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Dream - Lucid

I remember rehearsing for a play. I had some kind of minor part in it, which meant I had a few speaking parts. I kept missing my cue for some reason, however. I always thought it came later than it did. I remember the silence that preceded my lines, because I didn't know I was supposed to be speaking. I remember flipping through my script, trying to find out where we were. Someone else ended up speaking.

Then, it happened again, only this time, we were on stage performing instead of just rehearsing.

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, guys...juts been super busy as of late. Hopefully can start writing in here more again once things calm down a bit.

I was on a boat in the sea. I saw people who were apparently from STNW. I saw a girl with a bag with 'Edengar' on it and i was like. uhh, okay? And I went to her and said heyyy i'm D. She was like ooooh D! How are you etc etc. Then i was wandering around. It seemed like a very strict boat, since the crew were like slavedrivers. I really wanted to get out of there and I found myself going into a backpack which was so much smaller than i am, and I layed behind a japanese magazine and pretended i was really sick. Then the leader came and wanted to close the backpack, and I opened it again. Then I saw that the backpacks were dragged behind the speedboats, so much that they were like drowning. I was like omg.... And suddenly I ended up in a gym with S. and L. We went to a trainer and I had my fat% tested. It said that i had like 38% and that if i wanted to lose weight, i had to consume less than 100 calories a day. Then I asked him that if i did that, wouldn't my body go into starvation mode? He was like noonooo you will be fine. I did not really believe him so we left.

There was something else after that part, but i can't seem to remember it..

Before I forget this little gem of wisdom from some DC in my last dream:
"Follow the buns before you're over 40 and flipping buns"
The character I was playing in the dream was torn between love and a possible future elsewhere. Sadly, I've forgotten the details of the dream other than that quote.

There was some other weird dream. I was walking through a town with a guy (my hubby I think). We talked about the "No littering" signs and how even the smallest towns should have enough money for them. Then we passed a wedding and hubby brought me in to it. I was carrying a book and for some reason, the cake was on the ground under a table. When I set my book down, it fell onto its side but only grazed the green colored trim along the bottom of the cake. Someone was about to make a toast or something, but hubby walked over to the person and said the name of the drink (which was something really confusing and long in Spanish). Everyone applauded, then he hubby gave the drink to me. It was red colored, almost like tomato juice (in consistency too- though not quite) and served in a chilled, tall and slender glass.
I chugged it, but it was really strong. It was a little spicy and very potent. Hubby had to hold me up as I finished it.

Then the dream somehow changed and I was with a woman, discussing the dangers of that drink. Very randomly, a snowy apparition would jump out at you. It was a curse from the drink, but it was more annoying than scary. My apparition followed me though a house and popped up here and there. The most impressive time was outside a bedroom window. His image sort of overlapped with mine, then I mimed angry to tell him to leave me alone lol

In another dream, I was like a strange robot or something and people could pay for the use of my body (like some movie I saw months ago but forget the name). A tranny used me once and afterward I was sure he had used me for sex lol.

In another dream, I was walking through a town and I saw to JW's. They were carrying guns though, and I commented to someone that I was asleep. They asked why and I said because Jehovah's Witnesses are peaceful and passive and would never walk around with firearms. But I let it pass so I wouldn't wake up.

All of these dreams occurred between 11:15PM and 2AM

The dream of the drink was inspired by the grossest foods thread in the Lounge.
The one about the JW's was because I saw a JW last night while speed shopping.

Last night I can remember various times when I dreamt, and was subconsciously suspicious that I was dreaming. Because of this I would perform the nose-plug RC, but it would go wrong because I would perform it in real life in my bed. I would still be dreaming , but it was as if my dream had zoomed out, gone 50% opactiy and had been muted. I could feel myself in my bed doing the reality check. While writing this, however, I have come to the conclusion that perhaps I experienced a false awakening when I felt myself in my bed doing the reality check. I need to perform more extensive reality checks, and simply more. Anyway, when I finally woke up I experienced a definite false awakening because I looked at my phone and it said MON 9:00am. I was pissed cause I had to work at 7 and I overslept. I didn't think I could see numbers in my dreams. Apparently I can, because when I actually awoke, I checked my phone, and it said SUN 1pm.

I need to reality check when I wake up. I'll start performing the finger-through-palm-technique as well along with the written symbol on my hand.

I went to sleep at 2am, woke up at 1pm. I remember no dreams, but I remember coming to consciousness during the night trying to remember what I was dreaming about. I was at Tiera's (my GF) house. I was too tired, and fell back into nothingness. I slightly remember a dream where I thought I was awake, and I had dreamt I was a cat and had wet to bed. I dreamt Tiera woke me up and asked if I had wet to bed. I felt around and said no. Wierd in-between state I was in.

I should have reality checked.

First Recollection: I was with Tiera (my GF) in an unfinished basement sitting near the bottom of the wooden stairs that led upstairs fiddling with something. Tiera was at the very bottom of the stairs butt naked with her coochie in the air Wierd. So, my dad opens the door that separates upstairs and downstairs, sees tiera, and embarrassed, walks away and shuts the door behind him. Eventually my dad appears again, and says he has something to show us. Tiera is now dressed. It sounds like we are in trouble. He leads us over to the wall where Tiera's bucket of stuff is, and pulls out a hitter, and says that I should stop hanging out with Shelby. The thing is, it was Tiera's hitter. I wasn't even talking to Shelby. Tiera and I look at eachother relieved, and accept the minor reprimand rather than the full repercussion of what really was.

Second Recollection: There is a war between my fraternity brotherhood (even though in real life I am in no fraternity) and some kind of opposite faction. I seem to know who this faction is in my dream, but they are completely faceless. It seems as if they were an advanced AI that controls technology against us. Anyway, I was hurriedly running through hallways in our fratenity headquarters to try and find a secret door or tunnel that would lead me to the enemy headquarters. I eventually find it, and it leads me to the battlefield between the two headquarters where the opposing factions were tearing eachother apart. I couldn't go back because where I jumped from was too high up, to get back. I had no choice but to find a way to the enemy headquarters, past the battlefield. I then woke up.
BUT BEFORE THAT
We had sent some floating Enclave Robots across the battlefield to go spy on their headquarters. Problem was, the enemy's force field which encompassed all of the battlefield destroyed any and all of the Enclave Robots before they even got halfway across. We probably sent a hundred or so across, but none got there due to the force fields. This was our only hope, and it was failing. However, as my Brothers and I were analyzing the holographic map of the battlefield, we realized that there was a walled area between the two force fields that had enough room for one Enclave Robot to traverse undetected. We sent it through, and in the meantime I began my search for the secret tunnel.

I have from time to time had prison dreams. Although not in a long time and seldom recorded.

I was sitting on the toilet in a dingy bathroom watching a picture tube TV. As I began to notice my surroundings. I realized I was in a men's bathroom that was packed with rugged men who looked down on their luck.

As a group walked out, one man squeezed my hand in a suggestive way. I retracted my hand quickly. I took a look at the gray jumpsuits and realized with a certain level of fear: I was in prison and I was one of the smallest friendliest faces around.

I made my voice extra deep and tried to make dull and ignorant sounding statements. I left the bathroom with lurching gate. I entered a community area and there was my best friend Joe, his other best friend, my GF, and a few other people.

I wondered what we all had done. I took my GF aside into a storage like room with a connecting walk way over an enclosed courtyard. I had the impression she was merely a visitor. I asked her:

"How did I end up in prison? I don't remember even going to a trial."

She told me my name was on an arrest list. I started looking around trying to take in the predicament and how I would need to act to survive. It crossed my mind I was arrested due to a case of mistaken identity. I looked past the courtyard where I saw a 20ft barbed wire fence and police cars on the other side.

Kerry building a house.

I'm in a post 2012 world. Many people are frustrated with the Draconian control over money... not being able to buy anything unless they are chipped etc. And they begin opting out of the system. People just take government owned land and grow gardens and build houses there. Communities based on Barter systems are forming.

I am flying towards Kerry Cassidy from project camelot with a large metal beam in my arms. I place it at her house which is under construction. I see her and I give her the beam and she trades me something else for it but I can't remember. Since the house only so far consists of steel beams I decide to do some monkey climbing. I walking on top of one of the beams and I notice that Sam is also in the house. She's looking down and depressed with her hood covering her face. I just walk past her.

Nomad and me run.

I'm in a strange house with Nomad and we are watching some weird guy with blond hair looking at glasses of drink in them. He takes a sip of a dark one and suddenly gets an indigo streak in his hair. He suddenly has a dark aura. I look at Nomad and say "Oh My God... He's becoming his shadow self."

I run down some stairs and nomad is following me. Now we are running down a hill in a strange city and I see the weird blond guy walking behind us. at the bottom of the hill is a door and I go through it. Nomad follows... now we are on a staircase and on either side of the staircase is just stars. I know where I am going and run through another door. On the other side is a grassy knol at night time. People witha strange aura are sitting and looking at the night sky and smoking. I sit on the grass and join them. someone asks me where nomad is. I notice he isn't here so I said he must have fallen off the staircase in the stars and should be probably falling into earth's orbit by now.

I dreamt I was in one of three arena-like settings. One with a large spider overhead, one with two fighting triceratops an one with two boxing kangaroos. I was in the spider's arena where a giant spider overhead (like 200ft across? Yeah.) was dropping large sphere-shaped blobs on me as I tried to pop them with a stick or something. I remember getting paid a couple thousand bucks everytime I did it without getting hit.

hmm so i talked with matte before that on irc.. and itried to ld.

it was so that i joined on IRC on my dream and i was talking to him i writted to hihm "dd" something
and i was in ld and i couldnt stay more idk watching my monitor wasnt that good so i woke up..

after that i have slept alooooooot..

i had few derams but most was in my work..

the main thing i was doing is i was looking the list and the hours of how much i worked and how much my friend and others worked..
i dont remember anything else..


karli

I had a pretty cool dream today while napping. I was in some kind of jungle where I was sent to document a story about this kid from a native tribe. He was about my age, and he was known to have a talent and passion for climbing the trees and searching for rare "fighter birds" a set of rare species of little colorful hummingbird-like birds who were known to fight with each other in the tree tops lol. The dream started with him and I at the base of a HUGE tree, all the trees in the jungle were huge. There was a huge root at the base of the tree that was used like stairs and led to a wooden tree house around the height where the tree branches started. We started walking up and got close to the tree house. As he started to climb the branches to show me where he searches for the birds, I noticed a really strange bird to my right sitting on another tree branch level to my eye sight. The bird had the coolest turquoise sheen on his face and other strange colored feathers I can't really remember/explain but they were very vivid and textured with other visual phenomenon I couldn't really name. I picked up my camera that was hanging from my neck and aimed for it immediately. I either dropped the camera or made a click sound to turn it on, but I made a noise and it heard me and turned to me startled. I thought "great I scared it, now it's gonna fly away" but it didn't. It stared at me for a few seconds and flew toward me. I was kinda scared lol, I didn't know what this exotic thing could do to me so I jumped off the tree root I was on, which was high enough to have normally injured me but I was fine. Right before I jumped it swooped right above my head. I ran back up the root and into the tree house. While I stood at the back of the tree house, looking out the door, my dream cut to a scene of a big tiger approaching the area. Then I realized maybe the bird wasn't trying to attack me but trying to warn me about the approaching tiger.:uhm:

How many times have you failed a DILD/WILD? I know the feeling. You set your alarm for a WBTB. Drag yourself out of bed in the middle of the night. Prepare for your DILD/WILD with all the tips from every tutorial. But when the moment of truth comes, you forget all your lucid goals and slip back into dreamless sleep. Only to wake up hours later to find out you had failed.

Does this sound like you? I'm sure it sounds like everyone. Because we all know, lucid dreaming is about motivation. Sure, if you're ready to dedicate your life to the cause then maybe you'll get up some consistency, but for everyone else it's going to be an upward battle. But admittedly there are some shortcuts.

I first noticed this a long time ago, the night before my SAT exam. I was so stressed it took me over an hour to fall asleep. When I did finally sleep, I would keep waking up in the middle of the night very energized. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, I had some of the most realistic and vivid dreams I've ever had. Before my AP exam, the same thing happened. It wasn't just tests either. When I slept, over friends houses, when I got a new mattress, when I was sick. Everything that disturbed my natural sleep rhythm, made me dream more. As I soon found out, contrary to common belief, we don't dream when we're most asleep, we dream when we're most awake!

It's a bit of a catch-22. To dream we have to be asleep, to sleep we have to be tired, but to be tired is to not dream. On top of this, the times that we dream best (before a big test) are also the times we least want to. So the question becomes, how do we "stay awake" while being asleep and how do we do it consistently? Although I've known this for some time, it wasn't until recently that I put together a concrete method.

Introducing, S-Sleeping:
S-DILD: Stimulated-Dream-Induced-Lucid-Dream
S-WILD: Stimulated-Wake-Induced-Lucid-Dream

S-Sleeping is not a method in it of itself. It is combined with other methods. Essentially, S-Sleeping is made up of two parts stimulating yourself, and breaking your sleep rhythm. Other than that, nothing in this method is hard and fast. Nothing works for everyone but I can only tell you what worked for me. With a little creativity, I'm sure you can find your own adaptation.

Here is how I did it. I went to bed at 11:00pm and woke up at 5:00am (broke my sleep rhythm). 6 hours I've found is the optimal time for a WBTB. Immediately after I woke up I drank an entire AMP Energy Lightning. That's 58g sugar, 160mg caffeine. As you'd expect It woke me up immediately (stimulated myself). To boost my odds I moved my blankets and pillows to the floor (broke my sleep rhythm). After being awake for nearly 30 minutes. I slept on the floor.

Many people might want to choose their favorite lucid attaining method for this part. I generally just use the good old DILD (reality checking, dream signs, etc.). But WILD works equally well.

As you can imagine (with 160mg of caffeine coursing through my system) it wasn't easy to fall back asleep (that's the point). I always do this hilarious thing where as soon as I'm about to fall asleep, my brain jerks me awake (no doubt some sort of fight/flight response). At first I thought this was bad but I soon realized it's perfect. Eventually after shooting awake and falling asleep enough times. I shot awake, straight into a lucid dream!

The first time it didn't last long (but I did have an exceptionally vivid regular dream). But the second and third times I had fully lucid dreams. The method worked spectacularly. On the second try! I'm no lucid expert. Prior, a lucid dream once a month for me was typical. Three times in one week was unheard of.

I'd love to answer any questions you have, or expand on anything you'd like to know more about. If you decide to try this method (or have been doing it already) I would love to hear the results.

Note: I understand that caffeine is an addictive substance. However, I plan to use it only occasionally and eventually wean myself off of it. I would not consider it principle to the S-Sleeping method but it is certainly the best way to get started. 160mg is only about half a medium Starbucks coffee.

I dreamed of a hotel that looked similar to the Peachtree Center Plaza Hotel in GA



only the elevator shafts went out horizontally from the top, then went down, the back
out horizontally, then down, until they reached the ground. There were two elevator
shafts that did this, one on either "side" of the building.

I don't remember the connection, but this was a Palestinian Hotel. I wondered how an
elevator would go down the strange, jagged descent a few times, but couldn't make
heads or tales of it.

Tried to WILD. I got my body into SP, or just about. I was like this for an hour before I turned over to just sleep. I kept getting a small vibration in my ear at every small sound I heard. Is that normal for you guys? I've felt it before trying to enter SP, does anyone know what that is?

Anyway, rolled over and had a dream. I was at some kind of cook-out family thing at my moms house. My cousins were there, and my sisters. I had my son and T with me. I was going in and out of rooms. I saw my oldest sister in one room, and she was kind of acting like she used to when we were living together. Like her teenage self again. I remember seeing my other sister, but she was being stand-offish, like me a little. My oldest sister, I'm not sure how she was doing this, I can't remember her really saying anything to me, but she seemed to be trying to pry at me like start a fight. Kind of acting like I was having a bad attitude and she was going to make it a scene, I don't know.

So I was getting kind of pissed off and wanting to leave. In my head we had been there for a couple hours already, so I went into the living room and saw my mom on the couch. It took me a second to focus on T sitting next to her, I raised my eyebrows (something we do when we wanna leave someplace) and he nodded. We started to get W's things together when my mom was kind of like, "ahh are you leaving already? I'm cooking chicken, don't you guys wanna eat?" I told her it sounded good, and I sat down on the couch. I started ranting to her about how D, my oldest sister was being. She didn't really listen, and T made it look like we were going to stay and eat.

I went outside and for some reason there were people standing at a stop light next to their car. They actually were dancing to some techno in the middle of the street. It looked like fun and I went and joined in for a bit. Then I'm walking back to the house and there's an election going on, something for the city.

Everyone's in these pews and the little electronic voting things are behind this pulpit or w/e. Everyone's getting seated, my sisters and mom and dad are in the back row. T's voting in the thingy. I get up to go talk to him. I've got W in his carseat and I'm carrying his bags. T comes out from behind the thing and we're looking for somewhere to sit. This old man pats the pew next to him and I laugh for some reason. Then we notice an newly empty pew and we sit.

There's a comedian of some sort on the stage thingy and he was being kind of funny. Apparently he had some of his friends down in the corner at the front and they were laughing all annoyingly giving their friend shit. I got a close look at one of his friends and it looked a lot like the cable guy. Ugh.

Then I'm outside again and I was getting outa my car for some reason, going back inside to see T and W. I take my seatbelt off and my shirt comes off. I get out of the car before I realize I'm only in my bra. As I'm walking back to my car, this girl comes out of a clothing store, she's dressed really preppy and my first thought was, she got the job. Then she says something a long the lines of "I've already dealt with enough dirty whores today, please." I was shocked. She was walking toward her bike rather quickly now. I started following her, still in my bra, pissed off. She seemed a little scared and I asked her what her problem was. I grabbed the bag that was in her hand and slammed it down. She almost got to her bike, but I beat her and pushed it over, getting in her face. I was so ready to tear her up. She moved and started walking away from the bike. I picked up the bike about to throw it at her, I ended up sitting it down. I was going to go inside, but she said something else to make me mad. She was on the ground, not sur ehow she got there, but I kicked her really hard in the belly.

As I did I saw a cop go by on a street about 10 feet away. I hurried and hid in the entrance of the place where T was. I saw the cop pull in. The girl was still on the ground where I left her. I almost went inside to sit down, but I figured they'd find me and it'd make a big scene. So I stayed put, but I was really scared and hating myself for what I did. Then I hit denial. I said fuck this, this is a dream and I made myself wake up.

I went back to sleep. I was at my moms again, same cook out. I was standing outside with my cousin, so I thought, then he started yelling at me. Then I'm inside with my mom and she tells me she needs to show me a video. It's a video of me and it was telling me about "all the drama" I cause in the family. I couldn't believe that she thought of me like this. One term, brightly bolded, like they were trying to sell the damn thing said "Dramatic Darkness" is what it called me. My mom was almost in tears, like it was some kind of intervention thing. I gave her a really disgusted look, angry because I knew her and my family absolutely didn't understand me at that moment. I got up to leave and she said if I left then me and T would have no place to stay anymore. (I don't live with her, I have no idea what that was about.) I said, "That's great mom, reject your daugther and your grandson. You know, mom, W is all I have now." Then I gave her more attitude, mockingly, said "yes I know this is more 'dark drama'!" Then I was going around to grab all the stuff. I went into the kitchen and I didn't leave, I cried.

Before me and her got into it, me and T had also had a fight, I just can't remember much about that one.

Also, I can't remember if the following bit is from my nap or last night's dream, but I remembered something else.

Being on a bike path of some sort with my friend A and she was guiding me around it.