Red=Lucid
Blue= Advanced task
First good lucid in a long time.
Okay, so I was in a house with a bunch of friends, mostly females although I'm not sure if any of them were anyone I actually know anymore, and everyone was naked. I kept calling to my girlfriend to come downstairs and hang out but she wouldn't because she was embarrassed (em-bare-assed) so I went up stairs to tell her that she should either come down because everyone was naked so it was fine or that if she was really embarrassed to just put some pants on and come hang out.
At some point before I went upstairs to talk to her it started raining in the house. At first it struck me that it was raining, then I realized how strange it was that it was raining inside, I almost became lucid at this point; I think I did, but I didn't act on it at first. I think what stopped me was one of the naked girls was also trying to get my girlfriend to come downstairs and she gave me this look like the rain had something to do with why she was trying, so somehow I rationalized that if it wasn't strange to her it must be okay.
Either way, some friends of mine showed up while I was standing on the stairs talking to my girlfriend. Some of them were also naked but some of them were not. We went upstairs and the girls went down I guess, and now no one was naked. We were in a large high cieling'd room with big plate glass windows running along one wall. It was still raining and at this point I became fully lucid because I realized that I could stop the rain. I played with stopping it, then making it rain again, and then tried really hard and made it pour as hard as I could before stopping for good. One of my friend's had this plastic circle made out of smaller circles that reminded me of those little things you could arrange into shapes and then iron together...Like this.
Anyway, I lifted it up off his head with my mind and made it float around the room. It kept changing shapes for some reason. I then got the bright idea to make it rain out of the circle thing which was cool. I wanted to send it flying downstairs to scare/amaze the girls but it lost control when I stopped focusing on it and broke. I made a new one appear in my hand and tossed it over to the friend whom I had taken it from.
I wanted to go downstairs but on my way I was struck with the idea to possess my friend sitting on the couch. I started concentrating on him and could feel a force tugging me towards him, but for some reason the fact that he didn't know what was going on made something similar to a magnetic field that was resisting me and I end up flying in a half orbit around him and landing on the floor on the other side. Another friend of mine though, who I have talked to extensively about lucid dreaming in the waking world, I guess realized what I was trying to do and gave me a sort of nonverbal signal that we should try to switch bodies. We both widened our stance (like cowboys or we were bracing ourselves for something) and concentrated. Again I felt the force pulling me and I could tell that he did too since he was leaning forward. We both lost contact with the ground and flew head first towards each other. I closed my eyes just before we collided, and had the sensation like I we had gone through each other, but when I opened my eyes, sure enough we had traded bodies. The first thing that I noticed was looking up at myself since he's a little shorter than me. We walked up to each other and started a wide eyed examination of ourselves from each other's perspective. My next move was to turn and see the reflection in the big window but I woke up while turning.
Its possible that I had a false awakening at this point, but I still think I was genuinely awake just groggy. As I was trying to fall back asleep, I felt like my hearing was amplified and that I could hear people walking down the street by my window. At one point I had to sit up to see because I also thought I heard someone walking up the stairs to my apartment. I realized that the noises were probably all in my head and tried to WILD back into a dream.
It worked, or so I thought. I stood up out of my bed and proceeded to try to fly towards the door in the dark, only to trip over something, knock something heavy over and almost impale myself on something else sticking up off the floor (my room is extremely messy and hard to navigate in the dark). Well my first thought was, "maybe I should check if I'm actually dreaming before I kill myself." I tried to knock some stuff over with my mind bullets and sure enough I still had superpowers so I was definitely dreaming. Back again. I go for the door and grab my shoes on in the hall before going down the stairs (not my normal stairs but close. I manage to get one shoe untied and on as I'm going down the stairs which is a feat in itself (feet, get it?) but realized as I'm going down that I could just materialize the other shoe onto my foot. I give that a go, but am quickly distracted as I come out the door because I see the moon racing by, playing through several days in a matter of seconds (I think maybe it was doing a moon-sun loop for the first couple times around but I know that eventually it was just the moon) I tried to stop it, and had mild success at slowing it down significantly by miming an effort similar to if I was physically holding it back, but as soon as I would let up, it would speed back up to its normal pace. There's a chance I might have broke it doing that too because on one of the next times around I noticed that there was a big chunk missing out of the bottom and that I could see a giant debris cloud that it was blasting through every time it went around. I tried to stop it a couple more times with no long terms success and so I gave up.
At this point I had the thought that I must be experiencing time at a very quick pace and since I couldn't see anyone around, they were probably moving faster than I could see, and I must appear to be like an extremely slow moving statue to them, up on my porch. I didn't entertain the thought for very long but instead took off flying up the street. I realized that I had successfully materialized a shoe on my right foot, but that I was still holding the original shoe in my hand and the one I had on was slightly too small for me. I tried to take it off and I think the preoccupation with the shoes succeeded in either waking me up or at least throwing me into a FA. While I was either awake or lying in my dream bed I remembered that even though it was almost the end of the month, I wanted to do the advanced task since I hadn't done any of the monthly tasks in a good long while so I focused on the yellow brick road (fawllow fawllow fawllow fawllow follow the yellow brick road) and closed my eyes to go back to sleep.
Now, I've been playing fallout tactics lately and so what I saw when I closed my eyes was a loading screen to dream time, which is what makes me think I wasn't really awake in between.
When the loading bar finished I opened my eyes and saw that I was looking at a reflection of myself in some sort of biohazard suit/ full body armor in a computer console. As I stepped back, I saw that the console was weather proofed for being outside. Then, when I looked beyond it, I realized I was gazing over a post apocalyptic waste land and a broken but recognizable road made of tarnished yellow bricks worked its way through the rubble to my left. I vaguely remember a voice from the console telling me that it needed my help, but I immediately set off walking down the yellow brick road.
As I walked, I decided I must have a weapon strapped to the back of this vaguely power armor like suit so I reached over my shoulder expecting to come in contact with a rifle stock or something, only to find a smallish blocky digital camera. I stuck it to my chest (where I new it would stay) and tried to reach around again but became distracted when the yellow brick road through the wasteland led me to a fully operational outdoor food court with several different types of fast food restaurants being represented. One of the cashiers gave me an expectant look like he hadn't had a customer in awhile, but I thought this was quite the let down and went to continue along the road.
Unfortunately, I realized that the yellow bricks had given way to beige fast food chain tiles a while back and had to go back the way I came to see if I had gotten side tracked somewhere. I couldn't find where the path split off and it appeared that the yellow brick road dead ended at the food court so I decided to follow it in the other direction. I continued past the computer where I had come in to the dream and found that just back behind that the yellow brick road went into a building with double metal doors, so I followed it in.
The yellow brick road inside the building became like those lines they have in hospitals painted on the floors and walls that make it easy to find things, but this one was sort of a mash up between yellow bricks in the floor, yellow cement bricks in the hospital like walls and yellow painted lines, all haphazard and patchwork like the joining of two worlds. I followed the yellow brick hospital line around a couple corners and then started to see if I really had no weapons on this suit of futuristic armor, only to realize that it was becoming more and more like my snow suit and I just had a bunch of junk in the pockets (like normal). I pulled out a little pad that I had some drawings in (they were pretty cool looking now that I think about it) and immediately there were a couple of guys following me looking over my shoulder pestering me about the drawings. I flipped through and showed them a couple; most of them looked like they revolved around the idea of skeletons riding futuristic chopper motorcycles but I think the annoyance of these guys following me finally woke me up.
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