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    The Torrent

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    CanisLucidus
    , 06-16-2013 at 10:03 PM (1217 Views)
    This was the third of five lucid dreams from last night/this morning.

    Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

    Lucid #108: The Torrent

    I'm watching one of the Star Wars films with some friends. We're sitting on the floor of some strange classroom and even though I hate to miss any of the movie, I have to pee so badly that I can't wait. I get up and enter some public restroom, approach the urinal, and start going.

    While I'm doing this, some guy comes in to use one of the stalls. The bathroom has this horrible design where there's a mirror on the wall which is angled so that I can see straight into the stall. The guy sits down on the toilet and commences his business without bothering to close the door. It's an awful sight. "Shut the door!" I wail. He obediently slams the door shut.

    Meanwhile, I keep peeing and peeing. The guy in the stall finally finishes his business, washes his hands, and leaves... yet I'm still going. Something's not right about this,     and I realize that this is a dream. I still need to pee just as badly as when I first arrived, and there seems to be no stopping things. I'm vaguely worried that I'm wetting the bed but I figure that whatever is happening to my waking body, the die has been cast. Time to get out and enjoy this LD.

    I step away from the urinal, still peeing all over the place, and exit the restroom. I emerge in a huge store that looks like a Walmart. I survey my surroundings, and every time I look in a direction, I start peeing all over the floor that's in my field of view. Most of the DCs in the store ignore this, but a few run away. Fortunately, after a few seconds, the urine seems to just disappear.

    There's a huge mirror covering one wall next to a crudely-constructed wooden stage. I check how I look -- exactly like myself, except I'm pissing all over the place. I find the actual sight of myself doing this totally revolting and devote some dream control effort to making it stop. Soon it does, and all is forgiven (or forgotten.)

    I hit a quick double-biceps pose in the mirror, and it occurs to me that the Advanced Task of the Month is to get naked in front of a crowd. I leap onto the stage and all of the DCs in the store turn to look at what I'm up to. I grab my shirt by the back of the collar with both hands and rip the shirt off of my body. It looks like I'm just in jeans and socks now. (No idea where my shoes went -- did I go into the men's room in just socks? Gross!) With one quick downward move, I simultaneously pants myself and pull off the socks, now stark naked.

    I feel strangely relaxed and confident about all of this and throw in a few little stripper-style dance moves. Scanning the crowd, I notice that every audience member is now female. I'm not sure whether that's strictly a trick of the menthol or just something that somehow makes me feel more comfortable but I take note of it. With the task satisfied, I jump off the stage, imagining myself clothed once again.

    I can't remember what else I'd wanted to do so I have a bit of fun wrecking displays in the store -- I force-push some chairs into a shelf of goods, levitate a bunch of stuff in the air, and generally act like a bad kid. As I'm looking around for my next bit of mischief, an attractive, dark-haired woman in her late 20s approaches me. She's wearing a close-fitting, dark blue dress. Menthol? I think.

    "Hi," she says. "What were you hoping I was going to say to you?"

    The truth: "I was sort of hoping that you were looking for sex." In spite of myself, I feel pretty embarrassed when I say this.

    "There's an honest answer! But don't you think that you ought to get to know me first? Here, sit down," she says, gesturing at a long row of wooden chairs. "I'm Gina."

    I sit down with her and she pulls out a notebook that looks exactly like my written dream journal. "What's that notebook?" I ask.

    "Dream journal!" she answers cheerfully. "You've got to write everything down if you want to remember it."

    She looks like she's about to ask me something when a guy sits down in the chair next to her. He's a black guy, about 30, a touch pudgy. Gina leans back to let him speak, looking a little impatient. This new guy speaks to me in a lecturing tone, saying, "Do you think you can just close every door that you open?" I'm confused by what he's saying and as I'm preparing to ask him what he means,     I wake up.
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    1. Highlander's Avatar
      Congrats on the TOTM advanced (i) plus the sheer amount of LD's you had last night which is epic.
      I bet you wore the notebook and keyboard out recording everything which must have been tiring!
      It is well worth it when you look back after though.
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    2. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Thanks, Highlander! It was an insane night... just one of those times where everything clicked into place. I'll post in the menthol thread soon, but needless to say, it played a role!

      Yes, lots and lots of journaling to do after a big LD night! But LDs are really important to me, so it's well worth the time. This is the first time I've ever had anywhere near this much dream content, so I can manage it every once in a blue moon. If it ever became regular for me to LD this much in a night... well, that'd be a good problem to have! Certainly not there now.

      Absolutely worth writing them down. The experiences fade. It's inevitable because it's hard for the waking brain to fully hold onto experiences as unusual and "at the edge" as lucid dreams. But taking the time to write the dream lets us hold on to so much more than we otherwise would. IMO.
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    3. Highlander's Avatar
      Yes I know what you mean about the transcription part. I get really frustrated when I have a really memorable LD and I cannot fully translate the experience fully. I do record what I can which is really helpful to hold on to the experience as best as possible.
      The only way I find is to have another LD, etc.

      I think it is possible to LD 'regularly' - I have done it myself, (albeit in short bursts,) but as you already know it takes a lot of commitment, dedication, hard work and sometimes a bit of sheer luck.
      I think I would literally need to retire from any form of work/waking life (which I obviously cannot do) to be able to LD near enough daily.
      It would be a nice skill to have, but we would have to sacrifice I feel.

      I'm sure we will have more memorable ones in the future, whatever.

      Again congrats. I look forward to seeing your Menthol report!

      Regards.
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      Updated 06-17-2013 at 11:47 AM by Highlander
    4. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Absolutely. Even if we can't put the experience fully into words, getting the memories written down helps us access some of these feelings and experiences later. It's not like being back there, but just holding on to a little bit more is so valuable.

      Yeah, I sure would get a lot done if I could hit this many LDs every night! While I'll never give up completely on the idea of lucid dreaming at will, what we have right now is pretty damn wonderful.
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    5. Sibyline's Avatar
      I have been so busy these last few days that I only gave you a little emoticon on the TOTM thread, but your TOTM report was comedy gold! I'm still chuckling a bit from re-reading it now.

      Quote Originally Posted by CanisLucidus
      I grab my shirt by the back of the collar with both hands and rip the shirt off of my body. It looks like I'm just in jeans and socks now. (No idea where my shoes went -- did I go into the men's room in just socks? Gross!) With one quick downward move, I simultaneously pants myself and pull off the socks, now stark naked.

      I feel strangely relaxed and confident about all of this and throw in a few little stripper-style dance moves.
      See, here is where you suprised me a bit. So you ripped your shirt off, pantsed yourself, and then did a few stripper moves. Am I being presumptuous in thinking my discreet goading got to you? In any case, you have definitely earned some bad boy points in my book now.

      Congrats on the wings and the ridiculous number of LDs in one night. At first, I thought they were going to be DEILDs but these were the real thing! You're on such a roll this month. Great work!
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    6. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      I have been so busy these last few days that I only gave you a little emoticon on the TOTM thread, but your TOTM report was comedy gold! I'm still chuckling a bit from re-reading it now.
      Ha ha, glad you liked it! It was very weird and amusing and I'm really glad that I finally noticed something was wrong in the restroom part. It took a little courage to step away and begin things.

      See, here is where you suprised me a bit. So you ripped your shirt off, pantsed yourself, and then did a few stripper moves. Am I being presumptuous in thinking my discreet goading got to you? In any case, you have definitely earned some bad boy points in my book now.

      Congrats on the wings and the ridiculous number of LDs in one night. At first, I thought they were going to be DEILDs but these were the real thing! You're on such a roll this month. Great work!
      Heh, that must be what it was! I owe you. This was on my supplement night, so I'm probably giving back all of my bad boy points when I reveal that before this night of dreaming, I drank peppermint tea through a straw during my WBTB.

      But thanks so much, I really appreciate that! Never had a night like this but I'd love it if I can manage another some time.
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    7. GrannyPigms's Avatar
      Sounds like a creepy message from your subconscious at the end there....

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    8. Xanous's Avatar
      I was hoping you were going to pee off the stage! Do you think the guy at the end was speaking of consequences?
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    9. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Quote Originally Posted by GrannyPigms
      Sounds like a creepy message from your subconscious at the end there....

      Yeah, it kind of did sound that way, didn't it? If my subconscious wants to warn me about anything, it's going to have to be a lot more specific than that, though.

      Quote Originally Posted by Xanous
      I was hoping you were going to pee off the stage! Do you think the guy at the end was speaking of consequences?
      LOL, I was just glad all that finally stopped. So weird.

      And yeah, you know, that dude at the end was hard to read. I don't know if this guy was trying to warn me about this DC, give me grief for my menthol-y thoughts, or if it had something to do with her dream journal or the question she was going to ask me...?

      Since something's always happening in dreams, it seems inevitable that you always kind of get interrupted in the middle of the dream plot, you know? At least that's what I've found. Very few of my dreams have an "ending" that really wraps stuff up.
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    10. ~Dreamer~'s Avatar
      I think this is my favourite dream in your DJ so far! My tummy hurts from laughing so much!!
      I look forward to reading the rest of your entries... I'll let you know if I find one that tops this!
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    11. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Ha ha, thanks, Dreamer, I'm glad you enjoyed it! This was a fun one to revisit... I'd forgotten how nuts this one gut!
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    12. AnotherDreamer's Avatar
      LOL aw man, this dream cracked me up!!
      It got really interesting in the end as well, "Do you think you can just close every door that you open?"
      That sounds like something a DC would say to me in a dream.
      Man, I need to read more of your dreams.
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