Thread: Twoshadows' Dream Journal

Most of my dreams have faded away by now since I didn't think about them as I first got up.

But....

I remember being at a store...an old fashoned kind of store (wild west???) And I was buying cookies. I saw Brent C there too. (?)

So very exciting, I know.

I just remember that it was a hiking/camping dream. The people I was with were wearing old fashioned clothing--like Wild West/Pioneer style.

And that's about it.

Nap Dreams:

I was at a swimming pool and there was a vending maching outside that sold ice cream bars (this obviously is a memory of my childhood when we used to go to the UCLA pool all the time in the summers and buy ice cream bars out of the vending machings.).

I went to buy an ice cream bar but they were coming out by themselves without me having put any money in. Part of me thought "Cool...free ice cream bars!". But the other part thought, "I'm going to have to tell someone so I can find out who I need to pay. So through out this whole part of the dream I was going back and forth trying to decide if I was just going to eat the ice cream bars...or try to find out who to pay.

I later walked away from the pool. I had that "half kayak" from that power nap dream a couple of days ago. But in this dream it floated about 2 feet above the water. (I had learned my lesson last time--I no longer wanted my feet to dangle in the water.)

There was a pond outside the pool and I was on a campus like UCLA. I started floating across the water and enjoying everyone being impressed about my "floating half kayak". I then looked over and saw a girl that was walking on water. I knew that wasn't normal. I knew I needed to find her and talk with her. I started floating faster so I could catch up. But as I tried to go faster, my feet started dragging in the water and slowed me down.

When I finally got to the other side fo the pond, the girl was quite a ways in front of me. And unfortunately a bell rang, so all the classes let out and she was lost in a crowd of people. But I hurried after her in the direction she was going. Finally all the people were going in classes and she was nowhere to be seen. I started peeking in the classrooms to see if I could see her. I knew she was wearing beige pants and had long light brown hair. I was sure could pick her out if I just found the right classroom.

But then I was awakened from my nap, so I never did find her....or decide if I would try to pay for the ice cream bars.

Bu then I dozed off for a few more seconds and had one of those micro dreams:

I was driving down the road and saw some road kill ahead. Now I'm used to seeing dead things at the side of the road--lots of jack rabbits and cottontails and even quite a few deer. But as I got closer I could see that this was something BIG. What a total surprise when I saw that it was a dead giraffe laying at the side of the road. The shock of seeing it snapped me right awake.

I had softball dreams last night.

This is no surprise since last night we had a double header and played until after 11:00 last night. (So far our team has won every game .) And I went to bed again with softball on my mind. Pic below:

I had a jumble of hiking dreams last night. Seems like there were lots of people I knew with me. But I remember no details.

[size=18]Another Lucid Dream!

I was in a store (like a gift shop) with some other people. One of them was Jeff and there were at least two other friends there. I was looking at something and suddenly noticed that a couple of my teeth were loose (bottom left canine and bicuspid). There were barely attached with partial roots--like you see on a kid who is about to pull a tooth out.

I tried to close my teeth, but the loose ones tipped sideways and threaten to snap the root. As usual, I thought, "Nooo....I can't believe this is happening!" I started to question my state (this is a commom dream sign), but I still ran over to the others and I said "I have to find Peter (a friend and dentist)--my teeth are loose!"

Jeff looked me then opened his mouth and said, "Like this?" He showed me that several of his teeth were loose and about to come out.

Well, that triggered it. It would have been too huge of a coincidence for both of us to have this problem. And I suddenly remembered that this is what always happens in my dreams.

So I said to Jeff, "Yes! This is a Lucid Dream -- and you are in it!"

I remembered that he told me that he has only flown in his dreams once that he ever remembered.

So I said, "Jeff, you've got to come with me. Let's fly."

I took his hand and we walked out of the shop to the bacony. We were on the second floor. Once out on the balcony, I took off with Jeff beside me. It was incredible. I felt the wind in my face and I was so happy.

But then I could feel the dream fading. I was losing it. Next thing I knew I was waking up in bed. But as I sat up, something felt wrong. I reached back up in my mouth and felt that the same teeth were still loose. I realized I was still in the dream.

I stood up on the bed and fell over into a float, and then proceeded to float towards the front door of the house (I was home).

I remembered that I had wanted to pay close attention to detail in my next LD's. So as I went to the door, I was noticing the switches on the walls by and above the door. There were many. I said to myself that I wanted to compare what I remembered in the dream to what is there in real life [In retrospect, I see that there was really no comparison as there are no switches on the wall above and by the door there. But in the dream I thought I was being really clever to do this experiment.]

I then went out the front door and started taking off flying. I remember noticing how green the bushes and grass were. I had remembered people saying that colors were more vivid in dreams and I had wanted to see if this was true. I hadn't noticed it in previous dreams. Maybe it was the power of suggestion, but the greens really stood out to me and being extra bright and there were so many different shades and hues.

Then as I looked down I noticed Tanya walking. I called down to her and she saw me. I shouted, "Hey, look-- I'm having an LD! Wanna fly with me?"

I don't remember if she said anything or not, but I knew she wanted to try, but was unsure if she could. I remember saying, "Just belive and you can do it." [Obviously I wasn't 100% aware in this LD or I would have realized that it was my believing, not hers, that would help her fly.]

So as I swooped down to grap her hand, I thought--one of two things will happen, either she will jerk me down, or she will come up with me.

I reached for her hand and she flew up beside me gliding effortlessly at my side. That made me feel really glad.

At this point I really was watching my flying style [I had remembered the recent thread about flying styles]. We were both flying superman style with our arms stretched out in front. Then I realized we were losing altitude and I had to start doing the "breast stroke" flying style for a minute to get higher in the sky.

I remembered that I had been wanting to fly over Lake Powell when I had my next LD. I thought it would be so cool to stand on the cliffs above and fly across over the water to the cliffs on the other side. I also really wanted to explore the Lake more. So I took off in that direction. We finished flying over town and --blam--there the lake suddenly was before us. My mind had wasted no time in getting us there.

At this point I was no longer aware of Tanya being beside me. I started flying over it like I had wanted to. I landed on a cliff and let myself "fall" over the edge until I caught myself and flew back across to the other side. It was incredibly exhilerating.

I flew up lake. But unlike the real lake, this wasn't nearly as big, and it narrowed down into a canyon. I continued to fly from side to side until I got to the end.

I turned around and started to fly down lake. This time I let my feet drag in the water, and I enjoyed the very real sensation of getting wet.

Then things got a little odd. I was suddenly with a bunch of family and friends. I started having trouble flying. And I was losing lucidity. I remember seeing my dog. He was running around without a leash and I was worried he would get lost or in trouble. Then there were these interesting stuffed animals on the ground in front of me. They were squirrels and chipmonks, and they were able to move and could jump in a very realistic way. I decided I was going to buy one. By this time I wasn't lucid. And I'm not even sure where I was. I met a guy I hadn't seen since high school, and we talked.

And that's all I remember. When I woke up a little while later, I remembered that I had had a Lucid Dream but for a moment I couldn't remember what it was. But then something triggered the memory and it all flooded back to me.


Comments:

I remembered several goals in this LD.

1. I recognized the "loose tooth" dream sign.

2. I remembered to look for detail.

3. I remembered to notice the colors.

4. I remembered to pay attention to flying style.

5. I remembered I was supposed to go to Lake Powell in my next LD. And was able to get us there instantly without wasting precious time.

6. There were people in my LD. In my fist five LDs I was all alone. I had tried to make people appear, but couldn't. I'm not sure if the fact my last two LDs had people in it is a sign that I am getting better...or if it is by chance. But whatever it was, I feel it added a lot more to the dreams not to be alone.

Vampire dreams.....all night long.

I was running and hiding...finally got caught. The evil head vampire grabbed me by the head and I had this horrible shooting pain in the back of my head above the neck (not the first time I've felt that kind of pain in a dream).

Finally he told me if I didn't cut off my arm, he would torture and kill all my friends and family. I tried to cut off my arm. I really did. But all I had was a small serrated knife. I couldn't get through the bone. And it was so painful....and horrible.

Like a nightmare.

I had some hiking dreams...no details that I remember.

I also had a dream that I was in a gift shop as Disneyland. I was going to buy some pins to bring back and give to friends and family. I also remember seeing the coolest "Nighmare before Christmas" music box. It was very large and detailed and had great sound. I wanted to buy it, but I knew it was going to cost hundreds of dollars.

I will be away for the next 5 days on a hiking/camping trip.

I hope to have many good dreams while I am gone.

I'm back.

I had a Lucid Dream</span>while I was gone.

It wasn&#39;t particularly long, but it was an LD, nonetheless.

I was in the backyard of my old house and Philip was there, and he had these magic powers. One of the things he could do was to make things float. I remember I was on this bucket lid-- or something of that shape and size, and there was a rope attached and Philip was pulling me around the yard and I was floating behind him.

At some point I said to myself, "This is really odd. How can this be happening?" And at that moment I realized that I was dreaming.

<span style="color:blue">I then said to Philip "Hey, I&#39;m dreaming&#33; Let&#39;s fly&#33;"

And we took off up into the air and started flying straight up--super high. But then I realized that I was losing the dream. I could feel myself wake up. I was aware enough to know that I had just had a false awakening, but I lost lucidity at that point and went on to other now forgotten dreams.

I also had two interesting dreams last night.

In the first one I was by the ocean. I decided that I wanted to get in the water. I got in and started to float. The thought came to me that the last time I was in the water (in a dream) I was scared to death of a shark attacking me. I told myself that this time I wouldn&#39;t let my fear get in the way of my enjoying the ocean.

After a few minutes of floating there I suddenly saw some movement beside me. I told myself again to not be afraid, and looked to see what it was.

There in the water just three feet away was the tip of a grey whale nose.




At first I felt frightened that something so big was right under me. Then I remembered that this is what I had always wanted to do. I have loved going whale watching in my life but have never gotten close enough to any of the whales to touch them like you sometimes see in pictures.



Then it moved over closer to me and I realized that it wanted me to pat it. I reached my hand out and could feel the texture of its skin. It was very rough from all the little barnicles attached to it. I tried to rub its skin around the barnicles, and I knew it liked it. After a few minutes it sank back down inthe water.

Before I had a chance to be sad that it had left, I felt something to my right. I looked over and saw that a large Bottle-nosed dolphin was beside me. I reached out and felt the quite smooth texture of its head. I put both of my arms around it and pulled it toward my face and rubbed my cheek and lips on its head.

More dolphins came swimming toward me. Some were Bottle-nose and some were Pacific White-sided dolphins. I remember thinking, "Wow, this is better than flying in my dreams." By thinking that I know I was on the verge of becoming lucid...but it never went anywhere from there. But it was a really cool and very vivid dream. I actually feel like I have had a chance to swim with whales and dolphins.




The second dream was odd. The part that I remember comes after a long odd part where I was living in the desert in this thing that was sometimes an adobe building, and sometimes a cave.

I remember leaving the building/cave and riding along (I think I was on a horse). I had some vegetables with me that I was carrying. Suddenly I remember dropping the vegetables. Everything was in slow motion, and I was now seeing this from third person. I saw some brussel sprouts slowly hitiing the ground and myself falling....and then everything went dark.

Then I have these blurred recollections of several greenish people standing above me reaching toward me. Then I blacked out again. I then remember looking up and seeing a green light and seeing a spaceship hovering about thirty feet above where I was laying.

And then I was awakened.

I had a ton of hiking dreams last night. I don't remember any specific details--only that the first dreams of the night had this theme.

Ha ha ha--okay, here is a funny one--and if this dream didn't trigger lucidity, then nothing would.

I had a dream that there was this major league baseball team that had one of its players get sick or injured at the last minute and they needed another player, fast. So somehow I was chosen to fill the spot.

Of course I started worrying and thinking things like, "What if I'm not good enough? What if the other team members resent me for not having to try out and that I'm a 'nobody'? What if they don't like the fact that I'm a girl? Oh, why haven't I practiced more???"

Next thing I know I'm in a fancy shop in Hollywood. Its a place where only the rich and famous shop. I was taken in a dressing room and had to try on these tight brown pants that I would wear while I played. I was sure I'd look terrible in them, but when I looked in the mirror I looked great. In fact, my hair and make-up were perfect, as if I had just gotten a professional makeover.

Then I remember I was on a baseball field with one of the other players from the team. No one else was around. I think we were getting ready to practice. He was being really nice to me, and were were talking about the view and comparing it to the views from our own houses.

I'm just glad that I woke up before we actually played a game and I had to endure though a most likely humiliating experience. Or maybe my mind would have made me a star player, who knows. The fact that I had this dream at all shows that my brain is living in a fantasy world. LOL...

More hiking dreams.

I had a particularly long one. I was with a large group of people and we were hiking along this difficult trail. It was more like an obsticle course, but very long...many many miles.

The one part I remember best was where we had to rappel into a canyon. There were ropes hanging down in the canyon, but we didn't get to use harnesses and hook up to the ropes. Instead we just had to hold tightly to the ropes. Lots of people were having trouble. And I was a little worried, but when it was my turn I grabbed onto the roped and kicked off backwards and slid down the rope, then kicked off again from the canyon wall about a third of the way down. I kicked off once more before making it down the the bottom.. I was amazed at how easy it had been. Very exhilerating.




The other dream I remember was that my good friend George was coming to visit me. Although we email alot we haven't seen each other for a very long time. He didn't have much time, so he was going to spend two days driving over and then spending the evening and night, then driving back (seems like we could have planned that better).

It was good to see him again. But things were odd and I couldn't figure out exactly where we were......(some resort town??). Anyway, we listened to music together and talked. It seems like there was more, but I can't remember. Then we went to sleep. And then he had to leave. The visit was way too short.

I had a good Lucid Dream </span>last night.

Before I went to bed I had remembered that I had still not read the Lucid Tasks for July. I went to bed with this on my mind.

It started as a very long normal dream. But I can only backtrack it to a point where I was standing in line in a building with a bunch of other people. I knew some of the people there: Jeff, Jeremy H and Marie.

I looked over the rail beside us and saw a huge pool of water (like at Sea World). Marie had her feet dangling in the water, and Jeff was leaning toward the water. I suddenly saw something snake-like coming through the water at us. I realized it was a sea snake. I remembered that they are one of the most venomous snakes on earth. It started swimming around Marie&#39;s legs. Then over to Jeff who was holding his hand out to it. It stuck its head out of the water and "sniffed" Jeff&#39;s hand. I was waiting for it to bite him at any second. But to my relief it then swam away without harming anyone.

I then realized that we were alone and that we had lost our group. We started to run ahead. And I started doing cool things like jumping down whole staircases in one jump. Or jumping over obsticles that are in my way...and staying up in the air a very long time. It was a very satisfying feeling.

I finally ran out the door to the outside. Everything was beautiful. It had been raining and the sky was still overcast except for a strip around the horizon. The sun was shining through that gap and everything was glowing a golden yellow (like it does in real life under these circumstances).

I thought it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I saw that I was at Disneyland, and I could see the Matterhorn not too far away also glowing in the golden sunlight.

<span style="color:#3333FF">I&#39;m not sure what triggered lucidity, but the next thing I knew, I was lucid and flying toward the Matterhorn. It felt so good to be flying. But suddenly I could feel the dream slipping away. I felt myself wake up. But instead of finding myself in bed like most of my False Awakenings I was just back on the ground.

I saw a house and flew up by its roof. I remembered that I had wanted to do one of the Lucid Tasks. But I hadn&#39;t read July&#39;s Task yet. So I fingured the next best thing was to try to do some old tasks. I looked at the house next to me and wondered how hard it would be to destroy it with my bare hands. I had never tried anything like that before. I pulled back my fist and gave it a hard punch. Nothing happened except for giving me sore knuckles. I focused my mind and picutred making a huge hole with the next punch. I punched again. And again. But I was unable to do any damage (except to my knuckles). I didn&#39;t worry too much. I figured destroying things wasn&#39;t one of my strengths.

I then thought of catching a butterfly. I wondered how hard that would be. I started floating out from the house and looked around. As I was flying I felt something tickle my nose and I looked and saw two butterflies....one large one and a smaller one. The smaller one had beautiful wings--the upper parts were orange and the lower parts black. I slowly reached out my hands and cupped them around the little butterfly. I could feel its wings brush the insides of my hands. I was surprised how easy that was. I then let the butterfly go.

I then decided to fly very high. I was having problems getting higher than about 30-40 feet. I remember there was a tree beside me that I couldn&#39;t get any higher than. I would suddenly slow to a stop and hover. I then really put my mind to it and got another 10 feet or so higher before stopping again. I wasn&#39;t sure why I was having such trouble.

Then I was back on the ground and I decided to climb this wooden fence so I could get high and then dive off and fly. I climbed and climbed this fence. It went up and up. There didn&#39;t seem to be an end to it. Finally when my leg muscles could take no more, I saw that I was at the top. I looked down to see how high I was. But to my surprise and dismay, I saw that I was about five feet off the ground. That was quite frustrating. At that point I seemed to lose lucidity. I went on to other dreams. One was about being with roommates. One of them liked the same guy that I did. I think he was a garbage collector. Then we were dressing up for this dance. My roommate was putting on blue stockings.

And that&#39;s all I remember.

Goal: Look up July&#39;s Lucid Tasks&#33;&#33;

I dreamed about my little nieces. In real life my older sister moved away shortly after having twin girls. And recently she told us they were moving back closer. After I heard that, I had a dream (which I must not have posted) about seeing the little twins, now age 4, and having one of them run up to me and give me a big hug).

In last night's dream I saw them again and this time I gave the other twin a big hug. As I was holding her I told my sister that this was just like a dream that I had recently had. It felt so real to be there and hugging my niece that I didn't even begin to guess that this was a dream. In fact I was so emotional to be seeing them again I was in tears.

I had another patterns</span> occuring.

First, flying has become so much of a habit that I sometimes do it so naturally I don&#39;t give myself time to "think". interesting experience.) So by not taking the time to "think" I feel that I am not taking advantage of my LD, and that I am not fully lucid or in control, but just go with the flow.

Second, I have been having this problem in many of my past LDs where <span style="colorrange">I lose my dream part way in and have a False Awakening. I need to go back and reread my LDs--but I know that it happens more times than it doesn&#39;t. I&#39;ve been lucky that in several I stay lucid and go on to continue the LD. But in others I lose lucidity at that point. I need to find a way to overcome this.

Dream 1:

I dreamed I was traveling in these tunnels or caves that were half filled with water. This was part of a longer complex dream which I no longer remember.

Dream 2:

The dream I remember well is where I adopted a Sri Lankan baby. She was a girl that was about a year old, and I named her Amaghesa (which was supposedly the name of a Sri Lankan friend I had, but when I woke up, I realized that I didn't know anyone by that name.)

I was so excited about this baby that it made sense that in my dream I was suddenly in Sri Lanka, and ran into my Sri Lankan host sister Thushani (my sweet little nangi) and some of my Sri Lankan friends (from Holy Cross College in Gampaha). They were all the same age as when I last saw them, even though many years have passed.

I showed Thushani the baby, and she said "Did you name her Amaghesa?'"

And I said "Yeah, how did you know?"

And she said "Because you always liked that name while you were here."

Then I saw my "Ammi" (mom) and we hugged. I said "I'm sorry it has taken me so long to come back." Then I showed her the baby. She was really happy for me.

And then I woke up.

This was my first "Sri Lanka" dream for a long time. I used to dream about it all the time.

I'll make it back there one day. I have to.

I haven't been having memorable dreams lately. I suppose this happens to lots of people--but not too often to me.

I do remember a short dream from a couple of nights ago. Supposedly my best friend from high school was getting married. I got mixed up and somehow missed the wedding. But I tried to get to the reception, but again, I seemed to have trouble and missed that too.

Typical stress dream.

I had several dreams last night that I remembered when I woke up, and told myself that I wouldn't forget them.

But I did.

I had lots of dream last night. The only one that is coming back to me at this moment is one where I was driving in this car in this canyon. I looked up and saw a strange helicopter. It looked like one of those fire helicopters that we've been seeing a lot of lately. Except that it was like in two halves, yet flying together.

I found this odd as I looked up at it. Then I noticed the back half was having trouble. It suddenly crashed into the canyon wall above me. The impact caused some rocks and boulders to come crashing down around me. I was trying to look up and judge where the next rock would fall and serve my car accordlingly. This went on for a good quarter mile or so.

But miraculously I was not hit.

I know I had lots of dreams last night, but I just remember fragments.

One was the typical bathroom dream. It really should have triggered lucidity, because I even thought, "This bathroom is a lot like bathrooms from my dreams (duh.) I was at a public place like a big conference center/ auditorium. I had to to to the bathroom. The bathrooms were a big room with all these toilets lines up along the wall with no stalls. I debated whether I should go. But I was worried because of the lack of privacy and decided I could wait.

Another dream was there was going to be some kind of contest and Courtney (from this site) was going to be one of the judges. She was never actually in the dream, just mentioned. But I guess I could say that this was my second dream with a Dream Veiw member in it. That is all the detail I remember from the dream.

I had lots of dreams last night because I got to sleep in this morning.

I remember that I was at some kind of summer camp. I remember seeing by best friend from high school (the one that got married in a recent dream) and talking to her.

There was also a scene similar to the "bathroom" dream I had last night. But in this one I was looking for a shower. I finally found a place where there were showers. Of course it was a place with no privacy. By the showers were like in dorms with people's beds and stuff in one big room.

I also realized I had no towel. But I decided I wanted to shower enough that I would dry off with my shirt. I had taken off my shirt (it was a big t-shirt) and was carrying around my shoulders like a towel while trying to find the right shower. Then I relalized that I couldn't use my shirt for a towel as I had no clean clothes to put on and I would have to put on my current clothes again. This seemed to go on for a while and I was accomplishing nothing. Very frustrating.

Then I remember a scene which was almost lucid. I was outside and saw this group of people floating in from like a "flying hike". I felt jealous that I wasn't with them. I saw a few people that were coming in that were surrounded by white doves and they were laughing and it seemed so magical. I suddenly couldn't stand it any longer. I thought-- I know I can fly too. I do it in my dreams. All I need to do is just think about that feeling of "floating".

Then I stood and held out my arms to the side and let myself fall backward and caught myself in a backfloat. (I love doing it that way). Then while floating on my back I let myself rise up into the sky. I was almost surprised when I was able to do this. But I wasn't sure why.

I don't remember a lot of details at that point.

I know the dream went on and there were many more things going on. Things that I can almost feel and remember, but they slip away before I can put them into thoughts that I can write down.

But here is something really interesting. At the end I could feel myself start to wake up and I was in that half awake/half asleep stage. I remember thinking, "I wonder what time it is?" And a girl's voice beside me said "It's eight. It's 8:00". And in my mind I thought, "Wouldn't that be cool if that were right". So I pried my eyes open and looked over at my clock and it was.....exactly 8:00.

Pretty cool.

No memorable dreams last night. I know I had many. Several times I almost woke up and thought, "I need to remember this"....but I didn't. So it goes.

I will be away for 2 days finally seeing my little twin nieces who I have dreamed about twice recently. Should be wonderful.

Computer problems.

But I hope I&#39;m back for a while.

I&#39;ve had a few interesting dreams while I&#39;ve been away from the board. But I&#39;ve also had many nights with no recall. I&#39;m wondering if not keeping a journal during that time has made my mind lazy in remembering them.

Also... seeing my nieces was a wonderful experience. I actually told them about my two dreams with them. I wasn&#39;t sure how four year olds would react to that, since they didn&#39;t remember me at all. But they were so sweet. After I told them they wanted to give me lots of hugs... and they kept giving hugs for the next couple of days we were together.

Talk about a dream come true&#33;

I think what I said in yesterday&#39;s post is true. After writing in my journal and getting lucid dreaming back on my mind, I had a lucid dream. Plus my night was full of many other dreams that I remember quite well. This was my best night of dream recall in a couple of weeks--about the time I went away and stopped writing in this journal.

My Lucid Dream</span>

It started with me being in a room that I didn&#39;t recognize. Suddenly Jeff walks in with a kitten. [Note: This is the same kitten I saw in real life two days ago. This was an odd thing, so I&#39;ll share it. I was walking in to Safeway and right inside the door was a little Native American boy 4 or 5 years old with a kittten. He was sitting on the floor and swinging this kitten around quite roughly by its front paws. I stopped in alarm and was about to say something. But I didn&#39;t have to because I had walked in the door at the same time as a German couple. They saw the same thing and started scolding the boy in German. Even though he wouldn&#39;t have understood the words, like me he knew they didn&#39;t approve of what he was doing. He stopped swinging the cat and held it to his chest. The German couple and I then slowly walked further into the store, wondering what this boy was doing without parents in a big store with a cat and no one seemed to care. It was really odd and I probably should have done a reality check. ]

Anyway, in the dream Jeff had this same kitten and it was quite injured. He had it wrapped in a bloody blanket. I took a closer look at the cat and saw that it was really cut up. Its abdomen was actually cut open and it looked like someone tried to stitch it up but did a very poor job bacasue it was pulling back open. I realized that the cat couldn&#39;t possibly live. It was too hurt. I was about to tell Jeff what I thought when I looked back to where the kitten was and saw that it was suddenly a baby. A real baby. I was now quite alarmed. We had to get this baby to the emergency room now.

But then I suddenly stopped. I knew the baby had been a kitten a minute ago. How did it change? <span style="color:#3333FF">Could it be that I was in a dream. Yes&#33; I was finally having a lucid dream again after I had not had one for a while. But I still felt this need to take the baby to the hospital. There it was in front of me looking so real and helpless. But I knew that if I was in a dream, then the baby didn&#39;t actually exist. So I pulled myself away and started to float. Yes, that was proof enough that the baby didn&#39;t need me. I floated higher, then suddenly felt myself slipping away. Dang it, I was about to lose my dream.

But I suddenly popped into a different place. I was now in my old house in Los Angeles where I grew up. I flew out the front door. I wanted to really enjoy this experience. I turned on my back and flew feet first, letting the wind blow between my toes. It felt so nice and relaxing, yet exilerating. I turned back so I was flying the normal way. I looked around me the colors were so bright. I could see the details of the houses below. I saw the playground of my old elementary school as I flew over it. I saw some fog ahead I was going into it. I thought, "This would be a perfect opportunity for scenery change. I&#39;ll come out further across the United States so I can go somewhere I have never gone before".

Sure enough, when I came out I was somewhere I didn&#39;t recognize. There was a lake or bay. I could see a road below and I could see the cars driving along below. The flying in this dream was effortless. My arms were out in front, yet I didn&#39;t need then for steering. I felt the wind in my hair. I was going quite fast and high. This was the most realistic flying I remember ever doing in a dream, lucid or not.

But finally I realized I was losing the dream and I woke up for real.