Retro Party ~ 11/02/09

The first thing I’m aware of is I’m standing in my bathroom rifling through my toiletry travel case. I find two green bottles of the Simple make-up remover I use in RL. Each is nearly empty. I realize that this isn’t right because I remember pouring the remaining contents of one into the other recently in RL to make one full bottle. I do the NP RC and can breathe. I’m amazed because I really had no idea I was dreaming. It felt completely real. I immediately turn and walk out of the bathroom and into the computer area at the top of the stairs of my RL house. I feel like I’m about to wake up.

I then have a FA. I’m lying in bed and my husband C is spoon cuddling me. It feels so real but I knew we had gone to sleep in separate beds that night so I could do my lucid activities and he wouldn’t come and disturb me so I am not fooled. I can hear a woman on the other side of him talking loudly. I tell her to shut up. Then C gets up to go to the toilet and doesn’t come back. I then black out and end up in a new nonlucid dream.

I’m standing where my computer should be just outside my bedroom but in its place is a large black stereo. I can hear the song “Who Painted The Moon Black” playing which I love. I’m fiddling with the stereo when I notice two human hands sticking out from inside it. I’m quite taken aback by this. I find it quite disturbing that the manufacturers have left body parts in it. :eek: I do the NP RC and can breathe. Again I’m very taken aback that I’m dreaming. It’s a wonderful feeling!

I walk through to my bedroom where I remember to carry out a lucid goal which is to feel for my carotid pulse. I have been doing this regularly in RL to see how it feels in order to determine if it would be a good RC. I know that in RL I can always find my pulse. I put my fingers on my neck and sure enough I feel my pulse. It feels 100% normal. So I decide that it is not going to be an effective RC. I then click my fingers a couple of times and that too feels 100% normal. So that too is a useless RC.

Suddenly I am lying on my bed and my lucidity level has dropped. I’m still aware that I’m dreaming but I have no control over my actions. There is a really hot looking blonde girl on the bed with me. She is wearing only pants and a singlet. For the next couple of minutes I get it on with her! :shock: This is so bizarre because I am 100% straight in RL and have never even considered getting it on with a chick. She does sexual things to me and kisses me. The kiss is pretty slobbery but it all feels really nice, soft and sensual and suddenly I can understand why guys are so into girls.

Then I’m teleported into a new dream and I have complete control over my own actions once again and am still lucid. It’s night time. I’m in my house and walk through to my lounge which is different to RL. It’s like a bar/nightclub and I’m having a party. The lighting is soft and ambient and the whole place has a distinct retro feel to it, almost as if the dream were set in the late sixties/early seventies. There are decorations everywhere including coloured lights, lava lamps and inflatable palm trees. There are quite a lot of people around. My husband C is sitting on a retro-style couch to my left. There is a coffee table in front of me. Some girls are sitting around on armchairs, others are standing. I know I’m dreaming but I want to confirm it somehow. I don’t know why I didn’t just do a RC at this point. :uhm: Instead I do something very silly and risky. I turn to C and ask him very earnestly “honey, this is definitely still a dream isn’t it?” He says “yes”.

I then start thinking about how I’m going to remember all this when I wake up. I start trying to work out if there’s any way I can record what I’ve done so far and then carry on with the dream. I consider getting my voice recorder from my nightstand since I’m in my own house. But I’m lucid enough to figure out that I will only be recording it on my dream recorder. I realise there is nothing I can do inside the dream to record what I’ve been doing. I figure I’ll just have to concentrate on remembering.

Then I catch sight of a deck of cards on the coffee table in front of me. They are face down in a messy pile. They have a blue back. I get really excited by the idea of playing with cards in my dream. I quickly pick them up desperately hoping I don’t wake up before I get to play with them. I start dealing them out on the table face up to see if I can predict what each is going to be. Immediately I notice that the face sides look funny and I think “yep, there’s no doubt I’m dreaming!” I start dealing them out trying to predict what they will be but my predictions are wrong.

There is a young girl of about seven years old standing on the other side of the coffee table watching me. I decide to play a card trick on her. (I’m into card tricks in RL including some where the illusion is that I can read someone’s mind and so I figure this will be an enormous amount of fun because I will be able to do it without using any trickery!) So I fan the cards out to her and say “quick choose a card” because I’m worried I might wake up before I get to do the trick. I’m practically forcing a card on her I'm so desperate to do the trick! She takes it and looks at it. I ask “is it the three of diamonds?” She says no and shows me the ten of spades. I feel quite put out by this turn of events. However I keep looking through the cards for a while totally fascinated by how the details are all kooky.

Then I start talking to some DCs. I ask a girl standing nearby what her name is. She says it’s “Circ”. I ask a girl sitting on an armchair for her name too. She gives me a bit of an unfriendly look and replies “Shelley”. I then see a girl standing beside me and say “hi”. She then morphs into someone I know from my dance studio. I welcome her to my dream and give her a loving pat on the back. I’m so happy and excited. I rush over to a corner where three guys are sitting at a table. I greet them and tell them that I hope they’re having a great time in my dream.

Then suddenly I remember another of my lucid goals which is to spray some perfume and sniff it. I’ve been itching to do this in RL. I realize that since this is technically my house there should be some perfume in my bedroom so I head off towards the door. As I cross the room I suddenly spy my bottle of ‘Happy Heart’ perfume sitting on top of a cabinet. I pick it up and take the lid off. Everything is so vivid. The bottle looks just like it does in RL. I spray it onto my left wrist and sniff but I can hardly smell anything, just the faintest hint of flowers.

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I carry on walking towards the door where I see a light switch on the wall. I decide to flick the switch and see what the lighting does but then I remember that playing with a torch woke me up from my last LD so I stop myself. I see my mother and a girl nearby and I call out “Don’t anybody touch the lights or you’ll wake me up! Okay everyone?” (I have laughed about this all day today in RL! :laughhard: )

Then I decide to try and summon my brother, D. I walk to the edge of the “lounge” i’m in which opens up into a sort of old-fashioned shopping mall. I see a guy walk out of some public toilets and over to a pin-ball machine. He is wearing a bright blue and yellow blazer. He looks vaguely like my brother and I decide to look away hoping that when I look back he will have morphed into my brother. I look away but when I look back he has vanished and a group of people are playing the machine instead. I look away and back a few times amused at how the people have changed each time.

Then a glamorous middle-aged woman and her 12 year old daughter walk past and see me turning my head back and forth like a weirdo. I say to them “you probably think I’m a bit weird and are wondering what I’m looking at right?” I tell them to come and sit down on a bench and I’ll show them. I lead them to a bench and then get them to look in a particular direction. We can see two garage type rooms. One has two people in it who are both wearing yellow. The other has one person in it. I tell them to look away and we all look away. Then we look back and the scene is exactly the same! (I’ve been foiled again!) I tell them to try it once more. At first the woman doesn’t look away properly so I tell her she has to look away properly and she does. When we all look back the scene still hasn’t changed.

So then I look the woman in the eye and say “look I know you probably think I’m crazy but this is actually my dream. But you probably already know that because you are a dream character in it.” I then say, “I’ll prove it. See that book your daughter is holding? Well your name is the first word in the book”. The daughter opens the book and the first word is ‘Veronica’. :reading: I say “told you” then wake up.

Total lucid time = 15 minutes.
A fabulous dream but I must learn not to dash around in a mad panic. I'd rather do fewer activities and appreciate the detail than run round like a headless chicken trying to achieve a million things. But heck it was fun!

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