dream fragment

I attribute this dream of sparse recollection to the extreme amount of stress that's been in my life recently. As most of us know that stress is extraordinarily detrimental to dream recall; and I've been having quite a bit of stress, making dream journal entries difficult

I remember being very upset, I remember this emotion to be surprisingly vivid. I was upset because of my concern for some sort of change in my sleep schedule; I think it was because I wasn't getting enough sleep or something, I don't know for sure (as stated earlier this dream was of very sparse recollection).
I also remember the image of Count Dracula (the literal Count Dracula that actually existed in Transylvania, not the fictional movie character Dracula), and I remember talking about him; asking somebody (I can't remember who I was talking to): "Do you even know what Dracula looks like?!" For some strange reason unbeknownst to me, we were talking about vampirism as if it was an actual disease; and if it's beneficial or detrimental to survival.

Anybody know some tips for helping with dream recall?
And if you do answer, please don't give me that obvious answer "oh you should just read the dream recall tutorial."

Weird and Odd, possibly Scary and Perplexing:
I was on some trip, possibly to Toronto. I was on a ship or a train but with no roof looking at the scenery. I ended up getting onto this train and tried to find a seat. I was signalled by a girl who I knew. I told them I didn't want to be a bother but they said it wasn't a problem. I ended up sitting next to one of the members on this forum(keeping his name anonymous) across from these two girls. I still didn't feel satisified though and they could tell. It was something to do with the guy. I think we were friends but we had a recent fight and weren't talking to each other. The next thing that happened was the strangest thing. While in his seat, he gave me a quick kiss on the cheek(bleh). It was supposed to signal that everything was ok between us and we can be friends again, although, his expression didn't seem to match that. Dreams skips and we have arrived to where we were supposed to go. We walk around near shops and restaurants and it's pretty dark. We pass two girls who are laughing at something.

Thoughts: Soo weird and pretty random. I guess I fufilled the mysterious mind part that I was talking about at the start of my DJ It was pretty quick, so, I don't think much of it. Lucky for him, I wasn't lucid or else Anyways, odd dream and pretty bad recall, since, this was a fragment

It was the last day of school in a weird school.

I went in the front doors and saw Sydney naked in a fountain with some other girls, I tried not to look (<-That's exactly how I know I wasn't Lucid) I went down a ramp to the left near the commons

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I was in the commons and there were a ton of people going crazy I later found that someone had broken my black glasses in a similar manner as my expensive ray bans.

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I was sitting at a table watching the lunch lady set out lunch choices and I was trying to decide before I got there..

Potentially inspired by that episode of NCIS where the undercover FBI agent attempts to sell the satellite missile targeting system to some arms dealer.

I had to assemble some type of operating system. The man (dunno who) told me that the information was stored on six microSD chips (however, they were much, much smaller than usual microSD chips. They were a bit smaller than the size of an average 4th finger nail). I had five of them, but could not find the sixth one. I later discovered that it was in the apple I was eating. I pulled it from the apple, and assembled the six on the desk that I was sitting on. I had the idea to load them into a computer (I am currently in "my school's" computer lab, however, in real life I had never been in a building like this before) and then copy the information to a flash drive that I had in my pocket. However, I was worried that others would see this and that I could potentially get into trouble.

I was watching this story unfold in third person.

A guy wearing a loose white tank-top with blonde-ish hair was trying to become friends with a group of people hanging out at a park. He hit it off with them at first, but it was soon found out that he had done something wrong, and people began to dislike him. He was sentenced to build a jungle gym in the park. He eventually completed the jungle gym, but people still seemed to be upset with him. He build a slide out of large wooden planks, but missed putting one on, and a kid who slid down fell through the slide. He said that the wooden planks were priced at $128 a piece. I understood why he didn't want to finish the slide.

June 5-6, 2010.

1st dream: Earlier that night, before I went to bed, a relative of mine had to come over. She was sleeping overnight at our house. After I went to bed, I dreamt that we were still awake and we were about to go to sleep. In the dream, she said something like, "I'm going to have a lucid dream tonight so if you hear any noise from me in the middle of the night just know that I am dreaming, and sorry if I wake you up." I remember telling my sister this in my dream, "Wow. She lucid dreams?" my sister was like, "I know." Then I guess I woke up.

2nd dream: I went back to sleep. Then I had this vague image in my head when I woke up, it was of people dancing. We were at a wedding reception the day before, so I guess that's why I dreamt that.

3rd dream: I fell back asleep in the morning, and this is what I dreamt: I can't remember most of this dream, but I remember being in this apartment; with this technician. I'm not sure if I broke something, but that's why he was there. He was also teaching me how to fix this weird contraption, it almost looked like a straightener. The guy left, and this family came into the apartment. Then I woke up.

[B]June 4-5, 2010.

All I could remember was one little picture of a guy talking to someone. Well, it was like a small video clip. It was like I was looking through tunnel vision; it was fuzzy too. And for some reason, the dream theme was blue.

May 30-31, 2010.

I remember a little bit, at the end, there were some fireworks. All within the dream, I was in this laboratory or something, and I traveled in somebody's body I think. And I had a friend with a broken leg or (not to gross you out) a bone hanging out. o-o[/COLOR][COLOR=Blue][COLOR=Black]

May 27-28, 2010.

1st part of dream: I was in this theater looking place. I can't remember what I did.

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2nd part of dream: I seemed to have teleported to a field with a ton of other people, I think they were playing sports and stuff, somewhat like field day. These three people walked up to me. I can describe them: 2 guys, 1 girl; 6 feet tall; and they were dressed in black. They were talking to me about something corny, which at the time, I thought it wasn't. They started coming closer to me, and I backed up. They got a hold of me and picked me up by my shoulders. I was resisting and screaming for my life, I tried to scream my sister's name, because I remember seeing her in the field. Some people looked up, but none helped. Then one of the guys said something like, "Whoa. I just need you to show me how to do something."
I think we teleported to my house. The walls looked a little distorted (like in Dr. Seuss' books). The guy got onto my computer for something. And the computer looked like a giant oven, but I didn't notice that at the time. Then I woke up shortly after.

May 25-26, 2010.


Okay, upon waking, I heard, "Sides, these passenger sides, and I heard they were cute. So cute!"

May 24-25, 2010.

I only remember this guy talking to me.

May 19-20, 2010

Um. . .this dream was really. . .strange, I wonder how I did not become lucid in this dream!
Well, I only remember fragments of my dream; it was like. . . I was on the little kids playground at my school, and I ran up to this girl and changed her face and hair style by typing it in BLANKS on her face. Similar to a computer(like when you would type a field in on a register page, LOL). The picture I saw in my dream was hilarious.

May 16-17, 2010.

Okay, so I appeared in this survival place (Meaning like a vast forest owned by somebody, I don't know). I wanted to buy it, but the guy that owned it said that I couldn't.

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I came into a scary looking house, like one of those haunted houses you see in movies. This house was like one that you couldn't get out of.
There was a girl there. . .and I think her and I were trying out some water experiment, but it totally didn't seem like that in the dream when I woke up the next morning. Anyways, water was gushing through the basement wall. All of a sudden the water turned from crystal clear to murky sewage water. . yuck. That's all I really remember. But as the dream was fading the basement was flooding and it eventually got up to the main floor of the house and we were trying to escape.

All of a sudden I remember parts of my dream from last night.

I was shot in the chest four times (I think) by someone I know. I was okay though. Just. I went to call emergency but it didn't work; it wasn't a real emergency response group on the other end of the line.
I had to call DM's parents for help. I was in Australind. My own parents didn't care that I was dying :/
I was like a special agent of something. Like the BlackOps from Half-Life xP

Part One
12:45p-1:30p
Family Fragment
Vague recall involving myself and both my brothers (Mike and Roger). Setting took place in the bistro of my work, and I can't remember anything beyond that. I have a vague recollection that they were helping me with something.

Part Two
So, I got a call from my co-worker at 5pm this evening, telling me my night shift worker is in the hospital. I had another nap this evening so I could work tonight.

~8:00p-12:00a
I'm late for work!
False awakening. I got a call from Carissa (my co-worker) on my cell asking me where I am and why I haven't shown up yet. I had accidentally overslept into my shift tonight

Dreaming about lucidity
I flew onto an old ship, kind of like an old schooner or a pirate ship of some sort. I "realized" that I was dreaming and thought, "Yay, I'm having a lucid dream, I can do what I want!" I jumped off the ship into the water. I had another false awakening, recalling this dream and then falling back to sleep. At no point during this dream did I feel lucid. I think I was dreaming about having a lucid dream

Something boring
I couldn't recall really what happened when I woke up for real (to my alarm), but I recall standing in a hallway and not much happening.