sandcastles
Day Dreamer

While sitting down at a wooden table at a restaurant with my girlfriend, she decides she would like a frozen lemonade. I nod my head, and I walk into the kitchen and start using a machine to make the frozen lemonade. As I'm walking out of the kitchen, what seems to be the manager of the restaurant asks "How are you doing on your first day on the job?" I respond "It's going great." She realizes I am looking for the lids, and points me towards them. I say thanks, and walk out of to give my girlfriend her drink, but I'm no longer in the restaurant and appear to be in a small café.

I am slightly confused by the scene change, but continue to walk through the long lines to get to the door. I look down at the drink and realize it's only about 1/4 full. I'm rather disappointed in myself that I managed to screw this up. I get out of the café and I appear at the corner of the intersection right outside my neighborhood, and I start running home for some reason. I seem to be going really fast, as if I'm gliding through the air. I start doing crazy parkour stunts around obstacles such as walls and cars.

As I get down to my street, I land a jump while noticing two girls walk past me on the sidewalk. They don't look back, and continue walking. As I go and land another jump and turn around, I see three girls now, peeking around some trees, smiling. I return a smile, and sprint away as they chase after me. I end up passing my house, not thinking and jump over a neighbor's fence. As I got to the other side, I start to think "It's fine, I'll be right out, I won't get in trouble." a cat that I cannot see, meows "Hope. Hope. Hope."

I ignore it at the time, but end up at a dead end in the back porch, surrounded by windows to the house. As I think of what to do, a woman opens the blinds, and says "Really? Is this a circus?" She is behind the window, but I can hear her perfectly clear. Scared, I respond "Sorry ma'am, I'm l-leaving right n-now." as I stumble and run out to go jump over the fence I came from. As I am climbing to fence, I see the cat in the corner, licking its paws.

---Alarm---

(False Awakening) I quickly right down a few trigger words, such as restaurant, manager, café, parkour, and cat. Then I turn off my alarm and go back asleep.

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I knew this was sadly a false awakening, because I don't own an alarm, and when I looked at my journal, I had no triggers. Haha.

Red = Lucid

Bold = Notes

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I appear looking outside of a rather large window, staring at the view which seems to look like a foggy/mist of a long, (what appears to be a never ending) road. The road is aligned straight with the window, and I am standing in the middle.

It occurs to me the house is built ON the road, and I realize that is not logical what so ever. Again (like my previous entry, though these are not consecutive nights), I say to myself "I am dreaming." Just to make sure, I perform the reality check of asking myself "How did I get here?”.

I have been practicing this quite a lot, asking myself this question about 15-20 times a day for the past week and a few days. Proud of myself I got it to work~

I obviously couldn't answer the question, and I am now positive I am dreaming. The first thing that comes into my mind is to visit my old house. As hard as I try to picture and imagine myself in the scene, I just could not. I might have been trying too hard.

I get slightly discouraged and just kind of stand there, confused. I then decide to shake it off, and just enjoy the rest of my lucid experience while I have it. I am no longer in the foggy window scene, as I appear to be floating about a few inches above the ground of a red/orange rocky surface. I am “bobbing” up and down slowly as I levitate. Though I don’t really register the fact that I am actually levitating!

I look around, and notice I’m in the middle of a breathtakingly beautiful canyon. It seems similar to the Grand Canyon, but I really can’t be sure. As I look all around, I notice fine details in the side of the canyon, like tiny specks of grain or rocks. My vision seems to be enhanced greatly; everything is clear and super sharp. As if I was looking through a magnifying glass.

I start looking around the base of the canyon where I am, it finally hits me that I am not standing, I am floating about the ground! I start to smile and decide to “float” over towards a small stream. As I get closer, I find that the water isn’t just water; it’s an amazingly nice shade of blue. The best way I can describe it is a lighter shade of baby blue, and it was almost crystal clear. I can see the orange rock below the clear water, and I seem to examine this for a few minutes in awe.