I was walking barelegged across a desert-like blue and red plain with sparse vegetation and rocks. There was a sudden sharp pain in my leg. I turned around and saw something out of the corner of my eye. Then it happened again. What was that? Somebody standing off to the side, out of my line of vision, but a friend, called out, “watch out! there’s more of them!” And it happened again. And this time I saw it, a spider about the size of one of those yap-yap dogs. I gave it a kick and it scuttled away under a rock. But then as I turned around there were three more of them. They were everywhere, for miles. They were fast. And where was my friend? Gone. Aieee! Help!
So I realized I was in a dream, and I woke up. Sometimes I am able to control what happens in my “lucid dreams,” but in this case no immediate solution presented itself (a flood? a helicopter rescue?). I was distracted. Spiders were biting me!
It took me two hours to get back to sleep. (I listened to some more podcasts and updated this post.)
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