First attempt at the garden of Eden challenge. Decided to do this one old school. WBTB/MILD with 4mg Galantamine and 300mg choline.
4th September 2014
I am staying with a friend and we are getting ready to go to a rave. As I head there I realise I have to go back for some reason, luckily the rave is only around the corner from their house so I go start walking back. Suddenly I see police everywhere and decide it's probably a good idea to go home. I get in the house and something happens which results in me starting to hit it off with a girl. I realise this is a dream, and head back outside to see what was going on.
I ask one of the policemen what's up and he says that he can't tell me. I assume it must be pretty serious, and decide that I need to get all super-hero to save people. I walk through the town a bit and go into a shop to get some water. I realise I don't have enough money and the shopkeeper mumbles something about pesky students but lets me leave with the water. I then fly around a bit to try and see what the police are trying to control, and for some reason I think the bad guy is the "Channel 4 News Tower". I notice it is moving and wobbling so I bring it crashing down and then head back to my friend's house.
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The dream changes and I'm with a lot of other software developers working at a new company. We all have tasks to do for homework and I am trying to do mine but people keep distracting me. I remember my lucid dream and decide to go to sleep to have more. I get terrifying sleep paralysis in which someone comes in and talks to me, but eventually I "fall asleep". I find myself in a strange building somewhere, completely lucid. It has Japanese style windows and I decide to go outside to try and find the garden of Eden.
The building has solid glass windows which I jump straight through, I then walk around for ages looking for the garden. I can't find it so I decide to ask someone for directions. The first person doesn't know, and the second is even more lost than me. I suggest a map to him, and then realise that's a great idea for myself too. I whip out a map and look for a wooded area, and spot that there is one quite close to here.
I get up and fly in the direction I'm expecting the garden to be. Looking around, this place is magnificent. I have a view of a lot of Japanese-style wooden houses all covered in a very light layer of snow. I fly towards the forests and the snow clears, so I look out for anything magical or unusual that could represent the garden. Before too long, I see a tree which really stands out. Although all the trees here have green leaves, this one has bright gold leaves. I get closer and see that there is a lot of leaves spinning around it calmly, almost like a very mild tornado. It really it fantastic and impressive to look at, and I assume that I must have found either the tree of knowledge or (more likely) the tree of life.
The dream gets unstable here, and when I re-stabilise it I'm back at the Japenese house. I notice two female friends and one of their boyfriends inside so I go in to talk to them. When the boyfriend is out of sight I decide to try it on with the girl, as everything in this dream feels clear and realistic so I imagine sex would be the same. She isn't interested so I keep on walking and see what mischief I can get up to.
There is a queue for some sort of massage or yoga class, but I get the impression that time is running out in this dream and decide not to enter it today. I get back to the place I was staying and then people start talking to me about the person who was aggravating me during sleep paralysis. Apparently he owns the Channel 4 News Tower so I'm not surprised he was being a dick. I go exploring a bit more and have sex with a few girls, which feels much more realistic than it usually is in my dreams (galantamine played its part there).
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The dream goes unstable again and when I find myself back outside (still lucid) I decide to go and hunt for the garden of Eden again, to try and get higher than a bronze award. I start flying when suddenly I hear everyone screaming. There is a missile heading straight for Earth, and typically I guess it's my responsibility to stop it. I fly up but it is really far away and I've never been very good at flying fast. I hear people chanting "10-9-8-7..." and try to speed up to the same speed as the rocket to intercept it. I get a bit faster but not quick enough, and it feels like I won't make it in time.
Suddenly it disappears, and no longer seems to be an issue. I thank my subconscious for letting me out of that one, and carry on flying to look for the Garden Of Eden. I spot a really impressive mountain range separated from me by about 2 miles of sea so I start heading in that direction. While I'm flying over the sea I start getting bored and putt all of my focus into trying to speed up, but it's to no avail.
While I'm flying over the sea, I spot a couple of Orcas (Killer Whales) playing about below me. I'm reminded of the "swim with a whale" badge which I've tried so hard to get on many occasions and failed. This seems almost too easy, so I let gravity kick in and plummet towards the ocean. I enter the water with a big splash, and find myself in a beautiful deep blue sea, fully able to breath. I swim around and admire the Orcas, and try and get close enough to stroke one of them. I reach my arm out and feel my arm move on my real body, and I gradually star to wake up.
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After falling asleep again I find myself in McDonalds working, fully lucid. I cook a few burgers which have weird topping choices, and then get bored and decide to go and have sex with someone. I go upstairs to the staff room but nobody is inside, so I head out to leave when an old school sweetheart comes in. I take her into the staff room but that's now full of people, so I go to another room with a combination locked door. I don't know the combination so I just hit random buttons and it opens.
At first we are chatting and I remember a point where she was teasing me a little bit, and I found it quite funny and enjoyed this momentary connection with my subconscious. Then we get down to business and start kissing and doing some foreplay. I'm impressed by how realistic this feels and really start to enjoy myself. I go to have sex with her but she says no because I'm not wearing a condom. I try to will her against it, because obviously it doesn't matter in a dream, but she is insistent. I find myself conflicted about what to do here and the dream ends.
