Here you can read some lucid dreams and descriptions of lucid experiences. Most accounts are from posts at various lucid forums, I've added the posters name next to the account and a link to the forum. To the right are some lucid dream abbreviations that people may use.

The most amazing/profound vistas you have ever experienced topic at the Dream views forum

Serinanth - Ok so heres the deal, I want you guys to recount some of the most amazing vistas you have ever seen and experienced in the dream world.

I remember this one like it were yesterday It was so beautiful, pristine, perfect. A coastal community, the shore consisting of high cliffs, and many protected harbours, the villages had been carved into the rock and some docks were even in caves, no storm could ever make the people of this place worry.

The villages and towns, and the city were all perced above on the high cliffs, the lower villages on the water had acces through tunnels, and starways carved into the rock... In tha main harbor, HUNDREDS of vessels, all of them sleek and beautiful, they cut through the water like ..... like?..... the water itself was so calm, the but ships and boats, they all cut through it like they were flying, many of the vessels had a trimaran design, 3 hulled ships massive sails, no engines... heh who needed them.

It was a warm spring day and many people were just walking around, browsing through the shops and eating icecream. Everyone had on colorful shirts and shorts. The breeze was warm and had the smells of food and flowers. I walked out of a restroom into this scene and became instantly lucid. I was amazed at the richness of the scene and just walked around. I could feel the weight of my body in my tennis shoes, I could feel the breeze blowing my hair, I could feel the warmthness of the sun on my face. This happened almost five years ago, and yet I can still remember all of these details....

evangel - The most beautiful scene/scenes that I've seen have to be flying through iradescent gas clouds and nebulas in outer space. The colors were beyond derscription... (majestic?) -bright oranges, golds, glowing blues, and other metallic colors like bronze, silver, and reds The wonder of seeing colorful spiral galaxies and pulsing stars and being totally serene while flying in such a setting is probably part of what made it so beautiful, too, I suppose.

phantasy - I can't think of a scene, but of a voice. I had a dream I had this lovely blue and white parakeet. I would poke at its breast, it would hop on my finger and I would tell it to read Quranic verses for me. This was during Ramadan, the month of fasting. It had the most beautiful voice for reading Quran. It was a man's very handsome, clear, strong voice. I would become enraptured by it. It gives me goosebumps just thinking about the voice, although I can't recall what it sounded like anymore.

Lucid sky topic at the Ld4all Forum

Trung Of Wu - The sky is soooo beautiful in dreams. That is something I definately suggest you do on your first ld. It's so simple. It does not involve much concentration, perfect for your first non-3-second ld. Just look to the sky. The one that I saw was a pink and blue/navy sky with a strange pattern of clouds that was just so surreal...

mystic - Yes I always try to notice the sky when I'm LDing. Last night I saw a perfect deep-blue sky which was mirrored onto a street. Quite beautifull! Some other wonderful skies I've seen: - A very dark stormy sky with one small gap. In it I saw a very bright white light. I tried to fly through it but it didn't work..

During a HH I suddenly found myself on top of a big hill, watching a sky with thousands of small cushion-like purple clouds. Now thát was truly overwhelming!

Dm7 - The sky is full with electric glowing blue clouds. They are raging, but yet peaceful at the same time. The lightenings dance around through the clouds and the earth. I'm flying and I'm surprised that I don't get hit by one of them yet. I watch it in amazement. So animated and alive. It was soooo beautiful. I can't stress it enough! It's amazing, awesome, groovy, cool, and much more!

Moonhunter - So I had a LD this morning, and after a bit of fooling around, I remembered my priority: to look at the sky. I expected to see some beatiful colors and patterns, so I walked to a window and looked outside. Boy did I get dissapointed. The sky looked exatly like in RL. A normal blue sky, with some boring clouds. Is this normal? I mean, I even expected it to be beautiful, and not a normal boring sky.

Topic: Flying into earth's core at The Fishbowl Dream Forum

suzana - I dreamed I was in charge of an organized outing involving convicts who had made purchases, which they contained in blue plastic bags. The bags spilled during transport in the back of a van, and all the treasures got mixed up together, and I had to sort them all out. They appeared to be cheap tourist's trinkets, but I believed them to be very valuable to their owners -- maybe even valuable to those who might want to steal them.

One bag that I sort contains a pinata and some Mexican pottery. A check my list of convicts' names, and note that the bag must belong to a man named Sanchez. A mean, threatening man questions the futility of my effort and tries to steal some of the objects, but I shoo him away and persevere, sorting out the bags of objects.

Dazzling Details & Sensory Stuff at the Lucidity Institute Forum

Reverie - Yes, it's great to experience the senses in lucid dreams, and marvel at it all while it's happening. I remember one striking lucid dream where I found myself in a little room with an open window... an icy blast of air was blowing in towards Dream-Me, yet I could feel the hot blast of air coming from a room-heater directly behind me.I marvelled at the convincing sensory realism of this event for some time while it happened. Neither the cold nor the heat were correlated with anything happening in my real bedroom.

As for food, I find it problematic as well. I have experienced food-taste in dreams, but it's usually different than what my dream-self is eating! I may go back into my journals and look for references to this sort of thing.

My all-time favorite sensory details in lucid dreams are: the gentle flow of air around me as I am flying, and the accurately shifting visual perspective of trees, buildings, and what have you as seen from above. The latter in particular never ceases to amaze me. As a real-time constant-refresh dream visual, it's truly impressive, and leads me to speculate that visual perspective follows a built-in algorithm in our brains.

Peter - I needed transportation and a little muscle, so I thought of a freight engine (go figure!). Sure enough, I then found myself beside a track with a huge mass of black and yellow steel bearing down on me -- okay, here comes the dazzling sensory part! -- I let the engine roar past me. Its power and wind nearly knocked me over, but I managed to jump and get my right hand around a ladder so I could climb aboard the engine. When I grabbed the ladder its steel was palpably cold and slapped my open palm with all the force I would imagine an engine moving at twenty m.p.h. or so might pack. It was also slightly greasy, and its black paint was thick, with a few chips exposing bare steel. I climbed aboard and, with tears welling in my eyes from the wind, I was able to stagger along the tiny (but convenient) catwalk to the engine’s empty cab.

Trying to find the Lucid Metro by Xandra ~ Xandra who's also setup this site's visual chat space (see links page) also told me about a very similar experiment to the Lucid Crossroads. It is called the Lucid Metro and was an idea created by Ian Wilson. Although the Lucid Metro was an idea and not a visually represented environment, the concept of the place was passed on by Ian to other dreamers in order to meet up in dreams. I'm currently posting Ian, and hopefully he might let me have other accounts of the Lucid Metro, but anyway here's Xandra's account of a near miss.

My first experience in attempting to locate Lucid Metro was rather interesting. I was dreaming that I was on a bus and there were a few people on the bus with me. After a few reality checks (to be certain I was dreaming) I felt the dream become more solid around me; pretty much what always happens as I start to become lucid.

The old man had pulled a piece of paper from the breast pocket of his coat and was looking at it. I felt slight vertigo as Lucidity started to slip. Fighting the urge to awaken, I concentrated on remaining and gave the dream a moment to solidify again. I waited for the rest of the bus and it's occupants to fall into movie grade black and white as is standard in my dreams when red appears. As it did, I looked at the old man carefully. He wasn't reading the red piece of paper, which I saw now was nothing more than a raffle ticket of sorts... but he was looking directly at me.

Apparently he had been for some time. When I caught his eyes, I saw they were clear and very blue. So blue in fact that other than the red, they were the only bright color on the bus. With this realization, I witnessed normal color being restored to the dream... and the images were much sharper than before. Although the man still wore the long brown duster, it was no longer crumpled and dirty, and he no longer looked old.

Lucid Nightmare by Me (Russell) ~ Just like your average dream you sometimes get a nightmare. In fact many people like lucid nightmares so much they actively try to seek them. Nothing can hurt you of course but as my lucid dream shows it certainly doesn't stop you being terrified.

In a normal dream I stood outside a house that was supposed to be my own. My mum was just leaving through the painted green gate (I haven't lived at home for 15 years but thats dreams for yer) and I was outside in my night clothes. The sky was a deep midnight blue with stars and a full moon. I thought "I'm dreaming" and immediately I was in the dream breathing (you don't really have to breathe; your bodies automatic functions take care of that) the night air.

I suddenly became aware that I hadn't got my keys and I was locked out, I called to my mum leaning over the gate but by then she was out of sight, then I heard a growl. My body tensed and a gripping fear swept over my body. The growl came from the bushes behind me it was very loud and I knew whatever it was could out run me, had a hell of alot of teeth and was huge.

Family home lucid by Kristina ~ I took a nap and often I can go lucid during a nap. I had several dreams, woke up a little in between, and on the last one, I made sure to say "I'm dreaming" as I drifted back in. I was in my childhood house, fully lucid!!! My family was there, in their rooms just relaxing and watching TV. I walked through the house by myself, just checking stuff out.

Searching for a dreamguide by Traumgänger ~ Ok this is an LD in which I tried to meet my "dream guide" was 16 year old German pupil. Some people think of dreamguides as higher spirits who can give you advice in your travels but like many lucid dreamers I thought of a dream guide as a representative of my subconscious.

The "normal" dreams starts in a huge building, there is a trade fair with a yoga theme. I look around, there are lots of vendors but I don´t always recognize what they sell. I also see some of my classmates, I don´t feel like talking to them, however some of them remind me of a math test I have to sit the next day the "real life." I look at my watch its 10:37pm. I hurry on cause I need to get enough rest to have full concentration for the next day.

I want to move, but then suddenly the area I can see narrows, like it does when you are very drunk. One of my legs is stiff and I stumble around almost unable to move properly. Fortunately, after perhaps 15 seconds this also stops and I regain control again. This isn't to say it feels like "real life" as everything still seems a bit surreal. I remember what I wanted to do when I got lucid so I call (in my mind) for my dreamguide. I walk down the street quickly and soon find a man standing there. I am a bit frightened, what if the lucid dream turns out to be a nightmare and this man wants to do me harm...? I ask him "Are you my dreamguide?" The man doesn´t respond but smiles in a friendly way and takes me by the hand (which seemed perfectly normal at the time). Now I calm down and I'm happy that I found my guide. My level of clarity has increased and I am now on what lucid dreamers call "high-level-lucidity" that is I'm completely aware of what I want to do and everything around me.

Unfortunately that high level slips and what follows is low level lucidity where I sometimes forget that I am dreaming and forget what I wanted to do this is why some of the questions I ask next are so odd.

After that I lose lucidity almost completely and my DG shows me how to throw fireballs like in the computergame Diablo. I think that he is teaching me how to use my dreaming skills. After a while somehow reach high level lucidity again and suddenly its absolutely clear that I am dreaming again and I know about what I wanted to do. My DG says that I am going to wake up soon. I ask him, "Do you think I could try to do an OBE (out of body experience) in the time that is left?" It´s said that you leave your physical body and I wanted to try it, I ask him only cause I wanted to know how I feel about it in my own subconscious. He answers: "No, don´t try to do any of these two things yet" That doesn´t really make sense since I only asked about one thing, not about two.