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Place withheld · 2010-07-28 · from the DREAMVIEWS archive

Screaming or howling

As I was waking up from a dream, I had that moment of lucidity that comes before everything is gone. Determined to gain that back, I closed my eyes and kept thinking about dreaming. I am not sure how I knew when to do this but at the right time I just opened my eyes and *POOF* I am on the inside of a department store like Wal Mart or something. I began running through the store, taking in the dreamscape around me. Everything looked so vivid and clear, it was so real. The gravity of me running through it was the only thing that felt obviously fake, as I was pretty light and I would basically glide and slide with each stride (LOL rhyme). I stopped in the middle of a bunch of isles and prepared to fly, but the second I left the ground the dream got hazy and I woke up. Falling back asleep immediately, I find myself in the exact same department store. Without a question I know this is a dream so I start to run again. I do not run for as long this time because I had literally just done it, so I try to fly again. I wake up. I guess my subconscious is realizing that the department store is no good because I keep figuring out that I am dreaming. My dreamscape changes to some city in the middle of the night where there are a lot of brick walls and I am walking with my friends. I payed so little attention to my friends that I cannot even remember who they were anymore I decide to do a reality check, since I had just been lucid twice and it seemed like the right thing to do, and viola I am dreaming again. This time I decide not to fly because I want to stay lucid longer and not wake up, so I just enjoy looking at the darkened city and the odd feeling of being there. I have a false awakening, do a reality check and wake upon becoming lucid. I go back to sleep and now I am in a similar dreamscape except this time we are all in a car and the guy sitting next to me is someone I have never seen before. He is aware of lucid dreaming and is questioning his reality. I ask him "Are we dreaming?" (notice that I say 'we') and he says "I do not know man, you tell me". I plug my nose and have no trouble breathing, but since I do not usually use this check I am still doubting it. Then I look at the clock and notice it change to something completely random before my eyes. I say, "yeah, we are definitely dreaming" and check my hands to reassure myself. We wanted to get out of the car, so we jumped out sort of...which was kind of scary. We landed under a bridge and he said "Come one, this is a dream we can do whatever we want!". I am still unsure for some reason so I count my fingers and get 6 every time. I jump around with him and I remember thinking, "I wonder if this is a real person and if this is a shared dream!". I tell him, "so i this is a dream then i should have no problem doing this!!" and I ran up one of the brick walls. He began screaming at me saying that it was not safe anyways. I started to lose control and woke up. Just for fun I did an RC and I WAS still dreaming, then I woke up again lol.

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