** Baby steps by bluebird **

[bluebird]

WBTB with G/C. For some reason I had a lot of trouble getting back to sleep, but once I did I had this dream. I was semi-lucid in parts, but towards the end I think I forgot it was a dream

25th November 2013

I am heading to some sort of training camp for a job offer I received. I don't know exactly what it is but when I get there it seems like some sort of role for an army job. First we are shown to our sleeping room, and then we are introduced to the other people at the camp. I travel around with this girl who seems kind of tom-boy like but a lot of fun and very attractive. At one point I realise this is a dream, and give up on the mission to have sex with her instead. After that we go off exploring again and I find a power supply thing which I decide I can use to give myself super powers. I stick my hand in and electrocute myself and then I have these powers where I can fire lightning bolts.

I walk around for a long time looking for enemies to shoot lightning bolts at but I don't find anyone around. Next thing I know I am in a plane, some sort of fighter jet and I am involved in a dog fight. I manage to shoot down the other plane and land safely before heading back. As I return I start to lose lucidity a bit. People are talking about me and the girl from yesterday, and then I see her playing rugby so I say hello. She asks me if I will be at the camp training tonight and I say yes. I then walk past my Grandma and Grandad who wish me good luck in my job interview tomorrow (I didn't realise I had an interview and get worried that I won't wake up in time for it - I regain a bit of lucidity, INRALD). I head back to training at the army camp and they say that the enemies are getting stronger and we need to fix some sort of computer to carry on. The computer is super powerful and I try to use my electricity powers to fix it. I put my hands in and fiddle around but nothing happens. I then try to draw power from the computer and have it inside me instead as maybe that will help, but that doesn't work either.

[bluebird]

26th November 2013

I am in my university and I have been scheduled to perform a lecture to some younger students all about Mozart. They seem to be under the impression that I know far more about the composer than I actually do, so I just try to wing it and avoid any difficult questions. After the lecture one of the students takes me to some computers and shows me some work he's been doing. It sounds like he has taken some Mozart pieces and remixed them to have a sort of trance-like sound. It actually sounds pretty cool, and I tell him I like the music and ask to see more.

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I have another dream where it's the zombie apocalypse, but the zombies only appear at night (kind of like I Am Legend). I spend the days running around trying to get supplies and prepare although one day I stay out too long. A zombie corners me and I have to throw my axe at him to give myself time to escape. I manage to get away and I hide out in the aquarium. I see my friend here who is fishing from one of the tanks. I ask him why he is being cruel to the fish but he tells me he has to do this to survive. I don't blame him, things are getting pretty tough for everyone at the moment. It starts to get light again so I bid goodbye to my friend and head back outside.

[Sunshine]

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[bluebird]

29th November 2013

I am in a dream where I have started dating a new girl and we are getting to know each other. She takes me to her parents house where I start to learn that she comes from quite a rich background. She introduces me to her father who is very well dressed and spoken, and the three of us walk through the house (more like a mansion) together.

We get to a bit where you have to cross a really narrow pathway up on the wall and she goes across first, then it's my turn. I tell the father I don't think I can make it because it's too thin. He tells me "but you can fly in your dreams, why don't you just fly across". I walk around instead and then her father follows me. I tell them both I couldn't fly because we are not in a dream. However, when I say that I realise I should do a reality check, but I don't want to look like an idiot holding my nose in front of them so I try to float instead. It doesn't work, and my surroundings all look realistic so I am convinced this is not a dream.

We get into a conservatory type room and now it is just me and the girl again, left to discuss some things with each other. I tell her I had no idea she was from such a wealthy background, but she said she likes to keep it quiet and I don't blame her. I also ask if her parents own the mansion, or whether it's shared with other people. She said they split it 50/50, and I ask if that means half of it is her family and half servants, but she said no the servants live outside, which leaves me quite confused. The dream ends but I find myself still asleep, and then I realise my mistake and become lucid.

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I have my eyes closed but I hear a radio station going in the background. At this point I'm unsure if I'm hearing that in real life or in the dream, so I try to manipulate the sound by making the presenters say something ridiculous. I manage to make the woman say "Terry Wogan is a c**t" (I don't really think that) and I am convinced that I am still safely in the dream. I open my eyes and find myself in the computer room of the library in my University.

I travel around a bit to see if there are any interesting lectures going on but I can't find anything good and I keep getting lost in different parts of the building. Periodically I make sure that I am stabilising the dream by touching things and looking at things closely. One example of this is when I get to the DVD section I start browsing through all the DVDs wondering what my SC will dream up. I notice that there is only the same 20 or so DVDs being repeated over and over to fill the entire shelf.

I head back into the computer room and decide I will talk to some DC's. I sit down at a computer and start chatting to one guy who seems quite knowledgeable and coherent for a DC. For some reason I then get angry and throw his pencilcase across the room at someone. The guy comes over asking who threw it and we both play it cool and deny it. Quite a bit later I feel sorry for what I have done so I come clean and return the pencilcase to it's owner.

I leave the room with intentions to go and find a quieter area to meditate. I open a door into a new room but as I am doing so I forget my intentions and decide to imagine there is a girl inside who I want to have sex with. She is not in there but I trust my dream control and turn around, then sure enough she walks in through the door behind me. We get close and I try to convince her to have sex but she wont, so we just kiss instead. Then the scene changes and I am watching cartoon figures of me and her have sex in third person, but I still feel myself thrusting in time with my character.

[Sunshine]

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[bluebird]

To me that is one of the strangest things about dreams, how we go into third-person sometimes. But it explains how that can happen in like OBE's and other things like that, it happens so much in dreams, it's obviously an easy thing for the mind to do. 

Was that a Gm dream?  It has that feel to me.

Yeah it seemed so instantaneous and simple for me to visualise myself in third person (and cartoon) that time, OBEs in dreams always seem to be very convincing and realistic too as well.

It wasn't a Gm dream, but I had only 3-4 hours sleep the previous night so I was fortunate to get some REM rebound

[Sunshine]

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[Rebel Seven]

He tells me "but you can fly in your dreams, why don't you just fly across". I walk around instead and then her father follows me. I tell them both I couldn't fly because we are not in a dream. However, when I say that I realise I should do a reality check, but I don't want to look like an idiot holding my nose in front of them so I try to float instead. It doesn't work, and my surroundings all look realistic so I am convinced this is not a dream.

  I hate when this happens

[bluebird]

2nd December 2013

I am walking around a house when I notice a particularly interesting painting. I go up to inspect it and notice the clouds and sky look very colourful and different, almost like it sometimes does in dreams. I think about where I am, and realise I'm dreaming. I decide I want to enter the scene in the painting so I step forward and climb into it. This works really well, but I get stuck in a sort of glass box in between the room and the scene I'm trying to get to. I struggle to get through but the dream goes black.

I attempt to visualise a new scene but it doesn't go so well. I then get the urge to have sex and try to picture myself with a girl. It sort of works, but before much happens the dream ends and I can't recall what happened next.

(I am really bad at remembering my goals when I get lucid lately, just seem to do whatever I want and usually that defaults to having dream sex, which I don't particularly enjoy that much anyway. Need to work on this more...)

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I am in a dream where we have all travelled to the beach for an Ultimate Frisbee tournament. We are looking round for a suitable place to play but at some point I lose my team so I decide to have a fun day at the beach instead. The water is incredibly clear and blue which is not how the water usually is on the UK coastline, so I decide to go out for a swim. Someone tells me to swim out really far and then come back, but I insist that I can't swim that far because I'm a really bad swimmer. However, I tell them that my mum can do it, and then by some miracle I manage to go out and swim that far anyway.

When I return I head into a building to find the rest of my Frisbee team. We are trying to play indoors in a bedroom but there is definitely not enough space in this room so we look elsewhere for somewhere to play. On the way down I bump into one of my friends who is near a fish tank (my old fish tank, I no longer keep fish). She tells me that I need to relocate them and gives me a net. I start fishing them out but she tells me I have to get them all in the net at once to save time. I'm a bit dubious as to whether that's a good idea but I do it anyway and eventually I get all the fish in the net. I get them out of the water and ask her where we need to go to, but then she tells me that the new tank won't be ready for a few weeks. I get really angry that she has made me get the fish out and risk their health when the new tank is not even ready, so I put them back in. The fish stay all clumped together and sink to the bottom of the tank, none of them are moving at all. After a few minutes of trying to revive them, I realise all my fish are dead now.

I head downstairs and find some guys getting ready to play a game of Frisbee in a slightly larger room, but I suggest we go outside to the beach and play there. We get outside and we try and mark out a reasonable sized pitch in the sand, however everyone seems to be disagreeing on the size and shape the pitch should really be. At one point I manage to build a brick wall around the pitch somehow, but someone else knocks it down. Eventually I get frustrated and leave the game as we don't manage to start.

I head towards a cliff face which I'm struggling to find when a lady comes over and offers to help me get up there. I ask her how we climb up but she just laughs and then takes me to a helicopter. We fly up and end up in some sort of forest thing. As I'm walking through I tell her I think I just saw a monkey. She doesn't seem too convinced, but shortly after a lot more monkeys appear, followed by some more of a different breed. I get really excited as I've only seen wild monkeys once before this. I also notice that they seem like they could be quite vicious if we got on the wrong side of them, so I try not to get too close.

After this we head towards a river where something funny is happening with the fish. There is a large tuna-like fish which looks like it has been cut open and filleted, but that is actually just how it naturally looks, and it is stuck to the bottom of the river absorbing and swallowing smaller fish as they try and get past. I am fascinated by this thing as I've never seen anything like it before, but I wonder whether it might be disturbing the eco-system a little bit. After the trip to the river me and the woman head back to the cliff face, and as I am asking her where the helicopter is she suddenly pushes me violently off the cliff and I go soaring down towards the Earth. However, she has jumped off after me and held on to me, and as she opens a parachute my alarm goes off and wakes me up.

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Playing poker, I have AK and my opponent has KQ. Two aces come up on the board and there is one queen. I am confident I will win so I bet a lot of money, however someone tells me that the rule in this game is that each person has to take two cards from the board and put them in their own hand. Instead of grabbing the queen which he needs, my opponent picks up both aces, meaning he has a pair of aces which is better than my hand. I get really angry and complain that this game is not very fair compared to normal Texas Hold'em

[bluebird]

3rd December 2013

Forgot a lucid and a normal dream which came before this 

I have a dream in which my mother and I are staying at my Aunty's house. I get to spend a lot of time with my cousins who I haven't seen for ages so it is a good chance to catch up with them. When my Mum comes home from work, she walks through the door and I remember that I have installed some sort of fancy combination lock on the front door. I think that it is a clever idea because it means none of us need our keys to get in, and it comprises of 4 different bolting systems which somehow reassures me that it's safe.

[bluebird]

4th December 2013

Private dream. I had sex with myself, very weird dream that I don't want to journal. Wanted to add it to count up the lucid tally though

[bluebird]

5th December 2013

I am in a bar with some old friends from college and we are taking it in turns to buy shots. After everyone is sufficiently drunk we head back to someone's house and start playing video games. One of the games we play is a football game that has been made to replicate the 1966 World Cup that Englad won, however I notice that the team is made up of players from the present, such as Paul Scholes. I start to wonder why they can call it the 1966 game when players such as Bobby Charlton and Jeff Hurst aren't on it.

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I am in a Wrestling ring for the WWE and two people are about to start wrestling, with me being the referee. I notice that the ring is surrounded by metal, some sort of hybrid between Hell in the Cell and the Elimination Chamber. I also notice that the ring is quite unstable, as the Wrestlers get one one side it tips up, almost like a see-saw. They start wrestling for a bit and I am doing my best to referee, although I haven't watched this in ages. Suddenly I notice one of my friends is in the ring as well, and now he is the referee. I have absolutely no idea what's going on, or why there needs to be 2 referees in this match.

The dream skips forward a bit and we are all posing for a group photograph. At this point I notice that the two wrestlers were actually some of my friends, just dressed up to look like Scotty 2 Hotty and Edge.

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Fragment: Nerf gun fights

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I have a FA in my bed at my parent's house, and look up to the ceiling to see a great big spider. I stay in the bed and hope that he will go away, and he runs across the roof. Suddenly he climbs into one of my gloves and it starts flying around. It goes just above me and I get really worried, then all of a sudden about 7 spiders all get out of the glove at once, running around on the roof above me. Some of them drop off onto my bed and I freak out and wake up IRL.

[bluebird]

Sorry for the delay on this one and some blank entries, I have been busy. I don't recall this dream too well as it was over 24 hours ago 

7th December 2013

Me and some friends have gone to the arcade, and we are having fun playing all the games. I decide it would be cool to see if there is a casino nearby, as these sorts of places usually do have one around somewhere and I want to play some poker or blackjack. However, we don't find it so we go outside to the beach instead. Everyone goes swimming and we're having a good time, but suddenly the waves start getting higher and higher. It becomes apparent that a storm is hitting, and we need to get back to the shore quickly.

I am swimming back when one of my friends grabs my back, almost like I'm giving him a piggy back. At this point it becomes incredibly difficult to swim, and I ask him to get off but he tells me he can't swim and I need to save him. It's a struggle but eventually we make it back to sure and I have saved him. I wonder why he picked me of all people, as I'm really bad at swimming. In fact in real life I can't swim at all, but I forgot this fact at the time.

[bluebird]

8th December 2013

I am in my grandparent's house with two friends from Bristol when one of them suggests that we do some psychedelic drugs. He tells me we are going to do LSD, and the third guy doesn't want to so he is going to sit with us and make sure we're ok. I say I would love to do it, so we take the drugs and wait a while for it to kick in. Eventually I start having really weird visuals, and I don't feel right. I tell my friend he definitely didn't get LSD, this is something different. We look outside and there are police everywhere, so I say it would probably be a bad idea to go for a walk, but for some reason we go anyway.

As we're walking, my friend who is tripping is forced to talk to the police, they think he did something wrong so he is telling them that he didn't. After we make it back to the house we spend some time paranoid and hiding inside. I tell them to hide the drugs somewhere just in case, and then sure enough the police come around to search the house. They don't find anything and we decide it would be a good idea to go away somewhere.

The scene skips and I am on some sort of underground train, no longer with these two friends but with a different friend from university. Then suddenly I am at immigration in a foreign country, trying to get in as I am going on holiday. I realise the city is Paris, but the dream has skipped forward and I am in the airport ready to go home. I finally get to the check-in desk and the woman asks to see my passport and boarding card. I realise I have forgotten to print my boarding card but I ask her if I can still get on the flight. She tells me I have to get the next one instead, which means I have to split up from a friend I'm travelling with but I do it anyway.

I get on a weird steam train-like thing, and the dream skips forward a bit until I am in London. I'm told I need to get the number 31 bus, so I get on it and it starts going. I realise that I never bought a ticket, and it must be one of those buses where you're supposed to get the ticket before you get on. I realise it's probably ok though as ticket inspectors in London usually check the trains not the buses.

Eventually we get to a stop where I do in fact see ticket inspectors ready to get on the bus. It seems like I'm not the only one without a ticket, as everyone made a quick break for the front doors, including an elderly couple. We all manage to get off in time and I quickly cross the road to get away.

I have a look round to see where I am and I notice that I'm in the village where my old school is. This is really far away from London, and at this point I realise that the situation I'm in is really weird, so I do a reality check. Obviously I'm dreaming, and the dream starts to get a bit shaky and unstable so I focus on my environment to bring it back. I walk around looking for something to do when I notice an interesting row of houses. I peek through the windows in some of them to see if anyone is home. Suddenly I hear shouting back from one of the houses I have passed. An old woman is telling me "Get back here", and my immediate instinct is to run away, so I do.

After I ran away, I somehow realise that this old woman represents my pineal gland (no idea why I thought this), and I should probably go back and speak to her. As I'm heading back, a bunch of soldier-type people come after me, trying to stop me. At this point Dr Who shows up, and I think he fights them or something, which eventually results in them disappearing and him being left for almost dead. I get back to the old lady and try to talk to her, but I don't remember what we spoke about.

Next I tried to find a different house, to see what other interesting people I can talk to. I find a house that seems to have the lights on, and instead of knocking through the door I jump through the window (it doesn't break) and enter the living room. I try to have a conversation with the people in there, but it is a family of 4 or 5 and it is quite difficult to speak to them.

I leave the house and the evil men are coming back, so I decide to fly to get away from them. I try and do a really fast rocket-like take off, kind of like superman in that new film, but it doesn't work and I just fly up at my normal slow speed. I make it to a cool cliff and I land and walk around. I notice some magic mushrooms growing out of the ground, so I figure they were probably meant for me and I eat them, however there is no notable change in perception. At this point I notice that it is raining, and I walk towards of the cliff and stand on the edge, looking out onto some amazing rocks, the sea and some cool clouds. I am also aware at this point that I'm fully naked from the waist down, which doesn't bother me but actually feels kind of nice.

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FA: I am in my living room with a bunch of friends and they are talking about last night (they got drunk or something). It is very apparent to me that I'm still dreaming, and in fact this is supposed to be where my body is whilst my mind is dreaming up the previous LD (hard to explain, kind of like i was lucid in a FA but not moving because I was asleep in it). They are talking about me and they think I am on some sort of drugs, or in a trance. I tell them it's ok, I'm just doing my lucid dreaming. They all sigh and tell me things like "It's not real", "You waste your time with that", etc etc... I don't take much notice of them, and I spend the time writing down things on my hand which will help me remember the previous LD, which was a bit stupid really as I was lucid so I knew it wouldn't be there when I woke up lol.

I then discuss seeing my pineal gland with one of my friends who is more into the spiritual stuff that I'm into. We have a long discussion about it, and we chat about Joe Rogan who apparently lives near to this house I'm in. I ask my friend if he could arrange a meeting between me and Joe, so that I can explain what I went through and see if he has any similar experiences or advice. He says it might be tricky but he can do it. He also says the last time he chatted with Joe they both bluffed and double bluffed each other about ? (something?), but it was a worthwhile chat in the end.

[Sunshine]

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