I’ve been reading a little bit about lucid dreaming because I hear that you shape your world to be whatever you want while you’re asleep.

Really, I just want one thing from lucid dreams: I want to be able to fly.

I’ve been trying the last few weeks, and last night I had what I think was my first lucid dream. But it didn’t work out the way I had hoped.

In my dream, I was in a large, crowded elevator. I became aware I was dreaming, because in real life if I see a crowded elevator, I’ll wait for the next one, or if an elevator becomes crowded, I’ll get off on the next floor. So I realized this couldn’t be real.

I willed the ceiling of the elevator to disappear, and it did!

All I needed to do now was fly. I stretched out my arms, but nothing happened. I stayed in the elevator.

Everyone else in the elevator, on the other hand, had no such difficulty. One by one, they each jumped and flew away. A couple of them first looked at me like it was my turn, but I just waved them on.

Isolation score: 7.9