non-lucid

Dream - Lucid

I was in college. It was the first day of the semester. I was in what looked like the break room at work putting things in a locker.

I was then in a theater in a theater class. Dallas was the teacher. He was showing us footage of a musical that he wanted us to do. It was about this group of people who just went around and shot people. I wanted to be in the chorus, not a main character, and I said so to Dallas/the class. I then thought about Dallas and this was his first time directing a musical. I knew he'd be nervous, especially on opening night.

We kept watching the footage. It was quite the bloody show. People would get shot, and there would be a lot of blood.

I then was in the locker/break room again. I was sitting at the table in there. A lady gave me a sheet back with grades on it. I was doing really well! Not all perfect scores, but lots of good scores. I thought about how this time around I was going to all my classes, as opposed to all the other times when I would neglect a class all semester and fail it or have to drop it (this never happened IWL, but has in my dreams many times).

I was then back in the class, but this time, I was on stage with some other girls. We were the shooters at some sort of outdoor party underneath a pavilion. I remember something about trying to load a silver gun for one of the other girls. I loaded it up alright, but was having trouble turning off the safety and getting it ready to shoot. Someone took it from me and did it themselves.

I then was in some sort of formation with the girls. It was a T shaped formation, with two in the front and the rest of us behind in a single file. There were maybe 5 of us total. I was second, being only behind the two in the front. It was then like we were very deep underwater, thought the pavilion was still there and everything, and we had to link our arms together in a special way while at the same time plugging our ears because of the water pressure change. It was weird. We were being directed how to do so by some people talking to us, I believe my mom was one of them. I was looking in front of me, and saw that my dad was one of the people in front of me. He had this tube coming out of the back of his head by his ear with a plastic bubble around it. There was pink liquid medicine in the bubble. I somehow got it to go in the tube, because that's how he was taking his medicine, but it came right back out again. Um...not sure what to do about this. He had no idea what was going on with the meds, and for some reason, I didn't tell him. I somehow got him to tilt his head forward, and the meds went back in the tube. Some came out again. Ugh.

Then, we were getting ready to go up to the surface. We linked arms in the weird way we were supposed to, but I couldn't get my hands up to my ears to plug them. It was too late though, we were racing up to the surface quite fast. I heard my mom's voice call out
"Protect your ears!"
I was trying really hard to get my hands to my ears. I got my left one, but my right one was still uncovered. I couldn't get my hand to it. My right ear started to ring and I felt a lot of pressure in it.

I then woke up before we hit the surface.

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I was being taught how to fill a syringe with medication for shots. A woman was showing me how to do it. We filled this syringe with a medicine that looked like apple juice. She didn't have me tap it for air bubbles, and I thought back to seeing nurses doing that with syringes that had the glass shaped in such a way that it looked like bubbles connected together. I don't know how else to describe it, and I can't find a good picture on the internet to show you what I mean. I asked the woman about that. I don't remember her response, but for some reason, we didn't have to tap the type of syringe we were using for bubbles. I guess only the people with the bubble-shaped syringes had to do that. I assumed something about them also being amateurs.

I tried wild in the morning
multiple dream formed , I was aware . But there were no SP's.

And then this one started
I was walking out to the coast of the danube river
A girl and a boy was with me , we were talking about why are foreigners came here and sell stuff..
I realised that most of the foreigners are english speaking , suddenly I got a Billy Mays feeling.
So we go there and we see that the coast is full of foreigners selling stuff, it was some kind of festival
I got a feeling of being in a bazaar, we walked on and then I realised that we're in some kind of monk clothes, a bit weird but ok ...
Night approaches, then we still talk about the festival and we don't know why the heck they came here
then the guy says that probably because the olympics are gettind holded in this city.
then I watch down and I see theres a plus shore , we're the highest , down there are muslim people selling stuff ...
Night approaches
So we dismissed that we go home , but I stayed to look around, suddenly everyone's gone!
I run into the place where the festival was , now theres nobody,
I look around and now I see a big structure made of wood
and there are little houses, I guess this is where they gone
I look back at the ones with me , but they started going home
I scream "DONT LEAVE ME HERE"
I run up, but its too late, they're gone
I started to walk back
"This place is so weird, the city lights are beautiful hmm... This could be a dream? Everything is too smooth to be a dream"
I look at my hand , and yes

I became lucid

I look at everything, wonderfull
"This place... everything..."
The grass starts to grow extremely as I realized that I need to contact with the dream enviroment in order to stabilize
I touch them , seems real. Then I walk on, trying to shoot flames with my hands , but It fails.
As i walk on I meet with an old woman, y'know, the grandma type.
"Come , let me lead you on the way"
Idk why , but I followed her, I guess my lucidity dropped at this point
We start walking , I try to drop flames again, then she says "dont scare me, you look like a crazy person!"
we walk on ,and then suddenly teleporting happens
now we are in a suburb like place mixed up with a place near my workplace.
I see oldies talkin' , I check my hands and now I have about 10 fingers on one hand
"Damn, atleast, I could fly... YES! I should try fly"
I start to run , jump one, relaxing my hands and getting energy out of it
and unstable fly starts
and then the dream fall apart

It was awesome anway.

09.09.2014

Big Store Event, Not Attending (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

It’s just one of those dreams where the virtual experiential reality is so high, that I’m slightly shocked for not having some existential questioning going on if this was a dream or not. One part of me wanted to delude myself into thinking it’s real, just for the sake of not being apathetic towards the dream characters, and the dream’s potential value in general.


Judging by the body sensations that I’m experiencing, there’s a lot of tension, almost as if there’s some big event where me and the dream characters that look like some of my co-workers are going to participate in. It’s the type of feeling where all the other challenges you had to face creep up on you, but then you come to a realization, and a satisfaction that you overcame them.

I can feel my feet tingling, traveling up to my knees, and finally near my stomach. I started to feel an emptiness inside that was oddly comforting. So I just let time pass by, letting the conversations from other co-workers become diluted, and slowly getting accustomed to this highly vivid virtual experiential reality. There was a female there whom I had a deep affection with, though I feel the word is too strong seeing how the relationship in real life wouldn’t really go that far.

She still expressed the type of disposition where she would take advantage of her looks to fill the void of the insecurity that she has of not having something to love her; this dream character existed in a way where every single quality I could possibly use retrospect and analysis about her was clearly exhibited, and all she did in the dream was pass through the small lane in the middle of the bus to get out and go somewhere.

I reign in these odd feelings of affection towards this dream character, most likely because I already have predispositions to avoid those kinds of interactions with them so that those feelings won’t bleed onto how I communicated with them in waking life.

Everyone else just felt like random noise, and I did my best to show some interest with the existence of this dream characters. But when one of them stated that we’re not attending whatever event we’re close to, I immediately lost interest in the dream.

Instead of trying to accomplish some goals of mine I’ve had on my mind for -insert x entity- knows how long, I just get bored, and just drifted back into non-lucid dreaming.

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09.09.2014

I'm Too OP in Runescape (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I realize I’m playing a MMORPG that has a Runescape-esque feel to it. I figured I might as well enjoy watching what’s going on. I believe I’m playing as some old man with a long gray beard, and all he’s wearing are some white desert robes in the cold.

The overall color schemes consist of blue and gray, and I had a feeling that the area I was going to would be the God Wars Dungeon, seeing how there’s a huge pit with a rope hanging on the side. I had a feeling that if I’m only going into a pit with only a white desert robe, and a staff that looks like the Polypore staff, I’m probably really powerful in this dream version of Runescape.

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I go inside the pit, and I find myself in an area that’s a very spacious battle arena. I do a quick walk around, and I have to fight some purple tentacle creature that seems to be rotating its whole body, or tentacles vertically at rapid speeds. It’s pretty hard to comprehend the existence, and locomotion of the creature in general, and my initial reaction was to activate some prayer abilities like Protect from Magic, or something like that. I even see the Prayer screen as well, though it didn’t seem to me that I activated it at all.

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I believe I’m switching to a melee weapon since I got pretty close to the tentacle monster, though I’m pretty sure I used Mage, or Ranged on it. I’m paying close attention to my health bar, and it seems that I need to activate Soul Split, especially when I came into this place with no food whatsoever. I realize this before going into the pit, but it was already too late since I couldn’t really get into the dream that way to start changing the environment, i.e., I was too indulged in the task of playing this game.

I hear the sound effects of the Soul Split, which I presumed was working, and fortunately it did. I manage to kill the tentacle monster with ease, and I didn’t even bother to check if I had a Prayer limit. I guess it was implied that I could use any Prayer ability without worrying about my Prayer points being drained.

If playing as an old man with a gray beard and having to rely on a Prayer ability doesn’t imply religious implications unconsciously being expressed to me, then I don’t know what the purpose of this dream is.

And just went I thought I could get out of this one, another weird creature appears. The overall composition of it is akin to a dolphin, and it has a light blurry violet color to it as well. It apparently can levitate, and shoot high pressed air at a high rate. Or maybe it was steamy water that was high pressured.

I honestly don’t know how I dealt with this one, but I do know that I spent most of my time just running away from it, and dodging when it shoots the high pressured stuff at me. Whatever happened, happened, and the next creature is very hard to recall its overall body composition.

I just knew that at that point, if I could handle the previous entities with ease, with only having a few moments where I thought I was going to die, then I’m obviously over powered in this game. I defeated all of them, and I forget what happens next.

Oh, and there's another non-lucid dream where I tell one of my relatives (female) that I liked the Naruto Shippuden villains more than the protagonist, but again, not going to invest time in recalling this dream.

I was thinking about Eye as I was falling asleep. I recall I appeared somewhere in a city and did non lucid things. After that I started thinking about how it must feel to Wild in a dream. Suddenly I felt I was being pulled into another scenery. Something invisible pulled me to a room and it's appearance became more apparent. It was one of my favorite dream characters Dawn. He started talking to me and asking me about some things I don't remember. I think he asked me if I liked him or Eye more. I thought about how I wanted to see Eye too but suddenly I appeared on my bed. I thought I woke up but I was still dreaming. I tried getting into a comfortable position when I noticed I couldn't move. My face was in front of the pillow and I thought I would fall asleep and suffocate myself so I tried moving. Something small and invisible grabbed me after that and tried positioning me in a way. I started thinking about my dead grandfather after that and wondered what it would be like to have a dream about him. But tossed the idea out cause it would be weird. I noticed a name floating behind the invisible dc that read Lydmason I think. It was kind of creepy so I tried getting out but than....My neck snapped in the dream and broke when I lifted my head up. I was super scared cause I thought what if it did snap in waking life. The invisible thing pulled me and tried to distract me from my broken neck I think. That's when it tried to do it with me but I wasn't fond of the idea. I pushed it away but it kept trying. But I had a small FA after that,than woke up.

Dream
Lucidity
Notes

I somehow became aware I was dreaming. I started exploring the house, the area was very bright, unlike my other lucid dreams where it's usually dark or gloomy. I went into some rooms, which were all empty. I tried teleporting with a door and once I opened it, the room inside was distorted but eventually turned into a regular room. My teleportation failed so I went outside, saying "I want an F22 to be parked outside." Upon opening the door, the area was very bright and I was in a beautiful suburban neighborhood with trees on the other side of the street. I looked for the Jet but didn't see it. Instead, a Volkswagen was parked under a covered parking spot.
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On the forums, I had read a guy asking if people usually have dreams inside or outside, so I started drawing a little box or circle on my journal depending on whether I was inside or outside. It was an extremely short dream. The 2 girls that I see in a lot of my dreams yelled at me, saying not to put so much stuff on my dream journal, which startled me and caused me to wake up. Ever since, I haven't put whether my dreams have been indoors or out

I dreamt I was in a restaurant with some friends. After finishing our meal a small dog appeared and did a funny, smiley face to me (Why did I not find that strange?). My friends decided going to a club. Someone made a mess when standing up so I was left behind cleaning
Then the scene changed to a supermarket, I had a videogame box in my hand and continued browsing the store. I think i was looking for a gift for my nephew.

I was walking into either north or south housing, looking for Benally because he had taken something and ran away. As I went into the housing to see where he lived, the whole place looked like a best buy store. I was in civilian clothes so an employee told me I couldn't be there and I showed her my Corrections ID. She said that it was expired but I didn't care and I kept moving through the area. I left and saw Amerson and some security guards arguing with a girl. They started to take her down and I pulled out my Phase IV, spraying her and Amerson. We cuffed her but she got out so I took her down. A security guard cuffed from the front so I started telling him how cuffing from the front is stupid and dangerous.

I was in Belen applying with their police department. After doing some stuff, they told me I was gonna have a partner and that they would send me to the academy. I had my suit on and was with a few other people. I went into the bathroom and once I looked in the mirror, my face looked really weird and ugly, which freaked me out. I was stressing out and remembered Nikki, which I heard outside. I don't remember what happened next but something said to me that I had 5 minutes to write my dream down before the alarm on my phone went off.

I was in Venezuela at the old apartment and was going outside to a Walgreens that was apparently closed. I entered a mall that I recognized and started talking to a guy about parkour because I noticed footprints on the walls. I had recently joined the high school football team and was getting ready for a match. I was showing off my parkour skills and people started joining me. I saw people I recognized and I also saw family members. I parkour'd to the side of the mall and came up on some water. I swam through it and felt my pants getting wet because of the water. I held my breath as I went under some poles and eventually saw a beautiful river with a forest on both sides of it and a huge mountain covered in snow in the middle of the left forest. I commented on how beautiful the scene was and counted fingers in both my hands. They added up to 14 fingers and I said "Nah it's not a dream" I saw a cop car sailing in the distance and decided to leave before I got in trouble. My alarm started ringing and I reached for my phone then I woke up.

I was on a plane traveling to a different country. When we landed, everyone waited around for someone to pick us up but we realized that we had missed our train, so we went into a subway that looked like a sewer system. My group grabbed wooden sticks to use as weapons and I had my pistol. As we moved through the subway, one of the team members found a small boat in the middle of the sewer so we got on it. We sailed through the water and started seeing figures that looked like zombies. Since we weren't making noise, they didn't attack us as we passed them. Suddenly, something happened that made me have to use my pistol, which made the zombies attack us. A bear appeared behind us and started charging towards the group. I shot at the beat several times but I knew that I wouldn't hurt it with a 9mm bullet. The bear threw me into the water and that scene repeated twice.
After the third time, I was able to kill the bear by putting my gun in his mouth, causing his teeth to break. The team kept moving forward while fighting the zombies. We regrouped after killing a large dog. Some girl said I had an ugly cheek and I said "Oh well" The view then changed to a beautiful green valley and it looked like I was flying through it.

No more Food

I was drawing happily on a table in my parent's room anime characters. Than my cousin walked in and complimented my drawings. I was happy but felt hungry so I went to the kitchen. I opened the fridge and saw a empty box of chicken nuggets. I got mad. I observed my brother and saw him opening another pack of bread. He was going to eat his second breakfast and my mom was complimenting him for eating more. It made me sooo mad I started fighting him. When he fell on the floor and I grabbed his leg it was than I realized I went too far. I said I was sorry but all of a sudden there was a cut on my finger and it kept bleeding. I wrapped it with my shirt and told my mom to take me to the hospital.She was surprised and said she didn't notice I was bleeding. I woke up after that. I wasn't lucid but it was still disappointing to know I did that in the dream. Hurting people for food is so stupid. :/

Aliens

I was having a normal lucid dream of being on a ship on a icy ocean but suddenly appeared on my bed. The lights were on and I was facing the wall unable to move. My dad walked in and I told him I felt something pressing on my stomach. He was like "Oh yeah?" than walked out. I noticed that the walls were dirty with yellow stuff on it and thought i saw a picture of tweety bird. I tried moving again and shifted. I wanted to go searching for my favorite dream character Eye.Suddenly I noticed a small girl doll come out of a jar. I struggled more than broke loose. I felt the pressure on my stomach increase than thought what if I start thinking about Aliens and they start dissecting me. Than thought about the alien thread, shadow people and scary demons. After that three shadow characters appeared. One of them grabbed me than took me to a building room. I struggled to get up and eventually broke free. I appeared at my house and it chased me. I started to call Eye and punched it in the face. Than ran to my younger bros room where he usually use to appear. But no one was there. Than i woke up.

9/9/14
*Lucid nap or 3rd wbtb (one wbtb during night, one got up for about 30 minutes and ate one portion of oatmeal 8-8:30am, third one simply got up to use the restroom and straight back to bed quite sleepy! ~10am? led to DEILD or in dream DEILD)

~1115 350 wbtb very tired! Browse pictures on phone until semi awake but still exhausted but got to some interesting dreamlets before dozing off.

Held #hostage and I say that I need to get my asthma inhaler in my backpack but I plan to pull out my gun. #clever Woken by wife.

During the 3rd mini wbtb I repeated out loud "I'm dreaming" repeatedly maybe total of 40 reps with breath/breaks. I either had and in dream DEILD or I had a mini awakening and DEILD in which I thought I heard someone at the door downstairs and I decided to take it as HH's (and as I'm saying this into my dream journal there was a quite loud creek/pop at my bathtub and the goosebumps are apparent! I realize it is just normal settling of the house but it sure was louder than normal.) Anyway when I heard the sound in the dream that sounded like someone at the front door I took it as HH's and I just focused on going back to sleep. When I do, I get very strong vibrations and I knew I was entering a dream if not already in one. The first sensation was of someone coming behind me and rocking me around in the bed. Then I start lifting up off of the bed and I am happy for this, it feels fun and is further confirmation that I'm already dreaming. Then the third sensation is of me sliding backwards like on a roller coaster laying sideways like I think I am laying in bed actually at the time and just going and going and going backwards at a good pace. There's even the sound of a roller coaster and its wheels rolling along the tracks at high speed. This goes for what feels like a good minute and I think to myself well enough of that and I seem to be kind of floating in a bit of a foggy void. This is late late in the morning and I'm guessing that my dreaming mind doesn't have much left to offer up. I do start getting a vague image of a sexy woman and we start having sex floating in this void. At one point I turn her over and

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stick it in the other way.

It feels great but the image quality is still very poor. I turn her back over and decide I will experiment with an

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even larger penis and have some more fun. She keeps repeating "your huge **** is too big for my little *****" as she continues to pull me into her!

This feels even better then I get the sound of my bedroom door opening and then the feeling of someone grabbing both my feet and tugging on them once as if to say hey what are you doing still asleep. I get a strong urge to confirm whether or not this is actually happening and as I am apparently dreaming of myself rolling around in my bed and feeling like I'm completely naked I notice that I can't open my eyes. This makes me suspicious that I'm still dreaming and I sit up in bed (still in the dream) and I blindly growl like a crazy person having a bit of fun. I get the strong urge again to make sure that I'm still dreaming and I then force my eyes open to a view of my sleep mask actually now fully awake but eyes still wanting to close some more. If it were not for this strong urge to make sure someone was not inside my room I think I could've gone on dreaming some more but perhaps with weaker recall of all that happened before, who knows. I'm at the moment of transcribing this trying to decide if I should try again but it seems too late and probably a waste of waking life since the odds are very low. I have also become quite awake now transcribing all of this. I also feel that over-sleeping will cut into my dreaming tonight. Although the visuals left much to be desired, I am very happy that my presence in a lucid dream was back very strong as compared to my last several lucid dreams. I had a much stronger sense of self. Also, the sensations were very strong. With my day practices becoming rote again yesterday, I looked up and did exercise 4B from the open beta exercises and it drew some inspiration for me. The mechanics of this particular wake back to bed and DEILD are still unclear to me. 200


Quick notes on previous 3 LDs:

9/7/14 (September 7th)
"Consternation" 12 530

Time doesn't make sense=lucid. #timeInconsistent . Time was showing much earlier in day when it was just night. Bounce/float in house=fun. Peek out front. Go out back to 2 different neighbors. Maybe 3 minutes. Wake otherwise might have forgotten. Low recall. 199


9/6/14

Mom visiting soon IWL. In dream she brought my eldest cousin on her side and we had a long hug. I wanted my #Mom to give me #hug too but my cousin really seemed to miss me. Too much? Then she is accidentally brushing her hand against my junk? #dcBoldness Wait she keeps doing it. I ask her if this is a dream and then realize a DC could give me any answer true or not so need to RC but still hugging. Try float then glottal RC. The lucid was almost lost with glottal RC which confirmed I am dreaming. Though almost lost, it still felt very dreamy and I caught that it wasn't over and extended dream patiently waiting in void-like fuzziness/grayness imagining a beautiful blonde unfortunately got one that seemed to be based off another cousin but wasn't an exact match for her. Undressed her and had intercourse. FA recording dream. 198

Friend has an assistant named Wuellda? So and so said she would be here..wait no she told me that...what in a dream?..exactly! #dream thought of.


9/4/14
11? 230 I'm finally turned 21. A countdown clock or app confirms #tracking. I can finally get into that cool #club and will go tonight. No one can hold me back anymore. Gambling on a cards table game to get #money for something. This feels like it would be my son's dream as I recall no excitement when I turned 21. #casino

*440 experimenting on the edge of sleep zoom floating closer and closer to ceiling tiles (none above bed IWL) try to go back to #waterPark or anywhere. Earlier there was a fight in lazy river where floating with son. Before people #fall from water slides not following rules. Before I am #driving and getting directions from passenger to a 15 floor building, repeatedly asking is that it...no, I see it is just a water slide tower. FA caught: talk to wife from edge only air escaping sound #gasping and some hand movements. I think if I am more on the waking edge of sleep, she may get scared and may be thinking of scene from Intruders. 197

9/9/14

Last night bed midnight 5:30

Nap around 8 -11:30 tried to WILD but nothing : (

DR:

I'm at some place, with someone. Packing things to leave after stay. There is a man and a woman that live there. We are kinda escaping, but we don't want them to know that we know their secret. So they dont turn violent.

I'm telling everybody that we are going to the train station and they are ready to help us carry our bags. But then I realize my car is there and we could take it. They get mad "why did I want them to walk then"?

We are outside and I'm eating a dish from last night's episode of Master chef. The nicoise salad. Only instead of seared tuna, there is a big piece of bacon. I cut it with knife and it's so soft. I put it in my mouth and it tastes salty and yummy.

I just remembered last part:

There are 3-5 black blobs on the ground. Someone tells me that they do evolve into something scary and evil. I feel a change in atmosphere and a nightmare coming on. I'm thinking I wanna stay there and see that. As I think that, one starts to grow. Someone is warning me that it's gonna be really scary, like SUPER scary, coz it's gonna be like this evil body thrashing on the ground in freaky manner.

I'm thinking yeah, I'll be probably pissing my pants, but I also KNOW that I'll be standing my ground and it can't hurt me and I will prevail over it.

As soon as I think that, it evolves into a body thrashing on the ground, looking at me, all shiny black and evil, doing it's best to scare me. I'm scared, but I know I am stronger and I will win, no matter what.


Man, I just love my badass subC. My best pal.

.../The dreamscape corresponds to one of my university times, when I didn't know about inducing lucid dreams. I'm carrying all my stuff that I use to take with me going to work nowadays. I check that everything is in place. I'm waiting for my bus to come, getting bored, I go here and there waiting. I'm worried about my bag, I take care of it. I see a kid talking about his dreams, I want to ask him if he knows when he's dreaming but I don't find an opportunity to ask for it. I go upstairs of the building next to the bus stop. I see a lot of public transport from above, when I see my bus going away. I cannot get down fast enough. The whole place is getting empty, no more cars. I'm worried about it. I see the time in an analog clock , it shows 7:00 pm, when I see again it's 6:50. I remember the last bus comes until 9. I don't remember which one I have to take. I think I will recognize it when I see it. I see a couple of known buses. Not the one that I need. I go up and down the building. I see kids coming back from school/...

* I spent the whole dream doing that, waiting for my bus, worried about the thieves, alone. No RC, perhaps because in those times I didn't think much about it. I cannot believe it!

NLD: I was in large cavern with pools of water on either side of a land bridge and wanted to go fishing. I found a rock-lobster tail on the ground and since I didn't know where it had been or how old it was, I didn't want to eat it, but thought it might make useful bait for fishing. I baited my hook with a small piece of the lobster meat and cast the line. I wasn't sure how deep the water was but let the line sink naturally. I wasn't using a modern fishing rod, but the old-fashioned kind made of a single long bamboo cane with a simple length of cord attached to the tip.

Soon I got a bite, and from the degree to which the pole was bending, I knew it must be something big. I didn't want the pole to snap so I rapidly moved up to the end where the cord was tied and started drawing in the line directly, folding it around my elbows like rope as I was able to pull it in (it was a rather thick cord, closer to thin rope than the modern fishing line filament).

When I had drawn in enough cord to see my catch surface, I was startled to see the shape of a giant lizard breach the surface of the water. I momentarily wondered whether it was an alligator or a crocodile but couldn't remember how to tell the difference. Right after that I realized that the difference didn't matter—this thing was dangerous either way! I needed to cut the cord and quietly back away before it recognized me as an antagonist.