Residue

Awake, Non-lucid, Lucid, [Commentary made while awake] I am driving through the parking lot of a shopping center, at night. There is a violent physical altercation going on in the parking lot, and it turns into a gunfight. I am now riding my bicycle through a nearby residential neighborhood, where there is more violence going on. It is still nighttime. As I ride, I pray that I will not get hit by a stray bullet. I also reflect that I could be driving to my destination, which is my old church, but I like bicycling better than driving. [This is true.] I miss the turn to get to <PERSON>. I am no longer riding my bicycle; I am now standing in a black nothing. [I suspect that I might have DEILDed here, but I am not positive.] I think of the destination I was just trying to get to, the parish hall at my old church, and because a knife from the parish hall's silverware drawer to appear in my hand. A second later, the parish hall appears around me. I walk through the room, appreciating the dream environment, as usual. A lot of people are there, including my parents. My dad comes up to me and offers to give me a hug, and I accept it and hug back. All the people are there for a big reception, with a lot of food laid out on tables. After the reception, when everyone has left except me, my parents, and two or three other people, there is still a huge platter of thinly-sliced roast beef left over. I try to give it away to those two or three other people. I wake up in my current bedroom, very pleased to have just had a lucid dream. I remember to grab my phone, which is running <PERSON>'s Lucid Dreaming App for Android, and draw a star on the screen with my finger to indicate that I just had a lucid dream. I draw the star, but very sloppily, with one point much bigger and longer than the other points. I am concerned that the program will not recognize the gesture, but it does. It displays the gesture I just drew with the caption "lucidity!" underneath it, in the same font it always uses for those captions. When I woke up for real, I thought to myself, You know, I bet I did not actually record that lucid dream. The app would not recognize the star if I drew it that poorly, and the caption always just says "lucid dream." I checked my actual phone and, sure enough, no "lucid dream" mark on my graph. That had, indeed, been a false awakening. I felt slightly frustrated, as well as highly amused that the app had shown up in one of my FAs. - Side notes: Wow. I am pretty pleased with this DEILD, if that is indeed what it was, and with my sudden mastery of changing the dream scene. To be fair, though, I did change it to the destination I had been trying to reach in my non-lucid nightmare. I did not realize until after I woke up that the part where my dad hugged me was day residue. On the evening before I had this dream, I had not bothered to get up and hug my dad when he left the house, and I had regretted it. I thought it was awfully nice of my subconscious to give me a second chance to do that.