Colleen and Lale

Lucid dream!  the most lucid I've had in a while.

Last night around 1 in the morning, November 11th of 2012, I had a lucid dream. I know I've been tagging other dreams as lucid, but I think I've been tagging them wrong. LUCID up until this point meant I could control some semblance of what was happening in the dream - this dream, however, was the full definition. I controlled things and I was very aware I was asleep.

There were many dreams in the sequence when I was lucid, for about maybe an hour or so. It's very hard to recall but I remember one of the scenes in the sequence with ridiculous clarity. I was lying in bed and very aware when I fell asleep behind my eyelids. I saw the dream come to light, like a dark blurry image becoming progressively clearer and brighter, and I felt triumphant because I knew I had fallen asleep while retaining my consciousness.

In one of the scenes I was in a beautiful modern restaurant. I knew exactly who I was to find and I knew what I needed to tell him. Once I entered the dream I was very aware of dreaming, but I played along with the plot. I made sure I was to see him - I haven't seen the two of them in my dreams for so long that I missed them. So I went looking for them.

The restaurant, if you'd like finer details, is very much like the rotational restaurant at Niagara Falls - expensive, prestigious. Except much bigger, less crowded, and it was on the ground, not elevated.

I heard the sound of a somber piano song. It was very moody and precise, and from my dream I don't recall having ever heard it before, so my musical mind must've gotten creative. Once I rounded the corner I saw the baby grand piano raised on a stage, the lid open. Behind the piano was Lale.

I knew Colleen was running outside. She was being chased - they both were. There were people eyeing Lale in the restaurant and I knew they were trying to corner him while Colleen was trying to escape others outside of the restaurant. I recall spinning this reasoning together to explain why she wasn't anywhere. I was also very aware that in the dream, I was myself, and not in her shoes. So I knew that I would see Lale first, and I wanted to glimpse Colleen, too, so I imagined they were only temporarily separated. The two needed to be together - so I was here for that purpose.

When I saw Lale he looked surprised to see me, as if asking me why I was in the dream and why I was so totally in control. Every time I dream of Lale I feel helpless and I'm in need of saving - this time, I was to help him. He understood that I was the one who set it up so that the two of them were being chased. For a moment he looked rather annoyed, that scathing disapproving glare on his face. He understood, however, that if he wanted to find Colleen in the dream, then he needed to obey me.

I gave him a nod and shielded my eyes. His song increased in volume and tempo until he raised his hands and slammed down on the keys in the final chord. It felt like I watched his white-gloved hands lift up and slam down in slow motion, but when he did, I could actually feel the force of it in my dream.

All the lights and windows shattered; I heard shocked cries and shouts around me. I don't know how I did it but I told him to shatter the glass, and even the lid of the piano slammed shut. Some of the glass clattered onto me but I saw Lale slip deftly into the shadows, his long hair trailing behind him for only a second before he became a black moving smidge in the shadows. While the ruckus happened around us I trained my eyes on him, being the only person in the whole room who understood what was happening, and he gave me a suspicious look as he went. It was as if he was wondering my true motives, whether or not he should trust me. I now know the extent of how much this character of mine suspects and distrusts me, haha!

I turned to the window where I knew Lale would go. He leapt out of the frame and out into the street, deftly sliding out of shadow and back into being a physical self, and I saw Colleen running across the street in the distance. I could see people chasing them, but Colleen had literally nothing on her but her white dress. Soon her frantic speed was matched by him, and Lale almost collided with her, grabbing her by the shoulders. I watched as he pulled her into the safe darkness, into the ground where no one could touch them. I heard shouts of anger and disappointment from the ones who chased them.

The most vivid part of this scene was that I heard Lale and Colleen's distinct voices. It came after they disappeared, both laughing. I cannot articulate their voices. In any case, what surprised me was not Lale's voice - which was exactly how I imagined it, deep, a velvety baritone with precise consonants and smooth vowels. Colleen's was the shocker. I always have trouble imagining female voices that I haven't heard before but in this dream hers was definitely one I've never heard, but it suited her so well. It was soft but powerful, a forceful but elegant laugh. I woke up very content from this dream, knowing I made them happy.

There was a bit more to the lucid dream, like me seeing Peter take snapshots of the surrounding restaurant (while it was whole) and a few other things... I've forgotten most of them because I had to wake up immediately and get out of the house. But I'm glad I recalled this important segment.