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I'm at my elementary school. I just went through the majority of this one dream where I help this little kid become the fastest kid at the school (or something like that ) and I notice something on the mountains in the distance, something that's not normally there, or anywhere for that matter. I see a giant tower or totem that goes up for what seems like 100s of stories connected by a platform at the top that goes outwards, connected and held up by white iron roped and bars. I see it and then look to the left to see something even cooler, a city of emerald green coloring. It looks like an amazing elven or ancient city complete with a towering castle, all of this on a mountain seemingly miles away. My only thought is "how amazing it would be to go up there" so I then wonder if maybe this is a dream and I can maybe somehow get up there. So, on cue, I check my breathing after plugging my nose and the reality check works, I am definitely in a dream. So spontaneously I smile and run forward and decide, "why not fly"? So, I fly. I levitate off of the ground and feel a tingling sensation all around my body, I look down and see the field of my school and back to the tower and emerald city, taking in their beauty. I think about the possibility of uber charging my flight, like Neo, but it only works partially. I get a bit disappointed at this but just continue to enjoy the sensation of flight. I then start to lose concentration and wake up, without seeing the city. I kind of hope I can see the city and tower someday in another dream, but for now I'm pleased with just seeing them and testing flight

This dream is pretty recent (early January 2012, I think).

In this dream, I was talking to two ladies about my ET dreams. One was blonde and the other had dark hair. I was telling them about how I knew that those dreams were just dreams and how all of that ET stuff is bunch of baloney. All they did was look at each other and then back at me as if they wanted to say "No... That stuff really happened." We were in a circular, futuristic-like control room and they were standing in front of some kinda cylindrical computer that went from the floor to the ceiling.

I had this dream maybe in late December of 2011 or early January of 2012. I wasn't lucid and I was looking around me; I didn't know where I was. Then something possessed me and I said "The time is near!"

The feeling was like ton of air jetting out from the bowels of my gut, up out through my mouth as I spoke. It was weird but incredible! It just happened and I had absolutely no control over myself when it did. First time that ever happened to me in a dream.

I think I had several different dreams back-to-back but in all of them I was aware of what I was doing but I wasn't lucid. I had no idea it was a dream. I remember me and this girl were performing (I think) for the town folks. We were up on a balcony doing hand stands and stuff like that. I was a rather large guy (far bigger than the real me) and she was short.

Somehow she fell off the balcony and landed on her bottom, lol. I jumped off the balcony and levitated down slowly... I picked her up in my arms, closed my eyes, and begin to levitate back up to the balcony slowly. It's like levitation comes naturally in dreams for some reason. Even if you honestly have no idea that you're dreaming, you know you can levitate... Now, why is that?

When we got to the top, I joked with her and patted her on the head. Well, she didn't like it and told me to stop patting her on her head, lol.

Couple of crap days again. Let's delve into a nightmare classic. One of the last dreams of 2009 I'm gonna write here.

Vicious Attack
Date: December 6th, 2009
Lucid: No

I was in the edge of our fields, and there was also my brother and his girlfriend. Some airplane flew over as and it's engine sounded weird. Dad came at the edge of the field, next to the forest wall towards us.

Nearby, there was a relatively big barn. Under the barn's roof there was a space, from which you could see inside the barn. In that space there were couple of guys.

You could hear from the heights, how the plane turned steeply. Someone shouted "Woo!" from the plane. My dad kept walking closer, but the guys in the barn were shouting at him for come to there.

Dad noticed that they were calling him, but he didn't react to it, rather walking to us. The plane landed on our field. It was odd that it could land there so effortlessly so near us. The plane was white, and through it went blue stripes. It was very wide and the rudder was weird.

Out from the plane came an old, disgusting looking old bald guy and three of (presumably) his sons. Oldest of them were around 20, the two others a bit younger. All of them were at least slightly fat. My brother was doing his boxing defense poses in front of our dad, which made me expect something of an aggressive encounter.

The old guy started talking about some piece of metal, with what my brother had apparently hit one of his boys. It seemed though that he was just using that as an excuse revenge some grudges he had for our dad. He had a knife in his hand, and it wasn't like a small carving knife, but a big, mean-looking meat-cutting knife. The boys were armed as well, with many kinds of blunt weapons.

"Why do you even exist?" The old guy attacked at us verbally. He started spouting some shit about agricultural law, that didn't even make any sense. Basically he insisted, that we were worthless human beings. Apprently dad had not done some thing he should have done, according to the law. What the fuck?

"If someone has broken the law, then you call the police", I intervened, and my argument was perfectly sensible. "You can't take the law on your own hands. It would result in an anarchy."

But it obviously did no help. This dream had already decided to escalate all the way. Somehow I got hold of the guys knife, and I fuckin thrusted it to the old guys side! I aimed for non-lethal spots (there's no self-defence in Finnish law - you kill a guy and you go to jail). I guess I should have gone for the kill, as the guy only got more enraged. I guess I'd get too if I had a knife in my side.

"I'm gonna kill you!" He raged. But instead of attacking me, he moved towards my dad. Somehow he got another knife and slashed at my dad with it. He only hit his arm, but that got over my threshold of horror, so I woke up.

I was at school in my media studies class. It was the same as usual, except this time I got asked a question on something. The question related to the last part of this essay plan we were given, but it was completely different to what it was in real life. I guess after this I started getting lucid. I was confused by this, and ofund a way to not answer the question. I was then outside, in the middle of the school, and it was raining, there was also something to do with these ships from space. I stood there, not knowing what to do for a few minutes, and eventually I ended up in this place where a lot of people my age hang out at school. My friend who moved away a few years ago, who I still talk to every week, was there. We spoke, but then everyone ran off, and only a few people didn't understand why, including myself. So we all just sat at this table and spoke about things. I looked at the time, it was an impossible time, I definately became lucid after this because I remember realising that it was a dream and being confused by it. Eventually I woke up, I didn't really get a chance to do much with the lucidity. Disapointment.

a few years ago i had a dream about a girl named jody in the dream we were in love but then she died. then around a year later i had another dream about this other girl i dont remember her name but i think it started with a k in this dream we were love but her dad killed and i think he raped her when i woke up from both off these dreams i hurt i felt like i really lost someone close to me. also for open minded people do you think dreams could be real could they excist in another dimension becuase when your dreaming there real to you

1:15am

Clear Skies, Blue Ocean
Out in the country, we are diving down a dirt road, until we get to a house. It doesn't have a fence, well it wouldn't matter because they have no neighbours. in fact, there is no civilization visible in any direction at all. All I can see that is of any interest is the forest further down the road. Anyway we pull up next to the house, it looks more like a shack that is missing doors and windows... we go out the back where there is concrete, and the view of the plains is blocked by a tall hill. there is a guy there, I assumed he was the delivery guy or something. Double sink? There is a little well outside and the same guy wastes all the water by pumping it into the grass.. now without water I go and look for a river and i see one in a valley. I see that I already have some fishing gear with me, so I decide to go fishing. I'm walking along the river, in the direction of the current. The river is very clean and looks good enough to drink, i see a spring? Water is flowing into a hole and making a whirlpool effect.

Very vivid! I see an ocean far off into the distance with three ships. I'm with guy (im assuming its the same guy from before) we walk towards the ships. There is a rock formation like an arc and through it we can see an island with lots of trees. He tries to swim over to an island, gets eaten by a shark i didn't mind he was annoying apparently.. I see party members swimming from another direction, i join them, almost get eaten by a shark.

We get to a place where its snowing, i open up a tiny window and it was like opening a freezer door.. Lol our party members had rooms separated by silk drapes.

I didn't think I'd be able to have a successful LD this morning because of too many sounds and people and interruptions and cell phones and dogs, but I finally DEILDed and felt that naughty demon grab me and hold me from behind. I tried to flip him over but this time he remained steadfast and glued to my back. Completely lucid and ready for battle, I stood up on my bed. He was still hanging on, dumb dick. So I jumped up, and off the side of the bed, using the edge of my mattress as a 'scraper' and the demon peeled right off, and landed on my bed with a plop. Already having taken the form of a pretty brunette woman, she lay there, unmoving, in a near vegetative state. I won. I disrobed her, whipped out my man junk, and went to town. Of course I woke up too soon, spoils of victory taste tooooo gooooood.

I woke up but was able to go right back to it, this time she was more blondish. I wanted to do everything that Alyzarin and I had discussed, because I was bound and determined to make this a full victory. So I got out of bed, went to my bathroom, and looked at my reflection in the mirror. As always, my obedient doppelganger's eyes turned almost a lime green, with little silver sparkles that moved over almost gel-like irises, nearly devoid of pupils. I looked down at my hand, moved it back and forth a bit, and felt my lucidity temporarily stabilized.

I went back to bed and started to do my thing to the demon bitch again, but I woke up again.

IT WAS SO FUN.
High 5, Aly!

i was standing in my room and i tried to adjust my very small glass tube tv, then i realize my flatscreen is gone...I WENT OUT TO THE LIVING ROOM and asked mom where it went and she said i dont know, i went back in rooma nd found my flatscreen perched on top of a large library card type wooden file cabinet balancing onthe corner of my bed O_o the rest of the dream went this way as well, noticing things missing, asking mom then finding missing items in impossibly precarious places...woke up...

It started out i was wandering the halls of some office building, endless halls, couldnt find my way out or around or anything...allof a sudden Jack sparrow appeared carrying a very long ladder, he said follow along now, we're practically finished! so i grabbed the back of the ladder and he lead me all over the place from one hall to another neverending hallways...then woke up...

My first dream of the night (morning, lol) was a really short one, but the one I probably enjoyed the most. I started out the dream in a little rectangular clearing in a woody area. It reminds me of when you leave the forest in Legend of Zelda: OoT and first step into Hyrule Field. There are trees all around, including where I must have just come from, but there's only one clear cut "way" to go. The clear way was to my right (I was facing in towards the rectangle like I'd just appeared there, not come out of the forest to get there) and it was a stone path the reminded me of the stone wall tracks of the "Bowsers Castle" level in Mario Kart (N64 version). The forest ends where the stone path begins, and when stepping on the stone path I can see there's nothing but purple gray mist when I look over the edge. I think it's cool the stone path and forest were floating in a purpleish grey sky, and vaguely become aware that I am dreaming, but not enough to really control anything. I can see that ahead the path makes a sharp, right angle turn, and goes on for another hundred feet or so before ending at a giant castle made of the same type of stone. I decide to follow the stone path since it didn't look like there was much if I went back to the forest. I get to the turn, and look directly ahead at the castle. I can see a big archway is the entrance, and there's a red carpet that goes into the castle, just like in the Mario Kart level. What is out of place are the two monsters in the castle pacing back and forth like sentries. One is a big black praying mantis. It seems to be made of shadows (but I had seen a manga image of a praying mantis just before bed, so it's very probably that rather than shadowy, it's "Inky" ) The other monster is a giant snake. It's walking on about 2 or 3 feet of tail, holding the top 6 feet of it's body upright. It's whiteish yellow like the albino cornsnake at our local science center. It's round enough that I'm pretty sure that I couldn't wrap my arms around it and be able to reach my own hands. There's an oval shaped jewel or something on it's forehead which I find really odd. A Snake, wearing jewels, wtf? They notice me only a second after I notice them, and they start making their way towards me. I'm not scared yet, because I'm semi aware that it's a dream and I will be ok, instead I'm anxious, thinking to myself, "What are these things, and how the hell am I going to beat them?" Before I have the chance to think of an answer though, I suddenly feel like I'm not alone. My eyes are still locked on the snake and mantis coming towards me, but I feel an undeniable presence to my left. Without even thinking I reach out my hand and grab K's hand. I don't even have time to be relieved that I finally found him in a dream again, on a night that I wanted to find him... then again, I didn't exactly find him, he found me, lol. The snake uses it's tail as a spring, and leaps towards us, with huge nasty looking fangs. I'm still not afraid, I'm not even wondering how I'm going to win this anymore. I place complete and total faith in K that I'm going to be fine. Sure enough, K steps forwards with his left foot, still holding my hand so he ends up taking a step in front of me as well as forwards, and swings a fairly long sword in an arc. The snake is cut cleanly in half, the top half falls over the edge into the void and the bottom half disintegrates. Because of that circle step forwards, K is now in front of me, almost facing me, so I can see him, sort of. I wonder to myself how I am so sure that's K, because he's wearing loose black robes with a hood that covers his face. I can't see his features at all but I just know it's him because it feels like him. He lets go of my hand and turns back around to face the mantis as it's closing in, less than three feet from us. He swings at it, and I think it blocks with it's pinchers, but he pulls back and attacks again, this time defeating it. It also disintegrates. I think I manage to call out "Thank you!" before I wake up, but that could just be what I was trying to say and woke up first. :/

((Just wanted to edit this entry to say that my best friend also happened to be able to recall her dreams last night. She texted me this afternoon that she'd had a dream with me in it. Since we wanted to share dreams, I told her I'd facebook her my dreams of the nights if she'd text me hers. Turns out, she dreamed that she was on a stone path in front of a church looking at me... her church had a red carpet coming out it just like my "castle" and she claims I was standing there with a dark shadowy guy. Things aren't exactly the same, and I never saw her in this first dream, but we at least had most of the same/similar elements which was pretty cool!))

The second dream of the night was just a fragment on a dark forest path. I've got my little boy's hand, and we're crouched down walking quickly through the dark, running from bush to tree to bush kind of thing like we're trying to move quickly but stealthily away from something. Curious what we're running from, I turn around and steal a quick glance at whats behind me. There's a huge man, probably between 6 and 7 feet tall carrying a really big burlap sack over his shoulder. I think that lump in that sack is big enough for a body, and wonder if he's a murderer. We continue to make our way quickly, but because the man is walking directly and we're zigzagging in the dark I notice he's gaining on us. The path goes down hill for a moment, then the path veers right. We make the right turn, to find that the path extends in front of us, but there's also a clearing to the right. I rationalize to myself that the man is probably going forwards, but he might decide that little clearing is a good place to bury a body if that's what he has in the sack. I decide that the clearing is probably the safest bet, because really why would he be carrying a body and no shovel if he was going to bury it! I pull my little boy into the clearing and we duck behind a rock where I don't think he can see us from the path when he walks by. My little boy says something, I can't remember what, but I remember hushing him and looking hurriedly at the path hoping the man following us didn't hear him. I don't see the man, so I hold my breath for a moment hoping to hear him on the path. I don't hear him, so I let out my breath relaxed, he must have turned back. But then I see him on the path, and he turns into the clearing, with his burlap sack and a shovel. I think "Oh shit, I made the wrong choice!" and then wake up.

The last dream of the night was hardest for me to remember because it just wasn't that interesting. I was in the kitchen, and my younger brother was there. There was loud music playing, and people I didn't recognize kept coming in and out of the room. I told my brother he was crazy to throw a party because Grandma was going to have a fit that he had a party in her house. He says she's not here, she won't find out, and even if she does, he's in the army now, she can't get mad at him when he's only home for two weeks a year, because then he won't come back at all. Then there's some missing time, and I'm on the side of the road near my great aunts home. My other grandma who died several years ago (not the one who's house I was at before) had called my cell phone and told me to help her sister. Since I'm there I say I will. A car pulls into the driveway, but only halfway. My Aunt tells me to get something out of the trunk that is still in the road. I worry a car might hit me, but think that my family will get a lot of money is someone does hit me, so I'll risk it. Apparently my dream self doesn't think much of a life, lol. I open the trunk, and get some sort of big vase with a sunflower in it out. I balance it in once hand against my chest and close the trunk. Then I see a car coming. I yell at my aunt to move the car forwards so it doesn't get hit. She asks if I have the plant and I say yes, move the car! The car pulls forwards, and I scamper off the road. Then I wake up.

Two lucids AGAIN! Holy crap! This night was fairly bizarre as it was, but I think the last dream was the most interesting for me.

#1 - Parties And Dancing [Non-Lucid]

There's a family party going on at my house. Apparently I'm tormenting my cousin G and his brother P is supportive of it at first but not later. I don't remember much of that part of the dream, though. What I do remember is that I was wearing some completely ridiculous dress. Not ridiculous by look (I don't even really remember what colors it was or anything), just by... function. The entire time I was wearing it it was constantly shapeshifting itself and my body, I would look down and my boobs would alternatingly shrink or become pointy or slide around on my chest and stomach and the dress would randomly inflate and deflate and become really light and really heavy, at one point it basically felt like it would if I had a t-shirt on with a really thick pillow stuffed into the front, it was so awkward feeling. For some reason though, I also felt really confident in myself, like the dress looked really good on me or something. There was music playing and my aunt asked me to dance. We did for a bit and then I felt really good about myself so I went to the center of the room and did this dance that I came up with while tripping that I do when I'm alone that I feel is really cool to experience but I've always been too embarrassed to do it in front of anyone. Amazingly, I did the entire thing with my eyes closed AND was spinning a lot and when I finished and opened the scene still hadn't changed. It also made my other dream senses become much more apparent, which I thought was cool. Everyone was impressed at my dance, and I still felt embarrassed but in a good way. This is all happening in the den, and when I walk by the living room I see G still avoiding me. :T After that I walked into the kitchen, and maybe to the laundry room but I can't remember, but then I turned around and walked through the hallway behind the bar which somehow led outside into this beautiful garden (at the time I thought it as a park) with a few tables set up, and apparently my cousin A and her husband P (different P than before, but actually even the same name in real life) were having another family party as a follow-up to the one I was just at. Now I'm suddenly wearing some hard to remember white top and blue velour pants, I'm not sure what happened to the dress, but I actually am confused about it in the dream. I walk past a gazebo and see P sitting down with some random Asian guy at a table so I join them, but then A and other P told us that the Asian guy wasn't with us, so we felt embarrassed, and he looked at us weirdly and asked "Who are you...?" After that, I woke up.

#2 - Pointless Obstacles [Non-Lucid]

This one I was a little lazier about making note of so I don't have quite as much detail remembered, but I do remember that I was going to hang out with my friend K and I was wearing the same dress as before, only much more stable and unchanging. I was at his new apartment complex that he just moved in to and it was nighttime and snowing outside. Though one of the rooms of his apartment is apparently on the ground floor (it's not, it's on the top) and I can see through the window, I still start climbing the stairs up to get to the main entrance. Normally there's just a staircase to climb up, but this was like a legitimate obstacle course. And not just a regular one, I mean it had floating and moving panels and big gaps where you could fall through the floor into darkness, it was a like an intense video game map. I don't remember much of the first parts, but I had to work through several floors and finally I got to the top one. I climbed up a ladder to it and opened up a wooden hatch on the ceiling, and T, one of K's old roommates, was there in a sleeping bag in what looked kind of like a cross between a storage room and the inside of a pirate ship. >.> At this point I notice I'm somehow naked, but it doesn't bother me too much. I ask T if I can borrow one of his blankets, and he hands it to me and when I wrap it around myself it transforms into some really crazy anime outfit, and I go third-person and I have hot pink (but sort of almost red at time) hair with those gigantic anime/game character curls.



I make my way across some giant obstacle field made of ice, and hear some girls in the corner having some random conversation that catches my attention for a second but then I finally make it to K's door. But he rejects me because it turns out he's busy hanging out with someone else. I turn around but end up slipping on the ice floor and end up falling into the blackness below the floating panels, and that carries me all the way down through the floors I'd made it beyond so far, finally ending with me hitting the ground with very little pain. :\

#3 - Creepers Beware! [DILD]

I'm back outside at K's apartment complex, and it's still nighttime but not snowing. I'm walking around waiting to do something, but then I remember it's in what can be considered a kind of shady area, and I'm afraid of getting mugged or worse by just standing around. >.< I start walking back to my car and on the way there a gang of guys who're loudly cracking jokes about something comes walking near me which makes me uneasy, but then I suddenly become lucid and the dream starts quickly ending. The dream is very visibly crumbling around me, my vision is narrowing down to a pinpoint with just blackness surrounding it and frequently the entire dream blurs and looks sort of like a big crystalline fractal image, but not an actual 3D scene or anything. I'm tired of becoming lucid and having dreams immediately end, so I start furiously rubbing my hands together. I also start repeatedly yelling "BECOME LUCID!" and "MORE VIVIDNESS!" and every time it actually works a bit, but the dream is still obviously hanging on to its very last breath of life. I figured I'm going to have to interact with the dream a bit more if I want to really save it, so I walk over to one of the creepers and start talking to him. I act all friendly and lull him into a false sense of security, then grab him by the shoulder and punch him in the crotch as hard as I can. I laugh as he falls, but as he does I see the dream go all crystally again and I'm afraid my efforts aren't working, though my full vision was returning. Next I grab him by the crotch, then blast off the ground with a sonic boom and fly us up right into the side wall of the nearest apartment building, where I position his head directly at it and smash him into it, still applying the force directly to his crotch to do so. There's an incredibly loud impact sound and the side of the building crumbles around his body a bit. I let myself fall back to the ground and am satisfied because the dream seems to have restabilized enough. I walk around and notice that it's daytime now, and there's still really nothing to do. :T But that's okay, I've already had my fun. I flew up to get a nicer view of the apartments from the sky, then the dream ended.

#4 - Lucid Within A Non-Lucid [DILD within a Non-Lucid]

This one I only have a short description of, but it was rather interesting. It starts with me in a class but this kid, J, who only went to the same school as me up until middle school. The first part may have been more of a transitional state or a hazy third-person part, because I honestly don't remember much of it at all, at least in any way that really makes sense in my mind, but it was about us fighting robots in class! After that there was some kind of boss, and J handed a magazine that was apparently it. I tried to figure out how a magazine could be commanding robots, and there was some kind of hint in one of the articles about there being a sensor of some kind hidden above the ceiling tiles in our classroom, but then we just kind of abandoned that plot and started waiting for class to end. I go sit down at my desk and get really tired, and fall asleep while waiting. Here's where things get strange! I lifted my head and I was still in the same classroom, but the people were acting weird and robotic (heh) rather than how they had been a second ago, and everything had a really foggy feeling to it. It was extremely trippy. I look around and think, wait, I just fell asleep in this class and now it's different and... wait, is this a dream? :O Yes, that's right... I became lucid based on clues that weren't true. And at the time, though it was a legitimate lucid and felt like one (rather than just dreaming about being lucid but not actually being), I still thought of the non-lucid dream as reality and where I was sleeping. The atmosphere of the lucid was extremely confusing, probably because somewhere in the back of my mind I knew that I was lucid but still very unaware of the situation. It honestly felt like I was the lowest level of lucidity I could possibly be. I decided to just waste time since I was waiting for class to end anyway, so I had everyone in the class start singing a song. The teacher even joined in happily. I wanted to go flying outside a bit after that started, and I saw it happening in my mind's eye but it wasn't really, and then everything got really hazy and I figured the dream was ending, so I woke back up... into the non-lucid dream. Obviously, I thought I was awake at that point so I lost lucidity. Not long after that though, I actually woke up. What a strange experience!

I forgot to jot this down. I remember having a dream a long time ago where I was an old man. I was sitting at my desk that was located up on a podium or small stage and it was situated to the back of the school--the exit was on the opposite end of the school. The place looked like a school to me and I guess my desk was the teacher's desk. The room was fairly large and there were long chairs on the floor for the students I guess.

I looked over to my right and saw a child standing there right beside me. I asked him in an old man's voice, I said "Who are you?" And the boy, who looked to be maybe 12-14 years of age, said "I'm *****, your new intern, sir." I don't remember the name. Then I said "Oh," and continued what I was doing.

I am with two people in a movie production. We are the actors. I don't know what the plot is but I know it has something to do with video games (I think I was supposed to be Donkey Kong). We're in an abandoned place that looks a lot like a hospital. I open the door to a hallway and there is what looks like a Silent Hill mannequin nurse at the end.

"Silent Hill!" The actor next to me yells, "That's not original at all!"

We run away from it pretending to be scared for the cameras. Out of the corner of my eye I spot the beautiful Mena Suvari working behind the scenes. We head down some steps towards what appears to be a cave. At this point I realize I am in a dream.

This guy comes out of nowhere and introduces himself and tells us that this cave is his place. He is taller than I am, and has medium length black hair. He seems really nice, and I feel like I know who he is, and that he is another dreamer.

"I want to show you something," he tells me, leading me further inside.

We come to a piece of art painted on the cave floor. It's an animal, comprised of different animal parts. Mostly bird but part lion, similar to a griffin except not quite the same.

"Do you change into this form in your lucid dreams?" I ask him

He nods yes, "Look at this other one I've been working on. I'm trying to perfect it's abilities."

We walk to the right and look at a second painting on the ground. This one is of a raven with huge outstretched wings and flowing feathers. In the image the bird is actually breathing frost like an ice dragon. It looks awesome.

He walks away for a moment and one of the other DCs I was with earlier comes up to me.

"Your friend has a present for you."

He hands me what looks like a candy bar. I pull open the wrapper and see that it's actually some kind of jerky meat. I start chewing on it. It tastes funny, I don't think my mind was quite settled on what it wanted it to be like. But it does the job. It helps me to stay grounded in the dream. I realize he gave me the present to do just that - keep me in the lucid dream. It makes me smile. I run up to him and give him a big hug.

"Thank you," I say.

He grins, "No problem."

At that moment I think about my body lying asleep in bed. Everything starts fading out. Crap! I'm not supposed to think about that! But it's too late. The dream dissipates and I wake up.

During this dream I was told the name of the guy who was helping me a few times. I can't for the life of me remember what it was. All I remember was that it sounded like a screen name. Like he came from the forums. And I felt like I knew him well. When I woke up however, I realized that I in fact have never met him before in waking life. I do not know who that was. It's a weird deja vu kind of feeling.