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Before 4.47am
Plate of stir fry type food that seemed to be mostly peppers. I don't like peppers. Yes I went to bed on an empty stomach, which just makes me dream about food.

5-6am
The dream takes place in a mansion sized building filled with hidden passages. It has the look of an old stately home. We are running away from enemies who are trying to take over the building. The group of us consists of me and co-worker TR, who is dragging along his red haired girlfriend.

Using the secret passages we manage to evade the enemy soldiers for a while, but then run straight into a room where the commander is standing with four of his pals. So much for escaping. I charge at the commander, leaping and punching the side of his head. He is taller than me, but not by much. Must have had knuckle dusters on, because after the punch the side of his face is all cut and bleeding in multiple places.

He roars in rage and I punch him several more times and kick at his legs trying to make him fall down. At this point the dream is feeling like a game rather than reality. I am on the verge of lucidity and wake up.


6.20ish- 7am
Trapped Dolphin
Think this was chained after a normal dream, but can't remember it. Starts with familiar shaking sensations that signal the onset of a dream. I pinch my nose to confirm the dream and stand up out of bed. Everything is very dark. Going to the window I phase outside.

The front gardens are full of bushes and flowers. It is still dark, pre-dawn. Children are hiding in the gardens amongst the greenery. Maybe they are playing a game. I look up to the sky and the sun rises rapidy. A man dressed as Batman exits the neighbours' house and heads off down the road. I wave to him.

My goal tonight was to go to the ocean and find an 18th century frigate (Master and Commander or Hornblower for reference. Yeah I know that's more 1800 ~ Napoleonics, the ships wouldn't have changed that much.)

I fly up into the air and head for the coast, flying at super speed. In RL my house is around 30-40 mins drive from the coast, but my flight is direct and much faster. Ahead is a beech in a cove with black rocks juting out of the sea. It reminds me more of Devon than the local pebble beaches.

The cove is filled with people playing in the surf. As I swoop down, a killer whale leaps out of the surf and then dives back underwater. Deeper than it looks! Then I see a dolphin trapped in a gully between two of the black rocks, it is trying to get back into the water but is stuck. Planting one foot on each of the rocks I lift the dolphin free. It's skin is smooth and wet. Even after being freed it lies on the surface making pained noises. I stroke the dolphin's side and try to reassure it.

The dolphin has reminded me of the DV task of the year, but it seems rude to ask this injured animal to give me a lift to Atlantis. The dream scene fades.

A false awakening has me trying to remove items from my black rucksack. Mum has filled it with fish! Also there is a pack of what looks like salmon bacon! After emptying it out I point out that this is my rucksack for college, not a bag for food shopping. (Slight confusion as to my age at this point.) Then even more items come out of the bag including cufflinks and small items of jewellery. Necklaces, ear rings. We put them into clear jelly moulds to be taken to the charity shop.

7-7.55am
Sex with a Mermaid
There are children outside the window making noise. The bedroom seems to be on the ground floor at the front of the house. I open the curtains and find they have left toys on the window sill. There is a crowd outside the front door. A couple of the parents seem to be discussing childcare arrangements with Mum. I go through to a living room where there are stacks of old videos, including one which is the 24 series feature length special.

These old videos are junk. Get rid of them, I suggest. Dad complains that they haven't watched it, and I tell them not to bother. My sister is also in the room. She backs me up and agrees that this old crap is not worth keeping. Then she tries to retrieve something from a shelf behind the sofa, and ends up straddling an unknown male DC sitting on the sofa.

There is a disconnect, probably a missing scene or two. I am walking through a town. On a brick wall there is a moving advert. It doesn't seem to be a screen, more like an animated painting. It contains a drawing of a car and unreadable text slogans. 'Great, even my dreams have adverts,' I think. Then I realise what that means, and become lucid.

The town is surrounded by mountains and forests. No ocean in sight. However, the sky could be an ocean. I fly straight up at full speed until there are clouds around me. Then I flip the world upside down, so the sky is beneath me and the distant trees and mountains above. Looking down and slowly falling into the sky, the blue expanse now becomes an ocean.

I tread water for a bit, noticing the tug of my wet clothing weighing me down. The sky has turned back from green and grey into a proper blue. It is very peaceful out here, no big waves, but also no land in sight. Recalling the last part of the earlier lucid I call out to summon a dolphin. One swims over to me. It seems cheerful. I ask it to take me to Atlantis then climb onto the dolphin's back. It leaps then dives down into the ocean.

Forgetting myself I take a deep breath and am holding it as we swim down, before realising this is not required. The dolphin swims down to a circle of metal on the sea floor. Then it starts poking at small screws that seem to be in the ocean floor. I help to remove some of the screws.

The room transforms around us. We are no longer underwater and the dolphin has grown legs and arms. There are coins on the floor. The dolphin says something about 'taking what is right.' I pick up a copper penny-like coin. It grabs a fistfull of golden coins and laughs. "The one with the most gold wins!" The dolphin-man declares triumphantly.

Ah whatever. I turn and exit the circular room and enter a domed one. It's old fashioned - like a National Trust property. Elegant wooden furniture, shelves lining the walls filled with large hardback books. There are those chaise-longues type chairs with red velvet. The room is populated with people dressed in 18th century clothing - long coats with embroidered collars and dressed with similar intricant designs sewed on them.

They remind me that to complete the DV Task of the Year I must find the mermaid, also, that the mermaid will want an offering from me. The room has several tables covered in trinkets.

My next course of action is to try flirting with one of the 18th century women, very badly, to find out what to pick as a gift for the mermaid. The flirting is just cringe-worthy terrible. Realising this, I end up shouting "fuck it", vaulting over one of the chairs, standing on a table and grabbing a small blue ivory comb thing before running out of the room.

There are several similar looking rooms. Now where is the mermaid? A young boy walks past. "Hey, kid, where's the mermaid?" He points down a corridor. I run down and go past an open door. Inside are tanks the size of double beds, filled with water. Curled up in the corner of a tank is a mermaid. She has long dark hair and a shimmering blue-green fish tail. I climb into the tank and touch her tail. It feels just like a fish, which is both cool and weird at the same time.

She wakes up and turns to me looking alarmed. I drop the comb and it falls into the tank next to her. She grabs it as it falls, seems happy, and then snuggles up against my chest. Well, hello. Somehow she ends up on top of me, lying on my chest, with my legs wrapped around her tail.

"So, uh, how do you make more mermaids?" The question I'd been dying to ask...
"We have a sort of opening." She says.
"Oh really. Well, uh, so can I put my erm, you know, in your... 'opening.'" (Well I'm on top form tonight... just so damn smooth, eh? Ha.)
"You already did."
"Wait, I thought I had trousers on!"
...Well, not anymore, apparently. She starts grinding up against me and I can feel the usual sensations down there now, although my legs are either side of her body/tail. Not gonna lie, it feels a bit weird, but we have sex until the dream fades.

Before 7.20
While lying down I feel shaking sensations. The room is dark and blurry. I wait for a bit before pinching my nose to RC. The first thing I remember is the door task - so I walk over to my bedroom door and say "hi, what's your name?"
At first, the door is not very chatty, so I stroke it (uh, that sounds wrong somehow!), feeling the grain of the wood against my fingers. It doesn't seem to be varnished.

Repeating my question, this time the door answers, telling me it's name is "Fingers of Doom." What a strange name! It says some other stuff that I have forgotten now. There is a poster pinned to the door that is torn and ripped, barely holding on. I try to pin the pieces back into place before realising the pins might be hurting the door, but it says it doesn't mind.

After phasing out of the window, I end up in the village where I grew up. There is an orchard and a large open hillside. I summon an alien invasion by reaching up to the skies. As in my previous attempt, troop transports and smaller fighter saucer type craft land on the grass. This time alien troops exit the ships. They look like robots wearing ragged clothing and remind me somewhat of the phalanx from the comic I was reading last night.

Too late I realise that people were working in the orchard. The troops round up and capture the humans, my parents among them. I fly quickly over to the robot pointing a gun at my mum. The robot's ragged clothing makes him look kinda like a pirate.
"You better let her go, or else." I warn the pirate-robot. It decides to do what I say, and holsters it's gun before walking away.

The other prisoners are being escorted away. I grant Mum super-powers of flight and telekinesis so we can rescue Dad. Mum says it is fine and flies off. She doesn't need my help. I see her fighting the robots from the air and the prisoners cheering her on. Nice one, Mum.

I head into what looks like the alien's command tent. It is full of more robots and rows of tiny flashing lights on machines. I start smashing it up with my fists and during the chaos and smoke, run back outside. I pick the closest saucer and run up the small gangplank to get inside. It is smooth metal this time, almost featureless. There is a viewing screen type window in the ceiling. Taking control of the ship with pure willpower, I get it to take off and fly upwards into the sky.

To power the ship and my journey into space, I start singing Prodigy: Outer Space. "Gonna send him out of space... find another race... I'll take your brain to another dimension, play close attention!" Although, when the song came out I never knew the lyrics and so sung my own slightly misheard ones: "I'm descending outer space... Find another place."

The ship flies up through the clouds and out into space. The dark blackness is filled with stars and a purple swirling nebula. Within the nebula are tiny planets. I head into the nebula until the planets grow larger. Targeting a yellow and white looking planet, I pilot the ship towards it still purely using willpower.

It descends into the atmosphere and lands calmly in the centre of a yellow desert - scrub land. I jump out and see an insectoid thing the size of a dog with an oversized insect head. It crawls like a baby, except really fast, towards me. I back away as it charges me yelling "I come in peace!"

Turning, I find myself in a white structure. The room is filled with... hot tubs. There are skeletons sitting in them. Er. Okay. "Hey, what's up? I come in peace and whatever..."

The skeletons survey me with their empty eye sockets. They shiver and then jump out of the hot tubs holding brightly coloured plastic knives. Definitely not metal. Don't know of any lime-green or sky blue metal like that. They surround me, holding out the small knives. During the stand off, many of them shiver. The hot tubs must keep them warm.

"Hey, why don't you get back in the tubs and I'll try and sort something out to make it warmer?"
The skeletons seem to like this idea and put the knives away. I start to summon fire in my hands, and then try to think of how to raise the temperature of the whole room. The dream fades.

Before 2.12 "Batman Phone Fight"
I'm Batman! Running around a dark mansion - a massive house which is a maze of corridors and enormous halls. There are guards patrolling while I sneak around out of sight. One guard with super powers flies over my head, but doesn't see me. There is another person trying to infiltrate this house - a guy that gets captured by the guards. I move through the building and hear a car driving around outside.

Meanwhile, the flying guard is back. I throw my phone at him?! Then continue to try to get the guard with my phone! There is a battle taking place in a game on the phone screen at the same time, and a counter for auto-play tickets which is tumbling rapidly to zero as the fight carries on. Soon I will have to control the phone game too, once the counter is empty.

After knocking out the flying guard with a kick to the head, I then drop down a long elevator shaft and use my cloak to glide. From a vantage point I watch more guards patrolling and try to work out how to get past them.

Before 6.15 "Tower Block Climb
While driving a car, a motorcyclist switches lanes and then tries to paddle the motorbike around in a circle. It's very dangerous to manoeuvre like that in the middle of the road. I shake my head - in that way when you see someone doing one of your hobbies badly, and you feel like it's tarnishing your own reputation by being associated with that group, you know.

I drive past the junction and go left towards a tower block. Instead of driving, I then have to climb up the side of the tower which consists of several close together balconies. It is easier than expected to do the pull ups to get to each level, like gravity isn't right, and as if I weigh less than normal, but sadly this doesn't make me lucid.

At the top balcony TR joins me. We run along the balcony rail, high above the ground.

Also before 6.15 "Making Coffee, Crashing a Bicycle, Painting"
In this dream I have three brothers (not in RL). One of them is feeling depressed. I show him coffee beans that were given to me. They need to be roasted in the oven first, apparently. An app on my phone shows how long it takes and the green bar quickly reaches 100%. After making the coffee I ask how many sugars... 3 or 4 is the answer. "Okay champ." I reply, trying to cheer him up.

While wandering around trying to find sugar I find the other brothers lying on the floor in the corridor. After stepping over them there is a strange white cupboard formed of melted looking plastic. I pull out several compartments. No sugar.

Probably follows on but can't remember a link...

I am riding a bicycle. There are no brakes and the bike doesn't slow down at all. The wheels lock though, for no apparent reason. Also, the bicycle refuses to turn. Basically, I cannot make the corner and go wide onto a patch of gravel, then fall off on my left side. It doesn't hurt. More importantly, no one was watching!

After picking the undamaged bicycle up and continuing, I manage to go around the corner. There are still no brakes but now I can compensate and stop pedalling to lose momentum. Around here there is a track with other people cycling in the opposite direction.

I cycle up to a place where they talk about AB's Dad having won a competition. Anyway, some guy then hands me a bit of faring or bodywork from a motorbike and wants me to waterproof it with a special paint. It has a tiny generator inside. That bit doesn't need painting. I focus on the brush strokes. A woman sits down besides me and starts painting amazing watercolour flowers. They are very intricate.

6.30- 8.20
Failure to recall any tasks...
In a repeat of the first dream of the night, I am jumping off high ledges and floating/slowing my descent somehow, possibly with a cape. Then AB shows me a box of tiny model parts and they fall over the carpet. We pick the bits up and put them into a small square box. We mess around for a bit.

Then I lie back onto the sofa and things go dark. Possibly there is a brief awakening then WILD sensations of the room shaking. After reaching the conclusion that this is a dream, I pinch my nose and confirm it.

Getting up and walking out of the door, I wander through the house trying to recall tasks and drawing a blank. So, inevitably, I head back to the bedroom and summon some company. I play with myself for a bit until a woman with long dark hair walks in.

She's tall, skinny, not the woman I'd been mentally describing in my head, but still. *snipping all the details* ... we fool around for a bit before I ask her to perform a sexual act on me, which she seems to enjoy and feels incredible to me.

"Train Crash"
I chain back in to another dream and am sitting on an old fashioned train on a red sofa. After remembering that this is a dream, I get up and start running up the train thinking there must be a task related to a train... maybe causing a wreck? I push through the carriages which are full of people as the train goes off the tracks and crashes. Still moving forwards, the end of the train is open wreckage.

Outside is a river and next to it, on the bank, is a bar. I enter and spot a tiny elf. Hey, there's a task to find a present under a Christmas tree! "Do you still have a Christmas tree up?"
The elf nods and leads me into a room still covered in decorations. There is a small green tree, and a box underneath it.

I unwrap the present and find what is best described as a statue of a Pug dog, filled with golden liquid. Finally remembering another task I drink it and find it to be very sweet alcohol. It shrinks me down to the same size as the elf.

Back outside the bar I revert to normal size. There is a small square surrounded by buildings and a horse standing tied to a post. There must be a task for riding a horse, right? I go talk to the horse and ask it, but it tells me there are no tasks involving horses. Sigh. "Well, shall we go for a ride anyway?"
"Sure." The horse replies.

I swing onto the horse's back and we set off down a cobbled street. Further down the road we see a tiger fighting a crow. I wonder if either of those animals would be a task. Probably not. I wake up while contemplating riding on a flying crow.

"Flying Saucer"
While lying in bed trying to recall all the details of the previous dream, I fall back to sleep. There is a street leading through a hilltop city. The views show a sweeping valley below. I start to walk down the hill, thinking randomly about GenghisKhan and wondering if he talks to his wife about all the details of his lucid dreams. Like, the sexual encounters. Obviously he wouldn't discuss it with the kids. Does his wife lucid dream? Guess I was recalling the first lucid of the night and feeling weirdly guilty about some of the stuff I did with that dark haired girl. Stuff I wouldn't dare talk to my partner AB about. Random lucid thoughts!

Eventually my thoughts turn to tasks and I remember one of the TOTY and the TOTM tie in nicely - fly in an alien spaceship. So I start humming sci-fi type music. X-files theme tune-esque. There is the noise of the TARDIS arriving, but this time it has taken the form of an old red British telephone box. Up in the sky other spaceships appear. Some look like troop transports. They land down in the valley.

Then smaller circular, classic alien saucer spacecraft land too. I fly down into the valley and tap on one of the saucers to open up a hatch in the side. I climb onboard. The interior is filled with 80s sci-fi B-movie type flashing lights and screens. Very cool. Guessing, I press some buttons to make the saucer lift off and we head up into the sky.

Before we can get out of atmosphere, my alarm goes off.

Before 5.15
The dream is of a game world in tiny 8-bit style. The monsters are tiny and pixellated. It is not always clear exactly what they are due to the bad quality graphics! While exploring a set of underground tunnels in the game, I find a wall made of glass. It has green dotted lines in irregular patterns drawn on it. Using some kind of sticky hands (D&D spider climb??) spell, I climb the wall like an insect.

The glass wall reveals secret chambers filled with monsters and loot. I phase through the glass (hadn't become lucid, just somehow gained that ability) and start attacking the monsters. After fighting for a while more monsters appear. I am playing a wizard character and cast spells to keep them back. A door appears but it is locked. More monsters appear, filling up the room, getting tougher to kill as they keep spawning.

My character dies and the game resets right back to the beginning. I am irritated. Where were the save points? It is a difficult game as there is no indication of where to go or what to do.

Giving up on the game I find myself outside where there are three row boats waiting on a river. Three floating platforms are infront of the boats. I stand on a platform, but then other people join me and the platform sinks under our combined weight. I climb onto the boat. There is someone already in the central boat who speaks in Italian and then German.

An ex-work-colleage joins me in the boat: KF. She is holding a bunch of flowers and dips them in the water. They shrivel up and die. From the boat we somehow end up inside a building where a group of other co-workers are sitting around a table eating chocolate cake. CW demolishes a large slice, stuffing it in his face getting it all over the place. I take a chocolate chip biscuit and take a bite of it.

Then I try to leave the house, finding a mudstained floor that leads into a garden. Steps made from ivy and plants have covered the exit. I climb them, ending up around the height of a normal house. Then after shimmying along one of the steps I manage to drop down into a shaded part of the garden. At this point, I become lucid.

The garden has a couple of bicycles lying in the grass. I think about stealing one of them while climbing a slope that leads out to a street. There are three cars parked in the road. I remember the TOTY and walk over. Pulling up the bonnet (hood) I sweep the engine compartment. It has a bunch of small junk items inside but no engine. Good. Then I walk around the car and rip off all the wheels, leaving it resting on the axles.

Now prepared, the car has also become a convertible. So I lean into the car and try to start it. At first it will not work, but a few more attempts and it roars into life. Hopping into the driving seat, I drive the car down the road. The axles are grinding into the tarmac. Sounds terrible!

At the side of the road I spot a group of bikers and a really gorgeous Ducati - unusually in a burnt orange colour like a Lamborghini Aventador. I try to get through the group and attempt to steal the bike, but the rider block me from getting near it. I give up and walk further down the street past some nice cars but nothing compared to that Ducati motorbike.

While walking into a building I remember the massage task. There is a family sitting here - mother, father, child. I ask for a massage. The man walks behind me and starts rubbing my shoulders. It is not very strong but it is noticable. The man then asks something about the child, indicating that it is mine. That's not my kid?? I wake up.

I am in the world of Warcraft playing a new character. I am trying to get added to a guild but realise the guild leader will not recognise this character. The area looks like the centre of stormwind but the character is a Tauren (Horde) shaman called 9ig (pig)?

Then the game forces me out. I am sitting at a computer desk with a small shuttle pc in front of me. I consider buying the latest Warcraft expanions to resume playing.

Nearby there is a stone pillar and a large statue of a fish. It wiggles its eyebrows at me! Must be a dream right? I laugh and try to count my fingers.... eventually realising there are at least six fingers on each hand. This is a dream. In the distance there are red fireworks going off. They look like a hundred hands of red smoke reaching up into the sky then disappating. Wow.

Remembering the bonus Totm I spin and try to teleport to Pandora. I arrive in an animated environment. There are people standing around tables set at the edge of a large room. Like an old banquet hall from a castle. Some of those animated women are kinda hot, but I stay focused on the task.

I walk around the edge. Must get to the forest. Where is it? In a roo. Off the main hall a little child holding a floating glowing flower. Bioluminescence. Wow what's that? Where did you get it?
"From the portal." The kid replies.

I head back and see a set of steps leading down and then a window. Through the window a magical battle is taking place. I dive and phase through the window and start to chase the combatants. There are a group of them. One who is possibly the leader gets away.

One guy is trying to steal a motorbike. Oh no you don't. I punch and kick him repeatedly. Then a kung fu panda shows up! The giant panda is spinning and doing impressive kicks. Not to be out-done while lucid, I do some back and do a full 360 spin kick that knocks the panda flying. Then I steal the motorbike and chase after the leader. I have some trouble with the bike so have to fake it.... making the noise to get it to move.

Then the path leads to a scrapyard. There is a main office, one of those temporary buildings. I see the leader inside. He spots me and points through cracked glass windows.

A forest with weird ice cream cone like portals are hanging in the air. They are plant like structures of red, white and pink plant fibres spun/grown together like candy floss. I phase through the glass into the forest to get a closer look and see hundreds of these glowing tree portals light up through the forest. It looks stunning. But then I wake up.

Before 8.30
Medium LD
After a brief interruption I chain back into a dream, but not lucidly. This time I am sitting on the bed, reading a paperback. My parents show up and start asking about what books I have read previously. Blank memory. Damn. I cannot recall anything. "Something about vampires?" I say, then admitting my inability to recall and blaming it on Aphantasia. -Since my memory is conceptual/verbal rather than visual, I can happily re-read books and re-watch films multiple times.

They change the subject and ask how my push-up challenge is going. I hop off the bed and start doing some push ups. They are completely effortless, as if my body has no weight. Ah. This must be a dream. I continue doing press ups and show off by getting a DC to sit on my back.
"How many can you do?"
"Like this? Infinite."
I get bored of doing push ups and tell them to gather their things. "We're going on an adventure!" I tell them. Figuring it would be nice to include my parents in a lucid dream for a change. (Might keep my mind out of the gutter as well. )

Outside the bedroom is a wide hallway with toilet signs, so I ask if anyone needs to go before we leave. They don't, so I head outside with everyone following me. There is a tornado in the distance and the winds are very strong. I demonstrate my super strength by climbing up the building and then holding on - the winds are strong enough to drag my body out horizontally from the wall.

We continue as a group and find an Indian looking bazaar. One of the shop/stall keepers is my friend ST, and a girl that introduces herself as Helen. I greet them before we continue to where the stalls are clustered around a valley of a dried up river bed. There is a sort of exhibit/display at one end of it, like a small ornamental water feature.

Then we arrive at the entrance to a museum of sorts. Mum wants to look around, so we walk around the various advertisement boards and go inside. The room contains large marble statues. They are around 25ft tall, so I levitate everyone in the group up to get a closer look. Then I sky-swim up and around the room as well.

Down on a table are a collection of orange plastic bags. The text on them reads Civil War. I go open one of the bags and find a special edition notepad and pen inside.

4.10- 5.05
Short LD "Smash the Sky"
I am using a computer. The screen is mostly blue, like there is plastic over it. There are forums showing. I am trying to edit something and end up deleting the entire post. It occurs to me that this is a dream, and a nose pinch RC confirms it.

The room is small and has a couple of windows looking out of the second story towards a street and other buildings. I try to fly through the closed window, phasing through it completely. I am now outside but the sky is a ceiling still. There is a patch of blue sky down the street, but wherever I fly to the ceiling just keeps reappearing.

Finally I lose my temper and hulk out, letting out a roar of frustration and smashing head first into the solid ceiling. It shatters from the impact, lumps of masonry falling everywhere. Then it vanishes. I keep flying up into the sky until everything goes black. Then stars start to appear. The stars seem to gather together as I fly towards them, forming a galaxy. It fades before I can reach it.

Short LD "Triss" WILD
After waiting in the darkness for ages there are sudden screeching noises. Then violent vibrations start. Feels like an earthquake. I remind myself to stay calm. When everything goes quiet again, I do a nose pinch RC then stand up on the bed. Well, the task of the month requires a DC to show you a new method of dream control. So I stare at the door and imagine someone walking in.

A red haired woman walks in. She is tall, slim, oh and distractingly pretty. It could be Triss Merigold from the Witcher games. Damn. Maybe I should have created some trousers first. I stand up as she walks to the bed but without me saying a thing she gets down on her knees... * the rest is censored *

Probable false awakening. TR talking to a guy holding a D&D book.

5.20- 6.40am
Medium LD "Hollow Man"
A bad guy is picking on children and painting their toys black. I try to stop him and we end up fighting. During the struggle I get hold of two of his fingers and bend them back. They should break, but he is apparently double jointed and this doesn't do anything to him. Nothing seems to hurt him. Eventually we call a truce. The main thing is, he isn't upsetting the kids any more.

Later on there is a man sitting at a kitchen table eating half an apple pie with custard and ice cream. Mmmm one of my favourite desserts! I take the other half of the pie and put a big spoonful of custard on it. After the food is gone we switch off various fans and lights around the room.

I head upstairs and find a bedroom. While I'm getting undressed several people enter the room and talk about pouring dettol on me "until it foams." Uhm. Really rather you didn't. I become lucid.

I ask the DCs to show me a new method for dream control. They tell me to take a pen and draw a red cross on a tea-bag. Then put it on the floor, lie down and stare at the cross. Well this is all typically dumb, but I do it. While lying on the floor staring at the tea-bag with the cross on it, I suddenly fly backwards out of my body and become an astral projection.

Or at least that's what I thought happened. It seems more like invisibility though, as my body has vanished. Two of the DCs start arguing about how they didn't follow the instructions right and now the transformation is irreversible. You what? I shove one of the guys and he goes flying into a glass set of shelves. It breaks. Glass flies everywhere but doesn't hurt me. He takes a shard of glass and uses it like a dagger, but he is unable to see me and flails wildly.

Everyone else decides to leave. They run outside and get into a car. Still invisible, I jump into the back seat. Lost lucidity at some point, rest is best described as a false/semi lucid-dream. The road is blocked with parked cars and a van tries to run us off the road. The street is very narrow and when we reach the junction at the end, a digger the size of a house with a snow-plow shovel like thing on the front tries to shunt us out of the way.

The road is now blocked with scrap - abandoned cars, metal poles. A bunch of DCs are starting to move things out of the street. The others from the car start to assist. I try to help, and get spotted by a girl with a camera. Hey, what happened to the invisibility?

It turns out that digital cameras can pick up a faint trace of me, and she is using it to see where I am. We move into a house and a guy starts moving shelves around. I help him, while invisible, which freaks him out. He tells me to stop doing that.

I walk into the next room and find it is filled with people from work. One of them looks at a payslip then leaves it lying on the side. I am tempted to look at it. Before I get the chance, someone attacks me. They are using cameras to track me. At first I just try to stay out of the way, but eventually lose my patience and start throwing the people across the room and smashing the place up.... and then wake.

6.30-7am
Medium LD "Distracted"
We are walking down the street during some kind of carnival or festival. Street performers are doing various stunts. Then I notice a guy with a metal pole replacing these small covers in the ground.

At some point I feel the need to visit the bathroom. I walk over to the urinal, unzip, change my mind and go into a stall. I become lucid and start playing with myself, before realising it would be easy to summon some company.

Leaving the stall I watch the bathroom door expecting a beautiful woman to enter the room. Sure enough the door opens. A slim, slightly Asian looking woman with long dark hair walks in.*...snipping lengthy adult funtime details...*

7.10-7.40
Medium LD "My Subconcious Cheats at Rock Paper Scissors"
I am walking through a city. Most of the shops are closed and there is scaffolding on the pavement. I'm barefoot and decide to go back for my shoes. This makes me lucid.

Heading into the closest bar, I find a DC sitting down nursing a pint of beer. "Rock Paper Scissors?"
He turns and we play. He chooses scissors. I chose rock. Hey I won! We play a couple more times and a female DC joins in for a threeway. The guy cheats by doing paper but with fingers open as if also doing scissors. Wait, what is that supposed to be?
"Hey, you're cheating!"
The guy nods sheepishly and we laugh about it.

I recall the stick-your-head-in-the-ground task as well, and decide to leave the building and try this one outside. However, the female DC follows me. "What are you doing. There's something not right about you."
Yeah, I'm lucid, and about to do weird stuff.

At first it is quite difficult to get my head into the earth. It turns into a sort of handstand. I manage to get my head part-way and make a small hole, but can't get more than up to my eyes. I experiment by lying on my face instead, and this sends me into a black void.

Finally two level-selector style images start floating in the void. I choose one of them, at random since neither look like Candyland, which was my intention.

An old style game starts. I control the character as a distant observer. The levels are set in the countryside, and the aim is to walk along the paths and roads without running into any enemies - in this case giant bugs. It's sort of like pac-man, but with curved paths.

I get to the next level and then a giant flying bug swoops in to attack me. I try to attack it but can't seem to control the character that well. So I possess the DC to gain first person perspective. The attacks of the insect cause a buzzing/vibration in the entire world. I start trying to smash the bug with my fist.

The scene fades. A guy is handing out strawberry laces. I eat some of them, and it is chewy and kinda tasteless, like the real thing. Another person is talking about Swiss currency not having any scratches or markings on it, because it is so rarely used.

5-6.30am
Medium LD "Bicycle Thief"
The dream starts with several false awakenings. In one, I am in a bed in the spare room across the hall from my parents' bedroom. Mum gets up to use the bathroom. I am lying in bed thinking about it being November, and therefore national novel writing month (NaNoWriMo). Ideas for stories float through my head.

Then I am at the side of a road. A guy driving an SUV pulls over to the side of the road, skids to a halt. He jumps out and checks on two young blonde-haired boys in the back of the car. They seem fine, he seems panicked.

The dream skips. I am interviewing a book character about an incident. There will need to be a death, a reason for the interview. The character is talking about an entropy/chaos magician who manipulates probability. "Don't bet against him." The character advises me.

Dream skips again. I am a teenager, back in secondary school. The school has an identical layout to the one I went to. Most of the students seem to be looking at board games. One kid has an emblem drawn on his forehead. It looks like a magical glyph rather than what you might expect a bunch of teenagers to draw/write on someone's head...

While walking around, I am much shorter than the other students. Other students mock me, but I am only pretending to be a dwarf by walking on my knees. It is to strengthen my legs so that I can run faster? There is an important race in a few days, and they won't be laughing when I win it.

We get outside, near the bicycle sheds. A DC runs up and tells me they just saw 'Angel' wheeling my bicycle away. They make a joke about a 'Fallen Angel.' Giving up on strengthening my legs, I stand and run to the wall, jumping down onto grass. Angel is walking towards the gate. I am surprised to see the figure is a woman wearing a long white dress. She runs and leaps up a set of stone ledges.

I begin to chase Angel. It's like running in treacle. A classic dream sign for me. Despite becoming lucid, my focus remains on catching the bicycle thief. I run parallel to the woman and leap up onto the highest ledge in one bound. She is surprised by how fast I managed to move. I grab her and throw us both off the ledge, trusting in my innate lucid invulnerability. While falling though, our eyes meet. She has blue eyes, wide in shock and fear. There is no hate or malice here.

I no longer wish her harm, but it's too late, all I can do is shield the back of her head with my hand at the same moment we hit the floor. Angel is not injured though. She is already apologising and crying. Someone told her to steal my bike? It is locked in another shed?
"Just gimme the keys."
After getting the keys I let her stand up and she runs quickly away, looking scared.

Behind the first shed is another. Both are made of corrugated iron. Rusted but still sturdy. The keys unlock it and my bicycle is inside, covered in chains. Then I turn and see a young Philip Glenister ~18 yrs old, striding towards me. Shirt sleeves rolled up. Fists clenched. Ready to fight.

He is taller and stronger than me, but I'm lucid. I start throwing punches and hit him multiple times in the face and chest. He seems to be getting weaker. Then a right hook comes out of nowhere and hits the side of my head. I stumble back and while still dazed, his left fist strikes out and hits my nose. Next thing I know I'm on the ground. The world is spinning.

The dream destabilises and reforms. I am lying in a chair. The room around me is empty. My entire body aches as I stand up. The bike shed keys are still in my back pocket, which is a relief. He didn't steal my bicycle.

In the next room are people from our class, although none of them are familiar to me. One girl, false memory says her name is Becky, runs up and hugs me. Ow. I do not return the hug, but do not try to break free either. Moving hurts. Among the classmates is Philip Glenister again. Surprisingly, he apologises and suggests we go find my bike.

We head outside down a path lined with grass. It leads between the school buildings. Becky walks with us. Phil makes a comment about her having thick, manly arms.

7.20-7.40am
Short LD "Flowerpot Phone"
There's been a mixup with the hotel booking. AB and my sister are sharing a room, and I have a separate room downstairs with someone else. We are upstairs in their room discussing it. This room has 6 beds. Why don't I just sleep here? They volunteer me to go speak to the manager and sort it out.

The door to the room actually leads out into the street. Now TR is walking with me. Someone drops a phone on the floor - except it is a plastic flowerpot dish. I become lucid and pick it up. Without much effort I turn the flowerpot into a phone and try to call someone. The speaker activates.
"What is the bar code?" The vioce demands.
"Uh... where would I find that information... oh forget it."
I see a set of steps and start to head up them, but a sudden need to cough breaks sleep paralysis and wakes me up.

Had a few normal dreams involving police - wrongfully accused, escaping from prison, trying to avoid the cops after an accident. Hence the last lucid was me getting my own back on the dream police, kinda

30/10/2016
Short LD "Trapped"
I am in a small room that is both bedroom and kitchen. JR is making breakfast and talking about there being special beds for the FBI. Why are the FBI here? Well to sleep. They get the more comfortable beds. Lucky sods.

One of the double beds, identified as mine, has a woman sleeping in it. She is unfamiliar to me. Probable false memory of us being intimate earlier. I ask her if she wants a cup of tea but she smiles at me and shakes her head sleepily. I put some trousers on and go to get breakfast.

Back at the breakfast table the discussion turns to plans: We will go to a seaside town and build great wooden ships, and sell the experience to people (boatbuilding experience?) It will be called Newmark? Also, we discuss how it will be a free place where people can sing whatever they like without comment.

To get to Newmark there is a bus. We end up on the bus but get stopped at a checkpoint. An inspector raises the bus on a giant hydraulic lift. We stand at the side of the road. Ducking down I can see right under the bus. A lorry filled with huge silver containers drives past. I try to move around the bus as the inspector then says they need to repeat the lift on the other side.

The bus falls back down and then metal barriers form around me. I am trapped under the bus. If the driver leaves now, I will be crushed under the wheels. Intense fear fills me but then I become lucid. I try to phase through the metal but terror seems to be holding me back. Smashing the metal has no effect and my shouts are muffled. I lash out and break sleep paralysis, waking with a jolt.

31/10/2016
4-5.30am
Long LD "Doctor Strange"
I am back at my first job. Just been hired. One of the employees shows me around. They take me to the locker room. He tells me that the keys to the lockers must be left next to the light switch. There is a guy standing near the lockers getting changed.
"Should I put on my uniform now?" I ask.
"No not yet."
I put on my trainers though, as we are about to head outside.

The guy leads me to a station where we jump onto a moving train. The door is small and I have to duck down to get through. This makes me lucid. Scenery is flashing past - countryside, at high speed. I jump off the moving train.

Superhero time! And, based on the last Marvel film I watched, decide to become Dr Stephen Strange. My current clothes are jeans and a T-shirt. I change them into blue robes and red cape. Then it's time for some magic. The first few attempts do not work very well. Thin whisps of magical energy appear in the air. Meh.

I do a complicated tai-chi style gesture and yell "Crimson Bands of Cyttorak!" Streaks of red magic fly out of my hands and towards the closest DC, who gets wrapped up in magic restraints and knocked over. He struggles on the floor.

Okay now to test the cloak of levitation. I jump and sit cross-legged in the air, then start to float along the street above the heads of everyone else. Up ahead there are small spaceships being attacked by beings made entirely from magical energy. I attempt to bind them but my spell merely knocks the being to the ground. It shrivels though, from human sized down to a small ball of glowing light. The miniature space ship is falling so I grab it out of the air and put it down. Tiny people climb out of it.

The glowing ball transforms into a small spaceship as well, trying to mimic the other one in the hopes I will free it. You don't fool me. I bite down on the tiny craft and start smashing it up with my teeth. Meanwhile about twenty robed monks have surrounded me. Instinctively I start casting more spells, creating orange glowing glyphs in the air by doing more tai-chi like gestures.

The monks are armed with wooden quarterstaves. I use the glyphs to clear a path and run for it. A castle with 30 foot walls is ahead. I attempt a invent a teleportation spell on the move. It doesn't work, but the cloak has my back, literally - dragging me up into the air.

From up on the castle walls I can see trains shooting past below. The monks have not followed me. Dropping down on the inside of the castle wall I then move inside the building. The roof is a restaurant with people and tables and chairs, all upside down. I begin to wonder which way is up.

On the wall is a picture of a city in a desert. Hmm, I could try to open a portal using the picture. Raising my left hand I notice two magical rings on my first and middle fingers. I start to make a circle in the air with my right hand to open a portal. A spinning red portal of ringed fire opens. I run through it.

There is sand underfoot. In the distance, the city sprawls in the shadow of a collossal sphinx. This must be Egypt. A huge celebration is taking place in the central square. The roads are lined with small merchant stalls. I grab something off one of them but the merchant doesn't even notice.

I recall the need to find an oasis, and head back out into the desert. It looks like a battlefield - there are aged metal objects in the sand - a helmet. A set of angel wings carved from copper, which has turned green with age. The battlefield seems to be haunted. Ghosts rise around me. I wake up.

7-7.50
Long LD "Taunting the Dream Police"
I am squeezing out a tube of toothpaste - it globs out all over the pavement. Bit of a waste... so I start scraping it onto a toothbrush. After getting a massive blob of toothpaste onto the brush, I try to clean my teeth, only to find a rock in my mouth.

This must be a dream. After spitting the rock and toothpaste out, I run forwards and find myself in the centre of a town. People are walking around. Things seem quiet. A tall guy with white hair shouts out to me. He is wearing bike leathers and holding a helmet. He seems familiar.

"Hey. You got a bike?"
"Yeah! Wanna see?" He replies.
The tall guy turns and walks into an alley. A police officer steps in front of me and blocks my path. He is shorter than me and dressed in the full stab vest and uniform. He puts a hand on my chest to stop me moving past.
"...the fuck? This is bullshit." Why are the cops on my case these last few nights? What did I do?

... and I find myself lying in bed. AB enters, talking about buying a DVD. There are a stack of DVDs next to the bed. "Wait... I heard you leave. Why aren't you at work?"
AB makes some excuse and then goes into another room.

Then I lie down and try to go back to sleep. Immediately a scene forms and I realise it was a false awakening and become lucid again.

I summon a motorcycle in the normal way by faking it, moving down the street until the bike forms under me. It doesn't steer very well and briefly changes into a bicycle before getting under control again. A left turn comes up and I run wide. A car revs its' engine impatiently behind me.

Up ahead is a police motorbike. Heh. Time for revenge. I pull up alongside him, beeping the horn to get his attention. Then I raise the middle finger salute and grab a fistful of throttle. The sirens start and the police bike dutifully starts chasing me. We get stuck in a crowd of people who are crossing the road. I push the bike through and ride up to a rock concert.

The road has ended at a railing, so I grab the bike and vault over it. Then slow the descent of the bike and get back on it. I pull some burnouts before riding through an empty restaurant. I phase the bike and myself through a solid door and into a classroom. There are doors. I struggle to phase through them and wake up.

...but not fully awake. Sleep paralysis. Can't move. Even my tongue is paralysed. Three guys lean over me. One has a baseball bat resting on his shoulder. I can't yell out or defend myself. They start beating me with the bats. I dissasociate with my body to block out the pain. Despite being unable to move I am able to move the visuals away, as if watching a TV.

The dream tries to freak me out by playing creepy music and having disembodied heads fly out of the 'screen' towards me. I still cannot move. 'It won't work, you're just hallucinations.' I think. Then I finally wake up.

7.20-8am Long LD
There's no HI or shaking or anything, I'm lying in bed and get the feeling something is not quite right and decide to sit up. Instantly my vision is blurry and distorted. I pinch my nose and try to breathe to confirm this is a dream. The dream is still very unstable as I stand up and move out of the bedroom. Attempts to stabilise by rubbing hands doesn't do much.

The upstairs of the house is very different to RL. The hallway is much larger and has a glass divider next to the stairs. The lack of clarity is pissing me off now, so I punch it. The glass gets a satisfying indent and spiderweb pattern of broken safety glass. I punch it a few more times until the glass is covered in cracks. It is still holding together though. I let out a primal roar and one final super punch which destroys the glass, the wall, and both collapse into the stairway.

I start wandering through the unfamiliar house trying to think of tasks or goals but nothing productive springs to mind. In the next room a woman with long dark hair greets me enthusiastically, with a kiss. Well, I'm not going to complain. One thing leads to another. We end up going back to the bedroom and having sex, but as this progresses the dream becomes unstable. Things go black temporarily.

The visuals reform as a walled garden. Ivy crawls all over the stonework and the walls reach up about 20m into the sky. The ground is covered in overgrown plants too, left to run wild. The garden has a few animals living in it too - deer and many birds. I call one of the birds down and hold my arm out. A falcon swoops down and lands on my outstretched wrist. Cool. I stop and stare at the bird for a while, and it eyes me back before taking off and soaring up into the sky.

I follow the falcon, flying over the walls to leave the garden. Beyond it are smooth, new looking tarmac roads. A group of teenagers are sitting and chatting at the entrance to a small building. Well, roads this smooth almost demand to be driven. So I summon a motorbike in my usual way: Fake it by sitting in the air, arms out, hands gripping imaginary bars. Twist the throttle and make the noise!

After a few seconds the motorbike appears and I glide down the road which turns uphill and then curves back down in some glorious ramps, although the bike is a cruiser and not really suitable for doing tricks. To get it to move a bit faster I change into a sportsbike riding position (ya know, frog on a hoover - crouched, arse in the air, arms forward, hugging the tank)

The shift in position creates a big difference in speed but without the adrenaline hit of sudden acceleration you'd get in RL. Still, it's fun, and the road is twisty, and there's no cars or police to spoil it. I stop at the top of a hill and while looking at the rolling English countryside, recall the task about being in a desert.

So I try to spin and teleport. Visuals go black, but the scene reforms looking like a town square. I'm aware of the armor plates in my bike jacket that has appeared on me, which reminds me of another task to wear armor.
"Summon chainmail." I say out loud, looking at the ground and expecting some to appear.
Instead, a young woman with shoulder length blonde hair walks towards me.

You know how a woman looks wearing a man's T-shirt - it's oversized, baggy, yet somehow super sexy? That. Except she is wearing chainmail over a white sweater. I can't help but grin and enjoy the moment.
"How about you take that off?" I say, indicating the chainmail shirt.

She slips the chainmail over her head and hands it to me. I pull it over my head and get my arms through the right holes - the bike jacket has disappeared automatically. The chainmail feels heavy.
"And how about taking that off too?" I ask the woman, pointing at the white sweater. She giggles and leads me off into the closest building. Once we are alone she is now wearing jeans, so I help her take them off. We start having sex. Everything is going great until she unexpectedly indicates she wants to stop.

She makes some comment about us being at it for two hours. Two hours? Not likely! (and I'll snip the rest, but basically I woke up 10 minutes after my alarm should have gone off. Can't help but think that some part of my brain knew the alarm should have gone off and that was why the woman thought we should stop.)

Medium LD 7.10-7.45ish
While drifting off to sleep images form and this raises my awareness. My whole body starts shaking. I wait for it to finish then stand up on the bed. The room looks deceptively realistic, but something doesn't feel quite right... My body feels too light. It is hard to describe. Is this the fabled gravity RC? I pinch my nose shut and try to breathe. Inconclusive. A hand RC works though - my left hand has seven fingers and two of them are tiny stumps.

I go downstairs. There is no front door, just a hole in the wall. Outside is a small village street and opposite is a large red brick building. I start to fly down the street and see a metal brazier with a fire burning within it. I decide to summon fire and focus the feeling of heat on my hands. They errupt into flames and leave sparks when moved. I throw a fireball at the red building and start chucking around small sparks - mini fireworks. I also try to draw the fire out of the brazier into my hands, but that doesn't work.

At this point I remember tasks and try to teleport to Talis (planet from a recent lucid) by spinning. The song "California here we come" pops into my head. Conincidently, I sang that song in my first proper stable lucid dream, so I always associate it with that.

The dream reforms on a windswept hillside with a row of enormous twisted trees. They look like they have long fought against strong winds - the branches reaching horizontally out in one direction, as if trying to escape, or reach for something.

A couple of people are standing nearby. They look disappointingly human to me. This is not Talis. Doesn't even look much like California. I decide to try the second of my three-step-tasks - unsummoning. Pointing my finger as a guide towards the closest tree, I start to erase it. The leaves and branch disappear. I follow the branch to the trunk and then down to the ground. The entire tree is gone.

At the bottom of the hill is a house with a door. I phase through it, expecting to find a desert, but find a toilet instead. I try to get back to the hillside but end up in a corridor instead. This leads to a small stone room and then the bottom of a square stairway. There is a small wooden cupboard, just about big enough for a child to hide inside. I hear a noise from within it, and am about to investigate but wake up instead.

Medium LD before 1.20am
The first part of the dream repeated several times.

It is night time, extremely dark except for a few lights in the distance. I am hiding in an alleyway. A car filled with gangsters drives by. They open fire with automatic weapons, spraying the bulding next to the alley - a bar/pub? I duck for cover behind some bins.

More gunmen start running up the alley. Crouched low to avoid the gunfire, I flee. The alley leads to a field of tall grass. In the distance is a strange machine. It looks a bit like a tractor, sounds like one, but has a long thin section at the front. It seems yellow in the moonlight. I hide from the tractor, but realise the driver is not part of the gang. The gangsters following me eventually give up and leave.

Then I look back and see a man dressed in blue walking slowly towards where I am hidden. As if he knows exactly where I am. He is not rushing. I break cover and run. The man doesn't speed up. He continues walking at a steady pace, following me wherever I go. Beyond the field are small village streets.

Everytime I look back, the man is there still following me. The closest building is a restaurant or bar of some kind. I run inside and my awareness rises - noticing the feeling of panic and realising this is not real. The man has appeared in the doorway. He reminds me of Khylen from Killjoys - that same air of superiority, the self-assuredness that he can't be hurt. He looks to be late forties, early fifties maybe. Grey hair, pale eyes.

I'm not going to run anymore. I summon a weapon - a meat cleaver - and attack. He dodges all the attacks with apparent ease, but gets driven back towards the wall. Well, this isn't working... I point at him and command him to "sit" like a dog. Obediently, he perches on a chair. It seems to amuse rather than annoy him.
"You're not going to chase me anymore." I tell him, as calmly as possible.
He shakes his head. "Already accepted the contract from 'Smiler'" He replies.
Who the hell is 'smiler'?
"Fine. Chase me if you want. But I don't ever want to see you again. You will always be just over the horizon. Out of sight. You cannot kill me."
He nods. "Okay. I left my rifle in the car. You will not see me again."

The comment about the rifle makes me think my suggestion didn't work. Maybe he's just going to shoot me in the back. Unsure as to where this leaves us, I step out of the room. I decide to try and salvage the lucid by getting off this planet for a while. I take off and go straight up at rocket speed. Within a few seconds I am really high, among thin clouds. Then I am floating in space looking down at the Earth. I recall my first 3-step is to teleport, and focusing my thoughts on going back to Talis, start to spin, but wake up instead.

Short LD Before 6.15
My phone is playing music that won't stop. It is very irritating. The location seems a bit like work. I need to log the tasks that I've been working on, and can only see one thing for the past few days, something that I'm sure is a tiny piece of work. Will my manager notice? Accuse me of slacking off?

Some other work colleagues enter and turn on a device that is playing music. JR is here. We chat for a bit, then it is almost time for work. I head up a flight of stairs an find some old work colleagues including CR upstairs. In another room I find a bed and lie down on my back. Immediately though, CR and an unknown DC enter. CR has dyed her hair dark brown, it is still very long and straight. They climb onto the bed, kneeling over me and start kissing each other...

Watching them gets me very aroused. They must know I am here...? They continue ignoring me though. A strong feeling of jealousy starts to build up inside me. They are so close. After just half a minute of this I'm losing my mind. I'm about to shut my eyes and try to block it out, when finally CR pulls away from the other person (male? female? Do not know or care, it's CR I want so badly). She leans down, hair brushing my face. I feel her lips on mine.* snip *

The dream shifts to a dusty wasteland. Old rusting husks of vehicles are sticking out of the sand. Though the floor seems like sand, the cars and junk are piled so high as to block the view, so I don't think it counts as a desert. Feral dogs are chasing and barking at each other. I am already lucid because there are white karaoke lyrics appearing at the bottom of my vision!

Everything is a bit blurry. Shadows of the crashed planes move around on the ground. A helicopter passes overhead, the noise deafening. I find it hard to walk and stumble forwards. Despite knowing this is a dream, my usual control is lacking. I struggle to stabilise the dream and then decide to teleport out, but wake instead.

Medium LD 5.30-7.50am
I am in bed with AB. There is some snuggling and cuddling. Then I get up and try to use a computer. That doesn't work very well. I move the screen around to see it better. There are plants next to the bed and loose earth. I try to stamp some of the earth into place. Outside in the hallway are voices - AB talking to father.

Then playing chase with an unknown person. We reach the back door. This house has the layout of my parent's home. It is dark outside. They run out into the darkness. I do not want to stumble around in the darkness trying to find them and instead go back upstairs. Upon reaching the attic room - my childhood bedroom - I become lucid. RC by looking at left hand. First finger lopped off halfway up. Cool.

I phase through window. It is light outside, daytime. The village is made up of a few sparse detached houses. I do some flying and then perch on a fence. Groups of people wandering around the village. Large group heading off down road. See them transform into two huge dire wolves.

Decide to haunt a suitable looking gothic looking house. I go inside and become mostly invisible and ethereal looking. I change my appearance to be scary - dead rotting face and sunken dark eyes. Then I lure the people outside into the house.

I wait until they are in the first room then laugh evilly to freak then out. They see me, scream and run outside. I leave the house chuckling wondering what to do next and then wake.