Mar 19, 2007
I went to bed late. I wanted to be mildly half asleep come morning. So I had about 4 hours to sleep on it. Alarm went off. I ignored it but eventually tendered to it. Hit snooze, about three times. Got up, put some pants on, was warm to hot so I remained shirtless. Took a piss. Noticed my brothers TV had played out a movie long finished, turning the screen to a certain pale of blue. Went out into the dining room and turned the computer on. It would take a few minutes. I had to get on eBay to see and try, to spend as little money as possible on a Cornelius album. A remix album, CM2. So my first wake up call had come at 6am. I was up by 20 past. I thought I may have missed the deadline altogether. Didn’t really mind, as I didn’t have the money to spend anyways. It was just a cool, cheap buy. Whatever naturally works out. I’m with it. As the computer slowly loads up, doing its thing, I go and grab a singlet, its actually cold now. I have adjusted beyond the confines of my bedroom. Its still dark. Just before 7am it gets light. Very faint light for now, practically not there. Even when you tried to look for it.
I get into my eBay account with 2 minutes to spare. In some ways its very typical of me. There’s one other guy or girl who has bid on this item. They probably aren’t up this early. I make my bid with a minute 20 or so to go. I was outbid straight away. I went back with another higher amount. No good. I went for a third but time had run out for this object. It was sold like a piece of meat. I missed out by a dollar, around a bouts. I wasn’t too let down. After all, I could get that album some other time. I had just saved money.
I realise its getting late, I should be going back to bed. I could really sleep to dream I thought. Seemed like a perfect, as perfect can be, chance to have a lucid dream. Time has moved quickly, the light is getting there now. Seems to be right on me. I probably noticed the rays first rather than the actual time. But it was going on 7. As I looked out of the window near my side, at the computer. I noticed that the air was full of insects. Thousands of them. Hundreds of thousands of them. In certain spots, they were busy workin away. Doin what? Keeping everything else stable perhaps. Why there aren’t any birds swooping in to get some food, I don’t know. I guess they’d eventually die on the grass, making for an easy meal. I went over to the kitchen window, to pull up the blind. When mum gets home from work, she can enter a house full of light. Up it goes, and out my eyes stare. Fog. A blanket of fog has arrived. It’s very entertaining. Simple. I hardly get to see it. Just another rainbow on my list. Must be prime time for these insects. They love the moist air. I wonder if there are usually this many about, every early morning that I miss. I’d have to find out. Meanwhile, my stares are lookin into the fog and then into these frenzied bunch. What’s it all about? I better get off to bed. I’m still only half asleep.
I take off my singlet and pants; think about my warm bed, and just how good it will soon feel, to be under inside of it. I turn the fan off. Too cold for that. A little time later I am asleep. I can only attest to this because later on I would wake up…
I am dreaming. Although here in the moment, I wouldn’t know it. The ‘now’ isn’t really debatable right now. I am walking, or on my way, walking towards home. An empty bus appears, he seems to be going my way; I’ll hitch a ride. I get on. We get to talkin. Where can he drop me off? He asks. Hmmm, somewhere near home, I don’t have to go and be taken all the way. It is here I decide to take a shower.
Despite not seeing it, I know there is a shower cubicle on this bus. I let him know of my intention. He seems fine with it. I take off my top and pants. I lay all my clothes down across a seat. All except my pants, I lay them in the seat behind the rest. Neatly. I’m naked I guess. I don’t look down to see my body, but I assume so. I don’t feel abnormal about this at all. I wonder how the shower will go while this huge lump of steel moves. Not too sure about this. In conversation with the driver, as it had never really ceased, I told him a good place to stop, let me shower and then be on my way. He doesn’t mind at all. Kind man. As we’re approaching the last hill before getting towards my homes suburb, I point out to him, that I live in Airds. He must have asked where I was from. He misheard me the first time. I repeat my homes name. He says something. I tell him its home, but really, I’ve always been lost, since birth in fact. I then know what line comes next, as corny as it sounds; I knew it to be true. I’m lost, had been since birth but I’m finding my way home. I’m finding my way home. I tell him where he can stop. College road. That’s where the bus depot is, home isn’t too far from it for me either. It has balance in its place. It’s dark. Seems to be early mornin. I’m close to having that shower, but I get a wild idea in my head, what if this guy wants to oppress me, end me where I stand. This lonesome road is the place to do it. The first half of this road is dark and natural, near the bottom end, is the bus depot, orange lights giving a certain presence. Maybe we should head towards the lights. With a sense of safety.
Out of nowhere the bus is tumbling down this road at such a speed. Seemed wild. The thought of a shower seemed nowhere to be seen now. I was up on top of this bus, right at the back. Without really noticing the bus all that much, I gathered it was now as wide as my shoulders. How peculiar. It would surely tip over on this winding road. It’s still dark. It’s crazy. It’s fun. I can feel the wind on my face. I can see the bushland trees around the edges of the road. But just outlines. Looked amazing. In one direction, one could see the slight edges of a rising sun. Looked beautiful. Meanwhile, will we get to a stopping point on this bus? As crazy as ever. I’m holding on for dear life. I notice some people, maybe three of them. I feel like if we crash now, I’d really look the fool. I just hold on and think I bet you’ve never seen someone do this before. I’m sure they hadn’t. What was I doing?
The next moment, some things changed. We were suddenly in the air. Very gracefully. Like a bird, only much heavier. But we were doing it. Airds wasn’t far away at all. He was going to take me home. Seemed to be flying in circular motions. I dint want him to drop me at home. I wanted to go the last few steps myself. I noticed three people, in my yard. It felt like the bus was coming in for a landing. It was. From west to east, it was heading for the driveway. On descent, something occurred to me.
I let go of the moving bus. I told the driver, I’m just dreaming, so I’m gonna stay up here for a while. He keeps descending. Meanwhile. I’m Lucid Dreaming.
I start by realising that I rarely find myself in the air. I seem to like to do swimming like movements with my arms. Breaststroke I think it is. Feeling the currents of the air. I’m amazed I’m flying. Then I decide to dart around, in a circular motion. Clockwise. Fairly fast speed here. With speed, I adopt the superman pose, one fist up in front of me. What a trip. I know I could go anywhere I want to. Even the stars themselves could have a visit. At times I go in low, real low, other times; I do something or other, and am gaining in height again. I could do this for hours upon hours. Maybe forever. Ok, maybe not forever. I know these moments have to end. I notice that those 3 people are still in my yard. Just inside the back gates. I go down and land. On my feet too…
I land near them. Everything is so very clear. Two girls and a guy. Some talking occurs. Meanwhile I’m standing there thinking, these people are very stable for dream characters. The guy was an old memory from my school days. The two girls, well the one I was lookin at, she was definitely only a dream character. Couldn’t believe she didn’t exist beyond this moment. She was beautiful. Like a more plump lookin Maggie Gyllenhaal. I sensed these people hadn’t a clue as their own position amongst it all. I didn’t like that. We all make a move towards the back gate, which is literally right behind me, we’d venture into the front yard. But first. I reach over to this girl, possibly putting a hand on her neck, softly, and give a one off open mouthed kiss. No tongue. Just a soft kiss on the lips. I stopped and made my way out from the back to the front, with Simon. The girls behind us spoke. Between themselves. The one who hadn’t been kissed, the one I never really did see spoke with surprise. At what had just occurred. It was amazing. For I never do get the girl. Ever. This time. I took the chance. Glad I did. So was she. Although she was still unconscious. Had to be I guess. Although I didn’t like it that way one bit. She seemed too real, so real. Oh and the kiss felt like gold by the way.
So I attempt to tell Simon of his dream state. He doesn’t believe me, which is all too typical. No one wants to believe they’re merely a dream being dreamed by another. Can’t blame him. But I can try. I begin to tell him to choose a number. Pick one, and when I next see you, I’ll ask for it. If you are awake right now, you’ll have the answer, if not, you would have been a dream. It did seem logical at the time. He was holding something in his hands. He would now, at that later point, name the object he’s now holding with a number of his choice. Yeah real logical. (So illogical in fact, that I at no point in this lucid dream, questioned the past. Which is a little disturbing. I had no debate for it. I was only aware of the ‘now’).
It seemed we were now walkin away from my home. Down the blackened road. In trying to convince him. I had wasted some time. I started to feel a loss. Slowly I could feel my body in bed. I couldn’t trick myself to stay in the dream. I opened my eyes. With not a single brake in consciousness.
I felt pleased. A touch of longing, to get back and talk with these 3 people. But with no shame. What can I do!?!
I check the time. Then close my eyes. I make out all that had just happened. Made it stay clear and put. So I could write it down from memory. The memory of the actual experience, the memory of thinking in retrospect. Makes it all stay solid. Instead of drifting into mild outlines of mild ways and objects. Rather I wrote what I did above and get it to you that way. It was a pleasure to write about it. I loved its vibe.
Although I still wonder about…the lack of questions for the past. At one point in there, in the backyard, lucid as can be. I told the 3 about the bus ride. Like I said, I had no time to debate the past. I was aware of the ‘now’ and the past was what ever happened to occur. As crazy as that bus trip was…
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