Crossposted to my dream journal.
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An advanced task attempt...not sure whether it counts or not...I tried to do better but it wasn't working in that dream.
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I saw a series of strange animals go by: a mother and baby that looked sort of like giant kiwi birds; something that looked vaguely like a wild turkey; and some other strange animal. I wondered if they were a dream sign. Then more people got into the car I was in, and I didn't recognize any of them. Strange animals AND strangers in a car with me? Now THAT was probably a dream sign, I figured. I decided to do a quick reality check by seeing if I could put my hand through the car window. I could, cofirming I was dreaming. So out the window I went, and I flew off, looking for a sleigh to steal.
I could hardly even find snow, never mind Santa and a sleigh. But then I went inside this house, where there was a small, red-painted wooden sleigh next to a Christmas tree that appeared to be a toy, but there was a full-size, live Santa Claus next to it. I figured I'd try hijacking this, by sneaking into the wooden sleigh and off with it while Santa wasn't looking. So I climbed into the sleigh...somehow I could barely sit in it despite its size...and Santa caught me. Uh-oh. I was trying to think of something to say, and ultimately said, "I'm just taking it for a joyride. I'll bring it back." He let me go.
So off I went, looking around for reindeer to fly it. Carrying the sleigh, I eventually came across a statue of a mother and baby of some large deer species - I thought they might actually be moose, but they'll do, I thought. (In fact, they may well have been reindeer because the mother had antlers, and IRL reindeer/caribou are the only deer in which females have antlers.) I brought the mother deer statue to life, and summoned/threw some white ropes at her to attach her to my sleigh as she started running and taking off. Eventually she did fly the sleigh, which was a really fun sensation for me flying in this tiny sleigh from the end of a long rope, but then she stumbled and crashed. I found another statue deer/moose like her, and had the both of them fly my stolen sleigh. As a pair, they also stumbled and crashed again after a brief flight. Either they recommended or I thought myself to try to find a real sleigh to steal, preferably in-flight, and a real set of reindeer that would work better than these defective wooden things (and be a more unambiguous completion of the Advanced Task). So off I went, on my own. I never did return that little sleigh to the Santa in the house.
Sometime during my searches I started to lose my dream scenes, so I said "clarity" and started looking at the fine structures of dream objects, and got my dream scene clarity back. I tried to find the North Pole for a while, hoping a full-size sleigh would be there, but it wasn't happening. So one time, while in a building, I thought I'd try closing my eyes and changing the dream scene. I tried closing my eyes, but I could still see, just as one can often still breathe in a dream where their nose is plugged or they're underwater. Then I tried covering my eyes with my hands. This blacked everything out, but the dream scenery had a hard time coming back, and when it finally did...no North Pole.
I kept looking for a little longer, especially in snowy places I chanced upon and in the sky. I never found the full sized sleigh. And I eventually went into a short non-lucid sequence before waking up. I'd have to leave it up to Ninja's discretion to decide whether I actually completed this task or I'd need to steal a full sized sleigh with Santa in it instead of that little wooden one being guarded by Santa. Even if this counts, I might go after a full-sized sleigh anyway, preferably summoning it instead of searching for it so as to advance my dream powers.
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