I finally had a lucid dream (after two weeks or something). I don’t keep a DJ on LD4all, so I’ll write about the dream here instead of a link:
I find myself on The Great Wall of China (though I’m not Chinese). I look around a bit, and see people around me. Unlike what I’ve expected, I know them. They’re from the same school as I am, but they’re the seniors (and I don’t talk with them much normally, because they’re way too busy with things). Somebody (I don’t know who the person is, probably a teacher) urges us to keep walking, and we do so. I notice the girl in front of me (and she is the one senior I’m closest to) and I see that her legs are extremely thin (as if she had anorexia). My stomach churns at the thought that what I was seeing could’ve been only bones. I start looking for a bathroom (and it seems quite odd to me by then, looking for a bathroom on The Great Wall of China). I walk out of a door to my right at those points which there are cube-shaped room-ish things on the Wall but some mystic creature (it looked like the “Genie of the Lamp”, now that I think of it) stops me on the way. I try to walk past him, but of course I’m stopped. He tells me that I could walk out there, but it would have its consequences. I don’t question him about anything, just accept and walk out. He knows where I want to go, and teleports me there as I walk out of the door. I’m now in a bathroom, but my hair is very heavy, as if I’d never washed it for years (that is just a guess though, I don’t know what happens when a person doesn’t wash her hair for years). It is quite straight though, and has a lighter color than it normally has. I have a hard time carrying it even with my hands, and I approach a washbasin. There are things written all over it. I glance at the mirror for a second, and then look at the washbasin again. The letters on it are moving. That’s when I say “I’m dreaming,” and I have a few moments of realization of the fact that I haven’t had a lucid dream in a while. First, I look back up into the mirror, and I decide the first thing I want to do: To change my hair to be a more dreamer-friendly way. I think “I’ll look away and look into the mirror again, and my hair will be short.” and do what I say. Not to my surprise, it works. Then I wonder what I want to do next. I remember about this quest and try to change my age. First I visualize how I’d look the age I wanted to be (I chose to be younger because I thought it would be easier to remember something instead of trying to guess about the future) and then I tell myself that I’d be the age I chose (10 -because it is a nice number, and easily rememberable) when I spun around and stopped. I start spinning clockwise, but I must’ve been spinning too fast that I even lose my vision of the background. I spin and spin and spin (it feels like forever) and then I decide that I’d rather stop. I can’t stop by thinking “I’ll stop now,” or “I’ll slow down now,” or “I’ll start spinning counterclockwise,” or (this one was lame in a dream, I know, I just didn’t know by then) “I’ll put a force so that if there is frictional force in this place, the force I place on myself will be equal to the force applied to me from the other side; and I’ll eventually slow down.” I feel hopeless, and decide that I’d rather wake up, so I do the “I’ll wake up when I open my eyes”.
I was very disappointed when I woke up. I could’ve done many things in that dream. However, it was an afternoon nap, and I could feel my body almost sweating under the quilt. So that’s how I relieved myself. My lucidity and vividness was low anyway, as they always are.
That’s it. I guess this is 35?
I guess this challenge actually helped me also.