Hello all. I was inspired to join this forum because the other night I had a lucid dream for the first time in about 10 years. It was very brief - just a flash of lucidity really, but better than nothing.

It's night time. I'm walking down an alleyway and I come to two sets of big gates. Both are open but as I go through them I wonder if they are going to shut on me suddenly. I come to another road and look both ways. I decide to go to the right. I have the feeling I am somewhere in Sydney. Further along the road I can see a busy street that I sort of recognise. It reminds me of dream cityscapes I've been to before. As I walk along the road towards the busy street I notice that there is rubble strewn across the road in front of me. That's when I realise I'm dreaming. I look at the light reflecting off the polished surfaces of some of the broken stones on the road in front of me. I have a big surge of excitement and try to keep myself calm. This works for a few seconds but then I lose the focus.

The context of this (without going into the gruesome details) is that I'm in the initial stages of a marriage breakup. The imagery in the dream seems to point to at least part of me moving away from a feeling of being locked in (or at least the fear of it) and walking through the rubble of the relationship towards something new.