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    A Leaf on the Wind

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    CanisLucidus
    , 09-11-2012 at 05:32 PM (912 Views)
    Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

    Lucid #15: A Leaf on the Wind

    Wife and I are staying in this huge, luxurious hotel room somewhere on vacation. It's daylight outside. Wife is putting away groceries in the hotel fridge but all I want to do is sleep. I curl up in the bed and nap. Seconds later, though, I'm awake and Wife is still putting away groceries.

    I'm frustrated that my nap was so short and I nose pinch RC out of habit. I'm astonished that I am actually able to breathe. I blow it off, assuming that I simply didn't pinch hard enough. On the second try I get a deep, clear breath and     I'm dragged into lucidity.

    I want to get out of the room and go for Task of the Month (swim in the Cretaceous-era sea.) I tell Wife that I'm having a lucid dream and that I need to leave for a while. She looks skeptical. "You and your dreams. What about our vacation?" I tell her that I'll try to get back after I finish up but I know it's very, very unlikely that I'll be able to make a roundtrip across millions of years back. Better than her getting eaten by a mosasaur. Wife asks me to "at least help me put away the groceries" but I leave before she can suck me back into the dream plot. Even though I know it's a dream I feel guilty leaving all the work for her to do.

    Daylight is streaming through the door at the end of the hallway and I walk outside. There's a wobble in my vision as I cross the threshold. I paw my hands through my hair and lick my arm and the dream scene snaps back into stability.

    It's clear and cool like midday in Northern California. Across a broad field of grass I see a river snaking its way toward the horizon. I imagine that this river leads to the Cretaceous ocean and will myself to rise up into the air and fly. The wind buffets me as I soar into the air and my dream body feels light, insubstantial, and kite-like. I rise higher and higher into the air and tantalizingly I see the sparkle of the sea maybe just a mile further along the river.

    I will myself to fly toward the ocean but the wind is just tossing me around as I rise higher into the air. I have no more mass than a leaf or a piece of paper. I try imagine that I have on rocket shoes but they just make this weak fizzling noise and the wind noise increases to a roar. Frustration gets the best of me and     I either lose lucidity or fade to oblivion.
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    1. OpheliaBlue's Avatar
      Great attempt! I gotta hand it to you though, most people would have given up after the first nose-pinch failed. But you gave it a 2nd go and ended up in a lucid dream. Reality checks can be tricky like that sometimes, so points to you for not letting it slip you up.

      The arm lick was interesting... did you come up with that just then, or is that a common stabilization technique for you? Also, I sometimes feel a tiny pang of guilt if I have to leave Chris at the house in an LD. I end up taking the DC versions of my loved ones flying with me if it's too much to bear lol. Gotta break that and remind myself that it's NOT the real them. Anyway, blah blah COOL DREAM!
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    2. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Thanks! Yeah, you know, I even wondered what was up with the arm lick after I did it! I usually just rub my hands together and stare at them, letting the detail crystallize until I am done congratulating myself on how much clarity I've achieved.

      I know what you mean about the DCs that represent loved ones! They are so realistic sometimes, particularly the people that we know well. Normally I'm just like you and have a powerful urge to bring her and any other "precious" DCs along. But I had a fear that the Cretaceous of my subconscious would give me some real nightmare material if I brought her along to mingle with the Mosasaurs. That made it pretty easy to decide she wasn't coming.
    3. Xanous's Avatar
      Nice dream man. I gave up on my DC loved ones long ago. They never cooperate. I just tell my wife to shut up now because she is always gripping at me for trying to LD (only in dreams. She is sweet and lovable in real life) But DC are just jerks to me. Idk why. I wanted to slap that lady for lying to me in mine. LOL.

      Arm licking... hmmm. I may try that. Beats licking the carpet.
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    4. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      For me DCs seem to break down like this: first,I've got DCs representing friends and loved ones, who tend to act really similar to the people I know IWL. If I'm lucky, Wife will sometimes tag along with me.

      "Stranger" DCs, while almost never hostile, sometimes love to be an uncooperative pain in the ass. One tried to convince me that lucid dreaming would lead to loss of circulation, limb necrosis and amputation.

      Still never had one lie to me and try to convince me to drink random junk from her medicine cabinet, though, ha ha... after you'd been through that nightmare/false awakening carousel, she should have just helped a brother out! It's funny that the subconscious likes to play these kinds of games.
    5. Xanous's Avatar
      LOL yeah that's cool. I think for me its just my fear of being called crazy for doing this kind of stuff with dreams.

      I heard on a podcast from some guys in the UK that if you go to a DC like you already have some sort of agreement they will play along. So like I should have just said hey sorry I'm late are you ready to go into the teleporter now? Supposedly they just play along like ok sure lets go. idk I think I will try it next time. crazy stuff lol.
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    6. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Hey, I like that "appointment" idea. Come to think of it, any time I've wanted specific help from a DC, I usually command them verbally or exert control over them. I'm so worried about having my lucid time wasted that I am a little pushy, ha ha. They tend to do what I say but sometimes they become kind of robotic and get this thousand-yard stare. I could live without that creepiness. The appointment thing is cool because it sounds like it elicits cooperation without turning them into drones.

      I also worry that exerting control over them is more likely to destabilize a dream, but I'm too newbie to know whether this is really the case. I also don't like being bossy.
    7. Xanous's Avatar
      They tend to do what I say but sometimes they become kind of robotic and get this thousand-yard stare. I could live without that creepiness. The appointment thing is cool because it sounds like it elicits cooperation without turning them into drones.
      Exactly. I noticed that. It was a little odd.