StephL

Again after considerable dryness - finally lucid. I woke up naturally after 4 h and thought about having a lucid dream, tried affirmations, raise expectation - the usual, but not for long.

When I became lucid, it was after a lot of of another dream - but it held up quite long anyway.
No loss of optics this time - what I found, is that it is good not to swivel the head about wildly but taking it slowly, bit by bit, initially. So I really raised my eyes super-slowly and all fell into place.
Not sure, if it was a DEILD at one point, because I thought, I had woken up, everything was grey - but then I saw something in the distance again. I guess it was, but I didn't get to feel my body in bed, like usual.

I tried the gravity RC - three times all together - worked wonderful. I just raised my arms and tried to feel their weight - and that led to them floating up, and me with them, if I wanted.

I was in a friend's room and we talked and she showed me pictures, she had painted - then I wanted to take her out flying with me, but somehow she disappeared in the process.

Problem is - I slept on and had another dream afterwards, without journalling the LD, and now I'm not sure anymore, how the transitions worked exactly.

I just know, that at one point, I was on a very high roof again - like church-tower hight - did my RC and jumped and managed to get a swimming-motion free flight together. Been dropping initially, but then it worked. Just so - arms in the direction I wanted - and just so.

While coming down, I flew over a running black stallion and came down in the saddle and rode a bit - which was great - but then somehow I lost the horse under me - flew over it again by mistake and it took off.

When I came down, finally I thought, I should get something done for the TOTM.
I hadn't looked it up, what they actually were - thought about all the suggestions for basic tasks, and decided that repeat day must be among them.

My earliest ever TOTM!
Hooded African American guy: Yo Nigger! Steph: Yo Nigger! Guy: Yo Niggger!! Steph: Yo Niggger!! Guy: Shakes his head and is off.
It's because I watch 'The Wire' at the moment - and he started it!
By the way - I wasn't sure, if I had to do that - and so I also mimicked his behaviour - tried to.
I guess it must have looked hilarious, me trying to be gangsta-cool - his head-shake felt like expressing disdain at my cultural incompetence.

Yeah - and then I stood there and thought about getting a meteor going, but somehow I lacked the confidence to go about it. And nothing much further happened.
Still not happy with the optical quality - they used to be so brilliant, and hyper-realistic and colourful at times in the past - I want that!! It was all in a bit subdued, darkish colours.
At least no blindness!