For years, I’ve thought lucid dreaming sounded amazing, but I’ve never really done it. Despite all of the ridiculous things that have happened to me in dreams, I’ve only realized I was in a dream a few times that I can remember, and those times I just woke up.
Last week on Reddit, I read something really cool about some guy that has lucid dreams all of the time, and one of his pieces of advice to others that want to start having lucid dreams was to get in the habit of always testing if you’re in a dream. He said that he tries to fling people across the room with telekinesis when he starts talking to someone. If it works, he’s in a dream and then he can become aware of that and start doing crazy crap. Well, I thought that sounded cool, but that’s not what worked for me.
Yeah, I finally had a lucid dream last night, and it was insanely cool. For some reason, I was on a school bus going from Terrebonne High to my parents’ house. Of course, the fact that I haven’t been in high school since 2004 and haven’t ridden a school bus since 2003 didn’t phase me in the dream.
So I got out of the school bus, walked down my parents’ driveway, and my Kia was sitting there…and I snapped. I was like, “WHERE’S MY FREAKING CAMARO!? HOLY CRAP THIS IS A DREAM!”
From then on, that dream was pretty awesome. I changed a bunch of crap in the dream (including turning the Kia into Evey, because no one should have to drive a Kia in their dreams) and I flew around and stuff. For some reason, the house caught on fire and I made some water appear and put out the fire with it by moving it around with telekinesis. What I can remember of it was really, really freaking cool. I know this sounds ridiculous, but it really happened (in my dream, of course).
That’s all for now. 
-Philip
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