Voices

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid Lucid #234: Tavern Wife and I are standing across the table from another couple, a guy with brown hair and a lady with blond hair. The table is covered with a messy array of partially consumed peanut butter jars and jelly jars, which we are examining in order to do some kind of inventory. The guy and I are talking about how hard it is to find time for important non-work related activities like this jar thing. He says how impressed he is with his wife for finding time to run and that she wears "SXN 400 running shorts". He says something about how hot Wife probably looks in those. For some reason, I do not find this impolite. Instead, I turn to Wife and tell her she is beautiful, and compliment her for staying in such good shape even with the challenges of having and raising two kids. She accepts the compliment without awkwardness (tough for her in front of people), scooches closer to me and begins a long monologue. She is switching rapidly from subject to subject and I am having a hard time understanding her. I realize that I must be dreaming. I grab on for a nose pinch, remembering to calm myself and just breathe in and out. Wife's speech becomes even more rapid and confusing. I tell her that I am having a lucid dream, but she is talking over me. I walk around the room, continuing to calm myself and breathe through the nose pinch, but my vision goes dark, like the void. Wife's voice is still there, though, and I just keep walking, having faith that the scene will right itself. Now a doorway with a stairwell appears in my vision. Good. I walk forward, enter the stairwell, and walk down to a nearby window. I phase through the window and lower wall, my foot getting slightly stuck on the way out, but no problem. I am outside on a street again, and now I attempt to fly. I have some trouble with this, so I do a quick Hulk-jump to regain some confidence. I remember my intent to summon <PERSON> and take her... somewhere. I will have to figure that part out later I guess. "<PERSON>, you... are right around the corner!" I say, just before turning the corner. When I turn the corner, there is a young woman there! She does not look all that much like <PERSON>. Hair is blond rather purple, and her overall appearance is different. She is plainer, younger, shorter than <PERSON>, but I do not worry about that. I figure that she will become herself after I just spend some time walking around with her for a while. "<PERSON>!" I say. "It is you! Hey, purple up for me!" (meaning "change your hair to purple.") "Hey!" she says. Her voice is completely wrong, and she even has an American accent. I do not worry about it though. "Normally I would, but I am just not feeling it today!" Her blond hair instantly disappears and now she is bald as a cueball. With this, she races off in a run, and I run behind her to keep up. She is really fast and I am having a little trouble keeping up. I encounter the sign from the previous dream that reads "-Tavern-" and remember it from before. We run down a few streets before entering what looks like a train station. I know there is something specific place I would planned to take her, but I have forgotten it. "I think I am supposed to take you to a tavern for Task of the Month." (wrong!) She seems to consider this. "Whatever it is, I will think of it soon." With this, she twirls once and runs up a set of stairs. I run after her, thinking that my plan was to go to a tavern with her and do some lucid drinking. I am not completely confident that this is right (it is not!) but I go with it for now. As I am partway up the steps, the dream ends.