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The setting was old historical, renaissance I think. There were many people in the room, but I couldn't see all of them for whatever reason. I just knew there were people behind me, but I couldn't see them.

My family in the dream was seated at one end of this huge table. My brother and I sat next to each other on one side and our mother and father on the other. We were at the castle because our parents had begged a word with the prince. The prince sat in a throne against the wall closest the head of our table, where we were. His people stood on both sides of him and near the exits of the room. I got the sense that the people behind me were his too.

Father began speaking to him of a child that was his in our family, my brother to be exact. He said he would no longer raise the child as his own because it wasn't. The prince should take him.

The prince declined saying what good is the son of a common woman. Did my mother think she was the only common woman to bear him children? There were many children in this kingdom from the prince's loins, but he would not lay claim to any. All women should thank him for blessing them with his seed.

Mom shrieked at him. Begged him to take my brother and give him work or teach him something. The prince wasn't having it. He ordered for us to be killed.

We ran, all of us. My parents pushed away my brother saying no, he's not coming, let him to die. That's the way they said it, let him to die. I grabbed hold of my brother's hand and looked him in the eye. I said, "You're still my brother. You will always be my brother. I don't care whose son you are."

Together we ran, nearly tripping over things our parents had thrown down behind them.

I was in the old grocery store from my hometown with my brother, whom I had not seen since I was 18. He's been away for a long time, but he was there in the dream with me. We were buying a few things to go home and make a meal. I could see the isles very clearly and the items on the shelves. I can remember the cute little blonde working the register as we got ready to leave. I went ahead to the car. While I was in the parking lot, a starving white tiger snarled and came out from behind one of the parked vehicles, a white van.

I knew the tiger was hungry and looking for its next meal and found me. I backed away, putting a few of the vehicles between it and I, to where it couldn't see me. I wasn't stupid, I knew it could hear and smell me, but I knew it was important that it not see me getting away as I edged nearer the building.

The tiger rounded the corner and growled. As it began to circle me, I turned with it, keeping my back away. I made a lot of noise and acted bigger than it was, thinking maybe it would work like with bears. I knew it was too hungry to care, but I had to try something to keep what was sure to come from happening. But no, the tiger stood on its hind legs and swatted at me and I kicked it. So help me, I was fighting a friggin' tiger. Nobody was trying to help me, everyone was tucked away safe, except me. I remember thinking that very clearly. Followed by some not so nice thoughts about all those people, who were standing there recording it on their phones. I don't even think anyone called for help.

Anyway, there I was fighting this tiger. Yes, FIGHTING! A tiger! I remember thinking of all the stupid things I've done in a dream, this is the most exciting. It gave me strength. It kept me going. The tiger clawed up my leg pretty bad and decided to pounce. As it was airborne, I dropped to my back and pulled both my legs up ready to kick it. Time slowed. And I nailed it. Knocked the wind right out of the poor thing and me too. Even emaciated, it was huge, but I remember thinking the paws were too small.

I was able to think logically within the dream, but certain aspects of the dream were totally unrealistic, like being in the same old grocery store that had closed down, a white tiger in small town Tx, and me winning a fight with a hungry tiger.

I was waiting outside a bank and I knew there were people inside for whom I was waiting. One of them came out to wait with me. Dream me recognized him as a friend, but I had never seen him before. A short walk away was a multilevel mall and I decided to go there. He followed me, ranting about how the others would be out soon and we shouldn't. I told him I had to, there was something strange. It's hard to explain how the levels were, but the top floor was on level with the bank outside and the bottom floor was on level with the street. When we came in from outside there was a clothing store with lots of futuristic clothing in reds, blues, silver, and black. I got a very distinct impression that greens were rare and expensive. Fire alarms started wailing. He and I exchanged a look, he knew I had already made up my mind. We went forward making people go to the back exit, where we had just come from. Store by store on the second level, we cleared each for signs of life. Smoke began drifting up the stair case. It was dirty grey in color with a greenish yellow tint. We went down the stairs calmly. The smoke didn't seem to bother us much at first. We split up to clear the stores on the bottom level. We kept getting the people to go toward the back exit because we couldn't identify where the fire was, but the smoke seemed to be coming from the front exit. The last stores to check were in the front and we found a few people, a woman passed out and a child hiding in a clothing rack. It didn't make sense that they didn't get out, so close to the exit. He carried her and the child held my hand as we walked out the front, never finding that fire. The smoke had been so thick in the front that we were all coughing as we came out the doors. Our friends were already down here waiting by the truck. They had gone around.
As we were driving around in this old pickup, the five of us, I began noticing that there wasn't any grass, not even the little strips you usually see in the cities. There was still a KFC's however. Annoyed, I rolled my eyes as we headed into the tunnel. A tunnel that was in the middle of a housing district, nice houses at that. It was dark and traffic seemed to be backing up as we got to it. The artificial rains had began on the other side. Artificial because there were no trees, no plant life.
Jake, the driver, had left his window down. There was no clean smell like you get after a real rain, just the smell of car fumes. He said he'd roll up the window once we were really in the tunnel. Bees were in the tunnel with us. They didn't like the water. They flew in through the open window and began to sting us. One of the women with us died before we could scramble out of the truck. We managed to get out of the tunnel, but we couldn't go back in for people because there were too many cars piled up in the middle and toward the other end. All we could do was run. There were swarms chasing us, huge, unrealistic swarms. We headed into one of those nice houses, kick door style. The lights were on, but nobody was home. The bees followed us. There were only three of us left. We ran all over this house, which felt like more of a maze than a house. Jake was swatting at them with a shower curtain and I told him, "That's it. Turn on the water. They don't like the water!" So he did and he started spraying them. I ran to the kitchen and turned that sprayer on and we just kept spraying the bees as they came near us. Soon all the bees that had chased us were down and we congratulated ourselves. Just me, my male companion from earlier, who I understood was my partner, and Jake, who looked an awful lot like Ernie Hudson.

I was at a high class resort of sorts, and I was not me, though I don't have a a good sense of who I was.

The most memorable part of the resort stay was the tutorial they did mostly directed toward men of "How Do You Dance With a Lady" when there is a wine bottle involved. It appeared to be a formal evening dress code event, with classical dancing. So the men were given a multiple choice quizz:

Do you "Dance with a Lady" and a wine bottle
(a) by renaming your wine bottle "lady" and dancing with her
(b) try to pour or drink the wine while simultaneously trying to dance
(c) you enjoy your wine while the lady dances
OR and this was the "correct" answer
(d) you pour the wine for your lady and yourself, you both enjoy it, then put down your glaces, and then you dance together

A later scene at same resort (this one woke me up):

I was sitting on the veranda or a large balcony of the resort, and I was not paying much attention. All of a sudden I hear this terrible looming noise, and a loud voice saying something from a loudspeaker that sounded like "Ally Action" though I could not figure out what they were actually saying. At first someone else blocked my view, but then they moved, and I realized that a helicopter was the source of this noise and loudspeaker too. Then I realize that the helicopter was going to land right where I was sitting/lounging. I moved quickly to avoid being squished. In fact this was so vivid and realistic that upon waking up, I immediately sat up in bed and got out of the way.

This was not a lucid dream but it was vivid and detailed and long with more than one scene.

And upon waking I remembered a previous dream also which I shall record separately.

I believe I remembered the dream that I forgot earlier tonight, and I remembered the Significant Insight that I had reached before. This dream is actually about dreaming even though it may not appear to be!

In my dream I was an actress in theatre, just starting out. And an experienced actor had taken my under his wing and was showing me the ropes. During a break in rehearsal I had been chatting with another less experienced actor. My self-appointed mentor saw this, and afterward took me aside and reprimanded me, saying "Why are you wasting your time with that nobody? To succeed in this trade, It matters who your connections are. It matters who you are seen with, and he is not someone you want to be seen with." I rebutted him with "I am not in this for the usual reasons: I am not in it for the money nor for the fame, and I choose who I hang with."

While analyzing this dream after it happened it occurred to me that this dream was about why I am putting this effort into dreaming now, why I want to lucid dream, why I am here at DV:

I am not doing it for the usual reasons. Or maybe these are the usual reasons for some people, who knows. An important motivator for me is to regain my self-dignity and self-respect, to regain control of my dreams so that I do not do what my subconscious tells me to do. I get to choose who I hang with. For me the an important motivator for lucid dreaming this time around is moral reasons: I want to do what I perceive as being right (which of course does not mean I won't do something like shoot someone in a lucid dream because it feels right to do so , I need to do empowers me, and I need to not let those more experienced than me dictate what is right for me. This is what attracts me to DV is because it seems to be a place where people generally support this kind of attitude, and do not try to impose their way on others.

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Friday March 1 2013 I took NyQuil for my cold, and went to bed early. Around 8:30pm I woke up. I remember having some profound insight into my dream recall or something like that. I remember feeling very self-satisfied with my progress and how it was not just a fragment this time. After all this patting myself on the back, I almost fell back asleep without writing anything in my dream journal. I startled myself back awake in order to write it down, and it was all gone, except for this.

In my dream, there’s this little bitty town called Lacey Spring Alabama. I was walking down highway 231 with a sawed-off 12-guage shotgun. The town was destroyed. It was just like Fallout 3. It was so similar. It was wasteland. I was headed south from Huntsville Alabama which was only 10 kilometers north. There was a storage warehouse, to my right as I was walking off a hill. I walked about 4 kilometers on this highway to where the road starts to go up a mountain. At the base of this mountain, there was a building to my left. I walked to it to check it out. About 6 people with guns rose to se if I was a zombie. They walked out. I wasn’t a zombie luckily or they would have shot. But they were friendlies. There was a beige Chevrolet that pulled up. There were more people. Then all of a sudden, there were a bunch of zombies that came out from behind the building and attacked. Everybody was shooting. I got in the truck with other people and drove all the way to a place called Redstone arsenal. It was a military installation. There was a space shuttle there. We all got in it and got off the planet and went to Mars. We landed. This concludes my dream.

I had 2 dreams today i can't recall all of them but i remember parts of it so here i go

My friend had a birthday or something special i don't know but he had this new gadget that looked awesome. The gadged was something like in Men in Black the thingie that erased their memories my friend had a similar one only that it did not erase memories it only showed videos when you point it to the ground or air. As we are walking we enter a mall and jump this tiny fence. There were people waiting and the fence they did not look happy. Once we jumped the fence they started fallowing us speaking in a foreign language. I was getting creeped out so i turn my back and say "fuck off douchefags" as soon as i said that my friends(now they were 2) started running and left me there with these 3 muggers. As soon as i reach out to throw a punch someone punches me in the face (it did not hurt at all i did not even feel anything). At this point i wake up and think how can i miss the chance to become lucid again. So i go to sleep again trying WILD.

In the next dream i remember we were with the same 2 friends and a girl i dont know we were in the metro making a joint like litarary inside the metro while it was going (the marijuana was weird it had this beige color) i start to notice the weirdness of the dream so i look my self in the reflection of the windows and i seem much younger i actually did not find it weird. So we exit the metro and start walking out. As we walk out we enter a school of some sort. I was sure i was here before but did not make any effort to remember. As we walk out of the school the girl says she needs to go to the bathroom so she asks the secratary if she can use it(at this point we are the entrance of the school). She let's her go and we wait for her on the stairs. As we are waiting this two women were at the stairs waiting for something too they were dressed in nurse uniform. So i turn to them and say "You used to work at my school as a nurse" and they both say "We sure did" (i actually remember one of them from my childhood she used to work as a nurse in my 1st school and was really cool and all)

Hope i can become lucid this month i lack motivation even though i watch Waking life (2001) every week at least one day Inception (2010) motivates me too!

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I was inside my house, but it looked different, maybe a different model. Then I walked outside and I saw in the distance, a huge volcanic explosion. Miniature explosions kept getting closer and closer. The closest one landed a giant puddle of orange magma in the yard. Then there was this dog. It was a little Chihuahua. It ran up to me and was burnt everywhere. I went back inside. Then out of nowhere, a girl that was made half of magma, and mostly human being rose out of the magma puddle. I locked the door because I didn’t know what she was going to do. She didn’t act like she wanted to hurt anyone, but she kept calling us to come outside. I said, “It’s a trick don’t do it, lock all the doors and window quick!” I had thoughts of maybe it being the devils army when these beings came. I went back to my room which was changed, I didn’t grab any thing wood for I knew it would melt. I grabbed a metal plant stand and two gas masks. I only had two gas masks. I heard of where bubbles of gas can rise and kill people. The door swung open, and I yelled “GAS GAS GAS!” I held my breath till I put the mask on. She was standing there. Then the dream faded. That concludes this dream.

Top part is just the DJ for me to keep track. The bottom is a question I have for more veteran LDers

In some sort of basement/holing cell with some crazy guy. I think we were being held captive. I know he was being held captive at least. He kind of looks like the main guy from Just Cause 2. We successfully escape (somehow) and steal white mustang with a black stripe from our captors and drive away from them while they get into a cargo truck. We drive recklessly down the highway a little ways and stop to get gas at Sheetz and the bad people catch up to us. Somehow their truck has turned into a small blue/grey hatchback… looks like an older maybe early 90s car.

I then wake up to my alarm and go to work. Which is where I am now.

I am trying to understand this entire lucidity while dreaming. I understand the concept of it but I want to know what the average time that people start experiencing LD's are.

If anyone reads this if you could post and say how long you practiced your techniques before you had your first LD and which technique you used that would be great and very beneficial.

I DID IT! Finally some real lucidity (DILD) !

How can it be so random? I mean - I got the first one at about 6 am - (Non-lucid part) I was outside the block of flats where I used to live with my parents when I was a kid. I was actually just headed for the entrance, but I met 2 guys - they looked like some mafia types. The only thing I could think of was "pretending to be a werewolf" (wtf?! Too much Skyrim I guess). So I ran towards them, roaring. And what did they do? Started playing werewolves, too!! That was funny. Then they somehow disappeared. I proceeded towards a house ahead of me (It actually exists and even looks the same, so ok). Suddenly I heard my band mates talking somewhere above. I looked up and they were standing on a balcony, chatting about a chick that I know, but only actually met her once (she lives quite far away). They don't know her IRL, but I accepted it as logical anyway ( ). Then I went inside the house and upstairs to meet them. The guitarist said that my mother called and said she wants to meet us outside. So we went back out. Mom arrived by a car (the one she really owns IRL). Okay. But that person was somebody completely different, not my mom. She had black hair, she was tall and a bit over-weight (My mom is the exact opposite - short thin blonde). But yeah, sure, for some reason, it was my mom and I couldn't tell otherwise. The others acted as if it was right, too. And then someone else got out of the car - That chick I talked about earlier. The hell would she be doing there? Nah, no lucidity again. Anyway, we decided to go to the apartment where we used to live. So we all went inside the building, took the stairs... and as we reached the flat, there were about 30 more people with us, all headed inside with us. No idea who they were. But THAT was not what I was concerned with. 'Cos it sounds completely normal, right? What I WAS concerned with, though, was that the apartment normaly was on the 4th floor. AND NOW IT WAS ON THE 5TH ! Right under the roof! No way! This must be a dream! *pushes fingers through his palm*.. and it gave way ! Hah! Then I finaly noticed the other people aren't supposed to be there. I remembered to control myself - so I don't get too excited. I thought - let's make sure (of course I couldn't be sure whether that was a dream, with all the ordinary things happening around me ), so I levitated about 6 feet above the ground. I could see another guy in the crowd levitating, too. Really cool. I wanted to see a familiar face. I remember talking to the chick while taking the stairs, so I shouted "Hey, Annie!" (Her RL name). I though I could pull her up from the crowd. Too daring I guess, 'cos at that moment, it was over.

The whole "lucid part" lasted about ...10 seconds? And as much as I tried to focus on the dream and be as calm as possible, I just saw a white screen appear and then it transformed into the wall in my room. I was awake.

But, I remembered dutchraptor's DEILD guide I read yesterday, so even though I opened my eyes, I still felt my body taken over by paralysis. I gave it a shot. Well, more shots, probably.. . I was lying in my bed, motionless, for about 30 minutes. But probably due to my mind still going crazy about how I finally made it and also for being mad that I was kicked out so fast, I couldn't go back to sleep. So I thought "Screw it!", rolled to my side and just went to sleep. At least I got something, I thought.

I thought I was still awake and that I should just get up, when I was still lying on my bed after quite a while. It was light outside, anyway. Who cares if the bedroom looked nothing like my real one and that there was my GF (okay) and my former classmate from elementary school, who was now supposed to live here with us (o... eh..? okay...?? NO! Not okay! ). Or so the GOD DAMN ANOTHER DREAM I WAS IN IMPLIED!

But my dream self's dumb side was in full control again. My GF then said "There are some people in the hallway, lying on the floor, asleep". I thought "What? Oh yeah, it's probably that crowd of people that tagged along with us, with the levitating guy, my bandmates, Annie, etc. I remember them coming with us, so we probably threw a party or something (Are you kidding me? This is not that appartment and those people were dream characters! Oh boy... ). And then I said - What is John doing here? (That E. school classmate). My GF said: "He lives here with us, don't you remember?" (Oh yeah, of course I remember, since you said so ). So I got up and went to check the people in the hallway. I opened the door and there were a couple people lying right behind them. Or .. well. Human-sized wooden dolls, to be more accurate. And they were lying in wardrobes. Like - you know - when an illusionist is trying to slice someone in half and the people always hide inside those boxes, so you can only see their head and feet. But this actually looked like a wooden wardrobe. Sooo... I asked the first guy ... doll... what he's doing there. The wooden doll with red/blue hat looked at me and said: "Don't you see? I am STAN MARSH!" ....
YES! Of course, you are a wooden doll of Stan Marsh, the guy from South Park, you are lying on my floor in a wardrobe! Nice to meet you!!
Then I stepped over him and a couple more people that were lying on the floor (in ... wardrobes... ). The hallway was at least three times the size of the real one. And you know what? There was a bench. A friggin' bench in the middle of the room. THAT was the one single thing that made me LUCID ! I climbed up the bench, and as I stood on it, I thought "I made it again! This time, I'm not going to be disposed of THAT easily!"
And I swear I could "hear the dream think": "Oh, you think so?". In a second, it started happening again, everything fading into white. "No, no", I said. I focused on the ground. I even started SPINNING around like an idiot!
Bah. It got me again. Just you wait the next time!

LET ME HAVE MY FUN, DAMMIT !!

Still having trouble trying to remember more of my dreams, this is all i have for this one
-Be chilling
-Have two armies set up in front of me
-They are fighting each other
-Bane (from Batman) was in there
-Army soldies aswell (the toy ones, like in toy story of something like that)
-For some reason i was grabbing them all
-MINE ALL MINE

So I'm about to have sex with this chick....she's all on top of me. Stroking my penis. Oh mind you, we're at a crowded baseball stadium. When all of a sudden, she takes it off. She hands it to a guy, who walks up to another guy and demands something at gun point. The guy is still yelling at him with the gun point in his face, and when he finally says he'll cooperate, the guy lowers the gun. Then the other guy pulls out a gun and makes a demand. This goes back and forth several times.....Then all these version of Doc Brown wearing purple wigs made out of pom pom material come appear out of no where and start singing a song.

Some are old, some are young, some are even female. We were asking some of them if they had a X or Y chromosome........shit got weird.

Sleep: 5:00 am
Wake: 11:45am 12:50 pm 2:00 pm

First dream I had me and my friend James were hanging out. This guy had stolen his stuff and was selling it at a yard sale. Apparently the bad guy was either Jim Carey or a guy that looked like him. So we steal it back and Jim Carey says to call 911 and we run away, but we already have a plan for escaping. We have ropes and we jump down this well to a sewer and Jim Carey says "You gotta be KIDDING me!" and we run through the sewer to the other side and on the other side we have to climb out then climb up this big wall. The wall looked like storage crates you see on a ship or plane and we had to claw into the metal on the way up. Half the way up the wall we hear Jim Carey fall down the well and scream all the way down. We assume he is dead and that is the last of him. My friend James was using a crowbar and he threw it down for me to use after, I had trouble climbing up the wall so he went back down to help me, and saved me before the metal bent too far and broke. This was all during the day. The crowbar fell on something that was coming out of the wall of the same material, so it could rest almost half way up the wall while still laying there for me to use to climb up the wall. Once we got to the top there was a door into a room. We opened one of the coffins of James relatives and she was really old and also very rude. Her eyes and hair were disgusting and her eye kept getting tangled into her hair when she talked. She kept talking about how bad a family member James was and that was the end of the dream.

The second dream I had I was going from door to door in the neighborhood first trying to ride my bike. I kept riding it through peoples garages and when a garage closed I had to bike around their house. Eventually I ended up with a boogie board and I got a running start then slid on the boogie board all the way into a pool where a bunch of people there. I saw my old Co-worker Sam and a bunch of people there and that was the end of the dream. The pool was way too crowded.

I also had a dream me my friend trey and my brother Joey were in the basement playing call of duty. My brother said we are all atheists here even though my brother is not an atheist in real life. Don't remember any other part of that dream.

Flying Fast

I was driving down the highway with my friend M. We came to a 3-way ramp. The middle ramp was for cars coming towards us, and the other two were ramps for cars going our way.

There were tiny, automatically driven cars coming down the middle ramp. We were lost, so I told M that we should write a note for one of the little cars to find out which we we were supposed to go.

Then I was heading towards a tunnel. A very long truck loaded with boxes that filled his side of the tunnel completely was coming out. I was going in and it was really cramped. As I headed in, I was suddenly holding onto a car that was flying extremely fast, and I realized I was dreaming.

I was going so fast, I could feel my stomach pulling at least an extra g. I started talking to someone that it felt like I must be going 300 miles per hour.

Then I started singing Maybe I'm Amazed by Paul McCartney. I know my voice isn't that great, but I thought it sounded pretty good, and I was a little surprised at my power. I belted out a couple stanzas really enjoying the speed and the song.

Then I was with my fgf, having lost lucidity.

Spoiler for Sexy Time:

She licked my balls and was going to give me a hummer, but the hummer never happened. I was upset about that.

I then woke up and went to the bathroom. I went back to bed and

#50
was lucid again. I saw a blonde and decided to get my hummer with her instead. I got it, but I couldn't feel it that well.

That's all I remember of this dream. I'm not even really sure there was any more to it.

Went to bed at around 22:45. One of the first dreams of the night.

I was in some kind of ruins with mines around. I had gone there with the people of my class because or Maths teacher brought us there. I started looking around, and found that in the carts of some rails that led to the mines were dead bodies. I started to suspect that there was something going on in there, but I didn't say anything. Then, our teacher said that we had to go somewhere, and took us to some kind of big room underground. There, she reveals that she brought us there because we were going to take part in the hunger games, and that we can't escape. I look behind me and see a policeman that is guarding the entrance of the room, and think: "Why can't we leave if there is only one person preventing us from leaving, and we are around 30 people?" The teacher continues talking and says that this game isn't just for fun, it is to investigate some scientific matters and that we will contribute to science enormously.

Dream skips, or at least don't remember what comes here.

All the class accepted to participate in the hunger games, and I had decided to ally with a partner of my class. We are in a living room, and I know that we have to eat or drink something, because everything that we drink or eat gives us experience points that wwe can use to buy equipment for the games. I also know that there is almost no time, so I quickly go to the kitchen (the house was like my grandmother's house) and grab two big bottles of juice. I go back to the living room and throw one to my ally, and I start drinking the other. After finishing drinking, we have a little more of 12.000 experience points, and I know that there is no time to eat anything anymore, so we have to buy equipment quickly. We go to a table that is on the room, and some other people start calling us saying that we are late. My ally goes there, and I quickly grab something I don't remember and some red dices that look normal, even though I know they have a secret function I don't know.

Dream skips again, but I know we've been traveling to the place where the hunger games will take place.

I am in front of a mine, and the game master is telling us the rules that will be used today. We will all start with a lot of grains in the hands that will make difficult grabbing things, and will explode easily littering our hands of purulence. I am wondering that if the game will have real death chance, and I try to recall if the teacher said if this was for real or if we wouldn't die. I also look at a board that tells us the rules. Between them, I read that this games will have buffs and debuffs, like videogames. Then, a girl near there that was born and raised near the place of the games (I don't know who was exactly and where exactly was, I only know that), said:
"If you think this is chaotic, you don't know what it is to grow because of a buff, and not because you are a child"
Then, the game master of the games said that the games are about to begin, and that we should get prepared. In that moment, the dream ends and I wake up.

I put the dream down in my DJ, do SSILD and fall asleep again, and I have a dream related to FFXIII in which I was Lighting trying to escape from the Coccoon. I remember good part of it, but it wasn't especially good. I had a sword and an assault rifle, but I didn't fight or anything D: