[ Dream Reports ] Tell us your dreams

Sometimes fake lucids are a tad bit interesting. Had this one a few nights ago and have been debating on sharing it.

The dream starts out in this dark area where everything is kind of hard to see. The dream also starts in third person, as I can see myself walking out of this area (which, kinda seems like a cave, but, more on that later). As I'm viewing myself walking out of this cave, I can see I'm wearing a white shirt with the infamous word on it. This triggers "lucidity".

I get out of the area and there is a bit of a jump, as I'm still in 3rd person but, I'm about a few feet/yards away from the fence in my grandmother's yard. I start controlling the water from the river behind it (she has a fence up in case of flooding for a high tide) while looking towards her house, so my back is turned to the water. The dream is still very dark. I start making the water into two massive cones (probably around 10-12 even 15 feet high) and charge them with electricity, illuminating them along with part of me.

Another skip and I'm in my house. I don't remember the particular details, but, I might have ran from my grandmother's house to mine. I'm also now in 1st person and will remain in 1st person for the rest of the dream. What I do know is that someone is chasing me who has the same powers as me. I also feel like I'm partly someone else bit still myself.

I go into the left bedroom and go into the bathroom, trying to think of how to get out of this. I think that, in order to get away, I would need to be someone without powers. I change into someone (this will also be brought up later), jump out the window into a roll, and somehow get back inside into the same bedroom, crawling by the person who was chasing me, them not noticing anything was off. I believe that I exit the room and start running down the hallway, but, I'm not quite certain. Dream ends and I wake up.

Now that I'm looking back at the dream, I may have an idea about where the dream actually started. There's a place at my grandmother's house where there's this slim right triangular area that you could walk under. Hindsight is 20/20, but, that location is a few seconds of walking time away from where the next part of the dream was.

Another thing to note is that it felt like I was taking in character's and people's appearances when I would use their powers. For example, when I'm uncertain if I had just ran to my house, I believe I looked like myself but also a bit like the Flash. With each new power, I was like a chimera of sorts.

Third note - the person I was near the end I've been before in other dreams. I've only been him 2 other times, one of which was in another fake lucid back in January. I also became him to try and avoid people knowing I was me. The other dream where I was him was back in 2017 (and is the dream that I've started attributing to me becoming interested in dreams, but, not the point). Just found that interesting.

TL:DR - BRUHILD almost works, causes a fake lucid in which someone chases me for having the same weird chimera powers as them. Also contains a weird fake-lucid quirk that may be a dream seed, but, I'm not 100% sure.

Okay, tonight @The Lucid Guide visited me and my wife and we were sitting in the living room. Nobody did know what to talk about. It was a bit embarrassing so I forced a conversation and started to talk in English. Never did this before in my dreams. It was a non-lucid dream but I'm excited how good I could think about what I wanted to say and translate it in my mind.

I only forgot the English word for "Pilze" so I asked my wife and she said "mushrooms",which is correct.

Anyway, when Daniel was sitting in my living room and we talked about Patrick Jane (The Mentalist), I thought this is somehow strange - so I did a nose pinch test. It actually worked! But I did not became lucid. SMEG!

So, could it be that it failed because I do RCs in waking life a bit lazy? Or does this happen from time to time and is perfectly normal.

I can't remember the nose pinch test to ever fail in my dreams...

I'm jealous, what a fun dream! Not gonna lie, I had to try the hand signal … 😂 Hey, you should see the movie "Alien", it's a real classic by now!

Alright, let's try and revive this thread, shall we?

Last night I was walking out of this massive building, walking down the stairs and onto the grass. It looks a lot like a college I went on a field trip years ago. To my left there's another building of the same height and long. I look up into the sky and I see something approaching me.

I go in the general direction of this object and fly up a bit to meet my alien friend. He's on this motorcycle and I tell him that I'm happy to see him again. Time skip and we're in this restaurant with other people.

The question is brought up about why he's here and replies that his girlfriend either left him or cheated on him. He also says that he doesn't feel comfortable on his race's main constellation of Nebulous. When asked about other places he can go - and where he's originally from - he replies that his home (which sounds a lot like the name "Easter Island but make it spacey) was destroyed by war and I see a quick glimpse of fire when imagining what happened to him. His ex is also at the restaurant, sitting beside me. She looks like a Pikachu wearing either a scarf or a bandana.

We leave the restaurant and to the left is this small basketball court, to the right it just seems like an average neighborhood street. He contemplates teaching us about powers his kind have. Even though we're humans, we can still use it.

We all scatter around the court (which is a half court size, since it only has one hoop) and he teaches us the method to summon the type of motorcycle that he was on earlier. He says you can relate the name to a basketball team. He shows the hand signal to summon the motorcycle/start the process and its the right hand over left, palms together, with the pinky and pointer touching at the tips and the middle and ring finger touching at the first knuckle, thumbs touching completely. You also have to say the word to start the process.

Since I already know how to do it, I change and suddenly I'm wearing this formal suit. The two people behind me (there's about 10 people in total on the court and most are in front of me) start judging me about what I'm wearing and I kinda scuff it off, leaning up against an imaginary wall. Everyone does the process and changes to wearing darker clothing.

The alien tells us to line up in a line to get us use to summoning the motorcycles. Since I already know how to do it, I'm to the side, doing spins of the motorcycle. He says that I need to watch to see if anyone needs help. Everyone summons their motorcycles and goes up the court and then loops around to the end of the line. There's a quick scene where we're all flying before another skip occurs.

We're all back at my house where the alien decides that to hone our new found powers, we should play a game of hide and seek. He explains that we have to stay on the property but we can teleport somewhere else for up to ten seconds. He explains that up to 10 seconds should be fair and that teleporting can have risks, like teleportating under or in something. He uses snow as an example. I think about hiding by the mailbox.

He gets a notifications that he needs to head back to his world immediately but that he should be back soon. My father asks him about a painting that he gave and the alien says that he still has it and is taking care of it (the painting in question isn't my father's but a painting at an art auction that I went to a few months ago). My dad says that he's willing to give him another when he returns and that he will have instructions on how to take care of it. The painting is of a golf course. And then I wake up.

This dream was very vivid and don't think that I wasn't disappointed when I tried the summoning process after I woke up. I risked the rest of sleep I had taking notes on this dream as I wanted to fall back asleep into it. An interesting thing is that I wrote "repeat dream character" due to the false memories I had in the dream, even though this is the first dream with this alien dude in it.

There was tons of things that influenced it, like the name of the process actually being a type of alien from the movie Alien (which I haven't seen, only heard about it from a 30 second video on YouTube about keyboards). Others include the Pikachu, my outfit and overall look at that point in the dream, and the flying.

This night, I came very close to a lucid dream:

I wake up, loll around in bed and think about whether I should get up already or rather fall asleep again and hope for an LD. That's when the door opens and my husband walks in — in his underwear, but with a clunky night vision device on his head.

At first, I think he bought it because he often goes out at night with his telescope to look at the stars. But this doesn't make sense. I say: "You are not planning to go outside in your underwear, are you? Bit cold for that..." He says, "But I'm not even here." Whaaaa....?! False awakening! The shock jolts me out of sleep.

False awakenings are often my ticket to lucidity, but it has been over three months since my last lucid, and I think I got overly excited.

So, I had a lucid the night before last night. Luckily, I had my phone beside me, so, I managed to write down it as soon as I woke up at 5:11 in the morning. I apologize for any grammer mistakes as I wrote this as soon as I woke up and am just copying and pasting it into here.

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Woke up in bed, decided to do an RC because the thought came into my mind. I did nose pinch first and, when I placed my fingers on my nose, I couldn't see my hand. I knew something was off as it felt like my nose was below my mouth. I went to go do the next part of my RC routine, but, I didn't have to, because when I tried taking my hand away from my nose, it stretched to where I could see it. Yea, this is a dream.

I kinda shouted that I was lucid before getting up from bed and walking into the living room, which has not only one Christmas tree (which we haven't put up yet), but several placed in weird places (note for myself, one was between the TV and fireplace, the others were replacing the TV box). The first Christmas tree has presents and a little village under it, all with the theme green. All the trees are lit up, so, it's a bit of a surprise that I see my father on the couch, sleeping. I think I try to wake him up, but, he doesn't. Me, having some clarity to my thoughts, tries to change my appearance, trying to start up the chain of my dream goals. I fail.

I go to the front door and go outside, waking up my father. He comes to the front door and yells "what are you doing!" I decide to try changing my appearance again (fail), flying (not a total fail, just higher jumps), and super speed (success). I sprint out of the yard and slow down, since my speed wasn't something too crazy. I start walking to my left and pass by my neighbor's house, trying to change my appeal yet again, which failed. I don't know how I notice but there's this dude sitting in the neighbor's tree (I don't even think they have a tree there) and he's wearing all black. He asks what I'm doing and I explain, though the topic soon gets off track. I discover how to fly a little bit and go up to the neighbors across from them and fly up, me and this dude hovering in the air. He tells me he's from a different time and that what we were talking about (a band named Fall Out Boy) doesn't exist in his world, but, he does know about them because he's a dimension jumper (on the lines of that). In shock, I start naming the band members and songs, though the clearest one I remember asking about Folie a Deux, in which he takes out his phone and replies with "the military base?"

Then we're back on the ground, and, knowing that I'm having a lucid dream, he starts saying that I need a change of scenery in order to start setting up my dream goals. I go along with him and he starts trying to get me to fly. I'm struggling with getting up in the air and staying up, so, he suggests that I focus on what we were talking about before. I start humming some songs (Sugar We're Going Down, Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet (I think)) and I'm able to get into the air and stabilize. As I just hum more, I'm able to get higher in the air. He takes out this object (I'm torn between if it was a mirror or a hairbrush) and it starts glowing a tiny bit. I should state that this dream has been very dark, as even the Christmas trees were only casting a little light.

He says that I'm doing well and we aim up to go over the tree line on the opposite side of the road where we can get into my neighborhood. At this time, I'm higher than the trees by a long shot, but, I receive a text from my cousin. I was still aware that I was dreaming, but for some reason, I decided to just "pause" the dream and come back to it. I said "hey, give me a second, my cousin is texting me." As soon as I said that, my vision starts fading, my vision is on the ground again, and I struggle to hang on, until I can't. The dream ends and I check my phone in case my cousin did try and text me, but, she didn't.

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So, that was the dream. I did leave out a few details, like the fact that when I was trying to change my appearance, I would jump in the air and do a spin. When I've changed my appearance before, I've done it with not much thought as it's mainly on emotion. As for the flying, it wasn't a Superman thing - it was almost like a witch riding a broom, except the broom was invisible.

Last night I got lucid and remembered to check if my dreambody has a heartbeat.

It turned out he has but don't tell my cardiologist. It was quite "a bit" out of sync.

Anyway, that was interesting.

Brains rule.

Next time I'll check if I can sweat.

Last night, I had another dream of the “If THIS doesn't make you RC, what will?!” variety:

The plot of the dream skips.

I actually have an interesting dream to report from last night!

The dream starts at the golf course that I normally play at. I'm at the intersection of holes 14 and 15 (more so closer to the green on 14 than the tee on 15) and there's a lot of people there and beds everywhere, though they are in neat lines (the beds are). I go onto Discord and somehow know I have to join a Discord group, even though I already have 3 I'm apart of. I look up groups related to a musical group and join it, only to get flustered/nervous and leave, joining another group which has only a handful of people which were active three days ago. I rejoin the former group and go over to my friend, who is laying in a bed. I look around and see other people setting up to fall asleep (now I'm basically in the fairway of 15, and there's a big group on the tees of 15). I assume I fall asleep because there is a time skip.

The next part starts with me and a group of people and a teacher figure (I have no idea who this dude was) on the cart path on 16. He has these scratch tickets and gives them to us for a lesson of some sort. I finish mine quickly and decide to walk down the cart path, passing the tee box for 17 (though it was a bit distorted looking). A guy follows me and we goof off a bit before I check to see if I have that ticket - I don't. I start jogging back and this guy just starts running on all fours as he almost falls into the ditch. We get back and there's another skip.

Now the interesting part starts. I'm in this somewhat fancy house that has a waterfront view into a harbor, though it's to the mouth of it. This house also has a backyard and I'm actually in the backyard, the leader of the Discord group having to leave because he's in trouble (the exact reason was unclear in the dream). Skip a tiny bit and the whole group is in the house, the leader turning on a playlist. I'm heading into the living room of this house when I "recognize" that the song playing is the newest from the musical group and I debate about if I should do a reality check or not. I see my friend in the room and I try going over to him to ask if I should do one (he's a lucid dreamer as well so sometimes we do talk about lucid dreaming). As I approach, I'm unable to find him and I don't do a reality check.

Time skip again and I'm in my local Target, walking around in cosplay. I see my friend and another person. I walk up to them and the cloak I'm wearing picks up a pen due to this type of "fold" it has on the bottom.

Last skip and I'm back at the house from earlier. Me and two others (a guy and a girl) are watching the water and the small, inflatable boat in front of us. I see a dolphin jump our of the water and it lingers in the air for a bit before falling back in. I ask the two if they saw that and if that's normal. They reply saying that it is and that there's no reason to worry. I see more dolphins (who now look more like mini orcas) jumping out of the water and getting higher in the air (hard to explain the high but, across the harbor there's skyscrapers. The dolphins, from my perspective, look like they are as high as the skyscrapers. In reality, I would say they were jumping about 20-30 feet in the air). I point this out and then this mass of something floats by, seeming like it's a dead baby orca. Me and the others follow it down to the dock at the house, stopping this mass from going down this tunnel that would lead into the actual harbor.

The guy says its a deflated boat, so, I get into the water to secure it to the dock. While in the water, me and the two joke about starting streaming careers, saying that we couldn't be as successful as the guy is. I get out of the water with a bit of help and I see the guy's eyes through his sunglasses.

We get in our boat and sit in it as the sunsets, music playing in the background. I'm still under the impression that this was the playlist from earlier but then the radio says "thanks for listening to London's top pop hits! Next is..." and I wake up.

After a longer dry spell this night was successful and disappointing at the same time. In my dream I was at work and wondering why everything looks a bit dreamlike. The whole atmosphere somehow was very magical! But, instead of becoming lucid I went to the toilet. Sitting there, I did a nose pinch test. It worked but I thought 'okay that's only because I'm sitting!'. So I stood up and did the test again. Now I couldn't breath through my pinched nose. The regular dream continued.

After waking up I made a drum roll and placed the "most stupid lucid dreamer trophy" in front of me. 🏆

Had THE shortest LD last night... but still an LD I guess? I think I was in a dream first, then everything went a solid grey color and I realized I was dreaming... I was excited about it, and just as things started to come into focus I had a false awakening, sort of - I thought my wife was standing beside the bed looking at me, my eyes were closed and I was snoring (which I may have been, I don't know) so I struggled to open my eyes to talk to her to see what she wanted, and managed to wake myself up (was an effort) to find no one there... This was early in the night, and still did a WBTB later and then SSILD but no luck :)

I had a lucid dream last night.

The dream starts with me (presumably) waking up in the backyard of this random house. The feeling I had about the location was that it was on this street that I'm somewhat often on and that the house was in the same clumping of where one of my old friend's house is, though it isn't her house. There's also no real clumping of houses present, but, my memory could be fuzzy. I also think I'm sleeping in a corner (so, up against the house) because there is shade present.

Anyway, I wake up to one of my cats on top of me, having birthed a kitten. I turn away for a second because the whole thing looks gross, but, I turn back around to see a second kitten. I notice something is off (I don't want to describe it because I'd rather spare you peeps from it) and I realize I'm dreaming.

Time/scenery skip (different place in the backyard) and I'm still in the backyard, still lucid. I do a reality check (I have a series I do with 3 in a row, in case one passes as reality) and notice I have 6 fingers on my left hand. My father asks me to water the garden and I try and find a water can, eventually summoning a watering can, though it takes multiple attempts before I do manage to get it. I don't remember if I fill it up with a hose or if I willed the water into existence (I'm feeling like it's the second one), but, I make my way over to the garden and the dream ends. The watering can I summoned was the one we actually have and the garden was bigger since there were no trees on the property in the dream

I would be more detailed with the dream but, it's been two hours since I've woke up, three since it happened (woke up right after it ended, fell back asleep). This is really the first time I could write it down, so, I apologize if it isn't all that detailed compared to my other dreams.

As a side note, I did have a lucid sometime last week, though I think I had lost lucidity during the dream due to dream plot. The two dream locations are three minutes away from each other and both had touched the same street. Two of my other lucid dreams (same night/REM cycle, just a few months ago) were in the same area. Using this, that location may be my biggest dream sign for lucids, as a good amount start from there.

Ha, you may be right! Well, I wouldn't say I know how it works to be honest, but more how it feels... If you know what I mean. Let's see if it works then.

Tonight I manged it for the first time ever to turn sleep paralysis into a lucid dream.

I have sleep paralysis quite often but that's not a problem for me. It's more that I really like and love to explore it.

So, tonight I woke up with the typical bodily sensations and tried hard to just stand up and probably be in a lucid dream. The first attempt failed as I simply fell asleep. Short time later I woke up with SP again and this time, after some minutes of hard work, I finally stood up, did a nose pinch test and was in a lucid dream. VERY excited about it I lost this dream quickly and woke up. Anyway, now I know it's possible and how it works. Can't wait for my upcoming SP 😁

We're playing a game of Minesweeper – not on the computer, though, but in real tunnels, huge abandoned factory buildings and other lost places. We are unsure: does this mean that the mines are also real? Could we die? But we're doing fine so far, nobody has triggered a mine yet...

[Dream sign: I dream of playing computer games "in real life" sometimes. Which is odd, because I don't really play computer games much.]

Thus far, there is no "I" or "them", just "we". We are like a pack, a swarm, a pride, a murder of wild animals, moving like one. Then the youngest of us takes a careless step, we hold our breath – but all that happens is a loud bang and a puff of coloured dust. So this is what

happens when you trigger a mine. We're relieved.

But what the heck are we wearing?! Clothes that look like cheap "miner" Halloween costumes. Thin fabric, awful cut. But it's OK, this is just for the audition.

Audition? Audition for what?! I'm confused. I thought this was just a game, like a sort of LARP combined with minesweeper.

But no, somebody tells me. This is the audition for the new show by RTL. [RTL is a German television network that airs a lot of really campy reality TV stuff.] WHAT?! But... This is not something I want to be part of! I'm in the wrong place. I'm NOT a celebrity, get me out of here!

I'm looking for the exit, but the building is large and dark, we only have one very weak lamp whose light doesn't reach far. The others huddle around it and stare at me, and there's something malignant in their gaze. I'm not part of the pack anymore. Here, the dream ends.

[Dream sign: this falls under "unexpected conflict", which is one of my most frequent dream signs.]

Interesting dream last night (mostly from the beginning of it).

The "dream" starts from the precieved ending of another dream, where I am trying to maintain "lucidity" and trying to stay asleep. This is classic "dream self thinks she's lucid" behavior, but, something I've done with true lucids as well. I'm trying to maintain sleep as I can sort of hear what I thought was outside nosies as I slip into hypnopompia, random images flashing by as well as random thoughts. I'm fighting against these thoughts as I'm trying to form a dream to how I want it to be and, after some fighting against the "hypnopompia", I awake into the dream.

I'm on this balcony/patio mix, sleeping on the wooden floor with only a blanket over me. The room doesn't have any walls but has railings around the perimeter, a glass sliding door connecting the main building to this "L" shaped room. I instantly notice something is off with how I wanted the dream to go as I'm not fully who I want to be, but, a different version of them (it's a genderbent version of this particular character, so, instead of being the amle version, I was the female version). I reach for my phone and see I got a text from one of my group mates, asking what room I'm in. I text back "room 404" though, I have no idea what room I'm in and just make up the number. I hear my group mate - "G" - walking around before texting me back, saying that it's not the correct room. I text back to him the description of the room and I peak out of my blanket, trying to fix my hair to make it seem like nothing is wrong. I see G open the door and walk in, him being a different version of himself too.

I should probably give some context to this as it would probably help. I'm talking about one of my D&D games again and these different "versions" are what are DM just plopped down on us randomly one day. It's also partly the reason why the game ended which is why I keep thinking about the topic. Again, this only adds to the theory that anxiety/constant thinking about a topic spills into dreams. Anyway, back to the dream.

He notices and helps me up, comforting me that it'll all go back to normal eventually. I hug him and he suggests that we should do something to pass the time and I reply that we should go get drinks (something in character for him, not for me). He agrees (though he says he won't drink since he's canonically 20) and we go to two vehicles (a car and a truck) along with two other group mates - "A" and "R" (again, a different version of themselves).

We get to the restaurant (time skip) and my car pulls up to the right of the truck, G being in the passenger seat while I'm also in the passenger seat? (For explanation purposes, I live where the driver's side is on the left. The truck applied these standards but the car I was in had the driver's side on the right. Me and G were in the respective passenger seats in both vehicles). R - who was driving me - says that we have to park somewhere else since the parking spot is too small so we drive to the side of the restaurant and park there, G worrying about me.

We walk into the restaurant and become our normal everyday selves. The waitress gives everyone menus and gives me the kid's menu, in which I hand pack, saying that just because I look 12, I'm actually (my age). She chuckles and hands me the main menu and I go to sit at the circular table in the middle of the room.

The dream pretty much ends there in terms of what might be interesting, but, two kids start running around the restaurant and then this guy with a flute comes in. My friends start talking about politics and ask me to join in, which I don't. One of my friends (the one whose character was "A") gets up and I move over to where he was, sitting besides the friend whose character was G. The dream then ends with everyone laughing as "A" comes back.

The dream was heavily dream seeded, as the topic of the dream is mostly from anxiety. Not only this, but, the room from the start of the dream was somewhat dream seeded from a YouTube video I watched yesterday. The restaurant bit could be a dream seed from a dream I had the other night where this same group of people and me were in a restaurant talking things out and having a good time. The flute guy was also a dream seed as I remember thinking about the flute in a song I was listening to yesterday.

This one was most likely yet another dream in response to the "main character syndrome" video!

I'm living in the world of "Never let me go". [excellent book, haven't watched the movie]

I'm a student at Hailsham. We are told that we are special, we are important – but like everybody else there, I'm a clone. It's my pre-determined fate to donate all my organs, one by one, in the course of my life, until I "complete" aka die. We are indoctrinated to think of this as the utmost level of meaning a life can have. [This is basically straight out of the novel.]

We are going on a hike, as part of our fitness regime. [ever since I started working out, my dreams use any excuse to include fitness, health and sports] We are supposed to be as healthy as possible, for obvious reasons. After a while, our 'carers' tell us to go back to the school to rest, but when we get there, the building is grey and dilapidated. Nobody knows what to think and what could have happened to make it look like that within the timespan of a hike. [schools are a dream sign for me] Before we can decide whether to go in, it suddenly looks just like that famous picture of Auschwitz, taken shortly after its liberation in 1945. [subtlety is not my dreams' strong point]

Now, we are not students anymore. We are prisoners. But have we not been prisoners the whole time? [sudden change in the established world of the dream = dream sign] Once a week, we're 'allowed' to watch movies in the common room that show us the happy, but frail lives of "real people". We are the chosen ones who get the privilege of protecting them. I don't want to die, but I know how selfish that makes me.

Ok here's one I had just before waking up today - A co-worker was over at my house doing some yardwork (for some reason) - I saw him digging something at the edge of the property, didn't find this odd in any way. I was digging at a brick on the walkway to the back door, just a small hole, a few inches/cm deep. Suddenly it changes and I'm digging into a tunnel, about 2 feet square going in maybe 10 feet! I think I'm throwing dirt into this tunnel to fill it and see something move under the dirt a little ways in... Is that a goat? It shakes off the dirt and comes out to me and it's a dog... then a few other lumps shake off dirt and come forward and are a smaller dog and yet another smaller dog... The end :)

I feel like I'm posting my own dreams way too often here – please share your dreams, fellow Oneironauts!

I had two short lucid dream tonight (without doing a RC) where I remembered to watch my environment carefully. I did so and I was quite surprised how detailed everything was. I was in a city with lots of high buildings around me. These buildings looked amazing. All with different colours and thousands of windows. Lots of trees weeping in the wind.

Did a nose pinch test and woke up shortly after it.

Later that night I had another short LD but nothing special happened. I just wondered why I have another one 😅