Hovering

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid Lucid #100: The World Is Yours I am flying high in the sky around what looks to be a computer-generated globe that is populated with little dots. I feel like I am on a plane with Wife but I do not see a plane. It is just me and my floating perspective as we circle slowly and gracefully around this globe. I tell Wife, "This is a music video for a <PERSON>' song called '<PERSON>' from 1980." (Not true.) The song immediately starts playing. In it, <PERSON> sings of how this globe is "not CGI" and that the dots represent people around the world. He sings that the dot he remembers best ("the one I best recall") was one of him over the ocean, flying on a plane to be reunited with his beloved <PERSON>. As the song ends, I suddenly find myself falling downward out of the sky. I hope that this is a dream, I think, and of course it is. I immediately halt my fall and find myself hovering over a huge, vivid cityscape -- highways, skyscrapers, cranes, bridges, traffic jams, all arrayed for me down below. I want to fly around and explore this city, but when I attempt to fly, I am unable to move. For some reason, I feel totally confident that I will come unstuck. Stop asking, I think. I ignore what the dream is telling me and I imagine that I am already flying Iron Man-style around the city. A second later, I am flying effortlessly, cruising anywhere I like. I get briefly stuck a time or two, but I just ignore it, imagine that I am succeeding, and immediately start flying again. Eventually, the little glitches stop. I see a tower that I remember from waking life -- it is one that I pass during my commute. I fly up to the top and circle around it. I glide low over roadways and high above a cluster of skyscrapers, then descend back to one of the bridges that spans a piece of some unfamiliar bay. My confidence is soaring, and I decide try some large-scale dream control. I put my hands out in front of me and then bring them apart like I am performing the breaststroke. As I do, I rake cars off of the bridge in either direction and dozens of them go plummeting toward the water. I bring my hands back together and I watch as time rewinds and they return to the bridge, unharmed. I fly back toward the skyscrapers, select a pair of them, and then begin moving them up and down, one for my left hand and one for my right. I look to my left and see an enormous fire ogre (a la "Orcs Must Die") stomping toward me down one of the city streets. He towers over most of the nearby buildings, at least 100 feet tall. I wonder whether maybe I will be fighting him later. I feel no fear at all. I reflect for a moment about what it would be like to have this much control and confidence in every LD. Nothing could stop me. What sort of things would I do if I had years of this kind of power? Leaving the fire ogre behind for now, I fly over my city for a while and just let my dreaming brain show me what it can do. I look out at the waters of the nearby bay and think about using all of this overflowing confidence for some Task of the Month parasailing, but the dream soon ends.