The Block Party
I open my eyes. I'm aware that I'm in the parking lot of my highschool, though I have no idea how I got there, or why I'm there. A bit nervously, I begin to wander around. After a bit of walking, I see a neighborhood. Not knowing what else to do, I enter it. It's a nice, surburban neighborhood, and the street that I'm walking on ends in a cul-de-sac. I can make out a van and some teenagers surrounding it. I think the kids may be from my school, so I go towards them more enthusiastically. Though I'm still confused, at least I'm not alone. I reach the van, and a man reaches his head out of the window. It's Tim Gunn, the fashion guru.
"O...M...G." he exaggerates. "I didn't expect to see you here!"
I smile, shyly. I'm can't remember him well, though I feel we knew eachother well sometime in the past.
He grins at me, and motions towards the other children. "Don't just stand there, talk to the other kids. Mingle!"
I look at the kids there. I would guess about eight people total. They're all from my school, though I don't know any of them that well. I'm about to go over there when I see Catherine and her boyfriend. My heart sinks.
I take a step back, and Catherine glares at me. She takes Heath's hand, and the two of them stray from the group, obviously wanting to get away from me.
I want to leave now. I look at Tim. "Sorry," I apologize. "But I'm really not even supposed to be here." I laugh, nervously. "I'm just trying to get directions back to my house. I don't know where I am honestly, I have no idea what I'm doing here-"
I look down during my ramblings, and notice for the first time what I'm wearing. A T-shirt, swimming trunks, and flip flops. I slowly realize that I'm wearing what I had on at my house. I never remembered going from my house to the school. Something's wrong...
I am now lucid. I happily look up at Tim. "Nevermind, I can stay."
I go back to the kids. Strangely, it seems like there's more than I remember from before...probably around thirty now. I spot my friend Amonee in the crowd, and she beckons to me. The sky darkens, and it looks like someone's shooting fireworks. I don't pay attention to it and reach Amonee. Music begins to play.
"You can totally break out into the electric slide any time now," she jokes.
I laugh. "Yeah, right."
I start to feel squished...I look around, and I must have been surrounded by about two hundred people. Me and Amonee move to the front.
I see that somehow a giant stage has appeared out of nowhere. Noone's on it, but there are humongous speakers on both sides of it. When I look back from the stage, I see my other friends Kimberly, Malika & Sarika, and Rui. They all come up to me and compliment Amonee on the party. I'm wondering why Tim isn't getting any credit...I'm about to go off to look for him when the Electric Slide bursts out of the speakers. The sudden music startles me, and I turn to the stage.Countless fireworks are lighting the sky now. Everyone starts cheering. Once I turn back around, everyone is lined up in perfect rows, getting ready to dance to the song. I tell Kimberly that I have to go. She begs me to stay, to dance with them. I look around, and wonder if I should be looking for Tim. I turn to Kimberly. It does look pretty fun...I roll my eyes, and join her.
I Think I Can, I Think I Can(Pre-Dream)
I am lying in my bed, aware that I am in a dream. I close my eyes, and try to teleport to my school.
I find that I cannot.
I forget about that for now, and look out the window. A dark, starry night. I try to summon some lightning. For some reason, I can hear the crack, though I can't see the bolt...
Next I try to turn the lights on. Knowing that lights don't usually work in lucids, I used my mind rather than the lightswitch. It wouldn't come on.
I sighed, and realized I had little power here.
I looked around my room, frustrated, wondering what I was supposed to do with such limited control?
I went downstairs, and did a few reality checks, simply for amusement. I was alone.
I sat in a chair, and closed my eyes.
I focused extremely hard on my highschool, and willed myself to teleport. My eyelids are squeezing together, and I almost don't want to open them, afraid that I will fail again.
Suddenly, my mind goes blank.
[The Pre-Dream actually occurred before the first dream I posted. However, I found "The Block Party" to be a much better opening
I found it strange that I lost all remembrance of lucidity when I was finally able to teleport to school. Perhaps putting so much energy into that one task wiped my memory? Or maybe I was just in a different dream. This seems unlikely to me though, since I can't ever remember having consecutive dreams branch off of eachother, if that makes sense. None of my dreams have ever been a continuation of a previous dream.
Also, the reason I became lucid after looking at my clothes was because that's what I had been wearing when I was lucid at my house in the Pre-Dream.]
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