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Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

I'm not sure if I MILDed or accidentally WILDed, but either way, it gave me an awesome lucid dream last night! The best I've had yet, by far! The only thing I'd say was disappointing about it was that for some reason I was pretty near-sighted in the dream...I couldn't see anything in the distance, just a solid color that the terrain and all would blend into. I probably should have slowed down a bit and tried to fix that...I'm sure rubbing hands or spinning would have done the trick.

Oh well, here's what happened!

I went to bed a half-hour early so that I wouldn't feel like I was losing sleep if I spent a while relaxing, repeating mantras, and visualizing. I did all that, but as half-expected, was not able to pull it off at the beginning of the night. I woke up at about 2:30, however, and just repeated the whole process. I felt the onset of sleep paralysis, which made me want to swallow, but I just started breathing through my nose with my mouth open and was able to swallow and ignore it without hurting my progress any. As soon as I reached the visualization step of MILD, I started seeing a bunch of flashing lights, and then it was just one pulsating light that seemed to fly around. I just followed it, and it was like it led me out of my body and into my dream body. Within moments, I was in bed, looking out the window, at the moon. It was only another few moments before I realized something. "Wait a second..." I thought. "I can't see the moon out my window! This must be a dream!" I got out of bed and walked over to the window. I was determined to fly this time. "I know that I left the window locked...but it doesn't exist!" I reached a single finger down and opened up the window as if it weighed nothing. Same with the screened pane. Then I leaned out and flew off! I had absolutely no struggles, knowing that gravity was nonexistent and that it was just like walking in a dream; the only reason I moved anywhere was simply because I believed I would. Now the only question was...where should I fly to? "The moon!" it came to me, almost instantly. "Just like Neo..." I thought, aligning myself towards the moon and shooting off at a ridiculous speed. I arrived at the moon within a couple seconds. I flew low to the surface and looked at the craters and put my hand in the cold, gray sand. But then I realized something else...that was pretty much all there was to do on the moon. So I flew back home the same way, shooting through space and reaching land in about 2 seconds. I didn't target any specific place in the world; anywhere was fine with me. By chance, I ended up in a city, and I landed on the first building I felt compelled to. There was a roof access door that led directly to a deserted office level. On the walls were some black and white pictures of businessmen that I didn't recognize...probably employees of the month or something. "Ok," I thought. "there's always this list of things I want to do in a lucid dream, and now that I'm here, I can't think of anything else to do! Let's see...oh! I know. This ought to be fun! I'm going to go on a date..." I began to walk down a short hallway. "...with the girl around the corner." As I rounded the corner, I saw this really pretty girl standing there. Unfortunately, I didn't just accept that fact and move on. "I did it...I really did it!" Now you have to understand the significance of this action. I had been partially successful with flying before, and had figured out how to do that one pretty certainly, just never had a chance to actually do it until now. So it didn't surprise me to have success at that. But every attempt at this kind of dream control where I try to make things appear around the corner had previously failed. The thing about lucid dreaming by MILD is that even though I was aware that I was dreaming, I wasn't thinking 100% logically. Rather than accept success and move on like I would have thought to do if I was thinking fully clearly, I once again had a little lucid-dreaming-success party that very quickly began to wake me up. I felt the dream fading out too late, though, so my immediate attempts to rub hands didn't work. I should have spun around, too, but it didn't cross my mind at the time.

And thus the dream ended. Still, I believe this was the longest lucid dream I've had yet, and I exercised dream control unlike I've ever been able to do before. Not exactly sure what to label this one as in my sig, since it was kind of a WILD-MILD-DILD, but since I was shooting for MILD I guess that's what the label will be.

Bottom line is, I had another lucid dream!

Black=Awake Blue=Lucid Red=Dream

Location: A mansion and its courtyard

I was on what was aparently a school band trip to what appeared to be a very larged mansion. The dream started with us in the lobby and my band director, Mr. Bird, was giving a talk about alcohol and how we are going to get in so much trouble if we bring any on to the trip. I started to freak out since I thought I had half a bottle of liquor in a little plastic water bottle in my bag which I was apparently wearing. I then "remembered" a dream I had about filling a plastic bottle half-full of liquor and then dumping it out in the sink since I didn't want to get in trouble, so I relaxed a bit. (Now my mind is making up memories of dreams I had while in a dream? My mind confuses me sometimes )

We started walking towards what was a large dining hall filled with a very long table which looked like it could hold 100 people. It was only me and about 10 other people whom I thought I knew at the table though. We had skipped dinner and decided to get up and go see our rooms. In order to get there we had to go up a ladder through a very small square hole in the ceiling. Once we squeezed through we were in another floor of the mansion and when we were walking away I could clearly make out the dark hole I had just came from.

We came to our room after a few minutes of walking and I unlocked the door with a key I had found in my pocket. When I walked in I noticed a large couch to my right and two lavishly decorated beds to my left. I continued to go past the doorway to the room with the bads and walked into the kitchen. There was a stove, a sink, and 2 open counter spaces. When I turned around I was looking where the couch had just been which had transformed into another lavishly decorated bed with my friend sleeping in it. Not wanting to wake him I decided to go outside and get some fresh air.

Once I walked out my room door I was outside of the mansion standing in front. It seems that my habit I had been making of doing a RC every time i walked out a door paid off, because I plugged my nose and became lucid. Just to make sure I was lucid I did it again and, sure enough, I could breathe. I was getting too excited, because the second I became lucid, I could feel my dream body and my real body at the same time. It was as if I was still standing there in the dream world, but I could see through my eyes of the real world and feel my blankets on my bed. Through my dream eyes I could seethat my dream body had started walking towards the back of the mansion, while my view of my dream body was looking at my mirror in my room seeing a reflecion of myself in the real world.

I quickly thought to spin to stay in the dream world. I hoped that is was my dream body that started spinning and not my real body, and luckily it was. I was back in my dream world 100% aware and lucid. I continued to rub my hands to stabalize the dream a bit more, and just for some extra protection, I walked to the backyard instead of trying to teleport, something I've wanted to do. I remembered that what I thought was my most important dream, goal to me was to master the four elements. Seeing that I had already practiced with fire in a pevious lucid,(Burn Zomebie, Burn!) and was pretty decent at it I decided to try and "master" it, so-to-speak. I continued to practice moves I had seen in a T.V. show I had been watching, and did flips and complicated twists while controlling the fire and maintaining a balanced stance all at the same time. I had succeeded at this and decided to try and make a wall of flame as high and as big as I could. I looked towards the open field behind me, and focused all my energy into a small wall of fire maybe 2 feet high and 5 feet wide and pushed it out through the forest.

Before I knew it, the wall had grown so big, that I could not see the end, nor the top of it! I pushed with all my might, and the wall pushed back, as if it was made of bricks. But hey, this is my dream. I can to whatever I want. So I really focused hard, and managed to push the wall of fire acress the plain with a single move. I watched as it disappeared into the countryside when a small, crumpled piece of green paper hit me in the head. I turned around and saw an elderly man trying to teach a small teenager something.

"Remember, no matter what changes, 1 through 4 remains the same," he told the kid. I looked at the paper, and noticed it was like tin foil. "Excuse me young man, could you give me back my emerald?" I looked back at the paper, and noticed it had turned rock hard, and looked just like a large emerald. I threw it back to the man and he thanked me. "See, that's what you have to do," he told the kid. I started to walk away, and right as I turned around, I woke up.

Black=Awake Blue=Lucid Red=dream



Location: Some sort of supermarket

Me and a few of my friends were in a supermarket of some sort in the mood for some sundaes. We start looking around in the freezer seciton. We see some frozen meats and other foods, but no ice cream, so we decide to leave and come back later. We end up walking to the exit, then turning around right as we got there thinking that it has been long enough so they must have restocked the shelves. This time we decided to split up to try and find everything we needed faster. 2 of my friends went to go get toppings while I stayed back and tried to find the ice cream.

I walked over to the freezer section once again and this time I say some peanut butter ice cream. I decided that this would work so i grabbed it and went to the check-out counter. I get in line behind a woman buying several different things and unfortunately, she is just a few cents short of what she needs to buy it. So, the cashier gives her some coins and she continues to buy the things she needed and left. While they were ringing everything out, i noticed a peanut butter cup egg, something you would get for Easter. I decie, "Hey, this will go good on top of the ice cream. Let's buy it." So I did. I grabbed the egg and set it and the ice cream on the ring out counter and the cashier proceeded to ring them up. Once he was about to tell me the price, I woke up.

Turns out that later that day, my parents randomly brought home peanut butter ice cream and we made sundaes.

This was a fragment from early in the morning. I was super excited when I woke up because I had at least made a successful DILD!

I was in a tent on one of my side streets. I was walking round, the tent allowed my legs to go through. I thought that it was really weird and shouted RC!!! I pinched my nose and found I could breathe! I was dreaming!

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

Again I find myself in a situation where I recall dreaming several times; at least 3 this time. Unfortunately, because I didn't stay awake long enough to think to take down notes, all but one is lost on me. And that one is, again, so strange that I'm annoyed with myself for not realizing it was a dream in the first place!

The dream I remember clearly was one of the strangest things I've seen in a very long time. I went to Walmart, picked up a copy of "Super Smash Bros. Brawl" for Wii, and then drove back home. But then, when I walked inside, several dream characters (none of them people from real life) were there, and waiting for the game. We went to play it...by going upstairs and putting the disk in the shower! No kidding. Instantly, platforms and contraptions appeared in the shower, and a bunch of pieces (which were divided into groups like heads, torsos, feet) appeared on the sink. Each person playing the game put the pieces together to form a really odd kind of animal thing. All of the animals were remote-controlled, and we put them down into the shower, which was now a SSBB level. And so we controlled the animals and made them fight that way. As we played, the shower kind of faded away and we saw forests or waterfalls or any number of things moving past the platforms as we made our robotic animals smash each other to pieces...literally. I also noticed that the remotes we were using never seemed to stay the same...every time I'd look down at mine it would be totally different. It didn't seem to affect my skill level, though. After what seemed like hours, it was down to just me and one other DC; everyone else had been KO'd. The DC hit 'pause' and the shower came back. She said the animals needed to rest.

While they rested, we went to a different store and shopped around for I-don't-know-what...everyone split up into groups of two or three and it was a bit difficult to find them all, so it seemed to take another hour or so. Whoever had anything to purchase did so and then we left. Back at the house, the animals were still there, and interestingly, neither the animals nor the remotes had changed since I last saw them. As I had gotten there first, though, I made some last-minute modifications to my animal with the spare parts that were lying around. It ended up looking like a crayfish with a porcupine body, cow legs, and robotic arms. When everyone came in, they commented about how ugly my animal looked, but I was apparently pretty confident in how it would perform, because it didn't bother me.

We put the animals back into the shower, which resumed its state of platforms and scrolling backgrounds, and duked it out with the animals on the final round of the competition.

I woke up before I could see who won

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

I remember having at least 6 different dreams last night, however, most of them were very unclear, and upon waking up I was left with only a hazy image of what went on. I remember two pretty well, though. Neither of them were lucid, but I expect this is due to the fact that I threw off my usual WBTB schedule by trying to wake up at 4:21am instead of 5:21am and thus allow more time for lucid dreaming. I learned that that was a bad idea, as it produced no lucid dream, and also that I don't need more time for dreaming, as I was able to enter REM well into 8:00 this morning. Obviously the thing that has made my DILD's be short is the things I do in them that tend to wake me up.

Anyway, on to the dreams.

In the first dream, things began pretty normal--just going about one day with some dream characters that I seemed to know as long-time friends. When we passed by the neighborhood park, however, I saw something strange coming out of it. It was a giant hedgehog that was missing its back legs! "What in the world is THAT?" I exclaimed, pointing. "Oh," replied one of the DC's, "that's one of the flying hedgehogs. Don't get too close, or they'll..." the DC was too late. I had already gotten too close, and it leaped off the ground and flew right into me, knocking me down. I decided I wanted to get out of there, so I turned and ran, the DC's shortly behind me. Suddenly, we were all in this sandy place, like a small canyon, with some buttes scattered throughout. Wooden beams had been laid down to connect the buttes together from the top. How anyone got up there in the first place I'm not sure. But we didn't pay much attention to the scenery; we just ran around the corner of one big rock and ducked. Peaking around the corner, I saw that the single flying hedgehog had alerted his buddies, and now millions of them were flying through the air in our direction, all of them missing their back legs. "We're done for." one DC whispered. I turned around and saw a Warthog (the Halo vehicle, not the animal) across the way from us. "Maybe not..." I said. This one girl DC and I ran across to it. I climbed in the front, and she took the turret in the back. At that moment I remember thinking it was kind of funny for a girl to be taking the turret, but she had some kind of warpaint on her face, so I figured she had probably done this before. Apparently she had, because she was a pretty darn good shot! I drove that warthog out there in the midst of all the flying hedgehogs and as I ran the low-flying ones down, she picked off the rest of them with that turret. It was pretty intense...I saw the muzzle flashes like real light, felt the heat from the turret...everything! I guess we won that battle, because I never died or anything, hedgehog bodies were everywhere, and I woke up.

The second dream came soon after that...my 4:21 alarm had not gone off yet, so I didn't try to stay awake.

I was at some peaceful lake, in a valley, the only sign of inhabitance being a small lake-house nearby. I was talking to that girl DC that I had fought with, and according to her, we totally destroyed the hedgehogs, but one of them had flown into my head as a final move of desperation and knocked me out. I had been unconscious until that point.

I don't remember anything else, save for a few images from the other dreams I had that are too vague to even put into words, really. Tonight I'm definitely not going to play with the WBTB time, since I know that 5:21am works for me. I'll also be sure to think more about weird things happening in my dreams as a sign that could make me go lucid. Flying hedgehogs missing their back legs...why the heck didn't that make me think I was dreaming?

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

The dry spell is broken!!!

Yesterday I made sure to reality check all day long, and before bed I told myself a million times "I WILL lucid dream!" and "I WILL reality check!" but I didn't feel very good about it. I mean, in past dreams, I've though in the dream, "I should probably reality check...nah, I'm sure this is real." I needed something more; a sure dream sign I could use to force myself to reality check. Then it hit me, and I repeated to myself a million times, "The moment my eyes open, or I realize that they are opened, I WILL reality check!" Then I unintentionally practiced it myself. I opened my eyes (by mistake), and followed through with my saying. I felt good about it, and soon was asleep.

My dream began quite long, I was in a place that looked a lot like 'the real world' from The Matrix. Unfortunately, I think it went too long, eating up all the REM that would better have been lucid. I'm not sure what happened in this place, but I had a mission, and I remember someone handing me a device like a large thermometer, only it was not for measuring the temperature. I walked through a doorway and suddenly found myself in my room. "Oh! My eyes are open. I need to reality check." I was sure all of this was real, but I pinched my nose, breathed in, and was shocked to find that I was dreaming! "Yes! I'm lucid!" I said, throwing aside the device. This time I got down to business, without wasting any time celebrating. I tried to fly. Initially I did little more than hover, but then, remembering the Matrix theme to my dream, I told myself, "There is no spoon," reminding myself that none of this actually existed, and I could affect it how I wished. That got me up to the ceiling, but of course that wasn't good enough for me. I looked out the window, and decided I would go right through it. "There is no spoon." I flew right for it, preparing to fly right outside, and...SMACK! I hit the window and was knocked to the ground. It kind of hurt. But I got back up and tried again...slowly. I just stuck out my thumb and pressed against the cold pane of glass. "There is no spoon." Slowly, as I convinced myself of the window's non-existence, my thumb pressed through the glass, until I could reach my entire hand through without a problem. I watched as the glass in the window rippled like water around my arm. Then I pulled my hand out, and jumped through the window, flying as I had originally intended. Unfortunately, I never once stabilized the dream, my REM was running low, and I flew too fast. Therefore, I no more than glimpsed the outside before I woke up, reality checked, and found it to be real.

Although it was a short lucid, it was very significant, seeing it broke my dry spell and I made headway in getting around my mind's strict laws of physics without forcing control!

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

Well, I feel stupid! But at least I had a couple dreams last night!

I went to bed with headphones and an MP3 player set to a lucid dreaming MP3 called 'Lucid Spike', which begins with a 20-minute silence to allow time for falling asleep.

I'm not exactly sure what happened, then. I had a dream, in which I was going around in this huge building that a bunch of large, square rooms. At the middle of each end of the square was a hallway that led another such room. Down each hallway was a door on either side that led to a smaller conference room with no more hallways. Everyone I know or have ever known was in that building. I was going through all those rooms, finding people that in real life I need to talk to, accomplishing business with them, and then moving on to the next person. Suddenly, I realized something. "What the heck? Where'd these headphones come from? I didn't put these on!" And I woke up.

At least, I thought I did. I was laying in bed, with the headphones still on and all, as it should have been. But I didn't reality check, and I didn't realize it was a false awakening. I just tried to be still and get SP.

Then I woke up for real, and the headphones were gone. I was like, "Ok, that's weird, I was wearing headphones, and both them and the MP3 player are nowhere. This must be a dream!" So I reality checked and was disappointed to find myself to be awake. That didn't solve the headphone situation, though. I leaned over my bed and found them to be on the floor. When I saw that, I suddenly remembered waking up and for some reason I threw it all off the side of the bed. I wish I knew why I did that!

But for whatever reason, I ditched the MP3 player, which was supossed to help me become lucid, before it could even play anything, and then had a false awakening in which the presence of the MP3 player made me think it was real and not go lucid!

Figure that one out...

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

Fell asleep too quickly to even reach SP! So disappointing...dream recall was bad, too. Felt like the dream itself was long, but the instant I woke up all I remembered clearly enough to put in words was driving around in Florida with my sister in the passenger seat, no directions, no map, and trying to find my relatives' house. Eventually I saw the ocean, and was able to use it as a reference point to get to the house, only when we went inside, it was a huge, really nice building, rather than a little house. After that it's entirely unclear. I remember little images from here and there, but nothing I could logically put together or explain in this journal.

Tonight, I really can't fall asleep when I WILD!

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

I determined to WILD. Absolutely determined. I set my alarm in case of failure on the first try, set aside any care for getting any sleep, and got in bed.

First WILD attempt (midnight): Reached full SP by doing the counting method, but drifted off to sleep rather than remain conscious. My dad (who works for the government) apparently stood against everyone else in a major decision. And now they were trying to put him away for it. So he came home one day, told us to pack up whatever we could in the back of our car, and then leave as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, just when we were about done packing, I noticed a camera in our garage door code box. "Wait!" I shouted to someone who was about to walk right by it. I was too late. I ducked behind the car as I heard the camera activate an alarm and a hidden turret, which promptly destroyed whoever it was that walked by. We wasted no more time, but jumped in the car and pulled off, leaving everything else behind. It went alright at first, but eventually the police came after us, and we had to split up. I'm not sure where we got the second car from, but we suddenly had two, so we took separate ways with the hopes of spreading the cops thin and making it possible for us to escape.

Second WILD attempt (5:21am): Woke up to my alarm at 5:21am and tried to WBTB WILD. Again, soon after hitting full SP, I lost consciousness and fell asleep. This time I was in a dream similar to my first WILD experience. I jumped from place to place without trying to, first playing Halo 3 with a friend at his house, then chatting on facebook with another friend on a laptop in my kitchen, and then to my bed. False awakening...and it was all so real I never once realized I was dreaming, nor did I think to reality check. I would have noticed if something was out of order, but I had 10 normally-formed fingers that stayed that way, there were no flying turtles or anything like that. Each time I jumped through space and time, I simply accepted the new location as my present state of existence and didn't give it a thought. Eventually, though, I did figure out one abnormality...I could still hear my friend talking about our game of Halo 3, even though I'd left that far behind! I woke up for real when I realized that, and found myself still in full SP!

Third WILD attempt (time unknown): Rather than break it by opening my eyes or trying to move, I just used my consciousness to finish off a WILD, and sure enough, within moments, I felt earthquake-like tremors in my bed that then seemed to rip me out of my body and into another, as I shot towards a light in the darkness at a magnificent speed. The force of being shot towards the light was so strong my arms were pinned to my sides. "It's working! I'm doing it!" I thought. I don't know if that killed the dream or what, but when I hit the light, I wasn't put into a dream scene with my dream body, but just stuck into a bodiless darkness. I tried to form a dream scene, but none came. Probably too quickly, I gave up, and woke myself up.

Fourth WILD attempt (7:38am): Encouraged from being so close, I tried again, but this time couldn't even reach SP. I concluded that there was no more use in trying; REM was done for the night and there was just no way I was going to succeed at this point.

But I got REALLY close that time! Sooner or later I've just GOT to succeed at WILDing again!

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

Had too busy of a day to write down any dreams when I woke up, and they left me before I could write them down some other time

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

Woke up and forgot my dreams too quickly to write them down. Should have written some simple notes...I remembered the dreams for plenty long to write them down, but I had to go to church, so unfortunately my dreams got lost this time

I tried to WILD again this afternoon, without aural aid, but rather keeping my mind focused by going "[breath in]...1...[breath out]...I'm dreaming...[breath in]...2...[breath out]...I'm dreaming" and so on and visualising the numbers and letters of the words. It was working, and I was having a ton of side effects (which I thought of as a good thing, since recently I've been having very little, proving how far away I was to getting it right)...when suddenly, several noises erupted in my house, caused by the TV being turned on in the livingroom, cooking being started in the kitchen, etc. which woke me up immediately. I didn't move or open my eyes, but the focus was lost, the side effects gone, and even though I kept trying, it was far too loud for me to succeed, and even if I got earplugs or something I'd be moving and thus exiting the attempt, therefore I called it quits again. Yes, I did reality check to ensure that I wasn't in a false awakening.

I got closer, though! Soon I'm going to get this WILDing right again!

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

Semi-successfully WILD/EILDed this afternoon, for a nap. Used "The_Ultimate_Lucid_Induction.mp3" as my aural assistant. Came VERY close to fully entering the dream state, but there was a flaw with looping that particular MP3 during a WILD: at more than one point, the voice would not blend with the music and this difference would wake me up. Therefore, though it very successfully induced several different dream scenes, each only lasted for a few seconds, never fully encompassing my field of vision, before the song would reach a point that would jerk me out and back into the blackness of my eyelids. They were very definitely legitimate dreams, though! I would have kept on trying; each dream lasted a tiny bit longer than the last; it seemed that eventually my mind would have been able to tune out the song and finish off the WILD. However, all of a sudden, my eyes just opened of their own accord. I didn't want them to, I didn't try to make them, they just did. I thought maybe I was in a false awakening, so I reality checked, and discovered that I really was awake. Really odd situation...

Anyway, getting that close with a lucid dream inducing MP3 is encouraging. Perhaps I'll find a better one for me or be able to edit the one I used today so that it loses the parts that wake me up.

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

Had one very vivid dream recall that may actually have been two...I can't remember if I had the first part, woke up, and then went back to sleep, or had them both and then woke up. Either way, though I could name a lot of details, since the concepts are fairly basic and I'm in a hurry right now, I'll only list the basic concepts here.

There was a carnival coming to town. Everyone was talking about how amazing it was and how we all needed to go. In anticipation (and inspiration) for it, I built some contraptions of my own and ran a little 'carnival' in my basement. Some of them worked, others...not so much. But the sideshow-like machines were still fairly well received by my friends, though I considered them to be a failure.

Perhaps I woke up here, or maybe it was later. Either way, there was a short time lapse.

I was at the carnival, and enjoying it very much, when a couple really tall and heavy guys ambushed me and put a bag over my head. I got pushed and shoved and tossed and turned, and then eventually they pulled the bag off. I found myself standing naked in front of a bunch of tarps laid on the ground. Crowds had gathered and formed walls on either side of the narrow tarps and my captors stood behind me, so there was no chance of running. It wouldn't have mattered if I could, though, since they pushed me down onto the tarps and watched as I slid away, to everyone's uproarious laughter. I could feel some kind of oil on the tarps, and rubbed all over me as well. I heard one person in the crowd laugh that I was covered in 'hog oil', but what that is I don't know. What I do know is that it was very slippery, and I couldn't get up or stop myself from sliding. People in the crowd pushed me along, and whenever I got to a corner in the tarps, they'd start me sliding down the next one, laughing the whole way. I was incredibly angry, so rather than flail around and do no good, I stopped and let them do their deeds for a minute until I was able to figure out a plan; what direction was I spinning on the tarp, how much tarp was there left, how fast was I going, etc. When my mental calculations were complete, I thrust my hands back and kicked my legs in the air, performing a kip-up. It knocked oil everywhere and got some people to clear out of the way, not to mention get me off my back, but the tarp was so slick that when I tried to walk I went right back down again. I rolled over to the clearing I had created in the crowd and again tried to kip-up. I was close to getting to make a mad dash for it, but then the burly guys knocked me a good one on the head and knocked me out.

Horrible dream for a Christmas night...of course that would be the most vivid one I've had for days now! Hopefully I'll be able to get back to lucid dreaming very soon! I'm really getting tired of this dry spell...

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

I think my alarm is broken. It didn't wake me up again last night, and I made sure to have it somewhere where I would hear it. There's no way I could sleep through THAT alarm twice...it's just too loud.

Since there was no WBTB again, and I've been heavily relying on it, there was also no real LD. I did have a continuous dream that seemed to last all night, but I lost most of it the moment I woke up.

I went to school one day, feeling very confident. I recall having been there before and feeling it was all intimidating and unfamiliar, but something was different about me this time. This time I knew that I could control everything, so I was not afraid of anything or anyone. It wasn't really lucidity, though, since I didn't fully know I was dreaming. I just knew I could control the dream. As I walked to class, I passed a group of girls who were chatting by some lockers. One of them glanced at me as I walked by, and her face caught my eye. It was Claire Bennet (from the Heroes TV show, for those of you who don't know). "Oh cool, so I'm not the only one here with powers." I thought. Rather than be in awe at Claire's ability like everyone else, I just said "Hey, Claire" as I passed by, as if she were an old friend. I could hear the other girls laugh, then say, "Does he know what you can do?" Puzzled, Claire replied, "I don't know...there's something different about him. Something...special." I went into class and sat down. The room was empty other than me. Only a few moments later the other students started coming in. Claire grabbed a seat next to me and leaned over. "Hey," she said. "Can we talk at lunch?" "Sure." Next thing I remember we were talking at lunch. I can't remember what exactly we said, but the basic idea of it was that Claire asked if I had any special 'ability' and I told her that I knew what she could do and that I too could do some special things. We both thought it was nice to have someone the same age that could understand what it was like to be 'special'. Back in class, all of a sudden, alarms went off, government agents burst into the building, searching for something. Claire pulled me out of my chair and down low, in the corner of the room. "Was anyone listening to us talk at lunch?" She asked. "I don't know..." suddenly it was like I was seeing lunch again, only from an omniscient perspective. I looked around and saw someone watching us and listening from a short distance. "Yes!" I said. "I just saw him." "They're coming for us! You have to do something!" "Do? Like what?" "Anything!" She pleaded. "You can control whatever you want to! You have to do something before they find us here!" Just then, the SWAT-like agents burst into our classroom. By impulse, I teleported Claire and myself out of there, to some other place that I don't remember.

I lost even partial lucidity then, and went back to just normal dreaming for a long time. However, I can't remember anything else. My dream recall is really getting bad!