FryingMan

copied from summer competition, forgot to post here in the DJ proper:

I'm walking towards a tower with a group of people, we're tourists visiting some attraction, we enter the staircase inside and begin the climb and I have a slow dawning awareness that I'm dreaming. I notice girls among the group climbing the stairs and I stop time and I notice all the DCs have frozen in place. I come up behind a girl and hug her from the back. We all continue the climb again and I hug another girl from the back briefly, but I stop myself and remember there are points to be had! I begin by recalling goal. I recall 3-step #1 and turn and face the wall (grey concrete) and think "there is no wall" and easily push my left hand through the wall up to the wrist, and pull it back out. Then I raise my right hand and think "wall is now solid" and tap the wall with my right index finger, my finger stops at the surface and it feels like I'm tapping solid concrete. I'm really happy at this immediate success and do it some more. I notice my best friend MR and say "Hey, M, check this out!" we're standing on a landing and I push my left hand through the wall up to the wrist again, this time it takes more force and there is resistance like the wall is made of solid styrofoam. MR is amazed and says "Whoa, how?!" MR and I continue climbing the staircase. I turn to MR and look into his eyes, he's standing close, he looks young and his face is accurate. I tell him "You're in my dream, you know!" MR says "Yeah!? Wow!" I give him a friendly hand squeeze of his shoulder and say "I see you in a lot of dreams," and while I continue to explain he gets sort of an expression on his face like he's not sure if he likes that fact, I think he thinks they're gay dreams or something, I quickly then say "we're usually drinking or <some other thing>".
I turn again to the wall on my right and this time I push my left hand through (again like stiff styrofoam), pull it out, tap the surface with the index finger of my left hand, feel it solid, then push my hand through again and pull it out. I feel completely confident that I can produce the solidity/transparency of objects at will.
M says something while we climb, suggesting some activity, but I say "no, I need more points!". I'm thinking a bit about dream duration, it seems completely stable and clear. I think of breath awareness for a minute (new personal goal). We emerge from the staircase onto a large open rooftop, and I hand MR my watch, it's an elegant small analog watch with a ticking second hand, which I give to him to hold for me. The second hand reaches 12 right then and I begin awareness of my breath and breathing on purpose. I realize I don't need to look at the watch because there's a clock right in front of me now, like an alarm clock, with a larger face than the watch, so I just focus on watching that and counting seconds and following my breath. But this is the most bizarre clock I've ever seen. There are multiple dials and devices all in motion over the face of the clock, each "hand" is a different color, it is a chaotic mess of color and swirling movement. The "second hand" swoops randomly from number to number, but still keeping a pace of seconds. I'm standing still watching the clock and following my breath. I get up to 35 seconds, and I feel

the dream fade/transition.