non-lucid lucid Forest of Denn notes I started a new job this week where I have to drive 6 hours on monday morning, spend the week working out of a courthouse and sleeping at a deer lease, then drive back on friday afternoon. As a result, I didn't get enough sleep or have time to dream log, but I finally had a few lucids last night and was able to work on my skillz a bit. I pulled into my Grandmother's 2 car garage in my car. It has 2 separate doors, and I pulled into the right door and then parked over on the left side (lol). Thought that was funny. We had a conversation that I don't remember much about, then I headed out in my car again. As I was driving near some water- kind of like a Venetian canal- my car started to go airborne and I began to lose control. This is something that happens in my dreams often. For some reason, my car gets in the air and heads toward water, and I find myself unable to keep it from slowly floating down into the water. As the car hit the water, I was suddenly outside the car watching it sink. I began to panic and thought 'surely that didn't really just happen!' ... then.. 'Oh, it's a dream!' I did a RC (levitated some nearby object, don't remember what) as I sunk down into the water myself, and it worked After looking around underwater (and not seeing much that interested me), I levitated myself up and out of the water. I stopped, pulled some eye drops out of my pocket, and put them in. As things began to clear up, I collected myself to stabilize the dream, reminded myself a few times that I was dreaming, and then started walking alongside the canal. I decided to try superspeed, one of my dream goals. At first, it was the same ol', same ol. No luck. Then I stopped trying to 'move' fast, and started focusing on the landscape that passed by as I walked. I tried to imagine what it would look like if I were moving fast, and it worked! I didn't go as fast as I'd like to, so it's still a work in progress, but I definitely gained a significant amount of speed. Next time, I'll focus on the world moving past me in a blur, and I think I should be able to keep gaining speed. After awhile, I slowed down and noticed a DC walking at my side. We were entering a downtown-type area with tall skyscrapers, so I decided to try making us giants. Nothing happened at first, but when I tried to make us bigger while simultaneously trying to shrink the buildings, we quickly outsized the architecture. When this happened, I was suddenly aware of flying creatures filling the air. Some looked like birds, some gryphons, and others appeared to be pterodactyls, varying in size and zooming all around us. Without thinking, I extended my arm and threw my hand at one of the creatures. To my surprise, a small fireball flew from hand! This is a power I have never even attempted (nor thought to attempt) before. I started throwing out fireballs left and right, some hitting the flying monsters and others striking the surrounding buildings. I thought to myself 'these should be burning the things they hit' .. and suddenly they were. I wanted to make a bigger fireball, so I tried using both hands in tandem to toss one.. and it was twice as big. I continued throwing fireballs around until almost everything around me was on fire, and there were smoldering carcasses littering the ground. I was laughing hysterically (and maniacally) as my dream faded. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The next thing I remember, I was in the hallway of a large school building, much like one of the halls at the university I attended. I entered a classroom that had many clocks, both on the walls and sitting on shelves. I suddenly made one fly across the room and smash into the wall... and then I thought 'how did I do that? I'm not lucid dreaming!' .. and then I realized that I was I turned to my friend Andy (who was in the room) and exclaimed 'hey, I'm lucid dreaming! Check out what I can do!' I continued flinging the clocks around with my mind, then we went into the hallway (which now had extremely high ceilings and resembled the same skyscraper scene from my earlier dream except indoors) and I bent the end of the hallway vertically up into the air (like the scene in inception. I did something similar in a previous LD and had told my friend about it. This time, I did it exactly like the movie). We entered another room and his sister was there. I started telling her that I was lucid dreaming and then I asked Andy if he was lucid. He said 'yes,' so I started explaining excitedly to Emily (his sis) that we were having a shared dream! (I don't really think this was a shared dream, but I told her so anyway). As I got into the shared dreaming discussion, I lost lucidity. We went back into the hallway (which now looked more like a normal hallway again), and I began looking for my guitar, but couldn't find it. I walked past a pool table and started chatting with a friend who was playing. I noticed a dude with a crazy looking knife.. like a butcher knife but it was blood red with black zebra-type stripes all over it. There was a grove of trees near the pool table, and a large bird sitting there. The guy said something like 'Is that the great mother? Should I kill her?" He sliced the bird's neck open with his knife and drank some of the blood (yes, it was disturbing), then stood there with a wicked grin on his face, lips bright red from the blood. I decided to move away from this guy, and I continued looking for my guitar... I saw my friend Leigh, and she had my guitar! She gave it to me and told me 'Good luck tonite! Do good so my sis won't have to spend her money on someone else!' As I walked away from her down the hall, I remembered that I had recently been having a lucid dream.. and became lucid again I stood for a second, rubbing my hands together and stabilizing, then I decided to try to shapeshift. I looked at a nearby mirror and saw myself. I appeared normal. I tried to change into.. anything. Nothing happened until I tried to change my skin tone.. I suddenly had dark black skin, and then my face changed! I didn't look like any person I knew, but I definitely looked different. As I did this, the mirror reminded me to find the Forest of Denn! I began walking the hallways, loudly proclaiming that I wanted to find the Forest of Denn. I started asking DCs if they knew where it was. Finally, I got a bright idea.. 'I should check the library!' I rounded the corner and entered a library, loudly asking 'Where is the librarian?' 'Over here,' came a voice from the other side of a bookshelf. I turned the corner and she was there. Dark black hair, pale skin, and glasses. 'Do you know how I can find the Forest of Denn?' I asked. 'Right over there,' she replied, and pointed. I headed in that direction, and everything started to turn green. There were desks and bookshelves, but they were all like shrubbery, covered in verdant green leaves. I saw a father and his son. The son was hooked in to what appeared to be some type of Virtual Reality Equipment, and they both saw me and said 'Hey, use this!' Immediately, the VR equipment disappeared, and a green forest began to emerge in front of me, like the tide rolling out to reveal a landscape that had been hidden before. I found myself in a very lush clearing with trees all around. There was a small cottage with a smoking chimney, and all kinds of wildlife- strange looking creatures, graceful but odd, like cougars with horns and brightly colored tigers (like purple and green). I remembered that I was supposed to find a free standing mirror, so I walked to the other side of the cottage and there was one there. When I looked into it, I saw my familiar face (with a light scruffy beard, which is not unusual for me), but I was wearing a white cloth with a blue braided cord encircling my head, and a loose fitting white robe hanging loosely over my body- the kind of garb you might see in the deserts of the Middle East. I didn't think this fit the scene very well, so I changed it to a straw cowboy hat with a folded up brim and a long feather sticking out of the band, which was the same blue braided cord. I gave myself a white linen long-sleeve shirt- loose fitting and not much different from the fabric of my previous outfit- and brown leather pants. I remained barefoot. I'm not sure why I changed into this particular getup, I just wanted something that seemed less out of place in a forest, and this is what came out. I didn't look down at my actual body to see if resembled the reflection, but this was close enough to 'shapeshifting' (which I had been attempting earlier in the dream) to excite me. Too much so, I guess, because I woke up!
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