Thread: The verge of lucidity

Background: I retired at 7:20 p.m., slept to 12:30 a.m. - recorded dreams, back to sleep, awake at 5:30 a.m. - recorded dreams, back to sleep, awake at 7:30 a.m. - recorded dreams, back to sleep before 8 a.m., awake at 8 a.m. and recorded last dream and up for day. (I slept a long time as I had just come off working night shift.)

The time: 8:00 a.m.

The dream: I see a bed in an unfamiliar room. It is being made or a white sheet is being placed upon it. I do not remember seeing any hands making it, nor do I recall if I was the one making the bed.
Shannon Doherty is in the doorway of the room.
She tells me that a ritual needs to be performed before the bed can be slept in, consisting of putting it in moonlight, which will cause a grid pattern to form over the bed. Since the moon was waning(I believe I knew in my dream the current moon phase), there would have to be a spell performed to ensure that no one slept in the bed before the ritual was performed. The other cast members of "Charmed" were standing behind Shannon and they all had a part to read of the spell.
(No, I don't watch Carmed, but my wife does, so I'm familiar with the characters. I also saw a preview of a movie yesterday on tv in which Shannon was starring, so perhaps that made her figure in my dream.)
Shannon began reading the spell. I had a copy that I was reading silently. The paper was black and the text was light grey. It seems I was able to read the text until a point at which one sentence was grammatically incorrect. It read something like : "The goal is to the the..." (or pretty close to that.)
When I read that line, I realized that it didn't make sense and at that point I woke up. Or, perhaps I became aware that what I was reading was incorrect and nonsensical.


I consider the dream a significant step toward achieving lucidity.

There are only a couple of times in my life that I remember trying to read a dream text and was unable to do so. In this dream I was partially sucessful.

I have been noting my dream signs and mentally affirming that I will remember my dreams upon awakening and that I will experience lucid dreams.

I've been studying lucid dreaming material and keeping a dream journal for the last three weeks.