From darkness to light a Lucid Dream

From darkness to light
A Lucid Dream



It's early morning and very dark. I'm in my car driving to work down the same road I do every morning. There is only one difference. The road is completely torn up do to construction.( I've been thinking that there are probably plans to widen this road out.) And in the dream I'm surprised that they have started it so soon, and that they had gotten so much done over night. There is no pavement at all, I'm driving on dirt.
And the remains of the torn up road are piled up along the sides of the road.

In real life there is a bridge that goes over a highway that I have to cross on my way in to work. When I get to this bridge and begin to cross it, for no apparent reason I become Lucid.

Once Lucid, my car, completely unnoticed by me, is gone. And I am now on foot.
It's so dark now without the headlights of the car, that I can hardly see at all. I can barley make out the railing of the bridge. I step up onto it and look down. Instead of a highway, like in real life, I know that there is a river far below. But looking down, all I can see is blackness.

I think that it will be fun to jump into darkness, and into a river that I can not see. So I leap out and begin to free fall. There is no longer any visual at all, it's completely black. But even with nothing to judge my speed by, I can feel myself picking up speed, falling faster and faster. I begin to tumble, and I realize that it would be a simple mental trick to make it so I never hit water, just fall through darkness until I wake. But That's not how I want this dream to end.

Even without being quite sure how I do it, after this thought, I make the fall end. With a "splash" I hit the water never even seeing it coming, but I knew I was about to hit anyway. Still blind, I feel the wetness wash over me, and it's not as cold as I had feared it may be. Remembering a time in real life as a kid, when I fell off of a rope swing into the nasty Mississippi, I gross out and swim in a panic for the shore.

I can now barley make out the shore, and the dark outline of trees. Once to the shore I climb out. I am now beginning to really dislike this darkness, I don't want my entire dream to be like this. I begin telling myself that the morning sun is beginning to rise, trying to make it so. I jump into the air, and fly to the top of one of the trees, coming to a rest in one of the top most branches, with though thought of the rising sun continuously on my mind.

Once in the tree, I remember that I want to practice spinning.(mainly to help keep me in the dream.) So I spin around once, and what little visual I actually have, begins to break up with the spin. As this happens, it occurs to me, that I may be able to use this to break up my perception of darkness, and bring on the rising sun.

And when I stop, to my complete surprise, I'm thrilled to see that the sun is just beginning to rise! It's still fairly dark, but the darkness has lifted a little. Just like the first signs of morning. Thrilled, I spin again. And when I stop, the sun has come up a little more! So I spin again, and again, and again. With each spin it becomes brighter, until it is full day.

Now I stop and look out, and think."Now that's beautiful!" I have never been so happy to see the sun before. I also notice that I am no longer anywhere near my house, or my work. I'm in a completely different country. I see fields with rows of planted vegetables, with small patches of water here and there. like ponds, or small lakes. There are wooden structures, more like huts, and wooden walkways between them.

There are oriental people wearing loose gray robes, and those saucer like hats on their heads, walking among the the planted vegetables, and the wooden walkways.
I notice that they are walking kind of funny. Like in those Japanese fantasy martial arts movies. where they seem to be able to almost fly. for every step the people take they float a few feet before touching down again.

I now remember another task I was thinking about earlier in the day, I look down at my tree and think about using TK to pull the entire thing out of the ground and fly around while remaining perched on my branch. But when I look down and see the tree firmly planted in the ground, for some reason, at least at this moment, I feel like this will be impossible for me to do, so I don't even try it.

Then I start to think about waking up, and I do. :(