An odd trip through a Lucid Dream...

Well, before I start... I've been lucid dreaming for a long time. My oldest lucid dream I can remember was when I was about 6 years old. Since then, many many things trigger lucidity for me. I leave my television on when I go to sleep, so that when I recognize something I heard on TV, in my dream, I think "Oh... that must be on TV. I'm hearing it in my dream" -- That is probably what triggers it most often for me.

It did this time too.

The dream started out with me in class, a college class, learning spanish. I probably started my dream out this way because I'll be learning a language next semester, and I often go to sleep thinking about it (though it's Japanese, not Spanish).

Well... I'm sitting in class, and the professor is writing on the board. He's writing pretty wildly -- too fast for me to keep up, though no one else seems to be having trouble (probably another visual manifestation of my worries). Everyone seems to be keeping pace, though the class is moving at a ferocious speed, and I hear a kid say "Adventure!?" in that tone of Flapjack from that show "The Misadventures of Flapjack".

(((Writer's note: I go to bed with adult swim on tv, which is on cartoon network at night. But I won't deny watching regular cartoons too, at age 20 lol)))

It was at that point that I thought to myself: "Oh... it must be morning... I'm asleep and I'm hearing the TV in my dreams again..."

:::::BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM::::: Lucidity. I told myself to keep calm, and not wake up. "Don't open my eyes!"..... Ok... Look at the chalkboard. Yep, everything has changed since the last time I looked. Definately in control here. Definately sleeping.

I walk out of the classroom. Everyone's looking at me like "What...the..." but I shrug it off -- they're not real.

I walk outside and just stand there a minute. I'm a boring lucid dreamer... instead of changing everything, I like to just see what my mind produces and examine it... so I do. I started looking at the geometry of the buildings. They all looked perfect. Nothing "dreamy" about them. I was pretty impressed.

All the textures looked so realistic. The layout of the street looked very realistic too.

I start walking.

I'm approaching a fire hydrant... it's red. I think to myself "I'd probably be dreaming a different color hydrant if I was in a different country... that's pretty cool".

I continue walking. People are *really* angry at each other. Everyone except me is screaming at random people passing by. I have NO idea why everyone is so angry.

I continue walking.

I see, on a brick wall, someone's notes. It's one of those trapper-keeper things... I look inside freely. It's difficult to read. Everything keeps changing. I read a few words, become confused, and try to read it again... it's all different. I get annoyed because I know this only happens in dreams, and it's like I'm not allowed to read... so I stop. I pick up the fake, anatomy skull beside the stuff. It says "Anime" on the back of it. This doesn't change no matter how much I look at it. All the other plates of the skull are listed as, as far as I'm concerned, what they should be... except the very back which is misnomered "Anime". ((I took an anatomy class last semester, so I know most of the names for the plates that form a skull))

I decide to take everything laying there to look at it later... I rationalize that it doesn't belong to anyone in reality because no one in this dream even exists....

I continue walking.

Amidst all the angry people, I see my teacher. She's the only one who's not screaming and actually walks on looking kind of afraid. I come up to her and tell her that everything's okay becuase she's not even real -- no one is. She looks at me with disbelief and dismisses me. I told her that if anyone gets on her nerves to just hit them or something because they're not real -- she's absolutely appalled at the idea. So I let her get lost in the waves of angry people.

I kept walking. I'm still completely aware that I'm dreaming, and I constantly hear the television make itself manifest in the voices of those passing around me. I know that that Flapjack show was still on.

I accidentally drop everything I'm carrying, and a couple people come help me pick everything up.

Then the phone rang, in real life... and woke me up :P


That was probably pretty boring to read lol... no flying, nothing super powered... I stopped doing that a long time ago for some reason. Now I often try to just, in real time, try to make sense of what my mind is making up... analyzing what my brain does instead of controlling it.

Maybe I've run out of fun things to do in dreams? I don't know :P

I fall asleep with adult swim on almost every night too LOL. I usually stay up just long enough to watch transformers animated and then either fall asleep during pokemon or turn it off. I try to turn the cable box off or change the channel before I fall asleep because I don't want those stupid kids cartoons these days to get my ratings :D

But I gotta admit I've watched Flapjack a couple times heh

I wish I could get to that point, where I'm satisfied just walking around, observing how amazingly real everything in my vision appears, while watching and talking with the dream characters...Unfortunately, though, my lucid dreams are infrequent enough that I just have to spend my time in them doing the impossible (flying, eating inedible things such as the moon (it tasted like cookies 'n cream!:drool:), etc.). The thing that fascinates me the most about lucid dreaming is how amazingly REAL everything seems if you really try to pay attention to it. As far as we can tell during a vivid lucid dream, everything in our "vision" is life-like to the fullest extent, and it's a great feeling to observe and explore a world that is truly as visually realistic as our own, unique in each separate lucid dream, yet all imaginary, created by our brain. I'm working on WILD'ing (I haven't had any lucid dreams I've "officially" considered WILD's yet) and I badly have to start incorporating reality checks into my life more frequently when anything strange happens, to get more DILD's, since strange things are always happening in my dreams. I do hope at the least to achieve more DILD's soon enough, because things as simple as walking through the crowded streets of New York City can be made very interesting in lucid dreams.