lucid

1st dream I was sitting on a metal deck outsides a tower which was surrounded by water. I got up and I started being chased around the tower by a man. I know I shouldn't go into the tower. But I ended up at one point going into the tower (which looked like a classroom). Which trapped me in the tower. There were other girls there tied up. I got tied up too. But I managed to untie myself. Then the chase happened again. But this time I dived into the water.

2nd dream (I have never watched horror movies).
I was at a store. I was buying DVDs. I brought this very creepy-looking horror movie. It was like Scooby Doo swallowed a Museum. The friend I was with mentioned a movie called Beetlejuice. dream ended.

3rd dream
I was going to visit a poorer country. I was excited. When I got there. I just couldn't stand being there. For one thing. I did visit a a school. The rest thing I remembered was trying to figure out what time it would have been back home.

Saturday 3/31/12 5-HTP at 10:15pm, bed at 11:50pm didn't practice awareness
DR 3:47
WBTB 3:47 - 4:21 didn't fall asleep till 5:20 (cat going potty)
Woke up at 7:15 from DILD + 5 DEILDs Each about 5min long
For WBTB WILD I visualize being at beer pub with mom, dad, and two others. I recall the tables, people, green leaves on a tree, glasses with beer.
Then I fall asleep and have a DILD.
DILD
At home on RD10. I'm hugging and kissing my parents. My dad's cheek has a 5o'clock shadow. We are in a hallway, light are on. Then I'm on front balcony looking out (or maybe through my brothers room window). It's at night and everything is shining under moonlight, as if it was covered by ice. (EDIT: I thught for long time what it reminds me of, and I figured it out today - it has colors, beauty and misticism of Hyu's avatar pic.) I trick my mind into making everything more focused by saying 'Look how is everything so detailed', although it wasn't. In that moment it gets very vivid and focused in shades of black, grey and blue, shiny with ice surface. beautiful.
I'm on my balcony. It's daytime. So crisp and focused, I think it's WL. I do a bunch of RCs. First time I do 'nose plug' RC, although I have never practiced it. I can breathe. But I'm not 100% sure. Doesn't stop me from jumping off the balcony to fly.
Not sure if this is the same LD or a separate one. - I'm on balcony to a street. I know that in my previous LD was daytime and I wonder, why is it night. I say it and in little while the sun is coming up. I'm trying to go to the moon from the backyard. I find it on the skies and take aim. I think I wake up.
DEILD 1
I'm on a sidewalk of a major city. I see tall modern buildings on the left. Bunch of DCs. I ask two of them, one man and then one woman 'Excuse me mam, sir, what is this town, err, city?' I'm so nervous talking, I fumble with words. One of them says Philadelphia.
A bus pulls up to the sidewalk. I'm so scared as it's turning towards us, because its huge, like 3 buses on top of each other. Menacing, white metal, heavy looking. I walk on a sidewalk among lots of DCs. From the left is an exit from a bus depot? Big machines are coming out of there from behind big black rubber flaps, so you don't see something is coming until you are close to it. I'm scared to walk by, so I don't get run over.
Note sure if this is the same LD or another one. >> I'm in a building. Me and another person or two plus our guide are hovering on top of some very tall furniture - couple of stories high. He is shoving us this so we can decide, what kind of a tour we want. I see a window, open it, pull away the screen and fly out. I feel so free. Not sure if it was here, but at one point I jumped off a tall building although I was not sure, that I can fly. Just inches from sidewalk my fall changed to a glide above ground.
***I wake up, (was I sleeping on my back and right shoulder) and remember not to move. I wait to enter another LD.
DEILD 2
I'm on a river bank. Decide to swim across. Water is yellowish. Someone else is in the water. I get out on other side. There is a area fenced off by chain link fence. Some bikers are watching two of them fight, as if in a rink. I decide to try my powers and take the place of one guy to fight the bigger one. The ground is slippery from spilled beer. I think they are pouring beer at each other. I ask where is my beer. One of them brings two big, classical beer glasses filled with what looks like lager. But he takes a drink from them so I say to forget it. I don't know how to fight this guy. >> I'm in a building/shack next to this fight field. I ask a cute biker if he wants to have sx. He says sure and we start to undress. We are almost there, but I wake up.
DEILD 3
I'm back with the biker. He doesn't want to go on, because he doesn't want to wake up again. I walk over to a group of 2-3 bikers, one is a cop in blue uniform and tell them I just broke up with my boyfriend, if they want to continue where he left off. Things start to happen, but I wake up again.
DEILD 4
I'm flying inside the museum. Lots of rooms and people. I realized a few moments past by and suddenly everything is focused. I realize, this is what people mean about dream getting focused after a minute or two. Looking for a window to get out, but can't find any. I realize, I can get out by getting lucid by looking at something moving towards me. I find a boy sitting on a floor playing with a train. I sit down and we pass the train between us, while I stare at it when it's coming towards me.
DEILD 5
I'm hovering over a street with other DCs. I ask out loud to see my grandma. One DC separates from others and flies to me. She is smiling, but her face is changing from a mummy to a girl of maybe 20 years of age. I ask her if it's really her and she assures me yes. But I'm pretty sure it's not.

***In one of the LDs I was able to only whisper. Rest of them I was shouting***
***In one of the LDs I signed my full name without any problem and then was able to read it***
***In most of them, I kept saying to myself loud 'I'm dreaming' to keep myself aware***
***First time 'nose plug' RC. Feels great to breathe through pinched nose.***

Each transition - when woke up from LD - was the most awesome part of the whole thing. I realized, I can get a headrush by looking at something moving towards me and then tilting my head forward or back. (This head tilt is recurring thing from couple weeks ago, when I realized in regular dream, that I can get lucid this way.)
So I looked at the street hoping for a car to come by - and it did, looking at a toy train when playing with a boy, looking at starfield in hyperspace on TV. When this field was going sideways, I made it change direction so it flies at me. Also was able to recall smell from previous LD to help induce another one.

Strange RV and House
I climb in an RV. There are clothes everywhere. I notice that the piles of clothes are organized by color order the exact same way I organize mine - some even resemble clothes I own. All of the curtains are drawn, so I pull them back to let in some light, then head to the front of the RV to drive. I drive with ease. As I drive, the RV seems to be getting smaller. Eventually, I end up walking with a strange, mini RV strapped to my shoulders. I am in a house now and look in a mirror. I am now a boy (who kinda looks like Justin Beiber). I take of the "RV" and go into the nearby bathroom. There are tow doors. I walk over to close the other door. This door leads to another, secret room. I decide to explore. It is an opulent room that looks familiar. A woman who looks a little like Morgan Fairchild is sitting on a couch, petting a Pomeranian. I compliment her on her house and tell her it is like a maze. She says, yes, they designed it that way.
Next I am reading a chart on how this house induces dreams.

Fragments

• A see a vision of "The Star" tarot card and hear a voice saying "Focus on the God of Dreams"
• Boxes
• Glitter explosions
• Alyzarin sends me a "lover" request on DV. (I guess its kinda like a friend request.) It turns out to be a mistake. She ment to send me a request to help her find missing peices of a red shoe.

03.14.12
Lucid
(Sivason posted a technique for retraining your brain to WILD. Instead of doing the technique as intended, I somehow practice it during a FA and achieve a lucid.)

FA - I am lying in bed watching the back of my eyelids, I am surprised to realize that I can easily create light to form a hand and arm. Movement comes effortlessly also. I easily step out of my "sleeping body" and a dream forms around me. I know I am in a dream, but don't realize that the body I just stepped out of was a dream body as well. As the dream forms around me, I realize I am in my room, although some details are different. I step through the mirror in my bedroom. I end up in black void. I stay in the void for awhile, then form a dream around me. I am back in my house again. I keep trying different mirrors in the house, but the mirrors keep putting me in void, which coalesces back into the house. I run into my mom (who lives in another city, not with me) and am surprised that she can see me - thinking she is in a WR body and I am in an astral body. Eventually, I decide to just jump out a high window and fly around a bit. I continue to spend most the dream flying around
I fly through a window of one building. I see a bed with a boy around 12 or 13 sleeping. The bed is next to a glass window with a really great view. I hover over the bed and sit on the window ledge, ready for the next jump. Suddenly, the boy wakes up and asks me who I am and what I am doing here, and tells me he is very sick. I tell him I am a dreamer and can heal him. I place my palm above him and began shooting blue energy out of my palm until he is completely bathed in it. When I am done, he thanks me and tells me he is already feeling better.
I jump out his window and start flying about again. I fly over many breathtaking landscapes. Once is a city full of skyscrapers, only instead of the usual grey, each is a different brilliant color.
I keep bouncing off houses, then realize I have a dream goal. My goal was to visit my dream guide again. I remember Sivason's advice to call out to your dream guide and say "I am ready." I call out loudly as I fly "Dream Guide, please come to me, I am ready to learn." This is one of the first dreams where I can fully yell with my dream voice. I test my newfound voice and yell, "Hellllooooooo!" The sound is surprisingly loud and clear and ripples across the dreamscape. I look around as I'm flying and see no sign of my DG. I am still rather unfocused, even though I am lucid and know my goal. I land and contemplate flying into space, but then realize that it would be rude to call for my DG, then leave.
Somehow, next I am in a large, wooden room. I am not sure how I ended up here. There is a dream plot about the people there throwing me a party. I keep trying to fly through the roof, but keep meeting resistance. Unable to escape, I end up giving into the dream plot. I see a pretty girl at the party, fly over to her, pick her up, and start waltzing with her in the air.
Possibly, still at the party, I am standing on a high kitchen counter, in front of a cupboard. I realize the orange earplugs I fell asleep in are in my ear. I take them out and throw them on the floor. As I do, they turn into shipping peanuts. Soon as I pluck them out, however, another pair appears. I continue to pull them out and toss them on the floor until the floor is covered in shipping peanuts, only to continuously have a new pair reappear in my ear. I consider holding my nose, blowing, and popping them out my ear, but decide to just not focus on them instead.

Fragments

• I have a threesome in a jacuzzi
• Noelle and I are living in a house with a bunch of guys. They are eating and there are dirty socks on the table. I ask them to take their socks off the table.
  Later, the guys put on a show for us where they are all wearing these large afros.

Meeting my Dream Guide
I am at a dreamer's school. I am semi-lucid. I know it is a dream, but don't have complete control. The teacher is an old man with leathery, brown skin. The are other beings with me in the class that resemble humans, but with blue skin. (Looking back, I believe these are Dakinis). I missed the class on Tibetan Dream Yoga. Although I missed the class, my teacher provides me with a strange hat that will aid me in Tibetan Dream Yoga techniques. I tell him I don't deserve this since I wasn't even in the class. He responds that he knows I have the most potential and wants em to wear the hat. He places this strange hat on my head. It seems to be made of brass wires. It sits ontop a piece of the top of my head and circles my face, clasping under my chin. Immediately, my head feels heavy and starts to fall fackwards. I am sitting in lotus position on the gorund and start slowly rotating. I have a sense that I am about to "apprehend the dream". I see the dream dissolving away. A bright, white light starts emanating from my third eye and engulfing everything. I can see and feel my body dissolving away, each part of me slowly wisps away like dust. I am left no body, no dreamscape, no thoughts even, just pure awareness in a white void.

Flying with Dakinis
I am with the Blue Dakinis from the previous dream. I am semi-lucid in this dream as well. We are flying on a platform, possibly a magic carpet. I am able to direct the carpet with my energy.

More Fragments

• I am in a house full of people. Many of teh people there are other lucid dreamers. There are two women there who want to learn to lucid dream. I get a bad feeling about them and feel they want to learn for malicious reasons. I use my energy to send them nightmares next time they sleep.
• Someone gives me Radiohead tickets.
• I am testing out my newly repaired car, driving down a long, windy road. It is a road I know, but everything looks totally different.

04.01.2012

Shower, Desserts, Stitch, Medicine, Kaomea Search, Embarrassment, Back-stabbing, Aly MSN, Crown

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Dream 1: Shower in Bedroom

I was showering in a bedroom in a house that looks familiar to me, except that the shower literally was in the bathroom.

What I mean by that is that there's shower head on top of a bedroom ceiling spraying water for me to take a shower. Even though there are people around me, I don't really mind being naked getting myself wet and clean for some odd reason.

There's this Asian woman I believe who is coming in, and it looks like my father is helping her check the house out. My mother was there too, should've done a RC there, anyway, the Asian woman was kind of cute.

She's wearing a white dress shirt along with a black or grey business shirt. Her hair is pure black, and her skin done is brown, but only slightly.

While I'm showering, there's this guy that looks like R, a friend of my father, who is next to me. I don't really pay too much attention to him, since I'm still showering. My mother, who somehow is still in this dream, was saying something to my father that he could turn off the T.V. with the remote.

I make a hand motion to her to make her stop, because the T.V. isn't really bothering whatever he's doing, but she's not seeing anything I'm doing, so instead of feeling awkward, I stood still for a while, and then went back to showering myself.

The dream shifts to where I'm outside now, and I see the same Asian woman inside riding a Jeep or some variant of it. Apparently, she's a real estate agent, because I see "For Lease" signs in the trunk of the vehicle.

The vehicle had tinted windows, but it was late afternoon, so the glare from the sun helped with seeing through things. I believe she's parking to go to another house.

That's all I remember for that one.

Dream 2: Desserts, Desserts, Desserts!

Now that I recall this dream, I do remember Alyzarin telling me something about Cheesecake Factory one time, and how she went there, oh well, I didn't see anyone familiar or anything like that
I'm going inside a store that makes cakes, pastries and all sorts of deserts. I head to the left, and I see cheesecake, and they have.....

SAMPLES!!!!!!!

I go get a knife, and the samples are in bite size squares. I was confused if it was sharp cheddar cheese since it did look slightly orange, but I stack them laterally on the knife.

Someone tells me that I shouldn't go overboard with the amount, but they said it in a joking manner.

I start to eat these bite size pieces, but I don't recall tasting anything.

Dream 3: Creature Looks like Stitch From Lilo & Stitch

Lol, before I tell this dream, when I saw Stitch, and wake up to recall this, I automatically thought, HAWAII!!! Kaomeaaaaaaa!

I'm in a cave, it has a mystical feel to it. There's water pouring, and I believe the sound is associating with the online alarm site I had playing of "Water" to help me sleep (like using a white noise).

The area that I'm in, it was like a natural spiraling path going downwards. What I mean is that there's this huge vertical rock in the middle, and there's rock plates forming together to make a spiral around it as surface to walk on

The best example I can use for this is that it was similar to the environment that Emil went to in Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of a New world where he was close to the final fight against Alice and that lover of hers, Decus. (The area is the Ginnungagaap I think, yeah, I know long word, I had to google that myself, even though I beat the game several times xD)

The atmosphere was calm, tranquil, and it felt so empty. I see a creature, who has various shades of blue along with a very short composition. It looked like Stitch from the show "Lilo & Stitch," but it was so weird looking that using Stitch as an example is the best way I can try and describe.

I think it had tentacles on its face, but that's something I'm still not sure on. Apparently, someone tells me that I have to go to it when I want to get something changed. I don't know what exactly, maybe a change like body change, or maybe a change in emotion, I wasn't given much insight.

I do go towards the creature, and I do it slowly, it turns around, but I still can't make a good facial description of it.

I can't remember too much on what happens next.

Dream 4: Medicine?

This dream seems to be me in a stop animation production scene, because the only things I saw were hands popping out of random small doors near the floor, probably to help with concealing human involvement.

The hand is doing random things from throwing objects, or placing something in the middle.

The flooring a gray and there's white lights on top, your usual long and vertical white lighting placed laterally on the ceiling.

I think I kick around a few objects and continue moving forward somewhere. Then I see a sign that says Medicine, but in horrible spelling, like "Medisone" or "Medicoone," somewhere around those words.

Then when I'm past this area, I look back and there's this random person sitting down. I've seen this person in my dreams, but it was a loooooooooooong time ago, and he's just sitting there doing something. Then he tries to throw objects at me, ranging from green pencils or pens.

I dodge all of them, and I'm using the door in front of me to deflect most of them anyway. I grab a pencil/pen, and throw it back at him, and we continue doing this for a while until I got bored and left.

At least it wasn't Kaomea throwing a pair of scissors at me. I'm joking Kaomea!!!!!

Dream 5: I will find you Kaomea....(WILD)

After moving around to my sides a little bit from the WBTB time finishing from me recalling the previous 4 dreams, I feel this sensation that I'm being elevated, or that my body is getting more lighter.

I've had times where I felt I would lose connection with this sensation, but I just kept still to finally arrive somewhere. I knew I had to have been unconscious for a while, but the Rain music that was continuously playing for a while helped with awareness.

I wake up, I already know that I'm dreaming because I felt the sensation of going into the dreaming plane. I wake up in a random house.

It was a small bedroom, and I look a window to see that it's close to raining outside, I feel like I'm in a basement because the window was one of those where you have to peek a little higher to see what's going on ground level.

I look at the T.V. that's nearby me, and I'm seeing the Saving and Loading Screen for Resident Evil 4. There's nobody playing it at all, so I just watch in curiosity to see if this automatic movement of the game activating would give me a message.

When the game finally loads, I see Albert Wesker, and soon I realize it's the Mercenaries mini-game that is being activated by itself. I try to look at the white font text on the screen to see if the T.V. was trying to give me a message.

The first set of white font text while Albert Wesker is busy shooting Las Plagas enemies seems to appear in Spanish, and I couldn't understand anything from that.

The next sets that I recall seemed to be making fun of how Albert Wesker's intentions in ruling the world someday with non-zombie invasions.

(Because in Resident Evil 4, Las Plagas did not make the host into a zombie, it just controlled them and made them look like they were like zombies with red eyes and everything, but they still kept they're human traits. The only think that would be different is that they looked a little bit more darker).

After a few seconds of watching Albert Wesker shooting, I get out of the bedroom, then I find myself in the small hallway in my apartment. It was dark, but looking ahead I could see that the blinds near the front entrance where glowing a little bit with light. It was a gray light, and I knew it had to be raining or something.

Before I advanced any further, I stay within the exit to my bedroom, and was close to a few light switches. I didn't notice it at first but the light switches were on the right instead of the left like they were in waking life.

Since walls where narrow in this hallway, it was enough for me to tempt myself to jump, and spread my legs mid-air to rest on my back on the right wall.

Basically I had one feet that stayed in place on the right side, and extended my other leg to left side. It felt kind of weird for me to do this, I think I even managed to stick to the ceiling looking down on the floor!

But that moment lasted for a few seconds, and I'm back to resting my back on the wall with my feet helping me stay off the ground.

I take my right arm and move down a little bit to feel for any light switches, I try to turn both of them on, nothing.

"Right," I told myself.

(I said that in one word because it validated that I was dreaming because the light switches didn't turn on).

I felt the dream starting to fade, and I forgot to do a stabilization technique, and got out of tune with my dream body for a few seconds.

I find myself back in waking life for a few seconds, but I didn't move or anything, I just see the back of my eyes are gray and has that type of gray mystical field of vision that's wavy and everything, and then I get back into the dream. (DEILD)

I put myself down back to ground level, and as I'm getting closer and closer to the door to get out of my apartment, I believe I check the blinds first before I go in blind faith of where the door will take me.

I see it's just like a replica of my apartment, so I go outside, but not all the way. I feel something to the right side of me, like one of those one strapped bags, but it felt like my laptop case to the right side of me.

I didn't pay attention to it too much.

It was still raining, and I knew this was because of the "Rain" setting I had on the Online Alarm clock to play was white noise in waking life.

I told myself with confidence, "I will find you Kaomea....."

Since I knew I was near my apartment environment, and since I don't have that much power to just summon up a portal or something and go to Hawaii or even the Alaskan beach shared dreaming location we set up, I decided I should at least use my ability to run fast.

I prepare myself to run, but before I could even feel the sensation of the rain hitting my skin, the dream fades again.

I wake up again, but I still keep my eyes closed. Since I'm in the intermediate state with being half-awake, half-asleep, I categorized this dream with "Resident Evil 4" in my head, because of what I was doing watching the T.V. in the dream.

I relied on that categorization to help with the potential DEILD I could have, but I ended up being unconscious for the next few sets of dreams.

Dream 6: Embarrassment

The dream starts off to where I'm hanging out with a girl I never hanged out with before, I don't even know why I didn't do a RC, because I haven't been with someone to hang out with for a long time.

She looks a lot like Chelsea, one of my group partners in my first Biochemistry course when we had to do a presentation on a certain drug.

I'm not going to say what exactly just to remain slightly anonymous from her.

Chelsea is wearing a light blue shirt, and is wearing dark blue sports shirts. After walking around with her for a while, she tells me while smiling,

"Hey, instead of me and you going to a hotel together, I think it's best if I go back to my dorm room."

You.............did.....not....just.....tell....me ....THAT....in front...of these.........people!!!

Since we were near a small crowd of people, (I realized I was inside of the Hookah station, or something like it. It's bar near a few fast food areas, don't let the name fool you.

The reason why I'm presuming I was in the bar is because when I was looking at Chelsea, I looked outside with my peripheral vision, and saw the narrow street lanes, and it had to be outside near college main and the intersection).

A couple of guys made the "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh" sound and laughed a little bit after Chelsea told me this.

I don't know why she would tell me this, or what the hell we could be doing for her to say that we should basically go back to where we live.

To save myself from embarrassment, I told her,

"Yeah, I have to go to a tutor at 7PM."

She acknowledges it, and we go our separate ways. I don't pay attention to where she's headed, she most likely vanish because I doubt that was the real Chelsea.

I leave the bar, and the dream environment is a little different, I go to my right and move forward, then I find myself stuck between a lady trying to move her car out of a parking spot, and it was really narrow that I was forced to wait for her.

Her car was green, and pretty generic in its composition, and she's moving the car slowly because there's two more vehicles to the sides that are too close to her car. It ends up causing a dent on the front side of her vehicle, but she doesn't seem to care.

By this time, I couldn't tell if I was still stuck when she was backing up, I probably just stoon on top of one vehicle to see how this woman is going to back up without damaging the other vehicles.

Dream 7: Back-stabbing

I'm in a dark area, seems like your classic creepy mansion. The room I'm in had a fancy carpet in the middle with some fancy stuff and bookshelves surrounding it.

I find myself being shifted to another environment, and it looks like I'm outside of the mansion or castle or whatever, and it's still night time.

I realize my back is being braced against a huge column, and my perspective is a little weird for a moment.

Imagine bracing yourself behind a wall, you can't really see much behind you unless you do some peeking to the left and right, but for me, it was like I was staring at myself bracing against the wall.

There's this huge Black dude in a Black long jacket. It looked like the Black dude from one of those Resident Evil movies, but that's just using a general comparison.

He's guarding the area in the middle of the 4 columns placed in a square formation. And he's looking at the area I'm hiding in, but he doesn't know that I'm there. Oh, and he has a really huge freaking weapon, like a really huge Shotgun.

All that he's doing is turning his body right or left, and when he does that, I peek in the opposite direction. I waited for a while to advance, but it seems instead of shifting to the right (he just shifted to the left), he takes another shift to the left.

Whoooooooooooops.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! The shot literally demolishes the whole column I'm next to.

I barely dodge the shot by taking a small dive to the ground when he finds me out, and I try to hide to the column to the left of me, but that would be useless since he's already found me out.

The dream resets to me bracing against the column again, and I knew the guy would to those random formations where he shifts his body to the same direction twice.

I still was detected by him, but instead of trying to fight him I told him,

"Look, I already know I can't defeat you, that's impossible right now, can you at least show me who is your leader?"

Without even answering, the leader shows up out of a dark area. He looks like Steve Carell with glasses on.

Now that I'm awake recalling this, you have to be freaking kidding me....LOL...so much for looking like a fearless leader.

He doesn't say a lot in this dream, I'm just explaining why I'm here.

I tell him that I wanted to be part of his group, because I have intel from an enemy of his who thinks that I'm only working for him, and told him that I would be back-stabbing the other leader, which is Steve Carell.

He doesn't really take it too seriously, since I am working for him, but I didn't tell him that I'm only helping both sides for my own benefit, but I don't know for what though.

He talks, but it's like he's saying random shit to make it look like he understands me. He starts pointing at something like he's comprehending what I'm saying, but I just ...I just... lol, really?!!?

This guy is a leader??????

To be honest, if I was lucid, I would've just woken up from this fail leader. It's not Steve Carell that I was disappointed in, it was just that when I barely dodge a shotgun shot from some tall Black dude, you'd think that their leader would be a little MORE bad-ass than that?

Not the glasses man, not the glasses, it doesn't help with your "evil" visage.

Dream 8: Alyzarin

I wake up (FA), and I go to my laptop, and I go on MSN, and find that Alyzarin is online. (She's going somewhere at the moment, so she couldn't have been online, but I guess I was too excited to tell her what happened lol).

We chat around a little bit, and I forgot most of what we were talking about.

Dream 9: Crown

I believe I'm Link (this is just a video game simulation most likely), but just a weird version of him. He's like a variant of Windwaker's Link and other Links I'm presuming, can't remember exactly on his facial structure.

The dream is pretty vivid, but I didn't really pay too much attention to the environment, except for the fact that it seemed I was in a city that was in the sky (Skyward sword association probably, but I never played it).

Someone awards me with a golden crown, I didn't really think of it as anything useful, but the text below (like you would see when you get an item from a chest or person) said that wearing this crown allows you to double the speed for you to use an item or a weapon.

I just run around like a dimwit, trying to test out this crown I'm wearing, and there are command prompts on what actions can help you use it's function. I saw the Wii remote animations on the top screen while playing the game.

Don't remember much after I recall myself dashing like crazy in a random area of this sky city.

Dang it! Again with these False Awakenings!!

I wanted to take another attempt to sleep again, but it's 10:24 AM right now GMT -5:00, so I might as well put this as an entry now.

Damn it, I was lucid, had the intention to find Kaomea, but forgot to do stabilization techniques.

But again the lucid dream was vivid and looked stable, I just don't understand why the dream started to fade. Maybe it was from adrenaline, but I didn't feel any kind of rush, the least I felt was just anticipation of find her.

Well, no use complaining about it now...it's already done and gone.

...Was the question I faced during my dream, but I'll start from the VERY beginning.

I was with my friend Evan. We had signed up for a debate tournament, and I need to go to one more for the class. We arrive at the tournament (somehow I had the mindset that evan was from a different school, so I didn't know if we could actually be a team according to the debate rules) We go to the main room for our extemp draw. I told him, "Hey, it's my cat time class!" Then I realized that we were from the same school. It wasn't my cat time class either, it was Mrs. Funks from the 7th grade.

He then tells me "Oh shoot..." I ask him "?" He tells me that he didn't sign up for the tournament.... I wake up at this point (really) and decide I would try to re enter. It didn't work so I gave up, but I fell asleep and entered it anyway. I was back home after the tournament. Tomorrow was Friday, I had another tournament to go to on monday. I get to school and go until about 5th hour and I get checked out. I had two bags with me for some reason. I start to walk to the office but stop in the area in front of it. There were rows of people there and they were eating. My shoes were messed up. My heels weren't in them. I got one in but I tried to get the other in without making "a scene" =P I get it in eventually and my mom walks over to me.

We leave out of the doors to where the buses drop people off. We are going to the mall in a nearby city, then coming back home to get ready for my next tournament. We get to the mall and enter a small store with sports stuff. They had small logos and plastic helmets on a wall, so I thought I would check that out. I started look for my favorite team, the Bengals. I found some of there things instantly. Then I found a bengals necklace! It was 10 dollars. My mom gasped and said she would buy it for me. We go to buy it and the cashier says "Just swipe the card and sign" My mom starts to sign. He says "Maam you need to swipe your card first." They start arguing, my mom says she swiped the card (she didn't) and she keeps trying to sign. I end up taking the card and swiping it.

For some reason, my mom gets pretty mad at the store owner. She starts throwing big rubiks cubes all over the small store, and some fabric materials. It goes out into the hall of the mall where other people notice it. The cashier told us to leave... without the necklace =.= For some reason, I really wanted it. So I go back in the store and pick up the mess my mum caused and he gave it to me. I thought to myself "This isn't right. I have to be dreaming. I must have fell asleep on my way up here to the mall." I go back home.

I watch a weird video on youtube. I like and favorite it from some reason. It was uploaded by youtube themselves, and it went against their rules. They were completly changing the website however, to some sort of art thing. I realized again "This just can't be right whatsoever. I had to of fell asleep somewhere. Maybe even before school and I haven't woke up yet. Maybe during school. But I'm pretty sure it was on my way to the mall. I need to wake up.. " I do a reality check just for the heck of it. It doesn't work. Papers fly off my desk unnaturally, which convinces me I have to be dreaming. I force myself to wake up. I was at my dads house (actually awake) where I begun typing this. -sigh- Wasted lucid dream

I slept in the afternoon - WILD, I was walking in the park, I have no any task to do, so I asked DC about one guy, of course I mixed name and nik with other guy, DC don't say me anything. And soon I moved to another dream and awoke.

Hello everybody, I write this journal because my handwrite sucks and i can't write anything readable on my normal diary, moreover i think that sharing dreams can be a good way to deepen the fascinating world of dream...
I don't remember my first LD i've always had them, i had my first OOBE 3 years ago when i was 14 (i've done 2 or 3 step before waking up for the excitement). Since then i had a lot of different experience that i haven't written down so now i recall just the most vivid and important...
I usually have 2 or 3 LD a week, but this week i didn't have anyone. I was reading a book about lucid dreams that explain how to have LD with MILD (i haven't looked for lucid dreaming method before because i've never needed it, but the author said that he had a decisive increase with with MILD)
So last night i've tried it and i succed in but i was too tired and lazy to write it down and now i can remember just fragment. So now i will write down the main dreams i recall .

So, I had my first lucid in over a year on my second DV anniversary! Excellent timing, brain!

I remember looking at my hand. I counted it over twice. On the first time, I had six fingers. The second, my fingers had weird 'half fingers" in between them. Very obvious signs of a dream!

In a very poor attempt to stabilize and increase the vividity of my dream, I felt the texture of my mother's laptop in front of me. This didn't actually do anything to help that. I should have just looked around carefully and taken in my surroundings.

At this point, I get up from where I was sitting and decide to try and hover. I get up from the couch in m living room and start to jump as hard as possible. I was trying to jump to a degree that would make me "stick" in the air and hover like that. It didn't work AT ALL.

I woke up at this point.

Normal Dream
Lucid Dream

Night 22

This Lucid Dream was the best one I had yet, and one of the most amazing dreams I have ever had, it was really fun . I did not reread them to make fixes so if I messed up some spelling or wording, I'm sorry .

I. I was at my grandfathers house, in his driveway next to his porch, I think my mom was showing someone the house who was interested in buying it. I remember seeing big long works of art like hung up on the railings, they were huge wooden carvings which theme was Christianity. I remember seeing Jesus Christ carved in holding his hands up in a cupping motion holding a star. I am not a christian, but my grandfather was a very peaceful one. I remember my mom walked past me and said “God is merciful. He does forgive you for you sins.” directly to me, and then I woke up.

II. I am taking part in a civil war or something, it was taking place around my house, it was red vs blue just like a video game, but it was real. It wasn't like a modern war, we had old guns that each shot needed to be loaded. I remember walking with a group of men, we were on the blue side, and we come across a small group of red men, we were like 20 feet apart when both of the groups line up in a line. This was a very very scary feeling, being on the front line ready to engage the enemy knowing you might actually die in a matter of moments. It felt so real, I was so scared as both of our captains were yelling "Positions!" i was on the front line and we lay to the ground, "Aim!" my heart was pounding, in a matter of seconds I could be dead, "Fire!". The next thing you hear are gunshots from both sides, I was still alive, but I was frantically trying to grab a bullet out of my pocket to lead my next shot, I get it in and shoot, I see people people falling to the ground with gunshot wounds. I could not get my gun loaded for a third time, so I put my head down and closed my eyes and bullets were flying past me, I just sat there trying to figure out if I was dead or alive. I did not know if I was just so scared I couldn't open my eyes, or I was dead and everything was just black. I have been into situations like this before, and just like those times my dream rewinds to a part at which I am safe, this time I am looking out a my window and see my brother get shot and killed. I remember crying with a friend of mine, I put down my gun and walk out to the other armies captain, I just tell him straight up that I don't want any trouble i just want to ask if I can get my brothers body and bury it myself. He said something like "You have guts coming over here, but yeah, I will allow you to get your brothers body.". I thank him and I noticed that they already buried all of the fallen soldiers, so I am looking around trying to find where they buried him. I could not find him and went back to my side where it was being taken over, so me and my friend just decide it is time to run, we run and run while explosions are happening. The dream ends right around here.

III. I am going to separate this one into parts because it will be easier for me writing it I feel. It is a really long read .

-I am in my middle school basketball court with my class, we were all shooting hoops when my arm was really weak, I could not throw the ball at all. I was really frustrated, but the class ends and while we are walking away I am just thinking “this is crazy, almost like a dream”, at this point I was like “wait, oh wow, this is a dream!” as I say looking around. My dream wasn't fading, but it wasn't as vivid as it could be, so I yell “Increase awareness! Increase lucidity!” and it actually worked a little! At this point I am excited as I never really had a good lucid dream at school, they have usually been taking place in my house, so this was a good change. I had a lot of confidence so I looked up to the basketball rim and raised my arm up and started levitating towards it, I slammed the ball in the net, I never really tried to fly or levitate yet in a dream so it was great when it worked first time. I look at my classmates to see their reaction to this, they noticed by didn't really care that I was levitating lol.

- So after I have just became lucid, I just wanted to explore this world, so I walk out and I am in my middle school entrance, and there are huge windows to the outside world, it was a bright sunny day out which kinda surprised me, I thought it was going to be night like most of my dreams. A part of me wanted to go out and walk around outside, but I decided to stay and walk around the school. So I start walking down the hall and I was now with someone I knew from school, S, so we are talking about something (can't remember) when we get to a class room, she was wanting to play like some sort of hockey game and we sit down and she turns into this strange tv/robot lol, it was a good thing because at this point I think I was falling back into a ND, but after that happened I sat up and continued to explore remembering it was a dream. When I left the class, it felt like I was in a maze, there were dozens of doors, and I could not find the way out, it was like a school/hospital because there was a middle desk with a nurse/teacher sitting behind it. I go to open a door, I think it was an exit, and she says something to me to help me, I forgot what it was, but I was like “oh yeah, thanks!” as my subconscious just helped me again retain lucidity.

- So I walk back out into the hall, and it was like a school merged with a mall now, there were a lot of people just walking around and going about their business. I walk to this entrance to what looked like a huge restaurant, the lady at the front gave me this flyer that was purple and white, I had a very hard time reading it as the words were changing, at first it said something about Taco Bell, but then they changes to something else. So then I just left and continued on, I walk out into the hall where a friend of mince came up to me and I knew right there that he wants to help me and he wasn't an ordinary DC. We were talking when I ask
“Do you think you could come back and help me become lucid in future dreams?”
He looked at me and said “Umm, sure, we are all just an effect anyway.”
I wanted to make sure he understood what I said so I was like “So you can?”.
He replied “Yeah, but there are some who still do not trust you, but I do not see any problem with it, just don't hurt anyone or do anything stupid”
At this point I was like hmm, some people don't trust me? But I remember saying thanks and continuing on with him.

- This part is crazy, but kind of hilarious, so as we were walking we get into this huge open areas, kind of like a mall cafeteria and Morgan Freeman comes up to me. All of these people who have came up to me have been helping me, he starts talking about the dream and our current location, it was like so strange, and he also said how some people here still did not trust me. So we are talking and then he was like, “Watch out, he comes Santa Claus.” I was like “What?” and I turn and look and here is some long bearded man dressed up like Santa coming right at us, he grabs some dude right beside us and I was thinking this was a dream so I raised my hand and made gun noises hoping a gun would appear in my hand, but it did not work. That is when Morgan Freeman pulls my arm down and says that I did it wrong, that if I wanted to do that I needed picture what happens before it actually happens. I thanked him and was like, “oh, alright.”, and I remember just leaving that area right after as I really didn't want to get into all of this craziness, so I walked off to go explore. I was back at my middle school and it felt like I was trapped there, I found myself at the start of the dream where I was outside of the gym, so I turn and walk through the school, but I found myself at the gym entrance once again, I was like stop trolling me dream lol.

-So I walk out into the hall again where I see a ton of people just sitting around, I remember pointing at each one I recognized from RL, and was saying “I know you, I know you, I know you...” to each one. There was one person who replied and said “I know you too.”, and I continue to do this and I walk into a room, and it was actually my living room now, I recognize someone I knew from school, and looks to another DC and says “I do not trust this guy.” I was tired of hearing how people did not trust me so I look at him and say “Alright, why do you not trust me then?”
He said something like, “Because you are now knowledgeable on how to do this.” I knew he was referring to Lucid Dreaming.
I reply kind of laughing “Wait, so you don't trust me because I now know how to come here.” or something like that.
It looks like he doesn't know just what to say, and he said something like “Well.. Kinda.”

-Alright, now at this point I felt like the dream was going to end soon since it felt like I was in there forever, so I realized I was back at my house I wanted to do one more thing, walk through the closet mirror in my room . I walk out to the bottom of my stairs and I was like, I should fly up the stairs so I tried to fly like before, but it did not work this time around , so I just walked up the stairs. I seen my cat on the ground and I walked right past her to my room. I get in front of my mirror and look at my reflection, I have heard you can look really strange and I did, my face was like changing shapes and my body was twitching really fast. I then try to stick my hand through the mirror but it did not work, so I put my face up to the mirror and it still did not work, I was upset it was not working so I decided to try to punch and shatter the mirror to see what would happen. I hit the mirror really hard twice and it would not break, so I shoved my face back into it and I actually went through! It felt cold like a liquid, and it was so strange, everything was black and white and the landscape was of myself, like my nose and my cheek were like mountains. That is when I realized I was in SP in my bed and my eye was open looking down at my face, I could not move and everything was still in black and white. I wanted to get out of SP so I forced myself up and it worked, I got out of my bed excited at the dream I just had and I stood up and did a RC and realized that this was a FA. As soon as I realized it was a FA, I woke up in my real bed.


I am still shocked at how long that LD was, I hope I continue to have LD's every other day!

Dream One: I'm on a spaceship, I can see the metal doors and walls all around me. I notice Storm troopers (or maybe Clone troops, I'm just now learning the difference -_- and it was a dream) the Hanger starts to open and I think to myself, "Wait a minute, Storm Troopers don't exist, I'm dreaming!" I step through the door and wake up. I'm sitting at my computer and I'm annoyed because I think I've fallen asleep at the computer again (If you read my dream journal yesterday, you'll know I spent all morning dozing off if I sat still too long) I start to pull up dream views to type up the short Star Wars lucid dream, and end up waking up for real instead.

Dream Two: I'm playing Kid Icarus. I'm doing exceptionally well (I like the game, but I really suck at shooting games. I'm more of a rapidly push random buttons to win kind of girl, lol.) and I'm really excited, but then the enemies are flying farther and farther away and Pit's not catching up to them. I think it's ok because they're not attacking me, but it sucks because I can't get hearts without killing the bad guys. Then I hear someone shout behind me. I lower my 3DS and notice I'm on a raft in the middle of the river. There's a cop coming towards me on another raft (but he looks like a guard from Fable II, same face and outfit) and he's telling me I've drifted too far out into the rive and could get hit by a boat. I apologize, explain that I was playing my game not paying attention, and let him tow my raft inland. I drop my 3ds in the shallow water when we get on shore. I'm embarrassed and worried about my 3ds, but it end up working just fine, so I laugh it off and tell the guard that Nintendo products are like tanks. (True story, I bought a DSiXL a couple years ago, and set it on top of the car to buckle the kids in. I forgot to take it off. Down the road it flew off the top of the car at 45 mph and hit the road, popped it open and the game cartridge out. One of the buttons got jammed b/c of the road scraping the plastic on top of it, but as soon as we got the button pried back out, it worked just fine. I love my Xbox and PlayStations, but the Nintendo products I've owned are soooo much more durable!) Anyways, the dream skips to me being inside, but we're at the old house I grew up in and I'm trying to decide if I want to go back out to the lake or if I want to go to the Renaissance Festival. I'm having a touch time trying to decide, but luckily I wake up and don't have to choose after all!

Dream Three: I'm waiting on my husband. We're in a hurry to get some stuff done, but I don't remember what. I think I wanted us to get some stuff in case the power went out during a big storm we were expecting. My husband was taking entirely too long, so I decide to get in the car and go by myself to get a few things then come back to get him. I'm in the car driving to the store, when I come around a curve there's a car in the middle of the road, parked across the road. I don't have time to stop and end up clipping the back of the car causing it and me to spin. I can't get my car to stop (dream physics) so I end up spinning and pushing the break and tearing into this field. I get out when the car finally stops and rush over to the other car. I'm sooooo worried and start yelling, "Is everyone ok?!" There's an old man who seems to have seen the whole thing and he says everyone's going to be ok, there's a doctor on the way. Then I'm trying to apologize for the whole thing, and there girl and guy in the car tell me it's ok, it wasn't my fault, they were the ones parked in the middle of the road. I'm still feeling horrible for hitting them though. The guy is laying on the ground, he seems to have a hurt leg and be really sick. I'm worried that my insurance is going to go way up, that I'm going to get a ticket, and that our cars going to not work anymore. I start crying and decide to call my husband and let him know whats happening, hoping he can make me feel better. I pick up the phone and wake up. I think this was a false awakening or I only partially woke up, because I woke up thinking I was in a different house (the one from my childhood again) but just rolled over and went back to sleep, and this time I woke up for real, and way too freaked out to go back to sleep.

Just wanted to take a moment to write that apparently Benedryl makes me lucid. I've usually avoided the stuff since just one pill makes me stay in that hypnogogic (hynopompic?)state where your half awake and half asleep and it looks like things are in the room with you and you fee like your falling and all that. But I've been having more trouble with seasonal Allergies this year, and have taken it three times over the last two weeks because I wanted to be sure I was well rested without fighting the stuffy nose and pressure. All three times I've taken it, I have been lucid at some point in the night. Now I'm in the delima where part of me wants to take it more often so I can get lucid more often, another part of me feels like that's cheating and I should stop taking it so that when I'm lucid I know I got there on my own.

dream 1 - In L.A. of California, I was at some kind of store with Yellowcard band members. We had to buy foods before the store closes. I tried to buy a donut or muffin but the staffs were already cleaning the foods out. I got frustrated and just headed to a book store - bought 2 mangas. There was still a popcorn store so my friend and I tried to buy it, but the black man who looked like a manager of the store kept telling me that I can't buy popcorn because of my status. I said 'why why?' and the man came out of the counter, holding a square board that said reasonable sentence that I cannot buy...(don't remember what it said) I got really frustrated. The Yellowcard members started to get out of the store, and I followed them running like a rocket, heading back to the studio. It was sunny outside. We entered a white building. A private staff opened the door. We went in and I tried to explain the members what happened in the store.
"Guys! Everyone should listen to me!"
but Ryan Key, who was the main vocal of the band, gathered the members to do some kind of team activity along the sofa. He started to gave us notebooks(?).
"Hey Ryan, I think everybody has to listen to me right now."
"Get the notebook," Ryan said handing a orange notebook to me. "If you don't then I'll tear it apart in half."
"Ryan!" I said. I grabbed the notebook but strangely Ryan wouldn't let go of it.
"Ryan!!" I said again.
"I'm getting pissed off right now." He said. Then he let go of the notebook.
Ryan started to do the activity ignoring me. Suddenly my tears ran down my cheeks because I was really fan of Yellowcard, and Ryan brought me down. After I woke up I cried. maybe it should have been affected by my stomachache...

dream 2 - I was at some kind of desert? Rocky Mountains? The ground was bright orange color and there were tall rocks everywhere. My family was there. I was watching Shin Chan. This dream is kinda foggy, but I remember encountering very muscular man and woman wearing military suits and holding weapons. I didn't feel threatened. I think I ran into some kind of airport.

dream 3 - I was reading my own comic and I saw my drawing of landscape of destructed world, and my characters facing the sun. it was very beautiful. On the left there were huge mountains with snow covered and in the middle there were some destroyed buildings. Then I meditated this scene to do dream incubation. I was running on the buildings and did RC, became lucid! Everything was vivid. Then I remembered finding Lmrhone, so I chanted his name but nothing changed... soon I woke up.

whiterains dream

a few memorable moments. was walking through a 'local' town except the street was lined with all these amazing thatched mansion style places. reminded me of american houses nothing like our local tiny boxes. got into the town and had a chat with andy carroll, building his confidence up for the newcastle game 2mo. then i tried to go back down the road with the massive houses, but despite feeling like i had gone the right way, i couldnt find them. this got me lucid and i said to some lad in front of me that it can be so hard sometimes to find the same places again in a dream.

i was in a pretty dull white corridor and tried to get down the end of it to look for this place. there was a woman at the end of it though and i got chatting and pretty much gave up my task. she seemed kind of afraid though so i left her to it. the whole thing reminded me of a dream i had years ago. that is two dreams this week that have reminded me that sometimes it can be so much eadier to remember past dreams while in a dream. there are 2 ancient ones that i dont think i would have remembered had another dream not sparked the memory.

was another bit i cant quite remember where someone was trying to stick my dream map to the wall by my bed, except they had stuck it landscape ways. this turned out to work though as i could look at it while lying down

I was going though some dream at school about picking up some gym clothes for a friend or something. I walk into the gym and immediately get blown back by some powerful force.
I tried to get up but I was paralyzed except on my right arm. Someone grabbed my left arm and told me that I was dreaming. I have no idea who. They started dragging me along the floor.
Whatever was in my schools gymnasium we had to get away from it as fast as possible. Even though I had no idea what was in there, I started throwing fireballs into the gym. The fireballs looked small and weak.
We got to the end of a hallway, and whoever I was with said we had to go out the window. I thought of another power to use. I told myself that when I clapped my hands there was a sonic boom that would break all the windows. I tried to imagine it happening and what the windows would look like after they were destroyed.
But whoever I was with found that the next window was completely missing and we went out that way.
I somehow wound up on the street outside of my school with some of my friends. I told them that I was dreaming and that I wanted to try some flying. One of them got out a plastic skateboard ramp and told me to run of it and when I did I could start flying. I looked to the sky and saw several planets that I could fly to.
I ran at the ramp from a ways away and tried to launch off of it. It totally failed. I just jumped and landed on the pavement. I made no effort to stabilize the dream as I began to wake up at this point. I woke up.

Future me: That dream character was Lia you idiot.

Further Future Me: Her name is Manei.

I fell asleep on the couch apparently and went up to my bed. I decided that since I knew that I was in a REM cycle I could do a WILD. I tried to lay still and count to relax. Then I remember trying to create some nonsense as in a free-falling WILD. It cut off at some point when I fell asleep non lucid.

It was short, blurry and made no sense but it was a lucid nonetheless.

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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]He leads me out of the room and to a river, or water chute,where he has me climb behind him on to a jet-ski type of machine, though atfirst I think we’re still on land. We take off at a fast rate of speed and nowwe are on a wide, slow-moving river, headed upstream. The pace is incredibleand I struggle to keep hold and not lose grasp of my camera. The scenery isbeautiful![/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]We leave the city and the amusement area behind and proceedfurther in to the hills, all of which are lush with greenery. On some, whatappears to be fir trees cover the hillside, and among them hikers and outdoorenthusiasts can be seen enjoying the beautiful landscape. Even more bizarre isthat some hills have snow on them, some are top-covered and some have patchesof snow all the way down to the waterline. I attempt to take several picturesand some come out and some do not. My shutter is working slowly and does notcatch every image timely. [/FONT][/SIZE]
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[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]On my right and in some valley below us we pass a school,and perhaps a church or cemetery, though I never see any graves. It matters not;I’m too busy being in awe of how beautiful and lush Hawaii is. I’m takingpictures left and right, wanting to show everyone back home that Hawaii isnothing like what we see on television. As I understand it, Mr. Bond has brought me up a river and deep in tothe region to show me the real island treasure, something tourists never get tosee.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I understand why people live here, and why it’s one of thecalmest urbanized areas in the nation. I contemplate staying.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]The ride takes some considerable time, and we pass numeroushills and valleys, all of which are some of the most vivid colors I have everseen. When we at last come to the end of the ride we are on a high hilloverlooking Honolulu. Beyond the city I can see the ocean and the mountainstypically seen in postcards and movies.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]James Bond dismounts the vehicle and steps on to a woodendeck and continues on in to what appears to be a motel room or somethingsimilar. I get off the vehicle and look around for a second. We are no longeron water when the ride stops but as I approach the motel area I feel like I ambeside a canal, or on some wharf. The lighting is dim, and the area seems seedyand unsavory, like one might expect from a dark alley in Venice at night orsome fishing community where people shut their doors and windows to avoiddrunken types.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I walk up to James who is on the sidewalk outside the roomand I suddenly find myself face-to-face with a beautiful young brunette woman,and she stares right in to my eyes. There is an odd mix of attraction and fearin her eyes, and she runs on past me. She is dressed in a pink nightgown thatdoesn’t reach her knees but doesn’t look smutty either.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]She disappears around the corner about fifty feet down fromus and James asks me if I want to follow. I nod and he says, “Yeah, you do, Ican tell.” [/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]We run to the corner where we last saw her and make anabrupt turn to our right. The hall becomes dark, but it clearly leads up to adoor which I take for a bathroom. “Ha!” I think, we know where she is now, thiswill be easy! [/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I reach for the door and yank it open, but excitement turnsin to shock as I see the woman is held around the neck by a large, surly manwith bad teeth. He is holding a large knife and is clearly upset, and angry atour intrusion. He must be who she was running from and he must have corneredher here, or this is what I believe at the moment.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]In a moment of bravado I grab for his wrist, attempting togain control of him and his weapon, but he is faster than I expected and heeasily sidesteps this move. He regains composure and lunges forward with theknife, and I have to duck swiftly to avoid a deep penetrating stab. He pullsback and I start to come up, and again he stabs forward with the knife, and itis pointed right in my face.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]“Easy!” I manage to say. “I don’t want to be stabbed in theface! Calm down!” At this point I realize he has me at a disadvantage and Imust wait for another opportunity. Oddly enough James Bond is nowhere to beseen and I feel abandoned. This is going to be really tough if I have to takeon this guy by myself, and the girl will suffer along with me.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I am staring down the length of the knife, waiting while theangry man decides what to do. Behind the man is a view of a bathroom across thehall, and this opening is draped with a shower curtain. Behind the curtain andunseen by the angry man I can see James Bond coming up behind him, about tostrike him hard with a blunt object, and my spirits are momentarily lifted.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]Mr. Bond makes his strike, but somehow the angry man becomesaware of the attack and strikes him in the neck with his knife. He pulls it outand James’ hand immediately goes to the wound. Bright red blood sprays out, andstarts pouring down his neck and shirt as he collapses at my feet. He appearsmortally wounded, and this is when everything seems really grave.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I look down at his figure and then kneel down to help him.Something about the whole situation seems really familiar, and though I shouldbe horrified at this scenario I am no longer afraid. In fact, I am amused, andthe whole dream borders on lucidity.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I’m holding him up slightly from the floor, staring at thebright red blood, and then I lean in and whisper, “You can stop now. I saw allthis on Bourdain.” The familiarity of the situation becomes apparent to me as Irealize this whole scene had once played out on Anthony Bourdain’s show, NoReservations, which airs on the Travel Channel.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]He doesn’t seem to realize what I’m saying and again Irepeat, “I saw all this on Bourdain.” [/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]He starts to get up, and he tells the angry man, “You canstop now.” The angry man releases the woman and loses all trace of hostility.The whole scene had been created for my benefit, an amusement made most real. Ihad felt threatened and was prepared to do whatever was necessary to defuse thesituation, up until I realized that Mr. Bond was using a corn-syrup packet toappear like fake blood on his neck.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]It was very impressive, and I felt a little bad that I hadended the scene. James walks off and out of the room, slightly dejected.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I walk out of the room, also, and back towards the way wehad come from. I have to descend a stairway to get back down, though it had notbeen there before. Each stair is pastel-colored, pink, blue, and yellow, an oddcolor-scheme.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]At the bottom of the stairs and to my right is an opendoorway. Inside the doorway is a large drier with its door open, and sittinginside the drier is a beautiful young woman in a medium-dark green outfit,curled up and watching TV. I pass on by but then think perhaps I have hadenough of James Bond and I would rather spend it with the girl in the drier. Iturn around and head back to her and I’m about to ask if I can join her companywhen I wake up.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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