Dream logic.

[rivka]

This morning, I dreamed that I had to drive somewhere to take care of an awful bureaucratic mess. I parked right behind the building, even though it was clearly marked as only for employees, reasoning that I'd be out before anyone noticed and towed me. Of course, it took much longer to deal with the business - which I think had to do with the car itself, paying fines or sorting out an expensive registration issue. Something like that.

I finished and walked behind the building, looking for my car, and realized - like a punch to my stomach - that I couldn't see it. I realized that it must have been towed. As I walked hopelessly through the parking lot totalling up the likely charges in my head (towing charge, impound charge, parking fine) and dreading the prospect of telling Michael that I'd been stupid enough to park the car illegally...

...suddenly I realized something. "Hey! I'm DREAMING! I didn't really park there! I don't have to deal with this at all!"

The whole scene dissolved away - literally, like a fancy film transition to another scene. Suddenly I was driving around with Michael, listening to him explain to me that he'd parked the car at a specific intersection, but he didn't know where those streets actually were. Much better.

I don't ever remember being able to do that before. I've managed to wake myself up out of a bad dream, but I've never managed to switch the dream around while it was happening. It was kind of neat.

Comments

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Sound slike your first foray into lucid dreaming - cool, ain't it?

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I've read a bunch about lucid dreaming -- have never done it, but still -- and the next step is to try and actively make decisions while you're dreaming. It all sounds major neat if you can do it.

B

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I can lucid dream, but I only do it if the dream is really bad.

I used to have a recurring dream that I came out of a building and the van wasn't there and what was I going to do? I can't walk more than about a block without falling down. Then I got my cellphone and I haven't had the dream since. After all, I can call a cab if I have to.

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Wow! I wish I could do that.

-J