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    1. Deleted

      by , 03-08-2011 at 12:35 AM (Torra)
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      Updated 11-06-2011 at 02:32 AM by 39215

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    2. arranged marriage and BEING Disney Princesses

      by , 03-07-2011 at 08:57 PM
      I'm waiting at a restaurant for someone (a male) my parents introduce me too. Several months later I dressed in a very werid outfit
      It has a bit of the western's society of a wedding dress with some Hindu and other countries' wedding outfits. When I not dreaming of that I dream of being a fairytale princess and I either a)eat a poisned apple or b)prick my finger on a spindle. But I wake up in RLF before getting kissed in the dream. Now and again I do the slipper thing or have a tail-but want legs thing or live in the castle with a beast. But all through the dreams both the princesses ones and the arranged marriage ones the song "Reflection" from the moive Mulan is always there. But when I do ask the other characters I'm enacting with they don't/cant hear it. The song be in 7 out of 10 dreams.
    3. first toy story dream

      by , 03-07-2011 at 08:56 PM
      I dream of writing a letter to Pixar-Disney company saying that they should build a Pizza Planet restaurant identical to the one in the original Toy Story movie. Since the ones at the Disney parks aren't at all even similar to that restaurant. I somehow ended up being the owner of the restaurant which was identical except with Toy Story 1 and 2 toys in various places. The various toys would "talk" to/with me if I was the only one there like when I'm there in the morning before the staff/cleaning up after the staff have gone home. I had all the rights of THIS Pizza Planet restaurant. Two nights ago I still dreaming about being the owner of Pizza Planet and I had 2 kidnappings and 3 attempted kidnapping. The first time I "was" actually kidnapped I "was" tied to a chair in a empty house. But a cute guy I meet a week ago was my hero. The 1 attempted kidnapping (which happened within 15 hours/minutes of the 1st actual kidnapping) I did some tricks from books I read (aka, stomping on foot, kicking knee, biting hand). The 2nd attempt kidnapping which happened within 3 hours of the first attempted one. I raced through a maze in the basement underneath the main floor of the building. The 3rd attempt kidnapping which happened 5 hours latter was I was going to the grocery store (with the cute guy mentioned above) and when he was hurrying ahead someone grabbed me from behind but that's when the cute guy turned around and jumped on the kidnapper. The next time I ended up on a airplane/helicopter seat tied up with no clue how I got there. I was in a closed off compartment on this aircraft from the pilot (kidnapper) but was close to a door and that's when (the cute guy) came in using Woody's own words from Toy Story 2 "Excuse me, ma'am, but I believe you're on the wrong flight. " and then after he untied me we jumped on a friend of his horse (who happened to be named Bullseye) with some lassoing from the cute guy. I think it was because I had been on a Toy Story movies kick for 2 weeks
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      lucid , memorable
    4. Redwall hero dream (but human, not animals)

      by , 03-07-2011 at 08:50 PM
      I was walking through a wood to test my survival skills and I had a staff like the monks used to carry and I heard talking nearby and I looked though the trees and saw a nasty-looking bunch of humans (looked like a cross between Long John Silver and Captain Hook-with eye patches) with some chained humans around a campfire with the chained humans farther away. I know immediately the chained beings are slaves so I just charged out of the tree yelling "Eulia!" and waved my staff and I knocked out (dead) most of the nasty-looking bunch and the ones I didn't knock out ran away. I then took a dagger from one of the dead beings and cut the chains of the slaves. They said I need a sword and said that if I came with them I would get a sword. They lived on a mountain somewhere outside of the forest.
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      memorable , lucid
    5. saving an office building twice

      by , 03-07-2011 at 08:47 PM
      I was working in an office and an armed gunman came in and a crowed gathered outside my office so I stepped outside of my office into the hallway in front of the crowd and convinced the gunman to put down his gun and to talk to someone about his problem. I discovered that he was an ex-employee from the company which in the dream I worked at and he was fired for embezzling money but he thinks his supervisor (who happened in my dream to be my current supervisor) framed him when it was really was the supervisor who was embezzling money. I got him to talk with the boss' s boss about it and the boss' boss said we needed an actual record beside the paper trail that the ex-employee had I had remembered about what I had read in the paper 3 years ago (which 3 years ago is the now in RLF) about taping a conversation and I happpened to know there was a hidden video cammera pannel on my side of the supervisor's door which can a person can hide in while tapping a conversation on the other side of the conversation (with one or 2 people wired up) . I suggested that we meet back here at the office at 4:00 a.m the next day to get ready to talk with the ex-boss at 7:00 am

      But first I had to go talk to the CEO/President of the company to ask him if it was alright for us to meet here at 4:00 am. I started talking about what had happened downstairs but as I was talking I heard a ticking sound and since the boss doesn't like clocks so I knew it wasn't a clock so I looked around the room trying to find something that could hold a bomb but I eventaully found a tape record where the ticking noise was coming from which was going to go off in 2 hours. I went straight to the nearest PA system and Said "Attention Everyone! There is a bomb in the building please leave quickly and calmly as possible from the building." I then called 911 and asked for a police bomb squad team and then evacuated myself and the extra " Big Cheese" (CEO) out of the building. The bomb squad came within 15 seconds of me calling them. Not to mention that when we went back inside the building reports were waiting outside for me. So I went outside and talked to them a bit and then after talking to them I went back inside and looked out the window and saw that reports still were out there and was thinking "how in the world am I going to get home past these guys?" but I must have said it out loud since my boss' boss showed me a passage that lead to the front door of my home which was 3 blocks away. I went home told my long-term boyfriend (who is living with me in my dream) I would be leaving super early tomorrow. I turned on the TV for news and the first item on the news were the 2 things that happened at the office today in the dream. "Today a young woman was a hero for saving her office and her colleagues twice. She saved her office from a armed gunman by telling him violence wasn't the answer to life's problems. Less then an hour later she she saved the building from a bomb."
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      lucid , memorable
    6. P, train, Disney etc

      by , 03-07-2011 at 08:41 PM
      I was first I was dreaming about a friend of mine who is a boy and was teaching him about the 6 wives of King Henry VIII (well after we were discussing life after marriage). Then poof!!! I was in another dream and came to a landing of some rickety stairs, some one gave me chocolate covered snack and he/she (I couldn't tell they were wearing a ski mask) tied me up and I must have fallen asleep (in the dream) or something because the next think I know was I was tied up on a train in a freight car filled with Sims 3 Expansion packs (a computer video game). I couldn't tell if I was gagged or not. But I was able to get myself out of the ropes I was in. and I found the door to open the freight car to the outside. I opened the door and jumped. My dream went over to my friends who were looking for me since we were planning to go to Disneyland. (2 have brown hair , & the 2 others have blond hair ). Then it went back to me. I meet a nice young man (who looked like an older 20s version of the friend who's a boy) who helped me back to wherever the train has started its journey on Motorcycle.

      This is the 3rd time I had a dream that involved my friends. Last time I had a dream it was Alice in Wonderland except I was the Alice and the "wonderland" was inside
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      lucid , memorable
    7. coins,washroom, water, vending machine and dumplings

      by , 03-07-2011 at 08:40 PM
      I was someone (don't know where) and in my dream the items were: coins, washroom, Chinese food, old school acquaintances and Pop vending machines.

      and sometimes there were 2 mes ( the dream self me and me, me and yes I was aware I was dream) and sometimes there was only one me and during the one me times I was seeing through my dream self eyes
      I was somewhere a super mall probably like the one out West here in Canada. I don't know which order it went in but in part of my dream I was swimming (I think- all I saw was me being dripping wet) another part was ordering Chinese food (dumplings) http://ricecakeconfessional.files.wo.../dumplings.jpg from a cafeteria, and for a brief second saw the inside of a Pop vending machine. (Note: I never used a vending machine in my life.) and in the washroom there were 2 school mates from my elementary school (one who I haven't since since the closing ceremony of our elementary school after my class has graduated- is a child of a local meat empire in Canada or at least in Ontario and is short very short, the other school mate in the dream is average size and I haven't see her since 1st day of High school, and If I remember correctly they both had blond hair ) . Also in the washroom was something to do with water but it wasn't either: sink or toilet or a fountain but something else. and I kept trying to do a trick with water but the coins kept dropping from my hand into the water. In part of the dream I got a pop from a pop vending machine.
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      lucid , memorable
    8. My first lucid!

      by , 03-07-2011 at 07:50 PM
      This is my first Lucid! Although it didn't go as well as I'd hoped.

      I woke up and did a nose RC, I was a little surprsed and scared I could breathe. As I did it I could remember once in a dream I did the nose RC and I could breathe, so I just presumed I was doing it wrong. I also remembered writing that in DV in real life. So I got memory of a previous dream and of real life in my lucid. Anyway, at first and I didn't beleive it was a dream, everything was so real. I got up an went downstairs, a little excited. I was losing lucidity and vividness at this point, so I started rubbing my hands together and against the door. It worked.

      Then mum asked me to stay with my little sister, as she was going somewhere. I said no. She got really angry. It was boring at home and there wasn't really anything fun to do so I decided to try flying. I went over to the window, thought about smashing it open, but doubted wether I was dreaming or not, so just opened it instead, climbed out. From the window I tried to do a jump and fly. It didn't work.

      I was a little worried now because I was wondering wether I was actually dreaming, so I did another nose RC I could still breathe. Again I was surprised how real everything seemed. So I went back to the front door. Then I woke up.

      Pretty anoyed about the dream but surprised how real it felt and happy I got my first lucid dream! It was a WBTB. I think it must have only been about 20 minutes, unless I looked at the dream clock when I was checking the time.
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    9. Wake up! This is a Dream!

      by , 03-07-2011 at 05:14 PM (Nocturn Core (Abridged))
      I struggled to get back to sleep after writing my other dreams down, so I wasn’t surprised when I heard my alarm go off. I got out of bed with no further dream recall, wandered into the bathroom, and saw Nicole’s dad staring at the shower curtain. For some reason, I thought I had time to shower before heading back to my dorm. I understood that there was a leak in the shower faucet recently.

      “Is it working?” I asked Phil. He nodded.

      “What, are you planning on taking a shower?” He said something else, but I didn’t quite catch it. I unclothed myself in a few seconds. Immediately, I remembered the door was still open. Was he coming back? I grabbed a towel off the wall to cover myself just in case. What was I going to wear? There were pants in the bathroom, but I quickly realized they were Nicole’s… They didn’t look like any she owned, but they were the right size. I didn’t have anything to wear except the clothes on my back. I supposed I could just wear those back to Nicole’s room and change after the shower. I closed the door. As I looked up at the mirror, I scrunched my eyebrows. There was a bed in the mirror. The door was still closed, so I knew I wasn’t seeing another room. I looked behind me in disbelief and found nothing but a white wall. The bed was still in the mirror when I looked back. I laughed as I realized what this meant. I looked at my right hand. Even though the hand was perfectly normal, I knew I was dreaming.

      I walked out of the bathroom (still naked, but now unashamed of my nudity) and made my way into Nicole’s room. Maybe if she was dreaming, I could contact her and have a shared dream! A lucid shared dream would be a great start to my week. I stood at the end of her bed, observing that she was sleeping in the dream, too. I tried speaking to her telepathically. She didn’t seem to hear. Hm… I figured I would try communicating the “normal” way.

      “Hey!” I shouted – except not really. My voice came out as a hoarse whisper. For fairies’ sake, not this garbage, I thought. I rubbed my hands together, swallowed, and tried again. “Hey, Nicole!” It didn’t help my voice much (just made the phlegm in there drain), but the dream was less unstable. I decided to confidently continue shouting until the dream gave in and let me project my voice. I didn’t want to let a little loss of dream control hamper my experience. Nicole rolled over in bed as I continued shouting at her. She murmured something in her sleep – how cute. “Nicole, wake up! This is a dream!” I laughed at the irony of telling her to wake up when I wanted her to partake in the dream with me… “Get out of bed!”

      At this point, I thought about how well the dream was holding up despite being so late in the morning. Usually, by the sixth hour or so of sleep, my dreams are kind of unstable – much like those early in the night. Thinking about it was a mistake; the dream began rapidly fading, and although I rubbed my hands together to try to stabilize it, there was little I could do. When it collapsed, I waited a few moments for another dream to begin, but I realized I couldn’t have much time before I was supposed to wake up anyway, so I decided to get up.
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    10. Lucid in my sons Kindergarden

      by , 03-07-2011 at 10:15 AM (Mytes fractaled mind)
      So, my first LD after I joined here. I have no clue how many LDs I've had before through out the years, so the LD count will be from when I became a member here.

      Anyway - Due to a rather hectic morning, I were unable to write down the nights event. But I remember very clearly that I knew I were in a dream. The dream took place in my toodlers kindergarden/day care(?). I looked around, and were a bit puzzeled because everything looked brown, as if I had put on a layer of duo tone on. One of the women there asked me to get something, and I just looked at her, wondering why she didn't do it herself? Well, off I went, but then stopped. I went back again, and the woman sat next to my hubby. Just talking, no sexual vibes going on. They didn't notice me, and got a bit puzzled by that. So I started to have a look around in the rrom. There were a massage bench in the room for some reason, and there were no other kids, other then mine, myself, my hubby and that woman. Since they were busy, I went over to the massage bench. I looked at it - thinking it truely was a hidious brownish color - and I usually love brown. I kept thinking that I should write this down, I should write this down, but I never came to. I remembered in the dream that I had put my pen and dream journal next to my pillow in bed, but as I were awake in the dream, I'd have to wake my self completly to do so - which I didn't want to After that realization i must have fallen out of it anywway, 'cause that's all I remember.
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      lucid
    11. A Weird Series Of Events...3/5/11

      by , 03-07-2011 at 12:51 AM (INeverWakeUp's Super Dream Journal)
      Goals:
      Godfather TOTY

      I begin in a strange room. I am crowded by many people. We're all waking around socializing and having a damn good time. Then, this kid Tom I know started to rampage around like a retard. He was knocking things over, punching people, etc. Finally, he stormed away. What the fuck? People now discussed the strangeness that had just happened. That wasn't Tom's normal retardation...something was fishy. I suggest that Tom may have been on Methamphetamine. Everyone seems to believe that's a reasonable explanation. Meth does cause you to rampage like a violent moron. So, everyone begins to pack up. I have someone give me a ride. He offers to take me to his place, but he has to stop somewhere else first. So, we drive away. Then, a tells me he's being stalked...by a murderer. So, we arrive at a store. The guy splits up to go shop. I browse alone. I come across a collection of scouters. I see a blue, a red, and a green scouter. I take the blue one and put it on. Then, it detects someone. The murderer?! I rush over and I see that it IS a murderer. No doubt it's the one looking for that guy. Shit. What to do?! What to do?! Then, I think of a plan, and I don't like it. I walk over to the murderer.
      "Hey strong man..." I say. I grab his abs. "I love strong men. And you're defiantly one." Well that was gay. The guy looked freaked out now. He told me to get away, and he ran off. Well, that was fucking gay, but it had results. I had to use the bathroom now. I go downstairs and start to piss into a rusty sink. Then, I became
      lucid without dream signs!

      I continue to piss, then I zip my pants up. Oh right...um, this is a bad place to do the Jaws TOTY. Oh! The Godfather TOTY. Now, I use the turn around method. Where is he?! Shit! Then, he jumps through a window. What the hell? Damn. So, I ask him a favor. I ask him to handle my very first rivals, the drunken perverts from my origins at DV. I killed there leader LONG ago. The other three are still alive somewhere. The Godfather agrees and then he leaves. Awesome. TOTY completed! I believe that makes four TOTYs completed. Then, I go back upstairs, but then my
      little brother rudely wakes me up. Shit.
      Tags: godfather, toty
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      lucid , task of the year
    12. Practicing powers

      by , 03-06-2011 at 11:49 PM
      Last night I had a LD where I was in a gymnasium-type setting with three of my college roommates. I was showing off to them my LD powers. I had a nice, shinny quarter and 4 balls increasing in size from a golf ball to a tennis ball to a soccer ball to a physio-ball. I was using my hands out in front of my body to push the objects away from me and then pull them back in (without touching them). I found that the larger the object, the harder I had to strain. I also practiced levitating the quarter and that came fairly easy

      This is the first time I purposely demonstrated my powers in LD. It was quite the experience.
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      lucid , memorable
    13. Barney, Disney princess getting married to non-love interests.etc

      by , 03-06-2011 at 10:05 PM
      In the first dream I dreamed I was on the set of the old-school Barney (hence school/school ground, not a caboose/playground like what's shown today). I was kid again (I think elementary school age, since that what the kids looked like on the show back when I watched it) They were filming an episode (that isn't real). Than these black guys appeared. I think I'm the only one who could see them. I tried to tell one of the adults (both the in-show ones-when they weren't being filmed and the camera crew) but both thought I was making it up. Even the other kids didn't believe me!!. I than went into this play house and set down at the little table in there and started to draw the black guys. I just finished the picture and was showing it to an adult when the dream changed.


      In the second dream. I was on something it was a church but also was a ship. It was a sunny day. I was in a pew (near the aisle-which I could look at) and mom was sitting next to me. There was going to be more than one wedding happening but they were all going to be happening at the same time. Than the brides came out, all I could tell was they were all Disney Princesses-but the only one who stood out for me was Mulan, since she was dressed in a Western Wedding dress (you know the one Western brides usually wear??) but her face was with the "make up" from the first song in Mulan "Bring Us Honour" and for some reason she was crying (another Princess I figured was Ariel-since I caught a glimpse of red hair). I couldn't tell who they were going to marry (the bridegrooms all had their backs to me) but it seems like the bride-grooms were NOT these princesses' love interests. I just knew somehow I had to stop the weddings. I tried to get out of the pew but mom pulled on my pink dress back into the pew and asked me "What do you think you're going to do??" I told her that the bridegrooms aren't the brides' love interests and I had to stop the wedding. But my mom told me just to Mind My own Business. This is when I woke up.
    14. My 7th WILD

      by , 03-06-2011 at 09:18 PM
      I WILDed during my afternoon nap again. I'd say it only lasted a mintue. I was trying to ground myself in the dream by feeling things when I woke up. I noticed that I felt tired and when I tried to shout "increase lucidity!" it came out weak.
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      lucid
    15. Minecraft, Piracy, and a Mental Hospital

      by , 03-06-2011 at 08:07 PM (Nocturn Core (Abridged))
      Nicole and I were playing on a Minecraft server together. We ventured into an unexplored area and found some strange, circular platforms floating in the ocean. They looked like targets. Assuming the administrator had plans for these, I decided building on them was pointless; the buildings would just get destroyed. We walked back in the other direction, and I found an old cabin I had built previously to survive a night. I decided I would stay there until morning. I was glad I found it when I did since skeletons were already patrolling behind it. I looked around the cabin and quickly discovered the basement. I couldn’t remember why I abandoned the cabin… Until I saw the creepers hiding in the basement, that is. There were at least seven of them, and they all noticed me. Only one jumped up to the ground level, though. I backed into a corner to try to force it to blow up where the damage would be minimal. I knew I couldn’t fight a creeper in this small space. Unfortunately, the creeper knocked out nine blocks on the south wall, exposing me to roaming zombies! The open space was three blocks high, so I quickly placed a line of wood across the middle to keep the zombies and creepers at bay. This didn’t protect me from skeletons or spiders, though. I tried to find materials to use without going into the basement. I tried typing “/give Nephanim diamonds” to see if I had operator rights on the server for whatever reason. The dream didn’t seem to care that I typed the command incorrectly. As I worried that someone would see the request for items and complain that I was cheating, I got a red error message back from the server. It said that I had received a warning from the staff, and the item request had been denied. Boo… I decided to brave the basement for some dirt. To my surprise, it was now empty. Dirt was better than nothing… I don’t know why I had thought to put diamond blocks up instead of something less valuable. Anyway, while I was down there, I found these long, skinny lego blocks and put them together to form a red and yellow striped wall. It still wasn’t wide enough. The corners of the hole were still open, and skeletons were shooting me. I saw that my health was empty. I was alive, but not for long. Another arrow hit, and my items burst from my body. Apparently, my spawn point was close tot he cabin even though I expected to have to run across the island. I carefully returned to the building, collected my belongings, and went on my way.

      I met up with Nicole again, and we found a water purification plant beside a street. We filled buckets with water from the clean end and sampled it. The water was horrible… On top of that, we were stealing it. We laughed about all of this as we roamed some more. We found a car, I guess… Some people called Nicole and told her to pick things up from Chick-fil-A. We went there, but we didn’t buy anything for these people. Nicole spent $14 on something applicable to her diet. I saw that $5 of it went toward adding extra bacon. That plus my food and two drinks came out to $21.45. I misheard the amount, so I only pulled out a $20 bill. The drive-through was reversed as if we were in Europe, so I had to pay. To my immense surprise, when we pulled up to the window, the cashier handed us $21.45 instead of taking our money. Speechless, I put the money away. She passed our food over and closed the window. As Nicole drove off, we argued about what just happened. Nicole seemed to think she had gone to the wrong service window, but there was only one.

      “They just paid us to take their food,” I said. “That’s all there is to it. It’s not really stealing if they don’t ask you for money… They didn’t ask you to pay when you ordered, right?” Of course not – the woman just said the total was $21.45. It really was our lucky day! Free water, free food, free money! As we continued driving, I became aware of another reality overlapping with this one. I was on a modern pirate ship as we sailed away from the coast. The farther away we went, the more I worried about dying and being too far away to retrieve my belongings. I remembered that I could set up to ten warp points, though, so I kept resetting one warp point as we continued south of the shore. My crew mates discovered stitches on my arms just below the elbow. I explained that I cut them off in order to switch my arms with Nicole’s. I would probably have scars for the rest of my life. For some reason, my crew decided this was traitorous, so they dragged me toward the back of the boat. I was shoved overboard. As I flailed in the ocean, I returned to my former reality. I was in the same car, but my mom was driving instead of Nicole. Nicole and I moved from the middle seats to the back and sprawled out on top of a bunch of Chelsea’s stuffed animals. I kept lulling Nicole into sleep so I could carry her. It worked. She almost fell into a sea of stuffed animals behind the seat, but I caught her.

      Meanwhile, I swam back to the ship in the pirate reality. I don’t know why I bothered to go back there, but it was the only place I knew to go. Once I was safe, I switched realities again. Nicole stirred. She looked like she had lost all sense of time and place. She wasn’t wearing a shirt, either. I told her about the overlapping realities. She seemed impressed. I tried to have my way with her, but she refused. I kept asking until she suggested something else. She turned me into a child and herself into a babysitter (although we were like small action figures instead of people). We were going to roleplay. While we entangled ourselves together under a thin blanket, I began to wonder where we were going. We had been driving in one direction for a while. I looked at my mom beyond the shadows of the blanket. She made eye contact with me in the rear view mirror. I saw an infinite stretch of interconnected highways in front of us. There were street signs all over the place, and no matter how far we drove, the dream was always able to fill in the space with the same amount of detail. It could continue indefinitely, I realized. We were in a dream. If nothing changed, my mom would keep driving forever! I tried to use my intent to bring us to WritersCube’s canvas void by car so could get out and try teleporting to his Monolith Gardens dreamscape. I didn’t want to bring the car along. Strangely, I lost some time here… That doesn’t happen very often. The next scene I remember was non-lucid, but there wasn’t a rough jump in the dream like there usually is.

      I sensed that a police car would pull up beside us on the highway soon. I was lying across the area behind the back seat with all of Chelsea’s stuffed animals. I knew this wasn’t legal – for one, I didn’t have a seat belt on – so I tried to keep still to avoid drawing attention to myself. Sure enough, a cop car merged onto the highway right beside us. My mom ordered me to come sit in the middle seats once we passed the patrol car. She explained where we were going at last: to a mental hospital. I understood immediately that I had been tricked. I grasped at fleeting questions in my head, but I didn’t know how to respond. I would be kept in solitary confinement for my own good, she said.

      “This will keep you from polluting your mind on the computer all day,” my mom continued. “Think of it like this: you’re decontaminating your mind and body until you can function like a normal person in society. You don’t need all that bacteria.” I wasn’t sure I agreed (if I even understood what she meant). It didn’t occur to me that I was free to say no. Rather, I wondered how I would finish school… We pulled onto the side of the road beneath an overpass where a bunch of other cars were parked. My mom and dad got out of the car (when did my dad show up?!) and started moving luggage to a man sitting on a white couch. My dad put all of Chelsea’s stuffed animals in a suitcase.

      “Do you really need all of this?” he asked me.

      “Those are Chelsea’s, not mine. Ask her.” I looked over and saw that the guy on the couch hand his hand on a zipper. I thought he was opening a suitcase to see what was inside. “Don’t screw with my stuff!” I yelled. Everyone stared at me, clearly prepared for me to attack one of them. I realized the guy was just zipping up a compartment in the bag that had been open. “Sorry. I thought you were going through my stuff.”

      “Don’t you want these gloves?” my dad asked, showing me a pair of new winter gloves. I saw an old pair of gloves on top of one of my suitcases. “Those old gloves are falling apart… These are flame-resistant, too, so they won’t burn in the summer.” I quietly accepted the gloves. I still felt awkward because of my previous outburst. I walked over to a woman sitting in a chair. She had a computer monitor for a head. She asked if I had any questions about the hospital.

      “Yeah, will I have internet access…?” I asked. No response. “Because… Well, that’s how I keep in touch with people… And I keep a dream journal online.” At least one good thing came of this, I realized. I would be able to devote most of my energy to dreaming. I had argued briefly with my mom about this in the car, but the more I thought about it, the less I felt like struggling. If everyone felt I belonged in a mental hospital, I wasn’t going to fight it… The computer woman still didn’t respond to my question, though! I scrolled through a list of frequently asked questions on her screen. It seemed the hospital made every effort to provide patients with internet access, so I was basically content. An IRC window popped up. I saw “Tande” at the top of the chat and thought Kelsey was running the hospital until I scrolled down and saw Nicole’s IRC username in the user list, too. “Oh… IRC just recognized me as Elita.” I closed the chat and walked away from the computer woman.

      I heard a girl screaming behind a closed door. When I opened it, I saw a large rat jumping around in a garage. The girl was terrified of it. I grabbed a broom and said I would save her, but I had to wait for the rat to move away from the door so it wouldn’t see me. The rat chased her into the corner. Then, it came back toward me. I slammed the broom down on its back, pinning it to the ground. If I could just hold it there, I could kill it with something… It was a perfect hit, but this rat was tough; a broom wasn’t enough to bash the life out of it. The rat squirmed free of the broom. It went straight to its attacker, jumping onto my chest and sinking its teeth through my clothes. I swatted at it. As I awakened, I sat up frantically in bed to get away from the dream rat. I did this twice before I realized I was in a different reality.