The Tales of Brother Goose

** I finally went back through my dream journal and actually counted the number of times that I got lucid. 12 over 3 months almost exactly, this one being the only one I actually accomplished something I set out to do. Will backlog only those and another day as this takes too long haha.

150104 1:00AM Lucid # 12 - Task of the Month

8:32AM

Myself and a roommate arrive in a parking lot in a former roommate's car. I immediately begin to question my reality (it feels like a dream).Tell him to do a reality check and do the same. Confirmed.

"What should we do?" I ask. "I dunno," he replies. Typical. (He is one of my best friends and the closest to my interest level in lucid dreaming. He's been in my dreams before and is never any help at all.)

"We can do anything, here, check it out." Remembering the task of the month I make a crate appear in front of me next to the car. I open it, remove a firework (8" classic looking rocket), stick it into a nearby patch of grass, and light it. In hindsight I never had a lighter or even considered that I might need a lighter. The daytime sky lights up even more with a massive explosion as I say "BOOM" and make an explosion gesture with my arms.

Not able to remember any other tasks I turn to him and say, "lets drive to the moon." "Yes!" He replies immediately. At least he isn't working against me. I get into the car, making sure to sit in the drivers seat (my first lucid with any amount of control, #7 when I get around to posting it, he was a getaway driver for me and was absolutely terrible).

Start the car. The former roommate's (whose car it is) girlfriend is standing in the middle of the parking lot. RC. Still dreaming. I'm excited and want to get to the moon so I just mow her over. My companion is upset about this. I tell him that since it's a dream she is completely fine. I swing the car around to prove it and she is standing right where she was before. I hit another car on the way out of the parking lot and onto the road.

At this point my companion has changed from my roommate to the former roommate whose car it is. I tell him to upgrade the car. He does nothing (this is basically exactly the same as what happened in lucid #7). I continue driving. We are driving down a hill on the side of a peninsula with an incredible view of my current city across a bay. And I mean incredible. I can see everything.

"I'm pretty sure that we aren't going to be able to drive to the moon..." I tell my companion as we drive. At this point I remember the task of the month with the crystal ball but decide that it wouldn't be safe for me to attempt that while driving. I tell him to upgrade the car again, and again nothing.

"Just push a button and say 'Upgrade'." He complies. As he does the car is thrown into the air and we are very airborne over the bay. Mid air the car switches into a helicopter and I begin to fly towards the city. After about 10 seconds, however, the helicopter disappears and we plunge into the water below.

I try to stay calm and remind myself that this is a dream but eventually succumb to panic and wake up.

150106 11:00PM

6:25AM Rather vague

Side of road waiting to get into Minivan. Monarch butterfly migratory event. Nearby trees are full of colour (I grew up near Point Pelee national park which has a similar event every year). Mom is driving. Car is full, I shotty bucket seat. MP3 player.

Arrive at waterfront marin/terminal to pick up drugs. Attendant says that the guy who sells isn't in today. Asks us to clean flood/boat for him. "Definitely not". Go check if guy is there. Family (5 people) at cash register instead of dealer. Go back and ask why they don't help him clean. Grab backpack with cousin. Ask about plan.

Porn scene. Girl is acting strange because she wants to finish. Beach house. Girl leaves and then comes back at night. I exit the room and enter a classroom. Kids are dressed as if for Halloween. Teacher tells me that I shouldn't be there. Say that I should and demonstrate knowledge of class through observation.

150105 10:45PM

1:46AM Missed dream sign (confusion)

Am on a house tour with my mother and grandmother. The house is painted completely white except with very colourful borders and drawings (like children might paint). One drawing is of iPods. Painting incomplete. Owners upstairs. I;m looking for a washroom. Done tour. Given keys and directions and told to get car to pick people up. Leave house.

Start following directions and arrive at a building and try to go through. Is an old hotel/church that has been converted into a pool party. Get through rooms by walking through holes in the walls. The maids are dancing around in swim suits but are still cleaning. Eventually manage to get out of building. Was given bad directions and have to change where I am going to find car.

4:25AM

Dark souls II type dream. I am running around trying not to get killed. I'm not as strong as my roommate so I have to just run through while being followed by lots of bad guys.

Mr. Noodle/Instant soup discussion. The pros/cons of keeping the steam trapped.

6:23AM Strangest dream for me in a while...

We have arrived at Pemberton (a music festival). I am walking around to try and get a feel for the grounds. 1st encounter is with a very drunk girl from Calgary. I can barely understand her. I make fun of newfies with her for a bit then dump her with a mutual friend.

Need to go to washroom. Toilets are nasty and full of people doing drugs (cocaine, oxy). Go to washroom. Person jumps into the stall just as I finish but before I leave and starts snorting MDMA.

Go into the hallway. Person throws volleyball at me. Wants me to spin it. Person w/ kid drops sunscreen. Try to catch it.Slide it back to him.

Run into roommate and tell him what I am up to (getting a feel for the grounds). He confirms that the date is June 31st. He is poiing (which he can do IRL) and is amazing.

There is a kids concert going on during the day. They are playing EDM but with people singing covers of the vocal tracks. Needless to say it's terrible.

Go around back towards washrooms. Very dark. See someone as say we should put some lights up her tomorrow for people's safety. Guy jokes about rats. I look around and notice 3 orphaned lambs wandering from bush to bush. I follow them and arrive at a decaying sheep carcass. There are worm/flies/slugs scattered around. Flies begin to touch my head and I begin to feel maggots growing in my scalp. Disgusted. Wake up.

Fall back asleep into cut scene of myself as an old man arriving at a shore in a canoe and collapsing. Hear tiger sounds. A huge animatronic tiger with robotic spider legs appears from over a ledge (it's legs are taller than me, torso about eye level) that first tries to intimidate then welcomes me. End.

I have a paper DJ. Have been meaning to put some here for a while so I;ll just start at the most recent and work backwards.

150109 11:45PM

7:20AM Very vague dream fragments. Went to the washroom before focusing on recall (this happens way too often)


- Boating in a canal. Water feels higher than normal, possibly flooding.

- In a hotel room with my cousin. I hand him a bong-key chain that was supplied to me by my rugby team.

- Bunch of tulips and a single rose on the ground in front of me. Under an underpass (recognize the area from past dreams). Am texting my father and sister about an electronic drum set. Also talking about an event that I missed because I thought that it was tomorrow.

150108 10:30PM No Recall

150107 11PM

6:20AM Very hectic, disorganized but detailed dream

I am in a hotel room with some coworkers who are trying to get me to listen to a guided meditation that one of them has recorded. I listen to it for a bit (there were either cartoons on the TV or the person's voice was cartoonish) but then call it quits and take a nap. I need to head a few blocks away for my half sister's birthday party but decide to leave my change of clothes at the hotel room knowing that I have to do something later but that I'll be able to get back in time to change.

I arrive at the birthday party and enjoy it for what seems like seconds before I realize that I need to leave and that I'm going to be late for something! But first I need keys!

I head outside to look for them. My friend's car is blocked into an awkward parking spot but it's small and we can lift it out with ease. We are surrounded by cats as we do so. I get the keys from him and begin to walk home.

I arrive in a building and observe so dream characters being administered a set of math based logic problems. One keeps trying to answer the question using triangles while the tester keeps hinting that he should be using circles. I go upstairs with them where I explain that the test proves that we are 9x smarter than the previous generation and that the generation that follows will be 27x smarter than us. We play video games but soon I am late again and need to leave.

I start walking towards home but realize that I will never make it in time and need to take a car2go (this is a ride share program in parts of Canada and the US). The first 3 that I find are all taken. I finally manage to spot one that hasn't been claimed on a side street, sprint over to it, and sign in.

I get into the car and the road in front of me is immediately blocked by a mother unloading her car. I reverse to the main street. Start driving again. Someone is pouring asphalt into a pothole. Swerve around. The next block a group of people are crossing the street with a fully erect fence. Swerve around that also. Finally make it out of the neighbourhood into where there is more traffic flow and...... I can't remember where I am going. I am extremely frustrated (my #1 dream sign, damn) and call in sick to work since I will be late anyways. I calm down and then begin to drive again. Brief awakening.

I am a low key house party with some of my friends and decide that I would like to go for a walk. There is roomba on the curb by the house playing music to indicate where the party is. As I near it I notice some more people coming to the party. I duck behind a tree because I don't really want to talk to anyone and thinking that they will be disappointed with the quality of the party that they are arriving at.

I walk into a random house a few doors down. There are large men cheering loudly around a pool table. My in dream guess was that they were kiwis and rugby players. I grab a rather expensive pool cue and wait for my turn to shoot but get bored and decide to leave with it as well as a cowboy hat.

I return home to hide my loot. Everyone is gearing down to watch a boring movie. I decide to leave again and walk over to a nearby apartment building. As I enter the building I sense that the big guys I've stolen from are following me however both the people and what I have stolen has changed. I have the loot on me so I leave it by the entrance with an apology note and begin to climb the stairs. They don't accept the note and want to catch and punish and begin the climb the stairs after me. I eventually reach the top and am soon cornered. I don't want them to catch me so just as they arrive I burst out from where I am hiding out of a window. As I do so I pull the shoot and base jump (stolen) to safety while peppering them with yellow paintballs (also stolen). I land safely and begin to run away while a DC girl from the party earlier chases after me and tries to get me to stop. Wake

*Phew. That took a while to translate from my shorthand into something that was readable (almost an hour). I'm gonna continue transferring these over as they're written (shorthand) to save some time. I'll have to work on my storytelling at a later date...