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Ice cream + screen time @ 2200
Bed @ 2230 /w half melatonin
Fell asleep around 2300

jobn, leaves, mail, twitter, keyboard, annoyance with team over not understanding about configuration file
museum
trouble driving around airport

Being understood
I'm on a conference call with my team. As usual, I'm working while listening with one ear. I'm trying to configure a piece of software, but it's a bit of a trial-and-error process, and it takes a while to restart the software between each trial. I realize that the configuration file I'm looking at actually includes another file, and it's this second file that defines most of the unchanging configuration options. I can make a duplicate copy of the first file and run a second instance of the software with it, yet have both instances be configured mostly the same. No one has spoken for a while, so I start to tell the team about what I've found, but my scrum master starts talking just after I do. I stop, wondering if I'm on mute, but I'm not. Once she's done, I start trying to say it again, but again she starts to talk over me. This time I just keep going and she eventually relents. My team lead asks me a couple of questions about it, but it's clear he has no idea what I'm talking about. I'm annoyed with all of them - this is important, and they just don't get it!

Now I'm chatting with John. First, we commiserate about people not understanding us, then I describe the time saving configuration options I found.

Now I'm at his house, waist deep in leaves, typing as though the leaves in front of me are my keyboard. John is watching me, and I know he's good enough that he can figure out what I'm typing without any problem. He's one of a tiny handful that can; not only am I a fast typist, but since I used the Dvorak layout, even other fast typists wouldn't be able to make heads or tails of what I'm typing. I realize my hands dipped under the leaves for a moment, so I say the word he missed out loud, confident that he'll understand me.

Now it's time for him to go deliver the mail, so we're walking up the walkway to his house. He suggests that we communicate over Twitter while he's gone. I don't like the idea, but he says that last time we used <software> and he lost the chat log, and Twitter is a permanent record of the conversation. I relent, saying we'll give it a try.


Finding Pappaw
I'm downstairs with the kids. They ask where Pappaw is, and I say that I think he was going to take a shower. I shush them and listen closely, and I can hear water running. I point out the sound to them. Now I'm upstairs walking along the hallway. I'm struck by how clean it is - there's not a single thing on the floor. I intend to walk to the master bedroom at the end of the hallway, but as I pass my room I notice that the door is half-closed. I look inside to see two very large women packing my stuff. I know it'll be time to head home soon, but why are they helping? One of them, standing in my closet, says something to me.


Airport road
I'm with someone else, driving on the access roads at an airport. We're currently on a road that goes around a rather steep hill. My driver makes a left, going downhill to the next ring. Now we're out of the car, which has fallen between road rings. We weren't hurt, but we're getting away from it. Who knows how long it'll b e until it slips down and crashes into something.


Odd museum
I'm with my family at a museum of odd stuff. We're in the middle of a long drive, and we saw the museum in a traveler's guide and thought it would be a nice place to break the monotony. The guide described it as being small, but what it left out was that the first couple of rooms were free, and then you had to pay to see the rest. We don't want to stay for long, and we don't want to pay, so we just wander the free area looking at the oddball stuff. Now we're walking through the parking lot.

19/2/16:
Dream 1: I was at my house with some friends and we were playing around with a mini basketball. We had a little hoop set up on the wall and we were playing around lightheartedly 2v2. I got the ball and managed to jump up and dunk, brushing the roof as I did so. They all seemed pretty impressed with that. The game stopped as someone went off to get pizza so I went on a computer. A few ads for Samsung and stuff popped up and it looked suspiciously like a virus, so I went to my mum and asked her if she had downloaded anything recently. She seemed to be in denial but I thought she had.

Dream 2: The dream started with a film like showing of a ship travelling around to a small island evading destruction by an enemy ship. When they landed however the crew was only around a dozen and the inhabitants of the island killed them. It then zoomed forward to the present where my brother and I were going to be part of the replacement crew. We were waiting at the dockyards with a hundred or so other guys when the ship pulled up and all of these escorts came tumbling out. One of them wound her way over to my brother and I and started talking with us. She seemed to have a great sense of humour and connected with my brother well. They planned to go off together but I had an inkling, given what happened before, that the escorts would end up killing us all. I told this to my brother but he shrugged it off and explained he was willing to take the risk. They went off and I'm not sure what happened to them.

Fragment: I made some joke online and people from Beijing, which pissed off one of my friends who was from there until she realized it was a joke.

The dream started with me walking into a classroom knowing that I was late. There were maybe 5 students in the room with a teacher at the front, and they were all standing around a circular table. Suddenly Daredevil and Electra are fighting eachother while everyone else watched.

I'm skipping a chunk of the dream to the part that stood out to me the most. I was at a school made for unique people with special abilities. My cousin was present and had mentioned to me in the halls how she was somehow going to persuade a teacher to like her. I decided to leave her alone and walked around until I stumbled upon a lucid dreamer guy who was talking about how his lucid dreaming was way beyond others and how his schedule or something like that helped him.

I walked away from him because he was getting a bit over his head. Suddenly someone who I believed to have a past with walked up to me. I was telling them that they didn't have to cross paths with me again if that wasn't what they wanted. Than I was starting to doubt what I said. I realized it was wrong so I shook my head and told them to go on without me.

Afterwards creatures were released into the school. It became an emergency situation but one where our true abilities would show. Two small shadows were flying around and so I decided to change them. I put my hands in the air and called out "love burst!". Suddenly flowers/frilly stuff flew into the air.

It was working at first but than somehow my powers backfired and we were trapped in colorful taffy. The good creatures told me not to worry about it though.

I was dreaming that me and two woman were exploring an exoplanet with mostly water and we were climbing on some rock trying to find our way across. There was no life on the rock but in the water I spotted a lot of different sized fish. I became very excited and let her know. eventually we became aware of some other living thing that could potentially be a apex predator and then I woke up.

This was a fun non-lucid dream.

My recall begins as I am hosting a party in Las Vegas for some old friends. We've set up a private game of blackjack. After a while, someone gets upset and accuses the blackjack dealer of cheating. They look to me to resolve the issue. I say it shouldn't matter because no one was gambling with real money. But it turns out my friends were.

I restart the party. But now, it seems to be like a computer game, controlled through a screen interface. The object of the game is to host a successful party, which mostly means giving away free drinks from a beer keg. The first few game levels are short and each adds a new element. I finish the first few. Now, in addition to drinks, I can offer appetizers and set up attractions like a blackjack table.

But after a few levels, I get stuck. I realize that an important wrinkle to the game is to arrange the attractions around the venue so that people can move freely. If too many partygoers get stuck tying to get through a door or waiting for a drink, they lose interest and leave. Now learning this, I decide to start over from the beginning and plan the layout of each party better.

Everything restarts once again. But now, it seems I am hosting each party in person, not via a computer screen. It's still a game though, and I play through a few levels as before, but with better planning that leads to higher satisfaction for the guests. The levels jump around from Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. For each level, I marvel at the outdoor views of the city. I appreciate the amount of detail that went into simulating each city. But after a few levels, I learn that this "game" is played in the real world. It's not a simulation. The cities are real; that's why the views look so accurate. The guests are real people and they choose to participate in the game mostly for the free drinks, but also to meet celebrities. That's a new element introduced in the later levels. You can invite celebrities, but they have more demanding needs to accommodate. And so, the game builds on its complexity.

The game is getting harder, but not more fun. It's increasingly about pleasing the celebrities. And since they are real, they have ulterior motives for participating in my game. They want women and drugs and easy money by cheating at the gambling games. And they'll ruin the party for others at the slightest slight. I start to regret getting involved in the first place.

2.18.16

5am-1pm shift yesterday. Nap most of the afternoon and night. Dream recalled just before 4am.

(This one was few days ago: I'm on some tour in North Korea. We walk around and have some meals. The tour guide is suspucious of me because apparently that is my second consecutive tour and they think I'm a spy)

Today:
DR 1:
I am living on a top floor of a scryscraper. Some residents are talking in a hallway about safety. Somehow we find out that they cut corners while building the structure and someone said they inspected the part that is still under construction and there are parts of walls and support structures missing. The building can crumble at any moment. I feel the urgency and me and my mom start packing.

We make it to the ground. I look up at the cloudy night sky and I can see the unfinished part of the building starts to shake and buckle. I yell "look it's coming down" and parts of it are starting to rain down. I see people holding on to it while falling. Now I am one of the falling ones. We ar really high up and I'm liking it. My stomach starts to feel like on a roller coaster and I'm enjoying the fall. I wonder if I will finally hit the ground, as I never do in any of my lucid falls (this was non-lucid).

There was lot more details in the building and on the ground before and after this, but they are all so vague.

I'm talking to someone, I think it's AURON. Looking at some readouts from my dream stats. There is one line of text in blue, looking like a URL link. I say "oh ok, it's blue, looks like I was lucid then, when I "went" to fall with others, because I love falling."

DR 2:

There is a body of water with some monster keeping hostages on some floating structure. The traffic is closed off nearby so police can take care of this.

I'm sitting in a huge orange/yellow construction truck and I aim it straight down an almost vertical slope heading for the water. Some of my friends does some magic and makes the slope slippery with snow and ice. I gun it and drive the truck in the water. I poke a tiny needle hole into the monster and he slowly deflates.

DR 3:

I'm at the airport carrying people in my cab. With another cabbie we decide to take some passenger and his luggage.

North Korea got tricked into making Kim Jong un not president and someone else became president and killed Kim jong un

We moved into the house next to ours and new people moved into our old house and it was dark outside and in the new house there was like a big black wall of blanket, I also remember standing on my road looking at my house from an angle

Lucid dream finally!!

I was on the steps of my house, I couldn't see anything but I knew I was dreaming, I instantly started to be aware of my surroundings and my dream became visible and vivid, I started walking down my road and this time it was night, I thought of someone to appear and when I did my head kept turning uncontrollably but it went back to normal, I soon got onto the main road and I was just walking enjoying the lucid dream, idk why but I enjoy walking sometimes.

That's all I remember but here are details
-I remember walking with my friend and we were trying to make it look light out
-the sky was blacker than usual at night
-the road was kinda distorted
-I seen weird stars

I had this one during a morning nap of 50 minutes.
It was a WILD inducted LD. Infact I was observing all the images that come across my mind in that land between the wake state and the sleep. In all the process I tryed to keep the vision of the my mantra (Am I dreaming?) on the background.
At a certain point I felt like a fracture in all my being and suddenly my legs were hovering over my body. I did a reality check, that one of the hands, and then followed my legs in the air.
It was difficult to detach myself from this vision, this situation. Finally I got out of the room and met some OP who didn't seem surprised in seeing me flying around as a baloon. Nothing seemed to be interesting so I passed through the walls (i know how to do that by now) and got out of those places that seemed too constrict to me.
but then my alarm clock went off and I found myself on the bed.

I have to say that this experience as less extiting of the first one, that was a DILD LD.
Maybe the fact that I found myself in my own room wasn't actually so emotional and different from the wake reality and I don't know yet how to change the cenery of the dream world....
Anyway.... I had a prove that everything about LD is true.

I was in school. It was a lesson with our new teacher - a short, slim blonde in late thirties. She had a bit ugly face. She told to me about some kind of poster with my picture that was popular. I didn't knew what she was talking about.

Later that day I was in home, and saw that teacher in my sister's room. She was browsing the web. I asked her about that poster, and she said that everyone asked who I am and that I looked great on it. I asked if someone posted it on the web, but she said that no.

I went to talk with my younger sister. She was writing something. We take until our mother appeared. I realized that everyone in this room was naked, so I went to take some clothes. I went to toilet, and after a while all the family joined me there for some reason.

So I'm in third person point of view, viewing an old woman who is hook up to a lot of stuff that I assume life support. I think she just died as people bring candles and things. I zone out of this scenario and see superman getting beaten up by someone I don't know. As superman drifts to unconsciousness the dream changes again. Everything reappears and I become more aware that I am dreaming. I open a door since nothing else would appear and see superman and wonderwoman tied up in a chair. They both had their eyes covered up. I make an attempt to untie both of them but some guy punch me from behind. I am no longer lucid. Lucidity Time: 1 minute

1) It feels like Victorian times. I'm stitching up a corpse ready for burial doing a complicated suture up the chest. I'm in an old stone building. At one point a woman is watching me, she's been watching me for a while so I follow her and eventually see her face, I'm satisfied that she is nothing to worry about as she disappears through a door. I'm back to sewing up the corpse - I certified him dead, but then I see his face move and realise I got it wrong and he is actually still alive.
From here the dream becomes a nightmare. The corpse vanishes and I feel an evil presence behind me as if he has come back from the dead and start to feel very afraid. I tell myself it's a nightmare and that I have to face it (I'm not lucid but some sort of memory about facing your fears in a dream) and it's not real. Then I wake up. AT LAST A HINT OF LUCIDITY?!?!

2) I knock a pint of beer onto myself whilst seated at a table. My immediate thought is 'who did that?' then I realise it was myself. Then I have walked to a different location and I find myself talking to a woman about the spilt drink as if her child had spilt it over me and saying it's ok. Looking behind her I see a glass screen and realise that we are at a holiday camp and I tell her that we aren't here this year but have booked to come for a whole week next year.

3) Another dream - I woke up after and remembered it well but didn't write any reminders down! All forgotten now.

4) I'm in a queue with 2 female characters (?family) and we are waiting to have XRays taken. A woman is stood at a desk checking us in, collecting valuables and shoes. Eventually it's my turn. I ask her if I need to hand in my watch and she decides that I should so I give her my watch and shoes. She calls a doctor, we go together to a really bright airy carpeted room. I have a pot plant with me and explain that it's not well and I thought I should get it looked at. I give him the pot plant it's covered in a plastic bag with insects all over it. He puts the pot plant on the floor and gets ready to Xray it.

5) In my old consulting room chatting to a patient. He is telling me about a good new garden centre. I find myself explaining in detail why I won't be going there because I don't work here any more. I remember looking around the room seeing a lot of detail and having a very detailed discussion.

Highway
I'm driving a car in the Netherlands, somewhere at the edge of Amsterdam, going up to a highway. It's starting to rain quite heavily. I swerve a little bit because I wanted to move right towards the run up a bit too early, crossing a line. I move back to my own lane but a few seconds later I already have to move right again to go onto the highway. At first everything is fine, but then there is oncoming traffic. I appear to be headed in the opposite direction, though it doesn't cross my mind that it's my wrong doing. I stay on the left side, as the approaching vehicles are using the right lanes.

Fragment
> I'm with a group of people. We seem to all be sitting on a bunkbed. Someone is standing in front of it and is asking us a question as if this was a lecture. It's about the warning system for extreme weather. No one seems to know the answer. I know I know the answer, but I can't think of the correct word in English for the name of the system, though I know its workings. Matter of fact, I can't even think of the correct name in Dutch.

> There's something with a sort of library where I stayed for a few hours. I walk out of there, laptop in hand, but I gotta pay a type of parking fee. That fee seems to be in the range of 80 - 90 something (not sure which currency). It's a really high amount.