aerilith

Lucid dream - Monday 10-09-2012 - "Seventeen" - Looking for my bag at a trainstation

it must've lasted for about 5-10 minutes, as I remember being awake and staring at the alarm clock, thinking to myself that I had to get up soon.

Sadly, I wasn't able to remember any of the important questions I wanted to ask DCs, but I did end up with an interesting reply.

Regular = black
Lucid = blue

I was with a few friends, and we were riding the train to get to a city (Århus).
We got off the train, walked up to a cafeteria and got something to eat - afterwards we went towards the exit.
On the way there, we went past some toilets, I figure they all had to go, since they were gone for the remainder of the dream.
I put down my bag, but after a while of waiting I decided to go on and wait near the exit.


After a few minutes of walking, I noticed that I had forgotten my bag - which seemingly surprised me into becoming lucid.
I figured I'd try my hand at summoning - I held out my hands and 'wished' for the bag to appear. A bag came flying into my hands, one very similar to
my old school-bag, but the colors were slightly off. I gave it another shot, but with the same results.
I went towards an open indoor-plaza, where I saw two men searching through luggage - figuring my bag might be amongst them, I started
picking bags up and slinging them around through telekinesis, until I spotted a DC. (Not sure why I didn't consider talking to the luggage-men)
She was an employee at what appeared to be an info-booth, I went up to her and figured I'd talk to her (It's been my goal for long to talk to a DC).

"Excuse me? Miss?" She looked at me.
Suddenly I got the idea of asking her a rather strange question, hoping for an interesting reply.
"What is the name of this dream?"
She replied "Seventeen" - which kind of caught me by surprised...
"Huh..? Seventeen? How can that be true, what kind of system(naming convention) is that?" I was quite confused at her answer. >_<
"Well, you didn't ask me anything personal" She replied in a sort of cheeky voice, hinting that she didn't HAVE to tell me the truth if it wasn't something personal.
I thought to myself, alright then!
"What color are your panties?" Not sure why that was the first 'personal question' that popped into mind, but yea...
She replied "Purple" - needless to say, I didn't actually check...

I turned around, where I spooted two girls, they looked kind of similar but for some reason one of them stood out to me as being really pretty.
I went towards them and as I approached, one of them turned around to leave (It didn't seem related to the fact that I was moving towards them).
I hurried over there and grabbed her arm, turned her around and said "Hi" - she seemed sort of startled, but she replied with a "Hi" nonetheless.
After I turned her around, I couldn't think of anything to say, so I ended up staring at her for a while, then let her go and said
"I'll just go grab my bag, if you're still around when I get back..." - I didn't have time to finish my sentence, as she was already leaving towards the exit.
I turned to the other girl (The really pretty one), who had just been watching curiously and said "I guess I had that coming..." and smiled.
She laughed.

I then went back to the luggagecart, checked through some of the bags and in the back I found one that looked exactly like mine.
I was a bit surprised, since it wasn't the bag I had 'thought of' when I tried summoning it - I looked at it for a while.
At that point, my alarmclock rang.

Funny 'coincidence' - though it might be overthinking it - the whole 'plaza scene' was kind of airport-like, and it just so happens that I was 17 the first time I went to an airport/took a flight somewhere.

I was standing outside my home, and things seemed rather normal, but suddenly a space shuttle-like craft flew across the sky.
This made me realize that I was dreaming - and I did some stabilization techniques.
I walked towards the point in the sky, which the craft had passed by, but it was already gone. When I stopped trying to chase down the craft, the scenery had completely changed, and I found a small cottage. I went in and saw an old man.
I talked to him for a while, though I don't remember much of the conversation. I ended up asking him if he knew anything about my dream guide (since this has been a goal of mine lately).
He pointed me towards a bar/casino-ish establishment, by showing me a picture of their logo - it said "POKER" with each letter enframed by the outline of a card.

I went in the direction of the place, and finally found it. Though to my surprise it looked more like a cave than a house on the inside.
I walked through a corridor and found 4 people within. They seemed to be playing cards - seemed to be texas-hold-em. I greeted them when their game was over, and told them why I was here.
They told me about a doll, which was supposedly buried in the cave - which they figured could be related to my dream guide. I think my level of lucidity was rather low, as I didn't really question it, but rather summoned a shovel in my hands and started digging.
After a while, I did indeed find a doll - but it was made from what seemed like pumpkins and apples.
I digged a little bit further and found a hollow space filled with various types of fruit.

I awoke a few times during the dream, but was able to re-enter it by DEILDing - after this point however, I seemed to be too awake to fall asleep again.
The dream lasted for quite a while due to the re-enterings, and this is just an outline - the lucidity was rather low, but the contents sure were weird :/

Tonight I decided to try out Galantamine and Choline - which resulted in very vivid dreams and remembering more dreams than usual.

One of them, although not lucid, really impressed me. It was an FA and it went like this.
I woke up, looked at my alarm clock and realized it was almost 7 AM. I usually get up at 5:30 and go to work, so I panicked thinking I overslept.
I rushed to the shower, washed and when I stepped out I woke up (for real this time).
I looked at the alarm clock and realized it was only 3 AM.
It was a very short dream, but it was certainly the most vivid FA I have ever had - it seemed to incorporate what I read about Galantamine making you sleepy/drowsy during the day. (Making me think I overslept)


Anyway, on to the lucid!

I found myself standing in a two-room building, it was very small and I noticed I was dreaming, due to my vision being blurry/wavy - almost as if I was underwater.
I knelt down to stabilize by touching the carpet - first I looked at it, and my vision became super clear - it felt like I could see all the tiny details in the fabric. Then I tried touching it, closing my eyes to emphasize the feeling.

I struggled a bit to open my eyes, and I was afraid for a moment that I was waking up.
I succeeded and figured I needed to stabilize a little more.
I looked at my hands, my fingers were sort of squirming around making them seem snake-like.
I rubbed my hands together while looking at them.

The dream now seemed stable, so I went outside.
Outside I saw a bunch of DCs walking in a market-like square, I calmly walked around wanting to interact with one of them.
I finally picked someone to talk to, she was holding what seemed like a bag of bread - I walked up to her and said "Hi, how are you?".
She replied by saying "I'm having lunch!" and shoving me away with her arm - this surprised me a bit, and I woke up.

I stayed still to re-enter the dream, and I found myself back in the small house.
There was a girl with long brown hair, asking me which shirt I would like - a brown or a black.
The shirts had numbers on them, like the ones used at some sport events - turned out that's exactly what they were.
I chose the black one, not knowing that meant I had to take part in a long-distance run (I really dislike running!).

I went out and lined up for the event. When we started, I was lacking behind after a very short time.
I figured I could run faster if I expected to - this was my dream after all.
It took quite an effort at first, I had to really push my legs to move faster and faster, but after a while it seemed natural.
I ended up winning the race, and the excitement woke me up.

I re-entered the same dream a couple of times that night, but they were either very short or I don't remember a lot of detail.
When I finally woke up to get started with my daily routine, I found that the galantamine had not made me any more drowsy than usual - might be the excitement of having a very nice LD

This is the second LD, which I remember from tonight, although it is very short - my fourth LD.

I was being chased down a sidewalk by three cops, they were shooting at me and I realized how strange it all was - I dived behind a wall and did an RC.
Realizing that I was dreaming, I figured they couldn't hurt me, so I tried summoning up two guns - which sort of failed.
I looked down at my hands, and rather than holding a gun in each hand, my hands were transformed into a gun-shape and had weird colorations on them.

I stepped out from behind the wall and fired towards the people chasing me - I completely forgot to stabilize due to the rush of trying to escape.
I fired two bullets, one of the cops was hit in the chest. Sadly, by stepping out from behind my cover, I was an easy target and they shot at me.
I was hit by one of the bullets and it caused me to wake up.

I had a few other LDs that night, but I don't really remember them, so lucidity must've been rather low.

I figured I should get my DJ started now, as I had quite a few LD's last night (5 I think, but I only really remember two of them).

Here is the first one of them - my third LD after joining this site.

I was standing in front of a huge university-like building, it looked very old yet the architecture and the design were very well thought out.
I realized that it looked like something from a game I knew, and did a nose-plug RC, all this resulted in me becoming lucid.

I remembered about dream-stabilization (I forgot doing that in the first two LDs), so I looked around and saw a huge garden, in which I was standing, placed in front of the building.
I looked up at the building and examined it closer, it was sort of U-shaped, with a huge spire in the center. It had a large round window on the spire, which almost made it resemble that of a church.
I knelt down and felt the grass between my fingers, which still looking around at the garden and the sky. I remember being amazed at how real it all seemed - the vividness was so much better than my previous dreams.
After stabilizing, I figured I would try to summon up a DC, since I couldn't see anyone around.

I created a strong intent, that when I turned around a DC would be there. I was really happy when it succeeded, and I found an asian-looking girl behind me.
I asked how old she was, and she told me that she was five years old. I stood rather perplexed, as it was obvious she wasn't five. She was almost as tall as me.
I explained my confusion to her, and asked her how old she really was.
This time she said she was 23, which seemed very likely - she also explained that the previous answer was based on a joke, originally in Chinese but she had tried to transfer it to English.
I didn't really see how something like that would be funny in any language, but I started comparing it to the Japanese I know - which made me lose awareness of the surroundings and ultimately wake up.