LukeSid

7.30 (after a WBTB and at least an hour getting back to sleep)

I'm a warehouse Manager (DS) walking around a warehouse. My manager was there with a visiting group of senior managers (she had once been my boss in a non warehouse-related job) That's dreams for you...pick and mix your jobs and co-workers.

She took me to one side and said quietly that she and the visiting group had been walking around for quite a while and there had been no sign of me. I immediately got defensive and said that I was in another warehouse (although I didn't have a clue where I'd been... THE big DS). Then I apparently "fessed up" and said I'd been feeling a bit down lately and it was wrong of me not to be around. (crawler)

Cut to another warehouse scene with me walking around watching people working...then cut to me apparently entering a gloomy London-type marbled office block. I realize that I have no shirt on. I've dreamed that before (two days before my LD on 9/9/13.

I immediately thought "this is a dream" and I was lucid....for all of 10 seconds. I looked around but there was really nothing to see because it was gloomy. Because I've had seven lucid experiences (including two after I left DV for the 1st time) I know I was lucid.

I think I was in a shallow sleep, probably just waking and it was maybe just the right combination of alertness and the last gasp of my dream. I didn't feel the ecstasy I felt after my first LD last time but I've been conditioning myself not to...just a quiet satisfaction...so I don't think excitement knocked me out of the dream.

After I woke I tried to DEILD (I've been rehearsing it) but it felt like my REM period had expired and nothing happened. Again I failed to RC before getting up...I seem to have a mental block re that exercise.

I'm the cautious type and I'm not claiming it as an LD. Last time I had my second LD five days after the first one and that was a longish dream (so here's hoping)

It's been a difficult couple of weeks, where I've had a lot of health problems, so this is a nice boost to my confidence. I've been occasionally waking feeling a bit fragile, but it's been nothing like the times I used to wake feeling really ill