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Dream of: 17 December 2013 "The Love Of God"


lucidity leads to God

I'm sitting in a movie theater with a thin woman on my right who seems like Katharine Hepburn. Although she's probably in her 60s, she's strangely sensuous, and I'm enjoying her company. I even have my right arm around her shoulder and am relishing the feel of her supple body. I'm amazed that I would be with Katharine Hepburn, but for some reason I think I am.
Abruptly I awaken and realize that I've been dreaming. I'm disappointed because I had been enjoying the dream so much. So I decide to go back to sleep to see if I can continue with the dream. I return to sleep, and sure enough, I again find myself with the same woman. Now, however, we are no longer at the theater, but inside a house where a party seems to be taking place.
I feel sure that I'm dreaming again, but my wonderment that I was able to awaken from a dream, return to sleep, and pick up with the same dream, causes me to question whether I am indeed dreaming. I reflect that I've been wanting to have a lucid dream and the thought occurs to me that I'm having a lucid dream right now. I don't know how to test this theory, but it occurs to me that if I were able to float upside down, I could be sure that I'm dreaming. I'm sitting down on a chair and I'm amazed that I'm able to rise into the air and turn upside down in the air - still in a sitting position. It seems absolutely incredible that I find myself floating upside down and I find great difficulty believing that this is happening.
Fully lucid now, I suddenly remember the "task of the month" from the Lucid Views web site. Remembering that I'm supposed to accomplish a task when I become lucid in a dream, I start trying to remember "What was the task? What was the task?" Suddenly I remember two of the tasks. I recall that one task is to ask someone what they're thankful for. I also remember that another task had to do with becoming a wolf. Trying to chose between the two tasks, I think that becoming a wolf would be the better task, but it might be too difficult, especially since I'm floating upside down. Since other people are in the room, I decide that I should try to complete the easier task of asking someone what he's thankful for. I'm all excited because I didn't think I'd ever be able to remember a task like this. It seems so unreal that this is happening.
Reveling in my lucidity, I float around upside down over top of these people with my head at about the same level as the people and I try to get someone's attention. I first see a little boy and I think of asking him, but then I see a man who looks like a better candidate. I float over top of him - still upside down in a seated position - with my head close to his. When I try to ask him, however, I can't seem to talk. I persevere and continue trying to ask the man the question - what are you thankful for? - until somehow I'm able to telepathically ask him the question. I'm afraid I'm losing control of the situation and the man will not hear me and will not answer the question. At the same time, I seem to be saying to myself, "What would be a good answer? What would be a good answer?" and suddenly in my mind I hear the response, "I'm thankful for the love of God."
I'm not sure if the man telepathically answered me, of if the answer came from my own mind, but I'm overwhelmed by the profundity of this answer. It almost seems as if this is the response that I wanted to hear, and I'm unsure but what I just thought up the answer myself.
I stand back up on my feet and awaken from the dream. I want to write down the dream so I don't forget it. I sit down and I write down the words "I'm thankful for the love of God" and am preparing to write the rest of the dream when I see my old friend Melanie (an English professor at Southern Methodist University whom I first met around 1987) walk through the room. I now realize that I'm in her house and that she is the one giving this party. I want to tell someone what I've just experienced and I think if I tell Melanie my dream right now, then I won't forget it. I start trying to tell her the dream, but she is busy with something and doesn't seem to have time at the moment to listen to the dream.
I follow her into the adjoining room where she has been laying out a table with abnormally large pieces of exotic Latin-American-looking fruit. I'm now quite hungry and am particularly drawn to some large pieces of fruit which look like grapefruit which is arranged on a multi-tiered round glass structure in the middle of the table. I ask her if I can have a piece. She responds, but I don't quite hear what she says. Nevertheless, I pick up a large piece of fruit and I and start eating it. I then follow Melanie back to the main room where I see more fruit laid out in a more customary arrangement and I wonder if I should have taken the piece from the glass structure, which now seems as if it was almost like some kind of decorative structure. I wonder if Melanie is miffed because I took that fruit. I'm going to eat it anyway, I'm so hungry.

Dream Commentary

The task of asking a dream character what they are thankful for was actually one of the tasks for November, but I didn't realize that until well after I woke up and had recorded the dream.