Dream Log

LUCID DREAM! Finally, I was running downtown somewhere (LA?) from a race-riot that felt very movie-like. It was right after watching a bunch of undercover cops get killed by some gangsters while we were pulled over on the side of the road in a fast car, a porsche or something.

I gained lucidity while running from them. I was trying to put as much space between them and me as possible. I ran, and as I stopped to round corners I think I "swam" through the air to keep momentum up. I might have been swimming or flying as I ran in general, which probably helped me to realize that I was in a dream.

So I realized it was a dream, right as a pick up truck almost hit me, ironically and I immediately tried to become clearer headed. I focused on the back of my hands and that helped me see everything better and really solidify the dream world around me (I read online that this helped and it was true).

I immediately chose to levitate 10ft in the air like some super hero or something. Then I tried to make a building appear and disappear, which initially I had some problem with but then I did it repeatedly with a small water tower. It is interesting that a water tower showed up because I didn't specify which building should appear.

I may have forgotten something at this point, but for some reason I am at a big, exclusive party that everyone is trying to get into and I decide to try the Jedi mind trick. Somebody asks me if I am on the list and I wave my hand and say "you don't need to see if I am on the list" and he goes "yes I do" at which point I do it again and it works. I think to myself about how awesome my willpower in the dream is (egotistically) and proceed through the line mind tricking everyone who tries to stop me until I get to the security guard/bouncer who pats me down but doesn't like my belt buckle because I might kill someone with it or something.

At this point I joke about killing someone with a belt buckle and forget about trying to get into the party and my - Lucidity fades - then I meet a very attractive girl in line.

She was supposed to be on someone I know's Basketball team or something. So I ask her if she plays soccer and if she might want to play on our co-=ed team. Iam thinking about how many girls we have on our team when I completely forget about the dream and wake up - that happened 5 minutes ago (2:24am 5/22/2003).

I also remember looking around quickly after gaining lucidity and noting how real everything looked and how I couldn't distinguish that from reality.

So I have this thing about trying to have a lucid dream, although lately I haven't really been trying. Basically I was really into it two years ago, but still pops its way into my dreams every once in a while. My dreams last night were really messed up. I forgot some of them, which I didn't write down. I think it was because I had a meal right before bed, and it was really cold in my room. Maybe not.

Anyway, The dream I remember starts out with me in prison. I think I did something "bad" in an earlier dream and as a result I am in the slammer. But it's not like the real slammer, its just a guy keeping me locked in a room. I don't see any other prisoners, but it is definitely a state-run thing. Now this is the only fuzzy part of the dream: I think they executed me, although I am not sure. Either that or I attempted an escape because I am in jail again later but I distinctly remember being locked up once already (okay, I know that if they executed me I wouldn't still be alive, but hey this is a dream it doesn't have to make any freaking sense). So know I am on death row (again?) and I am getting special treatment from the guards because of it. They are doing me favors and stuff, but not too many because I am also on bad behavior. Sometime when I am talking to the guards I realize that I should feel really bad for something I did in the past. Whatever caused me to be on death row should be plauging my conscience. But it's not. So I suddently come to the Eureka! type conclusion that I never did anything that deserved capital punishment.

At this point in the dream I have a semi-lucid state of mind. Basically I realize that something is wrong with the dream and I know I don't have to follow the rules. However I do not completely realize it is a dream and that I am sleeping. So I break out of jail with my newfound powers. I think I might have physically attacked the guards, but I didn't care because I knew that they weren't really ... real.

As I am escaping I think to look and see if my dream is in color, and it is. Vivid 32bpp 75Hz 1024x768 startling color, full with bump-mapping, ray tracing, and everything. But I have done this before, and during the dream I always think it is color, but when I wake up I remember it being black and white. So I look again a little bit later. And it is still full color, I distinctly remember seeing someone's shirt and the different colors in it.

So now the captors are giving chase, and I need to flee fast. Whenever this used to happen in my dreams I could do a float/jump really high/fly kinda thing. I use trees to jump off of, and get away fairly quickly. So for some reason I am able to get far enough away that they can't find me anymore, and I stop worrying about them chasing me. Although by now I have completely forgotten that this was all a dream. I think something else uneventfull happened, but I am not sure. The dream quickly melded into some other dream like they always do.

This dream log will actually contain a portion of a dream I remember from last night and a really weird dream that I had about a year ago. I am just starting to log my dreams so more stuff should be appearing here soon. Last night I was trying to have lucid dreams by repeating the phrase "I will have a lucid dream and I will remember it." over and over again. It didn't work, and it probably didn't help that I had a few drinks. Anyway I woke up after a dream in the early morning, and I tried to commit it to memory so that I could jot it down later. That does not work. I remember parts of it but not much. I was not at home so I didn't have anything to write on.

I remember hiking around a mountain, with a bunch of people. It must have been a popular area because I could see quite a few people around, besides the like 4-5 that were with me. I'm skipping a whole bunch about this dream because I only remember little snippets. Eventually we go up really high, on a mountain. Maybe there were some sort of ski lifts around, but it was definitely summer time. I could see across a valley up to a different mountain, which wasn't nearly as far away as it should have been. Anyway two people did a platform jump off of a ski tower (or maybe just the top of the mountain), and they landed safely at the bottom of the valley. The fall wasn't very far even though we were supposed to be high up. Then it was suddenly my turn, along with some random other person who I didn't know. We jumped, or just started falling and because the fall was short, and I didn't really prepare for the jump my parachute either didn't open, or didn't have time to open so I plummet into the ground. I forget what happened exactly after that, maybe I woke up, or the dream changed.

The other dream I remember from about a year ago is even shorter, it was just so cool that I had to write about it somewhere. I was alone and it was more like I was viewing a movie, I didn't seem to actually be there. The location was a really long hallway, intricate and expensive. I think I remember marble floors and the left side of the hallway was all glass, a bunch of large windows. I remember things in the hallway, like some intricate molding in the upper right corner and maybe some vases or something like that to make it look expensive, I didn't really note the details. Somehow there is a large devil like entity there. I remember it having stereotypical demon like qualities, being huge with large muscles, all black, and overall evil. Then before anything can happen a powerful white light explodes out of the being, basically destroying it but the blast is so immense that it washes over me and shatters all the glass on the other side of the hallway, leaving a notable absence of the evil creature and lots of destruction behind. I know it's a weird dream but whatever. I remember having lots of discussions about God around then, maybe about his powers and stuff like that.