Venryx

I'm looking at a map of the earth. We're planning out something. (I think this came from similarity to strategy games like Axis and Allies)

At some point, there's an announcement on TV I think, saying there are 5 large meteors coming to earth. I look outside the window, and see one of them approaching!

I realize I'm dreaming. However, I'm still in the situation, so watch to see whether they will hit us. One, two, three, four, five--I see them come into view at various angles.

I watch as they all come close but pass overhead, except one which instead veers to the left and hits into the apartment building just one over. ("slightly bad luck, those people had", I think)

However, this is where it gets more concerning because I think of the possibility of them containing aliens. (dream theme anyone?) I see the meteor begin to crumble, and gesture to my dad that we should maybe find a better room to hide in.

He agrees, and brings us to a questionable room with four large windows at the top. I sort of object, but notice that at least we're hidden if right by the wall, due to the angle, so give in.

We wait there a while, as we here something exit the meteor outside. At some point, I look over to see how the others are doing, and see that the room has now changed to have the wall be a glass panel in that area. "Oh come on...", I think to my dream, and tell my dad. He gets shocked, and begins to move away, but then we see a large shadow creep up from outside the window.

"Okay, exit time", I think. However, I don't like leaving "friend" dc's completely point blank in situations like that, so speak as though they're just dreaming themselves, and give them instructions on how to exit. "Defocus your eyes, tense up your body, and vibrate yourself while sending occasional movement shockwaves through your body."

After a few seconds of this, I find myself back in bed. I do a nose-plus rc, and am still dreaming. I'm about to get up, when I notice some visuals at the top of my field of vision. I focus on this, and it becomes a full-screen effect, and I'm able to explore the field with my will. I will to zoom in continually to areas of interest, and it unwraps like an unending fractal. I will to move to the side, and continue doing so until I start seeing what look like letters! Indeed, they are letters. I try to make out the words, and see the following (one small part at the top of a page):

SEN SEI ISSA!
TEH BEH TI

I notice the "Sensei is" part, but that's all that seems recoverable with likelihood.

Anyway, I find this really cool, because my memory is faulty and I believe this to be part of a message I'd written on my tablet earlier, with this being an access to "subconscious memory". So I get up and wake my tablet, and open the text file to compare. Indeedm it really was the same! Well, the top part was, but a couple paragraphs toward the bottom were missing.

Anyway, I run to show my dad (not realizing the house layout is different), but find dad not in his bedroom. Instead, my younger brother is there alone. He seems scared, so I comfort him, and dad comes back shortly.

At this point I realize I'm still in dream, so walk back out into the hallway. I then try to decide what to do. On the one hand, I (apparently) want to wake up so I don't forget what's already happened, on the other hand, it's a nice opportunity to do more. I end up deciding to just end it (perhaps because I'm still nervous from alien theme).

I open another door, and see the neutral figure of someone in the kitchen area. I then decide on whether to end it gradually by mental focus, or by doing something reckless to end it with a bang. I decide (surprisingly) to end it with a bang, so I open the door and run excitedly toward the frozen figure. As I get closer, it seems to subtly get more menacing, but I keep going, and finally turn around the corner and look straight where it would be.

However, I now seem to be back in bed. I half except to see something menacing above me, but open my eyes and see nothing. I do a nose-plug rc, and find I'm still dreaming, though. So I then proceed with a quick mental wakeup procedure, and feel a shift in ~8 seconds. Do a nose-plug rc, and am now awake for real.

=watching play, checking back room, climb stairs, fly through ceiling, stop biting thing, fly to city, get involved protecting hurt person, correctly guess person in car with, drive on wrong roads to park with water, walk/fly over copper, fly into forest avoiding enemies, explain belief that just dream, help friend who thinks his family died (false memories), walk with him downstairs

We arrive at a large room in the museum, where a play seems about to start. I realize it's a dream. (actually, I think this was an increase in lucidity from earlier segments of lucidity, but I no longer remember the earlier so can't know for sure)

I decide to watch the play anyway, but do so while floating 15 feet feet in the air. I know the people are going to act differently if I do that, so I go around a corner, where there's a huge hallway that's heavily shadowed further down. I turn around, fly up 15 fee5 (really high ceilings!), and prepare to watch the show. Only, I can't; the man running it did a shout out to me, telling me to get down and stop trying to get attention or something. I sigh, and decide it's not worth fighting, so go to do something else.

I explore a couple other areas of the large room, behind curtains and stuff segmenting the areas, and see a health unit as well as possibly a cafeteria. I decide this doesn't interest me, and look for a way to get outside. I see stairs, and head for them.

I go up the first flight of stairs, but notice that it then extends into an annoying labarynth of cave-like passageways. I proverbially roll my eyes, and decide to try a dream control to rectify this situation. I brace myself, and fly straight through the ceiling.

Now interestingly, it works--I get through the ceiling, however now I'm apparently tunneling up through solid ground. I just keep my focus (I can feel the ground I'm pushing through some), and eventually push out onto a brightly colored plain.

I recognize it as a location I've been to in a previous dream, which I think was also lucid (I could go back and check my journal, but am too lazy). Anyway, I look around, but while flying over a section of water, an annoying jumping clam thing starts biting me. And it hurt a little--just enough to be annoying and force a response. It takes a few tries, but I end up striking it down, and removing it's biting equipment (by this point it'd turned more into an ant-like creature with large jaws). I accidentally knock it into the water, and feel bad for it, and fish it out. (I don't like killing things even in dreams)

I don't remember for sure how I left the scene, but I think I just flew off in a direction till I came to a city.

Now in the city, it's late evening or very early morning, and I somehow get entangled in a situation where someone is injured and needs to be taken to the hospital. I jump in the driver's seat, and get going, as an enemy group is shortly coming. The car's kind of small, but I manage to fit.

I drive forward for a while, but realize I have no idea where I'm going, and that it doesn't make sense to since it's a dream. I feel the sense that someone else is in the car, and ask who's there. An man in his forties or so answers, and says he's an ally. Anyway, I ask him to help direct me to the destination, but we end up failing anyway, going down a ramp that ends in a remote park near the water.

We get out, and walk along a passageway over the water for a while, I believe conversing. At some point, we decide to head back, except our path is obstructed and half broken (old metal planes, with many fallen into the water, and the rest badly rusted and corroded). We eventually make it back, passing my dad and brother along the way (this caused strong feelings of having seen them just earlier in the dream, lucidly, which is part of why I think there was an earlier lucid section)

Anyway, this is getting long, so I'll try to wrap up. We get the sense that the enemy is approaching, so quickly head to the forest and fly up. I'm slow in horizontal movement at first, but use my hands as "engines" behind me, and start moving at a good speed. The enemy catches up (arriving in a bus), so we begin battling while continuing to fly forward. At first I have no weapons, but think back to times I've used my hands to create spheres of energy, and propel those toward the enemies. Some taunting between groups occurred, and I joined in just for a change of pace.

[Hazy section where we fight more, and a dc tries to make me concerned that if I die, I die for real, but I accept none of it. It does still make the fight seel more serious, however.)

Long story short, my ally gets defeated, and the scene changes as I go to help him. (he has the personality of one of my dad's close friends at this point, so I feel more connected than with random dcs)

Now awakening from a coma (or equivalent), he expresses sorrow, saying his family had all aged without him and left him alone. I don't like this turn of events, so tell him those are fake memories, and his family is fine. This cheers him up greatly, and allows him to remember our "promise" that when one of us save the other, the other has to do something in return. I think about what this should be as we head relaxedly downstairs, during which time the dream fades to a 30 second or so false-awakening, while I begin recollection.