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I haven't been able to post much recently because my dream recall seems to have just disappeared. I think there's two main reasons for this; firstly I'm under a lot of stress and secondly now that it's getting warmer I'm waking up earlier and going for runs etc, which means I miss the larger chunk of my REM cycle.

I'm really hoping my recall will come back soon!

Dream
Lucid
Fragment

I'm in a Halls of Residence across the road from me and there's a party going on. It's extremely loud and security come up to moan at us. I am at the bottom of the stairs and quickly get the lift up before security can get in. When at the top I find that everybody is hiding "behind" the lifts where there are numerous secret fire escapes. Before long, security works this out and I make a run for outside with an old friend J_D_ who moved to Australia years ago. Outside is a sort of wasteland and we find an upturned car, we flip this over, jump in and drive away.

I'm in my original house reading a magazine. It occurs to me that it is Friday and I should going out clubbing - I've bought a ticket (I did this in RL). I then realise that I must be dreaming because I shouldn't be home until one week later and the club is in my university town. I become fully, vividly lucid, but then it occurs to me that my alarm has already gone off and I should be getting ready for class. I have to wake myself up from a potentially amazing LD

I am at my old workplace as they've hired me again. When I arrive I see that they've no put a huge book/CD rack in the middle. K_ complains because all the girls made him listen to Katy Perry, although I confess I don't mind the song. They ask me to put the CD back in its correct alphabetical place. I find this difficult as the order changes every time I go to put it back (I've heard of this before in dreams but never experienced it until now). I then need some stamps and my boss tells me that can be my job for the day. We eventually find a full book of stamps in the first till and then I have to go around to all of the computers to try and pay for it. C_ gets really angry at me because I try to use her computer and she had her "infrared" set up.

I'm in a lecture at University and a girl starts talking about clothes. She then shouts at me as I always wear "dull, ugly blue". We are each then given a free item of clothing (mine is a white onesie for a baby) and then leave. I am then at H_ House with G_ and C_. We are all deciding what clothes to wear to make this girl shut up. I decide to cut up the clothes I was given to make some long white sleeves, I then wear a red band shirt over the top. We are all ready to leave and go up a hill (similar to P_ town) but at the top C_ realises he is just wearing baby clothes and nothing normal. We have to turn back and get him new clothes.

My Dad is tidying my bathroom and complains that I never put my clothes to wash.

A doctor thinks I have cancer. He uses a geiger counter which indicates that my nose is the source. He then puts a camera up my nose and down my throat to look closer. This felt terrifyingly realistic.

I've been having a bit of a dry spell of dream recall so the last two nights have been reassuring. Glad I had a lucid, it's a shame I had to wake myself up though!

Had pretty poor dream recall again last night, I'm pretty tired at the moment so can't really get pen to paper in time. Hopefully this weekend I'll have something of an REM rebound though!

On the bright side I almost had an accidental WILD when going to sleep. I was doing a lot of deep breathing (as I read about underbreathing during the day) and this really relaxed me. Before I knew it I had the floating sensation and I could feel my eyes zipping around. Probably didn't work as this was right at the start of the night.

So this morning I became aware I was lucid whilst in a dream and again immediately woke up without the chance to ground my dream. I'm in a miserable mood now.

It was a pretty good night for dreaming other than that though and I supposed the frequency of my lucid dreams must be a sign of progress.

Non lucid
Lucid

This first dream was very much like a movie at some points, I observed the action for a variety of angles as well as first person. I am on a roof of a building. It is one of the garden-like ones that you see in Japan etc on top of skyscrapers, however it is much larger. As I push through the crowds I realise I am being chased down (AGAIN!!) by a man in a suit who is weaving his way through.
The "shot" cuts and I see him nudge a girl sitting on the ground with his foot, he puts his shoe threateningly near her face but she bites it and shows no fear. I assume that she is refusing to give my location. I am aware of the fact that I have great power and can easily fight this man off so vanish the stairs.
At this point the shot" cuts to a birds eye view and I see that the building that I'm on is a mix of modern glass and a temple of stone. The stairs disappear and then I somehow make him aware of the fact that I'm ready to fight him face to face. The "shot" remains bird's eye and I suddenly see loads of squares appear above peoples head's like a video game. Each square spins and the person below it has a character revealed with whom they will fight. This takes me by surprise as I thought I was the only one fighting him. Everybody but me and the man in the suit turns into Pikachu and a huge battle commences. I'm not sure who's fighting who as the Pikachu's electricity all combines and streaks into the air, hitting an aeroplace.
The next thing I know, I'm observing what's happening on this plane. Everybody has been transformed into half-pigs apart from those in first class. A woman leaves first class, unaware of what has happened and see the pig people everywhere. She really needs the toilet so hides until she has a good opportunity to sneak through. Her opportunity arises when a few of the men decide to play a truth or dare like game involving kissing eachother. She makes her move but I don't stay dreaming long enough to see the conclusion.

I really enjoyed this dream, in fact the vividity of dreams is increasing so much that I'm beginning to enjoy most normal dreams as the plots seem so intriguing.

I can't remember all of this dream so will fill in what I assume happened in the gaps in black. I'm at Hurn House and there is a zombie type invasion. We are on the 11th floor flat and a zombie comes stumbling in the house, we instantly leap into action and stuff him in the cupboard, taking great care not to get bitten. We have been out hunting zombies and return. Upon our return we find the door unlocked and are quite worried, we cautiously enter and then see the guy who stayed behind happily playing fifa. With our guard lowered I open the cupboard door from earlier to get food, forgetting the zombie was in there. I have to wrestle him back in before he escapes.

Another enjoyable dream, now for the let down.

I am walking down my hometown's High Street and on the corner I see a red car for sale, its price has been reduced by several hundred pounds and it's covered in bird shit. I have a feeling I saw this car earlier in the dream at full price and in a clean condition. Myself and someone else look interestedly and then continue round the corner. I approach my car now on my own and get it, I know I must take care driving as I've been drinking. The car is behaving strangley and the clutch doesn't seem to be working. I feel somwhat worried as I see a police car. I notice there's lots of space in front of me where I can turn around and head down this street the right way, but I must do it before the approaching bus gets closer or I'll have to wait. The car is still behaving strangley and I decide to check my feet are on the pedals ok. There are four pedals, for an instant I tell myself not to question this and focus on driving in case the police get suspicious. But then I tell myself, "Don't be fucking scared, this is NOT normal." I check again and think "Wow, I am dreaming". The dream instantly disappears and I see the back of my waking eyelids.

Was too drunk to bother/be able to dream recall last night. It's interesting that alcohol helps my recall, but only to an extent. Perhaps it was the dizziness that ruined it all!

Still, I feel I'm making quite a lot of progress, lucid dreaming has been on my mind a lot lately. I feel an oncoming WILD in the near future.

Dream fragment: I wake up feeling hungover so head to the bathroom for a drink of water which I drink out of my starbucks mug.

Dream fragment (may be linked): I leave my room and see T_ and K_. I am putting on my shirt and K_ mentions that I've been lying about not working out.

Yesterday evening I tried a WILD nap. It only lasted 15 minutes but I felt subtle WILD effects and semi dipped into a dream. I used the visualisation technique which certainly helped lull me to sleep. The visualisation that worked started off as two grey squares which slowly gained detail which I don't feel I consciously added. It turned into the set of Family Guy and we all started dancing, singing a song called "I'm going to reality check at the end of this song". I think I did this as I was aware I was dreaming but wanted to establish it as a proper dream first. Unfortunately I woke up.

Okay so I've had a few dreams over the past week which I haven't had a chance to log, unfortunately no lucids and generally fragments so I'll just stick to one colour.

1. Full Dream

I'm on the run from Iron man's sidekick again. As I walk down a road near my house I pass a costcutter and decide I need water. Whilst sneaking down the side to steal some I get spotted by a group of local kids, they heckle me and dare me to come closer. For some reason there is some sort of storage facility where the road should be consisting of low concrete walls and wire fences. I walk up to one of the walls and confront them, this seems to work and I leave.

I now enter a casino where I am now being hunted down by a man in a grey suit who I know is very dangerous. Somebody says to me that I need to master my powers just like in a lucid dream, particularly flight and telekinesis. I cannot believe I missed this dream sign. I sit at one of the tables and start playing blackjack, using my newly mastered telekinesis to lift cards and chips at the perfect moment so that I win a large amount of money. I store my winnings in a tube of chips. The man in grey comes to find me and I used my mind to flick chips at him, all this does is annoy him and next thing I know we're fighting.

The situation is just like the boss level of House of the Dead 3. We're suddenly in a cylindrical room and he's flying around me making me dizzy. The fight is deadly but I am aware that I can win with my powers. I stab at him with pencils whilst he pummels me with his fists. Eventually he swoops beneath me and I fly down and grab his head. As he struggles to escape I disconnect his lower jaw and throw it away as he roars. He tries attacking me with the remaining upper teeth and somehow I disconnect these too so that he has no weapons left.

The next thing I know it's as if that fight never happened, I see my girlfriend on the phone to her Dad. It turns out he's damaged his jaw and needs a dentist.

2.Full recall which has now faded

I only have the notes for this dream "Cranborne. G_. E_ down. Gig. Struggle for tickets."
I can hardly remember this dream except for the fact we were in G_'s flat, I assume we were all going to a gig.

3. Full recall which has now faded

I'm on a train near Bournemouth in the exact same location where I had a dream before. All my friends were there then but now only VH is. The train is going downhill and I show VH a teddybear, he likes this teddybear and thinks it's cute, treating it like a baby. We talk for a short while and then I go into the next carriage. Here I see A_ who tells me she has had a boob job and insists on showing me. She looks like someone out of a magazine (and definitely doesn't in real life, sorry!).

4. Fragment

I look in the mirror at my spots and find that they've all gone bubbly and are layering upon eachother, they appear infected like a man's leg that I saw on television the other day. I feel relieved as I know I have a new spot cream from the doctors (also in RL) which works really well.

5. Fragment

I walk in on my Dad pumping up footballs. I ask him if I can borrow the pin so I can inflate my American Football. I do so and am happy that it's no longer flat.

6.Fragment from a while back

Don't know why but I remember this fragment really vividly despite the fact that it was from two weeks ago. I am at a nightclub and get offered drugs. One gets poured into my hand and I do not want to take it because I never have before. I decide to take half of the tablet. I notice that these tablets look identical to one of the ones I used to use when I worked at the pharmacy.

7.Full recall which has now faded

I have no idea why I didn't record this dream ages ago. I leave Hurn House near where I live and the geography is all wrong. There is a huge hill sloping downwards in front of my and a monorail to my left (see dream 3). I can look out onto the sea as if a section of the town has been chopped away and the sea moved closer. All of my old school friends are outside, J_, VH, T_, L_, R_, B_, S_ etc etc. Me and J_ start doing a weird dance which involves mirroring eachother whilst we twist our hands left and right whilst outstretched, like turning on a tap or something. We both find this dance funny as if we purposely learned it at an earlier date.

The past few nights haven't been particularly successful, a mix of drinking and just enjoying my chance to sleep away from uni.

Dream 1 involved me being in Bournemouth and finding out that I was only actually 10 minutes away from London. An old friend of mine called Ellen showed me how to get there. We were at the top of a mutli storey car park which also had a lot of bicycles parked in it too. We opted for the stairs instead of the lift and ended up walking along a really clean street with a huge skyscrapers. I remembered that I had to meet my girlfriend at one point though and had to leave.

I could recall the other dream until about 5 minutes ago so will take some time to remember it and edit later.

Last night was somewhat successful, was out clubbing so slept like a log, apparently I even slept through a fire alarm!

Dream signs are shown in red.

Dream fragment

I'm in my home town walking near the library. I want to walk down a somewhat dark alleyway but see two figures at the other end and sense danger. I run. Despite taking a different route these two people bump into me, this is geographically impossible. I realise that they are actually two good friends of mine, Sam and Squibs. I remember hoping thet didn't realise that I ran away from them.

Vivid recall

I'm in my halls of residence and have a tv on my desk. One of my flatmates asks to watch it and I say that I can't as a) I don't have a TV license and b) I don't have the cable to connect it to the wall. They point out that it can use an aerial to pick up signal and to my surprise it works, although the quality is quite low. I somehow start playing fifa on it with my flatmate Blake, his friend comes along and asks to join in too. Blake points out that it is an old edition of the game as there are 6 "pips" above the players heads, rather than 4. By pips he was referring to the icon that appears above the selected player. Therefore 6 or 4 pips are an impossible occurence without 12 or 8 players.

I realise thats the halls have been relocated to a beach location combined with the location of nearby Hurn House. My friend Toby excitedly leads me to the back of The Old Firestation where there is an alleyway, he says he plans to pay tramps to fight eachother there fore entertainment. I think that this is fundamentally wrong but keep my mouth shut. I return home and see out of my window that my friend Rocky who doesn't live here is leading a large group of people to see the fight, the two tramps are very tall, like to golem out of Sherlock Holmes, and are wearing bright red coats. I try to tell Toby that what he's doing is wrong but he ignores me, telling me that the adrenaline and the thrill of the fight are all worthwhile. I end up at the beach instead where people are being taught to fight. Spiderman is there teaching us. However all of a sudden another Spiderman gets punched to the ground and we see that Robert Downey Jr is pretending to be a duplicate. He gets angry at this and tells me that I've come to the wrong location, he takes on an appearance more like Iron Man. He then starts trying to stab me and gets me in the stomach despite my attempts to dodge. He then charges at me again, stabbing me in the face a slipping the blade in so it doesn't pierce my skull, but slides under my scalp. Once again my attempted dodge has failed. I then woke up.


Why does Iron Man haunt my dreams?? I'm not even a big fan!

Not much dream content to report tonight. I recall a fragment of a dream where I was shown around a flat with a group of people and there was a lot of damp on the ceiling. That's it.

Hopefully made a bit of progress towards WILDing as I felt the wild vibrations on at least one occasion.

Afternoon napped for 2 hours and got absolutely nothing from it.

Last night I was so excited about potentially having my 2nd LD, which unfortunately ruined it for me. It took me a grand total of 6 hours to get to sleep properly.

But firstly I need to backtrack somewhat. The first few hours of trying to sleep found me on the verge of LDing countless times. I feel as though the SP I encountered however was somewhat suggested to myself as I didn't even try to move out of it. When I was lying there it felt like my body was getting lighter and lighter, almost as if my consciousness was leaving my body. However try as I might I sensed that whilst I could almost feel myself lifting away my eyes would betray me. This happened about 5 times, every time I ended up opening my eyes just in case it was a FA, with each reality check showing that, unfortunately, I really was in the real world. The closest I feel I got to LDing was when I had this "floating" sensation coupled with slight shapes and colours in my minds eye becoming more vivid. I could also sense my "spotlight" of vision widening and taking in more and more information.

Once I actually got to sleep my dream recall was somewhat disappointing. I know that I had a vivid dream at some point, but I failed to find anywhere to record it in time. The second fragment of dreaming that I can recall is only audio as it combined with some interference from RL. One floor below my window somebody began repeatedly knocking as hard as they could (student life!). This led me to hear the word "knowledge" said by a female voice with every knock that was made until I gradually faded into a waking state.