dream fragment

I'm evacuating a place where True Blood's Eric and Bill had been staying; Bill's already gone, but Eric's chained to a chair, and I have no intention of freeing him. I'm going to carry him out in the chair. Despite this, I have nothing against him, and I'm asking him if he wants me to bring any of the belongings he's kept in these rooms. I'm kneeling in front of the chair as I speak to him, and I say that I may need him to carry something of Bill's in exchange, to which he consents. Aside from 2 belongings which needed no discussion, he says he doesn't need anything else. It seems a shame, the rooms are full of things he's collected over his lifetime. I pick up a sword he has on display with a hilt that looks like carved ivory or bone, and I say sure, you may not need anything else, but it's better if it can come, isn't it? I put it on the chair with him.

(Woke up. Back to sleep.)

Fragment: a mention of Louis, a king.

I've heard about a gathering of people I'm thinking of as 'the British' tonight - there's a connotation of a specific politically subversive group in my mind - and I intend to arrange a meeting with the queen, although I'm not as close to her in this reality as I have been in past iterations; I've spent too much time focusing on other contacts this time through. I sit down beside the queen at her mirror. Her daughter, Antoinette, is here as well, standing by the window; she's beautiful but spoiled, self-centered. That's largely my fault - in other versions of this reality I'd devoted more time to her and she'd developed into a very sweet girl. This time around, we're not particularly close, and she notes only that she owes her name to me. In French, I ask the queen her plans for this evening after the party. I don't speak to her in a particularly deferential manner. She seems wary, suspicious, but I think I have enough influence with her to pull this off.

(Woke up. Back to sleep.)

I need to kill a giant snake, but I can't find a weapon. Finally, a woman produces a long knife and beheads the snake herself. But I tell her that it's still alive, you need to destroy the brain, otherwise beheading it is just slow death by suffocation, it's cruel. I point to its eyes, which are still moving; I tell her it's suffering. She doesn't care. It's harmless now, that's all she cared about. I can't believe this. But I do my best to put it out of its misery without a weapon, until finally its eyes stop moving and its skull is crushed. I pick up head and body and carry them outside.

When I reach the door, the storyline changes - at first I was still aware I was carrying something and needed to get rid of it, but I forgot about it quickly and so the snake disappeared. I was distracted by the sight of colorful glowing orbs floating down the river, just through the trees. There's a festival going on all this week, and tonight is the children's celebration. I walk past the women handing out colored orbs for the children to light candles inside and carry down to the water, and as I walk I see a couple kids carrying their lights the wrong way, down to the sea instead of the launching place at the river. Some adults are trying to point them the right way, but the oldest kid says something about their father's ship out at sea.

I was pretty confused last night. When my WILD alarm went off, I could've sworn that I was already awake and that I hadn't slept at all. I shrugged it off and attemted a WILD/FILD, but I failed and ended up dreaming about spiders again. FML. I guess hordes of spiders is a new dream sign, lol.

I start school tomorrow. What does this mean for my lucid dreaming efforts? Now that I have an actual reason to get up in the morning, I'll be able to establish a regular sleeping schedule and better understand my sleeping patterns. This should make the whole process a hell of a lot easier.

Date: 2 Sept

Pre bed: lecithin

Suspicious early ld fragment: in a room, lucid and talking to a woman with orange hair.

Fragment: something about my mom and me getting up

Fragment: I am a goat and am looking for Angel Falls. I see a fountain and wonder if I could turn this into AF, but find it's not very convenient.

Fragment: Mom has invited relatives

Random fragment: I remember this strange large somewhat non-human human guy being interested in me, trying to keep me somewhere and romantic stuff going on.

LD: I am in the library part of a university building. They are talking about this dark-skinned guy who had 12 kids, but he is only sixteen. There must be some kind of mistake, I think you are referring to his father, this guy is one of the kids. I become lucid, decide to exist the building. There is still some scenario going in the background, some sort of event maybe. My lip gloss is on the floor and I do some TK on it. I want it to fly directly in my hand but it doesn't so I return it and try again until I am able to pull it properly and it lands in my hand. I go out. This is now a mix of buildings from my past. I shortly lose lucidity, looking for a quiet place to take a break. I then recall I have been TKing around and lucid so change direction. The dream starts to fade away and there's nothing I can do about it.

DEILD: I vaguely recall waking up and DEILDing, with the new scene appearing in front of me. Much like those from scratch lds or wilds, I need to hold on to it so that I can fully integrate.

The first thing that catches my attention is a glass full of water and I grasp it for stability. Almost immediately this DC of unpleasant person pain in the butt appears in front of me as well, she moves like a snake and sticks to me like a blanket. I have no interest in staying here so head for the window. Before I do I think I am going to score a few points so think telekinesis and look for something to move. There is a lipstick near the window so I make it fall. Alright.

This DC is still holding on to me and I take a few moments to consider the situation. I know she is a mirror of my thoughts and feelings but how could I not have them. I look at her face and admit I feel aversion. I try to become indifferent. Not sure if I succeed in doing so or my thoughts simply stop for a moment, but this DC unexpectedly lets go of me and drops to the ground remaining motion and expressionless. I realize that she is just an empty phantom projection. The dream fades.

LD: There is some stuff going on that I can no longer recall. I am thinking/doing something lucid initially, but then non-ld scenario distracts me for a bit. They tell me that this friend of mine had posted something on FB about a video! and my other friend also has something to do with it..I can't remember. I see brief images of my friends and the web. I am on something like a flat rooftop, talking to my friend. Awareness level gradually goes up. I know (more on a subcon that con level) that she is no longer with us so I decide to ask her if she is real. Aware that I might influence her answer, I try not to think about it, yet I know that I want her to confirm to me that she is real. I notice her hair, blonder than my expectations, some thoughts about that. Her features slowly change and she looks a bit different but I still treat her like my friend. I ask her a few more times if she is real, but get no answer. I look around a bit, notice some stuff I can't recall, the dream fades.

LD:In the void, I remember I was supposed to look for Xanous, so in spite of the constant feeling that I am about the wake up any moment, I decide I will do that. I concentrate and appear in a room full of people. Room full of people, I remind myself. It is really hard to remember all these dreams already. The room is quite unstable and I hurry forward, looking around to see if I can recognize him among the DCs, also shouting like crazy "Where is Xanous, tell me how to find him", but DCs don't care much. The shouting helps stabilize the dream though. I reach the end of the room or rooms and go outside and see some part of building construction. I don't like the atmosphere outside, it's also high and I don't feel like flying or exploring out there so decide to go back.

The moment I turn my back it looks like some section of a shopping mall, I see a fast food chain and a magazine shop. I am looking at the two from the outside and they are completely separated by a closed door and wall. I try to phase through some sort of glass and handrail barrier to get in the magazine shop, but it changes so I climb the thing and get into the fast food place instead. I go to the counter and order two burgers or something like that. I find it very amusing that I am doing this, they even give me two receipts. There is a typical McDonalds table and I decide I will phase through it, so accelerate towards it and bam! Nothing. I have the feeling that I was thinking at the back of my mind that it is hard object, so I guess that's why I didn't do it. Keep the eyes open thought comes to my mind. Ok, maybe I just look at it too much. I try again and turn the table over, but catch it midair, it is a long table now but the items on it didn't fall out. I feel weird doing a mess at this place and fix the table and stuff as DCs are staring at me.

Somewhat bored now and feeling a bit sexy (actually needed to pee) I decide I might as well have some fun with this DC and go into some sort of sales talk about it. The DC looks at me distressed. Suddenly, I feel very bad about the whole situation thinking "So, I am here, hopping from dream to dream and what do I do - terrorize DCs." I remain in the dream for just a bit more, staring at her and wondering about who she reminds me of as the dream finally fades.

Dream recall from today's WBTB/naps. Still need to fix the schedule.

Dream 1:

I am in my room, i feel strong emotion and then i feel that i am dreaming, dream is very unstable, there's a hole in the wall in form of small chandelier and then my view zooms in into some kind of machinery thing in the corner of the room.

Dream 2(fragments):

I am at home and i suddenly realize that i am dreaming, as i try to move dream fades out.

Dream 3(fragments):

I was browsing dreamviews, which looked like entirely different site, but i was thinking that is because layout is broken and not working properly. There were options on the top to enter ACP, MCP and some other stuff apparently.

Dream 4(fragments):

I was talking to somebody about some kind of mineral water.

Dream 5:

I was playing some kind of fantasy game, it started with a cutscene with player character, some kind of assassin, running onto the top floor of some tower building while pushing away random NPC on the way. Then on the top floor there was randomly a horse which had enough vertical jump height to jump on top of two platforms that were leading to the roof, so i used that. After getting on the roof i had random thought that everything is so vivid, but didn't became lucid. Then there were some guards chasing and also some huge flying guards. I went further through rooftops.

Dream 6(fragments):

I was apparently playing Team Fortress 2(Which i never really did IWL actually) as a soldier class and killing some enemies and stuff.

Dream 7(fragments):

I was at home and in the window i have seen some random plane fly by and bomb some random building.

I've found the right lucid aid for me... alcohol! But I think I was still drunk during my lucid dream, cause everything felt so much more confusing... anyway, here we go!

I was in this weird room, talking to my mother. We were talking about my father, my mum was worried about him. I told her we'd help him get better, then I remembered that I had a party to go later. It was on the top roof, so I just went upstairs to check it was really happening.

The kid of a girl I saw for a couple weeks years ago was there, and it was his birthday party. He was happy to see me and he started shouting and jumping before finally hugging me. I realised I was still wearing my pjs, so I told him I'd come back later and to let his mother know I'd be there soon.

I turned around and (even though I never took any stairs or elevator) I was on the street. I got inside my car and started driving. As I was driving, I guess I changed clothes somehow, cause I was already going back to the party.

My car had a problem and it was going really slow. Then, a guy with a chainsaw was outside and he wasn't exactly threatening me, but he was sorta telling me we had to fight. It was weird. For some reason, I was all "bitch, I'd so kick your ass AND your chainsaw's ass too!" and I offered him my tongue, as if saying go on, cut off my tongue and see if I care.

Then, I wondered what the hell my problem was. "I'm not stupid, why am I not scared of this guy and WHY AM I BEING SO DUMB AND RIDICULOUS!?" And I realised that th guy couldn't hurt me... because it was a dream!

I shrugged at him and continued driving. The car still wasn't working, which got me angry, but then I thought "it's a dream, if I want it to work, IT'D BETTER WORK" and so it did.

I saw another guy outside and this was the most vivid my lucid dream got. He was wearing a blue tshirt and very slowly riding a bike. I knew I had tasks to do and the first thing that came to my mind was TOTM from August... so I started shouting (and this part was in English, while the rest of my dream was in Portuguese): "HEY, HEY, YOU, LOOK AT ME" He stopped his bike and turned around. He looked at me like I was bothering, which I probably was, but he waited for me to say something anyway.

Me: What's the meaning of life?
Guy: *rolls eyes* Dancing. We live to dance.
Me: Oh... okay?

And then he turned around and started riding his bike again. I freaked out cause I knew that wasn't the task I had to do anymore, so I asked him to come back, but he never did. I started asking myself what the TOTM for September was and I couldn't rememeber. Then I thought of the competition and... nothing. I really couldn't remember anything and I was deeply confused by everything around me.

And then I remembered I had to go to the party and that's pretty much when I lost lucidity.

I arrived at the party and my friend was happy to see me. We hugged and I noticed she had been crying. She said she had had a big fight with her girlfriend. People started singing happy birthday to the boy, but everybody was like whatever and they even changed the lyrics to make it obvious they didn't give a fuck. He looked really sad, so I started changing the lyrics too to something happy and YAY. He looked better.

After that, my friend hugged me and thanked me. Her girlfriend started bitching aout everything and they broke up, it was ugly. I hugged my friend and we ended up kissing later. It was actually quite cute and sweet.

Then, she wanted me to dance tango and I have no idea what we were doing, but I woke up during my dream version of tango.

I also had a dream about a weird apocalyspe, the world swallowed itself, then it threw itself up and everything was gross and weird. But that's all I got, a tiny fragment..,

Still, LUCID DREM YAY!!!

I can't remember much of what feels like the longest dream, was too tired to try writing it down after waking up last night :/

1.
Something to do with a witch and this big company that was working for evil but no one knew except me and a few others. I tried escaping this huge building and made it outside where it looked like some kind of exotic zoo area.

2.
I was in a bar/food court? At the table with Dave, Rose, John and Jade (from Homestuck). There was a guy at the next table who was being really obnoxious so I got up and asked him to keep it down. He argues with me, insulting me. I reply, "I said, 'be quiet'." and take the lid off his drink and pour it over his lap (careful now, badass right here). Then a fight that feels like a musical number for some reason breaks out and I get shoved towards Dave and he balances me.

3.
I go to visit Brandie, but she's lying in bed acting ill. She says she's been in labor for a few hours, but she's never had sex. I suggest maybe it's calcium build-up. (wtf she's not a coffee maker???)

notes: Wish I could remember more but at least I had a dream about Dave! Really wanted some kind of fandom dream so I tried focusing on him last night. I'd hoped to actually talk with him, but I guess getting his own close-up and catching me works too :P

Kind of a weird post, to start of my dream journal but whatever, here we go..

Brightness turns into a shape, it's a zoo.

Due to personal reasons I havent been to a zoo in a long time, altough the last time was quite fun.

After i realize that I'm in a exotic part of the zoo, the one with the tropical animals such as snakes and iguanas, I notice my pet Juancho in a terrarium. So I run towards him and try to alwardly poke around the glas. I try to shout "that's my lizard!" but it seems that nobody can hear me.

The dream progresses and the next thing is me walking down some stairs. As I walk down the stairs I notice there is a big party going on around me and the people are dancing and having fun. I try to find my friends but some guys jump me, I must have pissed them off somehow. One guy beats me and grips my nuts and squeezes them.. UGH.. I wake up in a hospital and get a poorly made Apology note.


As i wake up i remember i forgot to feed my pet lizard Juancho and give him 2 fat crickets.

Dream 1:

I was playing some RTS game that partially looked like Warzone 2100, but was different. I've had one huge base from the beginning and buildings had to be built on specific ground platforms. Battle with enemies was weird, enemies attacked by summoning some kind of spaceship things which were on different screen, my buildings automatically spawned units to fight them but i had to order them directly for each shot and they looked like dots on second screen. Later i had to attack enemy base, that summoned second screen as well, which displayed lots of buildings and enemy units, which launched missiles that had powerful AoE explosion. I could spawn units anywhere on second screen and i've made some missile units as well and was trying hard to micro them to dodge enemy attacks.

Dream 2(fragment):

I was in some outdoor place with red brick buildings.

Dream 3(fragments):

I was playing Spiral Knights and it had like completely different levels, then i have found a glitch and gotten some items that weren't supposed to be here. They were displayed like tickets and were named differently, i thought it was something unfinished to be finished in future updates. Using some of them summoned text menus with some stories and one of them shifted the game into something like Worms.

Dream 4(fragment):

Was playing some video game.

I'm in a maze full of doors that lead to other worlds. The people with me have decided to take a door that leads out onto a snow-covered wasteland, they think this is going to lead them to our ultimate destination, but I have my doubts. I'm sure they're just going to wind up back here with a lot of wasted effort. So I let them go while I stay in the maze. After the door's shut behind them, I open it again, just to get another look, and while I can see them, the dream briefly switches to their perspective, showing that they can't see me or the doorway; our realities are out of sync.

In the maze, I try to take a path roughly in line with the path they're taking through the wasteland, so that we can meet up again when they inevitably wind up back here. I check through doors once in a while to make sure we're still going the same way. But eventually I run across other people in the maze, and I discover people are gravitating towards a set of locked double doors with two keyholes to either side. This is the door my group's been looking for. But we don't have a key, and neither do any of the people clustered around. Hera approaches me in the form of an incredibly tall and slightly muscular woman, with long red hair and a peacock blue dress that clings to her body. She's looking for something too, but not a key, and she asks me why I'm looking for one. I explain to her that like the others I'd joined up with, I'd simply woken up alone in a vast, seemingly empty room, so big I couldn't see the walls or the ceiling, and eventually I'd worked my way here. As we're talking I realize that she's Roman, not Greek. She tells me she can get me through the door.

As we go through the door I'm starting to focus on how attractive she is, and I hear a warning, something I think of as a quote, about the risk for dealing with gods "to become not ascension but craving." I acknowledge this but decide to go with craving anyway, she's very attractive. On the other side of the door we're in my IRL home. However, although I didn't notice anything odd at the time, once I took her out of the maze setting the DC stopped showing any personality; I carried her to the couch, but when we sat down she disappeared entirely. The dream storyline switched to a visit from my IRL father who starts 'getting the trees ready for winter' which involves ropes and makes me feel lazy for not doing it myself, and a sitcom involving two elderly men teasing their sullen young relative about just ignoring what you don't want to hear.

(Woke up. Felt like those last scenes, my father and the sitcom, were both about me making the wrong decision with Hera. Back to sleep.)

I'm Roman from Hemlock Grove. Olivia's lying on the stairs and I've had a taste of her blood, and it's put me in something of a trance. I'm thinking about the difference between love and lust. Peter knocking at the door snaps me out of it, but I watch Olivia stand up and walk up the stairs before I answer the door. I make tea, though he doesn't want any. He's picked up one of Olivia's shoes off the rack by the door and is fiddling with it, pacing around the kitchen.

Fragments:

I'm a teenage boy who gets into fights too often, trying to explain to a girl the reason why.

I'm in a setting that looks based on the 1800's, getting into my uncle's carriage, although my uncle's surprised I want to come and warns me against it - I lie about the reason I want a ride, saying something about the walking path along the way. He accepts the lie and offers me a bulb of garlic.

Part 1. At a beach house or beach boardwalk or something about it. I know I'm dreaming, and I try to change what is happening in the dream, but I know I risk waking up when I push too hard due to previous experiences. Can only change things around lightly, 50/50 chance of it working. Something about a bicycle.

Part 2. At a really big house, bottom 5 floors are like a classic american house but big, and then theres a sky scraper above it. I think I'm about 7 years old. Everyone in the house who used to live there was killed , now its haunted, only I can see the ghosts. I'm scared, I think I recognize its kind of a dream but I can't control my fear. A medium or whatever gives me a flashlight that will keep me safe when I shine it on the ghosts, and I start being nice to them and talking to them and asking for help to find weapons to help my dad defeat some evil dude who lives at the top of the building. The evil dude's name is Urruk or Ururuk or something lithe that, it started with a U. All of a sudden the ghosts get really angry and start refusing to help me and everything is all angry, I escape the house. My dad decides to go climb the building to defeat Urururururk and I think I tried to go with him.

Missing a bunch of small details from the dream, but I got the basic overall thing of it.

Date: September 3, 2013
Method: MILD & WBTB (failed)
Total Hours Sleep: 9 Hours

Dream 1:

I was with my older niece who was adamant about finding someone to do her hair. She is very picky about who does her hair so we were searching day and night for the right person. When we finally found the right person for the job, I had to wait for a very long time. As I was waiting, I noticed that we were in some type of shopping center. I saw what looked like a ‘dollar store,’ and a place where kids could have a birthday party (like a Chuck E. Cheese). I do remember the parents looked miserable at the Chuck E. Cheese, like they just wanted it to be over.

While I was waiting, I ran into a student of mine (I was a teacher in the dream) who didn’t understand the course assignments given to her. Instead of going over the course assignment, I told her to give me her email address and I would email her the directions. She stated her email wasn’t working and I spent all day explaining to her how to do the assignment. Her mother was with her and her mother was really agitated with me for some reason.

Dream 2:

I came home and I really wanted to be alone and I found several children waiting on me to take care of them. Many of the children’s parents wanted to know my work history and if I was able to handle so many kids at one time (not sure what my job was, maybe a baby sitter?). The parents were not very nice and they couldn’t leave my home until I was able to rattle off my work history and experience with kids. One parent was talking to me (or at me) and wouldn’t let me get one word in. She went on and on about why I was not capable of handling children and wasn’t sure I was the right person for the job.

Frag 1:

I was on DV reading everyone’s post about becoming lucid (how could I have missed this dream sign?! )

Frag 2:

I was eating some mixed nuts and I really like the brazil nuts and noticed that when I opened the container, mostly all of the nuts were brazil nuts (instead of the usual peanuts, cashews, pecans, hazelnuts, etc.). The brazil nuts were really big and long, which never happens to me when I buy a can of mixed nuts. Usually, I am digging around the can trying to find them so I can eat them first. I really should have become lucid because this was a fragment too good to be true .

Frag 3:

Something about a History Book...

Dream recall from today's WBTB/naps. No lucids for some reason(Maybe schedule), but decent recall anyways.

Dream 1:

I was in some weird FPS video game, i was coop with somebody and we were going through weird maroon-colored passage and shooting some zombie-like enemies. Passage was fairly dark but the later part had more lighting. Soon we reached part where we weren't been able to progress because next passage was too high. I heard some heavy machinery sound behind and looked back into tunnel. Crazy laughter followed that and shortly some kind of weird truck-like thing came out of the tunnel and stopped nearby. It was a weapon shop and the merchant was apparently Grigori from half-life 2. He talked about something with my coop partner and in that talk called me a dragon.

Dream 2(fragments):

There was something about some girl in research lab, she was doing various stuff and she really wanted to return dragons and was talking about some kind of dimensional travel.

Dream 3(fragments):

I was at home and there was something going on at the streets, a group of midgets were filming something and one of them had a cane that could fire bullets and even had a silencer and laser aim included.

Dream 4:

I was watching some minecraft video of some let's player. He was playing multiplayer with somebody and he was saying that he haven't played it for years and was reacting surprised to new stuff. Then they got swarmed by creepers and spiders and he had to escape through some cobweb place. Then suddenly video was about yogscast and they were exploring some level that looked like some alien place. They were playing normally at first and reached some cave area with lava, but then they started talking about some party and decided to turn the level into fireworks by using lots of TNT.

1.
I'm in a room at my house, using these 'cake'-like things with teeny beetles inside that grow to full-size when halved(not sure what I was using them for). Then I'm in my grandma's dining room, mom in the kitchen, and I'm freaking out because the beetle-cake I had was the wrong type, and there are now bugs of all sizes all over the room. The biggest was this centipede/reptile thing, about 8 feet. My mom helps me to capture a few little ones (but I can't remember what happens to the rest). The big centitile thing escapes to the living room, followed by this creature that is not a bug, but a small leopard with a very long tail. We run in and out the back door there to find my grandma and tell her, but she hasn't seen them.

Somehow the topic changes to wanting to visit Australia, and suddenly my family is all there and looking around this giant outdoor market. It was as if we'd ended up in some other world entirely (it wasn't Australia at all but no one questioned it :P). Everything had a hint of magic to it, and there were beautiful treasures everywhere and entertainers performing tricks and dances. It's nighttime then, and I'm hanging out on a pillow under the starry sky playing with a big sheet of frosted glass that is hovering above me, and I'm scraping away at the layer of 'frost' with a small razor, drawing shapes of animals and patterns into what is becoming a very large, astronimical/astrological image. Some places where I scrape have glowing images behind them, like the sun, moon, and other planets.

2.
Tried to reblog a troll ancestors fanart from a blog on Tumblr that turned out to be hacked or something, gave me a virus that forced me to follow it. Keitorin tells me to try using this 'feature' that lets you restore Tumblr to an earlier time to get rid of it. I see a button with a box underneath where I'm supposed to type something from the blog, which is 'dark knight' because it appears often on there?? The box says 'enter maximum command' at the top.

3.
Sort of like watching a documentary, this old hipster guy, who seems like a real jerk, is talking about his artwork. He cuts out shapes from paper and draws on them, then forms them around his head and shoulders. One lady next to him is wearing a large piece of paper covering her shoulders and head, the drawing on it is of a woman's portrait. The guy really got on my nerves for how snooty he sounded.

notes: I guess the troll fanart and tumblr business came from my constantly seeing it! The art thing, idk. I like art. No idea about the bugs and 'Australia' adventure! I hate bugs but in the dream I was more concerned with them getting away.

Dream 1(fragments):

I was playing some game and levels were pretty mazey, and there was some puzzle.

Dream 2(fragments):

I was gathering dragons together and we were getting ready for something, then i was trying to explain something to another dragon.

There's some flyers warning about the invisible people from the community just outside of town, causing trouble. I'm annoyed at the whole us vs. them attitude people always have when they talk about those guys, just going to make things worse between us. But as I walk down towards main street, where a parade is going on, I see a few people from that community outside of town, except they're painted with this strange dark camouflage, makes them look like an oil slick. They're trashing the cars parked along the street. No one else notices. My perspective switches to third person - they're invisible. No one else can see them, the cars seem to just break on their own. Back to my perspective - in the parade, two horses are walking past us, and a camouflaged guy jumps onto one of them and digs his hands into its skull until it cracks and blood runs down. The dream switches to third person, so the guy is invisible, and the dream's focus follows the horse as it rears and falls, and the panicking people around it.

Memory gap, but with the impression that things got increasingly nightmarish from there, a fragment about a cabin with a door leading out onto darkness, until at some point I do the light-of-Apollo trick, thinking that it worked last time I had a nightmare so might as well try it again, and that clears things up, but also wakes me up.

(It had only been half an hour since I went to bed. Back to sleep.)

Fragment: OUAT's Mad Hatter chatting with "Joker," a similar Mad Hatter type character but with a playing card style red-and-black costume.

A man riding in the back of a limo is yelling at his driver to turn around. The driver isn't listening. Finally, the driver does turn the car around, and then stops it - not because of the man's threats, but because they've reached their destination. The man in the back of the limo jumps out of the car, but then realizes he recognizes the place where they've stopped.

He's at the gate to a mansion, a place he's been before. The owner of the mansion is just driving up opposite, and when the owner sees this man standing outside his home, he stops the car and gets out, pissed off. The guy who'd been in the limo has made a few comments in the past about the mansion owner's "perfect wife" which were meant innocently but were taken badly, and also a comment about how he thinks he's going to die in that mansion, which the mansion owner interpreted as an intent to buy/steal that mansion away from him. The owner only recently acquired this mansion, and this wealth.

As he's yelling, I, as a disembodied observer, am noting that he isn't looking good. His eyes are paler, he's looking a little scruffy, and in general, increasingly devil-ish - right on schedule. The rider in the limo certainly thinks of him as the Devil, exactly as we wanted, but the man himself isn't aware of the way he's being manipulated and transformed due to the Faustian bargains he's made, he's completely unaware of any supernatural influence.

A truck driving past crashes into the side of the Devil-figure's car and breaks the mirror. Attention caught, the Devil-in-the-making turns away from the guy with the limo, reaches into the truck and grabs the guy inside - a tall, skinny man with curly red hair, and a strong smell of coal. The cab is littered with cigarette butts and many, many matchbooks from the place where the Devil-figure's wife works.

Fragment: A father paying his daughter to take the boat out at a certain time, the creation of an alibi.