Last night... wow. I had a great lucid dream (though I briefly lost lucidity and didn't have control) and my other dreams were really vivid. I'm really happy with the stability of my lucid dream this time. I could have stayed in it forever but I "died" in it which gave me a false awakening!
Thursday 1/31/08Experimenting with my Alternate Reality
I was in a room that looked like my sister's. Right before going to bed I made sure to remember that I was going to sleep and that anything I remember for the next few hours wouldn't be real. This may have initiated the realization that I was dreaming. I tried the nose reality check. I actually couldn't breath. I was pretty sure I was dreaming so I jumped. I stayed up just a little longer than normal and I was convinced. I managed to stay calm and focus on where I was. I read the previous day about how different people have different types of memories, and I decided to find my best. First I focused on my sense of touch. I felt the smooth metal surface of a lamp and the rough wall. I also rub my hands together and it works. Next I try for visuals. I stare at the wall. Staring at it for too long causes it to go fuzzy, but if I look around like I would in real life I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a dream wall and a real one. Lastly I try audio. I yell out something but find that it disrupted my thinking a little and didn't sound well polished. From last night I conclude that (out of these three memory "types") my visual memory is best, followed by touch, and finally sound.
I walked out of the room and saw a guy which somebody told me was "...reading a research paper upside down." Unfortunately I lost lucidity. I heard about another guy's lucid dream and followed this disembodied voice's directions to retrace the steps. It led me up a wooden staircase into a small apartment. Inside a man is drawing a cartoon. The series he is making is called "Twenty Facts a Day Cartoons." It is sort of like Ripley's Believe it or Not. I ask him if he fakes the facts, but I don't recall the answer. I heard a man whistling from another apartment. It occurred to me that the walls would have to be very thin for me to hear this whistle with such clarity. I remembered that I was dreaming and my lucidity was regained. The surroundings had changed, but I was still in an apartment. I noticed I was making a hamburger. Taste! Perfect opportunity. I took a little bit of the bun and popped it into my mouth. It was the correct texture, but mostly tasteless. I put on the patty and tried again. It was very juicy and I tasted it as if it were loaded with all the condiments and vegetables. However I was only eating a patty and a bun!
Next, I wanted to see if thoughts of waking up could make me do so by accident. I repeated to myself that I was in bed, and that I don't want to wake up. Then I sent a "wake up" signal which thankfully did nothing. Great! I moved on to the window, done with this apartment. I stepped outside and grabbed onto the curtains which were outside. They were blue, and I remembered that the nose reality check didn't work. I was 99.9% sure I was dreaming but... what if I wasn't? Too late, I had let go. I tried to fly, sure I was dreaming now but it was too late and I hit the ground. In the past I always woke up upon impact. So I did... into a false awakening. I ran downstairs and told my mom all about the dream before waking up for real!
Assorted Segments of a Certain Dream
The title just is so catchy I had to put it on even though it has nothing to do with the dream. This particularly vivid dream unfortunately goes mostly unremembered so I have plenty of loose ends. Because of this I'll present the parts in an order than makes the most logical sense, though I can't say for sure whether I'm right. The farthest I can remember is walking down the school hallway. It is a mix of the middle school hallways and high school hallways. Some guy mimics my movements behind me. In real life I might even think it was kind of funny, but in my dream I got furious. I yell at him and continue to walk. Suspecting he is doing it again I turn and see him starting up again. I yell curses at him and turn right at the next corner. I saw a lot of cars going up a hill, probably into a parking lot. However, they were going at least 60mph on a tiny hill, and they were stuck solidly to the ground. I thought this was a little weird. Soon three girls went to the top. A chain link fence was in front of them and a car, which separated them from a smallish 30 foot drop. They pushed the car until it made a few holes in the fence. I kept watching and they made the car fall off the drop about ten feet away from me. It landed with the most phony crash sound you could imagine. "What a terrible attempt at sound." I thought. I can be so dumb in dreams...
I somehow got home and I was running in the street with new running shoes I got. In real life they are those spiked shoes which really wouldn't work too well on asphalt. I warped to the bleachers that are positioned over the track at our school. I don't remember anything but falling down onto concrete flat on my head. I didn't feel a thing, but I was sure I should be hurt badly which actually scared me. If I didn't feel pain from a fall like that, what nerve damage could I have done?
Mission to Catch a Serial Killer in the Future
Very entertaining dream upon waking, though a little violent. My dreams have been a little violent as of late. Hmmm... Anyways I had somehow gotten into the future. I was in the car with my family taking in the sights of the future. They didn't look different at all, except gas was about $4.50 for the lowest quality. We continue driving and I see a sign that says "Click Here." Funny part is I tried to move an invisible mouse in order to "click" the sign. The sudden realization that I was actually in the future finally caught up with me. I was amazed at how little cars had changed. I must not have gone far at all. I thought back, and came to the conclusion that I was in the year 2014. As we continued to drive we passed a Six Flags park. It was huge with hundreds of roller coasters. I saw Kingda Ka towering above, but it was the wrong shape and didn't have a single support. There was a wheel full of people spinning at a rate which would have crushed them, but I saw everything go in slow motion. A blond woman waved at me, so I waved back. It was pretty hard to do in slow motion.
I got to a school. Everything there was paid with a card. The school seemed to be part of a shopping center. Actually I wouldn't be too surprised... I wanted to buy food, so I pulled out some cash from my pockets. When I tried to pay, I was told it was unacceptable, though whether the problem was me trying to pay with cash or not being a student wasn't clear. I realized that there would be an elevator in the back that would lead to food. I asked if I could use it and the guy there said that was OK. I got to a room with signs all around it of popular fast food places. I knew that the restaurants were directly above these. As I walk to the elevator a tough looking guy grabbed me and picked me up through the ceiling tiles. He demonstrated to his girlfriend (which acted trashy) how he could do this. When he put me down he threatened to hurt me. I (surprisingly) wasn't angry at all and just told him to stop. As if that would work. But it did. He runs behind a wall in another room and kills some girl. "Why did I ever start watching this movie?" I think. So, naturally now I'm watching a movie.
I see a man running up stairs. He has a flashback to the other times he has done it, and discovers (in a very well done style, great job brain) that he has the power to bend gravity and fly. Some government program comes to test him. I become the man, and hover over an "anti gravity testing machine." Of course I had to ruin the moment. I randomly farted over the machine (thanks a lot digestive system). I sort of warped outside an office. It is understood that this is some time later after that test. I go inside and I am given a mission to capture a serial killer. I know it is the man that killed the girl earlier. I walk outside and begin the search for the subject.