Oneirin's Dreamworld

I begin looking out to the right window of my bedroom at the neighbor's house. The entire side is an intense, shining blue stained glass, resembling church in many ways. I do a double take, and something feels very strange and familiar about this state. I realize I'm dreaming and begin stand up and walk toward the window. I jump out, but my visuals go white. I stay in this white void area for several minutes, rubbing my hands and reminding myself I'm in a dream. I try intently to wait until the next dream scene starts. After several minutes, I wake up.

I'm aware that a dream is forming within my visual field, and I begin to see three figures appearing. The three are younger males, with one in the front, and two flanking behind him. The one in the front has an organge jacket on, and the three gradually become a bit more vivid. I don't quite feel like it's time to 'walk in' to the dream yet so I concentrate a bit longer. I get slightly excited, but quickly keep my cool and focus. I get some distracting thoughts that tell me I'll lose the dream/that it's not stable enough, but I suppress them for the time, and continue to focus strongly on the figures. The dream solidifies and I simply expect my dream body to be able to emerge seamlessly into the scene. I focus on the front figure and make a rapid approach by flying at him and I'm anchored in. I stand for a moment, and the three disappear. I'm standing in the middle of what appears to be a rectangular grassy field in the middle of the night. Trees surround the entire perimeter, with even larger trees situated beyond the left edge. The tops of the trees have sparse leaves, and moonlight come through the canopy and slightly lights the field. I feel I need to stabilize more and begin rubbing my hands. I continue to tell myself I'm lucid. I look around the field a bit. I then begin to spin as things are getting a bit shaky. I end up in a void without visuals, and continue rubbing my hands resolving to remain in the whole way through. After a couple minutes I decide to use the visual dream yoga techs as this has worked in the past. I make my visual field light blue and begin imagining white birds. I quickly switch to green as I'd rather go to a forest. I try to focus on trees appearing with some success. After a few more moments I appear in a FA where I'm thinking about my last dreams.

I'm approaching a wooden railway that's on the edge of a raised platform. As I approach, I become aware of the dream feeling, and become lucid. I say "I'm lucid" and my overall awareness raises. I continue to jump and fly over the railing, and enter the scene beyond. It's a very vivid beach with rolling, light blue waves and a long stretch of light tan sand. I descend onto the sand which appears to be behind a resort-style area. Many children are playing in the rolling waves, and I can't believe how vivid they are; I note that they're indistinguishable from waking life. I think that I should probably get to some dream goals, but feel that I've ended up in such a cool environment that I should take the opportunity to just enjoy it and explore. I consider surfing on the waves as this has been a prominent dream sign in the past, but I realize I've never actually surfed in a lucid. My body feels encumbered as I begin to walk across the sand, and I remind myself "Eric, this is a dream - you can just stand up and fly".My mobility raises, and I feel that sand beneath my feet as I walk. I stop and simply ground myself, looking around at the people gathered under scattered tents erected in the sand. I focus on raising my awareness and continue to tell myself I'm inside of a dream, and appreciate how life-like everything feels. I wonder if I should focus more on stabilizing, but decide to keep going. I look back at the waves, then fly low to my left. I feel the dream is getting close to fading so I land and decide to trying spinning slowly and rub hands. It becomes fuzzy quickly, so I lay down on the sand and go for a LDEILD. I continuously tell myself 'I'm lucid'. As I close my eyes and focus.. I end up losing lucidity, and enter a dream in which I'm earning points online in my dream yoga class for the lucid dream I just had.

I'm walking toward a sliding glass door in what appears to be the main house on M Street. My awareness begins to raise as I feel 'I've been in this state before...'. I look at the sliding glass door more closely as I approach and see a mist with a greenish hue in the scenery beyond and become lucid lucid at this time. I walk right up to the glass and decide to walk right through it into the yard area. It's darker than usual at night time, and I don't want to waste too much time in this area. I want to get to some dream goals, but want to move to the front first. I consider either going around the house or flying over. I look up and want to do a quick flight over the roof. I begin flying upward quickly while spinning in a couple quick 360 degree rotations. I soon wake up.

I become aware once again of my body in bed and feel slight vibration going through, and intensify them. Sensations fade, yet come back soon, and I once again intensify the vibration in my head as well as the sinking feel. I don't feel it's time to start sliding yet, so I think quickly to dream yoga techs, and decide on using some visual techs to jumpstart the lucid. I imagine some colors filling the visual field, and my mind soon produces a house with a blueish roof and whitish side. I feel it's time to imagine 'sinking' into a dream scene. I intensify the sinking and suddenly find myself ready to stand up from the floor in the front of a dark house. I have a bit of difficulty standing up at first, but tell myself 'Eric, this is a dream; you should have no problem whatsoever standing up.' I stand up quickly and begin to walk into the main entryway of the house. I stare to the other end of the dark room and see some couches and a painting up on the wall. Things remain a bit blurry. I turn right and feel I need some stabilization so I rub hands. I ramp up all my senses at this point to ground in. I mentally tell myself that my body is in bed right now, and I full control in this place. I take a moment to reflect on the implications of my physical body being in a different location, and find it very fascinating. I continue through the walkway and enter to a very large kitchen area. I want to engage more tactile sense, so I quickly drop down and move on hands and knees, feeling my feet, knees and hands coming in contact with the cold white tiles. The vividness increases as I approach the large arched counter-top. I go behind the counter and stand up. I still want to be more stable, and refuse to let the dream fade. I rub hands real quick, then jump in the sink, turn the water on and feel all the cold water rushing around my body. Stability increases as well as vividness. I remember a suggestion in a podcast of eating and engaging up to all five senses. I see a fridge and think dark chocolate would be awesome. I approach the white fridge, and reach in fully expecting a dark chocolate bar. I pull out a cold dark choco bar with sections joining into a square rod. I eat fairly quickly, and remember to engage all senses including hearing. The taste is pretty good actually, and it's cold. I focus on feeling the invigorating effects- another dream goal. The dream becomes far more stable and vivid, and I decide to grab a few more items and continue exploring. I grab another dark choco bark, a chocolate glazed donut, and a chocolate brownie, why not? I place them all on the counter to the left, appreciate the detailed colors, and carry them into the next room. I make I right and figure I can sit by the sliding glass in the adjoining room and watch as the rain comes down. I then turn and see a dimly lit peninsula counter-top with wooden stools pushed into it. The area has a very rustic decor with open space. I get closer and see an empty coffee mug, and realize this is where the family has breakfast. I set all my items down and go to take a seat. I look at the brownie and it lightened in color. I take a bite, but it has the consistency of cardboard, and little taste. I bite once more. I drift back to my body and realize the bed sheets are partway in my mouth...

I'm in a dark room, and I turn over to look at a clock. It reads around 8:15, so I look away and look back. It still reads 8:15. This doesn't make sense as I know I need to be up at 6:10. I check my phone, but the buttons do not light up the screen after several attempts. I'm pretty sure I'm dreaming, so I noseplug and I'm lucid. I turn to me left and take a step, but quickly lose visuals and enter the blackness. I think back to the discussion on the black void vs white void and reflect on how this is the 'black void'. I begin to question access to memory and feel certain that I am in fact aware in this place, and can remember my dream goal of going to a mystic forest or resihi forest. I then wonder about the perception of this memory in the future and how to determine that it's not in fact a false memory... Well, I really feel like I'm here and now inside the void pondering this! I decide to wait for a dream to begin, and use a dream yoga visual tech of turning my visual field green. I then begin to picture myself in a lush forest with dense moss on the trees, and the scene appears in fairly good vividness. The visuals fade a bit, and I start stabilizing by singing a song that comes to mind. My voice is terrible, and I'm finding the whole attempt really funny. I become aware of a bright window to my right after the visuals became a bit dark, so I walk over. I see a rain forest them superimposed over M-Street. It is the most awesome this realm has ever looked. A light green hue hangs over the scene as dawn approaches. A light mist hangs in the air as well. The street is completely flooded with water, and a couple of jeeps are parked. I see the additional tall green trees out in the yard area and jump out the window. I see a three story basketball hoop and decide to swing myself up really high off of the net. As I descend, I use super-reach to grab the bottom of the net, and fling my body onto the black metal rim. I land perfectly and stare down as I stand solidly. I look around at the treetops and decide to fly to the right. I do a loop around the area, and see a bar area below. It reminds me of the restaurant by the bay that I recently took my parents to. A couple workers are in black and white vests behind the low black countertops preparing drinks. I get closer and hear some really interesting lounge type music playing. I turn away for the time and want to focus on dream goals I think back to the goal of consuming wild reishi that gives super lucid abilities. I approach the trees, simply telling myself that reishi will be there - of course it'll be there! Why wouldn't it? I approach and see that the trunks are made of thin metal. I look more closely with expectation and a small dark primordial stage mushroom is growing. No time to make a tea, so I eat it and tell myself it'll contain the super abilities. I continue looking upward expecting more, and increasing amounts begin to appear vertically in increasing size. They are very dark red with a rough exterior texture. I have a few more of different shapes but begin to actually feel my dream body with a 'full' sensation. I don't want any more at this point. I turn away and head back to the bar area. I want to see if they have any cacao drinks available. I fly over and begin looking around all of there toppings, yet only see cheese toppings and other similar condiments. I stop looking, and fly away listening to the music. I head back to the flooded street, really appreciating the greenish mist hanging over thescene. I start thinking of other dream goals I had come up with. I quickly wake for the day.

I continue to feel my body relaxing while focusing on increasing the 'sinking' feeling as well as full body tactile sense. I feel that it's time to start moving a dream body into a scene. I become aware of visuals forming around me, and a lot brown color begins appearing along with a soft looking texture. I find myself laying down in the front seats of a car. I begin reaching for the wooden dashboard with my dream arms as I focus on sliding my whole body over. I mentally tell myself it's time to stand and I'm free to go. I want to phase out of the sedan with brown velvety interior, so I head to the back, happy to have transitioned through the WILD. Once my head backs through the rear of the car, my visuals become very blurry and my movement feels a bit impeded. The dream begins to transition to a white void, and I allow it as I figure I'll just wait for the next scene. I stay focused and decide to try the new stabilization goal of slamming the ground with an open palm, like a 'thunderclap', as opposed to clapping hands. I kneel down in the white void and try it twice, but there's no solid contact, and no sound. I experiment with hand clapping, and feel the contact as well as the loud sound. I verbally tell myself to just hang in a bit longer, and wait for the scene. I begin to notice a few faint colors and shapes appearing very slowly, then a light-walled room forms around me along with a door with sparse paint splatters and a bronze circular handle. A back corner appears along with a few light switches and an exercise bike. I jog my memory for some dream goals and remember the visiting a Dream Shaman in his hut, and eating some cacao. I head over to the exercise bike and flick open the plastic box on the handle for some dark chocolate. There's none inside. I want to stay engaged with tactile sense, so I feel all the light switches on the wall. I look left to the door and decide to head through, and want to head to the Reishi Forest. I close my eyes and imagine a lush forest as I reach out, turn the handle and pull. I open my eyes, but it just connects to a descending staircase, in similar design to the previous room. I walk down and see a large black figure standing midway down. It's a large black wolf. I think back to a recent lucid and want to use a taming chant on it to make it a dream companion. I stick out my hand and chant two syllables which come to me intuitively. It sound similar to "come here" in polish. The large wolf heads behind me and I know that it's loyal now. I continue walking down the steps, but I immediately return to my waking body and have my first experience of my waking eyes spontaneously opening slightly after a dream.

I continue down the stone walkway, and to the front of a two story gray stone building. I understand that I need to enter to attend some sort of committe meeting with several other people. I approach the front area, and am standing between two brick pillars in the front when something feels strange. I see a DC cross the path and noseplug. I become lucid. The vividness of the dream becomes very very high, and is close to waking life. My awareness becomes very high as well. I clap very hard twice and hear the sound reverberate throughout the dreamscape. I shout 'stabilize' right after in a commanding voice. I briefly have the idea of heading into the building, but immediately reason that the plot is a complete waste of time. I begin to work my memory for some dream goals, and am very happy with how easily I can recall all the goals I wrote as well as thought about before bed. I have quite a few at this point, and even think about my previous LD of the night and consider finding another dream beast to tame. I begin walking, then take flight to look at the surrounding. I'm in a large outdoor plaza area, mostly made of light colored stone, during the daytime. There are several tall palm trees in the area, and a two story building in the middle of the plaza qutie a few yards away. Large buildings sit on the outskirts of the plaza, and a few cars are off in the distance. I begin flying a bit higher, and am loving the feel of my control; I can really feel the movement of my dream body gliding effortless through the air in the direction of my choice. I decide to incorporate some slow back flips in order to practice flight skills. I take one, and am impressed by the spinning of the dream scene, and the feel of my dream body as my sense of proprioception raises slightly. I take another right after. I land back on the ground, and begin to think about a couple of sivason's dream journal entries from the previous night. I look down at my vivid right hand and begin to get ready to cast a fireball. I try to feel energy charging in the open palm as I raise my hand. Nothing. I try for some lighting with an outstretched arm, but no luck. I decide I'll probably need more visual work for impressive effects. I decide to reach for an out-of-sight dream item figuring it'll be easy. I think about a crossbow, but reason that it's too big. I go for a gunslinger's revolver, and reach to my back pocket. Nothing comes out, but I make a shooting motion anyway, and see a bullethole appear in high up on the wall of the the gray building in the distance. I fly for a bit longer, toward the other side of the plaza, and skip forward to the interior of the building on the outkirt of the plaza. I find myself coming into a large room of what appears to an elementary school. I see all the students sitting in wooden chairs in group of four at a table. I begin engaging my sense of awareness very strongly. I repeat to myself 'I'm aware inside of a dream right now!' as my awareness comes to a very high level. I remember another goal of simply simulating one of my frequent DILD occurances of simply levitating upward. I recreate the experience, with very good control of the levitation. I continue excitedly telling myself that I'm aware inside of a dream as I look around, really being blown away by the level of awareness, and wanting to reaffirm it to myself I decide to what the 'dream feel' feels like in the present moment and enter a very mindful state. It feels very similar to practicing Sageous's reverse reality check. I continue for a moment, then remember another dream goal I wrote down. I think breifly of going to a lucid chocolate shop, but ignore that goal. I decide to go for another. I begin to ask a child DC what my greatest source of happiness is, but the dream quickly ends midway through the question. I have a very brief semi-FA experience where I hear the re-creation of my alarm going off for work. I ditch idea of initiating a DEILD and decide to get up right away. I look at the clock with a RC, and realize I still have about 30 mins to sleep.

I find myself in a white void with heightened awareness. I do a noseplug and I become lucid. I understand that a dream is about to begin from this state, and want to give it a jump start. I begin trying to visualize some shape and colors, yet nothing vivid is created. I few darker curved figures begin appearing as I try to envision a DC, but nothing solidifies. I decide to simply meditate for the time being. I cross my dream legs that I become aware of, and enter a mindful absorption. A thought goes through my mind that this feels like a waking life mindfulness meditation. After a few minutes, I begin to see a rectangular figure appearing. It gradually begins forming into a sliding glass door. A dream scene eventually fills out, and I have the thought that the sliding glass door probably leads to the backyard area in M Street. With the brief thought, I phase through the glass, and find myself in the backyard of M Street...of course. I'm really enjoying the moment outside on the back patio. The vividness of the dream is very very high, and my mental presence is quite high. I'm very happy just being there. I decide not to stabilize. I remember one of the dream goals of simply walking through a dream-scape slowly, without flying, and simply taking in my surroundings. I feel very grounded and stable in the dream, and love the feeling of actually walking slowly and deliberately through the lucid. I appreciate the small blue tree in front of me which resembles a pine. As I wind around the right turn by the pool, I stare at the dark blue water and the ripples. I think back to sivason journal from the previous night and decide to simply lay down a bit farther down on the pavement and stare up at the stars. I head a bit farther, lay down, and simply gaze up. It feels very similar to stargazing in real life, just more...surreal! It's very relaxing. I get up after a few moments and continue walking around the pool. I reach the other side and lay down once more. I see a small black figure several yards ahead and think of how great it would be to have an astral animal companion in LDs. As I am nearly in a supine position. I am aware of a stealthy,lithe, dark beast - resembling a panther - growl in a deep tone with low volume as it comes by the left side of my head. I notice very thin, light green swerving patterns throughout it's body. The head does not have clearly defined eyes. I actually feel my heart take a sudden pound. I'm aware it's my waking life body responding to the powerful presence of the beast, and quickly affirm to myself that it's just a dream and my entire body calms. I begin to raise and intuitively understand how to tame the dream beast. I stick my hand out and to the right to where the beast is making its way around. As my hand comes out, I intuitively change a two syllable tribal chant in a commanding tone. My head turns as I say this, and I catch a glimpse of the beast. I understand the taming command has been successful. I find myself a few yards up the path all of a sudden, yet the beast is no longer present. I enter a white void for a short period wake up briefly.
*and go for a DEILD

I find myself upstairs in a hallway, and I recognize M Street. I do a quick noseplug, breathe twice and I'm good to go. I walk down upstairs hallway and there's a faint yellow hue hanging over the dream scene. I begin clapping to engage senses and increase vividness. Noise doesn't come on the first, but sensations and noise come on successive claps. I continue a few more steps as I rub hands and clarity picks up. I finally reach the rail and get ready for some flight up and over into the first floor entryway. There are glass double doors with glass windows to the right. I notice a resort looking area in the front which seems to be a blend blend of grass, some parked black SUVs in a cresent driveway, and a pool laying beyond. I decide to make it interesting iand go to phase through the light tan wall to the right and remember my dream goal of the reishi forest. I figure I could try taking this route to get there. As I go to phase through the wall, I notice that I'm transitioning into a very thick, high viscosity material and decide to pull my dream body out as I don't want to risk losing stability; I decide to take a simpler route for the moment. I approach back to the glass windows, and simply jump right through to the next area. Instead of transitioning directly to the outdoor resort setting, I enter to another room with a glass wall that leads to the back of a resort area - now containing a large pool in the center with a lounge area surrounding it. I fly over the single dropped step in the middle of the room and through the glass. It's a bright sunny day out in the resort area, and the water of the pool is crystal clear with a hint of blue. I remember the dream goal idea in I had thought about: going into water/underwater. I've never gone in water in an LD, so I use the opportunity. I fly swoop down and glide across the surface of the water, sticking my right hand out and trailing it through. I feel a bit of the resistance and texture of the surface. I then remember hearing some LDers talk about going underwater. I want to experience it, so swoop up, then plunge down into the water, and submerge quite a few feet. I then want to see if I can see as I notice my dream eyes are closed from habit. I open them, but everything is a dark gray murky color with a slight hind of green. I begin to feel myself waking to my physical bodyand get up for the day.

I'm swiping through all the photos on my phone, and am a bit confused as to why there are so many stored on it now. I reason that s took a lot of them without letting me know. I transition to a set of photos of me playing with my dog. I see one where my dog is on her bag kicking me up into the air with her hind legs with a big smile on her face. I see my body suspended in the air above her and start laughing. I want to show it to people at a nearby table. I begin showing it to a DC, and the strangeness of the situation hits me. I become aware I'm in a dream, and ask the DC his name. He responds that his name is Viktor. I then tell Viktor "I'm lucid right now". The man is a very short old black male with a tan top hat and an innocent face. He's sitting at the head of a small rectangular table, and I'm sitting on the side to his left. He looks at me and asks, "Lucid? What does that even mean?". I tell him "Well, this is a dreamworld... as far as humans are concerned" as I start laughing a bit, feeling that it's ridiculous trying to explain my state of consciousness to a man who seems so unaccepting of the fact that that I'm viewing this reality differently than him. He expresses that he's here all the time. I progress to asking him how to make the lucid more stable, seeing this as a good opportunity to learn. He responds that his favorite way to stabilize is to rub his hands. Curious, I ask him what happens if he doesn't continue doing this every so often. He responds that things can get a bit blurry every once in a while being here. He then tells me he likes to apply pressure with two fingers to the base of his skull. I ask him what this does, and he says it will help sharpen vision. I stay at the table for a bit longer and it helps anchor me for a short time. I then feel that i'm waking up.

I descend a couple stairs in front of the house on M Street. I need to make a phone call. I turn and face the group of teenagers that are congregated on the front steps. I begin to engage some control within the dream, and decide to focus on levitating as much as possible. I begin ascending, and it catches attention of a few. My awareness raises more as the levitation stirs associations with becoming lucid. I stick my right hand out and say "I'm lucid". I continue to stare at the detail of my right hand and notice int's very vivid, yet with some small nicks/cuts. I want to test the noseplug right after and see how the RC responds. Perfect breathing, and I realize this is probably my best RC at the moment. I take in the surroundings and the colors are vivid with a slight glow. I peaceful nighttime blue hangs over the scene. I fly away from the group for a bit, and explore the yard area, and take in the vividness of the tall trees. I return to the group after a short time to ask a few questions about dreams. I say they were the ones in the previous dream with the brothers who weren't getting along. They say "yeah, yeah, yeah" affirmatively as they nod. I then ask what they represent. That give a silly/nonsensical response and I respond ..."That's stupid...". The couple in the front look at me and one responds, "Yeah, you're right; it is stupid" as he hangs his head with a slight smirk. I levitate upward, then fly from the patio area out into the center of the front yard, then to the side and take in the view of foliage. I'm taking in the amazing colors and vividness once more and simply appreciating as I levitate. I decide to rub hands to stabilize, then to clap hands afterward. I clap twice, and loud sounds and reverberations permeate the scene. The feeling of levitating is awesome. I don't want to risk losing stability so I go right to dream goals. I remember wanting to go to the Mystic Reishi Forest. I continue to back right of the house of M Street - the first time I've traveled to this area. I notice an incredibly large tree with a massive canopy, glowing and luminescent in a rich red color. I reason this has to be connected/ guiding me to the forest I'm looking for, and decide to let the dream lead me rather than create a portal and try teleporting. I head toward the tree and admire the amazing glow. I lower a bit then turn to my left to see a massive constellation of brilliantly bright white stars in a massive band across the sky. The constellation stretches from the horizon all the way to the apex of the sky and makes the whole area glow in the middle of the night. The view is completely unreal. I soon begin to feel that I am waking. I'm thinking 'I really need to hold through this!' as I go into a white void; I really want to explore to the reishi forest. I wake back to my body right after the white comes on.

I'm in the passenger seat, driving with my brother down a road at daytime. The dream is highly vivid. I see a green pickup against the trees on the opposite side of the highway, crashed. I then see a school bus swerve, tipping into the trees and crashign. i'm alarmed at first, then feel that something about this is very strange. My brother turns to me and says loudly "Oh my god, do you see that bus?!". I reply that I saw it actually happen. I do a noseplug, breathe a few times and I'm lucid. I'm a bit surprised that I'm in a dream as it feels so real; this RC was fascinating. I feel that this lucid would have been tougher to catch without it. I show my brother the RC and tell him this helps me become lucid. I feel this is a perfect time to test out how RCs react for me in dream. I look several times at the car clock. I see 6:15 and realize this is about the exact time in waking life. I look back and it says 6 something. I look once more and the clock isn't there. I peer around a portion of the dashboard that's justting out, and the clock dispalys an interesting S/Figure 8 pattern. I then move to thumb throuh the palm, and see my thumb in high clarity. I push the thumb and nail with a strong amount of pressure, and actually feel the pressure and sharpness at very close levels to what it would feel like in waking life with the same application. I'm completely amazed that I'm actually experiencing this level of pressure and sharp pain in the dream, and repeat the pressure, several times. I note that the sensation is about 90% as strong as in waking life. I feel this RC is no good for me. I continue to staring at hands. My hands are very realistic. I notice that both scars on my left hand are present in the dream. The only difference is that my ring is not there. I look back and one finger disappears, soon to reappear. I'm tired at this point of asking DCs about how to improve LD frequency, and quickly notice an ipod and headphones. I decide to rock out to some music and just have fun exploring! I turn on the music, and Sleep Now In the Fire by Rage Against the Machine comes on very loud in the lucid. I'm suddenly overcome by a super excitied, energized and happy state of mind. I feel superchared and can't believe how awesome it feels to be flying out the window, and into the air above a several lane highway with awesome music blasting. I decide to remind myself that it's a dream as I don't want to lose stability. I descend a bit to the back of a car, and notice a co-worker. I stare at the face, interested in how realistic the detail will be, then realize how awkward this would be in waking life! I tellt the DC it doesn't matter since it's actually a part of me. I turn to my left and want to explore to the side of the highway. I see a group of DCs in the road, but ignore them.The music continues to play as I fly down the path to my left. I continue down this path and eventually run into a group of DCs inside of a structure. There are small groups of DCs throughout the area who appear to be college aged. I think about asking them lucidity questions, but still feel unintereste din the responses lately. I see an brown fan above us in the upper floor room. I get the idea that the dream would probably become highly stable if I flew my dream body into the fan blads, and let them stimulate me tactile sense rapidly. I fly up, exposing my midsection, and the fan plades are highly pliable, almost like a soft rubbery material. I lower, and the dream begins to fade shortly after I wake up for the day

I'm climbing up an ddown sets of vertical black pipes that are alligned in a row. Once climbing down the final set, my awareness raises, and I suddenly realize I'm dreaming. I fly away, and become interested in asking some DCs how to become lucid more often. One DC, a young girl, tells me that I'm not eating any dairy, and that it's beginning not to be good for me. She tells me to start having some for of dairy and putting some extra dark chocoalte in it, stating this would be good for me. I decide to move on from asking DCs about improving lucidity, and want to ask a higher dream form as I get a memory of sivason's dream journal entries in astral astral cities. I begin trying to imagine some different entities appearing, but nothing solidifies. I soon enter a void.

I'm with a co-worker in a side-room, filling up an ink cartridge. I go through the doors, and enter into the a courtyard area that extends down in great length. I begin walking through the courtyard area, and my awareness raises. I suddenly realize I'm in a dream. I look down at the ink cartridge, and realizing that this dream plot no longer even matters, I chuck it to the side. i take in my surroundings of gray stone pavement sprawled across the open area. The Walls surrounding the courtyard a made of of very light burnt red brick material. I stare toward the far end, and notice a small set of doors in the middle. I single tree stands in the middle of the courtyard. To the right, there is a large square opening in the wall - a type of underpass leading to another area. I begin grounding myself into the dream, and focus intensely. I start shouting "clarity in the dream". The dream becomes super vivid and life-like, and I'm blown away. I'm super excited at waht I'm experiencing, and just want to explore a bit at this point. The dream feels very stable, and I don't want to risk it, so I fly low to the ground toward the underpass into the next area. I enter the room, and see two levels with the upper area consisting of a winding walkway with a black rail. Behind this walkway stis another room far behind. I begin to shout to the dream "subconscious make me lucid more often" a couple times. i see a DC on the walkway. He's a bit heavyset and blonde with a male-pattern bald spot. I tell him this is the astral, and I ask him how I can go to the astral more often (implying LD). He turns to me in a 'I wish I knew type of manner' and replied "I'm learnign from you. I'm impacted by his voice intonation and it's implied meaning, and feel a sense of awe and wonder from his response. I then ask if he can give a bit more information. He says "All I know is that it takes time and dedication. I decide to continue onward, and am still impressed by the stability as well as length. I feel I'm at around 7-8 minutes. I fly through this area into the rooms beyond. The dream begins fading, but I don't want it to end just yet. I begin rubbing my dream body all over. I decide to start whistling. The song Norwegian Wood comes into my head and I'm carrying the tune through a white void. I begin jogging my memory for dream goals, and remember I wanted to go to The Reishi Forest I lose lucidity, and enter into a normal dream.