I become lucid in my kitchen at my old/family home. Having just "woken up" from another lucid dream, I quickly recognise the signs - though it's a feeling more than anything else.

There are other people in the kitchen - they seem a little surprised at my realisation, and my sudden jump from washing the floor to moving out the door. I immediately think of my intent from the previous lucid dream. I was going to go and find out about the "dream school" - infact, people were ready to meet me there too.

I walk out the back door, and find that there's a man already there waiting for me. Awesome. There's a big label on the jumper which reads "Dream School". Great - I know he's here in a guiding capacity - ready to take me off on some kind of learning adventure. He's wearing red and black colours, with a cap with his name on it. The label on his  reads "Eric" or something similar, and I have this instant hint of recognition. A false? dream memory bobs up. I have this strange memory of being told about him in a previous dream - that this encounter was going to happen.

I shake his hand warmly. "Oh great..  I knew you'd be coming!" I say excitedly.

He looks at me for a moment - as though asking me to reflect on that a bit more deeply.

"Really?"

he says. I see the name on his cap change. I start to wonder about this - I have the strangest sensation, on the one hand I definitely feel like I was told about him, on the other hand there's no particular moment I recall that happening.

We continue forward, and suddenly I walk into a room, where things are very different. People are walking around just as they might usually, but a different sensation is present here. It's like I feel joined at the heart to everyone in the space. Total unity. And somehow tangible too. I wonder if this is what life is like on the "other side".

I have a feeling that this relates somewhat to my previous experience - that here in this realm, we feel we recognise each other, for just this reason.

Anyway this place is really cool. I walk off to the left, and suddenly go into this room. My reality seems to become like "plastic", reality echoes. My sense of reality takes a definite and very fun turn. Wow. What a feeling, I think to myself - have never experienced that in the waking world.

Onward I go. It seems there are lots of exciting things going on. Further on, I see a giant trampooline. Only it looks to be made of colour and candy. Stretching out some 10 or 20 metres, with sets of giant candies hung along 3 or so strings. The idea, as I see it is that you can jump on these elastic strings, gain some momentum, and then finally launch yourself off from the final trampoline.

I feel the buzz and energy of people around, and feel inspired. I begin to run up to it, bouncing from string to string of giant candies, feeling a little like an acrobat (at least in this retelling), before landing on the final trampoline. What a rush.

It must have special powers. I bounce off, doing a flip into the air. Now I feel a wind whip me off the trampoline, and the shriek/shock of a previous unknown audience in the background. All of a sudden I'm flyign through the air, totally at the grip of the natural forces. Looking down I see a leveled rocky or at least Earthy hilltop.

At first I wonder how I'll land - but I'm not so stressed. Infact, the more I look, the more I notice that this place is something like a festival. A festival? Maybe even a different kind of society where people have taken to living on the earth. In every direction there are people - with big warm smiles, and busy doing things.

Below, there are levels - seemingly cut out from the hillside, reaching down to something like a massive oval that seems to be a centerpoint for this community, scattered around it in all directions. At this point, I am reminded that I could 'pick up' a cool dream chick, but soon decide against it. I came here for a different reason than that - why waste my time here.

I start to put my hands together as though in prayer, and feel myself gliding/being taken in a different direction. At this point, I hear a voice ...

"Nick (or a similarly personal form of address). There's a problem."

"Huh?" (I recognise that it's a problem showing me anything more about the "dream school")

"There's a Light in power here"

What does this mean? I wonder. I'm confused. Where are we anyway? I haven't even found out of the name of this place (assuming it has one). I begin to scan the scene. I can't see anything particularly revealing on the "power" front, though I do remember him saying something about it being "alien" or even "extraterrestrial".

I wake up.

Commments: This was a really fun dream.  I'd been hoping to dream my way back to the dream schools mentioned in my Invisible Education dream. Well, I got a guide with a dream school top on and I got to experience some pretty cool things, so I have to say I'm pretty happy with that.

I didn't really understand the message about the "light in power". Could be a hint back at my waking "alien" environment - too much light - waking me from my dream. That's pretty much what happened - I woke soon after it was mentioned in the dream.

May the visits to the dream school continue.