non-lucid

> I saw lots of seeds sprouting quite tall (IMHO) including an Avocado seed. This dream was nice as I've been working on growing some apple trees, From seed and have had some nice results so far over the last few months.

> I talked with an elderly woman who lives in a nearby house in waking life and I was standing in her house, Right inside the front door. I've never spoken to her that I remember in waking life before, This is not the first time something like this has happened; Another time, I dreamed I was speaking with another woman who lives in my same town and I was in her house too, I think sitting at a table.

> A man had a long number on the back of his hand, Near his knuckles

EDIT/UPDATE NOTE - One or more men were in the house too.

Please take this with a bit slower thought than you normally might, This was a very strange dream to me.

Note: Before I had it, I let my dog go outside sometime between 4 AM and 5 AM and I fell asleep on the swing (With a coat and long pants on, Mostly so I wouldn't get bitten by mosquitoes and it also helped me not catch a cold) and I woke at about 5:40 and went back to bed. Then after the first dream I wrote here, I woke at about 7:14 AM.

#1:

I just have to say, Wow; Where was I?

Near the start of the dream I met some relatives I didn't realize were related to me; There was a man and I think his wife and child who may have been an infant. This is sounding pretty similar to some people who go to a church I attend! After that I met another me in my own room and he didn't look quite like me, I think he wore a coat that looked like the one I wore outside earlier while awake.

Some time after that, Things started getting weirder, I think I went into a deeper dream level so to speak because I normally don't have dreams like this. I may have talked about switching places with this other me for some reason.

Next, I recall going outside and the house was not quite the same as it is in waking life; There were more parts to the building on the back end of it and then I recall explaining to someone that the sun and moon didn't work in the same way where I was from. I also said to someone that I was from another dimension and I saw some people in the side yard including a neighbor I know who attends the same church as I do and also plays a musical instrument as I do, But he wasn't my neighbor and he didn't recognize me.

Later, There was some structure in that side yard and a man was in a small shack-y room with the door cracked open. There was another door behind a man who I was talking to and after I looked away from him and looked back, He had no head but was standing there with a breathing apparatus! And after looking into the red sky (And there were no trees nearby as there are in waking life) I saw some weird things in it like red licorice candy clouds, If I could describe them as such but I don't think they were edible. I had enough at that point and said the Lord's prayer,

"Our father who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, And forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil
For thine is the kingdom, And the power, And the glory forever.
Amen."

(Note: I did not say the prayer exactly like this. But, I said it with the same meaning. BTW, There's a saying which is "There are no atheists in a foxhole" And I can't say I was as faithful as I may have believed in the Bible in weeks prior to this dream.)

Then, I thought I woke up and I was in the back end of my Dad's caravan with the back end open which was facing the house which is a bit odd given the driveway. I thought I was awake and I went back inside the house with my dog, Talked with my Father (My parent) and some time after that, I woke for real.

At times in that dream I was wondering if I would ever wake up because it was so weird and unlike the waking world.

Later, I went downstairs and slept on the couch until about 9:15 AM. Some of the next dream was as this:

2: I think there was some selection of this next part, As if it was a movie with some people deciding what to do for/with this guy described below or a video game level selection screen. A man drove a big truck in a snowy mountain pass, Parked his truck away from the bridge which was small if I rememebr right, Went up to the bridge that was closed, His truck fell off the mountain and he jumped off the cliff where it fell and found wings in the air quite far away from the mountain and flew around in places including my living room.

If you have not seen something like the first dream I described here, Can you relate? I didn't feel like I was at home, I'm not about to call it a lucid dream as I didn't "Have the powers of dreamland at my control", So to speak, But it felt like I was painfully aware I was not so close to home.

Note: How did "Nightmare" and "Task of the Month" get selected? I don't recall clicking those, I clicked "Non-Lucid" And "Side Notes" And then those weren't selected. I took so long to write this that my login session had expired and I had to log in again, So that might have something to do with it. But, The first dream was unpleasant and I imagine it is a task of the month to not have another dream like this, This month. So I left those tags there and re-added the other ones.

Some of these might be fragments. I saw through the eyes of Colin Moulding who was the bassist and a songwriter for the band XTC. I was walking as him (Though I don't know how he looks now; He looked no older than 40 in the dream and he's nearing 58 as of 2013.) and I was in a city, Perhaps I was walking from the local Goodwill store and across a pedestrian crosswalk which was similar to a nearby town. At some point I was walking with a clown on my left side. We walked into a restaurant or salad bar; The salad bar resembled a store that in waking life was in a nearby town and once held a pizza parlor. The building it was in was also a theater building. We went onto the deck in the back (Which isn't there in waking life) and the clown sat in the chair nearest the door but with his back to the door as I sat in a chair facing him, which means I faced the door too. We had big salad bowls and I started stuffing my face with greens, Then he said "No, Eat smaller bits like this! It's more fun." Or something very similar to that. Not long after that, I woke up.

Notes:

Colin Moulding penned the lyric "Making Plans for Nigel" And sang it.
The clown wasn't thin.
I was thinking of Bozo the clown after I woke, Though the clown in the dream didn't resemble him much.
I don't think the clown had hair.

EDIT: "The Local Goodwill" Meaning the Goodwill store local to another nearby town. The salad bar which was a Pizza Parlor was not in that town.

UPDATE, 16/December/2014: I fixed some grammatical errors.

This is a fragment.

Alex Pruitt (The character) Was being told by the police chief/captain "It's a very serious matter when a person calls the police" Like he was in the movie (Though I don't know if that was the chief or captain in the movie,) Except they were outside a church in my town and afterwards, Alex walked off in the snow and I thought of throwing something through a nearby window as I saw through Alex's eyes for a moment. Then, He was yelling at the police captain "I don't think you care about your job" Then the next part is a bit fuzzy; I think he said something like "It's like you're helping THE BURGLARS!" And the captain looked rather dumbfounded or confused.

These aren't necessarily in order that I dreamed them.

1:

I saw Frankenstein's monster on the windmill and the windmill was on fire. I felt bad about it because I know it wasn't the monster's fault that he was what he was; I saw that he was born into agony.

2:

Someone I know (And I remember who) held me up in the air by spraying me with water from a hose, Near a building. But for some reason he hit me between the rear-cheeks which is odd, Given the fact I was facing him with my stomach facing down to the ground.

3: I cut down a tree by the church I attend so I could move my car behind it. (Edit: This third one might have not been a good thing to do.)

Later, I saw someone I know had a very huge glass jar (One two three gallon-size) of organic sliced peaches on my kitchen counter.

Saturday, Jan 19th:

One of the dreams involved Ponies. Fluttershy was left behind, So Rainbow Dash and Applejack (Who now had wings, Not unlike a fanfic I read) Went to get her despite Fluttershy being in a place where the land had flown off from where the rest of the Ponies were.

Friday, Jan 26:

I was in the garage and the truck's cab was longer, Like a van. A hefty woman was there and perhaps someone else was there. Morphine's "The Saddest Song" Started playing.

Most of what I wrote below is what I wrote at the time.

"Dec. 12th - Dec. 13th

I've been playing "The Saboteur" A lot lately. But anyway, The part I distinctly remember is when a Nazi standing in a checkout lane at Walmart told me to stop doing something in my awake life. I was lucid dreaming at the time too and I actually told him that I knew I was dreaming. I asked him to keep talking and he did. I don't feel like sharing all of the details. "

(Now I do feel like sharing; This was speaking of mas--------on, Fill in the blank.)

Next entry:

"Dec. 21st-22nd (I'm guessing...)

I remember a wedding at one part that went weird. The best man put the ring (Which was like a hoop earring) On his nose, I think the bridge took it off his nose and then saw it wasn't a wedding ring and ran off."

I also wrote this little note later:

"(Bridge? Did I mean Bride?)"

Note - "His nose" = The best man's nose.

Third dream:

"Dec. 22nd-23rd (If you count falling asleep after midnight the 22nd)

At one part I was Frodo Baggins in the Prancing Pony. It was weird, It went similar to the lines of the movie - Pippin said "Sure I know a Baggins, He's over there" And I may have went over to him. I'm not sure exactly how it all went, Some parts may have repeated but when I got the ring on I couldn't get it off and the eye was rather far away.

What the heck is it with golden rings in my dreams lately? "

This is what I wrote shortly after I had this dream:

"Great, I missed a few days and forgot some dreams.

Dec. 11th - Dec. 12th (Presumably)

I can't remember the order of how these things happened. I remember being at a curved wide path that was near the sea, Then at one part in my mom's bedroom she was taking one of my favorite music CDs, "Challengers" by The New Pornographers out of a CD player and she broke it after it was out of the player. The label wasn't correct on the CD, It had the album cover artwork on it. Then, the fragments of the CD were on the path and I found them near a rock. Later, There was a Bioshock 2 part and a whole room got flooded. I was presumably a Big Daddy without a helmet because I was looking for air. I looked and found some air but not much. Then, I think a little sister came up to me while I was still underwater and I adopted her, But I had a second op[tion - To set her attitude. I think I chose Y, Whatever that did. She said "If you want a specific attitude, You've got it" And disappeared. Then, I looked in a white fridge and there isn't much I can remember here except a dead dead bug or two that was trying to get to the ice cream compartment (That was on the fridge door) And there were also some little sister paintings or stickers below the dead bugs and a voice talked about the ice cream sandwiches. I opened the ice cream compartment, I'm not sure if I took any ice cream or not though. Then the last part I definitely remember was finding a 5 gallon water jug. I think I stuck my head in it and then took my head out and started filling it up with air, I may have been lucid dreaming at this point but I think I may have woken up right after this too."

Notes:

The ice cream compartment was on the fridge door.

I think at the time, It was fairly recent when we'd started to get Mountain Valley Water so that's partially where the glass jugs come into play.

Note added July 21, 2013: I had more than one dream involving Bioshock. Sometimes I'd be riding a cart from one section of Rapture to another and sometimes the darn track was broken underwater including the glass air tunnel, Leaving me to see a trip from one part of the track to the other off a rail!

That which is written below was written at the time. I posted my recollection of my December 8th dream and December 9th dream in the same reply to a thread on a different forum.

(This is copied from a forum I frequent and the dreams from the night prior were posted in the same reply)

Dec. 8th - Dec. 9th

AAAGH I forgot parts and I had it fresh in my mind until I typed about the dreams I had yesterday! Anyway, At one point I realized I was dreaming and I think this may have been my first successful lucid dream! Anyway, Here's the parts I remember...

In a store of some sort, Some woman told me to go away and I told her something like "I'm the star of the show here, It's my dream!" And she ignored me.

Then, Later I was in an area with picnic tables with my parents (I think) And I had a Gibson Explorer Reverse guitar. Oddly though I was calling it a Firebird even though I know from the shape that it was an Explorer! (The two guitars are similar to one another) Then Phil X comes out of nowhere and I offer him the opportunity to play my guitar and he did, Then he starts talking about the guitar. That part was awesome.

Next, I think my parents were going on a trip and I was running alongside the van until it turned into a Team Fortress 2 Gravel Pit "A" style area and someone stopped me.

From there on it turned into more of a nightmare. I'm not sure of everything that happened, However I was still lucid dreaming to a point and I was in a prison like place. The people in cells were dead, dying or should have been dead. I remember at one part I went in a cell and someone was in a big box with an air hose. I opened the box to find a small skeleton that was similar to a lizard. I told him he should just die and so he did. Later, I thought I woke up because my mom woke me up going through the room but instead it was a false awakening. I went back to dreaming, I remember thinking that I wouldn't be able to lucid dream then but I may have kept on lucid dreaming. I'm not sure of the details from here on.

Anyway... I watched the Harry Potter Half Blood Prince movie yesterday so that may have had a bit of an effect on the last part...

All of these are what I wrote at the time.

Dec. 5th - I remember dreaming up some guitar riff that I liked but can't remember.

Dec. 6th - I can't remember much except that at one point an Xbox Live friend (Who removed me from her friends list) Was suddenly on my friends list again. I'll try to remember more.

December 7, 2009

The earliest part I remember is where I was punching Andy Partridge of the band XTC for whatever reason. I can't imagine why other than to get attention from him. Anyway, Two of his band mates (One who's name was Roger, Who doesn't exist but may have been a stand in for Dave Gregory because my dad's name is Dave, The other who I assume was Colin Moulding) Helped him out and started attacking me. Then Roger threw an explosive soda pop can (I read the manual for Zombies Ate My Neighbors before I fell asleep) And I went to stand on it but it didn't blow up. Then Andy gave me an offer to go for a drive with him and I took up the offer, Hoping to pick up my best friend on the way (Who got me into the band XTC in the first place and who lives several states away from me in reality) And I started talking about Andy's music, How my best friend got me into XTC and how I'm glad he did and how I'm going to get six more XTC albums this Christmas. Then, All of a sudden Andy turned into my dad by the next time I looked at him and details start getting a bit fuzzy around here. Our car went flying past an intersection once, Almost hitting a bus which was driving on the wrong side of the road. After we stopped past the intersection we came to the conclusion that we couldn't have stopped in time for the intersection. Maybe WE were driving on the wrong side though because Andy Partridge lives in the UK? Anyway, Other than driving around this part of the dream ends here.


Part 2

This turned into a Left 4 Dead 2 style dream. In a Swamp Fever style area I ended up being the last survivor, Who seemed to be similar to Ellis and Nick. My teammates died, I got away from a zombie horde and I'm guessing that I was going to rescue the survivors from a closet or something but instead I was holding a cheeseburger on a plate, Then there was a picture of the burger on the plate and it was the last thing I saw before I woke up.


Dec. 7th - Dec. 8th

The earliest part I remember is when my dad and I were in a trailer court. The reason for this is likely because earlier this year we found a guy's wallet and returned it to him and he lived in a trailer court. Anyway, IWe may have been there to return the wallet in my dream but the earliest pert I definitely remember is when we went to visit some woman in a one room trailer that had windows all over every wall. There was also a mattress or two, Maybe three on the floor and all her stuff was on the floor since she had nowhere else to put it. I don't think there was a door, it was just always open. Anyway, After I left it turned into a Modern Warfare 2 meets Zombies Ate My Neighbors style game, Only instead of there being a bunch of monsters there were just chainsaw guys. So we're in this trailer park meets scrapyard level place and I'm just playing the game... And that's it for this part of the dream.

Part 2

This was a Scooby Doo on Zombie Island style dream. I can't remember much about it except maybe being outside for a bit then going to the sacrifice room, Then going to the staircase that has a passage underneath it that leads to the sacrifice room... And then maybe seeing the Scooby Doo gang in there...

Below in between the quotation marks is what I wrote at the time.

"Dec. 4

The only parts I remember are towards the end. It was in a park near a bay of water and a bank was going to be built there. A kid and Shaquille O'Neal (I think it was Shaq, I can't be sure... Does this remind you of the "Kazaam" Movie?) Didn't like it so Shaq went in at night to presumably destroy the place before it was finished being built. Unfortunately for him, He was caught by a watchman or someone who chased him out the door and Shaq's legs were caught in a tape measure as he was lowered down from the door (Where there used to be a path) And he was being shocked by electricity. It actually felt to me like he was being shocked too. Weird... "



The path was a dirt path. I'm not sure how far he was "Lowered down".

Below in-between the quotation marks is what I wrote at the time.

"Now, for December 3, 2009.

Again, I don't remember all parts. The earliest part I remember right now is my best friend was at my house and I advised him not to step in dog dirt in the hallway as he went to bed. Then, At one part I thought A. C. Newman, Lead man for The New Pornographers (My favorite band) Wrote the song Electric Version Because he visited the town where I live. This is absolutely ridiculous because none of my favorite bands ever come within 50 miles of here, I live in Nowhere, Pennsylvania... Later, I had a lucid dreaming part but it didn't last long and I had trouble moving. I didn't make it far before I either woke up or stopped lucid dreaming.

More to come. "

My dog did do that in the hallway in waking life.

I now don't think it's so ridiculous that perhaps Carl Newman did write the song because he visited here; I don't know if he did or not.

The LD part was fairly early for me. I was stepping around outside, Excited to move and I think I may have fallen down in the dream.

Between the quotation marks is what I wrote at the time.

"December 2, 09

Dream 1

Oh no, I forgot parts. All I remember is it was similar to a black and white film in an underground house, I also remember 5 gallon glass water jugs (I think this was just thrown in because water was delivered to my house yesterday and two of them jugs had somewhat defective lids) And a group of people, There were two people who lived in the underground house too and I don't think they wanted the group of people to leave. Later, After the group left by going up an elevator it was like in some sort of carnival and different people were walking around trying to escape or leave One girl was in late 1800s/early 1900s Victorian attire and was carrying a parasol. It ended with white paths on a black background...

Dream 2

This started at a resort somewhere and there was a lake. I have a "Sims 2" feeling from this but just a bit. Anyway, A modified version of XTC's song "Making Plans For Nigel" Was playing in the background. It was like "We're only making plans for Rachel" And this Rachel person was a blonde. She went to this lodge and there were several guys there, Apparently they kidnapped her sister who had dark hair. Rachel said "I don't have that much money" And her sister, Being held by a kidnapper and standing behind a doorway, Was like "Bulls*it You have like a million!" As she realized she shouldn't have said that. (Doesn't this seem just a bit like the movie "Romancing The Stone"?) Then the kidnappers started negotiating or something. Then, It seemed like time froze except for one of the kidnappers who was getting scared that he was stuck frozen in time. Then, it went back in time until he was about 10 years old (Although he looked like he was about 5 from how tall he was) And he was standing in either a gym or basketball court. I think he realized what happened then he broke a baseball bat or had a fit, Then he sat down next to a kid referee who had no legs and he started expressing to him what happened. I woke up during this part, Saying the same words that the "Kidnapper" was saying. "I was older... I was stronger..."

I don't recall meeting many people by the name of Rachel shortly prior to this dream.

What's in between the quotation marks is what I wrote shortly after having this dream.

"Nov. 30 09 - Dec. 1 09*

I can't remember all the parts of this one.

Part 1... I remember being at a park, Or maybe it was a ranch. Anyway, There were lots of dead leaves and there were some fences and maybe a few trees. The only thing I seem to remember that happened there is a part about Reed's Ginger Ale.

Part 2... In a basement, There were a few bits that were similar to The Sims 2 as in placing objects here and there. Then, I was in the basement and I turned a TV on to watch music videos with my dad. The Offspring's "Self Esteem" (** That's a Music video) Came on. There were two vampires in the other room, Or at least it is assumed there were because I only knew their coffins were in there. (I think they were Dracula and his wife from the movie "Love At First Bite")

Part 3... It was like a top down video game like Zelda: A Link To The Past. A Werewolf, The Mona Lisa (An actual person version of the painting) And a friend of mine were there. As the Mona Lisa and my friend went into a cave there was green writing being written all over the "screen" by the werewolf, (** Even though he was walking into the cave) Who was also narrating his writing about the Mona Lisa. Then, The Werewolf went into the cave presumably to bite the Mona Lisa. Then the "Screen" Turned into a painting or something and I woke up to my alarm.

More to follow.

*I didn't fall asleep until after midnight."

I saw the coffins from a view like I would've seen them in The Sims 2

Colin Moulding was the bassist and a songwriter for the band XTC and some time in the last two weeks I had an earlier dream about him after watching an XTC video; It went like this:

I was in a Walmart and someone said "Colin Moulding is dead. You have my sympathies." Or something like that. (As of this writing in waking life, His name hasn't shown up in an obituary that I know of.)

Now for the dreams from today.

An earlier dream involved me seeing drawings or such of Pony characters from MLP: FIM, I particularly remember seeing one of Lyra Heartstrings. I used to be a Brony. (Edit, July 21 2013: I later browsed Pony sites after this initial post but the whole fandom just isn't at all what it seemed to be at first. I also had a dream saying something like "MLP: FIM has been cancelled in your area. If you wanted to see it, You should've said something!")

Another dream - And I'm not sure when exactly this one happened but it was before the park - Involved me driving my Dad's van and a dog came onto the road and I tried to slow down to the point where I wouldn't run it over. I may have or may have not run the poor thing over.

After the sun came up, I had this dream:

I was in some forest/park place and there were people playing music at the ends of certain paths. I went toward the end of one path and I saw the rib cage of someone which seemed to be fossilized into a rock. I saw it from the right side of the rib cage and something was mentioned about the person having eaten four apples and twenty berries. After that, I went to the left up into a shed.

Later, I went into a building nearer the park gates and parking lot and I saw some fruit and tomatoes, I think. I ate a dark purple plum after I got it out of a basket and I looked at some very peculiar-looking foods which I think were tomatoes that were dried but they looked more like a type of winter squash. Then as I was in the building, I went outside for some reason and I saw a man or teenager on a hill side with a cat or dog; I may have thought he should get inside because I knew what was coming. (Also, I think the park was for people and cats/dogs to walk in.)

Then, I saw a weird combine harvester coming by; It was painted green and it had no thing to store anything in. Colin Moulding was driving it not with intent to harvest grain; I think he wanted to harvest people! I went up to the machine, Got on it after/as he ran over a cat with it and I took control of it while/after damaging his bifocal glasses so he couldn't see. (FYI, I don't know if he actually wears glasses. He never did for the videos or pictures I saw his likeness in but they're all at least six years old.) I then steered the combine harvester into a river and Colin somehow managed to make it fly out of the water as if I was playing the video game Crackdown with the Keys To The City mode on and I was driving and spawned a ramp truck in front to make the car fly in the air very quickly; I don't mean to just get a slight lift, Think like 55 miles per hour slanted in the air! I then asked "How the hell did you do that?" If I remember right, To which he said "I've had practice" or "I've had a lot of practice".