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Anyhow, i've been busy with school recently, so haven't really had much of any time to focus on lucid dreaming or anything of that sort. I posted toward the end of the last thread that I had my first real super-lucid perceived dream a while back. Out of the blue, I totally surpassed that one last night.
Had to get up at 6, went to bed at 12:30ish. Entered dream, and became totally aware of my surroundings instantaeously. I was in this circular hallway, where every few feet there would be an intersection, where were I to follow down another path the hallways would loop endlessly. My mind picked up on this pretty quickly (physically impossible hallways), and I took the next turn to find myself in a large room, rather than endless hallways as before. Standing there was Joseph Gordon-Levitt in his Arthur garb from the movie.
He told me i'd need to pass through a number of steps to reach the final level. The room I was in began to shift into different dimensions and shapes, which I again immediately noticed. He beckoned me to the next room, which was exactly the same as the last except for a large pool in the middle. I was first instructed to spin (spinning while lucid dreaming is a technique used to prevent oneself from waking up). Next, I was to dive in the pool, and stay submerged. Again, noticed I was breathing underwater, and moved on to the next room. I was to create an object from my mind. Being the homer I am, I immediately began to envision and describe Aaron Rodgers, who then appeared beside Arthur. He said quite humorously "damn man, you are going really quickly, lets just skip this next one", and I simply walked past the next room (where there was a picture of a man set on a table I was supposed to actualize). The next doorway led to a long, wide, metallic corridor, on both sides were a number of rooms, much like those I had just progressed through.
At the end of the hallway stood a doorway which led to darkness. Arthur noted that this was "untamed dreamspace" and that it was often found unsettling to other "guests", who were still progressing through the various stages. He and I walked into the darkness.
The room was rather bizarre. It was entirely black, while everything in the room was a sort of glowing white color. The best way I can describe it would be as being in a moving chalkboard. The ground was a glowing blurred white/gray color, and it was snowing. There stood a single ramshackle house in front of me, with sagging shutters and a broken front door. To add even more lulz, amid the snow the only other sentient objects beyond myself and Aurthur were living Christmas decorations. Snowmen were wandering around, wreaths were flying around in the air, and sleds were randomly zig zagging across the snow (and all of these things looked like chalk drawings). They began to mass toward us, and we sort of force-pushed them off into the sky, and then began to attack them. Two other people joined the room at this point, one was a random girl I didn't know, and the other was Mark Schlereth.
The room began to shift, it became a cityscape, a jungle, and an oil derrick at varying points. I don't recall a lot about this bit, but it felt as though it lasted hours. Schlereth was a noob and was the first to fall, and just lied on the ground sleeping. After my other two companions (girl and Aurthur) both got owned the room reverted to its "base" form; I fought off another random dreamdude, folding him in half and throwing him through a wall, and looked around. The room was again metallic; the walls were a mix of grey, orange, and teal metals, and the floor was navy blue stamped metal. There were two rounded doors with large, narrow slits in the middle, and the whole space just really gave me the feel of an Unreal Tournament map. Sensing I was alone, I figured it was about time to get out of there, and began to shove and kick at my sleeping companions on the ground to wake me up. The girl rolled over, and those really loud inception booms started to go off, and the room began to shake. I ran back out of the main room, back the hallway and into the "stage" room where I had created Aaron Rodgers. The entire wall was now a giant computer screen, and I went to the Madden 2011 and video games section of the forum [football forum I post on] where there was "OMG INCEPTION THE GAME" as the top thread. The first two posts were by S.Taylor and animaltested [two friends on forum], former had posted "omg this game is insanity, I just played 15 hours", and animaltested posted "floating roundhouse is now an inception tactic". I posted "ffs going to play nonstop after class" and the rumbling overwhelmed my senses, heard someone yell "wake up already" and woke up in my bed at 6:11, four minutes before my alarm went off.
It was insanely realistic. I was wide awake when I woke up, and was so confused as to what had just happened that I had to do three reality tests (check clock twice to see if numbers randomly change, try light switches, and look at self in mirror) to figure out if I was actually awake.
What blew me away was my perception of time, it literally felt as though I had been aware while asleep for hours, and writing this right now I am recalling things that happened during the "final stage" that I didn't remember when I started typing. Immediately after waking up, I wrote down everything I remembered on about three sheets of paper, and drew a half page worth of diagrams of the layouts of the various rooms.
Haven't had much lucidity in past month or so, but my last two experiences have had life-like perception of time which I've never seen before.