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First

I'm playing a board game with my wife and X. There are pieces of the game board in a miniature scenery, and we all have small soldiers standing on the pieces. They can attack each other and try to conquer the pieces. X has the upper hand and we are plotting her defeat. As we try to see her side we get smaller, until we are walking on a road, on a scouting trip to see the size of her army.

Second

I'm at a crossing, on foot, waiting for to turn green. I'm actually a bit away from the crossing point, which is badly situated in my opinion. Some people look at me when the light turns and I cross the road at the wrong place. A couple of them are actually crossing at the place, but are still looking at me like I'm doing something wrong.

There is a subway stop, that's where I'm getting to, and next to it there are two tourists, apparently lost. They are standing in about half a meter of snow, and they are naked. I think they must be cold. They ask me if that is the subway station and I say yes. They go inside.

I go there too, and there are stairs leading up. I see a door and jump of the railing to get to it. It's the wrong one, and I climb a bit further and get to the right door.

There is a video game I'm playing. It might appear in a couple of different dreams. I don't really remember the game itself. I'm in a rather large house with a lot of rooms. Most of my family are there and they all have their own rooms. I'm in the kitchen making an evening snack. I look around and everybody is sleeping in their rooms. I sit down in the living room. Someone comments on how sleepy they all are. I'm a little sleepy but not enough to go to bed early. So I do some channel surfing, but there's nothing interesting.

First

I'm waiting for the subway train with a couple of friends. I notice that we are moving. We have wondered into a train by accident! I think we can still make it in time, if we change at the second stop for a yellow line.

Second

I'm at some cathedral, as a tourist in a small group. I'm not that interested in the cathedral, so I go down to a beach. There is a cottage there, with who are apparently university students playing some games. I try a little indoor tennis. It's a bit scary, the ball is going fast and the field really small. I don't hit the ball once.

Meeting

I'm at a meeting, I'm sitting at a long table with many roughly middle aged people talking. A man say something in a pretty normal, unemphatic voice and a translator starts saying the same in a weird language. Apparently emotional facial expressions convey meaning in the language, since she is shifting from a happy face to an angry one and everything in between. The man say something again, just as unemphatically, and the translator start yelling in an angry way, spouting out syllables and bangs her head on the table. She finishes the sentence going trough grief to a disgust.

Someone asks if I mind being there, not knowing anything about what is going on and I say I don't mind. Apparently I'm just representing some organization so that both have the same amount of representatives. The person talking to me is the cook and he says the food is going to be late because of some problem with equipment. There is cheese frying in the kitchen. I offer him some advice and then get up to help him with the food.

Industrial Forestry

Something happened before this, I don't remember what, and then I'm walking with someone on a road next to a forest. There is a complex of buildings around us, it's a university campus, perhaps. We notice that some of the trees in the forest next to the road have been cut. A bit further there is a huge industrial machine cutting away all the trees from a patch. It cuts a whole row at once and tows them all in to a container. I say I didn't think they would be this far. I was planning to show the forest to the person I'm walking with, before it's cut.

Game

I'm in a computer game. The game is really easy and I'm at the end, but there is a final boss who seem pretty big and strong. It's a rpg type game and I spend some time tinkering to get to an optimal position for the match.

Moldy bread

I'm making bread. There are five pieces left and I use four of them. I notice that the last one is moldy. I throw it away and ponder whether I can eat the other ones. I don't have anything else to eat at home.

Hunting

A colleque from my workplace, in the dream a teacher, is missing. She has either been kidnapped or escaped with some guerrilla group. We are following her. We get to a dock, where there are a couple of thugs. There is some martial arts display and I start flying towards the ship. I'm not flying very well, and one of the thugs notices. He says that my legs are tired and my flying is almost as bad as his. He starts following me.

Canoes

I'm walking with a few people. There's snow around the road. We come to a river that is only partially frozen. There are two canoes and we use them to get across. The ice floating on the river is making it harder keep the canoe straight. I fall of the canoe once, landing on a piece of ice.

Sleeping in the Snow

I'm camping in a forest with some friends. There is a small building and I go in there. It turns into a 2D game-like thing. I'm looking for a weapon and find a fire flower like in Super Mario. I get out and go to where the others are should be setting a camp. Instead, they have decided to sleep in the snow. They have dug themselves into the snow with their sleeping bags.

First

I'm with a friend and we meet a third person on the street. He has a board game and invites us to play. We play a couple of turns and then one of the dice gets stuck of the side of the table. It's kind of spongy and its hard to make out the number. It kind of climbs back on the table. This starts a new phase in the game and the third person doesn't want to continue. I still go on playing with my friend, but we need to see the board from above.

Were playing in the middle of a street and there is a bridge on top of us. We enter a building to get to the bridge and start climbing up. We reach the to of a tower and there's a bell. The bell starts ringing. Then I suddenly dangle on the bell and try to get down. I manage to get back on the stairs and we go back to the street. We have forgotten about the game at this point, though.

Second

I'm in a large building with my family and some others. I have a lot of laundry to do, at least two machinefuls. My socks are wet and I change them and put them in the laundry. Later, I'm loading the second machineful and my socks are wet again. I change them again and put them in the machine.

Then we leave on a bus. Everyone else is going somewhere and I've backed my packbag too, but I'm going back to the house. They get of the bus at some stop and I stay on it.

First

I’m playing a game on a football field with my brother and a group of friends. I’m the goal keeper, but I seem to be doing all kinds of other things. The point is to get a small towel into the goal and there are several of them in the field. I sometimes take one and throw it somewhere far away. There is always a lot of people at the goal fighting for the towels.

Second, lucid

This dream had the feel of a certain kind of dream I’ve had many times, where I’m running away from someone, trying to loose my tail. In these dreams I’m a bit more lucid than usual, and able to jump really high. This time, though, it never really started. It’s funny that in the beginning of the dream I try to get to the place I then should be running from, without any apparent goal.

I might have been awake just before getting lucid, there is a clear disconnect in the dream. I should of course have tried stabilizing and take it more slowly.

I’m close to my family house, kind of circling around it on a road. I want to see if I can get in without being seen. I go towards the house trough a forest at the back. I approach a couple of times from different angles and then proceed to walk trough the yard. The dream seems to skip and I’m inside the house. I know I've been seen and want to get out. I’m leaving trough the back and suddenly know that I’m dreaming. I fly upward and hit the ceiling, but cannot go trough it. I say out loud “I’m dreaming” two times. It sounds a bit tired, but comprehensible. Then I’m awake and not sure if I actually said it out loud.

First

I’m in my room. My family is in the house but I’m upset for some reason. It might be that they are not eating the food I made. I’m playing some game on my bed. Y comes in to bring me a drink. He puts the bottle on the bed and I say that if he puts it there it will spill. He does and it spills. I put it on the floor.

Second

I’m in a large building, probably a university. I find my way trough the hallways to the other side, where there is a seminar, I guess. I have my computer with me and it starts making a sound. I can’t make it stop and don’t want to go to the seminar with it disturbing everybody, so I go take it back to my room.

28.2 Fragments
First

I’m in a space shuttle, closing in on a larger ship. When I look down I see the continents, and I see fields, forests and rivers, and a few buildings. The setting is rural, but there is some very advanced technology as well.

Second

I’m in a forest and I have to survive there for a couple of hours, I don’t remember why. There are two or three other people there, and they are the reason survival might be a problem. I have a log to defend myself with and they have sticks. They try to hit me and I block with the log. Then they start playing a game where they pat a small ball around with the sticks. I try to take part, but it’s hard to hit the ball with the log.

Third

I’m outside a large building, almost a castle. There are separate gardens, some have water elements, and walls between the gardens.

Fourth

I’m in the same castle with N and we go to a balcony. There are some tables and chairs, and large open windows with a view of the garden. There is also one window with a very large windowsill. I would like to sit there, on the windowsill, but there is a group of people already sitting there. We settle for a table on the other side.

Fifth

I get tickets to an airplane. I say to S that there is still time for a coffee. When we walk past a coffee shop, there is a long line there and I tell hit that we don’t have time to wait. I think he doesn’t care for the idea anyway


25.2 The Conservationist Wizard and the Missing Boy
First

I’m at a house in the middle of a forest with a group of people. There is a long vehicle with caterpillars and we’re preparing to leave with it. I get in and we tour the are, sometimes going over a wooden bridge and breaking it. The driver is trying to make the point that the are is ruined by pollution. We get out pretty close to the house and I have a look at a pond. There’s some branches and the water looks a bit dirty but not bad. I think we could clean it with the vehicle we have.

The driver, or maybe someone else, goes crouching behind some large rocks, looking at the house. His a soldier now, and clearly more experienced that I am. I follow him and we see a barbarian leader at the house. Somehow his responsible for ruining the forest. The driver gives me a rifle and I attack the barbarian.

The rifle is a wizards staff now, with a clear crystal on top. I point it at the barbarian, who is actually a wizard in a gray robe now. He has a sword but doesn’t use it, and he doesn’t seem to have his staff. He tries to take the staff from me but I keep willing it to stay in my hands. The driver-soldier-wizard-person is actually controlling it from afar. The barbarian-wizard surrenders and we get to settle at the place.

Second

There is a lake with open water, even though it’s winter. I go swimming and I’m a bit surprised to notice that the water is warm.

Third

We’re inside the house now, and there’s a good amount of people there, mostly friends and family. I have a conversation with my brother about my father and then find out that R is missing. They have been looking for him and his presumed dead now. I’m worried but there doesn’t seem to be anything I can do, since it’s been so long and they have looked everywhere.

I try to sleep, I feel really tired, but people keep worrying about R. There is some other thing that they have a problem with, but I don’t remember what. For some reason my bed is in the kitchen and I can hear the talking and worrying very well. I give up sleeping and we all go looking for R one more time.

There is a small river close-by and R has been swimming there. He has used a chain to tie him to the shore, so that the current doesn’t take him. The chain is broken and everyone thinks he has been taken by the current. There is a treehouse just a few meters from the river. When I look at it, someone shouts that R is in there, though there’s no way they could see that. I climb the stairs to the treehouse. Before I get all the way up I hear that there’s someone there. I ask who it is and R answers that he’s there, and that he has some someone in there with him.


21.2, Fragment with Meditation Group

I’m in high hall with winding stairs. I remember coming down the stairs from the third floor but don’t remember much before that. There is a group of people down in the middle of the floor. I know some of them. It’s some kind of a church group. I talk with them and they are talking about some obscure theological thing.

It turns into something like a meditation group and I consider joining them, so far I haven’t had one close by, and I know some of them. They show me a small storage room with all their things, which actually includes a couple cushions and mats and nothing else.

I'm sure there was another dream, where there was some useful new way to do something, but I cannot recall it. The story is a bit mixed up because I think I returned to the same dream twice.

First

I’m playing a game of Super Mario, though it doesn’t seem that I’m actually controlling it. It’s the first level and when I quit at some point, the game continues on its own. I watch it till the end and go to a corridor. There is a kitten sleeping at a corner. I go past it to a room, where my brother is trying to teach a duck to talk. So far it can only say roku. The kitten comes and picks a fight with the duck. The duck fight back and then the cat races it back the corridor. The duck uses some rough measured and wins the race.

I go outside, where there is a lake on the backyard. There is some snow. My brother is swimming in the lake, the water seems warm. I sit on my knees in the snow and put a bowl of water in front of me. I have a towel over my shoulders and start throwing the water on my face. It’s warm.

Second

I’m in a classroom at a University and discussing physics with a group of people. An older professor says that he has something interesting to note before the seminar starts and writes a fraction of the corner of the blackboard. I’m not sure what it’s about so he adds another one.

First

I’m in a city, walking a road downhill. There is someone else with me. I hear a woman scream down the hill. It’s cold and slippery and she has fallen. She complains about her wrist, but her elbow is dislocated. I pull it a bit and it pops back in.

Second

I’m in a forest, walking on a path. There is a camping centre, I apparently have a room there, and I go in. I share my room with another person, vaguely familiar. I remember a task that I have, there are five rings that I need to destroy, and I need to do something after that. I have already found three, so there are two left. This is some kind of a game.

I notice one of the five people carrying the rings. I grab his hand and see that he has several rings. I recognize the one that I need, though, and just grab them all. I run outside and throw the other rings around to slow the person down. There is a clay oven and I throw the ring there. When the person reaches me, the ring is already gone, and he seems a bit disappointed that he lost it so easily.

So there is still one ring left. I don’t remember who has it, but I have written the names down on a piece of paper in my back. I return to my room to have a look.