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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