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Color Code: Nonlucid, Lucid, Partially lucid, Waking life notes

Dream Lesson 3: Overcome sexual distraction

March 18, 2015

I wake up but don't move. I feel tingling and then vaguely feel like I have gotten up and started walking. I can't see anything. I say/think "I'm a ghost." I gain my vision and the dream becomes more solid, and I remember my ongoing goal.
I approach a refrigerator and knock on the door saying "I would like my next lesson, please." I say something about it being for control.
I pick up a bagel with both hands and let go, trying to make it float, but it drops to the floor. Rather than bother picking up the same object, I grab a jar of jam from the fridge. I place it on top of the fridge (which is either very short or I am floating) then make it float by keeping my hands a few inches out on either side of it.
I believe I remember a post on DreamViews in which someone says that dream control needs to be based on things we are familiar with. I say to myself "I know what it's like to lift, but not what it's like to let go and not drop it." (Meaning, my dream can easily use my memory of lifting objects in waking life and apply it to making dream objects float, but has no obvious memory to prevent dream objects from falling when let go.) But, I say, "I know I can do it."

I practice a few more times making the jar float, and having fun doing it. I am now able to drop it and make it stop falling after a second.
I talk to the dream and the school I believe I am attending and ask what's next or if I should continue the lesson.
Now I am in a giant version of the garage in my childhood home. Watermelons start flying at me. I hit and kick them and make them bounce off each other. I grab one and try to take a bite of it.
I have a giant metal wrench and I'm hitting some metal things (?). I see a giant person and ask if he wants to fight, but he seems to ignore me. I hit a stack of red hot cogs, or metal discs and they go flying.
I lose lucidity. Someone is talking about dictators and is going to cut my fingers off with a knife.