Night 53: OUR FIRST LUCID!
03:40 to 14:15, slept deeply without recalled dreams. Woken by phone call.
14:20 to 15:30, slept and had the following dream, which began ordinary and became lucid.
We were in our high school's band room, and our purpose for being there was to organize the instrumentalists into sections. Our band teacher was there, and two students stood in front of him being scrutinized in some way. Both stood atop small duck tape "X"s on the floor. Two chairs were behind them, placed on duck tape squares on the floor, with people standing behind the chairs and holding them in place. When the band teacher was done talking to the students in front, he would give them both a shove, and they'd fly backward and land in the chairs. They'd get up and move, and he'd shout "NEXT" and then the next pair of students would take their place in front of him. The chairs in the band room for every section were placed in squares just like this, and we disliked it, because it meant a fixed number of players in each instrument section. Our band teacher explained that if there were too many clarinets and not enough saxes, he would have the surplus clarinet players learn sax and join that section, etc.
Our offline best pal entered the bandroom and told us that our karate instructor was here. In the waking world, our last interaction with our karate instructor ended on a really sour note, due to a misunderstanding, so we rushed upstairs to find him and try to make amends. We got in view of him, and in that moment, the long hallway fell to complete darkness, and creatures swarmed and converged, in shapes of SCPs and "fakemon" we've seen artists create to speculate on the next generation of Pokemon. We whipped out our Nintendo DS (which we were playing last night before bedtime, XD) and turned it on and found immediately that we were in a triple Pokemon battle. We brought out a team of six pokemon who all were ghosts, jellyfish, or had abilities related to light or fire, like Chandelure, Ampharos, Lanturn, Jellicent, Tentacruel, etc.
The pokemon fighting us included Eelektross and Abomasnow, as well as several which don't actually exist as pokemon. We didn't have any super effective moves to use, so we just attacked them with STAB moves, and we won. Then the owner of the pokemon team attacking us appeared, and she might have been Lily Munster from the new Mockingbird Lane television show (played by Portia deRossi), but her hair was in a short curly pixie cut or bob of some kind, and she was wearing some kind of gymnastics uniform. She said something about us proving to be an adequate opponent, and then the floor swirled and became a vortex or pit, and it warped us into some massive cavern, deep underground. The floor of the cavern was easily four hundred feet below us, and it was nothing but black ocean, with choppy white-cap waves everywhere. Rising up from the ocean were maybe eight or sixteen platforms, organized in a star pattern, all appearing gold or brassy. Each platform had on it one of three kinds of container. The first kind was a squat golden rectangular box containing a key with clockwork designs on it; there were at least four keys, and probably more like six or eight. The second kind was a tall bottle-style lamp, perhaps kerosene, resembling the Phial of Galadriel, but golden in light. These were the only light source in the whole place. There were four, at the cardinal corners of the cavern 'playing field.' The third kind were little dome-shaped brass containers, like incense diffusers, with little grates on the top. These were the 'locks' that the keys were meant to unlock, and the 'winner' would be the one to collect the most of them.
We were levitating, but we could only move from platform to platform by leaping- first up to the ceiling to grab a stalactite, then down onto a platform from the stalactite. Our pokemon were with us to help in the leaping process, but only Chandelure was really equipped to help, because none of the others could levitate, so we put the rest back into their pokeballs (at this point, the DS was nowhere to be seen, and the pokemon were tangibly present).
We moved quickly and obtained four or five of the keys, enough to have a majority, and one of the lamps, and way too many of the lock boxes to count. Each time we captured one of these, we tucked it into our chest cleavage, because our clothes had no pockets, and we needed our hands. At this point, we were in a gymnastics uniform, too.
Joltik, one of our non-combat pokemon, appeared and scrambled under our neck, grabbing keys and using them to unlock the lock boxes.
It got all of them unlocked and tucked back safely into our chest, and then we got stuck on a stalactite which was too far to make the last jump.
We decided, what the hell, let's make it a leap of faith. If we miss, worst case scenario is we hit the water. We can swim.
We leapt, and we missed the platform by a very wide margin, so we adjusted our fall to be a feet-first dive into the water.
We hit the water hard and fast but painlessly despite the length of the fall. We sunk like a stone and were very calm about it for several minutes, thinking,
oh, eventually we'll be overcome by buoyancy and resurface.
Well, buoyancy didn't happen, and the realization that we weren't slowing down in our sinking, even when
we started to stroke upward to swim, was what made us lucid.
We have drowning nightmares with regularity (reliving an ugly memory), and it's at the point where some of us stay awake when Jade and Lily dream -just- to convert drowning nightmares into swimming dreams. The fact that we couldn't turn this one into swimming made us very acutely aware that something was out of the ordinary,
and that was all it took to know it was a dream. We figured, might as well go with the sinking, and try breathing underwater, too. We were successful at breathing underwater, and we told our pokemon they could, too. We even brought out Chandelure, a fire-type, and he was unharmed by the water. He made plenty of light, which made the black water an eerie dark green which was more pleasant than being unable to see anything.
At this point, we decided to test for control of the dream. We said to ourselves, "there will be a great castle under the ocean, made of shells."
We turned slowly around upon landing on the seafloor, and there it was. We moved ourselves instantaneously to the castle, and the inside was warm and airy, albeit still cavern-dark everywhere that didn't have tapers on the walls in candelabra. Chandelure provided more light by using Flash, and we sat down at a small table.
Joltik pulled our 'prizes' out of our cleavage. They were small plastic figurines, perhaps 1/2 inch tall each, of animal characters from Disney films.
There were several bears from Brother Bear, and Lady and The Tramp's dog characters were all there, and a few animals each from Aristocats and All Dogs go to Heaven and Oliver and Company.
We were gratified at our win, and we talked about the films the figurines came from, and then we woke up to the alarm on our cell phone.
