dream fragment

I had a relatively boring dream last night about test scores?!?!? (7.20.10)

I remember being anxious about how I had done on a test compared to my other classmates. The test is a real test that I have already taken and gotten back the scores for, which were relatively good. I remember driving in the car with my teacher and one of my classmates (actually an old girlfriend of mine that has appeared in several of my other dreams (dream sign?!?!?). Anyhow, she scored better on the test than me. Which didn't surprise me because she is a bit of a nerd.
I then remember running and training for soccer with one of my best friends. He is also in my class but for some reason I couldn't find out what he scored on the test.
The rest of the dream was fragmented and included flashes of my other classmates and their scores.

20.07.2010

Cosmic Fragments (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I went to bed pretty tired from work. I had a small argument with my wife about her job (which is a daily issue for the both of us) However, I recorded four dreams.

First:

- Space.
- Astral Projection.
- Gifted.
- Lady
- The lady was the only DC.
- A big grocery store.
- Chakras.
- Lottery.
- Wife 20 mins before.
Written also in my DJ: Acer, date, estal, wisa dom. No idea what the hell is this.

Missed dream signs:
- Unknown.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Have a deep conversation with this lady.

A lot of last night's dreams were lost when my mother woke me up to tell me something, but the dreams that followed were somewhat based on the one's that came before, so I was able to sort of connect them in a way. I still wasn't totally lucid, but I'm starting to realize that that's because even when I'm getting close to lucidity I don't do anything to confirm for myself that it's a dream, so I just go along with the changing dreamscape.

To start, I was in an RV with some people. I know other people were there, but I don't know who and I especially don't know the man who was driving. Our destination was this really tall tower with a spiral ramp up it that we had to go around to get to the top. At the very top there was a section where the driver had to bank hard, thus hooking the front wheels on a really strong cable, although the rest of the vehicle hung vertically down the side of the tower. I don't remember how I got out of the RV, but I do remember looking down on it and wondering how we were going to get it up to the top of the tower. There was some heaving involved, but somehow we were literally able to pull it up through sheer manpower, which is one sign that I was dreaming that I didn't listen to.

I think there were some things that went on after that, but I don't really remember what they were. The next thing I remember is running into my girlfriend, which was unusual because she hadn't come with me in the RV I came in. She was with another guy, so in this dream I guess she was my ex-girlfriend. He seemed like a jackass, but that's only because I really really didn't like him in the dream. The odd thing was she started kissing me right in front of him while explaining why we couldn't be together. I didn't argue, but it was obviously confusing, haha. As I walked away I think I was close to being lucid, because I remember so vividly that I intentionally looked back at her new boyfriend and said very sarcastically and patronizingly, "See ya later, champ." For whatever reason I also remember seeing one of my ex-girlfriends from a long time ago there with a new dude as well, but I didn't talk to her at all.

The next part was weird because I don't remember much other than being in what I think was the basement of the tower and being sort of afraid. I don't remember what happened down there, but I know something did.

The scene then jumped to a grocery store. I had already bought groceries, and for some reason they had this rectangular glass case full of video games that you could rent. By the case there was this little pad where you would click on the console of the game you were looking for then browse for that game, so I picked up Diddy Kong Racing for the N64 for $5.00 (why they were renting out N64 games in the year 2010 I have no idea--that's the other dreamsign I should have picked up on). I remember wanting to get another game too, but the weird part was it was more than just wanting--I NEEDED that other game. I don't know what game it was or what I needed it for, but it contained something that for one reason or another I had to have. It was even that I had like an obsession over the game...something about it was just vital to me. So I went for the pad to find it, but the pad had converted itself into a credit card swiper, and a woman was using it to purchase her groceries. I had grabbed the pen to use it but she needed it to sign her name on the electronic screen, so I gave it to her. She apologized profusely for whatever reason, but I said, "Oh no, don't worry about it at all." She smiled, signed, then took her groceries and left.

At that point I was about to get my other game when my nine-year-old sister busted through the front door with some of my other siblings saying my mom wanted me. I angrily picked up my grocery bags, which were heavier than I expected, and stormed out of the store, throwing them in the back of the car. I think I was still irritable from earlier when I'd realized my girlfriend had a new dude, and my mom explained that I needed to be home to help my dad build something, which pissed me off even more.

That's about when I woke up.

This is my first attempt at LD and writing down my dreams.
somewhere on here i read that drinking applejuice would help with recall or have longer more vivid dreams. so i drink some before bed.
Sure enough, last night's dream was intense! I remember i was hanging with some friends walking in a parking lot, when this guy in a brand new yellow lambo pulls up. My friends say "oh thats so and so, hes a d-bag" or something like that, and the dude driving is like, hop in, im bout to get some lunch. so im like fuck it, when am i going to get another chance to be in a lambo??? we're zipping down the freeway in some random city like 150 mph. somehow i end up in another car trying to chase him, but obviously i wasnt able to keep up.
moral of the story, the interior was sick nasty! all black and yellow, like a bumble bee.
sort of wished i had RC'ed, that would have been better!

NON-LUCID / LUCID / NOTE

It is nighttime and I am walking down my street. I decide to fly to a nearby house and punch the window in. I expect to see J there lying in her bed and there she is. We make out for a little while and the next thing I remember is being on the rooftop of a very tall building. I look down and doubt my ability to successfully fly to the top of another building without falling and waking up. I decide to lower the building that I am standing on to the ground so that I can walk off onto the street. I punch a few more windows in and the thought of David Letterman crosses my mind for some bizarre reason.

NON-LUCID / LUCID / NOTE

Being on this vacation resort may be a new dream sign.

I am in a beautiful indoor/outdoor resort sort of environment and I remember being disappointed to have to leave because the breakfast was so good.

Last night was my first official day of practicing techniques in anticipation of heightening my dream recall. It worked. I never EVER remember my dreams. But I woke up four different times last night after four different dreams. I was awake enough to get three of them down. I didn't sleep really well so I'm sorry if the entry is sort of hard to read. I might edit it up later.

In my dream we (my wife and I) were being shown a picture
of my managers father opening the door to his basement
and three big bats coming flying out. They were named
"sib1" "sib2" "sib3" and Alex seemed fond of them. And
then for whatever reason I remember suddenly being in,
what, I assumed, was my friend Jakes parents house. He and
I were talking,I think, about music.I remember Nick, his dad, came
walking by us, with his guitar, and thanked me for coming
over to his house to visit. I thanked him warmly for
opening his doors of hospitality to me.

Then I see a chart that says my wife iis 4 months pregnant and she is
talking to a doctor about how she isn't feeling great
because of it. She gives me two lotto tickets which
are ripped in half. For some reason the wind takes them
and blows them away so I go running after them. I jump
over a car and then dive and manage to catch both of them.

And then I'm pulling my pants on while standing in a
random bathroom with the door open. My wife iis right outside
the door. Some older guy, who i assume is Jakes grandpa,
is upset that i didn't close the door. Ihave my shirt off.

And then the last thing I remember is my wife going "aww"
aren't they adorable? and we're looking at some mutant
creatures, or something.

I also remember dreaming that the Chicago Bulls somehow
got Kevin Durant in a trade and then they immediately
traded him to the Los Angels Lakers for Kobe Bryant. In
my dream I remember being giddy and laughing and thinking
"now watch Kobe win with Chicagos cast". I also remember
that Boston was close to getting a deal done for Kobe and
someone mentioned that Kobe playing aside Rondo would make
Kobe incredible.

And that was all I was coherent enough to write down. My first dream that I woke up from had my heart pounding but I couldn't get anything written down before I lost it all. I feel dead tired right now. I hope doing this doesn't kill my sleep.

20.07.2010

Four Fragments (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Today was the start of the second week of trying to lucid dream. I think the start was very successful.

1. I was in some sort of forest. I don't know what I was doing, but all I remember is the forest. I have a clear picture of it in my mind. There was a small, wooden fence to the right, and I was surrounded by these beautiful, green trees. I think I was lost.

2. I remember being on the school bus. I think we were in my neighborhood, but it was dark out, and it was going the wrong way.

3. All of the Final Destination 4 death scenes rushed through my head. Well, all up to when the two children picked up the rock. But, this time, they appeared next to their mom and dad near this forest thing. The mother and father looked to be divorced. They walked their kids further, and once they crossed this yellow line, the father got to take care of the kids. There was a second yellow line, but I do not think it did anything. Anyway, one of the kids had a chisel, and did some art on the tree. The father got mad because it was a rare type of tree, but the mom just made a sassy remark.

4. My whole view was a screen, in which I was playing some football video game. There were four difficulties, and each difficulty allowed you to use different teams. I remember the Jets were on the easiest difficulty, and the Giants were on the second easiest. I played the hardest difficulty, but I forgot which team I was. The goal was to get 3,200 points. The game was like football, but you get points much differently. I lost the game. Then, I decided to play normal mode to play as the Giants. Once the game loaded up, it turned out to be a football player singing karaoke... badly. You had to keep pressing a certain button. I think the button was X, so I assume it was a playstation game. I turned it off because the singing was embarrassing me.

I may have had a 5th dream, because I wrote the word SQUASH in my dream journal, but I do not know what it means now.

Dreamt about arguing with Ruchi online. This is most likely from the ending of the phone call at night where she got upset. I was IM'ing her online while watching some other game trailer or something, she got upset and I still kept watching the video until she signed off.

Can't remember anything else?

First dream I wake up to go and work out. After putting on some clothes I gather all of my things and realize my wallet is missing. I think that maybe I left it in my brother's apartment next door (even though he doesn't live next door in real life), so I head next door.

The door is locked. I decide that I should try the key for my door on the balcony screen door, so I climb up on the balcony and try it out. It works! When I walk in there are two guys sitting down on lazy boys playing a video game, and my brother is no where to be seen.

"Who in the hell are you! Get out of here!" They proceeded to yell at me.

"It's not what it looks like! I thought this was my brother's apartment, I left my wallet in there. I am so sorry." I say back to them.

I proceed to climb down the balcony and meet my land lord in the parking lot of my apartment. She looked pretty pissed at me.

"(My name), I am going to have to start from scratch with you regarding background checks," She says to me, "I don't know if I can trust you anymore."

"M'am, it isn't what you look like! I was just looking for my wallet and I could have sworn that the apartment I walked into was my brother's!" I told her in desperation.

The boys playing video games in the apartment scream down to us to make sure to do another background check on me, because they think I was going to rob their place.

Fast-forward: I am sitting in my apartment with my wallet somehow, and my roommate walks in. He proceeds to tell me "Hey, there's my wallet."

Dream gets hazy after that.
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I walk out of my apartment (very much could have been another false awakening) that I live in at college, and the cul-de-sac from my hometown is there somehow instead of my regular apartment building parking lot. It is snowing outside, but by no means is it regular snow. Dropping from above were snowflakes the size of my head, dropping extremely slow. Along with these massive snowflakes were regular sized snowflakes as well. I remembers asking about the snowflakes to one of my friends standing with me about why they were so huge, but I do not remember what their reply was.

I was extremely fascinated by the gigantic snowflakes, and I grabbed one. As I grabbed it, it proceeded to fall apart in my arms. I remember how weird it was for these massive snowflakes were to me, but I didn't even RC at all.

After this, we all ran into the middle of the cul-de-sac and started having a snowball fight. The snow felt so cold and so real. After this, my alarm went off and I woke up for real.

Note: This second dream really pissed me off. This is because this dream in particular was basically begging for me to perform an RC. This is because snow is by far the biggest dream sign I have, and not only that, but the huge snowflakes was intuitively telling me about how weird it was. Ugh! frustration...

19.07.2010

Animals of the zoo (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

A decent night. I recalled four dreams and two or three dreams were pretty long. I missed some detail on the dreams, but they are still with a lot of detail. However, two of them are fragments. I had a fifth dream, but my wife's clock woke me abruptly and I forgot it entirely.
Second of the night:

- Indoors.
- With wife.
- Something about animals.
- We were in the zoo.
- It was day.

Missed dream sings:
- Unknown.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Unknown.

19.07.2010

Basketball team. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

A decent night. I recalled four dreams and two or three dreams were pretty long. I missed some detail on the dreams, but they are still with a lot of detail. However, two of them are fragments. I had a fifth dream, but my wife's clock woke me abrumpty and I forgot it entirely.
First of the night:

- This dream was happening indoors.
- Basketball team.
- NBA Competition.
- We were training.
- The t-shirt of the team was yellow.
- We were getting ready for an official game.
- Something about a 800 number.

Missed dream sings:
- Training for a NBA game.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Head for a ToTY.

Mission:
I infiltrated some base with my sister. We had some shortcomings and fixed them. We also had a list of things to accomplish.

Thoughts: Unfortunately, I couldn't recall any more details of the base, the shortcomings and the things that we had to do

Key: Non-Lucid, Lucid, Commentary/Notes, Hypnagogic Hallucinations

I'm experiencing terrible recall lately. I haven't had any substantial recall for days now. Last night I only recalled a bit a fragment of a dream. It's barely worth writing down, but I will anyway for the sake of consistency and discipline.

Tea on Tap Fragment

I was in the kitchen. I was going to make a cup of tea. I went to the sink to wash a cup, but the water that came out of the tap was tea and I filled my cup. I recall being slightly confused, and then just accepting it.

1. I'm making a thrilling video-game style escape from an industrial type level. I'm not so much running or parkouring, although there is some of that. Instead, I'm solving puzzles where the penalty is falling down large pits. For example, to cross one I have to latch a carabiner shaped like a hummingbird to the right track above the pit and glide across. Below me is a horde of giants, reaching up to grab my feet and eat me. I think I may actually have failed once, but I re-spawned and took the right path. In another puzzle, I have to figure out the motion of a series of ladders and trains. I jump from one to the other, whirling almost out of control before I land on solid ground.

Finally I manage to break out of the level into a building (which I recognize from another dream after the fact). I take the wrong elevator but eventually break out into my hometown. For whatever reason I walk through a combination strip club/liquor store, then exit from there into a strip mall parking lot. I get surrounded by police, who accuse me of shoplifting and try to tase me. I start getting really scared and half-lucidly force myself to wake up.

2. I'm at a beautiful Japanese university with Dr. C from my research station. He drops me off by a riverbank and tells me to wait as he performs some errands. I dutifully wait, pulling out my laptop and playing Age of Empires II to pass the time. My mom randomly shows up, bringing hometown pizza and her homemade pie, and asks about my general health. By eating and conversation I manage to ease her worries and she goes away. I then wander off to take a leak. When I return, I see two kids in a pickup truck have stolen all my stuff and are driving away!

Frantically I run after them and end up in the main building of the university. I find all of my stuff set up just as I had left it in a hallway of the building. I play some more, then talk to a janitor about the school's study abroad program. Soon I wander into a busy stairwell, where Dr. C passes by, then the two kids who stole my stuff. V passes by me; she then passes by me again in the same direction, and this time she kicks me into the stairs and starts screaming that I deserve the pain. Apparently she heard something I said as "I want a domestic divorce," but this was the opposite of what I meant. I panic to tell her the truth, but the dream ends before I meet up.

3. I'm in some cartoonish epic of wizards and wizardry. A white wizard (white as in race) is on the run from a horde of black wizards led by his archrival and former apprentice. He runs into his house and sets the locks just in time to have the horde crash on his door. He draws his wand, then turns to face the nemesis he knows has teleported right behind him. The two draw, and they launch volleys of magic meant to kill.

4. The scene is set in an exotic hotel, where people are exercising nasty fetishes about the Warhammer 40K universe. Soon things shift to the hotel's courtyard, where the lead singer of the band Foxy Shazam is teaching a dance class.