Finally a Lucid Dream

I'll keep this one short, but I was having a lot of trouble sleeping last night so it seems like a good time to have a lucid dream; when you just can't get comfortable and it's a while before you slip between reality and dreamworld. Maybe this is why I finally had one. Anyway, in every lucid dream I've ever had (except one) I always try to fly. It's pretty much an instant thing, "Oh, this is a dream!.... I CAN FLY!" And what is strange is that every time, even though I know it's a dream, I still have to find some way of helping myself fly. In only one dream I used faerie dust, but in every other dream it is usually an umbrella. I'm not sure why but it seems like a good idea at the time.

So, I think this dream started at my grandparents house. I never realized how many dreams I had there, or maybe it's just a coincidence that I've been having them a lot more lately for whatever reason. Anyway, it was a group of me and some friends and we were walking around doing something, I don't even know. I remember one of them pointing out that there was something creeping around in this giant bush, like some creature or monster or something. This is when I realized it was a dream, so it was pretty immediate. One transition period later, I was in some random town that of course I've never been in. I was with my friend Rachel, the girl that shot me in the last dream (lol). And so I wandered into this shop, they sold Festis (My first Swedish product in a dream, yea!!!) Of course, they also happened to sell umbrella's and a variety of other random snacks and things. It was sort of like a gas station store where it had some useful traveling gadget's, but that was about it. So I got myself this umbrella and went outside and jumped in the air and flew around!

Usually in these dreams, even though I know I can fly, there is something in my head telling me that it's just not possible, so I usually can't fly that high or I will fly up really high and then have to land, or I can only jump impossibly high. I was lucky enough in this dream that I could fly around for a long time so that was pretty awesome. I remember seeing the look on people's faces when they saw me take off, and I just laughed and it was sooo sweet. Anyway, I finally landed and my friend was like "Dude, what about me!?" I'm like good point, so I go back to the shop where I got the umbrella and they're all out of the umbrellas that I used. I'm pretty pissed but I'm like 'Okay, this is a dream, so I can just make this happen right?' So, I close my eyes and I'm trying to force my subconscious into creating more umbrellas and it won't work (it usually doesn't). Luckily I found some in a pile below the stand that people hadn't seen (or maybe it actually did work this time?). So I took one, a different color from my own and went out of the store and gave it to her.

So we went around flying a bit, didn't go up more than probably 750 feet, but that was out of choice, not limitations. I'm not too much of heights person. Anyway, I don't remember much else from the dream, but I do know that when I woke up it felt like I was already awake... does that make sense? Like when you fall asleep with your eyes open and you're just suddenly awake and staring, and it feels like you skipped a step? Well that's what this was like.