down quickly to help, serious now. I forget what we do to try and help her... maybe wrap her hurt ankle. But that's all I remember of the dream... I know I had another dream after this one, but I don't think they were related. I wish I could remember it all... and I hope I can find her in my dreams again...

The Desert Camp

Lucidis, Chris, and Claire had recently crossed the border into Efile and set out to walk in one direction, which was south. I don't think they really knew where they were going. The map from "The Heart Stone" had no details relating to roads, cities, or geography. I wonder if it's a part of the world that people from outside Efile know little about.

They were traveling through a hot sandy desert. They wore white hooded cloaks to protect them from the heat of the sun. Chris was also carrying a large backpack which likely contained traveling and survival gear. Traveling through the desert wasn't too difficult for them, though it certainly wasn't a walk in the park. It felt kind of like traveling through the desert in Journey (an indie video game).

They didn't talk much and early part journey was pretty uneventful aside from sliding down large sand dunes. Lucidis and Chris found that to be fun. After traveling for a fair amount of time, Claire spotted something from the top of a large sand dune. She activated the visor of her stasis armor and used the binoculars function to get a better look at it. Claire then told Lucidis and Chris that there was a camp and river a few miles to the west.

Initially Chris wanted them to keep traveling in the same direction to avoid getting lost and to get through the desert quickly. After talking it over, it was then decided that going to camp and following the river would be safer. They began to walk west towards the camp and dream time skipped here.

It was now what I think was morning of the next day. Lucidis, Chris, and Claire had apparently stayed the night in that camp. The camp appeared to be the remains of an old abandoned military camp. It was mostly in ruins, but some of the structures were still in tact.

Claire had asked for Chris and Lucidis meet her at a location a short distance south of the camp in the morning. Chris and Lucidis traveled there and what they found was a rather large obstacle/training course. It had what looked to be about a hundred stone platforms elevated above quicksand. The platforms were spaced apart with various obstacles such as rope swings, monkey bars, and balance beams between them.

Claire told Lucidis and Chris to remove their cloaks and to start training. Naturally, Lucidis though training in the middle of a hot desert was ridiculous and protested. Claire told him it that it would help condition their bodies to the desert environment. She also threatened to shoot Lucidis, so he started training on the obstacle course.

After training for some time, Lucidis made it to the far end of the obstacle course and stopped to take a breath. He looked out towards the river and followed the river with his eyes. He looked towards the southwest and saw what appeared to be silvery-blue towers shining far off in the distance. It looked like it was a city to him.

Lucidis called to Chris who was navigating an obstacle a few platforms away. Lucidis pointed in the direction of the city and asked Chris if he could see it too or if it was just a mirage. Chris confirmed that it was real by saying that he could see it too. They worked their way back to Claire and told her about the city. They planned to journey to the city after that, but I think it was around this point that the dream ended.

I didn't log much last night, so here's a very brief summary of some dreams:
Spider training: I was in a hollow with my soke and he was training me to use power from spiders.
Online school: I joined some stupid online school.
Flood: It started raining and the area started to flood, water was up to my knees.