insideout

Nonlucid, Lucid, Partially lucid
December 31, 2011:
I am riding in a car on a long trip. I am tired and worried about the driver (female?) being tired. We stop on the side of the road. It is raining. I left some suitcases under a bridge. Lots of other people are around too.
A guy (thin white male, wearing a beanie/tuke?) with a knife is now robbing us and is going to take my suitcase.
I ask him if I can get some stuff out first, some things he wouldn't want anyway. He attacks me with the knife, we fall to the ground. As I defend myself I wonder if this is a dream. I kiss the guy on the mouth (to check if I dreaming?) and then pinch my nose to reality check.

I now know I'm dreaming and I push the guy off or something.
Now I am in my parents' house. I remember my task and say aloud that I want to create a mini-universe (from my difficult goal list). I get a head of lettuce from the fridge and smash it on the ceiling, shredding it to little pieces, which fall on the floor. Then I sprinkle some white liquid or powder on the floor with the lettuce, to be stars.
Then I jump and dive into the stuff on the floor. My secondary task was to enter the mini-universe. But I'm not really in it at all. It's like I am just looking at it really close and pretending to be part of it.

I become less lucid. I find that someone had left a little fire in a bowl in the living room and the front door is unlocked. I hear someone in the garage and I run to my parents' bedroom, where I was sleeping in a chair.
I think "I didn't have to run back here, because I was asleep here all along."

Notes on lucid dream goal:
The mini-universe did not come out like I had hoped. It wasn't actually anything but stuff spilled on the floor. I just pretended it was, just like I would in waking life. This happens a lot in my lucid dreams. The things I try to do don't feel real, but like I'm just pretending that it is.
I need to use magic in the dream, or advanced science to create a mini-universe that actually looks like a living galaxy, or something similar.
The secondary goal of entering the created universe is not as important right now. I am glad that I remembered it and attempted it in the dream, although I am not satisfied with the results.