Knocking

[woke: on right] am at old house with grace. something is off, so i do rc, and see i am lucid start flying, and grace flies up with me. something triggers me to comment "you are probably not real... but we will assume you are real anyway", which made her a bit disturbed but then calm down [i always take this attitude with dream-characters: i do not believe you are real, but for various reasons i will treat you with the same heart i would treat someone in real life, of course with different situational constraints] go to south above road, but power lines get in my way. go under them, then stuff gets fuzzy - am holding someone, i think some kid from a fairly long section that is now gone from memory. anyway, i remember us talking. at some point in this section, i tried doing a dream-views task of the month, of getting on a bus or train and seeing where it takes me. i looked around, but could not find one, and then something distracted me--i think then my vision faded, and found myself in bed, as follows. - am in bed. something is off, so do rc, and am lucid. i stand up, and look around room. pretty different, in some evening, world-dramatic scene (outside was overlook on desolate city area). i preferred bright, middle of day, so decided to try practicing time-changing abilities. i reach right hand up beyond view, and twist my hand as though i were twisting a dial to change the time. felt sort of promising, but despite fiddling with it for a while, i could not quite get it to work. giving up on that, decide to do something easier, that is none-the-less super useful, for many purposes: using my hands to emit fire, water, ice, lasers, etc. on-demand. i have tried this a bit before, so had confidence i would get some result, but considered it important practice since it would been so long. i stretched my hands out in a tensed form, and imagined the feeling of some laser-like emission from the center of each palm. i could feel pretty strong sensations there, but nothing was coming out. i then tried turning my hands to where i could see my palms, and tried again. this time i focused on imagining something bright exiting that point on my hand. this time it started working! a bright white, crystal-like stream came out that then froze into ice-like form. my right hand had something similar. as i continued working with this, i increased the output, but it changed form to be momentum-passing bubbles/spheres rather than ice-like material. did not seem quite as useful, but i would not complain since it was definitely a good step forward. i was able to emit *something* each time i tried. now wanting to find some use for this, i went over the window and tried breaking it open. did not work. my subconscious then thought up this silly thing where i would have to knock all the wood planks around the window, with the momentum-passing spheres, to get the window open. long story short, there were lots and it took a while, but i finally succeeded: the wall (with a window also) to the right then swung open, and i was rocketed to the 'east' over a vast, dark landscape that was really quite mysteriously beautiful. there was snow, i believe, on the ~50-feet-below-me ground. i then got caught up in a game-like storyline in which i ending up forgetting i was dreaming. but overall, it was a nice and good practice time.