My first lucid dream, wished I had written it down sooner

[spinningchurro]

Before I begin let me be clear that I have had lucid dreams before, and I have recognized I'm in a dream before, but this was the first time I was like "Wait, I'm dreaming, and I can control this." and the first time I remembered advice from what I've read. It starts out with me being in a convenience store with some friends. I think we're just messing around since me and them are in there breaking lighting fireworks. They're getting yelled at by some employees a couple of aisles down. I'm crouching, and I see the condom shelf (except they're being sold in their individual wrappers, and are the size of my palm). I proceed to take a few bottle rockets and put them on the condoms and light them. As I light the 2nd one I hear an employee yell at me and I burst out of the aisle and into another. The fat employee is at the opposite end of the aisle, legs spread and low to the ground as if about to lunge at me, so I run out of the aisle, down another one, and into the store. As I run out of the store and across the street I think "why am I victorious, normally in dreams I'm overpowered." I think this is the defining moment because I'm running down a sidewalk very slowly. Suddenly I remember reading that punches and kicks are generally extremely weak in dreams (I've remembered stuff I've read IRL only a handful of times) and translated this idea to running. I remember in that moment that I stretched my arms out and I glided VERY QUICKLY along the sidewalk for what seemed like 70 yards. Once I stopped I looked back and realized I was far away from the corner store. I keep walking along the sidewalk, make a left onto some grass between two buildings and I remember that in dreams clocks are often messed up. So I take out my cellphone from my pocket (I didn't even think about having it appear, it just was in my pocket, and I didn't give it any thought before) and it turns out to be my old cellphone I lost this summer (probably since I liked it much better than my current one), and I check the time. 11:12 or something like that. I put it down, and check it again. Now it was 7. I do it again, and it was 3. I do it two more times before I'm satisfied. This was the confirmation moment for me where I believed I was in a lucid dream. I know the terminology is botched but in the dream I distinguished "dream" and "lucid dream" as two separate things, with the latter something that can be attained. This is why I wish I had written it down earlier, I know there's a lot more to the dream. It's not even halfway over at this point. It was the most complete dream I've ever had. I could remember the whole thing from beginning to end, not just the moment I woke up but throughout the whole morning. I procrastinated and now this is my punishment, not remembering. I'm usually pretty good about remembering dreams but never to this detail, usually as I wake up and get out of bed I forget most important details (sometimes the whole dream) by the time I'm showering. I've been telling myself to write them down for some time now, and now that this happened I think I may seriously do it. That's pretty much it. I remember thinking to myself "I could have sex with a hot woman, but not this time." That's after the part where I checked my phone. I remember vaguely some things I thought, but not any events in the dream. Dreams are for me an escape. I've had dreams that give me feelings no drug or anything else can replicate. It's a feeling of wanting, of thinking I belong in the dream world instead of this one. I think that's why I'm curious about mind-altering drugs, is to reach the dream plane while awake. When I think about some dreams I've had I get this massive feeling of nostalgia mixed with sorrow mixed with such a feeling of longing I can't describe. That's why I love dreams so much and why I made an account here. I want to get more into lucid dreaming because of this dream, every time I go to bed I want to have that same experience and be able to remember it all. So that's my 200 dollars. edit: this was also the first time I've remembered things that I've read online, multiple times, and remembered things from other dreams, in one dream.

[spinningchurro]

Oh yes I forgot: while I was gliding on the sidewalk I floated up a little bit and I got the feeling that the dream was going to end, that I was waking up. But I fought it, I came down, and I stopped. This has happened only a handful of times in my life, where I've fought the dream back from ending.

[Ethereal]

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