Screaming or howling

Easily my favorite lucid dream. Ironically, began as a lucid nightmare. Very satisfying and got about 10 minutes out of it. Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid Lucid #6: Seaside Escape (July 24, 2012) Wife and I are walking along a wharf late at night with a man that we believe is our friend. I begin to realize that this man is not who he says he is and I am growing more and more agitated. Suddenly, Wife screams, "It is a setup! We are being ambushed! Run!" and tears off running ahead of me. I run after her and I hear the footsteps of our pursuers behind me. There are now many of them after us and this has become a full-blown nightmare. I know that the men behind me intend to kill us both. Wife is running along the wharf ahead of me but she is approaching its end (or at least a bend) that leads straight into the ocean. We have nowhere left to go and I become lucid. I run forward faster and faster to catch up with her. As my speed increases, I realized that I am soaring a couple of feet above the ground. I catch her under the arms and jumped up into the sky with her, flying several hundred feet into the air. We fly together over the ocean, splashing down far away from the wharf and our pursuers. The sea is choppy but it is a beautiful night. I am completely unafraid. I jump several more times until we end up in shallower water by a brightly-lit, festive boardwalk. The water is crowded with swimmers. It is still night and we swim together through the crowd. I look closely at the faces of these other swimmers as we pass by. Vivid, detailed and varied, often with literally dozens of dream characters in the scene at once. I study them all, enjoying their detail. Most of them look like realistic people but one child has a very large head with an exceptionally large chin and lips. I commit his face to memory because it is so notable. He has curly blonde hair and somewhat pale skin. We emerge from the water into the boardwalk's shopping area, which looks very much like a mall food court. This area, too, is bustling with dream characters. I realize that I have lost track of Wife now. I feel that she is safe and has to be nearby. At this point I sense I am at risk of being drawn too much into the "dream plot" and start talking to the characters around me, telling them that I am having a lucid dream. I stop at a coffee shop. The girl who is the cashier there presides over a display case of poppy seed muffins. I feel bold and pushy so I tell the cashier that "This is my dream and you will do what I say!" Her hands drop to her sides and she looks ahead, suddenly no longer independently animated. I tell her to leave the cash register and walk out into the food court. She does. Some other DCs are watching, seemingly unsure what to make of this. I am deciding whether to try to turn the cashier into Wife or try to see how many dream characters I can control at once. A feeling of frailty suddenly sweeps over me and my voice becomes a whisper. Moments later, I am awake. This was just a great LD. I was riding high for days from this one.