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I added a box fan to my room, since my room gets hecka hot at night, and my ceiling fan is apparently broken. Honestly, I don’t know why I didn’t do this sooner - it makes the room like 20 degrees cooler, and it works really well as a WILD anchor.

Anyway, I took an extended hour-long WBTB last night, mainly because I was incredibly thirsty and spent a ton of time just drinking water. I had a bit of trouble falling back asleep though, so I just paid attention to the whirring of my fan. After a while, I notice that the sound of it has changed to what sounds like an incredibly epic orchestral song. I actually think it’s some music playing on my phone at first, and I’m tempted to roll over and turn it off. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that I’m close to a WILD, so I just wait it out. Next, I begin to see HI of this long highway stretching out in front of me, and I feel like I’m running/flying down the road at an incredible speed. I still feel like I’m laying in bed, but at the same time I feel an incredible rush like I’m actually moving. I maintain focus on the road, until I finally transition fully.

I’m in my parents’ bedroom somehow. I’m kinda tired of all my lucids taking place inside, so I decide to run towards the master bathroom window and jump outside. I’m now flying over my backyard, but in the middle is a really tall tree with berries on it. I fly up to the branches and see a ton of berries that look like purple grapes, though a small percentage of them are colored silver and gold. I grab one of each color to try them out. I pop a normal purple one in my mouth - it tastes like a grape, but not quite as sweet. I eat a silver one, and suddenly I start flying higher and higher uncontrollably. I get too high and the dream starts to destabilize before I can eat the gold berry.

I remain still and DEILD, this time into my normal bedroom. Again, I jump out the second story window, onto the roof of the porch. This time I stop and take a minute to stabilize the dream before I start. I repeat to myself one of my old mantras that was pretty effective for prolonging the dream. “This will be a long, stable, lucid dream.” I repeat this over and over, while rubbing my hands together and doing a few RCs. Eventually the dream feels stable enough. Finally, now I can enjoy my nice luci-

The scene immediately cuts to black, and I wake up. Seriously?... I manage to stay still and DEILD again. I’m in an entirely different scene, being led down this dark alley at night. I think to myself that it looks like one scene from Rick and Morty (I’ve never seen the show, just the occasional gifs that show up on imgur every now and then). I have handcuffs on my wrists, a set of shackles on my ankles connected by a chain, and am being followed by a guard down the alley, who warns me not to say a word, or else he’ll taze me. He leads me towards a building, where another guard is guarding an entrance fenced off by huge metal bars. The second guard opens the gate, and then opens the main entrance door. I’m led into what looks like a huge food court mixed with a Costco. There’s people everywhere, I’ve never seen a Costco quite that busy.

I’m seated at a table, where the guard removes my handcuffs and walks off. Two friends, Ryan and Kelly, from my graduating class are at the other side of the table, and they start talking to me about something I don’t remember. Somehow the subject of the guards is brought up, so I explain the situation to them. I don’t remember why I’ve been arrested, but basically if I try to break the chain at my ankles, an alarm will go off, and tons of guards will storm the area and take me down. Still, I remember at this point that this is a dream, so it might be worth trying to escape, just for the heck of it. The scenario kind of plays out in my head, where I jump and slide over a few product displays in the middle of the aisles while I’m being chased.

I’m broken from this visualization by a third friend, Sarah, who says that one of her professors is trying to hunt her down. She hands me an earpiece and tells me to warn her if I see him. I stick in my earpiece, and get up and walk around (as much as I can with the shackles still on my ankles, of course. I walk over to the deli counter and spot the professor on the other side. I turn to walk away, when I spot him again, this time off in the distance heading down one of the aisles. I look around and see 2 or 3 more clones of the professor walking throughout the store. I get on the earpiece and warn Sarah of the situation, and assure her I’ll try to do my best to hold them off. I prepare to cause a diversion, but I soon wake up.

I miss my DEILD window, so I get up and type out these lucids on my phone. I go back to sleep and have a non-lucid. I’m at some baseball field with my mom, and for some reason we’re trying to track down some person (really specific, I know…). We split up and search separately, but after a few minutes I haven’t found anything. I turn to look at the field, where I see my mom running on to the field towards the pitcher, followed closely behind by security. She’s about to be tackled, so I run out onto the field to save her, telling security that she’s with me. Apparently that makes them stop (dunno what position of power I had that does that though…). One of the security guards is this really angry old black lady, who keeps yelling at me and threatening me. I start threatening her back, until I realize that she’s the person we were looking for. She seems to notice this, and she starts running away, so I give chase. She’s surprisingly fast, so she gets a sizeable lead at first. She runs through several gated areas, and quickly shuts the gates behind her. I don’t even take the time to open them, instead I just lower my shoulder and break them open as I run through them, like I have super strength. I finally catch up to the woman and tackle her to the ground.

I kneel on top of her and hold her shoulders down to the ground, so she has to maintain eye contact. “Tell me what I need to know.”
“You’re not ready.”
“I’m almost 12, I need to know.” Um, excuse me? I’m almost 22…
“I can’t…”
“I need to know about the birds and the bees!” What the heck am I saying?

Just then, there’s a white flash, and I’m back in the food court/Costco. I’m standing at the end of the aisle, while my two little sisters are continuing the dialogue from the previous scene (I don’t actually have any sisters, but apparently it all makes sense because I’m a character in a sitcom or something…). I guess it was just a daydream. Eventually, the conversation ends, so the sisters hug, and the older sister walks over to me. “Go well?”
“As well as it could have, when I got blindsided like that.”
“Well, you won’t believe the daydream I just had.” I begin to tell her as my voice trails off, the camera pans up, and the credits start rolling on the sitcom. There’s that stereotypical audience applause as the screen fades to black.

“And that’s how we end the episode,” I say to her.
“Too cheesy. Not to mention way too meta.” There’s cheesy sitcom audience laughter, and the credits roll again as I wake up for real.