I'm dreaming, but I'm not lucid. I approach a tall chainlink fence topped with barbed wire about 10 feet high and I think to myself, "I can jump over that". So I psych myself up and keep thinking, "c'mon go for it" but I slowly realise that there is simply no way I can possibly do this, it simply defies physics.
I try to rationalise the situation and wonder why I would think of jumping this fence in the first place, I'm smarter than this surely, yet I'm convinced I can do it. To hell with it, so I prep myself up again, but I'm more anxious this time, theres more doubt in my mind. The anxiety builds until I get quite uncomfortable then suddenly it hits me- the only time I've ever jumped like this is in dreams, I'm dreaming!
Jumping the fence no longer interests me as I'm simply in awe at how real everything is. I bend over and pluck some grass from the ground and I'm simply amazed at how real it feels. I wonder about what I can do, how I can control the dream, but while I'm thinking I notice some guys causing trouble at the roadside. Three men (who are all identical, and look like one of my best friends, Paul) are threatening a woman (Paul would never do such a thing by the way). Anyway, I realise that none of these "clones" are actually Paul(s) so I make the decision to kick some ass. Turns out I know martial arts and can also slow time, leading to some absolute killer flying kicks and various acrobatics. Unfortunately for them, they had no such powers and were easily (in breathtaking super slow-mo) defeated.
Now I thought I could get on with the business of doing something I really wanted to do, but woke up- what a dissapointment. :wink:
I've had only a handful of lucid dreams over the past few years that I can remember, but this has been the most vivid to date, and I had another LD immediately on falling back to sleep after the one described. Never before have I had such control in a LD, it was thoroughly exhilarating.
Thanks to the dream views community for helping me reach this level, you guys rock! 8)