Tiktaalik

The Fruit tiles
25/07/20
Lucid #13 - DILD

I’m sitting on the sofa in my parents living room watching TV with them. I notice some familiar tiles on the programme I’m watching, they’re white kitchen tiles and have images of different fruit on them. “I recognise those tiles?” I say unsure where from. I then notice something to my right and see the wall next to me is also layered in the exact same tiles? I’m confused by this odd coincidence and it triggers me to RC. I see random scribbles of text on each tile and do a text change check. I look away, not believing it will change as I’m sure I’m awake right now but as I look back the text has indeed changed! I’m in disbelief! So much so that I don’t believe it and do the check again. It changes again and again a third time. I can’t believe it’s a dream and I was so sure I was awake! I think I must have fallen asleep just now whilst watching TV and this was some kind of false awakening (In reality I was simply asleep in my own bed).

I get up and walk across the room and through the door which randomly leads straight into my brothers old bedroom. I believe that’s where I’m currently sleeping and think it would be cool if I went in there and somehow found my body asleep in bed! I open the door, it’s dark but sure enough under the covers is the outline of my body. I dash in and start shaking my body. “Rise and shine!” I yell with glee. My body isn’t waking up though and I start to realise it’s just an inanimate dream character instead. The dream then fades away and I enter the void. I remember to try spin to see if that can re-stabilise the dream but without a body I just feel a dizzy, spinning sensation in my head, as If my consciousness is spinning in circles. It doesn’t lead to anything and I wake up.

Lucidity: Low
Trigger: Oddity
Reality check: Text change
Length: 1 minute (approx.)
Goals: None
Lucid count: 13

Analysis: Very low level lucid. Clearly wasn’t thinking straight as I was half believing I could interact with my sleeping body in bed. A successful RC though and it was good to see that I remembered to try spinning even though it didn’t work. The fruit tiles were actually from an old flat I used to live in for a short time.