I woke up last night at 3 AM. I had fallen asleep on the couch while preparing documents for today. I got up and made myself a drink: A small Sprite with orange juice and a splash of Everclear to help me fall back asleep. Shortly after laying back down, I found myself in a strange kitchen with my family...this is where my dream begins.
We were on a family vacation in some big fancy house with my parents and sisters, my wife and my kids. There was a round countertop with an oven built into it. I was baking food for everybody. I pulled a steak out of the oven for my wife and I burned my arm I reacted as though it hurt. I yelped, but I remember noticing that it hadn't actually hurt at all. I kind of brushed it off - it didn't clue me in to the fact that I was dreaming. I handed my wife the steak - which was way more rare than she would ever accept it - and she said looks delicious! ...this also didn't raise enough awareness to get me lucid.
As I was cooking the rest of the food, my mom sort of wandered off. I went to follow her. She went down a corridor that let out of from the back of the living room. It was a wide corridor like a like a delivery tunnel you see in an underground base or something.
I started noticing that things were strange as I continued to follow. Coming out the other end of the tunnel and finding ourselves in some weird city park type environment, finally I thought this is a dream. I’m dreaming right now. I’m having a lucid dream. I’m aware. I looked around and I saw many people who were kind of automatons. They were just dream characters. I thought I can fly! I could jump to the top of this building! ...but everything I came up with, I was unable to do - I was limited to just walking around in the dream, knowing it was a dream, and choosing what to say. I thought this isn’t right. I’m not lucid enough yet. I need to. I need to figure out how I can elevate this experience and get control over myself in this world And the physics of the world around me. I thought maybe I could find someone else who’s lucid dreaming and talk to them so I looked around for people who might be also lucid dreamers when I saw a man floating face down just a few inches above the ground like Superman, but with his arms to his sides, I ran over I yelled at him.
Hey! I’m dreaming and I need some help! but he just floated. I looked up and I noticed that across this field there were probably five or 10 others all spaced out really sparse all floating face down just a few inches above the ground. All of a sudden, I became intensely aware of the sensation of food in my mouth. There was something in my mouth and I couldn’t chew and swallow and I couldn’t spit it out. I tried and tried. I would spit it out and it would still be there. I couldn’t get rid of it then I remembered I had fallen asleep with a nicotine pouch in my mouth. I bet that’s what it is, I thought... that nicotine patch in the mouth of your sleeping body is causing this sensation...maybe now that I’m aware of it I thought, now I can cast out the sensation, so I just said the "food in my mouth is gone", but it wasn’t gone. I couldn’t force it to be gone I couldn’t change that situation either. Eventually, this drove me to the point of waking up. I pulled the nicotine pouch out of my mouth in real life shoved it in my pocket and I thought well that sucks. Lucid dream is over. Ruined by a stupid nicotine pouch.
I laid there for a moment and then I heard my wife’s footsteps coming down the stairs. I was supposed to be up 15 minutes ago!, I thought to myself - I jumped up to my feet and rushed into the kitchen and started making coffee as this is one of my jobs to do in the morning.
As she came down the bottom of the stairs, I heard her calling with desperation to our oldest daughter:
I kept calling after her, but just as Allie was unresponsive to her, so she was unto me. What’s going on in there!? She went into the living room and lay Alley on the floor, still not responding, and then I said to myself wait a minute is this also a dream! ...and it was! now again I had no control over really anything in the dream but I was aware that it was a dream I knew I was dreaming as I watched the scene unfold...although I can't currently seem to remember what happened next.
I have the distinct memory of there having been a third lucid dream, although that one I can't even seem to remember a single detail. If it comes back to me in the middle of the day, I may try to update this entry...but for now, that's it. It wasn't huge or flashy, I didn't run on the water or fly over the streets, but I knew, and for me, that's an incredible place to start. From now on, when I wake up at 3/4 AM, I'm going to drink some orange juice before going back to bed JAJAJA!
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