Thread: Still not sure I´m awake

I had the single most vivid dream of my life last night. It all look place over the span of maybe 3 hours, but it seemed like years had past. I kept shifting in and out of lucidity and had many false awakenings. I even had recurring dreams within the dream. It´s been a while since I´ve tried to become lucid, and this one hit me out of nowhere. I can´t remember it all, but I´ll share what I can remember.

Some friends and I flew to Dublin, Ireland to spend a few days. It was some kind of party. The sky was beautiful as we were leaving. The most spectacular sunset I´d ever seen. (I was in Dublin a few months ago, and did see some beautiful sunsets and have a picture of one of them as my wallpaper on my computer, this is likely what triggered this part of the dream).

I fell into a series of recurring dreams. In these dreams I would walk up a set of stairs, find an ornate red lantern, approximately 2 feet tall sitting on the ground. As I walked further, I kept encountering people wearing red shirts. They grabbed their shirts and told me to remember. I realized that it was a mnemonic, and that they were trying to get me to reality check. Each time I would become lucid I would have a false awakening soon afterwards. Eventually I became lucid just upon seeing the lantern. I pointed at it and made it levitate. I continued onwards, making people and things disappear. After a while some dogs started running at me and attacking me. I very calmly picked up a snake and turned it into a branch to fend off the dogs. Then I turned it into a sword and started cutting the dogs in half. I continued on, determined to find the interesting character in my dream (a friend and I had convinced ourselves we were dreaming while awake, and that we needed to find the interesting character). I kept making characters disappear until I came across a man with a piercing gaze. I told him he was the important character. He cast me a wry smile and sparks crackled in his eyes. Everything disappeared and we were standing in a cloud-like space. He spread out like a deck of cards being swiped across a table, dividing into numerous people (like a painting of the Hindu pantheon). He led me up a stair case to were a woman with 8 arms was clinging like a spider to the inside of bubble. She was casting objects down at us, and I realized that this wasn´t what I was looking for. I told myself it was just Coyote (The Native American mythological figure) playing tricks on me.

I had a false awakening and was on a couch in a human knot with a bunch of women. There was one woman with whom I felt sexual tension, but I knew that it was a bad idea to get involved with her because she bring drama into my life. I don´t remember much else about this part of the dream. I think that there was a wedding about to happen.

I had another false awakening and quickly became semi-lucid. I saw more people in red shirts. I had the feeling that I had to go down a canyon for something.

I had another false awakening and met a woman. I told her that I was afraid I was still dreaming. I paid attention to my senses, trying to determine if it was real. I grabbed handfuls of dirt and sifted them through my hands. The sensation was real. I held her, and smelled her hair. She smelled real.

She rode me like a horse. That´s not a euphemism. In this dream, women used men as a means of transportation.

I kept trying to wake up, and at some points was semi-aware of the real world around me.

Eventually I did wake up (I think), but could not convince myself it was real.