Tiktaalik

Quick Eat the grape!
20/06/20
Lucid# 4 - DILD

I’m at a counter, I think it’s a pharmacist though it could be a food counter as I’m eating something. I’m standing and waiting and over hear a lady behind the counter talking with a customer. “You have to be aware” she says “yes you have to be aware”. I note what she says seems a little odd and then it clicks! “Aware! Be aware! I’m dreaming!” Just like that I have become lucid and it startles me almost. I look around to see if I really am in a dream but I don’t need convincing I just know I am. Then I feel a little distant and fuzzy and know the dream is fading. “Stabilise”! I say aloud and it seems to work for a few seconds but then the feeling comes back and I feel a trembling in my body. I rub my hands together and things become settled again. I rush now to become more connected with my environment and start by feeling a plastic barrier next to me and feel the smooth plastic and the flat, wooden top it has. I keep moving and think “so cool! I’m doing this again!” but also remember not to get too excited. Then I remember I’m eating something and start chewing. It’s already mushed up in my mouth and I’m not sure what it is. Maybe pizza? I then remember dream food is supposed to taste amazing. This tastes good but nothing special. I then see a bowl of grapes on a stand and think I have to eat something new. I hurry to chew and swallow the food in my mouth and then pick a nice juicy black grape from the bunch but as I do, the fuzzy feeling comes back and the image starts to fade. “No, no, no!” I think but it’s too late and the dream ends.

Analysis: A lucid! It was short which is a shame. I really struggled keeping the dream stable. Maybe excitement got the better of me? The realisation was a amazing though. I didn’t even need to reality check I just realised as the women repeated “aware” just like I did in my mantra during my WBTB. It must have seeped into the dream and makes me wonder whether it was close to being a WILD? It sort of startled me and I was like “oh yeah! Of course!” Maybe that’s why the dream felt so unstable and the shock nearly woke me. I didn’t have time to focus on any dream goals I just tried to keep it going. So annoying that I never got to taste the grape! What did it taste like!!! I need to try it again in another dream.

Waking Notes:

Stability: Low
Control: Medium
Clarity: Medium
Awareness: High
Length: Low

Trigger: DC repeating my mantra
RC: NA
Length: 30 seconds approx.
Goals: none
Techniques: WBTB/ MILD
Time: 6 - 7am
Lucid count: 4