Moonbeam's Lucids

[Moonbeam]

The Protest

I am part of some kind of organized protest. There is a big rally with lots of people, and we all head off, walking to Florida to set this thing right. We walk and walk, it seems like a long time, and suddenly I notice RP from my old job is walking next to me. He looks confused, and says, "WTF?" I notice that most of the people are gone--there is just a disorganized group of scraggly tired looking people. I see what he was specifically talking about; some of the people are carrying moss covered logs, as if they are weapons. I notice that I have a thin branch, like a switch, in my hand.

I start laughing because I know it's a dream, and I tell R. He gets a big smile too, and I say "Come on!", and we jump together, right over the people in front of us. After we land, I say "Let's fly!" and we fly up in to the sky, flying over buildings and looking at the scenery. In some places there are roof tops, but in other places there are mountain tops, with snow and skiers, and I see a climber with a rope. I think, that's weird, I didn't know there were things like that in cities, but I figure I've just never seen a city from that angle before. We fly down to a building, and enter an apartment.


The Man in the Apartment (cont. from lucid)
I'm in an apartment, standing in the doorway and looking at a man slumped on a chair. He is middle-aged, big and rough looking, wearing a wife-beater and droopy pants with an old belt. He seems unhappy and somewhat dangerous. I walk slowly towards him. He acknowledges me with a nod.

I say, "This is a nice apartment. How's the view?", and look out the window. I am surprised to see we are on the ground floor (all that is left from the previous dream is the fact that I thought I was high in a tall building.) There is a busy street corner outside. The man begins to speak, complaining about how miserable his life is. He talks about the endless performing (I sense that he is a magician or some kind of stage act); the girls who work with him but never let him touch them (I picture scantily clad assistants, teasing him on stage, but rejecting him when the show is over), and he tells me about Mary, the woman he loves but who doesn't know that he is alive.

He tells me to look out the window, and I can see Mary. She is a young woman, dressed in a short red skirt, with dyed black hair and Buddy Holly glasses, kind of geeky-goth looking. She is waiting for a bus on the street. I say, "She looks like a nerd." He nods sadly, saying, "Yes, she is." I go to him, and as I get closer he becomes less ugly and scary, and I bend down and kiss him, saying "Do you want to pretend that I'm Mary?" He looks up at me, sadly, yet hopefully...(and I start to wake up! I attempt DEILD, thinking about us kissing...) I see two babies, very small, able to sit up, but not walk. They are laughing and leaning towards each other, trying give each other slobbery kisses with open mouths the way babies do. (I realize I am not getting back into that dream.)

[Moonbeam]

Bunny Task  


I'm at a park, near a lake. Tom and I are standing on top of a cliff with some other people. We are trying to decide if we want to go hiking with a group that is leaving. Tom playfully taps the back of a guy (stranger to us) who is standing near the edge of the cliff. I look at him and disapprovingly shake my head, and turn to leave.

(I start to wake up, and attempt DEILD almost without thinking about it.) I see a vision of a path going thru a grassy field, winding down a hill. I move, bodiless, above the path for an instant, then I am in the scene, running down the hill! I'm so happy, and it feels great! Tom is with me. We go round a curve where I know the lake will be, and the scene opens up, not as a big expanse of water, as I was expecting, but with running streams, and rocks jutting out of the water, and pools between the rocks. We splash thru the shallow water. Everything is beautiful in the way that only a perfect day IRL or a lucid dream is. The sky is blue, the sun is shining, and the water is sparkling. I can see the mossy rocks in the water, and feel it on my feet and legs--very cold! The water gets deeper and we wade for a little bit, then T dives in and swims. I hesitate because I think it will be too cold, but then I go ahead and it's not so bad. I follow T as he swims, and we come to a part where the water is rushing around a rock. He swims strongly into it, but I can't; the current is too powerful and I am pushed back. I am still perfectly lucid, and I know I should be able to, but it is so realistic I just can't do anything to change it.

I grab an edge of the rock and pull myself out of the water. I am wearing only a pair of white panties. I stand in the sun, dripping with water, and admire the scenery, thankful for such an amazingly beautiful lucid dream. Random DC's are scattered here and there on the rocks, but they don't pay any attention to me, for which I'm glad. T gets out of the water. I remember that I should try to do the lucid tasks. I think for a second and come up the easter bunny one, and I focus on the woods lining the shoreline, thinking that will be a good place to look. I try to think of the other task, but its not coming to me (as I stare at the trees). I think, is it to....Eat Pizza? Yes, that's it I decide, “Eat Pizza” (It's not really). So I tell Tom, come on! And we head off over the rocks to the woods.

I see a run-down shack, with people outside, scruffy kids and over-all clad adults. Hillbillies, I think, and we go to the shack and go in. It is bigger than it looks on the outside, and there are farm animals in it--chickens and goats and cows. I see a woman, and I ask her, "Do you have any rabbits?" She says, yes, sure, goes to the corner, and comes back cradling a beautiful caramel-colored rabbit, which lies calmly in her arms. I pet it; its fur is amazingly soft. I look for signs that it may be an easter bunny, but I don't see any. I don't want to give up, since I've made it so far, and I have an idea. I ask her, "Does this rabbit have any eggs? Tom snorts and gives me a look, like don't be an idiot. But the woman says, "Yes, it has several eggs in its nest." SCORE!

I am just about to ask her if she has any pizza I can eat, when a man comes to us and says, "Come over here, I want to show you something." So T and I follow him to another corner of the shack. He takes a dusty red canister off the shelf where it sits with several others, removes a tight-fitting lid, and pulls out a small wriggling green thing. We lean in to look at it. It is a green rubber toy soldier, the kind where everything is the same color, the face and clothes and gun and everything; but it is alive, it is wiggling around and trying to get away. He holds it out to us, and we shrink back in horror. Tom yells, "Don't touch it!" but I reach my hand out to take it. The man gives it to me. I am trying to hold it by the back so it can't get to me, but it is wiggling around, trying to hurt my hand. I feel a burning sensation, and I feel like it is sticking to my skin. I try to give it back to the man. He takes it, but it is stuck to my fingers and as it pulls away it really burns. I am shocked, and the man laughs and says, "That may bleed a little." He says to me, "You know how I made it? I pulled out three of my teeth and used them!" He is laughing, and I see that his teeth are like green fangs, and when he opens his mouth there is no hole, it is just solid green rubber with the teeth molded on the front. I realize that he is made from the same material, with just a facade to make him appear human. (Start to wake up, try DEILD again, but I see only swirling ugly green faces with fangs, and I decide I don't want to be in that dream, and wake up).

[Moonbeam]

Lucid At the Hospital

My brother, Tom, and I are working at a strange hospital. I don't have an ID on, and nobody recognizes me. Tom points out Mr. A, my Dad's next door neighbor, and asks me what he is doing there. I start to explain that he is a mailman, so he has a reason to be there. This causes me to become lucid, and I turn to Tom and tell him that we are in a dream. I show him how I can put my finger thru my hand. He watches, mildly amused. I tell him I'm glad that he's not annoyed by dream-talk, for once, and ask him if he has anything to tell me. He thinks for a second, but before he can say anything somebody comes and says tells me that there is a patient that wants to see me.

I go to a male DC, sitting on the floor with a pregnant woman, and maybe a child. The man is middle-aged, and he has light-colored hair in a fro; nobody I recognize. I tell him that I don't really belong there, but I will do what I can to help. He looks at me knowingly, and says, "I have flown", gesturing towards the air. I instantly realize that he is trying to communicate that he knows I am dreaming, and I think that he may be a dream guide. I start to ask him if he wants to fly with me, but I change my mind and ask, "What do you have to tell me?" (And DAMN, start to wake up!) I rub my hands together and get a little bit back; I see row of people sitting on the ground, leaning over, and I run behind them, touching each of their backs, saying "Wake up!" For some reason, I think if I can re-animate the DC's the dream will continue (but I fail and wake up.)

[Moonbeam]

University

I'm going to university.  I have a group of friends that I am hanging out with. Something important is happening and I want to ask a particular guy what he thinks about the situation. He is the boyfriend of another girl in the group, but we realize that he and I are in love.


Lucid Camping, then back to the U, cont.

It's night, and I am sitting around a campfire with a group of people. I become lucid. I walk away from the fire, down a trail, towards a lake. I look into the dark water, trying for a moment to overcome my fear and dive in. I get brave and do it; it is incredibly thrilling and extremely realistic, except for there is no cold shock as I was expecting. I dive down and the bubbles stream upwards. I am able to breathe underwater.  I want to get back to the guy I left at the university, or maybe the man I thought was my dream guide from the last dream I had--just someone to ask some questions that I have been wanting to ask a DC. I swim deeper, and it turns to flying, and there is light. I land next to a DC I know as "Lisa", and the university boy-friend. There is a strange loud throbbing noise, and I ask Lisa what it is. She says, "This is all going to end soon." and I assume she means the dream, but I see a storm coming on the horizon. The man holds me and kisses me. I kiss him back, but I keep my eyes open because I am afraid if I close them I will lose the dream. I feel extremely attracted to him, and I'm loving it, but I worry that he will think it is weird that I am keeping my eyes open, and (Wake up anyway!)

Poison Darts, U cont.

I'm sleeping in a strange house; I wake up and go outside. I hear a lot of noise coming from a movie theater. I become lucid, but I think I need to quiet down the neighborhood so that I can get some sleep. I fly, naked, over to the theater and hover just inside the door. There is a loud movie playing; I try to turn it off from where I am by "throwing" an energy-bolt or something towards is, but I fail. So I fly down over the full audience, and push the stop button at the bottom of the screen. On the way down, I catch a glimpse of my reflection in a mirror on the wall. I look like a flying, fat, naked buddha. I tell myself to ignore it, it's just a dream, and I didn't get that fat and out of shape on the trip.

I lose lucidity, and I go back to the house and put on a robe, then go outside again. Native North and South Americans attack me, riding up on horses and throwing spears and shooting poison darts at me. I see a group of police, and my Mom, standing and talking. I go to them and tell them about the Indian attack. A cop says, "That sounds like a dream to me!" and I regain lucidity. Another cop says, "Do you see a full moon? That usually happens during a lucid dream." I look up at the sky, and see an enormous full Saturn, with a ring, and a big round artificial satellite with antennas and stuff sticking out of it. I tell the cop, "Yea, I see it!" and then I see hundreds of full moons in the sky. It is an amazing sight, and I gaze in wonder for a while. Then I lay down and pretend to sleep, so the cops won't know that I am really leaving, and I figure my body will be safe from the Indians there. My spirit flies off to find my university friends again. I fly over the city looking for the university. I land on top of a tall fence, then I see the area. I fly towards it, and I see my friends. I am having so much fun flying, and am so impressed by my control, that I attempt a flip in the air as I reach my friends, just to impress them.

[Mark]

oh wow I have not seen these ones mb  I dont have time to read them today but come the weekend you can expect some comments  

[phoenelai]

Poison Darts, U cont.

I'm sleeping in a strange house; I wake up and go outside. I hear a lot of noise coming from a movie theater. I become lucid, but I think I need to quiet down the neighborhood so that I can get some sleep. I fly, naked, over to the theater and hover just inside the door. There is a loud movie playing; I try to turn it off from where I am by "throwing" an energy-bolt or something towards is, but I fail. So I fly down over the full audience, and push the stop button at the bottom of the screen. On the way down, I catch a glimpse of my reflection in a mirror on the wall. I look like a flying, fat, naked buddha. I tell myself to ignore it, it's just a dream, and I didn't get that fat and out of shape on the trip.

Heeehe too funny, can you imagine that dreamshare? "Yep there goes Moonbeam flying naked and throwing lighting bolts, typical!" 

[Moonbeam]

6/4/07


Lucid Flying and Spinning/Failed Task

I'm at a hotel with the son of MB from work, but I think he is the younger brother of old friend BD. I am chaperoning him during a trip to do something for school, and I am supposed to make sure he gets up on time. He is a big, goofy, cute kid, a senior in high school. We are in the room together, and I get the idea of us in bed. I am immediately disgusted with myself, and I think I better leave. I put the phone by the bed so I can call him when it is time to get up.

I leave the room to look for the pool. I go into an empty bar. It seems to have been abandoned; the pool tables have signs saying that the coin thing doesn't work; but the balls are out so I figure you can play without paying. The bar itself is gone, and so is the mirror, leaving an empty dusty space. I see stacks of bicycle playing cards, new in the cellophane, sitting on the floor in various places. I wonder who needs so many new decks of cards. I see a basket of memorabilia--there are Three Stooges pictures, and a Ronald Reagan thing, and some Alice in Wonderland postcards.

I pick the postcards up. They extreme close-ups in 3-D. Lucid! I run out of the bar, to my Dad's house. Inside are a lot of people, including Mom and TR from work. I think, I should get out of here and do the tasks (without having a clear picture of what I am supposed to be doing.) As I run out of the house, my cat Fox gets out too and lies in the middle of the street. I run to get him, and as I bend down to get him I think I remember the task, something about pets..., oh yea! Try to find a motel that accepts pets, and get a room! (WTF did that come from—the task was to get your pet to talk to you.)

I put Fox back in the house, and run off to find a motel. I get distracted by some flowers in my Dad's yard, and as I look at them I think, "This dream is as real as life. There is no difference between dreams and real life.”

I run down the street and I think I better fly to save time. I'm having trouble getting off the ground, so as I run I spin quickly and leap, this seems to work for a short distance before I come back down, so I do it over and over, saying "Spin and Fly! Spin and Fly!"

It is a lot of fun, but then I come to a street festival and I slow down. I see that they are giving away chocolate ice cream things, so I get in line and get one. I take a couple bites, then take off again. I go into a building where people are working, and I see my old mentor Dr. A. I run to him and give him a big bear hug, actually kind of merging with him. I think maybe I better back off a little, so I push him away and look into his face. To my surprise, he looks very angry, and says to me, "That new secretary you wanted to hire so much isn't working out!" I start to wake up; I try to stay in the dream by focusing on his face, but it morphs into different people and I soon lose it.

6/5/07

Lucid Binge

I'm at work, and there are way too many people. I gather that the extra people are from another lab and are there to share new techniques with our techs. I go into the break-room and I see a huge spread of food. I leave quickly (which is what I really try to do at work.) I wander around, unsure what to do. I go back into the break room and sit down at the table. There are a lot of people I don't know in there eating. I pick up a piece of cake, and altho I don't acknowledge to myself yet that it is a dream, I know I won't regret eating it. I begin to eat, trying all of the food I can reach. It is mostly sweets. Sometimes I feel like I am choking, but I find that if I take small bites and chew it, concentrating on the taste, I can do it. It all tastes really good. (probably 95% as good as IRL.) I say to no one in particular, "You know, sometimes when I am in a dream, I eat a whole lot, because I know it doesn't matter." Most of the DC's continue with their conversations, ignoring me, but a man next to me says, "Yea, sometimes I do that too", in a knowing way. I'm glad to have a conspirator, so I scoot closer to him and say, "Oh, I didn't see those pumpkin bars; do you mind?" and I reach into his plate and get some. He smiles, with an exaggerated "help yourself" gesture, and says "You know, sometimes in a dream I just eat the frosting and throw away the cake!" I say, "Like this?" and proceed to do what he suggested. We laugh, and look around for anyone else who might be in on it. A girl across the table is looking at us and smiles as she shoves cake into her mouth, and we know there is at least one more dreamer. (Alarm goes off!)

[Moonbeam]

7/1/17/07

Crazy Lady

I'm a homeless person, sitting by myself in an alley, smoking cigarettes. I'm having a conversation with myself.  I over hears this, and for an instant I am split into three conscious parts—the two having the conversation, and the one listening.  I am aware at the time that it is one of the most profound things that has ever happened to me.

Adventure

I'm going somewhere in the wilderness that can only be reached by water-skiing. It is led by a beautiful chubby long-haired Hispanic woman. We go into the back-waters, and camp on the beach. Then I see her dancing, her black hair tipped in blue.

Lobster-Man
 
I'm with a man who has had an experiment performed on him; he has had a lobster nervous system implanted in place of his own. So he is an invertebrate intelligence, which is almost like an alien. At first he reacts slowly to my advances of interest, then we begin to talk and I ask him questions about his strange existence. Soon I am sitting on his lap, and we are hugging and laughing. I tickle his belly and blow in his ear to see if his nervous system works. He responds with his own playful moves, and soon I am very turned on. (Scene shift--I blame this journal causing my mind to censor my dreams!)


FA's

I have multiple FA's; each time regaining lucidity. At one point I eat a pizza, which tastes good but has a strange texture. When I have an FA, I am afraid that I really ate an object in my sleep, and I see a gnawed on telephone book, which makes me lucid again. Once I get Tom up and he joins me (not IRL, in the dream.) I perform an extremely scary task which I have been trying to do for some time; this goes well, and I am happy.


7/19/07

Business Trip

I'm on a trip with SS from work. We are sharing a bed, which is in an open place, where there are lots of other people around. I go to sleep, and wake up lucid, still in the dream. I get out of bed, and start looking for a particular DC--I know he is a man, but that's all I can remember. (I'm actually looking for the one that pj gave a message to for me, but I'm confused in the dream about the reason I'm looking for him). I run thru malls, restaurants, etc. and I finally think that I find him at a bar. I tell him that I've been looking all over for him. (Censored)

I run off, still looking for the particular man, and I find BB from work. He looks at me hopefully, like he knows or wants something, but I tell him to get real. Then I say "Let's fly!" We shoot straight up into the air, and fly over a river and trees. For some reason after a little while I get stuck in a feet-first position. BB tries to advise me on getting straightened out, but I can't seem to do it.

I wake up again in the bed; I know I've overslept and SS has long since left to go to work. I hear people talking, and I open my eyes just a crack. There are a group of women with kids at a table, and they are talking about how there a spirit is haunting the area, scaring the kids and bothering people. I know that they are talking about me, and I assume they saw me while I was lucid, as if I was having an OBE. I don't want them to know that I am awake, but I have to go to the bathroom.

[chris31]

Damn that poison darts lucid sounds awesome.  I hope you thanked that cop for helping you regain lucidity.  That view of the moons and planets would have been such a good sight (i love space lol), and then you also had a nice flying session.  Too bad you looked like a fat naked buddha though lol.

[phoenelai]

oh wow I have not seen these ones mb  I dont have time to read them today but come the weekend you can expect some comments  

I think most of these are from before you came Mark.  It seems like a long time ago, but I remember these dreams so well.  It's kind of fun for me to go back and read them now.  It's kind of cool to have them all in one place (eventually.)

Heeehe too funny, can you imagine that dreamshare? "Yep there goes Moonbeam flying naked and throwing lighting bolts, typical!" 

Actually, I am so rarely able to throw any sort of energy/ray/lightning bolts!  It was a big goal of mine for a while, but I sort of gave up I guess.  That reminds me, I should try that again.  I sucked at it.  I figured out that I should just let my mind come up with its own weapon, and I usually end up with something that works under the circumstances.  (Big pencil, box of salt, etc.)

I shot some rays out of my hands to knock out some bad guys, it was too cool!!! 

[Moonbeam]

Out of the Void, Thru a Portal, and Completion of Task

(It starts as a WILD with lots of HI and aural hallucinations. I have a huge battle with Tom, altho I know the whole time that he is sleeping quietly.  It is really funny, I am actually aware of my motionless body the whole time too, but we are also having this fight where he is lying cross-wise on the bed, and I am trying to make him lie right, then he puts things on my side of the bed to make me uncomfortable.  We are both yelling the whole time.)

Somehow I escape that annoying scenario, and begin floating in a void. I wonder if I can visualize a portal, and one appears in the distance. It looks just like the little one on the badge, except it is red. I project myself towards it, but when I get to it, it is still little so I can't go thru and it and fly right by. I try again, and this time the portal looks like a sparkly red energy field. I am able to go thru it, and I feel electric shocks as I do.

I come out in the sky of an alien world, over a roiling sea. It is night, and the water is silver with chunks of ice floating in it. I fly down, preparing for the shock as I hit the cold liquid, but as I land it is like being on a water-bed: nice and warm, and I just rock on the surface. I head towards the shore, propelling myself on top of the waves, and climb out onto the land. I walk into a neighborhood. It is still dark, but it is a normal appearing town. I think maybe I could find a DV member. First I call out as many names as I can think of, but no response. I try to go up to the door of a couple houses, but each time I get near enough to the house, where I think that the door would be it's on the other side, or I can't find the path up to the house, or something gets in my way.

I see a lit-up gas station across the street, and I head over there. I am aware of a man crossing the street at the same time. I get tunnel vision, so that all I can see is the lights of the gas station, but then that closes off too. I reach out for the man, and am able to grab his arm. I said, "Will you help me? I can't see a thing!" I feel for his shoulder, and it is way up high like he is really tall. He doesn't object, so I asked him, "Are you a DV member?" He says that he is, and his name was Noon. I ask him who else is here. He said, "Agamemnon" (sp?). Then he says, "We are some of the oldest members of DV." I tell him that I never heard of him. Then he says, "We weren't expecting you." I don't care, I am happy.

[Moonbeam]

(An early WILD experience.)

Weird WILD

I have an orgasm upon going into the dream. (Well, at least I got that over with.  Don't ask me why, purely a sneeze-type physiologic reaction.)

I am in a mall. I cannot seem to walk right. First I can't straighten up, and then I am crawling, sometimes sliding, on the ground. I look at my hands and they have too many or missing fingers every time. Whenever I start to leave the dream, I focus on the floor pattern or the pattern of someone's shirt. Once I focus on some music being played by a band in a phone-booth in the corner.  I try to talk to people, but they ignore me as if I am invisible. I crawl on people's tables, and they don't notice me. The weird thing is that when I move my fingers, I can feel them moving in the bed. Sometimes I feel my breathing or heart-beat. I feel vibrations and hear weird noises. I think that Tom is viciously tickle-attacking me. I can see his face, grinning at me.  I get really pissed, and yell at him to stop. (If this is typical, I think I'll skip the WILDing.)

[Moonbeam]

PART 1--Walking Tree

I'm sharing an strange apartment with SF from work. I'm making my lunches for the week, and the bowls are in a cabinet way over my head. I reach up on my tiptoes and reach for them, and altho I can't touch them, they tip slowly and fall into my hands. I think, that was really weird--I should do an RC. I almost brush the thought aside, but then I think, "No, I haven't been doing my RC's enough and that's why I'm not having any lucid dreams". So with a sense that I'm being silly, I look at my hand. No pinky--it's been amputated! Yay!

Suddenly I realize the ridiculousness of the whole situation, and wonder how I could have not known it was a dream. I run out of the kitchen into the living room. My Mom and some other family members are sitting on the couch. I want to communicate with the Mom-DC; I've been wanting to talk to DC's and learn from them. So I sit next to her, and try to get her to tell me something (I can't remember what I said exactly). She responds just as if it had been IRL and I interrupted her talking to someone else to ask her about her feelings--confusion, distraction, maybe slight annoyance, etc. So I think, oh well, well there's lucid tasks to do anyway!

I run out of the apartment, down the stairs, thinking the whole time that there's going to be a beautiful day thru that door--and there is! I run out into a peaceful street scene, a much better neighborhood than the squalid apartment would have seem to have been in. The sun is shining, and kids are playing in the park-like yards. I see a small tree (the kind that's I've been "practicing" IRL with, I figured a small one would be easier than a big one). I point at it, and command it: "UPROOT! UPROOT! UPROOT!" People gather to see what I'm doing. The grown-ups are scoffing and telling me I'm crazy, but the kids watch the tree intently. Slowly it rises from the ground. "See, it's working!", I say to the doubters. The tree rises on four thick roots, like little elephant legs. I continue to yell commands at it until it is about 5-6 inches up. Then I say, "NOW WALK! WALK! WALK!", and it does! The kids cheer, and the grown-ups are amazed and murmuring (murmur, murmur, murmur.) The tree takes about two or three steps--then topples over.  I am ecstatic! I did it!


PART 2 - Fear of Flying

I take a second to enjoy the spectacle, then I try to think of the other task. I have to think for an instant what it is, but I finally remember it (swing like Spiderman and land in water), and I jump and fly into the air to look for water to dive into. I fly to a balcony and look around. The scene takes my breath away.  I have flown much higher than I had realized, and I am at the top of a building as tall as a skyscraper. The landscape spreads out below, and I see a body of water in the distance. I don't have anything to swing wit. I think that I'll fly to the water and figure it out once I get there. I climb over the railing, and prepare to jump...and totally freak out. It is so real--I can feel the cold wrought iron railing, and see the detail of the building and the scene below, and I think, "I'm about to die. I almost jumped off a balcony because I thought it was a dream." At the same time, I realize, it has to be a dream, how else would I have ended up there? I prepare to jump, but again, I just can't do it. OK, I think I'll try some RC's to prove it's a dream. I look at my hand--five fingers. I try to poke my finger thru my palm--it doesn't go thru. I hold my nose--I can breathe. I still know it's a dream, but just to be safe, I climb back over the balcony and decide to find another way to the water.

I go into the apartment that the balcoony belongs too, running thru bedrooms, waking people up, yelling at them "Don't be alarmed, it's just a dream!"

Part 3 - Swinging with the Band

I run out of the apartment, back to the street and I decide it is safe to fly at a low level. I fly thru the neighborhood, looking for a likely place to swing into water. I find a festival of some sort, and there I lose my flying ability. I try commanding "FLY!", but it doesn't work. I then try the command "SUPER-FAST RUNNING!", and I try to run, but that doesn't work either. So I walk thru the fair.  

I see a band on a stage, with a tub of water behind it. The tub is painted in a colorful diamond-pattern, and I think it is either like the tub a trapeze artist might dive into at a circus, or maybe an elephant-watering tub. I approach the stage, and I see a Mariachi band playing. As I get closer, I make a mighty leap, but I see that I am going to fall short. One of the band members reaches out to me.  I think he is trying to help me make it, but then I see his face. He is angry, and he tries to swat me away.  I swerve to the side, and catch two of the thick wires that are running along the side of the stage. I climb hand-over-hand up the wire, to the level of the stage and then to the top of the support beam. I pull the wires loose, and hope they will swing me far enough to go over the stage and into the water behind. I jump, swing over the band, clear the stage, let myself drop....and miss the pool by a few feet, landing on some wooden stage-supports. I laugh and lay there for a minute, all tangled up in the lumber and wonder if Seeker will let me count this. Then I remember it doesn't matter, because I did the advanced task already!

[Moonbeam]

Lucid Wreck (Woman in a Silk Robe)

I'm driving with CR from work. We're in her car, driving down the highway, after having left a conference. I think I know the way, but I'm a little confused. I'm telling her which way to go, but she keeps fiddling with things in the car and acting distracted. There is some ice on the windshield, and somehow she is trying to scrape it off from inside the car. I tell her to put the heater on it, but she says the blower doesn't work on that side. She tells me since the car is a diesel, some things don't work that well on it. I am surprised, and she says it can use gas or diesel, and she shows me how she can flip a switch to change it back and forth. Flipping the switch messes up the car, and the headlights go out. She starts cursing, but keeps driving. It's dark out and I can barely see a thing, but the highway has changed and become a windy road with steep drop-offs on the side and obstacles everywhere. I'm terrified, but I know we can't stop.

Suddenly the road ends and we sail off the edge of a cliff. When we hit bottom, I'm standing up, and I see a little toy car and a little doll of CR in the snow at my feet. Lucid! I look around to get a better idea of where I am; it is a rocky, snowy landscape, but I see a huge black door, approximately 30 feet tall, in the side of a mountain. I climb up to the doorknob, thinking suggestively the whole time I'm climbing: "When I open the door, there will a beautiful spring-time on the other side", and I try to picture a green field, flowers, etc. I reach the door-knob, pull on it--and it comes off in my hand. I throw it away, and see a hole in the rocks I can go thru.

I come out inside an office area seems abandoned and somewhat trashed. Dazed DC's are wandering around, looking like they were just in an accident of some kind. The DC's are all women, four or five of them, and we start looking around the office, wondering what sort of disaster drove the people away. I see a picture of somebody's kids that was left behind, and I show it to the other women, as proof that the office-workers had to leave in a big hurry. I climb thru a window, and the other DC's follow me. We go into a flea-market or junk-store. One of the women is wearing a maroon silk robe. I feel like she has been watching me. She goes to a table and stands with her back to me. I go behind her. She picks ups a mirror and looks at me in it, and she nods at me. I lift up her robe, and rub her naked bottom and belly. She pushes back against me.

[Moonbeam]

This was the first of my "strange" or "aware" DC dreams.  I had been given a task of finding a particular DC.

Elusive DC

I'm in a dark neighborhood, and I come to a house with a tall (15 foot) chain-link fence around it. I think I should climb the fence and go in, but I'm too scared. So I turn and walk away, and as I did I try to yell a particular DC's name (somebody that someone told me to look for), but it feels like my mouth is full of cotton, and I can't talk. I am already really nervous, and for some reason that totally freaks me out, and I wake up.

(DEILD) I find the DC I am looking for multiple times--twice in a crowd, once I'm in his bed in a luxurious apartment while he is up walking around, and once he is in a booth with his feet up, reading a magazine.

The first time I just ask a random DC if he is the one I want. He is an Asian man, and he says yes, then immediately walks towards me very menacingly. I put my hand on his chest to stop him. That fades, then the next three times he is a dark-haired, big man who looks like a movie star or maybe like a football player.

Each time, as soon as I ask him who he is, he looks surprised, then launches into a dialog which seems to make no sense. I try to talk to him, but he won't listen until I yell at him. The first two times, he fades from my vision, and I am able to talk to him for a few seconds in the dark until his voice disappears too.

The third time, when he is in the booth, he again looks surprised when I approach him; this time I don't ask him who he is, I just say, "I know that's you!", and walk up to the booth. He puts the book down, and his feet down, and looks at me in a not unfriendly way.

Out of the corners of my eyes, I see at least 3 or 4 large men approaching me. I know they are trying to scare me, so I refuse to look at them, and that seems to keep them from touching me. The DC says, "I know your boss." (I assume that he means the man who gave me this task.) I say, "You do?" and then I know he is going to launch into a bunch of confusing gobbledy-gook just like the other times, so I stop him and demand an answer to my question, which concerns what happens to people in the after they die. (I had tried the other times, but he wouldn't answer me.) He finally gets serious, and says, "That is no good for the human race at this time." (Implying I shouldn't know.)