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    The One Where I Fight Samuel L. Jackson

    by , 01-13-2014 at 03:55 PM (949 Views)
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    Lucid #179: The One Where I Fight Samuel L. Jackson

    I have a false awakening but I notice that I’m alone (Wife is missing) and the bed has been turned 90 degrees. Right away I realize that this is a dream.

    Something grabs me by the leg, pulls me out of the bed, and drags me to the floor. I look up and Samuel L. Jackson is standing over me! He says something along the lines of “You’re not going anywhere,” and starts to stomp down at me. I think that I should do some tricky/clever dream control thing but I feel too much like I’m in a fight to get it together.

    We struggle for a moment until I manage to get my arm wrapped around his ankle, push my foot into his crotch, and then push up, lifting him off of his feet. He falls onto his back and we wrestle around kind of grabbing at each other’s feet to gain control. His head looks close enough to reach so I lash out, kicking him straight in the face. He flops back and stops moving.

    I sit up and as I approach Samuel L. Jackson, he changes into a smallish, delicate-looking woman in her mid-20s. She looks Mediterranean and overall completely different from Samuel L. Jackson. “Help me, I’m pretty hurt...” she says, sitting up just a little bit. I feel bad for her, so I pick her up and carry her with me. I notice that she’s very cute but the fact that 15 seconds ago she was Samuel L. Jackson makes me quite uninterested.

    We phase through the wall of the house out into the night. I want it to be morning, so I do a hulk-jump or two, expecting the time of day to shift. It does, and before long it’s early morning. We’re on a sidewalk outside of a cafe with a canvas awning.

    I walk inside the cafe to find Wife sitting at a table with two strangers, one a heavy, hipster-looking guy and the other a pretty woman in her early 30s with short, brown hair. “I’m having a lucid dream,” I tell them, mostly to explain the fact that I’ve just carried a woman into the cafe with me.

    “Ah,” says Wife, giving me a “Oh, another one of those” kind of look. I join them at the table along with the woman formerly known as Samuel L. Jackson, who now seems relatively unhurt and integrates herself naturally into the conversation. The hipster and the brown-haired woman are authors and they’re talking with Wife about their new book. The conversation is strange and it’s hard to understand details.

    I’m also distracted by the food. There are little plates of small chocolate bars that I keep sampling. They taste delicious but they fade too quickly, almost as if they were so light and insubstantial that you only get a moment to taste them. At one point, Wife remarks, “He even thinks this is dream food.”

    “I admit it, I do!” I say. Everyone chuckles like I’m an amusing eccentric.

    Somehow the scene changes to a featureless room with three books lying on the floor. The two writers and the woman who once was Samuel L. Jackson walk out through the door, chatting about something.

    I examine the second book. It’s by the writers we ate with and it’s about how early civilizations made fantastic technological leaps forward by using ideas that came to them in lucid dreams. I’m excited by the whole premise of the book. I really believe that it must be true. (I'm also partly offended that they acted so skeptical that I was having a lucid dream.)

    “I really want to read this book,” I tell Wife, and she agrees that it sounds right up my alley. Now that we’re alone, I enjoy a little time making out with Wife
    until the dream ends.

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    Comments

    1. Xanous's Avatar
      Nice one! So much happened with DCs in this one. I love the fact you fought SLJ... really funny.

      I really want that book too!
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    2. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Thanks, dude! Yeah I always love the ones with fun DCs. Even Samuel L. Jackson was pretty awesome once I got over the terror that I was getting my ass kicked.

      The thing about the book is that the premise strikes me as quite plausible. At the very least it's the kind of thing I want to believe.
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    3. Highlander's Avatar
      Wow S.L.J. sounds quite badass in this one. I have had trouble with a Morgan Freeman D.C. in the past. lol

      Congratulations on the action-packed LD BTW.
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    4. fogelbise's Avatar
      Hey, you might have been Neo! Nice pair of LDs once again! Just imagine if you had wrote a book and someone walked up to you during a book signing (or a café) telling you that you were in his lucid dream...actually we would probably RC in that case.
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    5. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      @Highlander - Ha ha, I remember your encounter with Morgan Freeman! I had one Morgan Freeman dream myself but he was quite friendly and helpful. You never know which celebrities will be there to help you and which ones will be there to brawl with you as soon as your LD starts.

      @fogelbise - Thank you, man! You're right. For all I know, I'm a DC in someone else's elaborate dream right now, but I'd certainly scoff at anyone who tried to tell me so.
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    6. NyxCC's Avatar
      Who would have thought that Samuel Jackson was waiting for you during an ld! You did a great job kicking his ass. What a mean way to catch you off guard with the Mediterranean DC. One must be alert at all times!

      Great dream control with the hulk-jump!

      There are little plates of small chocolate bars that I keep sampling. They taste delicious but they fade too quickly, almost as if they were so light and insubstantial that you only get a moment to taste them
      Nooo! I just can't handle this!

      It’s by the writers we ate with and it’s about how early civilizations made fantastic technological leaps forward by using ideas that came to them in lucid dreams. I’m excited by the whole premise of the book
      Another cool dream including books! Next time I start complaining that having lds in my place is boring I just have to either head for the fridge or a bookshelf. The book you found is really worth reading!
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    7. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Ha ha, thanks, looking back the fight was pretty fun. That moment when you first become lucid is interesting because you're lucid but you haven't thought through all the implications of how much control and power you have. So I was in a mode of knowing I was pretty safe and that yes, it's okay to scuffle with Samuel L. Jackson, but hadn't really thought of a more graceful way to handle things.

      I hear you on the chocolate!! They were so good, seriously, but the way they'd just kind of evaporate left me never satisfied.

      Aren't these books always so interesting? It's been a while since I gave my reading a serious test. Hey you know what? Do you think we could hand a book to a DC (particularly the book's author!) and have them read it to us? To avoid the whole text-shifting thing? I need to have more LDs!!
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    8. NyxCC's Avatar
      So I was in a mode of knowing I was pretty safe and that yes, it's okay to scuffle with Samuel L. Jackson, but hadn't really thought of a more graceful way to handle things.
      Well, kicking his ass was an excellent solution! If nothing else helps you can always turn them into dolls!

      Aren't these books always so interesting? It's been a while since I gave my reading a serious test. Hey you know what? Do you think we could hand a book to a DC (particularly the book's author!) and have them read it to us? To avoid the whole text-shifting thing? I need to have more LDs!!
      Hey, that's a great idea, especially if you run into a smart DC, maybe they can elaborate on things. LDs are never enough to do all these cool things!
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    9. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Ha ha, you're right! It's funny to think back on how hard it is for me to follow my own advice on dealing with hostile DCs. What's amazing is that I'm completely aware that it's a dream but at the same time there is that sense of desperation because I feel like my lucid dream is on the line.

      I should really strengthen the habit of remembering that everything will be okay as long as I relax and remember that I'm in charge. Or just the habit of calmly following the playbook in general, you know?
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