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    Pandemic in Europe; So Close to Lucidity

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    by
    HippieAu
    , 02-14-2013 at 11:00 PM (644 Views)
    Dream
    Lucid
    Semi-Lucid

    So here, there's only one really worth while thing that happens in this dream.
    I realize that there's no way my given situation can be happening.
    As I've said previously, I've been through many an apocalypse in my dreams.
    At this point, dream me has kind of come accustom to doubting there existence.
    What was weird to me was how strongly my dream tried to enforce in my head the fact that the event really was taking place.

    February 13th 2013

    I'm on a school trip to europe.
    Were currently at a little hotel and I'm sitting around in a comfy love seat in the lobby.
    I fiddle around with my jackets a bit (I wear 3 hoodies at a time) and set them down on the love seat in front of me.
    I'm just kind of relaxing, enjoying the feeling of being in a foreign environment.
    Suddenly one of the teachers that I was with came over to me with a distressed look on his face.

    "C'mon, get your stuff, we gotta go." He says so in his typical monotone fashion.

    I put my jackets back on and head with him
    Theres no time to get my suitcase or anything else I may have left.
    We are in a serious hurry.
    I wonder what's going on that would warrant such worry.
    Apparently a huge pandemic had broken out throughout europe.
    A virus was out that was killing a staggering amount of people.
    We had to leave the country before the virus "came to where we are".
    I transition to my computer, and I'm making a post about whats going on on DV in a general sub-forum.
    I'm talking about how it's crazy that this sort of thing is actually happening.
    Then out of nowhere the thought kind of dawns on me.

    "Did any of this really happen?" I wonder.

    I mean, things like this kind of don't happen normally.
    This can't have been a real event, it must have been fake.
    Then an incredibly strong feeling of what I can describe as "realness" ached in my head.
    No, this really is happening but it was just an unlikely occurrence.
    That feeling persists for a few seconds before my doubt returns.
    None of this can be real, this is impossible.
    Wait, what does that mean again?
    This isn't a real event actually occurring right now?
    Does that mean this is a    ...dream?
    Ah damn it was.

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    Comments

    1. Sensei's Avatar
      When you are questioning things in a dream it is a good sign you are gaining awareness. I am a little confused, was the dream over when you realized or was it just almost over when you realized it was a dream?

      I just read your intro to your DJ. You remember almost all of your dreams??? That is awesome. I remember about half right now, close to all of them on nights I get lucid. I love having good recall, because when I go to sleep, I literally have hours of fun before I have to get up. For the majority of people, the night feels like 2 seconds and then they have to go to work.

      Have you had a lot of dreams that seem like weeks?
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    2. HippieAu's Avatar
      At most I've had dreams that felt like 2 days. This may have been because of "time skips", but it in them I do something throughout the day, go home, go to sleep, wake up, and do something throughout the day again. And what I was trying to convey in the last part of the entry is that there is a bit of a difference between knowing that whatever is going on isn't actually happening, and knowing that you're dreaming. The word "dream" literally didn't enter my head until I had woken up. As for my recall, I have off days, but almost all the time when I think I have forgotten what my dream was, a trigger happens and the memories rush back to me. The best recall I've ever had was my first post in my DJ, it was literally start to finish. It only became like this after I joined dream views. At one point I even saw it as burdensome. Now I just learn to enjoy it.