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    1. 4/9/15 - Phil/Mr. Sweeney

      by , 04-09-2015 at 10:11 PM
      I'm in a bedroom that I recognize, but it's not mine. I'm sleeping on a bed. The bedroom door flies open and my Mother is standing there with an older man. My Mother then walks out but the man stays. He stares at me. I'm only in my underwear to I hurriedly cover up and ask him politely if he needs something. He then takes a step forward and tells me that he'd like a drink of my water. I hand him the water bottle that I keep next to my bed and he takes a drink. I ask him again if he needs something and he asks me if I have anything to eat. I tell him to hold on and I dig around a bit and pull out a small bag of trail mix. He still wants more so I give him a large amount of Easter candy that I had. He seems happy and walks out of my room. But he doesn't shut the door and he stands there like he's guarding me. I feel uncomfortable and tell him that if he just gives me a few minutes I'll hurry and get ready. He says nothing and still stands by my open door staring at me. A younger man then carefully walks into my room and I can feel that he has something important to say to me but he wont because that man is still watching. So I whisper to the younger man to hurry and close the door. He seems scared and won't close it. Finally I jump up and slam the door closed and lock it. As soon as I lock it, the old man starts banging on the door and trying to open it. I put my weight against the door to keep him out.
    2. Books and Books

      by , 04-09-2015 at 09:25 PM
      Morning of April 9, 2015. Thursday.



      Not much occurs in this dream. My family and I are living back on Gellibrand Street in Clayfield (Brisbane area) where we have not been in years.

      In my dream, the main rooms of the apartment (first bedroom, second bedroom, and kitchen) are duplicated (all but the porch, which remains in the middle) and mirrored so that there are seven rooms. This makes the additional kitchen the main entrance, I think. I do not really consider this oddity of layout. I am in the process of going through things to see if the house can be arranged better. The large sliding door cupboard we have (originally designed for an office and very heavy) is near the doorway of the original kitchen. I notice that over half of the books are large telephone books from different years. About half of those are for Sarasota, Florida and the other half for Brisbane (Australia) suburbs. I am a bit annoyed about the space they are taking up and plan on getting rid of them, but I do not focus on doing so at the time.

      There is also something about finding crossword puzzles for my second-youngest son, but that idea does not really seem that feasible as I look at a few different ones, as I seem to realize that solving crosswords is not really educational (relative to critical thinking skills) and in fact, rather pointless, though not as pointless as the “find a word” puzzles (and all their variations of titular names), which I also notice now and then in some magazines, which are not even puzzles and where you just look at words within random letter patterns and circle them. I mostly just look around at random books and magazines. Some of the writing is rather sparse on some pages and not quite discernible.

      One book I pick up has a comic-strip-like sequence of small photographs near the top of the page, mostly only of the back halves of various breeds of dogs (but from the side, all facing to the left). I continue to think about what books we can sell or give away (or just throw out). Perhaps it is a play on “Dog Tales (tails)”. I had just seen a rather odd section of a television show in real life (Dr. Harry), where it showed a large dog jumping up and humping someone’s leg and the commentary was something about the dog not being playful, but intending to show dominance (probably one of the strangest and more “Captain Obvious” things I have seen on that show).

      Another book actually seems to be a virtual baby in two-dimensional form (though about several months old), though probably at 2:1 scale relative to the imagery on the pages. How the baby is - relating to its status, mood, or health, depends on what pages you turn in what order, I think - am not sure if there is an index or table of contents relative to this. There are several pages that just show the stomach which may represent various stages of breathing or to signify weight. The book does not make noise and seems to be on glossy paper (probably only about forty pages in all). Perhaps it is a play on “The Baby Book” (in this case, the baby being the book).

      There are other unusual books with unusual features but I do not recall everything. Some of this may relate to reading about Charlton comic books recently, which were once so cheaply made, that the pages were all different sizes and with different page edges (such as straight or sawtooth-shaped edges, often mixed from page to page) as well as being of different thicknesses, sometimes almost like cloth.
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    3. Waiting Space DA + OST + DILD

      by , 04-09-2015 at 08:51 PM (Inner World حلم Gamma Waves)
      I seem to be observing 2 boys playing at an abandon junkyard. Seem like they were having a playful fight in till both of them ran off in to the distance, to where my line of sight could no longer see them. My line of sight seem to have flown on it's own and took me a near by gas station. The sky was cloudy and I was noticing 3 kids who seem like two brothers and 1 sister were all riding on their scooters around the place. One of them came out of a store and soon all of them went up the road. This is when I found myself lying in a chair and I felt extremely dizzy. There was someone behind me that kept poking my waist. I could tell they were trying to help me get up but it was no use. I eventually passed out and woke up. I then fall back to sleep about 6 minutes later and found myself in the living room. I could hear someone hair being cut off. I decided to walk in to the garage. The lights were off but my eyes I could still see how all the furniture was rearrange. I quickly did a RC and learn I was dreaming.
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      non-lucid , lucid
    4. Aliens/Cloud Powers/Darkness

      by , 04-09-2015 at 06:03 PM
      Aliens

      I was inside my house in my room but it looked really different. There was a guy present with me who broke a glass that was containing science chemicals.The liquid flew to my face and he apologized. But I just gave him a "are you serious?" look than ran to the bathroom. I washed my face with water but than an alien walked past the hallway. I had a feeling it was koro sensei from the anime "The Assassination Classroom". But it probably wasn't. I went to the room and he was yelling at the guy.Suddenly things started changing though and a narrator voice appeared talking about a boy who died.

      I started seeing a tombstone floating and a grave but I changed it with my mind as i flew away. I ended up in a building where two guys were keeping students captive. They were supposedly aliens too and shot lasers at me. I blocked it with a Abraham Lincoln textbook. But they shouted why I was blocking their attacks with a George Washington text book. I flew away from them, than started running in the building to a exit with a zombie lady crawling on the ground who than got tired of being a zombie and turned into a regular lady.

      I saw the exit and than a security guard told me not to forget my coat. I thanked the guard than took my coat.The lady who was a zombie said she had forgotten hers as well. When we exited there was lots of people and kids. A man was complaining about how a street cleaner would run over little kids if they didn't pay 200$ or 300$. As he was saying this, a familiar looking dc, his son, was getting crushed by a machine. "Your son!" I yelled. But it was too late and the father didn't even care.I decided to just keep walking after that than woke up.

      Cloud Powers

      I was inside a school building, inside a classroom doing an assignment. But i was distracted with my hair and did not complete the assignment when the lady professor asked for us to hand it in. But before she could take it she asked me and another girl to switch to another class. I went downstairs than into another class where only two guys were sitting in seats. The teacher was a man that looked like my seventh grade science teacher. I thought about how easy this class would be but than the teacher said it was a physics class and asked a element or distance related question.

      I was like "whaaaat?" when he asked the question. Obviously my younger brother would know the answer to the question but I didn't know squat. To my surprise though a student came in and talked to the teacher. After that the teacher said he would be leaving the class for a while than left. I decided to go somewhere else as well. I left than went up the stairs and found a boy who told me not to walk further into the halls because there was something evil there.


      This made me realize i was a dream so i ignored him than went into the halls. I went into a class and looked at students who were standing up and sitting down. I got the weird feeling that they were dressed as anime characters. One of the girls asked another girl about something anime/vocaloid related. I think it was about a song.

      The next thing that I remember happening is that I was in the kitchen with my mom. She got mad at me but than i tried to calm her down by showing her how i could create different clouds with my hands. I even put happy faces on them and told her to feel how fluffy they were. Her anger went away and than she laughed telling me how nice they looked. After that I somehow ended up on the street near my school with my younger brother. He was on his knees saying he was disappointed because he really liked my cloud powers. I told him not to be sad with his flame powers because they were amazing than touched the red flame he made.

      The scene than changed to a cartoon/anime style where a short old man with a mustache asked me what i thought he wanted to be. I told him a baker. He laughed than got a certificate for being a baker saying he would become one. The weird thing is that he already looked like a baker. Than the scene shifted and I was now inside a supermarket waiting behind a lady who was on the line. She asked for a cheese but told the cashier worker they forgot the pumpkin sauce/ flavor. The cashier worker apologized than put the ingredient in the white cheese substance. After the lady was done i put my stuff down than turned to see a red velvet cake. "I forgot cake!" I said than told the cashier I would be right back.

      I ran through the aisles than found where the cakes were. But there was only cinnamon buns and red velvet cakes. I wasn't in the mood for them. I than ran to another part of the supermarket and noticed there were now tables all around in the huge supermarket and lots of people were sitting in seats. On each table were colorful boxes filled with Dunking Doughnuts.
      A lady in the loud speaker announced that it was now time for anyone to take whatever doughnut box they wanted and to eat. I jumped up excitedly than ran to tables searching for a box that wasn't claimed by many. That is when a older childhood friend I know shouted from a table asking what was taking me so long. I told him wait as i frantically looked for a huge box i could claim. Suddenly a guy tossed me a huge burger and i caught it with my mouth and hands. " Thanks!But i need doughnuts!" I said to the guy who tossed me it.

      After that i ran around but than someone locked me in a closet. For some unknown reason I was drawing Eye or Kiro than heard a voice saying " I will knock her out if she makes me mad. But I won't allow for you to do it to her. I will protect her!" I
      I tried opening the door but couldn't than woke up.

      Darkness

      I was watching a scene unfold of anime characters in purple robes that wanted to fight with magic. The darkness consumed two of them though. So I and another guy were left facing the darkness on a wooden roof.The scene changed quickly though and i was in my dark room laying on my stomach on my bed. I couldn't move and my eyes were closed. I heard a girl scream for help in the distance than tried to move. I thought about how i wouldn't be able to breathe right like this. Than suddenly my face started moving to the pillow.
      I was bothered by this than forced myself to look at the roof. I saw a eye looking at me and a circle mark around it. I told it to go away and it did. Than I prayed about it and woke up.
      I have a problem sleeping when i think of scary demon stories. There is one i can't get my mind off and it bothers me.
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      lucid , non-lucid
    5. 4/9/15 - running from everyting

      by , 04-09-2015 at 05:38 PM (Leaving the matrix)
      I'm in my grandparents property with someone who seems part my cousin part random DC. It seems about the afternoon, Me and the DC are running and jumping over everything on my grandparents property, and we're trying not to be spotted by my grandparents for some reason. There's snakes, huge snakes in places I don't see until I'm right in front of it and then we both panic and try to run from it but also be quiet so my grandparents don't hear and we jump over this wood fence because my grandpa came out and we try so hard not to be seen but wherever we go grandpas commenting about it and us calmly while we are alarmed and afraid, and this huge anaconda with shiny skin is all curled around the wall we are running towards and it hears us and begins to move but we split past it and then when we turn the corner there's this fricken huge headcrab spider thing and it makes that noise and i can see it tensing up to get ready to jump at us so I push the DC and run for the chain link fence as I hear the thing jumping around behind me, I feel like it's about to jump on me so I panic and go for the pool, my grandma is out near the pool for some reason and I jump into the pool so the headcrab wont get me and then i jump out the other end and my grandma gets mad that i jumped into the pool and i apologize but have to keep running so i run into the garage and wonder why she got angry with me for jumping in the pool i wonder if she put chemicals in it then wake up.
    6. 4/9/15 - alone in ancient cave

      by , 04-09-2015 at 05:26 PM (Leaving the matrix)
      I'm in my cousins house I suppose it is, it's unfamiliar in real life but their mom is in downstairs doing something and I'm upstairs waiting in their combined room fro them to come from school. I begin realize things, I combine one thing with one things and create some sort of herbal thing that effects the mind. The more things I make the more I seem to become ancient primitive like. And for some reason I can't stop, I feel compelled. Then my cousin come home and I try to convince them to make some things, one of my cousin doesn't care and sits down and gets on the pc, but the other cousin takes mine instead of makes his own, i didn't mind because I can feel that he can\t comprehend how to make it but he wants the effect. Well he takes it but he doesn't eat it, so meanwhile I\m still changing and now I'm like crawl walking like Tarzan and I decide I need to go and live in the wild and to have more access to the ingredients I need to make more of these things. Suddenly it's dusk and I'm in this square room cave and the ceiling is low and is entirely icicle like stone downwards. At first I have no fear, it's like a maze of stone walls and there's things painted on the floors ans the outer inside walls from the ancients who created this presumably 10 of thousands of years ago. On the floor paintings that warn of snakes in here. On the walls painting that warn of some sort of snake/bore animal and a human is running from it and one has a spear, and then some regular painting of people in Egyptian style art. I'm just walking around thinking about where I'll get my next ingredient and where in here I will sleep when the sun goes all the way down and then suddenly the sun goes down and it's dark and moonlight is shining in and I become scared shitless, and the paintings on the floor of snakes begin to look like real snake bodies all shiny in the moonlight and then I realize there's probably spiders and snakes in between these low hanging stone points that are just above my head so I begin to panic and run out of the cave, and now I'm naked, I'm naked crawling like and jumping and running like an ape and in complete fear and I don't feel like I can survive and I begin to think that it was stupid to go in solitude and that it would be simple if I had a tribe, there would be someone who jobs was to kill the spiders and snakes, surely someone wasn't afraid of spiders and snakes, and I would be the one to get out ingredients and someone could collect food. But I also new that I had no idea of how to get a tribe to live ion this cave with me.
    7. Cowardly Jerks

      by , 04-09-2015 at 04:49 PM
      I slipped and fell onto the large frozen lake, because of it being so dark out the ice was black. As I slid along and the ice got thinner it got a bit brighter, becoming gray-blue. At first I thought it was no big deal, that I just had to wait for me to stop sliding on the ice to get up. But the people of the town were shouting in my direction full of worry, thinking it was the ice that they were worrying about I sank my nails into it right as I slid in front of a large entrance to a cave. The ice in front of it cracked under my weight so I pulled myself forward and dragged myself back to the town.

      When I reached them they told me about a monster that lived in the cave and how it was very dangerous. Somehow I ended up in the cave and walk out with the 'monster' by my side. It, or more like she looked like Starfire from the show Teen Titans only all her colors had dulled to the point of being different shades of gray. Except her eyes which were magenta instead of green.

      She was really nice, but not to the people of the town so I talked to her and she agreed. I told the town of how nice she was, and they even witnessed her kindness then. Sadly once they realized she was nice and not scary or evil, they decided that they wanted to destroy the cave. I asked them why, unfortunently I can't remember what their answer was. But I do remember I didn't like it. So I muttered, "Maybe I should should just let her eat them."

      They obviously heard that because they gasped with wide eyes, quickly saying that they'd leave the cave alone as long as they keep the monster away from them.


      Oh and when I said Teen Titans I don't mean the new cartoon 'Teen Titans Go' I meant their old show, you know the one that was actually good.
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      non-lucid
    8. Ghost Busters

      by , 04-09-2015 at 04:46 PM
      I was in like a dance hall, but the dance hall was full of spirits/ghosts. The spirits didn't like what the new owners were doing to their place so they would cause all these problems and scare away customers. One man (light skin, light eyes, light hair...sounds familiar?) was the one who came up with an idea to make it a recreational center for kids. The spirits were pleased and satisfied with what was now going on in the building so they left. The End.
    9. [09-04-2015]

      by , 04-09-2015 at 03:36 PM (Snehk's Dreamlands)
      Non-lucid + DILD - ToTM attempt

      I was wandering with three sisters. From conversation with them, I received an information that they are princesses, an evil queen took the throne, and they are in a serious danger. I wanted to help them, but didn't knew how.

      We were moving away from the main road, close to the forest. When getting closer to a village, we spotted some mercenaries of the evil queen. I lied down on the ground. It was cold, I felt grass touching my skin. Two of the princesses hidden behind the trees, but one of them spotted a carriage, and ran to it.

      The carriage stopped in front of her. She thought that it was her mother inside, but then the evil queen went out of it. The other princesses ran to help her, and all of them were kidnapped by queen. I decided to try and help them. I grabbed the carriage in the last moment, and it started flying to the sky.

      When getting close to the clouds, I lost my strenght and fallen. When close to the ground, I suddenly teleported to another place. It was dark dungeon. I found a torch and lit it. It was empty, I felt alone... left behind. I entered a huge chamber. There was an old man in dark robe in the middle of the room. He had completely white eyes.

      He turned around and looked at me. Telepathically he sended my information about who he is. It was a powerful necromancer, surrounded by creatures summoned by his enemies. I grabbed a stick lying on the ground, and wen to the lower level of dungeon.

      I opened the door, and faced a melon monster. A huge melon with razor-sharp teeth, walking on two frog-like legs. I bashed it with stick, until it collapsed into a few melon slices. I found another such creature, and killed it too. The stick broke when I dealt the last blow.

      The I felt strange. Everything was blurred. The necromancer teleported me to the exit of the dungeon. It was a gratitude for my help. I opened a hatch, and found myself in the basement of my home. I went to the kitchen, and met my siblings.

      The eldest sister when looking at the broken stick told me:

      - Hey! This was my stick before!

      - Yeah... it was.

      I went outside, and found a huge swing in the middle of my backyard. I used it for a while, and then entered my home.

      Suddenly I realised that it's a dream. I took another stick lying for some reason in my home, and went outside. I tried to point to the ground with it, and got teleported to place I pointed. I tried it a few more times, but it didn't worked. I felt that I slowly lose lucidity, and I thought to myself "This is my dream. I am lucid dreaming."

      It was enough to make the dream more stable. I tried to teleport with a stick again, but this haven't worked. I though again "This is my dream. This would work now." And repeated my last activity, to no avail.

      Then I recalled the basic task for this month. I looked at my neighbors house. I decided to go jogging. I ran for the street. I wasn't running with unbelievable speed, but I was running quite quickly. Surrounding area changed from countryside wih forests at summer, into autumn tones.

      Everything get blurred on the sides, only the area in front of me stayed sharp. I decied to turn left, and ran through and old village. I made a few turns around old buildings, and ran back. The road in front of me was empty. I saw my house in the distance. I ran much more quicker.
      When getting closer to the gate of my house, I lost lucidity and woke up.
    10. Gemstones

      by , 04-09-2015 at 02:41 PM
      I stole hemp seeds covered with dark chocolate from Safeway and ate them. I was shopping with my brothers and asked my brother Peter to buy Quinoa oil and that I would pay him back. Later I had rocks and was showing them to Peter and then my rocks disappeared. I was at a restaraunt and chaos was happening. I forget most of the dream sadly. The rocks were rainbow and they kept dissapearing and reappearing.
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      dream fragment
    11. meditation retreat

      by , 04-09-2015 at 02:28 PM
      My fiancee and I were at a meditation retreat. She developed amnesia and couldn't even remember her name. During one part of the dream I had to find the venue the retreat would be held. I saw that the room was on the other side of a courtyard. I decided that since I was dreaming, I could just fly there.
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    12. LD #192: They posted WHAT?

      by , 04-09-2015 at 12:58 PM (Lucid Time!)
      Thunder and lightning woke me up last night.

      I was having the rather typical big waves coming down on me dream. I found that I was able to avoid them simply by ducking underwater, and coming up for air. Unlike the bad dreams that I had as a child involving this premise, the waves had a rhythm that made that easy.

      And because this is one of my oldest Dream Signs, it caused me to become lucid. I wasn't really expecting to get lucid tonight since I had trouble falling asleep. But I suppose there I was. The big waves subsided. I went from the middle of the ocean to being In what felt like the pool room of a hotel somewhere. Everything looked sort of gray and plain.

      I started to get out of the pool, and decided to ask why I have been having these dreams since I was never afraid of drowning. I asked my friend S.

      "So... Ever since I was a kid, I've been having these dreams about big waves. Why do I have them."

      "I know."

      "Okay, so why?"

      "Ask me in waking life."

      I decided to ask my father then. He was sitting in the hot tub.

      "Do you know why I have these dreams."

      "I know why, but I can't tell you right now."

      "Why not?"

      "Because you should see your dream guide."

      I wanted to figure out this question first. I saw a mom and a little boy with short blonde hair, and figured I would ask them.

      Then both of them started talking.

      "Now is not the time to fly or do the other thing. Please go see your dream guide at once."

      Somebody gave me a note. It was written in purple pen on a piece of notebook paper.


      Jade, I hear somebody draw picture of me naked and post it on internet! I told they going to do same for you! Who do this? Was it you! If it was, come apologize and get rid of picture! If not, please come fix! Everyone laughing at it! Lole! Lole! LOLE!

      -Manei


      Okay, well now I have something to do... Thanks guys. I began plotting my course, trying to think of a way I could find her.


      -and I woke up.

      Well, I have something to do tomorrow now.
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      lucid , non-lucid
    13. #82 - 3ish lucids in a night

      by , 04-09-2015 at 10:53 AM (The Oneironaut's Odyssey)
      Black: non-dream
      Blue: non-lucid
      Red: Lucid

      Just going to summarize this, basically I woke up at some point last night and felt well rested... It must have been pretty damn early too (2-3am). I thought that it must be nearly day break though so I didn't have much time left to sleep. What happens next was an attempt to fall back asleep, lo and behold I just slip straight into a dream fully aware that it's a dream. Each of these lucids were only a few minutes each, fading out to wakefulness at the end of each. I had no energy, desire or focus to strengthen my awareness, my mind was only occupied by a couple thoughts. 1: Talk to a certain someone and find out why I keep seeing them in my dream. 2: Sex. I seemed to be in caveman mode mixed with one of my dream goals, except the goals would get twisted and the things I desired would turn disgusting, at one point I met a random woman who had hacky sacks for breasts, I tried willing them to become normal but it wasn't working too well, another time was when a persons face kept morphing because I couldn't remember what she was supposed to look like. It felt like a pretty perverse set of lucids, each time I came out I simply willed myself into another one. The scenery was typical of a modern day mall or sometimes a city, at one point I seemed to be in an apartment. I can comfortably say I had at least 3 of these lucids but I think 5 the most, I didn't try to remember them.

      I'm guessing I was performing some kind of chain-lucid WILD.
      Tags: lucid, sex
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      lucid
    14. (April 8, 2015) Scary stuff

      by , 04-09-2015 at 05:20 AM
      Late entry, but late is better than never.

      first dream i was in some sort of tall building out on a balcony, scenery resembled old town from the game dying light. I look across about 100 yards away from the balcony, a small concrete bunker on a cliffside. I tell the group of people i am with i want to go there to meditate to improve my dream abilities and they laugh at me but i go anyway. I go into the bunker down an open hatch on the roof, down a all concrete staircase into a all concrete room with some yard supplies. i forget wy i am there and I grab a wheel barrow and collect some things. i go deeper into the bunker and end up in the finished basement of my old house, but it is dark. It is a room with the staircase in the middle dividing it into two sections of room. one with carpet and one with tile, and "tongue and groove" wood walls. I feel fear for some reason and leave. i go out the basement, back up the concrete stair entrance leaving the wheel barrow at the base of the stairs. i turn for a moment and stare at it, and it suddenly get thrashed, flipping over spilling all its contents, like something from a ghost movie and i very quickly run away from there. i am now all the way down the mountain on the road, with no transition between the two. I am talking to my friend somewhat frantically about the incident.

      I wake up, throat dry so i grab the water next to me. forgot to do at least a basic wbtb.

      This dream below would have been more complete had i wrote it down this morning.

      I am in a classroom. its dark colored, faded wallpaper, really run down. The teacher decides to showcase a video of what i had done earlier in the dream, except instead of watching it the dream changes and I am now living this scene. I am in a very dark house, or asylum, or building, not quite sure but go with the flow. There are a series of long long dark hallways and the power is out. It is storming outside and lighting lights the room every once in a while. I see the silhouette of a ghost in one of the flashes, wait a minute and walk down the hallway to see it. now my family appears with me, but quickly disappears when i look down the next hallway. i assume the ghost did something. I see old t-shirts on the ground and pick them up thinking i may need them. The lightning flashes again, i see the ghost again at the end of the hallway and i start to run straight for it this time, it goes down the next hallway 90 degrees to it. there is another shirt at the intersection and i pick it up, look up to see the ghost flying at me. I have no time to react and it stops me. it is a pale older woman, wearing all gray dull clothing. she has no pupils, the dead eyes completely white. then the dream ends

      usually dreams of horror themes never bother, gotta say these two in a row made me a bit skittish in my dreams. they usually help me become lucid, resizing this isnt real, but not this time!
    15. A cropped photo

      by , 04-09-2015 at 04:07 AM
      I'm talking to a little boy, elementary school age, while possessing the body of his older sister. He's upset with me/her because (prior to me possessing her) there was a baby photo of him that she'd shown to others. But she'd been using an edited version of the photo, cropped so that he was the only thing in the picture. The original photo was from the crime scene where they'd been found, and he'd been lying between the bodies of their parents. He's upset that she would take this image, remove the ugly parts, and present it to others as just a normal baby picture.

      This takes my host completely off guard. She hadn't thought of it from that angle, even while she'd edited the photo to make it acceptable to show to others. She's emotionally attached to the photo as a whole, it's something to remind her of her family from "before." She used to look at it and dial what used to be her mother's number, listen to the answering machine - there's no answering machine at that number anymore, but she'll still dial and hang up just out of habit, the familiarity of that number displayed on her phone.
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