non-lucid

After my Nickelodeon Land dream I went back to sleep. This dream started out non-lucid. I cant remember what happened before but this but I was in this white room with nothing but white. There was a white table and an empty glass. There was a man and he was saying things to me but I cant remember what it was but he was thirsty. I remembered that it was a dream so I gave him some water and then I woke up. That is all I can remember...

After my Princess Twilight Sparkle dream I went back to sleep normally without trying to be lucid. I dreamed that me and my Mom, Niece and Nephew were in Nickelodeon Land. My Dad was not there because he was at work. The next dream day Me and Mom went to Pleasure Beach Blackpool. We went on a few rides. 1 that I remember quite well was a water slide 1. I went on it but my Mom did not because that she does not like water slides. We then went in this tent looking thing and there was a sign that said "band" on it. We went in and we saw a lot of people who look like they are in a band playing Guitar Hero. They were all boys and they were really old and had long white hair and long white beards. There was another game of Guitar Hero at the bottom of the tent. We went to see what it was and we began to play a song. Mom was good at it but I was not. That is wired because I am really good at drumming. I then woke up again because of my Mom snoring. This is kind of a normal dream for me. We go somewhere things happen the next dream day we go back different DC slightly different things happen.

During nap dreamed that we were going to drop our boys at our former daycare provider's who is still a close family friend and also babysits our kids at times.

As we were coming to drop kids off, we met up with another father who was coming to drop off his kids, except he needed to establish the price first because he doubted whether he could afford as many hours as he needed.

I remember that even though it was clearly our daycare provider, but in the dream her home was different and she lived upstairs, but I did not notice this.

I woke up confused thinking it was morning not remembering this has been an afternoon nap.

Not so great recall last night, and what I do remember is a bit vague.

11.17.2013

Transformation (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am on a secret mission that somehow involves stealing a particular item from this girl's bedroom. To accomplish this, I knock on her door and proceed to transform into an adorable black bunny. She comes to the door, squeals in delight, and carries me up to her room. I notice that it feels kind of nice being held while in this form.

In her room, I change shape again. This time, I'm a black cat. A talking black cat. I talk to her and trick her into helping me out with my mission.

11.17.2013

Ghost Hunters (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am with a friend in the lower rooms of an old, creepy building. My friend is hunting a ghost, but I happen to really like the ghost she's trying to get rid of. I turn invisible and screw up my friend's hunt while trying to help the ghost girl get to safety. There is also an evil spirit there that we're all avoiding. The ghost girl is terrified--- she holds my hand the entire time.

Okay, another ATLA-esque dream. This time I was a firebender, and rather than having some plot, I was simply going between my bedroom (more space) and my bathroom (wall mirror) practicing my powers.
After a few minutes, I figured out I could use electricity as well. After that, I got really obsessed with perfecting this one move. I can't remember what it was called, I think it was the "thunder kick", but what I would do was essentially do a kick while spinning 360 degrees around me, and the electricity would whip off my foot and hit all of the opponents around me.
I wasn't able to perfect the move, but I was able to make enough progress that I was satisfied with myself.

I had some dream about living in some city called "Green City". (Green City is the name of a fictional city from one of my comics.)
The city however had two really different architectural styles. One side of the city had red brick buildings that looked to be tall and square with small windows. They were almost like castles and fortresses. Some had smoke stacks and brick arches going over the streets.
The other side of the city had these sort of futuristic buildings with angled rooftops and glass facades. For most of the dream, I was more to the brick building side of the city, so I never really got a good look at this side save for seeing the towers off in the distance. I could tell that that was the wealthiest part of the city.
A few other notes about the city. (I remember alot of details.) For one, I was looking at the sun on the horizon, so I was either looking east or west. (It was west because as the dream carried on it got darker. West was also the direction of the futuristic district. The city was surrounded on all sides but the north by mountains covered in forest. The north side had sort of a bay.
Since the city's name was "Green City" and based off my comic, I was thinking about my comic, and in a way I was either mildly lucid or executing some sort of non-lucid dream control. I was thinking about this plot where a meteor hits the center of town. There was this big crater in one of the city blocks and bunch of buildings had been knocked over.
After a few minutes, I got bored of the plot idea, and realized that it didn't really fit in with my comics all too well. So I executed my nonlucid dream control and patched the crater in the center of town.
I walked about two blocks west, and on my left was this industrial compound. It looked like an oil refinery, but was very small. (Perhaps only about a hundred feet on edge.) The entire lot was surrounded by a chain-link fence, but a section had been bent over and I was able to walk in.
I started thinking I heard an animal, and began looking around. I climbed a metal ladder onto a catwalk about 15 feet above the ground. I was still following the animal sound when I opened a valve on a metal pipe , about a foot wide. A trapdoor on the side of the pipe opened and i reached inside.
I pulled out a cat. He/she was very skinny, and I could see its ribs through its fur. It had sort of tiger markings, with stripes and was brown and black. It had notches in its ears where it had been clawed, and was covered in grey dust that I assumed was ashes.
I somehow was immediately at home with the cat. When my mom saw the cat, she couldn't believe her eyes. She told me the cat's name was "Shipping Crate" (that's a stupid name) and was her own cat when she was a little girl. She went on to tell me that she had lost him/her in that same oil refinery 25 years ago. (I don't think cats can even live that long.)
I watched as Shipping Crate began to interact with the other cats in my house. (We have three cats.) He/She didn't seem interested in picking fights or anything. My mom went on saying she was going to get him/her some food.

Side notes: These dreams were only strange to me because of how my dreams have gotten so chaotic and non-vivid as of late, and these dreams seemed to be slightly more vivid and congruent that anything I've dreamt in months. The firebending dream was particularly vivid. I'm taking this as a sign that hopefully I will continue to get better, and hopefully I can begin to lucid again. (I almost had a lucid last night, there's a good sign.)

This took place in a video game for some time.

I have no idea what was happening early on, but I do know that I had a lot of junk in my inventory and that every monster killed would drop a humongous pill shaped like a Sweet Tart. Eventually, I happened upon some kind of a demon guy who offered to take me to a shop. I accepted. First he told me to put some things on a raft in some water (I put my whole backpack on the raft) and he teleported me.

He transported me into this small room with a couple of tables (the kind you would see in a school cafeteria, but without seats) covered in plastic table cloths. Apparently, putting things on the raft automatically sells them for you, which is annoying because everything I owned was in that backpack. Fortunately, I got the backpack back as well as a good share of cash. Each table had a handful of items for sale on it. Most of them were pretty worthless for me, such as packs of M&Ms, but I did note a pair of gloves and some jewelry. Upon further inspection, though, the jewelry was made out of plastic. The pair of gloves was beige, rather worn, and made of suede. A simple pair of work gloves. However, for whatever reason, they were highly enchanted. I picked them up and bought them and immediately put them on. I tried to see if any of the plastic jewelry was enchanted, but I noticed that it (among most things in the store; the gloves must have been an anomaly) cost "tickets" instead of cash. I only had one, so I started walking out. Along the way I bumped the jewelry cabinet with my backpack that had suddenly become full, and I was ushered out very quickly.

Some time later, I was in the dungeon to the south of the demon guy. My inventory was nearly full again and I was traveling to the shop. I had very little money, though I had apparently recruited a lot of IRL friends. They told me to go left of where I was currently, and I did. I found a giant coin (which apparently earned me absolutely no money) as well as some assorted loot further down. The entire area was pitch black. I exited and finished traveling to the demon that transported me to the shop, only to discover that the area was flooded. My friends apparently had the ability to place rafts to reach him and were bickering over how to orient them. They finally settled on an arrangement, and I jumped to one raft where the salesdemon was. I noticed that there was apparently something on one of the other rafts, so I jumped to it. The raft was not very stable, however, and flipped over the moment I landed. A minor commotion rose up among my friends who claimed that if the rafts had been oriented their way, I would not have fallen in. I ignored them and climbed back onto the salesdemon raft. The selling raft was a good distance away and I figured I could just sell me junk directly in the shop, so I began to ask the salesdemon to teleport me.

Before I could finish, though, one of my friends stopped me. Everyone collaboratively threw their entire inventory onto the sell platform so that I could buy everyone (me included) some new equipment. But mostly me, because I was awesome. I resumed teleporting.

In essence, this did NOTHING. When I arrived at the shop, I only had 50 gold (in comparison to, IIRC, 1987 gold from the first time). Apparently putting items on the selling platform resulted in the owner gaining money when they teleported, not the next person to teleport. Only one person came with me, and they had nothing in their inventory to sell. It seemed like nobody would buy my items, either, so I was stuck window shopping.

The store was completely different this time around. Instead of looking like a makeshift school store, it looked like a distinguished magic shop. Various magical and magic-related items were stocked on various shelves. Immediately after teleporting in, I saw a fire-shooting staff that would definitely come in handy; I figured I could attempt to steal it since it was apparently inside a small box that couldn't possibly fit a staff. When I went over to it's shelf, however, it had been replaced by something else.

The items were widely varied and all magical as I said, but everyone except for the shopkeepers seemed to be incapable of magic. I noticed that the dark of the place was dark, so me and the one friend that came with me took out a flashlight and entered the darkness. We could see a rack of very dusty, cobweb-ridden barrels of various sizes (even something that looked like half a liter) for sale. There were some equally dusty picnic tables scattered around, and a wooden (!?!) fireplace centered in the room. The darkened area was like a whole new room, being a lot more rustic and a lot less modern than the actual shop.

We noticed a door in the dark area. We figured that we could possibly score some loot from the area behind it, as it seemed like nobody had gone to the dark area for literally ages. As soon as we started walking towards it, I woke up.



Interestingly, magic shops accessed via teleportation appear to be recurring of all things. Not long ago I had a dream where if I clapped my hands together, locked my legs, closed my eyes, and concentrated, I would teleport to a magic shop that also happened to be selling a very crappy katana. The stock changed every time I went to that magic shop, but the room layout was the same.

The dream I remembered this morning felt like a shortened version of a week.
I was living with my girlfriend at this school, but it wasn't a normal school. They had the students partner up and stay there for a week, answering questions every now and then to see if they could succeed. My memories of the events there are scattered and random, but here's a few:
-My girlfriend and I checking out the food selection.
-Opening the door in our classroom/sleeping room to see an ocean.
-Trying to find my friend Aaron but never managing to find him, even though he said he was there.
-Having a quiz in class to write about your strangest memory and say it to the class. I couldn't figure it out.
-Having to do a group presentation with your partner.
-Telling off a bunch of jerks in masks who were trying to harass me.
Things really took a turn for the worse when the week was almost over. My girlfriend and I were exploring the kitchen area of the place. She split up and went downstairs to look at something while I was looking at something else. When I finally went downstairs, and looked around, she wasn't there, but the jerks from earlier were. They tried to attack me, but I ran back into the building and kept the doors from closing by sticking my leg in between them and making them open again.
When we got up the stairs, I fought them and they ran away, but then some other dude came who was half fox half man, and was using a rapier. I ran away from him, shouting my girlfriend's name, but all of a sudden the lights went out. They were closing up the kitchen for the night.
No, no, no, no, I thought. I ran back to the entrance, the fox guy now gone. The door was locked tight, but I saw some light on the other side. I banged on the door, yelling for help, but no one came. Eventually I managed to bust through the door myself, and of course they appeared when I did that.
As I made my way back to my classroom, I felt scared. I looked and looked for my girlfriend, but she wasn't there. I asked everyone, and they said they haven't seen her.
And that's when I woke up. A bit of a scary dream in some ways.

Third-person | Lucid

Dark ride
I'm driving to church on a motorcycle in the dark. I'm on the surface street near the church and all the traffic lights are out. I know people are supposed to treat such intersections as 4 way stops, but since it's dark I don't know how many people will even realize there's supposed to be a traffic light. I realize my headlight is off and turn it on, but it doesn't work very well, only shining a small pool of light a few feet in front of me. I have some loud music playing on my phone, so I hope that will help people notice me.


Military home
I'm in a beautiful old home that's been "borrowed" by the military. The home is clearly very expensive, with lots of dark reds and browns of hard wood everywhere, with lots of high quality fabrics hung and placed everywhere. Mom (who used to be in the RAF) is showing me around. She shows me the men's room and decides to make use it; the men's room guard completely ignores her since she's well known on base. Now I'm in one of the bathroom stalls by myself. Someone else comes into the bathroom.

Now it's not a bathroom stall, it's a bed alcove. I know I woke up at about 4 AM and now I'm trying to get back to sleep. As I'm lying there, I'm going over my dreams, trying to increase my recall. Suddenly, I realize I'm dreaming. Now I'm standing near the bed, and I realize I have a task of the month to do. I think about doing the ask-a-DC task, but that requires having someone nearby; but since it's night, everyone's asleep, so there won't be anyone to talk to. Instead, I decide to count the months backwards. Since I've been practicing this one in real life, I had no trouble counting backwards from November to January. I still want to try asking a DC what he's thankful for. I realize the guard should still be awake, and I can ask him; but I need clothes first, so I go to the open closet and start looking around inside for something to wear. Unfortunately, the light isn't working, and I can't see inside well. I try to use my key-chain flashlight, but it barely casts any light at all - I'm surprised it's working so poorly and figure the batteries must be almost out. This also surprises me until I remember that they're rechargeable, so of course they're almost dead.


Electronics and groceries
I'm working on electronics with the kids. We're going to make a simple LED+resistor circuit on the breadboard, but I decide that it would be better if each child had an individual cut-off button. I decide to implement it with my microcontroller so that pushing a button cuts power to the LED for a few seconds before automatically bringing it back on. I have some trouble getting everything hooked up right - I'm having trouble remembering which way the connections in the breadboard go - but I get it eventually.

Now I'm riding my bike to the nearby grocery store. Going up the hills is a lot easier than I remember - I attribute it to not pulling the trailer with the kids in it. Riding on the roads with cars goes well.

Now I'm at the store and find a table set up with my electronics; one of my daughters is sitting at it. I still haven't finished the programming, so it doesn't work right. I head home. As I'm preparing to make a right onto the large road near our house, I see a huge store on the corner. It doesn't look very nice, but it claims to be a runner's emporium with everything a runner could ever need. Looking more closely, I see that their front room is filled with random riding toys - it must be because we're close to Christmas. Turning onto the road, I'm looking behind me and using a rear set of pedals - but car pedals, not bike pedals. I face forwards but I'm still contorting my body to use the pedals behind me. I want to switch to the ones in front of me, but I can't remember which is gas and which is brake. I think the big one the left me is brake, but I'm not sure, so since I don't want to hit the car in front of me I just stay stopped by putting my feet on the ground.

After I get home I realize I left my daughter and my electronics at the store. I don't want anything to happen to her, and I don't want the store to trash my electronics, so I head back out.


Coleson's recovery
I'm watching something about Agent Coleson being on life support, waking up, and pull tubes out of his mouth. He should be dead but he's not. The tubes he's pulled out are dripping various things - gastric juice is making a mess, and some unfertilized (human) eggs are producing little red sacks where they've fallen into some water.

I'm looking at a Facebook page for a pastor. At the top, it's talking about the pastor's amazing recovery, except it's describing word-for-word what happened to Coleson. Further down, comments are going back and forth between praising the pastor for his good work and throwing insults at him for his views.


Workers and doughnuts
A bunch of men are at our house to help with some work. There's a really nice breakfast laid out for everyone. I'm particularly interested in the pastry table, but I'm disappointed when I see that most of the really good doughnuts are gone when I get there.


Experimental radish cure
A guy with little time to live tries an experimental treatment made from concentrated radishes. It's a partial success: he grows large and strong, but he's covered in wrinkles and looks like an old man.


Pizza zombies
I'm walking around a house filled with pizza-eating zombies.



Analysis
Dreamsigns:
* Very dim lights
* Bathroom weirdness

Lucid awareness: Poor. I didn't realize dream control was even an option, but I did remember to do the TOTM
Lucid control: Non-existant. I didn't even try.

Dream recall from today's WBTB/naps.

Dream 1(fragment):

Something about dragons.

Dream 2(fragments):

I was playing some 3D flying shooter game and there was a massive battle between lots of spaceships above lake with a few cities in the far distance, and there also was a flooded cavern. Some enemies were using alot of missiles and even anti-air bombs(somehow) and there was some giant hologram of dude in a black suit who was summoning enemy spawner ships.

Dream 1(fragment):

There was some kind of school.

Dream 2(fragment):

I was on train station and i was searching for someone specific that i had mission to kill.

Dream 3(fragments):

I was playing starcraft 2 and all units could shift between two forms, i was reading some tips and there was a missile launcher tank unit that everyone considered useless.

11/17/2013, 11:00-6:00

Dream 1:

I was upstate. I was apparently in a war, too. I was using new, different weapons. One was a grenade with cyanide in it. I used it against a guy. That's it.

I was in a heated discussion with the big regional boss of our company, BASF. He destroyed me, and made me look like a fool. I felt ashamed afterwards.

I tried to buy a tablet computer at an electronics store, but the process was sooo slow. I had to fill out, like, 10 forms full of questions. I also got into some sort of videogame style "boss battle". It took me 3 hours to make the purchase. I complained about this to the store manager. He agreed that this took way too long.

Original journal entry dated April 28th, 2002:

I woke up with blood under my fingernails, and all over my blankets for that matter. I don't remember any of my dreams but I guess I must have been having more nightmares. In any case, I tore my face up but good and was hoping that nobody would notice this morning, which they didn't, which is good.

The first dream was about a city. I think it was in England. It was old, and I was in the past, maybe Puritan times, I dunno. It was somewhere cold, rocky, and misty.
There was a plague in the village, and there was always a procession of corpses being carried to the graveyard. I suppose, then, that the plague was bad, but not so bad to the point where they couldn't bury all of the bodies.
And yet, everybody was dead. Maybe not DEAD dead, but dead inside. Except that one man murdered his wife, and then the Priest came and they took away the body... one more dead person, despite the cause, didn't matter... and then, either I died or my wife died, but I can't remember which. But there was a crazy, crazy old lady in one of the more dilapidated houses, and she wielded an axe... nobody went there, and maybe she died of plague, or maybe she DIDN'T die because nobody went there. But my wife died (I was male in the dream). Or maybe I did. And they said a few prayers, and everything was washed over with gray... there was an old stone building, it was haunted... come to think of it, the whole town was haunted... and all muddy... it was miserable.

And then the other dream. My brother and mother and I were living in bare shacks high up on stilts, in the mountains. It was snowy and windy and very cold. They had wooden planks for floors, and the wind whistled through the chinks. When I looked out, I could see the tops of pine trees.

I remember that we were having a party and I saw these 3 people always in a group.
One of them was the Jill actor from the Resident Evil 1 movie, and the other 2 I never saw them before.
A person I saw the other day was the doctor for our family.
So we were just having fun and I saw the three of them leave to do something.
I decided to follow them and see what they're up to.
I went out and noticed that one of my neighbors garage was open.
When I went over there, it was pitch black so I some how knew to try echolocation. I went to look around and, I don't know what happened but, I saw one of them injured, Jill tending to her injuries, and the other one sneaked up behind me. I used my echolocation to get back to my house but i felt something on my feet like a piece of meat or something.
I got scared and made for my house. I don't remember what happened after that but it was the next day already.
We were getting ready to go somewhere so i went into the garage to get my shoes. But the door to the garage was behind couches (I don't know where we got the couches but they were all over).
I got my shoes, put it on, and never found the door to the garage again.
I went to the backyard and found a chicken with lots and lots of baby chicks in a shed.
I decided to let them out for a bit and later when I went to put them away, the chicks were all over the backyards.
Took me a while but I finally got all of them back in the shed except 2 of them.
One of the chicks went under a hole and onto the neighbors yard and the other one was at the side of our house.
For some reason, the side of our house was a swamp and the chick just kept fleeing over there when I tried to get it.
I saw my dad told me not to go in but I did anyways. I went in, and the water was 3 feet high or so.
I tried my best not to get wet, but I did. Had to take a shower.
It then skipped to where I put on my shoe again and for some reason, we were afraid of the doctor guy because he was a murderer or something.
He came by the door and I found this one thin piece of metal that look like a needle to defend myself with.
He soon left but for some reason, the police was after the 3 people at the party. I went with them and helped hide them from the police. I don't remember much after that and then I woke up.

I don't recall much of my dreams last night.

I recall a group of children, and one of them had a chainsaw, and I was trying to warn them that the chainsaw was dangerous, but they weren't taking me seriously. I looked away as the one with the chainsaw started swinging it at the crowd.

And then... people who turned into cans of mush? Looked kind of like canned pumpkin. I don't recall why, except that some of the cans were diseased, and they were needed to defeat some sort of evil ghost by piling all of the mush on top of it, and all of this was taking place on a boardwalk above a nasty polluted pond. I also recall a very gaunt woman with stringy blonde hair.

There was a lot of blood involved. Otherwise, my dreams were disjointed.

Then, I dreamed I was buying a bike. The store I was wandering around in also had a grocery section. I was looking for something specific there, but I don't remember what, and then my mother was grocery shopping with me.