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    The Turtle

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    CanisLucidus
    , 08-15-2013 at 09:04 PM (892 Views)
    This was the first of two lucid dreams from last night, and my first serious Great Barrier Reef attempt.

    Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

    Lucid #130: The Turtle

    I'm swimming in a shallow cove with my 4-year-old son "E". I tell him that he's helping me practice for a planned dream about the Great Barrier Reef and he seems excited to help. We come across a cave just under the waterline, swim into it, and emerge in a cavern where all these other kids are hanging around. I wonder whether all these kids are helping their moms and dads prepare for a Great Barrier Reef dream. This feels strange to me and I become lucid.

    There's either a scene change or a memory gap at this point, because my next memory is of walking by myself through the grounds of a university. I pass two men who stare silently at me as I walk by. They're both in their late 20s and look almost like identical twins, except that one is dressed in a suit while the other wears glasses and a flannel shirt. I think that there's something I need to ask them, but I can't remember what it is. (I think I'd meant to ask them the meaning of life for Task of the Month.)

    Nearby is a plaza with a tall stone column at each of its four corners. Perhaps a dozen DCs are walking around this plaza, looking happy but aimless. I exchange a glance with one tough-looking DC as I walk across the plaza, and something about him just rubs me the wrong way. I take a half-hearted swing at him, as if I'm trying to slap him upside the head. He ducks out of the way, and immediately I wonder why I would do something like that.

    The DC moves aggressively toward me and I move to dissolve this problem that I've caused. I hold up my right hand to the DC and walk casually away, saying, "It's cool." The tension abates and he walks away. Whew.

    I remember my intention to get to the Great Barrier Reef. I hulk-jump high above the Earth, knowing that I'll see water nearby. Sure enough, there's a sparkling blue ocean to my right. As I descend, I notice a cute DC standing in the water, waving at me as she watches me come back down to Earth. As I near the water, I realize that she's Wife!

    Before I can say anything, I plunge into the water. This is one of only a handful of times that I've been underwater in an LD, and I'm pleased to see that I can breathe normally. I try my voice, and it's perfectly clear: "[Wife]! Can you hear me?" There's no reply and I don't see any sign of her. Okay, focus. I need to ride a sea turtle, find a great white shark, and bite it. Without dying. The task feels really intimidating to me but I start searching.

    I swim in random directions for a while until I finally catch sight of a turtle. The turtle has no interest in my company, though, and speeds away from me underwater. I don't have any plan as to how I'm going to catch him, so I just try to swim faster. He kites me along like this for quite a while until     I have a false awakening in some kind of hospital.

    Wife and I are here trying to improve our dreaming abilities. I'm astounded but pleased that she's interested in dream work now. She tells me that she's trying to hit her REM cycles by setting alarms that correspond with the take-off times for airplanes. Skyler White (from Breaking Bad) walks into our room and starts speaking to Wife in a husky, almost male voice. She's apparently a researcher at this hospital. This all seems strange to me and     I briefly become lucid before the dream ends.

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    Comments

    1. NyxCC's Avatar
      Yay! Congrats on the lds CL!

      Very cool dream incubation at the beginning there!

      I take a half-hearted swing at him, as if I'm trying to slap him upside the head. He ducks out of the way, and immediately I wonder why I would do something like that.

      The DC moves aggressively toward me and I move to dissolve this problem that I've caused. I hold up my right hand to the DC and walk casually away, saying, "It's cool." The tension abates and he walks away. Whew.
      I think you have taken the Q&A session so much to heart that you are now looking for trouble so that you will be able to show us all how you deal with it!

      So now you are going for Great Barrier Reef? That's cool! I think that a bit of goal reshuffling can add extra motivation for TOTY and lding. I love the part with the turtle, how big was it? And of course, I am quite impressed with this hulk-jump. Actually, I haven't watched hulk (omg!), so it's a bit unclear how exactly that's done, but it does sound cool and it seems to be working very well!
    2. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Yay! Congrats on the lds CL!

      Very cool dream incubation at the beginning there!

      I think you have taken the Q&A session so much to heart that you are now looking for trouble so that you will be able to show us all how you deal with it!
      Thanks, Nyx! =D I was super focused on the Great Barrier Reef idea and it indeed bled over into my NLDs nicely. My dream incubation seems to be getting better. Should be handy for TotY! (One hopes, at least, especially when one realizes that there's just 4.5 months left...)

      Ha ha, I don't know what I was doing there. Taking a swing at a DC over nothing? It was a bullying kinda slappy jerkboy sort of move. Hopefully that's out of my system. That podcast is over and done with! No need to keep doing further field research into hostile dreamworlds!

      So now you are going for Great Barrier Reef? That's cool! I think that a bit of goal reshuffling can add extra motivation for TOTY and lding. I love the part with the turtle, how big was it? And of course, I am quite impressed with this hulk-jump. Actually, I haven't watched hulk (omg!), so it's a bit unclear how exactly that's done, but it does sound cool and it seems to be working very well!
      Yeah, I decided that it might be smart to mix it up a little, you know? I've been having a lucid dry spell and in case I was getting stale with my Colosseum goal, I hoped that the novel goal would stimulate my mind in the right way.

      The turtle was nice and big, just about the size that I imagine a sea turtle to be! I felt like if I could just catch him he could take me there. I think that I hadn't mentally prepared to have him come willingly to help me and he acted more like a wild animal with little interest in helping me mess around with Task of the Year.

      Ah yes, Hulk jumping! An old favorite form of transport for me. That's how I got around in LDs pre-flight. The Incredible Hulk is able to jump hundreds of feet in the air and can just kind of hop from place to place that way. It's not flying, but still pretty darn efficient, particularly for a budding LDer! =) I still come back to it from time to time!
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    3. Highlander's Avatar
      I've had the odd one or two ld's whilst swimming in water/underwater and it does feel and seem quite realistic with the effects, etc

      Well done btw.
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    4. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      I've had the odd one or two ld's whilst swimming in water/underwater and it does feel and seem quite realistic with the effects, etc

      Well done btw.
      Thanks! And yeah, the way "underwater" works is actually quite nice... normal breathing, perfect vision like I'm wearing goggles, and even a speaking voice! Pretty good deal!

      Doing serious ocean swimming is actually a first for me, too. One of the first (if not THE first) Tasks of the Month I attempted was to swim in the Cretaceous-era seas. I never managed to even get to the ocean, although I tried with all my newbie heart.
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    5. NyxCC's Avatar
      Thanks, Nyx! =D I was super focused on the Great Barrier Reef idea and it indeed bled over into my NLDs nicely. My dream incubation seems to be getting better. Should be handy for TotY! (One hopes, at least, especially when one realizes that there's just 4.5 months left...)
      For sure! It looks like Art's tech is helping with incubation as well. I am still keeping it very simple, but have great results in terms of relaxation and my ability to visualize objects is slowly improving.

      I have also found for myself that the best way to get something done is to have a deadline approaching. But even if we have only one month left for TOTY, we may re-organize our resources. I have browsed past TOTY and saw that this guy Hukif did all of them in a week. So if deadlines get really tight, then shoot for the stars!

      The turtle was nice and big, just about the size that I imagine a sea turtle to be! I felt like if I could just catch him he could take me there. I think that I hadn't mentally prepared to have him come willingly to help me and he acted more like a wild animal with little interest in helping me mess around with Task of the Year.
      That's just awesome. You made him even more real by letting him be himself. Maybe next time you will meet his wise friendly cousin who will show you around.

      Thanks for the explanation for the Hulk-jump. I probably have to watch a short part of the movie, if I am to ever try this - it does sound kind of difficult. I guess mostly because of the mental barriers. Come to think about it, I have no idea how to breathe underwater either!
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      Updated 08-16-2013 at 01:06 AM by NyxCC
    6. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      For sure! It looks like Art's tech is helping with incubation as well. I am still keeping it very simple, but have great results in terms of relaxation and my ability to visualize objects is slowly improving.

      I have also found for myself that the best way to get something done is to have a deadline approaching. But even if we have only one month left for TOTY, we may re-organize our resources. I have browsed past TOTY and saw that this guy Hukif did all of them in a week. So if deadlines get really tight, then shoot for the stars!
      Yeah, I didn't do anything with a forest this time. I was just laying there obsessing about the Great Barrier Reef, ha ha...

      I hope that the deadline brings out the best in me, but I have to say that the idea of one week is pretty frightening. It's absolutely insane how often hukif gets lucids. Just crazy. But as long as it's 2013, we've still got time to climb these mountains. At least some of them. =)

      That's just awesome. You made him even more real by letting him be himself. Maybe next time you will meet his wise friendly cousin who will show you around.

      Thanks for the explanation for the Hulk-jump. I probably have to watch a short part of the movie, if I am to ever try this - it does sound kind of difficult. I guess mostly because of the mental barriers. Come to think about it, I have no idea how to breathe underwater either!
      I hope so! I'll surely be trying to get my mind used to the idea of a "friendly" turtle. Preferably one that talks and isn't shy about sharing his thoughts on the meaning of life, if I'd like to scoop up Task of the Month while I'm swimming around down there.

      I read Hulk comics growing up as a kid so the idea of leaping through the air came pretty naturally to me. I did it by accident the first time in my 3rd lucid dream and wound up going thousands of feet into the air quite unintentionally! Some weird-looking stuff happened at that point, but amazingly the dream held together.

      You know, with the water I think one thing that helped is that I was very conscious that this was a dream representation of water, really just there for show. For whatever reason this was definitely on my mind -- this stuff is just here to look cool and I can still do whatever I want. I hadn't really prepped for this mindset, so frankly there was probably some luck involved there.
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