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    The Bag Lady

    by , 06-06-2014 at 05:51 AM (709 Views)
    This lucid is from the morning of 5/19/2014. (I think so at least. I'm embarrassed to say that my records got spotty right here.)

    Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

    Lucid #211: The Bag Lady

    I’m high up on a hotel walkway that encircles an atrium. The room’s huge and bustles with people. I see a group of familiar people from my life seated in plush, comfy-looking chairs and realize that I’m dreaming.

    I walk up to “Cyclone”, a friend from high school that I occasionally catch up with. I try to explain to him that I’m having a lucid dream. He’s trying to respond but I’m confused and unable to understand what he’s trying to say. As I grow frustrated by this,
    the dream fades into a false awakening.

    I get up from what I believe is a hotel room and walk out to the street. I’m someplace that looks like New York City and it’s early morning. I walk out onto a brick-lined path toward another building. Maybe 30 feet away, there’s a bad lady standing near a little planter that looks like it contains a vegetable garden.

    She seems to notice me and comes staggering over. I hope she won’t approach and try to scurry cowardly away. As I do this, she lets out a blood-curdling scream and starts flying after me. I feel a combination of embarrassment at my wimpy reaction and outright fear that I’m about to get mauled on the street. Her hand grabs my shoulder and I think that come on, this has got to be a dream. What a relief that
    it is in fact a dream!

    The bag lady screams in my face and grabs at my chest and shoulders with clawlike fingers. I’m not feeling very calm at this point, but I try to calm her down by saying “Shhhhh…” and raising my hands in as nonconfrontational a gesture as I can manage.

    She seems to settle down and I notice she looks a fairly normal person now. She’s in her late 30s, wearing a hood and shawl. Kind of cute-ish, even. Her teeth are still bared but now she just looks like she’s upset rather than truly demonic. For some reason I start kissing her, and she seems to calm down completely.

    I hear another scream from nearby and I see a second dangerous-looking bag lady quickly approaching. Time to go. I make for the building entrance, a simple looking glass door into what looks like a darkened school hallway.

    As I make my way down the hallway, nobody follow. That’s a relieft. I emerge from the hallway into what looks like ground floor fo the hotel atrium I’d been in before. I wonder if I can make my way back up, but
    the dream ends before I can find out.
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    Updated 06-06-2014 at 05:53 AM by 57387

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    lucid , nightmare

    Comments

    1. MortalTrinity's Avatar
      I enjoy reading your dreams and like what you do with the red and blue, very smart. I think I may start doing that when I have more lucid dreams. Look forward to seeing more.
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    2. Xanous's Avatar
      You seem to get a lot of hostile DCs when lucid but youre getting better at handling them. When that second one came out I thought of agent Smith. RELENTLESS!
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    3. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      @MortalTrinity - Thanks, I appreciate it! Keep at it and I'm sure I'll be seeing red all over your Dream Journal soon!

      @Xanous - Yeah, in this case I'm actually kind of grateful for the hostile DC since her presence in the nightmare helped kick me back into lucidity! I'm starting to get vaguely suspicious when amazingly bad things happen in dreams and it can be a good pathway for me.

      Of course the trouble then is now I've got a hostile DC to calm down and/or smooch, ha ha...
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    4. NyxCC's Avatar
      Now I see why you were so fast with the preventive actions in the next Ld. What's with all the bag ladies in NY?

      Good way to disarm her though - this never fails with aggressive DCs.
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    5. ~Dreamer~'s Avatar
      Haha, have you noticed that you introduce her as 'a bad lady'?
      You must have known what was to come!
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    6. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      I don't know what's going on in Dream NY! Plus, waking life bag ladies are usually much gentler and don't have the terrifying claws!

      I know, that was a total NyxCC move! It works, too. And let's be honest, that's more fun than scurrying away, ha ha...
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    7. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      @Dreamer - Ha, you're right! That's got to mean something. The 'd' and 'g' keys aren't even adjacent!
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    8. ~Dreamer~'s Avatar
      Spoiler alert!
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