Last night I went to bed early, with the thought that perhaps more sleep would allow me a better opportunity to LD. After a few hours I suddenly became lucid behind a local gas station/food store, momentarily questioning my lucidity after jumping up in the air to do a wild flip and crashing back down. But then I jumped up in the air again and took off like a shot into the (night) sky, going faster than I usually do. I looked up to see a thumbnail of a moon in the sky, shining faintly. I zoomed toward it and kept yelling "Increase clarity!" over and over to watch it become brighter and brighter.
Suddenly I remembered the lucid task and realized that I was nowhere near anyone. So I called out "Dream character!?" and looked around, not even able to see the ground. There were no nearby floating dream characters, and suddenly I began to wake up.
Two hours or so later I became lucid again, in my grandparent's backyard (an odd common dreamsign). I took off from the top of the hill where they live and flew over the pasture in the now morning light. I remembered the task again, and looked down in the pasture for people, but only saw horses. Finally I saw a girl down there, but I couldn't control my flight enough to land down there. So I hovered about 20 feet above her and asked her "Where am I?" She seemed to smile and said "I dunno, where d'ya think you are?" in a playful and almost sarcastic tone. I looked around, and realized I certainly do know where I am, and since this girl is a part of my subconscious, why would I even need to ask?
I woke up again, happy to have completed my dream task. But before I could fully attain consciousness, I started to slip into a dream again, and eventually found myself AGAIN in the same location of my grandparent's backyard. This time someone was shooting at me and I did a backflip off the edge of their hill and sprung out over the pasture again, when I suddenly became lucid again (a fairly effective dreamsign for me now). I looked down and saw horses, and then noticed I was flying on a horse. He landed down on the grass eventually, and I asked him "Where am I?" He said "I don't know..." and then mumbled something that I couldn't hear. I said "What?" He said it again to my face, but again I couldn't understand the last thing he said. This upset me because I am in my own mind, I should ALWAYS be able to hear what goes on in there!
I woke up again, still not able to figure out the horse's answer, but wasn't too worried about it, since I already completed the task earlier in the morning. Then it occurred to me why I should have a talking horse in my dream. The night before I had watched "Cats and Dogs," a movie with cats and dogs that talk. The nature of the expressive talking of the horse in my dream was exactly like that of the movie. I chuckled.
Anyway, that's it. That's how I completed my dream task. Unfortunately, I didn't get a very in depth answer from the girl, because before I could ask her to elaborate, I sailed off beyond speaking range. And I never did figure out what the horse said, but I intend to go back and ask him.
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