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This was a very vivid, DC-heavy lucid from this morning. I finally remembered to do the "ask a DC about the meaning of life" Basic Task of the Month. Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid Lucid #134: The Dream Fairgrounds I am driving on a freeway with Wife and my 4-year-old son "E". <PERSON>'s heavy and I am in the middle of making a difficult merge but Wife is insisting that I adjust the air conditioning while I am in the middle of this. I look down, quickly fiddle with a knob, then look back up to find that we are now driving backward down the freeway! I gibber some kind of complaint about how this is why she should not bother me when I am driving, and the car turns back in the right direction again. This has to be a dream. Now that I am lucid, I want to get up in the air and start figuring out how to accomlpish my goals. I feel weird abandoning Wife and E, though. I think about grabbing onto them and kind of phasing through the car with them, but it sounds intimidating. I wonder whether I could just fly the car itself around, and as soon as I think about this, it works -- our SUV is flying high above the freeway! The city looks vivid and enormously detailed. Most of it is dominated by a huge fairground that stretches off as far as I can see. The fairground is a mixture of tents, stadiums, amusement park rides, golden domes, and even out-of-place landmarks like the Hagia Sophia. Scattered among these are more mundane buildings like banks. One of the rides is a looping starship ride that I remember from my childhood. Everywhere I look there is something new. I am overwhelmed and pleased by all of the detail and I laugh at the sheer quantity of images being thrown at me. The car flies quietly over the fairground for a while before I decide that we should land and look around. I look down at one of the rides and my perspective "zooms" down to that level. The car is gone now and Wife and E are walking beside me. I feel excited as a little kid by this fair, and I am amused (and dismayed) to see that every adult DC is a bored, miserable-looking parent with their face buried in a smartphone. I work my ass off at lucid dreaming to spend a few minutes a night in a place like this and you DCs could not care less! We walk past the rides and attractions for a while and I see a lot of familiar people from my life, including my little nephew, my sister-in-law Sissy, brother-in-law Muppet, as well as The <PERSON> and his wife and kids. Eventually it occurs to me that I need to get moving if I am going to accomplish one of my goals, and I think of the Australia Task of the Year. I am just about to jump up to fly off for a new scene, but luckily I remember the "ask a DC about the meaning of life" task. I walk back over to E and say, "Hey, buddy. What is the meaning of life?" He lays the side of his head down on a nearby crate and says, "To not die..." I am not sure that I heard him right so I ask him to repeat that. He says, "Not dying." (He is been having anxiety about death lately, which is probably where this comes from.) Wife's nearby, so I ask her too. She looks pensive for a moment. "To see the best of living." Satisfied, I turn my attention back to my other goals. There is not much left of this dream, though, and before I can do much else it ends.