lucidkara

I became lucid during an afternoon nap. It first started out with me seeing an old playboy magazine on the night stand and the girl on the cover kept shifting. At one point she laughed and I could hear it. I wasn’t frightened of this but rather felt like I must be tripping on something to have such a strange visual. I was in my apartment (only now it was a house) and I started to realize strange “dream like” things about the house. The floor was made of purple cardboard that had a seahorse design embossed in it. The bathroom looked nothing like my bathroom but very ocean cottage themed with a mosaic broken glass rimmed mirror. I thought to myself how strange all of this was and that I should do some type of a reality check. I was still in a little disbelief until I tried the plugged nose breathing technique. I was super excited and walked out into the hall way (after briefly staring at my image in the mirror). Allen had walked out the bedroom and gave me a very knowing look saying “this is the part where I leave”. I stopped him and said no. I wanted to see if I could control him as a dream character. I told him to silently vacuum the house. When I did this I felt a charge of energy run through my chest. I slid forward closer to him and for a moment in time I got larger and then shrank back down to normal size. I could feel a gust of wind blow through my hair. I decided not to do that again just in case it overly excited me and I woke. I have never really been too excited from a lucid and had it result in waking but I was genuinely concerned with it this time. Allen responded by saying “oooohhhhhhhhhhh…..” and then stepping to the side. He then offered to sweep the house for me instead and a broom flew in his hand. He was sweeping quickly back and forth in a very animated way. I really wanted to try and make a portal since I felt such a charge of energy in myself before but for the sake of sustaining the dream longer, I chose not to. I stepped outside where it was warm and sunny. I have been working on my hand stand in waking life and I thought it would be perfect to work on it in my lucid. I kept feeling for sturdy spots in my front yard but the lawn was very slanted and unsteady so I kept having to back off and look for other areas. I went into the neighbor’s yard to dry and almost didn’t attempt when I saw them walk outside. I reminded myself that they were just my dream characters and unapologetically went back to lining myself up. I went to kick up and push out of my shoulders. I suddenly woke from this and I could feel my waking life shoulders jut forward. Shit.