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    Going For A Swim

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    Xanous
    , 02-16-2015 at 12:20 AM (768 Views)
    #412 - DILD - 6:35AM

    I am walking up a hill with my younger daughter and son. For some reason I am going to some apartments to take a swim. I tell myself that if I am going to live here, I need to figure out how to park on the other side so I don't have to walk so far all the time. Some triggers semi-lucidity and the walk up the hill feels hard and slow. I realize that this is all a mental thing and tell myself to just pretend that it's all super easy and it will be. It works for a second and gets difficult again at the last few steps.

    I am inside the apartment but it all looks really odd. I feel this is normal for a dream so I let it go and try to ignore it. I have my son in my arms and for some reason think I need to put him down for a nap. There is a door way that I think leads to his bedroom, but when I open it, it is just a broom closet. I know this is all pointless so I unceremoniously toss my son into the darkest part of the closet and walk way. I feel a mental tug to do it right, but I don't want to get caught up in mundane tasks in a dream. I am still really caught up in going swimming so I try to find the back door. As I make my way outside, I pass though some tiny kitchen that I recognize to look like a small version of the duplex I used to live in.

    Outside, my lucidity raises as I look around for a pool. I see an above ground pool to the right, but quickly reject that. I look to the left and see my younger daughter jumping into a large in-ground pool. Excited, I run and jump and yell, "JEEEERRRONIMOOOOO!", as I belly flop into the pool. As I make impact I worry that my vision will get distorted and I end up in the void. Of course, this thought manifests as I see a blur of blue and air bubbles and the dream fades.

    The lights come on and I wake up with my son in the bed with me and my wife. He's crying and some liquid has pooled up all over the sheets. Not sure if he peed out of his diaper, I ask, "Why is everything so wet?"
    My wife just says, "He's been crying." I realize that there is no way a kid can tear up that much and remember that I was just now dreaming that I was swimming. The lights do out and I roll over and make swimming motions in the dark until I reach my wife. I start kissing her and decide maybe some sexy-time would be nice. The light returns and my wife stops me. She asks, "Right now? [in front of R?]
    I tell her that it doesn't matter [in a dream]. We continue to enjoy each other, but I wake up before we get very far.
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    Updated 02-16-2015 at 12:42 AM by 5967

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    1. ~Dreamer~'s Avatar
      Your belly flop into the pool sounds fun!

      I see you almost got to use your LD superpower at the end! (I just listened to your latest podcast.)

      I just spotted your DJ colour coding system for low and high level lucidity - is that new? I really like that, it's very simple and practical.
      I've been struggling to decide whether some dreams are semi-lucid or lucid lately. Sometimes I definitely know I'm dreaming, but I have so little awareness/memory that I go along with ridiculous dream plots, like that one where I spent the dream puking up my guts with you.
      A "low level lucid" category would fix that problem for sure!
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    2. Xanous's Avatar
      I was sort of expecting some mild pain when I hit the water, but I guess I was too caught up in visuals. I always sabotage myself with worry. Gotta have faith!

      Well, I left a lot of detail out, but yeah I didn't quite get to finish.

      When Remy talked about the lucidity scale it gave me the idea to include some simplified version of that in my DJ. On a scale of 1-10, I think of low level as 1-5 and high level as 6-10. Lately, I have noticed that there is rarely that 'AH HA' moment, but I gradually become lucid slowly sliding from a '1' and up. This extra category helps me to later understand what was going in my LD and the choices I made.

      Edit: And thanks for listening!
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    3. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Aha, nice catch realizing that you'd transitioned out of the LD through a water scene and that this is why you'd had this false awakening with your son flooding the place with tears.

      Congrats on the lucid... that menthol!
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