first long lucid dream

[Xehupatl]

haha it was cool

FYI, here in Austria we set back our clocks 1 hour on Sunday 3am to 2am because of "winter-time" (as we like to call it here) .. I dunno I think you people call it winter savings time.
Anyway I forgot to reset the time on my alarm clock. So today in the morning, my alarm went and I got up, believeing it to be 6am. I got up, got showered and dressed. Then I looked at the time on my mobile, and it said 5:30 am. Now I was ticked! I remembered not setting the correct time on my alarm clock, and decided to sleep until 7am to catch up a little.
So during that time I had a very very long dream, involving my bus drive to university, a friends apartment, and me suddenly having a dog, and forgetting him on the bus and so on (the usual newbie university student's dreams ) However, some time during the dream, I suddenly knew that I was dreaming! I found myself in the kitchen of my home, with my family, and tried to convoince them that I was dreaming. They didn't believe me, and I started to doubt it, too. I didn't have any real "powers"; I couldn't change the scenario (closed and opened the kitchen door with the intent of seeing something else than the hallway with the mirror; BTW interesting reflection in the mirror).
Suddenly a friend of mine comes along, and shows me a digital watch - he says it changes time constantly! So I start laughin "yes yes I'm really in a dream" and looked at the watch, looked away, then looked again: different time, and some unusual symbols! haha !
I started wondering if anything should happen, and nothing did. I got bored after a while, and then told my parents: I want to wake up now, so I'm going to sit down and fall asleep" They said "sure, ok, whatever you want" and I sat down and started sleeping. I didn't wake up immediatley, but I didn't have to be in that awfully boring scenario anymore and drifted into blissful unconsciousness.

In retrospect I could say it was a semi-lucid dream, but I can tell you it sure beats waking up in your bed in the darkness and finding that your bed-light doesn't work and being to afraid to get up and look around

What a morning!

So I'd say that interrupted sleep technique really works for me, I gotta continue doing that. yee-haw

Stefan

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and when the day arrives
i'll become the sky
and i'll become the sea

and the sea will come to kiss me
for i am going
home

nothing can stop me now