JoannaB

I no longer remember what happened before I became lucid and what tipped me off. But I remember realizing that this was a dream in a staircase, and jumping up and gravity did not pull me down (successful reality check), so I flew and I headed out onto a balcony and through a solid wooden balcony enclosure with my eyes open. I remember flying a bit outside before the scene changed and I lost lucidity, remembering I had just had a lucid dream though. There were some people at a loading dock and they seemed hostile, which tipped me off that they were just dream characters after all. So I regained lucidity, and flew up and started shooting at the DCs with bow and arrow. I again lost lucidity in a scene change, and this time I was sure I had woken up. I wanted to record my dream, but my husband kept insisting he had to finish reading a children's book to me. He read the final page, and wanted to start another, but I said no thanks. And my eyes opened in my actual bed (I checked).

Oh and all this happened after a WBTB after I woke up at 3:40 and got up for a bit and went back to sleep with intention to realize I am dreaming.

My best friend R asked me to let go of the person who comes in to clean my home and to hire her fried instead who needed a job. I think I dreamed two scenarios of this. First my attempting to do this without seeming unfair to my current housekeeper, that failed. So I dreamed that I told my friend I could not just fire someone who had done nothing wrong, that would not be fair.

In next dream again it was a friend of my friend R. This time I asked her to contact a friend of hers who specialized in lawsuits because I had heard that people were suing society for peer pressure forcing them to have long hair which was less comfortable. And I heard they were winning. I had once had long hair so maybe I could try to get some money. Meanwhile my husband won a law suit that society was forcing him to not always dress casually, which was uncomfortable. His friend (who in reality has a high ranking job for which he has to dress up) in the dream had diabetes which meant they allowed him to always dress casually, but my husband was healthy so he could not always dress ask e pleased. He won this lawsuit. Still unclear how much money he would get, but he won a tower full of pickles and olives, and that already arrived. What also arrived was a suspicious box that was installed in our front yard, and we wondered what exactly it was for and would this result in U.S. Regretting ever having won this.

I was at first opposed to the one in charge who was kind of a high priest. But then I was selected to become the next high priest and I realized we had more in common than I had acknowledged: he had like me started in the performing arts, we were both male, and both passionate about this. The ceremony of the change in high priest involved us both going into a labyrinth pyramid. I was astounded by how well he knew his way about, and he explained that this is a good place for high priest to go to be alone, and he had a lot of need for that, so he really got to know this place. Coming from acting career I could relate to needing someplace to escape the fans. Finally he told me that the high priest always shares his body with another soul, that guides him, and this creature then transferred from him to me. We exited the building.

I needed to find out more about my enemy. During a ceremony he was on stilts, and I told him Shrek looked better than him.

Kids late for religious instruction led by woman who had been my maid of honor, and it was outside.

The night before last I dreamed of cat food and then human food. I think I was hungry.

Last night I dreamed we had not paid the cub scout dues yet, and the Cub Scout den leader met me at supermarket and grilled me some potatoes, and I gave him a piece of mail which was for him though it had someone else's name on it (sent to him anonymously).

Then I dreamed that it was the first day of school and the boys were going to be late! I was on the phone with my mother, and it was 9:06, and the boys were still asleep.

Among males who are in a feud. I was trying to find my place. Had joined group which seemed less strong. I had a friend or uncle who was a talking bear or hippo. I am told that I needed to send something of mine to this uncle but messenger used one word code, and I was unsure whether I should just send item or come along. I went along and saw this bear / hippo frolicking in water with a female, hugging her and saying "cactus" affectionately, and I had the sense that this was just what I had needed to see.

Republican presidential candidates were all definitely defeated or disqualified. So it was clear that next president would be democrat, but unclear which one, so now the campaign would be fighting among democrats.

I was working with my coworker R on data issue. We had received instructions from our partner organization which assumed a certain data structure in a table, but I had added a field without telling anyone because in one record a person had a four part name and so first name, middle name, and last name was not enough. I made a mistake of doing this without consulting anyone or even letting anyone know. I told my coworker now, but he had already contacted our partner organization to let them know that the data structure was incorrect. I started working on correcting it, and the effort seemed much than would actually be needed for this. I decided to put fourth part of the name in the comment field, and to delete the extra field after all.

I forgot this dream upon waking up first but then drifted back to sleep. Woke up and did not remember any new dreams but remembered this dream from earlier in the night.

I was at church. There was going to be some sort of children's ceremony, possibly a baptism. I was waiting with a stroller. The child in the stroller at some point said "Terrific". I was amazed, since this child did not look old enough to use such a word. It turned out that the child was five, though she did not look it, but I still thought she was terrific. I called her mom over to tell her how amazed I was by her daughter, only to discover that the mother paid only attention to her son, and ignored her daughter! The woman who plaid the mom in the dream in reality is a church member, but she has no son, has two daughters, who are both older already, and luckily does not ignore either one.

I have a suspicion I remembered another dream upon waking up but did not immediately write it down, and forgot!

Fragment 1: treatment of cat as a reflection of good person, women evaluated based on this

Fragment 2: I was looking for a new home, using a map to identify attractive neighborhoods

Fragment 1. Car broke down 5 times in a row. Going hiking with woman from mechanics. Though used three different mechanics. One of the mechanics seemed to be located where my kids summer camp is (which is funny because there is not enough room for cars there for kid pickup and drop off, let alone for a car garage).

Fragment 2: something about snake venom

Fragment 3: Setting up bank account but inadvertently sharing answers to security questions with too many people by handing the paperwork that had all the answers to one person after another.

Received a request for a report for examining some sort of malfunction.

Fragment 1: My dad insisted that I visit him now this upcoming weekend. The prices of flight and hotel were exorbitant, but I thought he must have a reason for insisting. The hotel was actually a nightclub owned by my boyfriend in my dream.

Fragment 2: a lot of kittens and a few other small animals had gotten in through a window into a basement. I called my husband to come. We had to figure out what to do with them and how to prevent more from coming in.

A long dream:

The servers were failing and everyone was told to do backups of all their work, especially recent work, because the servers were about to crash.

I was a journalist and rather famous in my dream, known under a pen name only though. I worked in a small town which may have been Bloomington, Indiana.

There was an important crisis going on, and it was not the servers failing, but I don't know what it was. I had to spread word of it in person because of the failing servers. So I had to reveal my pen name which would open doors for me.

I got to a farm house or anyway a remote house. And there found myself ambushed against a fence by a skunk. I tried to move as little as possible to not cause the skunk to spray. Though I started out facing the skunk I was then facing the house, and I felt the skunk nibbling on me from the back.

A woman came out of the house. I explained who I was. She explained that the skunk was a pet, one of several.

Dream: I was masturbating in a public place in a cafe. Two cops had engaged a man to cleanup some under a table, and they told me to help cleanup. I started to, but then I noticed some dirt and flies were getting into an open wound I had in one of my palms, so I stopped and cleaned my wound, and told the cops that I could not do this. I may have gotten a phone call from my doctor to tell me that with my wound I cannot clean up. After the cleanup effort was over and the man was gone. I asked one of the cops to help me masturbate, and he at first said he cannot do it during work, and I said it would be doing me a service.

Upon waking up I remembered another dream, but now I forgot! I will get up now and stay awake a bit and do a WBTB. Fail

Fragment: My older son noticed a spark behind the aquarium. I went around and confirmed an electrical problem there. I did not know what to do other than turn it off.

Edit: Just remembered the fragment I forgot from earlier tonight! I was in a very dirty basement. There were various creatures there. Definitely bats, but I don't know what the white ball shaped creatures were - there were lots of them and fairly disturbing.

Fragment 1: a new cafeteria at work opened and had weird arrangements where one would be assigned a seat next to someone specific and told a bit about them. One time I was going to this cafeteria with a man who in my dream was my father but in reality a stranger, and I wanted to know if we could sit next to eachother. Luckily their system had provisions for such requests.

Fragment 2: a new government resulted in lots of job offers, and I was offered a job in my dream which I accepted without even an interview or meeting with them. I was telling my client about this, and he recognized the name of the government person I would be working for, her first name was Elizabeth, but he said she is informal, so you may call her Liz.

I tried WBTB again, this time earlier, no success

Fragment: this dream took place in an earlier era but I don't know when. There was a prostitute, and she offered her services for free to another woman, who refused. That's all I recall. Though I kind of think there may have been something about family there too.

Full dream:

I was walking down a road with this man who was homeless, and he took on odd jobs such as washing floors at restaurants. He was telling me about this restaurant that he washed the floor for, that he just required that they provide him a mop, which they did. We walked to a restaurant, and the person at the door recognized me, and asked, so are you going to come and pick up those cakes tonight? I said yes. The homeless guy wanted to know whether this is something one can get paid for, picking up cakes. I said that I do not know what this was for, but that he could ask my husband (whom he knew, so I used first name in referring to him).

We passed the restaurant and behind it there was an enclosure with lots of dogs and cats including lots of kittens. The enclosure had a ridiculously low fence, and the kittens kept jumping over it, and I kept putting them back in. The restaurant person came and said that he had heard cats were territorial, and that that may be why they did not want to stay with the other cats. I said that's not it: they are not fighting or upset, they are just curious what's on the other side of the fence, and it is too low. I suggested he distract them with some food, which he kept in a wooden cabinet located in this backyard.