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    Luxor

    by , 12-17-2013 at 11:21 PM (774 Views)
    This dream is from the morning of 12/15/2013.

    Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

    Lucid #173: Luxor

    I’m in a hotel room bedroom talking with Wife. She has the lights off like we’re getting ready for bed but there's an errand to take care of. We need an access card for the pool and she’s sending me out to get it.

    When I get to the main room of the suite, rather than our kids I encounter a guy that looks like Henry Rollins. I think he’s some kind of celebrity, although I’m not sure who I really think this is. We talk for a little bit and he tells some kinda funny but off-color joke. He motions toward our room and says, “Sorry, forgot about the wife.”

    I decide that I’d better not leave Wife alone with a stranger in our hotel room so I decide not to leave. As I’m thinking through this,
    I become lucid and walk back into the bedroom. I crawl into bed next to Wife, planning on performing a WILD. Wait, no, I’m already having a lucid dream. I get out of bed, walk to the end of the room and phase out through the window into the void.

    I rub my hands together as I fall through the void. The descent slows until I can no longer feel it and I give myself a bit of a pep talk about how “all of this is mine”, hoping to be ready for some dream control when I emerge from the void. I’m thinking of Task of the Year, and imagine that I’ll see the Great Pyramid when I emerge.

    After a bit, the void gives way to a dusky desert scene. And about 70 or so feet away is the base of an Egyptian pyramid! There are a lot of smaller pyramids around the in the area as well, most of them only ten feet high or so. Everything’s covered in billboard and neon signs that say things like “Clearance!” and “For Sale!”

    I make my way toward the main pyramid when I encounter an attractive brunette in her late 20s. “Can we help you?” she asks. Just as she says this, she’s joined by an identical twin. The idea of an attempt at sexytime sounds appealing, but no, the Pyramid is right here. Stay focused.

    Confused about what the Pyramid task is (repair/reanimate the Sphinx and ride her to the top), I respond, “Can you show me the way inside the Pyramid?" Then I add: "By the way, you two are really cute.” (I think I was trying to impress them/myself for staying on track or something, I don’t know. )

    They pose and raise their arms over their head in a “We know!” kind of gesture. One of them (the first one I met) says, “Sure, I’ll show you.” She heads off around the side of the Pyramid and I follow. As we’re walking she narrates like a tour guide, gesturing at some wares as we pass by some stalls in a market area. “Here’s where they sell Khuddush and vials.” (I’m spelling “Khuddush” the way it sounded to me, but it’s a guess since I don’t know this word.)

    “What’s Khuddush?” I ask.

    “You don’t know? This is supposed to be your dream. If I know something that you don’t, does that mean…?” Her voice trails off. I have kind of a “whoa” moment.
    (I looked up “Khuddush” and couldn’t find anything. The closest match was the kiddush, a Jewish Sabbath ritual. Kiddush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

    I follow her into a high stone chamber where a few other DCs are wandering around. We walk toward a staircase leading down and the dream falls into the void. I can’t rescue it, but before I emerge, I hear an unfamiliar female voice say, “Don’t get too attached.”
    The dream ends.

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    Comments

    1. Highlander's Avatar
      That is bizarre by attempting a WILD in an LD. It must be quite ingrained in your psyche.

      Congrats on the close TOTY attempt too.
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    2. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      You know, I guess it has to be the recent successes I've had had and read in others DJs with in-dream WILDs... it seems to have just got it on my mind. Or maybe I was just loopy and silly like usual at the start of a lucid. It wouldn't have been a terrible thing to happen, I guess, as I've been intending to try to use it as a teleportation method to see whether that gets me anywhere.
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    3. fogelbise's Avatar
      “What’s Khuddush?” I ask.

      “You don’t know? This is supposed to be your dream. If I know something that you don’t, does that mean…?” Her voice trails off.
      So cool! Do you know anyone that speaks Arabic(most commonly spoken language in Egypt now)? I think I saw a DV member with an Egyptian flag...one of the guys that likes to post in the "beyond dreaming" sections but the guy I am thinking of has removed his country flag. I may send him a PM in case. I love looking up stuff I see in my dreams. I had a 7 digit phone number once that had a few matches to actual listings in google in some local area codes, one of which was the neurology department at a university (eventually brushed it off as nothing). Last night I had a highway number (non lucid) and looked it up, one such highway in Louisiana. Maybe travelled on it when I was really young but not sure.
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      Updated 12-18-2013 at 02:37 AM by fogelbise
    4. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Hey, neurology department, that's one to make you think! Nothing like having your brain use a dream to offer you up the number for a neurology department!

      That's cool, too, about the highway number. We know these things that are a part of our dream world have a source in our own histories and imagination, but it can be hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. It makes for a beautiful blend either way.
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    5. fogelbise's Avatar
      These things different interesting pieces keep popping up but I always settle in to the more scientific explanations.
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    6. NyxCC's Avatar
      Congrats on the lds! Now you're raising the bar just before year-end, that's the spirit!

      Good job with the void summon/teleport and getting a couple of friendly DCs to help you out. Not easy to resist them either, but you did fantastic!

      The end of the dream was very intriguing. Since I'm constantly thinking about detachment in both dreams and real life (as I need to work more on this), it sounds like a great tip coming from a DC.
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    7. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Quote Originally Posted by fogelbise
      These things different interesting pieces keep popping up but I always settle in to the more scientific explanations.
      What's cool is that the scientific explanations are no less fascinating/amazing than any of the more mystical or mysterious explanations.

      I also find that while the explanations are very interesting, they pale in comparison to the experiences themselves. The clinical explanations for dreams, sex, triumph, joy, etc. are just so small next to the experiences themselves, you know?

      Quote Originally Posted by NyxCC
      Congrats on the lds! Now you're raising the bar just before year-end, that's the spirit!

      Good job with the void summon/teleport and getting a couple of friendly DCs to help you out. Not easy to resist them either, but you did fantastic!
      Thanks, Nyx! Although I'm keeping my expectations realistic (especially during holiday craziness!), I'm still hoping for a strong-ish push here at the end.

      I was pleased that the cute DCs didn't throw me off course here, and they definitely helped me out with what I was asking them to do. The only flaw was that I had misremembered the TotY goal, heh heh... can't have it all!

      Quote Originally Posted by NyxCC
      The end of the dream was very intriguing. Since I'm constantly thinking about detachment in both dreams and real life (as I need to work more on this), it sounds like a great tip coming from a DC.
      I was intrigued too! I can't come up with a precise meaning (did she mean in dreams or in waking life?) but just as you said, this applies well in both situations. (Like so many things!)

      Maybe the DC was giving me advice on how to avoid insomnia for the rest of the night.
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