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Originally posted 03-26-2006 12:19 PM:

Originally Posted by onemoretime

I like to keep a paper journal of my dreams, and I'd hate having to type everything over, so there won't be any dream content in this journal. Rather I'll use this to keep track of my lucid dreaming skills and progress. I'll record the induction methods used, stabilization techniques, ld specific phenomena within dreams, etc.

As for background, I've known about lucid dreaming for a while, since at least middle school, and I've had several that I can recall since that period (actually now that I think about it I can't recall them very well at all! Yet I'm certain I had them), but only now, in the past month of my last year at college, have I really become serious about training myself to lucid dream. In the past four weeks I've kept a steady dream journal, I've been consistently reality checking, and I've had 5 so far. My ideal would be an ld for every REM period, but my realistic goal is one a day, with a good success rate for wake to sleep inductions of lucid dreams, as well as never missing my most obvious dreamsigns.

Format

Date - date of dream occurence + approximate time.

Induction Method - How lucidity came about.

Stabilization Techs - How I stabilized the dreams and maintained lucidity.

Dream Intent - What intent I might have had before the dream or intent which developed during the dream.

Dream Control - How I interacted with the dream and any other interesting features of the dream.

Rating - on a 1 to 5 scale.

Stability -
(1) Highly unstable, prone to becoming a normal dream
(5) Tightly controlled with great clarity (with or without techs)

Length -
(1) Very Short
(5) Extended perception of time

Control -
(1) Dream very difficult to interact with
(5) I get everything I want

Content -
(1) Nothing all that interesting happens
(5) Something that I'll have trouble forgetting

I suppose if anything else comes to mind I'll add that as a category, or if I have an extremely powerful experience I'll add a 6 to the ratings.

3/31/06: I'm going to start keeping track of normal dreams on this as well, no content as before, but will record dreamsigns, missed opportunities in red.

13.06.2010

06.13.2010 (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Morning

It is 9:17 in the morning. I did not have a lucid dream, and I kept waking up at multiple times before my alarm. Although I did accomplish a state of relaxation! It didn't take toot long, and it felt very nice! I don't like trying to lucid dream on the weekend because I stay up late on the weekend and it usually affects how I sleep. But anyways, no staying up early tonight!

I don't remember most of this dream, but I remember some fragments.
- In an area with many hills, possible golf course
- Watching a soccer game
- Looking in hot spring, seeing a Serbian man dead
- At my Nonna's house, with lots of family
- Back at Mt. Mary
- Different rooms
- Behind the counter, computer, television, fireplace

I am in a strange house where my dad is sitting at a computer. I call my friend Tom on my cell phone, but for some reason we either get disconnected or I hang up. I text Tom my next thought (about playing Bomberman on GBA) and he responds in his snappy way that it is tactless to text someone you just hung up on. I reply that it is only tactless if Bach inspired you to do so (WTF??).

I woke up at 4:50, so I decided to write this one ^ in a notebook and then go back to sleep. I tried to MILD by repeating 'I will realize that I am dreaming' to myself, but it didn't really work. I do remember the dreams, though.

I am in a strange city with not very many people. I sit on a bench with a boy and his girlfriend, and when they ask me who I am, I tell them they're not going to believe me, but I'm from the future, I've been sent back to kill someone, but I don't want to. I want to tell them to meet me in the past and tell me to not go back, but I realize that this could create some paradoxical problems.

I am going to work at some office where a small Indian man is our boss. He tells us that he wants to try new foods, forsaking his country's sacred cow. I put some kielbasa in the microwave for him.

Vampires are trying to round up and kill a lot of humans, but their plans go awry when only one shows up to the outdoor movie screening they planned. I discover this covert operative and the humans all rebel against it. RAWR. Then I see my friend Starfox with his girlfriend Peggy as we watch the movie. Starfox is smoking a cigarette. I leave and run into some strange man outside of what I believe to be a library. He wants to use my card to get some books, but I hold off until Starfox arrives. Apparently the man is Starfox's (nonexistent) brother. We hang out and watch the sun rise.

I am in my livingroom at home when my girlfriend Angela comes over. My mom has found a trailer for some new Disney movie about reptiles. It seriously looks freaking awesome, better than Avatar, and I want to see it. Angela and I want to go to the mall or something for a snack, and then my parents decide they want to go too. Angela and I run into some people who think I flipped them off from my front door, but I assure them I was just waving. The mall is weird, and I find Sonic the Hedgehog soft drinks that have codes to download Sonic games on the underside of the cap. I show my dad; he thinks they're cool.

I am at a party at a house of a family friend. At first I am shooting arrows off their balcony, but then I go downstairs to get a drink. There is a man who is singing while he is peeing, and I finish the line he last sings.

I am IN that weird made-up Disney reptile movie, and I'm marrying a reptilian version of Angela. Their living place is very weird but decorative. Everything that's going on in this dream is really too confusing to remember.

Bleh... My brothers were up half the night playing video games. WBTB was too distracting to use self-hypnosis, and it took ages to get back to sleep.

1- Hair of Death
I'm being attacked by some crazy lady's hair. It is alive, in four separate pony-tail entities, with a deadly blade on the end of each. As they are trying to chop my head off, they say that my soul will join them if they kill me. "Dang, what the hell did you do to your hair?" I say to the lady, who I seem to know.

I manage to get away from that situation, and end up an some school or similar institution. I am talking to two people... "Don't worry," I say, "You know I'd always be at least semi-lucid for something like this, even if I'm not fully aware of it." I wasn't lucid at all, really.

2- In Need of a Repairman
I end up over at Shelby and Taylor's house. Oh no, why am I here? I'm not supposed to be here... Their mother walks in and immediately starts yelling at me. I merely roll my eyes and walk out the door.

Back at my house, I am crawling on the ground for some reason. Bugs and rodents are everywhere. I go inside the house just as a fountain of bugs bursts through the wall. Not wanting to deal with this at the moment, I walk back outside. I find a cell phone near the edge of the woods which seems to belong to Shelby. I flip through some information on it and find that the phone supposedly belongs to a "Richard McGreggor Cullen." I still think that it's Shelby's, since she's still somewhat obsessed with Twilight.

3- Cross Country
I am running through the school, at the instruction of my coach. This seems to be the new trail... My legs don't want to work right. "If I can't even run correctly in real life, how do I expect to do it in dreams?" I think to myself. ((GAH!!!!!))

Something stupid about filling up a bag with food as we run...

I also had some pretty cool HI as I was trying to get back to sleep. I was slashing people to bits in gory detail with the Deathcat, and ripping people's heads off with my bare hands. Yeah... that's how I feel about being disturbed at 1:30 in the morning.

Note: Still no luck with my WILD attempts. I am not sure why that is happening so rarely now when it used to be so common. I had one primary goal for this night, and that was to track down Asuka and bring her home. Q found a fake Asuka in MoSh's inner world, so the only conclusion, or most likely conclusion, is she was kidnapped. Other than that there is my usual list of goals…

I was lying on the living room couch. My mother woke me up. She said I had slept through half the movie. She suggested I go to bed if I was that tired. I told her I didn't feel tired. She said if I wasn't tired, I wouldn't have slept through so much of the movie. I thought a minute and realized I couldn't even remember what movie we had been watching… ok… she must be right. I must be tired, even if I didn't feel it… or maybe the nap had been all I needed. I got up from the couch and went into my bedroom. Something didn't look right there… there was a desk with a desktop computer on the far side of the room. I thought there shouldn't have even been room for that desk… I did a reality check… and found I was dreaming!

Now fully lucid, I focused on remembering my goals. Asuka! Yes, I had to help MoSh get Asuka back. I used my bedroom door as a portal for a change of pace, and I opened it and walked through into MoSh's inner world. I turned around just in time to see the doorway behind me fold up on itself until it became too tiny to see… and it was gone.

I looked around for MoSh. I saw I was standing in the living room of his house. MoSh looked over at me. He said he had been wondering if I wasn't going to make it. I said I had, and now we had better get going. No time to lose in getting Asuka back. I was pretty sure I already knew where she was, but I figured I would let my tracking guide my portal anyhow… just on the off chance we were wrong about who had taken her. I focused on opening a portal and on finding Asuka. A portal opened, MoSh and I went through it…

On the other side of the portal we were in a strange place. It looked rather nice. There was a swimming pool there, and it was a beautiful pool. There were several women with perfect bodies lying out on lounges sunbathing and a few more in the pool. I briefly felt ashamed of my large belly and second chin before I reminded myself that it is a dream, and in dreams I have neither of those. There was a man standing on the patio surveying the scene, practically drooling over the women in the pool. He looked like a faker biker, dressed in leather, but somehow it looked like he was trying so hard to look cool that he really just wound up with an epic fail. I knew who that was, it was L. I also saw there was one woman sitting on a chair on the patio, she didn't look happy to be there. That was Asuka. I went over to Asuka. I hadn't even reached her before L spotted me and seemed pleased. He said there is always room for one more bathing beauty in his place… I saw in my reflection that I suddenly had on a string bikini that left little to the imagination. I was about to curse at L, but I got distracted admiring how nice my dream body looks compared to my waking body. L told me to help myself to a drink at the bar or dive into the pool, the water was always the perfect temperature. Wait a minute… I wasn't there for a pool party…

"Asuka," I said, "I have come to take you home."

"She is very happy here," L said, "Now go ahead and enjoy yourself. Don't worry about the others."

"I think Asuka can answer for herself," I said to L, I was a bit annoyed, "Asuka? Let's go home. MoSh is worried about you."

Asuka looked up at me with a rather blank look on her face. She stared at me for a few minutes before she finally answered. She said she didn't want to go back. She said she wouldn't force herself on MoSh any longer. I asked what she was talking about. She said she knew everything now. She MoSh doesn't want her back. She said he had willingly turned her over to L, not once, but twice. He had willingly given up to L in a contest where she was the prize, and then when he had the choice between her and the alternate Asuka, he had chosen the other one. She said he had been hoping she wouldn't survive the battle to get her flame back. He had been counting on her dying so he could have the better version of her. She said she understood why. She said he had tried to, but he had never been able to forgive her for lying to him. Right now this was the only place she belonged.

I noticed that the whole time Asuka was talking she basically showed no emotion. It was as if she was rehearsing a script. I had no doubt in mind that L had put those exact lines into her head. L said the fact MoSh had sent me to get Asuka and hadn't come to get her himself. Wait a minute… MoSh had been with me to come get Asuka… where was he? Had he woken up? This wasn't a good time to wake up… I looked around and headed back in the direction I had come from. I reached the place where I had entered through the portal. I looked around. I saw MoSh. He had wandered off in the other direction. Wtf? I went over to him and asked what he was doing. He looked over at me. He looked a bit puzzled. I asked if he was even lucid. He looked at me. He looked at his hands. He pointed at me with his pinky… and then announced I was real.

"No shit, Sherlock," I said, "Now let's go get Asuka." MoSh was wanting to know if Asuka was ok. I said she was fine apart from the lies L had been filling her head with… which he hadn't been there do dispute just now… MoSh followed me over to the pool, seeming much more alert and lucid. Asuka was still sitting in the same chair. L was watching me bring MoSh back. He didn't seem overly concerned about that. I wondered if he had a plan up his sleeve. I figured it didn't matter. Whatever his plan was, it wouldn't work. MoSh saw Asuka and went over to her and said he was there to take her home. She started repeating the rehearsed lines she had given me. MoSh interrupted her before she was done. He said none of that was true. After MoSh's protest, Asuka just continued with her lines. I told MoSh I was sure she was under the influence of mind control. I would have to break the control.

"Breaking the silence of the night, can't you hear me screaming?" I focused on the song Breaking the Silence by Queensrÿche, "I look for your face in the neon light, you never answer… I could make all the wrong seem right if you were by my side, I'd gather all the tears you cried and hide them deep underground!" The song played through. L's certainty that we wouldn't be able to do anything to get through to Asuka seemed to be wavering. The song had its effect on Asuka. Her eyes cleared, and she looked over at MoSh. She looked on the verge of tears. She looked at me and then at MoSh. She said everyone kept saying MoSh hated her now.

"That…" Asuka stammered, "That's not true, is it?"

"Come on, Asuka," MoSh said, "You know I love you!"

Asuka got up, looked a bit dizzy, and walked towards MoSh in an unsteady manner. She looked kind of drunk.

"Why don't you two just go home?" L said, "Asuka wants to be here with me. Although Raven, if you want to have a swim you are certainly welcome to stay…"

"I'd sooner swim in a sewer than in a pool with you," I said, "And if Asuka wants to stay with you, why does she look like she's about to puke?"

I used Master of Puppets on L. If he is so fond of mind control, let's do a little on him. "Master of puppets is pulling your strings, twisting your mind and smashing your dreams, blinded by me you can't see a thing, just call my name, I'll hear you scream! Master! Master!" I ordered L to release Asuka. He did. She came over to MoSh. L snapped out of the mind control, I hadn't meant for it to last very long. He got mad at MoSh and me for forcing him to do things against his will. He said no one forces him to do anything! He is his own man and…

"And there is an alien pulling your strings," MoSh said. He created a hologram of the alien in this picture. "It's a Reptilian, or a Draconian… and I saw one of them draining your energy.

L looked at the picture briefly, having been completely interrupted from his yelling at MoSh and me. He looked at the hologram, then at MoSh, at the hologram, at MoSh…

"Are you on drugs?" he asked MoSh, then he looked at me, "He's on drugs, isn't he?"

I didn't really have a chance to answer. MoSh was answering. "I saw it," MoSh said, "It was draining your energy. It is controlling your every move. Maybe that's why you're such an ass."

"You're making excuses for me being an ass?" L asked, sounding thoroughly confused, "Now there's a new one. Now why don't you just leave these two lovely ladies here with me, and go on your pathetic way?"

"I'm not staying with you," Asuka said, "Go back to your stupid DC bimbos," she looked at me, "They are all DCs, you know. Just illusions. He couldn't get the attentions of a real woman if he paid her…"

"And if I have to look at your face for one more second," I told L, "I think I'll vomit. So we'll all be going. Have fun with your DCs… which is like using blow-up dolls, right? So have fun with your blow-up dolls." I opened a portal to get us all back to MoSh's inner world. The three of us went through. On the other side of the portal, we were all in the yard in front of MoSh's house. I closed the portal before L could consider following us. MoSh had his arms around Asuka, who seemed happy to be there. I was going to ask if Asuka was ok. I didn't have a chance to say anything.

12.06.2010

Just Another Night (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID







Dream: Office Shenanigans

★★☆☆☆

It's another day at the office. I'm working on changing certain security settings for specific accounts, but am distracted when a lively character comes into the office. She starts up a racing circuit of some kind that involved jumping, running, and phasing over, around, and through cubicles. She invites me to join, since there's only three racers in the circuit, but I'm hesitant to take her up on the offer.

Dream: Bringing Down The House

★★★★☆

I storm into the headquarters of what seems to be a corrupt syndicate, headed by a man with silver hair. Confronting him directly, as women and guards surrounded him, I let him know I was going to bring his whole operation down. When I called him by his name, he freaked out and fled.

He managed to get away from me in the most bizarre and surreal manner, but I knew about his most recent plan. It involved putting on a play for a local school as a front for a much larger ploy, and that was my ticket in. I go to the school and work my way further into the operation, taking out or avoiding any opposition along the way. The dream ended before I could complete my objective.

DILD: Numbah One

★☆☆☆☆

Hey, it's a dream!

The bird wakes me up.

DILD: Numbah Two

★☆☆☆☆

That's right, this is a dream!

The bird wakes me up. . . again.

DILD: Numbah Three

★☆☆☆☆

Oh cool, I'm dreaming! I really hope. . .

Gorram bird. . .

I remember waking up in my bed, my heart pounding. I figure i had a nightmare i couldnt remember or something so i got out of bed and walked out my door and down the stairs to the main level. This is when i had a feeling it wasnt real, like some sort of trick but i didnt know i was dreaming yet. "John! Come over here now!" I was shocked, the fact that my mom was scared of me, i tried to calm her down, in my sort of spaz way(well, come on i try)" Mom your acting strange, and im not soupossed to be home yet, did i get in a accident at school or something?" Thats when my dad came storming in the room, his face red with anger, and took a knife and hit me in the chest with it, i started freaking out then. After i looked at him, then at my chest, then finnaly thought if i was in shock not to feel anything yet i passed out. I awoke in a hallway, my old schools hallway, and their was a guy infront of me, i looked down at my stomach in shock, i was cut in half, then it hit me. " Oh my god, im such an idiot right man?" As i looked at him i made him leave, and i made myself in a plane i then relized i could jump out of it, then do what ever i wanted. "Hey all you skydivers, think if i throw you out the window you would mind"

"Urr i dont know, Duh we would mind, god all the new ones are trying to make dumb jokes to comfort them selves.."

"Shut up" i hissed over at him

"Make me"

With this i thought of what i could do, then simply i walked up to him. With a swift punch in the face, his head was plowed in. I walked off smiling and jumped off the plane


Half way down i tried flying, and i couldnt. with that i woke up......tada....i dont think i made a good summary with that eh?

Had a hard time getting to bed and was stressed (realized I had to get up real early again to go somewhere), so I think that effected my dream recall this morning. I woke up a lot buuut.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

12.06.2010

Akai Kami (Non-lucid)

Fragment: There was someone with red hair...

Fragments 1 (Non-lucid)

Keywords: Big cauldron, future self, Harry Potter

Fragment 2 (Non-lucid)

Fragments: Flying enemies in the sky, McDonalds

The Chase (Non-lucid)

Lithuania (hair up) and Liechtenstein (from Axis Powers Hetalia) chasing after a big disk thing. It was outdoor on like, a hill with grass and sidewalk/stairs.

$okane$ (Non-lucid)

Money - I was putting bills (my own I believe) in my purse.

12.06.2010

06.12.2010 (Note)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

It's 11:03 right now. I am just preparing for bed. Freshening up on Yoshi's WILD technique, then I am going to hit the hay. I am very optomistic for the future, because I believe that I will be very fortunate with lucid dreams. Until tomorrow, goodnight.

Originally Posted by r2d2651

08.02.2010

But I'm your son Peter... (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was in an Ireland bar and tried to tell my "true" dad (Just like in family guy) I was his son and I tried to best him in a drinking contest but it never worked. I tried to explain to him "I've done this 2 times before" and like "no it's not supposed to happen like that" it was really confusing. Eventually I found myself outside in front of dirt with squared carved into it and we stepped forward and tossed little army men for a game or something I looked at a brown one in my hand and Becca told me "Better save that one." Then someone tried to throw a ball over a fence to "See if she could move there" She tired 3 times the first 2 times was underhand and the last time was overhand and it worked that time and fell down a hill down to a shed. Then liz ran down hill to get it... END...

Originally Posted by r2d2651

08.02.2010

Super Mutant Town... (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was in the same super mutant town I was in in the last dream but no Cameron. I was in the same building that I let cam into. And I went outside and found a building and went inside and found 2 cats on some metal shelves and went into another room in fear... I then found a futuristic yellow car and hid inside the back from the super mutants and it drove itself away...

Originally Posted by r2d2651

07.02.2010

Super Mutants! (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I remember trying to go into a building with Cameron but I heard super mutants from Fallout 3 shouting behind us. Then I had to make a choice... My life or my little brother's who would go into the building first? I tried to go in but I felt bad and moved out of the way to open it for cam... All I remember...

Originally Posted by r2d2651

06.02.2010

X-Box 750 (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I remember getting a mini ps3 and if you hook it up to your xbox 360 it turns it into an xbox 750

Originally Posted by r2d2651

02.02.2010

JJ YOU STUPID FAG! (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

JJ from school was acting super gay (as usual) So I popped and screamed at him "JJ YOU STUPID F*****G FAGGOT NO ONE LIKES YOU I HATE YOU FAG!!!" (Disclaimer: I have nothing against gay people at all but oh my god you need to meet this stupid kid to understand...) He started crying and said "I thought you were my friend!" When he said I thought you were my friends I felt a little bad...

Later I was in some sort of store talking to Nicholas alone about my outburst and I think he supported it.

Originally Posted by r2d2651

19.01.2010

Ms. Marks? (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I went to youth group at night and it was quarantined or something Ms.Marks was also going to go in a purple dress.