memorable

I was driving home from work and I was having a really tough time controlling my car. The freeway was far more complex than usual. There were many lanes, twisting and spiraling into each other. My exit contained 3 potential ways to go and I chose the wrong one. I went to turn back around and get on the right one but the police were blocking the easy exit. I pulled up to an exit they were allowing and I knew that I would die if tried it. The road shot straight up into the air a few stories with no side railing before shooting straight back down. I watched a car go about 100mph and make it but I was convinced I would not be so lucky. It was like something out of a Dr. Souse book. I pulled over to a park and began to look for my phone to call Allen. When I couldn’t find my phone I grew panicked and was on the verge of tears. I felt like I would never be able to go home again (a little dramatic I see now). I got out of my car and walked to the center of a park. It was warm and sunny out. A gay men couple walked up to me and introduced themselves and their 3 adopted small children. They were all so polite and sweet. One of them said they were about to go “lift-a-sailing” and wanted to know if I would like to join. Basically there was a giant chairlift that you would see at a ski lift but it didn’t require any machinery. It flew in the sky in all directions really quickly. I said okay and I hopped on. We but a safety bar in front of us and it took off before I could put on my seatbelt. It was flying super high and flashes of light from the sun were blinding me. I was laughing and squalling like if I were on a roller coaster but it was even more fun than that. After a while I got my seatbelt on and the ride was becoming more mild and relaxing. It was moving forward smoothly. One of the men said that they could fly me home if I wished and I quickly said yes and thanked them. My last memory of this is seeing the highway in the distance and rolling green hills under me. The sun was straight ahead as we drifted towards home. I was overwhelmed with an extreme sense of calm.

I'm in a correctional teenagers prison, and these kids want to kill me. One walks towards me, so I back up towards a set of stairs behind me, to escape, but a kid is standing there, blocking the way. "You wrecked the reputation of the prison, by doing that tv ad." Now two people are after me, I sidestep the original one, and back away, towards another set of stairs. A third person comes out, and says pretty much the same thing. This time I dodge him, and then try escape to the bottom by using the stairs, but then I realise they're attempting to kill me by pushing me down the stairs anyway. I turn around and walk down slowly backwards, while holding onto the rail, so they can't push me. I make it down the bottom, and feel safe, but then I realise the whole "prison" is just a masive open six level scaffolding. I begin running down the stairs away fom them, trying to make it to the bottom floor. One of them shouts after me, "This is all part of my plan! I got permission to take you to the lowest level, and kill you, so no one will see." There are about three staircases all leading down to a lower floor that you can take on each level, so they attempt to cut me off a few times, but it doesn't work. I finally make it down to the first floor, and then for some reason I say, "What a minute! You have permission for ME to be here, NOT YOU!" This seem to mean something to him, because he stops chasing me. I continue running, however, and see an alleyway leading out into my town. I head towards town, but I can't resists turning around, giving him the finger, and exchanging a few nice words. He doesn't seem to care though, he just laughs and says "He's going to use that car!" Reffering to the one infront of me. I walk past his vision and decide against using the car, seeing I'd be easy to find. I look towards a field with long grass, leading into a forest, and decide to walk there. I run through the field, and into the forest, but I have a feeling someone is following me, so I hide behind a tree. It's actually more of a park with a fair bit of trees, and a fair few people are around. It turns out to be people on bikes, anyway, however just as I emerge from the tree, I see the actual people, that were chasing me. They're coming from my front, left side,so I have to hide on a diagonal angle to the right, to not be spotted. I gradually move, and they become none the wiser. I step out relieved, but then I realise there's a police officer with them, and he spots me. I begin running, and the police officer shouts " He's running away" They turn, and try to grab me, but I jump over them. I head into a restraunt at the end of the park/forest, and see a group of my friends. I sit down with them, and try to blend in, hoping the police or prisoners won't notice me. My friends greet me, and I say "Hey, I'm on the run from prison, I need you guys to be quite. They all laugh, which draws attention to me, and the people after me, see me. They call out my name, but I look around, pretending to look for the person. I look at a young boy, and say "Excuse me sir, I think they're calling you." The police officer shouts "Cut the crap, turn yourself in." I jump over the table, and run towards the kitchen, hoping for an exit. They follow me. I turn towards a window, and he shouts "He's going to jump on the chair, and try to climb out the window." I do what he says, but the window is way to small to fit through, and he has an easy oppurtunity to grab me. But he doesn't, and I realise that he's trying to help me. "He's going to jump on the table, and then go onto the ledge. I smile at him, then quickly run out of the room. I walk a few metres, and then slide into a hotel room, throught the window. I'm with Jessi, and I open the fridge, for some reason, looking at the food. I take nothing, and then exit the room. I look for the room that looks the least likely to be looked in. I take the one at the far end, and step inside. Jessi begins walking away, and I demand to know wh he's walking off when there are people trying to kill me. "I'm going to buy the room, you can't just barge in there..." He does have a good point, I follow him, and we end up in the foyer. Jessi begins paying, and I stay the steps, being cautious. I hear a voice that says "You know you're dreaming, right?" "Of course I do" I reply. Then I realise I actually AM dreaming, and become lucid. I turn towards the person who you rent the rooms off. "I want to eat something.... can I have an apple?" She throw me an apple, and I bite into it. Crunchy and sour. "I want you to summon me a badger." It turns into this game, where you have to get the badger. Eventually I win, and I "wake up" with a badger in my lap. I get up, and mum iss tanding at the end of the bed. I wake up for real. (By the way, the guys at the prison weren't actually that scary, considering they're supposed to be in the world's toughest prison..)

So in real life i have this shirt which pretty much advertises the drink: Sprite.
I was going to buy another one of these shirts with some friends, except this shirt was for one which has zero sugar or something. Outside the shop I hugged someone and saw my friend's brother, and behind me I heard another friend say "That's Hughs brother!" (Hugh being a friend of mine).

Time for the next dream!

I was with a friend, we drove to meet someone they know, and waited for them, then this person walked out from behind a car and said "you're late" We then got into some kind of spaceship and flew somewhere, then something like a flying wale attacked us then we crashed into this massive forest like place.

Managed to remember a good few last night, though I recall not writing some down because they were depressing. But, the last one I got down was pretty... interesting lol.

#1 - Why Do I Keep Dreaming About Gangs?

I'm in some kind of vacation house chasing what I refered to as "dust bunnies", they remind me of the fuzzies from Paper Mario (the black ones) and also of the spirits or whatever they were in My Neighbor Totoro. I'm waiting for my friend M to come over, but before she does I wander off and start walking around the neighborhood. Somehow I end up in front of some diner where there's a guy who looks like he's about to rob me and this other guy who was standing there, so I run into the diner, but then he comes in and holds the diner hostage. He tells us that this diner is now under gang control, and then we hear a loud noise like some kind of boom and someone tells us to run. We all make it out of this door in the back and run by a school bus down what is now a long and deserted field of grass with the diner being out in the middle of nowhere, and the criminal is running with us.

#2 - Killing Time

I remember watching a video about a kid coming to terms with his asexuality, and that's it before I woke up.

#3 - The Final Test

I'm in some kind of college, waiting to meet up with M again. I'm wandering around again (I guess I didn't learn my lesson before ) and I end up in a very strange hallway. Basically, looking down the hallway, there are glass doors leading outside just to the right of me. Beyond that on the right, just a wall, but also another door much further down. On the left, there's nothing but glass walls, that seemingly repeat row after row (the same length of the hallway I'm already in) and go on forever. Every now and then there's a line coming down the wall to show that that's where that piece of glass ends and the next one begins. Suddenly something starts happening outside as I hear a lot of commotion, and a wall of ghosts starts materializing on the other side of the glass, as far down as I can see. Different sections of the wall move closer and further away from me like in a wave pattern. I get freaked out and run outside, which causes all of the ghosts to dematerialize. Everyone seems to be freaked out out here too, so since the ghosts are gone I head back inside but some monsters have spawned and I end up having to fight them, and I lose and die. So I get sent back to my most recent checkpoint, when the ghosts first materialized, which seems perfectly normal at the time. I continue that same routine until I've died a few times, then decide that I need a new strategy. This time, I waited for the ghosts to become really solid and get further out of the glass and I realize it's a bunch of people I actually know. :O I realized that the ghosts weren't my enemy, and they told me that they actually want to dematerialize, so I do still need to go outside but then when I come back in don't stay to fight the monsters, just run down the hallway and don't stop until I reach the other exit. I nodded and did that, and I almost got killed again! But I finally made it to the exit. As I get outside, I meet up with J, and he says "Welp, we've finally finished college." and I respond "Yeah, and I only remember like three hours of class. " ... As we walk triumphantly off into the distance with a large crowd of people, the ending music from Star Wars plays, and my dream comes to a close.

After drawing that portal... holy crud it got exciting in the dream world...
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First going to bed:
Man in a mask. we had a long walk around the science building of my school. out talk ended with him saying something like, "You are not quite ready for the whole truth."
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After waking up at 6:30 and going back to sleep:
Crazy adventures!

Smashing zombies I am spawning in an industrial strength zombie smasher, I think Nomad might have been there. I got mad because I was trying to record it, and got launched backward. there was some sort of forcefield launcher that was trying to shoot electric forcefields at me. I dodged them and threw the forcefield launcher behind me and got back to trying to record.

Standing on a ledge with either Nomad, or a Guide I have yet to learn the name of, the view is breathtaking. we seem to be talking, or maybe we are just taking in the view.

Looking through Nomad's Dream YouTube channel, laughing at the trolls (Or maybe taking them seriously? don't remember) some crazy stuff there yo, check it out sometime.

Something about someone (Nomad?) shouting, "WIZARDS!" then... laughing?

ended up in Jail somehow... Skyrim jail... nocliped through the bars, went down a pipe and found a sugar cookie with pink frosting and sprinkles?

A Giant

I was looking out the side bedroom window. Clear as day, I saw a giant. He was about 80 feet tall. He was black. I remember the detail in his face...shape and all.

He had bad intentions. I was really scared. I saw a school bus floating just outside my window over to the side. I remember telling my wife that it was all real, or that he was bad, as evidenced by the bus floating outside the window.

The End

I also had a dream about being a giant myself.


Family and Friends

I was in someones back yard. My fgf was sitting to one side. About 20 feet away, my dad was sitting next to M. About 20 feet away from that was another couple...they were friends in the dream.

I was going to take a picture of my dad with his girlfriend, but his head was hanging down. I know this was because my father has passed away. Instead, I decided to take a picture of mogf, or the other couple, or maybe I ended up taking a picture of my dad and M. if he lifted his head. I can't remember, but I did end up getting one picture.

This is interesting because I just had a dream about having pictures of me the night before.

The End

As far as I could remember back in my dream, my mom let me go into the "Vegas Strip" (though it looked nothing like it, it actually looked like the interior of a mall) alone. I walked down one of the balconies, where a large fat man came up to me wearing some casual attire, and so he asked me about how being in Vegas felt, and I said good. He then asked if I wanted to buy something that would make me feel good, and I didn't reply as I entered a mall, then two cops quickly took the man away. The shop looked like a gift shop, really. It was bright and clean, but next thing I knew, I was looking from a bird's eye view, the gift shop, except now it was claimed to be a secret weapons base that was actually located on a hill on an island. I was now an Argonian from Skyrim, from the Elder Scrolls Game series, and I was following around a man in a robe, though he had nothing to say, but a narrator suddenly came in and began telling how the dome was a secret weapons base where the Hulk was created. That's about as much as I remember... but these dreams are getting weirder and weirder...

Another fragment recall last night, on to the classic of the day.

Dimension Portals
Date: October 13th, 2009
Lucid: Yes

Once again I was in a threatening situation. Some guy was holding me at gun-point and I hoped so intensely that it was a dream, that it turned into a one. All the sudden I teleported to my living room. There was no need for reality checks - I immediately realized that it indeed was a dream. I also had an idea on what to do right away - the challenge in our forum back then was to enter a tv-show's of your choice reality. My choice was South Park, as that was something I obsessed back then.

I did stop to talk to some random little girl that was in the living room, but then I proceeded with my plan. I went out, towards our barn. For some reason outside was mostly dark, but there were some illuminated flowers there as well. I just passed them by, but as I went by them, one yellow flower appeared in my chest pocket.

Once at the door of the barn, my brother was there. I am no stranger to asking help from DCs, so I told him that I need to get to the South Park. He gestured me to follow him inside. There were some rectancular, light blue energy fields - dimension portals. My brother lead me to one of them and told that it will transport me to South Park. He went in first and vanished. I followed him through the portal and... it didn't work. I just went through the blue field. I felt this odd, cold feeling, but it didn't transport me to anywhere. I was sitll in the barn.

I tried going through different portals, entering them in different postures, etc. Nothing worked. Finally I noticed that there was one port on the floor. I dropped through it and poof! I was still in the barn... something had changed though. I felt like I had travelled through time - in to the future... 1000 years into the future. There were some people there that put an odd contraption on my head, so that I couldn't hear or see anything - they feared that I would become distraught for being so far in the future. I guess that makes sense, give me some time to take it in before exposing me into the drastic changes of the civilization.

It would have been interesting to eventually see where the world had gone to in my dream's future, but unfortunately I woke before seeing anything more.

So there I am in my dream classroom, there are some students waiting for some teachers to come with some fireworks. two teachers come into the classroom with some crystal boxes and inside about 8 cylinders to fill them with some colorful firework powder.
I start to fill the cylinders as the students are patiently waiting. I start thinking that there would be a lot of smoke and the roof may burn, but then I realize that this is just a dream and nothing would harm me or the people around me. I continue putting as many colors as I want, the other teachers are ready to start the fireworks...When I finished all cylinders I look at the teachers and they can't start the fireworks, then I say I could start them with my superpowers, so I tell them to move back; and there they are 3 crystal boxes full of fireworks i concentrate on the boxes and then with a snap of my fingers they all light up at the same time, many colors start to shoot out into the ceiling, and as they touch the ceiling butterflies start to come out from the top of the colorful fire fountains everyone is amazed, until...a big explotion on one of the cylinders, one of my special education students ran away so I have to go after him and the dream starts to fade out.

This is going to be some old dreams that i have remembered because I've just started my DJ yesterday and I want to write these down.

This first dream was fun. I was in this circus tent that was fairly big. It had a grass floor and there was a girl that was wearing to much make up throwing knifes at me. The reason it was fun was because I was in slow-mo almost like the matrix and i could fly-float. to be honest I don't remember touching the ground. But sense the dreams I'm writing about have all been from long ago it is hard to remember correctly.

In this dream me and my friends (I forget who) were walking down this street at night. Out of the corner of my eye I caught the alien from the movie ET walking up a side street. I screamed ET!! and the alien sprinted down the road. Red text appeared in front of me. It read "You have gave away ET's position...Hes coming for you." I then heard the aliens scream it does in the movie and I woke up.

This was a fairly weird dream that seems funny now but was actually scary when it happened. It was me and my friend Sean sitting in a mini-van just talking. I see my friends face turn to pure fear and he points out the window and screams "Micheal Jackson!!!" I turned over and looked out the front windshield. It was pitch black out side almost like we were floating through space. Then Micheal Jackson's face and just his face floats to the front of the van. He looked at me, smiled, then floated to the window on the door i was leaning against. I got scared and woke up.

This is going to be the last dream in this entree because there are no other dreams i remember or at least remember enough to write about. I was in what looked like a Costco. It had a really high cieling and huge shelfs with giant boxes on them. There was also a RC plane flying in circles dripping chocolate. I walked up and tasted some of the chocolate of the floor. It dindnt taste like anything so i stopped eating it and started following the plane looking up at it. I don't know why but it was very amusing to me. I remember that at one point some chocolate falling from it got in my eyes. After awhile of that i got a sudden gut feeling of being in danger. I looked at my hands and they were all blurry. Then i said to myself "Oh I'm dreaming" I suddenly felt myself lying in bed. I got to nervous witch is why i woke up.

Ok I just had to write about those in case i were to forget them. But from now on im only writing about the previous nights dreams.

So I know I had a long interesting dream but it's now the afternoon and i don't remember what my dream was about. That said there is a particular piece of my dream I do remember.
It was really vague but i was sitting in the back seat of a car leaning on my boyfriend. In my dream i was apparently on the run from some bad guys and was completely exhausted. I was holding my boyfriends hand and i remember thinking that i could go to sleep and be perfectly save because he was there. It was a awesome feeling. He had his arm around me and was looking out the window as if making sure the cars next to us weren't going to randomly start shooting. I remember smiling and finally dosing off.
That is around the time i woke up and sighed cuz i don't have a boyfriend...

This dream was really vague. I actually didn't even remember it until i was walking to class and all of a sudden it kind of came to me..weird, i know.

The dream started with me sitting on some bed, with my friends little sister and one of our friends. My friend(the first girls brother) died, and one of our other friends that was with him also died. I'm not sure why, or what happened. I just remember consoling her about it. And when i stood up and hugged her it was one of those tight hugs...and when i got ready to let go, she didn't. And from experience i know that's when a girl is really upset. For some reason that triggered my lucidity. That's when i really realized how weird the dream was.

She just kept crying on my chest, which made me cry...

Then i woke up..

I've tried to lucid dream without supplements, but it just doesn't happen. I noticed that the Benzodiazepine medication I took for occasional insomnia had the interesting side effect of vivid and / or lucid dreams, but not reliably. And sometimes the dreams would occur the night after the medication.

I tried Yuschak's recommendations from his book, but the galantamine is so stimulating I couldn't fall asleep again after taking it. But the following has worked several times now.

This morning (1/30/2012) at 2:00 am: 500 mg Choline, 600 mg Alpha-GPC and 8 mg Galantamine. I lay in bed and meditated. The combination has the effect for me of promoting very deep states of meditative adsorption, which is interesting in itself. around 3:30 I took 1/4 mg Xanax (generic Alprazolam.)

Eventually I did fall asleep and managed to stay asleep after attaining lucidity. I was active, making decisions, talking to dream characters and making requests. It was great!

Got another lucid this time! Short, but interesting. I got a little more abstract with my control of it, too. Other than that, a couple other interesting dreams as well. Not a bad night.

#1 - Fucking Hornets

I'm making some kind of video game with a lot of old friends (and a couple current), a guy I haven't seen since high school, and OpheliaBlue. Ophelia and the guy from high school are talking about adding some cinematic to the beginning of the game, so after we discuss how that would fit best they go off to start working on it. My friend O, still my current theory for who my dream guide is, starts talking about how we're going to do the opening credits, and he shows us what he has so far. I don't remember what they were, but I remember that they were pretty funny. But J gets all bitchy about the font size being too small, even though O hadn't actually tried to set it to what it would be in the game, he was just showing us the text. :T Oh yeah, also, we were doing all of this discussion in my bathroom, in front of the mirror lol. Possibly using the mirror as a screen to project things on, now that I think about it...? But anyway, J was standing kind of behind me, so when I turned around to listen to him talk I noticed that there was a gigantic map of the world behind him, one that was clearly not visible in the mirror. As he's talking, he pulls out a much smaller, handheld-sized, map and starts talking about some "red bee therapy" (which I take to mean red hornets) then comes and stands right behind me to try it out and says their are a bunch of the red hornets right behind the map, which he's holding up to my back. Hornets. Now, for those of you who don't know, I hate bugs. They're... soooo nasty. >_< But hornets especially, they're like my least favorite bug there is. So I'm freaked out at this point. I look down at the counter and see a pair of scissors, which I quickly grab, and say "J, get those things away from me right now, I'm not even kidding, I will fucking stab you." He backs off, but one of the hornets gets left behind my back (somehow... ) and I reach back there and feel it. I feel a sting and start running around freaking out, and I grab it and squeeze it to death, something I'd never do in real life but I was desperate , and I threw it down on a table and saw it dead, but then it CAME. BACK. TO LIFE. It's comically large and red with black stripes, and I grab a tissue box and start smashing it but even though it keeps getting nastier it never dies, and it's so gross it makes me feel like I have to puke, and I'm shaking. Then I woke up.

Thank god.

#2 - Fickle Emotions

I'm in high school in an English class that I never actually had, but it's boring so I leave to go find a different class, then pay that teacher $100 (two separate payments of $50) to let me be in her class instead. She shakes my hand and says "A gentlemens' agreement!" (More How I Met Your Mother references from my subconscious. ) But, she turns out to be a hard ass to the point that the other kids in the class are "troubled", like there's a guy not far from me to the right smoking weed in the middle of class, and the girl I sat down next to on my left is single and pregnant (but not visibly). However I learn through the course of the class that she's actually just a really nice girl and pretty cool, and I develop a little bit of a crush on her. I start messing with the teacher to make her laugh, and we end up getting along really well and she's even starting to act like she has a bit of a crush on me too, and it's so obvious that some of the guys in the class are visibly jealous. Somewhere down the line the teacher turns into my old Chinese class teacher and someone says something about him which gets me distracted, after which the girl just never shows up or is even thought about again. Class is over so I get up and walk around the hallways which turn into an enormous and clearly very expensive and high-end mall, and I'm trying to find my locker but it's too hard to navigate, I even pass through a jail cell on the way. I woke up after I found my way out of that lol.

#3 - Third-Person Control

O and I went to a head shop or something, and we saw someone getting arrested in the parking lot, so we quickly got in my car and drove off. While I'm driving, I notice that the accelerator keeps getting stuck, so I'm slamming the breaks to make the car slow down, but eventually it just goes faster and faster and faster until the car pulls up off the ground and we blast into the sky. But I became lucid at this point! I started steering us around the city, as we were in a downtown area with lots of tall buildings so it was fun just zooming around in our rocket car. Before too long I notice that my vision is steadily narrowing down to a very small area and I'm afraid that the dream is going to end if it gets all the way down to a dot, so I consciously switch it to third-person perspective control, which still feels like first-person. (Kind of hard to explain.) It worked for a little bit, though! My full view of the city was restored, and I could see that the car actually had turned into a plane. I start flying off to the side of my vision so that my camera angle moves over and we transition from the city to a mountain range, and the sky starts turning dark blue, so in order to keep the dream changing (rather than ending) I kept up. I had the mountains be just dunes in the background with the sky being underwater, and I transformed the plane into a fish, and I just swam around in the water a little bit, but then I finally woke up. :/ Oh well, it was fun!

So that's it for this entry. I'm definitely happy with the number of lucids I'm getting lately, even if they're brief.

Madness guides seem to be a good term for them, even if the word was never mentioned...
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I am in a dark courtyard, there is a fence around the edge. There are 5 stone statues around a central node, arranged like this:
1OO5
.2O4
...3

This song is playing:

Specifically the part where the vocals come in

The statues depict what I described in the dream as demons, I am to choose one. I study their energy and find my attention pulled strongly to #2, and less strongly to #5. I walk up to statue #2.

(Etna)
This is basically what I see, she had a less revealing outfit on than appears in the Disgaea games, and her tongue wasn't sticking out... come to think of it, she was taller... so maybe it was just the succubus?

I glance at #5, a woman with bunny ears... I choose #2, and begin waking up.

I see #2 sitting at a table, with a manly chin, manly stubble, a manly body, eating a manly sandwich before I fully awake. (Lol)

I wake up and ponder what just happened to me, I eventually think of the term Madness Guide... well I can always use another guide, so I'll take it.