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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #615 on: January 06, 2014, 06:12:23 PM »
I'm in a bad sleeping pattern at the moment so I have been a bit put off from writing up my dreams, however I had so much recall today I thought it would be a shame to waste it:

6th January 2014

I am lucid in the back seat of a moving car with 2 beautiful women. I ask the woman sitting in the middle seat to swap places with me and she does, and then I ask them to both give me a BJ which they do. It feels really nice but at some point the dream disappears and I lose lucidity.

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I find myself inside a tent on holiday somewhere, and I start wondering why I didn't stay in a hostel instead. I leave the tent and find that it is just one tent in a row of many, all inside a much larger tent. I assume this is some new type of accommodation where people can camp without having to worry too much about the weather outside (but I never cared about that anyway). I leave to go and find some people to talk to, and meet a small group of people who seem quite friendly.

I spend quite a lot of time with them, but eventually I feel guilty that I am not exploring the country more. It is at this point which I pay attention to the country I am in, which appears to be China. I wander off to go and explore on my own. Somehow I end up trapped in an old abandoned house, and find 2 other people stuck in there. I talk to them and we try to figure a way out. I suggest we try breaking down one of the walls, because even if it doesn't work we will be making a lot of noise so hopefully someone will hear and come to rescue us.

I start hitting a wall with someone's high heel, cracking it a bit and starting to make progress. After a bit I have a break and someone else takes over for me. I start looking at what we have to eat and drink and there isn't much between us. There is a bottle with not much water left in but I decide the others will need that more than me, so I drink from the undiluted orange squash bottle instead, which is not very nice.

Eventually we manage to break through the wall at the same time as some builders performing works on the house arrive in the front door. The two people I'm with decide to climb out of the window but one of them cuts their chin and starts bleeding. He is worried that it will be fatal like cutting your neck, but I inspect the wound and tell him he will be ok. I then choose to exit through the door the builders came through to avoid that happening to me.

We head back to the campsite but on the way I realise that I don't know the way back, and I start just wandering in the woods instead. We come across a really steep cliff that we have to climb up, and when I get to near the top I almost fall back down and have to cling onto the edge. Eventually we make it to the top and head back to camp.

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Fragment: In Shrewsbury train station trying to work out which train I need to get. As is the case with dreams, none of the lines seem to go where they should so it is difficult to find the right one.

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Another holiday this time on a really large cruise ship, supposedly the biggest in the world. We dock somewhere and I go to explore the city. I'm told that you get a good view from the top of the big skyscraper, which is also supposed to be the largest in the world. However, there is no elevator or staircase so you have to climb it by using a rope ladder on the outside. I do this, and get to the top and there is a nice view but it's very windy. When I come back down I meet an elderly couple who are also on the cruise, who wanted to go up the tower as well. I tell them they probably won't be able to do it safely, but if they want I will take some flowers up for them and put them on the top. I'm not sure what the significance of that was, but they agree so I buy some flowers and carry them up to the top. I am struggling to find a good position to anchor them when I wake up.
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #616 on: January 07, 2014, 03:44:54 PM »
WOWWWWW!!! I just read that monster lucid you had a few posts down. I can not wait to have one like that! That's incredible! I would also like to give this time perception trick a try if I can remember. You said the dream felt like it lasted 4 days?  Great work!

Also, in my experience with Celia, it has worked best when taken during your WBTB period. Might be worth a shot, hope that helps :)
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #617 on: January 07, 2014, 11:19:46 PM »
Tonight is my first night using my dictaphone to record my dreams. It's going well so far, got 2 dreams remembered and I'm only half way through the night. I'll type them all up in the morning.

WOWWWWW!!! I just read that monster lucid you had a few posts down. I can not wait to have one like that! That's incredible! I would also like to give this time perception trick a try if I can remember. You said the dream felt like it lasted 4 days?  Great work!

Yeah I was surprised to have such a good result so early on in my time dilation efforts, but obviously very pleased with it. I'd like to keep trying to go longer when my dreaming picks up properly again. And yeah it felt like many days, if I had to put a number on it I would say 4 is a good estimate. I got up to a lot of stuff in that dream, not all of which I could remember clearly.

Also, in my experience with Celia, it has worked best when taken during your WBTB period. Might be worth a shot, hope that helps :)

Coincidentally I actually took some more Calea Z about 30 minutes ago (I'm at WBTB now) but I haven't been able to get back to sleep...typical :sad1: hopefully I will fall asleep soon so it doesn't go to waste.
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #618 on: January 08, 2014, 07:21:57 AM »
WBTB, just over 3g of powdered Calea Z leaves (after the first two dreams). Had a lot of trouble getting back to sleep but managed to eventually. Like last time, I woke up a lot in the night on Calea Z, and this time I recalled a lot more of my dreams.

8th January 2014

Fragment: Using google maps, high resolution?

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I have a dream where I'm observing an old friend in 3rd person. He is on a plane sitting in first class and talking about it to somebody. There are lots of seats lined up against the window, they all look like seats on Arriva trains though. Also there is a massive cocktail bar in the middle complete with a bartender.

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I had a weird dream sequence where I was lying in bed and felt myself falling, as if my body was falling out of the bed. I then "opened my eyes" and saw the night sky littered with stars, it looked really beautiful. I had a sharp falling sensation but as if I was falling upwards, and the stars shot towards me like when they jump to warp speed in Star Wars.

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I'm in a large building exploring and there are these three pink things flying round. Their centre is circular and looks kind of like a jellyfish, and they have a varying number of tentacles coming out of them (2,3 and 4 respectively). It's my job to chase them down so I follow the one with 2. I end up walking down into a bathroom, where suddenly a narrator starts talking. He says that the thing was attracted to the smell of the toilet. I look around and in this bathroom there is a load of urinals, and one toilet sitting in the middle of the floor with no cubicle walls around it. The thing flies into that and then the narrator says I have to "finish it off" by taking a shit in the toilet.

As soon as he says that, I really need to go, so I sit on the toilet and start my business. There is no toilet seat, so I have to sort of hover above it at first, but then I give up and sit directly on the porcelain. Suddenly, a large group of people come walking in on me, using the urinals or washing their hands or just generally talking to each other. I realise this situation is far too ridiculous to not be a dream, so I become lucid. I don't stop what I'm doing because there is nothing to worry about, and then some of the people come and talk to me, one of them being my friend Danny. I jokingly say to him what a stupid place to put a toilet, and he agrees. He says that must be why nobody comes to this nightclub any more. I didn't even realised the building was supposed to be a nightclub, it had no music either so it seems like a pretty lousy place to me. I wake suddenly.

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I am in a living room of a friend's house in Leeds, talking to her and her friends. Apparently we went on a big night out the previous night (which I may or may not have dreamt). They are all thanking me for coming, and apparently we had a really good night together. Two of the girls are getting really friendly with me, sitting on my lap or putting their arms around me etc. I get the feeling that they are competing for my affection, but I'm not really that interested in either of them.

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I'm at a family party and we are waiting for most people to arrive. I walk around the different rooms and find some people playing poker in one. I pay some money and join the table, but we have to wait for one of the players to get back before we can continue playing, despite the fact that I insist we can just play some hands while he is gone because it is a cash game. I play about with the chips which seem to be a really funny shape, they look like the shape of large sweets (skittles or minstrels). I comment on this to the other players and they agree that this makes them feel really cool, but harder to stack.

Eventually we do play a few hands, and I win a little bit of money, but another player goes away and I get frustrated and leave. I decide I will take my Grandad's dog for a walk, so I get a lead and head off somewhere with her. We end up walking along a railway line, and I am standing on a stick which is stuck in one of the tracks. I can make it slide along at will somehow, and the dog trots along next to me. As we are going I notice lots of debris on the tracks, including things that look like octopus tentacles. I wonder if this was put here by kids to see what would happen when the trains go over them. Either way, at the time I consider it to be fairly dangerous.

As we are travelling a couple of very large trains go past. One of them is a big old fashioned steam train, which we don't see often any more. I make a note to breathe in through my nose because I love the smell the engines make, but I don't really smell it very much which is disappointing (smell never works that great for me in dreams). After a while I decide to head back, and then suddenly realising I'm not just looking after the dog but two of my nephews as well. This makes me nervous as although they are old enough to not run off or do anything too stupid, I've never been alone looking after them, and certainly not outside. However, at some point my sister (not their mother though) shows up and helps me out, and then we all walk home.

When I get back to the house, I walk around looking to see has arrived at the party. I walk upstairs and find a bedroom with 3 single beds, each with a man fully clothed asleep on top of them. I recognise the first one is my sister's boyfriend, the second is my brother, and I can't work out who the third man is. I ask someone and they say "Dad" which makes no sense as it looks nothing like my Dad. However, he then gets up and I see it was Danny (same one from the earlier dream) so I just assume they said "Dan" not "Dad". I ask them all to come downstairs when they are ready, and then I head down. A lot of my family are here now, and they are all saying hi to me and those who I didn't see at Christmas are all saying Merry Christmas. There is a lot of people talking at once and I get overwhelmed and sit down. Someone hands me a drink, which is orange juice but in a glass bottle like one of those small whisky bottles. I take the orange juice but then accidentally knock over someone else's drink. I jokingly say "Oh no, I can't believe I knocked over the first one of the evening". I wake up shortly after that.
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #619 on: January 08, 2014, 02:43:51 PM »
Calea seems to be working really well for you. Its incredible to see how much recall it give someone who is already good at dream recall and LD'ing. How did you take the 3g of Calea?
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #620 on: January 08, 2014, 06:00:25 PM »
Calea seems to be working really well for you. Its incredible to see how much recall it give someone who is already good at dream recall and LD'ing. How did you take the 3g of Calea?

Crushed to a powder and put into gel caps, which I then swallowed. I'm going to make the tea soon but I thought I'd use up the rest of my gel caps first (I already prepared them, got another 3g to go as well).

I'm not sure if I can credit the good recall to the Calea or the dictaphone, as they are both new variables, but I'm certain the Calea helped somewhat.
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #621 on: January 08, 2014, 06:27:09 PM »
I can appreciate the "no toilet seat" dream - many of the restrooms we used in S. America have no seat - i actually had to "hover"... although am somewhat used to doing this, just seemed very odd...

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« Reply #622 on: January 09, 2014, 04:12:27 AM »


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I'm in a large building exploring and there are these three pink things flying round. Their centre is circular and looks kind of like a jellyfish, and they have a varying number of tentacles coming out of them (2,3 and 4 respectively). It's my job to chase them down so I follow the one with 2. I end up walking down into a bathroom, where suddenly a narrator starts talking. He says that the thing was attracted to the smell of the toilet. I look around and in this bathroom there is a load of urinals, and one toilet sitting in the middle of the floor with no cubicle walls around it. The thing flies into that and then the narrator says I have to "finish it off" by taking a shit in the toilet.

As soon as he says that, I really need to go, so I sit on the toilet and start my business. There is no toilet seat, so I have to sort of hover above it at first, but then I give up and sit directly on the porcelain. Suddenly, a large group of people come walking in on me, using the urinals or washing their hands or just generally talking to each other. I realise this situation is far too ridiculous to not be a dream, so I become lucid. I don't stop what I'm doing because there is nothing to worry about, and then some of the people come and talk to me, one of them being my friend Danny. I jokingly say to him what a stupid place to put a toilet, and he agrees. He says that must be why nobody comes to this nightclub any more. I didn't even realised the building was supposed to be a nightclub, it had no music either so it seems like a pretty lousy place to me. I wake suddenly.


ok now that I've quoted this I have no idea what to add.  thanks Blue. tell you subconscious that I want to hang sometime
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #623 on: January 09, 2014, 04:20:44 AM »
tell you subconscious that I want to hang sometime
This is the funniest dream I've read since you tried to get to heaven

Lol! I'm sure my SC would love to hang out with you. Yeah I think it's going to take a very long time before I top that dream for comedic value, I don't know where my brain comes up with all this stuff most of the time :P
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« Reply #625 on: January 10, 2014, 01:52:41 AM »
10th January 2014

I am in Warehouse Project (a club in Manchester) with a load of people I know from various places, which I think was the reason I got lucid but I can't remember. I'm having a good time listening to the different types of music that is being played, and then I hear that they are opening the main stage so I walk around looking for it. I bump into a few old friends from school and talk to them for a bit about the club. Eventually I walk off and find myself near a big stage that is being set up. It looks pretty cool, but I can see in the distance that there is a better stage outside and across the road, so I walk off in that direction.

As I pass to the outside, I notice just how vivid this dream is. I find it quite remarkable, and would say it's one of those dreams which seems even more clear and vivid than waking life. I see a train track in the way of myself and the stage I'm heading towards, so I walk towards it. I try to decide whether I would like to try and get hit by a train as a little challenge, but the dream is so clear and beautiful I think it would be a shame to risk waking myself up for. At this point I consider what I actually want to do with the lucid. I think about time dilation, but that makes my dreams unstable and I would rather have a guaranteed short dream in this environment than risk losing it trying to get a longer one. I then think about re-doing the challenge to get struck by lightning but the clouds are very white and light and I don't think it would be possible to convince my SC to spark lightning at this point in time.

Instead I give up on goals and just continue with the dream, heading towards the main stage. I have to cross one of those temporary metal barriers to get across the track, so I try and hurdle it but crash into it spectacularly and fall over. It genuinely hurts, which surprises me and concerns me as I don't like feeling pain in dreams. I take a second to just make sure I am still dreaming, which of course I am, and then suddenly I notice that I am now on the roof of the building with the stage inside. I don't know how I got up here but my immediate reaction is to try and get down. I walk to the edge and look down, it is a long way down (at least 5 floors). I know it's a dream so I plan to just jump off, however I chicken out as if the railing hurt me then I am certain that this will too. I look for a safer way down, one of which would be to climb a ladder which would take a while, and the other is to jump on the adjacent buildings which seem to decrease in height. I start doing that, however after a couple of jumps I lose the dream and wake up.


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I am in Liverpool and travelling around on the trains there with some friends, some of who are actually from Liverpool and some who are not. We are in a train station waiting for the metro when I notice a freight train here, which seems a bit weird. It is covered in graffiti which actually looks quite good, which surprises me as normally graffiti on freight trains is just horrible looking tags but these look quite pretty. I rationalize that this is probably just because Liverpool is an artistic place, and not because only in a dream would somebody have the time to complete something looking that nice without being caught. I also fail to catch on to the fact that there is a freight train in a metro (underground) station...

We finally get our train to somewhere, but I can't remember where we were going, and then after that we walk around Liverpool a bit. Eventually we stop at a little square building that consists of just one room. Everyone climbs in through some steps that lead up to the one door at the front, but it is pitch black inside so I hesitate at first. I hear water and splashing so I decide not to get in, as I'm not a strong swimmer so swimming in the dark just sounds dangerous. One of the girls asks me why I'm not going in, and I explain my reasoning. I wait outside but after a minute or two a light switches on inside the room, and I peek in to see that it's not a swimming pool but more of an overly large hot tub.

I decide it's safe to climb in so I head into the room, and then someone closes the door behind me. I find a nice spot to relax and talk to an old school friend and some girls he is with who I don't recognise. Suddenly, it becomes clear that the hot tub is moving, and that this is some weird form of transport. I become lucid when I realise this could only happen in a dream, but it is a very low level of lucid and I am not completely aware of what's going on. Some people start playing a game where they get into pairs and one of them lifts the other one up (kind of like this but standing up) and then you have to try and stay standing up for as long as possible before falling into the water. All of the pairs that try it succeed in not falling over, but then a girl asks how do you get down. I don't want to answer out loud because I irrationally fear I will sleep-talk, but I mentally think "just tip into the water", and then someone else says what I was thinking and they do it.

Eventually we arrive at the destination and get out of the hot tub room.
As we are deciding where to go now I believe I lost lucidity. It seems the plan was to go to the cinema, so we talk about where to go to get to one. I am also mindful of the fact we've been in Liverpool quite a while, and wonder when I should go to get the train home. I wake up before we make it to the cinema.
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #626 on: January 10, 2014, 11:07:18 AM »
Did you use any Calea last night to help induce these? I used two pills rather than one last night and got less of an effect that I normally do from one?  :sad1:
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #627 on: January 10, 2014, 11:31:49 AM »
Did you use any Calea last night to help induce these? I used two pills rather than one last night and got less of an effect that I normally do from one?  :sad1:

Nope, I've given up with Calea Z now. It's just giving me insomnia and it's not worth it for me, especially when I wasn't unhappy with my dreaming without it anyway.
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #628 on: January 11, 2014, 02:34:54 AM »
11th January 2014

G/C night. No recall. Just my luck lately...
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #629 on: January 11, 2014, 09:53:14 PM »
A hot tub-mobile? Cool. The world needs those. And if it already has some, it obviously doesn't have enough of them.
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