Lucid Dreaming

NOTE: This is not today's blog. Today's blog is already posted and is below this entry. This entry just deals with my first lucid dream. I had heard polyphasic sleep helps you have lucid dreams, and have been waiting for this moment.

Success! I just had my first lucid dream (a lucid dream is a conscious dream that you can control). I don't remember the entire dream, only the last part as I started to became aware. I was in a compound, with many doors, and most of them had a high-ish level of security on them, requiring passcodes to get in. I went through one, and then saw a man in a blue shirt come out of a door across the courtyard and I knew in my dream he was coming for me to do me harm. I hurried through the door and made sure it shut behind me. Inside this door was a long hallway with window paneled classrooms and lots of technical computer/business workers. I walked through it and then went through another door with a bolt lock. I was peaking out through the crack in the door watching for the man in the blue shirt. 

This is when I became really aware I was dreaming and started to take control. It was very strange. I knew I was dreaming and thought I was about to wake up. Instead, I thought of Paul and what he had said yesterday about lucid dreaming. So I thought, I need to stay awake and try to control this dream. 

In a room directly across from me there was a woman who saw me looking through the door. She knew I wasn't supposed to be there but I don't think she raised an alarm. She seemed sympathetic. I quickly backed away from the door. I knew the man in the blue shirt was coming and I didn't know how I was going to get out of this situation. I remember actively thinking as I was dreaming, I want Christian in this dream to help me out of this. So I looked around and there he was across another room with many people. Christian saw me and started coming over. I quickly opened the bolted door to let him in. But then almost immediately the man in the blue suit entered. Suddenly the room had cleared of people and it was only Christian, me and this strange man. Here I had another active thought to control the dream along the lines of making Christian have James Bond like skills. He then had secret-agent like fighting abilities, and quickly neutralized the situation when the man attacked. 

After this dream I then had a much more peaceful dream of Christian and I eating together with lots of family members (non of whom I recognized as real family) at long folding tables.

After writing these dreams out, I vaguely remember the dream that occurred before. It contained two cats as the primary characters along with a few humans that I don't remember well. I just remember the cats had very distinct personalities and were extremely intelligent. Most of my dream was spent hugging these cats. They were 43 weeks old and were for sale at the very beginning of the dream. The interesting part about that is the advertisement for them was a moving picture, like the pictures in Harry Potter.