I just had the most amazing lucid The kind you read about in lucid dream books, and the kind I thought I'd never have. First thing I remember, I find myself in a non-lucid visiting someone's house, she's a friend in my dream tho I don't know her in real life. She gets upset at me for some reason, and tells me she's in love with me, and I tell her I like her as a friend but I don't feel that way about her. There's something about wanting to take a shower, there's two or three showers but they're all being used, and I somehow decide to go to take a nap on her couch. In the dream, I am lying there drifting in and out of sleep. As I'm laying down in the dream (maybe in reality? I'm honestly not sure), I feel a sudden 'warp' feeling, and wonder if I've gone lucid. I pinch my nose, and I can breathe! I try to get up but almost lose lucidity, it takes a few tries but finally I get up. I pinch my nose a few times, sort of not really believing it at first, but after four times or so, I finally believe I'm dreaming. I get up and walk around and there are a bunch of people, mostly men, seeming like they are on their way out of where I am. I am coherent enough to remember the simple task for January, and and stop one and ask what my new years resolution will be, and he ignores me. I stop another and ask, and he says "only you will know", lol. Okaaay. I ask another but he ignores me as well. Somehow after that I end up back on the couch again, feeling like I'm about to "wake up" from my nap. I do another RC, can still breathe, and I decide I want to go outside. I get up (a little difficult, and I keep thinking I'm about to wake up, but finally I manage) and find my way to the door. I open it and go out, and there's snow on the ground, and somehow I know it's supposed to be freezing out, but it takes a minute for the "cold" sensation to kick in, and I never really get a strong sensation of cold. I step off the steps past a woman who's just sitting on the sidewalk (I ignore her) and walk down the street a bit. I look up and see the san francisco skyline in the distance and suddenly decide I want to fly. I used to fly in dreams when I was a kid, so there wasn't much doubt in my mind that I could do it - I simply reached into the air, and I come off the ground and fly up about fifteen feet. I angle myself a bit more like superman as I am pulled skyward, slowly but surely, and then I start to speed up. I look up and see the lights of the San Francisco skyline and just think oh wow, I want to fly to that. They're kind of blurry, and I say "increase clarity" to get them a bit clearer, and suddenly the lights are incredibly bright, incredibly vivid and beautiful. I start flying towards them a bit faster, when I start to see a rainbow of lights ahead.. I squint to see what they are, and as I come closer I see it's a carousel! It comes into focus and is about 30 feet away, I'm flying towards it and I can see all the horses are covered with rainbow lights, each horse a different color, and it's slowly spinning around, and it's just so amazing and beautiful. I think I want to ride one of the horses, and wonder if I can land on one. On top of the carousel, perhaps 200 feet in the air, are a bunch of multicolor pastel balloons - blue, pink, and yellow, tied to the top of it. My flight path is going to take me right into them, but I don't hesitate, I just dive into them, and they're soft and light, it's so real, I can feel the plastic balloons hitting my face before moving away from me, there are hundreds of them, and I'm joyfully batting them around as I dive through them. I may have even started laughing at the sheer amazingness of it all. Finally I'm through them and I am coming down slowly to land, and it's like there's a big fountain, but the water is special in a way I can't explain, it's water but there's something else added to it, it's very pure with a kind of inner light. I land in it and it sprays up all over me and it's exhilerating and really fun, but at the same time it blurs my vision. I know I'm in trouble because everytime I take my concentration away from the dream for more than a moment or two it starts to waver - I fight to be able to see but my eyes are wet (in the dream), so everything's blurried, I can't see anything except blurred colors, and suddenly, I awaken.

Oh, man. That is the most amazing dream I've had since I was a kid I am beyond happy right now. I think I've been sleeping about an hour and a half. It seemed like a pretty long dream...The colors were so bright, so vivid, the sensations so real.. the best part was flying and diving into all those pastel balloons

Now I'm going to go post this in the Task thread so I can get my first ever pair of wings