Have you ever had lucid dreaming? This is when you dream and realized you’re awake inside a dream and you can direct your dreamscape. There are things you can do in your dream to verify you are in a dream and not awake. That is what this audiobook “Lucid Dreaming” was teaching me. Just when I was very sleepy, I started it and put on my bluetooth headphones. It had some talkies and I think some background sounds. Eventually, I fell asleep and there I was in a restaurant eating something with a friend. I cannot recall who but I think it was a female friend. We were on a table beside a window, eating and chatting. Outside, we saw this big semi truck loaded with logs with chains around it. It was trying to back out. I hear the beeping when a vehicle goes on reverse. Suddenly, the blinking red lights on the back of the truck kept getting closer and closer. I thought, this is not good. If the driver does not stop, it will hit the restaurant. Then, I remember the sound breaking glass and screaming at my friend to run. I turned around and I see the back of the truck looming over me. I thought he’s gonna run me over. And I woke up. Heart beating so fast, I thought I was going to have a heart attack. The audiobook is long over. It took a while for me to calm down and be able to go back to sleep again. I knew it was a dream or nightmare because I would not consciously think of a truck running me over while in my cozy bed. I’m not quite sure if it was lucid dreaming as I did not get a chance to direct it or follow the checks to identify if I am in a lucid dreaming state.

Last night, I did not use the lucid dreaming audiobook. I had a dream. Not as violent as the night before. I remembered it for a couple of minutes. I should have written it down as I cannot recall it now.