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I've been reading "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreams" by LaBerge. Last night I attempted obtain lucidity. It didn’t work. I went to bed slightly before 10. I got up at round 3:30 and had nothing to recall so I went back to bed. I laid on my back and said to my self over and over “I want to have a lucid dream tonight. I want to visit Washington D.C. tonight. I want to give a speech in Washington D.C. tonight.” I combined these MILD techniques with a little bit of a WILD technique because I tried to say those as long as I could and I thought I might just have a WILD. It didn’t go as planned. I transitioned into the following dream.

I could feel myself lying down in my bed. I was in the dream world and I was lying quite still like my real body was. Then a guy said to me, “Hey buddy! What do you think you’re doing, sleeping? Get over here”. He asked me how much I weighed. I told him 190. He said he weighed 190 and that was pretty good considering how old I was. I told him that it was pretty good regardless of my age. He let me into this club. This wasn’t a party club. This was an ideological club. Our goal was to survive and hibernate for the next 10 months. I explained to him that our metabolic activity slows when we are sleeping so if we wanted to survive, we should all sleep as much as possible. The inside of the club was lined with T-shirts that I couldn’t quite read. They had something to do with chemistry. The leader of the club was a hard man. He was speaking in a harsh tone of voice. He said something like “Our goal is to SURVIVE! No playing around. Each person gets a dorm room. No two people frolicking in the same dorm room. This is no time for fun.” Then the dream world started to collapse because the leader of the club PUNCHED through the fabric of reality. Reality crumpled like a piece of paper and in it’s place there was only darkness. I woke up.

I had very long dreams last night. Even though I laid still for a good five minutes after waking, and may have awoken with my eyes closed, I seemed unable to piece the dream back together at all. I had a strong feeling about the people I was with, and one vague image of rolling dry California hills in every direction. It is all still on the tip of my recollection...

What I did manage to recall in full detail is definitely strange to me and may be illustrative of how/why dreams are formed...

I was apparently trying to take a nap on a medical gurney parked outside of a burrito place I thought about 2-days ago. (My thought 2-days ago was "I'm glad my friend didn't get a burrito from that place for me the other day, cause she likes them, I don't, and last one I ate years ago - had two hard objects in it." As a side note, my family use to own this particular building when I was a kid. It was an ice cream shop, and that thought had not occurred to me.)

The Sun was at about 3:30pm. This is an accurate location for the Sun to be, relative to this shop. The bright beams kept getting in my eyes and waking me up... So I rolled the gurney around to catch the shadow of some small trees and shrubs that are actually out front of the building.

This was I think the very last part of a series of dreams. I distantly recall flying and being lucid at points.

I remember this being at around 6:00am this morning. I'd been trying for a WILD/DILD for most of the night, but nothing had worked. By this stage in the day it was taking too long to go to WILD, so I just gave up and hoped to have a nice dream.

This is what I got:

I was hiking up a hill with my mum, little brother, and my grandfather (again). The view was beautiful - we were walking up the side of an amazingly tall hill, with nothing but green grass. The hill was on the coast, and I could see to my left miles of pure blue sea. I remember that my grandfather had a hiking pole as he was climbing up.

Eventually (although it didn't feel like any time at all), we arrived at the top. Out of nowhere, a (pink?) helicopter flies in. Inside is my cousin. However, before we can get in, she flies off. We start to walk down the hill. About half-way down, we found a large patch of dirt, which I had no recollection of seeing. We stop, and shout up at the helicopter. The helicopter flies in, and we all get in. All of us, that is, apart from my brother, who didn't stop. We call to him, and he runs up and gets in.

Next thing I know, we're in my grandfather's house (although it didn't look anything like it). I sit down in front of the TV, and my cousin was flicking through the channels. The last thing I remember is there being nothing on telly.

That was probably the strangest dream that I can remember so far. I can also remember small fragments throughout the night.

It always seems to me that the last dream is the one which I remember most clearly. Even straight after waking up from most dreams, I can't think of what to put in my DJ. With the last dream though, I just remember it vividly.

Still no lucidity, but my dreams are starting to become more vivid.

First thing I remember is something about a war but thats it.

Later I dreamt about a being in the grounds of a gallery in the town that I grew up in (this town has to be a dream sign for me since I don't live there any more). We were trying to sneak onto the lawn to get something like we were on some kind of mission. As we got there 3 staff members noticed us 1 came over to us and directed us into the gallery and gave me a specific number (191 I think?). When we entered the gallery there was a large oval display of different people on paper facing outward that you could walk around, the room was quite crowded and I realized that I'm here to find my ancestor on the cards, they were all numbered. At first I thought I was looking for a great or great great grandmother but when I found the right display it was my great or great great grandfather. He kinda looked like me with darker hair and a sweet pointy mustache . The dream ended, faded or I don't remember what happened next (maybe the war???)

Just a snippet of me sitting with some friends and family with a car behind some of their backs, my mom and 2 others try to sneakily push the car away to surprise those with their backs turned. They push to hard and my mom is left trying to stop the car crashing into a wall at the last minute she jumps into the trunk to avoid injury. I jump up infuriated shouting at my mother and the other 2 for being idiots. I turn my attention to the 2 people who didn't help her try stop the car especially the snooty lady who is a mixture of people I know. I'm shouting about how my mother recently had an operation and how bad trying to stop the car alone was for her and that it could have caused permanent damage. The old lady tells me the operation was months ago that just gets me more mad. The dream fades or ends...

This is a slightly weird one:
We're on a family vacation in Swaziland at a weird old fashioned hotel. Assorted family members are there. At 1st I'm angry with my wife for not letting me bring my bike because my brother has his there. Our car is randomly getting repaired. I go upstairs to our room and there is a random guy lying on our bed in my robe, he's had a bath and now he's realxing I suspect him of stealing our stuff and grab my robe from him while he dresses in a hurry, as he leaves I notice some of my stuff in the robe pockets and realize that he's stolen stuff. I yell to my brother to stop him and he does, I run down stairs and grab him I try to throw him down but he's stronger than he looks and he takes me down with him. On the ground I punch him hard in the face and overpower him and recover my stuff.
I go upstairs and sit on the seating in the hall, I need to use the bathroom and suddenly realize that somehow I've pooped behind the seat that I'm sitting on . I'm very embarrassed so I run to our room to get some TP to try clean it up, while in the bathroom I decide to poop in the toilet. Suddenly 3 of my current friends are in the bathroom while I'm still pooping, it's kinda weird and their is some male nakedness , I chase them out and suddenly there is a bunch of people in the hotel room, the bathroom door is still open as well as the hotel room door to the hallway. My wife is there so I yell for her to get rid of everyone, I yell at everyone else to, no-one seems to listen. Them some people take a video from the hallway of me pooping. I rush over to them and grab their laptop, I threaten to throw it into the toilet but don't. I follow them yelling how angry I am and demanding an apology or some remorse, they are brushing me off and laughing, eventually I threaten to speak to their employers and sue I think I woke up at this point.

I'm starting to realize that I've dreamt a lot about the town where I grew up so that may be a possible Dream Sign
Also I have not even been close to doing a RC in a dream my only LD was due to a false awakening - got lots of work to do any help in this regard would be appreciated

I was on the beach, walking along the shore and looking for seashells. It was a beautiful day out, the sun was actually a bit on the hot side, but that was balanced out by the cool breeze blowing in off of the ocean. What a wonderful day for a walk on the beach. I was wishing I had brought my swim suit because now, as I watched the waves rolling in from the endless blue horizon, I wanted to swim out into the water and let the waves carry me back to shore.

Well, I couldn't swim but I could definitely wade. So I took off my shoes and socks, rolled up my jeans, and waded out into the ocean until the water was about up to my knees. I continued walking along the shore, enjoying the ocean breeze, the smell of the ocean, the sounds of the seagulls, the fact there weren't any other people out there… but wait… I did see another person a bit farther up the beach. Crap. Well, I could at least hope there weren't very many people, maybe even just the one. I wasn't about to change my course just because there was one person on the beach, so I continued walking and got closer to the person, who turned out to be a man, and as I got closer to him I realized I knew him!

"Nomad?" I asked, surprised to see him.

"That's me," he said, "This is a dream, and I was about to ride a dream wave all of the way to the moon! Hop on the next wave and ride with me!"

Riding waves to the moon? There's no way that could be even remotely possible, although Nomad looked like he was being completely serious about the idea. I then registered the rest of what he had said, this is a dream, and he was going to ride a dream wave. Not just a normal wave, a dream wave. So this was a dream, then? I confirmed that it was definitely a dream when I did a RC, turned to Nomad and said this really was a dream.

Before anything more could be said about riding waves all of the way to the moon, however, the calm peacefulness of the beach was shattered by harsh yelling, energy blasts firing, and swords clashing. Who the hell was making so much noise?! I looked and saw that the beach was covered by Templars now, stupid Templars have to come around and ruin everything, and they apparently had come to attack Nomad or me or both of us.

Nomad transformed into a giant shark that was sparking with electricity. When he did that he was in mid jump and he came down on top of a few of the Templars and appeared to swallow them whole while shocking the Templars that just happened to be too close to him. Of course that left this huge sparking shark on the beach, when he would have been much better off in the water, so I telekinetically tossed him into the water, and then I threw a few Templars in after him so he wouldn't be alone out there. He seemed to think the Templars looked tasty, as he started eating them whole, I wondered if the lightning around him meant they were at least cooked before he ate them, and my next thought was, "Yuck! Nomad, you'll get diseases from eathing those things!" As if acknowledging that, Nomad spat out a chewed up Templar onto the beach, which was quite disgusting, and terrifying to one of the other Templars who ran for his life down the beach. That was the only Templar with a brain, however, as the others all yelled and came to attack both Nomad and me.

It was about here that Nomad figured out that since he was a dream shark he could swim just fine in the air instead of in the water, so he jumped out of the water and chased Templars around on the beach, grabbing them in his massive jaws and literally biting them in half… other Templars came straight at me and attacked, they got greeted my my Witchblade sword for their troubles. I told one of them that seemed hesitant to attack me to go away and leave Nomad and me alone, we were just trying to have a bit of a fun dream, hadn't been looking for any trouble with the Templars, so just go away! He didn't seem to think that was as good of an idea as I did, however, he attacked me anyway and got my Witchblade sword run through him for his trouble. Well, no one could say I didn't try to get them to just go away. The fighting continued for a while longer until the few remaining Templars finally got the picture and ran away through portals that opened up a short distance down the beach, leaving Nomad and me alone once again.

Nomad turned back to his normal self and asked what that thing with the Templars had been all about. I told him I didn't have a clue, I didn't even know for sure which one of us they had been after or if they might have been after us both or maybe they hadn't really been looking for either of us but just happened to find us… Nomad said they were just being stupid like they always are, so now how about riding the dream wave all the way to the moon? He pointed out to the ocean where the moon was rising over the horizon, the reflection of the moon was very clear in the ocean water. A very beautiful sight. Nomad and I didn't end up riding the wave to the moon, but we did have a nice length of time to enjoy the beach and relax there. The water was great, and we even found ourselves to be in the company of dolphins when we transformed to merpeople and swam a bit farther out into the ocean and farther up the coast. I was thinking that if it hadn't been for the interference of those stupid Templars, this would have been a perfect vacation dream!

1. Me, my brother and dad were trying to leave the house and we were all arguing over who should open the door???

2. I had a huge party with everyone at my school in my house. Everybody was meditating? My religion teacher was there. My mother was aslo there(parents are divorced). I was scared and people were kissing all over. I was in my mothers car and stopped outside the vet by my house. And i had to drive.

3. My brother and i went to a familiar shopping centre. He placed the carry bag on the floor and told me the flats in front of me (which had two people i knew in) were going to break due to (some people's) animals eating it.

4. I went to some anti-racist convention???

1. After supper i made myself dessert, but i ate it in my room so nobody could see? A boy walked in and started trying to feed my dog a small piece of metal. So i got really angry and ran and jumped on him and punched him. The piece of metal was now engulfed in flame. The boy said sorry and the dream ended. It was very vivid and highly unrealistic.

2. My brother was driving a car with a caravan attached, he crashed into another caravan and then phoned my dad and made a joke about it. I was suddenly kidnapped by a gang of rogues. I somehow managed to escape through a tiny hole in the ground. Then the dream ended. Very vivid and highly unrealistic.

3. I was at my gran and aunt's house, which did not look anything their real one. A few unrecalled events took place and the dream ended. very vivid and highly unrealistic.

4. Again i was at my gran and aunts's house which still did not look real. A few more things took place then i woke up. Very vivid yet highly unrealistic.

My first entry. Here goes nothing.

I was hanging out in my new house with my cat, Hammie when I noticed something strange. Hammie was levitating right in front of me! I thought "This is weird, I haven't levitated Hammie as one of my illuisions in a long time. I wonder how he is doing that." I don't remember what happened next, but I remember being outside of my house and saw this girl standing on my driveway. She said her name was Laura and she wanted to meet me. I wasn't really in the mood to meet any of my loyal fans, but she looked nice so I went over to greet her. She seemed lonely so I invited her into my house and had my chef make us some tea. She was kind of turning me on now so I couldnt help myself. I scooted over closer to her and put my arm around her. Then I woke up.

(This is transcribed from my journal and I scribble whatever I remember down rather quickly so...stick with me here.)

Two boys run over and we're behind the scenes of an unnamed Jack-The-Ripper docudrama skipping through rooms and we go upstairs, to a boardroom (?) and I close the curtains because handymen were taking off their clothes and I thought the boys shouldn’t see that. I leave. Limo and grandma is driving it, saying "You're innocent as milk, milk" and we're in New York and then lucidity hits. "Grandma, what am I innocent of?" The sky fills with clouds and a few building start falling, exploding. "Milk, Milk, I promise." Somehow we're on top of a skyscraper [lucidity lost] and then a helicopter and a SWAT team riding dragons appear behind us and she says something about stars. The SWAT guys have targets on them like Fallout 3 people. Random segments: A LOT of blue, everywhere. Pictures of the ocean. Jack the Ripper (or someone who felt like him) talking about pencils.

So yeah, first dream journal that I think is shareable.

25.07.2010

4 player chess game. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

A normal night. Nothing to point out. Four dreams, two of them fragments.

Fourth:

I was indoors playing a game of chess with some DC. I was enjoying the game and I felt great I had the opportunity to play chess with some people.
We were playing with a huge board. It was a free for all game. We were four people. Two people had each a whole 16 set of white tokens and the other 2 people the same, but with black tokens. However, we had to kill each other, we were not playing in teams.

The turns were taken clockwise. It was my turn and I foreseen if I moved my horse to a certain spot, the DC in front of me would scape with her queen, then I would chess his king and get his tower for free (classic move for chess players) I was going to move the horse when it suddenly was in a different spot I did not desire. A DC said that I wasted a very nice opportunity. I was frustrated because I did not move my horse.

Someone asked if anyone wanted to pay a round of drinks. I had cash but I did not feel like spending the money. As we did not order something, we had to move somewhere else. The board (that was the table) acted like a magnet. We could turn it upside down and the tokens would not fall, so we did. We moved the table somewhere else. We were going to resume the game when we turned the board again. I realized that most of my tokens were gone. I was surprised as I lost none of them during the previous game. I started to wonder what was going on and the dream faded.

Missed dream signs:
- A four player chess game.
- The incident with the horse.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Leave for a ToTY

25.07.2010

In a casino? (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

A normal night. Nothing to point out. Four dreams, two of them fragments.

Third:

I was inside a big casino. I went to a room and I met a few DC. The room lighting was somewhat dark. There was a big green table. The table was like some sort of circuit (It was like a minigolf course made miniature) There were brown tokens in a start line. You had to hit the token and make it move to advance in the circuit. You had to advance as many tokens as possible, one token per turn. You could advance to the next circuit after ten rounds (So I guess hitting ten tokens) You had to gamble $45 for each round to continue playing.

I threw decently two tokens. I hit the third token too hard that it flew towards a glass full of water and broke it. The DC got mad at me due the mess. I just moved away to allow the next DC playing their turn. I realized I wasted one turn. One of the DC tried to make an illegal move. He tried to hit the token from board #1 to board #3 (so he wanted to skip around 20 rounds and have such a big head start.) He asked me if it would be cheating. I told him it was cheating.

I asked for the grand prize of this gambling game. A DC showed me a brown box. Such box had a few bottles of Olive Oil. Same brand as my waking job. There was also an oddly shaped bottle in the box and tons of pour tops (a cap that you place instead of the cork) I announced I worked in the store were they produced them. One of them asked me to share some information about the oddly shaped one. I had never seen that one and I could not explain. It did not even had the label from my store. I decided that the game was very expensive and the prize sucked, so I left.

Missed dream signs:
- The behavior of the token when I threw it.
- The prize of the game.
- The oddly shaped bottle.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Leave for a ToTY

25.07.2010

Winning some auctions. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

A normal night. Nothing to point out. Four dreams, two of them fragments.

Second:

- Won three items at an auction site.
- Got something big for pennies.
- I was feeling great.

Missed dream signs:
- Unknown.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Unknown.

25.07.2010

Adopting a dog (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

A normal night. Nothing to point out. Four dreams, two of them fragments.

First:

- Adopting a puppy.
- I could see the picture of the puppy.
- A 7 years old girl was petting the puppy.
- She wanted to straighten the puppy's hair.

Missed dream signs:
- Unknown.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Unknown.

i'm wondering why no one comments on my dreams and then i see that this one has a rating of one star. harsh? it's my dream, i wrote it clearly and it's kind of funny. but people basically hate it??? i didn't make it up, it wasn't even lucid so i didn't control it at all. so people don't like the dream that i had. there's really nothing i could do to have made them like it, it just happened. so i'm thinking this sucks and then i realize: what the heck am i trying to get out of this anyway? keeping a dream journal on here is a waste of time. i'm still going to comment on other people's and continue to make posts about questions i have in the forum as well as comment on other people's threads but this dream journal stuff seems pointless. unless someone can tell me something i don't know about it? but i don't think so. i think that if you want to feel that other people enjoy what you dream then good luck trying to have dreams that make comprehensible and exciting stories. i'd be willing to bet that some of the more fantastical dreams on here are at least partly made up for entertainment and not dreamed at all. how else do you explain that the majority of people's dreams on here are fragmented stories that don't flow like a short story and then a small percentage are epic, well written novellas? i really don't think we should be rating them at all, it is a dream "journal" it's not like you're making up a story to impress people. you're writing down what happened in your brain last night. it would make sense to rate them if they were all short stories or something because then there would be a depth of quality of writing and story creation. and please don't say i'm being touchy. i don't have my feelings hurt. i really just noticed that i'm wasting my time on here. even if i became number one dream journal guy, is that going to help me with anything??? no it's not. maybe if my social life outside of here was really bleak, but it's not so... the rating system just kind of made me open my eyes to what i'm really doing here: i've been posting my dreams and hoping people would like them!
after feeling slightly sad that people didn't like today's entry made me realize how ridiculous it is to care about this at all. my dream journal is a blank book next to my bed that i sometimes transfer to this site. the one next to my bed is a tool to develop my lucid dreaming skills and i now realize this one was just hoping someone would think they were cool.

however almost all the forum posts i've made about dreaming topics or induction techniques have been very helpful in building knowledge about the subject so i love this site and will continue to make and post on threads in the forum!

All I can remember from this dream are key words:

salespeople. I was a salesperson. I wrote down, I was mom.
Sherri.
Alex friend, houses.
college.
running, a ball, kickball.
Lindy, stretching.
A man, visiting.
felt on display, I was laughing, I felt powerful,
I felt good. But I felt like it wasn't real and was fake.
Then I felt jealous of A.
Everyone seemed to like her.
prom dresses, houses.
Mary Beth P. was helping me pick out prom dresses, hand me downs.

Then, another dream from a nap which I can't remember now. 8 PM upon wakening.