07 January 2007 LUCID
(YES!!!!!
I am at some sort of big old cider mill. There are lots of people around... lots of vendors at tables selling odds and ends. It is a fall day, sunny and comfortable. I am sitting down and just watching the scene - and suddenly know I am dreaming.
The scene contorts. I remain seated and look at my hands, which look like the air is being let out of them. I concentrate on them, thinking that this is my dream. I remain calm and breathe, just remaining focused on my hands until they return to normal. Then I look carefully around and I am in the same place.
I get up and walk to a large group of DCs, all moving in the same direction. I work my way to the front of them, turn and yell, "ARE THERE ANY OTHER LUCID DREAMERS HERE?"
There is silence, but they all stop moving for a moment and look at me with bemused expressions. Then they start walking again, smiling and shaking their heads. I shout again, "DO ANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT LUCID DREAMING IS?"
This time everybody starts talking and I can't hear a single answer. I say, "WAIT... ONE AT A TIME," and point at one. He answers with words I cannot understand, so I point at another who says, "Yeah... that's when you know you are dreaming." I said "EXACTLY! Now... are any of you lucid dreamers?"
They all start walking again. I went up behind one, tapped him on the shoulder and said, "Well, this is my lucid dream, and you are going to help me build a snowman so I can bring it to life." Another DC was listening in and said he'd help too.
But it was warm out - we need snow. I stopped them as the crowd went on. I said, "There's a big house over there. In it, we'll find a room sized freezer with so much frost in it that we will be able to make a snowman out of it." we walked over to the house and in a back door. We were standing in a big old kitchen. Looking around, I could see a frosted window to one side but no door. We went out into a hall and found the freezer door.
Inside, there were two elderly ladies working diligently on something or other. It was like they were a bit irritated with our presence, but they mostly tried to ignore us. The room was stocked with lots of junk, and two piles of ice cubes with a bit of frost. We started trying to build something looking like a snowman out of them, but it just wasn't working out and one of the DCs kept screwing it up. I looked around, getting ready to will some snow into existence or find another room with more snow and spotted another door. I couldn't get it open, but then a DC came through it from the other side. I caught it and saw it had only a little more frost than the one we were in.
I recognized that I was losing lucidity, so I stopped and looked around for detail, studying the old wooden beams and ceiling. They were a dark brown wood with a bold grain, very rough and seemingly very old. As I returned to the DCs and their futile attempt to build a snowman for me out of bits of ice, my wife stirred and I was awaken.
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