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Between Sleeping and Waking: Dream Diary of the Man Who Doesn't Make Sense.

Sunday, August 7, 2011:

Day 5: All the Time in the World.

(This occurred in the same night and dream as Day 4: The Corridor that Never Existed.)
Everyone, including my once-companion, had been leaving the household. I had been in the bathroom, contemplating my situation. Then, out of curiosity, I had performed my reality check once more and confirmed that I had been dreaming. I looked around the bathroom. It was massive. Sunlight filtered in from the wooden door a few meters away, and there were towels, toilets, and showers aligning the walls.
The first thing that I had noticed was that I was cold, but I knew that rubbing my hands against my arms would not accomplish much due to the fact that I was dreaming, and the temperature took a toll on my physical body as opposed to my dream body. I quickly disregarded this.
I knew that I had to ground my lucidity, and I quickly rubbed my palms together and shouted "AWARENESS NOW!". The "awareness now" trick did seem to work to some extent and, satisfied at my lucidity, I had attempted to alter the environment. I then pushed my arms out and spun 'round and 'round, knowing that this action was likely to create a change in the environment. As I reached terminal speed, everything, including myself, had sped to a blur. After about ten seconds of spinning, I noticed that the scene grew gradually darker. When I stopped myself, I saw that the sun had set, the bathroom light had turned off, and night had struck. I had inadvertantly time traveled!
I moved through the dark palace of toiletry only to stumble upon a dream version of one of my friends, Emily, as I had been making my way to the door. She proceeded to barrage me with questions about life.
"What's the point of living? Why are you here? Why are you still living?"
There are times when you've got to ignore somebody, and, after my previous excursion with my unnamed "companion" earlier that night, I wasn't about to let somebody else nab my lucidity. I sped ahead and reached for the brass doorknob. As I did so, I remembered that I had the ability to summon others. I then made a suggestion to myself.
"When I open this door, [she] will be there".
As I opened it, I saw that my friend was, in fact, not there. It was then that a dark cloud had swallowed me, and I woke up.

Duration: Roughly three minutes.
Level of Lucidity: Medium.