Just Sharing 2 experiences

[RooJ]

LD2
The second big/bigger one I had today and am very pleased with. As I said above by watch it lasted about 1.5 hours but im not sure that's even possible for one dream? (Comments welcome) all I know is it felt like it lasted at least an hour.
*Note the first bit of the dream before the OBE bit seemed to last ages and I've forgot quite a lot of it but the main bits I remember are below.
After getting up at 8 I then went back to bed. I was thinking about OBE's as I fell asleep and almost immediately seemed to enter a dream.

I was stood in a street; it looked like an Italian street or something. It had narrow roads and alleyways and there were many people in them. I knew I was dreaming and actually said to myself "its good to be back". I began showing off to people in the street doing back flips, front flips and weird side flips lol. I also flew quite a bit in the beginning. When asked the Inevitable "How are you doing that?" I told them either they were dreaming or they were just a part of my dream.
Im not sure why but in this dream I kept telling people that a possibility was they were dreaming along with me and we were just meeting in this dream land.
Yet again after being in the same street and at one point on a bridge for ages I then started to get bored of the place. I was shocked again at how long this was going on for and decided that instead of being in a dream I wanted to have an OBE.
I can't remember the transition period but the next thing I know im in my room, I tried to walk through my bedroom door but I couldn't. I decided to see if I was in bed. I got a strangely intense feeling looking at myself in bed (and no. it wasn't sickness ).

I must say at this point that I don't think I was actually having an OBE looking back into it I think it was part of the LD.

I then saw my mom come into the room and shout me, for a moment I wondered whether to re-enter my body but I decided not too. I then proceeded to walk through the wall with no problem. YEY! After going into the neighbour's house and seeing that she was in bed I then came up with a mission to go for a trek to a friends house. I jumped out of a near by window and landed a floor down outside. After walking abit I met my friends mom (the friend who I was trying to get to). She offered me a lift, after being frustrated about my inability to simply appear in my friend's room I accepted.
Half way through the journey I began laughing at how stupid it was. I was sitting in a dream car with a dream seat belt on. I pulled the seat belt back into me so it actually went through me and that kept me amused for a while. I then got out no-where near the place I wanted to be.
I don't remember my journey back to where I wanted to be apart from a few bits. I met up with a friend (peter) from work and we began walking down the road. I looked around me for a while. (And I suggest you do it in your LD's) I just looked at the tree's blowing in the wind, the cars n bus stops and the people walking about me. I said to peter "I must have a good graphics card to run all this". Couldn't and still don't believe how perfect it was.
-=A random act of violence=-
Peter told me he was making his way to college and I told him not to bother, as it's only a dream and to go do something fun but he insisted and in the end I decided it could be fun. As I was walking a guy came running infront of me really fast and for some reason I just kicked him as hard as I could (im not a violent person), The guy hit the floor very hard and a small crater was created around his body as he cracked paving stones going a good half a meter into the floor. He then got up and people ran over to his aid. I told them all not to bother as it was a dream but they began to get violent. At this point peter is still laughing about the guy being kicked. The guy I kicked began shouting in some language I've never heard and I remembered the scene from matrix 2 where neo takes on lots of agent smiths.
2 of them began throwing punches at peter and he blocked them all, Joining in I tried to do the matrix thing but I just wasn't fast enough. (I now have a new found respect for neo, it seriously isn't as easy as it looks )
After the fighting had ended, im proud to say I won, I met a woman and decided to do the pervert thing and started to kiss her but I got a really strange taste in my mouth and the clarity began to subside, I knew I was waking up and the woman just started laughing at me. I decided the dream had gone on long enough anyway and let it happen. I watched everything begin to turn grey until it could almost resemble an un-tuned TV, I then woke.

Sorry it was so long but I was writing it up for my journal and couldn't be bothered shortening it.

Im still way excited about this dream, just the length of it mostly, that and its been nearly a month since the other above. Has anyone else had LD's where it seems to last 1 hour +? I once heard that every dream lasted a maximum of 10 mins but I now know that can't be true.

[TheSeeker]

Awesome experience Rooj.  I did the matrix thing in a dream about a month ago but I wasn't lucid.  These 4 little kids in private school clothes started shooting at my friend and I with revolvers.  They nipped us both in the sides with shots.

I immediately went Matrix mode, I charged from the left, and my friend charged from the right.  I covered the distance in about half a second and dodged 2 bullets on the way, I dodged a shot at point blank range, grabbed the kids wrist, turned the gun, and made her shoot herself and the bullet went through the next kid too.  My friend did the same thing from the other side.

Hope you don't think I'm distrubed for killing little kids in a dream, They were shooting at me after all, hehe.  They reminded me of those 2 little girls from 'The Shining' I believe it was, creepy little kids.

[RooJ]

lol.. no i dont think your disturbed.. dream kids can be very evil .

That reminds me of another experience i had not so long ago though. I had a dream where i was on the top of a huge building. On it was an artificial beach with water n everything. I was part of some organisation that was apparently at war. As i was looking around a group of men ran onto the beach shooting with machine guns. After trying to find my weapon and failing i let the other members of the team take the enemy out. One of the enemy turned on there own men and killed them all.
After it was over i went over to the guy to shake his hand and thank him but as i did about 4 more men ran from a doorway. The friendly guy shouted run so i did.. as i was running i turned around to see what they had done to him and there where 2 of the enemy right behind me. I turned to continue running and i felt myself get shot through the back of the neck.. then the back of the head. I heard the gun shots.. and i lost vision. It was a horrible feeling lying on the floor.. like my life was draining from me. I tried to gain conciousness and stay aware but i lost the battle. Then i woke.

And you say your disturbed lol.

[TheSeeker]

Hehe.  I've been shot in my dreams too, but I've never fallen, I just keep running.

[RooJ]

Just 2 lucid dreams I thought Id share to motivate others to keep practicing .

I've had about 6 lucid dreams all together but my last 2 are definitely my favourite. The others where small dreams where I just get chance to fly and then wake up, another I knew I was dreaming but then went on a trek to prove it to my dream companions. Don't get me wrong I enjoy any lucid dream.. just prefer the longer ones.
All of my others seem to last only a few minutes at the most but the last 2 I had, within a month of each other the latest being this morning, seemed to last ages. For instance I woke today at 8am and decided to go back to sleep, id checked my watch, been to the toilet and got a drink (not outta the toilet) and when going back to sleep I seemed to fall straight into a dream and had the same lucid dream until I woke up 1.5 hours later :S.

LD1.

Affirmations:
I don't use affirmations often because they never really work for me after the first time. This was the first time I used them, they were as follows:
"I will become conscious and aware during sleep", "I will lucid dream tonight" and "I will remember my dreams".

I went to sleep as normal and soon realised I was dreaming, after becoming lucid I looked down, focused and said the word clarity as this has helped in the past. I then realise where I am. I'm outside my house, I looked down to see a bike, I can still remember even now how it was shining in the sun, this was at this point the most realistic scenery I had ever experiences in a dream, the clarity was amazing.

I ended up walking down the street and coming across a table in the middle of the road, it had documents on it which where covered in strange symbols, I began to study them wondering what they mean. It wasn't long before a guy approached and asked why I was looking at them, I replied "because if I don't study them then ill forget them when I wake". I felt paranoid because I knew as soon as you wake you begin to forget.
I met many people I knew in this LD and laughed at most when they tried to make a point, I remember (with help from my notes) saying to a few of them "What you say doesn't matter because your not real, this is just my dream and your in my head". I ended up in a shop where a guy was having a go at me about something, I told him as it's my dream im basically neo from the matrix and I then proceeded to throw him across the shop to prove it.

After the random violence and after walking round for what seemed like a good 20 minutes (with my dream cat following) I began to think about the situation. Id never done this before but id kinda got bored of walking around being lucid. I thought about how I was actually asleep and told dream people that I couldn't believe how long the lucid dream was going on for.
I decided to go to a friend's house but never made it there, on the way images began to get fuzzy and the clarity decreased, I realised I was waking up and couldn't fight it.

I woke and looked over at my bedroom door and noticed the outside light was on, strange as it's normally off by 12:30am and I went to sleep at about 2am. I quickly got a pen and some paper and began writing my dream down and then my sight began to get fuzzy again. I checked the time on my watch and it said 12:00, I then woke properly (I hope ) and was less enthusiastic to get out of my warm bed to get a pen, but forced myself to while I was still half asleep and wrote it down. It felt like the whole dream lasted about 30 mins.
And if you're still with me after all that thanks for reading and feel welcome to comment. Ill write the dream I had today as reply I think.