Thread: i discovered my sense of touch...

So, I'll begin by saying that last night, I only got five hours of slightly intoxicated sleep, so early this afternoon, I decided to take a nap... I was so exhausted that I just laid there flat on my back, which I never do, and I remembered that it had been awhile since I last lucid dreamt, and that it'd be fun if I could pull it off.

And so I did. I laid there thinking about random things. And dreamt away. And I had one of my best LDs... I had almost complete and total control of everything. My memory is failing me, and I've had a hard time collecting all of the details.

First off, it was very long. I kept coming close to coming out of the dream, but I managed to force my mind to think of a way to continue my "story" I had created, and get back into a deeper sleep. At one point, something in the dream startled me to a point where I was already making myself try to pull out of the dream and was about to slap my face to wake myself up.

But my favorite part, was my sense of touch. In my LDs, it's usually just emotions that I can control, and actions of course. This time, I was so aware of my lucidity that I just decided to have as much fun with it as possible. I imagined my bedroom was empty, and I walked in and layed down on the floor in front of my window... and made it summer. I could see the brightness of the sun through my closed eyes, and FEEL the heat of it so intensely... as if I were literally laying on the beach. And after that, I made it snow... I was shivering from the cold as I watched the snowflakes come towards me in the dark.

It was strange because through the entire rest of the dream (where I also decided to pop on over to the university I just withdrew from) I knew that I was dreaming, so I just did everything I could. In one part, I was sitting in the car with a friend from school and her family... and all of her siblings were obese and disfigured.. the one brother started hitting on me, and I tried to laugh casually but I was extremely self-conscious about whether my dream self could be polite enough to not offend him.

After the beginning of the dream, my control wore off a bit in terms of how much I manipulated things, but the whole sun/snow bit was so intense that I don't think I'll ever forget it... definitely my favorite LD yet...

... anyone else feel really rewarded about anything like that?