Cities in the Astral

Mostly this was just a lucid in which I just enjoyed a virtual partner's body. Not much to say here. It was started with a false awakening. I reached out and felt my wife in bed. I realized that this must be a dream as she would not be in the bed at this time. I did not jump up and run around having a lucid. Instead, I was curious how realistic I could "dream up " This worked out well and tactilely she was very soft and convincing. Insert random male fantasy here for about 5 minutes. Eventually she says she is bored, and my dream starts throwing elements into the dream that are to distract me. People can see us through a window, who cares, it is a dream. Someone walks into the room; I act like she is just a kid and tell her to leave. Finally, a team of workmen walk in and a wall is gone and they are going to start working. Oh well, time to give up and move along. I start talking with the workmen about the tilework.

Interest lucid with heavy doses of repressed psychology. I was cruising around in a lucid when I walked into a room and saw my father. He is no longer alive in waking life. I decided to interact with him and try to experience something interesting. I decided that I had traveled back in time to talk to a much younger version of my father. This took place in a fish store he owned. I noticed a fish had been fed alive to other fish who were eating it while it suffered a long drawn-out death. I remember telling him about the mistakes he would make in the future somehow hoping he could avoid doing the things. I remember telling him he would become very selfish and at times perhaps psychotic. I also pointed at the suffering fish and made some point about his personality. Oddly, I do not think of him as having been that cruel or psychotic.

This dream was so involved and long with a running theme. The theme was a haunted resort town and a group of people (I was a non-me DC) who had been magically trapped there. After much exploring, I figured out we needed to identify what each ghost was there for and say something to them or do something that would allow them to move on and rest. There was a maid ghost that every time I saw her there was a door next to her that she then caused to be hidden. there was a young boy with marbles and a ghost couple who were going to go get cocktails. We found out that there was supposed to be a cave by a beach house, but the owner said the cliff by his house was totally flat. We found where the cave had been bricked shut and then a park person came and said to stay away because it was dangerous. I figured out the boy with the marbles had either killed his friend or been killed by a big marble thrown in anger and knew I needed to tell him it was not his fault. We got a clue that we should make sure to be at a certain intersection at either sunrise or sunset to see what happens. There was a part where we tried to escape on a raft and it ended up bringing us back to the town but reset the adventure to the beginning and now, we had a better idea what to do. The dream eventually ended with no resolution. The dream was more or less non-lucid despite being so weird.

Last night's brief LD included a woman who represented someone inappropriate for me to fantasize about per social convention. This was an alarm DEILD so at most the dream was limited to 9 minutes. The first stuff was in a crowded area like a convention center, and I was sitting on a lounge in the middle of an open area. The DC comes to me, and she is totally nude. She interacts with me but not in a overt sexual way. She is simply being friendly and is totally nude. Keep in mind the woman represented is someone I would be shamed for fantasizing about (think cousin). In the dream I pondered this and decided that "what happens in dream land, stays in dream land" No contact happened but I went ahead and enjoyed watching her. Then the next alarm went off and the dream ended.

I had a lucid with all the old crowd from my twenties. We walked to a point locally that we used to enjoy. We looked from the Train Depot down to see Ann Morrison Park but new construction had blocked the view. Oddly enough their were old people with us, maybe it meant that the kids we were are getting old. We were apparently taking acid as I was aware that the drugs should be kept concealed from the old people. We moved up hill a bit and could see into the park. the scene changes and we are on a farm road near perhaps a water tower. Dave is having trouble and says he can no longer handle more than a half dose. We talk about his mental illness and how drugs can not possibly be good for him. I decide to distract him by mentioning that since it is a dream he can do all sorts of fun things. I demonstrate levitation to him and how I can float forward from the least push with gravity not pulling on me at all.

This lucid went on long enough that I have totally forgotten the things in the first half. I do remember that I got kind of bored with flying around randomly and decided to work on a task or come up with some sort of challenge. I remember that the TOTY is about superheroes and that sort of stuff but not any details. Oh well, I will wing it and have a grand superhero adventure maybe meeting one of the goals by happen stance. I find myself in a space station but remember almost nothing of that. I take an escape pod and fall to earth. It lands in Jefferson school field, and I get out. A van full of superheroes pulls up and Nick Fury gives me instructions, criticizes me and offers me some shrimp dishes. I take a couple types but never really ate them. Next i walk into the headquarters for our group. It is worth noting that i am now not the spider man type I was in the first dreams. I am instead sort of a DR. Strange hero. The headquarters has a grand entry with lots of marble, stairs, glass, displays and a woman who talks to me as if she is giving me instructions and explaining something. I explore on a second level (forgot lots here) eventually it has transformed into more of a shopping mall, and I am not positive I am dreaming. I RC by using TK to pull mittens off a display. A DC of my sister asks how well I really have it together if I have trouble remembering that I am in a dream and mocks me a bit.
Eventually me and a team of heroes are dropped from space into the compound of a super villain. We are immediately taken captive by Guys who look like COBRA guards from GI Joe. I notice the team leaders are not with us. I decide my mission is to find and free them. I use a spell to look like a old butler and use this to get close to a guard. I whisper a spell and it nails his head to a post with a vine and smoke comes out in little wisps. I find my way to an open courtyard and spy from above. I see the super villain's wife and bodyguards and a ninja villain. She just seems to be gardening. I move along to the mansion and levitate up to see inside. There are three guys and 3 young naked women having a party. I move along. I decide to go for help. Outside the compound a pretty woman attempts to get me to have sex with her. She is very graphically spreading her legs and pulling me to her. I almost get distracted but remember the bonus task Moonage added about some guy throwing things in your path as a distraction. I get away from what I now know was an illusion this bad guy was using against me. I get back to headquarters and rally the troops. Oddly the troops consist mainly of dozens of "Super Lawyers." We are taking off and I get stuck flying out a window but use my powerful hero bod to stretch the window frame and get out. Me and many, many Super Lawyers fly off and it reminds me of the flying monkeys from Wizard of OZ. At this point my alarm wakes me.