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23rd June 2012 I get out of bed and come downstairs in a house I do not recognize IRL but treat as home in the dream. It is some sort of flat and has a narrow corridor leading to a small room with a table for meals. My parents are here with my sister. My sister, who is standing to the right of me, announces it is her birthday today. I am happy to hear this but quite worried that I had not realized beforehand. I try to work out why this happened and it soon occurs to me that she already had her birthday earlier in the year. I decide this is an odd occurrence and thus do an RC just to make sure it is reality. I plug my nose and find that I can still breathe with ease. Turns out I was wrong! I start to rush towards the window, but then remember to stabilise the dream. I rub my hands together and take time to become aware of my surroundings, taking in the sights and sounds. At one point I recall having a bit of pain in my stomach, and I assume it is a problem with my real self in bed. After this, however, I head to the window, get out and fly for the first time. I can do it with ease, and I fly around for a bit. Later, I find myself in a bathroom back in the flat, and I actually use the toilet. After doing this, however, I am worried that I will have wet myself IRL. I soon dispel this thought and look at the wall. It has colourful (albeit somewhat ugly) tiles. I try to walk through the wall, but several times I simply cannot, and encounter a solid resistance. I try then to blindly walk through it, but still find I cannot. As an inexperienced <PERSON> I am not worried, but I wonder whether I am still dreaming. I plug my nose once more and can still just about breathe. I head out and go up a corridor. Wondering whether I can summon anything at this stage, I try expecting to see the character <PERSON> at the end of the corridor. She does not appear, and I know I was not truly expecting it. I go to the window again to fly. I glance up at the sky while airborne and see it fade slightly. I am in a place I recognize in the dream for some reason. There is a large building I fly towards. I expect to see a city behind it, but in the end do not get enough altitude to see over it. I peer down to see a few people on the ground. I come to an ice rink where there are a few girls playing ice hockey. I wonder whether my dream self would be able to overcome my fear of skating (I once broke my arm doing it). I somewhat rudely take the ice hockey stick of one of the players and they react in surprise, but agree to play me. Sure enough, I glide effortlessly over the ice, although my skills with the puck are not exactly perfect. I do not really know what I am doing as far as the rules of the game are concerned, so I mainly just go after the puck. She does not seem to know much about playing either. We are having fun though, and I try to stop the puck from getting into one of the goals. At some point the dream gets a bit odd though and for whatever reason we have to act out a scene from a wedding. The dream soon ends though.