Bizarre Semi Lucid Dream

I've had MANY interesting dreams mainly semi lucid as I tend to like it more that a full blown lucid dream.

A few things that stood out...
- The length of the dream was SO long
- The Sub-conscious mind is so powerful, its crazy how much stuff can develop in a dream its mind blowing
- The type of dreams possible is rather mind blowing

Ok so on to the dream. The thing that made this dream really standout was that it was so long, if I was to estimate how long it was...3 Real Hours. Also the complexity of the dream is so crazy that I'm still stunned.

A background of how it sequenced
- Started off in school, just hanging out
- Turns into cousin being in a shootout
- Turns into us running from the cops and fleeing into the woods
- Turns into me in a mediveal world with 5 companions and 1 lover. Were all on the run
- We span 3-4 towns all which was in rich detail
- I get captured and saved by buddha and meet back up with my lover but were seperated from the 5 other escapees

All of this transitioned smoothly and I didn't wake up not once throughout the whole night. This happened about 4 hours ago so the beginning part I don't fully understand, my dream recall is pretty good and so I never really record my dreams even though today I'm thinking about starting to do it again.

The beginning is unknown to what was actually going on. All I remember was I was talking to alot of friends and talking to alot of girls just like how it would be in real life. This went on for a good hour as I went to maybe 4-5 different locations just interacting. Then somehow my cousin calls telling me he is in a shootout and to come outside, I run outside which ends up being in front of my house next door. He is in the door way shooting at someone, all of a sudden cops pull up and so we run down the side alley, hop the fence and run across a busy street, we don't even stop running because we rather get hit then get caught by the cops.

We then run into the woods across the street which then transform everything into a mediveal like place. I have a pop up map that tells me where I'm going. I realize I'm with a girl, one friend I know in real life, and 4 others. Were still on the run and so in this world were fugitives.

The first town we went too was all well and good until something happened and it said that the high castle guards were on its way and so we ran away from the town and hid in the forest for awhile. We had to fight creatures in the forest from time to time. The second town we visited was hostile and ran us out of the town.

Note - The whole time this dream is happening, the story is unfolding and it has a pretty deep plot which I FORGOT, the gist of it was that we were wanted and had to basically live life in the woods

When going to the third town we almost made a mistake as there wasn't much forest left in the area and the castle was close to us as were two surrounding towns. So we had to be stealthy and sneak back towards the forest to get deep into it. When we hit the third town everything is cool. For a good 10mins everyone is just chicking out the town and I just feel a presence that someone is spying on us in the mist of the crowds. Suddenly my lover tells me to run but the seductive witch jumps on me and I call on buddha to help me (No I'm not buddist) and I get teleported into what seems to be an apartment building with my lover.

I'm kissing her and happy to see her and 10mins later people are trying to break in so we run into the shower and somehow teleport into the medieval lands again where we are fighting some strong monsters.

At this time I wake up and become shocked at how crazy the dream was. Here it was in the medieval time we were being chased, now I must say its not easy being a fugtive in those times. The forest sucked and having to flee the guards sucked. The towns were beautiful especially the 3rd one which if I could've drawn I would've. It was 3 story wooden buildings markets, etc. I really wanted to explore the town as it was so rich and detailed.

The whole way that the storyline happened it shocked me, and during the whole thing I was just hoping NOT to get caught. I've had some other bizarre dreams but the overall experience of this one took the cake.

Just to give you an idea of other dreams I've had...
- I was a mafia target, fleed them while almost getting shot, had to hold out for the night in my aunts house as people were surrounding the house, then I manage to solve the mystery of the whole thing...But it turned out to be a MOVIE. I ended up sitting in the theather watching the credits role right when I solved everything.

- Was in a middle eastern village roaming around, ended up on a long strip where I waved at 8 men, blackhawk flys over us telling us to run, I notice 2 insurgents with a sniper is firing down a block and when I turn around the 8 guys have guns and are shooting us, I run around the corner to see 5 guys who I thought were allies, I get popped it was so realistic that everything was blurry red as my head crashed to the ground in a face down ass up position lol.

- In a cab on a snowy day with 5 guys the guy drifts and slams into a car which the guy comes out yelling...all of a sudden 2 serial killers come out of no where wasting everyone. All my friends died I'm running away with the guy in the van. He has a gun I have nothing so as he waits at the corner I keep running. I climb a fence that I realize have barbwire so I climb down trying to run to this ladder until I see these guys coming towards me. I get scared and wake myself up...only to realize I haven't woken up, I'm in a park full of kids and the serial killers show me a picture of all my dead friends and another picture of people I don't know and they basically tell me I can't run because when I go back to sleep they'll get me lol.

I've had countless others but the storylines are so detailed and real that if I was lucid I wouldn't be able to experience that and so I tay semi lucid where I can control some of the action and I'm aware of whats going on. It's crazy how the sub-conscious cold create such crazy experiences.

I love those dreams. Although, I don't see anything in what you wrote that points towards semi-lucidity.

Never the less, awesome dream. I hope you get more of them soon. (and I hope I get more of them soon too <3. I've just had 2 really good nights in a row)

I called it lucid because I knew I was dreaming but I didn't know it wasn't real life. So I sort of was just acting as if this was my real life instead of a regular dream where I don't know I was dreaming and I don't know that this wasn't real.

It's usually when I'm semi lucid that I get dreams like this.

That thread starter was so nicely typed up! :)