Pulsing light

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid Lucid #196: Wonderful Distractions I am lying on my side anticipating a lucid dream. I sense the transition into a dream, but my dream body is lying on its side in the same position as my waking life body. I approach this in an OBE style and will myself to roll out of bed onto the floor. I ooze off of the edge of the bed and drift gently to the floor. My vision is dark at this point, so I spend a moment chilling out and digging my hands into the carpet to build up my physical sensations of the scene. After everything feels right, I stand up and look out over the bed. Wife has completely buried herself under the comforter. I throw the covers back and she sits up, blinking in the daylight which streams in through the window. I am struck by the clarity of the scene. There is a slight haze at the edges of my vision, but even though there is a dreaminess to everything I see, it all looks incredibly realistic. She gets out of bed and I follow her toward our walk-in closet while I try to remember my goals. The structure of our closet looks the same as waking life except for the fact that it is grown much larger. There are two attractive women standing there, an Asian woman and a shorter lady with brown hair, just sort of hanging around and talking to each other. Hanging around three cute DCs makes me forget all other goals and (somewhat complex) sexytime commences. After a few moments Wife says, "We forgot to close the bedroom door!" as if she is afraid that the kids will barge in. I reluctantly leave the closet to go check on this, but find that the door's already shut tight. "Everything's fine," I say, and when I turn back to the closet, the other two women have vanished. I am also surprised to see that it is night outside now. I look out through the window and see that there is a tow truck out front hauling off a cute little car that is shaped like a phone booth. "Hey check this out!" I tell Wife. "That is a shame," she says. We watch as the tow truck drives off. When I turn back toward the bed, I see a freckled woman in her early 20s laying on our bed. She is wearing shorts and flopped on her stomach, reading some kind of pamphlet. I am too far gone to think of goals at this point, so this leads to some additional sexytime with Wife and this newest DC. Afterward, I get up from the bed and feel the scene darkening. I look at my hands and I can see the light fading from the dream fast. I dig my hands into the carpet, but before long I have a false awakening where I hear my father-in-law shout, "3 AM fail!" I am confused for a moment and then "remember" that a bunch of us are staying at some vacation house and needed to wake up at 3 AM for some reason. I walk out of the room, feeling sleepy, and see my cousin <PERSON>. "Hey, did you hear? JP Morgan is going under." I am astonished to hear this. My brother-in-law <PERSON> says, "This pisses me off so much." "That we will wind up bailing out a huge bank?" I ask. "No," <PERSON> says, and launches into a long, disjointed speech about finance. After a while I realize that this person is not even <PERSON> anymore but some guy I do not recognize. I wonder how I got so confused and eventually pull myself away from the conversation shortly before the dream ends.