Short lived, but Lucid.

Date: 7/16/2016

Prenote:Before falling asleep my friend and I were disussing lucid dreaming and techniques to prompt it for about 15 minutes. After turning off my phone I spent the first moments of that period of being half awake and half asleep focusing on the different parts of my body. I'm almost sure I lost focus on what I was going for, self awareness when entering the dream state, but it served to plant a seed that opened up mid-dream. I was walking through a waterpark when a whisper of a thought came to me. Just saying "This is a dream". I stopped everything I was doing and clasped onto that thought, repeating it to myself with more certainty. I felt a small uprising in anxiety but quickly hushed it as I knew that meant waking up. I walked around and began experimenting. I know this sounds cruel but I began using telekinectic powers to cause massive amounts of destruction in the park. Breaking apart slides, and moving the water at higher speeds than should be, I was pretty much terrorising everyone there. But they're not real, right, so they're just in the way of my exercises. I seemed to have a limitation on power which began to frustrate me. But I decided I could go anywhere, attempt different things. I walked a distance of maybe 10 feet and was in another environment entirely. I was surrounded by hills, a road winding through them, and and old muscle car. I got in the car and I told myself that the key would be in the ignition, this was my dream. But when I reached to turn the object in the ignition it turned out to just be a flat piece of metal. I pulled it out and thought of another trick. "I own these keys, theyre just in my pocket" I reached in my pocket and sure enough, this time, I held what I wanted. As soon as I insert them into the car and turn it on, though, I am moved to the passenger seat and someone else starts driving the car. I'm getting frustrated with this. Earlier at the park there were certain things I simply couldnt lift from the ground, now I cant drive this car. Why? But I dont allow myself to get frustrated because it seems as if the more I fight the more I can feel myself being pulled from this utopian dream world. The dream ends as me and the driver get to a freeway. Footnote: This is the first lucid dream I've had in close to a year. Just recently have I been focusing more on my dreams, writing them down then reading them over later, and talking to others about them. I wouldnt consider this a failed attempt necessarily, I mean it was a breakthrough. But I'm dissapointed in the way it all played through and there's certainly some things to work on. I had a dream after this which wasn't lucid, but Ill still document it.