fogelbise

10/12 to bed very late 1am 605 615 wbtb 622 flonase 722 still awake some light HHs. Close drapes. Prior dream driving up into hilly area. Almost miss the exit...think using GPS. Pull over after exit and there are 8 or so color coded stakes...all green except last one orange or red? Seem to indicate whether camping spots are free. When get there lots of foreigners or immigrants are staying there and have come from a ship. They have a lot of old burlap sacks and old style luggage. I wonder if they could be passing through the panama canal?? Richly forested area. There are guards for their luggage. I see it sitting there...(did I ever see a ship or water? Maybe a dock.) Camp sites and hotel rooms available. Small thin black guy with accent tells me at least (something like) $39.95/day...assumed for camping. I forgot my tent! Predicament. I check out the hotel and go to same room twice. The 2nd time it looked like someone may have already gotten it as the bed cover was
ruffled and something I can't recall was out of place close to the door. I go out room see 2 women in the neighboring room and others in hall and wonder if they will wonder what I was doing in someone else's room(reminds me of old dream in multi level apartment bldg...big complex while typing this up...very different looking places). Head toward front desk to see if rooms still available and for how much...fades or forgot rest. (I think this dream was influenced by watching a documentary on the California Gold Rush last night some travelling overland, some by ship from the east coast all the way around Argentina and back up to the west coast.)
After wake back to bed I do the SSILD cycles and also do what Dolphin mentioned just looking at the back of my closed eyelids waiting for the dream to start but specifically with an intention to wild. I got up a few times to close the curtains go to the bathroom and went back and did the same thing each time. In the final. Before getting up for the day I had quite a few mini dreamlets it kind of felt like dreams trying to start and me interrupting them by paying attention to them and at first trying to grab a hold of them and interact with them but they may have just been ordinary dreamlets I'm not sure. But each one after a while had some action and dialogue to them and I was conscious of them of course as well but I was still waiting to actually enter the dream. (Probably around 10am) At one point I notice thumb index and middle finger tapping the bed beside me in a dreamlike way and it made me think of the fild method and I started putting focus on willing my fingers
to move and I felt the vibrations and zoomed into a dream where I am flying up out of my bed I'm excited I know I'm dreaming I zoom down the stairs out the door and down the street to where they're often kids playing thinking about the basic task of the month. I zoom up to them half running half flying and just roar like I never have before I felt like a different creature and felt so powerful and the kids just went crazy running off down the street and into the house. (semi-lucid, doubting>>>)Then I am back in bed and hear footsteps it is my wife telling me it's time to get up now but I have since confirmed that it was a false awakening. She had earlier told me she was going to get her hair cut in waking life and when I came out of the room after really waking she was still gone at her appointment and I went in to my sons room who's home for the weekend from college and ask him if he came into my room and if mom is still gone and he said he did not come into my room and
confirmed that mom is still gone and told him about my false awakening. So it was definitely a false awakening but during the false awakening while i was laying in bed and having her come in I suspected that might be a false awakening but instead of doing a reality check I decided to roar at her but it seems more like I was projecting a roar and I wasn't sure if I was actually doing it and she wasn't reacting anyway. Going to bed so late I think made my trip to lucidity a longer road than normal, so need to avoid that!