I'm in a large butcher's shop with an old-fashioned feel. It's really big, laid out like a supermarket, full of meat - and not cold. I remember that, from the street, the windows looked dusty and the shop dark. The interior is black and dark green, and it feels like I could get lost in here. The owner of the shop approaches me. A bald, genial old man. He talks to me, saying how happy he is to have a customer, and sells me some meat. He jokes that I should come back if the place's still in business - as it will likely close down soon. I protest against this idea, but he tells me that it can't be helped - he rarely has customers. Then he indicates a tall shelving unit full of packets of pink meat and admits he doesn't even know what is in them. As I'm about to leave, he insists on giving me several items of antique/vintage furniture in the shop. Later, I return home with purchases. This doesn't look like my road, the pavement is raised a few feet above the road with a railing running alongside. The houses are wider and without the usual stucco on the ground floor. I am laden with old furniture as well as shopping bags and some pink chinaware. I see my parents near a parked car. This looks like a normal car from the outside, but inside it's big: four seats in a row. My parents have shopping bags too, for a picnic: several buns for each of us, olives, focaccia, vegetables and some other stuff. We talk to the other family inside the car. There is a police car with doors open in the middle of the road and the whole street is quiet - something's off. Close by is a very small car. A pair of legs stick out from under it at an odd angle, crushed by the car body. "Terrible, isn't it?" I hear someone say. I approach and peer through the windows. The passenger is crumpled over their seat and driver cannot be seen in the dark interior. I knock on the window and the passenger stirs - a young boy in a puffer jacket, looking annoyed with me. Then the driver looks up as well and moves his legs. I see the car has eyes and is red plastic. Just two boys in a toy car. I've woken them up and I hurry away.
Watched a sequel to a popular film about the apocalypse, 2095 (first film was 2024). It focussed on the main cast of the prior film rebuilding in an empty landscape and trying to start a millenarian religion with the sole purpose of warning when the next collapse will happen. The film was somber, with the occasional dry joke here and there. A lot of the places people visited were empty buildings, I think I remember there being a school. 2095 was apparently stuck in development hell, as the film had a sprawling series of logos before it started, with both environmental groups and a network of Christian ministries attached to the name of the project, as well as an organisation called "project 2024", which appeared to be there for the sole purpose of bringing the sequel out once and for all..
Updated 11-01-2023 at 01:28 PM by 65287 (typo fix)
October 30th The Playground (LD) I’m on the second floor of a fairly large structure looking out at the yard below. There appear to be a couple of large pools, to the left and right as well as some deer to the right side of the field. The pools remind me slightly of Meadow. It looks like Meadow…but these pools are too large… I begin to float through the window and outside into the daylight. I put right hand in front of me and begin to inspect it. It looks very realist and I see all of the texture of the skin as well as noticeable scars. The scars…aren’t in the right place…I’m dreaming. I become lucid and float down to the ground. I float down into the area in the center of the yard which I recognize as a playground. I head into the middle of the center structure which is constructed of tan plastic material. Several kids are coming through one of the tunnels toward me. I remember my dream goal of asking the dream what will improve my life. I ask the dream directly, yet don’t get a response. I ask one of the kids coming through the center structure but he responds: “I don’t know”. I then see a kids I recognize: “You’re smart…what would make my life better” “I don’t know” I ask a third kid, but get the same response. I let the next kid simply go through the area, then enter the center from my side, transitioning through it. I see two young girls to the left as I move through. I ignore this group of kids and exit to the far end of the playground. I wake up.
October 18th, 2023 Midnight Boat (LD) I roll my memory back to the previous scene in which the narrator was explaining that the people working are from South America. I turn to H. That doesn’t make any sense. How could these people be from South America- were joy in South America. I go for a noseplug. This is a dream! I’m excited as I look toward H sitting next to me on the boat. I have a big smile, and she turns to her left smiling back at me. I turn toward the front of the boat and take in the view of the rows of seats in the dim light. The scene grows dark rapidly and I take a few steps forward, farther into the boat. I imagine a chocolate bar being in front of me, and as I reach down, I quickly find a bar. It’s quite large, probably a foot long by eight inches wide and I undo the foil wrapper by peeling it back. I take a bite, yet it doesn’t have much taste. I continue to take a couple more steps toward the front of the boat, but begin to feel my body. I soon wake up. Mirrors And Couches (LD) I look into a mirror and intensive my practice of illusory body. My awareness begins to raise and I go for a nose plug. I’m lucid. I turn and head into the scene beyond me which is essentially a large square one story room in the dim of night. There are several white couches in the room around the perimeter of the majority of the room. I float into the room and the scene begins to dim rapidly. I begin to rapidly rub around the surfaces of the scene, engaging my tactile sense. I begin to feel my waking body. I soon wake up.