I’m in my home - it is night time. I hear banging on the door - someone is trying to break into my house. My wife is screaming, trying to hold the door closed. I realize I am dreaming at some point during the drama, and immediately hold my arms out and fly out the ceiling of my home. I am now outside floating in the air, drifting up and up, over my neighborhood and city and flying over the landscape. I barely clear a mountain as I skim low over the rising forest of trees. I am suddenly flying at night- The stars are overhead and there’s a full moon hanging bright over a distant edge of mountains. I am aware of black cloud in the distance... it's moving fast, coming in my direction. I realize it is a massive flocks of crows coming in my direction - thousands of them, packed closely together and flying quickly in my direction. I know I have to get to the ground safely instead of traverse that terrible murder of crows. I fly down quickly, get to the ground and lay down face up, feeling them fly over me… Their wings and feathers barely grazing my face as thousands of crows fly past. All is quiet. I kneel and look around. I am on a vast salt flat in the midwest - the moon and stars are lighting it up in an eerie glow, with the mountains just dark silhouettes in the distance. I realize that I need to get to my mind palace. I know I have the power to go there at will, and take my finger and draw a door in the air - I drag my finger from the ground, in a big arch through the air, and back to the ground. As I do, a line of electric sparkling blue light sprouts from my fingertip and hangs in the are. It’s a crude archway, but it’s glowing an incredible shade of bright blue. In the middle I draw a circle with a cross through it, the same symbol for Earth. I place my hand in the middle of the circle and interlock my fingers into the newly formed gears, the actual segments of space-time pressing inwards with the touch of my finger tips, and turn it clockwise. The door swings opens in the air and I walk through. I am entering into an ancient hotel, tiled with intricate marble pillars, decorative floor tiles, and massive overgrown plants. I look to the left - At first I perceive it to be a very low quality version of the entrance of my mind palace - There is a jumble of old machinery, some objects resembling the circular faceted door, but nothing tangible that I can operate. I walk through that small room, sliding past the broken down machinery, and enter through a second doorway into a small theater room filled with some glum looking people in cocktail party attire. Everyone is sitting or standing around on the plush velvet furniture as if waiting for something to start. In the back is my good friend E.P, who is wearing a black tuxedo. Smiling, he pulls a rope on the side of the stage which parts the red velvet stage curtain, revealing a stage full of incredible guitar amplifiers and technology that he’s clearly excited to examine with me. I suddenly realize - this is a distraction, a test from my mind to see how Lucid I am. I know this is not where I should be. I wave to E.P but turn away. Someone even appears next to me, a beautiful woman, reaching for my arm and trying to draw me back in. I politely say I have to go and leave the theater. I am suddenly standing with a man, who is facing me in the lobby of the hotel. He is handsome with dark skin and a bald head, wearing plain clothing. He does not feel like the distracting dream characters from before - I greet him and asked his name. He smiles in turn and says his name is "Enquin" with a South African tongue click where the Q is. I feel the dream slipping a bit. I tell him and he suggests that I try to maintain it by meditating. I sit down and meditate for a bit. I even hum to myself, and wonder at the time if my earth body was also humming. I wonder if I’m going to wake up - my eyes are even closed at this time, but when I open my eyes I am looking at the floral pattern of the tiles on the floor of the hotel, the same building I’ve been in. I turn to my guide. I tell him we need to get to another place, to my Mind Palace, and he tells me he is just here to assist me, but I must lead the way. We start walking - we walk through an interesting rectangular room that is lined on the walls with tanks of lizards consuming each other. It’s beautiful and violent. There is a large tank of snakes and others of fish. The room starts shifting and spiraling downwards, like an elevator that is changing dimensions. Finally we reach “the bottom”, and walk out of an elevator door on the other end of the room. It’s very humid and it’s night time. We walk outside into a tropical beach landscape. There are tribes of people here and there near fires that are speckled along the beach, with birds and lizards everywhere on the silver sand. I listen to the air for the sound of a waterfall (It is outside the entrance to my mind palace) and I hear it, distantly to the left along the beach. There is an island to the right and a tree line to the left and I have a better feeling about walking along the the tree line. I start to drift and lose my vision. I wait patiently but it does not return. I wake. #Lucid #Dreamdoor #Dreamguide