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I'm traveling, and attending this formal dinner. I'm seated next to this older guy who occupies some position I'm very respectful of, something to do with myth and ritual, and he asks me about what my legacy would be. I'm not a native speaker of whatever language we're using but I believe the word he used has a connotation to do with children, so I talk about being an uncle to my IRL sister's kids. (She doesn't actually have any yet.) He and the people around us seem disappointed by that answer - as if it's an acceptable answer to the question, but an indication that I'm not the kind of person they hoped I was. Then, unsure if I'm translating this accurately, I change my answer to "if the stories I tell are remembered." Now he seems much more approving.

Fragments from earlier: Taking a bunch of tourists to see a show claiming to represent old Aztec traditions, stepping back from the show while they watch, and standing next to an ancient Aztec dead man, listening to him mock the show. 3rd person, a magician who traveled and was misinterpreted a certain way by the people he met became known as 'king of kings' (my first waking association with that was Ozymandias).

This first dream is a dream I wrote early in the night but seem to have forgotten now I am typing this up. So I'll write the notes down anyway...

Dream 1

I decide to 360 jump out of flying car, I hurt myself. I am listening to Magna Carter Holy Grail album by Jay Z and I am having fun on some island. But I have school so I go and get a flight home.

Whatever this dream was it sounds fun!

Dream 2

I am on a beach and I can hear the sound of an iPhone alarm, I assume it is my brothers from waking life. Wait... waking life? This must be a dream. I am with my sister and a young boy, they are trying to get me to do something and I'm like "Naaa, bun dat fam I'm going space" as a joke. My sister says "at least take him with you". I can't be bothered, I start superman flying upwards but the dream was way to unstable to get anywhere. I wake up.

I had a dream last night that I was in this lab that worked on teleportation. They had two machines: one that sent people to the future, and one to the past. The company had mastered the technology of the teleporter for the past, and the technology for the future teleporter was still in its early stages. So, I went to the past and everything was so festive and looking around things were vibrant. It was like I was back to a time that I had lived in (I don't know what exactly the time was). So the scene changed and I was back in the lab. I then decided to go to the future. When I got there, I knew I was 5 years in the future. I was stepping out of a car, and I was looking for my dad. I walked into a house, and when I was inside, the walls were blank, there was absolutely nothing. I hadn't seen a single person in the future at all. The whole scene was blank and bland. Suddenly, had this little handheld pad that had letters on it. I had the thought that if I typed in something that my dad knew that I loved, then I would be able to find him. So I typed in the word baseball. nothing happened and I continued to walk throughout the house and I couldn't find anyone. Not friends or family. The streets were bland and the house was plain and white on the interior. I felt calm, but with an urgency to find something.

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #135: Caught in a Net

I'm in my childhood home, discussing a business venture with my friend "Leroy" and another friend "Crispy", someone I lost touch with a few years back. I have a false memory that we've been in business together for a long time and we're discussing the fate of a fourth partner, a guy I knew in high school that we'll call "Lucky Bastard".

Crispy wanders off somewhere and as she leaves, Lucky Bastard joins Leroy and me at a small conference table. Lucky Bastard reveals that his plan for the business is to inject hostile code into the video game Trine and upload it to a file-sharing service. I ask him how this is supposed to make us any money. He has no clue. Leroy and I look at each other. I tell Lucky Bastard that he's fired. He cries a bit and shrinks down, turning into a small gnome-like creature. I find this awkward, so I leave the room and walk down the hallway.

It still looks like my childhood home and I pass by a guest room. There's a queen size bed in there now and I see Crispy lying in it next to a man and a child, neither of whom I know. I worry that Crispy will be upset that I fired Lucky Bastard without including her in the decision but as I consider telling her, I see that she has disappeared. I become lucid.

I wander back into the hall to the living room. It looks the same except for the fact that all of the furniture has been removed. Something makes me worry about the stability of the dream, so I rub my hands together a few times. This helps, and I remember my plan to use my voice for added stability. I do a really loud yell and it comes out really low, roaring, and generally bad-ass. The walls of the house shudder.

Now I'm feeling like a bigshot. I try to yell "Clarity now!" but the words catch in my throat. I try again, and once again there's this awkward catch in my throat when I try. I feel humbled and a little embarrassed. Not wanting to get too caught up in this, I phase through the window out to what should be the front yard. Instead of this, though, I find myself standing by a pool.

A few different people are sitting around the pool in beach chairs. One guy who looks sort of like Jared Leto asks me whether I'm "from DreamViews". I tell him that I am and he says that he is too and that he used to go there a lot back in 2010. I don't really believe him but I decide that it'd be smart to give him some kind of password just for fun. I make something up and say it to him, and he nods, committing it to memory. (Too bad I forgot it immediately afterward. )

I stand at the edge of the pool, preparing to jump into it for Task of the Year Australia. I want to put a bunch of sand and corral into it and make it turn into the Great Barrier Reef like NyxCC suggested. As I do this, a tan guy dressed like a lifeguard stands there watching me. I'm a little uncomfortable that he's staring at me, but I go ahead with jumping into the pool.

I jump in a cannonball style so that my butt will strike the water first. But just as I hit the water, somehow the lifeguard is scooping me out of the pool with a leaf net. He says something about how unsafe what I'm doing is. I'm very annoyed by this and as I stand at the side of the pool contemplating what to do, I wake up.

I hold still for DEILD and after a little bit, a half-dream of an alleyway starts taking shape. I can navigate a bit but I'm not yet part of the scene. I can feel my arm sort of tucked behind the pillow and I try to imagine it waving around in a repetitive motion, hoping that this will draw me in. I try for a while, but after a bit the alley scene collapses.

I go for DEILD again, and get sharp auditory HI of my son "E" going "Yeah!!" followed by Wife saying, "Don't teach him that kind of thing!" It's very realistic and I'm pulled too far out to continue the dream chain.

08/18/13 DEILD. I just had woken from my last dream about becoming an eel. I laid still and tried to DEILD. It worked. I was standing out in the field I described inn my last DJ post. I noticed a large fancy bird off above the trees. I decided to focus on my food chain challenge and set aside the idea of a shark being the final step. Well here is a nice fancy giant bird, so I decided it would come over and eat me. I watched it fly up. It was tropical and fantastic looking. It was large enough to swallow me and it did.
I took over the body of the bird. I flew around and went into a city. I landed up on an overhead walk way in a shopping district. I then flew through the district and back out to some hills. After I was sure I really felt like a bird, I wanted to move on to the next part. What was large enough to eat a giant bird. A dinosaur. I expected that one would jump out and eat me. It did, and I took over its body. I was kind of a T-rex and had fun for perhaps 2 minutes running up and down the terrain. I had puny little arm and huge powerful legs. I tried to feel talons on my feet, but that was vague. I also was viewing myself most often in 3rd person. I guess it was just too weird for my brain to get the feel of.
What next? Not a bigger dinosaur,,, a giant snake. Out of no where a giant snake swallowed me and I took over that body. I recently did a snake and then an eel, so my brain was able to smoothly take up the snake mantle. I slithered along the rocks for perhaps half a minute. My face was itching IRL and was threatening to wake me. I decided I needed to address that or wake. The snake faded. I tried to get my hand to brush against the itch without waking me,,, but it did.

08/18/13 Thought I was awake, but the light switch did not work, and it was dark outside when it should not be. I noticed power was on to some things, but none of the switches worked. I became lucid and remembered the TOTM about sharks. I basically had accomplished it before, but was hoping to do it again better. I decided to fly like superman to Hawaii. Hawaii seems like a good place to go become a shark. I went outside and took off flying. I wanted to recreate a superman feel so I raced really fast letting the scene blur. I thought I would add scenery, so I knew I would jet over the Golden Gate (swish, there it is) then out to sea and past an ocean liner (swish again.) That is enough flying, I knew I would be landing in Hawaii.
I landed in my back yard! Darn it! No wait,,, I would change this,, just a yard in Hawaii that looked like mine,,,
I wake up in bed (FA) I get up thinking it is likely FA and sure enough the lights still will not work. My wife is there and tries to tell me it is a fuse. I know it is a dream. She shows me a fuse panel and says it needs some made up part. I still know it is a dream and imagine she is going to do something I really like... She does,,, wait, do not loose focus. I tell her I am going to the beach.
I walk through our front window (phase through) and am in a large field. I 'know' this field is by the ocean. I state to my wife "see there, on the other side, it is a beach." She simply states it looks like a field to her. Now I can see water on the other side, "over there, it is part of the ocean." She says it looks like a muddy pond in a field." I 'know' it is an inlet from an ocean, like a mangrove bay. I get there and it is the ocean.
I swim out and should have just became a shark, but I have it in my mind to combine TOTM with an advanced task (food chain task) in which I must become 3 species as I progressively get eaten by larger animals. I look around and see a minnow. That would be a good first species, so I transform into a minnow. That was pretty easy and I swim around as a minnow. I swim over an eel. It is a big moray down in the rocks. I swim down and the moray gulps down the me/minnow.
I become the moray. I swim for a moment and m not sure how a moray should feel. Pretty much snake like I guess. I am snake like and decide to really be a moray I should curl around a rock and try to feel that. I swim to the bottom and try to curl around a rock. I begin to feel more like a human pretending to be an eel. I feel my legs and realize I am waking up.

I dreamt that I was in an old building. I was there on some occasion, a party or something similar.

I was in a room talking to two others when a ghost appeared from the wall. It was a woman, dressed in very fancy Baroque style clothing. She was completely white and slightly transparent.

I recognised her, she was a very famous ghost of a British lady. Her name was Mary, I can't recall her surname though. Coming to think of it, the entire house and setting was very British, so I guess that is where the dream scene took place.

I think me and the others talked about her when she passed us.

She didn't pay attention to us, she just walked past us and disappeared into the wall behind us. she didn't even turn her head, maybe she couldn't see us.

No recall today T_T

The dream started off on this HUGE building that had something to do with mario kart and it was kind of cool
Suddenly, I became lucid and looked over to my left and saw people marching like an army, but it was a normal group of people, and I also saw my friend and smacked him in the face and turned to start running immediately for the edge of the building

I could feel him running behind me and I jumped off and before we hit the ground we steered upward and flew upward, but he went in the other direction so I forgot about it. I flew around for a bit of time but forgot what I wanted to do so I found a huge well with a long drop and fell into it with the intention of killing my dream character, but woke up before I hit the ground.

So last night I had a dream about my ex boyfriend's ex girlfriend. I had been with him on and off for about a year and we haven't been together for about 7 weeks. I have been reconsidering the relationship and I do miss him whole heartedly. However this is not the first time I have had a dream about this ex girlfriend. In this dream she had humiliated me in front of a party and I started crying. I tried hitting her but the punches were not forceful and I felt so powerless in the situation. In my previous dreams about her when my ex boyfriend and I were together, we had verbal altercations but she was always trying to get him back. She has a boyfriend and I don't believe my ex boyfriend and her talk at all now. But does my dreaming of her symbolize that I miss being with him? I'm just confused.

Date: 17th Aug

Pre bed: SJW, 100 mg B6

Total sleep time: 7 hrs

Dream quality and recall: vivid, some stability issues, evading recall

Non-ld: I am in the place I used to live before. There are problems with the lock and I am trying to avoid my new neighbors. Once again, I am staying here only temporary and prepare my stuff to leave the next day...

WBTB:I got woken up, decided to use as WBTB, repeated mantra a few times, distractions again.

LD1: I finally fall asleep and find myself on the street of the same town from my past, near the post office. There is also a bear there. A bear? Lucid. I don't pay any more attention to the bear but on its place two large dogs appear, behaving menacingly. I just want to go forward and stretch my hands, as if feeling the dream/wind or whatever but the dogs bite my hand. The biting causes a strange sensation of burning pain, I struggle to get rid of the dogs. As they won't go away, I decide to ask the rest of the DCs for help. There are lots of DCs passing by on the nearby street and I start calling for help, but nobody pays me any attention. However, the moment I start asking for help those dogs get out of my sight and disappear. I look at the DCs which are like a school of fish, silently passing by, many of them having dogs on leashes, small to big ones different breeds. It looks absolutely insane.

I have no idea what happened, but now I am in a dark room, no sign of DCs or dogs. I finally remember that one way to deal with scary creatures is to transform into something scarier or at least powerful, so I decide I would do the tiger transformation. I get on the floor and first of all hear coming from me a slightly muffled but tiger's roar which I actually didn't mean to do. Then I try to feel my legs, but I kind of concentrate on my human body too much, so the transformation is only half done. I can't see much of my limbs to confirm if they are human or animal ones, just feel that I am stuck in the middle of the process and want to look in some reflective surface to check what's going on. My mood goes quite bad as I get bored doing this and wonder what to do next but the dream ends.

Micro-ld: I am on a ferry type of boat, on the upper deck that is open. It also reminds me of all these city boat tours they offer at various places I have been to with my mom. My mom is also there telling me to be careful, so I hold on to the rail. It is quite cold so I get out my blanket. I notice that the sky is covered with dark clouds which are much closer to the boat than they are supposed to be. I hold on even tighter and then see that a tornado has formed in the distance. I get a very convincing false memory that I recently had a dream about this? and now am seeing it irl. There's something about this whole thing and the tornado so I become lucid. In the meantime the driver of the boat moves us closer to the river bank and allows the passengers to disembark safely. I look at the tornado with interest and decide I will try to avoid it by going to the subway station where it has no reach. (I'd say my mind was kind of foggy for ld). I immediately reach a subway passage but before I get in, I have another look at the tornado. It is huge and partially turns into some sort of drilling machine as I stare at it. It also comes closer. I decide it's time to quit playing and go underground and figure out what to do from there.

I have no idea or rather memory what happened, it seems like the dream ended, I briefly lost consciousness then on to the next dream.

LD2: I am in the yard of our old neighborhood and bf is making some kind of sex-related remarks. I ignore him and bf just leads the way towards the street. I notice that both of us are barefoot and concentrate on the feeling, while getting a mix of false and true memories.

At this point I become lucid and we continue towards the fence. As I get there, I see some animals again. A medium size dog that is coming towards me and also a cat, then two more cats appear. I get the feeling that all these animals are attracted to/by me and think that this is becoming very similar to OB's issue with the blankets. I try to make make them go away, making funny movements with my hands. Then I succeed in turning them against each other. This is a very entertaining sight although I do feel slightly guilty doing this, now the cat has turned into a kitten and is wrestling the dog. They are more in some sort of confrontation than real fight but I am amazed that I am actually controlling their movements. After my sense of wonder/amusement subsides, I leave them and move on down the street, bf with me.

I go over some tasks but am reluctant to engage in something that will destabilize the dream too much. However, the moment I think about Angel Falls, I notice the sound of running/falling water from a nearby yard. In my mind, I know that's something else, but I think it can be used to summon Angel Falls. So what I do is I turn my back on the yard and the sound, concentrate on it and start walking backwards towards it, expecting AF to be there. Bf is holding my hands as I am walking backwards and the dream turns void-like, mostly I see darkness behind me as I walk. I am slightly worried that I might stumble upon some unexpected object but then remind myself that there is really nothing there.

I slowly turn and check the result. This is not our neighborhood anymore, but it is still the yard of some people and there are lots of watery things there. Hard to describe, two fountains/geysers, puddles of water, also water randomly springing and running over the place. The yard abruptly ends and I see small amounts of water running down the stone edge, which gives me some hope. As I look down I see that the next level is about two floors below and there is an inland beach. I also check out the surroundings and see that beyond that inland beach is a valley with trees and the sea at the end of it.

I feel that I won't have the time to go to the sea and chose to use the inland beach for the advanced TOTM. There also small kids there, something like sand and rocks near the water. It is quite high and as I finally gather the courage and prepare to jump in the water, the dream ends.

Strange school (19th Aug. 2013) [I probably dreamed about this because today was my first day of school after summer holidays]

I am leaving home to go to the nearby forest. There seems to be a shortcut to my school so I enter and find my school - but that definitely was not the school of my waking life, however I see many familiar students and teachers. Some of them ask me for direction and so I point them in the right way (how the hell do I know the way? I have never seen this school before).
After strolling along this strange array of buildings which are supposed to be my school, I soon check my timetable and see that I have to find my biology room because the classes start soon. The room number is 36. I ask a teacher who tells me to leave the area of the school, cross the street and enter the next backyard. This seems really weird however I don't want to be late for class so I follow her instructions. I go there and knock on the gate. My biology teacher (the one that I have in waking life) opens the gate, tells me to enter and go the other ~30ish students.
I start seeing many people that I met on my Exchange Year in New Zealand and I am really glad that they all came here. So I start talking to them and hug them and we are just having smalltalk. After a while I wonder how it is possible that all those people from New Zealand are now in Germany and why I am sitting with them in a sandy and dusty backyard where other guys are playing soccer. And how the hell is this supposed to be my biology room? I instantly notice that I MUST be dreaming....

And what happens now? I instantly wake up because I think I have missed my alarm clock and am now late for school. I check my phone and I still have 30 minutes untill the alarm goes off.... really gutting.
Anyway, this was a really nice dream and I enjoyed meeting those old friends again that I haven't met in ages.

non lucid
*Two Asian ladies took me into a bath house. They started to pour hot water over me and massage my back. I felt sooooooooo good. Then I started to chock on the bubbles.

non-dream dream semi-lucid lucid false awakening

(...) I'm going through a pile of paper with my writings. I carry it to a meeting with a guy who's working on it with me. As he reviews it, Obama appears on a visit to the place we are - an institute or something. He shakes hands with a few persons and then wants to talk to my colleague. I would like to tell him a few things but my colleague really begs me to keep silent. But as we're introduced, we look into each other's eyes and we duel with our minds. He knows and I know, and I know that he knows and he knows that I know.... In the end I feel incredibly unconfortable. Now he knows who I am, shit!
When he goes away, I fly out to the top of the mountain where I meet my mentor and guide. She tells I am right to be scared, because they will come for me, but that is necessary. They need what I have, but I also carry the key to their destruction and it is time to put that in motion.

August 19, 2013

notes: i didn't do any incubations because I went to sleep so late! I dreamed of witches who chased me down

Witches on Broomsticks
The giant ogre has me and mom running back into my bedroom. I lock the door, knowing that can't hold an ogre out but maybe it'll buy us some time. I open the window and tell mom "jump out!". But she insists she can't. Instead she hops on the bed and hides under the sheets.

I keep yelling at her "jump out the window now!". But she keeps insisting that I go on without her. The door opens, I'm out of time. I jump out the window (its night time) and fly away. A gang of witches on broomsticks chase after me.

I don't remember much of this chase scene anymore. But at some point I hid behind a gas station and befriended a talking monkey. I let the monkey sit on my shoulders - his hands were free to help me. The witches find us again and we fly away again.

Its day time now and I see a school up ahead. I fly into the elementary, past the hallway with kids and quickly hide from the windows view. From my point of view I can see that the witches were hoovering outside the windows, looking for me.

I open the janitorial closet door which leads to another door, to another door which leads to the emergency exit. That led to a staircase. My monkey friend promptly reminds me "don't go down, go up!". Going down in an industrial staircase like this always leads to something nightmarish.

I go up the steps but there's no door for the next level! So I go back the way I came and try to find some other place to hide.

Eventually I walked into a room that was completely empty, except for one large oval table. It looked futuristic, like it was a giant oval computer. I walk up to the table, in the very center was a face. I couldn't tell if the face was robotic or wearing an ancient mask. Who ever he is, he's asleep in this table. I wanted to know more about this sleeping face.

Leaving the room, I run into a little black girl with braided pig-tails. She tells me this man had to be put to sleep, but one day soon he's going to wake up. Anyways, I look out the window and I don't see the witches. I fly right out, but it's a trap. The gang of witches were still there. I try to fight them but nothing I do works. So I just fly right back in the building.

This time the witches followed inside. They were thoroughly checking all the rooms so I kept switching my hiding places. For a while I hung out with the little girl and her classroom. Eventually I ran back into the room with the face - around this time I also noticed my monkey friend was non-existent.

The face was waking up, and he sounds real pissed! I shouldn't be here! Instead, I get the idea to hide under another table. I waited for the witches to follow me into the 'faces' room. I don't remember what happened next, but I finally got away, because the witches were busy battling the face.

I travel through weird landscape after weird landscape. Most of them were desert, rocky and epic feeling like from some sci-fi movie. That's when I get blasted with this nostalgic feeling "I remember this dream! I remember what happens next! I become lucid!". I was sure of it, in the next scene of the dream I'm supposed to become lucid....lol.....sigh.....

I pull out my dream journal and look for an entry that resembles this dream. I get frustrated because the events that lead to the next scene haven't happened yet. I feel as though I'm waking up.

Video Games with Funky
Instead my dream just morphs into something else. I'm playing fantasy role-playing video games with my friend Funky and others online. The video game starts out in those same epic landscapes I just flew through. There were dinosaurs, mindlessly eating and eating each other. Dragons and other fantastical creatures.

Our characters were leveling fast. I guess the boys got jealous and didn't like how fast me and funky's characters were leveling. They tell each other "don't let them play the next game!" and boot us out. My screen goes black! How rude! I turn to funky, she's fallen fast asleep still holding the remote control. I remember how strange it was to look at her asleep. I realize its because her breathing matched mine, it was more like staring at my body that was asleep on the bed.

I woke up after