I was lying in bed, and I somehow knew I was dreaming. I got out of bed, and amazed, went out into the upstairs hallway. I started walking downstairs, to try to get outside, but then I remembered that I had wanted to try doing something that I could practice wherever I happened to be. (I had decided on this earlier to prevent all the fading dreams and false awakenings) I couldn't really think of anything, though, so I ended up basically wasting my time trying to think of one until my dream started fading. (although I do remember one of my siblings ending up being next to me lying down on a couch) I knew from past experience that I would probably wake back into my dream bed, so I reminded myself to do a reality check.
Now back in bed, I did a reality check, and hurrah, I was still dreaming! I got out of bed, and started going downstairs, having given up for the moment on my dream goal. When I started walking towards the patio door, which is my preferred way to get out now since I get to see and plan where I'm going as I go to open the door, I saw that it was late morning outside. The grass was very green, and the plants in our yard were too. Anyway, I took out the wooden block that keeps the door closed, unlocked the latch, and opened it up. Now outside, my vision changed a bit so that I was seeing stuff I shouldn't have been able to see realistically. I was seeing a helicopter view of our backyard, and from this view I saw that there was an another section of fenced off area, extending from the edge of ours back into the grass of a non-real open area. I 'asked' what it was, and I heard Mom say that Dad had been working for quite some time on fencing in that area for us, as part of the extra land he just bought from our neighbors. I thought it was cool, but I needed a way to get into it. (my vision had returned to normal by now) Anyway, Davey was in the yard near the house, and he asked me if I could take him with me. I said sure, and picked him up, and started looking for a way to get over the fence. I thought of a latch-on ladder thing that I had seen earlier, (don't ask me why that was in there), but it was already back a ways in the house and I wanted to just get over. I knew I could just fly, but that would raise the risks of waking up. Looking around some more, I noticed a mini ladder built into our fence on the inside, kind of like the style used on swimming pools. I thought that would work pretty well, so I headed over towards it with Davey.
Climbing over, I now saw the details of the fenced out area. It was about 10% the size of our existing yard, and it extended our space quite nicely. I remember thinking that one thing cool is that it gave us a convenient viewing advantage, from which we could see behind the neighbors far walls, into the other areas. One odd thing I saw was that there was also an angled piece which started at a foot wide, narrowing in slowly to a point, like a wedge, that 'wedged' out obstructively into the open yard of our neighbor, blocking him somewhat from the open grass area. Behind this, also, were a number of very small oak trees, some of which we touching up against the new fence of ours. Looking around for a place I wanted to go, I saw a relaxing area to the right with trees and many green plants. I decided just to fly myself over the small extension fence. Landing on the grass of the other side, I used some mental focusing techniques to ensure that my dream was stabilized enough. I then started walking around, amazed and examining all the different plants and objects. At the time, the land seemed more or less like what it is in real life, so I decided what I would do is look for unique objects in one of our neighbors yards that I had never seen before, at least in detail, and 'see' if it compared in real life. (I've heard other people's stories of, for instance, lucid dreaming about a birthmark on the back of a friend that turned out to be real, and I was checking if maybe stuff like that was in my memory somewhere)
I came across an area which felt very much to be some place in real life. It was a quiet area behind a small yellow house, with a few regular bushes and one of those oak-like mini tree things that you find in the state-owned park just outside our development. Thinking back, it actually did look familiar somehow. Anyway, there was also a log there, and on that log were some detailed marks. I walked up behind that log, and tried to look very closely at the details. The feature I decided on trying to remember was a series of small notches in the wood, four to be exact, which were at the same height and about 40% percent from the right edge. I kept my eyes on this log as I 'woke up', although unfortunately I was apparently moving from the wind or something so my view was getting angled badly, and also, I then woke up into a non-lucid dream that lasted for a long time.
Anyway, what's neat is that this dream came up entirely within my regular sleep cycle, and it lasted for quite a while. I didn't even lose any sleep from it! (which was kind of what I was getting at earlier, that once you get better at it, you don't even need to spend any time on it, because it starts to happen automatically; the time is already spent in having a dream, you're just gaining the mindset where you start to realize whenever you're dreaming, and can then change that time dreaming into an adventure) Now that I'm awake, I don't think that place actually exists in our development, although I think I may have seen it somewhere else, because it felt very familiar. But all that aside, it was interesting and relaxing, and it makes me happy when I think back to it.
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