Cities in the Astral

I had been inside when I saw through a glass door that my yard was flooded. I went to check. I was now in a different yard so I became fairly sure this was a dream. I jumped and went extra high. I became fully lucid. I flew around and decided on a goal. I would practice summoning specific DCs, that is sexy women to pleasure me. Now way to often sex stuff destabilizes my dreams and the goal of have sex seems shallow. So this time I would spend only moments with each DC.
I floated up and saw a neighborhood and influenced the creation of it so that a large cheap hotel was near me. I went in through the doors and explored rooms. Before I entered a room I would basically 'remember' that so and so is in there. It worked 3 out of 4 times or I should say 6 out of 8 times. I was easily able to find maids, single women and once two college girls on vacation from Sweden. In each case I simply walked up to the bed and caused the DC to act as I wanted (oral) but only for 15 seconds at the most apiece. I figured out the dream would stay more stable if I looked at something else (not the woman) as she did this (?less stimuli? still felt great). Two of the rooms were empty. In one of these I decided not to accept failure and remembered that the woman was in a large walk in closet. I found that closet, but it was empty so I went to the hall and tried again.
The best part was after I decided I was not going to get much good training doing this so left the hotel. I flew up and looked around. I saw someone driving a Challenger. I landed on the hood and used the car like a surf board. I could control how it turned by shifting my weight. I rode it fast around corners and such for a couple minutes. In the end I made it drive off a cliff and rode it down a really steep hill/cliff side.

I was hanging out with my dream guide when she was suddenly gone. I called out,"Kim!!!" Then realized I do not know her name. Could it be Kim, or did she just remind me of someone in waking life.

I became vividly lucid and realized I could not think of any goals. I considered just having sex. What a low level of of devotion. I ended up just going for a joy flight.

A fun series of LDs involving a plot. There was at least 3 distinct sequences in which major scene changes. A witch was trying to steal babies. We had to sneak in and get them. The witch chased me with both of us flying. I stole her slipper because I figured it could be a magic slipper. She sicked bats on me and I tried to shove the slipper down a chimney. A bat was in the chimney and kept me from putting the slipper down there. Good fun. Vivid and long complex story.

08-21-16 Long DILD: High lights: Brain fought me a little after climbing around an industrial building. Summoned a women and she acts reluctant and turns saying her shirt is snagged on something. Don't care it will come off anyways. I pull her entire shirt up and she is topless and free. I get her positioned on her knees facing me. She morphs to a much to young girl. No, brain, you are not going to derail this. Focus, I don't believe she changed. She is now adult again and does what I imagine. Feels real, but starts to destabilize the dream. I reduce the inputs down to trying to read the name of a drug from a bottle. I can get it to say IBU and that is stable. Things come back and I float up away from the woman. I explore some more and notice the images include a reflection in shiny tin duct work. I find reflections to be an interesting addition and very high tech. I stop and try to get a good look at my own reflection. As the reflected me comes into focus I see it is moving around independent of my actions. It comes forward and starts laughing at me like The Joker. Very cool moment.

08-09-16 This dream was really wild (despite it being a DILD). The first half was non-lucid but one scene is worth recording. A girlfriend from my youth and her brother and sister were with me. We had been running around trying to find someone. We wound our through crazy rooms and alleys and eventually we climbed into a large canal and floated down it. A helicopter came by and lowered a basket into the canal with a guy on it. They were fishing with a huge net. After dipping into the water the guy pulls two fish out of the basket and flashes them to us like he is proud. However, the fish are about the size of large trucks and have human like heads. Boy, you think that would have got me lucid! It was shortly after that that I did get lucid.

Me and the girl were outside a house, and I knew the kids were inside. I randomly became hyper aware and suspected I was dreaming. I did the finger through palm RC and after a moment could see my finger tip going through the back side of the hand. I became fully lucid. I told the girl that this was a dream and to check out the cool things I could do. I picked her up in my arms and crouched down a bit and then sprang/jumped all the way up to the first floor roof. She did not seem impressed. "Ok, watch this," I levitate/fly, still holding her and take her up to the very top of the house and have sex with her. I only am busy at this for less than a minute when I feel the dream become unstable. I land us in the yard and use my sensory reduction stabilization by playing with one of her nipples and allowing all other visuals and inputs to fade. The dream become stable.

Ok, time to try and do my 3 step task; what was it? I think 1)summon 2) element 3)banish. I was wrong as the order is 1)summon 2) banish 3) element. I focus on the porch and intend on summoning a bonfire. A small fire appears. It is only about 18" across and the flames are only about 6". It is burning blue and reminds me of a puddle of lighter fluid. I focus and cause the flames to grow to about 4' high and then change the color to red. The girl seems concerned I will burn the house down with the kids inside. I extinguish the fire with my mind. We are now a few feet further into the yard and her siblings are with us. From around the back of the house comes a Dc who looks like a friend of mine. This friend had sex with the girl when we were young and I never got to. I decide this is a good time to earn points trying DC mind control. I point and tell him to get an the ground. He gets down like I am arresting him. I tell him to roll over. He acts like a dog and rolls over a few times and then runs off into the back yard. I start eating a hotdog and drinking a big gulp. I can not really taste the food, but the soda does taste good and feels cold and wet in my mouth.

I turn around and another friend from my youth is there by the girl. He also got to have sex with this girl when we were young, and the DC starts talking about that event. Ok, fine, I will earn some more points with the transform Dc task. I walk up to him and place my hands on either side of his face. I squish his head like it was silly puddy. I cause his eyes to migrate around his face. Finally I make his face morph into a really cool 6 eyed alien. Two eyes on either side with one of each pair being bulbous and having 4 smaller eyes inside it, and two eyes about were his mouth would be. I found this delightfully funny. I told the DC that in exchange for changing his head I would make him twice as smart. The dream started to fade so I tried to stabilize using her earlobe as a focus, but instead had an FA. I dreamed that I was in a hotel room and thought I was waking up from being super drunk.

08-09-16 I kept having trouble sleeping because my brain was very active with a dream in which the plot involved aliens or sometimes Imperialists, having left an area and we, the population, were in fear that they were going to come back and enslave us. This sort of scene just kept replaying in all sorts of variations on the theme. I actually did manage to get lucid, but only in a minor way. I at some point realized I was dreaming, but was in the 3rd person. I failed to remember that we are doing the competition. I was just frustrated about the quality of my sleep due to anxiety over the aliens coming back. I calmed myself and made a voice (like God) boom saying, "everything is ok, they are never coming back. Everyone just relax and enjoy your lives. You can stop worrying." The dream then became less anxious and the DCs started discussing how nice it was they no longer had to worry. I failed to do anything else with the dream after that, but I did sleep much more restfully after that.

08-05-16 I was scheduled to work this morning and had been very unsatisfied with my WILDs. I had attempted 6 times (2 at 5,6 hrs, and 4 using snooze between 7 and 8 hours). The last one hit but was no better than a beginners very first lucid.

WILD #1: I have been using the mantra "I am dreaming" and drifting off when I find myself sitting in a chair at a desk. across the desk from me is a women looking critically at me, as if this were a job interview. I state out loud, "This is a dream." The woman looks confused. I wake up.


I finally had to get up and get ready for work frustrated. After my shower my phone was buzzing. there was a message from the boss telling me I was not needed today, and to not come in. Well bummer, as I need the money, but bonus as I can make one truly serious WILD attempt.

WILD#2: I put a pillow over my eyes and laid on my back. I went through a very long formal Dream Yoga style induction over and over until my mind was barely present and would loose focus within counting 6 breaths and HI were intense. I then used tactile visualization to feel my arms reach up and grab the rungs of a ladder. I slowly moved my hands (visualized) in order to climb the ladder, until my waking body was no longer detectable. A dream started at this point. I am laying in a bed at my grandma's house and someone is knocking at the door. I just lay still and stabilize by focusing on it being a dream and wait. I do not want to move too early and have my real body shift, waking me. After I feel stable i float up out of bed, again to avoid accidentally moving my waking body. I am in! A nice stable LD and no alarm set. Time to have a blast and score some points. In the next room my uncle is there and he is giving himself a shot. His arm is bulging as if he has a misplaced IV filling the tissue. We talk for a minute. I go into the front room and there are two exotic birds, one is like a big black and white macaw. I play with this bird for a couple minutes. It feels real and likes to playfully bite. Someone comes in but I don't want to talk so I tell them to play with the bird, which I point out, and they do. Oh yeah, points, almost forgot. Let's see, phase through a solid object. grandma's front door was always a huge solid wood door. I walk into it, but it resists. I press my face into it and relax, this will work. The door becomes flexible stretching as I move, then I phase through it and am on her front porch. I think of my tasks. I did teleport, and draw up the waking memory of what is left. Transformation and advanced flight. So I decide to become the type of bird I was just playing with. I don't like to just go 'poof' and see an image of me as something. I like to truly feel the transformation of my body and limbs, and feel the body parts work. I perch on her short fence and visualize my arms stretching out and changing shape. it takes about a minute to truly feel myself as a bird. i look over and my arms are black wings that i can feel. I take off flying, but again I can not fly like levitation or it would not feel like being a bird. I literally flap my wings one beat at a time and start flying. I go up in the air and look at my wings again. They are now flesh colored and short like my arms would be. I focus and stretch them back out into proper wings. It is mentally tiring to flap the wings. I no longer feel like a bird and instead feel like a bird with human legs dangling. I pull my knees up to my bird chest and fuse them into it just leaving the feet dangling. This is much more bird like! Again I truly feel myself in the form of the bird. I am tired of having to flap my wings. I decide to move on to advanced flight. How will I do anything advanced in a macaw body? I need to dive bomb from a great height. I look at the horizon which is near because of trees and perspective and decide that just over there the land drops a long way down into a valley. I 'remember' that this is true and expect it 100%. I get there and sure enough a steep hillside drops a couple thousand feet into a valley at the bottom. I flap out above the valley and tuck my wings and popint my head down. WEEHA! Zoom! I dive through the air at crazy speed and right before the ground I change back to the form of a human and slam feet first into the ground like a super hero. The ground shakes with my impact. ground shakes? I had incubated the though of TOTM advanced being create an earthquake (It was actually last months and I had not read this months, darn, but still is manipulate elements,earth). I looked around and was in a small urban area with parking lots, a church and an underpass. A car is driving by so I take the whole bottom of the visual field and cause it to shake and buck. the car spins out wild and hits a wall. I look at the church and about 7 people are crossing the grass in front. I do it again and they slam sideways and are thrown across the grass about 10 feet. I look into the parking lots and about 5 people are there. This feels intense (God like), so I am getting excited. I really shake the visual field and these people fall down and skitter around tossed by the motion. I want cars to get moved too! A car slides out of park and runs right over a grandma. Opps. Ah hem, urr, sorry? I look at the underpass and a highway worker in an orange vest and some street cleaner vehicle are under there. People run up to me and put hands on me. "You are causing this! Please stop it!" I wave a hand and they are forced back, like an excited child I proclaim, "wait, just one more time!" I shake it again and the worker and vehicle are thrown sideways. Oh too much fun! It has been a few months since I really pushed for truly stable high end LDing and I have missed the power! (not bad for only 7 days of getting back into it). I have a moment where it feels like my eyes are closed and the scene is black. I decide not to open my eyes out of fear my real eyes will open, so I just keep walking and before long the scene reforms. I decide to stop and stabilize. I look at my hands and manipulate them in preset patterns, making each finger work intricately (see Mudra Awareness in Dream Yoga class). I am now very stable and just for good measure push one hand through the other to reinforce the dream aspect of it. I start walking behind the church and it is a park with a low rise up to trees and some structure. A DC approaches and says, "A little girl is about to fall in a pond up there. Will you save her?" I walk with him and another DC up to the spot, but see no pond. I am now under the cover of the structure, which is some kind of lime stone open air hall. I decide to get back to using powers and scoring points. It is a beautiful sunny day. I say out loud, "watch me change the weather!" I walk out from under the cover and cause day to turn to night. It goes black almost instantly (nice). I look up and see only a few clouds. I tell the DCs to watch the clouds. I visualize what I want and it starts happening. I am summoning bigger and darker clouds. the sky is now full of mean looking dark clouds. I cause two banks of clouds to crash together knowing this will cause a storm. Boom crak thunder sounds, then lightning all over and rain pours down. I mean pours down! It is raining buckets and I can feel it perfectly. I am getting drenched. I have never created a storm this good before. In the past it has kind of been light rain. I drop to my knees and start laughing wildly in joy. OMG this is awesome! I enjoy this for maybe a minute, then think I need to move on and score some more points. What is on the advanced list? Advanced banish? Yes, that is one. I wave my hand and the storm and night are gone, just like that. It is now a sunny day, but has changed to winter (unintended season change?). What else is on the list. Mass TK. I look and see parked cars. I use TK and one floats about 15 feet up. Is that enough? Better do more for good measure. I lift the car on either side and make all three bob up and down at about 15', then I cause them to flip and slam into the ground. I am starting to feel my waking body. I am tempted to stabilize and keep going. Almost awake, but you know it seems like a long dream so far and I am mentally tired,plus how late is it. I decide not to fight it and allow my body to wake up.

08-03-16 WILD Woke up to my alarm and hit snooze. Got comfy on my back and attempted WILD. I go through quick HI and now can see through my eyelids. Todd is sitting there holding down Todd. Another version of Todd next to them looks over at me. Now clearly this is a dream! I start trying to put my cell phone under the mattress so it will not interrupt this when it goes off. I can already tell this is a full consciousness vivid LD. Of course it is only in the dream that the phone has moved, so I am on a nine minute (-transition time) time limit. I teleport out to an old farm on a country road and bring the 3 Todds with me.

I tell them about the competition and that I will show them my powers. I take of flying into the air then decide to turn on the turbo thrust. I rocket into the sky at what must be mach2 or something. The canyon blurs and I feel G-forces. I whip way up in the air and do a loop. I wonder how I can land in the same place going so fast. I remind myself that physics do not apply so of course I will land at the farm, and i do. The guys are there and I show off super human strength. I even tell them to watch me (and they do). I do a hand stand and take one hand of the ground. I then use my index finger to support my whole body like some scifi yoga pose.

I jump up right and get ready to throw a fireball. I spread my hands and use this method, http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-yoga...imulation.html bright flames explode around and between my hands. I focus on a farm hay cart and the bed of it bursts into a nice fire ball. The hay is incinerated and I decide to unsummon the flames. I wave a hand to dismiss them and they disappear. I forgot that I had already teleported, so I do it again. I ant to appear beyond the cart. I blur the visuals and am half way there. Not impressed. I do it again and only move another 20 feet. I turn to the road and look down it. Larger trees line the road about 1/2 mile ahead and I can see the ocean. I blur the scene and am now standing above the shore of an ocean. My snooze alarm goes off and I must start my waking life. So tempted to DEILD, but can not let myself.

08-03-16 DILD Getting back in to the swing of this. I was in a non-lucid and coming toward Grandma's house. It was clear that the 3 houses next to hers were missing. Could there have been a disaster? No, there is no rubble and the ground has weeds growing. The houses are just gone. I do a general RC (do not know how I got here, must be a dream) and realize this is a dream. It actually is a wonderfully clear and vivid dream, which little darkness. All right! This is more like it. I want to examine this scene as I think this may be some sort of symbolic deeper thing. Instead of going to her house I walk to the next house and see a DC. I asked what happened and the lady just tells me the house is selling for $20K. This gives me the idea that this must be something like the past, possibly long before I was born. I decide to go back in time and see what my family was doing back then.
In Grandmas house a group of men are all working on what looks like capping a well head for plumbing. They do not seem to be able to see me, but I can see myself. I see my grandfather (who has passed) I walk into the next room and it looks as if there is some kind of funeral, but light hearted like a reception after the service. I seem to be visible now, as someone says "how are you doing uncle Rick" So it appears I am in the from of someone who should be there.
I find the young version of my mother and talk with her. We start walking and the scene changes to a waterfront. I tell that I am talking to her from the future using uncle Rick. She seems to believe me and asks If I have come to reassure her about the life I will be leading when she gives me up for adoption tomorrow. I was never adopted. This could be an interesting talk. I ask her if the family are intelligent, see hmmms, and haws. I ask her if they are hard workers with good ethics? She again does not seem positive. We walk and I contemplate if my real life could have gone this route. The dream ends.

08-01-16 I have been letting my daily routine slide for awhile. The quality of these lucids is pretty poor, but for only my 3rd day of getting back into trying, I guess I can not complain. Hey, any lucids beats the hell out of no lucids.

DILD #1 I am working on a pharmacy computer, but it is an old school monitor and I appear to be in a home. The screen makes no sense. I stop and do a general RC (can I remember how I got here? Is there actual noise? And so on) and decide it is a dream. There are messages on the computer. I wonder what my brain will do with this. I press a button to play the messages. A female voice sounds but is nonsensical gibberish. I look around. I am in a bedroom, and some how know this is Brandy's house. I can see DCs moving around in the front room. I want to do something to score points, but the list is not very clear. Any power will score some, I think? I look at a padded dinner bar stool and place my hand on it. I will push my hand through this. For about a 3 count it resists; I relax; my hand phases through it. I went in the front room and Brandy was talking with someone. I tried to get her attention. Before I fully got her to focus on me I was suddenly outside. I woke up at this point because my wife was getting ready for work. At my best I can avoid waking, but LDing has been much less of a focus with all the Brazilian Jiujitsu lately.

DEILD #1 Relaxed and re-entered the same setting using WILD skills. The neighborhood seems to have changed. I am pretty sure this is a dream, but am a bit confused. In order to RC I attempt to use supper strength and jump crazy high. I spring forcefully up and land on top of a house. Ok, RC worked; this is a dream. I remembered the comp and wanted to score points. I heard a lady scream, so I decided I would play super hero. I started running (no longer on house?) trying to be like The Flash. I got the feeling of moving at super speed and the scene blurred out in lines like it might look from Flash's point of view. Everything went black. No visuals would form after this.

WILD #1 I barely woke for my first WBTB and went rapidly into this WILD. I was laying on a bed, but could tell it was a dream. I look around and am back in the strange pharmacy/bedroom. Again there are people in the other room, but I also see my ferrets are running around on the floor. I did a general reality check and it was clearly a dream (huge parts of my vision was made of deep shadows). I examine a very strange carved wooden bed. I went out into the other room and see someone letting one of my ferrets out the door. I went to get my ferret, but it ran. i ran after it, but then relaxed, stopped and called the ferret, which came to me. I wanted to examine the ferret, as it seemed very interesting. I interacted with the DC ferret for a brief while and thought this was actually very cool, but my wife made more noise and I woke up.

WILD #2 I came out of pleasant H.I. and was standing in a hall way. I knew this was a dream as there was no loss of awareness in the transition. I see a lamp stand type of table and it has a piece of pottery on it. I go up to it and place my hand on the pottery wich seems to be some sort of smooth topped jar. The colors look cool and the feel of it is interesting. I walk up the hall, but it does not seem to go anywhere. The light fades and no more visuals would come.

Little luck inducing a stable lucid, but I did have 3 short ones.
1) DILD #1: I am flying. Hmmm? Conciousness starts, "oh, I am dreaming." I am flying above a weird terrain of boiling oranges and faint violet. I seem to be gliding slowly on an updraft. I look close at the terrain and it seems otherwordly. Either it is unformed dream nonsense or it is a lava world bubbling. I intend to look at my hand but it does not appear. I feel it and move my hand around, but no real visuals happen. I enter darkness and loose lucidity.

2) WILD #1: I do WBTB at about 6 hours sleep. A dream forms. Seems like the night for weird color sceams. Everything looks pastel. I decide to do a stabilization routine so I extend my arm in front of me and examine my hand. I can not think of what my goals had been, but do remember the competition. I feel like I am stable (but obviously could have done more) so I think I will eat something to get a few points while I think. I make a flurish with my hand and a ball of energy spins in the palm (looks more like a cloud of nanites) and becomes a peach. I examine the peach and can't help thinking it feels wrong. It feels like bedding. Suddenly I am half awake and grabbing bedding in that hand. I loose the dream.

3) WILD #2: WBTB at 7 hours. I am standing in a dark alley or some place dark like that. A man is standing in front of me. I can tell this is a dream as no imagery exists off to the sides. The man is in full detail and looks me in the eyes. I wonder if this is a fictional DC from one of the books I have been listening to. I meet his gaze and try to seem confident. I begin to circle him and he turns with me. I hear something very close to my left ear. Someone is breathing over my shoulder. I realize it is my real body breathing. The dream becomes unstable and fade.

I had an adventure that was at the edge of semilucid (kind of knew it was a dream, but mostly just let it ride) The final scene involves me and my wife in a row of huts near a beah. She is feeding fish. Every fish gets eaten by a bigger one. The surf runs in and out between huts, until sharks come. Swirling wonderful sharks of all sizes. The tide is getting high so we go in a hut. The hut get torn loose and we have to jump out. Way more to the story but the shark part was very vivid.

I am observing a dream from avery far away relaxed place when I notice the visuals have got all "what dreams may come" as in oil paint cartoony/impressionist. I was able to think of what would form next and the paint would slide round forming the images. The best scene was a bear bursting out of a log to chase geese, all made of oil paint. That is some fun and odd ways to do an LD.

01/10/16 It is late so I will just give a seriously abbreviated version and get quickly to the end, which is the important part.

I was screwing around in a dream where I was trying to keep men from coming into my friends house. I knew it was a dream and fought a couple guys with a stick and so on. Eventually I wandered away thinking it was getting boring.

In my travels I eventually met up with my current Dream Guide. She is less like a Dream Guide and more like an astral entity who likes me and treats me like a boyfriend. I like this one a lot! Every other Dream Guide has chastised me or punished me for losing focus and wanting to explore sexual things in my dreams. I had many discussions with the last one about how it was unfair to make my dream world devoid of sexuality, as while he is a monk, I am not. He eventually arranged for me to have this new guide. She is affectionate and patient.

We were in a house and others were there, but she seemed upset. I took her outside away from the others and she was upset so I held her in my arms. It was very tender and vivid and emotional. I resisted the urge to explore her curves with my hands. Not only because she was upset, but because I just had a dream an hour before and was clearly being monitored for good behavior.

I was approached by some people who told me when I was ready they had a feast in honor of my acceptance (?) Honestly part of me wanted to spend my time getting touchy feely with the girl, but I resisted again They sat me down at a table and placed a platter in front of me with many small dishes. "We have prepared 26 of of our best foods for you to sample!" I examined the plates and it was like various appetizers, but I did not recognize any of it. Wow! was I realy going to get to taste that mant completely new dishes, and if they were as good and real as the food in the last dream, this would be awesome. I picked up the item closest to me and it looked a bit like a 2 inch piece of tentacle, perhaps fried and glazed. I went to taste it and with no warning suddenly woke up. Dur~15 min.