lucid

This is from a couple days ago. It's a little fuzzy since I didn't have my DJ handy and couldn't write it down immediately.

Dream Lucid Notes/Observations

I'm trying to sneak into a mansion high up in the mountains somewhere. I've left my car down at the base of the canyons, and have a long ways to walk to get back. I have to be done and back to the car before sunrise. The mansion is surrounded by a huge fence, and the only way in is through a guardhouse with 3 doors.

I sneak around the outside of the guard house and choose a door at random. As i come in i see that there is a counter in the middle of the room, behind which a guard is lounging, facing slightly away from me. I'm low enough down that the counter hides me as a sneak around to get behind him, and shoot him with my tranquilizer pistol.

I stand up and look around the guard house, but it's pretty empty so I walk out the door that leads to the mansion grounds. I spend some time looking around but can't find a way in, and after a while I decide I need to get back to my car, so I head back to the guard house.

As I'm approaching the guard house a bunch of giant orange/brown scorpions come out of the ground (Bark Scorpions from Fallout New Vegas, which is odd because I haven't played the game s in weeks). I run in into the guard house, and climb up onto the counter. I'm shooting at the scorpions with my tranqs, but the darts can't pierce their armor. Then big white rats start coming out of the ground as well, and I can't hit them either. I'm surrounded and pretty sure I'm going to die (but I'm not particularly scared for some reason).

The Dream shifts, (I'm not sure if I just forgot the transition, or if it was an actual shift) and suddenly I'm riding a horse through the desert. I know I have to reach the prince and tell him that the enemy has taken the blade (the large desert part of our country) but that we still hold the hilt (the small fertile portion around the capitol).

I ride through the desert for awhile, maybe 15 minutes, admiring the harsh landscape and colorful hotsprings. At last I come to the building I'm looking for, where the prince should be. It's a large white building, that looks something like a traditional mosque. I dismount and walk in through the large double doors at the front. Inside is a young woman I know to be the Sheik's wife, and their daughter who is maybe around 6 or 7.

The Sheik's wife will not speak to me, so I ask the little girl where her brother is because I have important information for him. She refuses to tell me where he is. And somehow I know that I'm dreaming. I look around the room and sort of stabilize, taking in the pattern of the blue tiles on the walls, and the flowers on the tables standing in niches around the room. The little girl is still glaring at me, so I motion her over and ask if she wants to know a secret. I tell her that she is in my dream (for some reason it was very difficult for me to say this, I'm not sure if it was because I didn't quite believe it, or what). She doesn't believe me and tells me so quite bluntly. So I decide to prove it to her. I make myself levitate a few feet off the floor and say "See?" But she turns away and and goes to stand by her mother, who refuses to look at me. This seems to shake my lucidity a bit as I cannot maintain my levitation and spend a few more minutes admiring the beautiful mosaic on the wall before I wake up.

So this is the dream that got me back into LD and led me to DreamViews. ]

Dream Lucid Random Notes/Observations

Me and my fiance (Jess) are at some sort of Halloween themed club or party, everybody but us is wearing crazy clothes and spooky masks. The place is huge (this is a sort of dream sign for me, building that are way too large or have physically impossible internal dimensions) and falling apart, and is lit only by candles and gas lanterns. In order to be accepted at the party they ask us to go find a Jack-o-lantern doll that is hidden somewhere in the building.

So we take off looking for the doll, searching everywhere for what seems like hours. After a while my feet start to hurt, and I look down and notice that my pants are in shreds, and I'm only wearing one shoe. Some how this makes me realize that I'm dreaming. So the first thing I do is change what I'm wearing, giving myself flowing black silk clothes and some badass metal boots. But I don't seem to be fully lucid because I decide to go along with the dream plot, though I cheat and make it so that the next place we look we find the doll. After returning it to the leaders of the masked people I decide to go have more fun. I find an empty hallway and repair it, making everything shiny and new, mostly white marble. And then I decide I want to walk on the ceiling, (this has always been a goal of mine, though I still haven't managed) but instead of trying to walk up a wall or something I float myself upside down and try to put my feet on the ceiling. This proves to be too hard and I give up and lose lucidity. I go back to the party until I wake up, but I don't remember any more of the dream.