Lucidity

[stoutfellow]

I've heard of the phenomenon of lucid dreaming, but until this morning (perhaps) I had never experienced it. I was downtown, in a city which my conscious mind does not recognize but where my dream-self seems at home, and I sensed that something unpleasant was about to happen, or was already happening. I said to myself, "No, I'm not going to put up with this. I am wearing pants, and I have my wallet with me." Neither of these things was true at the moment that I thought it, but a couple of (subjective) minutes later, when I thought about them again, they were. The dream proceeded without embarrassing incident from that point.