lucid

10/12/2010
"Grodd, Almighty"

Awesome Superman Lucid, last night. At first, I was with a man, woman and baby, walking through the woods. Somehow, on our journey, we ended up springing a trap. An array of monsters shot up out of the leafy blanket covering the ground, and started positioning themselves for attack. The man and woman, whom I was with, did some sort of quick transformation and became a duo of masked, Power Ranger-like warriors; battle suits and all. Along with the goons, there was this crazy, bladed weapon that shredded through the ground like a shark's fin through water - also, a "boss." That "boss" was Grodd; the Great Ape Genius villain who's known for taking on the Justice League (comics). He was dressed in this really shiny, metallic suit, that kind of made him look like Lord Zedd from the Power Rangers. The ground-blade thing came upon us, and the three of us sort of put up a collective block against it. A shower of sparks flew out in all directions, and we were all repelled by the force of the deflected attack...but it was deflected, which was the most important thing.

After the defensive manuever, I recognized myself to be no longer myself - but another incarnation of Superman. I guess it was just the fact that I used nothing but my own arms to block the weapon, which brought me to the notion that was superhuman. There was a massive fight that ensued (which I, unfortunately, don't really remember much of). I was in control of my actions, but not necessarily lucid yet. I remember that I kept looking around, cautiously, for anyone who might sneak up on me with Kryptonite. I was afraid that someone would get the drop on me, and I would be taken out of the fight, but it never happened. At one point, I remember flying down into the 'forest' floor, and then launching up and out of the ground, at another point on the battlefield, to try to get a very vantage point. It was around here, where the people I was fighting along side were kidnapped. They had simply vanished; baby and all. Somehow, I had tracked them out over a large body of water, which looked like the ocean. I found one of the men in the water, but let him be, now focused on just the exhiliration of flying. I can't remember exactly what tipped it off, but I became lucid, right around this time. While still over the water, I started toying with my flight speed, trying to see how much control I could get out of it. I began pushing up through the "gears," just going faster and faster, in increments, until the water and patches of ground became a blur beneath me.

After some time, I came upon a fortress, now back in the woods. It was an old, castle-like building with a giant statue, of what might have been a bird or something, outside. I came to find out that this was Grodd's base, and the woman and baby were inside. Without wasting any time, I just burst in through one of the thick, stone walls, as if it were made of legos, grabbed the mother and her baby, and zoomed back out of the building. Back outside, Grodd was there to meet us, still wearing his shiny, new suit. Motioning for the woman to get her kid and stand back, I rushed Grodd with everything I had. He was absolutely no match for me, this time. I stayed on the offensive and pretty much just pummeled him with my fists. After he was defeated, there was a loud rumbling, coming from the building. I couldn't tell what was happening, but something big was about to occur. I picked up the woman and child, and flew up to the roof of the fortress, setting them safely on top.

Flying back down to the front of the building, I saw the entire facade fall away. Before I knew it, I was staring down the barrel of an almost ridiculously large tank cannon, which I could have easily walked straight into, standing upright. The whirring sound, that I began to hear building, told me that I was only seconds from being fired upon, so I flew straight up into the air, just as the cannon exploded beneath me. A single shot blasted right below my feet. Immediately, I retaliated, flying back down toward the tank and swinging haymakers at it. The steel folded under my fists like tin foil, and I completely demolished the weapon, landing on the roof and ripping over the hatch. I reached in and grabbed the operator by his collar, pulling him up to me, telling him that I would "throw him into fucking space," if he ever tried something like that again. Even behind his goggles, I could see the fear in his face. He just shook and stammered, looking like he'd just shit himself. Lol.

I actually let him go, and he scurried off. I then met back up with the woman and her baby, and we began to walk back to where we'd been. The man she was with, was suddenly with us again, though I don't remember him having been around, during the battle. I knew, at this point, that I would be waking up, sometime soon, so I began trying to recall the events, from as early as I could. While I was going over them in my mind, some large creature flew into the forest and confronted us. It was kind like a bird, but breathed fire. I don't remember if it had feathers or leathery skin, but I know it was more bird than dragon. I was so intent on remembering the past events, that the dream began unraveling (I would guess that's because I was taking so much of my attention off of it?). The bird/dragon/thing craned its head toward me, still flapping its enormous wings, to keep itself hovering, in one spot. I knew I didn't want to get drawn into another scenario, because I might lose so much of what I'd retained, so just as the bird lurched forward and spit a wide plume of fire toward me, I completely let go of the dream and decided to wake myself up.