LD: I rented a room in some sort of hotel with a well known IG photographer. It was late afternoon and we’re both hanging out on the bed reading. He is handsome and has not said he’s interested me, but I can I can sense he wants to be intimate. His leg is lightly touching me and I can feel the heat. I leave the room and walk to my bedroom where my partner is at (now somehow back at home) and end up getting into bed with my partner and falling asleep. In my dream, as I’m falling asleep, I think to try WILD and immediately move into sleep paralysis. I ask the dream if it can be lucid and am able to “roll” off my bed into a false awakening in my bedroom. It’s super vivid and I immediately stabilize by rubbing my hands together. It seems like twilight in my house and I walk out of my room into the hallway. At the other end of the hallway a see a faint apparition by the door. It’s slightly unnerving, but I walk up to it and try and embrace it. It seems to dissipate when I do this. I then ask the dream space if there’s anything I can help out with, but nothing seems to happen. I go to my living room and try and open a portal in the ground using my hands. I get the ground to ripple like a pond, but no portal appears. Instead I spin around quickly and think of an open Irish landscape to test some more dream control in. When I stop spinning, a lush landscape surrounds me, and it is still twilight. Since this lucid is so much more vivid than the last one, I decide to try deity yoga again. I fill myself up with energy and start to fly into the atmosphere, but I notice the dream start to unravel so I immediately cut off my powers and plummet hundreds of feet to the ground. I slam ungracefully (but unhurt) into the ground next to some kayaks. At this point a bunch of people walking their various dogs start to enter the scene. I want to practice teleporting via snapping my fingers, and I’m able to teleport short distances with each snap. Seeing the dogs again, I decide to try full transformation again, but this time into a wolf. I feel myself launch onto all fours, and I look down to see wolf paws. I can also feel a very thick fur coat. I snarl menacingly at a dog that’s close and am surprised at how aggressive/real it sounds. I next see if I can run like a dog, but the movement are all jolty so I transform back to a human. At this point a bunch of DCs are starting to enter the dream and it’s getting crowded. I think maybe now it’s time to start creating a legendary weapon. I start searching for some sort of portal to an underground forge, but have a hard time finding one. A side street opens up to what looks like a neon lit Tokyo alleyway at night, but I don’t go down it (now I kind of regret not taking a look). Instead I enter this gallery space and am trying to find paintings to turn into portals, but at this point the dream gets really messy with a lot of people and I feel my dream control is falling apart. Dream #1: I’m with my mom and she hands me an expensive $217 bottle of champagne. It’s for a friends celebration and as I take it to put it on the counter, I grab it by the next and cork. Some how I accidentally pop the cork and spill half the bottle in the sink. I tell my mom it was an accident and the cork literally fell out, but she’s still disappointed. I realize that I may have some champagne in the fridge, but when I look I can only find other open, half full bottles. She says since it’s still light out she’s going to walk across the street to the store while I figure out what to do. Fragments: Coworker has a large Japanese orchid greenhouse. He offers to share it with me since he has so much space. We spend sometime cleaning it out, including old railroad ties that were on the ground. Playing video game with friend. We quickly get to high levels boss encounter that we cannot beat. I tell her we could probably do it if I used more of my special abilities, but I’ve not had time to practice them. Learning how to canoe properly in water. The instructor was very carefully drawing out a diagram on when to do what stroke. Seemed almost in a tribal setting, like my life was gonna depend on it?