dream fragment

Evolventity's Dream

October 01, 2011

Non-Lucid Dream | Fell asleep by 4AM and woke up ~4PM.
-I'm at Howe park with M* and we're handing out DVD's to people passing by. There's going to be a nice community gathering for Halloween.

Non-Lucid Dream
-I'm with a group of people. We're in an underground tunnel trying to escape another group of people. There is a stream of glistening light blue water swishing by. We have to scoot by walking on short edge of cement next to supermarket fridges. As we move along, I see a lot of Vegan food products inside. I saw the word "Happy" on most of them.

Non-Lucid Dream
-Looking into the shower drain, I see mice being frowned by the draining water. I pick them up so they can breathe. I accidentally drop them and pick them up again. They don't seem to be breathing at first, but soon they do. They become very small, half the size of a penny, and I carry them on the edge of my right hand. I can feel slight pinching as they come back to life. The dream glitches to me walking to my apartment with them on my arm.

Non-Lucid Dream Fragment
-Jennifer poured out the nutritional water I had made for her flower. I find the marbles poured out and the water gone. I go to my bedroom to re-do the vase.

Non-Lucid Dream
-I'm walking in front of a class of little boys and girls singing a song in solid pink ponchos with flat pink hats. They are standing in at the first row of seats, just off of a stage. I walk to the side of the audience and hide behind some pillars. Another woman is hiding behind one too. She tries telling the parents that they shouldn't be worried about their children being gay. I tell them they need to truly love their children in a well-said speech. Despite any of this, the parents exit with disgust, and the auditorium is empty. I sit down next to my cousin L* and talk. With us are two old aquatints I knew back in middle-school; Martha and Crystina. I ask if they remember me and they don't. I try to remind them but they don't recall anything.

Non-Lucid Dream
-I'm walking with my mom during the day through the grassy field of my Elementary school. We're cutting through the school to reach the street. My 6th Grade teacher Mrs. K spots us and is about to say that we can't walk through here. She remembers who I am and we talk. We walk up some steps along the building seen from the playground. She tells me that she is sick with glaucoma in her leg. At one point, she made weird faces and movements as if she were trying to sneeze. When she stopped, I laughed a little asking if she was going to sneeze. She had a smile on her face right after but said that it was a disorder she had called sugar stitching. I noticed that when I took an extra step towards her, she would take another, as if trying to avoid contact with me. We walk to the next story. As we talk, my mom wanders and opens the power supply box on the side of the wall. Mrs. K tells her "Don't touch that please."

Non-Lucid Dream
-I'm a using a flat structure to fly over the school blacktop. By using it in a steady fanning motion, not too fast, I rise higher and higher. I glide over some trees. I turn into a red balloon and come down towards a boy. He doesn't want me. As a balloon, I feel rejected and leave into the sky, sad music plays as if its a movie.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID NIGHTLY ADVENTURE FALSE AWAKENING

Good morning! Got myself a whole lot of needed sleep last night. Had a lucid early on but can't recall much of it. Got another lucid and a long dream after that. My girlfriend's mother visited us and stayed for the night and I was worried about having a nightly adventure, but ofcourse I did! Aswell as a false awakening. Everything at once!

23.00: Sleep

23.30: Nightly Adventure
*I wake up. I can see someone climbing up Monica's computer shelf. It's her mom. That thing is definitely not made for someone to be climbing on it. "No, no, no! Careful!" I say out loud. She keeps climbing upwards towards the curtains. After a while she starts to fade and I can only see shadows.

Night: Fragment DILD
*I can't recall what I did before, but I'm outside and the landscape all around me is amazing. It has the feel of an epic world, with dark green colours. I spot some floating islands in the sky and I just have to get there. I jump off the ground and fly faster than I've flown before. I approach the islands when suddenly a black curtain is drawn before my eyes. It's like my vision is split in half, a few seconds later everything is black.

07.00: Stealing stuff and ruining people's day DILD
I'm with my brother Martin. We're walking around in a huge building on a resort of some sorts. We arrive at a desk and I spot a big bowl with red plastic bands in it. The manager is checking out something on the wall. Martin grabs a handful of bands and runs off, all of them seems to be connected and comes rushing out the bowl.

I run after him and we laugh. He's fast though and I can't really keep up. After a few doors I can't see him anywhere. I spot a black kitchen door and burst through it. Cooks give me curious looks as I dart past them. I head through three more doors before I exit the kitchen and arrive at the big main hall at the top of a big flight of stairs.

I realise I'm dreaming. Why not go with the flow? I jump down the stairs and land at the bottom. I need to find Martin again. "Martin!" I yell out loud. "I'm over here" siomeone says. I walk towards the direction of the voice and end up at a big rack of skii's and some canoes. "Where are you?" I ask. "Down here" Martin says. I look for someone in a red shirt, but can't see anyone. I figure he's under a canoe. I check out the wall and it's now full of fishing gear.

I ask him about different fishing rods and lines for a while before I decide to go explore a bit more. I go through a big door and end up out on deck. Apparently we're on a big cruise ship. There must be atleast a dozen of people out on deck and the boat is just making a big right turn. I grab the boat under me with both my hands using telekinesis and jerk it to the left. It works great and the boat makes a sharp left turn. People all around me fall to the ground or just nearly. I laugh a bit.

"I did that" I tell them and make the boat move a bit more. They all breathe out after getting an explanation. "I am practicly God" I say jokingly. To my surprise they all start to chant. "You are God, you are God, you are God!" I feel like doing another trick and hold out both my hands and try to make a flame appear by straining them and spreading my fingers. After a few tries I give up, I only manage to make them warmer. Hmm, perhaps flying will suffice. I make a few jumps and strain myself to take off, but nothing!

God damnit! I jump off the railing of the boat and land on the surface of the water. I'm sure it'll be easier to fly off from here. I start to levitate. I guess that'll have to do. I hold out my hand towards the boat and turn it. The boat flips upside down and I leave it there sinking when the dream starts to fade.

I wake up in my bed. Monica and her mom is also waking up and I bring out my pen and paper to write down the dream. I only have time to write what time it is before they start talking to me and themselves. I can't just tell them to shut up, so I listen to them for a while.

10.15: RC cars and a LAN party
I'm with my brother at a race track. My dad is inside the small shop and I can see him through the glass. He asks me if I want to go racing with the adults. I ask my brother the same question and he nods excitedly. "Yeah let's do it" I tell my dad. I have a RC car with me that I start playing with. It's really fast and I make it do wheelies all over the place. Another car shows up and we make them make a weird little dance around eachother. The cars starts to lose parts and soon there's only a leg of some sorts left.

I start walking down the track with my brother when a few real cars comes racing past us. We almost gets hit.

The dream skips. I'm now at a LAN party and trying to play some games. My brother and I can't seem to connect and it's laggy as hell. They're playing some awesome FPS game that looks like Battlefield, but they really suck.

10.15: Wake up

Amount of sleep: 11 hours

Supplements: None

That's it! Kinda fun to start off the month with 2 lucids. Even remembered to produce some flames, but I don't seem to be able to without a lighter yet. Flying still destabilizes the dream and I'm still awesome at telekinesis.

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

I am staying at a friends house for the weekend, taking care of her dogs while she is away. The neighbourhood I live in is very rough so when I heard classical music and not rap, rock or heavy metal I was confused in the dream to where I actually was.

I was dreaming that I was at home in bed and it was still so early in the morning that it was still dark out. I could hear this soothing classical music and it was waking me up in the dream. I remember thinking "Who is playing that kind of music this early in the morning in this neighbourhood?"

Then I woke up for real, realized where I was (in the guest room at my friend's house and not at home) and heard the classical music that had invaded my dream coming from her alarm clock in the next room.

Basically, I've become too busy to lay still long enough (without thinking about my day) to remember the full length robust dreams I was enjoying when I last wrote. I've really wanted to record a number of them, but haven't seemed to find the time.

I know for a fact that I have had a number of extremely vivid dreams that I forgot all but a single moment of. I try not to beat myself up about it, but it's annoying... I do recall 4-dreams in great deal, two I recorded in audio format.

This is a L.D. that went unrecorded. Originally, I remembered additional elements.

DILD - I was having another dream about Steff and Eric, except this time they were normal. Eric looked older and more nerdy than what seemed possible. I was telling Steff on an empty downtown (see Dream: 036 Deep into Dream City) street corner:

"Steff, I dream about you all the time. Now you are finally here for real."

He gave me an awkward look which caused me to do a reality test.

I jumped into the air about 10ft and flew down the street faster than a motorcycle. Lucid, I flew close to ground level speeding through the city. I reached this one high fence and I decided to fly to the top, rotate to face the sky, and fly backwards to ground level. I don't remember ever trying this before.

Something weird happened: After I completed the rotation to face the sky, and while flying backward I automatically rolled before I hit the ground and oriented to face forward. It happened so quickly it was like a cat landing on it's feet. I wasn't sure what to expect, but it crossed my mind I might hit the ground or get stuck.

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[COLOR="silver"]This night I went to bed very late, but I actually still remembered some dreams. The next night I will use the "Wake to Snooze" method :D[/COLOR]


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[COLOR="blue"]I sat on the floor in my school. I wondered why and people looked at me. Then I associated this with meditation, and my teacher actually had a lesson about Buddhism and told the whole class to meditate once. So now I thought about that and I closed my eyes and started to focus on my breathing, in that moment I felt as aware as every time I meditate, but when I opened my eyes I saw a girl I liked and my concentration disspear.
I wasn't lucid, but i got more aware.

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Then my friend Felix asked me if I wanted to play soccer. I said sure and we went out. We were going to cross the street and I ran with the ball and tried a trick, but I failed and the ball rolled out on the street. Felix tried to grab the ball, but there was car driving by. He screamed to me "Why the h*ll did you do that for?" I said "Sorry it was a misstake.." Then a car drove over the ball...[/COLOR]

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UGHHHH… Damn this not being able to get much sleep thing!! Hate how recent changes in my life are really messing up my dream recall. Oh well, I get to sleep in tomorrow for the first time in FOREVER and I am sure I will have lots of REM rebound. All I have from last night is fragments
-Was at the gorge or a place like the gorge again (this keep popping up in my dreams more recently).
-I kept freaking out about getting my nails painted for some reason and I went to a nail salon.
-Allen was with me in the dream but I feel like we didn’t talk much.
- I was really excited about something
-Lots of people were walking around.
-Everyone was excited and being loud.. concert?
-It was starting to get dark out and the sunset was causing the sky to look bright pink and purple, is a swirly style.
-Someone was drinking beer.

Dream 1 (approx 1-3 hrs):
Note: I could remember this dream clearly when I woke up, but I've neglected to write it down for so long that I only remember fragments. I vaguely remember being the size of a Lego minifigure and walking into an area with six different Lego "bases". I thought to myself, "it's been a long time since I last built on these", and proceeded to construct various things on the different bases. [loss of memory] I vaguely remember something about being in a Lego tree on one of the bases and having to repel attacks by someone/something

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[COLOR="silver"]I think I am going to stopusing the timer method on weekdays, it makes me really tired and it's really annoying alarm to wake up to every day. And it only seem to work when I have slept for more than 6 hours, so the weekend is perfect. Anyway this morning I had a weird dream about something that appearntly my subconscious if focusing on.[/COLOR]

[COLOR="blue"]I had a party at my house, there was a girl there I used to like when I was younger. Her name was Lisa, she is really good looking, but I don't like her anymore because she has changed. Anyhow another girl called Madeleine was there too and she is also hot, and I do like her but I'm not in love with her. Partly because we are two different persons and partly because my bestfriend is in love with her. Although in the dream she was hitting on me, she looked at me with eyes that showed me that she was interested in me in a shy way. I had to make a decision, go with Madeleina or Lisa.
I started to like Lisa again for some reason, but I still choosed Madeleine... I can assure you that I am not in love with her in real life, but my subconscious feel guilty for some reason...
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[COLOR="silver"]On Weekdays I am going to try the technique that my phiosophy teacher uses to dream whatever she wants, and my mom used to get her first lucid dream.

The original snooze and sleep. Like a fast WBTB just to increase the chances of a DILD. Let's see how that goes.[/COLOR]

Had a series of bizzare semi-lucid dreams during a nap. I say semi-lucid since I kept waking up and falling back to sleep, so it's difficult to say what of it was actually lucid and what was just my conscious imagination. I normally wouldn't even write this down, but I've been having a dry spell lately, so whatever.

The first fragment I remember is being on a road trip of some sort. That's literally all I remember. It wasn't lucid at all.

The second fragment is I was "in" Resident Evil 4. I was playing the re-release last night, so that's not particularly surprising. In the dream, the sort of "intel" woman that's on the radio tells me that I'm dreaming. The conversation took place in the normal game HUD that you see when having a radio conversation In any case, I'm not particularly surprised by this revelation. I ask her to keep reminding me, and if I'm ever dreaming again, to tell me.

I woke up then, and went back to sleep. In this one I was at a cafeteria, and a overhear a father talking to his son (I think the dad was John Goodman. Now -that's- unexpected). He's telling his son that the Binding of Isaac is an awful game and that is sacrilegious (true, I guess?) and encourages bullying (what?). Again, not surprising since I was playing that game literally 2 minutes before I went to sleep. This fragment wasn't lucid to my knowledge.

My dream last night was non-lucid, a dream fragment, and, honestly, very VERY painful.

It began in a hospital room with who I guessed was my husband and my close friend.

We were talking about something I don't recall before a pain sliced through me and I was rushed off to the delivery room.

I don't remember much (mostly the pain) but I remember it was like one of those dreams that would be the perfect deja-vu type.

Any ideas what this means?

Right, i've had enough of all this "off and on" dreaming - i'm getting back into it, NOW. My standard procedure when I want to get back into dreaming is to clear my mind of recent dreams. So, here are a few dream stems I remember...

1) I was in a pick 'n' pix section of some sort of shop - I think it was Woolworths. It was in the top left corner of the building. Sweets were in the regular see through boxes lined against the far wall and in the middle of the section also. I was with a man and someone else, who I cannot remember. The man, presumably my dad, looked like a Cub Scout leader I used to help out. The room was well lit. I was digging out massive amount of sweets and piling them into the pick 'n' mix bag - one main item i remember included in the bag was a dark-green, large gummy worm at the tom of the bag. For some reason, I didn't think this would result in a very expensive sweet session - I thought it'd total at around £3. But when it was weighed, the scales told me it'd cost £13 and so many pennies. As I was weighing them, someone who I was with said "I'd be surprised if it costed anymore than £10". When I saw the real price, I returned to the boxes to put the green snake and other items back to get it back under £10.

2) I was out and about with my girlfriend Amy. I think we were at some sort of party, but I really can't remember much at all.

3) My friend Chloe, her boyfriend and myself were in a newsagents in a Northern state in America. It was very sunny outside and it was early evening - about 6pm, around sunset. We were about to go to a video shooting for a music video (this was genuinely happening IRL, but not in America ) and we decided to stock up on vodka and Milky Bars for the party atmosphere XD Me and Chloe aren't old enough to buy alcohol, so Laurence who has fake I.D was doing that. He went up to the counter whilst Chloe and I were hiding a couple of metres back in the chocolate section, pretending to look normal looking for milky bars. Once Laurence had successfully bought the booze, Chloe decided to leave as she was getting worried about the police catching us. However, I really wanted my milky bar (it was one of the large bars), so I placed it on the counter in a flustered hurry. I then got worried also and dropped my money on the stool that my chocolate had been taken for, leaving more money than the Milky Bar was worth. I got scared, left the chocolate and tried to pick the money up, but the money was made up of 50p coins that were hard to pick up off of the flat surface, so I ended up making a run for it

Dream 1

I was Randall Graves from Clerks and I was having a funny conversation with someone at a table. Once again the table was in a supermarket. In true Clerks fashion Randall (me) was complaining about how he/me hates little kids and babies.



Dream 2

A girl had been kidnapped I'm pretty sure it was Ronnie from EastEnders but I don't know. I ran into the living room and realised the weak floorboards I jumped and smashed through them. I climbed down and was then outside where I had to climb over an obstacle course wall.



Fragment

My sister deleted a show off of the Sky+ Box and the free space went form 11% to 15%. I thought that was alot but when I woke up I thought, "It's not that much".

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[COLOR="silver"]I remembered four dreams when I woke up, but I didn't noted it so I forgot one of them :D ... I remembered it again![/COLOR]

[COLOR="blue"]I were in a bar with my friends, and I wanted a cupcake but also something to drink. So I wanted a cola, then I saw a Blue botte and the tag said "Coca Coola Beer" and I said "I must to have that!" but then I couldn't afford a cupcake I thought, but when I reached down my pocket I found enough money to be able to pay. The previous day my friends had talked about beer andI had been drinking coola, so I might have dreamt this because of that.

In my next dream I was in a hospital and I saw J.D from Scrubs (one of my favourite tv-shows). I walked around the hospital for a bit, but then I felt an extremely desire to go to the bathroom, but when I got there Turk was blocking the door. He said "No on is aloud to go in here" and I said "I'm about to shit my pants let me in!". "NO!", "Ok then I shit outhere" I said. Turk got really scared and said "Ok, ok get in". Inside there was a man who looked like Mick Jagger and I understood why Turk hadn't let me in. I think this dream was influenced by Pandabear's dream :)

In the third dream I was in a house and saw a kalabas. Inside it I found a breadlamp a loaf of bread and I asked my dad what kind of bread this was. And he said that this wasn't an ordinary loaf, "It's the loaf of language! I you take a bite of it and say a language and you will be able to speak it". I took a piece and said "French!" "aihjawlkjfawfhwfoi" nothing made sense.[/COLOR]

[COLOR="silver"]I woke up from the timer, but I didn't lay still so I didn't made a conscious DEILD attempt, although I saw a dream form infront of me, but I didn't stayed aware...[/COLOR]

[COLOR="blue"]I was out in the rain and I saw a girl with a red dress, she looked like my old classemate Louise. She told me to follow her, I did but she was very fast, but I eventually came to a house. I went inside and saw that it was an internet café. She stood in line to pay, it was weird and then I woke up.[/COLOR]

09/15/2011
Dream Fragment One
All I remember was that I was in a house that I thought was my own. I walked outside, and it was night time. Looking to one side, I noticed that the outside of the house was definitely not my house. For one brief moment, I realized that I had no idea where I was, and that this had to be a dream. Unfortunately, I woke up immediately after this realization.


Dream Fragment Two
I was driving around, downtown somewhere, with MJ. We were just hanging out for a while, but I don't really remember too much that went on.


Dream Three
"Friends 'til the End...and Then Some."

This was a really strange dream, and I'm not sure if I can remember the exact details, because it was kind of confusing. I was not actually a participant in this dream. I just seemed to be watching it. Apparently, there were two middle-aged women, who were extremely close friends. One of them - a brunette - really reminded of Rosanne Arnold. The other woman - blonde - was being abused by some deadbeat dude, and ended up getting critically injured by him. (I don't believe she died, though.) Later, her friend had done something to the man, in order to get revenge. I can't remember what it was, but she definitely put him in his place. She might have killed him. I'm not sure.

However, the twist came when the brunette woman was sitting in her home one night, and she picked up the phone to call her friend. My disembodied perspective came in on the conversation, as she was sitting on her bed and explaining to her friend about how she avenged her friend and 'got the bastard' that critically injured her. Suddenly, I could hear her friend on the phone. Her voice was filled with sorry, and it seemed so much more like she was talking to herself, rather than talking to the friend who was telling her about how she's gotten the man back for what he'd done. I could hear the blonde's muffled voice through the phone, sobbing to herself about how much she misses her friend (the brunette), how she wishes she was still alive, and how she hated the man that killed her beloved friend.

The brunette was visibly shocked by this. She called into the phone "hello?? hello??!", trying to get clarification, but it seemed that her blonde friend couldn't hear her. It was if the phone call was not actually happening, and she was just somehow listening to her blonde friend talking to herself. Then, the brunette began to piece together what was going on, and my perspective followed her recollection as if it were a movie flashback. It showed that the brunette was actually the one who was attacked by the man in question. I saw a quick flash of her getting struck down by him, and then another flash of a funeral service. The brunette woman was in an open casket, and her blonde friend was standing nearby. My perspective then switched back to the brunette, in her room, still clutching the phone. The realization came to her (and me, of course), that she was the one who had been killed, and that everything that had happened after her death (killing the man, talking on the phone to her friend) was all just fabrications of the afterlife that came with her apparent inability to accept the fact that she had died. My recollection of the dream faded as the woman was just sitting on the bed with the look of complete shock on her face, trying to make sense of just what the hell happened to her.


Dream Fragment Four
I was laying on a couch. On the couch with me was the brunette from the previous dream. The blonde was sitting on a nearby loveseat. Having no idea that I was still dreaming, I was explaining the previous dream to the two of them, as if they were my waking world friends. They listened intently, while I recounted all the details.


Dream Five
"The Undead of Winter"

(Another crazy one, and I have the feeling I'm missing a lot that went on, before my initial recollection of the dream begins.)

I was in an enormous mansion, along with some friends. The first thing I remember is that we had done something we weren't supposed to do, and ended up unleashing a horde of zombies from deep within the mansion. Once they were unleashed, they just began streaming out of every door and hallway, in absolutely insane numbers. We all ran for our lives, trying not to get lost in the building. I remember the final stretch of hallway, leading toward the exit, and ducking and dodging all of the flailing, undead arms that were reaching out for us as we passed.

When we finally made it outside, we found ourselves in a snow-white clearing. It looked like this mansion was secluded out in the Alps, or something, with the tundra-like setting all around us. The zombies continued to flood out of the mansion by the thousands, and we had something of a stand-off, out here, because it seemed like all directions were blocked by impassable landscape. I remember having some sort of contraption in my pocket that helped point me out to where any potential weapons were. However, with the zombies beginning to box us in, there was no way that I could get to any of them. They eventually closed in on us, and I remember dying at least once.

Before I knew it, I was back inside the mansion. We had just accidentally set the zombies free (again), and they were filling the mansion again, while we made our second escape. With some awareness of what had happened, the first time, I pulled out my 'weapon-finder' much earlier, on this second run. As soon as I exited the mansion, I took a sharp right and dashed toward a crowbar that the gadget had directed me to. I picked it up and began bludgeoning the creatures back, as best I could. There were far too many of them, though, and they just kept on coming. We continued to be pushed back to the rough terrain, as we had before, but we somehow figured out that these zombies only advanced on us when we were looking at them, and whenever we would turn our eyes from them, they would either freeze up, or wander about aimlessly. (I also remember something about music being involved, and how music being played also caught them to wonder around at random, instead of toward us. It all felt like a zombie-apocalypse game I tried out the other day on the PC, where the zombies wouldn't come close to you, unless you were moving around and drawing attention to yourself, but a little different. Can't remember the name of the game, though.)

Using this knowledge of how to stun them to our advantage, the last thing I remember is our group working together to stun them and toss grenades into the fray, when there were enough of them in a single spot to maximize damage to the horde. However, we knew that we just did not have enough resources to take them out, and they continued to stream out of the mansion in numbers that didn't seem to show any signs of dwindling.

09/07/2011
Fragment
All I remember is having sex with someone I know online. I can't remember who it was, though. I also had a false awakening, where I was about to jot down notes on the dream, but saw that I had a message from this girl in my inbox. In the note, she thanked me for an amazing night, and I had to sit there for a moment and wonder whether or not I actually saw this girl the night before.

09/10/2011
"Mystery Sprain"

I don't remember what happened in the 'beginning' of this dream, but I was in some sort of 'camp' area or something, and I saw a large group of my friends walking passed me. Apparently, some attack on our camp had happened, earlier on, and I was already injured. I had to limp my way to catch up to the others, and the pain in my ankle was excruciating. Having heard about the oncoming retaliation, though, I was eager to help them out. Holding a pair of nunchaku, I hobbled along and caught up with them. I can't remember who all was there, but I remember one of them telling me that I should stay behind, because I was hurt and probably would be more of a liability than asset. I refuted this, as much I could, and continued on with them, though the pain in my ankle was just growing more and more unbearable, with each labored step.

Finally, we came to a large ditch. I just kind of stared at it, reasonably intimidated. My friends jumped down into the muddy crevice and made their away across the ankle-high mess of wet dirt and grass. Me? I slowly attempted to climb down the side of the embankment, favoring the ankle which repeatedly sent shocks of pain screaming up my leg, with each descending step. When I got to the bottom, I looked across the low area, and the incline on the other side, which the others were already beginning to climb. It was then that I - completely disheartened - decided to concede. I knew I was just going to slow them down, assuming I was even able to make it across the muddy ditch without further injuring what was certainly a sprained ankle. Defeated, I turned around and painfully began to climb my way back up the embankment, and head back to camp. I didn't get very far before waking up.

(I actually woke up with a sprained ankle! From the way I had gone to sleep, I believe that my foot must have gotten wedged between my wall and mattress, and must have just gotten twisted during my nocturnal movements. The pain most likely worked its way into the dream. Definitely wouldn't be the first time it's happened, but it's been the most painful. Had to wrap it up for the following two days, afterward, but it's healed up now.)