Lucid Dreaming Ep. 10

“Dream told me to be lucid”

I was Harry Potter (lol) but he was a little more trendy and a real-life celebrity almost how I imagine Cedric Diggory would be and me and other less cool magicians (lol) were going into VR training sims. So I walked forward, ducked into a tunnel, and said whoosh. But when the scene became clear I instantly knew someone must have hacked the system because I was not in a training sim. This is when the bad guy’s servant came and got me and threw me in some kind of upstairs dormitory. He left me alone for a bit which is when I realized I couldn’t escape or at least I thought I couldn’t escape. Then he came back and we were in a hand-to-hand struggle for a while. Actually the part where I was trapped was very, very vivid; I remember fighting by rolling my wrists and trying to escape. I knew the bad guy (Voldemort) wasn’t there yet. Eventually, I beat the servant off of me and onto the ground and escaped. I was running quickly because I wanted to leave before the master-bad-guy arrived and I realized there were two options. One set of double doors I just intuitively knew would lead me towards more fights. I also knew these were fights that needed to happen and it would be productive slash optimal for me to go this way. The second choice was an immediate exit sign. I pushed through a set of double doors that would lead me to more battles but then there were multiple exit doors, almost as if to give me a second chance, so this time I chose to exit. After going through the exit door there was another set of exit double doors a little cracked open so I hid behind them as I tried to figure out what to do next. This is when I realized I was so far from my “house” (or wherever home felt to be in the dream) because I was in the same location as my dream from two nights ago “school” - the specific buildings were different but I knew if you plotted them all on a map they’d be in the same town. Actually I didn’t make this connection yet - I just had the understanding of where I was in a way you only could have from having been somewhere before. As such, I knew if I just ran outside I would probably get caught because there was such a long way to go home and I’d have to try to hitchhike but also a lot of people were on bikes (not cars) so it might be pretty tricky. I see a building nearby and dart inside. I guess this room is the cafeteria?

I escape into the room where I learn how to XX ski inside with my old cross country (running) coach. I remember she didn’t realize I wasn’t supposed to be there but I knew because my sneakers weren’t on all the way; I had tucked my sock-covered feet just into the tops of my pre-tied shoes as if I was going somewhere in a rush. And I also remember knowing I was out of place because I kept stabbing my feet on accident with the ski poles because I didn’t actually know what I was doing. At this point I am my female-self again. Then it switches to floor hockey game and i was using an inverted broom (because I didn’t have a stick) and I put toothpaste on the broom every time to play. This room is cafeteria style with random people in it from different parts of my time in school. After I was done playing I went to eat bc it looked like we had catering. I knew I had already eaten but I figured I should stuff myself as much as I could before the long drive!!! That’s when I realized I had been in the location (ie city) before even though the room was different because I had the same long drive as two nights ago!!! (In hindsight, I had many lucid opportunities, but I mostly wish I could have gotten lucid here so I could map this out.) There were a lot of options even a tofu option which I actually did not choose. As I was finishing up eating, one of my good friends was sitting next to me and we realized we were going to the same town so we decided to just Uber together. I don’t know how I didn’t consider Uber as an option before, but i guess I didn’t know I had my phone on me?? Also female grace had a bag (my real-life gym bag) so that could be how the phone came into the picture. Anyways we called the Uber even though I wasn’t done eating because we knew it would take a bit to arrive especially to such a remote location. Then I walked back and forth across the cafeteria observing the different cliques. I remember being really interested in the people and how they were interacting. Then all of a sudden it was time for us to go because my friend’s parents had arrived to pick us up. Somehow this didn’t strike me as weird so we headed out to the now empty and very dark parking lot to get in the car. My friend’s brother was there too and he got in first. I remember wondering how they got here so quickly but they said they had learned from my mistakes (in my previous dream) and planned ahead to leave early. So we got in the car and (this is when I realized I had a bag because) I asked for my bag so I could pour out the remaining coffee in my joco so it wouldn’t spill in the bag. Katie handed it to me and I poured it out then climbed in the car. It was pretty cramped but I felt lucky to be safe. I also remember her mom had gotten the same brand of water bottle of me (bkr) but an even bigger version than my 1L bottle (lol). It had some kind of external plastic housing (this is not a real model in real-life) to protect the glass from breaking and I thought it was so cool. The drive was a blur but before I knew it we were back in a house although it didn’t really feel like my friend’s house. At this point, I felt really strange almost like I had been drugged in some way and was acting kind of weird like maybe if I was really drunk but also tired? Very out of character and lethargic. Anyways, I had to get on a GVC call for work at this point with three of my coworkers who were also in the house (and also drugged?). And only one of these coworkers was an actual coworker from real life.

I realized it was the boss-figure’s house not my friend’s house. The Boss was teaching his son to play this really fancy keyboard so I tried playing on it and it was SO cool. It was almost like a piano DJ set up w/ a lot of presets and I made some really cool music. I also wish I was lucid here or at least had better recall of the melodies. After this my vision was still pretty hazy but I was suddenly in a bedroom with multiple beds and the heater was right next to me. It was unbearable, like absolutely sweltering, so I got out of bed and saw my good friend was sleeping or pretty much sleeping on the next bed over and there was also another girl sleeping two beds over. I knew I couldn’t sleep bc it was too hot and that’s when I remembered the Uber we called ages ago. I said my friends name and “We forgot about the Uber”. She looked equally as concerned as I was. But then she said to me “wait let me check if this is real” implying that she was going to check if this was a dream or not and headed out the bedroom door. This probably also should have been a lucidity trigger but I needed a few more moments to catch on.

As we were going down the staircase from the bedroom I saw this guy who was an old college buddy of mine, only it was as if he was a replica of himself, one that had grown up in the UK. This was a continuation of my dream from the night before because I had also seen this guy then. I saw a (normal-version) of another close college friend who lived on my hall freshman year, hugged him hello and he asked me if this other guy was real, which is when it switched to bios. My dream vision was just a screen again (which seems pretty common for me but also concerning) where I could view the “profiles” or mini-descriptions of various people. It would roll through this whole profile almost with the text just automatically scrolls super quickly and I was only paying attention to the biggest strength because it was bolded. I was basically just trying to confirm if he actually was from the UK or if he was just playing us but then it switched to my bio and under “biggest strength” the bolded section, it said “I like to practice being aware in dreams because…” and that was enough to prompt lucidity. But I think I got too excited because I could tell I was mostly awake and couldn’t stabilize the dream even though I tried for a bit. This was the most straightforward trigger I’ve ever had it was almost like my dream was begging me to get lucid.