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Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid Lucid #127: Hagia Sophia I am touring a new school for my son "E" that is exclusively available to children who lucid dream. E is in his "level 2" class, and his teacher, a short, friendly, gray-haired lady is showing me around the room. It is a large classroom with basic carpeting and lots of little beds and sleeping nooks everywhere. All of the kids are running around, and I remark that if I had the opportunity to just sleep all the time for school, I would definitely do it. It occurs to me that I might be dreaming right now... and it turns out that I am. "I am having a lucid dream right now," I tell the lady, and head for the exit door without waiting for a reply. I phase through the glass to find myself standing by a harbor in the early morning. There are two amphibious helicopters floating idly in the water, pontoons on their skids. I wonder whether this kind of helicopter really exists. I remember that I want to find the Colosseum, so I start flying to get high above the water. I emerge from a light covering of fog that I had not even noticed, finding myself in a landscape of gently rolling hills that are covered with tightly packed buildings. I tell myself that the Colosseum is one of these buildings and that all I have to do is find it. I see a building that catches my eye, but instead of the Colosseum, it is <PERSON>. "I know the Colosseum is here," I say, expecting it to glow (a trick I have used in the past.) "Show me where it is." A small site off to the side of <PERSON> starts to glow. It looks too small, but I fly toward it anyway. A sudden gust of wind starts pushing me in the opposite direction and turning me away from the glowing site. I decide that this wind is trying to carry me to the Colosseum so I will not get lost. It turns me all the way around so that I am looking out over the endless ocean. I am worried for a second that it is going to leave me facing out to sea, but it dutifully turns me around and starts moving me back toward <PERSON> and the glowing spot nearby. The wind carries me all the way to the spot, and it is nothing more than a tiny plaza with a small raised platform of stone. I land, and when I examine the platform I find a small button with what looks like a glowing, golden bear's paw on it. Okay, hopefully this button will take me there. I press the button, and my vision is covered by a pop-up message like something from a video game. The message contains two lines of text and I feel really intimidated at the thought of having to remember it. I try to lock the words in place but I feel like every word I am not looking at is trying to change. Keeping them all steady feels like playing Whac-A-Mole and it is dawning on me that I should stop obsessing about this. As best I can remember the message says: "Use 4 parts of Vendarite to increase strength" I am not sure what this means, but I figure that in a lucid dream I can be as strong as I want to be (and have as much "<PERSON>" as I like, for that matter), and will the message to close. I feel like something is happening to the plaza and that it is shifting in some way, but the dream soon ends.