LucidSleeperCel

I was at my house with my sister, we were photographers in this dream taking pictures of some client. After taking those pictures I told them: "I have something to do, I'll be back later." I left my house and began walking down the street, when I left I could tell that it was about two in the afternoon by the position of the sun. But when I turned the next corner the dream suddenly turned to night. This is when I realized I was in a dream.
I looked at my hands to stabilize my lucidity, but it was very difficult to see any details on my hands because of the lighting in the dream. I'd say it was about midnight by how dark it was outside. I was able to make out my knuckles and a few of the veins that are on the back of my hands but that's about it. I decided to start off by taking it slow and just go for a walk. So I'm walking down the sidewalk and see there's an overgrown tree with branches bending onto the sidewalk. I decide to use some dream magic and blast the branches out of my way with a lightning bolt But when I try to shoot the lightning bolt my dream environment flickers, I perceived this as a destabilization of my dream so I decided I wouldn't be doing that again Walking under the branches I took a right at the next intersection, and looked at the street light on the end of the block. I told myself I was going to jump to that street light in a single bound (but what I really wanted to do was fly, though I wanted to take things slow), so with all my strength I leaped into the air. I started heading straight up, hundreds of feet into the air. This is when my dream faded out, I kept my cool and looked at my hands to stabilize it, but I couldn't see my hands all I saw was the black void. In a last ditch effort I began to dream spin while repeating to myself: "I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming..." This worked perfectly and I found myself back on the street where I had first taken flight. Walking along i decided to stroll through some backyards, I peered into the window of one of the houses I was walking past; inside I saw some cool paintings, so I went inside for a closer look. Looking at the paintings I heard somebody walk in through the front door, I quickly found a hiding spot. Then I thought to myself: "What am I doing? This is my dream, so this is my house." I come out of my hiding place, and the man is startled by me. He says that I'm a good hider and after that we talk about his paintings until I wake up.

The reason I think flying and shooting that lightning bolt destabilized my dream was that I wasn't able to sufficiently stabilize my dream with hand observation (due to the poor lighting in my dream), so next time I'm going to focus more on stabilization by finding a light source so I can effectively cement the dream in place.

I was in a store, buying clothes. This store was similar in layout to a sporting goods store, but instead of sporting equipment, it had designer clothes everywhere. My mom was there with me, as was my step dad. My mom kept picking out clothes for me that I didn't like, and every time I turned down her picks mt step dad would make some sort of passive aggressive remark towards me. Though strangely every time she picked out some clothes, I would snap and yell at her; this is strange because I never yell, and I'm almost never angry. But I specifically remember one of her choices being a think brown sweater, that looked like it was a medium or large in the chest and a small or extra-small in the waste (a bit misshapen). i was repulsed by this selection to which I replied: "What are you thinking?! It's like a thousands degrees outside!!" After I shouted this she recoiled and apologized. I walked around a bit and found a gray beanie, and a gray sweater (almost exactly like the one my mom picked out, but a different color); I then proceeded to put the sweater and beanie on. I walked around the store in these out of place dark duds just looking at all the displays and racks of merchandise; there were millions of clothing articles, lining each isle. Walking by a glass counter, the kind where you would ordinarily see guns or jewelry being sold, I saw an old acquaintance form school (if I remember her name right, i think it was Rachel.. idk it's been a while since I've seen her); we gave a quick wave to each other and I continued to walk by. I woke up while aimlessly wandering around this brightly lit store.

1st Dream
I was in an open field, where there was a huge number of students; some where stretching, some were running, others where just standing. It looked like some kind of middle school field day event. There was a big yellow bus to my left, i was standing in line to get on this bus, I then starting walking through the line heading towards the front. I was wearing a beanie (the same one that I'm wearing in my profile picture, and yes that is a semi self portrait), and walking past this girl in line she said with disdain "I'm sick of that guy, he wears that beanie everyday. Do you know what that means? It means he's crazy and too lazy to do his hair." With a smile I looked at her and replied with a slight chuckle "Yes, that's exactly it means!" I proceeded to the front of the line laughing.
My alarm then woke me up.

2nd Dream
I was in a classroom, sitting in a desk, wearing one of my favorite shirts. I was answering all of the teacher's questions, and getting them all right. The bell rang and the teacher said goodbye to me, I could tell by the way he communicated with me, that he held me in very high regards. I walk into another class room, where I go and sit on the floor. There's a number of teachers in the front of the room, and they're handing out medals to handicapped children who are walking up to the teachers one at a time. The people that are sitting by me are making a lot of noise, so everybody else in the classroom keeps looking over in my area giving dirty looks. I try to disassociate myself from the people sitting by me, it doesn't work very well. When the ceremony is over most of the students and teachers leave the room, then I get bored and start pushing on the floor. The room starts rocking and teetering back and forth, but the furniture or people in the room do not move with the floor; they remain stationary. I stop pushing on the floor, and it stops moving. Then I go to grab my favorite shirt, but it's a little off, I look to the kid to my left and he's wearing my shirt (at least in the dream I thought it was my shirt, now in my waking mind I can see that it was in fact not my shirt). So I say to him "I think you grabbed the wrong shirt, can you give it back?" He refuses saying that he grabbed the right shirt, then I point out that my shirt was brand new, and the shirt I was holding had frays and faded colors, so it couldn't have been mine. He accepts that he grabbed the wrong shirt, and goes to the bathroom to change. There's a girl to my right who looked over, I said with a chuckle: "They're just very similar shirts." She replied "That's very good, you're home intelled." Then we started talking about baking and other homey stuff, then I said sometimes I bake banana cake, to which she excitedly replied "I love banana cake!!" and gave me a high five. I look to my left and see a girl who I used to go to school with, and she said: "Hey what about me? I love banana cake too!" So I raise my hand and give her a high five too haha. Then some other students gathered around and we formed a circle talking about random things until i woke up.
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I remember standing in a shower, fully clothed, but the water wasn't running. I was wearing a nicely tailored suit and my girlfriend was sitting down on the other end of the tub, she too was fully dressed. We were answering some questions that a reporter of some kind was asking us (though I don't remember exactly what the questions were haha) Ironically, I remember the answer I gave him which was : "Don't worry, next time I'll remember to... *memory cuts out*." And my girlfriend said, "oh he's just saying that, don't believe him for a second." Looking back now that makes me laugh haha sorry DC but I didn't remember, my girlfriend was right I pulled out a wad of papers from my coat pocket and began sifting through them. They included one plane ticket, one receipt from StarBucks, and one empty gum package (Trident Layers to be exact)

Suddenly the dream scene changed and I was standing in a clearing in a wooded pine area (it looked like the area of Washington State where I used to live). I was on a wooden staircase that led to the edge of an above ground pool, which was about 30 feet tall; not only was it above ground but it was also an inflatable pool. I was seeing this new dream scene from the point of view of the reporter, and I was now interviewing myself. I (not me me, but the me who I was interviewing) was still wearing the nice tailored suit, and I (the interviewee) was holding some sort of gadget. Like the controller to a remote control car or something. I (the interviewer) asked me (the interviewee) what I did in my spare time. I (the interviewee) answered by saying: "Oh not much, just this and that, you know just balding around." That's when I noticed I (the interviewee) had a thinning hairline.

Then I woke up
*I know, that was a weird dream, talking to yourself autoscopically is always weird haha. And there was more to the dream, I'm just trying to keep these DV posts short by covering the main points of interest