A Lucid Dream Wed/May/21/2008 Lucid Dream # 37 of 2008 Overly intense image noticed Reality check induced Lucidity

I'm in the back yard of the house, only it doesn't look anything like it. I'm on the side of the yard farthest away from the house. But the yard is huge now, now is so much space between me and the house.

There are construction vehicles in the yard. They are very strange looking, nothing like anything in real life. One is like a back hoe, but so much different than a real one. It's like a super technologically advanced one. They have dug up the entire yard.

At  first I'm confused about what they are doing, but then I realize they are putting in a pool. (Not describing this very well.) The yard is completely torn up now with giant pits. I'm standing there watching, and the scene is just so intense and vivid, that I'm just kind of stunned and amazed by the whole thing.

The yard is so wide now, and the way that everything is dug up, makes me feel like I'm standing on the edge of the grand canyon or something. That's my exact thought as I'm standing there viewing it. That it looks like the grand canyon. (that should give  an idea of how intense the scene was.)

far on the other side, I can see my Mom, step Dad, and Aunt, all sitting together. They can see me, and one of them waves. I wave back. I see the back hoe driving backwards towards one of the pits. I yell for him to lookout, because I think he will fall in. The operator just looks in my direction and continues backing up. And to my surprise, he drives the thing backwards down the vertical wall of the pit.

I decide I want to get to where my family is, So I begin to run around the side of this whole canyon yard thing. As I take my first few steps, I also decide I need to do a reality check, because this is all just a bit to much. And the scene is just to real to be real. I pinch my nose and I can breath!:boogie:

Lucid right away, I continue running around to where my family is. It does not take me long to get there. Once there I shout "look Mom, tricks are for kids!" And I jump up onto this wall and do a back flip off it. Then I do it again shouting tricks are for kids again. My aunt laughs thinking it's funny. For the moment I decide not to tell them it's a dream this time.

We all walk into the house. Apparently we are having some kind of family get together barbecue. As I walk into the kitchen, I'm thinking how strange this all is. I know I'm dreaming, and I'm just going with it. Hanging out with my family, like a normal every day thing. I'm wondering what I should do, I can't really think of anything right away.

I see my sister slicing onions on a cutting board. I guess we are having hamburgers on the grill. I'm thinking" what the hell, should I just sit with my family and have a burger, or what?"  Most of my goals have slipped my mind, And I don't see any random exciting  thing to do.

Then I remember that I was thinking  I should start paying attention to details again. I have not done that for a while, and I think it will help me take a more clear memory of the dream with me. I look around the kitchen, and I'm just so amazed by every little detail. I can hardly believe it's not real. I notice the napkin holder, and salt and pepper shakers on the table. And the light blue table cloth with little frilly things on the edges. (isn't really on the table in real life. It's just wood.)

I open the refrigerator door, and look inside. I notice a bag of hamburger buns in the frig. (don't really keep buns in the frig. ) They so real, I decide I want to touch them to see what they feel like. I pick them up and squeeze them a little. It's so realistic I'm just amazed. Even the feel of the plastic bag they are in is just perfectly real.

I notice that my hands are dirty, and I have gotten dirt on the bag of buns. I set them on the table, and my mom walks by and says" nobody is going to want to eat those buns after you put your dirty hands on them."   " I'm just examining the details of things, because this is a dream." I reply.

My sister notices what I just said, and looks over my way and asks "this is a dream? I say "yeah," and  I tell her to pinch her nose and try to breath through it. But her hands are busy preparing food. So I pinch her nose for her. She just shrugs her shoulders like she didn't notice anything. So I pinch my nose and show her that I can breath through it. I'm about to show her that I can push my finger through my hand when I wake up.

A Lucid Dream Wednesday/May/21/2008 Lucid Dream # 38 0f 2008 Best dreamsign noticed No reality check needed

I'm in a huge stadium for sporting events or concerts. I'm not really sure what was going on at first. But there are a lot of people milling around. The first thing that I remember really well, is that I have skis on. I'm skiing across the floor of the stadium, and there is a big snow hill on one side of the place. I ski at it really fast and try to use it as a jump. But I don't hit it right and just slow down, and come to a stop at the top of the hill.

I notice on the other side of the stadium is a white ramp. the ramp has a curve at the bottom where it touches the floor. but then it angles straight upwards like a vertical wall.  Now I know what to do,;)  I use the hill I'm on as a down slope to get my speed up. by the time I'm on the floor of the stadium I'm moving so fast, and picking up more speed as I go.

I hit the ramp, and it shoots me straight upwards into the air, far above the floor of the stadium. I arch backwards, and do a flip and a twist. And I'm now flying across the stadium, in the direction I had came from. I look at my feet, and my skis are actually twirling like helicopter propellers. As I begin coming down about to land on some big square thing, I'm like oh wow, This is a dream!

I land on the square thing, then jump off it onto the roof of a bus. Then jump off the bus onto the floor. I see somebody standing near by, and I say, Oh my god check out this jump. I ski over to the snow hill again, jump and ski down it again trying to get even more speed up. I hit the ramp again, shooting into the air. but this time I'm not able to do a very good flip. So I land and try it again.

this time I do the best jump yet flipping and spinning high above the stadium, and flying across to land on the big square thing again. As I land this time, I look up and notice the stadium is packed with spectators, and they are all standing, and Cheering,  and clapping loudly. I'm thinking "Whoa They really liked that!"  The guy I talked to before, looks up at me and says," be careful that you don't fall off that thing." I say don't worry, I have the ability t fly." I jump off the square thing and levitate in the air, Just hovering in one spot.

The guy starts talking about "Chris Angel mind freak" Who can do stuff like that.

I lose Lucidity at this point. I somehow forget I'm dreaming. The doors of  the stadium burst open and the police come rushing in. Somebody shouts, "There is a bomb!"  the bomb squad, all decked out in there space suits find this bomb that some terrorist had put in the stadium. I'm about to run out of the building, when I notice that there are cages of cats an dogs.

I run back in and start opening cages letting the animals out. And I grab a couple of cats and carry them. I think they are going to start scratching me, but they don't. I get outside and into a car, then wake up.

some cabin vacation stuff from spring of 2008

A Lucid Dream Friday/May/30/2008 Lucid Dream # 39 of 2008 Spontaneous Lucidity (sort of) Basic task Completed

I'm climbing a tree down near the pond by the cabin. I look out over the water, and I see that it's an ugly green color. I remember how I froze water before, so I wonder if I can change the color to blue. I look away and look back at it, trying to will it to change.

Then I think about how interesting it is that I'm trying to change the color, and I'm not even Lucid. Then, suddenly, "Hey this is a dream!"  I think about diving into the water and going for a swim. But I hesitate because I get the feeling that that's not what I really wanted to do with my next Lucid. I Just sit there in the tree for some time, trying to think of what I wanted to do next.

Then I think that I wish I had paid attention to what the Lucid tasks were for this month. Then, "Oh yeah, eat something  inedible. That's simple enough" So I take a bite out of the nearest tree branch, chew it up, and swallow some of it. But it tastes so awful that I start spitting the rest of it out. It tasted worse than any real tree ever could, I think. After that I either woke up or lost Lucidity, I don't remember.

earlier the same night. I'm walking down one of the trails by the cabin. But I get confused because the trails don't look right, and I can't figure out witch way to go. I decide I need to do a reality check. I pinch my nose and I can breath. But I wake up right away.

Tuesday/May/27/2008 I'm walking by a pond back in the woods. I see what looks like some strange creature crawling along the ground. But when I Look again I see that it's just a fallen tree. I decide I need to do a reality check. I pinch my nose and can breath, but I wake up.

I'm in the cabin. it's dark out and I can see a cars headlights outside. The car is just sitting there. It freaks me out and I wonder what they want. I look again and I see a park bench, and what I thought were headlights, is just light reflecting off the bench. The situation strikes me as odd, so I pinch my nose and can breath!  I'm Just thinking about what I'm going to do when I wake up.

Thursday/May/29/2008 I look at my watch to see what day it is. The date says May 37th. For a moment I'm really confused thinking how can it be the 37th of May. Then I realize it's because I'm dreaming but wake up.

Sunday/June/1/2008 On my birthday I see two bald eagles circling the pond. It's pretty ,I never saw them there before. Then when I go to sleep...

I'm sitting outside the cabin, and A bald eagle keeps soring down at me and flying just over my head. I'm not afraid of it, I feel like it's trying to be friendly. The next time it comes by I hold out my arm to see if it will land on it. And it does! I'm like, "holly crap, I have a wild eagle perching on my arm! I really need to do a reality check now.

I remember reaching up to pinch my nose. But I can't remember actually trying to breath through it. I'm not sure if I did or not, because I got distracted by the Polar bear! Just at that moment a polar bear comes up to me from behind, and starts rubbing it's head against my shoulder. It's very friendly and lays down next to me. Then  a lion comes up to me on the left side! When I see the lion I really start to get scared, thinking that any moment one of these will go wild on me and attack.

I suddenly panic, get up, and run for the cabin before they can start trying to make a meal out of me. Once I enter the cabin I wake up.

There is a DC that tells me that I need to face my fear of falling off a cliff. he instructs me to get into a car, because he is going to drive at top speed right to the edge of the cliff, and stop at the last second. I'm a little worried, but I trust him for some reason.

I get in with him, and we race to the cliff. I freak out a little when we pass the point where I believe there is no way to stop in time. Without slowing down we come to the edge. The front of the car goes over, and my stomach goes into my throat. But at that moment the car instantly stops and is pulled back from the edge. The DC congratulates me on facing that fear.

The Later the same night...

I see something odd and make a comment about it.(I can't remember this very well.) But after making the comment, a DC tells me that I should do a reality check so I pinch my nose. I don't get Lucid, I can't even remember the feeling of when I pinched my nose. So I'm not sure what happened.

The DC asked me  if I did it. I say yeah, and I show him. I pinch it again. He asks, " But did you breath through it?" He seemed to be incuraging me to keep trying it. because I was not doing it right. That's all I remember about it.

WILDING I found it pretty easy to clear my thoughts enough to WILD while I was out there. Most were pretty brief. These to were the best ones. I enter a scene where I'm inside the cabin looking out the window fully Lucid. Down by the pond, I can see a black bear, and a deer just wandering around. Fascinated, I watch them through the window for some time before waking up.

I enter a scene where I get up to use the bathroom fully Lucid.(because I really had to go. it was early morning and I had been sleeping for a while already.)

I open the bathroom door, and see my Mothers dog looking up at me and wagging it's tail. I say hi to it and scratch behind it's ears, thinking that it's cool I'm WILDING and still in the dream. I try to use the bathroom but remember it's useless. So I walk back out. I think I woke up about there.

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A Lucid Dream Monday/June/23/2008 Lucid Dream # 40 of 2008 Best dreamsign recognized Personal task completed

I'm running down I side street, towards a little convenient store to buy cigarettes. It feels good to run I'm enjoying the feeling of the exertion, and of how good of shape I feel. I start to wonder why I want to by cigarettes and pollute my lungs, when I'm feeling do good. I decide that one or two smokes won't hurt.

Also, as I was running I had Lucid Dreaming on my mind. I can't remember my exact thoughts though. And I didn't do an RC. I come to a cross road, it's a busy street and the store is on the other side. I don't know why, but I suddenly believe that if I want, I can leap the entire road, over the cars and all. All I need to do, is believe that I can, and I will be able to.

So with all my strength, I crouch and leap into the air. I soar high above the traffic and over the road. Instantly Lucid, I shout," woo hoo, this is a dream!" I actually clear the entire store, and land on the ground on the opposite side.

I enter the store and immediately start to lose Lucidity. It's so real I start to doubt it's a dream. There are many people, and they all seem so real. But I don't forget RC's!:) I pinch my nose to check, and I can breath quite well. There is no longer any doubt, and I'm proud of myself for believing the nose RC on the first try, I only did it for a second.

I now remember what I wanted to do in  my next Lucid. I look at my wrist to see if I'm wearing my watch, and I am! (The reason for this task, is to get myself used to looking at my watch in my dreams. Next time I do it, I want to take note of the time and date. And notice anything strange about it.)

There is a long checkout counter, with a woman standing behind it checking out customers. I walk around to the back of the counter, and I also see another room behind the counter. I enter, and it's like an employee break room. There are many employees sitting around. The woman at the check out counter enters the room, and begins talking to the employees. (Apparently she is the boss.)

She is nice looking, and I think it would be fun to have sex with her right here in front of everybody. But then I think, That it could ruin this dream, and I want to have something better to write about. But I can't resist the urge completely, and decide I will just do a little fondling then be on my way.

So I begin fondling her, instead of resisting, she seems to like it, and leans into me. But that only lasts for a moment before I wake up.:( Though I'm quite happy about ending this dry spell.

A Lucid Dream Thursday/June/26/2008 Lucid Dream # 41 of 2008 Best dreamsign recognized No reality check needed

There was more to the beginning involving smoking pot with old friends, and trying to walk the dog on a muddy flooded trail. But I'm going to start it here.

I end up driving along in an RV with some family I don't know. I'm sitting in the front seat on the passenger side. There is a man driving, and the rest of the family is in the back. The family is mostly women, but there is one young boy.

As we drive, there are large patches of fog forming in seemingly random places along the highways. I don't know why, but I know that this fog is a supernatural fog. The same fog from the movie, " The Fog."  The RV enters a patch of thick fog, and visibility drops to zero. It gets dark and all I can see out the windows, is a thick swirling white.At any moment, I know we are going to be attacked by evil ghostly specters.

I begin to freak out, and I start swinging my arms wildly, and screaming and snarling like a mad demon myself. I think, what I'm trying to do, is build up enough adrenaline so that when we are attacked, I will unleash my own mad fury upon our attackers. I turn and scream at one of the girls behind my own seat, and she cowers farther back into the RV.

Just then, the man driving says,"I no longer have control of the vehicle." Some type of entity that lurks within the fog, has taken control of the RV. We break through the Fog, and are driven over the side of some cliff or something I'm not sure. But our entire RV is suddenly flying high in the sky. I look out the huge front window, and can see the ground that looks like thousands of feet below. There are mountains and valleys, and houses scattered here and there.

As I look down, and out the window, I think to myself. " I should be taking this as a dreamsign."  Even though I don't think it's a dream yet, I loudly state, This is a dream!" I'm just kind of pretending because this is what I always say when I get airborne like this. But as soon as I say the words, "this is a dream." It instantly triggers the realization, that this really is a dream.

I repeat it a few more times. And each time I say it, I become more Lucid. Until I'm 100% positive I'm dreaming. I still have the crazy adrenalin in me from a moment ago. But now it's even more amplified from the thrill and excitement of knowing I'm dreaming. I start laughing hysterically, and snarling like a mad man. I stand up, and step right through the front window of the RV. My absolute certainty, that I can pass through the window, causes the glass to not even be there at all. I step through with ease.

I stand up on the edge where the windshield wipers should be. And I think about diving off and free falling. But I don't. I've gone a little bit mad with power, and I decide to mess with these DC's. I climb up over the windshield, and up onto the roof of the flying RV. I walk to the back, and I'm not sure how, but there is this long, red, cape like cloth, attached to the top of the RV. I have a hold of the tail end of it, and I'm using it as if it were the reins of a horse drawn wagon.

I pull and jerk on the cape, making the RV tilt in an alarming way as we fly. The whole time screaming and laughing like a psycho. And I can hear the DC's screaming in fear inside.

I drop the cape, and lean over the back of the RV. I can see a couple of the ladies near the back window. I reach through, grabbing one of them by the arm, and pulling her out. I let her go, and watch her fall.  The height is so great that I never see her hit the ground. She just gets smaller, and smaller, until she disappears from sight completely.

I crawl down the back, and through the window. Again entering the RV. The man in the driver seat, turns to face me. He has his arm outstretched, and has a hand gun pointed at me. He begins firing the gun, and my complete lack of fear, renders the gun useless. The shots are loud, but as far as I can tell no bullets come out at all. I don't see any, and I don't feel anything hit me. Finally the gun just clicks, because he emptied it.

He looks at the gun confused, then tosses it aside. I now turn my attention to one of the ladies. I decide to try something I have not done since the old days. I reach out with my mind using TK to make her remove her clothing. I don't get that locked on feeling I normally get when using TK. But something works, because she begins taking her cloths off. She has stripped to her underwear, when I start to wonder if doing this will cause me to wake up. And of course as soon as I think that, the dream fades and is gone.

A Lucid Dream Monday/June/30/2008 Lucid Dream # 42 of 2008 Random dreamsign recognized Reality check induced Lucidity

I'm in something that is like a cross between a freight train, and A semi-truck. It is driving on the road like a truck, but it is pulling many boxed cars like a train. Inside the cars, it's some kind of factory.  And I'm working in this factory. It's hard to describe, everything is very changeable, and changes constantly. The car I'm in has no roof, it's open to the sky. there is one other person with me.

There is a conveyor belt type thing moving a long line crates. I see a crate fall off onto the floor, then reappear on the belt, and then fall off again. It does this several times. I'm very energetic already, and I shout in jovial way. "I wonder if that's a dreamsign!" I pinch my nose and I can breath!:boogie: "It is a dreamsign!" I become Lucid right away, and don't bother RCing again. I climb up these square box like things that are all over the place. Then, on a  whim, I decide to ask the DC that's with me a couple of questions. I'm thinking of the old interogation task questions. I shout to the DC, "what's your name?"

He doesn't seem to hear me at first so I shout it again. Finally he says something strange like "Noodly," or "Nedly". I can't remember exactly what it was, but it sounded like that.

Just after asking him this question, I notice something overhanging the road. It's almost like a bridge across the road. But it seems like a blue wall. I'm standing up high, so that if I don't duck down I will hit it. I decide to just let the truck slam me into the wall, and see if I can phase through it.

I get slammed into it, but there isn't really any force. and instead of me going through it. The wall just moves along with me, and becomes a part of the truck. I find this curious but then return to my questions. To the DC, I ask,"Why am I here?" "I don't know," he replies.  "I know why I'm here," I say. "I'm here to play!"

I then pick up something out of a crate that looks like a soup can, but it's the size of a paint can. I hold it up, turn it sideways, and push my finger into the bottom of it. My finger sinks all the way into it, and it feels much like when I push my finger through my hand. I then push all four fingers into the can, then begin pulling them out.

When I pull them out, my fingers all stretch cartoon like. Then they start to become kind of translucent and kind of dissipate like wisps of smoke. Then my hand is normal again.

I look above me, and see this parallel bar. It's something like you would see at a kids playground for doing pull ups. I jump up and grab it, then spin myself feet over head, doing a kind of flip, and landing on top of the wall that had become a part of the truck.

I'm now on the roof of the truck, and look around for something fun to get into. I see the yellow arches of McDonald's down the road aways. then I look down in front of me and see the white cab of the semi-truck. I decide it would be fun to let this truck run me over.

I jump off the top of the truck, landing on my back in the road. I try to angle myself to get run over by the tires. The tires of the cab run over me.(No big deal.) But I then slip in between the wheels, so that the truck is going over me, but the tires are not going over me. I look up at the bottom of the truck as it is passing over, and I wonder at the amazing detail, of all the parts on the bottom of it.

Then, without warning, the dream just fades and is gone.

A Lucid Dream Monday/July/7/2008 Lucid Dream # 43 of 2008 Best dreamsign recognized No reality check needed

I'm in a medieval setting, and in the army. We are getting ready for an attack by an invading army. The dream, and my perspective, are both shifting around a lot. so it's a little hard to describe the beginning. But the invading army attacks, and their numbers are much greater than expected. The side I'm on wears red armor, and carries shields trimmed with red. The attacking army is all in blue.

My perspective is kind of floating all around the battle field. The scene is very vivid and realistic. the front lines are slamming their shields into each other, and trying to hack and stab through any openings they can find.

My perspective spins around, and I'm off to the side of the battle field, near the leader of the red. He is worried and trying to figure out what to do, to keep from being defeated. The expected reinforcements have not arrived, And he is no longer expecting them.

Just then I hear a horn blowing, and over a nearby hill charges a single knight on horse back, with a lance pointed in the ready position. He races past us, and disappears from site. We are like wtf, just when we thought the calvary had arrived...

But then comes the thunder of many charging horses, and over the hill rides a stampeding wall of lance bearing knights. They come right at us, and I wonder how we will avoid being trampled in the charge. But they somehow get past us and  plow devastatingly into the enemy infantry.

My perspective spins me away and up over some hills, as if I was watching a movie and the camera is flying me away to a different scene. Then, there is a scene shift and I'm stepping out onto some deck/balcony. And for a moment I believe the view from the deck is a movie I'm watching.

The scene before me is a magical fantasy world, and I am just stunned with disbelief. I realize that I'm not just watching a movie but it has come to life, and I am in it now. Before me is a hill slightly sloping down to the waters of a lake. The lake is huge, I can't see across it, but the area is surrounded by a think green forest. off to my right and left, are these structures I'm not sure how to describe. but they are a dark color and they have a Japanese architectural look to them.

I somehow know that this is the land of "Kryn." The setting of the "Dragonlance Chronicles." You can't even imagine my excitement over being here. I run up onto the edge of the deck and leap onto one of the nearby structures. I run across the edge of it's roof, and leap across to the edge of the next one.  I'm so emotionally charged, that I feel goosebumps flowing over me in a wave. And I'm nearly in tears of joy. I keep repeating, " I'm really here!" over and over. I'm so excited to maybe see some of the characters. Like Flint Fireforge, Or Tanis half elven.

I run back the way I came, and I leap the gap between the roofs again. And when I do... This is a dream! Since I was already aware that I was in a world other than my own, the realization was not much of a shock. It was a very smooth transition to Lucidity. I land on the roof I was leaping to, and look down to the land below. I can see an elf going about his business, and I marvel at how realistic he seems. He is shorter than an elf of Kryn, but I know he is an elf because of his pointed ears. he has white hair, and is clothed in gray.

I have so much pent up energy, that I just want to dive head first off a high place. But my rooftop is not all that high from the ground. I dive off anyway, and hit the ground in a roll. I'm so thrilled, and can't figure out which way to go. I'm looking around all over taking everything in. I'm torn to what direction to take. because I'm afraid if I go one way, I may miss something awesome from the opposite direction.

I look to the forest, and wonder at the amazing creatures I may encounter there. I end up making my way to the edge of the lake. There is a picnic table half in the water. Out in the water, there are two girls swimming and I briefly consider trying to have sex with them. But I immediately discard that notion, not wanting to ruin one of the most magical Lucids I've ever had. ( Being in this world Lucid is like a dream come true for me.)

Now, in the water, I see this beautiful naked tiny woman with flowing golden hair swimming by. She is no larger than one of the fingers on my hand. I scoop my hand into the water beneath her, and lift her out of the lake. She fits right in the palm of my hand, and she rolls over to face me. but she has now transformed into a miniature human baby. And as I watch, the baby transforms into a white, featureless, snake like thing. And it then begins to twist around on itself  until it knots up like a pretzel. a little disappointed about what happened to the woman, I set the thing back into the water and it swims away.

I then decide to jump into the water and go for a swim. I make a few swimming strokes, then I decide to do some underwater swimming. I dive under and open my eyes. it's a little murky but I can see. I swim through green and yellow sea weed type stuff. I see an underwater ridge, and wonder whats on the other side. But I decide I don't want to spend my Lucid under here, and rise to the surface.

I make it back to shore, and walk back up the sloping hill towards the elf that I saw earlier. I see this red lawn mower, and decide to practice some TK, and maybe do some flying after. I reach out with my mind, and I'm able to lock onto the lawnmower. I easily levitate it into the air. I hold out my hands in a wizardly kind of way. pretending to direct the hovering lawnmower using my hands.

I walk up to the elf, the lawnmower floating before me, and say." Greetings! As you can see, I'm a very powerful wizard." (I've always wanted to play the all powerful wizard in a fantasy realm Lucid.)

But just then, the dream fades and is gone.

This was one of my favorite Lucids ever. Not because of anything that happened in it.  But just because of the pure magical feeling of being in that world.

Missed opportunity Wednesday/July/9/2008 Failed to believe reality check.

I was having a strange dream about my house being on some body of water and was sinking. the water was rising above the windowsills. I have a false awakening, and wake up in bed at home. I get up to use the bathroom, and while in the bathroom I do a random RC like I always do, and I can breath. There is no resistance at all. This confuses me because I just woke up and don't think I'm dreaming. I do it again and can still breath. At this point I really want to believe it's a dream but I just can't believe it.

I look around the bathroom, and everything just feels too real. I think, "is there some other RC I can do to confirm it."  I remember to try pushing my finger through my hand, so I try it. My hands feel really numb and tingly for some reason. (My real hands were probably falling asleep.) I push my finger into the palm of my hand, but it won't go through. I remember that sometimes it takes a minute and I have to really push hard. So I push hard and twist it back and forth. It feels like it's about to slide through, and I'm almost convinced I'm dreaming. But just then I get distracted and  have a strong urge to go out into the living room.

I go out there and I notice something strange with the sliding door. I mess with the lock, and slide the door open. I only opened it a little bit, but my dog goes running outside. She does not have her fence collar on, or her normal collar with identification tag either. she takes off running, and I go after her. I yell at her to stop and  come back, but she doesn't listen. I see her run out in front of a bunch of cars.

Then I become partially Lucid, because I'm so horrified seeing her run out into traffic that I can't believe this is really happening. I decide it's not real and turn away, deciding to ignore it and go back into the house.

As soon as I get back into the house I wake up. So I'm not sure if that was about to turn into a full blown Lucid or not.

Quote from: Caradon on July 09, 2008, 12:02:47 AMThis was one of my favorite Lucids ever. Not because of anything that happened in it.  But just becaus[/COLOR][/COLOR]e of the pure magical feeling of being in that world. That was a great one, Caradon, congratulations.  I like the little swimming woman, even tho she changed.  Nice TK, and I like your "I'm a powerful wizard" comment!

Very inspiring.

ahh so your posting your dream in here

that last lucid was great! The whole little woman part was mad! shame she urned into a baby then that random snake (I see babies have invaded your dreams to lol)

That was a cool dream man, I bet it sucked when you woke up.....by the way congrats on the self restraint when you saw the ladies swimming

I hope they do miss your area, man it would be bad if they didnt...hope everything is alright then mate

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crap I will be worried about you both now!! storms are cool but not if they get dangerous

Are you guys in a tornado valley ? Sounds scary !

I have always thought it would be cool to see a tornado but its different when you live there I guess.....was 1999 the year that Oklahoma got hit by all those tornadoes?

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Quote from: Moonbeam on July 13, 2008, 09:38:24 AMI used to live in Missouri where they were much more common than here.  We had them all the time here or there, but I was only in one.  The roof got torn off the mall I was in, but I didn't even know it at the time, so I didn't get to see it.   >:(  Mark this year has been one of the worst for tornadoes I think there has been for a long time.

wow the roof got torn off!! shit it must have been mad when you found that out!! really? thats mad....wow looks like global warming is kicking in?

I find it hard to understand how scary these things must be...the worst weather we get is small hail stones lol

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Quote from: Caradon on July 18, 2008, 12:24:33 AMI hit the lake on my feet at a run, and I run across the surface of the water until I cross the entire lake without getting wet at all.

That is so cool ! I have walked on water but I did get wet feet !

Quote from: Caradon on December 17, 2008, 08:55:52 PMLook in the announcements and rules forum on DV, that's where the store is. I just ordered four bumper stickers and a new DJ, The DJ looks real nice. I ordered the cleaner design version, with the water, mountains, and moon. I'll probably pick up something from the mist here soon too, since I just payed off my credit card, and I have some cash back points I can use to get some things for free. I'll do that. Also nice job on the cash back.

Quote from: Moonbeam on December 17, 2008, 09:18:09 PMI don't think I could ever quit drinking coffee.  Maybe if I thought it would help my dreams...I don't know, that would be tough. Well you can't just go cold turkey with the coffee or you'll get headaches so if you DO decide to stop drinking coffee you're gonna have to wean off of it.

Quote from: Pancaka on December 18, 2008, 03:32:30 PMWell you can't just go cold turkey with the coffee or you'll get headaches so if you DO decide to stop drinking coffee you're gonna have to wean off of it.

You can even die.  I think.

Quote from: Moonbeam on December 17, 2008, 09:18:09 PMHey Car.  Cold enough for ya?

I don't think I could ever quit drinking coffee.  Maybe if I thought it would help my dreams...I don't know, that would be tough.

Too bad about missing that lucid!  Hey what are you up to now?

Yes it is. I prefer cooler temperatures, but when it starts to get into the single digits and below zero it's not fun anymore. especially since I have a couple of tires that won't hold air pressure, and it's hard to find a place to get air when it's cold.

Well the coffee really messed me up. I think I may be more sensitive to it than some people are.

Yes I've had quite a few missed chances and lost Lucids the last week.

Well, since the caffeine fiasco I've just been trying to clear my head and get my dreaming back on track.

And I just got the first three discs of "Lost" season four. I can hardly wait to watch that.

Quote from: Pancaka on December 18, 2008, 03:32:30 PMQuote from: Caradon on December 17, 2008, 08:55:52 PMLook in the announcements and rules forum on DV, that's where the store is. I just ordered four bumper stickers and a new DJ, The DJ looks real nice. I ordered the cleaner design version, with the water, mountains, and moon. I'll probably pick up something from the mist here soon too, since I just payed off my credit card, and I have some cash back points I can use to get some things for free. I'll do that. Also nice job on the cash back.Yes it's always nice getting free money.

Quote from: Moonbeam on December 17, 2008, 09:18:09 PMI don't think I could ever quit drinking coffee.  Maybe if I thought it would help my dreams...I don't know, that would be tough. Well you can't just go cold turkey with the coffee or you'll get headaches so if you DO decide to stop drinking coffee you're gonna have to wean off of it. [/quote]

Oh I know, saying you will get headaches is putting it lightly lol.  I'm all too familiar with the caffeine addiction. I figured out the best way to get off it a long time ago. Get a bottle of NoDoz and take what ever dose you need in the morning. Then each day cut a little bit off the pill until your down to a sliver. It works really well. I've already done that over the last week. I'm good now.

Quote from: Moonbeam on December 18, 2008, 06:51:47 PMQuote from: Pancaka on December 18, 2008, 03:32:30 PMWell you can't just go cold turkey with the coffee or you'll get headaches so if you DO decide to stop drinking coffee you're gonna have to wean off of it.

You can even die.  I think.

speaking of that, I just woke up from the most amazing dream where I nearly died on an operating table during an emergency surgery to remove a quickly spreading cancer.

Quote from: Caradon on December 18, 2008, 08:46:16 PMYes it is. I prefer cooler temperatures, but when it starts to get into the single digits and below zero it's not fun anymore. especially since I have a couple of tires that won't hold air pressure, and it's hard to find a place to get air when it's cold. Yea, and I can't see out of my windshield, cuz it's to cold to squirt it.  I'm just driving by seeing where the other car lights are. QuoteWell, since the caffeine fiasco I've just been trying to clear my head and get my dreaming back on track. Do you have any time off at Xmas?

Quote And I just got the first three discs of "Lost" season four. I can hardly wait to watch that. Is that good?  I've been tempted to tell Tom we should get that.  We still have to finish BSG and Doctor Who.

QuoteYou can even die.  I think.

Quotespeaking of that, I just woke up from the most amazing dream where I nearly died on an operating table during an emergency surgery to remove a quickly spreading cancer. See!?  But now that you made it, I hope you don't go back to it.

Quote from: Moonbeam on December 18, 2008, 09:51:47 PMQuote from: Caradon on December 18, 2008, 08:46:16 PMYes it is. I prefer cooler temperatures, but when it starts to get into the single digits and below zero it's not fun anymore. especially since I have a couple of tires that won't hold air pressure, and it's hard to find a place to get air when it's cold. Yea, and I can't see out of my windshield, cuz it's to cold to squirt it.  I'm just driving by seeing where the other car lights are. QuoteWell, since the caffeine fiasco I've just been trying to clear my head and get my dreaming back on track. Do you have any time off at Xmas?

Quote And I just got the first three discs of "Lost" season four. I can hardly wait to watch that. Is that good?  I've been tempted to tell Tom we should get that.  We still have to finish BSG and Doctor Who.

QuoteYou can even die.  I think.

Quotespeaking of that, I just woke up from the most amazing dream where I nearly died on an operating table during an emergency surgery to remove a quickly spreading cancer. See!?  But now that you made it, I hope you don't go back to it.

I have that problem with my windshield too. Actually, the last time I filled it, it all leaked out onto the ground. I think it may have broke from freezing the previous winter.

Yeah, Christmas falls on the right day so that I will get a four day weekend, Yay. Hopefully I'll be Lucid by then. I think I'm going to save my "Lost" DVD's until my days off. And yes, I absolutely love that show! You have to watch it! I don't want to over hype it for you, So I'll let you find out for yourself. Your actually lucky that you have not watched any of it yet, because you won't have to wait a year between seasons. Be warned though, it's very addicting.  Each episode ends with a major cliff hanger, making it near impossible to not watch the next episode. If you have it that is. And when the season ends, it's the same way. The next season just picks up right where the last one left off. When you watch it, see if you can guess who my favorite character is.

No I won't be making the mistake with the coffee again.

Quote from: Caradon on December 19, 2008, 09:19:54 PMAnd yes, I absolutely love that show! I wholeheartedly agree. I watched season 4 on the abc website as I couldn't wait for the dvds to be released. (I started watching the show on dvd and watched the first 3 seasons obsessively.) Season 4 is insane.

Caffeine kills recall?!  I'm in trouble... coffee tastes so good in cold weather.

I've only seen 2 episodes of Lost

One where some white guy was stealing water and one about a button that you have to press every hour. There were a lot of flashbacks in the button one.

I might start watching it, but it kinda seems too late to get into it since there are so many episodes. I still have a lot of stuff I want to watch.

Quote from: mu on December 19, 2008, 10:53:31 PMQuote from: Caradon on December 19, 2008, 09:19:54 PMAnd yes, I absolutely love that show! I wholeheartedly agree. I watched season 4 on the abc website as I couldn't wait for the dvds to be released. (I started watching the show on dvd and watched the first 3 seasons obsessively.) Season 4 is insane.

Caffeine kills recall?!  I'm in trouble... coffee tastes so good in cold weather.

Great! I can't wait to start watching it. I'll probably end up watching all three discs in one, or one and a half days. I was so frustrated at the end of the first season, I had no idea they were going to leave me hanging like that, lol. That was evil.

Sorry to put that suggestion about the caffeine in your head, if it's not already giving you problems. It did nothing good for me at all though. Your right though, It's so good in the winter.

Quote from: Pancaka on December 20, 2008, 07:52:23 PMI've only seen 2 episodes of Lost

One where some white guy was stealing water and one about a button that you have to press every hour. There were a lot of flashbacks in the button one.

I might start watching it, but it kinda seems too late to get into it since there are so many episodes. I still have a lot of stuff I want to watch.

Oh you don't want to start watching it in the middle, or even now when it's getting closer to the end. (at least it seems like it's close to the end.) It has a continuous story line from episode one on, so you would really not know whats going on. Yeah, they do flash back a lot, but there is a reason for it. The story is pretty complex, It's a lot more than just a group of people trying to survive on an island.

Well. I only slept four hours last night, but it was a good night. I was Lucid twice, had a very brief moment of Lucidity at another point. And missed another Lucid because of a very strange false awakening while I was doing a random nose RC.

I don't think I'm going to have time to record them tonight though. (Not because of "Lost.")  I'll probably have to wait until tomorrow.

Edit: changed my mind, I'm going to try and get them down tonight. I hate not getting Lucids recorded, but I only have a couple of hours.

A Lucid Dream Friday/December/19/2008 Lucid Dream # 71 of 2008 Best dreamsign recognized ? No reality check needed

I forgot to mark the time on tonight's Lucids, but I only slept four hours, and no WBTB's.

The first thing I remember is being outside somewhere. There are several people around. There is a car, and one of the people is a cop, or someone in authority. Someone has been killed by the cop, there is a body laying on the ground. But The body suddenly gets up and attacks the cop. It's not a normal zombie, it's a rage virus zombie!

The cop has some strange device, it looks sort of like a very large fire extinguisher. He points it at the attacking zombie, and fires a blast of sound! The sound is so loud that it blows the zombie guy back, and knocking it down for good.

Meanwhile, a man and woman has gotten into the nearby car. Somehow the woman has gotten infected by the virus though, and starts going berserk. But the cop fires a blast of sound at her, somehow knocking her out of the car. ( I forgot to mention that it's night, a little dark but easy to see in the immediate area.)

I begin to hear lots of snarling voices, and I realize that there are lots more rage zombies out there, and they are coming. There is no way the cop with the  sound blaster will be able to stop them all. I notice a guy on a small white and black tractor. he is riding in the direction of the snarling rage zombies. I think he is crazy if he thinks he can run them all over with the tractor.

But I have mistaken  his intentions. The tractor has a long arm, with a wide  pincer at it's end. The guy rides the tractor out a ways, then touches the pincers to the ground. bolts of what looks like lightning discharges from the pincers as he drags them along the ground, tearing open a hole in the earth.The hole grows into a long crevice,and expands into a deep rocky canyon. It's miles long, and the rage zombies can not get across.

I now have a disembodied perspective, and I'm floating around and over the canyon. There are giant stone gargoyles on each side of the canyon, facing each other. The distance between their noses is probably the shortest distance across. I watch as one of the zombie creatures walks out across the nose of the gargoyle on the opposite side of the gap. the thing does not even look human anymore. I can tell it is trying to work up the nerve to jump across.

I'm starting to feel a real sense of vertigo, and fear, from the crazy heights perspective. I watch the zombie jump the gap, he makes it, hitting the stone nose hard. It begins to slide down the nose, desperately scrambling and clawing at the rock as he tries stop himself from falling.

Then for a second I  realize I'm dreaming, rather than watching a movie like I had thought for a second there. And I think," No wonder everything is so three dimensional."

Then I'm not sure if I wake up or what, but the dream shifts to another scene where I'm watching all this on a big screen TV, no longer Lucid.(at least not fully, I'm not really sure.) I'm going to skip over some of what happens next, because it's just too much.

I eventually get sucked back into the story and I'm working with some older man. We are fencing off some area in hopes of slowing the zombies from getting to us.  (The fence starts where the canyon ends.)

We ride back in some cart thing, and  to where there are other people. there is an outdoor picnic pavilion type thing, with an overhanging roof. Underneath the roof are a series of white wooden walls. I don't remember why but I end up on top of one of the walls, and I'm jumping across to each one.

I'm suddenly surprised to find myself jumping a long ways, too far to be normal. I point out how far I can jump to one of the people there. Then I remember that gravity does not work the same in dreams.  It's not like I just became Lucid, it feels like a knew (at least a little bit) all along. Gravity is now completely gone, and I float kind of out of control like an astronaut in space. Kind of up towards the ceiling of the pavilion, and out. I catch my toe on the underside of the roof and pull myself back in.

I float back over the walls, and I tell one of the DC's that the reason for this happening is because it's a dream. I tell him to pinch his nose and see if he can breath. he does not do it at first, and I remember the theory that DC's don't like to listen, or help. I decide I don't want to believe this. And as soon as I think that the DC says, I tried that already and it did not work. But he reaches up and pinches his nose anyway, and breaths in real hard. I can hear the air going in but it sounds weird, like the air is going through a bunch of boogers.

before I can do anything else I wake up

I get up and use the bathroom. Lucidity seemed to come to me so naturally in this dream that I had a feeling that I would be getting Lucid again. I was correct.

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A Lucid Dream Friday/December/19/2008 Lucid Dream # 72 of 2008 Spontaneous Lucidity ?

I'm driving my car down a freeway. Eventually the car is gone, and I'm skating down the road on my feet. there is some guy on the side of the road with an outrageously large push broom. the push broom has a handle so long it can reach all the way across the road. As I skate by, he sweeps it across the road trying to knock off the road. I manage to avoid it somehow and  continue on.

My cell phone rings, and I reach into my pocket and answer the phone. I don't remember who it is, but it's somebody I know, who asks me what I'm doing. " Oh I'm just skating down the trail on my feet I say." I notice that there are two other people with me now, and I look down and take note that  I'm now on like a paved bike trail and moving along at good speed.

At some point here I become Lucid, along with the two DC's that are with me. It's a smooth natural transition into Lucidity. No shock or surprise involved at all. A little bit of what happens here is missing. I'm talking to the two DC's, they both know it's a dream without me telling them. We were discussing Lucid Dreaming, but I'm not sure exactly what was said. up until I remember one of the DC's asking, " But how do you fly?"  And we have now slowed down to a walk.

I get kind of excited and say, "I use TK to fly! Like this!" I jump into the air and send myself flying straight up, high above the roof tops of the nearest houses. Then I stop and hover looking down and them. " they look up saying,"Wow that's so cool."

I shout down to them, " Do you want to know whats even more fun than flying? Falling!"

I then let myself free fall. I tumble and roll, and hit the corner of the roof of one of  the houses. The impact spins me around, and I then slam into the ground. I get up laughing. I notice I still have the phone in my hand. "hello" I ask into it. There is no answer. I see some little girl standing a ways off watching us. On impulse I throw the phone in her direction. I was not really trying to hit her with it, but it ends up smacking her right in the face. "Shit, oops!" I'm surprised I hit her, but then remember that because of it being a dream odd  things like that can happen.

Lucidity wavers a little bit, because for a moment I worry about her big brother or dad coming after me. The two DC's and I make a run for it, but  when we turn to run there is a train crossing the road, blocking our escape.

No problem though, I have full Lucidity again, and I know  I can just jump over the train if I want. This now sounds like a really fun idea, I now plan to jump over the train, maybe land on top of it. But before I know it there is no more train. It was the shortest train ever!

I have the feeling that there is electrical current going through the track, like hoe they show subway tracks in movies sometimes.(I've never seen a real subway, except for the sandwich.)

One of the DC's tries to jump over the track. He does not make it, falling flat across them. He gets hit by a blast of electrical current that knocks him several feet into the air. "Ahh" he exclaims. The other DC and I bust out laughing, it was such a comical sight. And I wake up laughing.

Throwing phones at innocent little girls... laughing at guys getting electrocuted...  and they're worried about the zombies. Not that I would have done otherwise. The second one sounded like so much fun. The first one... how do you do that? Fully written zombie movie dreams. Weird how it became like a movie after you thought about how it was different than a movie. Sounds like the dream tried to trick you.

Quote from: mu on December 22, 2008, 12:07:00 AMThrowing phones at innocent little girls... laughing at guys getting electrocuted...  and they're worried about the zombies. Not that I would have done otherwise. The second one sounded like so much fun. The first one... how do you do that? Fully written zombie movie dreams. Weird how it became like a movie after you thought about how it was different than a movie. Sounds like the dream tried to trick you.

Hi Mu.  Lol, I don't know what was up with that phone throwing incident. I really was not intending to hit her with it though.

Ha that DC getting hit with the electricity was hilarious! Too bad you couldn't have seen it happen.

I'm not sure how I do that. I just get these crazy adventures sometimes. When I was younger it was all the time. sorry it was not described better, I was both tired, and trying to rush write those dreams.

Oh, I forgot to mention that through most of that dream I was thinking that I was watching the third rage virus movie. What will they call the third one? "28 months later?"  That explains why I ended up watching it on the screen for a while. there was also a couple of DC's with me, and I was trying to explain to them the stuff that had already happened.

A Lucid Dream Sunday/December/21/2008 Lucid Dream # 73 of 2008 Anxiety induced Lucidity No reality check needed

This one took place about six and a half hours into sleep, and after three ten minute WBTB's.  It did not last long, but it was long enough to face and overcome a nightmare.

I'm on a place like a beach, though the ground is not sand, it's hard dirt. I am making a camp fire, My mom is sitting near by in a lawn chair, and my brother and sister are standing near by as well. We are near to a large body of water. There is plenty of sticks and leaves around and I'm gathering and throwing them on a small flame, trying to make it grow before it can go out.

I'm having trouble getting the fire to grow. I continue to work at it, when I notice that the fire had fallen, like into a hole that opened up beneath it. I look down into the hole, it's pretty deep, but only about as wide around as an average camp fire. At the bottom of the hole is water. The water is churning and bubbling, as if the fire that fell into it caused it to boil.

I now notice that the dirt of the inside wall closest to where my mother is sitting, is beginning to erode, crumbling and falling into the water below. In horror, I realize that the hole is about to grow wider, and fast. "Mom! get up and move away, quick!"

she is not paying attention to what I'm saying, but after a moment turns to me not understanding what I'm fussing about. I'm beginning to panic, and  I repeat," get up and move away! Painfully slowly, she begins to comprehend whats going on and gets out of her chair.

Now the scene starts getting crazy, the place we are at is some deep underground cavern.(I'm not sure if I noticed before this point or not.) Much of the earth between us and the the larger body of water has now been eaten away, and it's like we are at the edge of a crumbling cliff.

"Run!" I shout, and turn and do just that, with my family following behind. when I turn to run, there is a corridor with towering rock walls on each side,  and I start running down the corridor. I turn to look back, and huge slabs of the earth behind us are falling away now and the water is rushing in. I run faster, and around a curve in the corridor. I don't think we will be able to get away.

Suddenly, full Lucidity washes over me. Instantly I  stop in my tracks, and turn around. (Running away is not an option!) Instead, I run back the direction I came, head first into destruction. I'm not sure what I'm going to do, I just know I'm going to meet this head on. I run past my family, and in a kind of stunned manner, I just say once as I pass them,"This is a dream."

As I run by them I feel a little guilty, feeling like I should be doing something to save them. But I realize such things should not matter in a dream. As I come to the area of ground that is being torn apart, on impulse, I leap of the edge. Not even caring if I'm able to fly or not. But I do fly, and I fly out and over the water that has become  a rushing river like wave, that is eating everything in it's path. I see a rocky ledge on a wall high above, and I make my way in that direction, intending to land there and decide what to do next.

But I wake before I get there. I tried to fall back to sleep and try to get Lucid again. But I was no longer very tired, and was thinking about this dream too much to fall asleep.

Cool, I can't wait to get Lost--it's being ordered!

Well I don't know how I manage to keep missing your lucids, but you're having them back to back!  Good ones.  It's cool how they are coming really naturally like that.  I guess quitting caffeine did help, as much as I will deny it.

That was funny when the guy got electrocuted.  Interesting details your mind came up with.

That last one was quite dramatic.  You're always so brave in your lucids.  No doubts about your powers.  Good example for me.

PHWAHAHAHAHA!!!  I laughed so hard when you hit the girl in the face with the phone and at the part with the train tracks. Good stuff.

At least you're still doing cool back flips...

Great dream!  Especially the cliff dive.  I love that sort of thing.

Funny about the co-workers and their watches.   DCs often seem so uncooperative.

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CARADON! Good ta be readin' ya again! I really liked the crazy blobbyness in that one dream. Your dreams are always great. OH MAN! I GOTTA TRY HARDER AT THIS STUFF!

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Nice! Seems like a good idea. Maybe you should seek out that sage like woman again.

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That was great Caradon! Multi-tasking, to get something "else" done; , why didn't I think of that?!  Awesome man! That city sounded really cool too. ...flying with your underwear on your ankles.

O M G! That was one of the most hilariously epic dreams I have ever read

I loved it. I really wish I was there for the guy being pushed off the roof. The line at the end was so fuckin' perfect!

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