lucid maruku the song is lost, and i am lost in the song talking to the misty grey_eyed people in my dreams, asking for direction but all the answers comes from within 010524 ... AFI I was dreaming, I was lucid blood was seeping from my pores 010812 ... pralines&cream I've been trying to lucid dream, but it isn't working out ... has anyone seen Waking Life?? I always plan on looking for light switches in my dreams, but once I'm dreaming, i never think to ... lucid dreaming would be wonderful to master. 020207 ... pilgrim It is in noticing The way small things Will shift from one form To another Dreams are Rarely Solid First it is one place Then another Without having traveled Now a car becomes your room First notice the details In the waking world Watching Your thoughts As They wander and shift First one thing then another Understand Lucid Waking That the world you live in Is truly in your mind A sensory construct Then when you Sleep Try to notice Your Hands Then as you use them Remember that you are Dreaming As you do things with your hands Notice the way it is different From the Waking World Yet also similar You can then cause anything to happen Walk on water Fly Sweet Dreams 020208 ... no reason i just woke up from a really strange dream. all of these really out-of-the-ordinary things kept happening — so much so that after awhile i realized in the dream they were odd, and was half uncomfortable and half exasperated. the moment i really realized this, i was sitting on the floor of a hospital building (or a building that looked like one, anyway) with an orderly, and i asked her, "okay, when am i going to wake up?" she didn't answer. so i pinched myself in the arm, and not only did i not wake up, but the orderly grabbed her own arm and said "ow" like i'd pinched her. i walked away and stood under a large window that was many, many stories up, and yelled, "i'm going to jump!" thinking for some reason that if i threatened to do something extravagant i may wake up. everyone rushed over all shocked, but i still didn't wake up. i wondered then if i'd need to actually get up on the ledge, or maybe even jump, but i hoped not in case this wasn't actually a dream. 110303 ... no reason and then i woke up and realized i'd never had a dream like that without being feverish or high. 110303 ... nr last night's dream was especially strange. not because of the dream itself, but because of how difficult it was to wake myself up. i realized pretty early on that it was likely a dream, but i wasn't 100% sure. i pinched myself and nothing happened; i said "this is a dream" and nothing happened. so even though they make me slightly uncomfortable, i resigned myself to it. it was nighttime in the dream, or everything was just dark at all times. at one moment i was in the backyard of what was supposed to be our old house, with a pool. it also had a really nice patio furniture set added, and i was thinking i should have people over. at this point maybe i wasn't sure it was a dream. later on, i was walking with my sister, who in the dream was a child. i said, "well, since this is a dream, want to try to walk on that snowbank with our bare feet? maybe it won't be cold." so we did, but it actually was a bit cold. i tried saying "this is a dream" then again, and throughout, because that usually wakes me up. and this dream wasn't particularly interesting. but no dice. then i was in a small bedroom i didn't recognize, with dark reddish-orange walls and a single bed. i think my sister or someone was on the bed but i wasn't paying too much attention. i was staring at the wall, repeating "this is a dream" yet again. still nothing. but then i somehow ended up lying on my back in mid-air, which did convince me it was most likely a dream. i sunk my feet right into the wall, and tried the chant again, and this time it worked. "finally!" i said after i woke up. even then, it was hard to free myself. 220615 ... nr i had one awhile ago where i was just standing around with people and said "want to fly with me?" and we just kind of flew around a bit. it was cool but i'd say a bit overrated. 220615 ... epitome of incomprehensibility I have lucid dreams somewhat like you, nr! I'll know I'm dreaming but I can't really control what happens. (Also, as per the 2011 entry, there were a few years where I regularly jumped out of my bedroom window in dreams to test whether I was dreaming. I either flew or dropped harmlessly, but sometimes it was enough just to look out and check whether the landscape was noticeably different.) 220616 ... e_o_i *somewhat like yours 220616 what's it to you? who go blather from