non-lucid

In this dream, I wake up on a very sunny morning. My brother is awake before me ,I don't think that he tries to wake me up but he might have. Then my dad comes and tells me to get ready for the science fair. I should have taken his advice in waking life.

I was at my friend S's house (though it looked just like my house.) and we were (for whatever reason) having an eating competition. S had a whole bunch of these little pizzas that he would heat up in the microwave and we were trying to eat more of them than one another. After about six, I felt really sick.
S said he was going to drive me home, but that he had been drinking (even though he's 17...). So that driving with him might be dangerous.
When we went outside of his house, we found ourselves living in... well an area very different from our town. There were a number of high mountains with winding roads leading to houses up these mountains. There was a large ocean and a large city with a number of tall buildings.
He drove me through the mountains, and his driving was absolutely insane. We nearly got into accidents at a couple different points, and nearly went off the road at a couple points. The scene got brighter and the sun came up as we arrived at the base of the mountain more toward the city area.
He asked me to get out of his car at this hotel on the outskirts of the city, for he had to pick up some other people, and didn't have enough seats in the car for everyone. I met up with my parents at the hotel and we checked in.

Dream Skips

We are at the pool of said hotel. I think this was a day or two later, after I stopped feeling sick from eating mini pizzas. My cousins are staying with us too, and we are all playing in the pool of the hotel. My cousins want to have a splash war with me, and I agree.
We start our splash war, but I notice that whenever I splash the water seems to behave unusually in that it doesn't spray everywhere, but rather almost targets them.
But it will all be explained because the cast of ATLA appears again as real people. But it looks like they are out to attack me this time. And as it turns out the splashes I am trying to do are in fact a waterbending move.
Toph makes this rock pillar just a bit shorter than hersellf at the edge of the pool, lifting up a portion of the tile floor. She then cuts off thin discs of rock from the top and wings them into the pool at me. But (because she sees with vibrations and therefore could not see me if i'm treading water in a pool, isn't being very accurate.)
I swim around to her left and climb onto the deck of the pool, then push her into the water. I then stand behind her rock tower and begin bending rock discs back at her. I'm not the most accurate because this is my first time earthbending. (Well it's official, I've done all four elements now. Just need to do them all while I'm actually lucid! ) She "surrenders" and disappears from the scene.
I notice that there are some holes in the opposite wall from where some of the rock discs missed. I manage to patch these holes with rocks. It doesn't look very good, but we made quite a mess earth and water bending so I wanted to at-least try to clean up.
I decide to leave the pool room, and go out through the only exit door that leads too: another pool room. This one is much more impressive. It has a large, L shaped swimming pool, this large hot tub built into some natural looking rocks, as well as these small personal hot tubs. I actually get mildly lucid here. I know something's up, but I never quite figured that I was dreaming. So we're going to this teal color again.
Well I probably would have thought about it more if Katara wasn't about to attack me. Now waterbending is the first I learned, and lucid or not, seems to be what I have the best handle on. I simply managed to look at the large L shaped pool and draw up a large water whip that I used to hit her into the side of the room. She disappeared from the scene in the same way Toph did.
After she was gone, I experimented with the water whip a few more times, and was excited by how powerful it was and how good my control was getting.
I saw my next too opponents Zuko and Sokka who were sitting and talking in the hot tub. I don't want to fight any more of these characters. So I think firebending this time. I cast lightning into the water electrifying it. But for whatever reason it doesn't harm them.
The other thing that I recall was that it seemed much weaker than the lightning in the show. Okay, it wasn't a pathetic spark, but it was certainly no terrifying bolt of lightning either. I wake up after trying to electrocute these two.

Journal Entry non-lucid #8 Dream, non-dream (Comments)
Background:

Dream fragment 1 from 9:20pm-1:30am" Dragon Ball Z": I was watching some sort of 80s show. It had its own theme song playing. The footage was all about mountains, rivers, basically nature. The show had had this weird robot man. His head was the only thing that was nearly human about him. His brain was just floating in his head. He was shooting laser out of his eyes. He was also levitating stuff. He told the other robots that they will show the true color of these primates.This dream pretty much sounds like dragon ball z.

Dream fragment 2 3:30am-5:45am " Neighbors ": I was with this celebrity and their was a monkey in the room. The room was my parents room. I was telling the celebrity that monkey like to throw poop at each other for fun. He didn't believe me. The little monkey started flinging little poop at us and one got on my hand. I had to rush to the bathroom. It was disgusting. I don't know why I told him that fact. If I said anything else instead of that, this wouldn't happen.

Dream fragment 3 1:30am-5:45am " Messenger that doesn't experience the message": I was at a school gathering and there was a lot of people there. I saw KA there, a girl I used to be friends with.I wanted to say hi to her but I didn't want it to be awkward since it has been nearly a year. I saw her looking at her hands, and looking at the environment so I went to her and I asked, "What are you doing?" She looked at me and said, "get out of my way, I am doing a reality check". She put a little face on this stickers that showed how many times she lucid dream. I looked at it and it showed that she had 3 LD a night. I was shocked. My sister pops out and says, "are you jealous?" I said, "Yes, I am jealous, I showed her about LD. She has out bested me. I work so hard and I am getting nowhere". I then humbly went to her and I asked, " could you please teach me what you learned about LD" She looked at me and looked away. I was angry, but mostly sad, and crushed. I walked away feeling humiliated. I thought to myself, "I am the messenger who doesn't get to experience the message". I sat down on this bench, and did a cheap reality check. I looked at my hands and didn't even count my fingers. This guy sits next to me and tells me to cheer up, girls are like that. He asked me if I wanted to help the school out? So, he takes me up a hill and gives me this can of spray. This black cloud came up and we sprayed the air around it. Little by little the cloud started becoming clearer. After we did that we went back down to the school. The whole place was destroyed. Even the paint on the walls were gone. It looked like mold. I actually never told her about lucid dreaming, but I did tell a whole lot of other people about LD. She showed up in my dream because I walked into her, but she didn't see me because she was starring at my cloth and I was in a hurry to go get my seat, because my class was full and if you don't have a seat it means you will have to stand.


Dream fragment 4 1:30am-5:45am" Ocean's 11 Hangout": I was on a truck. The truck driver drove us recklessly through the freeway. I guess we were inside of a car on top of the truck because I started driving a car as soon as I touched the freeway. I saw this wall, it was like an optical illusion. I can see my friend, JS, stuck inside there. I tried to drive my car into the illusion but didn't go through it. My friend EY, brought a truck so to speak that can drill through concrete. He drilled a nice hole in it, and left. When I went inside I saw the people from Ocean's 11 or a look alike. They were in hiding and were supposedly stuck in their for a couple of months. I completely forgot why I was down there in the first place. The door was still open and I forgot about it. I was amazed by the man made water fall in their cave or hideout. A child wondered in. I directed him back outside before they find out. I thought they might kill him. They were talking about how it is suspicious that they have a lot of coke bottles. They tried to rationalize it by saying it's ok nobody will suspect a thing because his dad's, my dad, dog would drink most of it. I didn't question the fact that I don't have a dog. That child I took outside told other little kids about Ocean's 11 hideout and they thought it would be funny to try and jump them. The kids rushed in with weapons and kept on hitting them. One of the men got knocked out. Then they subdued the kids. One man also stumbled in and I told the guy from oceans 11 to put him to sleep by doing them weird neck thing. He did the neck thing and the guy said oh I think I felt something. He urinated all over himself. I told him he's useless and I woke up sometime after.

12-01-2014
Had another formidable lucid dream last night. The non-lucid part was about me living in a house with my father and sister. [At some point in the non lucid part I think I lent that new Bleach game to D] I was at uni but the buildings all resembled buildings from my old high school. There were explosions all over and some person was trying to convince everyone to calm down and that the buildings had been standing for a long time and weren't about to go down anytime soon. there was a part of the non-lucid where I was in some sort of game. You were supposed to find the exit using different characters, and there were events like explosions, giant bugs trying to eat you etc. every time you lost you started again. There was only one way out by the looks of things in the game.

The two characters were some guy, and Jennifer Laurence holding a crying child who moved slower than the man. Before this the game was about collecting as many coin thingies as possible. Only everyone thought that this was real life, and some people weren't collecting them because they thought it was a hallucination or something like that. I was stacking cartons of eggs on top of each other. Then I went to a different room and started doing the same thing there with other stuff like ham. When asked what I was doing I explained it to someone from my real life who wanted to join me. Someone else told me that I stacked a bunch of cartons of eggs in the other room, but not in this one like I thought I had. I don't remember much about this part, only that I didn't like it. I did the nose rc and it worked, so I flew out the window.

My phasing wasnt working nicely but anyway I was outside. I saw Chelsea Handler outside looking hot and younger than normal. I grabbed her and proceeding to have my way with her by force like they do on Spartacus. My sister interrupts by appearing and saying she is going to tell on. I fly away with Handler is on my junk. But the dream changes and eventually it appears that all I'm doing is hanging onto the top bunk of a bunkbed in my old room. It sort of comes across as a false awakening. I hear my mother and sister call me from the kitchen asking me when I'm going to " wake up and greet the morning". In my mind I'm aware that its 7 in the morning, a weird time for me to be awake seeing as I sleep so late anyway. So I play along but I have a feeling I'm trapped in a loop.

Seeing my mother in the kitchen confirms my theory, and I scream out at her that I can tell whats going on and that her being there is where they fucked up. She is trying to play it off but she starts hitting me. We're in the living room and she starts attacking me. She says my granny is behind me who then appears and starts at me, but I shout "no she isn't!" So that my granny cant do anything. This is still my dream dammit Im in fucking charge. I fend her off and try fly out of the door but none of my powers are working at all. So I have to run out of the open door. My sister appears so I grab 3 bottles and fight her with them. One falls on the floor and breaks and she gets scared. I tell her not to step on the broken glass and that the red stuff is just ketchup. I leave her and start off with two of those bottles. The path leaving the house is all messed up, several of them are difficult to get through because of this weird game like blizzard thats in my way. I see a full size mirror and look at my reflection as an Rc. Looks really weird and bruised so I try to enter the mirror to end the loop but none of my powers are working.

I grab the mirror and use it as a shield, and one of the bottles turns into a really thin grappling hook. All of a sudden I'm in another area and the dream is very game-like. There was a castle with some guy on look out. He saw me and called the alarm so I used the grabbing hook to pull him down Splinter cell style. I was moving from one side of the building to the other with ease in this game. Pulling down people, barrels of flammable liquids from the top floors which would fall Down and explode everywhere, eventually taking the entire building down. Then I was standing on top of the building with the main boss at the bottom, ready to attack me. He threw like a huge boulder of ice at me and I evaded it. But then the building turned into my parents bed and the guy was right there, throwing underwhelmingly smaller balls of snow. My weapons were gone so I was throwing even smaller snow balls at him in response. Eventually I decided to just jump on the guy. Then I woke up.

Some key things I learnt about this dream: just because I cant use my powers doesn't mean that I'm not dreaming. This new time of dream where I'm trapped in a loop is actually rem state where my waking body can't move and I'm just forced to dream for a little longer. Which is awesome if you think about it. This time I realised the loop was a dream. If I just concentrate more next time, stabilise the dream and behave appropriately I may be able to use the entire length of the dream for whatever I want
Also my dream recall is fucken awesome, and I always write down my dream for the night in one go in the morning instead of waking up at night after each one.

07-01-2014
This one is a doozy so sit back and relax. It starts with me driving in the car with D. We're going somewhere to eat, he's driving and we're on the highway. he goes into a wrong lane and now were on the wrong direction on the highway. He tries to do some handbreak directional turn shit that nearly gets us killed like eight times. The view is of outside the car and we're getting nowhere fast. Eventually he gets us on the proper side of the road and we carry on driving. We get to some shopping mall. We go inside to the spur. He says sit there at one of the chairs, so naturally I assume something is wrong with it. I want to sit somewhere else but all of the chairs and tables are dirty and cluttered. He mentions how we should get yiros so I say lets leave. Im thinking about Cresta meanwhile he was thinking about getting mayfair yiros. I have no intention of driving so far. He gets to the top of the stairs and leaves. But then all of a sudden he's behind me. He's grinning saying I'm not gonna like the fact that I should drive all the way home to change into a casual t shirt and shoes, then drive all the way back to his house. Then I wake up

Or thats what I assume anyway. I'm in my room. Don't remember much of what went on at this point, only that I got out of bed(which was the bed that I slept in at my old house), and that I got a bite to eat from the kitchen. I plugged in my earphones to my iPhone and was trying to search for a song but my ipod wasn't working properly. I didn't even recall the search function existing in that part of my iPhone. I randomly do an RC while passing underneath the burglar-gate in the passage way and after a few repeats I become lucid.

I fly and phase through the gates in the darkness and exit this house by phasing through the window. As I do I hear a woman's voice calling me Chiquita and sounding evil as fuck. As I turn around while rubbing my hands together for clarity I see this strange spanish chick phase through my window(ok my lucidity is not always tops, and the nightmares I have always seem to have the same powers as me) The battle begins. Im pounding on her with punches and kicks while she claws at me or something unremarkable. She creates distance between us and flies to the other end of the swimming pool. She creates a mist around herself and starts throwing ice spears(not unlike the ice spears from Skyrm) But my view was wider than real life because of my lucidity so I was able to evade them. I flew to a nearby tree and tried to punch her as she flew after me.

She dodged and started throwing ice spears without any prior stance whileI was in the air. Due to a lack of mobility I was only just able to evade them. I landed on a tree, climbed to the other side and pushed myself off. In slow motion as she came to the side I was on, now accompanied by her evil boyfriend who looked pissed off at me but not interested in joining the fight I put up my right hand to resemble a ninja seal/sign and shouted "homing mass!!!" It took its time to charge and release but it hit her right in the forehead. Her boyfriend started "trying" to comfort her but he said something about her power level. As I was about to fly off I chipped in a little comment about the comment he made and the couple started arguing.

I flew away from those assholes to get away from them(losing lucidity here) and the boyfriend followed closely to get me for starting the mess. I was in a ships corridors now and I phased through a door the end of a lobby and hid. Dumbledore was standing outside it and knew I was inside, but promised to make sure I was safe. I was forming a strategy of defense when I realised that some other enemy could attack from behind and Dumbledore and I would be boxed in from both sides in this narrow cruise ship. I phased back out of the door to confront the boyfriend myself. I found the girlfriend on a balcony looking shocked to see me. Then the boyfriend flew in. At that moment I felt as if the said events had all happened previously and kept repeating because we were stuck in a loop. The girlfriend(looking normal, less vicious and more like this Megan girl from my old school) all realised that and huddled together, determined to get out of the loop.

I said we would have to change how we respond completely, and behave completely differently. We would have to work together. Then dumbledore came in to help, and some random woman, some random guy, a celebrity, a dj, a bunch of guys from my old highschool(ds), until there was like a school class worth of people in one spot. We all sat down and started watching a movie. I needed the toilet but there was no room to get out without disturbing everyone.

I think this dream was a result of my constant thinking about the time I was on shrooms and thought I had become trapped in an inception like loop were everything was batshit crazy and kept repeating itself. A lot of my fears often end up in my dreams.

Going to use my iPad as my journal from now on because I hate turning on the lights at night to write down my dreams. Forgive my spelling errors!

31-12-13
Had my first proper lucid in a long time. I don't really recall the dream prior to being lucid, but when I did the nose breathing check it didn't feel like it was working. I might not have become lucid, but I was already floating in the air at this point. I made damn sure to stabilise the dream by rubbing my hands, and shouting clarity. I flew over the wall and saw some pretty black chick in the courtyard. I attacked her, pulled down my pants and made her eat my ass. But then she turned into a potato. Don't really recall the dream after this, only that I flew off again, and kept increasing my clarity which actually started destabilizing the dream.

The second one I remember was being at trinity again. (Ds of note) Beforehand i knew of a matric dance, and had asked a girl from my old school to go with me and she accepted. Also there was a part in the dream where I had parked my car at the bottom of the schools parking lot. Then later I went into a garage and saw a big red car there. It unlocked when i pressed my key so I assumed it was my car. But later in the dream I realized it wasn't. (I think it was also raining at this point) i had a sports bag full of clothes in it that I had to remove and put in MY actual car. Then after this I was in their school hall. Someone announced that the dance was to begin that night and that we were to sit with our partners. I saw mine but didn't sit with her immediately for some reason.

Third and fourth were about me being taught a sword form by some guy. I was practising with a real sword. At first when I was being shown the form(in my living room ds) My vision kept being blacked out. I woke up afterwards and realised its because I haven't seen the next form yet. I went back to sleep, found myself in the same place. I cant say for sure that i was lucid, only that I knew it would work this time as I was by myself and able to make up the form at will.

A good nights recall for a guy who hasn't worked on lds for an entire year may 2014 be a great one

-Walked in circles through school and my old house( specifically remembers a hill with an evergreen).
-Wore no shoes so my feet were black people commented that I should be wearing running shoes but I refused.
-Guy I went to public school was with me and I wanted to hold his hand and swing it as we walked.
That's it

I was again abroad. This time it is Croatia! I was on some medieval festival. It was jousting on the scedual. At first there were inexpirienced riders, they were trying to hit tha target. It was a man made of hay and a metal helmet. One by one they were riding and hiting the body.. Or missing the target. And then 6 veterans came all dressed in black. They were riding fast and everyone of them hit the target in the head. Just cling, cling ,cling was heard. And the riders before, well they just watched with open eyes. After this show i was feeling hungry and went to the first food tent. They were serving just 2 dishes. the first was green, and the second one was in orange colour. I asked what is this.. they answered back.. one is a carrot soup.. and the other is a pea soup and this one is for free.. Ok give me one pea soup please i said. And a moment later i am at a Slovenian medieval festival. I was fully armed. I had 2 swords, shield, and some light armour, but nobody to fight with. Ahhh i said, this is boring and i decide to go home. On the way home i meet some of my colegue knights, and they were angry at me, because i didnt call them and that i had fun without them. I just answered well it was nothing there, boring.. the croatian ones were way more exciting. And then i went to a bar, to party. We were like 4guys and 3 girls.. and well the party was not for my mood, so i decided to go home. I went with one girl and one guy.. The guy was sleeping in a seperate room, so I was alone with this girl. And that is when weird thing started to happen. We started a fight with minced meat. I grabbed a fullfist of minced meat and just threw it in her face.. and she replied just the same.. we had a meat war.. and she was comming closer and closer.. she was already on my bed, and she was confused what to do.. she undressed her top, but she still had jeans on.. and she just kissed me very passionately. she started to ride me with he pants on.. and just when the fun was starting to begin, her boyfirend came home. he was talking to the other guy in the other room (oh i forgot, she was one of my exgirls which i havent seen in years) well her boyfriend came home and she jumped into her bed and pretend that she is asleep. I had her clothes on my bed and just threw them behind the bed and said.. "hey your jacket is here, what should i do with it?" She said i dont need it now.. im sleeping. I was picking up that meat we were throwing around. ANd he opened the door. He looked in quite suprisingly, he was holding a glass of water and i had full hand of meat. Well he didnt asked nothing. He went to his girls bed to check her out and she was "sleeping". Ok i finnaly cleaned the mess and wanted to go to sleep. I get in my bed.. and i couldnt. it was too small, my bed was underneath some wooden thing. i tried to get in the bed but i just fell down. I got angry and i just pulled the bed into the center of the room. I was happy, but not everybody was. That girl stood up from the bed and pushed my bed back where it was.. of course i pushed it back. And we ended pushing bed around the room. So we made a compromise where my bed should be. And when i had my bed in place there were like 400 firelighters on my bed. AAAAAA.. i was angry again. And just threw them all off my bed, and people in the room started to complain that my stuff is left everywhere in the room.. and that it is not just my room. I got angry again.. and said WHAT? these things arent even mine. And i woke up.

There's this guy running from some gang. It's about the patent for something he invented. He can't believe his invention is something anyone would be willing to kill him over, but I remind him it's not the invention they want to kill him over, it's the money. He's got some legal document - not the patent itself, but related to it, possibly he hasn't filed for it yet - which is what everyone's after, and after I get him to reveal it to me, a man who is my brother appears and snatches both the guy and the document away and runs into the forest, just as the gang catches up to us. This was our plan, the woods are my brother's territory. I act like I'm on the gang's side, or at least as if I want to catch that guy as much as they do - they were already aware from past interactions that I have an interest in the guy with the patent, and they've assumed I want the document for my own reasons. So they follow me when I lead the chase into the forest, into my brother's traps.

The path into the forest that I lead them on - and which my brother appears to be on, we catch glimpses of him now and then, though I'm aware he won't stick to the path - curves back and forth in strange ways, it's disorienting. I see an odd bullet coming - dark green like a beetle's wing - and I make sure I'm out of its path, that it picks off one of the gang as intended. It was fired by one of three men who work for/with my brother, people I know well. Time seems to have slowed down, and when one of the gang starts grumbling about the strangeness of it, a man emerges from the woods, the second of my brother's men. He explains that it's the insect-birds. They're insects which mimic birds and sing constantly, disorienting the birds and causing them to mistake night for day, and for us, creating an illusion of time slowing. They prevent violence being done in my brother's forest. But "their element is in possessing one," he says; that is, the insect enters and controls a single bird.

PREP
None. Today will be the first night I attempt lucidity. I will also be waking up to record my dreams as they come.

DREAMS
1. I attended boarding school, and Daniel Craig was a teacher and headmaster. I competed with the other students for his favor, attempting to impress him with my intellect and maturity.

THOUGHTS
It's sad how far I've fallen since being active on these forums in 2007. Back then, I got to where I could remember extensive details of multiple dreams, even without writing them down during the night. When I did write them down, I'd have several paragraphs for each dream. I intend to get back to that and better.

I remember being somewhere outdoors and there being an evil hot guy and a hot good guy. The good guy was my boyfriend and i remember i kept kissing him. You k now when someone is about to say something but you shut them up with a kiss? Well something like that. I remember i was doing that because he kept telling me i couldn't crown me and him as the queen and king of whatever party we were at so i kissed him to shut him up and then asked him " Were you saying something?". Then he shut up. Then i was taking a walk and the hot evil guy picked me up bridal style and was carrying me away. Then he challenged my boyfriend to a sword fight like in the old days and who ever wins gets me. Then i don't remember what happened

But also i remember having a dream later that night about me being in a hotel and i was resurrecting a doll into a real girl. Then after that i remember eating and there was a huge open bouffett and there was a lot of amazing food. I remember i was really creeped out. It had an over all creepy vibe to it. Also i remember there was a lot of pollution they were throwing in the water so i went up to the thing collecting pollution and i made sure it didn't go in the water. Then i don't really remember much.

today i dreamt i was in my bedroom with my brother but my bedroom was different, the 2 beds were on vertical. he was putting some DVD on my dvd
the cartoon name was radbody or something like that. i was watching some Puppeteer having fun, the background looked like a theater. after they finished
i saw red curtains like in theater. and i told my brother
"this is like tom & jerry bro, it doesn't have any story, just sequence sketches." then my dad come into our bedroom. he wanted my brother to fix up something. my dad was near the bedroom door.
and my brother said "you're shit" when he passed near my dad. then i had some weird thoughts
"my dad can fix things, so my brother shouldn't disrespect him."
"but my brother also can fix things, specially fused lamps."
then a picture of a turned on lamp came in my mind.


Fact of the day: My dad told me to change the fused lamp of my bedroom today.


Dream elements:

-my bedroom
-brother
-dad


Technique used: ----------


hours slept: 10 hours

non lucid
*I don't remember any solid dream but I do remember fragments.
Swaminarayan, chanting the vajra guru mantra, and waving Hi to someone.

Sunday 1/12/14

Last night, bed 10:30 pm, drinking water when awoken at night

DR 2:54am
My grandma is visiting. She has a whole in her heart that's getting bigger. Me and my mom are walking her to a gate to stop it from getting bigger.

Something about preschoo.

6am
Dusty ground, small, 4-5 feel tall bumps (hills). I'm looking into a hole dug into one hill sideways, and underneath some moving papers and leaves I see a few hedgehods. Another hole has something similar to a volverine or some similar small animal.

There is a white and black dog running around. Something about my old teacher, reunion, how to dress.

Thank you for my dreams and recall. Can I haz some more, plox.

Dune-based, a Fremen leader has just died and everyone's chanting the name of someone they're choosing for the new Naib, a well-respected middle-aged man known for being level-headed. But they're interrupted by Paul and Jessica, performing some Bene Gesserit trick with light that makes them appear god-like, a move to take power over the Fremen. It works. I find it extremely distasteful.

My IRL mother weighing a desire to give up physical possessions against the potential uses for the land she owns, and considering an apiary.

A wrong number from an angry woman looking for a Melissa. (Not the one from the myths specifically, but still presumably inspired by the apiary bit.)

I'm looking at a digital folder labeled 'Eric'; none of the files inside have anything to do with him.

An earlier, lower-budget movie version of Barbarella.

A variety of nautical references: ornaments shaped like ships, a trip to the beach and a mention of pirates.

A painting of pale, black-haired elves with ravens on their shoulders, in a park.

Two homeless men, one with a dog, the other a preacher standing on a wooden crate, arguing about Jesus and whether or not he spent a lifetime as a cat.

"So ever shall be considered the gardens of Biblios."