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    City on a Hill

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    CanisLucidus
    , 09-08-2013 at 02:27 PM (809 Views)
    This lucid is from the morning of September 3, 2013.

    Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

    Lucid #141: The City on a Hill

    I'm walking alone through the downtown area of some city when two guys in racing bibs run past me. This strikes me as odd, so I nose pinch reality check to become lucid.

    I'm walking by a construction site with workers milling around in hard hats. I wonder how I might be able to change it into the Colosseum. This feels like a tough thing to try so I give it up and fly into the air.

    The flight works well, although I tend to keep slowly losing altitude, almost like I'm hang-gliding. My feet touch the roof of a building and I leap up again. Now I can see the edge of the city where it meets grassland that slopes smoothly downward. It looks like this city was built on a hilltop.

    I touch down at the edge of the grassland and leap again. It's a beautiful day and I enjoy the tranquility of gliding over the hillside. There are few buildings apart from the occasional fenced area and, interestingly, several humble little churches which dot the grassland. Every time I touch down and then leap again, I see one or two of these tiny stone-built churches with a cross at the top.

    I continue my downward glide and pattern of leaping along. I see a Greek temple off to my right and I think about exploring it. I'm really looking for the Colosseum, though, so I stay focused on that instead. I set my expectation to see sand, thinking that I can use this to transition to a Colosseum scene.

    The next thing that comes into view is a beach with crashing waves. I land at the edge of the cold water. The day is cloudy now. I focus on the sand, wanting to use this sand as my transition into the Colosseum. I reach down into the sand, willing the water to clear away and leave me with a dry patch to use. But after a few seconds, the water keeps rolling back in. I can't figure out how to keep my spot dry.

    I look over my left shoulder and see a towering cliffside. I'm exciting by the idea of climbing it, so I try. The rock feels wet and slick in my hands, but my dream body is so light that it's easy work. The slickness seems to get worse as I climb and now I'm climbing up a huge piece of green plastic. The dream starts to feel wobbly to me, so I focus on how the plastic feels, trying to bring everything back to stability.

    Okay, it feels better now, although still not great. I keep climbing, approaching the top. I hear the cry of seagulls, and soon     I'm awake.
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    1. NyxCC's Avatar
      Oh, this feels like a really nice dream!

      I really liked your accidental exploring of the city hillside, the ancient Greek temple and the beach while looking for the Colosseum. And that gliding & jumping sounds amazing. I am not sure if it is similar, but reminds me of what the warriors used to do in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon movie on the rooftops and on the trees.

      I'm walking by a construction site with workers milling around in hard hats. I wonder how I might be able to change it into the Colosseum. This feels like a tough thing to try so I give it up and fly into the air.
      Hey, I just got another idea of a great skill that can be very useful - erasing the landscape. I am not very sure how exactly it's done but have noticed sivason uses it from time to time. By the way when I did the turn your back against tech, my periferal vision went black. Some food for thought.
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    2. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Thanks, it really was a great one! Your comparison to Crouching Tiger is really close, just think that but slightly more clumsy. Okay, more than slightly. But it was this cross between flying, gliding, and hulk-jumping. Very serene.

      Erasing the landscape! Yes! I have only done this accidentally, heh heh. I guess that the "slow way" of doing this is falling into the void and then trying to spool up a new dream scene.

      I've been super busy and unable to hit the forum for a couple of days so I'm lookjing forward to seeing whether you got around to trying this!
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    3. NyxCC's Avatar
      Erasing the landscape! Yes! I have only done this accidentally, heh heh. I guess that the "slow way" of doing this is falling into the void and then trying to spool up a new dream scene.

      I've been super busy and unable to hit the forum for a couple of days so I'm lookjing forward to seeing whether you got around to trying this!
      I generate ideas much faster than I am able to test them, but at least I keep most of them on file somewhere. Hope the post vacation rush at work eases at bit soon. Nothing much on my side here apart from another early spontaneous dild (+4 hrs) that I chose to terminate because it felt too weird. Might post it at some point. Now I am a bit like , you know what I mean.
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    4. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      I generate ideas much faster than I am able to test them, but at least I keep most of them on file somewhere. Hope the post vacation rush at work eases at bit soon. Nothing much on my side here apart from another early spontaneous dild (+4 hrs) that I chose to terminate because it felt too weird. Might post it at some point. Now I am a bit like , you know what I mean.
      Since I've recently been breathing into a paper bag over the fact that I have 2.5 months to finish 5 Task of the Year items, I know what you mean about "more ideas than time".

      The dream sounds interesting, but I get not wanting to always share everything. However, in the interest of total honesty, I confess that my curiosity meter is pegged.
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    5. NyxCC's Avatar
      Since I've recently been breathing into a paper bag over the fact that I have 2.5 months to finish 5 Task of the Year items, I know what you mean about "more ideas than time".
      You almost got me to breathe into a bag with the 2.5 months. It's 3.5 if that makes it any better.

      The dream sounds interesting, but I get not wanting to always share everything. However, in the interest of total honesty, I confess that my curiosity meter is pegged.
      Ooops, sorry, didn't mean it like that, although that is also certainly true. Posting does take a lot of time and sometimes you prefer to keep some disorderly notes on all possible devices. Ok, I will post tomorrow although it's nothing very interesting. Well, it still gives rise to thoughts about those early lds. At any rate, let us have some decent nice inspiring long awesome lds first and then we can talk some more.

      Sweet dreams and lots of inspiration CL!
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    6. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      You almost got me to breathe into a bag with the 2.5 months. It's 3.5 if that makes it any better.
      LOL. That does make me feel better about Task of the Month. Much worse about my math skills.

      Sweet dreams and lots of inspiration CL!
      Same to you!
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