I had another lucid deam. I went to bed thinking about how it had been a long time since I had had an LD, and how I really wanted to have one...tonight. I also thought about what I wanted to do if I did have an LD. I usually like to fly, but I have been a little disappointed by the lack of details in some of my recent LDs, and I was wondering what I could do to be more observant. I fell asleep thinking about that.

My 7th LD:

I was in a car. Jeff was beside me in the back seat, and one of the people in the front may have been another friend. We were driving on a road that winded though a canyon. We passed a place where there were two waterfalls. I looked closely at the rocks by the waterfalls. One looked just like a big Triceratops head. I mean, exactly like a triceratops head. I suddenly realized that things like that just don't happen in nature....this was a dream.

I looked around at everything. Here I was in a car again like my last memerable LD. I thought about flying. But everything around me looked so intensely real, I wondered how I could possibly make it disappear like the time before.

I looked at Jeff. I reached out and took his hand and felt his skin and touched the hairs on the back of his hand. So very real.

I touched the leather seat in the car. It was a tan color. I could feel the light shiny texture.

I touched the shiny metal door handle...and wondered how I could possibly be in a dream when this was so real. Everything was so solid...so touchable.

I looked down to see what I was wearing. I had on a grey sweatshirt. I also had on some grey sweatpants. The color of the sweatshirt was a lighter grey color and the material was much heavier than the pants.

I laughed and said to Jeff, "Why am I wearing sweatpants??" (I never wear sweatpants, plus it was the middle of summer).

He shrugged and I think I told him at this time that I was having an LD with him in it.

I'm not sure where the dream went from here. I must have lost lucidity. I remember going on to other dreams.

I found it neat that my mind remembered that my main goal was for good detail. I didn't do much in the LD, but I was able to take a good look at my surroundings which I feel is one of the more interesting things to do in an LD.

One thing that I notice is unlike real life, I'm only able to really focus on one thing at a time. I suppose that is because in real life everything is physically surrounding me. In a dream it is easier for my mind to just create one detail at a time--because nothing is actually really there.

This wasn't a very long dream, but I feel every LD is practice for better future LDs. And one of the things I feel like I've done well is to plan ahead and make a goal for what I want to improve in my LDs.