Cities in the Astral

06-03-14 I got up after 7 hours sleep and read about June's TOTM. I decided to go for the bonus aquarium task. I laid in bed on my back and put a pillow over my eyes and ears (noisy here at the apartment). I started counting in my mind and focused on each point of my body starting with the toes and relaxing each as I moved up. I went through this twice, then moved to a mantra. When I was seeing H.I. I moved to my side and transitioned into a dream.

I could see images and they seemed to be from above looking at a house or something with little detail. I decided that for this task aquarium must mean a big public aquarium like they have in big cities, so that this image must be the outside of a large building in which I would make the aquarium. I created a multi level mansion kind of feel and teleport inside the building. I am up on a balcony that wraps around the inside of a huge building. The balcony has fancy wooden guard rails.

Now for the aquarium. Hmmm, perhaps it should be in a swimming pool? Yes, a very monstrous swimming pool, that is the idea. I go over to the edge and expect the entire floor to be a big pool and it is. I jump from the second floor and drop in feet first. I plunged down under water, but have no need to breathe so I stay under water. I want at least one shark, and a shadow becomes a shark swimming towards me. I clarify in my mind that the shark is not a man eater. I want this to be an aquarium people can swim in, so I add a few happy tourists swimming across the surface. Now for fish; I start to imagine schools of fish and they appear. I add a school of large angel fish and something like Moorish ideals. I look the other way and add a school of grey bat fish.

The big swimming pool is complete with fish and sharks, but I want to do a whole public aquarium, so I teleport up onto the lower level deck. I go through an outer door and create an outside garden area with smaller pools. I add some people looking into the pools. It looks very nice (I wish I had stayed and added specific things in the pools, but had more work to do). I turned around and went back inside and up a grand stairway. I had some fun creating a bar/dining area with lots of tourists, then moved on along the hall and made a game room. I could not understand what the games were, but the kids were having fun, and that is what a public aquarium is all about.

Now I have this all going in one visual field (except the outdoors part) and it seems I could add another level. Now, I can see that another grand stairway winds up higher. Suddenly IRL a garbage truck is servicing the apartment complex and I am about to wake up! No! Redirect, quickly! A window,' look, that garbage truck is in this dream' Of course a big aquarium will need garbage service. I look out the window and make a garbage truck appear. See? No external noise, all in the dream, do not wake me up! It works. Now the public aquarium has poor sound insulation and I pretend this is an issue to talk to an engineer about later. Yes, clearly we need sound proofing which explains why I am likely to still hear this dream garbage truck for the next few minutes.

I go up to the third floor. I create a shopping area and decide to get a nice suit so a shop keeper in a fancy suit comes up with a mirror and we discuss what I should wear. I transform in the mirror and go with a dark jacket and purple shirt.

That is the extent of the aquarium I created, after that I maintained the LD for about 15 minutes to half an hour and just walked all around interacting with DCs, and eventually took another swim.