I become lucid.

I'm now in the kitchen of my previous/family home. There's a picture in front of me. Looking at it, I see that it's a group of lines and dots (in black), seemingly arranged haphazardly around the page. However, looking closer, I see that there's a message embedded in the picture, and even words which annotate it. I find this quite clever, and am also somewhat astonished by the clarity of the dream. I can zoom in, and focus on things, and they don't mutate/change. Very nice! This rarely happens to me in my lucid dreams.

I decide to make the most of it. I should do something special. Go outside to the hill behind the house, and meditate, reach out to the owers that be.

I walk out of the house, and then step back to close the door. There's an elegance about this - a sense of closure, and patience that I recognise I have grown into. When I was younger, my lucid dreams would too often involve me madly rushing about with a particular/intention purpose. Waiting, taking a moment to close the door, seems more graceful somehow.

I wander up to the flat rocky area, and stand in a position akin to the 'Holding the Tree' meditation. Not quite correct though - haven't done it in ages. As I stand there against the night sky, I decide to close my eyes, and feel into the sensations in my fingertips. Holding the fingertips of each hand a few cm apart from one another, I wait for the "tingles" to begin - maintaining the intention for a meeting with the higher "powers" of the dream.

My fingers soon begin to buzz, and I feel myself drifting away from standing position, being carried forward - floating across the hillside, higher and higher - following a large gorilla across the sky. I cross into a completely new portion of the dream. A place to which I feel I have only just been.

The gorilla seems a little bewildered by the new setting, but also quite comfortable with why we've turned up her. It seems significant to me that I wanted to get in touch with spiritual power, and here I am with this gorilla. Who by the way, is entirely friendly and somewhat human-like in nature. When we first arrive at the basketball courts, I give him a big high 5, as a way of greeting.

I recall going out onto the basketball court and playing the game, with another friend Gillius, who also happens to be here.

Comments: This dream was pretty fun. I liked my meeting with the Gorilla. The gorilla strikes me as a fairly masculine archetype, and especially so within the context of this dream. There's alot of strength there, and a cheery spirit too.

It is these aspects of the dream that will most remain with me.