Lucid Dreams
Vesterguard's Dreams non-lucid - Notes - lucid No recall from the night before this 04-09-11 Weeds themed dream, fragments only. Silas and Shane are there. I find myself a big bag of weed and fancy a smoke, but I am missing the tobacco. I head for the shop and tell myself that I need to get rid of the tobacco after having smoked up, so I won't take up smoking cigarettes again. … I am in a museum or shop of some description and there is an exhibition going on in one of the back rooms. There is a poster on the building that explains that there are two types of fees that you can select between. I approach the guard sitting in the museum and asks him what type of payment I should select. “entry fee” and “support”, are the two options. He recommends just entry fee, he doesn't believe I will be taking advantage of the full benefits of support. I end up paying 3 fees and feel a bit ripped off. When I get in I am surprised to see that it isn't an exhibition on parrots as I had expected, but rather medical equipment. More specifically I am told it is Orthopedic tools and procedures, which makes sense when I look at the pictures and some of the people there. Thure arrives and I wonder how he got in so quickly and if he has even paid his ticket. We wander around for a little while before leaving as the exhibition isn't that relevant for us. I feel a bit annoyed having paid the money I have, though I find consolation that at least they are being used charitably. … There is a blonde woman with us outside and it is late afternoon/evening I think. Someone asks where we are supposed to go and I point in the direction I know to be correct. The woman tells me that it wasn't the way we came and she would like to take the route she knows to be correct. I let her, because I briefly doubt myself if I have made the right call. We start walking shortly after having a small discussion if it is OK to do it like that. As we walk I look out towards my right and find a landmark I know. I had been pointing in the right direction, but we just carry on though the road I suggested would have been much quicker. Notes: I am unsure if this fragment here is part of the above mentioned dream or the one below. … I am walking through the streets at night, the place feels like Bournemouth though on retrospection it looks nothing like it. There are loads of pushers walking around, selling mainly weed and hash. I keep just refusing them, feeling like I might become addicted if I say yes. At one point I run into an Old friend, Mark. He is one of the pushers and I just walk past him like I have the others. However I look back towards him and he turns and looks at me, then recognise me and throw me a lump of hash free of charge. The texture is very soft compared to how it normally feels and I can sort of rub it out between my fingers. … Think there are huge chunks of the dream missing. I am walking around in a field, which isn't a farmed field. The grass is yellowish and the sun looks like late afternoon. We are a few of us there looking for either a monkey, a kid or a wolf. This whatever it is has threatened one of the group with a knife. The knife has been found a bit up the field and it looks like a mixture of a scouts knife and a machete. Something is ironic with this thing that was after one of us, something about him being left out in the rain because.. argh.. shaky recall. We hear singing and dancing behind us and turn around to see native Americans, or people honouring aspects of native American culture, singing and dancing around a fire. “Awesome, that is cool” I say and from the right hand side two of our crew members come out and start making their way to join them. … Birds eye view of Nancy and Andy (from Weeds again, nearly done watching them all I swear) on a cliff side. There is a small narrow passageway and there is a long way down, yet still they are fighting, slapping each other and running past one another. … I am looking at a car driving through a tunnel. All of a sudden a person jumps from the side walk with a generous amount of clothes and boxes onto the front window of the car. She latches onto it and start punching through the soft fabric of the roof of the car. The woman remnds me of Lisbeth, with rather big eyes and long curly brown hair. The driver, a vampire, looks annoyed, but calm and collected he just raises his gun and pulls the trigger roughly in the area of where her arm is poking through. She looks up and I think is as stunned as I am that the bullet missed her. There is a voice that beckons her to stay in character for just a bit longer, which she tries to. When she gets off the car it is in a strange fashion. She sorts of slips down the hood and under the car. There is a small rectangular window from inside the car over one of the wheels, which are train wheels. Through this window/hole you see the woman get cut through the middle of her body by the train wheel. Apparently this was part of the plan cause next thing that happens is that two grey vampires or demons come flying through the air holding onto the woman, who is now also completely grey. You get the feeling that she is receiving healing. The perspective is no longer rushing behind the car but is stationary outside the tunnel. Along the two demons holding onto her there is also another demon that looks like a mixture between a dog and a horse, also completely grey, though I also have this feeling that the grey thing is temporary. The demon dog/horse seems like the leader of the pack and is holding a vampire in it's jaws around his midsection. We are preparing for confrontation. I see multiple vampires appear, one of them looks a lot like he could be in Kiss, with the whole black leather outfit along with half a mask completely white. I believe the first wave of vamps is handled by our strike force, but the next one is handled by me. We have pushed into a large circular hall of sorts. I am using magic. I pull up these redish energy shields that bubble up from the ground and surrounds the people in the room. I position myself a bit better so I can manage to cover all of us while still be in the front to face the vamps. They start by rushing the shield and bounce back off of it. Then I grab a few of them mentally and keep slamming them against the shield, which looks rather weird from the birds eye perspective I am in. This little group I have hold off is bouncing in between the rest of the vamps placed in the front. After a while of this small chunks fall off the vampires and I know that the ones starting to drop this are done for. The shield is still up and the next move I attempt I am not sure if I am successful with, though I think I am partially. I kneel down and point my hand, fingers spread out, towards the opposing team and start rambling in some weird language that I probably made up myself. The concluding word is Fuego! The spell I am throwing is intended to send a wave of fire through the vamps, but when I look at it from the birds eye view it looks only like the first couple of lines starts igniting, though the flame wave is invisible. I am back in my body and keep my eyes closed visualising how the vamps will just ignite instead, it will do the trick equally as good as the flame wave I intended. While knelt down I get a stray thought of Raistlin of Dragon Lance and Cameron steps up to me and say “Brother, with your new strength you are decimating them”. He also sounds concerned if I will be able to hold it up for long. The new strength he is referring to is the Winter Knight mantle of Dresden so there is a big happy mix up of literary mages in me. “Silence!” I shout through my teeth. Decimation is not enough. These creatures need to be exterminated so I call up the next spell. False Dawn. Should be nasty towards vampires and I again am watching myself from the outside, as I start channelling energy. All of the group is huddled under my shield and there is a sigil appearing over me that looks a bit like the eye of Horus and is growing brighter and brighter. At the same time I look through the massive windows on opposite sides (if you can talk about sides in a circle), and it looks like dawn is coming. I wake up, feeling elated and happy, channelling magic always seem to do that for me. … My family and I are taking off, this is the last day of the holiday and as can only be expected they are in a hurry to get back. My sister tells me to pack up and get ready, because we are not going to wait much longer. We are driving some big family car, quite similar to the one my parents have just invested in though with much more space in the back. As we are driving I want to lay down and get a small nap. This mission of mine is complicated by the fact that my niece is out and about actually just walking around in the car. She gets over to me and starts talking to me, she seems excited and she calls my name in what I perceive to be her first words. My sister and brother-in-law stand up and lean towards the back window so there is a lot of room for my niece to play around. She just won't shut up having just discovered language. I lie down and ask my parents where the hell we are anyway as I have no idea where or why we have been on holiday. Poland my mother tells me and I think “fine”. I look up towards my niece and see that besides her now talking away like mad, walking around like there is no tomorrow she also has a full set of teeth, so I decide to look at my hand. My hand looks perfectly normal, but the whole scenario is just too weird for me not to be dreaming. So I start flying backwards through the rear window and through it. I spend a bit of time looking around stabilising a bit, but Chichén Itzá is on my mind from the start. I am in the middle of a village, where the shops and restaurants look like they do in Århus, but the city is much smaller and seems more like a village in the country side. I ask around for Chichén Itzá and I am told that it is just up the road, however I think that the person who told me this might just be referring to a restaurant with that name. Superman comes walking down the pedestrian zone and I think “Brilliant, you can take me there quickly”. So I ask Superman to take me to Chichén Itzá and he complains a bit about being super busy, but I insist that it will only take him like 10 seconds or so and he agrees. So I run to catch up with him and then I see another Superman coming walking down in the opposite direction, great two of you will get me there twice as fast. I was worried that the first one might just me a person dressing up, and now I am sort of convinced though I keep trying to believe that they can really take me where I want to go. They grab my hands and hold them above my and their heads before they throw me up in the air and I land maybe 5 metres down the road. Wicked, no cigar. I start walking through and open restaurant, meaning the street just sort of turns into the restaurant. As I get to the back of it Line from my primary school class greets me and welcomes me to the reunion. I give her a brief hug and look around at the assembly. I don't particularly see anyone I recognise, but assume them to be my old class. I excuse myself and tell them all that I have somewhere I need to be and jump backwards out of a window, to the surprise of my old school mates. They draw sharp breaths and sigh as they see my descent turn into a small flight step. I fall from maybe 10 metres and is briefly scared of this. I look up to my left and the landscape keeps going up. There is a stream with some weird statues of really large pigs/cows (one of them reminds me a lot of the grey demon dog/horse from the previous dream). I fly up the stream and notice some farmland on my right at one point and I know this zone to be unproductive for my efforts at getting to the pyramid. So I look to my left out over the village I have just been in. It looks weird like a small village with the buildings of a larger city. The landscape starts blurring a bit so I verbally command an increase in clarity, which I am successful with. Then I look up at the sun and demand more lighting. Compared to the darkness of night from before I get a slight improvement to dawn like light. I keep shouting out for more and the sun obeys me but only in a small circle in front of me. After a while I sense my speech becoming blurry and as expected wake up about 1 second after this realisation.
1) I am at a sports game, of the US versus various other nations. The foreigners are devastating us, and are completely aware of this. Somehow it will worsen the world's view of America... An indian man pops his head through a white banner.
(I had super high vividness and lucidity and then my friend who was staying the night at my house wakes me up)
It was unbelievable this morning when I realized I had successfully had my first Lucid Dream. I was ecstatic! I remember getting out of bed and just going 'YES!' Great moment indeed So How I got into the lucid dream was quite peculiar. I remember going to a house of some sort but not much of any details. I'm talking to a very spiritual person with my brother and he tells me he's going to help me lucid dream, right from inside that dream(but I didn't know THAT was a dream, it was confusing but I didn't check anything etc) so my brother and I lay down and next thing I know I'm in my very first lucid dream. I've known I was getting close lately because my dreams have been becoming more and more vivid and I was extremely excited when it finally happened in the dream, but not too excited, I knew I'd wake myself up if I got too excited. It was curiously stable. The reason I call this an odd induction is because whenever I think of going lucid I think reality checks, noticing weird details, etc. But this time I went directly from inside another dream to lucidity. So anyway in my lucid dream I was in a very nice, old looking circular room filled with people and furniture but really I didn't pay any attention to the details of the room, I wanted to do something great. I started remember a book I'd read on lucid dreaming, where people made familiar items appear in their hand, so I thought "I can do that" and thought really hard about this medium sized ball I'd gotten a long time ago and just recently found, and I pictured it in my pocket, I imagined details, weight, and next thing I knew I felt a bulge in my pocket and taking it out I found it to be my green ball! I experimented with the ball, making it appear and disappear at will. Eventually I decided to make the ball appear while I'm looking at it so I make 2 from my pocket and stare at my hand imagining a third and sure enough a third ball appeared in my hand! At this point I'm excited, almost too much so, because I think I woke up afterwards happy as ever. No flying, but not a bad first lucid dream. Now, I also put dream share in the title because when I woke up, my twin brother told me how in his dream he was talking with me and a spiritual character that eventually put him into a lucid dream! A dream share, if you ask me. But he forgot what happened after that so there's no way to confirm it... so that's it, my first lucid dream.
September 03, 2011 Forgot the last two dreams but funny enough remember the first two. Dream 1: I was in my old bedroom which have a bump bed. I notice my remotes were on my dresser I had a little bitching moment and place them in their rightful place. I turn on the TV and it must been late as my brother in bed was complaining. It was a new episode of Futurama about everyone having a clone which in this case was a cat--face clone. This was a total ripoff of the real episode about the two boxes paradox. Anyway beside Fry being mostly one color and Bender was mostly green it was pretty close to the same. I was going to bed seeing a monkey under the sheets. After that it got kinda fuzzy. I only remember the idea of "which bump you slept in could totally effect you later..." for example a fat blond ugly Leela was somehow a choice if she slept on the wrong bump. Seem like my life would been the same either way but if my bro slept on top then his life greatly improved. A weird dream that only make sense while you are in it. Dream 2: Embarrassing dream that I not even going to write on my private journal. At one point I start thinking about dreaming in general like I often do in life. Of course I knew this was a dream but I decided to look at my right hand. At that point the dream character disappear and what used to be a building became a dark forest. I flew like I often do when lucid but I saw a man turn into a wolf. Not a werewolf. If anyone been reading these then you know I don't have any real fears but I HATE being chased. I flew as fast as I could but he was on my tail then to my right. I said "fuck this" and woke up. So annoying... I had two other dreams (not fragments) so my recall is coming back.
I went outside into my old neighborhood. Baron was running down the street. It eventually turned into mexico and the police turned their guns at me. I went back across the border. This neighborhood is a gateway to many places in many of my dreams. I knew this was a dream still so I wasn't fully scared of trying to find baron. We ended up in some haunted mansion and were trying to be careful not to awaken any spirits. I had a FA into my next dream. Lucid but don't remember most of it. I had a FA where I wrote the dream down. Rubbing hands together just to stay in. Put my hands into the air and attempted a portal but failed. tried creating a portal with Leo and it worked. We put our hands together and slowly drew opposite sides of the portal. I tried to walk through it and bumped into a hard wall. I woke. I wrote the dream down in a false awakening (it was much longer than this) Was trying to stay in this cheap hotel. I have stayed in this hotel in several dreams. This time a mean looking lady kept denying my payment methods. A lot of cool things happened here, but I remember only very little. When I went into the room there was dirt everywhere and it turns out they did not clean it. I went to tell the lady and she just kept giving me attitude. I told her I was the son of the president of Russia and talked to her in Russian. Her eyes got big and her attitude changed. Another dream where I was rapping in perfect Russian. Was in a giant mansion that was an extension of my house. Everyone was looking for g for some reason but he couldn't be found. Somehow we found him upstairs in a secret room. G was a master lucid dreamer and all he did was sleep and have lucids. He told me that he sometimes went on secret missions for the government and he no longer needed to eat. He was making fun of me because he was better at lucid dreaming and I was super pissed and tried doing handstands and such to prove myself. Later I went into a dream through a wild determined to beat him and became lucid. I met up with g who was lucid and Kara and Leo who were not lucid in a giant city that looked like Israel. g was on some super government mission and I guess that's how he likes to have his lucids. I figured I would just go along for the ride and see what his lucids were like. We were swinging from buildings and I was destroying stuff on the side like usual. There we're things constantly trying to kill is but we just shoot bolts of energy at them and they would instantly die. I time one guy wouldn't die and it annoyed me. G had to kill him. We did a couple random missions. I shot some stringy thing out of my hands at a high building and got scared I would fly up. I'm always scared of heights in my lucids. G made fun of me and told me that its a good thing we weren't in a dreamscape with high buildings. We found ourselves in a giant terminal building where I started to lose vision. I felt my real eyes and didn't move. It took longer than usual but I got sucked back in. I did some quick rubbing stabilization. G laughed at my technique and said he rarely had to stabilize. Was walked around doing random things until I kind of got bored of him and walked to do my own things. Woman were trying to seduce me and have sex with me. I was horny but knew if I had sex I would wake up. This old friend of mine jenny was looking at pictures of me on facebook and was embarrassed when I saw her. She tried to tell me she never does this. She was all dressed up and tried to seduce me. I said no but woke up.
Updated 09-03-2011 at 07:49 PM by 20284
I was on a rooftop with some buddies, we were talking. The conversation came to an Ion lazor, and suddenly I had one. I gave it a twist, and It fired a concentrated blue laser. I tested it out a bit, and before long I realized It attracted zombies (mostly due to the fact that zombies started showing up.) I ionized a few waves of them, but before long they started overrunning us. we got into our car and sped through the horde, I noticed some non-infected trapped with the zombies, but I didn't want to risk letting the zombies in trying to save them. I was feeling stressed at this point, so I decided to do a reality check to verify that it was all real. I could breathe through my pinched nose and I had 7 fingers, but it still took me about a minute to realize I was dreaming. End recall.
I entered the dream and became lucid. I did another L-DEILD! Please regard all my previous entries when I DEILDed. Those were actually all L-DEILDs since I was lucid and then DEILDed when I awoke. So anyway...I was now in the same library sorta place. I was glad to be lucid again. Seeing all the puny mortal DCs walking around on the carpeted floors thinking they're people. Wait! I now remember something! "I have to do the Task of the Year!" I shout. I run over to a railed balcony, that has an outside view. There's a race track! Let's get this bitch done! I fly outside, and go to the starting point of the race track. There's Greased Lightning and its driver. I walk behind, and do the turn-around method. I now have a car too. A black Fird Mustang. Let's see that shitty red can beat my Mustang. I awake. OH YOU MOTHERFU
I recall becoming lucid in a library sorta place. I once again forgot to do the TOTY, so I basically just wandered around. I was aware when I was walking up though. So I awoke. I didn't move or open my eyes. Time to DEILD.
I can only remember seein my friend Zaine. I was lucid though. We were in some room that looked like it was from a Star Wars movie. I also recall doing a Super Kamehameha.
[COLOR="red"]Lucid[/COLOR] [COLOR="blue"]Dream[/COLOR] [COLOR="silver"]Thoughts[/COLOR] [COLOR="silver"]Normally I would say, I were out last night and went to bed late.. So I did no attempt because I was to tired. Or .. The battery of my Iphone died so the alarms didn't wake me up all the way. But this time I did all the misstakes that I have allways blamed my not succesful attempt on, but I still succeeded![/COLOR] [COLOR="silver"]I got to bed really late! But I just changed the timer so I slept the same amount of hours. When the alarm wakes me up. I feltl really uncomfortable so I moved.. and then I fell back to sleep again.[/COLOR] [ATTACH=CONFIG]2476[/ATTACH] [COLOR="blue"]Then I had 4 False awakenings in a row. I know that they were false awakenings, because my Iphone died long before those awakenings... But I dreamt my own alarms! On the fourth false awakening I thought about vaccation, and the exact same words that I thought about I now heard my mom say in the other room "We should go to Spain". But I didn't become lucid... Then I woke up and saw that m Iphone had died... So I thought "Ok I failed no big deal, I know that it would have worked if my Iphone hadn't died.[/COLOR] [COLOR="red"]Then I close my eyes and I see that it's a yellow cloud on the back of my eyes! I observed it and my last thought of a location I were on the previous day becomes my dream. Either it was a False awakening that I WILDED in, or it was a normal awakening I don't know, but it doesn't matter because I got lucid anyway. I was now standing on a parking lot and (I'm am chocked and ashamed over what I did) my bestfriends crush M. is looking with horny eyes at me and my dreamy me thinks "This is a dream, it wont hurt my friend". I don't even like her that much in reality... But then she jumps at me and tells me that she want to have sex. I stabilise the dream by feeling her lips when we kiss and touching her body, and rubbing the.. hands haha. I scream I am dreaming! It stabilise only for a bit. But I am still in a dizzy feeling, then I just forget that I want to stabilise and I have sex with her. Then my friend shows up next to me not even bothering! And then he joins and that feels a little weird so I left. But he followed me so I thought hmm the last day we were bragging about how we knew how to impress girls, even if he didn't know them. So I tried to imagine the location we had been at. And the dream changed, but then it morphed into something random. I thought "Were do I find nice girls?" Then it started to appear lot of McDonals restaurants! And was like "WTF?!" Then I just went into one of them, and there were nice girls alright :shock: I walk up to one of the girls, and say "Hey what's yor name?" and she answers "Annie". But then she says alkjhaaöhwfwaf :? ... And then I say to my friend "Come man you have to dare to fail to succeed. Then I pushed him to talk to someone and I talked to a girl that was 15 years older than me, it felt weird to hit on her :/ Yeah I was a total jerk in this dream... [/COLOR] [COLOR="silver"]I think it's pretty interesting that dreams tend to draw my attention to forbidden thoughts Sex with my bestfriends crush, hitting on older girls. Maybe that is the stuff my subconscious is fighting with holding back. The norms and my conscious mind believes it wrong, but my subconscious loves and hates what my conscious hates and love. I did stabilise properly in this dream, but it still didn't work, it got stable only when I stabiised, the second I stopped the dream become more unstable. Subconscious VS Conscious 1 - 0 ... I think I am going to try the spinning technique next morning, because that is something that many people have talked about and sais that it works. The truth shall be told![/COLOR]
Updated 09-05-2011 at 05:26 PM by 49122
Lucid I'm in my living room and i suddenly realize i'm dreaming.I begin to stabilize the dream , do a nose pinch , look at my hand and rub my hands.I say stabilize a few times out loud and the dream becomes very vivid.There are many relatives of mine in the room.I go to my room and want to meet with my friend, so i say "Somebody tell Claire to come here..".I hear somebody coming , the door opens and it's not her..I lead the girl through the door and say "Somebody tell Claire to come here.." , it's not her again.. for the final time i say that i again and some fat girl comes.I turn around and think of going out.But a thought about waking up slips through my mind and i wake up.
Navy- Lucid Dream Black- Forethoughts\Nonlucid This isn't my first by any means, but the first I'm writing down on DV. By this dream I'm able to keep stable for what feels like 20-30 minutes most of the time, and I'm able to control levitation\telekinesis. False Awakening in my room and I find that I'm lucid. I began stabilization techniques and then I teleport myself to a jungle-like place. I began flying, and I notice a few details such as plants and animals, but don't take much more notice to them. After a few minutes of this, I start to fade to black, which is when I start floating in an abyss that seems to be recurring throughout my dreams. I find it's very cold and I can't feel anything or move. My vision begans to blur and I see figures in the distance. They don't look human, possibly a spirit? I then return to my room as one of the figures approaches me. After returning, I almost immediately wake.
blue = lucid Black = back story or commenting Ok so this was my first lucid i woke up to my alarm to go to school, but found it went off to early so i went to sleep... so like a accidental WBTB? i have a false awakening, now i love the dark... so i have no reason to fear or hate false awakening, but i go to grab my phone since i know i have a text... i always do. and there was no phone... i look around and find it, but its broken and it looked kinda off so i got up and tried to turn the lights on accidental DILD? it doecent work i go "wtf?" mess around with it and do a RC.. boom im lucid i look around and its pretty dark.. its my first and i want it to last so i spin around rubbing my hands... i think it kinda worked.. then i think to my self "i gotta get outside and do something.. but its to dam dark" so i look out my window... i say "Yo sun! rise!" it comes up... no light so im like screw it il just go outside... i open my door and its nothing but black.. i heard going into darkness can wake you up so i closed my door... instead of going thru my window i try to phase thru the wall... then i notice kinda a statue of a food with all these crazy people swarming it... in the middle of my small room... so i ignore it and try to get out.. then i hear my door open, its from outside my dream. my mom came in because i was not waking up to go to school
Not satisfied with my already neat dream experience I decided to enter once again. Formy 3rd lucid dream of the night. I exited my body like an OBE style exit this time. First my legs and arms became loose but I was stuck in my bed at my hips I was pulling and pulling wriggling trying to get loose. I was basically bent like a v shape lol. After a little while I gave up and just at the moment my body floated up. I was levitating above my real body it felt like maybe 5cm above just floating. I couldn't see anything. I started considering my next move. I rolled over and started trying to do breaststroke it felt like I was swimming through cotton wool or something. It was nice and soft, but felt fairly dense, like I had to tear through it. After few mins of swimming through the darkness I decided to turn around. But I got stuck and couldn't move. I lay there stuck for a few mins. Thinking what I should do. It was kind of nice just suspended in the darkness. I decided to spin my body, it actually started spinning really fast straight away and I landed in a dream. I can't remember much of it. I was in my back yard of my current house. There was a house over the back. There were apparently evil men there a large group maybe 10 or so. Dressed in medieval type cloths, thy looked like wizards or something like that. And a group of us I don't know who they were. The evil men wanted to kill us. I told my group not to worry I will protect them. I looked at the men one by one and they changed from a person into .. basically a cloud of coloured smoke some purple some orange, some yellow. And some just vanished all together. I told my friends 'don't worry some of them are fake'. I was staring at the old guy at the back I knew he was powerful but I had to go and fight him. I thought I was going to get killed but I had to protect my friends. I knew if I killed him they would be ok. I started going over there my friends were saying 'no don't go' etc but I had to. As I got over the fence they run inside I followed and inside there were a whole bunch of Japanese gangsters they were trying to cut me with meat cleavers. It was really really vivid. I was really afraid I wanted to wake up but I was stuck. I thought I was trapped in the dream and started panicking I ran into this big huge guy I almost woke up from the dream. Then I knew I wasn't trapped so I stayed. But have no idea what happened... Never the less it was a pretty cool dream. I liked the stand off and seeing them turn to smoke. some other things happened there but I can't remember the details. I think the old guy was telling me he wanted to bring me over to them or something