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

I drank the special apple juice and went to bed at about 10:45pm. I got woken up from a deep sleep at 4am by my husband trying to start his van outside. I forced myself out of bed to go and help him jump start it thinking that at least my efforts may be rewarded with a lucid dream. I made sure I did lots of RCs during the time up.

We got the van started then I went BTB at about 4:30am and attempted WILD. It took about an hour to get to sleep but during this time I had a few hypnagogic hallucinations so I knew I was on the right track. Finally I found myself in a nonlucid dream. I can’t remember much of it up until the point when I was going into a shoe shop to return some boots. I then left the shoe shop to go home. Once outside I got onto this weird type of vehicle that was some sort of flying contraption. I was finding it difficult to operate and didn’t really know what I was doing at first but then I got the hang of it and I took off into the air.

There was no defining moment when I became lucid. I just became aware that I was dreaming whilst flying over the cars on the road. My lucidity level was not quite 100% but I was thinking how cool it was that I could fly because I was dreaming and I was so impressed with how my brain was simulating the scenery below me (I was only flying a few metres above the ground).

Up ahead I saw a small creature on the ground that was kind of half fox, half rat and I found myself inexplicably drawn toward it. I reached out and touched it as I floated past and it started looking strange. I stopped flying and the horrible creature began to morph in front of me and I felt myself being drawn back into the dream so I alerted my consciousness but I overdid it and woke up.

I recorded the LD on my voice recorder then did a DEILD.

I went into a FA but my room and house were totally different and I was not lucid. I got up and walked through the house to see if my cousin was awake (she is staying with me in RL). I got to the room she was sleeping in and called out her name but she was asleep so I decided to go and talk to spaceexplorer on webcam. I walked away from her room and down the hall until I came to an elevator. I got into the elevator but then realized that I had no idea where I was and even less idea about which level my own bedroom was on. I figured it was most likely that I was still dreaming and that I should do a RC but as I looked toward my watch I woke up.

I went back to sleep and into another nonlucid dream during which I know I started to consider whether or not I was dreaming again but I can’t recall what was happening.

I drank the special apple juice and went to bed at about 10:45pm. I got woken up from a deep sleep at 4am by my husband trying to start his van outside. I forced myself out of bed to go and help him jump start it thinking that at least my efforts may be rewarded with a lucid dream. I made sure I did lots of RCs during the time up.

We got the van started then I went BTB at about 4:30am and attempted WILD. It took about an hour to get to sleep but during this time I had a few hypnagogic hallucinations so I knew I was on the right track. Finally I found myself in a nonlucid dream. I can’t remember much of it up until the point when I was going into a shoe shop to return some boots. I then left the shoe shop to go home. Once outside I got onto this weird type of vehicle that was some sort of flying contraption. I was finding it difficult to operate and didn’t really know what I was doing at first but then I got the hang of it and I took off into the air.

There was no defining moment when I became lucid. I just became aware that I was dreaming whilst flying over the cars on the road. My lucidity level was not quite 100% but I was thinking how cool it was that I could fly because I was dreaming and I was so impressed with how my brain was simulating the scenery below me (I was only flying a few metres above the ground).

Up ahead I saw a small creature on the ground that was kind of half fox, half rat and I found myself inexplicably drawn toward it. I reached out and touched it as I floated past and it started looking strange. I stopped flying and the horrible creature began to morph in front of me and I felt myself being drawn back into the dream so I alerted my consciousness but I overdid it and woke up.

I recorded the LD on my voice recorder then did a DEILD.

I went into a FA but my room and house were totally different and I was not lucid. I got up and walked through the house to see if my cousin was awake (she is staying with me in RL). I got to the room she was sleeping in and called out her name but she was asleep so I decided to go and talk to spaceexplorer on webcam. I walked away from her room and down the hall until I came to an elevator. I got into the elevator but then realized that I had no idea where I was or what button to press as I had no idea which level my bedroom was on. I figured it was most likely that I was still dreaming and that I should do a RC but as I looked toward my watch I woke up.

I went back to sleep and into another nonlucid dream during which I know I started to consider whether or not I was dreaming again but I can’t recall what was happening.

I went to bed at around 10:45pm after a glass of the Greenways Apple Juice. I woke up naturally at about 3:15am. I got up, went to the loo, had a glass of apple juice, tidied my room, did lots of RC then went BTB and tried to WILD.

I found myself in a dream where I was standing in a kitchen somewhere. My sister was behind me and someone was to my left. I sensed I might be dreaming so did a RC. I looked at my Watchminder watch but I was having trouble reading the time. I could vaguely make out 1:08 but light was reflecting off it and I found the whole thing too suspicious and decided that I was indeed dreaming. I turned away from the bench but the dream just wasn’t stable enough and I woke up.

I then went into a nonlucid about being in some sort of lecture. I was on a tea break folding clothes and I went back into the lecture but I felt really tired and wished I could go and WILD somewhere and try and have a lucid dream. Someone was saying something about Australians bringing in a new law that you are not allowed to film anyone having sex or you’ll be sued. I then looked over and saw a microwave. The numbers on the time display kept changing but I assumed it was because I was tired and not looking at it properly.

I then looked at my watch but the time wasn’t being displayed. I pushed a button and the time came up on it but somehow I had set it to a new mode and the numbers were scrolling and coloured. I thought about how cool this new mode was and how amazing it was that I didn’t know about it and how spaceexplorer was going to love it! Then the display started showing all these animated insects crawling across the screen, little red ants marched across etc. It was mesmerizing and so very cool. I watched it for about 30 secs completely fascinated by this wonderful new mode I’d discovered. Then I woke up.

How annoying! But even more annoying was having to admit my idiocy to spaceexplorer when I woke up!

I went to bed at about 10pm. I woke up naturally at 3:43am but forgot to recall my dreams. I got up, went to the loo, had a glass of Greenway’s apple juice, cleaned my teeth, ran through all my dream signs and lucid goal. I did lots of RC while up. I then tried to WILD. It was a poor attempt for the first half hour as I kept thinking about sex grrr!!! Finally I got focused at about 4:30am. Got some hypnagogic imagery so knew I was on the right track.

I had been nonlucid dreaming when I found myself returning to my apartment (not my RL house). I saw a girl from my gym going into the apartment next door. I asked her “so what’s your name?” but she just looked at me funny so I told her my name. She didn't reply. So I opened the door to my apartment and went in and saw a hallway leading to the main room. As I walked down the hallway I had a weird feeling about what was going to be around the corner. I felt like something or someone was going to be in the lounge. I nervously edged round the corner and saw that the lounge was empty.

Suddenly I recognized the feel of being in a dream. Unfortunately the room started to fade to black so I started spinning round and round with my arms out trying desperately to visualize the room. This went on for ages but I lost the battle.

I briefly awoke and recorded this. The time was 5:52am.

Next thing I knew I was in a nonlucid dream looking through a wardrobe of shoes which belonged to me. I picked up a pair of lacy black flat shoes and thought “oh cool, I’d forgotten I had these”. Then suddenly my husband C was behind me and said “Can you come and test my neurological condition?” I asked him why and he replied with two completely random words and I knew he had had a small stroke. I led him through to the bedroom to get him to lie down. I was then going to call an ambulance.

Next thing I was in my RL bathroom next to the spa bath. A young asian girl of about 5 years old was there asking her mother if she could drive a car and the mother was saying that she was too young.

Next thing I was going back into the apartment from my earlier dream. I was being followed by two annoying DCs. I recognized that I had dreamed about this place earlier so was finding it quite strange to be there in what I thought was real life. I opened the door and the housekeeper was rushing out. I wanted to walk in slowly as I was a bit nervous again about something being in the lounge but the DCs were hurrying me along. I turned around and gave one of them a shove backwards because I wanted some space and they were crowding me out. I walked into the lounge and realized that I was in fact still dreaming. I immediately turned around and said to the annoying DCs “Right, I’m dreaming so now I can completely get rid of you”. I was trying to decide whether to kill them or just make them disappear but I woke up. The time was 6:26am

Monday 11th May 2009

I was in a nonlucid dream where I was in a large building and I was thinking about how it would be a great setting for a lucid dream. I got into an elevator to explore the building. I was trying to decide whether if I was lucid right now I would be better to go outside or to stay in the building. I was visualizing different parts of the building as I wondered this. I kept getting in and out of the elevator exploring different floors of the building. I was trying to memorise the building with the intention of coming back to it in a lucid dream. At one point a girl got into the elevator with me and I told her that this was a great place for a lucid dream and showed her how I could control the elevator doors with my mind. Yet I still didn't become lucid!

I woke up. It was 6.42am. I got up, had a glass of water, went to the loo then went BTB to WILD. Slept without really dreaming (that I can recall) until 8.11am. I then tried to WILD again.

It started out nonlucid. I was out in the wilderness with friends. We were camping and were all sitting around on a hillside. We were on a small plateau with a sandy-gravel ground. It was a large open space. There was an African-American girl nearby who was part of our group and she was telling us how lonely she was since her husband died and how she rings her grandmother every night before bed so she doesn’t feel so lonely. I could see a tear in her eye but at that moment someone else in the group made a joke and everyone started laughing at it. I knew they didn’t know the girl was sad and so I walked away from the group and went over to this girl who was sitting higher up on the hill. I gave her a hug and started talking to her and comforting her.

I felt that a bit of time had passed when suddenly large drops of rain started pelting down. I didn’t want to get wet so I started quickly scooting down the gravel hillside towards the rest of my friends where we had a caravan/tent thing to shelter in. I passed a couple of hikers on the way down.

When I got to where my friends and I had been camping they had all gone. All that was left was some stones in a circle where the fire had been and a large message was written in the ground that I couldn’t read properly but that I knew was not written by my friends but by some other hikers and that they’d left it as an emergency message for their friends. A storm was brewing fast and the wind was starting to blow and the message was going to be erased. It was all a bit worrying. However as I stood looking at this scene something didn’t feel right. It just didn’t make sense that my friends would suddenly be gone like that. Also, the environment felt extremely eery and surreal. I realized I was probably dreaming.

Immediately I looked towards my left wrist to do a reality test but my wristwatch was not there. I then knew I was dreaming because I wouldn’t be without my watch. I felt the dream fading a bit and I started to kind of float up the hill fighting to focus on the dream and stabilize it. I started rubbing my hands all over my body and then I teleported back into the bed but knew I hadn’t woken up. I could see through my sleep mask and I lay there for a bit looking around the room. I woke up.

Tuesday 12th May, 2009

I was at an airport sitting in an office talking to a man about some problem. Spaceexplorer was with me. I then got into a car with them both to go to the airport terminal to catch a plane. I had a sudden panic that I’d left my grey and pink backpack in the man’s office but luckily spaceexplorer had picked it up for me. I saw it on the front passenger seat.

We were on our way to catch a plane. We were in NZ and he was going home back overseas and I was going with him for a holiday. We had been touring around NZ together and had our suitcases with us. Suddenly I realized with alarm that I had not repacked my suitcase since our NZ tour and I had in fact taken many items of clothing out to wash and therefore I wasn’t packed properly. I turned in dismay to spaceexplorer and told him this. I started thinking through what was in my luggage and what I had taken out. I pointed out to him that I had no evening wear or evening shoes. I only had one pair of jeans which I was wearing and I looked down at them. I also had a whole lot of jumpers and jerseys which had been suitable for NZ’s autumn but we were going to be in summer. He then said, “can we talk about this later because I’m not feeling very well?”

I kept thinking about what I did and didn’t have for quite a while feeling annoyed and agitated at my rather ridiculous lack of preparation for the trip. We got out of the car and I walked into a room. Suddenly I thought to myself that this situation was really quite crazy. It felt so chaotic that I decided I should do a reality test on the off-chance that it was all just a dream. I looked at my watch hoping it would be and sure enough my watch face was kind of blank. I was very pleased at this and rather relieved!

I immediately started walking back out of the room to find spaceexplorer. I was carrying a whole lot of important items including my handbag and struggling with them all in my arms but then I realized that I didn’t need them at all because it was only a dream! That was quite a cool moment. So I just threw them all aside onto the floor. It was quite a weird feeling to do this. I then started calling out spaceexplorer’s RL name. He called back that he was in the toilet and not feeling well. He sounded a bit irate. I then called out to him that it was only a dream and walked into the public toilet. There were a few doors in there and I started looking for him but I couldn’t find him. The walls were covered in amazing black and white patterns. I kept searching for him and calling out “come and find me!” over and over but then the dream started fading. I quickly rubbed my hands up and down my body to try and stabilize the surroundings. The walls started to reappear but I lost the battle and found myself back in my bed.

I was lying in bed not complete sure if I was awake or still dreaming. It was pitch black. Suddenly I became aware that someone was lying beside me to the right. Immediately I thought ‘nah, that’s BS. There’s no way spaceexplorer could have crept upstairs and into my room without me waking up’. It was amazing how real it felt though. I started sliding out of bed. It was hard to get out as he was half lying on top of me and I actually told him to get off me! (Lord knows why I didn’t just get it on with him, silly me!)

I managed to get out of bed and was standing beside it. He then told me to look under the pillow. I knew he had put a surprise there for me. I lifted the pillow but it was too dark to see so I decided to turn the light on mainly just to see how the dimmer switch would work. I flicked the switch and the light came on the lowest illumination level. I started turning the dial up and it got a bit brighter but then it started flickering. I looked around my room and it looked completely amazing! The décor was completely different and it had a red Moulin Rouge theme going on. The duvet was red and there were candelabras all around with red candles on them. I went around to the base of the bed. Spaceexplorer was still lying in bed. I moved a candlebra and then realized I should be doing exciting things since I was in a lucid dream.

I immediately thought of my current lucid goal which is to look at spaceexplorer’s tattoos so I went back over to the bed and asked him to show me. He held out his left arm and sure enough the tattoo was completely wrong. Instead of his RL tattoo he had all these wild animals all over his arm including a smiling koala bear. There were hundreds of animals in the wild with beautiful skies and sunsets. Then I woke up.

Lucid Time = 2 mins

Saturday 16th May 2009

Wow! Last night I dreamed the same dream twice only I became lucid the second time and changed the ending! I went to bed at 10pm. I awoke at 3am and did a WBTB.

I then had a nonlucid dream during which I looked at my watchminder just in time to see the battery die completely. I was annoyed because that meant I would have to reprogram it. I had a spare battery with me which I carry around in my handbag. I got out the tiny screwdriver, removed the back of the watch and took the battery out. At this point my brother was suddenly there and he looked at my watch and said something about the battery compartment having a trip switch and that I had to put the battery in a special way. I felt comforted by having him there helping me and thought to myself how it has been so long since I’ve seen him. I then realized I must be dreaming. I thought about how beautiful his voice sounded and how perfectly accurately my brain could simulate it and how much I missed him and his voice.

The dream ended and I went into non-rem sleep. The next thing I remember is being outside sitting on a dirt ground beside a building that was under construction. There was a construction worker standing on some scaffolding up quite high. He got onto an elevator machine and started coming down to the ground. As I watched him slowly lowering to the ground on the elevator I suddenly had the feeling that I had dreamed this earlier in the night and that I was now dreaming the exact same dream again. I knew what was going to happen which was that the elevator was going to reach the ground and the guy was going to grab hold of my arms. I knew that it would be scary when he grabbed me but that it would only be for a short time and then he would start going up in the elevator again and he would let go and I would then wake up. So I decided to try and make the ending different and prolong the dream so that instead of waking up I could muck around in lucid land for a while.

Sure enough the elevator reached the ground and the guy reached out and grabbed hold of my hands. Instead of staying still and waiting for him to let go I immediately stood up. He then got out of the elevator and started to lead me into a nearby building. I already knew he was not a nice DC so I tried to will spaceexplorer to be inside the building but when we got inside the place was empty. The next thing I knew the construction guy had tied my left hand to some sort of pole with a long white cord. He was no longer around. I tried pulling my hand free but it didn’t work. I considered fiddling with the knot with my other hand but it was a small, tight knot and I didn’t like my chances of undoing it. I yanked on the cord with my left hand a few times willing my hand to get free but it just wouldn’t work.

So there I was, lucid in a dream, but unable to do anything because I was tied to a flipping pole! I was thinking about how ridiculous this was and how I’d have to put this dream on Dreamviews when I woke up and it would be really embarrassing! I thought about how the Dreamviews members would take great delight in hearing of my predicament and how they would definitely mock my abysmal lack of lucid powers!

I then studied my hands for a while marveling at the realness of it all. I noticed how this stabilized my dream really well. When I looked up again a few people were in the room which had become a cafeteria. There was a young girl sitting at a table with her mother. The cord around my left hand was long enough that I was able to walk over to the girl so I did. I crouched down beside her and asked her name. She mumbled something that I didn’t hear and her mother smiled at me. I recognized her mother as someone I’d met recently in RL but I couldn’t remember who.

I then kept pulling on the cord tied around my left wrist which was annoyingly still attached to the pole! I couldn’t believe how real it felt and I just couldn’t think of how to get free! I decided to practice my lucid powers by attempting to put my free hand through a wooden table nearby. I banged my hand down on the table but my hand didn’t go through at all. I did this a few times but it just banged against the table with a thump, thump, thump. I started to wonder if perhaps I wasn’t dreaming after all and was simply walking around looking like an idiot. I looked down at my feet which were bare and counted my toes carefully. I only had four toes on each foot so I knew that there was no doubt whatsoever I was dreaming! At this point I realized the cord around my wrist had disappeared, thank goodness, so I started wandering around aimlessly trying to decide what to do. I remembered that spaceexplorer had recommended walking up the walls so I ran up a wall a little way and then tried to do a backwards flip but I woke up.

It was 5:57am. I recorded the dream then went back to sleep.

The next thing I knew I was in a house with a good looking male DC aware that I was dreaming but sort of in a strange state where I felt compelled to stay with him. It was odd because he was unlike any other DC. I felt a strange connection with him.

Anyway, this DC had to go upstairs to talk to someone. I knew there was a wolf upstairs but I wasn’t worried because I knew it was a dream. We went upstairs and he spoke briefly to someone. I then pulled him aside and told him to look at his watch. He did so and commented that the lights on it looked funny. I told him it was because this was a dream. I then woke up.

Total Lucid Time = 2 mins + 1 min

The interesting thing is that I have a recurring nonlucid dream where my hands are tied together and before I went to sleep I wondered what it would be like if I was ever in a lucid dream with my hands tied up but unable to escape. I wish I had thought to pull a knife out of my back pocket and slice through the cord.

If anyone is actually following my journal please send me a quick PM as I'm thinking I may stop posting my dreams here. I will keep posting if anyone is interested in reading it!

Cheers,
DQ

Cool... I've had replies so will keep posting. Thanks for reading!

Originally Posted by DreamQueen

I thought about how the Dreamviews members would take great delight in hearing of my predicament and how they would definitely mock my abysmal lack of lucid powers!

hehehe

I think you should keep posting! I don't always have a lot of time to read journals. Especially because of recording my own dreams. But I'll try to get in here now and then and check out what you have been up to.

Cheers guys, I'm still reading both of yours as well

Well I've had lots of replies so I will keep posting. It's nice to know people are enjoying my lucid tales! So on with the next one...

I’m actually surprised I managed to have a LD last night. I certainly didn’t deserve to! I got up at about 3am and did the most feeble WBTB and WILD attempt in the history of lucid dreaming. I went to the toilet, looked at my watch (my standard RT) a couple of times, went back to bed and drifted off to sleep thinking 'I hope I get lucid' and that was about it. Pathetic.

The first thing I remember after that was being at home in a nonlucid dream and for some reason looking at my vibrating Watchminder. (In RL recently the low battery symbol has been on and I’ve been aware that I’m going to need to change it soon.) Anyway, in the dream my watch said 10:00 and 10 seconds and all the numbers on the display were flashing and I knew that the battery was finally about to die completely. I noticed that it didn't even have enough power left to vibrate. I went and got my new battery out of my desk drawer. I then thought to myself ‘this whole battery situation could really mess with my lucid dreaming so I’d better make sure I do plenty of back up reality tests otherwise I am likely to just accept a dead battery next time I am dreaming’. I then did the nose pinch test but before I had the chance to finish it properly the entire dream scene had changed and I was now standing in a huge lecture theatre full of people.

I was still in reality test mode. I turned and whispered to the people sitting nearby, “excuse me, does anyone know the time?” Somebody replied “it’s just after 9:24” which I thought was an odd answer but was still not aware that I was dreaming. I then noticed that the lecturer was Richard Dawkins. At this point I attained a moderate level of lucidity, about 75%.

I was then approached by a male DC who looked about 60 years old. He came over to me and extended his hand to shake mine. I noticed his hands were ridiculously oversized. I shook his hand and then he held onto it and led me onto the stage and gestured for me to sit down on a large chair behind a desk. I did so. He then asked if I’d like to say a few words to the crowd. There were about a thousand people sitting in the auditorium staring up at the stage. I got the feeling that he thought I would sit there quietly not wanting to speak but boy was he wrong.

I immediately replied confidently, “oh I most surely do want to say some things. Boy have I got some lessons to teach these people”. I then stood up from the chair with that wonderful feeling of having no inhibitions whatsoever that can only ever be experienced in a lucid dream. I decided to get up on the desk in front of me so that the big announcement I was planning to make would have even more impact. So I simply jumped into the air and levitated onto the top of the desk, much to the astonishment of the crowd. I then declared in a loud voice, “Hey everybody, there is no God!” There was a murmur through the crowd and then I woke up.

Annoyingly I could have DEILD but chose to record the dream instead which woke me up too much.

you sure showed em congratz very cool dream!

I have been reading your dream log and want to encourage you to keep posting. Your expressions having a connectivity that is very refreshing. I look to read more.

that was epic.

Wednesday 20th May 2009

This is just embarrassing. I really think this could be considered for the Worst Reality Test Ever Performed by a Lucid Dreamer in the Guinness Book of Records, especially considering only a few days ago I claimed in a DV thread to be able to lucid dream "virtually at will, blah, blah, blah".

So, I’m dreaming that I’m in the living room of a house with some random DCs. I’m watching a young child eat a bowl of cereal. The child goes to put it down on the arm of a chair. There are a few other children around and I’m thinking that is a bad place for it because it will probably get knocked off. Sure enough, no sooner has the kid put the bowl down it gets knocked off. I watch it fall and just before it hits the floor it kind of hovers above the ground on its side but none of the cereal spills out. I realize I might have time to save it so I rush over and grab it. The cereal sloshes around precariously but doesn’t spill. I think about how weird it was that it hovered in the air and decide to do a reality test.

So, with the cereal bowl still in my right hand I look down at the digital watch on my other wrist. Everyone in the room is watching me and I’m feeling so self-conscious that despite looking at my watch and looking away a number of times I don’t really focus on it properly. My thoughts instead are ‘golly I bet everyone is wondering what I’m doing looking at my watch over and over. Oh well it’s not going to stop me doing a thorough reality test. I’m just going to take my time. Yep, I’m doing a really good long reality test here. Good on me'.

The next thing I know my digital watch starts displaying an advertisement for Clinque’s Happy perfume. I’m quite surprised by this and show my watch to a random DC saying “Look at this, can you believe that now companies are advertising on my watch? How rude is that?”

As if this isn’t bad enough, my subconscious then decides to push it a bit further and a big blue handbag pops out of my watch. I touch it and it feels real. I then say, “Look at this! I can’t believe it! This bag must have been compressed inside my watch the whole time I’ve owned it just waiting to pop out”.

It doesn’t get much more stupid than that folks

That's hilarious!

HAHA! That was the funniest dream I've ever heard! XD But don't be embarrassed, you were just.... not lucid? lol!

Monday 25th May 2009

I got lucid a couple of times last night. I went to bed at about 10:30pm and did some lucid priming before going to sleep. I awoke at 5am with fairly good dream recall and dragged myself out of bed for a short while. I went BTB and attempted WILD. I was doing reasonably well with HI. I ended up in a nonlucid dream.

I was sitting on a hillside with two friends of mine, A and D. I put a make-up purse into a small compartment in A’s bag, zipped it up and pointed out to her how perfectly it fit it the little compartment. Then I lay back on the grass and looked up at the clouds. Almost immediately I noticed an interesting looking cloud formation directly above me. It looked like a man wearing a top hat and dressed in a suit with a waist coat. I exclaimed to my friends “Hey, look at that cloud! It looks just like…” as I started to speak the image of the man became even more detailed. I could even see stripes on his waist coat. That’s when I thought ‘hang on a sec, I bet I'm dreaming’. I looked at my digital watch and saw the time was 4-something but then I woke up.

I went back to sleep and ended up in another nonlucid dream. I was on a street with another girlfriend of mine, K. We were in my car with me driving. We stopped outside a shop that we were planning to go into but saw that it was not in fact a shop but an art gallery. I then saw a newspaper stand and suggested she jump out and buy a newspaper so we could look up what was showing at the movies and maybe go see one. First I said I’d park the car. I did a U-turn and started trying to park but I was making a real hash job of it. I then said to K, “Sorry, I just have to stop and do a reality test because it’s a classic dream sign of mine to be maneuvering my car so uselessly like this.” I then looked at my digital watch. The numbers were all broken and even though it was hard to believe I realised I must be dreaming.

I was now standing on the sidewalk outside my car and it was parallel parked perfectly. I looked at K who was standing next to me. She looked a bit blurry which was a bit annoying. Just as a quick back-up test and out of interest I asked her “what’s your boyfriend’s name?” wondering if she would give me his RL name. She replied “Clicky”. I chuckled to myself and thought ‘yeah right’ amused at how DCs always have such bogus names.

I then remembered my first lucid goal which is to really look hard at the dreamscape. So I looked carefully at K and by now there was a guy standing beside her wearing a brown shirt so I looked carefully at him too. I then walked over and stood beside my car and looked around. I was standing on a street that had shops on it and a few people. I looked at my car then walked around the front of it to see what the number plate read. Instead of my normal plate it was a whole lot of numbers starting with 7.

I then remembered my second lucid goal which is to try and meet up with a particularly nice male DC I had meet briefly in a recent LD. I crossed the road and looked up and down the street deciding where to go. I saw a pharmacy/drug store a little way up the road and willed him to be inside it. I thought it would be quite cool because I could also sniff some perfume while I was in there. I walked up to the pharmacy but there was no entrance to the shop. It was just a counter with a guy serving from behind it. I looked at him for a few seconds wondering if he was the DC I was searching for but when he turned around I saw it wasn’t him. I then woke up.

Lucid time = 30 seconds

I love reading your dream journal I also love how vividly you describe things, it's like I can picture your dreams in my head. One thing I should do that you did is look at my dreamscape carefully, I barely take the time to do that Anyways, keep the dreams the com'n

Thanks sora12. Yeah, I completely recommend studying your environment intently. It was suggested to me by wolfedreamer531 and it's one of the best things I've ever learned about lucid dreaming. Not only is it amazingly impressive at how detailed everything is when you really look, but it also helps stabilize the dreamscape.

Anyway, last night I went to bed at about 12.30am and set my alarm for 5.15am to say goodbye to my partner who is going overseas for a week. I did a pretty appalling WBTB though as I was was more focused on getting laid than getting lucid

Anyway, I wouldn't really call this a lucid dream as much as a 'lucid moment' but I was in a nonlucid dream where I was driving my car down my old street. It was night-time and the street was deserted. Suddenly up ahead I saw a large snake-like creature wiggle out onto the road. It was huge and dark and scary looking. I immediately thought 'wtf is that?' but at the same time I recognized the feeling of being in a dream and also that there are no snakes in New Zealand, especially that big!

I was curious to see it up closer and so drove on up to it by which stage it had turned into a large crocodile. I slowed my car down to take a look thinking 'don't worry, it's just a dream' but then the crocodile suddenly ran over and lunged at my window freaking the fuck out of me so much that I woke up. Damn!

Sora12 is right, you describe your dreams so vividly I can picture almost everything, I can feel I'm there and it makes me want to go to bed and lucid dream.
I find looking at the landscape really interesting. I never had good control on my lucid dreams but in my second one, I was looking at my landscape and I found it so impressive and also the feeling of the wet leaf I was holding that I said "It's beatiful!" out loud. The leaf I was holding on was attached to its tree and the woman walking behing me said "Last time I planted these trees in my backyard, my dog went pfthhh" (which I found funny)

Anyways, good luck for another lucid dream (even though your so talented you'll obviously get one soon if not tonight!)

That last one sounded kind of like anxiety induced Lucidity? I had a brief moment like that the other night, when I was over run by a very large mob of fast running zombies. In woke up shortly after becoming Lucid in that one too. I did not record that one though.

Nice job recognizing the cloud formation, and driving, as dreamsigns. Clouds do weird things in my dreams too. Most often when I focus on them, they form into tornadoes. Which is actually pretty cool.

I got a good laugh out of "Clicky." I should ask some DC's their names and see what they say. I once asked a DC where she was from. She told me she was from a place called Elete. The other night I asked some other DC's if they ever heard of the place. But they couldn't seem to remember if they had.