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    What A Drag

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    Xanous
    , 12-13-2014 at 06:29 PM (661 Views)
    #388 - DILD/DEILD - 6:46AM

    I am entering a house with a young and mildly attractive woman. She is being flirty but I ignore this. She's talking about how she goes running to negate the bad effects of smoking. I tell her that this is really pointless, but she assures me that 10 miles a day is more than enough. I remain unconvinced but I let it go. She tells me that she wants me to go jogging with her but I tell her that it would look bad if we are seen together.

    I sit on a couch in the living and she sprawls across a love seat adjacent to me. I notice she's removed most of her clothes and I can see she has grown much fatter with stretch marks and varicose veins all over her body. I notice she has a pretty face and think how its too bad the rest of her looks so horrible.

    As I sit I quiet my mind and look around. I can see her family at a dinning table beyond with woman on the love seat. Something looks odd. It's took blurry. I can't make out the faces.
    This is a dream. No. I'm just pretending. This is real life. I continue to stare at the family. They look so odd and motionless. Wait... No this might really be a dream. I worry that the dream will crash if I do anything, but I decide to go ahead and do a nose plug to settle my internal debate. I blow cleaning through. The dream crashes. I knew it!

    I wake up and move a bit but quickly decide to hold still for DEILD. I focus on deeply relaxing my body and body awareness. I realize that I feel like I am being dragged like someone is pulling me by my though it doesn't feel like anyone has a hold of me. As soon as I note this the sensation stops. I focus on feeling it again and it starts back up. It slow at first but quickly accelerates to high speed. I feel G-forces in my stomach and gasp.

    I notice that I am feeling very faint vibrations like tingles in my arms and decide that It's probably safe to move. When I pick up my left arm the dragging stops and I open my dream eyes. It's very sunny in the room and as I get up, I watch my feet move to the floor like I am looking at a foot cam.

    I am in a very tiny version of my bedroom with no door to exit. There is only a night stand and a window. I see the window but think it would be funner to phase through the wall. I haven't done this in a while and I very sloppily try to push my face through. It feels like rubber so I try to claw and tear through. Unfortunately, as I struggle with this I am sucked back to my body in bed.

    I hold still and wait and quickly see a scene form. I am laying in a sunny spot with trees around me. The green leaves look extremely vivid but when I try to move the scene crashes. I decide to focus and wait for another scene but quickly lose lucidity.


    I recall some short and random scenes before waking up. I tell Wurlman about getting lucid. The woman from earlier pulls her pants down and shows me her ass. All those veins. I turn away. Other images that I can't recall.
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    1. NyxCC's Avatar
      Congrats on the ld! Once again interesting sensations. I don't get that many bed related lds, but it would be interesting to be more observant if there are any bodily drifts/drags related to transitions (I do get dream body floating but I guess this is not quite the same).
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    2. Xanous's Avatar
      I was really surprised by the dragging sensation. That was a new one for me.
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    3. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Yeah that dragging sensation was definitely interesting! Right near a DEILD transition, too, which is where those interesting accelerations usually happen.

      Good thinking on the blurry face dream sign. I wonder if I've experienced this in dreams and just never realized it...
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    4. Xanous's Avatar
      Yep cool stuff.

      I seem to have a hard time with faces in a lot of my dreams... lucid ones even. It really doesn't take much for me to put it together. Taking the time to stop and pay attention is the hard part. This is where mindfulness/awareness/meditation in the day really helps me to pay attention to the little detail that get me lucid.
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    5. NyxCC's Avatar
      Do you guys find that DCs faces change a lot, especially if it's people you don't know irl?
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    6. Xanous's Avatar
      I want to say 'yes' but I can't say I really look that hard. Seems like I have noticed this. However, the only face I can recall studying very closely is my own in the mirror. Sometimes its a really huge surprise.
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    7. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Do you guys find that DCs faces change a lot, especially if it's people you don't know irl?
      @NyxCC - Good question, Nyx, I have to think about that a bit! I feel like it's related to how much attention I'm paying to the DC's appearance somewhat. Like, if a particular DC has a particularly striking appearance (not necessarily only attractive, but distinct/ noticeable / attention-grabbing) I feel like they maybe tend to change less readily. Probably because of the extra focus and attention that I'm giving them.
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    8. ~Dreamer~'s Avatar
      Awesome catch with the blurry faces!

      @NyxCC - I've been taking more notice of DCs' appearances lately. I realised that in a lot of my dreams, DCs based on real people have a random appearance, or they sometimes have the appearance of a different person from WL (like Friend A's personality with Friend B's appearance.) The personality is always the stronger factor - I get a "feel" for who they're meant to be and the appearance doesn't seem to matter much. I often don't even notice the difference until I wake up, especially in non-lucids. In LDs, I've definitely had people's appearances change a lot, too. My first dream with Canis (before I'd seen a photo of him) is an example of this. This dream is an example of characters' appearances changing when I do know what they look like in WL.
      Interesting question, I'll continue to look out for this!
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    9. NyxCC's Avatar
      Very interesting! Thanks for sharing your impressions on this guys.

      I'd say during lds family members/close friends mostly stay the same. On some occasions people I know have turned into other people I know based on a trait similarity. The unknown DCs tend to change features more often. Still wondering if there is a system to control this facial switch on demand to either solidify or change their features to match another DC.
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