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Non-dream Dream

Fragment 1:

I am at an herbal medicine shop and I want to purchase magnesium supplements. I sit down with DGS, a guy from my bowling league, and some lady I don't know. DGS tells me that my vitamin B6 levels are too high from jacking off (he used a phrase I have never heard of to describe this but somehow I knew he meant jacking off).

Fragment 2: Hiking dream

7/9
I'm at home playing video games downstairs while Dad is working on the front door. I think it's too soon before I go home and become lucid. I look at my hands and I do have 10 fingers... I push my finger through my hand but it isn't working... I know it's a dream though!! I pinch my nose closed and find I can breathe!!
I walk out the front door pondering what to do, and meanwhile I take in all my surroundings. I notice how green and real the grass is, and see a nearby patch of dirt. I grab a handful of dirt and shove it in my mouth, wondering if it will really taste like dirt. WORST. IDEA. EVER. I spit it out instantly but it gives me major cotton mouth and I can't get all of it out. I spend the rest of the dream trying to summon a toothbrush to clean my mouth out with.

7/4

I'm looking at my hands. I become lucid. I stare at my hands until they begin to fade, then I look at the surroundings. I look around until these begin to fade, then I look back at my hands.

7/3

I'm in Illinois at Grandma's. I become lucid and walk up the hill. I think of what I want to do, and stand there and take in my surroundings. I take a minute to stabilize the dream, and notice a ton of DC's all around me. I see a naked women and think to myself "why not?" She's very defensive when I touch her so I leave her alone to bask in the sun, nakedly, and go about my business. I walk forward out and near the train tracks. There, on the other side, sitting under the shade of a tree, is a woman. She has long flowing black hair and is wearing a cutoff white t-shirt and blue jeans. She gives off the impression of a Spanish girl. Her arms are sleeved with tattoos, and I touch her left arm and sit down next to her.

"Are you dreaming right now?" I ask her politely.
"No, but I had a dream last week," She replies, much to my surprise.
"What was it about?"
At this point she says a phrase in French or Spanish, and ends with "An older life of mine."
"Ah, a dream about your previous life?" I clarify.
"Yes, yes. I was in Spain during Queen Isabella's reign, and I was struggling."

At this point, she gets up and walks to a nearby wooden chair in front of a large wooden banquet table. I stand on the other side and ask,
"Were you a princess?"
She nods her head, "Yes, I was. Though there was no prince because there were.. Complications"

~~~
It's interesting because I did some research and found this article which seemed quite similar to what this DC described to me!
Isabella; I.E My DC?

Date: 07/10/2012

I don't really know where to start exactly, since I'm writing this way past the time I wrote it down and I only have some notes...

I was in my friend's Jeep (Jere) and we were coming back from some place. I'm not really sure where, but for some reason we started talking about the fact that I had some clean clothes at my grandmothers. He had taken me home, and I had gone to meet up with my mom.

After meeting up with my mom, I was waiting in line or something of the sort. I know I was standing at least , and there was my mother, me, my sister, and some weird little girl who had to be around the age of 7. I don't know who or why she was there, or at least I definitely don't remember. My sister was somehow on really good terms with my mother all of a sudden (Had a lot of recent family issues that have made her non-existent in the family...) and we were talking about me going up to the shop to get some more tattoo work done. My sister was saying that she was planning on getting some new work done, and that we should schedule together. I told her I couldn't, because I already had a date scheduled, which happened to be the next day (in the dream world I guess). Anyways, we got to the shop, and it was really late. The shop would've been usually closed, but for some reason it was open. G had greeted us, and instead of her usual dark brown/black hair that she has, it was really bright blonde with a red streak... kinda weird. I had told my mom something about why they were the best in town or something, and I had asked Gina why they were open so late. Turns out D had apparently gone out swimming all day and closed shop, and decided to open it later and keep it open a little later.. She had asked if I would like to see the sketch of what she had come up with for some idea. The idea apparently was an elephant. I can't remember the exact details of it, but I do know it was definitely an elephant. While she was talking to me about the idea and such, I sort of spaced out and I had checked my email via my phone at some point..

I was diagnosed with narcolepsy several years ago with it gradually getting worse as I get older. Sleep paralysis, hallucinations and lucid dreaming are all part of it. During my last sleep test several years ago I could slip into REM sleep within 90 seconds. I think at times that happens within a minute now.
I recently suffered a family crisis and somehow it seems to have triggered a culmination of extremely vivid, lucid dreams crossed with sleep paralysis; I am myself part of my own dreams, but in it I am incapable of anything. I know most people have sleep paralysis while dreaming but it seems I am now aware of it.
If I were to imagine being in a coma, this is my dreaming.
-Mike

Well, the first thing I remember is that I was in my basement setting up this huge flatscreen tv. Once I had finished setting it up, lo and behold... there was my dear old Sega Genesis!!! I couldn't believe it. In real life my parents sold it and my Dreamcast one time I was gone and made me, let's just say, REALLY ANGRY!!! So I was pretty pleased to see it there. Now why I didn't do an RC I don't know. But nevertheless, I was so excited I invited all my friends over for a big night of playing the original Sonic the Hedgehog. We were up pretty much all night playing it but the wierd thing was that it was multiplayer. Now if I remember correctly that game didn't have multiplayer. I seemed to recognize this in the dream as well. Yet another time I should of done an RC. Oh well. Still a cool dream.

This dream was peculiar in that it was a movie, but I knew this in the dream.

*real life* So yesterday I was bored and flipped on the tv to see if anything was on. I scrolled through the channels and found War of the Worlds. I had never seen the new version so I decided to watch it. Anyways, I never finished the whole thing so I guess my brain was trying to finish it for me. How kind, too bad it has to be a little jerk when it comes to letting me remember to do an RC!

*dream* So I was watching War of the Worlds in my dream. It wasn't like I was watching it on a tv though, it was ALL I could see, almost like I was there just being an observer. Anyways, in the dream there was a group of people all hiding in the basement of this warehouse type area. It was kind of like a horror movie because it was kind of dark and everything was just in a state of ruin. You know what I'm talking about. So these people were all hiding down there. They saw this refridgerator and just felt the need to open it for some reason. I remember thinking... "Oh, of course some nasty bag of body parts is going to be in there". Well, whaddaya know, as soon as they opened it blood squirted everywhere and some dude's head fell out. I remember laughing at how they acted all surprised when it seemed so obvious that would happen.

So anyways, they quickly closed the fridge again. Then this dog came out of nowhere and started barking. The wierd thing was it had on a gas mask. As it was barking all the people got worried because it might alert all the alien things to thier presence. Well sure enough another alien guy came around the corner and shouted to the rest of them where everyone was. The mose strange thing though... the alien guy was actually just a regular human with this gas mask thing on. So the aliens are all a ctually people??? My brain has a wierd way of completing movies. Anyways, that is all I remember.

(Thanks for the wierd movie brain, now if you would be so kind as to not destroy my efforts to do an RC in a dream!!)

So I was back at the CAP Encampment. We were all at this lake in the mountains. I apparently owned a boat and had brought it along. Then I left, leaving my buddies in charge of my boat. I remember in the dream hoping that they didn't damage my boat and would be able to get it back on the trailer safely. Then I got a radio message from my senior officer informing me that we had to evacuate. I passed the word along onto everyone else and we all started running down the mountain back to the base camp.

I came really close to doing an RC in the dream because as I was going down the mountain, it got really steep. So steep that I was basically just sliding down the side. The wierd part was I couldn't really feel anything. You would think going over all those rocks and stuff would hurt but I never really felt any of it. But silly me, never did the RC because I was so caught up in the moment.

So anyways, we finally made it back to base and reported in. As soon as we did this they told us we were going to evacuate AGAIN!. We all packed up the tents and stuff and began running down the mountain again. I never did find out if my boat was ok because I then woke up.

I have listened to the gateway experience for so many time so I remember every single word that he say.
So I can actually lay still with closed eyes for 40 minutes without much effort.

I am not saying this to brag, I am just trying to bust the most motivating myth of all when it comes to lucid dreaming.

[B]Is it possible to lucid dream without prior non-aware sleep?[/B]

I think I am near an answer, because on the last days attempts I have kept laying still after those 40 minutes, but I usually give up 20 minutes after that. So in summary one hour! Around that time I am still aware of my body, but I have seen some blue light pattern behind my closed eyelids, so something is happening.

Anyway if I just can endure 30 minutes more I have been laying still for 1 hour and 30 minutes which is about when in theory the first REM-cycle should start. Don't ask me how I maintain awareness because I honestly don't know.
The downside with this experiment is that if you give up, you will not be able to fall asleep again... :roll:
And... that while doing this time feels soooo slow. So you have to just lay there and think:
"If I move I will not only fail and get frustrated I will also not be able to fall asleep! So I have to endure".

This is torture guys but I have to find the truth about this myth and not to mention it's always nice with a lucid dream :shadewink:

I'll tell you the result tomorrow. Wish me good luck!

Ps. Let's just hope that my REM cycle doesn't start 120 minutes in... But in that case I'll just have to wait some more. :shock:

Ok so I remember that I was walking down the road and it was night. Then I went on this little trail thing that split off from the road. I turned around to start heading back for the road. The bad part was that all of a sudden there were a ton of snakes guarding my way back. I didn't really know what to do and just backed off. I kept looking for a route around all the snakes. Pretty soon they had me backed up against a small cliff and I couldn't really go anywhere else. Then this huge lizard type thing came up behind me and started pushing me back towards all the snakes.

I made up my mind. I decided to go dor it and try to do a huge leap of faith over all the snakes and outrun them back to the road. I began running... picked up speed... and... jumped! I made it over all the snakes. Feeling victorious, I eased my pace and walked back to the road. Bad idea! Then the lizard thing came out of no where behind me and grabbed onto my leg. Then in one of those decisions you would only make in a dream, I simply petted it. That made it happy and it let go. That's all I remember

I start off in a living room, sitting and listening to one man talk. I'm tempted to do something, anything, out of the knowledge that I'm only getting so much dream time, but I continue to wait because on occasion I will start moving involuntarily in my dreams and I wanted to see where that would lead. The dream moved on before that happened.

I am now anticipating making an important speech to a large crowd in London, with scores of citizens cheering me on. It reminded me of the speech Obama gave in Germany during his 2008 campaign. This part ended before I could give any speech.

I am now in a large shopping center, getting around by hooking onto walls and ledges by thrusting out my arm and having a grappling hook shoot from my wrist. So I swing around like Spiderman until I see the pope himself with his entourage, carrying a golden trophy. During this time two men were talking about something mundane over a loudspeaker until one of them asserts that this presents an "Oppor-fun-tunity" for this young gentleman. I hook onto the ledge just above where the pope was climbing some stairs. I pull myself over the ledge just as he reaches the top of the stairs, rush over and gank his trophy, then start racing down the stairs while his guards chase after me. Two guards climb up the stairs to greet me and I'm thinking "Where's the colorful garb that Vatican guards wear?" Now I'm pretty big, 6'5", and one of them is a short older fellow that looks at me in exasperation and exhaustion and I knock the poor guy down as I reach the bottom of the steps and get out of there.

Later I request to be transported to a far off planet to try some exotic fruit. It's just after dusk on this planet, with mostly twilight but some waning sunlight. There's a large lake or perhaps ocean underneath me, with a tree standing tall and angular out of it. I pick fruit from the tree and try it, it didn't have any taste to it. Perhaps this was fortunate; I see large birds hanging out along the shoreline. I invite a bird to land on my elbow, just not too large (a large bird walks away looking dejected) and with small talons (same thing: a bird with ridiculously long talons, think "Man with world's longest fingernails," walks away disappointed). A regular sized bird flies up and lands on my elbow. Then I notice bird heads popping out of the fruit, or eggs, as I now realize. I look over at the bird on my arm, realizing what I had done, and it tries to bite me. The dream ends.

I'm busy with something when I notice an elderly man near me who is clutching his chest. Fearing that he's had a heart attack, I help him take a seat and promise that I'll be back with medical attention. I go to an upper floor of the building and get several nurses. However, the elevator we need to take us back downstairs is a bit wonky. The floors are uneven, and the elevator car is tilted as though it's not hanging correctly. The elevator car doesn't line up with the doors, either. One of the nurses gets in the elevator and promptly drops all of her medical equipment. I wonder if I should have gotten someone else. The whole mess of waiting for a working elevator drags on so long that I wonder if it's been long enough for paramedics to take the man to another hospital already.

I don't remember leaving, but eventually I find myself driving home through the Four Corners area. The weather is awful. As I'm driving west, I can see two rain-wrapped tornadoes over to my left just behind the shopping center. They are small and probably just rate at EF-1. I watch them move east, and I can see the driver of the next car is sitting there, mouth agape, as she watches them too. For a moment, I think, "How cool! I finally got to see a tornado!"

I turn right at the intersection. But I quickly notice that the weather is getting worse. There are more narrow funnel clouds around me. One forms horizontally above the road. It shifts vertical and touches down right in front of me. I quickly accelerate to see if I can outrun it and end up driving right through the base of the tornado without much damage. Was I just lucky, or did not that work as a tornado should? I don't stop to ponder as I take the exit for the expressway, thinking it will be the safest way to get home. But the storms have knocked over a large tree that has fallen on the road. I have to swerve and moves left across four lanes to avoid it.

Last night I had the best and most interesting dream in my life.
It starts pretty boring, so if you want to skip to when I'm lucid, you can.

I am in a barn with a middle aged woman, presumably my mother. I turn on the TV only to see a tornado warning. My "mom" freaks out. We spend a pretty long time preparing, and then my "mom" checks the news. She tells me that the tornado is definitely coming our way, because it knocked over the tornado props. I walk outside, and although the tornado should be really close, it's not. It dawns on me that there is no such thing as tornado props; that's ridiculous.
I become lucid. For a little bit, I wait for the tornado. It doesn't come, so I bring it. I grab my shovel, (my favorite weapon) and fly to the tornado. Debris fly at me, and I hit them away with my shovel. At some point, I decide I don't want a fighting dream again, and should instead explore the environment. I shoot an energy bolt from my shovel at the tornado, and hover to the ground. My "mom" thanks me, and I quickly remove her from the dream so that I can focus on the dreamscape. After trying to feel, touch, see and smell the environment, I realize it is too fuzzy for anything realistic. I remembered from somewhere on this forum that shouting "CLARITY NOW!" can help. Well, it did. Gradually I could see more details in the grass. I improvised some other stuff, such as "FEELING NOW" and "SMELLING NOW" to help it get more realistic. I had to shout for my senses every three or four seconds, but I didn't mind. It was rewarding enough to have fun in the grass and feel my feet in the stream. After quite a lot of fun, I want to go to Disneyland. I remember wanting to dream about that awhile ago with no success, so I wanted to do it now. By this time I had been lying in the stream for a little bit, and when I got up, I expected Disneyland to be there, and there it was. I ran in, and walked around. I didn't go on any rides, because I was afraid that the jerking would wake me up. I was craving pizza, and I remembered a pizza place that I didn't go to last time I was at Disneyland. I went in there, and after yelling at the dream for me to taste a few times, I tasted some really good pizza. It wasn't exceptional like some would expect from a lucid dream, but it did have similarities to my favorite pizza, though not quite as crispy. I left the pizza place, and went to the futuristic gift shop that Disneyland has. It was then when the sun came up. Oh, the burn I felt as I thought I would loose this dream.
The dream, to quote Inception, was collapsing! I was holding on to my dream with all I could as I tried to control my body in the real world without loosing the dream world. I was able to slap a pillow in front of the rays of sun in time, and though the dream was now very foggy, I was still not awake. After trying endlessly to make it clear again, it finally did. I was pretty happy with myself, and since I knew it would only be a matter of time until I actually wake up, I decided to do the last thing I wanted to do. Before I fell asleep last night, I had created a dreamscape in my imagination to make it easier to travel to the future. Obviously my subconscious wasn't paying attention, because it left out quite a few details that would have been awesome. Still, I explored it a little. I walked inside a skyscraper, and instead of using an elevator, it transported me to a floor. I walked into a room, to find it was a hospital room. It had an aquarium on the side of the wall, and the waiting chairs were floating. I was pretty satisfied with my dream, so I didn't fight it when my dog woke me up.

It was quite an adventure.

(I kept waking up and falling asleep and waking up and falling asleep. So there are many many dream fragments that I probably forgot. And I think that I kept redreaming certain parts. So one fragments has multiple endings lol. I remembered it before, but of course i procrastinated in writing this, so I hope I will remember as I write what I remember right now.)

Yay! I remember the part I forgot already haha..ok so I was in my old school. Idk why but almost every night I've been dreaming about the school or the teachers in it. For like 3 nights so far, I've dreamt of telling off the principal because I disliked her so much. Anyway, I remember having to take SAT's or something in the building, but of course the room assignments were all weird. I was the only person unable to find the room to take my test in. I kept running past all the classrooms triple-checking the room number and the people inside, assuming that I would be with people with the same first letter of their last name. But I could not find the room and I was unbelievably frustrated because these were the SAT's!! And I saw that the teachers were doing all these introduction speeches and I didn't want to miss out. Okay so here's where it gets confusing because I guess I kept waking up and redreaming solutions to my problem. One ending to the dream was that I walked into a classroom, and it suddenly turned third person. My friends were sitting in the desks about to take the test. The teacher came up to be and announced that since I was dragonborn (from playing Skyrim the night before) my test is so much easier..All I had to do was write down the letters they told me. Unfortunately I got an 8/10 because the touch screen that I wrote my answers on glitched.. :/ ...I remember my friends freaking out cause that was so unfair. Okay, so the next solution was that a teacher found me freaking out not able to find the classroom and told me that my classroom was in a totally different building in some old falling-apart basement...so that was a weird place to take a test. Third solution, I went to my best friend's mom, who is a teacher in this school, and asked her where the room was. She pointed it out to me, but i still couldn't find it..The rooms were numbered so strangely, like "Room 7 1/2 QP" I had no idea...so she just tried to help me find it but we couldn't...and finally the last solution was that the principal found me and I went off on her once again;D. I really have no idea why I've been having these dreams lately haha...

Next dream was awesome because I met Selena GomezD So I was in this huge room with a bunch of people and these funky "rock climbing walls" although they werent rock climbing walls but just a bunch of junk stuck on a wall or even statues that people were climbing.. So we were watching all these people climbing these things. Selena Gomez was climbing this huge flower-like structure, but I don't think she made it up all the way. The next one was this man and his friend were climbing a way with a bunch of house-hold items stuck to it. Apparently they were masters at this and very famous. My perspective switched to one of them and I was climbing the wall with a bit of trouble lol. Next thing I remember (and this is probably out of order because I don't remember transitioning to these places) is being out in an open field. The field sloped with many hills, and there was a forest surrounding it. A group of my friends and I were sitting around huge rocks (like from Stonehenge). I forgot what we were doing, but we were just goofing around and playing and hanging out. Then the scene changed to my house and I walked to my parents bathroom to find my best friend singing. She closed the door cause she hates it when I listen to her sing. Then the scene changes to a train. I was sitting in one of the seats with all my friends and some other people I knew in the dream. Selena Gomez sat in front of me and we were holding hands. I remember thinking to myself that I couldn't believe I was friends with Selena Gomez, but it felt like we've been friends. The ride was crazy as people were jumping around everywhere. Selena started singing and I sang along with some of my friends. Then somebody made me get up and start sweeping the floors with two other people because the floors were FILTHY. And that is all I remember Kinda boring.