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I had this dream a while back, like when Steve Irwin was still alive.
So me and my friend Brittany were going on a roadtrip to Wisconsin Dells. They have this waterpark there called the Kalahari, which is for like little kids but that's not the point. So we checked into the Kalahari, and when we opened the door to our room, it opened into the real live African Kalahari. So we ventured inside, and looked around. We started to walk to nowhere in particular. Along the way we saw lots of different animals like girrafes and snakes, except they were made from paper like origami animals. I went to touch them, but when i did they died. However, their angel spirit floating up to heaven was a real animal. So they were fake when they were living but real when they were dead? Anyways, I cried when they died. In the background Britt was turning into a tree.

All of a sudden we hear a rustling coming from a bush. (Britt is no longer a tree.) We look over at it, and suddenly this crazy guy wearing a comical wolf mask with a huge nose jumps out screaming, "RAAAHRBOOGABOOGABOOGA!!!" We look at him like, what the fuck is wrong with you? He whips off his mask. "AHA!" he says in an Australian accent. Apparently Steve Irwin has found his way into the dream. "I bet I fooled you lassies didn't I? Ha, no, you two youngsters are smart enough to know that the REAL African Wolfhound has a much LARGER snout!" he says as he makes a circular motion around the mask's nose. Britt and I look at eachother like, whats with this clown? Suddenly he's right in our faces, smiling as wide as possible. "Say, how would you two like to join me on a wild Native American horse hunt?" without our consent he throws us each on a spotted white and brown horse, then jumps on his own, and we ride of into the sunset with Steve laughing maniacally.

I went out onto my street and heard a very loud snoring. It was a large bear under a car and apparently he was disturbing the neighbors. So I decided to throw a rock at it to get it to leave. It woke up and started to chase me.

I ran furiously to the apartments across the street and I jumped over a concrete wall into a pool area (Which is not there in real life BTW). Thinking bears cannot swim, I leap into the pool... Turns out they can...



It starts swimming towards me, throwing punches and trying to drown me. (This bear was acting like a human and I was genuinely frightened... Don't fuck with bears...)

This is the point where I skip in time...

I find myself on an endless highway at night, still in a panic from the bear attack, I see a saloon style bar on the side... I go inside and hide in the bathroom stall, I crouch down on top of the toilet and hope...

The bear walks in and searches around, he punches the mirror and then sees me peek over the stall door.

He busts in and starts beating me up furiously, I struggle my way out of the bathroom and into the main bar area, as he enters the bar area I am flailing my arms and roaring to try and deter it. It punches me across the room and while all the people watch I am furiously fighting with the bear. I summon up enough strength to punch it in the gut and then I get something to beat it in the back of the head with.. It starts to get weaker and weaker then it's head falls to the table... It somehow obtains the object and beats my head...

I don't remember much more but I'm pretty sure I won eventually

So my first experience with dream control was amazing.

Out of dream
In dream
Dream control

So I was sleeping (obviously) and I can hear noises of my mom talking out of my dream. I instantly knew I was dreaming because my mom was nowhere to be found. So I was just looking around at stuff I could do and I suddenly wondered "Well, I wonder how long until I wake up" so I was rushing to do something just to prove I could. So I find this metal sheet or whatever it was and I was just starring at it, I told myself "This thing needs to be bigger, A lot bigger." So I just imagine that thing about 20x's its size and I blink my eyes, all of the sudden when I opened them I have this giant metal sheet that was 20x bigger than the last in front of me. I then woke up and was disappointed but I was still amazed at how it happened.

Also, when I woke up I found out my mom was talking on the phone.

this one starts outside an apartment building, at the bottom near some stairs. me, my sister (i think) and some other people were talking about Ipod's. i was like "yea, they're so easy to get i mean look..." i then precede to pick up a random Ipod Touch off of the ground lol. i wasn't standing, i was laying on something. then the scene turns into my livingroom, im on the couch looking at my new Ipod, and were all still talking. there's people talking behind me, which they shouldn't have if the furniture was in its normal position. i was on the Ipod, looking at new apps to buy, free ones of course, while talking. then, after a small memory gap, everyone's gone and im in my livingroom alone, and all of the lights in that room were off, it was night time. i go into the kitchen, and turn and see my neighbor looking in the window, asking to come in, i think it was snowy outside. for some reason, that was the normal way for him to come over to my house lol. i motioned him to wait, and went upstairs to ask my stepdad if he could come in. when i asked my stepdad, he just started yelling at me about taking the dogs out late, but in the dream i knew he was wrong and defended myself. he continued to yell and be unreasonable (much like the real thing), and said no, my neighbor couldn't come in. i went back downstairs, but my neighbor was gone from the window, i just assumed he knew he couldn't come over.

It was hot, and me and ?Nomad? were in some sort of shed. For some reason we decided to dig a hole, but then decided to dig two holes, and connect the two with a tunnel, that was going to be braced by wood. When I started walking to the other hole place, I noticed my other friends there and...
I was in some sort of field. A wall of sorts was behind me, and my clothes were strewn all over the ground. I had clothes on. Some were wet that were on the ground. My friends from highschool, Tyler, and Horace, were with me. We were outside a hotel complex, and the bright sun was beating down on our necks. I told them to put some stuff on, and when they go inside the hotel, to act as if they were waiters to not get caught. We went inside the hotel complex, I believe because we had to get through it, and some massive event was being planned, like a giant party. Horace had gotten nabbed by my Dad, who used him to write and take notes. I went in, and pretended like I was nobody. I ended up going with this guy who had a treasure box. Scene jump. I was in the car with this girl, and she was driving down a street. It was next to the seaside. There were paper figures going across the road, like the miniature targets see at a county fair, escept they were life size. There was this one chinese figure, who looked like he was running in spurts. He ran from a dock up a hill, stopped, across one side of the road, stopped, and then ran right in front of us. We almost hit him, but it was like the whole thing was choreographed. This other paper girl, who was attached to some sort of mechanical system underneath the road, was in a lane. I asked the girl what would happen if we ran over them, she shrugged said,
"We'd put up another". . I almost asked another question, but we passed a huge sign saying "TREASURE HERE". I shouted, "Stop the car". We got out of the car, and went over to the place where the treasure was. This Navy dude was there, showing all the tricks of the chest. He opened the chest, and another chest popped out. Except this chest was a fake chest. He showed that when you opened it, nothing would be there. He cackled a little bit. There was a hidden latch that I saw, because he was shuffling dominoes at the time, that when they were chosen and put in the fake chest, once a person got to the correct amount, the real chest would open. Anyways, he was shuffling them, and I pushed the chest shut, but at an angle, and I saw a hidden latch system. He also commented about how you could make the dominoes just so, and He would win(the navy dude). A priest looked on and shook his head at this. In the hidden latch system, I knew there was a chest for big $$$, and thought about stealing it then and there, and I heard others thoughts planning the same thing. I decided against it.Scene Jump.
I was in a hallway, with a suit on, a brown suit. The buttons were backward for a sec, but I just had to turn the collar down. I was going to a party . I entered the room, and there were two chairs in the back. One was already taken by my Uncle, the one who just got married, and had his Jacket on it. I took the one behind this, and put my Jacket on it. We were waiting for the girls to come for the party. The other males started talking about some shit, I didn't listen. Then the music started, and the females entered, and we started dancing. I looked for my Jacket to dance, but my Uncle had swapped chairs with me, and he was sniggerring like the village idiot too. I took it and put it on, then I looked in the mirror, and looked like a cross between Kumorosaki and Chad from Bleach .
(While I do have extremely low low low ability to shapeshift IWL, mostly just controlling phsyiological processes, such as blood pressure and such, and a very mild bone structure change(centimeters woot), and changing cell structure minutely, muscle tension, that was why it was really odd for me to see this, and I should have done an RC
We all sat down after dancing, and a couple of us were cheering really, really loudly, cause my sister was about to blow out the candles on the cake. The candles blew out from all the screaming, and my sister said, "Woh, the pressure", talking about the air pressure. Then she started playing the ufonium(RC?), and was actually pretty good(RCCCC?). In the other room, the firls were being taught how to play the flute, possibly ?Nomad?, cause I heard a didgeridoo, and caught a glimpse. I wanted to join, but my sis was shooting me dirty looks.

Key:
Non-Lucid, Lucid, Commentary/Notes, Hypnagogic Hallucinations
i Inner Awareness, a Action, f Form, c Context

Bloodbath Fragment

I was in a dingy bathroom. The walls were brown and the floor was tiled dark red. Everything was dirty and the lights were really dim. There was someone in a bath with attached shower. He was bleeding.

He was then on the floor, blood gushing from his head all over the place ( c ). There were several shades of blood ( f ). Someone else was there and remarked that people had multiple levels of blood in their bodies. The lighter and more saturated the colour of the the blood the less important and the darker and less saturated the more important ( c ). The blood gushing out of the man's head was getting darker and less saturated ( f ). The person commented again that if he lost any more he would die.

Ex-Con?

I was sitting at a table in an unfamiliar room ( c ). It was some kind of apartment with white walls. Also in the room were some other people, but I didn't recognise anyone except two old school friends, L and S ( c ). I was writing and there appeared to be some kind of lesson or lecture going on ( c ).

The next think I knew everyone is leaving. I walked out and found myself on a street walking in to a supermarket.

I found myself at the check out with several items. There was a man with me that I don't recognise ( c ). His eyes were very blue and he had dark brown hair. He was slightly taller than me and wearing a white top.

I was placing my items on the checkout. I remember there being some kind of unfamiliar green fruit or vegetable ( f ). Another man who was wearing a dark jacket picked up two of my items and stuffed them inside his jacket. I gestured to protest, but he gestured that I shouldn't, so I didn't ( a ).

I was rushing to pack the carrier bag, but the check out assistant was super fast ( a ). She quickly handed me a receipt and asked for £1.50. I could read the value clearly on the receipt. I took some change out of my pocket, but dropped it all over the check out ( a ). I scrambled around looking for the money. I picked up a £1 coin, two 20p coins and searched for a 10p coin, but couldn't find one so gave her two 5p coins. I felt very flustered.

I was then leaving the supermarket with the blue eyed man. We walked back towards the apartment and saw L and S going in the other direction. I waved and L waved back, but S just looked typically miserable. While walking back I got the sense we were in a foreign country, probably somewhere in Europe ( c ).

We reached the apartment. It had an external staircase so we ascended. Stopping at the door I remarked to the blue eyed man that I was a murderer! ( i,c ) He was shocked and just stood there. I invited him in and said that we should have a drink ( a ). I walked in to the apartment, not noticing the clear signs of a disturbance throughout.

I found a bottle of some kind of alcohol on the floor. It was open but full. Somehow it was lying on its side but the liquid did not flow out ( f ). I shouted to the man that we should have a drink ( a ). Only then did I start to become aware of the state of the place. Things were broken and knocked over. There was a dart in a red sofa that looked like it had been thrown from the doorway ( c ).

The man was still standing at the door, shocked that I had randomly just told him that I was a murderer. I realised that something bad had happened while I wasn't here, but somehow knew that I would get the blame for it! ( i )

Some police walked in. One of them was a black detective guy. He was accusing me of something and I was being arrested ( c ).

Suddenly I felt that I wasn't a man any more but a blonde woman ( i,f ). I had a flashback to some kind of prison where I was sitting at a table wearing an orange jumpsuit ( i ). Another woman was being lead through a door by some guards. She looked at me. She had long dark hair and was extremely beautiful. I felt as though we were friends. I knew she was being released and that I would be soon ( i ).

Back in the apartment I felt as though she had been there recently with me and I also felt as though I had betrayed her somehow ( i ).

I fell asleep and this was my dream-

I found myself, standing next to a fake looking puppy golden retriever held by one of my friends from school. I then
preceded to walk through wallgreens then I decided to run at super speed and steal my friends puppy and I yanked
the dog out of his hands, and placed it down right next to him and started to run through the store. Then I stopped running
at super speed and decided to find my grandmother, who I found later while running through the store in a panic. Then later
in my dream after walking around wallgreens and kicking over things, I woke up.

Still can't LD to save my life. Really frustrating. On the upside, I am recalling better so I guess that's something. Maybe a few more nights of good recall can help me achieve LD.

Anyway, the first dream is a little fuzzy. We are at Ceder Point, or "my version" (one of many) of it, with my aunt Delores (whom I am estranged from) and her three boys who are in their twenties now, but for the dream, still children. I wanted to ride a roller coaster, the Raptor, but couldn't find it. They all were eager to ride this pirate ride, which I shied away from because it didn't seem safe to me.

They get on, and the operator loses control of the "rope" he pulls to make the machine sway (why he's using a thick "rope", I have no idea). He tells me to help him hold it so the people won't get hurt. I don't know what to do and start panicking. There is no way I can keep that stupid ship from crashing. I never see the end of this dream...

Second dream is about Star Trek...two girls are fighting in an arena. They are held in these black anti-gravity straps (hovering there while they beat the crap out of each other). They have powers akin to androids. Laser beams and super strength, reflexes. As soon as the fight starts, one of the girls loses her powers and gets clobbered by the other. There were other details, but nothing concrete to describe. I do remember seeing stars outside the window...but that's it.

Third dream was me at my parent's house going to sleep on the couch. I had colored pencils and ended up clinking them a little as I settled down. My mother comes out and bitches that I'm making too much noise. An argument (no surprise there since I have spoke to her since last December) ensues, and my dad comes out to back my mother up. Again no surprise there as he always does that no matter what her problem is. They say I need to move out, and the rest of the dream is spent trying to call people to pick me up, and trying to find another place to live. I do recall my best friend popping in the kitchen at one point to give me advice where to go.

Fourth dream took place in twenty minutes and was my best chance to WILD. Alas, no go. But it was really vivid. There was boy with a strange creature following him. It would take over people to catch him. I was watching all this, and it became aware of me watching. The boy, somehow, was tricked into entering this apartment with two older men. One wanted to hurt him, the other wanted to ransom him for money or something. I ran out and tip a detective who, instead of arresting the men, calls them on the phone. Either way, it provided a distraction for me to grab the boy's hand and get him out of there.

We enter a door, and inside the room there is another door. It's blue. A dark-haired woman opens it, and I know her sister peeking over her shoulder is infected with this thing that wants the child. Apparently, stupid me went into a connecting apartment. Oops.

I'm in a car now, and two women are in the backseat (have no idea where the boy went) who ask the driver (an older man who I never met) to stop at the bank. I realize the man is that thing again and I need to get out of the car. He stops at this large bank, the sign and building something out of the twenties or thirties. Vintage looking. This is when my alarm goes off.

Recurring themes: Amusement Parks, blond women, a child in danger, something lurking inside people, family estrangement.

My first lucid in forever! This dream made reaffirmed to me the theory that just having LDing on your mind can lead to LDing. It was surprising though that my first day back on DV was also my first lucid in a long long time. On that note, I am going to put this as my first LD in my profile, because I forget how many I've had before this one, but maybe if I can find my archived DJ from before this new format I will edit this personal one to include my older dreams...

Anyway, on to the LD!

This was a DILD:

The dream started at the starting line of a marathon. I was there with my girlfriend and a few of her old suitemates from college. The gun went off and I started running up a muddy hill, which was the first part of the race. Overall the setting of the race reminded me of western Marin County in Northern California. There was a sort of ridgeline that marked the halfway point of the marathon, and the runners had to run up hill from the inland side of the ridgeline then over the top and down towards the coast. I noticed almost immediately a dream sign that is fairly common for me. As I try to run faster I start to slow down. In other words it is a very frustrating sensation of running through jelly when I want to sprint.

This sensation was so strong that I would watch people who were walking casually pass me as I tried my hardest to run quickly. I ran like this for about a minute before starting to think something was strange. I suddenly thought "Oh hey! I might be injured." As I looked down at my legs, I realized that I was extending my legs out very far in front of me in this sort of elongated walk. I realized that my legs were stretching farther than they were long and at this point I became lucid! I quickly did an RC of pushing my finger through my hand and that was it! I knew I was dreaming.

However, I was a bit disappointed at this point, because I only had a very low level of control of the dream. My lucidity was clearly not that strong, because I didn't really think about doing anything except continuing to run the marathon. I began to run again, and faced the problem again of my legs not obeying what I wanted them to do. Now though, I was able to exert a small amount of control on my dream. I thought to myself that if I were dreaming, I could just expect to run faster and I would. My legs immediately sped up, but unfortunately it only lasted for a couple of seconds, before the jelly legs took back over. To explain this phenomenon a bit more clearly, I have had many dreams where I am driving, and as I come up on a car in front of my I hit the breaks. However, the car doesn't really respond to the breaks and I can tell I'm about to hit the car in front of me. This problem with running was extremely similar.

At this point I had a false awakening. I felt myself loosing the dream and "woke up" on my bed with my cat laying next to me. However, I then must have woken up again, because the next moment I was awake for real, and realized that my cat was locked out of the bedroom for the night, so she could never have been laying next to me. It is unfortunate that I couldn't parlay this FA into a new LD, but I am encouraged by the night overall, given how long it has been.

Someone was in the back of work about to smoke a blunt so they ripped it open and said "there's tobacco in here" because he only smoked marijuana, not tobacco.

I don't work at Bojangles in real life but now I was and we had weekly status reports and a really high up drive-thru that you could barely see above. I told the new girl to smile and wave if she gets a cop through drive-thru.

We had to take a photo of the best part of our lives. I then played Starcraft 2 in zigzags of orange.

I was about to get off at 4 at work and Woody came in and I asked him if I could go even though he had been fired that day.

We had a cash drop at work and I had one twenty left afterward. Me and Becca talked about how we had a new manager and thus now we do cash drops, as we did not ever do them before.

I was playing Starcraft 2 and had marines killing something.