Thread: ~ DreamQueen's Dream Journal (with pics) ~

Same....I love it. It's all so random and funny Maybe your dream ended up just after you said "told you" just so she doesn't get the time to say "uh... That's not my name!" lol!

I'm going to record this horrendous debacle simply because it is quite a significant turn of events in my lucid journey.

The night before last I dreamed I was sitting watching a movie on TV. The main character in the movie was a guy and he was in his lounge when suddenly a voice started blaring out from nowhere in the character's lounge saying "Raid... Raid... Raid" really loudly over and over and slowly it is revealed that he is actually dreaming and the voice is the character's TV waking him up when a loud commercial comes on. So, the main character wakes up and he is lying on his couch in front of his TV and the whole movie has been his dream. I can see the commercial for Raid Fly Spray playing on the guy's TV in the movie. They show a black can with yellow writing on it.

I think about how cool and clever it is that they had the advertisement pervade into his dream just as can happen with sounds and think about mentioning this movie on the DV forum. I start trying to recall the name of the movie I'm watching when suddenly I notice there is a black can of Raid Fly Spray sitting on top of my TV and it is identical to the one in the commercial in the movie. I figure this is a rather odd occurence especially considering my RL can of fly spray is the Mortein brand and is blue not black. So I do the nose pinch test...

I remind myself to pay careful attention as I pinch my nose and try to breathe. Unfortunately even though I am dreaming I cannot breathe at all. Each time I pinch my nose my airway completely blocks off just like when I do this in RL. I try a couple of times just as I always do but because I cannot breathe I do not become lucid. I just decide that I'm doing a RC in RL.

What a complete bummer. So now I have had to alter my daily RC routine to be a lot more stringent as the nose pinch test is no longer reliable.

I have no explanation for my lack of ability to breathe at all. I do not have a cold or anything in RL. It's a mystery. It does make me wonder what would happen if a DC was suffocating me in a dream

Food for thought. I hope I don't dream this now I have imagined it. Hmmm, probably will

Originally Posted by DreamQueen

Food for thought. I hope I don't dream this now I have imagined it. Hmmm, probably will

When you have such doubts, you can quickly run through the memories of last and previous days, and brief review of your life: who are you, where do you work etc. Real world have main quality is that it is consistent in time.

I've read the thread you've made about not having any RCs anymore. I suggest you my own Finger RC that I've created... Don't know if it'll work for you but it might...

All it is, is that you have to take your finger off. While, dreaming I can take my fingers off. Maybe you can too. Probably.

With the Nose RC, I had the same problem then you. In the dream I was leaving in an old house my family had rent for a couple of months in the past. I really loved this house. It was surrunded by a forest and I have had lots of cool dreams in this house. It's where I had my first and only False Awakening Dream. (I didn't know about LDs then, though and couldn't have any) but anyways, in my dream, my family had moved in this house again. There was even an inside pool (really cool one with marble stones on which you could walk to cross the pool without getting wet)... It didn't have that in RL but it did have a pool outside (full of frogs, lol) and in the dream I was excited and I kept asking every memeber of my family if I was dreaming and they said no. I did the 'push your fingers through your palm RC' and also the nose RC. They both failed and when I woke up, I had two deception: "I wasn't leaving in that house and I missed a LD..."

Anyways, good luck!

Ha ha! That's hilarious! Hopefully you've now learned never ask anyone around you whether or not you are dreaming when you RC!

Thanks for the idea. I'll give it a go

yeah lol!

I wish you good luck

I went skying for my first time last friday and it felt like a vivid dream so the next morning I kept asking everyone if we did go skying and they'd say no to tease me 'cause they know I LD.... I got really comfused cause I was seriously not sure if we had been skying or not. The fact that my left leg still hurt from my fall proved that it had been true but still really funny.

Pretty fucked off with DV to be honest for closing this thread

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=74275

It's obviously a case of siding with an older member over a newer one even though the older member has actually broken forum rules and there was nothing really wrong with the original post but someone just wanted to be a smartarse about it.

I am considering erasing my entire journal and never coming back to dv. And before any moderators get their knickers in a twist like an immature spoiled teenager might they may want to actually read back through my post history and assess whether i'm a valuable member or not and whether they want to lose me.

This is pretty much the final straw for me.

Quite frankly it's pathetic.

Wednesday 4th March 2009

Yay! I finally became lucid again properly after the whole “nose pinch debacle”. It has taken twenty-one days! I drank some of the special apple juice with dinner. I went to bed at 8.45pm. I primed myself to remember to notice the next time I was dreaming and really imagined the feeling of it in my mind. I awoke at 2.41am and made a half-hearted WILD attempt.

I found myself in a nonlucid dream that went on for ages. In the dream I had gotten up in the middle of the night and gone through to the kitchen. It was not my RL house. The kitchen was a buzz with a whole heap of mothers and their young children. I somehow knew that this was because it was school holidays. They were being quiet but I thought about what a pain it was having so many people in my house. Then I was in another kitchen with my husband, C. We were preparing food. The dream went on for quite a while but unfortunately I’ve lost recall of that part. Next thing I know I’m having a sort of emotional breakdown (I had actually cried extremely hard in RL the previous day over a past tragedy). I was sort of throwing myself around releasing all this sadness and C was comforting me.

Then I had a FA. I looked at the digital clock beside my bed and it said 3:03am. I immediately knew that more than 20 minutes had passed since I last woke up and so I looked up at my wall and saw an analogue clock (which is not there in RL) and it too said three minutes past three. I thought to myself “this can’t be right. I know the time is later than this but how can two clocks both be wrong? I’d better find out the real time because I have to get up for work at 6am and I might actually be late already”. Then suddenly I noticed the sun was shining. It was strange light though. It was shining in a hazy kind of way with a muted light exactly like in the picture below. I thought to myself “something’s wrong here” and checked my digital watch. I saw numbers on it but couldn’t really interpret them. I told myself, “hang on mate, you must process these numbers carefully and thoroughly and decide if they make sense”. I then realized they were saying 17:41 which was completely off but then even more importantly I noticed my watch was not blue as it is in RL but orange! I was now completely sure that I was dreaming. I was also now aware that I was standing in an outdoor carpark beside a shopping mall.

Unfortunately, because I hadn’t been lucid for so long I sort of panicked and rushed over to where a cute guy was sitting on some steps with the intention of getting it on with him. I knew my husband wouldn’t care because he’s said he doesn’t care what I do in dreams. I sat down on the guy’s lap and went to start kissing him. He leaned in towards me but then I realized I had a mouth full of apple. I turned my head to the side and because it was a dream I just opened my mouth and willed the apple to fly out which it did. I then turned back to the guy. By this time I was really horny and I decided “what the hell, I’m gonna let him stick it in” ha ha! Tragically however, I woke up! Aargh!

The time was 4.24am. Then a very odd coincidence occurred. I got up and went downstairs to get a glass of water. I RCd by pressing the button on my LED digital watch to see the time and it said 03:04! I was very confused by this and started to consider I might still be dreaming but then I realized I must’ve pushed the button twice and that was the date coming up. Funny!

This is what the sun looked like:

congratulations on breaking your dry spell! Interesting part about the watch being the wrong color- In one of my old (yet very memorable) Ld's my water jug was bright red instead of bright blue as in real life. Something about seeing that jug, even now, fills me with such surrealism excitement emotion - like "wow this reality is an incorrect illusion yet it's completely real yet I know it's an illusion" - you feel halfway enlightened and halfway like neo from the matrix. Cheers!

Very nice DQ! That's really good that you became lucid, I havent had one in a long tome now, Ive just been plagued by two pretty fucked up nightmares lately (they were so bad I didnt even write them down) but I havent had them again so it doesnt seem like they are going to reoccur. But what pissed me off the most was that in the second nightmare, I was sooo close to doing the nose pinch RC but was too distraught to question my reality in the nightmare and accepted it as real life.

But anyways, good job again! Im home alone right now so Im going to go for a WILD right now! Ill report back if I get it.

Thanks guys.

Yeah, it's funny how your brain has these 'mix-ups' sometimes in dreams. I mean, why orange of all colours?? Lol!

Sorry about your nightmares, Wolfe That's not the best. How incredibly frustrating that you almost did a nose pinch test and didn't. Still, that's part of life as a lucid dreamer. Inevitably it happens sometimes

Well, weirdly enough I posted my dream story at 6.17am when it was still completely dark and today the sun has looked absolutely strange all day. It has been hazy just like in my dream. I've probably only seen it look like this a handful of times in my life. I took a picture but it doesn't really capture how strange the light is outside today. Plus, it was better this morning while I was at work because there were no puffy clouds, just haze. You can just make out the ring circling the sun but it's really clear in RL. Quite spooky really...

Thursday 5th March 2009

I had a glass of Greenways Apple Juice again before bed. Went to bed at 10:15pm. Primed myself to remember to notice when I’m dreaming and imagined the feel of a dream and being lucid. Thought about RCing a lot and imagined myself looking at my watch.

I woke up about an hour after falling asleep. I woke up again at about 3am with very long and incredibly vivid nonlucid dream recall. At one stage I was in a small plane taking off and it was unbelievably realistic. A female student was flying the plane and the instructor was sitting in the back beside me giving her instructions. I was bloody nervous because our take off was way too steep and I thought the plane would stall then she kept nearly hitting buildings. The instructor was constantly calling out “watch out for this, watch out for that”. The dream was definitely influenced by reading deXtrous’ Dream Journal yesterday because at another stage I was sitting in a stationary car and a helicopter was flying out of control all around the car and was about to crash. I stayed in the car but opened the door so I could make a quick exit in case it looked like it was going to crash into the car. Finally it crashed, narrowly missing the car. I grabbed my cell phone, jumped out of the car and ran away from the helicopter in case it exploded. Some injured people staggered out of the helicopter. I went to call 111 but woke up.

Re-primed myself to become lucid. Then attempted WILD.

I found myself in a nonlucid dream. It’s a sunny day and I’m in the lounge of a holiday home on the beach front. My husband, C is there too. There’s a ranch slider door which opens directly onto a beautiful beach. The water is a lovely aqua blue and the sand is white. Suddenly I see this large wave come and wash right up to the doorstep of our lounge. I find it amazing how close to the water this house has been built and I tell C to go outside and stand in the water so I can get a photo to show our friends. He goes outside. I grab my camera and I crouch down in the lounge to get a photo of him. I look at the camera screen and I’m thrilled with how beautifully the picture lines up. I’ve got a bit of sky, beach and lounge in good proportions. Another wave comes but just at the crucial moment when I’m about to take the shot a cat wanders in through the ranch door and walks into my camera completely blocking the shot. I curse and wait for the next wave but the cat gets in the way again.

The slight feeling of frustration at not being able to carry out a simple task makes me do a RC. I glance around the kitchen and see an appliance with digital numbers on it. The numbers are rolling and going crazy. I think to myself that it’s quite amazing how I’ve found some digital numbers in real life that are behaving the way digital numbers behave in dreams! I remind myself to tell spaceexplorer about them later. Of course, I know I can’t accept rolling digital numbers so I look to find some stable ones. I see some vague numbers and text around but I’m having trouble finding anything satisfactory. Suddenly I remember to look at my special Dream Watch. Before I even have a chance to push the RC button on it I notice that while the strap looks normal, the casing is clear plastic and not right. I tell myself this means I’m dreaming right now even though I can hardly believe it.

I then walk outside onto the beach and start walking along a wooden walkway. There are flowers on either side. I think about finding a cute DC to have sex with but tell myself not to as it will probably wake me up. I’m wearing shorts and a bikini top but I decide for a bit of fun I’m going to walk around topless! So I yank off my bikini top, toss it away and keep walking. To my left I spy a shop so I gleefully strut into it. There is a reasonably cute young guy of about 19 vacuuming the shop floor. He looks at me… and then looks down at my bare breasts. I smile to myself thinking “I knew you wouldn’t be able to resist looking!” I prance over to a postcard stand and pretend to be going about my daily business. He is still staring. Then I see a friend of mine R. She looks at me with a puzzled expression and asks what I’m doing. I wake up.

Time was 4.33am. Total lucid time = 1 minute. I could so easily have DEILD at this point but I made a quick decision to record the dream instead even though it woke me right up and ruined my ability to have another LD. However I figure a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush!

Below is my awesome Lucid Dream Reality Check watch. "Are you dreaming" scrolls across at the push of a button.

cool watch!!!

Wow, nice watch watch!

Congrats again on another nice LD. I love the LDs that take place in a sunny dream scene for some reason. They are always accompanied by unbelievable euphoria. That must've been fun walking around topless on the beach in the dream world. In fact, I might just go to the beach in my next LD!

Hi DreamQueen.

Nice one! At least your DC's react to your nudity. I love getting naked in Lucids. Only my DC's generally never care at all. It takes some of the fun out of it. I'd rather see them freaking out.

Wow! Even though it wasn’t as long as some of my other LDs, this is my favourite LD so far! It left me on the most ridiculous high which I’m still on.

I had Greenway’s Apple Juice with dinner. I went to sleep at 10:30pm and woke up at 1:30am. Then I lay awake for three hours too excited about events in my life to be able to go back to sleep. I was still awake at 4:20am and was pretty concerned because my alarm was set to go off at 6am for work. I was running out of sleep time and had only had three hours of sleep. I was debating whether I’d have to call in sick. I finally nodded off sometime approaching 5am.

I find myself in a nonlucid dream in which I have woken up in the morning and I am really late for work and fairly agitated about it. I am in a lounge that is not my RL one and an analogue clock says it is 7:10am. My husband C is there too about to leave for work. I’m telling him to hurry up and leave so he will be out of my way. I feel bad about this but I ‘m in a panic about the time. He leaves and then I decide that since it is now so late I will call in sick. (I can’t remember if I made the call in the dream but I have a feeling I did.)

Next thing I have decided to go to the gym only I’m walking there instead of driving like I do in RL. I’m walking behind a female DC. Suddenly I notice that I have forgotten to put on my gym shoes and am wearing my black sandals. I decide that I’ll probably be okay running on the treadmill in my sandals. I’m about to go into the gym when the DC ahead of me turns around and starts coming back out of the gym and I hear her say to someone that she didn’t have her gym shoes and wasn’t allowed in without them. So I turn around and start heading home.

Next thing it is the night of that same day. I am in a bedroom that is not my own and there is a knock on my bedroom door. I answer it and it is a girl I know from my dance studio, Sindy. She is standing in a hallway. There is an analogue clock on the wall that says 11:15pm and I wonder why she isn’t in at the studio since it is Wednesday night. I had not gone dancing because of my bad night’s sleep last night. There are a few other female DCs around who are all dancers from the studio but nobody I recognize. I am aware that we are all flatting together (in RL I am married and live only with my husband) in some sort of large house. I say to Sindy, “Oh, I didn’t know you were flatting with us”. She then starts complaining because my friend who is visiting from overseas and staying in the room next to hers is making too much noise and she can’t get to sleep. I realize that she means Spaceexplorer, who is a member on the Dreamviews forum (whom I have become friends with in RL and who is coming to New Zealand to visit me in six weeks in RL). I feel vaguely surprised that he is over here already. Sindy tells me that it sounds as if he’s “meditating” I decide that could well be the case as he’s a lucid dreamer and we lucid dreamers have some rather wacky practices. I sigh and tell her I’ll go and ask him to be quiet.

I then go and knock on Spaceexplorer’s bedroom door. He answers it and I go in. It’s a very large room more like a lounge/living room. It has a bathroom coming off it. I’m feeling bad that I have to tell him to keep the noise down. About eight females from the house follow me in and start settling themselves down on the floor of his living quarters. I’m annoyed at this because I know they are just there because they think he’s cute and I want to talk to him alone about keeping the noise down as it wouldn’t be very nice to tell him in front of other people. So, I take his hand and lead him into the bathroom saying that I have to tell him something. We get into the bathroom and I decide to pop out and tell the girls to leave his apartment. I go back out into the living room and I see that they are leaving anyway and have been joined by some of my RL male dancing friends. I see them go into the house next door and I know they are going to a party. I’m a bit put out that none of them told me about the party so I tell Spaceexplorer to wait in the bathroom and that I’ll be back soon to tell him something but I just need to go talk to my friends for a minute.

I then follow my friends into the house next door. I walk into the lounge and they are gathered around. I say in a loud voice “Excuse me, everyone! I don’t think it’s very good that nobody told me about this party”. There is a random middle-aged male DC sitting on a chair and he starts saying to me that he doesn’t think it’s very good that I’ve got this guy visiting from overseas and that he thinks the guy is having an affair with his wife! He asks me how well I know Spaceexplorer. I tell him that I’ve been talking to him since last year on the dreamviews forum. The guy then tells me that his wife’s cooking isn’t very good and he points to a plate in front of him and says “this broccoli isn’t cooked properly and tastes awful”. Food tasting awful is a dream sign for me so even though I’m not actually eating the broccoli it makes me think to do a reality check.

I look at my Galaxy LED watch. It looks the same as it does in RL. I press the button on the side but instead of the time scrolling across, some letters scroll across gradually getting dimmer. Also, the display lights are whitish instead of blue. I think “Oh bummer, it looks like the battery might be going dead. Either that or I’m dreaming. Yeah this has all got to be a dream, I’m sure of it. It's just a bit too weird”. I feel a surge of excitement and I look around for a way to quickly confirm I’m dreaming even though I am already sure that I am. I put my hand out and attempt to put it through the middle-aged male DC’s arm. It goes through. I feel even further excitement thinking about how Spaceexplorer is so nearby. He is my RL dream guide and a complete expert on lucid dreaming and the thought of meeting with him in a LD is just electrifying!

I no longer care about any of my lucid goals. I just want to make a beeline to get back to him. I dash towards the door of the house desperately hoping I don’t wake up before I get to see him in Lucid Land. As I go down the stairs I consider that I don’t actually have to run the distance back to the bathroom because this is a dream and technically I could teleport to him. But I’ve never teleported and I don’t want to run the risk of ending up in a completely different setting and for him to be gone. So I decide to just go for it.

I run up the stairs to his apartment and open the door. The huge living room stretches out in front of me. I see the bathroom way across the other side. Spaceexplorer has opened the bathroom door and is still standing where I left him in the bathroom. I start running towards him and I shout excitedly, “(RL name), guess what!” He starts walking towards me and says in a knowing voice, “this is a dream”. I’m so unbelievably excited and not surprised in the least that he knows because he is the lucid dreaming guru! He looks amazing. He is wearing a blue shirt and is walking towards me in this totally suave, cool and confident way. I’ve now reached him and I squeal, “Yeah! When did you figure it out?” He smiles and replies, “I knew immediately” and I realize that he knew all along and was waiting for me to realize. I hug him and look at him and can’t believe we’re in a dream together. He looks exactly like he does in RL. I touch his face and give him a kiss on the cheek We look at each other for a few seconds and then I wake up.

As soon as I’m awake I immediately ring him overseas to tell him about the dream and funnily enough he’s in the middle of a doing a reality check! I look at the time and it’s 5:59am. My dream ended only 30 seconds before my alarm went off!

This was such an exhilarating dream. I can’t describe how cool it was to meet him in a dream.

Total Lucid Time = 2 mins

That was an awesome LD DQ! Did you guys actually dream share? Thats definitely a legendary achievement!
I cant imagine how exhilarating that must've been to realize that you might be sharing a dream with another dreamer.

wow amazing dream!

Thanks guys! Oh look I just cannot describe the excitement I felt when I saw him in the dream. We've never met in RL, just communicated by phone and webcam but he looked and sounded exactly like he does in RL (which is pretty darn hot). I now feel like I've met him in person. We've spent up to seven hours straight on the webcam talking about lucid dreaming and he has such incredible experience with them, so to actually be in one with him was a completely magical experience.

It's now four days later and I still have little bubbles of happy floating through my soul

I’m going to count this because I’ve been in a dry spell and need all the encouragement I can get haha!

I drank apple juice, went to bed at around 11:30pm and woke up at about 5:30pm with nothing. I knew I’d dreamed but I didn’t have any recall because I was distracted thinking about the previous night’s drama as soon as I woke up. So I got up, checked my emails, phoned spaceexplorer and then attempted WILD.

The WILD went reasonably well. I kept having these hypnagogic semi-dreams in which I’d become lucid then immediately wake up. One involved eating food, in another I was looking at my new Vibrating Message Watch which appeared completely mental, in another I was MSNing spaceexplorer and the webcam went crazy.

Then finally I was in a nonlucid dream where I was walking past my computer desk and my cellphone which was sitting on the desk started to ring. I picked it up but it didn’t sound right at all. My normal ringtone was playing, ‘Don’t Cry’ by Guns n Roses, but it was playing at a super fast speed and sounded funny. I saw that it was spaceexplorer calling so I pushed the button to answer but it just kept ringing. I pushed the button a couple more times thinking “damn my cellphone is playing up a lot these days” (which is true in RL) then suddenly I thought, “I wonder if I’m dreaming now? I probably am”. I walked into my bedroom and looked around thinking about what to do. Then I walked out of my room and decided to look at my watch properly but unfortunately before I could do this everything went black. I realized I still had my sleep mask on so I lifted it off my eyes but ever so tragically I woke up!

Total Lucid Time = a measly 20 seconds

Here's my new Vibrating Message Watch for you to all want:

Nice watches. Digital watch turned out to be really good for RCing. I've got one with lots of functions, so there are several ways to do an RC, not to say it is useful for normal means . How much you do an RC a day?

Thanks Phantasos! Yeah I'm a bit of a watch fanatic really. I once had one that ran backwards which was very cool (it told the time correctly).

My watch vibrates every hour and a message "dream?" comes up. At this point I do a RC and I find this regular reminder helps me to remember to do them on my own whenever something dreamlike happens throughout the course of the day.

The number of RCs I do per day varies according to what sort of day I'm having. If I'm just at home mucking round with little happening I might do as few as 15 RCs in a day but on a particularly eventful day I can do up to 50. It all depends on how many 'dreamlike' things happen in the day I guess.

Well this is a rather embarrassing dream to have to report because spaceexplorer is definitely going to look here and read it but here goes!

I’d been really busy in RL and hadn’t been focused on my lucid dreaming at all so last night I decided I was definitely going to have one. I went to bed at around midnight and woke up at about 6.20am with virtually no dream recall which was disappointing as the last two nights I'd had unbelievably vivid and clear dreams. However I figured this probably meant I hadn’t done my final REM stage dreaming yet as I’d only been asleep for six hours. So I got up, went to the toilet, had a drink of water, went BTB and attempted WILD.

I went into a nonlucid dream. I can only remember the last part of it. I’d been in a bath then decided to have a shower. I filled a green plastic bucket with water and put it in the shower for some reason. There was a chick waiting to use the shower and I was thinking how I was using up all the hot water.

Then I was in a large cafeteria getting some food. I saw an orange cereal bowl with the word “spaceexplorer” printed on it so I picked it up thinking how I would give it to him. Next thing I was arriving at the table with a tray of food. Spaceexplorer was sitting at the table and my dad was sitting next to him. I sat down opposite spaceexplorer and handed him the ‘spaceexplorer bowl’ which now had food on it. We started talking about the bowl. Then I noticed it also had a little picture of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on it which made it even more suitable since we are both atheists. I pointed this out to my dad and said “you probably won’t understand how cool that is because you’re not an atheist”.

I then noticed that the food on space’s plate was spaghetti and pointed this out. Spaceexplorer was surprised by this coincidence too. I then said those magic words that every lucid dreamer listens for… “that’s so weird”. As soon as I’d said it he and I simultaneously looked at our watches with him saying “time to do a reality check”. It seemed completely natural that we would both do one at the same instant as it had been such a classic dream sign.

I stood up and took a couple of steps away from the table as I looked towards my watch so I could concentrate on my RC without distraction. Well my watch had all these silly words scrolling across it and I immediately thought “Nah that’s not right. I’ve got to be dreaming”. I turned and walked back towards the table. Spaceexplorer was still reality checking and I said to him in a little sing-song voice, “I think we’re dreaming!” He then got up and walked around to my side of the table.

(Here’s where it gets embarrassing)

All my lucid goals went out the window at this point and for some unknown reason (well other than the fact that he is hot) I walked over to him, put my arms around him and said “You’d better tell me if we’re not dreaming”. I then started kissing him! The visuals started to black out as we kissed and I knew the dream was about to end. We kissed for about ten seconds more then I woke up! I have to say it was actually a good kiss - the best dream kiss I've had in fact haha!

But seriously... how embarrassing!

Lucid time = 30 seconds

Sunday 19th April 2009

I drank apple juice late at night then went to bed at 11:45pm. I woke up at about 3:50am went to the bathroom and did the puzzle on the pc that has got me lucid successfully twice before. I then went BTB at 4:20am and made a serious effort to WILD. An hour later I was still awake but I finally went to sleep.

I found myself in a nonlucid dream sitting on a bus. I was sitting near the front, on the right hand side by the window. I had been dreaming previously. I looked out of the other side of the bus which was parked and saw a fire extinguisher. Suddenly I had a message on my cell phone. I looked at my phone which displayed a message saying “Please wait…” and appeared to be loading something. It turned out to be a “video message”. (I have never had one in RL!) It was from dv member spaceexplorer.

I watched the video. He was talking about how much easier it was to quickly record a video message than type a text message. I noticed that he looked completely different to when I talk to him on the webcam and thought it was just that I wasn’t used to seeing him on my cell phone. I was very impressed by the “video message” technology and surprised that my cell phone could play the message. I didn’t know it could do that. I figured I should do a reality test.

I looked at my digital watch and I noticed the display was slightly twisted. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I thought “Wow! I must be dreaming right now! It’s almost impossible to believe but it must be so!” I was just so completely astounded. Then suddenly the bus driver slammed on the brakes and everyone lurched forward. My arms instinctively flew straight out in front of me (it’s interesting that this reflex occurred during my dream) and I was pushed against the seat in front of me. I squealed out with delight to the driver “Ooh goody are we going to crash? Go on and crash the bus!” A few people around looked at me strangely. I started to think about how bad it would be if I was wrong and I wasn’t actually dreaming. I decided to look at my watch again even though I was sure I was dreaming. I mainly just wanted to have a good gander at it to see properly what it looked like. It was all skinny and had the numbers “01” on it.

There was a really fat lady sitting one seat away from me by the aisle of the bus and she had her arm resting on the seat in front of our row. I told her to keep her arm there and then I tried to put my arm through hers but it didn’t work.

Then I remembered my lucid goal which is to meet with spaceexplorer. I stood up and started climbing out of my seat and called out loudly “Is (spaceexplorer’s real name) on the bus?” Some school kids at the back of the bus called back “yeah he’s here” but I realized that one of them must happen to have the same name. So I called out “no, I mean my (name)”

I was then standing at the front of the bus still on it. There was no sign of spaceexplorer. I felt the dream starting to fade out. I momentarily stabilized it by focusing on the environment outside the bus but because it had been quite a while since I’d got lucid I just wanted to wake up and record what I’d experienced just in case I lost the memory by continuing with the LD. So I let myself wake up.

Total lucid time = 40 seconds