lucid

It was like 10 o'clock in the morning and I had just woke up and wanted to try FILD. I didn't move once waking and soon felt like I was going to fall back asleep. I started to wiggle my fingers and while I did it a whoosh came over my body.

I did it a little more then held my nose and tried to breath. It worked! I visualized my room and got up. I walked out and went out the back door to find myself on a baseball field in a park. I know I'm dreaming. Suddenly a helicopter crashes near by. I go down the street to to go into the nearby AMC movie theater and on my way find more helicopters crashing. I hear the radio talking about it as I walk. Now I'm at a playground right next to an office building. I do an RC. Then I hear a lady talking about how all the helicopters are crashing b/c of her not letting a bill pass or something. The dream faded and I woke up.

I got out of bed and realized it was a dream. I went into the kitchen and rubbed my hands together because the dream was already fading. I went our the front door and decided I wanted to fly. In the front yard I jumped and bounced like I was on the moon. Eventually I got all the way on to the roof and did flips and stuff but didn't fly. Suddenly I looked up and saw the northern lights. I thought it must have been the most beautiful thing ever. I went next door to get a better look. The Hershock's house was replaced with some other building or something and a few people came out to talk to me. The dream faded into a new one and I lost lucidity.

I woke up in my parents bedroom, walked out to the living room and looked out in the back yard. Will and Colton were driving their boat in circles in the pool and I yelled to my mom. She told me to go out and play. I got outside and I stood on the edge of the pool. The boat was now a large inner tube and they were just kicking it around the pool. We talked a little and they invited me in and told me to jump on. Instead I jumped in the water and then climbed on the tube. We spun around for a while and got out and suddenly I realized I was in a dream. I tell will to check it out cause I was about to go lucid. I did a few reality checks and spun around and then told the kid who I sit next to in us gov I was lucid we talked then I went to let scout in the front door. I walked out and scout ran to the Werdine's house but I went down the street. Nothing really happened. Now I was at a marina and my dad kept asking for help with the boat and I almost fell in the water and I lost lucidity. He kept asking until I woke up.

It was late at night and I was about to go to bed in my house, except I was sleeping on a mattress in the doorway between my parents room and the living room. I said goodnight to my parents and was about to try and get some sleep when I heard something over by my old room. I look in that direction and see through my open door the figure of a man, all black, more like a ghost or a shadow than an actual person. I decided to go over there and as I got closer I noticed the light in my sisters old room was on and I went in there instead and it was just like my sisters room before we changed everything around. Me and Christina sat on the bed and were served food and drinks by waiters in our house. I drank a few cups of pomegranate juice. They asked us how we liked everything. My sister said something like "this is to fattening" or something and I apologized for her and said it was very good. I then got up and went to look for that ghost thing in my room and went in there. I didn't find the thing but I suddenly realized "I'm dreaming, this is all a dream!" I look at my hands and they were so blurry I couldn't tell how many fingers I had. Yup, I was in a dream. I was walking through my kitchen from my old room to go to the bathroom so I could look in the mirror but then thought "what am I doing, I should be flying and going to the beach not looking in mirrors." But the dream was still pretty blurry so I stopped and rubbed my hands together and demanded "clarity now" and "make this dream vivid" and boy did it work. All of the sudden it felt just like real life, I felt the AC on my shoulders and the floor under my feet, and it kind of scared me how real a dream could seem. I opened my eyes and hoped to see how cool it would all be but it was blurry and getting worse so I tried spinning around to get some stability. It failed miserably and I woke up in my bed.

I was in some old, old western style house. The kind of place you expect to find antiques and stuff. I was walking around with my mom and my little brother. As soon as I fully entered the dream I started flipping out. I asked my mom, "Wait, how did I get here?"
"What do you mean?" she says.
"I was just at Nana's house, so how did I get here?" I plead. I tried recalling driving back to NC or flying or something. "So does this mean I'm still at Nana's house?" She smiles and nods. "So does that mean...?" She grins. "Sweeeet!" I take a look around the house, trying to decide what I want to do. I glance over at the wall, and I see a mirror. Ooh, goody. I stare for a bit confused by what I saw. I saw a body, but my head and part of my neck were gone. There was maybe a couple of inches of my neck left. I didn't see any blood or anything, just skin. Then my mother and brother stood next to me. When I saw them in the mirror they looked like their skulls had been X-rayed, same color scheme and stuff. It didn't really bother me, I kinda thought it was neat. I turned away, and decided to teleport. I couldn't think of any particular place (really wish I had remembered Angel Falls) so I just closed my eyes and did it. I tried to open my eyes before it was done, but it was as if my eyes had been glued shut. I couldn't do anything. (Possibly I DEILD'd? IDK) My eyes open again. I see that I am in a huge building, about the size of a football stadium and the same domed ceiling as well. The room had an orange color scheme. I could see behind me was the entrance, just as white as ever. I felt super dizzy, like I was about to fall and I couldn't control myself. "Oh yeah! Stabilize! I forgot." I rub my hands together for a while and whisper "stabilize, stabilize," over and over. One of the DCs also starts to whisper "stabilize," in my mother's voice, but I couldn't see my mom around me. After stabilizing I look around some more. I'm in an art museum of sorts. There are pedestals with funky statues and weird stuff all around me. I see that Morgan Freeman is one of the artists featured there. Go figure. Then I summon my tulpa Kira into the dream. I solidly look over her form, and promptly abandoned her. (I'm the best.) I recalled me wanting to fly before in a dream, so I jumped onto a wall and jumped back out, willing myself to fly just to fail once again. Being the spastic person I am I change my attention (again) to the lecture that had just started happening. I see there is a stage, with the art on a pedestal with a light over head. The lecturer is sitting on a couple steps leading up to the stage where the art is at. I see a couple of girls sitting there. I felt the sudden urge to kiss one of them, someone who I actually recognized from WL. (Not someone I know very well though.) I sit down next to her and nibble her ear. She looks over to me, almost saying "st-" but sees my eyes, blushes and then doesn't say anything. I lick her from the side, all the way up into her armpit. Weird taste, weird feeling. I close my eyes and go in for the kiss. I hear the DCs around us gasping. The DC giving the lecture tells us to stop over the microphone, like we were committing a crime or something. I feel my lips touch hers, and her tongue slips into my mouth. I have never kissed anyone before, so this whole experience was pretty new for me. Anyways, the dream fades out and my consciousness returns to my physical body. It's like an hourglass. The sand is the consciousness gradually changing, depending on whether you are falling asleep or waking up. I wake up with my eyes closed, reminiscing on this awesome dream.

I was a spy, sneaking around a corridor. There were giant windows on the right side of the wall. I was talking to someone over a walky-talkie. We kept using funny acronyms to describe situations and what to do during certain ones. I think I had 3 options: to kill everyone in the room, to take a hostage and keep them as insurance and then run away, or simply trying to slip by. I walk into the first big room. It's a library, with a bunch of DCs standing around wearing ski masks and holding guns. I take hold of one of them, disarm him and put him in a choke hold. Then I think to myself, "Wait, wasn't I just in bed? What am I doing?" I drop the dude and try to stabilize by rubbing my hands together, but I faded out before I could do anything.

So I was having a nonlucid where I was flying, which got me lucid. So I tried to will myself to fly faster (since I usually fly slow because I get vertigo). I did a sort of superman pose, which made me feel more streamlined, so I was able to gain speed. I tried to remember a task of the month, but all I could remember was "change gender." Which is stupid. Because it's not. What happened there was I was somewhat recalling the conversation I had with CL and BrandonBoss in the TOTY thread about if it still counts to change gender for some of the fairytale tasks. Since for example, a straight guy might not want to make out with the Beast, as Beauty lol.

Anyway, in midflight I grow boyparts, and land at some random clinic. At this point I really really believe that the TOTM is to change gender and have sex. So I end up in one of the rooms, and the nurse practitioner is a petite woman in her 50's. She's attractive, so the age doesn't put me off. She asks me some medical questions while her back it turned to me, and I just strip down as fast as I can, answering her questions in as deep a male voice I can muster. But then I caught a glimpse of myself in a full length mirror in the room, and I see that I'm still female. It reaaaaaaaaaally bums me out for some reason, and I lose lucidity. Don't really remember much else.

I want to do something that I've been thinking of for a while. Sorta like a "stabilization" thing if you will, but really more of a reaffirmation of lucidity. Every few moments or so in a lucid dream, I want to have a "time out." I'm hoping this will engage my rational mind a bit more so I don't get too caught up in stupidity. I really feel like my lucids have been shaky at best lately.

It was quite a weird night. I had just come back from a cruise and I was in this 5 star hotel. Except one strange thing was the room was incredibly hot. We couldn't find the thermostat so we just lied there in the heat. I woke up several times and I felt I had no need to go back to sleep but to pass time til morning. I had drank a shit-ton the night before. Anyways I only remember one dream from that night

Black: dream
[COLOR="#800080"]Purple:[/COLOR] lucid

I had given unwanted sexual advances to a friend on the cruise and she was ignoring me and I felt horrible about it. For some reason I have a very foggy idea there was some part of the dream where 2 of the friends were sitting in the hotel room while I was sleeping. Anyways the first thing I remember clearly was being in my grandparents front yard. [COLOR="#800080"] I then became lucid and did not do any reality checks. I knew I was dreaming and I started trying to fly. I flew up about 30 feet in the air but I started to lose momentum and slowly fall back down towards the ground. I looked at my hands which looked incredibly realistic. I repeated trying to fly for about 15 more times then I woke up.[/COLOR]

I was at home (hometown?) and saw an old man through the window, and I thought, he shouldn't be here/there. And then, I must be dreaming! Immediately, the surrounding became darker, until I can't see anything but darkness. I was then inside our living room (hometown for sure), but surrounded by darkness, and crystalline sparks. I kept saying "Clarity" hoping that it will clear everything up, but it just got darker, and I just got confused. I also focused on breathing. As everything went dark, I thought, I must be waking up, but told myself, no way.

I was outside on the backyard. I felt like it was ours, but it doesn't look anything like it in real life. It was night or just dark. There's a small field for planting. JV's mom was working on it, tilling the soil, and I started to worry. Some things are out there that might cause harm. Some small things. After I secured my own mom, I dragged her to the sidelines and then I fought the small flying... thing. A small robot. It flew up what looked like an elevated garage. I kept focusing my powers of electricity to shoot it, but once I raised enough electricity, they turn into paper. I tried moving stuff with my mind instead. I raised metals and threw it at the robot. Eventually, I forgot all about the robot (which wasn't retaliating in any way) and I practiced my dream powers, trying to lift a heavy metal pipe with my mind. I kept failing, but eventually I succeeded, but not by much. I thought, This will be cool practicing this all the time now that I can lucid dream!

I was inside an abandoned building with others. It was night outside, and it was dark inside the building. We were avoiding some things. Bad things. Evil things. (Guh... so that's how Good Omens affect my writing...) We hurried to get out of the gate (invisible, which is quite silly) before something inside caught us. We didn't look back.

I was outside, still night. I looked back. I saw happy faces of my high school classmates (quite clear was JG's face) as if they just finished playing basketball.

Daylight. We're supposed to escape by climbing some sort of really tall statue that reaches way up in the clouds. A companion commented how there are some snakes up there now, which didn't happen before. A short scene near the beach (or the road near Victorias, where the road is elevated from the sugarcane fields on both sides): someone was walking on the fields. I was walking on the elevated area (road).

I was up on the statue. There's a platform where barrels and/or snakes roll out, and we have to jump over them and avoid them, which gets more difficult as the level increases. (I swear to gawd that's what I thought in the dream) There were monkeys somewhere here. At first I was just watching, but then I went into first-person view, and I slipped under the mouth/area where they barrels/snakes go out. I ended up outside a building, holding up a window. I had to, or else the whole factory (house like) will collapse, and all the white monkey workers inside will get crushed. After a while, I let go, and the monkeys were able to escape. The area felt provincial, like the areas I used pass by via Don Salvador Benedicto.

There's something about a chosen one, a child, but that part of the dream mostly escaped me.

Spoiler for WARNING: Violence:

I was reading a book. I'm reminded of Florante at Laura and the whole rhyming thingy. The cover's drawing looked like it was evenly spaced out trees on the water, but from a top view. It looked old, the book. I opened and read. There was a woman being threatened by a man (the drawings looked Old English, or something). The woman protected someone (the chosen one?) or some people, and the man threatened to tell the authorities (?) unless she has sex with him. I saw the line drawing in the book where the man was pushing the woman on the wall facing him, which represents him raping her (although both were clothed in the drawing, I felt the cries, despair and humiliation of the woman). Under the table very close to them are two figures hiding, one a child and the other another woman, presumably the mother. The woman was looking at them in the drawing, still protecting them. Although the rapist was looking in the hidden people's direction, it suggests that he didn't see them.

I was watching small girl (the chosen one?) talk to God (he looked and felt like the one on Facebook, but full-bodied). She was asking him questions and he answers her with funny responses. I forgot the details of the exchange.

NOTES:

I slept around 4 p.m.
I woke up around 5:44 p.m.
I meditated before falling asleep.
I was listening to Linkin Park (Hybrid Theory) and The Gorillaz playlists the whole day.
I thought about how the music I was listening to connects to my high-school memories.

1/3 snip...For the second day in a row I get up after maybe 6 hours of
sleep, eat some oatmeal, watch a little TV and then go back to bed and for the second day in a row I have a lucid dream. I think both were either due to the nap schedule or my tweak to my self awareness check-ins but I also performed SSILD cycles each time. This felt more like a morning nap than a wake back to bed because I normally don't stay up for a long time for my wake back to beds staying up 1 hour yesterday and about 1.5 hours today (got into a movie). I'm driving down a busy road with three lanes going the same direction as I am. The right lane slows down to almost zero and I get over into one of the faster lanes and I see there's a car that is slowing down just barely going . As I continue along I see more and more cars driving strangely in curve patterns on a straight road some of them also curving into the side of the road and stopping. As I get more and more suspicious the question pops up that must be dreaming. The finger through my palm tries to tell me that I am awake but
I just know that I'm dreaming and I told myself if I'm dreaming I can pull back on the steering wheel and the car will start flying like an airplane. I lift off just above the ground at first and wonder if I've actually lifted it off at all and I pull back a little more and sure enough I'm flying up in the air higher and higher flying around a beautiful green hilled landscape in a daylight scene. It is so much fun it reminds me of the dream where I took off from the roller coaster flying over a similar landscape. I am checking out different views and after a while my vision starts to get fuzzy and I felt like I cracked open my eyes in waking life and maybe saw a little light and my room but I later realized that was a false awakening since when I actually woke up my sleep mask was firmly in place and my first do was dark by the sleep mask. At the time I thought I'd barely woke up so I decided to try to go back into the dream but later ended up in
another false awakening where my wife was coming back to bed for a little sexy time. I pull up her sweatshirt and she has an undershirt on and by the time my son starts calling out from downstairs (in the dream only because he's not at the house at the moment) we are completely naked and I am worried that he is going to walk up the stairs into our room just like the episode of Modern Family rerun that we watched last night. He is calling her asking her for something and I try to call out to him what is he looking for but he keeps calling to her (I also hear is cousin downstairs) and I tell my wife hey why don't you respond (at least 3 times) before he comes upstairs and I look at her and her eyes are closed and it looks kind of like she's having a light seizure or something with her lips puckered kind of like a fish and I start to get ready to call my son to ask him to call 911 when I realize again I'm dreaming...I must be but there's just enough doubt that I make myself
wake up just in case she is having some kind of medical emergency in waking life. Did not count this as a lucid dream...not this false awakening.

1/1/14 snip...Sometime during the night I wake and I have trouble going back to sleep I think only after 3 hours around 5 a.m. I went to bed just after 2 a.m. New Years Eve. Since I'm unable to sleep I decide to do my SSILD cycles and after some time I have three waves of vibrations I think that I probably went lucid but I was too lazy when I woke up after several subsequent non lucid dreams to write anything down so I don't recall anything specific after 5 a.m...except for the three waves of vibrations. Not counting it since I can't remember for sure.

1/2/14 1am 430 620 Dream that turned lucid. I get up after 5 1/2 hours of
sleep eat some oatmeal watch a little TV and then go back to bed. This was a morning nap false awakening where I pull off my sleep mask in the dream sitting up a little in bed. It feels so weird so I think that I am halfway in dreamland so I lay back down to DEILD but I am already dreaming...but it is confusing for a little while, a dreamlike confusion. New FA (I assume since my first memory of it is a bedroom scene) with E & his wife B. E asks if classic channel changes back to regular later I say no it stays the same but they play new shows not only reruns and classics. Something about Sony classic perhaps sony movie classics channel? My pajama pants are part way down and I try to pull them up a little I see B notices this and she appears interested to look down there but then I tried getting them up again when E starts talking again but he never looks down to see the condition of my pants I half realize it's a dream and have decided to go back down and visualize messing around with her but as I do it becomes so very realistic that I fully realize I am dreaming. I played with her breasts through her bra and I also feel her down there and it was warm and moist through her underwear. At one point she embraces me and as I wake up I notice my wife is not embracing me as I thought was happening. I assumed that waking life was melding with the dream but no, all made up in my mind. It was a very sensual weird experience. Just before I woke up I did start thinking about goals and if waking life was entering the dream.

My efforts of true lucidity have waned in the last few months of two thousand thirteen. Recall dropped dramatically yet my interest remained. I did not prevail. As I had lost the grasp at lucidity, I blamed others. Reality is, I'm to blame. I let the demons overtake and the anger and lust perverted the sacred lands of sleep and dream.

The faithful galleon of Dwo, that I had built and conquered from pirates, survived many battles as well as a lazy mutinous crew, had sailed on without my guidance whilst I blame those around me, fore my true foe lyes within. I wrestled with these demons of distraction far to long already. I shall fear sleep no longer.

Dwo was destroyed by the demonic being, Anger, before it was ever truly finished and Solitude, tainted by the demon, Lust.

Lust, is an infatuating yet twisted kin, whom tricked me into abusing my own powers for her own evil intentions. Cruelly misguiding me into neglecting my own soul. She speaks in tongues that I never understood yet she never needed to speak.

Anger, was equally abusive and pushed me over the edge of my own tower cliff and chased me out of the Oneiric paradise and even tricked me into hating others. A truly spiteful being. He need not speak either, fore he would only attack me verosiously.

At first, Lust made the land welcoming and warm. She taught me to summon so I could call her for my every craving, giving me everything to which I desire. Countless nights were lost in ecstasy. Thus distracting me from my true goals.

Then Anger came, subtlely at first, then night after night of his voracious taunts and my utter defeat. I stayed away for awhile hoping it would eventually just end, that Anger would leave me be, then I could return to tend my creation, the Tower of Dwo.

Occasionally, Lust would come to me and ease my sorrows yet as time went by I lost sight of all. Recall, became fragmented. I can only wonder where I would be right now if I had just wrote those horrid dreams of Angers vicious attacks down anyways. Perhaps I would have conquered over the two demons instead of letting them lay a blight all across Dwo.

Finding a strategy within the last few pages of last years book of dreams has proven difficult. Fore the pages were intentionally left blank and memories mostly forgotten, all but the worst of them. This year will prove one of the hardest and most challenging.

Lust still tricks me. Last night she visited me in a spacious and beautiful blue pool of water in a green field of exotic flora. She took the form of two tantalizing beauties, and pulled me into her distraction and deceitfulness again. While she tricks me with my own lustful wants, in the distance I watch lucidly, as Anger reigns in the tower of Dwo taunting me from afar, yet do nothing to stop him and reconquer my fortress.

I have many powers. From flight, to telekinesis, the ability to phase through walls to the breathtaking water breathing and even the unique ability of time manipulation. Among the other abilities I've learned last year, I believe it's time to defeat the two demons, find the abandoned Otherkind whom I had once befriended and take back what once was mine.

A new adventure is awaiting.
Now I sleep, then I dream.

Date:03 Jan

Wbtb: around 50 caffeine (latte), way too wakeful again

WILD: I finally feel as if I am not in bed anymore but somewhere else, so allow myself to look around (don't remember opening the eyes?). Yes, I am in an unknown room that has a slight resemblance to grandma's place.

At this point I recall 3 tasks and notice that there isn't a single DC here. The dream feels unstable and I recall that we talked how 501 would examine his hands in detail to anchor himself in the dream and decide to do so. I have a good look at my hands, which look quite realistic and similar to my real ones and move on to my arm where I concentrate on the fine hairs. I also remember to do the old classic stabilization where I lick my arm but with little effect. I still feel the dream slipping away and nervously walk around, thinking maybe I would try this opposite task I had in mind, but I begin to lose vision. The lower part of my vision becomes a blur and I begin to feel weightless, so conclude now isn't a good time for that particular task.

My vision gets somewhat better. I turn around and see a window, a good opportunity to get out of here. There is distinct coldness emanating from outside and I am sure it will help me freshen up and condense me back to normal. Before going out, I briefly wonder whether to bring a blanket or something, since the air is chilly. I open the window and push myself outside. In the meantime, a girl passes by carrying a blanket that she drops nearby. I ask her about her NY resolution but can't hear what she replies. The dream collapses.

DEILD: I very briefly touch on my body and concentrate on dreaming again. There's a confusing mid point dreamlet where I remain in darkness and can hear women talking around me, I keep still, waiting for the dream.

I feel a scene change, but decide I will wait a bit longer to allow the dream to fully form and maybe it will be more stable. I finally conclude it is ok to move and begin exploring. I am in my old room and can see that the voices from the previous part belong to a number of women. They are sitting on couches around a table with food and drinks as if there's some sort of party going on. A friend from school is also there.

I remember the NY resolution task and make an announcement that I would like to hear what their resolutions are. My friend says "I want some juice" and points at the table. A bit unsatisfied with the answer I move on to the next woman who looks in her forties and repeat the same question. She just stares at me with her mouth open. I wait a bit but not a single word comes out. There's another woman sitting next to her and I address her "what about your beautiful friend sitting next to you?", I feel as if I am moderating some sort of show. She says something about a friendship club in New York. I try to memorize as much as possible. The dream soon ends.

I make a quick review in mind and wonder if I should try to go back for more but really need to visit the restroom.

I also remember a fragment that I can't allocate, where I was looking at a blue/grayish backpack with something written on it by CL.

Side-note Lucid

A strange test
I'm flying in a large military plane - an old bomber? - to meet with some of my work team. I'm a passenger. First we fly to Aaron's house. He's on a cul-de-sac, near the end. We fly a circle around his house and try to figure out if we can land on the road. His house has a lot of antennas. The pilot is talking to Aaron's team lead on the phone, figuring out when we can meet. Aaron's currently really busy, but since we're here in a cool plane, he should be able to make time.

Now I'm in a car with someone driving back. They think I lost one of my shoes, so I'm a security risk; but I still have both my shoes on. Someone got confused. Now I'm back. The final test in some kind of competition is going on, and I've missed one of three hours. I think I still have time to do it all, but I'll need to hurry. I try to calm my nerves. Now I'm in what looks like a living room. Behind me a door leads back into the school. Somehow I accidentally stumbled across a kind of apartment while looking for the school's bathroom. I apologize to the occupants and leave.

Now I'm taking some kind of math test. Now I'm printing some kind of recommendation form sent by AW. Now I've finished everything and I'm looking over it. I read the recommendation letter and am horrified by all the typos. I decide I have time to pull it up and fix it. Something very strange happens with the text editor; it's not cooperating at all. I think I finally manage to get it working. Now I'm editing stuff by playing some kind of game. Things are going well, but then an internal timer reaches six hours and the game becomes much, much harder. Enemies who were previously easy now become strong enough easily to kill me. I'm having real trouble, and I don't have much time left to fix the document before the contest is over. I try to figure out if I can reset the timer to make things easier again.

Two contestants before me sing their final thing. They do a lovely duet in harmony with accompaniment. I congratulate them, and they say that others won't be able to do it since you need accompaniment to sing in harmony. I disagree, but I don't say anything. One of them - Mom? - wants to know if I'm interested in her final score. I say I am, but she doesn't hear me and walks off.



Walking at the park
I'm walking on a path entering a fairly crowded park. I see my pastor talking to a group. This park allows most activities, but if you're going to run, you have to do barefoot running. I don't know if he knows this or if he knows what that means, so I intend to pull him aside later and demonstrate. On my left is a building with an open door. One woman leads a dog out; shortly after, another leads a dog in. I realize the owner of the house must do dog-sitting. I overhear the new lady say something about keeping the dog for an extra half-day this time, and the owner of the business says how much it'll be. Now I'm still walking on the path, but I've got a dog walking with me. It's a Scottish Terrier, very like my step-aunt's old dog Brandy. We're in a park that allows pretty much any activity, except that if you run, you have to do barefoot running. I'm walking him along a path that runs next to a wide stream that leads into a lake. At one point, I realize I've lost him; looking ahead, I see him up ahead, just sniffing a HUGE black dog (I know he's 500 pounds). Both dogs are acting very friendly to each other. I catch up and apologize, and the lady walking the other dog says it's no trouble. Later, we're trying to cross a narrower part of the sidewalk. A lady is three with her slightly disabled adult daughter. They're letting people coming towards us get off the bridge, trying to empty it of people so the daughter will have an easier time getting across. I don't want to wait behind them so I just go around a different way.

Now I'm in a bathroom. I go to use the urinal on the far end (on the left) but realize it has no bottom. I quickly shift one over. Now I'm washing my hands. I'm in the same place as before, but the urinals are gone and sinks are in their place (I don't realize this at the time). I look over at the leftmost sink and get a little confused when I see it has a proper bottom. I notice some buttons along the side - three, with the middle button already pushed in. I press the bottom button and a kind of waterfall out the front of the sink starts, running right onto the floor. I notice a label by the button asking not to use that for too long or it'll flood the bathroom. I press the top button and get a blast of hot air - a hand dryer. An "awooga" alarm also starts up to remind the user to turn it off. I wonder why they didn't have that with the waterfall feature, since that seems much more dangerous. JG is there; we say something brief.

Now I'm leaving the bathroom. As I turn the corner, I realize I lost the dog again. I see some straps and I decide the easiest way to get him back is to hold one of the straps and really believe that it's a leash and he's on the other end (at this point I know I'm dreaming but there's no real awareness). Before I try it, I remember that I wanted to try lots of RCs next time I'm dreaming. Now I'm in an area with some giant windows to my right; the bathroom is to my left. I realize I'm getting that slightly "tipsy" feeling that indicates the dream isn't as stable as I'd like, but I remember that RCs help stabilize, so I start off with the traditional nose-pinch. The feeling of air passing through a pinched nose is one of the most amazing feelings! Next, I remember someone (Sivason?) talking about the importance of remembering the reality of the dreaming body without dwelling on any of its senses. I take a moment to think about that, to remember that this body isn't real, that I've got a real body back in my bed. I move onto the RCs I haven't done before. First, I try to push my left pointer through my right palm. I have a great sense of expectation; I know it'll work and I want to see what happens. There's some resistance, but I can see the back of my right hand bulge some, then my finger pops through. The hole my finger goes through isn't smooth; it's uneven, looking like it really did punch through.

Now I'm trying to remember other RC techs, but I'm having trouble. Finally, I remember the jump test. I jump, expecting to float down; instead, I find myself hanging in mid-air as if caught by the waist, head towards the floor, legs out behind me. I decide I should easily be able to transition to flying. so I stretch out horizontally and fly towards the window. Somehow I get it open. Beyond the window I see a fly screen, but I figure I can punch straight through it, so I fly at it, expecting to go through. Instead, it catches me and starts to stretch and stretch. Somehow I end up going down. I was many stories up, and now I'm going down towards the ground caught in the ever stretching net of the fly screen. Finally, a couple of stories up, the fly screen won't stretch any more and I'm just stuck hanging there. I try to think if I can get back up to the window to knock the flyscreen frame off. I get stuck with my eyes closed and start to panic a bit, but I calm down and start pinching my nose to keep myself grounded. After a few seconds I'm able to open my eyes again. The flyscreen is gone.

Now I'm on something floating, some kind of one-person soft raft. Hundreds of people around me are on similar things, and we're all floating along. I still know this is a dream, but all awareness is gone. I manage to do something impossible to jump up onto a wall running next to the water. Now I'm downstream. I jump from the wall onto people's rafts and use them to cross to the other side, onto some kind of small pier.


Fragment:
Vertical slits have been cut in the side of the microwave cabinet and knives are stuck through them like a strange knife block. The largest knife is just touching the side of the microwave.

Okay, so I performed a WBTB and next thing I know, I'm "waking up" in bed. It had just snowed, like hard the night before in real life. So, I looked out the window and was surprised to see that there was no snow whatsoever. This gave me reason to try an RC. I did (bite my finger to see if I feel pain) and of course I didn't. I immediately got up and I felt awesome, like I was floating (or getting ready to float into the air). I began to sing "Closer to the Heart" by Rush and was having fun. I left the room and my brothers were standing in the hallway. Now, I've never been able to fly or anything in an LD, but as I said, I already felt as if I was about to float off the ground, so, on a hunch, I jumped over them and sure enough, I floated safely to the other side of the hall. I entered the back room, only to find this girl Shawna from my school. Once again, my mind was too clouded with sex to do anything else, so I ended up getting her to give me a handjob and I recall it feeling amazing. But, before I got into the really fun stuff, I woke up.

NOTE: In a really weird way, as the HJ was happening, I kind of shifted into WL, then forced myself back into the LD. I need to master this technique in order to enjoy these LD's more!