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Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid Lucid #228: The Fall from Orbit I am lying in bed when I sense a shift and suspect that a WILD has begun. Something feels not quite real about the situation. I rub my hands together. It is close, but it feels like I am dreaming this rather than experiencing it in the waking world. I feel Wife stir next to me and wonder if she can sense me moving around. I try to speak but all that comes out is a strange, reluctant croak. There is no doubt that it is a dream now. The sense of being in bed becomes less and less clear and I feel like I have at least partially entered the void. I wait for a while, relying on hand-rubbing to keep me in the dream but finally call out: "<PERSON>, pull me out of here!" I feel the sensation of a hand grabbing my right arm and pulling me down toward where the "bed" would have been, and I get the sense that I am rotating. When I have turned about 180 degrees I suddenly feel massive acceleration ahead of me and slightly downward, like something attached a rocket to me! The acceleration halts and a new scene comes into view. I am flying high above the Earth in lower earth orbit! The clouds look slightly pixelated but convincing enough that the effect is very dramatic. I remember that all of my goals are on the surface of the planet, so I point myself downward and imagine myself shooting forward at top speed. I take off like a rocket, the ground rising dizzyingly fast to meet me. I am shooting toward a bunch of buildings, headed directly for a house! I am prepare to plow into this house, but my fall stops short, my feet rotate back under me and I am now standing gently on the ground next to a miniature house and a cluster of miniature buildings. What looked like a city seconds ago now looks like a bunch of little model buildings. The room is fully enclosed and dimly-lit but I can still see well enough to do what I want. I want to summon <PERSON> but there are not any DCs around to use. I remember my behind the back summoning tech, but I am not feeling sure about how I executed it. It fizzles. I walk to another corner of the room and try it there. Still nothing. I approach another part of the room where there is a bar and a broad mirror above it. When I look into the mirror, I see myself standing there but in a completely different scene. My reflection is on some cobblestoned street, outdoors and it is daytime. I strafe back and forth to test the reflection and he reacts as expected. Now I spy the building's glass front door and through it I see the cobblestoned scene I would just viewed in the mirror. There is a guy trying to get into the room, an Asian guy in his mid-twenties wearing glasses. Not the easiest DC to transform to <PERSON>, maybe, but nothing I cannot handle! I go up to the door to let him in and start messing with the lock. Then I realize what a waste of time this is. Why not just phase instead? I start the phase, my right arm passing straight through the glass but as I am about to go the rest of the way, the dream ends.