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Place withheld · 2014-01-31 · from the DREAMVIEWS archive

An orange orb

I have forgotten completely how I became lucid, but I became lucid at one point and I only remember the following after that, so no point in color-coding. I am in my house upstairs with my brother <PERSON>. Once I go lucid, I attempt to recall any dream goal of mine, but struggle with it and eventually give up. Instead, not wanting to waste LD time, I turn to Z (who knows I am dreaming) and say, "Show me something interesting." He cooperates and leads me outside. Like my house, the street looks much like it would in waking life, but the sunlight was extremely bright, the grass a vivid bright green, and there just seemed like there was an aura of happiness resting over the dreamworld. I smile, taking in this sight for a moment, and then <PERSON> jumps and takes flight from the ground. I follow him up, and the moment I am in the air, I notice the area past my street is much different than it should have been. He began flying away in a straight direction and I follow him, looking around at the massive town as I did so. It was completely and utterly random at this point--colorful structures and tall skyscrapers stuck up in every direction, with the woods bordering everything around. My interests are piqued as I wonder what <PERSON>'s going to show me. Eventually we float back down to the ground, in which he leads me into a small, square, basic dark building. Inside the ground is all carpet, the lights are dim, and people are chit-chatting in every direction. It was very dark, but the atmosphere was very welcoming, much like a bar or a small party. <PERSON> leads me to the left and the right again into a large room where electronic music played in the background with a couple of bars and something interesting in the center--a small tennis court with maybe 3-4 people on each side. Most of the people looked like older teenagers, say around 15-19. They are playing...tennis, but with a few peculiarities. Firstly, they are playing with their hands (much like volleyball). The ball was mostly transparent, but the clear ball was surrounded with an intricate glowing orange design that left a motion blur behind it in the air and was quite easy to see. There seemed to be no way to take score--players just played until they got bored. The biggest difference to this kind of tennis and IWL tennis was the fact that the physics were very trippy. At the weirdest moments the ball would go in slow-motion, or shoot towards the ceiling, or fly past the players towards the wall. <PERSON> explained to me, "This is dream tennis. Kind of an interesting sport, I think. Do you want to try it out?" I nod and grin and <PERSON> and I join one of the teams together, and we play a few rounds. At first I mostly suck (no, really, I blatantly made the ball hit the 2-foot-tall net at one point), and I am teased by my teammates about this, but I eventually (and proudly) get the hang of it. At one point in the middle of the game I question <PERSON> as to why it is not called dream volleyball since you play with your hands. He only says, "I do not know, I did not make the rules, I am only a dream character!" All in all the game and the dream itself was rather strange yet fun, and I totally would not mind playing dream tennis again in a later LD. Eventually I wake up after a few rounds and I <PERSON> back to sleep, though the contents of the dream that followed are a bit more... private. On a side-note, I remember a non-lucid dream fragment from earlier in the night where I was playing one of my favorite MMORPGs called Mabinogi, but that is all I can remember from that.

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