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    On the Back of the Sphinx

    by , 01-30-2013 at 04:22 PM (1002 Views)
    After trying and failing so much in the last several weeks, I finally made it to the Great Pyramid! I didn't complete the Task of the Year, but I had one fantastic lucid dream.

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    Lucid #59: On the Back of the Sphinx

    I'm standing by a hedgerow on a suburban street, waiting for the hedges to part and let me in. Through these hedges is the party I'm supposed to attend. The hedges part for me, then close as I move toward them. "No problem," I say, covering up a sting of rejection. "I'll come back when you're ready for me."

    I wander across the street to wait. I wonder whether I'm dreaming. I decide that I'll reality check "in a few minutes".
    (You slacker!) No -- I don't need to reality check. This is a dream! I look at my hands. No distortion, waviness, extra fingers, or discoloration. Still, I'm sure that I'm dreaming.

    The dream feels sharp, vivid, and stable. I feel like I have tons of time and potential. I sprint across the street, leap over the hedgerow, and with a shout I soar into the sky. I'm flying over a rain forest now and my skyrocketing confidence level makes me shout, "L-dopa!!!"
    (Although I was displaying behavior in line with high dopamine levels, I've never taken L-dopa. Don't know what got into me.) After flying over the rain forest for a while, I wind up in a cloud bank and lose my bearings. Afraid of getting stuck here, I turn back toward the neighborhood, content to take a different direction.

    I fly back out of the cloud bank, but a fierce gust of wind kicks up from the other direction and pushes me back toward the clouds. "Okay," I say. "You're taking me to the Pyramid." I relax as I pass back through the cloud bank, emerging over an ocean. I let the wind push me further on and soon I'm flying thousands of feet over a desert dotted with stones. It's dark, and the sand looks as gray as a moonscape. I descend headfirst toward the sand, sure that I'm going to find what I'm looking for.

    It's nighttime when I land. I look to my right, and there's the Pyramid, illuminated by artificial light! I'm no more than twenty feet from it. The sphinx lies directly at the base of the Pyramid. I note that in the physical world she'd be further east toward Cairo, but the inconsistency doesn't bother me. Instead it reminds me even more strongly that this is my world.

    The sphinx's stony skin is white like alabaster and she has Asian characters tattooed along all four legs and in a single stripe along each side of her body. She's far smaller than I'd expected, no more than thirty feet long. Her entire face has crumbled away (not just her nose.) I'm overcome with this urge to help her. Even setting aside Task of the Year, this is now something I badly want to do.

    I press my palms against her face and say, "I'm going to fix you." I feel the stone first roiling then smoothing out against my hands. In a few seconds her face is repaired and her head starts to move. Her face looks mostly feline but there's still a vaguely humanoid quality to it. She licks my hand once and her tongue is the fleshy, rough tongue of a cat. Her head turns vaguely toward my face but her eyes are pupil-less, blank alabaster so I can't tell whether she's looking straight at me.

    I swing my leg across her back and ask her to "Take me to the top of the Pyramid." She gets to her feet and starts walking around to the other side of the Pyramid. Her route takes us through a restaurant and bar where a number of women are dancing to this really amazing piece of world music. The melody is from some sort of brass instrument and it's backed by the mouth harp.
    (I had to google to even figure out what this instrument is called -- here's a good example of the mouth harp in action. I think it was in my memory banks from a video game I played about 15 years ago.)

    As I ride through the dance floor, the music and dancing begin to draw me in. One particularly stunning dancer, an ebony-skinned young woman of about 25, is driving me to distraction. I feel the sphinx slowing down and things start to feel unstable. I try to refocus on the task at hand, but the dream falls apart.
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    Comments

    1. Iokheira's Avatar
      Congrats on the awesome lucid and TotY! My dad has a jaw harp, but he can't do it nearly as well as that guy It must have been sweet to watch the stone rolling back together. Was everything grey and white there or was it yellowish like IWL?
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    2. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Thanks!! Even though I didn't actually make it to the top, it was just a great dream. It was my first time trying pre-bad apple juice in ages, and the first time ever (that I can recall) where I combined it with a B-complex.

      So cool that your dad has a jaw harp! You could have helped me figure out what it was called. As it stands, I wound up googling "wild west boing sound".

      Hey, you're either really intuitive or I described all of this much more precisely than I thought. The short answer is yes, most everything was grey and white! The Pyramid was lit up by these really harsh spotlights. It was about the right size (as far as I could tell) but quite grey. The sphinx herself was a brighter, more brilliant white. The sand was also grey. The bar had all sorts of color. I definitely remember some red and blue wall hangings in there.
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      Updated 01-30-2013 at 05:15 PM by CanisLucidus
    3. Xanous's Avatar
      Nice control CL. Congrats!
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    4. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Thanks, my man!

      And do you see what all of your L-dopa talk did to me?
    5. Xanous's Avatar
      Lol I noticed. I lol'd when I read that.
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    6. The Sandman's Avatar
      Just an incredible dream. Sounds like fun!
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    7. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Thanks, Sandman! Yes, it had been a while since I'd had one quite this amazing. Wish I knew the precise recipe!