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hand in the fire

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Last time I tried to put my hand in fire I looked away and didn’t feel any pain or heat, but when I looked back the flame was out. I decided that the next level is to watch and concentrate on my hand in the fire. I couldn’t find any fire this time, though. I should have conjured it up, but… that’s hard. Anyhow I found a shower and turned it to scalding and held my hand in the stream. It burned; I wanted to pull away, but I was able to remember that it wasn’t physical pain, and then it didn’t burn. It is probably easier for my brain to turn down the temperature in water than a flame, so I don’t consider this achieving the goal, but perhaps I am closer. I also dived through a plate-glass window, passing through without breaking it. That felt neat. It is strange how my dream goals get distorted.

{reality [dream (lucidity)]}

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_____{Reality. I go to Michael’s Birthday party, which is quite fun, and it’s good to be sober with my friends for a change. I’m wearing a sweater and tie, and folks comment on it in mostly good terms. We watch The Jerk, which is genius I’m sure. Then there’s dancing and cavorting and lots of good talking. China and Max and I are going to the prom together this Friday as the date we planned in December. I go home, hang out with Alison for awhile, and introduce her to Homestar Runner… “It’s Dot Com.” HSR is great; Annie, my grad student friend introduced me to him, but then I went home and my sister was talking about it with her little friends. I head to bed before three, which is better then I have been doing lately._____[Dream. It is roughly the same crowd as Michael’s gathering, and the sitting is like Graham Street, but there is bigger open spaces in a loft where lots of people are hanging out, sitting around a table. Mysha is at the house, we are officially back together without explanation. She is not at the table, but I am sitting on the western edge near the southwestern corner, and Annie is next to me on the southern edge. Somebody is showing us newspaper clippings of his time in the Vietnam War._____(Lucidity. I take a newspaper clipping and tell Annie “Look, this is my lucid dream because I can change the photo in this newspaper clipping.” I press my hand to the image, and then colors mix around and form new images. She tries it as well, and it works, but she does not comment on it being lucid or it being my dream. Then we make out.)_____I open my eyes and we are all still around the table, but Mysha is in the doorway. She is pissed at me for making out with Annie. I thought that I had just dozed off at the table and dreamt that I had made out with her, but apparently my body had kissed her as I dreamt it. Within the dream, of course.]_____I wake up in Durham to the sound of my cell ringing, walk around the room once, then go back to sleep.}_____

Subject: lucidity

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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:22:39 -0500 (EST)
From: M Forrest D O
To: Karl T S

I was in nothingness, emptiness, space, and decided to control it… Stars and the universe started to shine through the darkness, I had a pill and took it, because I knew that it would allow lucid dreaming, and bam, the adventure was on. I remembered that I had the power to create, not just perceive, so I created a pencil as a test, and saw it as a 3d wire-frame and from all angles, then made it real. I wanted to make something bigger, so I made a building in which I was standing in the courtyard. I don’t know how actively I created it (it felt different than the pencil), I remember thinking that I needed a framework to make something that big, and that it would be OK if it just appeared within that framework.

So the structure was in place, and I could see the same stars as in the beginning, and I noticed that the building had a reflecting pool, but the water was dirty, so I got in the boat. I wanted to go somewhere, so I made the pool channel around the outside, then when I started to get to the next corner I wanted to have some fun and test lucidity again, so I made it go down hill like a water park slide. It didn’t go as fast as I wanted, though, which was annoying but I just went with it. So I continued in the boat which led to a rock that I slid down towards the ocean, and I got splashed from different rivers and falling water that were contributing to the flow down this huge rock slide.

Then I saw a hominoid in a yellow hooded rain jacket swimming upstream like a spawning salmon. I thought it was Mysha, but when my boat scooped it up it bit my toes or stomach, and I knew it was an impostor so I nudged it out of the boat. I never made it down to the ocean, but I found Mysha near a ladder that probably went back up to my building. We climbed it for a while… we were about 100 ft above the ocean and I asked her if she knew we were dreaming. She mumbled like she was still asleep, and I was supporting her between my arms as I held onto the ladder.

And we let go with our feet, but then I got nervous and only thought about the 100ft, so I held us up and we dangled by my arms.

So then I woke up (falsely) at N Graham St and you were there, we stood by the escaltor and I told about the lucidity of the dream I just had, and that I took the pill and “bam, the adventure was on.” Then this girl from Unitas that I saw on Halloween and forgot her name (still didn’t remember in the dream, still don’t now) walked up and I asked what was up and she was there because her and Brandy were trading pregnancy stories, and that I wouldn’t know how it is, to which I replied that my mom was pregnant with me at their age.

So I wanted to share with you (for real) since I did in the dream. It is my first attempt lucid dreaming in awhile, so I’m interested in pursuing it and seeing where I can take it. ofO