It has been around 4 weeks since my last LD. I sleep much deeper than before now that winter has started, so it is getting harder for me to DILD. I woke up at 7:45 am and felt more awake than any other day at that time, but decided to sleep more before getting ready for work. The alarm woke me up at 9 am after a long LD , so I think I had my REM in less than an hour. I was in the middle of some weird dream about schools and so. I do not know why I always dream of school and people from school although college is a closer memory. Anyway, I was going down some stairs with a school friend to do something that I cannot recall now, and suddenly I realized that this all not real and I am dreaming. I love when I realize it like that without reality checks. I just notice sometimes that things are unrealistic, but that does not happen as often as I would like of course. As the last LD, I was moving fast between rooms trying many things, and when I do that I usually do not remember most of the dream. Maybe I should focus next time on a few things that I can recall later. I recall failing at flying as usual . I also tried to make the things I was carrying fly behind me, but that did not work so well. Then I tried to run fast as a boost, and I got in the sky for a moment then ended up somewhere else on a floor like I teleported but against my will . I tried to summon a celebrity behind a door and that actually worked, and I interacted with him for some time then he disappeared. I tried to summon someone I knew in the past, but I got other DCs instead of him. They were standing in a queue for me to check them , and they all looked the same, but not him, Maybe I did not want it enough. I was just messing around. For the first time, I shouted my requests in the dream. I think I read that here in the forum. I shouted that I wanted to stay more, when the dream seemed to fade, and it worked . I also shouted some things I wanted. Some worked, and some did not. I remember telling a dream character that we are in a dream, and he was shocked and his reaction was loud so others overheard, and they were in shock too. I left them and moved on though. It was the first time I tell DCs the harsh truth that they only live in my mind. There is one thing that bugs me. When I have a long LD, and I try to remember later the decisions I made there, I can see that my memory of my real life there is good, and I usually try things that I read about or thought about when I am awake, but I do not recall my thought process, so sometimes I do not know why I did some of the things I did. Like now I do not remember why I chose this celebrity and not another. It was <PERSON> by the way . He guest stars in some show I am watching currently and I just saw him the night before, so maybe that is why, but the thing is I do not remember how I reached that decision in the dream.
Place withheld · 2016-01-03 · from the DREAMVIEWS archive
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