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

Not a particularly great lucid, but better than nothing I suppose. It was short and not very vivid. Still, I'm not complaining! I went to bed at around 11pm and woke up at 5.20am with below average recall of one single dream that wasn't very vivid or interesting. I got up and checked my emails then attempted MILD. I made a good effort but I found I kept napping for short, dreamless periods. Finally I had a couple of short, scanty nonlucids.

I then found myself sitting at a kitchen table in a random house. My husband C was standing in the kitchen and he was saying something about a clock I'd bought recently (which I hadn't actually bought in waking life) and how it wasn't keeping the correct time. He wasn't making a whole lot of sense and this annoyed me slightly. I recognized this to be a dream cue and so did a reality test. I looked at my digital watch and the numbers were going mental. It wasn't even my proper LED watch. The numbers were just ordinary black ones. I showed C and said “look hun, this is what numbers look like in a dream”. I knew he was a DC but I just wanted to show him.

Then I remembered one of my lucid goals which is to walk into a mirror. I stood up and turned around and there was a large rectangular mirror on the far side of the living room. I walked towards it. C followed me but he had no reflection in the mirror. I only knew he was behind me because I could hear him. When I reached the mirror I put my hands out in front of me and walked into it. C followed me in but was still invisible. My watch, bracelet and wedding rings all disappeared. I didn't get a chance to do anything else as I then woke up.

I just had a pretty cool lucid dream. I decided yesterday that I was definitely going to have a lucid that night after reading what Moonbeam did in one of her lucid dreams, which was to lie down and 'oob' out of her body giving herself a dream-real body and a dream-dream body! Before going to bed I wrote a list of lucid goals. Moonbeam's OOB experience was second on the list as TK kept getting bumped out of first position and I had been wanting to try it for absolutely ages. I also felt that OOBing might possibly wake me up so it would be best to achieve something else first before attempting it. I tried to stay up as late as I could and ended up falling asleep around 11pm sitting up in bed with my reading lamp on. Woke up, went to sleep again, woke up, turned the lamp off and drifted off. I awoke at 3am with recall but was too lazy to get out of bed immediately and before I knew it I'd fallen back asleep. I awoke again at 6am with reasonable recall and forced myself up for twenty minutes. I then attempted MILD but was concerned I'd used up all my dreaming. I hadn't...

I'm dreaming nonlucidly I'm at a table in the tearoom of an office building. I have a large, full bottle of hand sanitiser beside me but the plastic pump has broken so I unscrew it and get up and go put it in the trash. I sit down again and immediately realise I will now be unable to transport the rest of the sanitiser. So I get up again and get the lid off a bottle of something else sitting on the bench and luckily it fits onto the sanitiser bottle. On sitting down again I notice I don't have any cuttlery so I get up again and get some. I get back to the table and sit down only to discover someone has taken the plate away which I was planning to put my lunch on. I stand up to get another plate feeling a bit exasperated by this stage and thinking how this is proving to be a ridiculously disruptive lunch. I decide to do a reality test.

I push the button on my LED watch. The table is now outdoors on a roadside and I am now crossing the road. I don't notice this change in environment. My watch functions pretty normally. The numbers are stable. But suddenly it occurs to me that so often these days I'm dreaming and I have a hunch that I just might be dreaming right now. By now I've walked into a convenience store. There are people in there and everything seems normal but despite it having been part of my reality test routine for months now I don't ask myself where I am. However, luckily I do the nose pinch test which is the third part of my reality test routine. I can breathe. I decide in the affirmative that I'm dreaming.

So, I look around and see a whole load of chocolate bars all in a row on a shelf. Everything looks so real. There are heaps of different types of bars and I decide to try my TK with a Moro Bar. But then I decide to show off to everyone in the store so I look for an item that is larger and further away for more effect. I spy a large bag of potato crisps on a shelf on the other side of the store. So I shout out in a big loud voice “I feel like that bag of crisps!” As I shout I lift my arm and make a big sweeping motion pointing to the crisps. By now a few DC's have noticed me and are standing watching. I'm trying to draw as much attention to myself as possible. “Yes” I shout, “I want that bag OF CRISPS!” As I say the word 'crisps' I will the bag to lift off the shelf. Nothing happens so I try again. “See that bag of crisps?” I shout loudly, “well I WANT IT!” Again I try to will the bag of crisps to levitate into the air. I visualize it happening as hard as I can but the bag doesn't move in the slightest.

I started to wonder if I really am dreaming or if, like an idiot, I'm trying to perform telekinesis in the waking reality. I quickly do the nose pinch test and can breathe. I then decide to do some floating in order to save face and in order to prove to myself once and for all that this is definitely a dream. So I shout “look at this then!” and float up to the ceiling. By now most of the DC's have dispersed save for one small kid who watches me with a bored expression while his parents pay for their groceries. As I float down I feel the dream start to fade. I try to land as quickly as I can so that I'll be able to feel something solid but the scene is vanishing. I begin rubbing my hands together and next thing I'm lying in bed rubbing my hands together. It feels so real that I wonder if I'm actually really rubbing my physical hands together.

A few seconds later I'm back on the same street only I'm on the other side of the road at the entrance of another shop, nonlucid. Immediately I notice a cellphone on the ground with a novelty fabric cover on it. The cover is black and in the shape of a spider complete with six woven spider legs hanging off it. I realise I'm probably still dreaming. I then see my husband inside the shop and I call out to him “honey, we're dreaming”. I walk into the shop pushing the button on my watch. The display is again pretty normal. A male DC standing nearby peers over interested to see my watch. I do the nose pinch test and confirm I'm definitely dreaming. My husband walks out of the shop and I'm about to follow him but first I quickly lift up my T-shirt to flash the male DC. Conveniently I have no bra on so I am showing him my bare breasts. For added shock value I step forward and press them into his face. Big mistake. He starts rubbing and kissing them and we end up having sex in the back corner of the shop. It lasts for about five minutes and is absolutely amazing – definitely the best lucid sex I've ever had, but I'd still rather have been achieving my lucid goals. It was the last lucid activity I did before waking.

So, tonight I will try and achieve Moonbeams's Dream OOBing!

I went to bed at 11:45pm priming to awaken at 5am. I awoke at 4:15am. I got up and went BTB at 5am. I lay on my back and primed for a MILD for about half an hour (I had to prime for a bit longer than normal as I wasn't quite as well focused as usual) then turned onto my side and went to sleep using the counting method.

I dreamed nonlucidly but not terribly much. I dreamed something about trying to go to sleep somewhere and a small kid kept disturbing me. Then I either had a FA or a real one (I'll never know) but I was thinking how odd it was that I hadn't had a lucid dream since I'd done my usual routine. I was really disappointed. I then either fell back asleep or continued dreaming...

I'm in a bedroom and one of the orderlies from work brings in a box of food which is my lunch. I start eating it. Then he brings in some more food for himself and I'm wondering who has paid for this food. Then I've finished my lunch and I'm looking in the drawers of the furniture for my dslr camera. I'm concerned I may have lost it but then I find it.

Then I'm driving along in a car with my husband C and some random woman and we pass a big warehouse and the woman says she wants to go in and buy some of the stock in there to start her own business with. So we go inside the warehouse and wait while this woman talks to the businessman in there. Next thing they have done a deal and it transpires that his business is food. So, since she is a new customer of his, the businessman lays out a table full of beautiful Asian food as a welcoming gesture. My entire extended family are now with us and we sit down to this banquet. I'm eating and although I can't taste anything I don't notice this, I just 'know' I am really enjoying it. I think about ordering some of his food myself on a regular basis since it's so nice and also very healthy.

Some of the family members have gone outside to eat and C and I decide to join them. We take our plates and go outside. We see a big paddock. It is a pleasant day. We go over to where a couple of family members are sitting on a small mound just behind a fence. They have their plates on the top of the fence. We do the same with our plates, then sit down and continue eating. Some of the younger family members are playing in the paddock.

Beside the paddock is a steep hill. I look up to the top of this hill and see a big truck with it's back wheels propped up over a fence. There's a sign advertising 'Transportation of less than 2 tons. Enquire within'. I keep eating. Then I notice at the foot of the hill there's a big huge black bull with its hooves up on a fence. The bull is really scary looking and is the biggest bull I've ever seen in my life.

I watch the bull for a bit as I continue to eat my meal. Then I realize with alarm that the bull is not actually segregated from our family by any fences. I mention this to my husband and then with growing horror I watch as it starts ambling over towards us. The guys around me say it should be alright so long as we don't antagonize it. We continue eating but I'm very nervous. The bull wanders right past us and stands nearby. I'm trying to just ignore it but every time it moves I get quite anxious. Finally I ask C if we can go inside. He agrees. We stand up and go back into the warehouse/factory.

Next thing one of the family members rushes in and says that Helen has been injured by the bull. Helen is my 17 year old niece. I walk outside and see my 14 year old niece, Elise, dragging Helen's body along the ground by the feet. Helen is face down and she is leaving a trail of saliva. I decide to do a reality test.

I push the button on my LED watch and the numbers come up but they're going mental. All sorts of weird heiraglyphics are scrolling across the screen. They're even upside down. I'm thinking 'hmmm, hold on a second, is this a new programme on my watch? Surely it's not meant to do that. No, the numbers definitely shouldn't be upside down.' I then do the nose pinch test and I can breathe. I turn to my mum who has now come outside too and say “mum, this is a dream”. She replies “no it isn't”. I'm thinking 'I can breathe. This must be a dream.'

At this point Elise reaches the door to the warehouse so I open it for her so she can drag Helen inside. I'm quite happy playing along with the story for a second as I'm thinking of going and confronting the bull and I want to make sure the scene doesn't change and that the bull doesn't 'escape' due to me entering a new dream. But mum is still saying it's not a dream and this starts to give me doubts since everything does seem so real. I see a platform that is about waist height so I attempt to jump onto it knowing that in the waking reality there's no way I'd be able to jump that high. I manage this. From up on the platform I turn to mum and ask “still think it isn't a dream?” She looks a bit embarrassed. I jump back down to the ground but then I decide it wasn't quite high enough to prove absolutely unequivocally that it is a dream, so spotting an even higher platform (about shoulder height) I decide that if I can jump onto that then it absolutely must be a dream. (I did not want to completely fly or float as I knew I would most likely lose the dream I was in.) So I jump up onto the high platform. I now know that my mum is wrong and it absolutely has to be a dream. I say to mum “believe it now?” I jump off the platform and float gently down to the ground. Then, in a manner similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous line from 'The Teminator', “I'll be back”, I state determinedly and categorically, “I'm going to go and confront the bull”.

I turn and begin walking across the field towards the bull - without a plan. As I get near the bull I realise that since my TK powers haven't exactly proven to be Olympic class recently, I'd better exercise a little caution as my dream control is definitely still in the novice category. The bull starts coming towards me. In my mind I'm thinking of the scene in 'Alice in Wonderland' where Alice turns to face the Bandersnatch and repeats “it's only a dream, it can't hurt me, it can't hurt me” and I find myself repeating the same words to myself silently. The bull is getting closer. I stop and quickly do another nose pinch test. I can breathe. I call out in a warning tone “don't scare me, because I'm not actually scared of you!” Then I ask “who are you?” The bull walks right up to me and gives me a long stupid answer “I'm the husband of the dead woman on the floor of the bathroom”. I say “why do you hurt people?” in a challenging way. The bull replies “you'd better watch out or I'll tie you up”, to which I say “I'm not scared of you. You'd better come up with something more scary than that”. The bull then says “I like to tie girls up and paint their faces. I'm going to tie you up and paint an orange mustache on you”. I reply that this doesn't sound very scary and the bull tells me that whenever he paints a girl's face their husband leaves them. I'm thinking that this is pretty lame and that I had been hoping for a good excuse to deal to this bull using superpowers. So in an effort to goad the bull into doing something menacing I say “fuck you” Then I wake up.

I actually really enjoyed engaging in the dream rather than just going off to do my own thing like I usually do.