Level of Lucidity (1-10): 1 | Dream Signs:  | Mood: Tired

Nothing special to report, except that the conscious decision to try and have a lucid dream seems to make for a more intense, interesting and varied nights dreaming.  The details aren't important since these are my symbols, non-sequitars and odd scenarios.  But the effort to pay attention rewards with a satisfying dream night.

Looking back at my three or four memorable dreams, there were plenty of clues that I wasn't in the real world.  Why didn't I question the fact that I was driving a snowmobile/skidoo (when I'd never been on one ever) on a dirt road?  Or that the buildings I was trying to take pictures of  had personalities and faces?  Or that  the subway I was on didn't run underground?  Or that the huge building fire diverting traffic was alive and malevolent?

Our dreams are full of a thousand clues that we are in fact dreaming.  Yet questioning the dream so rarely occurs to us.

I once had a silly dream about me and my friends having invented a time machine and I was convinced it was going to make us rich.  I wondered if I was dreaming, so I decided to do a test.  I closed my eyes and felt the wind on my face -- I felt it strongly.  I reached down and pulled up a handful of grass -- it resisted me and when it came up it smelled richly of earth and new-mown lawns.  The word I was in was real.  I was going to be rich.  I wasn't dreaming.  Then I woke up.

AJ