lucid

This is without a doubt the most vivid and lucid experience I've had as of yet

The first dream began in my college university, as I was walking down a path I take every day to get to class. I was dressed in all black formal clothing, perhaps a suit. I had chrome metal cart on wheels with two levels, and I was pushing it in front of me as I was walking. The first level was covered by a white sheet that was hanging on the first level, covering it completely. as I was making my way to a far building, an unfamiliar girl passed me on a bicycle and said, "You'd better hurry up! You're going to be late!" smiling at me as she rode ahead. I became nervous at this point. I glanced down at my wrist and slightly moved my sleeve to look at my watch. It appeared as 11:11:11. "Shit," I said, believing that I was running out of time. This is when I became lucid. At this moment I completely stopped what I was doing. I looked back at my watch and it appeared to be dead, showing no digits at all. I followed up this RC with another RC, performing the nose pinch reality check. I could breathe like it was nothing "Well I'll be damned!" I said excitedly. Yelling this removed all doubt in my mind about it being a dream, because there seemed to be hundreds of college students busily walking around me and none of them gave any acknowledgement to my exclaimation. At this point I got on my knees and started feeling the battered concrete of the sidewalk I was on. Then I crawled a little ways onto the grass and began feeling it along with a nearby tree. Doing this tremendously increased vividness. After a few minutes of stabilization, I began to exercise some passive control. I reached under the covered level of the cart and found a MGL-type grenade launcher with multiple barrels. "Hahahahaha wow...I cannot believe this," I said joyfully. I aimed it at a long side of a classroom building I was facing and pulled the trigger. Sure enough a big round came out with a loud THUMP and it exploded and put a rough square-ish hole in the wall, probably around 25 feet in length and width. As I entered the building through the hole I just made, I again saw the girl on the bicycle riding down the hall of the building. She smile again as she passed me. I ran a little ways into the hall and said, "STOP!" She didn't stop but she sharply turned around and headed back towards me. She had a very pretty face. She had long brown hair that fell evenly over her shoulders. She was dressed in navy blue long skirt. Since I've always wanted to consciously talk to a dream character, I said, "Who are you?" and she said "You're joking right?" "No." I said. "This is my dream. I imagined you." She gave me that same smile she had given me before and said "It took you long enough to figure that out." Suddenly her bike floated upward about an inch off the ground and gracefully turned around 180 degrees and returned to the ground. She was still looking at me, with an expression on her face that said "come get me." She began to ride away down the hall. I started to feel extremely heavy at this point. I felt like I needed to follow this dream character as she may reveal something to me, but I couldn't move. It felt like sleep paralysis standing up. I then remembered something I had read about passive control and overcoming obstacles in a dream. I remembered that anything could be done with logic. So I looked down at my feet and expected them to be stuck to the floor with glue. I couldn't see any glue, just my black pants and white converse shoes (not the shoes I was wearing originally). But sure enough, they were stuck to the ground. The paralysis subsided and I was able to bend down and slip off my shoes. But when I looked back up, the girl was gone. Then everything faded black and I woke up.

What I can remember of this dream begins with me in my room. It's almost as if the dream began with a false awakening. Upon thinking I had woken up, I performed the nose-pinch reality check. This is when I became lucid. A strange, paralyzing, heavy sensation came over me, so I said to myself "calm down, calm down." I did calm down, but for some reason that paralyzing sensation was replaced with an extremely strong erge to go to sleep. As my eyes started to close, I tried to keep them open, but they eventually closed. I was relieved to find myself in a strange city my mind had built. It almost looked cartoonish, because the colors were bright. I started to jump roof tops until I came across a horizontal ladder at the end of a line of buildings (I had jumped off down to the ground at this point) and I decided to stare at it for a little while, marveling at the fact that it was unsupported by anything, floating in the air. I then saw someone grinding on the ladder with a skateboard (it could have been something else, I'm not sure) trying to impress me. Bored with the dream scene, I closed my eyes again and imagined my neighborhood. As I opened my eyes again, sure enough, I was in front of my house. I began to walk down the street to explore my mind's replica of my neighborhood. For some reason at this point, as I passed into my neighbor's lawn, I remember reading about dream control and various obstacles people face, and I remember specifically the inability for the dreamer to speak. So I actually exercised some dream control by trying to make my mouth disappear, and it did. Shortly after, I made it come back. I walked further down the street and noticed a long string of lightening in the sky. I remember getting very emotional at this point and saying aloud, "that is just beautiful." It was overwhelming to me how real everything felt in the dream. (and when I say emotional, I mean emotional. Damn near in tears.) As I walked further down the street my dog Ivy accompanied me, walking beside me until the remainder of the dream. My mind went off on a random tanget when I reached the end of the block, as I desired to ride a motorcycle. So I stole from the house at the end of the street, easily making one appear behind a fencing gate. As I walked it down the yard and onto the street, the dream softly faded,and I woke up. I percieved this dream to be around 45 minutes long.

my emotions upon waking up