non-lucid

I've been writing down a bunch of my dreams lately but with finals week I've been so busy I haven't had the time to put them up.
But here's a fun one I had last night.

I'm in some military base like place. I'm with a couple of my college friends and it seems we are assaulting the base. There's also this australian ranger kinda guy with us. Through some blur of events, I end up killing Osama bin Laden. However, we still have to clear out the rest of the base. I start walking towards my new suped up car (i dont know where this came from because I don't even have my car up on campus, nor is it new). Suddenly, australian guy jumps out from behind a crate and starts shooting at me with a pistol. I draw and fire at him and kill him.

I jump in my car and my friends open a hangar door and run inside. I drive in after them in my car and the room is filled with armed terrorists. A massive gun battle ensues as my friends spread out across the hangar. Luckily my car has gatling guns mounted on the front. I proceed to swerve around the hangar, running over terrorists and spraying them with my rail-gun firepower. We manage to finish them all off and I wake up, triumphant.

Definitely up there with my most ass-kicking dreams of all time.

Oldies but goodies.

I remember a few specific dreams back from when I was a child all the way up until before I started keeping a journal. I feel like they should be recorded to facilitate dream growth. Here's some of the more interesting ones.

When I was a kid I had a dream in which I was in a motorcycle race in a pixelated world. It looked like Road Rash if anyones ever played the game. I remember getting off, wandering around the course, and suddenly being in a commercial. There were these people who wanted me to select which item I wanted to buy and they were advertising them to me. One was called the "Shower Brick Wall" and I watched a video of myself opening the closet in the bathroom, taking out a giant brick wall, and putting it in front of the shower curtain before taking a shower.

One more recent one involved me somehow transforming into this giant donkey-kong like monster thing. I was trying to get away from the police or something and I was on the top floor of some apartment building. I remember jumping between these big colorful buildings, going in through windows and zip-lining or jumping into the next window in an effort to get away. It was kind of awesome. Then I was back in my house as a human again and it was the end of the world or something. I was looking through these secret documents in some effort to stop it. Last part of this dream, I was in some giant futuristic space ship. I'm in prison for something and have to walk onto some platform I believe is a teleporter. It launches me out into space at hyperspeed and I die, then like a video game, I respawn somewhere else in the ship.

I also had a dream recently where I was on the ocean city boardwalk. We were going between casinos and we saw a shop with TV's in it. I realized I was with some mafia-like group. We were all in suits and had tommy-guns. We started taking TV's and loading them into our car. Then, once we were driving away, the world seemed to turn into Mario Kart. The track we were on seemed like a combination of rainbow road and some snowy place with snowmen and igloos. My perspective wasn't in the car though. I was just kinda floating around the track and observing it.

Another one I had a long time ago started in the sunroom of our house. I look out the back window into the field behind our house and all hell is breaking loose. There are tornadoes and volcanoes and the ground is shaking in the field. I run into the living room and see my whole family just sitting around oblivious. I yell at them and tell them we have to get to the basement. Nobody pays attention. I go to the basement door and urge them to follow me. My grandpa walks by with a dumb smile on his face and says, "Okay, just a minute, we're waiting on the cappucino!" Silly dream characters...

Very little dream recall last night. But I'm going to start putting my journals up whether they're long interesting vivid dreams or... not so much. I think just staying in the habit will be useful.

So I was in a classroom with some of my college friends and some people I know from home. We're supposed to be naming state capitals and there's a few on the board. According to my dream logic Miami is the capital of Florida, Iowa is the capital of Kansas, and Normal is the capital of DeMichael.

So this girl J tries to answer a question and the teacher is not pleased. He tells her she is "shitlisted" and nobody is allowed to talk to her (or something like that). That part of the dream ends.

Some other thing happened where I was with my friend E at the mall. I've been seeing her a lot lately and we talk about dreams together so it's no surprise I'm dreaming about her. But that's all I can remember.

Had a few interesting dreams the past couple nights. No good lucids for the most part but I have a faint memory of gaining lucidity for a minute or two and trying to fly but ending up just jumping up and down.

Anyway, heres how the first one started. In my dream I'm trying to sleep and have an FA at 3 in the morning by M calling. She is having sex with another guy while ON THE PHONE and just wanted to tell me. She is acting like she expects me to be excited for her.

This puts me in a shitty mood and I walk outside (in the middle of the night, the place looks different) where I meet one of the last people I want to see, a frat boy who lives a door across from me. I go back inside where there's a few more of my friends. We talk for a while and M comes over. She wants to apologize to me.

Later in my dream I am in some sort of police building. M has falsely accused me of raping her (this is strange because we've never had sex, even in my dreams) and then went back and tried to drop the charges but it is already too late. I get interrogated and after a long long process someone finally comes and tells me I'm free to go. I leave and once again walk back to my dorm, seeing the frat boy and a good friend of mine hanging out in the same place outside. We have a funny conversation about pointless dream things. The dream ends.

Interesting dream the other night.

The dream starts with me in my room at home. An attractive female friend from college is there, and we begin to hook up, as we often do. It begins getting intense and clothes start coming off. I do just about everything with her except sex and for a while it's great, but then I notice she is suddenly pissed off. She refuses to reciprocate and instead leaves me and goes off to help my dad fix a light bulb. Most definitely the strangest rejection I've ever received, even for a dream.

This part ends and the dream turns into a video game I had sunk a lot of hours into as a kid. The game is Final Fantasy 7, except not only am I in the game but everything about it is better and more exciting. I'm only in the beginning part and I'm getting all these cool abilities and leveling up obnoxiously fast. Then I realize my guys are down to very low health. I try to heal them but they get killed before I can do anything. This leads to me being in some huge square room underground with some shirtless guy running around taunting me. I begin to chase him because my dream logic tells me that's what I'm supposed to be doing. Definitely a WTF moment. Unfortunately that's the last thing I remember.

Due to a completely fucked sleeping schedule, I haven't had a good dream recall let alone a lucid in a long time.

This one was definitely memorable though. Not necessarily in a good way.

After going on a starbucks run with my friend S (who has just gone through, yet another, serious breakup) I find out that the US government is after him. Why? For cheating on his girlfriend (which he did not do in reality). The sentence? He's going to be executed. Bit of a harsh verdict, but I don't think anything of it due to dream logic. I see him tied to a chair in the stairwell of our dorm building and suddenly I have a gun. I know that I have to shoot him or else bad things are going to happen. Not exactly sure what, but I believe the government was going to torture S. I aim the gun at him and question whether I can really do it. When I finally work up the courage to pull the trigger, I hear a click. The gun is empty. The whole time S sits there saying nothing. This makes me a killer AND my friend is still going to be tortured. I drop the gun and sit in the corner, almost crying.

I find out that if I can find a key I can at least save him from being tortured. I spend a large portion of the dream looking for a key until I found out that my friend P has a massive tank of water in her room which i have to stick my arm into to get the key. I use it and unlock a little medicine cabinet on the wall near the stairwell and it's filled with poisons and various little weapons. I'm still reluctant, so my other friend Andrew grabs a knife and joyfully goes to do the job for me. I spend time ruminating about the US government and how all he did was cheat on his girl. I wake up in a pretty bad mood.

Also, I think this dream was stuck somewhere in between my looking for the key. I'm hanging out with this kid from back in high school who I had absolutely despised. Me and him are going to the gym and then going to get jobs together at some place called Jelly Donut. I'm not getting along with him (as usual) but for some reason he's convinced me that we will both get jobs if we go together. Weird.

I shouldn't even categorize this as lucid. But technically it was an LD.

I'm standing in the Freeman Hall elevator and something seems a little off. I do my RC and realize I'm dreaming, so I rub my hands together because thats supposed to "stabilize the dream." I immediately wake up. FML.

However, I had a pretty funny dream later on last night. I was eating lunch in the dining hall with some people and decide I have to get to class. I go to the elevator, push the up button and look at what floor the elevator is on. Here's the thing about the elevators in Freeman Hall. If you value your life you do not go anywhere near those things. They are a death trap and you should only be on one if A. Your water just broke. or B. You have to shit and the turtle is already poking its head out. With that said, I'm watching the floor number go down and finally it gets to 1. Instead of stopping, it keeps going into the basement. I wonder whats going on and my question is answered when the floor number is replaced by a depth reading of how far the elevator is plummeting into the earth. Eventually it comes back up, except when the door opens, the elevator is literally ON ITS FUCKING SIDE and bouncing all over the place. I decide to take the stairs.

Kinda disturbing dream tonight during a nap.

It started off relatively simple, I was exploring some large grassland like area and it slowly turns into the game Final Fantasy 7. I'm walking into different towns and talking to people. Slowly it turns back into reality and I'm part of this story about some guy who has become all powerful and hates the world or something. He's climbing to the top of one of those big metal power line towers at some point.

I don't really know how it gets to this, but the most vivid part of the dream is me running to the edge of a cliff with this giant monster, kind of a giant spindly manlike thing, off to the side climbing down a power line tower, murdering countless people. I'm part of a huge mass of people who are frantically running around screaming, most of them are going the other way but I'm going in the direction of the monster because for some reason I know I have to get to the cliff behind him. He climbs to the bottom of the tower (slicing up people who happen to be hanging from the tower) and begins walking towards me. Luckily he focuses on smashing the people around me and I make it past him. Limbs are flying everywhere and the gore looks like the chopped bbq chicken we use for chicken tacos. I think I'm home free for the cliff, and suddenly he turns around and runs at me.

I'm just about at the edge of the cliff but hes right behind me. I jump, and suddenly I turn my head in the head and his enormous face is on the edge of the cliff right behind me, and he lets out a huge burp. I think for some reason that this is supposed to kill me, and realizing I'm in a video game, I pause everything and save it. I then proceed to load other games, one that involves immediately getting vaporized by a beam of fire.

Now the dream changes into me and my friend reading a book about the situation. We think this is amusing story and call my other friend over to show him. He does not find it as funny. I wake up.

Just remembered another completely different dream I had. It involved our campus and my friend M. For some reason she is being pursued by a lynch mob and is hiding around campus. At various points during the dream we forget this and go out. At some poitn I believe we kissed. We decide to go to this show where we sit together relatively close to the front and I keep getting chosen to do things on stage. They tell me backstage that I'm supposed to play an impossibly stacked beer pong game and when I lose I'm supposed to get beaten (and actually hurt). I'm nervous but for some reason I decide to do it, wondering how the audience will react. However, the other guys suck at beer pong and just begin dropping the ball in my cups. Then by some wierd dream logic I find a technicality, do the same to them, and convince them I won the game. I forget where it goes from here, but I know I don't get beaten, so I guess all is well.

I've come up with a new reality check for myself. Since I often crack my knuckles out of habit, whenever I do it now I count the number of knuckles I crack and do a reality check.

I had a conversation with a girl about doing mushrooms before going to bed last night.

This reflected very much in my dreams when my group of friends who are usually straightedge (myself, not so much), came up with a whole bunch of shrooms and wanted to do them with me. I should have recognized this as a dream sign. Having never tried a psychedelic, I had no idea what it would be like. However I remember everything turning fuzzy and things changing in very slight ways. I remember focusing on a shoe and seeing it open up as if it was talking to me. I try to finish my studying (i had been studying a lot that night) but fail to get anything done.

I have a false awakening and my friend begins to talk to me about increasing the increments of shrooms that we take. I find this funny because he's never even drank a beer before this point.

Later on I have another dream about running around a school building trying to find a bathroom. I find this very challenging because all the bathrooms are completely disgusting. I think I've found a good toilet and then I realize there's blood all over the seat. I look at the one across from it, it has a little green stuff on it, but I wipe it off and use it. I remember parts of this building from other dreams I believe. I wake up.

On two separate occasions in my dream tonight she kissed me. I can vividly remember her face and her pretty blonde hair during the whole time, which is unsual for my dreams. Not going into names on the off chance that somebody I know reads this. It was a thoroughly enjoyable dream. At one point during the second part I actually realized I was dreaming for just a moment, because I realized it was too good to be true. Some reality check. I was actually upset to go lucid and let myself fall back into normal dreaming. The first time it happened we had been playing some game and the place we were in turned into a locker block where it was just her and I. We flirted for a bit and it finally happened.

Second was in the elevator after we had gone to the gym with a group of people. I remember the walk back but that pales in comparison to the way she was all over me in the elevator, crazy about me. I remember not being able to get my lips wet enough for a good kiss though. This is because my mouth often dries out while I'm sleeping. This may have been the sign that made me realize I was dreaming.

My dreams are getting more vivid and i'm remembering more and more each time. Still no lucidity but I'll get there soon enough.

I had taken a nap earlier in the night and I had a short dream where I was in the lounge with the loungeables. I remember the room being much bigger and having huge windows but I dont recognize the strangeness of it in the dream. I'm talking to them and B (i think) has to leave so he stands on his chair and suddenly shoots up through the roof like a rocket. He has the power to fly. I wonder if I can do the same. I stand on my chair and suddenly feel lighter as if I'm moving up. I turn around and its just sean tipping the chair and messing with me.

Then D brings a bag of strawberry ice cream into the room. Not a box, a bag. Its pink and white, has the consistency of cotton candy, and is absolutely delicious. I remember the ice cream more vividly than anything. Everyone claws away at it and S criticizes me for having too much.

Later last night when I actually went to sleep, I had some other interesting dreams.

One involved getting a ticket from a cop with my dad in the car while driving around rt 130. Apparantly it is even worse than my reckless driving ticket and we have to walk with the cop through some mythical forest to get to the police station. I most specifically remember a big wooden door in what felt like a treehouse with plant life growing all over it.

Later on I believe we are in some sort of video game. It seems to be me and the lounge people in what looks like a shooter. We keep replaying this one level where some tall mafia guy who we call don (and act like he's don pfirman even though he looks nothing like him) comes down in an elevator with a bunch of thugs and shoots everyone up with a machine gun. After failing a couple times I realize a giant tank up against the wall can be used. I get in the tank (which apparantly has flame throwers mounted on it) and when the elevator comes down I run the tank INTO the elevator (its very roomy in there) and more or less crush everyone. We win, everyone's happy. That's all I can remember.

Still non lucid, but last night's dream was all over the place.

First thing I can remember is the carnival. See S, try to catch up with her. She goes on a ride in some wierd part of the carnival. I keep walking and go into a little room to use the bathroom or something. I realize there are windows on the wall and wonder if everyone can see me.

Next thing i can remember im in some house that slightly resembles mine. For some reason I know M is out to get me and I have a distinct memory of her stabbing me to death at some point. So, i search for a knife to keep in my pocket. Im sneaking around, I find some knife from a long time ago, and hide it in my pocket.

Later on I see her and somehow to prevent her from hurting me I turn into a vampire. This makes me super strong and I suddenly have the idea that Brian is out to get me. I attack him as a vampire. I cant really remember the fight.

Then in the third part of the dream, its me B and S walking outside of a building somewhere. Were about to take an outside elevator to a beach on the rooftop, where everyone has apparantly turned into babies. It comes to my attention that we are also infants. B wants to see the adorable other people, but we decide to wait till were big again so we can just watch them.

Last part, S chats with me on FB. But I realize I'm actually asleep. I try to respond but I know I'm not actually on my laptop. Finally I wake up.