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This lucid is from the morning of 5/11/2014. Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid Lucid #208: Carnival Chain I have a false awakening where Wife is bustling about the room getting ready for something. I am groggy and not seeing anything too well, but I follow her as she heads out the door. There is some kind of event that we are supposed to be getting ready for, but I have no memory of what it is. I do remember wanting to have a lucid dream, though, so I feel frustrated that I am expected to get up. I follow Wife for a bit and suddenly we are outside by some docks. She is dressed in a white sundress that I have never seen her in before, holding hands with our two children "E" and "R". She looks beautiful. I wish that I could go with them but I am almost too tired to move. I tell her that I am going back to bed, which she seems to accept. Somehow I stagger back to the bed and as soon as my head hits the pillow, I attempt to WILD. Right away I get the sense of motion and I cannot believe how quickly it is working. I go with the momentum and experience a moment of massive acceleration before emerging in a mid-morning carnival scene that I know is a dream. I am not pleased with the vividness of the scene, so I rub my hands together and then stare at them, trying to draw out as much detail as I can. It takes a few frustrating moments but finally fine details start to emerge. One oddity is that my hands are covered with cuts and scrapes like I have been fighting or working with something sharp. As the scene comes into better focus, I see that Wife is walking here with me at the carnival. We pass a sandwich vendor who stops us and begins an emphatic explanation of what it takes to make the turkey sandwich. He says that the "traditional" sandwich of "turkey on a donut" is outdated and that rye bread is the wave of the future. It sounds crazy to me, but I try to grasp the details, hoping for some flash of insight. It never comes, though, and the dream fades. I hold on for <PERSON>, and in a few seconds I am back in the carnival scene. I take a few steps but something seems to be stuck in my throat. I try to sort of gag and clear my throat, but it is still there. I feel like there is some kind of waking life problem and remember that I am sleeping on my stomach. I have this vision of the pillow pressing on my throat and in a few seconds, I am out of the dream. I flop onto my side, get ready for <PERSON>, and re-enter the carnival scene a few seconds later. Wife's here with me again, and says something flirtatious. I am feeling very interested, so we make out for a bit before getting down to some sexytime. I will spare the details here, but it is interesting that after the "festivities" the dream continues long enough for us to wander around the carnival a bit more. Finally the dream breaks, and I <PERSON> in one last time to the same carnival scene. Wife and I pass by a carnival barker who is inviting passerby to try out the "lucidity machine", a large, boxy contraption that he says is guaranteed to make you have a lucid dream for only "4 quarters". I encourage Wife to try this out. "But you are already having a lucid dream," she replies. "Yeah, but you are not." She wrinkles her nose. "Four quarters seems kind of expensive." "It is not real money," I tell her. "Please just try it." I am exasperated by all of this. Wife shakes her head and continues to skeptically study the device as the dream ends.