Thread: Twoshadows' Dream Journal

Hey, thanks guys! (You posted at the exact same time too. )

Woah, congrats! First you're inspired, then you get a LD. I wish it were as simple for me.[/b]

Well that doesn't always happen. I really think reading that section of the LD book before bed also really helped. Maybe you should try to get that book (Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge) I didn't spend very much time reading it--probably less than ten minutes--but I think the secret was that it was immediately before I went to sleep.

Very interesting, I can just imagine you floating up above the clouds at night, and seeing the moons calm reflection off of them. Sounds very peaceful[/b]

It was so incredible. I can still close my eyes and see and feel it.

Congrats on the lucid. I've been having mini lucids like mad lately. I wish mine could be as long as yours.[/b]

Thanks. I'll go read them. But even minilucids are cool to have. At least your mind is thinking about it and recognising that you are dreaming. I'm sure you will get a longer one soon.

I tried doing what I did the night before. But I was very tired and somewhat stressed--and you know what they say about stress and dreams....

But I did have a quite long involved dream before I woke up this morning. I don't remember how it fit together. Bu I do remember litttle bits.

There was something about being in a zoo. We were holding hand held video games. And they somehow affected what we did through out the zoo.

There was a part at the end where a group of us were going to go in this building and demand some money from someone. I got separated from my group and ended up on an elevator with a group of elderly Japanese men, and one Japanese woman and 11 year old girl. Suddenly a Japanese song starts playing on the elevator speakers and all the old men start tapping their feet and singing along. It was just too funny. It reminded me of a 50s type song...but all in Japanese. I was trying not to laugh, but when I looked down at the 11 year old girl who was doing everything to hold her laughing in, I suddenly couldn't hold it any longer and burst out laughing.

I had a couple fairly long dreams last night, but I can only recall one of them right now.

Dream:

I was with my friend Ann in the mountains by a lake with a bunch of school kids about 4th grade. I remember seeing Chris S and Nick B there. We were sitting at the shore of the lake talking as a group. Ann and I might have been teaching.

Suddenly a storm blows in. There is wind and lightning. Then right around the shore from us a bolt of lightning strikes a tree there. The strike causes a little fire. It didn't seem like much, but something told me to get the kids out of there fast.

I yell to Ann and we start to load the van up with the kids. She ends up driving even though it was suppose to be my van. But I am okay with it. It was a windy mountain road.

The fire has now spread and I can see it right behind us. And it is quickly catching up

Now this is where is gets weird. Suddenly we are not in the car anymore, but Ann and I are pulling this long toy train behind us. The kids are all supposedly inside. It is about 8 feet long and a foot and a half high. We are still racing down the mountain pulling this train. There are parts of the trail ahead of us that are now burning, but not so bad that we can't get through.

Suddenly I stop and realize that the train cars can come apart. I am afraid that we might have lost one of the cars full of kids. I am not sure though. I have this horrible feeling, and am not sure what to do. Everything behind us is really burning now.

The stress of the dream woke me up at that point.

Short Lucid Dream</span>

I got a lot of sleep last night. I did a WBTB this morning.

Dream:

I was at the elemantary school that I went to as a child. I was walking out on the play yard. First I remember running and then dropping my sweat shirt that I was carrying. Some girls picked it up and gave it back to me.

On the roof of one of the buildings a bunch of stuffed animals that were set up like decorations. I then noticed that two husky type dogs were real. I wondered how they got them to sit up there so still.

There was some kind of event going on on the play yard. These girls were putting on a circus type performance. They were wearing leotards and jumping off the roof of a building and down onto and umbrella that acted like a trampoline. They jumped back up and did a flip before landing on a mat.

I watched them, and looking back on the roof I saw that they were two more black huskies sitting very still. The only thing that gave away that thye were alive was the fact that they were drooling a little.

The bell had rung and I was walking back to the classrooms.

But I stopped again by one of the buildings. There was a cage with plastic walls that had an animal inside. I took a closer look. It was a kitten. I wondered why the school would keep a kitten in a cage like this. Then I read the sign on the cage where it said that although this looked like a pet kitten it was really a wild animal.

I looked at the kitten again and saw that it was quite different than a normal kitten. It&#39;s head was larger in proportion, especailly its forehead. And its eyes were a milky grey-white. I wondered if it was blind.

It meowed. I meowed back to see what it would do. It stopped and looked at me. Then I heard it laugh..a laugh which sent chills down my spine. I thought I heard it say something. I said, "You can talk?"

It looked at me and suddenly this creepy smile spreads across its face and says "Yes" in a horrible voice.

As horrified as I felt, I almost instantaneously realized that this couldn&#39;t possibly be real.

<span style="color:#3333FF">"I must be dreaming." To prove to myself that I was I leaned back into a backfloat. And started to fly backward. (I think that is becasue I was sleeping on my back which is somewhat unusual for me).

My next thougths were, "I have to find someone to ask to be my Valentine. I really want to get the Task done this time. But I am at a school. All there are are children around." But then I decided I didn&#39;t care--if I had to ask a ten year old to be my Valentine, then so be it. I just wanted to get the Task done.

But as I floated down to find someone--anyone--everything started getting brighter and the dream faded.

And I woke up in my bright room.

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

But I stopped again by one of the buildings. There was a cage with plastic walls that had an animal inside. I took a closer look. It was a kitten. I wondered why the school would keep a kitten in a cage like this. Then I read the sign on the cage where it said that although this looked like a pet kitten it was really a wild animal.

I looked at the kitten again and saw that it was quite different than a normal kitten. It&#39;s head was larger in proportion, especailly its forehead. And its eyes were a milky grey-white. I wondered if it was blind.

It meowed. I meowed back to see what it would do. It stopped and looked at me. Then I heard it laugh..a laugh which sent chills down my spine. I thought I heard it say something. I said, "You can talk?"

It looked at me and suddenly this creepy smile spreads across its face and says "Yes" in a horrible voice.

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Heh. That bit with the kitten was creepy.
Nice ld. Better luck next time, on the Task&#33;

Hey TS,

I finally had a long enough LD&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; I&#39;m sure you will soon too&#33;

Thanks O&#33;

And Ranma, I&#39;ll check it out.


I had one of those dreams where I am reluctant to write--but I hear that everyone has them, so here goes:

Dream:

There was a lot more to this dream, but this part stood out for some reason.

I am seriously making out with a beautiful girl. She had long brown hair and a great body. I refuse to go into too much detail, but I&#39;m sure you get the picture. We are finally interupted and have to stop, and I remember feeling a bit... upset.....LOL.

Too bad I didn&#39;t become lucid. I could have asked her to be my Valentine.

In a differnt part of the dream I am in my garden and I am spitting out a pillbug that I guess I had put in my mouth.

The night was full of dreams where I put things in my mouth that I probably shouldn&#39;t....

Haha. That&#39;s ok. I&#39;ve had my Homo erotic dreams as well. A dream like that is not suprising. If you&#39;ve ever read Nancy Friday&#39;s "my secret Garden" you&#39;ll know what i mean . Kind of a coincidence i also had the opportunity to do teh lucid task, now if i were only Lucid.

I am impressed, Twoshadows&#33; You&#39;ve finally posted one of your dreams that kinda freak people out. I am proud.

I think I may be having a little disappearance soon, just because of Strength/Conditioning and Rugby. I am so sore right now I can barely write. Sorry for this, but I&#39;ll try and stop by on weekends, and whatever days I have free from homework.

Don&#39;t forget about me, I&#39;ll be around.

Originally Posted by ranma187

Haha. That&#39;s ok. I&#39;ve had my Homo erotic dreams as well. A dream like that is not suprising. If you&#39;ve ever read Nancy Friday&#39;s "my secret Garden" you&#39;ll know what i mean . Kind of a coincidence i also had the opportunity to do teh lucid task, now if i were only Lucid.
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I haven&#39;t read it so I&#39;m not sure. It&#39;s kind of a funny thing--all my sex dreams are "wrong" in some way...wrong gender...wrong age..wrong place...etc. I cannot think of a normal sex dream that I have ever had.....

Originally Posted by ranma187

I am impressed, Twoshadows&#33; You&#39;ve finally posted one of your dreams that kinda freak people out. I am proud.

I think I may be having a little disappearance soon, just because of Strength/Conditioning and Rugby. I am so sore right now I can barely write. Sorry for this, but I&#39;ll try and stop by on weekends, and whatever days I have free from homework.

Don&#39;t forget about me, I&#39;ll be around.
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How could I forget about you? I was wondering how your things were going. I hope the muscle soreness goes away..or at least lessens. And good luck with that Rugby. Check in when you can, when you don&#39;t I&#39;ll know that your life is crazy (hopefully in a good way )



Oh I wanted to say that my mom called me and told me that she had her first Lucid Dream the other night. All she knows about LDing, she learned from me. And this just happened on its own--she hadn&#39;t been trying. I think that is really cool. First my sister, then my mom.

And her dream cracks me up. Remember my food dreams of last week?

In her dream she was eating these wonderful pork ribs. Suddenly she thought, "I shouldn&#39;t be eating these--I&#39;m vegan now." But then she realized that she woudn&#39;t have made this mistake in real life. That this must be a dream. After she realized that she ate the reast of the pork guilt-free And that&#39;s what she spent the rest of the dream doing. Haha... (If I hadn&#39;t said before she is doing the same eating plan as I am.)

Now of only I can use that as a dream sign too......



Last night I had an interesting dream where I was in the ocean with all these whales and dolphins. One of the "whales" can right up to me. It was very fuzzy like the little white seal pups that you see. It was about the size of a large dolphin (But for some reason I was calling it a right whale). It let me put my arms around its head and rub its face. It was really a nice dream.

In another dream I was at Disneyland again. We were in one of the shops looking for things to buy.

Your moms dream is hilarious. Nothing better than eating food in an LD. You should ask her if she could taste the ribs in her dream. That&#39;s one thing I&#39;ve never really experienced in a dream... taste.

@ that making-out dream.

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

In her dream she was eating these wonderful pork ribs. Suddenly she thought, "I shouldn&#39;t be eating these--I&#39;m vegan now." But then she realized that she woudn&#39;t have made this mistake in real life. That this must be a dream. After she realized that she ate the reast of the pork guilt-free
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Hahahaha. That&#39;s great.
Welcome to the club, TS&#39;s mom. lol

Wait a second, Twoshadows, forget about what I said before... I just had a lucid last night and am posting it now.

That&#39;s great about the LD, CB&#33;&#33; I commented in your DJ. I hope to see more in the near future.

And about "taste". I&#39;ll tell you what. If you want to have a dream where you taste something, I&#39;ll tell you exactly how to do it. First, give up all your favorite foods. Give up meat. Give up dairy. Give up sugar and flour. Give up anything that is processed. And give up anything that is cooked. I will guarantee that within two weeks of doing this you will have a food dream......


Hi Oneironaut&#33;



Dreams:

I had a very long detailed dream last night.

I was in a store in a mall. It was a computer store. There were racks of games and even some computers set up for people to use. There was an employee there that looked like Seth Green. HE started being very friendly to me. Flirting a little. He showed me a home video that he and his roommate had made. For some reason I automatically thought it was gonig to be something very crude. But I was surprised at how creative and interesting it was (I really wish I could remember what it was about).

Then I went out and met up with my aunt, mom, and sister. I think we ate something, then walked out to the parking lot. We had brought two cars. My sister went with my aunt and I went with my mom. She drove.

As we were driving we passed this house that has this incredible looking tree. It looked like a giant amaranth with long red tassels. I told my mom about the tree and talked her into turning around so I could point out the tree.

She pulled into a parking garage to find a place to turn around. She suddenly was having trouble driving. She kept scraping on the walls.

We finally got out of the car. We started talking, trying to figure out what was wrong with my mom. She said she didn&#39;t feel very good. Then suddenly she attacked me. I grabbed at her hands and finally kind of pinned her against me so she couldn&#39;t hit me anymore. I was terrified at what happened.

Suddenly she broke free and ran out of sight.

For some reason it took me a long time to get a cell phone to call for help. I finally reached my uncle, and started to tell him what happened. He broke me off and told me that my mom had come home. He told me that she was very ill. That one of the symptoms was to get violent. He told me that she was so bad that he didn&#39;t think she would live for much longer.

I remember starting to cry while talking to him. Trying to figure out if there was anything we could do to save her.

That&#39;s all I remember.



I had another little dream before I got up. It was related to the Task of the month. I wasn&#39;t lucid though.
I remember standing in the center of a huge tornado. I mean huge. It was supposed to cover several states.

One of my frineds had gotten stucked up in it. I was watching as she would periodically come around. I was trying to figure out how fast the tornado was spinning if I was seeing my friend ever minute or so. (I didn&#39;t seen too worried about her saftey...LOL)

Then I suddenly was the friend in the tornado, and I was going around so fast I was very disoriented. I couldn&#39;t see anything. I couldn&#39;t even tell which was was up or down. But everything was so noisy.

So....If I get around to attempting this months Task, I already know that my mind can come up with a very convincing tornado.

Wow a tornado dream&#33;. I&#39;m jealous&#33; your tornado was bigger than mine in my last Tornado dream.

oh and congrats on your mom having a lucid. I STILL remember the dream i had a few months ago where i met her LOL.

good stuff&#33;

Your whale dream was great. Whatever those fuzzy critters were, it sounded very peacefull.

I like the way you highlight key words in your dreams. Makes those longer dreams easier on the eyes. Hope you don&#39;t mind if I copy that.

Great dream.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE("Twoshadows")</div>

One of my frineds had gotten stucked up in it. I was watching as she would periodically come around. I was trying to figure out how fast the tornado was spinning if I was seeing my friend ever minute or so. (I didn&#39;t seen too worried about her saftey...LOL)[/b]

I think that would be absolutely hilarious. Your friend is just whipping around in circles over several states and you&#39;re trying to see how fast it goes. I can picture that perfectly.

The first dream with your mom sounds like something out 98 Days Later, or some zombie movie, where the person would start feeling weird and then become violent and bloodthirsty.

I think an LD is in order soon.

Ranma:

oh and congrats on your mom having a lucid. I STILL remember the dream i had a few months ago where i met her LOL.[/b]

Haha...I STILL think it&#39;s funny.


The Cusp:

I like the way you highlight key words in your dreams. Makes those longer dreams easier on the eyes. Hope you don&#39;t mind if I copy that.[/b]

I don&#39;t mind at all. I have found it makes it much easier for me to just glance at a post and remember which dream it was. Thanks for stopping by. See ya around.


CB:

I think an LD is in order soon. [/b]

Bingo&#33;&#33;


I just had Five Lucid Dreams</span>&#33;&#33; Or maybe I should say that I had a very long dream in which I became lucid five separate times. Whatever it was, it was great. And CB, you will like this one.


I can&#39;t even remember how the dream started. I guess that&#39;s the bad thing of five LDs in a row--memory is fuzzy at the beginning.

I think I was flying and that triggered it. I remember flying down some sort of hallway. And I was like "Whoa, I&#39;m dreaming". I remembered to look at my hands. They were almost normal, but two of the fingers were missing at the middle joint. I remembered CBs experience with looking at his hands and was surprised that my mind didn&#39;t make them any crazier than this.

I also decided to look at my feet, so I kind of straightened out (remember, I am still flying), and kicked my foot out in front of me and saw that I was wearing pink flip flops. For some reason that seemed completely expected even though I don&#39;t own pink flip flops.

CB was still on my mind and I thought to myself that I never did take him flying, and I have never yet been successful at making him appear in a dream, so this became my next goal.

I was in a school, so I figured I would find his class. There was a four story almost circular building. I flew into one of the floors and into a classroom. I asked a teacher how I could find him. I&#39;m not sure how I even asked. I don&#39;t think I used his real name. I probably said "CB"--because that is the name I always say in my mind when I see his posts. But since this was my dream, it didn&#39;t matter what I called him, as long as my mind could find a way to make him appear that it felt comfortable doing.

The teacher told me that he was on the floor directly under us. I flew down and into that class. I was at the back seeing the back of everyone&#39;s heads. I looked for a head that looked like what matched what I had seen from his pictures--light brown hair, slightly longish. I found one. I called. "Hey...CB...."

CB turned around and I knew it was him even though in retrospect he didn&#39;t look like his pictures. His friends truned around too. CB smiled; the friends stared. I landed and was about to say something when I woke up.

Except that I don&#39;t think I really woke up (although this first time I might have, but was able to drift back into the dream. But whether it was a real or false awakening, I was able to go back to the hallway I had started the dream in. I immediately became lucid again and decided I would try again.

So I flew back to the classroom. The teacher said that CB was out on the field playing Rugby. So I flew out to the field. I only saw people playing basketball. I was about to start to look through that group when I noticed that there was another part of the field. I flew into that part and saw a group of guys in red uniforms playing what looked to be Rugby. I flew over and started going down the team. The last two guys I came to seemrd to have a match, but again he was facing away. I was about to say something when I woke up again.

This one might have been a true False Awakening, because I think I was immediately back in the hallway and lucid. I remember being so proud of myself for automatically becoming lucid again.There were all these curtains that I was flying through. They were blue and white in color. I&#39;m not sure what they were actually made of because I don&#39;t remember anyting phycical about them when I parted them. So I kept going through curtains. I was telling myself that they was my mind&#39;s way of preparing the next scene--that at the right moment I would part the curtain and end up at the Rugby field.

And sure enough I did.

I flew to the team again, but before I could even start the search again, I had a FA again.

I found myself back in that hallway and was lucid again. I flew through the same curtains but the scene wasn&#39;t changing, so I figured that I need to try something else. I looked at my hand again. It looked the same--two fingures missing at the middle joint.

I was inside a big indoor school gym. I decided to hang from the lights and then pretend I couldn&#39;t fly and just hang on for dear life. That didn&#39;t end up being as fun as I thought...so I tried to think of something else to do. But I wasn&#39;t sure what to do. I remembered someone saying how lucid dreaming got boring if you had the ability to do it every night.

I thought, "Surely I&#39;m not getting bored. I mean I should be able to do anything I want. Think&#33;"

But at that point I woke up again.

The next dream I started didn&#39;t start as lucid. Something about these black men-- Oh, I can&#39;t remember. But there was a scene in a swimming pool. One man was tring to convince the other one go give away some secrets or something like that. And at one point they got in the water. I was afraid that the man would give away the secrets I seemed to be on his side. I needed to to distract them before it was too late.

So I started walking on the water. It seemed to work and the men were both watching me. Then I started to run on the water. <span style="color:#3333FF">I think I became lucid again here, and started to fly. I flew up to this big building. I decided I needed to find someone to ask to be my Valentine so I could get the Task of the Month done finally.

But then I awoke and I realized that I had had several lucid dreams and I panicked because at first I couldn&#39;t remember anything about them. Then it slowly came back and I jumped out of bed and immediately went to the computer to write them down. So I am hoping that they are accurate.

Hell of an experience, TS.

Sucks that, everytime you went to go find CB, you&#39;d have to start back over again. lol. The mind really has a twisted sense of humor when it wants to, doesn&#39;t it? Haha.

Haha, that&#39;s awesome&#33; I really like how your inner mind remembered how I&#39;ve begun Rugby, and how you were directed to the field to find me the second time.

But I agree with Oneironaut - maybe I&#39;m your &#39;Reset Dream Button&#39; that goes off everytime you find me.

Congratulations, I truly think that&#39;s a record. I guess I&#39;ll have to become inspired off your inspiration.

Awesome work&#33;

I was kinda jealous of your 5 lucids, and I think that kick started a couple of my own last night. Kinda like one of those Mister Bean showdowns.

CB:

Haha, that&#39;s awesome&#33; I really like how your inner mind remembered how I&#39;ve begun Rugby, and how you were directed to the field to find me the second time.[/b]

Yeah, I thought that was pretty cool too.

maybe I&#39;m your &#39;Reset Dream Button&#39; that goes off everytime you find me. [/b]

Or maybe I just got shy.

Congratulations, I truly think that&#39;s a record. I guess I&#39;ll have to become inspired off your inspiration. [/b]

I truly hope so&#33; (And look below)


Cusp:

I was kinda jealous of your 5 lucids, and I think that kick started a couple of my own last night.[/b]

That is fantastic&#33; I&#39;ve got more LDs that hopefully will inspire you to have more LDs tonight.




I had another bunch of LDs</span> this moring before I woke up. Unfortunately I was awakend by the phone, and it was an old friend I hadn&#39;t talked to in quite a while, so we talked for a long time. Now my dream recall is down. Of course I don&#39;t want to sound like I&#39;m complaining. I would take the phone call any day over the recalling of lucid dreams.

I will try to write what I can remember. Like the previous LDs I was in and out of lucidity. I had many False Awakenings. At this point I can&#39;t remember chronological order real well. So I will list all the things I remember doing while lucid in my typical lucid blue.

I do remember it started with seeing black widows in my garden. I was trying to decide if I should kill them or not. At one point I saw a huge BW exoskeleton. It was far too big to be a BW. And this is what cause me to question my state.

I thought, "Does it feel like I am dreaming?" And I suddenly felt all light and slightly disoriented, and "floaty" feeling. And I knew I was lucid.

At some point I looked at my hands. They looked completely normal. I was wearing a long sleeved grey shirt. But for some reason I thought I was looking at my real hands that I was drifting awake (FA). I thought, "I need to go to sleep again so I can continue the LD."

So I thought I went to sleep again, and in the "new dream" I saw the BW exoskeleton again and knew I was back in my dream.

At some point in the dream I tried to fly. I didn&#39;t do a very good job. I would hover and then float back to the ground. I was frustrated. I thought about my LD not too long ago where I had to "swim" to get my flying going. I tried that, and I got a little highter, but I kept floating back to the ground.

Seems like I had another FA somewhere in here.

I have a fuzzy memory of being in a bedroom with my sister and laying on the floor by a bed. I have no idea where this fits into the dream. <span style="color:#3333FF">But I think something about that caused me to become lucid again.

At some point in the LD I remember being able to finally fly fast.

The last thing I remember doing while lucid was talking to Mark and Tim and climbing up this tall metal shed or barn. M and T were sitting in chairs below and I climbed up. I remember it being pretty easy to climb. I got to the top and looked down. I thought about flying off, but was suddenly scared. I felt so heavy--I really felt the pull of gravity.

I looked down below at what I would hit if I fell while trying to fly. There was a structure made of old rusty pipes. It looked like something I definitely didn&#39;t want to land on. But I thought to myself, "I can&#39;t die--this is just a dream. I can&#39;t even injure myself." But them I remmebered past dreams where I was able to feel dream pain--and how real that could feel. So I hesitated again.

But them I thought about the times where I had let myself fall off things. I remembered the "experiment" of falling backward off the balcony--how I was afraid to do that, yet I managed to let it happen. When I did that, I had just fallen into a great white void. I didn&#39;t get hurt at all.

I also remembered the Task of the months several months ago where the assignment was to jump off a cliff. I had never completed that, but had thought that that would be fun becasue I had acutally done things like that before in LDs (like my Lake Powell LD.)

But this time I jsut stood with trembling knees at the top of the barn/shed and looked down (about two stories). I actually felt terrified to jump. I really couldn&#39;t make myself do it. I kept saying, "But this time it feels way too real. The other times I was all "floaty" and I knew I couldn&#39;t fall. But this time I know I would fall. Gravity in this dream is just way too strong."

I was hoping for three in a row. After two long ones in a row the feeling a being lucid starts feeling so natural, as if you will be able to do this whenever you want.

But that didn&#39;t happen.

Instead I woke up at 2:30 and my mind just kept thinking. I couldn&#39;t get it to quit. So I lay there and thought for the rest of the night. I never got back to sleep.

So....no dreams......

Wow...I just had another Task of the Month</span>. And how appropriate, considering it is Valentine&#39;s Day.

I had gotten to sleep in, and I had been awake for a bit, but decided that today would be a good chance to do a WBTB. I wanted to get the Task done, and I thought that since it was Valentine&#39;s Day I might have extra inspiration to get the Task completed.

The dream started with me looking over a balcony of an apartment in which I supposedly lived. There were lots of people below in the yard or road or whatever was below the balcony. I remember thinking that something was not quite right with this. And I suddenly realized that I was dreaming.

I looked back down. I had to find someone to ask to be my Valentine. I saw some teenage boys from the neighborhood. At first I was reluctant, but then said to myself, "It doesn&#39;t matter--this is my dream--no one will know that I asked them to be my Valentine in a dream."

So I glided down the the ground level. And went up to M and asked him to be my Valentine. He looked at me like he thought I might be playing some sort of trick on him. He squinted his eyes a little and said, "Are you serious?"

Then my dream faded.

But I ended up back in the apartment and was still lucid. This time I recognized it as my friend E&#39;s apartment (of course it was not his either in real life). His family was there along with some family friends. They had been making cookies with sprinkles, but were now cleaning up.

<span style="color:#CC0000">I wanted to try the Task again, to see if I could get a better answer.

I asked E&#39;s sister. She said, "Sure, why not."

Then I asked a blond girl, "Will you be my Valentine?"

She said, "Yeah, because I owe you." I looked at her somewhat confused.

She said, "The meeting tonight......I&#39;ll be getting you your pin and uniform."

At first I felt slightly alarmed, then thought "There is no meeting. This is just my dream. How funny that my brain would come up with that."

Then I asked another girl that was about 15. (There were only girls in the room--no guys.)

She said that she couldn&#39;t be my Valentine because she was already a sister.

I asked her why she couldn&#39;t be both. And then she went on about not being able to drive herself anywhere and how she was a burden on others because of that. It didn&#39;t actually make a lot of sence. But I let her go on.

Then a guy in his late 20&#39;s walked in with a little girl about two years old on his shoulders. I walked up to him to ask, but at the last minute I asked the little girl instead. She couldn&#39;t talk so I didn&#39;t expect an answer. But I just talked to her like you do to a toddler. "Hi...you are just so cute...hey, do you want to be my Valentine? That would be fun, huh? And, see, you are wearing hearts on your dress. You are already all dressed up for Valentine&#39;s Day."

At that point I figued I&#39;d asked enough people...an interesting variety...and had gotten an interesting variety of answers.

I thought, "What else can I ask them?" I thought back to the Task in November where we were supposed to ask people of we were dreaming. I decided to do that again.

So I started with the blond girl whose meeting I was supposed to attend that night. I asked her if I was dreaming and she nodded and said yes.

I went down the line and everyone was saying yes. Finally the last girl I got to I asked, "But how do you know I am dreaming?" I really wanted to know what she would say.

She said, " Because this all sounds like it is being recorded in a studio." (I was not expecting that answer). And the funny thing is as she said that sentence, her voice started sounding all echo-y and unnatural.</span>

Then the dream faded again.

BUt I ended up back in the apartmant again. This time it was empty. I looked at the table that still had lots of sprinkles left on it fron the cookies they were making.

I suddenly had an idea inspired by my mom.

In real life my mom and I started eating a raw vegan diet about 6 weeks ago. A few weeks ago she told me about a dream she had where she was eating pork, and then became lucid (her first lucid dream--and it was just from listening to me talk about it). She then thought, "Well, since this is just a dream, I might as well finish eating this pork" Since it was tasting so good.... .

<span style="color:#3333FF">So looked around the apartment. I saw some cookie dough and put it in my mouth. It didn&#39;t taste as good as I had wished. I remembered that in real life I had been craving peanutbutter cookies with chocolate chips.

I opened the fridge. And sure enough, on a plate all made up nice and with plastic wrap over it was a large batch of that kind of cookie. I took one and ate it and was incredibly thankful that my dream taste buds were fully working in this dream.

I started to take another, then paused, momentarily feeling guilty for taking the cookies that E&#39;s mom had put away. It was obvious that they were supposed to be a gift for someone.

I then had to remind myself that this was still my dream--that&#39;s why I was getting to eat these in the first place. That no one with ever miss these cookies.

So I spent the next five minutes (or so it seemed) just eating one cookie after another