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    Vehicle Fire

    by , 04-06-2013 at 02:12 PM (932 Views)
    I took a pass at Advanced Task of the Month (turn a lump of coal into a diamond) but was running into all kinds of cognitive and dream control problems. My brain seemed to be a little zonked. This was my first lucid where I'd taken Valerian Root for sleep, so it's something to consider. Still, a nice long dream, even just counting the lucid part! If I'd managed to get lucid earlier I might have even had more time (and avoided that chaotic freeway scene.)

    Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

    Lucid #84: Vehicle Fire

    Everything in the house is breaking at once. The plumbing is leaking all over the place, the dogs have destroyed a bunch of stuff, and I hear some kind of weird crunching noise from outside. To top it off, we're late picking up the kids from something.

    I head outside to find my brother-in-law Muppet swinging around like a monkey on one of the external brick columns that supports our house. Each time he swings around, a couple of bricks fall off of the house and land nearby. Plus, the pillar is actually moving a little bit each time he goes around it. "What the hell are you doing?" I say to him. "You're gonna break our house!" I perform some half-assed reality check and it succeeds.

    "What did you do just now?" asks Muppet.

    "That was a reality check," I explain. "Everything is such a mess that I hoped I was just dreaming."

    "Ah," he says, not especially interested. He points at our roof. Three objects that look like wooden shipping pallets are sticking out of it. "Hey, what are those?" asks Muppet. I grimace, thinking that they must have fallen out of a plane or something and wound up embedded in our roof. Muppet gets distracted, makes some remark about the flowers on the banana plants in our back yard, and then hops away over the top of our house. (Yes, over the top of our two-story house.)

    Wife and I get in the car to go pick up the kids. We drive around the city for a long time but every road seems to be closed. Finally we take a tollway but traffic suddenly gets really heavy. I lightly bump some car as I'm driving around but nobody makes a big deal about it. Looking up ahead, we see the reason for the delay: ahead of us a disabled car is engulfed in flames. Black smoke billows up to the sky.



    "We've gotta get off this road," I tell Wife, and steer the car toward a left exit. Just as I do that, though, a fire engine comes racing toward me, going the wrong way up the exit. I throw the car in reverse to try to get out of the way. I have to bump a lot of cars to clear a path, but I figure that's okay.

    Finally, our car gets totally stuck, so I hop out and start pushing it sideways, kind of lifting it each time. I realize that I'm way too strong and
    become lucid. Wife has vanished, which is probably for the best -- the scene has grown totally chaotic, with cars driving around everywhere bumping into each other and the siren from the fire truck wailing in my ear. I pick up the car over my head and throw it across the road. In mid-air it changes from an SUV into a yellow Volkswagen Beetle. Then it becomes just the front half of a VW Beetle.

    The license plate looks like a bar of soap with words carved into it in cartoony handwriting. I get closer so that I can study it. There are four words, but I only remember "ship" and "check".

    Now I remember Task of the Month -- turn a lump of coal into a diamond. Unfortunately, I start trying to conjure a diamond at first. I'm very aware of my hands for some reason, and even when I put them behind my back I can't seem to make myself buy into the conjuration. I bring my hands back to the front of my body and see that now I'm wearing these black, rather lady-like leather driving gloves. Annoyed, I take them off and pitch them away. I try the conjuration again -- again, more lady-gloves. Then I remember that I wasn't even supposed to be conjuring a diamond in the first place but a lump of coal. I start working on that, wind up with lady-gloves again, and start getting frustrated. A car clips me as it goes by, I start getting agitated, and darkness comes over me, pitching me into the void.

    I feel relaxed, and start probing at my dream body. It's only a few seconds before I find myself standing in my own bedroom, walking toward the door. I say something encouraging to myself like, "Hell yeah, sexy new dream body!" For a moment I contemplate turning around to see whether Wife is in bed and might be down for doing something sexy but I get scared that approaching the bed I'm actually occupying IWL would be destabilizing.

    I head to the top of the stairs. The baby gate's blocking me but I just power through it and it sort of snaps open. I get nearly to the bottom of the stairs when everything stretches way, way out and takes on that stereotypical "endless hallway" look. I keep moving but no matter how far I go everything seems to stay in the same place. Then the entire room suddenly rotates 90 degrees, floor becoming wall, and I slide down the rest of the way to the first floor.

    Our coat closet has been replaced with what looks like a giant iPhone. The screen is displaying a game with a 5x5 array of tiles. When you touch various tiles, you receive prizes in the form of troops for Clash of Clans. I earn 4 Minions and a Hog Rider just pushing tiles at random, but now I'm interested in learning what the rules of the game are. I'm trying to figure this out when
    the dream ends.

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    Updated 04-06-2013 at 04:03 PM by 57387

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    Comments

    1. Xanous's Avatar
      Sounds like a really fun dream! Nice job saving yourself from the void!
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    2. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Thanks, man! It was fun indeed. My brain wasn't really working at fully capacity but that only really interferes with really specific stuff like tasks.

      Yeah, dude, I think we've really improved a ton in our void-handling. I used to be so worried about it but now I think of it as a transition point. There are a ton of possibilities available in there!
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    3. Iokheira's Avatar
      Awesome dream! So the first RC popped you into the "fake lucid" thing? I loved your in-law swinging on the pillar, that was pretty funny The room turning 90 degrees is neat to think about too!
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    4. PennyRoyal's Avatar
      Hahaha, oh man gotta love those in-laws

      Great job handling the void, it seems like you have really got that down pat. I think i'd feel pretty comfortable slipping into the void if I could remember to steal your techniques when the time comes lol.

      I would have liked to try to close my hand around one of the gloves to see if you could turn THAT into coal -> diamond.

      Sounds like a fun one CL
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    5. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Quote Originally Posted by NewArtemis
      Awesome dream! So the first RC popped you into the "fake lucid" thing? I loved your in-law swinging on the pillar, that was pretty funny The room turning 90 degrees is neat to think about too!
      Thanks, Art! My RC terminology sucks sometimes -- I meant that the RC indicated I was not in a dream. I'm 90% sure I tried finger-through-palm, but it may have also just been me doing a dumb dream thing and merely thinking I did an RC when in actual fact I did absolutely nothing. =P We had dinner with Muppet last night but he seemed to be under a little too much stress to appreciate me relating this particular story to him. I'll definitely have to share it with him at some point.

      Yeah, that 90 degree thing was pretty crazy! I think that at some point the visual distortions became so strong that my brain interpreted that as the room doing a hard turn. Gravity and everything else followed suit. It was pretty wild! I was glad to be done with that "endless hallway" bit... it was starting to concern me!
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    6. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Quote Originally Posted by PennyRoyal
      Hahaha, oh man gotta love those in-laws

      Great job handling the void, it seems like you have really got that down pat. I think i'd feel pretty comfortable slipping into the void if I could remember to steal your techniques when the time comes lol.

      I would have liked to try to close my hand around one of the gloves to see if you could turn THAT into coal -> diamond.

      Sounds like a fun one CL
      I appreciate that, man... I'm just a lot less scared of the void now. I've had a long history of getting caught there (as I imagine a lot of LDers do), and it's nice for it to no longer feel like the beginning of the end. It feels more like an intermission, which is a change that I love. Remember this when you find yourself there! I went through dozens and dozens of LDs thinking that I had almost no options, but there's no need for you to make the same mistake that I did!

      What a great idea with the glove!! Or I could have taken it off, then reached inside in order to pull out a lump of coal from it! Great thinking, man. That kind of cleverness and fluidity will get you places in an LD!
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    7. fogelbise's Avatar
      @CL: An oldie but goodie! I don't think I ever saw this one before (you just linked to this DJ entry in my 11/11/14 entry 11/11 and 11/12/14 Awareness DILD, Fade Saved Once - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views ) so maybe it was not a VW in the dream I was thinking of...it was an interesting car of some kind in a more recent dream probably in the last 3 months.

      what looks like a giant iPhone.
      That's where Apple got the idea! haha
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      Updated 11-24-2014 at 06:16 AM by fogelbise
    8. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Thanks! Yeah, I think this must have been the one you found before: Chrome - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

      That one features a blue 50s Chevrolet. That I think is my father, ha ha...

      That's where Apple got the idea! haha
      Ha! Nice! I shall forever be known as the guy who saw the iPhone 6+ coming nearly 2 years before its introduction! Am I good or what?
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    9. fogelbise's Avatar
      Good? Fantastic!! Seriously though!
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