Xanous' Dream Journal

#312 - DILD - 3:38AM

After that first lucid I go ahead and decide to WBTB since I needed to pee anyway. I spend some time looking at the stars unpolluted by city lights while enjoying strong peppermint tea. When I tired to sleep I found myself really wakeful but I had very strong HI. I entered several dreamlets but when I tried to form them into WILDs I lost them. At one point I think I dosed of and felt the very early stages of vibrations. I thought I could wait for it to get a little stronger and let the usual sensations slip in but I lost focus and fell non lucid for a while. I probably should have tried an RC but I really thought I had that one. Oh well, It didn't matter because I later had a really vivid DILD.

This dream seemed much longer but the earliest I could remember is that I am having some conversation with an old woman while standing in the alley behind my house. There was a lot of distracting abstract imagery but basically she was washing clothes in an old metal tub and hanging them on a line. I had some items in my hand that are hard to describe as I was talking to her. She was lamenting about being a bad mother and parent. I told her not to worry because Emily turned out the be a good person. I say, "See? You are a good granny." When I say that I look up and see a long skinny tornado bearing down on us. I shout, "SHIT! RUN! EVERYONE GET INTO MY BASEMENT!" There were other DC's milling about and we all start running to my house. Suddenly it dawns on me that this is all a dream and I remember that I had a tornado goal once that I never completed.

I stop running and turn around to face the tornado. It looks a little jumbled up but I don't give any thought to that. As the twister hits me, I am lifted up high into the sky. I see nothing but thick cloud as I gently move in a wide circle. I enjoy the feeling of it as I try to look down at the ground. At first I don't see anything and worry that the white void will overtake me. I apply the same tactics that I did in the first LD of the night with the dark void. I peer into the nothing while thinking of the times that I've flown in waking life (always at a window seat). A break forms in the cloud vortex and I see small houses below me. I didn't realize that I was so high up, but I have a thought and take a little control. As I will myself to be higher, the swirling clouds close then open and I see the houses look even smaller. Satisfied, I let myself gently come back down and find myself on my back deck. I look around once and see the tornado again. It gently picks me back up but I decide that I've had enough and I am put back down again.

There's a slight memory gap here but I think I started talking to some kids in the front yard. For some reason I say, "Watch me fly around the house in one breath." I rise up and begin moving around my house but it's more like I am swimming or I am an astronaut in zero G. Either way I am moving way slower that I thought. I look down and see the children running around, jumping and looking up back at me. I hear shouts of excitement and laughter as I slowly float over them. I'm not sure, but I sort of feel like I am really holding my breath now. I worry that holding my breath will wake me and I decide I'll never actually make it in "one breath" so I go ahead and deliberately take a deep breath and return to normal breathing.

As I continue around my house it turns into some sort of tower like structure with an added exterior roof around like it a doughnut shaped porch. The color of the house has gone from white to pink with white trim. I find this all to be really odd but I am committed to circling my house... or whatever it has become. As I almost reach the front, I find myself now inside the house. I there is now a window and a door in front of me. I think about phasing out the window but decide to go ahead and just open the door this time.

I am now alone in my front yard walking toward the street. There is a small red sporty car, sort of like a Miata but more Corvette looking, parked on the street. I pick it up with one hand by the back bumper and absentmindedly carry the car with me as I try to think of something cool to do in this dream. Realizing what I did, I let the car fall down in front of me and jump on top. I briefly consider going for a drive but, nah, I've done that so many times already. Then I remember my old pirate ship goal. I decide that I've handled the void pretty well all night, so maybe I could induce it to actually teleport. I shout out one of the "shanties" from AC4: Black Flag. My voice did not sound like my own but an exact copy of the soundtrack in the game. I either close my eyes or the void came but I stop walking and fall to the ground. I reach in front of me and imagine the feel of the wheel of a ship. I feel some mild sensation on my hands, then gradually it starts feeling like it should. I begin to hear some sound but that when I suddenly wake up.