non-lucid

#1 - Challenge Accepted [Non-Lucid]

I go to reconnect with T, a friend I haven't seen for a while now, and I wait inside his house for him to get home. In retrospect, probably not the best idea, because as soon as I see they door start opening I say "Hey!" and it slams shut before I even see him at all, obviously I scared the shit out of him. I go outside expecting to see him holding a shotgun or something, but I catch him before he grabs any weapons and apologize and we start talking. He asks what I've been up to and I say I got back into the drugs pretty bad (which is thankfully not true), and I've been doing almost daily doses of ketamine, 4-MeO-PCP, and LSD. Our conversation gets interrupted by some Mexican laborers doing construction on his house who convince him to jump in the pool with them, and my scene shifts to a small backyard party with four boxes of Pizza Hut cinnamon sticks next to me, three of them medium-sized and one large, and I don't move at all, I literally saw the whole scene melt and transform from where it was to this. A guy comes outside in the middle of a conversation we were having and asks me "Are you happy?", to which I say "Hell yeah!" He mistakes the boxes as being someone else's but I correct him by pointing out that they're mine. I told him that I already ate the three medium ones by myself () and I was saving the large one for later. A guy sitting to the right of me then reaches out and grabs the large box. He opens it up and eats one of the cinnamon sticks and just stares at me in that "Whatcha gonna do about it?" challenging way. A lot of people around us go "ooooo", and I definitely heard someone whisper something like "That's not how we were raised in my house." I raise an eyebrow at him and reach out to grab the box myself. I grab a large cinnamon stick and take a HUGE scoop of icing, like almost the whole thing, and then throw the box into the middle of the room for everyone to eat. (When I focused on doing this, the scene changed from us sitting in a backyard to us sitting in someone's room.) Everyone acted really surprised, and then I woke up.

#2 - Tarzan [Non-Lucid]

I was hanging out with M, at her apartment I think but I didn't get to see much of it, watching some random anime. For most of it the anime took over my entire vision so I was watching it in third person, and it occurs to me now that, at least while I was actually experiencing it and not just seeing it on the TV, none of this "anime" was actually animated, it was just a realistic scene like any other. I don't remember too much of the plot other than that the villain was trying to become a "Tarzan", which to the characters meant some kind of all-powerful being, and he was already able to fly. He was also super buff and wearing nothing but a leopard print speedo, and I spent much of the viewing experience watching him closely. They were at a public pool, and the heroes apparently defeated him by tricking him with word play (that I can't quite remember now) to make it sound like he had slept with the main character's dad, who was now an old man, and that that made him the main character's mother. And that's it, that totally defeated him. Yes.... My perspective zooms back out into first person and I'm talking to M about the show while listening to some random anime music, I think some speed trance, and she picks up this empty milk gallon jug from the floor and start floating into the air a little bit. Once she's off the ground a good distance, she starts spinning her legs forward as if she was riding some invisible bicycle, and that makes her go up even higher. She bobs around a little bit but stays at a consistent height, and she starts blowing in the milk jug to make music, and in between breaths she laughs hysterically. The only thing I find even remotely concerning about this is that at what point she's floating over me and I don't want her to fall on me. I think to myself that I could just move, but then I figure she probably knows what she's doing. Shortly after that she floats back down the ground, and that's the end of that.

Dream Fragment - I was on some random psychedelic(s), as were lots of other people. I gave an old, old friend C and this guy D some psychedelics of their own and even some money to get more when they run out, but they still weren't very thankful and came running right back when they wanted more.

Dream Fragment - Lots of my friends took some 2C-T-7, and a separate group of my friends also took it but with DPT, totally unplanned, and then they ran into each other while tripping. The dream was mostly the next day and I was just listening to them talk about how awesome their trips were.

Dream Fragment - Another good one ruined by not waking up all the way right away. >.< Literally all I remember about this dream now is that Linkzelda41 was there for I'm pretty sure the whole time, and there was lots of talk of OBEs, and I think we may have been having some too because I remember seeing the whole world reduced to some kind of energy grid. Then I woke up and thought delirious thoughts to myself for a minute or so, then just laid in bed all happy for another couple minutes and said "Wait, hold on a sec!?", but by then it was mostly gone.

#1 - Could It Be? [DILD]

I was at my house in the den having a small party with a group of people who I mostly don't remember, but it included this guy J who I haven't seen since middle school but we used to see every now and then, but he was really soft and sensitive (that's putting it really nicely, it wasn't exactly in a good way). There was also a female DC there who stands out in memory unlike the rest, she had kind of a badass style of dark clothes that looked like they were just meant to be worn as normal clothes but still had kind of a club look to them, it's hard to explain exactly but I think it looks really cool. (Aaaand just right now as I'm typing this up, suddenly something occurs to me. The last time a DC was this vivid in my memory, she was wearing the exact same style of clothes. The hair style was different here, but the face looked about the same from what I can recall. And that DC from before also happened to have super speed and could have totally kicked my ass if I didn't wake up from my lucid, she totally outclassed me. And here comes the interesting part....) The girl used a cloning ability to split herself into two bodies. Somewhere in the back of my mind I thought of this as a dream power, but it didn't make me become lucid. She starts making out with J with both bodies at once, and he's having a GREAT time, and I start taking pictures with my phone. Eventually she stops and the two of us head into another room and I tell her that was really nice of her to do given the way J is kind of fragile. She smiles at me, and suddenly I get the idea to head back to my room for some reason. As I walk past my dad's office, I hear O talking on the phone with his dad sounding like he'd have to be heading home soon. I decide to start looking through my phone to see if the pictures I took are any good, and I can't find them. But I do find a picture of a different J, a guy I used to hang out with a lot when I got out of high school, standing in some high school chemistry classroom. (Though it wasn't the one we had, we did have a chemistry class together in 10th grade, so it's not too crazy.) Suddenly the scene overtakes me and I'm watching it in third person. I become lucid, which is odd considering the perspective I'm in now, and the girl suddenly appears out of nowhere next to J. My falling-love-with-girls-in-dreams instinct takes over, and I jump into J's body to try to make out with her. Before I can, it suddenly snaps back to me in my own body in my bedroom at home, with me sitting on the bed and her sitting in my desk chair. I reach out and kiss her and pull her back on to the bed with me, but then the dream ends. :T

False Awakening - I get up and start thinking about making note of the dream, and then for some reason I can't quite remember now I get sidetracked thinking about OpheliaBlue. Suddenly I start having a panic attack, and I'm flooded with false memories about how I took a hallucinogenic dose of diphenhydramine at the party from the dream, which definitely didn't actually happen. I'm freaking out and thinking I must have overdosed, I feel my forehead and it's sooo hot, my limbs are all feeling extremely tense, and my heart is beating erratically and keeps having stinging sensations. I drink some water to try to cool myself off but the water itself is kind of warm, so I get up and turn on the lights (successfully!) to get dressed and go get some cold water from the kitchen, but things are already starting to look really bad, and as I touch my chest to feel my heart rate suddenly I feel a heavy sinking feeling. But then I wake up. Finally. :\

Dream Fragment - "Something about trains, teleporting, and a girl named Nelly...."

#2 - Candy Gift Boxes [Non-Lucid]

It's the end of the school year in high school, and someone who I can't remember now is teaching me how to make these triangular transparent two-sided candy gift boxes as a present, and then afterward O invites me to go get Chinese food with him, but I wake up before anything becomes of it.

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So now I'm really thinking about the female DC, she's really the only DC that vividly stands out to me, she's outgoing, she's recurring (totally odd for me with DCs), she totally overpowers me in lucids, and she can use dream powers that I'm not even close to having yet.

Could she be my DG...?

#1 - Drugs And Fame [Non-Lucid]

I got to see O's new house that he has all to himself (not his real house, though he did just move into a new house and this is like my third dream about him getting another one since then) and he's becoming hugely successful with his DJing. When I first see him he's really drunk, like usual, and then somehow I get locked in a mostly third-person and hard to remember clip about Kyle and Cartman from South Park trying to go to Africa for some reason. After that I end up back in the house normally and go back into O's room. He's stumbling around but constantly moving, and when he talks he slurs like crazy. He starts talking about some out-of-country trip he's going on with one of his idol DJs he's always looked up to, and says that he loves his life. I try to be supportive, but I'm really concerned for him, like I am in the waking world. DJing is something he loves and I know he's having a great time, but I worry because even though he wouldn't have been able to start actually doing it at clubs and stuff if it wasn't for me, he also wouldn't be drinking and doing coke all the time. :\ Though, the coke he's been sort of cutting back on, which is wonderful. Anyway, so he's just happy-looking and staring at the ceiling, and I ask him if he's on anything, to which he responds "ecstasy and H" (the H I take to mean heroin). I say "I could go for a little H...." (I'm a shitty friend. ) but then I back out because I realize that it'll probably give me anxiety from making me feel like my breathing is depressed.

#2 - Catching Up [Non-Lucid]

I spend the dream catching up with an old friend of mine, S, who I haven't seen in years, but we used to be really close. We were hanging out at his house, and I think the first thing I remember is us eating a TON of delicious Gushers. Meanwhile I'm filing him in on what's new in my life, and he's doing the same, and he gives me a Gusher filled will chocolate made with weed. We consider smoking some weed too but get interrupted by his parents and two non-existent brothers, and I decide to head home. My car is in their garage for some reason, so we head out their and I show all of them my newest car and they're all amazed even though it's not really that amazing. I say goodbye and pull out, and I wake up just as I'm turning on to the service road to get on the highway.

#3 - Souvenirs [Non-Lucid]

I'm going to some big supposedly famous store to buy some special souvenirs (they kept using a word for it in the dream that made it sound important or like it was part of our destiny, but I can't remember it now) with S, his parents, and O. On the way there we stop at a gas station or something, and then we start getting followed by a cop on the way to the store. Nothing becomes of it though, and we get out and start walking toward it through a huge crowd of people. During this the setting goes from a store at night to a water park at day, and the group I'm with turns into all family members. I watch a brief third-person video about previous years when they'd all come here and gotten their special souvenirs, and the first couple of years also included a girl named S who I mostly haven't seen since high school and a couple random friends (just DCs I think) of hers, but then it shifted to my family members too. I mainly watched what my cousin K got, and then the video stopped on the current date and shifted back into first-person. I smiled at K, and then she starts crying and tells me and then asks me... well, something very emotional. I hugged her and responded "I don't know, sometimes life just isn't that easy." We entered the front building and watched some little kid try to get at a gumball machine or something for the rest of the dream.

Dream Fragment - I was at a Target-like store with D and my European History AP teacher from high school, and we were locked in some battle over who would get some random girl DC as their wife, "based on some doubles/singles Ed, Edd n Eddy setup", I have no idea what that last note means. Don't remember much else, it was pretty weird....

Dream Fragment - This one there was definitely more to, but I didn't wake up all the way from it and it was hazy even when I did, so it's pretty much lost. But what I do remember is that the whole time there was a very emotional feel to it, and I spent a lot of the dream talking to a girl, in whom I could clearly sense Linkzelda41's energy.

Dream Fragment - "Hanging out with M and N, shopping on ecstasy and sort of freaking out."

False Awakening - I woke up and walked to the window and looked outside and was super excited to see the ground covered in snow. Somehow, I had a feeling it would be, too, even though the weather in waking life is nothing like that.

#1 - Interrupted [Non-Lucid]

This girl A (who I haven't seen since first semester of college) is over at my house during a family party and we're in my room messing around in the dark. And by messing around I mean just playing, but in an overly affectionate way.... I could sense feelings for her and I'm pretty sure she had some for me, too. After a while it was starting to look like it might become a little more than playing, so I got up to lock the door to make sure we had privacy, but then tons of people, including this guy J I used to hang out with, just started waltzing on in and making themselves at home and playing some video game on my TV. >.< We tried to make the most out of it still () but it didn't work out, and A very randomly told me that my room looks like a spaceship. I got up to go into the bathroom to "do my medicine" but when I got in there I was distracted because I was wearing some really bizarre white top and a black jean skirt, and it was definitely something I've never seen before, I'm not even sure it followed the laws of physics.... After that I went to pee, and after I started I woke up.

#2 - Shown The Power Of RCs [DILD]

I was in a high school class with this girl S with whom I've had an extremely embarrassing moment, which I will not go into, and in the waking world I apologized over and over again, and in this dream I felt like it was finally totally in the past. (Even though in the waking world I barely saw her before and will probably never see her again, so it's really not that big of an issue anyway.) We're waiting for class to end, as it's apparently the last class of the school year. There's a video constantly malfunctioning on the projector and we're all just getting fed up with it, and I think to myself that class ends at 8pm (what a shitty high school!) and that it should already be around 7:40, but I check my phone and it says 7:10. I checked again shortly afterward and it said 4:00. Instant lucid. Holy crap, reality checks work! I got up and told everyone "It's already 11:00, school's over, let's go." (11:00? I still don't trust my lucid mind, it comes up with too many non-lucid things still. Like this....) There were objections but I just repeated "Nope, nope, let's go." and walked out the door. Some random DC girl was walking with me in the hallway and said something to me about how "It sucks for people who had plans.", or something like that, and my response was "Yeah, especially the ones of us who are melting!" Immediately afterward I proceeded to rapidly melt, which I felt completely realistically, all the way down into a puddle, and then the dream ended. Damn you dreaming mind!

Side Notes - I had been forgetting to do my mantras lately, and I wondered if that's why my lucids haven't been happening as frequently. After this dream I started doing them again every time I woke up for the rest of the night.

#3 - Odd Discovery [Non-Lucid]

I got drunk with my old friend D (who doesn't drink) and spent the night at his house, though it was actually some fancy Asian-style house and not even remotely similar to his real one. His mom then woke us up in the middle of the night to smoke weed with her. (D doesn't smoke weed either, nor do I imagine does his mom. ) We smoke a lot of corn (medium quality weed) and chat for a bit and I'm just in awe at this discovery that they smoke weed, and the main effect I'm getting is EXTREME cottonmouth. I take a drink of water, then go back to fiddling around with this lighter that never works, and this two-carb pipe (I can't remember if it actually had two chambers, but it was a really cool swirly, spiked design with a mix of yellow and blue) that kept randomly getting replaced with a tiny plastic bowl. We hear a noise and it turns out to be D's dad, and his mom gets scared so I look at the weed and say "Should we hide it!?" and she tells me to do it, so I grab it and shove it in my jean pockets and get up and follow D out of the room. We hear them getting into a HUGE fight and their voices start fading into the distance as we get further away. D stops in this dark room full of random people and I'm freaked out, and he looks almost catatonically depressed and I really want to help him but I also want to get the hell out of there, and I ask him if it's okay for me to leave because I'm scared (his dad is a pretty big guy). He doesn't respond at first, but then shakes his head yes. I give him a sad look of thanks and then run out the front door and hear his dad say "Oh, you better hurry!" I'm frightened and jump into my car and try to start it but I'm shaking and messing up. But I woke up while I was trying to work it.

Dream Fragment - I see my dead grandpa (but he's still alive in the dream), lots of other family members, my dad's close friend J, and a couple random DC kids who are both named Alex. I perceive that I'm in Las Vegas, though this is all actually taking place at my house. All I really remember other than that was J asking me if I'd found him any MDA, to which I responded no because it's hard to come across.

False Awakening - I wake up and text O about how sake is even better in Las Vegas.

#4 - The Last School Of Magic [Non-Lucid]

A lot of this dream is hazy and hard to remember, but I do recall that I was trapped in some place called "The Last School of Magic", or something like that. It's basically this big evil school in the sky that my friends and I can all see from this big open field that seems to have a castle waaaaay off in the distance at the end of a long path, and I end up going through some weird third-person control bouncing shapes and people and traveling through gravity-defying obstacle courses.... It was really bizarre. I just know that is was VERY intense, and at the end I kicked the ass of the evil teacher who had originally invited me to to the school, using some magic I learned along the way. We were outside on the path again by the big field and looked over at the dark stormy clouds in the sky and saw the house where the school was glowing red and vaporizing, and we laughed at it. Despite the fact that I don't remember very much of it, this dream was pretty realistic and vivid. But it probably doesn't help with my memory that I had a....

False Awakening - I got up out of bed thinking to myself what a crazy dream that was, and I found this little book of ancient mysteries or something like that sitting on my desk. I apparently had had it before but never really read it, so I started flipping through it, until I found a story called "The Last School of the Occult". I started looking at it and some of it looked familiar to the areas I had gone through, and I was totally blown away. I started thinking something insane was going on, but then I had another....

False Awakening - I tried writing down everything that had happened and got most of it out. Only to wake up and realize I would have to type it all over again, which is why I forgot so much of it. :T

#5 - Caught In The Wind [MILD]

I was on vacation with O and we got a bong and some weed and took it to a corn field to play where on the way we became Peanuts characters, I was Lucy and he was Charlie Brown. Some girls starting making fun of me saying "You like corn! You like corn!" and I felt it had a strange connection to Francine from American Dad! for some reason. Wind started blowing me back and up through the air continuously at least 20 feet and it made me realize that I was dreaming, but I wasn't really able to hold on to it. I just kept getting pushed back until I had a....

False Awakening - I wrote most of the dream down (there was more to the beginning that I forgot because of this), but then my dad walked in and asked me if I had used mom's wind, and the second I saw him I thought "Damn it!!" and woke up for real.

My dreams last night were kind of scattered and hazy, most of them are hard to remember. I can't say it wasn't an interesting night, though!

#1 - Ice Cream Parlor [Non-Lucid]

At first I was driving down a road somewhere, and I saw this guy J from public school walking down the sidewalk at one point. After that it gets hazy, and then I remember being at an ice cream parlor and trying to get the cake-flavored ice cream, and they put in about a scoop and a half of it but then also put a scoop of mint on top, which I did not ask for. I did ask for sprinkles on it though, which they didn't put on. I was a bit concerned at the time, but I got distracted by a woman who looked like Jane from the newest Fun with Dick and Jane movie (Téa Leoni), but she was in tears and saying that that's not who she is.

#2 - Escape To The Other Reality [DILD]

I don't really remember the dream leading up to this, just the part where I became lucid, except it was more like a low semi-lucidity because I knew I was dreaming and had the clearing of brain fog that comes with lucidity but it didn't stop me from being pretty delirious. I became lucid in my room and decided that my reality (the dream) was closing in on me and trying to destroy me or something, so I decided to get in bed and go to sleep to escape to the "other reality". I guess maybe that was a really skewed way of interpreting the dream ending and wanting to wake up, for some reason?

False Awakening - I woke up in my bed as a result of going to bed in the lucid, and it was extremely vivid, probably the most vivid non-lucid I've ever had, and maybe because I actually intended it to happen coming from a lucid. It felt exactly like real life, not even that dream feeling that comes with the extremely vivid lucids was there. I was laying belly-down in bed, and I'm pretty sure I felt somebody grab my ass. However, the vividness didn't last long, the dream turned into a wonky mix of first- and third-person action camera perspectives and involved an intense Pokémon battle. Though I was aware that I was playing a new Pokémon spin-off game and could see it from time to time, I was still mostly seeing the battle happen in front of me, though it was very cartoony. I was trying to defeat and/or catch a Charmander, though somewhere down the line it became a Bulbasaur. I also remember using my own Charmander, a Squirtle, and a Pikachu in the battle against it, and I remember reading on the game screen that I also had an Arcanine on my team. I finally beat the Bulbasaur in the end (can't remember if I caught it), and then I stuck to the game screen and looked at my team, noticing that the other Pokémon on my team (I can't remember if there was a sixth, or if it was that Bulbasaur if there was) was a Doduo with a move called Universe Cannon. However, it had 0 BP (which I think means 0 PP).

I really liked this dream, first of all because it involved a Pokémon battle , and second because it had tons of text that I could read perfectly clearly. :3

Dream Fragment - "Crime rates somewhere go down, and something about drinking certain cocktails."

Dream Fragment - "Walking around my house which is actually school, leaving a weird class with stars and to speaking to sea and space goddesses, then start looking for my English class or something after getting all my backpack stuff packed up."

#3 - Trapped In My Bed [Non-Lucid]

As I was falling asleep, I started hearing quick, loud collision noises, and then I started feeling my body fading away. I really wasn't prepared for this hypnagogic stuff so it kind of startled me out of my trance, and then I just fell asleep normally.

There was a dream leading up to this, but I don't remember what it was. I think I intended to write it down at some point, but forgot about it after this. I woke up into sleep paralysis, like the real sleep paralysis where you wake up and can't move, not the one people talk about to refer to hypnagogic hallucinations. I was extremely confused and noticed that I had double and triple vision at some point, things were spinning a bit, and it felt like I was closing one of my eyes to help myself see. (I didn't understand what was going on, so given my previous history with sleep paralysis it was more likely that one of my eyes just opened and the other didn't really.) Because of this and the super dreamy feeling everything had, I assumed I had taken DXM. The entire time with was going on, I could hear "Kokomo" by the Beach Boys playing in the background of my mind somewhere. I tried getting up to go to my computer and message O about how I was tripping, and I got half way through the message, which was REALLY hard to do given my vision and everything shaking and feeling a strange gravity and brain fog, and suddenly I started realizing that half way though my messaging it had just started turning into gibberish. I got concerned, and then I looked closer and realized that I was still lying in bed. I did that a few times, and then I recognized this pattern of thinking something's going on, suddenly it gets really confusing, and then realizing it wasn't even happening - from anticholinergic deliriants. I stated to fear that I had taken diphenhydramine (Benadryl) too, and that I was now on a DXM/DPH combo, which is NOT something I need to be doing. I entered a sort of despair and just managed to close my eyes and watched patterns quickly form from the blackness, and as they grew and approached me I started feeling really intense and really uncomfortable vibrations. I probably could've entered an OBE from this state if I wanted to, but the fear overtook me and shook me out of the sleep paralysis. *phew*

Exclusive Club [Non-Lucid]

I was going to some super exclusive club with N, and there were a few ravers of band groupies walking out of it when we pulled up in N's car. Apparently it's just like a crazy drugs and other illegal things haven and you're supposed to act so casual outside to keep it undercover that you're not even allowed to laugh or they won't let you in. And they advise you to take your shirt off for at least ten minutes first so that when you go in and feel how muggy it is it won't stick to you as easily? We're sitting in the car while N waits the ten minutes with his shirt off, and a group of kids walks up up to the window. Among them were some kandi kid, some guy who claimed to have just gotten back from a Van Halen concert, and some random blurry DC. The raver was drooling and spitting all over the place, it was so gross. And then N GOT UP AND WENT UP TO HIS FACE AND KISSED HIM, AND PULLED THE DROOL BACK WITH HIM. Oh my god, I don't even want to think about it. >.< We finally went inside and saw a guy, J, who I haven't seen since middle school, and we were sitting at tables positioned at uncomfortably steep inclines. Like seriously, we were basically standing. J starts joking about the tables, and I look away and back one time and N had been replaced with some blonde-haired girl who looked like one of the people I was drinking with last night, and she had some alcoholic drink in her hand. (If I had to guess, it looked like a scotch on the rocks.) She starts talking about something, but I don't really remember what, and then I wake up.

Dream Fragment - We had these candies which I perceived as weed brownies but they were more just like chocolate chunks with sprinkles, and the sprinkles were varying shades of green and strategically placed with the candy shaped to look like a nug of weed. I also remember A smoking some legal weed mimic, but that's about it from that dream....

Backwards Crab Walk Through Time [DILD]

I'm with M and some random guys pull up in my car so I tell them to scoot over so I can drive. We drop one of the guys off, and then as I'm trying to figure out where to take the other guy he keeps talking about this book he has that's part of some new cult he's in, and there are lots of bizarre religious illustrations in it. I remember one of them was a woman leaning back and staring up in euphoria and she looked like she'd been 'healed' or something, and she had like claw-shaped lips and at least ten or fifteen eyes scattered all over her face. It was really odd.... While I was staring at the book the scene changed from my car to a high school classroom. I tell M we need to leave, and I don't remember who this was but this random woman started chasing us back through time. Like, I would run out of the classroom and it would take me back into a classroom I had from the previous year (I'm not sure if any of these classes were classes I actually had, though). Eventually I started doing a backwards crab walk as I was being chased. During this time I became lucid but was a bit too flustered to make much of it other than to keep moving and watch how insane all of this was. It seemed like I was stuck in some kind of environment loop where the class was just repeating over and over again, and then it all collapsed into whiteness and I woke up.

#1 - The Invader Zim Diet [Non-Lucid]

I was walking around some strange mall, and the order of this dream is hard to remember, but know at least how it ended. But first, I remember walking around a clothes store thinking about Robin from How I Met Your Mother and noticing all these super skinny clothes and hearing people talking about some 'air diet', and I started to feel desperate to get thinner. I went down to the 'diet floor' and walked past D, who was looking into the diet because he didn't want to have to breath as much while sleeping so he'd snore less. Before looking into what exactly that meant, I went downstairs one further past the 'feminine diets' to the 'fat guy room' for a minute, and immediately decided that this was NOT the diet for me. The floor was also really slippery and I was sliding around like crazy. I went back upstairs and checked out the feminine diets. There were two of them. The first one involved eating nothing but air, and the second involved becoming a Invader Zim-style demon character and having to have this inflatable rectangular prism represent your breath and hold on to it at all times. For the rest of the dream I flip-flopped between the two. The latter was very anxiogenic and uncomfortable. There was also some Invader Zim plot going on in the background that was pretty intense, but in the end stopped because Dib was about to defeat Zim somehow but Zim called upon some 'Fish Law' that states that their battle was a stalemate because in this brown paper bag he was holding two of his crab rangoon (which looked right but where shaped like ravioli) were touching each other, one on top of the other. Somewhere unseen to me, O starts complaining that that could've been done at any time. After that I woke up.

Dream Fragment - Something about picking up some cocaine with O.

#2 - Interwoven Tapestry [Non-Lucid]

I'm thinking this one was a non-REM dream. Or something....

In my notes, my first line to describe this dream was "interwoven tapestry of anger and libido". There were repeating, morphing images of a woman (me? it's hard to remember, it had a very dissociated feel to it) that were constantly moving around and switching back and forth between representing strong feelings of lust, fantasizing about stuff, and strong feelings of rage, thinking about murder and the like. I remember there being some third-person narration going on about how you can't feel attraction without anger. And that was it.

#3 - Tequila Ketchup [Non-Lucid]

O, J, and I are driving somewhere with some random DC. We're driving to some hotel room we've rented out, and on the way the DC is talking about some ketchup recipe his family is famous for, they even have their own company for it. The ketchup tastes like refried beans and is made with tequila. I ask him if he's ever tried it with mezcal and he said no because he hasn't tried mezcal since the first time he drank it. So we get to the room, and it has a pool but no beds or anything, just sleeping bags. We get to the room and the help turns off the light and tells us "Goodnight!" and then leaves. O and the DC go to jump in the pool, and J and I spend the rest of the dream trying to figure out which of the many, many switches turns them back on, though unsuccessfully. :T

#4 - The Mystery Continues [Non-Lucid]

The jungle returns!!! And it's just as crazy as ever....

A guy abandons his infant son to grow up in the jungle after he accidentally causes the death of a kid in a small family in a dust cloud while trying to save them all from some prophecy that their precognitive mother had made. The family is part of a tribe of people who are used to living out in the wilderness of the jungle, and the guy is actually the king of some foreign land. After his son has grown up with the family of kids (the mother is dead apparently but the kids are still well-known in the jungle), maybe after like ten years or so, he comes out to tell him about who he really is, the prince of his kingdom. But before that I was one of the kids (I think...) and we were running from a leopard or lion or something (I want to say leopard is correct) and we had some really creamy carrot cake and were using it as bait. They were trying to tell the kid that you're supposed to just put it out there for them to get, but I tell them you're supposed to lick some of the cream off yourself and THEN put it out there, and told them to "live a little". Anyway, so then the father shows up. He also brings them some delicious looking birthday cake with the same cream on it. So he tells his son the truth, and all the kids (I'm now in third-person) are happy for him, but then he also tells them about why he had to leave his son with them in the first place, and one of the kids who was one of the oldest says she remembers about their other sibling who died now that he mentions it. They all suddenly grow to resent him, and it stats turning into Lion King-like animation and all the kids and the dad turn into lions. The father clearly suffers with the knowledge of what he's done, but then I woke up before the plot could continue.

#1 - Ikenkokku Palace [Non-Lucid]

There were a couple different plots going on in this dream, but I only remember one of them. Though I do remember that C was in the other one.... I was in high school, and D and I were in some fight but I wasn't sure what about. He was being really mean though, and I spent the whole dream mad at him but also sad and confused. In the end I learned that he had messed up while playing some game called "Ikenkokku Palace" at my house and that made him mad, but he wasn't actually mad at me or anything and he was just kidding around. I felt so relieved and apologized for being so emotional. In the end it switched to me being on a computer and listening to some playlist that Erii made online and thinking that it was really cool. (I sure have been dreaming about Erii a lot. )

#2 - Whale Support Group [Non-Lucid]

I'm in some marine biology class and I join a small group of students starting a secret organization with some ridiculously long name that's some womens' whale support group, though guys can join too. (In fact one of the founders was a guy, and I pretty sure long name it had ended with "and we play with our penises". ) I'm pretty sure the stated purpose of the group was to support "women, African Americans, and whales." Eventually the group is revealed to the teacher as a way of taking her off guard because they thought she'd be against it, but she actually loved the idea and wanted to join. We were all happy, and I remember jotting down a sentence or two in a book about Dr. Who (which I don't even watch) thinking that I was going to write my own book, but I don't remember about what.... Class ended and I got up to walk out, but then I woke up.

#3 - In-Class RPG [Non-Lucid]

I remember forming a bond with some girl in a class and I felt like maybe there was something deeper there, but that part of the dream is very blurry. I went to my next class after that, and I'm taking classes with D and C (but C eventually turns into M) and we're playing some confusing role-playing game as an assignment and they're super into it. I don't really remember how the game works, but D is close to winning but then M activates some instant win thing no one knew about (not even him) and claims leadership of whatever their RP was about. I watch them go through some REALLY long and totally ridiculous in-character dialogue (they're so into it ) and it skips forward to us in a bedroom with D's little brother S also there. I say "You guys are INSANE. >w<" and grab some clothes I happen to have there - green velour pants, a white undershirt, and something else I can't quite remember - and start walking around the school which is gigantic. I'm looking for my dorm room and starting to feel really tripped out and scared for some reason until I wake up.... I walked into someone's room and there was some stoner guy on the bed who was clearly high, and I was embarrassed and apologized saying I was high too and just lost, and walked out. I heard him saying as I was walking through the halls that he was afraid I was some undercover FBI agent or something. >.>;;

#4 - Renovations [Non-Lucid]

I found some anime DVDs to watch in my room, and a garbage truck parked right out in front of my house as part of renovating it. (??) My dad was painting the outside wall of the house by the deck, and my mom was swimming in the pool. That's all there really was to that.

I was reading through some shared dreaming stuff and saw a post by WakingNomad with this in it:

Originally Posted by WakingNomad

If you have a dream you are walking in a normal looking physical place, and you feel like a ghost, it could be an 'astral dream.'

That got me thinking, I actually had a dream like this a long time ago. I figured it'd be worth writing down for the sake of preserving the memory. I don't really remember what happened in the dream leading up to this part other than that it was a pretty normal dream, I used to know more but it's been way too long since it happened, I was a little kid at the time. But I was sleeping in my parents' bed, and at the end of the dream I had that feeling WakingNomad describes, where everything is very vivid and very normal looking (not dream-like at all) and I felt like a ghost. I wasn't walking though, I was hovering (but not controlling it) in my mom's personal room, which is connected to my parents' bedroom. There are doors separating them with glass centers and window blinds to cover them, and the blinds were open so I could see through them. I saw myself sleeping in their bed in the early morning, and I saw the time on the clock behind my head. I don't remember what it was anymore, but let's say it was something like 6:34. (I do honestly think it was some time after 6am....) I didn't really realize what was going on at the time, but I did feel like something crazy was happening, and there was a large energy building, but everything was fading away, and then I woke up in the bed in the exact position I had been laying in, alone like I saw myself in the dream (my parents had already woken up and left the room), and the clock read 6:34 (or whatever it was), exactly as it had in the dream. I thought it was pretty cool, which is I guess why I still remember it after all this time. I didn't think much further into it, though. I was a kid, I had other priorities. So that's that.

This is karmic retribution, punishment for having four lucids in one night. :C This was the worst recall yet... I don't even have a full dream to post. T-T

Dream Fragment - "Hanging out at O's newest house, made lots of friends."

Dream Fragment - "Third-person Marshall (from How I Met Your Mother) freaks out about an essay exam."

Dream Fragment - "Something about trading attack turns in some IRL RPG."

And now... I leave you with these thoughts.

A lot of my memories for the night are really splotchy, my recall was pretty bad. Plus, I got really distracted for a while after waking up and didn't take the time to read over my dreams until now. As a result, some of this probably won't make much sense. :T Anything in quotation marks is just a direct quote from my notes, and something I couldn't really figure out.

#1 - New College Dorm [Non-Lucid]

"Looking for a new college dorm and seeing a lot of people in the process, getting ready to make an offer but afraid someone else might get out. While looking for someone to get out, somehow I accidentally set up a coke deal through O and he even has it for me by the time I wake up. Apparently I lived under some housing label before and never knew and the employees are shocked because normally everyone who does is close as family and I just never noticed before since I was such a loner, and they were gonna play hard ball but now it seems like they really want to give it to me."



#2 - Easy Money [Non-Lucid]

We opened a restaurant at my house, and I spent pretty much the entire dream taking peoples' money and credit card numbers but never actually brought any orders out.

#3 - Dream Journal [Non-Lucid]

I'm visiting some high school class and we're having some mid-day recess, and apparently I go there day after day because the days keep skipping while I'm outside. On the last day I actually go back inside and see the classroom for once, and the teacher puts on a movie. I pull out a yellow paper pad to doodle or something, and notice on it the words "Dream Journal". Obviously, I remain non-lucid.

Dream Fragment - "Something about Linkzelda41 and eating an orange?? So faint...."

#4 - Joking About Celebrities [Non-Lucid]

"Wandering around school, make friends with some of the girls in that class. D's there, and O. Something about celebrities, we joke about one of them going crazy and attacking the others in a story or movie or something. Then I head through the hallways with D (other D) thinking about what to do, I have class but I end up getting game guides to read instead."

False Awakening - "I think I must have went home, laid down in bed to read the game guides, and passed out early."

Terrible recall. >_< Maybe I should try drinking apple juice before bed or something!

#1 - Feels Bad Man [Non-Lucid]

I don't... I can't, there's not... I don't even, why... it's not... no... no.... No. So this dream, the entire dream, was dedicated to taking a piss in a jar, and then smoking it thinking of it as weed. Not like using the piss as bong water or something, oh no - literally, smoking the piss. Near the end I ended up casually talking to a girl who looks like one of O's roommates about it. >_<

#2 - A New Friend [Non-Lucid]

I was working for some weird old man in a game store in some small town O and I were on vacation in, or something. O was working there too and he was trying to show me how the job was done. The old man comes up to me and hands me this really long and skinny plastic cylinder (really the only way to describe it) and tells me I need to fill it up with ice, and then water from this little playground area across the street. I wasn't sure where exactly he was referring to, but I went outside and met this girl who looks like S, a girl I see very rarely but who I've known since high school, but not exactly, so she's more of a random DC. I told her what I was doing and she showed me the way, so I got the water and went back to the store, but then I realized I hadn't got the ice yet. :T I went and put it in from the ice machine in the back, but I was afraid the old man would get mad at me for doing the order wrong, and he did. He started yelling at me, and he was so angry that he decided to close up shop for the day right then and there. All of us employees, a few customers, and the DC girl sit down and try to think of something to do. She offers me a ride if I'm willing to go get something to eat with her, in a way that makes it sound like she has to give something for me to want to hang out with her, and I feel bad so I say I have my own ride but I'd still be willing to go eat with her. She looked at me inquisitively and asked "Why, are you weird?" and I said "Yeah, I'm pretty weird." She looked happy, but a couple seconds later I woke up.

Dream Fragment - "Camp, tripping with K, exercise and homework, M before K?"