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    Door Delivery

    by , 10-02-2013 at 04:36 PM (877 Views)
    Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

    Lucid #151: Door Delivery

    I'm walking out through the front door of my childhood home, moving toward a bike that's parked next to the curb. I need to take the house's front door with me in order to deliver it somewhere, so I lift the door off of its hinges and clamp it in my right hand. I jump on the bike and start pedaling, my right hand still clamped onto the door, which drags alongside me as I go.

    I turn around through the cul-de-sac, question what I'm doing, and
    become lucid. The door feels light and hollow, like an incredibly flimsy interior door. I toss it aside, and it disappears soundlessly behind me.

    I pedal along for a bit, thinking over my goals for the dream. I remember wanting to summon a witch to cast a spell on me for Task of the Month, so I decide that I'll stop the bike in order to use a handshake summon. I stop my pedalling and imagine that the bike is no longer there. Its presence fades and I now feel like I'm doing some combination of walking and floating. It feels like my brain's still making up its mind as to what I'm doing.

    For no reason in particular, my vision swivels smoothly around behind me while I continue moving in the same direction. It's like I'm drifting backward now. For a moment this frustrates me but I let it go. It'll be fine.

    The movement stops and I decide to try for the handshake summon to pull in a witch. I feel out of practice and my confidence isn't where it should be. I don't feel so much as a tickle in my hand. I give the summon two or three tries, turning to get a different visual perspective each time but it doesn't seem to be happening. I'm not interested in getting too hung up on the summon, so I just continue walking down the street.

    The scene's very vivid and stable, so I take things slow, enjoying the detail of the environment. I keep having random jolts of fear that the dream will stabilize and become a little scared that this will screw up the dream. Luckily everything holds together fine and I walk slowly along to the next street.

    The righthand side of the street still has the suburban look of waking life but the left side of the street is lined with industrial-looking buildings. This makes me want to explore, so I fly up above these buildings and look out over the city. There's a tall glass office building nearby and I fly past it, now hoping to see the Colosseum somewhere in the cityscape.

    I'm flying over a construction site toward the sunrise. A very deep, neatly-carved hole has been dug into the dirt of the construction site and as I'm flying by looking at it,
    the dream ends.

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    Comments

    1. fogelbise's Avatar
      Nice! Do you think the sunrise or flying towards the sunrise had any significance to being near the end of the dream? The hole at the construction site...was it straight down or at an angle with hidden reaches? I was also thinking about doing the witch spell one but was saving any attempts until the weekend or a night where I feel nice and rested. I was thinking of approaching the task by going/flying/teleporting to a place where I saw a memorable witch (a Halloween maze) and have her cast a spell on me. I still need to solidify what I want the spell to be as I started thinking about what if the "spell" had an affect on my dreamscape long-term through the power of suggestion...silly thought, right? I shouldn't even mention it...but had to ask your opinion.
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      Updated 10-02-2013 at 06:30 PM by fogelbise
    2. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      I never am sure with things like this. That was the first part of the dream where I recall directly noticing the sun. There's always that chance that seeing it might have brought in unwelcome thoughts of Time to get up!

      The best I can describe the hole is like this. Take a rectangular pyramid and slice off the top so you're only left with the frustum. Now flip it over and use it to dig a huge hole in the ground. It looked pretty much like that, with nice clean lines like it was a mold for a geometric shape. A little strange-looking!

      Heh heh... you never know when the power of suggestion can come into play, it's true, but fortunately we always, always have the power to rewrite the rules. It all belongs to us, even the rulebook.

      But just to be on the safe side, nothing wrong with having the witch cast a spell on you that makes you forever more awesome.
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    3. fogelbise's Avatar
      I like that spell! I just may steal it!
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    4. NyxCC's Avatar
      Congrats on the ld, Supercanis! I wonder what delivery you were up to in the beginning.

      Biking in an ld sounds interesting and the after effects were cool. I am starting to appreciate more those weird side effects that happen as we go on task completion. Good job you didn't allow too many of those sensations distract you.
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    5. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Yeah, I wish I knew what I was up to with that door! Whatever it was, I was convinced that it was important, that all of this was semi-normal, and was more important than making sure that my dear parents have a door on their home.

      You are absolutely right... those weird side effects are the elements that you just can't predict. I've made many, many plans for completing tasks and I can honestly say that while I've been able to use elements of these plans (and they've been a big help), I've never had a dream unfold exactly the way I'd planned/daydreamed it. Seriously, I can't think of even one.

      I think that's a very good thing, just kind of amazing to realize it!
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    6. Highlander's Avatar
      Congratulations CL on the interesting LD!
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