Note: I have only included the portion of the lucid dream involving the dream goal. I conjured a piece of white chalk and drew the outline of a doorway into the roof of a car I had found, but unfortunately the doorway opened up directly into the car. I tried to dive through the car-seats but that failed as well. I attempted the dream goal a second time, this time creating a doorway within a wall. However once again my subconscious expectations caused the doorway to open up in a normal manner, simply leading to the other side of the wall. I realised that to get a portal of this type to work I would have to use a surface which wouldn’t give rise to these kinds of expectations. I used the piece of chalk to draw the outline of a door directly onto a road now. I knocked twice and then pulled the door open. Beneath the door lay another layer of road, which I ripped off, revealing a dark space which I promptly dove into. I swam through this non-visual space filled with tactile sensations for a while, before emerging into a different location. Right before I did so, the thought of digging straight through the earth's core and arriving in China (derived from cartoons I watched as a child) had unintentionally crossed my mind. I seemed to have emerged out of a manhole on a street in an affluent residence area. A couple walked past me, a man and woman of seemingly Asian descent. They were dressed in fine, formal clothing, and the lady held a dark parasol above her. They seemed to look at me with some amount of suspicion; I guess from their perspective it was justified given how I had showed up in their residence. I looked around me at marvelled at all the luxurious mansions in this gated community. In the lucid dream I seemed to believe that I lived in the US, and intuitively believed that I was in a majority Chinese-American area. I ran into one of the properties but then quickly became engulfed in other dream priorities.
YES! This is so great. A few questions: how did you remember your dream goal? Did you program it while awake or did you just remember? When you were opening the doors, do you think it would have helped if you had a clear picture in your head of where you wanted to go? Perhaps the dream goal was too vague? So happy to have our first success! I have to catch up!
Thank you :) Typically if I need to remember a dream goal I will actively recall it during my WBTB. Sometimes I can remember a dream goal without doing so but like 90% of the time or more I have to actively recall it during my WBTB to remember it in the dream. For me personally I don't think it would have made much of a difference because I've never been able to choose where I can travel to using portals, it's usually random (which is fun in itself). Even when I try to have a clear picture in mind it doesn't happen...but that might also be because I can't visualise things clearly so I never truly have a clear picture in mind. I usually prefer mirrors and reflective surfaces as portals because in waking life we can't actually enter mirrors of course, so my subconscious mind doesn't anticipate what's on the other side the way it does with doorways.