Just woke up from the task! ( text woke me up!)
Dream here:
[spoiler]I was at a wedding shower or something, didn’t start out lucid, but I was dressed up, and for a while was messing with a tiara in the car to try to get it right while people were waiting for me to get out. Finally I did, saw some relatives and said hi, but then saw some kids playing games out in a spacious backyard and said to myself that it was a perfect opportunity to fly. So I did, but didn’t work so well… It was more like I did better jumping than flying.
After a bit, I see this long house/barnlike building (playhouse?) in the backyard and jump on top to get a higher flying elevation. The kids tell me it’s not going to work because of the pink ceiling above me, and lo and behold, there IS a pink ceiling made of tiles like my college ceiling. I jump, and I hit the ceiling (duh). It’s bright day out, so I think that there’s gotta be a sky past the ceiling, so I move some tiles up and over onto adjacent tiles so there’s a hole in the ceiling. It’s dark with more tiles, so I try moving those and imagining a bright blue sky above them. “Ceilings” and literal ceilings often have popped up for me as an obstacle in dreams before. So I realize that, and I’m wondering what else to do worthwhile in the dream.
Then I remember the LC, and jump down from the roof of the building. I go over the backyard, and find a brick wall like the back of my house. I’m over at the corner, see a small building or structure to the side, but ignore it as it’s a different structure that doesn’t exist IRL that dreams add all the time. I put my hands on the walls, apparently remembering OmkAR’s RC of being able to push on walls and get them to move. So at first I push and nothing happens, then the wall indents and I get my arms in about 7 or 8 inches or so, the brick bending from the force of my hands. Then I let the brick come back. The wall was also not all the way to the ground; it was probably two or three feet off the ground. Then I asked it what my purpose in life was. (I must add a little girl ran to the wall with me, and stood several feet to my side, but she was out of my vision, so I’m going to ignore her here.) I heard something like a groan and then a whisper something like “Why me?” but that could also have “mo-ney”, but it sounded more like “Why me?” I then asked it if I should have another purpose in life, thinking that extra points were for more questions that got answered, not extra walls (gah, dream thinking!). I didn’t hear an answer, so I pushed my hands in it again and asked it if it had fallen asleep again. While I still had my hands on the wall, I felt and heard a buzzing and knew it was my phone IRL invading my dream, and hoped I wouldn’t wake up, but I woke up very quickly.
I considered doing a DEILD, hoping it was my roommate’s phone since I knew I’d set no alarms, but decided to get up and write the dream instead since I’ve been out of the habit of DJing. And apparently I needed to get up since it’s been about 14 hours since I fell asleep…[/spoiler]
Success, at least for the major part of the task! Not sure why I asked what I asked or why I got the answer I did, but that’s for another day.
Edit: Note: Even though I call pushing in the wall Om’s RC, I didn’t use it as an RC; I was already assuming it was an LD. Oh how I miss my RC-less LDs…