Cities in the Astral

A nice long WILD in which I had a missle flying on a kite string, and would let it pull me along really fast.
This WILD lasted for perhaps 20 to 30 minutes and my recall is a little fuzzy on some parts. Basically I had another quiet morning to WILD, and it did not go as smoothly, but after about 30 minutes I got it. In one of the first scenes I drempt up a rocket that was tethered by a long kite string. At the end of the string was a triangle handle like for water skiing. I could ignore it and stand still or decide to get pulled super fast behind it. I raced across open landscapes for awhile, then along a freeway.
I landed and walked around the landscape trying to make the DCs more vivid. I went into a grocery store and the DCs were animated and pretty life like, but when I tried to talk with a random shopper, his voice was muffled and unintelligible. I am sure I could infer or understand what a DC wanted to say, in a sense, but the audible component would not develop well. I tried to closely examine a female DC but shee shrunk in prespective and seemed only the size of a doll.

Oh well, I went back outside and flew around behind my rocket on a freeway again, then landed where I decided a university was. I went inside annd saw people from my past, about 5 or 6 randomly selected DCs from waking life (decades past). I almost got distracted into a nonlucid state by conversation (audio in check now). I was hoping for a female DC to come along on my adventures, but these were animated and exibited free will, so I decided I should try to convince one rather than force my will on thhe dream. DCs that have no animation can be to puppet like and offer little of intrest, so I left them with free will and wandered away down by where I decided a coast was to look at what DCs would randomly pop up. I used the rocket kiite again. I saw DCs but did not succesfully engage with them, tthey were again kind of puppet like, so I went back to the room with the interesting DCs.

Before I got there the scenery was loosing color and becoming somewhat washed out. I almost lost the dream here. I started to look at my hands and do some mudra (hand postures) but it was fading fast. I tried to visualize my hand and move just a finger. The visual quality had gone down to black and white cartoon like. I think I was loosing REM but tried to hold on. The weird problem I had was attempting to move my dream hand brought awareness of my waking hand which twitched and tried to move. I had to be very careful here. I stopped trying to move the fingers out of fear that this would now wake me. I just intensely stared at my dream hand until it came back into focus. I suceeded in stabilizing and this bought me about 5 more minutes.

The scenery was now vague and washed out, having a more line drawn feel to it. I went back to the room with the animated DCs. They were kind of blurry and interacting with them had devolved to assuming who a blurry person might be and exchanging thoughts, as the audio was also getting washed out. I went outside instead. I started flying bejind my rocket kite back down to the beach and then along a city street. The visuals had started to recover, but still lacked. I think I had used up all the REM for awhile. I enjoyed flying for a couple minute around the town before I woke. Dur~20-30 min.