I’m at Gerry’s house (my ex-girlfriend’s father) with Lanika (my little sister) and Kimberley (my ex-girlfriend). We leave during the night to check at an old house in the woods that we’ve heard about. We arrive and there’s a really big, imposing fence around it. It is very tall with about seven horizontal lines of barb wire pitched at a forty-five degree angle from the top toward the enclosed yard. I say to Gerry, “now that’s a fence”. He smiles and agrees. [When I lived with my ex, I worked for her Dad in construction for about a year. He was the foreman and I was his trade-assistant- shit kicker- thus, the little inside joke, that doesn’t actually seem that funny].
Somehow Lanika and I get in there and we sort of walk around a bit. It is a large front yard with patchy, hilly earth and bushy grass; a bit like what you’d expect from a paintball skirmish area. There’s about an acres worth leading up to an old, shack-style house (it’s not too shabby though, it stands up and even has a verandah of sorts). I make a kind of joke to scare Lanika by saying, “look, there’s something up there in the house.”
She doesn’t get scared though, but then out comes a big fat woman (redneck-type from movies) with a shot gun. She points it at us ominously and sits down on a chair on her front porch and we’re like, “Ohh, Kayyy” and we walk away and out of her property.
As we walk into the surrounding wooded area we’re talking; Lanika is saying something when I notice a bit of glide-foot action, so I test whether I’m dreaming or not by floating onto my back. Although it’s not too strong (my vision seems a little dark and my awareness is not great), I become lucid and I say, “Hey! We’re dreaming.”
[“Glide-foot action” is my most noticed anomaly in dreams. It has been my most successful Dream Sign. It took a good couple of years to wake me up to dreaming because it was so subtle. It basically involves me noticing (usually by looking at my feet while walking or running) that I have a very smooth action and ability to place my feet where ever I would like; whether that be a metre or two past where they would naturally fall (in waking life), over a certain obstacle or distance marker or in a graceful motion unlike normal walking or running. Now-a-nights, I rarely miss this tell-tale sign, always thinking to myself, “I can’t usually do that!”]
They don’t understand what I’m saying really, so I explain, “I can prove it. Hold your nose closed and breathe in.” [A reality check that I got from Dream Views, Dae!]
I don’t even do it myself and Lanika says, “Well, hold on” because she wants to finish her story, which is about Liam (my third youngest brother, Lanika’s first oldest brother) sweating about something. Then she says, “Hey that is a really good technique actually.”
Unfortunately at this point (or another escaping my memory) I lose the dream. I try to spin to prolong it but it’s too late. I know that I’ve woken up but my eyes are closed and I haven’t moved my body. I think that this would be a good opportunity to try some astral projection but I have quite a stabbing pain in my back that is too distracting. In fact, I think that might be what woke me up. I was all geared to try some heart-surgery as well! Oh well, any lucidity is good lucidity.
Dae.
P.S. I walked to the shop today (1-2 Kilometres) with my new puppy and I saw a Koala! A bloody Koala! I have lived in Australia for 24 years now and I've never seen a Koala! It was less than four metres away. It saw us and got a little fright so it climbed about 3 metres up a tree (that's how I spotted him). I was so shocked, it was beautiful!!!
I sat down on the ground and called up to him (audibly and telepathically). Almost immediately he came back down to the ground at the base of his tree and we just sat there, him, my puppy and I, just looking at each other. He was adorable; he just sat there with a pretty doped-out, tired expression, twitching his big ol' ears every now and then to get rid of the flys. Eventually I went on to the shops. When I returned he was still there, hanging out at ground level. Then he climbed about 15 metres up the tree, oh man, you should see them climb. It was a real blessing.
