Cities in the Astral

01/10/16 I have still been having tons of lucids but have been focused much more on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu so I totally have blown off my DJ. That is bad form and stingy of me. The two most recent (this morning) are ones I need to document and maybe that will spur me to start sharing my lucids with you guys again.

I became aware of laying in bed in the dark and attempted to remember where I was sleeping. It seemed like my mom's old house on Wallace and somehow that did not make sense. I pondered that and realized someone was in the next bed over. The room was really too small for two beds. I guessed it was my cousin over there, and he started to move about. I asked him what the F$#k was going on. He told me his parents were there to help me go to work. I didn't think that made much sense so I got up. I went down stairs into my mom's basement. Well that was a big clue as my mom's house did not have a basement. There was a bunch of fish tanks on racks down there. Now that is something from my past but should have been at my dad's house. I am starting to understand that this is a dream. I kind of knew it at first, but this settles it.

One of my dream signs is tropical fish that are not inside the fish tank. I stare at them during the day, and in my dreams my brains tosses in pretty fish in front of me, but often neglects to put them in water. I check and sure enough the tanks look wrong and the fish move beyond the confines of the glass. Fully lucid now. I explored the fish laboratory when I was approached by two men who seemed to not be regular DCs. They seemed like astral entities. I point blank asked them if they were part of my dream or if they were actual entities. They did not deny being entities and started walking with me.

I decided that I really needed to behave myself, as way too often I am a dumb ass in my lucids despite being aware and do things like seek out sex despite other entities being present. In fact I have often enough tried to get sexual with the entities themselves. It is not that I rationally decide to act this way, but being in a dream lowers my inhibitions way worse than alcohol. I have had my assorted Dream Guides blow me off for months at a time after bad incidences, and even was banned from entering the main astral city for some time. I was going to be on my best behavior, as it has been many weeks since I have been approached.

I quietly walked around what I suspected was some sort of astral landscape, perhaps a city or a training area. There were lots of people so maybe The City. I walked up a street that was sort of like a fair grounds. I started to explain to the two entities how I could tell the difference between my own dream imagery and the real substance/life forms of their realm. I demonstrated that my own DCs could be summoned and would act exactly as I wanted. I imagined two women walking up and they appeared. The men watched me curiously as if wondering what I was getting at. I told one of the women to give me a hat, and suggested it was in her bag. She pulled a hat out of her bag and put it on my head. I told her to kiss me. She immediately gave me a kiss. I became aware that the men had basically raised there eyebrows (emotionally not imagery) like," here he goes again." I stopped myself and thanked the DC for the hat and she disappeared.

I walk down another street and go into a large building. this looks a lot like a casino and has a large buffet table with all sorts of food. We are walking past this huge buffet and I am not at all sure if I can take food, as these people do have some sort of value exchange like our currency system that I honestly barely begin to understand. I get the feeling from one of the men that taking a single tiny item is ok. I select a deviled egg looking thing and eat it. OMG! Dream food is almost always bland and only about 10-20% like real life. This has a strong pleasant flavor and agreeable texture; it is clearly the best dream food I have ever tasted. It actually took me a few moments to chew it up and swallow it.

I asked one of the men what was up, if they were keeping an eye on me and going to follow me to watch what I do. I got the feeling (emotional communication) that that was in fact the truth and he just kind of shrugged, like "well you got it." The next area had a lot of people who were now interested in me. I talked with some young guys about how to me this was a dream and that my body was somewhere else. Some of them thought that was curious and asked me what I could do. I have noticed that The City has gravity and almost no one ever floats or flies around, and that when I do it exhausts me and is difficult. I stepped up onto thin air and sat floating above the ground. they did not seem impressed. The street had a tall fence along one side and I said I could jump over the tall fence. They told me that I could not jump any higher up the fence than them. Several boys started jumping up onto the fence and back down. I pictured with confidence how I was going to easily leap all the way up on top of it. I jumped and went no higher than them. Ok, confidence. I jumped again and grabbed the top, but ran up against an energy barrier that was the classic power lines I have run into hundreds of times. I have learned by now that they mark off areas and are not meant to be f%$ked with, and I am supposed to be on my best behavior. I jumped down and kind of mumbled, something about f$%k this.

When I walked away from the crowd one of the men with me pointed out a building and told me it was "the whore house" and I got the feeling he was letting me know that a well behaved man would go there if when visiting The City he felt the need to be a pervert. I have run into this topic one time before, and was surprised at the idea that this place would have prostitutes. At that point (another dream long ago) it was explained that I have no currency and while I can summon handfuls of money it was not real and could not be traded for services. So, I showed little interest in this building and kept walking. I found something that looked like colored chalk and started tossing bits of it at things for no good reason other than perhaps boredom. I noticed a lady going around marking things with the stuff.

I realized that I had drifted off of my good behavior a bit and that throwing anything randomly at other things was no way to stay out of trouble. I did my hand mudra exercise and slowly recited the English alphabet. As near as I can tell I got it correct. I then walked up to a food cart of some sort and it had these wonderful looking wrap sort of things I really wanted one but did not reach for one. One of the men came up to me and in a very friendly manner put his hand on my shoulder. He asked me, "So have you decided that you want to be a part of this instead of running around acting like a berserk crazy person?"

I told him, "I certainly never have intended to be berserk or crazy, and I do desperately want to be part of this. I am overwhelmed with how amazing this place is. The food tasted almost 100% real and the buildings are almost completely stable and persistent in their visuals (they do shift some if you watch closely)." I looked at a near by building and after a moment one of the lines shifted, but still it was clearly way more stable than I would get in my own dream imagery. I looked at the building next to me which seemed to be some sort of real estate office as it had pictures hanging of houses and such. The texture and the color of the blue paint was very impressive.

I realized I needed to stabilize again and summoned a flip top lighter to my hand and focused in on the details and started to toy with the flip top until I felt stable. Me and the man started walking up this street, but before long the dream became unstable. I tried again to stabilize but somehow got pulled back to my body and realized I was now laying in my bed. I decided to wake up and record the event. Dur~20-30 min.