Serenity's Silver Millennium

August 30, 2010 - Lucid - 3/5

I actually don't remember too much about this part.... other than I was in a group with 5 other people. This one bleach blond dude was threatening to kill us. But someone suggests, "Why don't we just kill you, by crushing you?"

We all gather round him and back him into a corner. The idea was to use body weight, but he kept getting smaller. And we were having troubles getting us all in there. Eventually, people backed off. I said something like, "Guys, you don't exactly crush kidnappers to death by giving them room..."

There's a guy in the corner that looks like Darren, but I don't "see" him as Darren in the dream, he points out, "Look at how small your kidnapper is now?"

I look down. He's about 2 feet tall and still going. I'm not worried about him anymore. I look back over at "not-Darren" And said something about, "Well, at least this has nothing to do with lucidity... or wait.... it does..." Darren smiles and everyone vanishes. "Darren?!" I turned around. No one. "Darren, can I see you?" Nothing. Ughhh. There was a door in the corner of the room. Lets go see what's inside it. Maybe it'll take me to Darren.

I opened the door and it was a closet... with shelves full of grungy urinals and assorted white small appliances. "Ugh!" I exclaimed. I shut the door again, and opened it. Now it was just white appliances with this interesting looking one in the middle... what is tha - Door shut again. I opened it again with an, "Oh," as the appliances had all changed again.

"Okay enough with this, it's wasting the dream," I thought. "What was my goal?" Problems with memory. I racked my mind. "I need to get Danny's help in meeting my brother. Well, we already know I'm having troubles summoning people... maybe I'll have better luck on the moon." Why the moon?! I dunno. I thought about the prayer room at the Silver Millennium castle. That room holds a lot of power, perhaps it will grant me what I need. I noticed a small version of the pillar of the prayer room, now in this room. "Please grant me the power to make it to the moon," I asked it. It vanished.

I looked over at this window. It wasn't large and a bit high up the wall. I pulled myself to thought, "This will be easy," and pushed my head through the glass. The rest of me followed suit very quickly, and I pushed off the side of the building to fly! I angled myself a bit, trying to find the right positioning to make this a fast flight.

I was entering the clouds when I hear a, "Hey!!" call from behind me. I look around and I see this black tiled roof. "Why is there a row of townhouses in the middle of the ocean?" I thought. No matter. I pulled myself onto the ledge and turned around. The distraction caught up to me and it was Julia! (Julia is my best friend who also wants to dream share with me. She lives 7 hours ahead of me in time zones, so I'm really looking forward to if this will work... it may well prove that dream plane time and physical time slept need not apply... as she and I will rarely be asleep at the same time)

"Julia! It's a good thing you caught up to me here! Once we were past this cloud covering (I played with the clouds that we were standing in, on this rooftop) we'd be in space!" I told her.

"Or would we?" She asked.

"What do you mean?" I asked her.

"Well, you can tell how far up you are by a simple test," she says. She took off her backpack and tossed it in the air. It floated back down to her. She then hovered off the roof and threw her backpack into the ocean, below. It took a moment but the water came funneling back up and splashed her.

"I hope you didn't need anything in there," I said, laughing at her.

"Meh," she shrugged.

"Let's move on," I said. But as soon as I jumped back into the air, the dream faded away. I laid perfectly still on my bed, trying to daydream and reenter the scene, but it was gone

August 29, 2010

I was having an AMC dream. JR discovered Annie was sleeping with some politician dude. They were getting it on in a car. JR discovered them and had got upset, but this part of the dream faded.

False awakening. I "woke up" in bed. I spent a moment lying there and recalling the dream. I was also quite surprised I had fallen asleep again. I didn't even feel it coming.

Edited for TMI content...

I wondered about the possibility of this being a false awakening. I then noticed that, consciously, I did feel different. Fairly positive now that I'm dreaming, I thought to myself, "Only one way to check, and that's to get out of bed!"

As I slowly rolled over and got out of bed, I marveled about the fact that this really did feel like I was moving my real body. I began to question whether I was truly dreaming or not. I rather felt that getting out of bed would feel floaty, especially since in lucids, I don't normally feel gravity and weighty. This felt exactly like real life. Future note, WILDs may feel exactly like this. Especially when I think I'm awake...

Anyways, I was thinking a lot about this whole "Am I moving a dream body or my real body?" thing, and I heard a voice in the back of my mind, "Don't over think it, or you WILL wake up too much and move your real body." This voice sounded female, to my surprise (I usually expect Danny to tell me these things). It was probably myself; but in the past, Janine (my first DG, before Danny) often sounded like me... I wonder if this was her, again?

I didn't spend too much time looking around the room. But I did notice that the bedroom door, positioning of the bed and my endtable were all as they should be. This made me question, again, whether I was lucid or awake. I looked at the clock on my endtable. The numbers should have been a dead give-away. I could barely read the clock... it looked tired-eye bleary and I couldn't really make out any numbers. I concentrated harder. Does that say 4:41 or 4:48? I rubbed my eyes and looked again. It says 4:48. "I don't have to get up until 5:30," I reminded myself. "This is perfect, I can sleep longer!"

Completely forgetting about the false awakening, I crawl back in bed beside Jack. I noticed he was awake and reading something on his phone. We had a short discussion about him not staying up this late and my alarm rang.

Alright, so even if I hadn't gotten distracted, it's not like I could've done much with the lucidity, anyways. My guess is, this all happened just before 5:30, waking time. Maybe about 5:25, but this whole scene felt a bit shorter than 5 minutes. Still, this is a great note for future WILDs... I guess this is considered an INRALD (I'm Not Really Awake Lucid Dream)... I thought I was pretty good at determining lucidity by how it feels alone... and normal DILDs, I think that still holds true. But this whole new foray into INRALDing and WILDing... when I honestly think I'm awake, it really, really does feel like I'm awake! Further proof that I REALLY need to RC upon waking up...