apurtell

I woke up this morning and started to fall back to sleep. I tried to think that I would have a lucid dream. I know I started to see pictures in my head, and before I knew it I was walking down a hallway repeating "I'll know when I'm dreaming." Suddenly I realized what I was saying and where I was at...I knew I was dreaming!

I was walking down a hallway with hardwood floors and large green rugs covering most of the floor room area. The hardwood could only be seen around the edges. There were a lot of doorways leading into other rooms and they were the same way, but they were all empty. I brought my face down to the carpet to feel/smell the carpet and it felt/smelled like brand new carpet. Everything looked really clean. I touched the wall and it felt like a wall. It felt a little fragile (my awareness) so I kept trying to hold onto my surroundings so I wouldn't fall into a regular dream (lose my awareness).

The dream kind of split into 3 different dreams in a way. I seemed to lose my way, but I always knew I was dreaming, so it lasted quite a while. Anytime I started to feel myself drift it was because I would get excited at the fact that I knew I was dreaming and I would stop what I was doing and focus on my breath to collect myself and just take in everything around me to solidify it and it worked; I maintained lucidity (for the parts I remember).

Anyway, I was walking this hallway looking for people I might or might not know. Once again there wasn't anybody around. I would call out names and try to expect to see them around the next corner, but it just felt so desolate and nobody was around. I started to get a little frustrated since this is what happened a while back and I stopped trying to lucid because it was so boring.

As I was walking I noticed the scenery was changing. The rooms I passed and the hallway I was in was getting more detailed. I started to pay attention to that instead of looking for people because it was really getting beautiful. I realized those once empty rooms were full of stuff now. Intricate and beautifully crafted lights hanging from vaulted ceilings, big cushy couches with elegant designs, artwork painted on every wall, ect.. No matter where I looked there was so much to see! It looked kind of ritzy but really warm, inviting and comfortable at the same time. Every room I looked into was so amazingly beautiful. They now had big arched doorways to look into and so much to see!

I thought to enter different rooms but kept walking until I came to a room with a glass door. It was a shorter door so I had to bend down to look into it. The door was framed in molded, black cast iron or something, and there were designs in the cast iron. There was glass in the middle so I could see in the room and it looked like a fairy tale inside. It was very vivid at the time, but I've lost some of the details. It looked like it was outside in a way, so I'm not sure if it was inside or outside. There was a very pale woman lying on the ground with her eyes closed. There was an animal present too and that's what I can't remember. I get the feeling it wasn't a real creature (maybe some kind of large white bird you could ride or a unicorn or something?) but I do know that it was white and the ground and this woman were covered in big, white, soft feathers. They looked like big downy feathers they were so light and soft looking. I crawled through the doorway to get inside and crawled over to this lady. She was beautiful in a surreal way. She was very thin and almost inhuman looking, with no wrinkles or creases in her skin and almost white she was so pale. For a flicker of an instant I almost got scared. I suddenly thought, what if the dream shifted and she opened her eyes and looked like she wanted to hurt me? I dismissed this idea quickly though so I wouldn't make it true. I reached out and held her hand, and when I did she finally did open her eyes and look at me. I felt no fear. She was very peaceful. I don't remember if she said anything right away, but somehow I knew I could make a wish with her. I asked her if I could ask her for a wish and she said that I could and she would do what she could to help make it happen. This didn't mean it would come true, but she would try. I won't tell you my wish (like a birthday wish, I still want it to come true!), but I will say I was kind of ashamed for what it was. She just smiled and made me feel the wish was fine. It made me feel better about it. At some point I had let go of her hand and I must have walked to the other side of her because I remember being on the other side of her and bending down to where she lay again. I asked her if I could ask for one more thing and she asked what it was. I asked if I could find someone I know and she smiled and said that they wouldn't mind seeing me here (in a way that made me feel that they would really like seeing me here). For some reason when I asked I put my head to her head and thought of people I knew as if that would help her to know who I knew, but afterward I knew this had been silly; she could read my mind well enough.

I don't remember leaving this lady, only that I did. At this point my memory gets a little hazy. I remember walking the halls again and I must have decided to go outside to look for someone because I saw a group of people playing basketball on a small hill. I walked up to them and didn't recognize them but I asked them if they knew where I could find people I might know (still lucid). I'm pretty sure they said they didn't. They continued to play basketball.

I was back walking the hallways again and they were back to being empty again, only this time it didn't feel so empty. I knew I would find people. One of the doorways ahead looked much larger, more like an entire wall would be missing to an open room and I knew that's where I would find my friends. The room was on my left and I turned into it and sure enough there were about 3 or 4 people in the room that I recognized. The lady had granted my "one more thing!" They didn't look like the people they were suppose to look like, but I knew who they were. They were sitting on a couch in the middle of the room talking. I walked over to the couch and sat next to a friend of mine and just laid my head on their shoulder to snuggle. They looked surprised to see me and smiled, putting their arm around me and holding me back. It just felt really nice to be there. We talked but I can't remember what about now. I remember them saying they were happy to see me and couldn't believe I was there, but otherwise I just remember feeling cozy and being happy to be surrounded by people I knew.

It gets hazy again here, which is why I said there were 3 different aspects to this dream because it made sense and then gets hazy and then changes scene before it makes sense again. I don't think I was completely lucid in between these times but it came back to me (I had to keep trying to maintain it).

Now I remember walking down the street of a town I used to live in (lucid again). I knew I had been at the grocery store (actually I suddenly remember purchasing a bunch of things...bones for my dogs, food for dinner...and someone being angry with me that I was at the checkout too long, and it wasn't lucid). Anyway, I was lucid again and on foot walking down this road and I knew my destination was a house ahead. I had been in a car but I didn't know what had happened to it. I saw other cars passing with people in them and thought of hitch hiking so I could get there faster (wasn't sure how much longer I would be lucid) but I wasn't sure where they would take me, and I wanted to know what was in this house.

I tried envisioning myself getting there faster. I would look down and think I'd gone a long way and when I looked up I was closer! I did this a few times until I was at the house. It was two story and kind of victorian looking in a way? It had a large porch and a peaked roof. I think parts of it were trimmed in black designs.

I walked up onto the porch and felt my lucidity beginning to wander so I had to breath real slow again and focus on the details of the house (which I can't remember a lot of now). I was facing the door and looking at the deck and banister around me. When I finally felt more "there" I went up to the door and went inside.

It felt really small inside, or I felt too big for the house at first. I was on a landing above the rest of the house looking down and into a big living area. The landing had black, cast iron looking hand rails with some posts that went to the ceiling. There was no electricity in this house. There could have been but the people that lived there liked fire better. There were 3 huge fire pit areas, with huge fires burning inside of them lighting up the room. There were also dots of fire throughout the living area that I took as candles. I think there were only 2 people in the room and I started to walk down a set of stairs made in that same black cast iron. There were hand rails to hold onto as I went down. I remember talking to one person but not what was said. He was a huge black man, very overweight but light on his feet. I remember him being very friendly and feeling comfortable around him, but not what we talked about. I think I must have lost lucidity at this point because I can't seem to remember anymore.

When I woke up the clock said 8:30 am.