Cities in the Astral

I had the privalage of sleeping late as the morning is X-mas eve. I had over 10 hours sleep and almost thought I would not be able to sleep. I started with a pillow over my eyes flat on my back. I started counting with my breaths while focusing on feeling each part of my body. I got to 39 and all the way up my legs before the first drifty feel, so i started over. I got to a point where I was spacing off at about 12-15 breaths and would start over. After completing the body twice I started activating my chakras. When I had completed one cycle of opening all 6 standard chakra, i was mostly asleep, and counting to 4 or 5 was too challenging. I needed a bit mmore awareness or I would actually loose conciousness.

I noticed I was feeling a sort of REM atonia, the narcotic feeling that commes to limit bodily thrashing in a dream. I will allow myself to shift positions after I hit this point and was loosing awareness too fast, so I shifted onto my side. I could now here the air cleaner again and was a bit awake, so I just started backk with counting and was asleep again within a second or two.

I suddenly heard movement in the house. A radio started playing. I assumed it was my wifes alarm going off for some reason. I figured my attempt may be ruined. I could hear the DJ saying stuff and music was playing loudly. I also could here that my 20 year old son must be up and making noise.

Something did not seem right and I decided that these noises were probably advanced HH as I was now in full REM atonia. I could also see parts of my room but they were off. I must be in a LD now and just needing to realize it.

I got out of bed and it did seem dream like, but fairly real. I decided that it must be a dream. I tried to phase my arm through the bedroom door and it worked. I woke up in my bed at this point, but was pretty sure it was a FA. I got up again and went to the front room. My son was in the front room and looked up. I did an RC by running my tongue over my top teeth and then clacking my teeth together. The sensation and sound were muffeled as if I had been to the dentist (novacaine) and had cotton in my ears. Fully lucid and in a vivid REM cycle now!!!

I walked out side and my son followed me asking what I was up to. I explained that it was a dream and started to levitate. "See, clearly a dream as I can levitate." I wondered allowed, what did I want to acomplish? My son's DC suggested "how about calling out to the Buddha like you wanted?" I was levvitating about 12 feet above our front yard and said, "really? I wanted to do that? What, like Sid Hartha Buddha?"

I decided to try it. I flew up into the sky and made the classic hand postures (mudra) he is normally shown having. I called out Sid Hartha about 5 times. I did it just fine, but wonderd why I would have that as a goal, being I am Yogi not Buddhist. This in fact had never been a goal of mine, it was just something my subconcious made up on the spot, through the DC. I started sounding the Ohm mantra instead floating maybe 100 feet up, and kept the mudra in order to stabilize.

I saw the sky was vivid and a night time scene with stars. I decided for the moment to fly towards a group of stars. Then I remembered that It was the ToTM snow challange I wanted to do a second time. The first time was not how I had wanted it. I changed the sky to day (no sun, but day light) and started to form clouds. I made the clouds get that weepy look they have when they are pouring out their content. I focused on that grey winter sky look. It started to snow in a nice snow flurry kind of way. Not pretty snow flakes, but blowing aggressive snow falling fast all around me. Ok, task done, but I hate snow in general, so time to move on.

I wanted to get very high off the ground so I kept going up. My brain was filling in tree tops, and every time I cleared a giant trees top another loomed way above me. I got irritated after the fifth super-giant tree appeared still taller than me I had flown. Oh well, why fight it.

I looked around and was up at the tops of sky skrapers so I went over to them. I spent about two minutes just screwing around flying up and down the buildings seeing how detailed each looked. I decided that the dream was at about the 10 minute mark, and figured this late into my sleep (11 hours now) I would likely have only a few minutes more before I would have to struggle to stay asleep. I decided to play with a female DC. I was not feeling sexual, but to achomplish a quick and pleasant dream control task, this seemed like a reasonable task.
I flew up along side a sky skraper and knew there would be people inside. I saw into anoffice and focused ona DC that was a woman at a desk. Not especially prretty, but that is easy to change. I phased through the side of the building into a hall/stairwell and then walked into the office. The DCs had little animation and were almost just my puppets, but that was ok. I went to the woman and gently placed my hands on her sides and encouraged her to stand. She responded to light pressure from my hands and walked with me back out into the hall. My brain tried to spice things up by placing two male coworkers there who would have tried to stop me. I saw the formation of the idea, and used mental control to prevent the tought from developing. The DCs just froze into scenery. I took the woman out onto a balcony and tried to take her flying. I floated out between the buildings with her, but my mind tried to tell me levitation is harder if you carry someone. We started to float downward. I supressed that thought and up we went again, but I decided just to land on the next building.

I laid her back on the deck and looked at her. I pictured her lovely and sexy and she was (very). I was not feeling randy or anything, but just wanted to see how detailed i could make her. I pushed up her blouse enough to see her belly, and gently ran my fingers along it. Stunning detail! I could see her skin tone and feel the flesh respond to any pressure my fingers exurted. I undid her pants and slid them down just a few inches slowly then noticed her under ware were pink. I examined the look of her hips and her underware. The pink was impressively vivid.

I started to have a bout 15% awareness of my waking body. I needed to stabilize now! I focised on her rib cage and placed my hands there. I tried to really feel her ribs and the heat from her skin, while looking at her lovely skin tone (slightly tan caucasion), but it was only delaying the progress towards waking. I reached about 40% awareness of my body, and decided that I may as well wake up.

I woke up and decided not to try to DEILD as I needed to get my day started. Dur~10 min.