Caradon's Lucid Dreams

[Pancaka]

Look 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.

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.

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.

[Moonbeam]

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.

You can even die.  I think.

[Caradon]

Hey 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.

Look 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.

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.

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.
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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.

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.

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.

[Moonbeam]

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.

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.

Well, 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?

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.

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.

See!?  But now that you made it, I hope you don't go back to it. 

[Caradon]

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.

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.

Well, 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?

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.

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.

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. 

[mu]

And 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. 

[Pancaka]

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.

[Caradon]

And 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.

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.

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.
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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.

[Caradon]

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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[Caradon]

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.

[mu]

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.

[Caradon]

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.

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.

[Caradon]

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.

[Moonbeam]

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.

[Pancaka]

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.