Cities in the Astral

My newest lucid goal: Make plants sprout from the ground, grow to maturity, and sprout the proper fruit. Then eat said fruit and have it taste correct. This LD was my first attempt at tomatoes. I also fit in completing a TOTM (hugging).
This was a unsought for DILD. I am surprised it turned out well as I did everything wrong, as far as trying to LD. I was highly stressed after two high pressure 12 hour work days. I took sleeping tablets and drank 24 oz of coors Light. I just got lucky.
I did not try to get lucid, and just ignored the generic feeling of this being a dream, but I had an extra hour to sleep, so after the 8 hour mark, I jumped on a lucid moment and went for it. I was dreaming about being in college and an old friend was there. I realized it must be a dream and started pulling full consciousness into it. After a moment it was a full LD.
I could see through the door a nice day outside and a school field. I decided to go out and try to grow a tomato plant and eat the fruit, as that was my only current goal (next is bananas). I ran out the door and randomness made me barefoot and the ground crushed lava. There were also people playing kickball. I started to form the thought that this ground could not grow fruit, but suppressed it. I ignore the whole barefoot and lava idea and it went away.
I knelt down and place my hands above the ground and imagined energy flowing into a buried tomato seed. A small tree like stick started to sprout and grow to about 3 feet. A red ball, like a balloon formed on the top. No, not very good. I want the plants to look accurate to the type I set out to grow. I tried again, and focused on it being more delicate and branching. Another stick started to grow, but this time it was red and branched into two. It formed another stupid red ball on one end.
I took the red thing about the size of a golf ball off the bush and the imagery shifted to a normal park with people at a picnic table. I set the red balloon like object down and corrected the graphics into a perfect small tomato and then caused it to grow large. It grew huge! It was a big luscious perfect tomato, that was half the size of a basketball. I needed two hands to hold it. I bit into it and it was juicy and wonderful. The other people at the table all tried some. I am 100% satisfied with the final product, but not very happy with the plant. It was just a red branch, not at all tomato plant like. The dream began to fade here, so I rushed to stabilize. I focused in close on the tomato and pictured rubbing the skin on the side with my hand.
The dream stabilized, but the seen had changed. I am in a house in the kitchen. I decide to try and just turn any random object into a tiny tomato and make it grow, for practice. I picked up a random cube of bullion. I set it in front of me and transformed it into a small round circle. I then caused it to grow. It was another picture perfect tomato. Red shiny and perfect, about 5 pounds worth. I picked it up and noticed my mom and grandma in the room. I asked them to try some. I found the skin was very tuft and rubbery. I needed to tear the skin open by pulling it apart with my thumbs. I then took a huge bite. It was so juicy it was like biting a pond! Not good in my mind. It was bland and far to liquid like. I looked at the place I had bitten and juice was pooling in it and dripping everywhere.
My mom DC pointed out water on the floor and that a fish tank must be leaking. I suddenly found the dream fading again, and stabilized by imaging I was looking at a pretzel. I ran my fingers over the little bumps of salt until the dream refocused. I was now out on my grandma’s street. I walked over by a house and intended to try growing a new tomato plant. I again caused a small branch to sprout and tried again. Darn it, tomato, not stick! I sprouted about 3 more branches. Stupid mental block.
IRL I am asleep in a cheap motel, and a stupid garbage truck is outside doing its thing. I start to become aware of the room and the stupid garbage truck. How to save this?!? I tell myself that a garbage truck is in the dream. That is what I am hearing, not a real noise,,, no reason to wake. It is a garbage truck on my grandma’s street, that is all. A garbage truck forms in the dream. A freaking noisy garbage truck. I want to maintain the dream of the garbage truck as long as it takes for the real one to finish up and leave, so I dare not shift scenes. I need the truck to be the focus of the dream, so growing tomatoes must wait.
Ah Ha! I need to hide from the garbage truck! That is the new story, and I will do so by growing one stupid branch like stick at a time and enclosing myself in a fort by forming a semi-circle against the house. Rumble rumble rumble goes the stupid garbage truck. I work away at sprouting little branch like trees (practice) until I am in a nice fort. It is actually a pretty cool enclosed area. I form a little door.
I do not know how long it took to build a fort one branch at a time, but the stupid garbage truck is still outside IRL, and I need to keep it in the dream, or wake up. What to do? Wasn’t one of Opheliablue’s TOTM to hug the first DC you see? I have already seen some, but whatever. I will use the idea, and go hug the stupid garbage truck driver. That is it, I will keep the big loud stupid truck in the dream, by going up and hugging the DC driver. At least I can have a goal and not wake up. I climb out of my little fort and walk to the street and there is the truck. I see someone in the cab. I walk towards them waving, but the truck drives away.
Yay! The stupid truck is gone IRL. I need to stabilize again, but forget what method I used. I look up and am inside a house. There is a crash of breaking glass (IRL?) so to work it into the dream and not wake up I imagine I bumped something and a jar fell. I look down and sure enough, a jar is broken and jelly or honey or grease is all over. I wonder how well I can TK such a liquid? I TK it up and into a empty tank.
My step dad is suddenly there and watching me. (HUG THE FIRST DC!) I go over and give him a big loving hug. It felt real, and about like hugging my step dad normally feels. I was surprised though because he started telling me stuff about how proud he was of me, and other kind stuff. I felt good and a bit touched.I went outside and started to try and grow a good tomato plant. This time it came up a bit closer. It was a stick with many small branches each with a weird red nut at the end. Not at all a good tomato plant, but closer. I took a red nut and held it in my palm, and caused another perfect tomato to swell up in my hand. This one was more realistic in size.
The dream started to fade again, and I started to stabilize it, when a thought occurred to me. I had a half hour snooze alarm set. How long had this dream been so far? F$#K, could my alarm be messing up? It has done that before recently, and I need to be on time to work. Crap. I better wake up this time. I stopped stabilizing and woke up. Sure enough, the alarm had shut off. Good thing I had been lucid. Dur~30 minutes.