Dream Journal: memeticverb

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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006 I am part of an official team, of some sort. We are doing "official" business on the beach of all places. And one person's job is simply to learn how to surf. "hey, Ive always wanted to learn how to surf," i think to myself. "not fair!". So then I become that person who is learning how to surf. I then try to get into the water with my surfboard but keep falling down. something about the water is not letting me approach it more than an inch or two. out of nowhere a tidal wave from the left is raging toward me. but instead of being able to run backwards towards the safety of the land, i find myself inside a kind of cave that extends as long as the tidal wave , so i have no where to run but to my right. frantically i look to start running but i see a girl standing and not running. i run up to her and say "weve got to run! this way!" and pull her along. we run as fast as we can and just as we are about to be overtaken by the wave we get to the end of cave and the surface of the beach. <> this is the 2nd or 3rd dream with tidal waves<> <> this is the 5th or 6th i remember with the ocean as theme<>

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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006 LD I am driving along an unknown country road listening to my favorite jazz tune on the car stereo. I look into someone's front yard and see a strange occurance - a pile of leaves goes from being in color to black-and-white. Then the same thing happens to a house, then another, then another. I realize the impossibility of this and the fact that i must be dreaming. For some reason i am wearing a hat, which i never do. And quickely I start to lose the lucidity, so i pull over and jump out of the car and start spinning in a circle. Lucidity returns and i am greeted by a strange country world with hills and scattered small houses. I throw off the baseball cap to the ground and start walking. But i want to see as much of this place as possible before i wake up, so i start flying, surveying the landscape for about 1 minute before i lose lucidity. <>first black-white anomoly in a dream<> non-ld Barely remember this one but I am in the house where i grew up where i havnt been in a while but outside are several cars full of hoodlum looking types in the driveway and on the street. I have no reason to really panic, but i do and believ ethe house is about to get robbed. I go upstairs to use the phone but before I do a strange lady comes up the stairs and starts talking to me, cracking jokes, and just being pleasant. It dawns on me for some reason that she must be the caretaker of the youths i saw outside. I dont remeber what we talked about but when she left shortly after i kinda felt sad. <>this house seems to like getting almost robbed a lot in my dreams<>

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ND1 Two weirdoes were showing the results of an experiment. They had something like potato guns and I think this dream was influenced by The Office episode I watched yesterday. They were shooting strange kaluza-klein objects across a large room. At the end of their path the objects would rotate, spin, and then blink into thin air. One of the potato guns had a very large funnel on the end, possibly to cause the spinning at the end of the path of the object? ND2 In another dream I was playing with my pet frog, Marty, on a roof and looking up sounds on the internet to download of the frog making their chirping noises. The dream then turned into a nature show that I was watching which was talking about how to make your landscape more natural.

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ND1 I had another dream last night about my pet frog, Marty. I was back living in the college dorm and I set off to find Marty some bugs to feed him. I brought him along and was letting him gobble up bugs wherever we found them. Once Marty ate a poisonous bug and almost died it appeared, but came back to life after a minute or so. I then decided the best thing to do would be to take him back to his terrarium. But I could not find my way back to the floor my dorm room was on. For some reason I had the feeling I was on floor 27 below ground. But had the hardest time getting there. At first I was taking the stairs down, but Marty didn’t like getting jumbled around, and so I decided to find an elevator. When I found it there were more than 80 floors going below the ground floor and then 800. For some reason I couldn’t remember which floor was mine. This was amazing to me, but I eventually got to negative 8 and then found an escalator that a bunch of other people were taking. I’m not sure how, but I managed to make it to 27 where there a bunch of old friends living in the dorm room. ND2 In another long dream I was a lawyer in court and had the tough job of defending an older man who was neglectful of his children. I knew he was guilty and couldn’t really work up the nerve to defend him. So then my real life attorney came out of nowhere and actually convinced everyone that the guy was innocent. The whole thing turned into a musical at some point and I was thinking “oh brother” the whole time, and wondering how such a tactic could actually work.

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ND1 I ran into my old friend Shawn. I started asking him whatever happened to his plans to go away to college and study art. And he told me that he already did that, and pointed to a place right off of 86 out of North Carolina in Kingsport Tennessee (I've yet to check that on the map). In my dream I pulled out a map and looked it up and found that I was less than an hour away from my college in tennessee. But the closer I looked the more discrepancies I found. I suddenly merged with a place I saw on the map. All of a sudden I was surrounded by a bunch of people with neon lights everywhere. One guy had a neon light Christmas tree looking thing he was walking around waving. My vision was filled with this multiple colored light and then I saw some people who were teaching others to see it. <>map dream<>

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Sunday, May 14th 2006 Finally a short, silly, revealing lucid dream. I got to try two new techniques that I credit with allowing me to have this lucid dream I was just waking up from a bizzare dream about being on a class field trip or something. I started becoming conscious and decided to do a reality check that I read about recently to start the day. I plugged my nose, eyes still closed, and took a breath. I took in a huge breath even though I thought I was awake and in my real body. I realized I was having a false awakening and was still dreaming. I opened my eyes to find myself in a mix between the previous dream world and the bedroom I was currently sleeping in. I started losing the dream and the lucidity so I tried rubbing my hands together vigorously and it worked. I was completely lucid and so I began examining the place. I saw a tv and a book shelf with video cassettes on it. I went to sit down as i figured this would help me stay lucid. I decided to look over the videos since they were quite colorful and I wanted to to see what in the world they all could be. One video stuck out immediately called The White Mushroom - It was a powerpuff girls cartooon. I decided that it would be very cool to watch tv lucid, and tried to pop in the video. I then noticed that the vcr player had two places in which to put in the cassette and they were both taken up. "Uh oh", i thought, I'm starting to get confused and lose lucidity. And then I did, all of a sudden, and started to wake up. I tried to rub my hands together again, but this time they were my real hands and I was basically awake. <>first rc using plugged nose<> <>first rubbing hands<>

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May 15th, 2006 Terrible dream recall. But what i do remember was vivid. ND1 Dream sequence begins as a camera veiw of some people in a jeep taveling down a steep mountain road very fast. I think how very un-smart this is just to have a thrill. At some point in the this i disassociate from the travelling car and merge into the dream scene with my dream body. I walk around and find a path along a very pretty lake. For some reason I decide that I want to swim and jump into the water. My plans are to get to the other side of the lake, but I am distracted by a turtle on a log. I expect it to plop into the water imeediately like they do in real life, but it stays for a while until i get real close. <>dream about swimming<> <> lake dream<> ND2 I am walking away from a big house with a friend, and some people drive by looking suspicious. The environment is very wooded and there is just the road, the house in the distance and us. At some point I start discovering polaroid snapshots on the ground the side of the road in the woods. They are of all sorts of people, old and young, from long ago and recently.. A postal service truck seems to be trailing behind us and watching. I start collecting the pictures and looking at them, but they are very random. I put them in my pocket and we continue. We get to a road that seems like an old 2 lane highway. Theres a group of us and we need to get somewhere very far away. Everyone kind of sits down and waits, as if for a bus. I look around and see no bus stop sign. But following everyone else i sit down too and hope a bus really comes to get us out of the middle of nowhere. <>photographs<>

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Wednesday, May 17th. No dream recall : ( Very strange dream about an animal in a petshop. It cost $16,376 for some reason. It was a very squat and flat animal that initially looke like an alligator, but then I realized it was covered in fur.

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Saturday, May 27, 2006 after practically no recall in days I remeber 3 short dreams from last night. LD1 In one I am being chased by a giant who is trying to break into my home. he istrying to get me to sign some kind of scroll. I run into the bathroom and lock the door, and I see 3 scrolls sitting on the floor. I become lucid for about 15 secnods and wake up. ND2 In another dream I remember being 4 years younger than iam right now. This was bad because it meant I was unde the legal age to drink alcohol, and I wanted to drink Very strange since I was having wine earlier. ND3 Ok, all I remeber was drinking a cup full of fabric softener...I was really thirsty and apparently this was the best I could come up with...Immediately after, I realized that this was very bad and I could die, so i thought I should try to throw up, and then decided to wait it out and see if my stomach started hurting or what. [I am pretty sure this was about my obsession with having clean drinking water]

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Monday, December 25th LD This began in a WOW setting where my fellow teammates and I were in a dungeon facing a rock giant, and I decide to "pull" it in order for us to defeat it. This turns into a dream that is not in a computer game but in real life and we all begin running trying to escape this giantt. Of course, my legs are all wobbly and I cant run fast enough, but I begin to realize that my slowness is a result of low gravity, and i cant get any traction. This leads me to realizing im in a dream and I proceed to use this lwo gravity to my advantage, realizing im lucid. I jump and take off but grab onto some telephone wires and use them to lower myself saftely to the ground.l For some reason even in lucid dreams i get scared of heights and falling, as well as not being able to control the speed of flying. So I play around jumping and grabbing telephone wires for a few minutes or so before I drift off into a non-lucid dream where I am in the exact same place, describing to my sister how I was just having a lucid dream where I could defy gravity.

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This LD is the third one in a series that were all in the last week and all were initiated by plugging my nose and trying to breath. I was walking along an industrial avenue and decided to try to fly, kinda like a reality check. Since I couldnt fly I decided that i must be awake, especially since my surroundings were so real. But i knew better from previous attempts to gain lucidity, some with my brain trying to trick me, that if i plugged my nose I should not be able to breath through it. So i tried that again and I could breath (surprises me every time). Since the world seemed very stable I didnt need to try to stay in the dream and so decided to fly to the top of a nearby building. Once I did this my friends were at the top and I tried to show them that I could fly, it took a few tries since I didn't want to go fast as usual and break into outer space and they seemed unimpressed. My silly dream characters always seem to try to get me back into the dream and it worked. We played football on the roof and I quickly lost lucidity.

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LD from previous night The dream begins and I am in an indian restaurant with some friends ordering my fav dish and I get some extra to-go. We are on our way to a hotel and once we get there and get in the elevator on the walls are written extensive charts and graphs of people and events of involvement, and i noticed that large portions were rubbed out and certain names were given a significant rubbing, but were still visible if I looked close enough. By the time we got the right floor, the hotel had turned into a classroom being taught by a professor I had last year. He was telling us about the writings. I leave the classroom and am outdoors walking on a dock above some water. I notice a pair of doves on a lower docks walking around and think how strange it is they are there and realize that if I was dreaming I could just fly down there to look at them and when I begin to fly I realize I'm really dreaming. I fly down to the doves and examine them closely while rubbing my hands together to stay immersed in the dream. I decide to examine the surrounding environment and its a scenic landscape with huge trees with big yellow/green leaves, and I spot a nearby smaller tree and decide to fly to it and grab on. The breeze immediately began to pick up and I decide that this dream would be best if I simply walked around and appreciated everything, I even spoke aloud "I dont want to fly" as I looked above at a humongous tree with huge leaves. I run up to a low hanging branch and look closely at just one leaf to see if it changed or if I could remember a discernible pattern. The leaf even though blowing amongst many others is unique and has a stable pattern. I decide that I should pull it off, but then think that "I wouldn't pull a perfectly living leaf from a tree in real life so why should I do it in a dream?" I remembered times when I had pulled a leaf from a plant and felt bad about it. But I decide to grab onto the branch and pull it over me and closer to examine it. When I do so revealed underneath are boughs of green grapes and I think "The non-lucid (non-controlled) part of my dream must want me to experience eating some grapes." So I grab a handful and move on while eating them, noticing only briefly that they were very delicious. As I walk further I begin to lose some lucidity and the nature scene turns into a street and I am walking towards a gass station. I decide to read what all the signs around it have to say and a large one sticks out that is one simple question, but just as i read I lose lucidity completely and wake up.

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This was the most number of lucids ive had in one night that i can remember. The ony things I did diferenty that I can think of was not eat before bed, and not take my usual melatonin, however I have had lucids beore when I combined melatonin and valerian, but not every time. This time I did take only a regular dosage of Bacopa extract. NLD1: The non-lucid portion begins and I am with with some freedom fighter types who are going to ambush these bad guys. Much to my relief we were only using water guns and this entire scene became more like a video game. At some point there was a a nuclear bomb sitting there and we shoot it with some water which causes the thing to begin ticking. We realize were toast and I hide behind a wall. When it goes off I realize i should be dead and then that Im probably dreaming. LD: I plug my nose and try to breath. I can and excitedly jump up to examine my surroundings. Im in the basement of my old elementary school and its kinda dreary and empty. Without attempting to change to control anything I proceed to try and find my way out. Everything is exactly where it should be but I find the stairs that lead to the exit on the first floor. I am hoping it is not dark out but it is and this makes it feel even more dreary. Whats going to be outside I wonder? I see some high-tech cops all over parked on this street and think "oh great, they are going to see me walking all drunken-like and im going to have to deal with trying to explain im lucid or make them dissappear." I didnt ant to have to try and change something about this dream since I just wanted to stay lucid. But the cops dont even bother me and they are all responding to some big thing that ust happened. I head down the street and there are tons of people streaming up and down. This amazed me since hardly and of my lucids have ever had more than a few people in them. This feel like Im in some downtown area, and i look to see if I can recognize any of the faces. I realize this is kind of pointless since they are not real anyways and would probably mess with my lucidity. I get about a block down, dodging people left and right, and then the dream starts sucking me back in by having a pointy little tree/shrub stick out and almost poke me in the eye. I doge it but closing my eyes somehow causes my already wavering lucidity to vanish. I wake up enough to realize im in my bed. LD2: I am back in a dream. Its all all white room and there are three or four weird people around just talking or acting strange. I decide to immediately plug my nose and I become lucid. This doesnt last too long however and I wake up after about 5 mins of examining the room. LD3: I am back in the room and this time I am determined to stay lucid I see a book on the ground. I come up with this technique that if I put my head on top of th open book it will fuse me into the dream and I wont wake up. Well this kinda works and I get to stay in the dream with full lucidity for a little longer, maybe 10 mins. I examine the walls and the floor, and question the people. One of them starts trying to tell me something about dreams but cant spit it out. I try to show him that I can fly, but for some reason I cant. I wake up. LD4: Once again I am in the same white room and I try to plug my nose and breath to see if im really dreaming, which I am pretty sure of, but it always seems too real and its like if i dont do the test then i am more likely to not remain lucid. This time it doesnt really work and I cant really breath through my nose at all. I keep trying it and when i realize im starting to become non-lucid I look for a light switch. Theres one nearby to a fluorescent light in the ceiling and the switch does not turn it off. I realize that for sure i am dreaming and as I start to immediately lose lucidity I remember to rub my hands together. This solidifies my lucidity and teh dream world. It only lasts for another 15 minutes, which i use doing to same things, just walking around examining all the weird objects in the room, touching surfaces and edges of things, and then talking to the people who i mostly ignore. For some reason I recognize that there is an outside thorugh the windows, as im in a buisness like room, but i do not decide to leave since this would make me wake up. Reflection: I was surprised to have had so many lucids in one night, but I would gladly trade them for just one long lucid where I can manage to do all the fun stuff like flying. I am going to try to practice more lucid dream control, which will require that I lose the fear of waking up, and realize that controlling or changing central aspects of the dream may actually cause me to become more lucid.

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Another DILD where I actually started flying before becoming lucid. I find that almost all my DILDs occur near the end of my sleep cycle, probably the 5th or 6th dream of the night. NLD : A girl and myself are being chased by unknown figures through a warehouse. We realize we can sort of fly by jumping and soaring into the rafters, but are having a lot of trouble. LD: We find a rafter near a window and I realize I am dreaming. I decide to go along with the dream and "save" the girl. As she holds on, I concentrate on flying at an even, steady pace higher and higher. While doing so I examine the countryside. It looks to be somewhere in old Europe with French-style stone houses. At one point we land look around and then take off again and this time going even higher. We spot a nice stone cabin looking house wrapped in trees and vines. When we land I begin to lose lucidity and fall back into the dream.

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DILD, about 15 mins long. I am in my childhood neighborhood and note how the sky is crystal clear but for a few wispy clouds. No one is around at this point and for whatever reason I don't remember I decide to do a RC by plugging my nose and trying to breath. I become lucid but the dream is very unstable. I start to fly a little bit and rub my hands together which immediately solidifies the dream world. I get about 50ft into the air and decide that in this LD I want to test the environment more. So I fly low to the ground backwards for a little bit and seeing a large red plastic firetruck i give it a boot. Realizing im having difficulty controlling my flying I return to walking and rubbing my hands together. The sky is now very cloudy and theres a storm approaching. I contemplate changing the weather, but since its something i had never done before I decide not to try since it could wake me up. So I head across the street examining trees, houses, the ground, etc. I think, what should be my goal for this LD, what could I try that Ive never done. I decide doing some physically impossible feat other than flying. I look at a nearby giant tree but decide against toppling it since I wouldn't do such a thing in real life if I could. So I see that there are metal street light poles here and there and I head towards one. Just then the storm becomes more pronounced and I wonder how good of an idea it is to mess with a metal pole in the middle of a thunderstorm. Thinking that getting hit by lightening might wake me up, I decide to head away from the storm and down the street where the clouds are not directly overhead yet. My hands are at this point almost hurting because I am still rubbing them to stay in the dream. I get to the end of the block and see a big metal pole. As im about to see if I can knock it down and out of nowhere a person walks in front of where it would fall. I turn around to find another one and jump over this chain link fence. But i walk through this person's yard examining the surroundings and when i get to teh front yard and head down the sidewalk an older woman pops out of the front door and asks me, "Whats your age?" I almost dont remember and its this event of having to think about such a question that takes me out of the LD.

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Finally an end to a 2 week dry spell. LD1: I am in a dorm room with 2 girls and we are having a little party and thinking about where to go next. For no reason that I can remember I relize I am dreaming. I start to lose contorl and spin in a circle to regain it. The dream solidifies and i am very lucid. I tell my dream characters that this is a lucid dream and they of course do not believe me. So i excitedly demostrate that I can fly by floating up and over the bed back and forth. They are astonished and I realize how hopeless it is to be interacting with DCs that are probably just going to make my lucidity fade out. After of about 5 mins of trying to explain that "we" are lucid dreaming and testing the environment, I unfortunately wake up.

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First LD for some time. Began as a somewhat scary ND, which for some reason, despite terrible things happening, they didnt disturb too much. I am in a large cabin-type place. A killer is on the loose and randomly killing people but myself and others cannot find whoever it is. At some point I realize I should try to get out and head for the water. I am on the second floor balcony and just then realize Im dreaming. So instead of running, I fly. First about 200 feet up, and then I start to lose control of my flying and drop to the ground. Just before I hit I slow down and just float along about 1ft from the ground. I start getting more control and fly over the water. The LD only last 5-10 mins, the whole time with me struggling to regain good control of flying.

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30 second ld I am in an apartment with my friend. I decide to do a RC and i realize im dreaming, and now lucid. I try to tell my freind who doesnt seem to care and I forget about the dc and start looking around for something to test the environment. I begin to loose lucidity and try to rub my hand together whih works for about 10 seconds befreo I wake up

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10 minute LD The dream rem sequence begins and I am in a loft or attic bedroom and through no real method I realize Im dreaming. I start focusing On everythin to increase detail. There is a plaid suitcase and other storage items and in on the other side of the room I see a large thermometer. Its still fuzzy as I approach it and so I rub my hands together and am amazed as the dream environment totally solidifies and the thermometer takes on a strange numerical system. Then my friend walks in with her friend and the first thing they tell me is that Nicolde Kidman and Michael J. Fox are breaking up. This is hilarious to me but I try to pretend to my DCs that I am interested. I keep doing RCs like plugging my nose to keep lucid but this particular RC stops working too well but I still know Im dreaming. I try telling my DCs that we are dreaming but they dodnt believe me. So I go up to a window and tell them I am going to fly and they of course think that is a terrible idea and are very unsettled. But I open the window and tell them to watch. I look down and see that this room is pretty far up and along with the DCs alarm I myself begin to doubt whether its worth it in case im really not dreaming. But then I though Im never wrong about it after I already decide im dreaming and I get a small running start and jump superman style out the window. I flew about 50mph or some reasonable speed and was amazed at the feeling of flying which I hadnt done in a while. I notice the scenery which is very country with very tall trees which I am by this point about even with. I also notice that it is dark out and I am having trouble seeing the landscape for too far a distance. I start trying to rub my hands together but they are moving in slow motion and my previously controlled and swift flying starts spiraling down to the ground. I hit the ground with a thump and feel so exhausted that I almost lose lucidity and I lay on the grass for a minute and feel like I am about to go asleep. But I get up and begin running back to the house to see what the DCs are up to. As I get close they are at the window and are excited and I grab some fallen leaves and toss them to show them i am ok. When I get back upstairs the dcs are now very intent on a conversation they are having and I join in, forgetting that I am dreaming and waking up.

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about a 10 min LD I am in my old childhood neighborhood and decide to go jogging. I realize that my strides were very far apart and it seemed like I am floating on air. I decide to do a RC while running and to my surprise it makes me lucid. Looking around at all the houses im passing I wonder how my brain can create so many minute differences and colors. I start thinking about color perception and how the brain decides which colors are which. Some houses have red brick chimneys, some have stone, and each one is different in some way. I realize that it is of course true that we already are accessing a storage of memory in dreams and I try to fake out my brain by quickly turning my head to an unseen portion of the phenomenal dream field, but my perception is met instantaneously with a full scene of content. I get to the end of several blocks and think about possibly flying, but half of me doesn't really want to and the other half doesn't think I can. I try jumping really high and get about 10 feet. Then I decide to go into a house and walk around. ... In the house I see a small window and try to fly through it. It breaks no problem but I only fly halfway through it and get stuck. I pull myself out and wonder if the window was really too small or if I am having some kind of mental block. I continue my journey and my lucidity starts to weaken as i come across some people and a strange house that is elevated. I find a spray bottle on the ground and spray what I thought was water but it tastes like hairspray. I feel the dream is coming to an end and so I tell the people I am with that im going to try and fly away. But still I am having trouble and I only get about 15 feet in the air before I wake up.

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I realize that my strides were very far apart and it seemed like I am floating on air. I decide to do a RC while running and to my surprise it makes me lucid. I've seen a few people on here get lucid exactly like that. I've also experienced that floating stride myself. Seems to be somewhat common.

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30 sec LD: I am in a mall in a small store and decide to do an RC by pluggin my nose. I become lucid and start examining the people and objects, which happen to be cloths around me. I get a somewhat claustriphobic sensation and attmept to change teh environment, but this causes everything to become foggy. I try to walk through a wall, but realize this is making it worse, and so I try to go back into the store I was just in. But wake up. 10 min LD: I am with my friend walking outside this mall and I realize we are dreaming. I do an RC just to make sure and then ask my friend to do one as well. She refuses at first but i am like "Trust me, just try it and see if you are dreaming." Just then a little blue car comes out of nowhere and stops right next to us. Im like "dont pay attention just try the to plug your nose and see if you can still breath." She finally does it and says "it works." Even though I am still lucid I entertain the idea that my friend really isnt a DC and we are sharing a lucid dream. We both become very excited and start looking around. We are in a parking lot leading up to a very large park. There are cars everywhere somewhat swerving all around us. I mention we could get hit by one if we wanted and nothing would happen, or we could try to pick one up and toss it. Just then a school bus comes barreling towards us and we wait to see what its going to do. it passes and seems to avoid us. There is some kind of sporting event going on in the distance and we are amazed at all the people we can see which really look like little dots of color. On the other side of the park are slight rolling hills and a wall of dense forest.

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2 min LD. I am running to my car, through an alleyway. My legs become rubbery and i decide to do an RC. I realize im dreaming an d proceed to examine the environment, and get a better grip on my walking and running ability. I rub my hands together to solidify the dream and examine certain details like the way the light is reflecting off of the cement. I am able to run, and kind of float, but have little control over it.

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LD: 1 min Im at an intersection and sudeenly realize that the person in front of me is about to go forward into oncoming traffic. This happens and the car is struck causing a multi-car accudent. Realzing that it was a strong indicator of a dream taht i could predict this i tried to put my mind off teh chaos around me and become fully lucid. I do so and open the door handle of my car and float in the air for some distance trying to change the scenery while also trying to focus on something to solidify the dreamworld.