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    The Scorpion

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    CanisLucidus
    , 02-24-2013 at 05:03 PM (929 Views)
    This is the second DV member lucid I've had in a row! For some reason, my subC is teeing these up for me right now, which is cool. Hope it keeps up.

    I noticed that I was fairly stupid throughout this dream, including the lucid portion. I took a pretty high dose of melatonin at bedtime, so I wonder whether that was related. Good vividness though!

    Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

    Lucid #69: The Scorpion

    I'm walking through the desert, heading down the slope of a tall sand dune. The sun is high and bright. I feel relaxed almost to the point of sleepiness.

    Suddenly, I feel a sharp, painful stab in my foot! I decide that I must have been bitten by a scorpion. I try to remember if you're supposed to die when that happens, but I think maybe it just hurts like hell. When I look down to find the "scorpion", all I see is an unhooked safety pin lying in the sand. The safety pin dances a bit and says, "It's me! Paigeyemps!"

    "Yeah right," I tell the safety pin.

    "Seriously, it's me!" The safety pin wiggles a bit. "I got shrunk down and I'm too small to go anywhere. So I found this safety pin and I stab people with it when they come by so that they'll help me. I'm really thirsty."

    I find this totally convincing and I feel bad for doubting her. "Of course I'll help you! Let me get you some water!" I look around and see that about 100 feet away is the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign. Oops. I feel silly wandering around in the desert when I'm this close to the Vegas strip.



    I walk toward the Las Vegas strip and somehow I find an empty cup and a big bottle of water. I fill up the cup and bring it back to Paigeyemps and her safety pin, feeling like quite the hero. The little safety pin waves around a bit and she says, "That cup is filled with bacteria! I can't drink that!" I'm sort of embarrassed that the cup is so dirty and I wonder how she's able to see bacteria so well. I figure it's because she's so little, but something seems funny about the whole situation. All of this "heavy duty thinking" seems to get my brain into a higher gear and     I become lucid.

    Even though I'm lucid, I still feel very, very stupid. I think that maybe Paigeyemps could use a bigger signaling object than that tiny safety pin, so I conjure a knife into my right hand. It occurs to me that it would probably be bad to have her out here in the desert knifing everybody that comes close. I toss the knife over my shoulder.

    "Hey," I tell her, "I'm actually lucid now! Let me just shrink down to your size and see if I can help."     (I wonder why I didn't try to make her bigger instead. ) She says something along the lines of "cool" and I focus my vision on the safety pin, willing myself to shrink down.

    The shrinking effect feels sort of like zooming on Google Maps. I focus on the spot where the safety pin is and will myself to move closer and closer to it. There's a momentary visual streaking effect and then everything looks bigger. After a few iterations of this, the grains of sand look more like huge rocks and for some reason they're glowing. From up close, they look beautiful.

    "I think it's working!" Paige shouts. "You look much smaller!" At this point, I see a tiny humanoid-looking figure hopping around among the grains of sand! Encouraged, I do a few more cycles. On my last zoom, though, I zoom in on the wrong spot and find her completely out of view.

    I call out to see if I can still find her but there's no response. I figure that I'm totally lost. I don't know how to proceed so I try hopping around like a sand flea for a little while. I get tons of height when I flea-hop like this and sand-boulders fly everywhere when I land. This is great! I do that a few more times until     the dream ends.

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    1. Xanous's Avatar
      Nice dream. This one cracks me up too. The fact that she was a safety pin is just bizarre and awesome. I think if she had a choice she would chose something like that to pop in a dream.

      Nice job on shrinking. I've never tried that. I think your control is really improving!
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    2. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Ha ha, thanks, man... I do hope that this is a sign of some improvement in control. I've been trying to gradually internalize the whole "There is no spoon" essence of dream control and even though it's very slow going, successes like this are encouraging.

      I was sort of dull-witted in this one and I wonder if that's not actually a good thing in some cases for dream control. I think that in some ways it left me unable to outsmart myself when I would try things. That might be why it was easier to "do" rather than "think" in this case.
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    3. paigeyemps's Avatar
      Dream cameo ftw!
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    4. Xanous's Avatar
      I think you are close to the truth there. We tent to over think things when it comes to dream control.
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    5. Alyzarin's Avatar
      This is great. XD What a wonderful setup lol. And congrats on shrinking! That's pretty neat, I've never thought to try something like that before. The sand sounds like it was really cool to see. That definitely sounds like an increase in control to me!
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    6. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Thanks, Aly! You know, I didn't think of this until later today, but I bet that the shrinking skill was in my "universe of possibilities" because it had been a Task of the Month last year. OpheliaBlue and RareCola podcasted on that task and even though I never tried it myself, I think that listening to them discuss ideas about it had to have rubbed off. I don't think that the whole Google Maps approach was discussed, though, so it was nice that something novel happened.

      I'm hopeful that control is getting better. Attitudes and expectations take time to adjust but I do feel like the effort is paying off.

      And by "the effort" I of course mean carpet-bombing myself with melatonin before bed.
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    7. Alyzarin's Avatar
      Ah, that makes sense. Well it's cool that your mind filled in the blanks that way, I love how stuff like that works out lol. And I can definitely see how the Google Maps effect would be perfect for it, it just seems like an all-around smooth transition.

      I wouldn't worry about your control, you're definitely improving. You've just added a whole new dream power to your repertoire and you didn't even have to try to make it work - don't let that slip by unacknowledged! A whole new realm of possibilities has just opened up for your future lucids.

      Speaking of the effort, I'm starting to get pretty tired. X) I think it's about time for me to hit the sack tonight~ And hopefully I'll have something interesting to report tomorrow!
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    8. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      I wouldn't worry about your control, you're definitely improving. You've just added a whole new dream power to your repertoire and you didn't even have to try to make it work - don't let that slip by unacknowledged! A whole new realm of possibilities has just opened up for your future lucids.
      Thanks! You're right -- I'm definitely patting my brain on its back (its occipital lobe?) for coming through on that. Can't forget to enjoy the small (medium?) victories along the way.

      Speaking of the effort, I'm starting to get pretty tired. X) I think it's about time for me to hit the sack tonight~ And hopefully I'll have something interesting to report tomorrow!
      Ha ha, yes... with 80 mg of melatonin coursing through your veins, I'd say that "pretty tired" is a very normal way to feel. Can't wait to hear how it goes!
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    9. Iokheira's Avatar
      Hilarious dream! I loved the dream logic about turning Paigey into a knife. Shrinking too - I bet that's difficult! I wish I could have seen the sand.
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    10. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Ha ha, thanks, Art! After it was well underway, I was surprised to find myself just shrinking down like that. I didn't really even think about it, which was probably a blessing. To me, it was just something that it seemed I ought to be able to do. I don't know if you've listened to the whole back catalog of DreamViews podcasts, but I think that the one about the September TotM must have lodged some schema in my brain that "shrinking is something lucid dreamers just do." I think that's where the confidence came from.

      Yeah, the sand was cool! I should check out some pictures of sand under a microscope and see how far off the mark I was.