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    CanisLucidus

    Cooling Off

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    CanisLucidus
    , 09-08-2013 at 09:23 PM (930 Views)
    This is the second of two lucid dreams from the morning of September 6, 2013. So glad I caught that emotion dream sign for this one because it gave me an exit from a nightmare and brought me into a really nice lucid.

    Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

    Lucid #144: Cooling Off

    I'm in a furniture store, looking around at couches. A plump Hispanic woman is seated nearby, answering my questions. The front of the store is a huge glass window with a clear view of the street outside.

    Spoiler for Upsetting dream premise:


    The rage is so over the top that it feels bizarre to me. I can't remember feeling this way any time in waking life, so I reconsider my situation and     I become lucid.

    Immediately I feel this huge sense of relief as I realize that there's nothing to be angry about and that none of these awful things have actually happened. I'm still a little shaken from the preceding scene, and I walk to the bathroom where the girls retreated to earlier. I open the door and to my relief it's empty. I close it again.

    I take a few deep breaths, cooling off the last of my anger and reminding myself that I'm dreaming. The anger has been replaced by happiness and a sense of peace. I feel contentment at the idea that I took control of this nightmare.

    Now happy and relaxed, I remember the goal of getting to the Colosseum. I imagine that the bathroom door now leads to one of the tunnels beneath the Colosseum. I open the door, but nope, still an empty bathroom. I close the door again and walk to the back of the store.

    I find myself in a hallway made of cinder blocks. There's some kind of socket wrench lying on the floor and I scoop it up. I feel like playing so I throw the socket wrench at the wall. With a thump it embeds about half an inch into the cinder block. I grab it, prying it back out and throw it toward a nearby mirror. Crack! The mirror cracks rather than breaks, but I'm delighted by how realistic the sights and sounds of this are.

    There's a door at the end of the hall that leads outside. I step out into the sunlight, seeing a pavilion with long, wooden eating tables to my left. I remember to hook myself into the scene before continuing further, so I kneel down and run my hands over the small stone squares that make up the flooring. As I run my fingers over the cracks, I see that a tiny river of brown water runs through the separation between each stone. Somehow I can dip my fingers into this tiny stream and it feels cool to the touch.

    As I make my way through the lunch pavilion, I lock eyes with a blonde woman in her early 30s. I'm stunned by how realistic she looks. Something about me seems to surprise her as well. For a moment I wonder what she's reacting to, but in the end figure she's just mirroring my reaction. I hop over some tables, reach the other side, and look back at the crowd of people calmly eating lunch. This is why I work so hard at lucid dreaming, I think. I wish that there was some way to permanently capture this experience, but I know there's nothing that can completely pierce the veil between waking and sleep to bring this experience back to me.

    As I leave the pavilion, I see an ampitheater up ahead of me. I'm contemplating how to work this to my advantage when     the dream ends.
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    1. Highlander's Avatar
      Congrats on the lucid.
      I'm suprised the emotion that preceeded it didn't wake you up, but you realised it (your anger reaction) was odd and you capitalized on it.

      I hop over some tables, reach the other side, and look back at the crowd of people calmly eating lunch. This is why I work so hard at lucid dreaming, I think. I wish that there was some way to permanently capture this experience, but I know there's nothing that can completely pierce the veil between waking and sleep to bring this experience back to me.
      I know exactly what you mean here. I get really frustrated by it even to the point of giving up sometimes!
      The thing is I know that I will get a memorable lucid scene moment which brings me back for more, but as you say it is hard work!
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    2. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Thanks, Highlander! You're right, when nightmare emotions get that strong, there's often a decent chance of the dream collapsing or me waking up. (That's usually preferable to suffering a long storm of ugly emotions!) Although it does seem like some of the worst nightmares will just grind on and on!

      And I'm glad that you get the experience I'm driving at... it's sometimes a bit painful to me that I can have an experience like that and know that I'm only bringing back photocopies of the things I saw and what I felt. It's light-years ahead of where I once was with dream recall, but it's hard not to want even more. Greed is powerful!
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    3. Highlander's Avatar
      What I find worse is when I try and tell a member of the family or someone who doesn't study dreams, etc. and you get a lukewarm response.
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    4. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      What I find worse is when I try and tell a member of the family or someone who doesn't study dreams, etc. and you get a lukewarm response.
      Ugh! Oh God yes. I'll bet that most of us have had that experience at some point. Doesn't it suck to end a story about some amazing experience with "Well, I guess you had to be there."

      I've given up on sharing the more adventurous or beautiful lucids with people that aren't familiar with the experience. The funny ones seem to go over better at least.
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    5. Keitorin's Avatar
      Really inspiring to read.

      I don't often experience emotions in my dreams, and I didn't think about using it as a dream sign! I'd love to stop the dreams where I feel really strong negative emotions and turn it into something nice like this.
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    6. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Thanks, Keitorin! That's interesting that you don't get lots of emotion in your dreams. For whatever reason, my dream life tends to be a good bit more emotional than waking life, so emotion as a dream sign happens to fit for me fairly frequently. I'm lucky in that a lot of times I get to enjoy intense positive emotion like joy or boyish adventurishness, but sometimes the experiences are far less pleasant. (Like the beginning of this dream.)

      Dream yoga explores emotional dreamsigns a lot more deeply and does a good job of applying it to waking life and the "dreams" that we subject ourselves to while wide awake. (Such as worry, negativity, imagining lots of awful things that'll probably never happen, etc.)
    7. NyxCC's Avatar
      Good job turning that anger into an ld! This only rarely happens to me. If there is something that irritates me, I get so immersed that unless there's something extraordinary to clue me, I would continue in my own private hell. This one was really impressive!

      This is why I work so hard at lucid dreaming, I think. I wish that there was some way to permanently capture this experience, but I know there's nothing that can completely pierce the veil between waking and sleep to bring this experience back to me.
      I know that feel. I am so in love with lding, I can never get enough.
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    8. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      I appreciate that... yes, dreams are so often very emotional but this is a dreamsign that I miss over and over. And in waking life it's only a percentage of the time that I manage to mentally reality check when I feel a surge of emotion. It's something I've worked on for a long time and still have a ways to go on, but sometimes it pays off!

      I hear you on being in love with LDing. I've been variably sick, distracted by work, or short on sleep for the past several days and I'm getting that serious jonesing for an LD. You know the feeling I'm talking about! Gotta make it happen!! I know we'll both be catching one soon!
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    9. NyxCC's Avatar
      Yeah, some months can be very tough, lots of stuff going on and your schedule gets pretty messy and you have to work hard to get back on track. The good news is, it's the end of the week and also the end of the month. For me this has a positive psychological effect. I like to think that I am starting with a blank slate and hopefully can reorganize things my way. Know that strong good memorable lds are coming our way. You are gonna kick ass this weekend and we're gonna post awesome entries the entire October!
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    10. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Yeah, some months can be very tough, lots of stuff going on and your schedule gets pretty messy and you have to work hard to get back on track. The good news is, it's the end of the week and also the end of the month. For me this has a positive psychological effect. I like to think that I am starting with a blank slate and hopefully can reorganize things my way. Know that strong good memorable lds are coming our way. You are gonna kick ass this weekend and we're gonna post awesome entries the entire October!
      What a great perspective!! I agree. October is a fresh start and I'm gonna be healthy, have all this work stuff behind me, and always know that I'm dreaming.

      Thanks for that! Looking forward to an awesome October!
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