I was back at my high school, and besides me, there was nobody else around. I had forgotten something at home (I can't remember what it was), and I didn't have my phone, so I asked to use the phone at the office. For some reason, they refused to let me use their phone.
So now I'm wandering through the school hallways, with my mind heavily focussed on thoughts of how to get something from home to school. As I walk, my mind drifts between looking down the hallway at school, and imagining where I left my stuff at home. I find that as I'm rounding corners of the hallway, I am "switching" between a hallway at home and a hallway at school.
I think the reason for this was because my mind had not yet chosen what will be around the corner, and because my thoughts were focussed on the oppossite hallway, it was more likely for the oppossite hallway to be loaded into the next dream location.
As this is happening, I realize I can use this phenomenon to round one corner, go home, grab whatever I forgot, then round the corner again and get back to school.
While I'm carrying this out, I realize that the only way I could be exploiting such an obvious impossibility is if I was dreaming! I walk around my house a bit, but as with every time I lucid dream, the dream quickly fades as I wake and my conscious attention returns to my external senses.
-- Edited by 102intro on Wednesday 7th of September 2011 04:04:23 PM
Your experience with needing the phone to retrieve something from home is a possibilty of you wanting something (an event, item, or experience). Something may have or will happen that will not allow you to get it that causes you to focus even harder on how to get it. Going back and forth from school and home could be a representation of conflicting thoughts on the thing you wish to have. Being in the hallway at school is like the thought of having no hope of obtaining this, but being at home is slowing recognizing how to achieve this. You realize that obtaining this thing is much easier than you thought and that it was always in front of you in the first place at that moment you found out you were lucid dreaming.
Ah I have a similar issue or problem with lucid dreams--they tend to end too quickly after I realize that I am dreaming. If you train yourself to hold on to these longer, you can have amazing experiences in your dreams. As for this specific dream, it seems to indicate that you are someone who seems to forget things or lose his/her way. The image of walking a lot in hallways indicates that you have done a lot of that in your waking life in a large High School or in CMU.
