I may have done the WILD technique after waking up in the middle of the night, or it may have been a false awakening.
I was with a circle of people that gave off a calm feeling. We were going to visit the subconscious mind. It would be the same as the WILD technique, only I was already lucid dreaming, so I wouldn't have to drift off to sleep. I went through the floor. I was in a large cavern-like space. There was a competition going on. The challenge was; a person has to ride a bull and accomplish some task, possibly hearding something. I watched several people try. Most of them fell off, or ended up chasing the bull all over the cavern. One guy managed to ride the bull easily and accomplish whatever the task was.
Then it was my turn, and I thought it shouldn't be to hard. But I wound up chasing the bull all over the cavern. Or more like followed. Several times I talked to it, trying to get it to understand. One of those times, when the bull had gotten tired or at least calmed down, it said to stand in a certain place. We were near a tall structure of scaffolding where there was construction going on. The bull wanted me to stand behind the scaffolding, saying that I was supposed to trust it's word. I almost did, but I hesitated due to an uneasy feeling. I glance up and saw that above the indicated spot, there were a couple of buckets. One of these buckets tipped and poured out acid as a construction worker pulled on a rope attached to it's handle.
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I was in the guest bathroom experimenting with the light switch. I turned it off, then quickly turned it on again. I turned it off once more, and found it odd that I felt absolutely no fear. I sat down in a chair across from the mirror. I couldn't see very well, but I had a general sense of what was around me. I got the impression that there were other people there, who wanted me to turn the light back on. I eventually flicked it back on. I turned around and saw two or three people sitting near where I had been. Something about the way they were sitting was amusing. I walked away, catching a glimpse of my own refection as I passed the mirror. I had a bland expression and was almost smiling. This in itself was amusing.
Something about the light switch had informed me that I was dreaming. Or, more accurately, reminded me. I didn't do a reality check, because I already knew. I went through the wall. It felt similar to when I had gone through the ground. I came out the other side in the kitchen. The kitchen was smaller and turned ninty degrees to the left of the way it is in waking life. It was also on the second or third story, like an apartment. All of this was taken for granted at the time. My mom was there, and she was talking to me, "...I know I'm awake, because I counted my fingers..." and she started counting. Before she made it past five, I said, "I'm dreaming! You're probably dreaming too. Otherwise, I couldn't do this; watch." and I went effortlessly through the solid glass window.
I was now outside, and I flew around a bit. I landed in an open corridor down a short set of stairs. There was an advertisement for a medicine of sorts, which was supposed to help lower back pains. My lower back was hurting. I deduced from the fact that the voice was disembodied that it was my subconscious speaking. I thought this meant it was trying to talk to me. I was starting to get very irritated with my sub-c, but I took the medicine. It was a jar of slightly transparent blue capsules. I went up the stairs, and was in the spot with a circle of lawn chairs. The same people (or at least similar ones) were gathering there. One or two people were complaining about back problems. One guy took the jar, and everyone came over. They started inspecting the jar of medicine. Someone said, "We have nothing to burn it with..." I gathered from the comment that we would normally burn different ingredients together, and that was how we got more interesting messages. This time it was just going to be whatever was in the medicine.
We laid down in the lawn chairs, which were in the reclining position. I went through the floor wondering what the message would be. I was once again in a cave-like place, only it wasn't as big and it wasn't as far down. Some of the other people had gotten there also. For some reason, I felt like I had to go down further, so I did. Things started to happen quickly, and I was really confused. Even though I was trying to pay attention to what was happening. I found myself underneath the surface of a pool of ice water (there may have been ice cubes floating around in the water). I was a little nervous about this. I had an umbrella, which had allowed me to get in the water by pointing it down. Then by opening it and pointing it up, I got out again, and all the way back to the circle.
Towards the center of the circle, there was a chair with a violin on it. Thinking it was mine, I picked it up. Then realized that it was someone else's more expensive violin. I set it back down and saw my own violin on the chair next to it, which I picked up along with the bow. I didn't want anyone to sit on it, and I was going to move it. Only I was still holding the bow from the other violin. I started getting confused. I put my violin down so I could figure out which bow was which. For a few moments, I just stood there, looking stupidly at the two bows in my hands. When logic returned, I remembered how to tell my bow apart, and managed to get the right bow with the right violin.
A guy with curly brown hair had come along and put some of the lawn chairs in the sitting position. The guy who had looked at the medicine got into an argument with him, saying that we wanted the lawn chairs to be flat. I noticed that my own chair was propped up. I was able to get it back to the way it was by lifting it up and over two stops, which had kept it in place. I mentioned that when it was in the original position, it could be rocked forward and used as a seat just as easily (this logic made more sense in the dream). Both people gave me a blank stare, then continued arguing. Now I ignored them and stood up. I saw TK sitting in a chair a little ways away from the circle. I went over and talked to him for a while. We started making fun of a pink boa. After a while, I walked away. The boa had somehow gotten torn up into sections, and there were feathers everywhere.
I may have come close to waking up and must have fallen into a somewhat lighter sleep. I wondered what I was going to do with my lucidity. I decided to try psychokinesis. I found an open space. I hovered in the air. I thought the clouds were beautiful. It crossed my mind that I would be able to levitate a house if I wanted to. I decided to try something bigger. On a whim, I created and levitated a giant rubber ball with the slightest of thoughts. It was too easy to be very entertaining. I forgot the ball and saw an expanse of water, probably the ocean. I started running across it. I'm pretty sure there was a short wall to my right. It wasn't nearly as graceful as I had planned. There was a lot of splashing involved, although I didn't go further into the water than just above my ankles. I lost a good amount of lucidity, and I was a little worried about the possibility of sharks and other sea creatures. However, I still knew that I was somehow safe (I knew that if I had the power to walk on water, sharks shouldn't be that much of a problem). There was another woman there who was also walking on water. Her presence was reassuring. She may have been instructing me on how to keep my footing, or she may have just been coming along.
By the time I got to shore, I had lapsed into a normal dream. I now seemed to think that the circle had been a music camp, hence the violins, and therefore I wasn't surprised to see Beethoven staggering out of the ocean and onto the beach. He seemed to be covered in salt. There was someone coming. I got deja vu, remembering that the last time this had happened, someone had come to kill Beethoven and I had led him the wrong way and they had gotten him. Armed with this forwarning, I instead led him to the left behind a block or wall of sorts, rather than forward into the open like last time. I had to use mostly hand signals, as he didn't seem to hear me very well (didn't catch that reference until I woke up).
There were several similar walls in an almost maze-like formation. For the most part, I just tried to keep Beethoven out of view, because the assasins really didn't care about me, or wouldn't see me. We passed near a small town, then an outdoor stage where a small group was setting up. Beethoven wanted to go there and play, but I said that he shouldn't go near music or the assasins would find him. A little ways further, there was a fair. I knew this place was safe. It was supposedly "not the type of place where assasins go". My dad was there. He led Beethoven into the men's bathroom to hide until further notice. I went into the womans bathroom, realized that I had no reason to, and came out again. I felt happy now, and wanted to go on some of the rides. I may have gone on a small roller coaster. My dad came out and we went on the ride where the chairs go in a circle and swing out into the air. I was having a hard time holding on, and it was a lot more unnerving than it usually is. I woke up soon after.
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