#missjblunts

Main Entry:   lucid dream Part of Speech:   n Definition:   a dream state in which one is conscious enough to recognize that one is in the dream state and which stays in one's memory

I laid on the couch & snuggled under a soft blanket after a long day & decided a nap was necessary before work.  Before I knew it I fell into a deep, serene sleep.

The dream was vivid & remembered every detail about it.  Normal events took place with people I didn't even recognize.  I remembered walking down a street in a city that seemed so familiar, but wasn't exactly San Francisco.  I looked to my left & noticed a girl on a fixie bombing a hill, going uncontrollably fast.  I could tell she was trying to brake at every light, but she continued to run each & every one of them.  It was a disaster waiting to happen.

I noticed another girl coming from the other end of the street, on a bicycle as well, knowing that disaster was about to take place.  They crash into each other, head on, & the crazy thing was, neither of them fell.  Right after they crashed, the girl on the fixie started riding her bike backwards & stared at me as she biked in reverse.  It was almost as if my dream reversed the moment they collided.

I continued to walk through the city & walked up these askew stairs with a beautiful scenic garden.  There were patio tables, chairs & benches in random spots & I noticed that the girl riding the fixie was sitting on one of the benches.  She stared at me & I looked right back at her & tripped on a step.  She rudely said, "Ha ha!" & I replied, "Hey don't be negative just because you had a bad crash."

Then I thought about the crash & how she biked backwards after they collided instead of just falling & crashing.  That moment in time, I then realized that I was fully aware & conscious in my dream state.  My thoughts became much more clear & my senses were heightened.  The moment I became conscious & aware that I was awake in my dream, I freaked out.  The dimensions of my dream state were no longer normal & everything around me began to create waves & collapsed.  And the strange thing was that no one in my dream panicked, except for me.  Everyone else stood still & watched me.

As dimension warped & crumbled, I kept screaming to myself, "WAKE UP!"  The steps beneath me continued to deteriorate as I kept trying to climb up to avoid falling into the pits of gravel.  Then I awoke.

I awoke with the same intense feelings & my vision still loopy from the lucid dream.  I looked at the clock & everything seemed like it happened within 1 hour when it was only 15 minutes of real time.  I was intrigued by what had just happened.  I've tried so long to lucid dream before & for the longest time I thought lucid dreaming was just being able to control your actions in your dreams.  Not even close, because I control my dreams MOST of the time!  Maybe not what happens in my dreams, but what I do in my dreams I am able to control.  I fly pretty often in my dreams, because I want to, but I wouldn't consider those lucid dreams.  That's just me riding out the dream & making the best out of it.  That doesn't necessarily mean I'm aware & conscious in my dream state.

But this time, it was a the real deal.  A good friend of mine read a book called Lucid Dreaming by Robert Waggoner.  He says that a good way to know you're dreaming is to catch that moment where something is out of the norm.  Something that happens in your dream, that would only happen in a dream.  The first sign my sub-conscious mind threw at me was the girl biking backwards after they had crashed.  My sub-conscious mind gave me another chance to catch it & I thought about it again in my dream when I saw the girl on the fixie sitting on a bench.  After I became aware, dimensions no longer existed.

kinda old but still one of my favorites.

I get splifted...