Cities in the Astral

Nothing exciting. I know me being heavily sedated is a re-occuring theme, but I must make some sacrifises for my job. It take until morning for them to wear off enough for me to have any recall or control. I used my snooze alarm to do DEILDs and had 3 (almost made me late for work). They were short and plain, just the sort where you go "oh wow, I did it, I am lucid" only to loose it a minute later. The 3rd one was a little better and I had enough time to play with mass TK for a minute. I just picked up everything in the dream, mostly small unclear objects like stones and such. I played with flipping them all into the air over and over like I was flipping pancakes. There was actually very clear sound effects that when with this alot like pop corn popping. So kind of fun, and probablly pretty good for a work night, while so sedated. Dur. each between 1-2 minutes, the 3rd was maybe 2-4 minutes.

The non-lucid dream involved an old female friend of mine refusing to let me into a house. I guess I had told someone something about a couple who are mutual friends of mine and the DC. My alarm interupted this dream.
I then di a DEILD and soomthly entered the same scene lucid. My snooze on the phone I was using is only 5 minutes, so I had to hurry. I did not have time to stablize or anything, so I just decided to try and resolve the dream scenario. I summoned a gift out of my pocket and explained that what ever I said was an accident, and to please give them this gift. She opened the door and accepted the gift. Then the alarm went off again. Short and boring, but better than nothing. Dur~3 minutes.

I may have been briefly lucid a half dozen times prior to this last night, but if so it was just in minor little phases and my recall is too blurry, so I will ignore them. The real action started near morning. I took a heavy dose of sleep aids so it is no wonder my recall was messed up. I had a vivid non-lucid that went on for a long time. It involved me being surrounded by a large group of people whowere going to force me to fight some young guy in a ring. The young man had vast martial arts training. My only real hope was that being so young, he could only have a limited amount of training assumig hehad waited until 12 to start, then maybe I would be ok. I took pictures with my phone of all the crowd,but then realized it was a bad sign they allowed this. As in, they did not plan on letting me live. I woke up from this.
then did a DEILD and being lucid I changed the story to them giving me a day to prepare. I tried to do a realitycheck and stablize. The oddest thing happened. I would have a body as long as I passively observed the story and only guided my actions within the story. When Iwould stop and try to take direct control, such as look at my hands, my body would fade. I was fully lucid, but seemed forced to play out the scenario. What the F***! If I was playing along with the impending fight scene I did just fine and could exert control realated to the story, but I was being forced toplay along. I wanted to go find and ride a pegasus not get my ass kicked in a cage match. I wonder if the heavy sedation from sleep aids is why I had so little say over things?
The short version is I went and talked to various teachers from my past and asked them about the morals of just snapping the guys neck or at the least destroying an elbow joint. I actually did two more DEILDs but still the same theme was forced on me. I gained a bit more dream control on the scenes that evolved around the story. In the 3rd and final LD I was face to face with him and they were constructing a ring. I was upset because the floor of the ring had a spring board effect. That meant that while his kick boxing could shatter my face, me slamming him into the ground would have little effect on him, despite it being a valid lethal move. I suddenly realized he was probably being forced into this. I just started erasing DCs one after the other, until we were the only ones left. We then decided not to fight. Having succesfully finished the story, I was allowed to continue and do other things, but I woke up before long and it was late in the morning, so I had to wake up

I have been very stressed out with work situations. I have sort of lost focus on LDing and my journal. I have had about 12 LDs I did not journal in this time. Many were other world lectures and there fore had no plot and little I could record here. I actually was allowed to teach as an assistant in one, so it was sort of special. I had some basic short ones, but not interesting enough to go back and detail them individually. Stuff like my cat getting sprayed by a skunk, me lifting a pick up truck full of gravel and spinning the truck so it became full of Maragreta drinks instead, and so on. I plan on taking part in the competition thread, so I need to get back into the swing of things. I will start actively recording the LDs starting with any that happen tonight, but I think I will drop any kind of numbering system.

LD37: I will be changing my numbering at the end of the month. These numbers are LDs after 02-17-12. I will start at 0 each month form now on, and record it by each month.
I have no time to give details here. Started to get into a LD and the scene was unclear and my dream body ill-defined. Suddenly REM started and I could sort of feel my eyes start bouncing around. The imagery came in very vivid. It was of a river. There was a sense of motion and I had been walking but was drawn forward so fast I needed to run. I played with changing the vivid landscape. I have been trying to clearly see the moon and this worked pretty well, then I created a veiw of the lunar lanscape, then a giant lake which I made freeze solid. I managed to slow to a walk again. No real plot happened and I just practiced forming new landscapes to help me teleport more smoothly. Eventually, the dream ended and I lost lucidity. Dur~4 minutes.

LD 36: This was probably a WILD as I was well into SP last I remembered, but I may have lost awareness and had a MILD. I am pretty sure it was a WILD. Suddenly and almost instantly a vivid colorful dream formed and I was lucid. I watched to figure out the scene. A few people were in a park on a beautiful day. I was disembodied and could change my prespective so I tried to see who was in the scene. One DC was the woman who plays the blonde doctor on 'Scrubs' I tried to focus on the other people but she was the only one who I recognized. I drifted close to her and decided to try and form a dream body. I tried to reach out and touch her, but something woke me up. Dur~1 min.
I had 2 vivid non-lucids that were so odd I should have RCd, but didn't.

LD35:This LD went on for awhile and hadd many little parts. The control was good and very high level of lucid. The graphics looked very cartoon like. The back ground would stay blank like the Matrix Training Room. Only what I focused on formed clear images. I started as soon as I could feel my dream body, by walking in the blank space. I waited until it really felt like walking and did a stablization. A new part of my routine is to call out loud "Thank You" I could sense the words and feel me calling out, but I had no sounds so it was a silent scream. I repeated this a couple times before the dream was over and the sound improved some. I don't have time to go into fine detail, so I will just cover some high points. There was no plot, I just got to screw around and have fun. I walked alot trying to prompt the graphics to become realistic. Trees and house blurred on the side of my vision now, so it seems like I am read for a good WILD. I decide a resteraunt is right here and a buffet must be here. Yep here is the buffet. I try to smell things but it is vauge. I ate a creams puff with strawberry filling. The taste lacked sweetness, it was kind of bland but not bad.
At one point I tried to summon a flying horse and one appeared but he was hallucinaton twisted, a horseish blur beast. Cool, but I wont count that, it clearly is only a poorly formed horse, sorry buddy. I fly on the horse and we do stunts for a while.
At one point I just stand around summoning dishes and random things and manipulating the in the air with TK. I messed around until I decided to try flying to the moon. I try to stare at the moon but it is all blurry and shifting (like someone would see on 10 hits of acid). I had spaced out the horse so I flew towards the blur of a moon in a supper man style. I basically flew from one scene to another of getting higher and the the scenes became space. I did some stunt flying and when the time came I landed onthe moon.
A whole little section goes on here basedon pools full of colors and it starts geetting very abstrract and I need to stablize. This time I call out thank you from the moon.
I decide to go and teleport down to the top of the great pyamid. I formed a crazy plan, just to see if I could do it. I blasted energy down the pyrramid and it bust into flames, me included. Covered with flames I floated up and called forth "Thank You" about 12 times. Then I woke up. Dur~20min

LD 34: I was trying a WBTB in a hotel room. A very large cat started climbing up the wall and climbed across the ceiling to get above me. I was shocked back into awareness as I had almost drifted away during the WBTB. I looked up at the cat and realized I was in a LD. Not much happened after that. I made the cat disappear and spent a few moments trying to remeber what goals I had set for myself. I should have stabilized. I spaced off after only about 1-2 minutes in the dream. Dur~1 minute

LD 33 as of 02-17-12. Awesome WILD with Shape Change, Advanced Flight, Teleport, Sex with Movie Stars, and more. Worth glancing at. This was my 6th WILD attempt and the second successful one for the night. I spent 11.5 hours in bed all totalled. I already had 10 hours in bed trying WILDs and had 1 LD, so I almost gave up. Man, one last try. I went back to bed and chanted the mantra "flying snake" to myself. I hit SP in only 3-4 minutes and instantly could feel my dream body. All sort of HIs appeared like swirling clouds of smoke. I examined my body using my hands but could not see it. I needed to wait for this all to develop. I kept scratching my fore arms to stay stable and casually watched HIs. After another 2 minutes or so I decided to try blind transformation. I had wanted to be an Aztec Flying Serpent. I could not see a body, but felt it very clearly. I felt myself change and before long was experimenting with my new flying snake body. I really felt my long tail and could cold and slither. I actually tried flying and could feel motion and inertia.
I transformed back to human and the visuals had begun to develop but were vauge. I spent a couple minutes feeling myself and watching my hands while climbiing a ladder and a rope. I came to a platform blocking my way and it felt very real. I had to climb around it. I decided that, that was real dream stuff so I may as well get the fun moving along. I now had normal dream visuals. This dream went on for about 45 minutes total, not including all the intro warm up stuff I just mentioned.. I was in bed for 1 and 1/2 hours. So, I will just hit the high points.
I transformed into the flying snake and flew around exploring above a forest for a few minutes. I felt exactly like a snake and nothing like a human. I got up real high and dove, but the body would kind of flap behind me and I had to spiral down. I tried this about 3 times and was not satisfied. I was getting tired of fying way back up there, so I started looking up at a cloud and then teleport my snake self to the top of it and reapet that again. This let me get crazy high, like many thousand feet. This dive was awesome. I had figured out how to move and do stunts. It took forever to actually reach ground. I would be diving and then flex and do a loop and rolls. I was going very fast and the ground approached. I tried to pull gracefully out of the dive, but ended up slamming into the peaty forest floor! What the heck? Grrrr.
I get up and brush myself off. Ok, the flying serpant thing is pretty complete. What now? The challenge thread had 'interact with a DC as a task. I walked around a hill side and run into a woman. I think sexing it up with a movie star would count, I start talking to the woman and getting cozie, kissing her neck and playing with her hair. I caused her to become a famous singer (Britney) and we fooled around for a good 3 minutes or so. I stopped that because if I did not stablize I was going to loose lucidity. I went through another stablizing sequence.
What now? I tried to think about the challenge thread, and remember what else was on it, but it was a total blur. I remembered that there is a challenge of the year thread. I could only come up with the Sputnick challenge. I decided to get launched into space with Sputnick. I flew up above the hills and circled looking for some sort of base or rocket pad. I did not see anything. There was a building on a hill side and I decided it must be a Russian guard house. I would have a DC take me to the launch site. I walk up to the building and a male guard is there. We talk and he gives me no real help. I decide that a different guard has replaced him. This one is a woman. I hate to be so much of a male here, but I decided Sputnix could wait. I would suduce the woman and then she would want to take me there. I also decided that the gaurd was a famous actress (Jen) and she became that person. I also change her into another actress for awhile, but went back to Jen. I quickly noticed she was more like a doll than a DC, so I told her 'I release all control over you, please act naturally.' She did, she developed a personality and made suggestions and was a very active partner.
I materialized cloths for her and then for me. Finally I had a plan. jen is not really a gaurd, she is a Russian scientist who wants to let her new boyfriend she the Sputnic launch. I materialized lab coats for both of us. We go through a back door and come out on a launch site. I fly over to the rocket. I grab some fins near the nose of the rocket, but then think fins don't make sense here. I transform the fins into metal hand grips near a service hatch. The count down happens and I ride the rocket. I end up way up in the sky when the thing comes apart and the satalite is released. I had to levitate over to it. I decided that those anteni things would be how you stear it. I sit on the satalite and picture it kind of like a Sputnick Harley. Wow, it was great fun! I could see the earth below and saw Africa and Europe. I flew around very fast and it was like a rocket scooter. I decided to visit a space station. I could see one and drove Sputnick to it and left it with a valet. The space station was basically a casinoe. I spend some time at the buffet. i try a glazed bannanna and it tastes kind of bland. I try to smell it, but can't. I pour a shot of whiskey and try to smell it, it smells barely. I drink it. I practiced Super Speed by moving across parts of the station lightning fast. I did this until I ended up going up the side of the station in a Super Speed Spider climb.
I decided to dive from space back to earth, but had not found the snake a very good body for that. I transformed into a hawk. I dove and banked and had a blast until I reached the ground. What now? Summoning, I made a giant water trough appear. Elemental I pulled water from out of the air and filled the tub. Telekinisis, I summoned a piture and fancy goblet and manipulated them with TK so that a glass full of water ended up floating over to me. I drank it and decided to take a bath. I enjoy interacting with water in LDs. I finally laid back in the tub and watched the sky. I was hoping to get a real clear view of the moon, but the sky was just pshycodelic clouds and sunsets. At that point I woke up. Dur~45 minutes

LD32 as of 02-17-12, Four failed WILDs before this one. I reach SP and this time as I try to feel a dream body I can feel myself move. I do a stabilization blind. I can only see HIs but I manage to solidify a great dream body. I just start walking through the swirling colors. I screw around doing all sorts of motions like dancing around and running. I finally come to a formed scene. It is like a English village where you may see Little Bo Peep. I spider climb up a lerge stone chimney.
What had I planned on doing? I remember the challenge thread on Dream Views, probably something to do with that. I am tripping out on the tectures of the stones of the chimney. The are moving and changing. One stone comes off in my hand. Super Strength, that was one of the things I was going to do. I started tearing large stones out of the chimney. I pulled the whole front off the chimney. I climbed on top of the building. There was construction stuff around, so I saw a box of stone tiles and lifted it easily with one hand. I lifted it high with just finger strength and then casually threw it way out into the village. Not good enough; I looked for anything heavier. A pallet full of bricks or tiles was there. I picked it up withone hand and flung it off the roof.
I went too long without stablizing, and something woke me up. Dur~8 minutes

LD 31: Contains shape shifting, flight, element manipulation, teleport, summon object to hand. I had been awakened form my last LD by the alarm clock. I was pissed, but I decided to hit snooze and try a last ditch DEILD before a long work day. I got lucky and had a fabulous 10 minute LD. I looked at the time, hit the snooze, and tried to picture the last dream. I had been transformed into a horse, so I tried to picture that. It only took about 30 seconds to drift off back to sleep.
I felt like I had a giant head. I became lucid and was more or less in the shape of a horse. I turned back in a person. Why the heck was I a horse? Oh yeah, it had something to do with a challenge thread on Dreamviews. I know there was more than to become a horse, but maybe I will figure it out after I become a horse again. I like to really feel a transformation and experiance the body of the animal. I took my time and became a solid horse. The scenery at this point is just me and a field of bluish gray, like the white area in The Matrix.
I stablize by stamping my hooves and trying to feel the impact of the hooves against a hard surface. The ground appears, and I play around as a horse. I remeber I was wanting to be a flying teleporting horse. I started to levitate and drift forward. No, that seems dumb, I should have wings. I grow wings and flex them. I start flying and it feels awesome. I fly up and up way into the sky. I start a dive and start going real fast like a hawk. I remember that I wanted to challenge my self and teleport while in flight. Ok, how will I know if I teleport or not. I decide the entire landscape should suddenly be completely and radically different. As I am getting closer to the ground in a crazy dive, I can see that I am above The Grand Canyon. Ok, I will teleport to the California coast. I focus on the canyon and make the image blur, it comes back into focus as the coast.
I fly down to the beach and walk as a horse through the shallow waves. Suddenly a wave over takes me and I am having to swim. I fly back up out of the waves, and climb back up into the clouds. I want to try it one more time. I get a few thousand feet up above the coast and start another power dive. As I am getting closer to the ground, I blur out the scene and intend on going to a forest. The picture comes back as a forest. I land amongst the trees.
Well, what now? I remember my next goal was elemental manipulation. I think being a fire breathing horse would be cool. I try it, but all I can manage is a small cute little tongue of flame. I decide to turn human again and try other manipulations. I want a torch so I look into the palm of my hand and materialize one. I focus and cause flames to erupt from the torch. I set the torch down and make it become a bon fire. I make rain pour just on the fire, and it goes up in steam. I focus the steam into a ball and take it into my hands. I lift my hands to the sky and cause the ball of steam to become lightning and blast up into the sky, causing it to start raining. I don't know why but I decided to do my RC which is levetation, and it worked. I stablized again by patting my hands all over my body.
I turn back into the horse and start to fly again, but a wall of vines catches me like a spider web. I transform into a monkey. I stabelize again by trying to feel and move my new prehensile tail. I start climbing the vines and make sure to use the tail. What now? How about something silly. I decide that there is a lake somewhere below and it would be so odd to jump and become a fish while flying trough the air! I fling my monkey body off of the vines and then become a big carp. I am flying towards the ground and hope it is water. No wait!!! I know it is a lake! I splash into a pond and am under water. I look around and try to get the feel for being a fish. I am looking up from below and see little bugs on the surface. Hmmm, I think it is neat to eat things and see how well I can taste them. Bugs? Yeah sure, why not. At first I just gobbled them from the surface. I could taste something, but it was bland and generic tasting. I decided to catch bugs that flew by. I launched out of the water and snatched one. I tried a second time and when I was in mid air,,, the alarm went off and I had to start my day.

LD30: Had 1.5 hours to attempt my last WILD for the night. It had almost failed, and I got very floaty and almost lossing awareness. I finally started see exotic swirling patterns and I tried to move a dream body, in case I actually was on the threashold of an LD. I could feel myself move. I could bend each joint and feel myself dance and stuff, but the visuals took a couple minutes to become dream like rather than pshycodelic. I spent some time working on transforming into a horse. I like to feel as if I am the animal rather than just appear as it. I spent a few minutes and got into the shape of a horse. Other than me there was no imagery, like The Matrix training room. I stablized by stamping my hooves and trying to hear the noise it made. I couldn't really hear it well, but it did the trick. I was trying to remember why I had wanted to become a horse. The alarm rang and woke me. The dream may have been less than 10 minutes, so that short WILD took 80 minutes to work. Dur~8-10 min.

LD29: A short strange dream I can not really describe. I did a WBTB and got all zoned out and almost lost awareness when a vivid dream started. I was disembodied and my feild of vision was all blue and weird. I tried to move and the blue shifted around as if I was somehow this squarish blue thing. I wanted to be sure this was a lucid dream and not HIs. I had not experianced anything like this in any HI. The visual field was not just blue but I seemed to be a blue squarish blob, that could shift about and I could figure out nothing beyond that I was lucid in a truely odd dream. I focussed my vision trying to understand, but that caused me to open my waking bodies eyes, and the dream ended

LD28: I am sitting at a kitchen counter top covered with clutter, my cat jumps up, but it is not my cat. I do a levetation RC and become lucid. I search my mind for memory of what tasks and goals I had set. I thought off the Sputnix task of the year,and figured I should work up to that as the dream progressed. I remembered that one thread had a challenge going, and mass telekinisis is something I am not sure I remember doing any time lately. I used my energy to grab 5 things off the table and then 4 more, all things like plates and glasses of bright colors. I needed one more item so I grab a garden chair and used telek. to juggle them around in the air. That eneded up being too easy, so I thought I should try the giant object version.I looked around for a building and a school building appeared. I use telek. to tear it from the ground and float it up into the air. That was easy to as it does not seem any harder to lift a building than anything else.
I transformed into a bird and flew up into the air. The challenge mentioned 'super flight' and I wondered if I should try anything like that. I wondered if flying as a bird counted, but transforming into one counted for something. I start to fade in these random thoughts and need to stablize. I drop the bird image and study my hands. I pat them against my knees and elbows and remeber I also wanted to activate my voice during stablization aand to call out 'thank you' a few times. I started with 'hey!' a few times, until it sounded good, then called out 'Thank You' across the dream world twice.
I had posted that someone should try throwing knives that he would keep summoning into his palm. I tried it and it was fun. I created a huge tree stump and summoned a knife, then threw it. It felt cool, because I could also feel the knife hit the tree. I coughed and turned over and that woke me up. Dur~5-10 min

I am a little frustrated because I had pshyced myself up, planning on a great night of LDing. While I had 3 distict LDs they were very short.
LD25 since 02/19/12: DILD I was walking and a big fox came running out from no where. I did my levitate RC and it worked. I became lucid and tried to look around. I decided to try and get a white room effect like in The Matrix training area. I turned away from the scene but did not expect any new scenery. It worked, I was in a blank white feild of space except the remainss of the last scene in one part of it. I lost all recall at that point.
LD26: DILD Swirling shapes were floating about and I realized it must be a dream. I became lucid and tried to look around, just more crazy shapes, I tried to look at my hands to stablize. They came in and out of view, and I woke up before I could stablize.
LD27: I did a WILD attempt after about 6 hours sleep. I was at it a while when a vivid scene of looking up stream from close to water level at a river appeared. I realized it was real LD imagery and that I was lucid. I studied the images for clarity and realism. It all looked great. I realized I had no dream body. I thought about forming one butfirst I tried to look around. New scenes of rivers would form. At that point I lost recall.
Dur: All 3 were less than 2 minutes.