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I slept a lot again so it was jumpy. Had another FA.

Awake Non-lucid Semi-Lucid

I get up. I'm in my room. A FA? I'm not sure, usually I'm sure I'm dreaming, but my room is totally normal looking. Still, I have a feeling...

I get up, it's very dark as usual. I plug my nose. Am I breathing or not? For some reason it's hard to tell. I push my finger into my hand, but I can't see properly because it's so dark. I walk over to the light switch and push it, but nothing happens. I still feel wary, so I look down at my fingers. I have eight on my left hand. The fingers are unnaturally thin, and the nails very long. I'm dreaming.

Then I woke up, grrr....

I'm outside, again. I wonder around the small park, which is outside of my old house. It's twilight again. The suns rays are golden and warm, but there are only a few hours of daylight left. I look to the sky.

There's a giant eye in the clouds, fixed on me. I don't like it. I have the feeling that I need to do something. The eye is a force, and when there is a force, there is an opposite. (I was reading this in The Hero of Ages book last night before I went to bed. Guess it played into my dreams) What is the opposite? Well if the Eye is bad, then there must be a force out in the sky which is good.

I remain sitting, pondering. Am I all that human? No... I have something that I don't know of... It pops into my head by the other force (Preservation, the Eye is Ruin) that I have the Dragon Spirit! I see it, a ghost of a little red, green and black dragon beside me. But soon it disappears. Can I harness these powers?

[Dreamskip] I'm in my local Asda supermarket. It's very crowded. How can I find my powers here? There are stairs that lead to a second floor. There isn't usually a second floor. Curiously, I go up. The room is very small, and there's a trail of blue oil. With a lot of effort, I manage to clear up the oil using my thoughts. There's a guy there who frowns at me, but says nothing.

[Dreamskip] I can fly. But someone's grabbed me. The man from Asda! He grips me as we fall, clouds flying past. How far are we? We're falling at a terrifying speed. I manage to loosen his grip and send myself upwards. He grabs me again, too tightly, and drags me down again. Eventually we land on a ledge in an old town. Before he can pick himself up, I run.

I run out of town, into a flat kind of field. I can't see to the other side. There are several layers of what look like translucent green nets hanging down, one after the other. They're alive, sent by the Eye to capture me. But I have powers now! They are very difficult to control but I try.

The wind stirs the nets. They blow upwards, and as they do, I duck at super-human speed under one. I continue to do this until I am past them all. I think I am safe, until a net, no, tassles, slowly drift from the sky. The curl around like mist, wrapping itself around me. In fact, there is mist now. I get it off me, grabbing what I came for, which happens to be a small pile of red grapes.

[Dreamskip] I'm back in the park, with my grapes. Feeling a sense of satisfaction at my achievement, I throw grapes into the air and catch them in my mouth. I look back towards the Eye, which is still there.



I'm more curious than frightned now. I jump into a very high tree, and then into the clouds themselves. There are other people there. I now see that it is not an eye, but a face. The face smirks at me. He shows us a pool in the clouds. He says that the one who wills their dragon to push the kayak in there will win.

This will be easy. I look to the boy next to me. He is weak, scared. Ruin favored me! My dragon appears again. "Push" I think to it. Nothing happens. I think again. I try to send my thoughts to my dragon. Nothing happens. The kayak begins to move slightly. I see it is the boys dragon next to me. Aggressive now, I push all of my will to my dragon. The kayak soars forward, and the evil Man in the sky smiles eerily down at me.

non dream - dream - lucid

So I have discovered a little thing about my dreams, the only thing I have to do to get fully lucid, is to stare at my hand and count fingers. I am staying with some a little younger than me boy for a few nights or so, and he sais something about people with auquamarine eye color often having dark brown or chestnut brown hair and are able to hold their breath a very long time. He sais he wants to show me something if I get up at 4/5 am, he says he always does this. I say this is ok. I wake up at 4/5 am (as you can see, I'm not enitrely sure about how late it was...) and he takes me to some sort of pool, we jump in and there is some sort of a tunnel, I say 'Why can't I hold my breath any longer, I thoughtyou said scientists said I should!' (appearantly my eyes are aquamarine? they are yellowish IRL...) he saysI should breathe, I am surprised that
I can breathe underwater and when I get out of the water I am all like 'Wow! I can breathe underwater!!' than I thing 'But what if this is a dream?' I look at my hands and I have 7 fingers, it looks odd...I now decide that I want to fly, but first I look at the fence that seperates the park from the little road beneath it (this is actually close to my school) than the fence turns into something like a very gelly net, and I say 'Ugh, dreams are sticky' and I climb on the fence, which is normal again because I wanted it to be. I fly around a little bit (I always have poor recall on flying scenes...) I am somewhere with a little brick wall, I hear people behind it talk about how many fingers they have, one female says '10' I look at my hand and shout '9... on one hand!' I also have a very long nail on what would normally be my ring-finger, than the female says 'I must be dreaming' I say 'No, I am dreaming' and I run of singing 'I am dreaming' really loud, I feel the dream starting to fade, so I look at my hands and shout 'Increase clarity' like I read, it isn working so I turn my head to the sky and shout very loud 'INCREASE LUCIDITY' than the 10-fingered female comes in, she's wearing this Kiss-like make-up/mask and says 'What is she singing?' there are some others around her too (also with masks/make-up). I try to rubmy hands, it doesn't work. I try to spin, but the surroundings stay the same, at some point my Anti-Flag poster flys in though, and I manage to get on some sort of a basketball-field, though I was aiming for space... Than I woke up. But the problem is, all my LD's are short, and they usually end around this way... What should I do to increase the length of them?

Had a dream i was going to a wedding for a girl i knew beck in High school. I hated her. the dream was very ramshackle, and the wedding took place in a museum auditorium. There also this mexican who kept trying to take my damn money, and a man obsessed with looking at narwhals. My mother was there blaming me for all the noise, and when i walked out of the building there was reporters everywhere.

glad i finally woke up

best night ever. my first dream was i was at school, and for some reason i was preparing a party with this guy i know charlie. it was going well, and somehow the school ws connected to my house. we put on music, nd i suggested getting some more, he agreed, then rememered my taste in music, so ran of to get his own, while i tried to get mine. i was running at full bast when suddenly the alarm went of waking me, so i got up and turned it off. i then went back to bed, really wanting to re enter that dream, so i kept repeating to my self, "i will have a lucid dream, i will remember my dream" and then i found myself in my house. exept, on further observasion, it wasnt my house. i turned around. "im dreaming arnt i?"
"yes" a toad in a fez told me. i was amazed how clear and realistic the dream was, only to have it start to fade. i quickly put my hands infront of me and said out lout "increase lucidity" and the drem world became clear again. "congradulations on your first lucit the fez wearing toad told me. "now to help you with glasses. he told me that because i was acustomed to wearing glasses to help me in the real world, if i lost them in the dream relm the world would become un clear. to test, i took them off, and the world became not as clear again, and started to fade, i kept trying to clear the world, but it didnt work. the last thing the toad shouted was "picture yourself without glasses in your dreams!" and i woke up. i now no what all the fuss is about.

any ideas on who the fez wearing toad was would be nice.

the last part i remember of the unconscious dream i was having was being texted by these 2 girls. i tried for ages in vain to text back, but each time i looked backa t the phone, what i had written had changed. ive never become lucid like this yet, and this was the most frustrating dream because i tried repeatedly to type yet failed miserably. it sems to be pretty hard to dild for me these days but it doesnt matter because mild, deild, and wbtb are working like a charm every time.

i woke up and tried to stay awake. i contemplated the do not move policy, but this is hard to maintain for me and often i still just fall straight back asleep. i need to wake myself up slightly to have any chance of staying conscious, so i went to the toilet. back in bed and i start to try to go through a few techniques to keep myself awake while the body goes back to sleep. phantom wiggling is the best one for me right now, and i think i got closer than ever to a full on obe. however i quickly found myself straight back into the dream with a bang.

i was in london with my neighbour and a few friends. i think they thought we were on some kind of job, and we did a bit of sightseeing on a bus, passing some amazing parks and fairgrounds etc. i met upwith lexy, grumble and helen later and this is where the most lucid and stable part of the dream began. i kept it stable with touch, and also finally managed to keep repeating to myself and others that we were in an amazing dream. lexy had just got out of the shower and told me to follow her...

i managed to keep focus however, which is probably the hardest dream task ive managed yet. people were smoking weed, probably because i have not had any for a while. i decided to try it to see how it was. i remember trying it then just saying to everyone around me how good dream weed is. i used it as a prop and told myslef that with every toke, the dream would be made more stable which worked like a charm. i was still wary of dropping ash though which is odd.

eventually i had so much focus that thoughts turned to the magic of the placebo effect. i waqnted to use a prop so went up to a shop. this tested me as the shop was closed. this normally would break my concentration but i was so in the zone that i just walked straight in past security. the shop owner just said 'oh as its you i suppose its fine'. they even let me steal the pipe/flute that i wanted for my test! i picked it up and tried to play a tune on it with the goal of using it as a healing placebo effect for my physical ailments. didnt manage much of a tune but it didnt bother me. i even managed to explain to all the others around mewhat i was trying to do with absolutely no kind of embarrassment. if someone told me i would be doing this a few months ago i would have laughed

Good morning, everybody.

Dream #1

I was at a small party. I sat at a small table, probably in the kitchen. There were a few other people in the kitchen, mingling. The party may have been set up around something specific. But now that specific thing, whatever it had been, was over, and people were getting ready to leave.

Then two black men came into the house. They sat down at the table. They were both light-skinned, and they both had a kind of creepy look. One wore an orange hooded sweatshirt. They seemed to be focused on me, as if they had come here to follow me and see what I was up to.

I had been getting ready to go, but now I was reluctant. I didn't want these guys to think they had creeped me out so that I wanted to leave. But I also didn't want their strange suspicions of me to increase because I left as soon as they came in.

I acted cheerful with a couple of people near me. Then some young boy, who may have been a nephew of mine, started asking the two men a bunch of questions about themselves, ranging from where they came from all the way to serious professional questions. The two men just kept staring forward.

I told the boy not to bother the men with the questions -- even though I mostly wanted the boy to stop asking questions because the professional questions were hitting close to my own profession.

Then somebody, possibly the boy, brought out two brightly colored plastic pigs with twigs coming out their noses. One pig may have been pink. The other pig may have been orange. One of the men may have been upset by the pigs, as if he thought we were calling him a pig by showing him the pigs. One of the men may even have said something along these lines.

Dream #2

I was at "my office," which was much larger and on a much higher floor than my current office. The director of my department had just decided that I was going to work with D, one of my boss' peers, who I don't like. My boss may have been out of the picture altogether.

D walked up to me, gloating because he knew I had to work for him when I didn't like him. He had a Snickers wrapper. He was trying to find the garbage can at my desk so he could throw the Snickers wrapper in my garbage. But he couldn't find the garbage can. So he tried to hand me the wrapper. He leered at me and said, "Here. Throw this away."

I refused to take the wrapper. D even tapped it against my chest. Finally he just threw it on my desk.

Later I was talking to the head of my department, J, who was angry at me because I wouldn't take D's garbage. I was yelling at J that I wasn't going to take anybody's garbage. I finally yelled, "If you want somebody to take care of D's garbage, then fire me and find somebody else!"

I was now in a place like a big conference room. It had window walls and was at the corner of the building. A woman was folding up some sheets that had been on a set of tables in the middle of the conference room. I knew the woman, and she may have looked like one of my aunts. But she was a head of some kind of company.

I helped the woman fold up her stuff and put it in some big, paper shopping bags. I may even have helped her fold paper bags and put them into paper bags, too. As I did this, I asked the woman questions about her life. But I did so in such a way that I sounded reallyy stupid. The woman had a sweet voice, but the annoyance in her voice at how stupid my questions were was obvious.

Now J walked by and saw me helping the woman. I didn't know what he would think. I wasn't willing to help D but I was here helping the woman?

The woman and I had finished putting everything away. I noticed a tray of cookies on a chair near my right knee. The tray had a clear plastic cover. I asked the woman about the cookies as I worked the cover off. The woman told me the cookies were for the guys in Derivatives.

"Oh, Derivatives," I said with admiration, and slowly put the cover back on the tray of cookies.

Dream #3

I was in a crowded space between a line of tables and displays and a wall. The area was part of some big conference hall. There were a lot of people here.

One of my old friends, M, was with me. As I walked forward he walked backward and faced me, talking to me. He was telling me that the pitfall of being a professional photographer was that people always wanted you to take pictures of their spicy pizzas. People, M explained, would throw parties and make their own pizzas for the parties. Then they'd want you to photograph it.

M said that people would hear you were a photographer and they'd ask you to come photograph them, like they had all these great ideas. But then you'd get to their house and they'd be all shy. So they'd just tell you to photograph the spicy pizza they'd just made.

Okay so school's back on, and I've been getting 6 and a half hours sleep a night, resulting in missing out on the later REM cycles where all the vivid dreams are

But last night, I got to sleep for a glorious 10 hours

I was on a roller coaster on a very clear blue day, with a best friend from school and his girlfriend, when something weird happened.

I realised it was a dream just as the roller coaster was at a high spot. I started shouting "This is a dream!!" hoping it would stabilize me, and get my friend to realise too (you never know; it might be them for real).

But, again, I thought I was waking up. It was really just the dream getting more vivid, and when I was talking, I was convinced that I was half-asleep already and talking in my bed. I can't remember exactly what happened after that, but I know now that when I thought I was waking up and could see my bedroom, it was still actually a dream

So yeah, now I know that as soon as I get that last hour or two of sleep, I will ALWAYS have a lucid

I am outside somewhere in Hamburg, having a physics lesson with my former teacher. We are having a discussion about UFOs, and one of the other students suggests to show us a view which would suggest the silouette of an UFO. He explained how he will fly with a parachute from Flensburg to Hamburg, with big flashlights attached. Our teacher thought it was a good idea. Later we had a break, so I showed the other student a video in which a inline-skater was chased by a bicycle-rider, through a forest. I expirienced the video in first person, as the bicycle rider. We were riding on the trees. After the break was over I rushed back to my seat, I notice a weird device on my desk. Metal plates were binded together with rubber strings, to form something cup-like, but there were holes in it. I wondered if this device was able to act as a Faraday cage, but knew that it would work, because the metal plates are isolated (because of the rubber strings). The dream fades.

It annoys me that I didn't became lucid.
But the device looked interesting, if I think about it a little more, I could improve it to be a Faraday cage, that is able to stretch and morph. Don't steal my ideas!

In this dream I vas a normal guy in a weird contury.

Then someone kidnaped a girl and then i vas going to use my powers
(controling air,wather,ground(earth,cement),fire,heat).
The girl vas behind a small lake and infront of 2 guards alsou the kidnaper
vas holding her.
I decided to frezee the lake but it vas alreadi frozen and the ice vas to thick i tried to froze it but it didn't work, i tried again,again and again,
but it didn't work .
I vas then in a building close to there i teled a friend that this is my dream,
i then got mad and got to the roof of the building and jumped, i used my air powers to get down safe.
The goverment didn't belive me and tried to do it their selves, i pased thrugh them and frezee a small creak in front of the lake and then throved rocks at the lake.
I then made ice platforms and used fire to get the kidnaper back.
I then saved the girl.

ps:sorry fore my english

REAL LIFE NON LUCID

I am a bit frustrated at the moment, as my recall has gone down severely in the last 2 days. This morning I seem to remember having LOADS of dreams, but I can only recall one tiny bit

I was in some sort of strange videogame world and everything was messed up. The grass was a miserable dark purple, and the sky was very grey too. Everything was pretty dull. I was walking towards a stile to get over a fence when a beast (which looked like a deer) attacked me. I managed to kill it somehow, but I warned my fellow gamers who ran towards me. We continued walking until we were behind a house. We talked about how dangerous and depressing it was here.

I was now walking towards an orange glow in the distance. It was sunny now, and everything else was back to normal As I got closer and closer, the orange glow looked more and more like lava. After getting about 100feet from the lava, I saw the large Oak tree in the centre of all the lava, and remembered that I had made this on Minecraft. This brings me to think I was playing Minecraft

There was more to this dream, but I can only remember the second half of it.

I'm at this Vietnamese gathering of some sort. I think it may be a ceremony, although it really isn't too formal. The floor is soft, like the plushy, blue mats you see in gymnastics. The area is lit up and the walls are a light orangish-beige. I remember hearing singers in the beginning part of it; at least, I believe I do, only I wasn't hearing them 'live'. Rather, it's like I was sifting through a mental catalogue, and I would unconsciously choose the artist / song that would be played. I found that this one particular ladies singing was really good, although the memory of this is fuzzy.

This was the first time where I've had a very vivid, clear dream daydream. I was daydreaming about an episode of a drama I have finished watching two or so weeks ago. It's like when you can remember the episode and the exact order of sequences that occurs. Think of that, and then imagine that you are actually fully immersed within' the episode, although it was still in that 3rd person perspective. As the episode was playing through my mind, I could hear the theme song playing vividly in my head.

Getting back to the whole ceremonial scene, a group of 10 or so kids including myself were forced to line up in two rows. For some reason these rows weren't adequate enough, so I was shifted more towards the front. I didn't recognize anyone that I was being lined up with.

After the 'ceremony' was finished, I decided to practice my standing full twists for some reason. I wasn't scared at all in the dream. It may have been the floor, but even then, I have trouble with a simple back tuck in waking life. I don't land the full twists, but they don't really feel as scary as I imagine them to be in waking life. This guy with a rather expensive looking, black camera comes by and greets me. I think this may have been my interpretation of a friend of a friend of mine, who had mentioned something about cameras before, although I have never met him in real life.

For some strange reason I decide to leave. As I'm walking outside, a person I know from real life passes me and asks if I'm coming with him. We're standing on this large, rectangular area of flooring. Where he is headed, I see a path that veers to the left into a hallway. Soft, dull brown rug covers the floor, and I sense that we are a few floors above ground level. I ignore him and continue to walk past him until I stumble upon a little shop. My dad and his friend are there. My dad notices that I'm wearing my old watch, and asks me why I'm not wearing the new one I've gotten recently. I told him the new one was in my shirt pocket because I was going to do 'something' and I didn't want it to break. The answer didn't seem to satisfy my father, and he and his friend both seemed suspicious of me. I expect. He asks me what "something" I could possibly be doing at this place. I don't reply.

As we head outside the shop, I tell to the camera guy that I'd gotten close to being caught. We're outside now. It's fairly sunny, and there is a pre-dominant beige amongst the building walls that surrounded us, and the buildings that loomed in the near distance past a cross walk. I ask Adam how much he knows about tricking. He states something like, "it doesn't look cool" and that he doesn't know much of it. I begin to explain to him what it is as we cross the street. My alarm rings, and I wake up.

This journal will serve as a record of my experimentation with Lucid Dreaming, and will be supplemented with another (unpublished) journal to keep track all lucid and non-lucid dreams. Currently, there are 3 different experiments I will be running:


Using Lucid Dreaming to Create False Memories

Using Meditation During a Lucid Dream to Extend Perceived Dream-Time

Using Lucid Dream to Accurate Observe the Waking Reality

Spoiler for More Details:

There will be a total of 20 trials, and each trial will consist of the following routine:

1.) I will be using a single multi-colored cube in a sealed plastic globe. The cube is 2" x 2" x 2" and the globe is 6" in diameter.



2.) Without looking (or with the assistance my of my wife) the globe will be shaken 10 times, allowing the cube to settle on a color unknown to me (of 6 possible colors).



3.) I will proceed to induce an LD.

4.) While dreaming, I will observe the color of the upper-most face of the cube.

5.) After coming to, I will note the color I observed while dreaming, and then note the actual color of the cube in the globe.

6.) I will then record the data here and in my unpublished journal.

7.) I shall repeat this sequence of steps until all 20 trials have been completed

8.) After step 7 is satisfied, I will then calculate the Binomal Distribution (probability) of my results.

For a long time I've had Resident Evil themed dreams. Since Dead Space 2 came out, I've started having Dead Space dreams. I think its interesting because I loved Alien & Aliens, but rarely ever had dreams about them.

I was in a social dream with people I don't recall. I walked down a hall way to find a bedroom that was massively gritty and futuristic. Lo and behold, I had the Detonator which launches proximity mines. It was the last weapon I purchased before going to bed and I hadn't used it yet verses any Necromorphs. The mines have three aqua colored lasers and the weapon was as realistic in the dream as it is in the game.

I was now alone in a space station of tremendous detail and nearly identical to the game. I eventually came to a wall that was covered in bloody tentacles and gore. I launched a proximity mine directly in front of it, and it exploded when the wall began to undulate.

What's interesting is that I hadn't yet seen a wall like this while playing Dead Space 2. Shortly after resuming my game the next day I did.

I WAS ON THE STREET IN FRONT OF A BUILDING. jaylene was next to me. On the steps of the building was Michelle. She was reciting a poem. Ithen asked Jaylene "am I dreaming?" and she just shrugged her shoulders. I tried to push my finger through my hand and I felt my bones shift and my finger wenright through! I walked down the block and I told myself that my dreamguide wouldbe right around the corner. I looked down the hall and there was someone in a black cloak standing there with their back towards me. I hesitated for a moment, then I chased her down the hall. When I got to her I pulled down her hood and she was a little girl with curly brown hair and blue eyes. I asked her "are you my dream guide?" and she said "no". Then my cousin Josua started playing with her hair.

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This is part of my effort to electronically record some of my older and more memorable dreams. I put these into a document then cut&past to DV. This one is as of yet undated but I am thinking 1999.

I am in a dark meeting room where everything is old wood like some old British library but this is a small room with a long table that can fit about 10 people. I am alone in the room and and walk around to explore a bit. There is a nice old grandfather clock in a nice wooden cabinet that catches my attention.
Then to my right, while still admiring the old clock, comes a person and to my astonishment it is me! He is followed by 9 other me's! They come from the right and the left! I feel there is an overriding part of me in this controlling some stuff here for me. I go to a seat at the table as we all do. I sit down in a seat I know that I should be sitting in and look at all these other me's. They all look the same but I can tell they are all very different and all of them have a different self view. They are all me yet all different me's! They have all come from their different lives and are all here to discuss somethings. I really want to hear what is going to be discussed! There is a head me who sits at the right far end and just takes charge. I am impressed by his take charge manner as I was in no way like that then. We all know he is the leader here. I marvel at how I am sitting at a table where everyone looks like me! He wastes no time and starts to talk and though I can tell this is his intro I can only hear "rrarr rarr arr arra arra." I am furious that this is somehow being blocked from me. I try to keep the dream alive but feel like I am being pushed out of it. I am pushed into darkness and wake up.