I'm standing on the grass outside my childhood home. I notice that although the lighting makes it appear to be daytime, the sky is black with gray and green clouds, and at this point I realize I'm dreaming.

I lift myself into the air and begin to fly. As I cross into the cloud layer, I remember this month's lucid tasks. Become your costume? I can't remember the last time I had a costume, but I decide that in the same spirit I'll fly to New York City, land on the Empire State Building, and become King Kong.

I fly further to the east and I decide I'll make a stop along the way to talk to a jack o' lantern. I descend back through the clouds and see a house looming in front of me. I lift myself back up to clear the roof, then I land in the back yard. I turn around and walk up onto the back porch where I see a jack o' lantern sitting on a rail near eye level. I go up to it and say "Hi there, how's it going?"

It seems to come to life at this point as the eyes begin to move around and scan its entire surroundings. After watching it roll its eyes for a few seconds, it looks at me and grins even more than it had been in its inanimate state.

"Cock-a-doodle-doo!" the jack o' lantern shouts at the top of its lungs (if a dream jack o' lantern could be said to have lungs) and begins laughing maniacally. This is so ridiculous that I can barely hold myself back, and after a few seconds I succumb to laughter as well.

While laughing along with Jack, I make the mistake of closing my eyes. When I open my eyes, I find myself in my bedroom in my childhood home where I lose my lucidity.

I'm listening to a baseball game on the radio where the Cleveland Indians are leading the Tampa Bay Rays 12-5. I'm sitting on the floor looking at several fishing lures I have laid out. A cockatoo is several feet ahead of me eating mixed nuts out of a can.

I pick up the bird and go upstairs. When I get to the living room, I set down the bird, who goes right back to eating the mixed nuts. I go back to listening to the ballgame and I notice the Rays have scored several more runs and soon have the game tied. I tune out the game in disgust before I wake up.