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Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid Lucid #28: REBMEVON rejected I am watching as <PERSON> <PERSON> (dressed as <PERSON>) plans to set fire to a Jeep full of laughing teenagers. He pours gasoline all over the kids in the car but they do not react, somehow not understanding what is going on. I am panicked and horrified and feel like I cannot let him get away with this. The intense emotion makes me lucid and the scene vanishes. Now I am sitting in what looks like a log cabin, staring at a simple television that is no longer switched on. I see daylight through a nearby doorway so I run outside, passing through a short alleyway before I emerge in a grassland with mountains on the distant horizon. It is a beautiful scene and I am so relieved to be free of the nightmare that I start flying. I have been in the air for only a couple of seconds when the Task of the Month occurs to me -- I need to write "November" backwards. I have created a mnemonic device that instantly brings the correct word ("REBMEVON") to mind. (My chosen mnemonic device is my friend <PERSON> introducing himself to <PERSON>.) I try to produce a pen and paper from behind my back but only manage a pen at first. I try writing on my hand but can only fit "REB". That will not do, so I do another "behind the back" object creation to get a notebook. I try to write the word but end up getting sudden strings of garbage characters like "REBhjklhlhlh". I scratch it out and try again, but only get a similar string of garbage characters as soon as I get past "REB". I can see the word perfectly in my mind so the garbage character problem starts making me feel agitated and doubtful. It is not long before I wake up.