Short Stories with Tragic Endings

Again, I wake up from a dream I do not recall and decide to MILD

I am walking through an alley of a town and it is dark. It gets light and for some reason
I do a reality check. My finger goes through my palm and I am surprised. It is now daylight
and I know I am dreaming. I get out my phone and, unlike most of my dreams, it works fine.
Unfortunately, My crush's number is not in my contacts. It doesn't even cross my mind to
enter it in manually as I am only partially lucid. I try the "open door" technique several times.
The first time, it brings up someone completely different who attacks me. After fighting her
off, I try again several times to no avail. The time is actually brings her into the dream, she
is about six inches tall. I try a few other things all of which fail. The dream ends.

I am at a building and I have just received a letter. It is a company offering me a job because
they are so impressed with my piece, "Dance of Dreams". I am excited. I walk out of the building
into a grassy area and I find myself in a grocery store with my mom. I see my marching band
director, Mr. Decker, and show him the letter. He says "Good job". Later, in the checkout, I show
the letter to my mom. She is delighted. The checkout comes to $700. I then find myself in a dorm
that is apparently for my high school even though it is not a boarding school. I am visiting. I walk
down a hall to a place where a bunch of people are sitting I see one of my friends, standing, and
I talk to him. I notice that sitting in the group of about six or seven people, is my crush. I say "hi"
and awkwardly move to the end of the hallway where it turns right. At the end of the next hall there
is an open door and I see another friend from high school. He says he has to get a shower but we
should get lunch later. I agree, then go to the next room which is mine. I examine the letter again.
It has a lot of information about my piece including the key which was listed as D ( it is really Eb )
as well as the solfege progression, all in the some table. It had then turned to being a college
asking me to transfer which I am quite disgusted by as I love Millersville and would not transfer. I
decided I would turn them down. The dream ends.

This dream is 3rd person camera view

Edward Norton is being chased by cops for comitting murder or something. He is driving
a red pickup truck. The cops finally pull him over and check his car. They find a gun. His
grandmother comes out of a nearby house and claims he is innocent. A guy is after him for
something. The dream ends.

I wake up at about 4:00AM and decide to try MILDing. I say to myself that I want to
have a lucid dream but I don't repeat it like a mantra. I think about what it feels like
to be in a lucid dream and let my mind wander. I drift off and have this dream:

I am in a store. My "family" is there with me and some other employees. The store
is being watched by robbers or something and we are defending it. They have tapped
into our security cameras to watch us and we know it. Our leader says "Don't move
eradically or they will know we are aware of their tap. A guy moves and somethings
happens with the camera but the robbers don't notice. "See?" the leader says. We
get everything ready for the invasion then start jumping around to attract the robbers'
attention. I wake up on the couch at home. I get up and have a feeling I am still dreaming
I am also fearing that the robbers are coming. I have to go to the bathroom so I go to the
one off from the kitchen. Afterward, before I leave, I decide to reality check. I stick my
finger through my palm. At first, it won't go through. I try again for the hell of it. It works.
I then look closer and find that it just went between my fingers. I try this several times and
the same thing happens. I think "If it is a dream it is quite clear and vivid." I leave the bathroom
with some sort of porcelain discus in my hand. My mom and dad are in the kitchen. I throw it
and think about it coming back. I am almost making it do so. I do this several more times
making my way to the adjacent dining room. My mom is beside me and my dad across the
table. I turn to my mom and tell her I am dreaming. I would not have been able to do this
otherwise. I give the discus and she tries. I then wake up for real.

Here is where programmers interested in working on the Lucid
dreaming game can come to chat about things that need to be
done and share code that they have written for the project.

If you are new to programming, don't fret. I will be giving a crash
course in C ( Programming Tutorial )

I will also use this page to keep track of the contributors to the
programming aspect of this game. If you are on the team or
are interested in joining, if I have missed you, please post here
to have your name on the list.

Current Programmers:
Shadow27
Rawracookie
MadMonkey
Bluffdaddy
noturavgdreamer
Saurfang

This is where you will come to learn C for the programming team!
The course is outlined as follows:

Code:

Lesson 1: Introduction to Programming
Lesson 2: Variables and expressions
Lesson 3: Loops and conditionals
Lesson 4: Functional Decomposition
Lesson 5: User Input
Lesson 6: Data Types
Lesson 7: Arrays
Lesson 8: Linked Lists
Lesson 9: Stacks & Queues
Lesson 10: Recursion
Lesson 11: Vectors & Matrices
Lesson 12: Introduction to Graphics with SDL

Completed lessons
Lessons in progress...
Lessons not yet begun

I will also most likely be creating some short little assignments for each section so check
regularly. The first lesson will be posted when I have time.
Thankyou for your interesting in the Lucid video game idea!

My family and I are in a dark forest. We get to a gate and see two men there. They are extremely
pale and are known as "The White Ones". They are part of a large cult or something and they are
very mysterious. We go past the gate and get to a small building. There is a reception desk and two
pale female workers. One is behind the desk and takes our information or something and the other
is explaining something. She then has an aneurysm or something in the brain which causes her nose
to bleed. There is a sense that it is serious, but she insists on going on with her duties. She guides us
down a few hallways into back way that looks as if it is used primarily for storage. A friendly looking
man, also very pale, comes up to speak with us. He is apparently the leader. He tells the girl to go
get herself fixed up, that her health is more important. She leaves the building. Later, I am on a bus
with over a dozen other "recruits". I have made friends with two of them and we are talking. There
are two people on the bus that are sitting, surrounded by a glass box. The leader is sitting in the back
of the bus talking to some of the recruits and I am in the front. Suddenly, the one friend says, "Looks
like we've got another defector". I look back and see two more people in glass boxes that were not
before. The dream ends.

I am with my mom in a car. It seems to be a European car because the driver's seat is
on the right. My mom is driving and I am sitting in the front passenger seat. We are
driving through the woods and we come up to a get with security guards. They come
up and she apparently has some sort of security clearance but she has to go park or
something so I have to get out and go ahead. I have clearance by inheritance. The
guards make me swear not to speak of this to anyone. I almost say "What if I just talk
about it but no details?" but I decide I best not. The next thing I remember, I am sitting
in the dining room of our house talking to my mom who is in the kitchen. She has
oatmeal but is not satisfied with it or something. I say to put raisins in it. She says
she had a bad experience with raisins ( a batch were bad or something ) and these
are fine but shes still wary of them. My dad then walks in and starts complaining about
work. He says how they don't clean the snow up well. He says that his boss is not
focusing her priorities that she is focusing on the paper clutter on desks and not the
sidewalks. The dream ends.

I am in a house, no lights are on. I am with some friends and I have digital
files for the PS2 game, Armored Core. I go downstairs and some friend, my
brother and I are all playing Armored Core 4.The friend had deletes my data
or mods or whatever I have to sabotage me but I had them on a flash drive so
I still have them. My dad then walks in and says something I don't remember.
We then start watching a movie. After a while, the dream changes to more of
a half-lit rec-room scene. There are three people now, the friend, my brother
and someone else. They are wearing black suits with leis. I am looking at the
friend and it is almost like a character select in a game. His head, hands, and
feet have PlayStation buttons superimposed over them like I am selecting
button assignments. A short while later, the dream ends.

I am in a dark cave-like building with my brother. I am fighting him with
weapons from the PSX game, Ape Escape. We each have something like
five lives and I beat him the first time with the stun club but he gets me
down to one life. I then kill him again after he respawns so he now has
four. After he respawns I think, "damn, I should have used the time net,
he's going to kill me now." Sure enough, he kills me with his stun club.
Later, I am looking at a vending machine trying to figure out what to get.
The dream ends.

I am at a sort of indoor pool area with a bunch of people from my high school.
It is dark. I am walking around talking to a few friends and a few other people
are swimming in the pool. My crush is there as well and I say hi. She replies with
a half-hearted smile and walks over to a group of her friends. I talk with a few
of my friends for a while longer. I don't remember who. I then see her sitting on
some steps outside with two of her friends. I go over and talk to her. She sort of
blows me off and I go back inside. I see one of my other friends but I forget what
she was doing. The dream ends.

I am at some music competition. I am walking out and the building looks quite
Similar to Byerly, a building on my college's campus. I call my mom to pick me
up. She asks how it was and I tell her it was great and she should come sometime.
I get home and decide to go back with some fruit. Why? I do not know. I find a
basket in my room and start looking for fruit. There are many apples on my
dresser but most of them are partially eaten and rotting. I find several good ones
though, and drop them in the basket. I leave my house and walk down my street.
Somewhere along the line, I end up back on the walkway beside Byerly an hour
and a half away on Millersville campus. The dream ends.

I am in a sort of culdesac neighborhood. I am walking down the street and I see a house with three
posts in their yard. I go over to them and for some reason decide to take them out of the ground and
move them. I move each one over a few feet to a patch of mulch. I then walk away fearing that I will
be seen. I walk up the street a bit then back. I glance over at the house and I notice three people
sitting on the front porch. Had they been there all along? It is a father and two sons. I see them get
up and decide it would be best to get out of the culdesac. The father goes across the street to a white
house and then tells the sons to go after me. I run down the road and, as if there is some sort of
game screen change, I am in an alleyway of a large town. The streets are thin and surrounded by
ten foot brick walls on either side. The sun casts a golden light on the whole town. I run through a
labyrinth of 6-foot side-streets joined by a 15-foot road. It is very complex and confusing but somehow
I know exactly where to go. I come out onto an intersection of two major roads. I forget about the boys
chasing me and remember I have to go to class. I see a friend from college and she asks me what time
it is. I reach in my pocket but my phone is not there. I can feel it under a few layers of clothing though.
I realize that I'm wearing two pairs of shorts and I reach into the pocket of the shorts underneath and
pull out my phone. She says "What would you do if you had lost it?". I say that I would have to look for
it. "How long would that take? 12 minutes?". I say "More like 21". I flip it open and find it is dead. I look
at the top and it still has the date and time and such in faded gradient and glitchy white text. I put my
phone away and just say its dead. The next thing I know I am in the room where the "class" is. It is like
one of those little pre-school rooms. I am in one corner of the room talking to another friend from
college when the teacher calls us over to the table. I sit down, my back to the wall closest to the door.
I realize I do not have my bookbag. I hope the teacher doesn't ask for homework. I am sitting next to
another student who doesn't have his either. The teacher turns our attention to the center of the table.
There is a cup of what looks like some sort of salsa. It doesn't have much sauce though. Mostly solid
ingredients. It is somewhat pink in color and looks slightly watery. A girl at the far right end of the table
gets excited. She knows what it is and loves it. She says a name for it over and over again but I forget
what it is. It is in some other language and I think it began with an 'M'. Anyway we take out pieces of
bread and dip it in the "salsa". The girl keeps going on about how sweet it tastes. It doesn't taste like
anything to me. It is really quite bland. The teacher then tells a story about some tragic event and the
girl tells a similar story from her own experience. I think there was another part to this dream after the
"class" but I don't remember.

I am at some sort of massive school. I outside and there are about twenty other people my age.
There is a massive wooden playground set that is about the size of a million-dollar house. The
playground set is a complex mesh of wooden beams and platforms. Somewhere in this massive
structure, there is some sort of amethyst stone about half an inch in diameter. The stone apparently
gives the holder supernatural abilities. I and the other twenty people begin searching for it. It is
a race. Everyone wants it. I start searching through the huge maze of wooden boards. I get up high
in the structure and finally see the stone resting on one of the far out beams behind a web of trusses.
I carefully climb out onto the wooden beam. I manage to grab the stone. Immediately, I fly off faster
than I have ever gone in a dream. I touch down by a fence away from the play ground. The others,
realizing I had found the stone, start chasing me. I float there and fight a couple of them off telekinetically.
At this point, the dream ends.

I am at an indoor stadium very similar to a gym but it is apparently for football. I talk to a friend of mine
from college who is getting ready to play and I am at the game to watch him. He doesn't play football in
waking life. I look for a seat and see an empty section in the middle of the stands. I run into some "friends"
that I don't know and they ask if they can sit with me. I agree and we go up into the empty section and sit
down. The dream continues along some other line but I do not remember.