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    Doorway Troubles

    by , 09-19-2012 at 03:44 PM (624 Views)
    Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

    Lucid #17: Doorway Troubles

    We're throwing some kind of huge party at our house. Our den has expanded to an impossible size and is filled with rows of picnic tables, with friends and family all around. I feel the mingled excitement and vague anxiety that I always feel hosting any sort of event. It's fun visiting with the guests, several of whom I haven't seen in quite some time.

    "S", a friend of mine, grabs me in order to inform me than an "associate" of his has inexpensive cruise tickets that he would like to sell me. S's associate is a rough-looking character with a plug earring installed in each of his wobbling earlobes. He carelessly dumps his wallet out on the table, telling me that the tickets are "in there somewhere". I find his driver's license, which is covered with uncomfortably personal information, such as the fact that he is an "Atheist" who has a "Vasectomy".

    I find a strange little zip-lock bag filled with strips of paper that have different people's signatures on them. It feels creepy to me and I wonder why he would have such a thing. I joke nervously, "A little weird, but at least it's not a bag full of women's hair or something."

    When I look up to gauge his reaction, the scene has shifted. I'm now surrounded by a handful of well-dressed police detectives. They chuckle at my comment and I realize that I'm also a detective and we're working together to solve a crime. Fortunately, I still have strong recall of the previous dream scene, note the strangeness of the transition and
    I become totally lucid. I stop in the middle of a sentence I can no longer remember and say, "And now I am lucid." I nod politely at my new colleagues and get up to leave.

    The detectives step aside for me and I see that I'm on the ground floor of a glass office building. Through the glass I see a street scene, cars and pedestrians passing by outside of the building. I walk past a busy cubicle farm, taking in my surroundings and ambling slowly toward the exit.

    Clarity is high and I feel super-aware, like the master of my domain. I feel so confident that I have no urge to stabilize. Out loud I say, "This is my lucid dream. It will go at my pace and nobody will control it but me." I feel calm and unstoppable as I walk toward the exit. A woman enters from the street and I nod a greeting. She smiles back and I note that although she is a stranger to me, she looks every bit as real as a person I might encounter during a day at the office.

    After the woman passes, I step calmly through the exit. There's a flash of light as direct sunlight hits my eyes and
    suddenly I'm awake. The calmness is still there at first but it evaporates quickly. My pulse is high (although not as high as my prior LD waking) and I wonder whether that just started. It's inconceivable to me that I felt as calm as I did if my sleeping body had such a high heart rate.

    The lucid portion probably went just over a minute. I'd have of course preferred a longer lucid, but every lucid dream (especially a high-clarity one like this) feels like a real victory!

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    1. totoroben's Avatar
      I read a study that walking through doors can cause people to forget because it creates a new event in your mind. That's why you might forget what you went to get when you walk into another room. Maybe this is related to what happened in your dream?
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    2. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      totoroben, I think that's a great observation! IMO this is far and away the most likely cause. I am especially guilty of the whole "walk into a room and forget what the heck you were doing" thing. A break in concentration like that could lead to who-knows-what kind of unfortunate result in a lucid dream!

      The main takeaway that I had for this was to make sure that I maintain my focus during any potential scene transitions. Now that you mention it, perhaps this is something I ought to be doing in waking life to lessen the number of these real-life events of absentmindedness.