Caradon's Lucid Dreams

[Caradon]

Caradon's Lucid Dreams

   

[Caradon]

Thursday/July/18/2019

So I guess I've achieved my set goal for July.  It was mainly to work on improving recall and just maybe a lucid before the end of the month if I'm lucky.   Recall has been improving greatly but still not quite where I want it to be, since it's a little inconsistent. Getting little burst of really vivid recall, then burst of crap recall. But after a couple of hour WBTB this morning I was having some extremely vivid recall and got lucid in the middle of it. It didn't last long but was full blown lucidity, and remembered the first thing I need to do when getting lucid, to look at my watch to get myself use to doing my watch RC in my dreams.

It's A Madhouse

There is a lot to the dream before things start getting crazy. But I'm short on time so just going skip to the point where I start getting lucid.

I'm at my house and there is some random friend there with me that I don't know in waking life. I'm out on the porch with the blinds to the windows pulled up. The windows to the porch look out on the back yard.  I notice someone walk around the side of the house and knocking on the window.

Who is this person I'm wondering, is it someone I know. I try to get a closer look and it looks like the person has gotten beaten up but I don't recognize him. Face all black and blue. But the better look I get, the worse his face looks. Now the guy looks like a zombie. But I don't believe him to really be a zombie. Maybe just some crazy beat up drunk in my yard beating on my window. Never the less I think Zombie! And I know I should RC at the site of a zombie and planning to but for some reason I don't.

My Random friend starts opening the window that the drunken zombie man is beating on. I'm like "WTF are you doing!"  I push random dream friend away from the window and push zombie man away from the window and close it and lock it.

I turn around to see a crazy WTF moment. My random friend dead and bloody on the floor, and this bald mutated humanoid monster climbing up out of the center of a cabinet as if it was hiding inside the cabinet the entire time. At this time zombie man outside is more insistent, seeming determined now, to smash his way into the house through the window.

There are more people all around now, that just seemed to appear. And the bald mutated humanoid is trying to bash peoples skulls in with what looks like a meat tenderizing mallet.

I'm like WTF his is insane... I must be partially lucid at this point because I'm actually amused by the whole situation  and enjoying the awesome vivid recall. I'm thinking I'm  just going to keep going with it and try to remember everything so I can write this bizarre scene down in my journal. I want to remember as much of it as I can.

Then it hits me, and I think to myself, I'm dreaming!" I repeat it a couple times as it fully sinks in. "I'm dreaming! Wholly crap I've done it" "This is a dream!" The entire scene is intensely vivid as I look around at the craziness going on all around me. I'm completely detached from it, observer, not afraid and not caring about the bloody violence being conducted in from of me. Other than my fascination with the vividness of it all.

My lucidity level is so high that I'm fully aware that I'm on limited time because of basically being in a nap after a three hour WBTB. And that my alarm clock is set to wake me up. I'm wondering how much time I have before my alarm wakes me out of it. But I'm excited and unsure how long I'll stay in it anyways because I have that sense of excited fear about to lose the moment that causes it to happen.

I then remember my goal to look at my watch when I become lucid to get myself use to doing in dream reality checks again. So I look at my watch and the numbers are hard to see because they are very faded as if the battery is dying. I turn my wrist away and look at the watch face again It's still faded but I can just barely make out squiggly lines through the murky fadedness of the watch face. I turn the watch away from me again intending to do it again, but I come out the dream then. Not overly disappointed, just excited that I had done it. And with just a few weeks of serious intention put to getting my lucidity back.

Woot!
 

[Caradon]

Thursday/August/15/2019

I took an hour and a half nap before going to work Friday. ( As always, a nap dated as part of the previous nights sleeping.) I was having a vivid dream in my nap and recognzed a dreamsign  and became lucid.   

A Visit From Cody

I'm trying to hurry getting ready to leave the house, for work I think. I'm rushing around doing this and that. Eventually I make my way outside the house.
 
Outside, I see sweet little little Cody sniffing around the side of the house. Cody is a dog of my mom and step dad's. While I've not mentioned him much he was a big part of my life and good friends with my dog as they spent much time together growing up and always played together. He died of Kidney problems a year ago, just before new years. He was a wonderful little dog.


  I see Cody and right away I'm aware that he is in reality dead and I am seeing him in a dream. Though my lucidity is kind of partial as it's not  quite fully sunk in right away. But as I'm watching Cody sniffing around I'm lucid enough to marvel at my minds ability to create him in such perfect detail. Not just the way he looks, but the way he moves as well. As I watch him I become more fully lucid and I'm realizing how lucky I am to be seeing him right now. And thinking about how I  might describe this moment in my journal.

And I remember that this is one of the purposes and benefits of lucid dreaming. To visit with loved ones that are gone from our lives. I call his gis name. "Cody!" When I call his name he stops and looks up at me in such a familiar way. It seems so much like it's really him. I call his name again and he begins walking towards me. But then runs off around the side of the building.

I realize I don't want to let the moment pass and I call to him again as I chase after him. "Cody!." I call to hime a few more times as I follow after him.

I am more overcome with emotion each passing moment and feel more desperate to pick him up and hug him. I catch up to him and scoop him up speaking his name.  And I think the intense mixture of emotions, destress, sadness, happiness for being able to see him again was getting too much and caused the dream to start fading out and I wake up

 It was just as well because my alarm clock was set and just about to go off anyways.   

[Wędajihs]

Congrats on the lucidity, the stability of it, and recognizing and reality checking wtf moments. That last dream was very sweet, a reminder that in dreams we can still see, hear, and embrace those that have passed on. I cherish such dreams, especially when I am lucid in them. 

[Caradon]

Congrats on the lucidity, the stability of it, and recognizing and reality checking wtf moments. That last dream was very sweet, a reminder that in dreams we can still see, hear, and embrace those that have passed on. I cherish such dreams, especially when I am lucid in them.

Thank you. Yeah, you are right. I really need to be focusing on it more than I have been. But I've been wanting to sleep as little as possible lately. So it's been very difficult.

The other night I woke up with the vague feeling of being lucid in a dream but I couldn't bring the details back. But I had the feeling that it was one of those where you just know without anything triggering lucidity.

[Caradon]

Friday/December/20/2019

I slept about three and a half hours without recall. Then woke up for two hours. Then set my alarm to get another hour of sleep before having to get ready for work. I woke up within forty five minutes from a very vivid and full blown lucid dream.

Okay,  I'll see if I can describe this dream. I'm pretty tired right now. Long day but I want to get it written down.

VR Dream Transition To lucidity/And Practicing In Dream Reality Checking

After a brief awakening from another dream I drift off and find myself on a ride high up on some mountainous rocky terrain. The only thing is that the ride itself is invisible. I'm in a sitting position as if I'm sitting in a chair. (I actually was sleeping sitting in my swiveling office chair, and feet up on the kitchen table.)

I'm in that siting position  flying over these beautiful rock structures. I have it in my head that I'm In Virtual reality. (I have a PlayStation VR in reality) It's like a non interactive game where I'm just along for the ride. And it feels really good, so relaxing. I'm really loving this game/ride. I'm glad I have it.

After a few moments the ride sets me down on a ledge high up on some cliffs.  And from where I am now I feel like I'm in Skyrim VR.
Without hardly even thinking about it, except for that I know it's going to be scary, I want to jump off the cliffs. (In Skyrim VR sometimes I jump from very high places.)

In the dream I decide that I don't care how scary it is, or if I kill my character I'm just going to go for it. I run for the sedge of the cliffs. There is few jutting rocks overhanging the cliff and I put all of my strength into it and I run to the edge, spring to and push off giving it everything I have.

I'm airborne, diving over the edge. I put my hands out in front of me like a diving. I dive straight down head first towards the ground.
I gain a lot of speed as I fall. I hi the ground hands  first and come easily  down on my feet. "Oh, okay..." lol. 

And for a moment, I pause, in kind of a Spider-Man crouch pose. I stand up and I begin to walk and I'm now fully aware that I'm dreaming and it's just wow. The transition to lucidity is very smooth like I felt like I had been lucid the entire time. And for a moment I wonder. "Did I just WILD into this dream?" I kind of feel like I just did. I'm aware  of the brief awakening I had and that I fell right back into this dream. And I think to myself. "If I just WILDed  into this it's the most successful and stable WILD I've ever had. (But I don't think I would actually call it a WILD as I didn't enter the dream fully aware. Maybe more like a dream reentry. At any rate, it doesn't really matter what you call it. Only thing that matters is I was aware enough to obtain what feels like full lucidity.)     

I'm looking around and everything is just so real and solid and vivid. I see a rock structure with something like an elaborately designed water fountain spraying water high into the air. For a moment I'm so in awe of the situation I think to myself that I've never experienced anything this powerfully vivid and wonderful before, and so lucid. But as soon I think the thought I know it's not true. It's just been a long time, too long a time. And after a while, it can be easy to start to forget what it feels like to be here.

I walk around the fountain rock structure and find myself among the fair. (After waking I remember how once years ago, in a  lucid I was feeling such a sense of celebration that a festival smoothly sprung up around me. And I'm thinking the same kind of thing happened in this dream here.)

I walk along and it's sort of like the state fair with many booths and exhibits. I see a woman on a microphone talking to crowd small crowd of people.

For a moment I think about giving in to sexual urges but I don't want to waste my dream like that right now. However, I look around at all the people knowing I could have my pick of anyone here right now. And it's a nice  sense of freedom just to know I could.

I think about maybe having a conversation with someone. Because I was thinking about doing some experimenting with using conversation as a dream stabilizer. And seeing what kind of interesting personality of a dream character I might come across.

But then I remember the first order of business is to practice doing reality checks in my dreams  so that I can get used to and doing them in my dreams. I want to look at my watch. I'm wearing a long sleeve shirt as I often wear sweat shirts and hoodies in reality. I have to pull the sleeve back so that I can see the face of the watch.

I look at the numbers and it shows 4:00 something. I turn the watch away and look at the face of it again. Now there are way too many numbers and the numbers are all weird looking. "Yup, definitely a dream watch." I'm thinking. I tape on the face of the watch and water bubble bubbles up inside of it. That looked pretty cool.

I wish I would have played with my watch a little longer. But I decide I want to try pushing my finger through my hand. I've not done it in so long. I push my finger into my palm and start drilling, twisting back and forth into my hand. I get some resistance at first, then that familiar feeling of my finger sinking into soft rubber as it starts sinking in through my hand. I push my finger all the way through and out the backside of my hand. Then pull it back out again.

There is a rocky canyon ahead. A narrow walkway with rock walls at each side. I begin  make my way in that direction and I start getting worried about waking up and thinking about waking up too much and I lose the dream. It fades away and I'm awake. Looking at my clock I had about fifteen minutes left before my alarm was going to go off.

Note: Pretty happy about getting lucid before the turning of the new year. It was a goal I was aiming for, but when I got really sick going into December and being sick threw a wrench into the progress I was making. I didn't think it was going to be a doable goal. And it just felt really, really good, to be lucid again.   



 

[Wędajihs]

Congrats on the lucidity. I can't believe you dived off a cliff without being absolutely sure you were dreaming. Brave or crazy, I don't know. Definitely cool though. Congrats again.
 

[Caradon]

Congrats on the lucidity. I can't believe you dived off a cliff without being absolutely sure you were dreaming. Brave or crazy, I don't know. Definitely cool though. Congrats again.
 

Thanks, yeah that was really nice. Well with the jumping off the cliff I was thinking I was in VR  at first. I've done quite  a bit of jumping off of really high places in Skyrim VR. Also I have this wing suit flying racing game in VR. Where you dive off of this really high platform and down the side of cliffs and fly through the canyons and stuff wearing a wing suit. It's pretty fun. I've not played that for a while though. It's Called "Rush"

Skyrim VR has some really scary places to jump off of...

[Caradon]

Sunday/December/29/2019

 911 Emergency

I'm at my house and it's like I'm a kid again. Because my brother is there and he is a kid too. I don't remember all of the details of how it started but there was some home intruder psycho killer in the house and I had believed that the killer already killed my brother.

I grabbed the nearest weapon I could see and think to use. A sword That I actually have in reality hanging on it's stand. I remove the sword from the stand and go hunting for the killer. I search all the rooms but can't find the killer. I think he must have made his escape after killing my brother.

I open  the basement door and go down the stairs. (No basement where I live now but the was in places we lived as kids. The house in the dream is actually nothing  like any place I ever lived it's just like some random house.) 

I go down the basement stairs and I see a thick blanket on the floor with a shape under the blanket as if it's covering someone. I pull the blanket back and I see that it's my brother. (Doesn't really look like my brother but in the dream I know he was.) I realize the killer had covered his body.

But I can see that my brother is not quite dead yet. he is laying there moaning  and very pale from loss of blood. He looks very much like he is on the verge of death but not quite. I get out my phone and dial 911. ( I know this dream must be influenced by what happened to me at work on  Saturday morning and had to call 911 because my boss fell and hit his head so hard I thought he was dead or dying. I described it in the reality check moments thread.) 

I dial 911 and a woman answers the phone like what happened in reality.  I tell her that I think  my brother is dying and I need help. She asks me the details of what happened. I remember back to everything and it just seems way to much to try and explain. "It's a long story I say. Please, just send help I'll explain everything after they are on their way..."

I try to give her the information of where we are located. And the phone just goes dead in my hand. The screen is blank, no sound, lifeless. A this point I have some lucidity as I start thinking about Wedajihs dream when she called for help. And I know that this is what happens to phones in dreams. And I realizing that it's a wasted effort trying to call for help in a dream I throw the useless phone down and I wake up right after that.

 

[Wędajihs]

Congrats on the lucidity. Hopefully I'll see someone parkour-ing through a dream soon, think of you, and get lucid.

[Caradon]

Congrats on the lucidity. Hopefully I'll see someone parkour-ing through a dream soon, think of you, and get lucid.

Yes. I was thinking about the oddity of how parkouring became such a recurring theme. It just started out with me enjoying doing acrobatics in lucid dreams not ever hearing of parkour before. And it became a recurring theme in non lucids. Just one of those things I remember I can do and love doing it so I do it even if  I'm not lucid.  Telekinesis is the same way sometimes but not to the same extent as parkouring has become.

[Caradon]

Thursday/January/2/2020

Lucid Dream #1 of 2020
 
House Shark

I don't remember exactly at what point I was lucid. I think it was just a partial kind of lucidity at first.  It's an odd setting, being in my living room and being attacked by a monstrous great white shark. The living room is flooded with water I'm sitting in a lazy boy recliner ad  the water is up to the arm rests.

There is a great white shark swimming around the living room.my lucidity is partial for a while as I fend off the shark but not really very afraid of it. The shark keeps leaping out of the water and trying to latch onto me with those massive jaws that are disturbingly covered in blood. There is blood smeared all over the sharks face indicating that I'm not the first of it's victims. It's visually horrific. 

For a while I just sit there and easily manage to shove the shark away from me during several attempts by it to chomp on me. I just shove  the thing  away and it falls back into the water and swims around, circling me before trying again.

I become more lucid and remember that I don't even have to defend against the shark since it can't hurt me at all. As  the shark comes around for another attack, I hold my legs straight out, offering my legs upas a snack for the shark. I'm just going to let the thing try and bite my legs off, I don't care. But just as the shark leaps up to snap it's bloody jaw down on my feet I come out of it.

[Wędajihs]

Just when I thought I was getting a handle on nightmarish creatures in dreams... here come living room house sharks. 
 

[Caradon]

Just when I thought I was getting a handle on nightmarish creatures in dreams... here come living room house sharks. 
 

Yeah, lol. That was odd. You just never know what kind of animal attack scenario my mind is going to come up with next. Too bad I woke up when I did though, that could have been fun.

I have a virtual reality thing, I don't know what you call it. It's not really a game because it's non interactive.  More like a demo of VR.  Y ou put on the VR headset and you sit in a shark cage that slowly descends deep into the ocean. Then the cage you are in gets attacked by a great white shark and ends up ripping the front of the cage off.  It's pretty cool actually. As you descend, before the shark attacks, you see different sea life swimming all around you. And the huge winged manta rays too. 

[Caradon]

Sunday/January/19/2020

Lucid Dream #2 of 2020

Skyscraper/Monster/Parkour/Freefall

My first memory of the dream I think I'm already partially lucid. I know I wasn't fully lucid as I had some, little, fear of the monster I was trying to avoid. However I felt very confident in my ability to avoid the monster despite the insane situation.

The scene is a city filled with towering skyscrapers. My first memory of the dream I'm in the middle of being hunted by a very large monster. I'm in full Spider-Man style parkour mode minus the web slinging as I'm leaping across the tops of insanely tall skyscraper buildings. The monster itself is below and burrowing worm like through the sides of the building and smashing it's way up through the floors to the rooftops as it tries to catch and devour me.

The dream is very vivid and intense and the dream goes on for some time as the monster is destroying the buildings all around me as it burrows through them.

Eventually I come to building that is taller than all the rest. The sides of the building are all glass windows. I can hear the monster coming for me as it's crashing through buildings nearby. At this point I know I'm lucid as I'm having nothing but fun and prepare for a freefall off the top of the tallest.

And at this point there is someone with me who I'm aware also knows we are dreaming. And I want to do a little showing off. I parkour my way to the top of the tallest and do a hand stand on the edge, tilting my head back to look down at the insane drop to the ground far below. I call out to my buddy to watch as I let myself fall backwards off the edge of the building and tumble lazily as I fall and fall and fall. It's a rush of pure joy as the moment lasts quite a while. I land gently on my hands and handspring to my feet. I leap into the air wanting to climb to the top and do it again. But I wake before reaching the top again.