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29.06.2010

Mission Improbable (Non-lucid)

★★★★★

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I'm attending some kind of school function in the auditorium. It hasn't started yet, but the guest of the evening is everyone's favorite Emperor, Darth Lord Sidious. It's up to me to bring him down.

First thing's first, I need to eliminate the prisoner who know's I'm coming. Unfortunately, he'll be well guarded, so I need an alternative means of entry. Spotting a bathroom next to the room they're keeping him in, I nonchalantly enter it, lock the door behind me, and push my way through the ceiling tiles. There's still a brick wall in my path, but that gives way when I apply some pressure.

Looking through a slit in the ceiling tiles, I sneak behind the metal cage the Rebel prisoner is in, pull out my silenced USP and solemnly unload a few rounds into the back of his head, dropping him to the floor. The guard hears what's up, and turns around. It's too bad I've already got him in a lock at this point. He tries to shout for help, but I cover his mouth with my hand right before snapping his neck.

Next on the to-do list: take out the Emperor's decoy. Using the ceiling, I make my way to the back of the auditorium. I toggle on Invisibility and Fly and fly down to the stage, where the Emperor and his decoy are speaking. The decoy has to go get ready for the presentation, so the two of them part ways. While it's tempting to simply take out the Emperor here and now, I know that I need to kill the other guy first. Quickly and quietly, I follow the decoy to a rear exit which eventually leads to the secondary guest quarters. Before the door can close, locking me out, I Teleport into the hallway. Now it's just him, me, and my silenced pistol.

As he enters his large and ornate quarters, I pull out my pistol, turn off invisibility, and fire. Somehow ready for me, he dodges to the side and runs off behind a large golden fountain. Flying over to his hiding place, he jumps out at me, yelling maniacally at the top of his lungs. Still, it doesn't take much for me to move aside and put him in a headlock. Shoving my USP under his chin, I embed three bullets in his brain. For some reason, he refuses to die, so I'm forced to snap his neck like I did with the guard. Dropping the body, I mentally prepare to face my real target.

Bursting through the rear exit, I stare down the cause of so much pain and suffering throughout the galaxy.

"Your reign ends tonight, my lord." I spit out the last part as sarcastically as possible.

"I beg to differ!"

At that, he takes off, into the air, gliding effortlessly to the very center of the auditorium. Keeping up, I unleash a volley of Force lightning in his direction. With a crazed sneer, he deflects it and sends his own right back at me. Erratic blue electricity begins pulsing through my body, but he can't hurt me with my own weapon. Reveling in the sensation, I absorb the energy from the bolts, storing it for use at a later time. From the crowd, two people lift off the ground and help me surround Sidious.

"Looks like you've started sooner than planned!" exclaimed the girl as she took out her blue lightsaber. Her male comrade follows suit, breaking out two green sabers.

"I don't remember calling in for backup." I state, as I watch Sidious, still sneering, remove a saber from his black cloak. "Just stay out of my way."

Sidious attacks me, lighting his red blade. I go to block, whipping out my light blue ice-saber, but the searing hot plasma cuts right through its polar opposite. Crap, I think as I jump backwards to avoid the slash. It needs more juice. Before another thought can even cross my mind, Sidious assaults me again. This time, my ice-saber, now being fueled by pure willpower, stops his cut. More than that, it begins to freeze his weapon. The two newcomers begin blasting him with force lightning from behind, preventing him from retreating as my unique weapon completely freezes his saber and hand.

Pissed right the hell off, a strange, barbed, long, sickly-tan, mutant-like tail extends from under his cloak. With it, he knocks the others to the side, breaks off his own hand, and impales me in the back. The shock is enough to make me drop my ice-saber. Sidious starts laughing, as if he's already won. Grimacing angrily, I rip my Katana from my side, empowering the blade with black and red energy. A single upward swipe is all I need to cleave his monstrous tail in two. I followed that by shoving my sword into his stomach and twisting it up though his chest.

No longer laughing, Sidious' expression changes dramatically as I watch the life fade from his eyes. Good riddance.

DREAMNONDREAMSCENEDESCRIPTIONLUCID

So, my sister, and our old neighbor friend arrive at this old people's house. Aparently, these oldies really love kids, and like them to be in their house. Kids like to go there because there are balloons for them . Well, for some reason, we want to create a little mischeif. So, we decide to open up this hole thing... This hole thing is like a molehole type thing for people ... We were in their fancy old people living room (florally, or something), and with this air cannon thing, our friend opens up the portal. We KNEW that these old people will turn against us at this, they can go from unhamanely nice, to really mean. We thought that this must be open, though, for the good of everyone. This portal thing was made by the man.

So then we instantly got out of that place! We saw a window, or a sliding glass door, and booked out of the place! We were running. We were crossing the street, when I realized that I left my purse in their house! So, we all have to go BACK. My sister and friend get it, even though they said I wouldn't get it back, but too late for them! Then, I checked in it, and I realized that they still had my wallet! I have about 50 bucks in there! So, I look at the grandparents in this sunroom type thing, kinda nervous. I don't know why I confronted them...They acted coldly, like I thought, but they didn't move. Then, for some reason, the lady gives me my wallet, but it's in this bright blue coin purse with a red flower on it...She said how I wouldn't be able to use it though, because I didn't have a refridgerator (she thought we were poor...yet I had this pretty nice purse, my same one IRL. It's light blue. I was also thinking that we were poor too, because I didn't really have much background info in this dream). I open up the coin purse, and I see this liquid...a light yellow, like pineapple juice or something. I just think that I don't even want the juice anyway. I slush it off.

Then, we quickly go outside, running. I took my sunglasses out of my purse, then put them on. I realized that I had my glasses on and not my contacts, and I had clip on sunglasses over my glasses...I took them off realizing that I had contacts on too! Then I put my sunglasses on.

DREAMNONDREAMSCENEDESCRIPTIONLUCID

I just went inside this house, since it started raining and thundering. I could tell that the house I was in was in the middle of no where...And, to get to the front door, you have to walk up a full thing of steps. I think the house was supported by still. Kinda cheap log cabin-ish. Very odd looking house, though I REALLY only saw it from the inside. I look outside at the lightning. It's creepy because the lightning is SO incredibly close to the house! I remember thinking that it had done that close lightning thing 12 times...It made me a little scared...

I haven't really been in a mood to write in my DJ lately and I've also been away. But last night I dreamed partly about portals. It was like in the game Portal and they worked. I didn't get to experiment that much but I'm going to try it in a LD. It worked once so I should be able to do it in a LD.

I am tossing softball with V in an unrecognized location (verdant, still a field). I leave for a bit, and walk around a trail found in real life at the research station. When I round a bend, I find that she's there, tossing softball with her IRL boyfriend. Her father is watching approvingly, and I feel rather betrayed.

A house from start to finish.

Before me is a hole in the ground, a basement that's just been dug in the middle of a field. On the other side of the basement are my mom and dad (who I work for), talking to a customer. I have to crawl under the sheets of poly to make it to the other side.

I'm in the same location, but it's shifted to become some sort of self-sufficient compound. I'm a new character, older. I feel a timer go off in my head, telling me it's time to begin classes. I'm a teacher.

Houses. Scare Factor: 1.

I own a little place by the seaside. In my dream, I had a stroll in the evening on the little footpath and I noticed that one of the plots of land next to mine had been bought. The new owner was getting settled and we chatted a little. It's only later that I learnt that it was actually a celebrity engaged in charities. Possibly Bono.

Its seems that I am getting more dreams every night and they are getting longer. I realized how to remember a lot of dreams by just not thinking when I wake up. I knew this in theory, but it is a lot easier said than done. Now that I think of it I had a FA with that... damn

Slopping mess:

This was during my first sleep cycle. What I like about this dream was I could see how the dream was coming into effect. Its like I became aware as the dream was being created and was watching REM do its thing.

Everything was dark but not dark at the same time. I was with Kara and three guys at some dark house. Kara was drunk and angry. Everything was not fully developed. They looked kind of melted and would slowly stabilize as the dream went on. I knew the guys did not like me and they seemed like they wanted to fight. Kara kept getting angry at me for no reason and ended up leaving the room with the three guys. I waited in the other room until she came storming out. She was mad at me for not coming with her and I told her I was waiting for her in an angry voice. She started crying and saying something, but the guy came up to her and said not to say anything.

End of the world:

This was a long one, but fell back asleep while thinking of the dream and ended up going back into it and forgetting the first half

A lot of stuff happened and I found out there was going to be a big attack on the world. I was on some boat with me ex gf Kalee. I was telling her about what was happening while she was helping me climb some big pole on the boat. My mom ended up helping me. I was hooking up with Kalee randomly throughout the whole dream until her friend grace came. She left me to and started hooking up with her randomly on the boat. I got off the boat and went to a house with an extra large pizza. I tried to climb the roof, but failed and ended up having to walk around the building. I met a man and started talking with him. As I was about to enter the house, the man turned into a woman and started yelling at me. She said I was stalking her.

Violin master:

I was in my room taking some adderal for a productive day. For some reason I ended up taking four 50mgs (I seem to love popping pills in my dreams lol) I realized I just took 200 mg and freaked out. That was enough to kill someone. I could feel my heart start beating super fast. It felt as if my heart was going to burst out of my chest. I called my mom and said just told me to calm down. I could not do anything that would stress or make me angry. I ended up sitting in meditative pose and trying to calm my heart down as much as I could. I kept doing this throughout the dream.

I had to go to school so I left the house. I stopped by a nearby bench and meditated for a while to help my heart. When I got to the school I started telling everyone about what happened. Someone ended up stressing me out a little by doing something. We ended up leaving school and going to this amazing beach. Walking around I realized my heart was just about better. We got in the car and went to some game place. We were ambushed by the opposing team in our car and they started attacking us with water balloons, paint balls, etc. We were trying our best to defend ourselves and our car but were losing the fight. The house above started to attack them with balloons and they ended up fleeing.
We decided to drive over to our friends house and just chill. We laid on a bed with this big black guy who was playing music on the bed. I kind of got bored so I took a girl with me and explored the house. We went into a room with a violin and I jokingly started playing it. It sounded horrible, but I kept playing. After a while it actually started to sound good and the girl said I was really good. It turned out I was holding the violin the wrong way so I turned it around and put it on my chin. What I played was one of the most amazing sounds I have ever heard. I felt my fingers perfectly hit the string and create this kind of chime that was out of this world. I don't even think a real violin can play that. I woke up smiling thinking how amazing that sound was.

pawn shop: I just remembered this dream
I was at Kara's pawn shop. You had to go through a little house and upstairs to an attic to get there. There was a tall black guy called Tod who worked there with her. I joked around with him a little and ended sitting on a big bench watching Kara work. I had some friends come over and we went over to a barber shop. I suddenly realized that this barber shop was dangerous. The people that worked there killed people for fun. We went in and saw the owner had one giant claw for a hand. He asked if we wanted a haircut and we declined. I just remember joking around with him and the two other guys that worked there for a bit.

Hey, Everyone.

Just a short update to keep my mind on lucid dreaming a bit.

Upon waking, I began to rapidly forget the dream I was having. I had to get out of bed and do something but couldn't hold onto the memory and it is gone.

I definitely need to work on recall and start taking some more notes. I should of had a real entry today.

Finally I was able to write down my dream, I'm taking it reaaaaaaal slow, its ok ill get to lucidity in time. I woke up at 3:30 like I always do naturally, I usually have a bong toke at this time, I didn't and just rested there with the intent to remember and write my dreams. I slept on the couch in order to not wake my boyF.
I remember only glimpses as of yet:

There were some extreme ski slopes (Im afraid of steep roads and the such) and I was on the ski lift cutting across it horizontally as if it were a tour. Then I was making my way through campus but of course it didn't really look like campus, that's just the closest thing I can compare it to. I was late. It was sort of like recess and there were cones were lines of cones all pointing to the same spot. My boyfriend was in it. I dont remember what role he played though. My hair was in braids all down my head and there were people everywhere. I had to make sure I hadn't gained weight because there were two teacher-like people (I recognized them in it) that were judging me or I was afraid they were.

I hope tonight I will be able to recall more. JUV

June 29th 2010

Jedi and the Fire Cult

I was at my friend Koerner's house camping in his backyard. There was a giant deck in which the "overseers" were watching the "tribes" in the lawn move and interact. I was in the wide expanse of land that the tribes were in. I was looking at the other tribes and realized my tribe only consisted of me and the other tribes had fire and people moving about. The tribes (there were 3 of them) were in a triangle shape in comparison to each other. I moved northwest to the far corner of the triangle, showing myself to the other tribe. This tribe consisted of a large group of girls. They had a makeshift tent of animal skin, as well as very tall green grass and lightning bugs. Koerner's sister was in this tribe and she came up to me and grabbed my penis. She smiled and shook her head in a proud sort of way, and accepted me into her tribe. That's really awkward. Anyway, I moved into the tribe and saw that they had primitive bike-like apparatus. I asked Koerner's sister if I could take one to travel to the other tribe. She shook her head yes and wheeled one over to me. I got on the bike and...

SCENE CHANGE.

I was riding my bike on a road near my house that ends in a cul-de-sac and was with a few other people, Koerner's sister included. We rode to the end of the road and got to the cul-de-sac and saw a bike path at the far corner. We rode onto it and realized we had entered a beautiful vibrant forest. We rode around for a little while and then....


SCENE CHANGE

I was back at Koerners sister's tribe and was just leaving with the bike. I rode past a great expanse of land quite fast and realized that I had reached the other tribe. This tribe had fire and a large group of people wearing different color paint on thier bodies. It was the "Kahliek" tribe which informed me that they had developed a writing system. I entered the tribe and sat around the fire with someone who looked like the poacher from "Ace Ventura." He told me to complete my first mission I had to hit the fire with my maul. Everything in this dream became exactly like Oblivion dreamplay and I took out my weapon, (a blunt maul) and smacked the fire. I got a "MISSION COMPLETED" sign in front of my vision and talked to the guy. He said "good job, here is your next quest. Buy one of these two weapons, a sword or a falchion." (he took out a soup ladle and a shiskebab from Fallout 3) I took the soup ladle and put it in a treasure chest next to me because at that moment, Darth Vader came looking for it. I appeared in a large town with buildings like in Oblivion and I was leader of the Fire Cult. The Fire Cult was a large "guild" organization that Darth Vader was trying to steal the legendary soup ladle. I was in this shop type thing owned by the Fire Cult and I was stocking the front window that you would look through from outside. I was putting a giant lock on this chest in the front and putting the soup ladle in it. The lock glowed green when I locked it on. I put the treasure chest in the corner face backward and Darth Vader came in the room. He said "WHICH JEDI MADE YOU! YOU ARE A FULL JEDI, WHICH JEDI MADE YOU!" and I screamed "YOU'LL NEVER KNOW WHO MY PARENTS ARE!" He bashed the treasure chest open with a light saber and everytime he hit it a new "jedi couple" would appear. A giant pink beam of light shot out of the treasure chest, followed by a space ship that was shaped like a horseshoe with a giant orb of light circling around it. I got in it and I flew into space. I was being pursued by many similar ships, and we were all on the same pink beam of light. We were shoved into what was essentially a giant tennis ball container. And then my brother woke me up.

29 June 2010

Listened to Ninja recording tonight (9:30 instead of 11:00). Must have fell asleep to it because I woke to in a loop at 11:30.

Had three (four) dreams. I say four because the fourth dream I woke up from I couldn’t remember, but I knew I had been dreaming.

Unfortunately got too lazy to get up to record dreams immediately (you’d think I’d learn). But the first one was long again, and couldn’t see staying up a half hour to record it like the night before.

Anyway, to the dreams….

DJ 12

I’m in a hotel complex with a bunch of college friends. The dream starts out all fun and happy, but suddenly I go down to the hotel bar and one of the guys is pointing his finger at me and yelling something incoherent. The other guys start in as well. I have no idea what I have done to get them so agitated.

Suddenly, they’re throwing beer bottles at me. The guy who initially pointed at me takes a beer pitcher (glass) breaks it, and hurls it at me cutting my face slightly. Now I’m pissed. I storm out of the room trying to think of what I can do to diffuse the situation.

I go back to my room to see that it’s on fire. I run in and grab a pair of oven mitts (they’re burned) and I meet one of my friends in the hall. And I’m looking at him and rubbing these burned mitts on my shirt, which is now becoming stained from the charred material.

One thing I noticed during the dream is that I rarely ever (if ever) talked to anyone. I’ve never noticed that before.

That’s about where the dream ends. It was a much longer dream, and I told myself I’d remember it in the morning. Well obviously that didn’t happen. Lesson learned.


DJ 13

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Haaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!

I know I shouldn’t get too excited over something so minimal, because it was so short, I didn’t know what I should do and didn’t seem to be able to ‘do’ anything of my own volition…..

BUT IT WAS LUCID TIME BABY…..

I was sitting at a computer screen (a rather large screen) and I’m scrolling for something on the internet. Weird there was no keyboard to use, but I was still able to scroll for whatever I wanted from on the screen.

Then suddenly, then the screen sort of froze up and I’m trying to scroll whole pages of information, and the screen starts getting larger. And I stop and think, “This definitely isn’t right.”

So I think – reality check stupid. I go to pinch my nose (this should be a simple task), but I’ve got fat finger syndrome. And I mean literally my fingers and thumb are too large for normal. And I wind up half the time trying to plug my nose by shoving a thumb and finger up my nostrils. This was frustrating. Finally, I managed to pinch my nose off. And I could breathe just fine.

I thought in my dream, okay I’m lucid, now what. Then it hit me, “I’m LUCID”. Suddenly I couldn’t see. It’s like I had shut my eyes and couldn’t open them. I couldn’t spin, couldn’t walk or move for that matter. I just didn’t know how.

I was getting disappointed fast, because I wanted to be able to do something fun. I found myself floating into a shower that I was remodeling in our motel, and I’m getting closer and closer to the corner that I hadn’t grouted because I was going to caulk instead. I feel like I’m shrinking so that I can fit into the crack in the tile. All the while I’m thinking, this isn’t what I want to do while I’m lucid.

It’s like okay I’m know I’m dreaming, but I’m still not the one in control here. Why can’t I control what’s going on?

I wake up. I’m happy for the lucid, but it’s bittersweet because there was no control on my part. I really don’t even feel like classifying it as lucid. Seems kinda cheap. But I suppose it’s a first step?

Anybody else ever have that happen?


DJ 14

A friend of mine PT and I decide to head to a movie theatre. I’m not even sure what was playing, but from the get up everyone on the outside was in, it must have Star Wars of some sort. We get into the theatre and take out seats and it turns out not be a theatre at all, but a play.

Star Wars as a play – yikes. Well, this thing skips ahead to where Darth Vader and Obiwan go into their light saber scene and suddenly other people from the audience start going up on stage. With light sabers as well (fully functioning). Obiwan actually decapitates Vader and sliced him open at the chest after he hits the floor, and a smaller version of Vader comes out of the body. He decapitates that Vader and disembowels that one too, and yet another smaller version pops out. This goes on for a while.

There are still people crowding into the theatre to see the show, and a cute lady sits down in the aisle in a folding chair as all the other seats were taken. Her hand inadvertently comes into contact with mine and we glance at each other and exchange small talk. I don’t know who she is, but want to. But in my mind I know it’s PT’s girlfriend (though she’s not). So now I’m feeling guilty and move my hand. PT gets up to go on stage. I grab at him to warn him not to go unarmed as practically everyone on stage has a light saber.

He doesn’t even notice the girl sitting next to me. I look at my hands and they’re very dry and cracked as if I had been washing dishes for weeks on end in the winter, They’re painful to move. This lady puts her hands on them and caresses them as if to soothe them from the roughness. I feel a bit awkward, but I also think why wouldn’t PT at least acknowledge her being here. He looked right at her (or through her).

I take her hand in mine and suddenly the play isn’t important anymore.

Dream ends. Damn alarm clock has gone and woken me up at 4:30. I hit the snooze hoping to get back into the dream, but to no avail, I just sleep for another 15 minutes until the snooze alarm goes off again and it’s time to get up.

Now why couldn’t this have been the lucid dream. And let’s keep our minds out of the gutter here folks. That’s not where I was headed.

I dreamed I was at a very werid museum. It had a lot of stuff in it. On the wall for some reason it told of "crimewaves" in real and fictonial towns. I knew this because I saw one that mentions Okadale. (Name of the fictional "modern" day town in the TV show "Wishbone"-a show which teaches kids about classical stories/myths/opera/plays). There was some train on the floor like Woody and his friends were trying to escape from this museum.

I even saw a Woody doll which for some reason "knew" was the Real Woody. Than somehow I ended up at home and all the phones were ringing off the hook. All for different reasons-but for some reason about me inheriting a medical college, etc. Than I was dreaming I was in part 2 of the other's night's dream.

It was the next night and the reporter was on TV again this time she said: "All of the disappered people have come forward. The only person who hasn't come forward is the mysterious woman. But the people who disappered keep mistaking me as their hero. I would very much like to meet this woman." I decide to meet with this reporter-who looks like a twin I don't have in Real Life. When we met we laughed at the fact we looked identical to each other.

My imaganiary boyfriend (but who is "real" in my dreams) didn't want me to go to this meeting. I told him that I could take care of myself. But would he listen? NO. I just told him to stay at work. He delibartley-sp? followed me too my meeting. I than told him that if he doesn't stop trying to be my protector-we wouldn't be seeing each other again.

So the boyfriend went off to do whatever. The next day in the dream I had a bit of some surprized guests- the REAL Incredibles. But that's when the dream ended.

It's been 5 days since I last recalled a dream. This is a horrible dryspell, considering it is summertime. I've given up on the FILD technique. I've done it thrice, each waking up at different times, but I just can't get it to work for me. Whatever.
I was trying a FILD this morning and I ended up not doing it. Then, in my bed, I started to remember talking to my girlfriend on Facebook about how she had shaved her head. Suddenly, I stopped. She never shaved her head. This is a dream. I did a nose RC and it failed. I was lucid. I said, "Increase clarity!" and tried to focus on my bedroom wall, but a swirl of color engulfed me. I woke up.

Well, that was a frustrating lucid dream! I tried my RC-MILD method again, and it worked like a charm, but I guess having not been lucid in a while made me forget a few details about dream control...

I was at a huge party; people were everywhere, and the place was crowded despite the fact that we were in a mansion. It wasn't long before I simply said: "I'm in a dream!" and then just from looking around me found it to be true. Unfortunately, I didn't take time to do a nose-plug RC, so I never was quite as 'there' as usual. But I did remember my dream goal: to share a dream with a friend by utilizing the dream room from a previous lucid.

I tried to leave the main party room so I could find a door that would lead me where I needed to go. However, on my way out, a DC tugged on my arm.

"Where are you going?" he asked.

"I'm lucid now, I have to leave." I replied.

"What? You can't leave now!"

"Yes, I can. Let go of me."

"No! You're staying right here!"

"Alright then, VANISH!"

As I shouted that last word, the DC faded away into nothingness and the grip on my arm disappeared with it. "Problem solved," I thought. But after going no more than two steps closer to the end of the room, another DC cried out.

"He killed him! He killed him! I saw it!" A woman screamed, breaking out of the crowd and running towards me.

"Quiet down! It's just a dream, you idiot! He never existed! Do you want to get this whole place in an uproar?"

"Yes!" She replied before starting to scream.

"Ok, enough of this. You can just vanish, too!"

And she did. But this time I had the attention of everyone else, and they all thought I was a killer. The party music stopped, people put down their drinks and food, and slowly advanced towards me.

"I don't have time for this..."

My next thought was to try flying. I made it up to the ceiling and about half-way through, but for some reason at that point I was sucked back down in and I couldn't push through anything. I was also distracted enough that I fell about fifty feet to the ground. Of course it didn't hurt, but it further convinced everyone else that I was demon possessed or something. So I ran, then, going from room to room, just looking for a door, without success. Hundreds of DC's were always in hot pursuit.

Eventually I came across a staircase, so I jumped down and found myself in a cement basement. There was an alcove not far away, so I teleported myself there to throw off my pursuers and then peeked around the corner to see if it worked. It had. They were all gathered around the spot I had teleported from, scratching their heads and wondering where I could have gone.

I slowly backed down the alcove, hoping to find something I could hide beneath until the DC's gave up. Instead, I bumped into something on the wall. When I turned around to see what it was, I saw a door staring me in the face!

"Finally!"

The DC's heads all snapped in my direction when they heard me say that.

"Get him! Quick!"

"When I open this door," I frantically commanded, "the dream room will be on the other side!"

I threw the door open, DC's just feet away, and then slammed it shut behind me just before they could get to where I was. I locked the door and then turned around. I wasn't in the dream room, for sure. I was in some vast darkness...and then, there was this light. And I realized it was the light from the window...and I had woken up

At least I scored another point for RC-MILD...