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I lived in this fabulous haunted house. Ant was there - should have been a clue that I was dreaming. He was mad at me but was setting up my drum kit. We were going to a concert, but was going to be very late. We were hungry and went to a drive through - I ordered Birthday Cake number 2. Loved the house with secret rooms.

Post Apocalyptic dystopian society. Bad guys and good guys. I was with a group of good guys and we were hunkering down for the night in some underground warehouse. I said, "Good night John Boy." some laughter. We were invaded by the mad max like bad guys. One had me and was injecting needles into my right hand. I got away and there was a lot of hiding. This was a fun dream.

Don't remember much of the dream, but I remember seeing myself in the mirror with a very round bloated face and short blonde hair. I wondered if I was having an allergic reaction to something. This should have been a clue that I was dreaming.

4/11/13

Just woke up from an unplanned nap.

In my DR I woke up from FA and I was telling someone, "you see, I just woke up from FA" and proceeded to tell him about lucid dreaming. Got bunch of stuff done and then I woke up for real.

Don't get that many FAs, so this one was fun. I believe, it was triggered by my WILD PM conversation with Allegory. Yup, talking about it makes it happen for me.

Today is April 11th, 2013 and I am currently 15 years old.

For the past couple years, I've been inactive in my Lucid Dreaming practices unfortunately. My friend Austin just called me up asking about lucid dreaming though. He's curiosity got me thinking to get back into lucid dreaming so I just spent time reading through my current real DJ entries laughing about my fails and wins of LD'ing.

I got a new house, new room, new school and now a new chance to get back into lucid dreaming.
Maybe this time I'll succeed .

COPIED

Hello everyone, you may have read my other thread. I felt like starting a new one, and I want to be as simple as possible with my new guide.
(if you could even call it a guide)
Now here is the first and foremost thing I want to address. What you want to achieve is a lucid dream, of course.
Now, the problem here is that almost every human being on earth tries to achieve things by thinking of WHEN they are going to do it. What I mean by that is, when people want to lucid dream they are thinking about the future, when they are asleep, dreaming.
Of course, right now, you're not sleeping. The mistake is to think that the future and the past exist.
They don't, it only exists in your head. All you have, is NOW. When trying to achieve lucidity it is important not to place that intent on the future. The trick is to be lucid RIGHT NOW. And no, I don't mean wondering if you are dreaming all day, constantly. That's only going to make you wonder if you're dreaming instead of actually lucid dreaming. I believe, being able to be lucid in the now, is the foundation of lucid dreaming. As far as I know, there are several ways you can be lucid right now. I will present them in no particular order:


The easy, mantra way is to tell yourself every once in a while "I'm dreaming" or "I'm lucid dreaming" or "I lucid dream" ect ect.
All those mantras have something in common, they are talking about the current moment.

One way is to learn how to be very relaxed, but alert. Being relaxed but alert is crucial to lucid dreaming.
Becoming lucid in a dream means you need to be alert of what state of consciousness you're in. The problem is, is that you're too relaxed, because you are asleep. The main way to learn how to be relaxed but alert is through meditation. You get better as you practice.

Another simple way is to view your current reality as a dream. Stay lucid, relaxed, and alert in the moment, as if you are dreaming right now and you know it, but you don't want to wake yourself up, that's why you stay relaxed.

One way that I mentioned in the other thread is to feel with every fiber of your being, right now, that you are a lucid dreamer.
That your physical body and mind that you have right now, is there, so you can lucid dream. Feel this with your body.
Don't think it with your mind.

You can also try making yourself experience derealization, this is the equivalent of snapping out of it when you are watching TV.
Set yourself away from your life and your judgements for a second and feel the crazy insane reality that is RIGHT NOW.

I may post more throughout the thread if I think of any, but these are just the basics that I wanted to type out.
You should try thinking of your own methods with being lucid in the NOW.
I'll try to answer any questions.

So as you know I was attempting to induce a lucid dream and I tried 2 different sleeping positions for about 20-30 minutes with no good results so I decided to call it quits on that and go to sleep upon which event I guess I wasn't ready to stop trying so I just watched the images and tried to bring each into focus until I found one of a whiteboard and I guess it reminded me of art class so I imagined it as such and sure enough I was in art class sitting next to Jake, Austin, and Kasey. They talked among themselves as I sat and eventually got up and went to my regular seat when Kevin, attempting to make an impossible triangle out of paper, come over and threw it on my desk in front of me. I picked the scraps up and they looked like an 'A' so I folded them over and began rubbing it between my fingers and much to my surprise I could actually feel the paper in my dream hands. Seconds later my entire body erupted in a tingling vibrating feeling and I could hear a low buzzing and an insanely real voice of Jamie, from art class, saying something that I couldn't hear over the buzzing. This must have only lasted for a few seconds and when it stopped I could only see black and although I was aware of my physical body and the position it was in, I had no real connection with it such that I couldn't feel my appendages touching one another. I gave up hope as I tried to bring a dreamscape in front of me and opened my eyes cautiously as I performed a reality check and and, unfortunately, returned to reality. So close!!

I was sitting on the couch and I feel this pain in my mouth, and it's also an excruciatingly annoying feeling. I begin to grind my teeth, it's seems to relieve only a little bit of the discomfort. Then I hear this cracking or flaking noise from my mouth and I know one of my molars just detached, I panic and put my hand in my mouth to get the tooth, I tongue the spot where it came from, it feels so empty and I can feel my soft gums, I freak because I think now my retainers wont work or fit, then I think for sure that I haven't gone through puberty yet so it was just a baby tooth and hopefully another one will grow before my jaw starts to deform back to TMJ. I look at the tooth and it's all covered in decayed holes with cavities. Then my mouth starts to hurt again, so I grind my teeth to relieve the agony again, and then I hear that dreaded noise and the give of a loose tooth on the front bottom of my mouth, all those horrible thoughts about my retainers not fitting come rushing back. I pull the little front tooth out and it's clean, no cavities or decay, I think I need a spacer, or to put something in there before my jaw deforms, but then I convince myself again that maybe I haven't gone through puberty yet and it was just a baby tooth and I'll just grow another before my jaw deforms. Then a third time I feel that agony now on the right bottom molar, I grind my teeth to relieve some pain, but then I hear the noise and feel it give. I panic and reach in my mouth to pull it out, i tongue the area again, I hated that soft gum feeling, this time my mom is there for some reason, I tell her three of my teeth fell out, she just gives me a weird look, so then I began to cry and weep like I did when I was a child and I tell her but maybe I didn't lose all my babie teeth yet, and new ones will grow back, then my mom just laughs at me. I look at the tooth and see that it's covered in decay and cavities and holes.

This was a pretty fun night. I am experimenting with WBTBs. Last night I planned to wake up after 4.5 hours of sleep, journal, set my alarm 90min later and go back to sleep. Until I have to get up for my paper round. I don't know if I really woke up or had a false awakening. It is an extreme pain in the butt make something of this and journal it. So be warned, some of this might be fiction :D And I had just seen 3 new episodes of Gintama and fell asleep visualising the battle scenes (to LD, but also because it was freaking awesome). Gintama is the #1 thing right now that lights up my soul and fuels my dreams, the visualsing probably helped me get lucid.

I am in some amusement park, in a waterslide. Were are sitting in round things that are in the water, there are 4 people per boat (I'll just call them boats) and the people in my boat, behind me and before my are all characters from Gintama. After a few minutes the girl in the boat behind us probably got bored because she kicked in the water to speed up. (kicking away from her, and the boats weren't big), it worked and their boat bumped into us. I also joined in kicking behind the boat to speed up. So we sped up, bumped into each other, had fun, laughed and the ride ended. *I don't remember much about the ride, the beginning, surroundings, or how I got to the next scene* I think I wasn't lucid yet. (here I am lucid) In an other part of the amusement building (I said park but it's actually a giant building :P), there were lots of pretty girls :drool:. I kissed some of them. Eventually there were 5 girls who wanted me to pick one. I do know that I couldn't really decide on which girl to 'pick' (I don't know what I was going to do after choosing one) but I don't remember what else happened or how I got to the next scene. I found myself outside of the building, flying. I flew back inside and there was an empty hall. I tried to practice some skills, like super fast running, teleporting, flying. Not much happened, I did learn that trying less hard makes you better at something. That's about it. Tons of details got lost even though I immediatly wrote everything down and took at least 30 minutes to do it. Damn it already got late, I hope it won't result in a fruitless night. Well, probably not, if I can visualise my way to sleep again :D

I was with my mom in my parent's bedroom. My mom showed me this beverage additive that she had found. It was this lime flavored thing that you could add to any drink and it would give it a very strong, sort of sour taste to the drink.
She then proceeded to tell me that it had a lot of alcohol in it, and that you could get drunk from having too much of it, but for some reason it was ok to give the drink to people under 21. (I'm 17.)
She then proceeded to let me try some. I had one sip and "got drunk" (Or atleast my brain's interpretation of what being drunk must be like, because, again, i'm 17, and haven't had alcohol before.)where I started feeling really woozy and I was talking gibberish without being able to control myself. My recall cuts out.

I was with either D or A. I can't remember either. We were staying at some resort hotel at a tropical destination, because I remember there being many palm trees and a large, sandy beach.
Now we were originally walking down the hotel stairs to find my parents in the lobby or something, but we soon discovered that the stairs led down into basement levels below ground.
We decided to see how far underground the hotel actually went. I think it was at-least two or three levels. The bottom level was an underground casino.

Something about sleeping over at a large log cabin with a bunch of friends. We were all sleeping on the floor or on couches. I had false awoken in the middle of the night.

Dream 1(fragment):

I recall some kind of outdoor area.

Dream 2:

I was at home playing some video game and making slow progress through it, then i went to sleep but was having trouble falling asleep because family was watching some movies in my room for whatever reason. Apparently alot of time passed and there was pile of used tires in the room, i went outside.
I was searching some information around the streets, and after a while i went back to home, as i got home everything turned into something looking like a level from Deathtrap Dungeon and had to do a bunch of long jumps.
Then i was back at home but it was weirdly designed and there was more jumping to do, but i couldn't jump anymore and had to find alternate way around. Soon the dream ended.

I'm chatting lucidly with a male DC that seems to be almost otherworldly. He appears human but there's something more to him that I perceive as futuristic and knowledgeable.
My surroundings are unimportant and appear to be contained within some misty cave, dark and foreboding, secretive, the kind of place where stuff like this happens.
The man is dressed in white clothing and is holding a box to his chest, about 12 inches on a side and perhaps 7 inches thick. It appears to be internally illuminated and glows a light green color, though it is not transparent.
The man explains to me that if I place my hand on the box then the patterns my hand makes will determine the kind of lucid dream I have. This isn't hand-reading technology but in fact responds to various patterns, and it's these patterns that control all kinds of dreaming.
I place my hand on the box and the scenery around me shifts to a brilliant blue view of the ocean from cliffs. I flex my hand and it changes again to scenes from past dreams, odd-looking skies and places that don't exist.
I want to step into one of these scenes but everything gets fuzzy and I wake up, needing to pee. :(

FA

I wake up in a hotel room...and I can just feel that I'm in Vegas. My family is here too, but they left. The first thing I'm thinking about is alcohol and women. I walked out of the room, and everyone is out in the hallway. There are a few women outside, and I noticed two were twins. I double took at both of them three times. And the third girl said "yeah I know". I felt like RCing, but I didn't want to look stupid. The only difference between the two was that one had a stud at the corner of her lower lip. They're talking some other random girl comes up and complains about not having a room, and some guy tells her that they're checking out early, but they'll leave the door unlocked for them.

Then Jordyn Wieber comes up, smiles, pretends to kick me. I told her "we meet again", and she walked off. (I had a vision of meeting her in Canada earlier...I assume it was a dream that I may have had earlier that night that I don't remember). M comes out and asks me about her...I told her that she just missed her.

Before bed: I was trying to re-program my dream body, for 5-10 mins I imagined sending energy and setting the intent for my dream body to become aware when it had the upper hand (i.e. when I was dreaming)

Result: I am not sure if it was because of this, it actually took me quite a long time to fall asleep, because every time I would drift off, my body would react, for ex. my leg would twitch (I think this is a hypnic jerk?), so I would awaken. Or just as the HI dreamlets began to form, I would realize it and wake up, then go to the restroom, then I would awaken too much. Perhaps my intending was working, but I probably should have used this suggestion technique in WBTB and not when falling asleep initially.

Dream1: Two of my best school friends were playing a kind of game, where each would listen to a song, then share some secret thoughts they had. In the dream I know there are maybe 11 or 12 songs, I remember a certain song, but it does not belong to this album. I cannot remember the last two songs, so my friend goes online to find out which those songs are.

Dream2: Politics again. I see the mayor having an affair with some popular all-night-long party woman, there is also a video of this. I contemplate a lot whether to tell my mom, who supports the mayor, about this whole story. I finally decide to invite her over and show her the video, which shows the two kissing. My mom does not believe any of it and still strongly supports the mayor. What is more, it turns out that she has managed to book a seat and take part in some kind of conference with her favourite politicians.

Dream3: I am looking at photo of one of my favourite teachers, then a former classmate appears next to me, she tells me something. On my other side another classmate2 (DS) appears. Now, I am looking at some jewellery made from semi-precious stones. As I am looking at the jewellery, classmate2 tells me that some kind of pink type of stone is the best.[not sure if such a stone exists IRL], it looks like a mix between rose quartz and jasper. She then tells me that she has some kind of dagger/wand made from that stone and some more info about it.



At that moment I remember that we already have had this conversation in a dream, and I tell her that I had a dream about that. She then replies me that she remembers the dream too. Wow! I go out on the street and begin to tell the story to myself, as if I just awoke and will be writing this in my dream journal. Instead, I begin writing this story on the pavement…

Obviously someone I do not want to meet will soon arrive there, and my friend recommends that I leave the place now. I try to stop a taxi, but it is not a taxi actually, some white old Mercedes with some people and lots of junk in it. I jump on it, trying to use it as a ride to the next station. I get off and fly past some Chinese fast food stall and pick up some chicken skewers, they fly away without paying.



I reach our first home, I am on the street. I look and see my mom there, I don’t want her to know that I am here, so I hide behind a tree. I am waiting but it starts to rain and my tablet is wet, but it is water resistant, and this is a dream so that’s why nothing happens to it. [Really!] I put it in my backpack.

Fragment4: It was during the night and we were in some pub like place. It was 2:30 am and all the shops closed, but the pub was still open. We are outside, I look back at this actually unpleasant place and say to my friends from school “Even though this is a terrible place and we do ourselves so much harm here, I actually love it!”….

slept 11:30 - 9:00, awakening and falling back asleep several times between 7 and 9

i am in a large, dark house with some caribbean women who appear to be in their 50s-60s. they are acting strangely. someone tells me that in their culture, it is considered polite not to acknowledge strangers. later i am cutting myself in the bathroom (similar to townhouse bathroom) and the blood is getting everywhere. later still, the women and i are in a room with a young red-haired child. he keeps changing in size, from the size of an average 4 year old to the size of a mouse. he crawls around on the floor. the women are thinking of adopting him.

then i am in a "hospital", which is similar to the house in colour scheme. there is a lot of wood. i am a nurse here and i am watching over a middle aged man. his hospital room is a huge cylindrical tank with transparent walls. he is sitting in the far end of the tank, attached to many machines. he is wearing a sports jersey. i leave the room and report to the doctor, a tall young woman, that he is doing ok. she decides to initiate a different treatment. the tank is filled with water and numerous small, pink, swimming creatures. i go into the tank to explain the treatment to the man, but the creatures keep swimming into my mouth and it feels very uncomfortable. i leave. the doctor tells me to prepare a powerpoint on cellular respiration and photosynthesis.

in a fragment i can't place, i am at some kind of religious ceremony. the "church" seems to be underground and has a domed ceiling with pillars that fan out at the capitals; everything is hewn of grey-beige stone. somewhat gothic architecture?

in a different dream, i am playing with dogs in a park. it is hilly, with yellow-brown grass: beside the chainlink fence is a stone chasm and then a road. a beige concrete overpass stands further away, over the road, and in the distance, a cityscape can be seen. the sky is bright blue and clear. occasionally i see a massive red balloon rising over the city. it is very beautiful.

my final dream begins as a video game but the perspective changes. it is night in a cartoonish landscape; the land is pine green, the sky dark blue and full of stars. there is a little boy here whose pupils are shaped like crosses. he sees an area where the land slopes down, inwardly-curving, to a beach; but the slope has been separated from the level land, creating a vertical cliff. he realizes that he must push the cliff and the slope back together to save the other children. there is a segment of this dream which engenders a strong bittersweet feeling inside me, and repeats several times: the boy floats up into the sky among the stars, holding on to a red balloon.