non-lucid

From 5/2/2013

Dreamed I was with a friend going on a trip on a huge boat made of sand. My friend could drive this boat everywhere in the city (water was not a requirement!) and he felt that he could also park his boat anywhere. We made it to the beach and all of us were in a happy mood. We sang songs with the radio all the way to the beach. We parked our boat to get some lunch, but when the waitress brought us our lunch, the lunch was made of sand also. As we ate our lunch made of sand, the place where we had parked was causing a problem and the owners of the parking lot (or restaurant) wanted us to move our sand boat...so we left .

Question to self: You know a boat can not sail on water made of out of sand, so this could have been your dream sign !

Saturday 5/4/13

last night bed 2am-9:30am

DR: I'm debating with someone, how in US, people don't greet each other when they see each other in the morning, or don't say "bye" when hanging up a phone call.

Going for a nap 11:15am -

05-04-2013 -- I am back working a shift at the Mercedes dealership I used to work at, and the other guard is hassling me because I can't seem to open my eyes ... literally. I can hear everything that is going on, but I can't see it because I can't wake up ... or maybe because I haven't fallen deep enough asleep. Anyway, he is also complaining that I am in the reception area, because they have changed policies, and they no longer want us in that area, even though that is where the security monitors are. I'm thinking if they want to make that big a fuss without actually bothering to tell me, they can fire me!

I've just come on, and the dealership is filled with hundreds of people ... far more than are ever here normally, and there seems to be a sort of party going on, with tons of people, including some lovely ladies, but I can't actually see any of the sales staff anywhere, so I have no idea what is going on. At least I can see, now.

Decide to go downstairs to use the restroom, just to find the doors to both restrooms have been kind of wallpapered over, so they are unavailable. I seem to remember some kind of employee restroom a little further back in the corridor by the parts department, so go to check there, but get distracted and return to the main showroom floor.

Where I find myself watching a fight between Spider-Man and the Green Goblin, and they are really going at it! At one point, the Savage Dragon jumps into things, as well! This can't be real, can it? I know super heroes don't really exist ... are they filming a movie or something? That may be it, because every time they turn to look our way, we duck out of sight, and get really quiet! "No," the costumed villain crouched next to me tells me, "We aren't staying out of a movie ... I just don't want to be beaten up."

Spider-Man scores a good punch on one of the bad guys, and he flies across the room to the lower level of the lobby (which was only a single story in real life ... but in dreams ...), and I decide it's all just too weird tonight, and I'm getting proof, so I whip out my trusty digital camera and start taking pictures. Soon after I start downloading them into my laptop when a Chinese guy starts to berate me for using the staff's computers. He looks like a cross between Charlie Chan and Mr. Fuji. I explain it is my computer and he's like "Uh ... ah ... well all right, then."

I start to descend the stairway from the reception desk down to the reception desk (hey, dream ...) and the crowds are getting ever thicker. The dress is also getting a lot more formal, and is starting to look like wedding party dresses or prom dresses ... something really nice. A nice looking, older blonde (40s), very professional looking, is a few steps behind me on the staircase, and she drops a present she is carrying, and it bounces down to me, so I pick it up and decide to carry it down for her. But when I get to the bottom of the staircase I find it blocked by a wall of presents, perhaps four feet deep and six feet across, completely blocking it. I drop the present on the stack and start to climb back up, explaining to the lady as I pass her, and fighting through the ever-worsening crowds, at times even climbing over small children to do so.

When I get back up near Janna's office (and it -is- now Janna's office, not a warehouse with super heroes fighting) I find myself staring at a little oriental girl, perhaps 8-10 years old who is obviously in the middle of a potty-mergency (thank you, Animaniacs) as she dances around. Suddenly an older Chinese woman who reminds me of a non-animated version of Cookie Kwan from the Simpsons walks up and tells me it is my responsibility to guide the girl (and 9 or 10 others) to the restroom. I try to refuse, but give in gracefully after a few seconds, and start to lead them to the short stairway down to the restrooms and parts.

Men's room no longer blocked, but it is being cleaned. The woman's room is still wallpapered over, so we continue on to the parts department, and this time I manage to find both men's and women's restrooms there. The kids use the restrooms. They also use the parts door leading outside, climb on the flower beds, and fall off. Thankfully the party is interesting enough that when they fall off they decide they aren't hurt.

I herd them back inside, and back up to the main showroom, and the crowds are worse than ever, so I try to get away slightly by stepping out onto the 'porch' by the main stairs up to the showroom, and just kind of look around, but even here it is crowded. As I stand there, Keith Thompson comes up behind me and demands to know why I have been avoiding him. I try to tell him I haven't been avoiding him as he searches through my (suitcase? gym bag? backpack?) and takes back the Kuya Kano CD he'd loaned me. He glances at it and sees there are a bunch of scratches on it, and demands to know what I have been doing with it, before he realizes the scratches just might be the music tracks.

I'm trying to explain I'm not avoiding him, things have just been hectic, when a couple of young Chinese guys say something that is probably slightly insulting, and Keith turns around and responds to them. The look of shock on their faces is great, and I just burst out laughing. It is Hiro and Ando from Heroes (yes, I know, when awake, Japanese, Chinese, different ... asleep, not so much). "I love that! I love the faces people make when they realize ..." Ando interrupts me "You know language!" I just keep laughing.

I start to turn back to Keith, only to discover he has stalked off, still angry, thinking I am avoiding him. I am about to go after him when I am distracted by a potential budding incident. Down at the base of the stairs there are three guys sitting there chanting. It seems to be a cross between Arabic and the chanting that 'Padulla' (Bubba Smith) did in Police Academy 4. Surrounding them are several white bread white guys praying in English. This is getting weirder by the second. They all seem to be working together at something, and again I pull out my camera to try and get some odd pictures, but another person on the stairs asks if I have permission to take photos, saying he doubts they want their fight captured on film. That comment is all it takes for it to start to turn into a fight, rather than working together.

I am starting to get worried, when everything changes. Across the street (where there is supposed to be a freeway) is a stadium, and there is a serial killer in the stadium who's weapon of choice is an air cannon (t-shirt gun) he loads with some sort of orange goop that kills anyone it hits. He shoots at 10 or 12 people in the stadium, and in the process turns an entire section of seats orange, before he turns his attention to us and starts firing our way.

Almost seems like he is trying to miss, like he is giving us a chance to scatter and run, but there are several people who are commenting they aren't going to run or back down, and they look like people from my choir. I'm kind of in between. I'm not going to run away, but if a shot comes my way, I am sure going to dodge.

BLANG! A shot hits the window next to me and coats it orange, then I feel a tiny sting and hear a loud clattering, and I turn to look at the staircase I'm standing on, and there are thousands of jelly beans or gum balls or something of the sort rolling down the stairs. I look around carefully, and find a dumpster where the flowerbed should be, filled with four or five people wearing bird mascot costumes. For some reason they are here to throw candy whenever the serial killer shoots his goop.

As far as I am concerned, anybody who wears a giant bird mascot costume in public has already consented to have their photo taken, so I am pulling out my camera to try to get some pictures, but suddenly it won't work. The camera won't focus. I keep bumping the wrong buttons, I can barely even hold the camera, and suddenly it is falling to pieces!

#1 - Missed Opportunity!! [DILD]

I was in a warehouse setting where I was doing something that I feel like I would have wanted to remember, but I can't recall it very well. This is most likely because it was my first dream of the night and I fell asleep high because I had smoked to get rid of a good deal of stomach pain. I vaguely remember a couple quick, nondescript but tauntingly awesome looking flashes of it and then I went though this big opening to be standing outside of a small building waaay up high on a cliff. It basically looked, from my perspective, like it was a cliff looking down into the Grand Canyon, it was so far away. I could also see a bustling city in the center of it in the distance, and I decided that it would be really cool if I got to the city by doing a running jump and roll off over the cliff and just bounce all the way down there. I wanted to get a good shot so I climbed up to the top of the building I was next to (somehow...) so I would have more running space, but as soon as I turned back around to get the view again the whole scenery had changed to just be a city around me. Damn it!!

I was sad but then I heard a mysterious evil voice saying that they had kidnapped someone and hid them on a tall rooftop, so I scanned the area and found them. I flew over to the roof and this guy was just stuck up there and he was grateful to be saved but seemed really unstable. He was really paranoid about being touched and backed away from me when I tried to approach him, and then things got really psychedelic before my eyes. He was rapidly transforming into different humanoid shapes, the only one I can really remember being a LEGO body, but I knew that it was just because the dream was falling apart.

#2 - Star Wars Restaurant [DILD]

I was with some girl at a Star Wars themed restaurant, and there was a dream leading up to it I'm pretty certain, but I can't really remember how we got there. I became lucid as I was just looking at her, but then shortly after that I woke up.

Not the most exciting thing, but still a lucid.

#3 - One Gathering After Another [DILD]

I was hanging out in this big building in some room that was supposed to be like a chatroom except in person, and it was for DV users. Unfortunately I don't really remember anything that happened in this room , but afterwards I met up with my friend M and went with her to a party downstairs. There were lots of people I knew there, including this guy GL that I hugged, and when I was there I started becoming lucid. I noticed that there were far too many things in my pockets to be comfortable, like significantly more than they could actually hold since they're pretty small, so I decide to go find somewhere I could safely put them down. As I was leaving I saw this girl S and her girlfriend P who I had just met recently at a meeting of BDSM people around here. Somehow I decided that they must be good lucid dreamers, so I had them come with me.

We all three walked out of the room and then flew up and phased through the ceiling up to the next floor. I was taking us back to the chatroom, but we had to walk through this fancy party (almost like a ball with royal dresses) to get there and we lost S along the way. I got to the room and noticed that there were lots of people I knew from growing up there now like this girl AH I met in kindergarten instead of people from that forum. I wasn't phased and just started emptying my pockets there, but in the meantime my lips began to swell and were feeling very bizarre. I tried to distract myself from the sensation but it was very solid. I turned around and P told me that we needed to grab S before we went back to the party, but we would have to find her first because she had shapeshifted into a girl in a fancy dress in that room. I see this short girl in black and suddenly know that it's her, so I just walk up to her and grab her around the waist and say come on and she gives in.

I think this dream could have gone on longer, but the lips thing was becoming worse and worse and I started trying to move my tongue around to see if I could get my real body to do it and see if I was lying on my face in an uncomfortable way or something, but I couldn't tell so I just said to hell with it, time to wake up. I opened my eyes seconds later and, of course, there was nothing wrong.

#4 - Time Flowing Backwards [Non-Lucid]

I got up in the morning and I was using my cannabidiol oil, and the first thing I noticed was the clock in my room. The second hand was moving backwards, and I became slightly concerned about it. Not enough to really spring into action, though. I went into the bathroom to start putting the drops on my tongue, and saw that the clock in there was still moving normally. I was suspicious of it though, and didn't think of it as enough evidence to convince me that time wasn't flowing backwards.

#5 - Depth? Who Needs It? [DILD]

I was in a class in what appeared to be something like high school, but I was communicating with someone I only met this semester in college, this girl in my humanities class named C who sits two seats to the right of me. She wasn't actually in the class though, while this guy SJ from high school was, I was just talking to her remotely. Depending on when it was in the dream I was either typing an email or instant message to her or something or I was writing on a piece of paper that magically functioned like that and filled in messages whenever we wrote them. She was talking about mushrooms and I told her they were really cool. She said she secretly wanted to try them but she was afraid of getting into it all, and she used this metaphor where she said for example that a reason that she wouldn't want to use amphetamine is because it speeds you up and she wants to experience her thoughts at the natural pace, she doesn't want any of her life to race by and when it came to mushrooms she felt the same way about her creativity.

Around this time Rob Huebel and Rob Riggle walked into the room and I perceived them as cops based on their comedy routine that they showed in Super High Me. At that time I suddenly noticed that I had a bong in my hands and was hiding it under the table, and they never saw it though it should have been really obvious. I became a bit nervous and sort of forgot about my communication with C, but then I started to become lucid. I got up and hurled the bong at the wall and watched it shatter, and in the process I accidentally knocked my cellphone forward off of the table. I stretched out over it and tried to reach down and back to reach it but it was too far away, but then I got an idea. I did that trick like where a cartoon character will act like the moon actually is really tiny and right there in the sky and they'll just put their fingers right around it in their point of view and grab it, and it worked perfectly. My phone was a little bit smaller than normal but I still had it in my hand, so I put it in my pocket and started walking off.

I could tell that the dream was starting to fade away, and I saw this large girl in blue scrubs around my age who reminds me of someone I've seen before at school leaving the classroom. I jumped up on to her and just hugged and squeezed her, but as she started taking us out of the room things were getting very dark and all I could really still do was hear people talking in the halls. I started making out with her and could feel it a bit and I had hoped that this might revive the dream, but no luck.

When I woke up I really wanted to go back to bed and try to keep this crazy ride going, but I had a friend who crashed here overnight and I didn't want to be rude by just staying passed out all morning, so maybe next time!

In my dream yesterday night my wife an I won a contest to visit every restaurant in New York city. There were reservations all set up for us, but when we got to the first restaurant, they informed us that instead of everything being paid for no matter what we got, they would give us cash that we could use to buy dinner, so that we couldn't spend over a certain amount. I thought that sounded reasonable, so I said fine, and they guy hands me $500. I exclaimed to him that that was great! We would have $500 for each restaurant, which would leave some leftover for the really expensive restaurants, etc. That's when he told me the $500 was it for all the restaurants. So we won a chance to eat at every restaurant in NYC, but had to split $500 to make it happen...

Dream recall from today's naps.

Nap #1(fragment):

At some point in dream i was in my room and i was standing and staring at the wall. I spontaneously realize that i am dreaming, some weird voice keeps repeating word "Nila", and i can't move for some reason. Shortly dream fades to black before i can do anything. Voice still repeating that word and i try to visualize some other place but shortly i feel somebody's hands on my shoulders. Some other voice starts saying something along the lines "You will wake up, you will wake up right now"( ), i say "No" while still trying to change location and move, but shortly i indeed wake up.

Nap #2(fragments):

I was at home and there was something weird happening. I was busy in the bathroom, but some family member was interrupting and annoying me. Then everyone left and i was looking in the window. At the street, somebody was driving huge truck like crazy, ramming everything and causing total destruction. I decided to go outside and check it out. He did managed to crash the truck to the point of it not working, but even after that he was never giving up and was still trying to destroy everything by throwing some heavy objects. There were also alot of construction workers around trying to repair everything. Then building and nearby trees were set on fire and burned out.

05/03/13

Disturbed
I am at school. I look around and see it is my old high school, though I haven't been there for years. I walk down the halls looking for some sign of where I am supposed to be going. I spot someone I don't want to see. Someone I knew during high school who pretended to be my friend when she really had no interest in being my friend at all. Her name was Jamilia. I see her a bit farther down the hall but she has not yet seen me so I duck around a corner into a restroom to keep her from seeing me. I really don't want to see her. I look around and see there are a couple people I don't know in the bathroom doing their business. The stall walls and doors are only about waist high. That is high enough to conceal what everyone is doing but not high enough to conceal who is in each of the stalls. That seems like a dreadful lack of privacy. I don't want to go back out the way I came in because Jamilia might still be there so I look around and see the bathroom has two exits. I go out the other exit and find I am in the assembly room. I walk into the large room and I hear music playing loudly. I see there is a band there setting up for a concert. The song they are playing is "I'm Alive" by Disturbed. Awesome! Disturbed is going to be playing at the school! I can't wait to hear them. The song doesn't sound quite right and I notice their lead singer isn't there. David Draiman is missing and one of the others is singing instead. It doesn't sound bad, just different. Then I spot movement off to the side and David Draiman arrives, jumping from the upper level of the auditorium on a cheap looking bicycle and landing only a couple feet from me.

I am surprised the bike holds up to the jump, as it looks like it is made of plastic. The bike crumbles as soon as David Draiman gets off of it. He joins the other members of Disturbed and they continue playing "I'm Alive" as if nothing strange had just happened. I stay there and listen to the music since no one has told me I have to leave. I am hoping I can get autographs… I look around for something they might be willing to sign. All I can find is an old notebook, but it seems better than nothing. Maybe I can start an autograph book. I am waiting to see if there is a break during which I could approach one of them when the dream ends.
 
The Memory Remains
I am in a space ship or space station of some kind, I can't tell which or even that it is in space. All I can tell is I am in some kind of control room with computers and monitors all over the place. I have the feeling I am in space, though I am not sure where that feeling comes from. I am the only person in the control room, so I look around a bit. I see some of the monitors are active. One of the monitors is showing what looks like vital signs and a display that indicates the cloning process is complete. Another monitor reports that pertinent memories have been restored, other printing indicates these pertinent memories have to do with skills and fighting technique. It reports all other memories have been successfully blocked. The third screen shows a woman on the screen being equipped with robes and armor and weapons, I recognize her from a video I have seen, she is the Assassin known as Shao Jun. She has a blank look on her face and I wonder if those non-pertinent memories are of who she is. The people equipping Shao Jun with her weapons and armor are Templars. I put together that they have intended to clone an Assassin with all of her skills and use her… but what if she remembers who she is supposed to be? And that the Templars are the enemy? It seems likely that she will recover the blocked memories on her own in time, but why not speed the process on a bit? I see this control room is an observation deck and I am looking down on the room where all of this is taking place. I see Shao Jun in the room below, now standing there by herself, fully equipped for battle.

The door to the control room opens and a Templar scientist enters the room before realizing there is someone in here. He asks who I am and what I am doing there, but there doesn't seem to be much doubt about the answers to those questions since I am in my usual Assassin robes. He is going for an alarm on the wall when I grab hold of him, he immediately goes into wimp mode and starts begging for his life. I need to make sure he doesn't set off an alarm, maybe lock him in a closet? I let go of him just for an instant and he tries to stab me in the back with a mini lightsaber he had tucked into his belt. The blade singes the hair on my neck as I barely avoid it, killing him with my hidden blade before he can try again to kill me. I break the glass of the observation deck and jump down in front of Shao Jun, who seems unsure of whether to attack me or not. She seems a bit disoriented. A Templar comes back into the room and yells at her to kill me. I focus on the song spell "The Memory Remains" by Metallica. As the song plays, Shao Jun does attack… the Templar. Cuts him practically in two with her katana. More Templars come into the room. They may have energy blades, but they aren't getting anywhere near hitting Shao Jun with them. I watch as Shao Jun kicks the asses of every Templar that tries to come through the door. She turns to me and says she can see I'm an Assassin, so let's get out of here… and take out any Templars in the way. I climb back to the observation deck / control room. I set a couple controls and then a mechanical voice announces that the self destruct process has been activated. Time to get out. I teleport both Shao Jun and myself out into space where my Fire Valkyrie is waiting, we appear safely inside.

Shao Jun seems only slightly surprised by the teleportation. I fly away from the space station that is shaped like a giant Templar symbol… and we get out of range just as it explodes. I am thinking I need to take Shao Jun to some place where there will be other Assassins, but I don't get to figure out where to take her before I wake up. Hetfield tells me there is now a Shao Jun in my inner world…

I had another one of my kidnappers try to snatch my kids nightmares.

They tried to snatch my kids while the kids and I were running for the safety of a building. I managed to somehow fend them of. I don't remember how.

In general my awareness in this dream was fuzzy, which is why I did not recognize my dream sign: the kidnappers.

Had this dream around 3am this morning. It was long and complicated.

There were these brothers, I think three of them, and they were criminals. And their sister who was an Olympics athlete of sort was being unfairly discredited from winning with false accusations of cheating, and they were using their criminal abilities to try to save the reputation of their sister. And the dream kept switching back and forth between different scenes where the different brothers were, but I had some sense of a cohesive though convoluted plot (but that sense may have been wrong). One of the brothers was at a doctor's office out of some reason throughout the dream. The other two were elsewhere dressed in masks trying to break in somewhere. I think they needed to steal evidence that she was framed and had won based on her own abilities.

In one scene I was somewhere up high with one of the two brothers. While for most of the dream I was watching it like a movie, but in this part I was involved. So I was up high with one of the brothers, and he was going to fall, and I helped him fall more gracefully. He still got hurt very badly and could not call for help himself, so I called for help for him. While his ribs were being mended they discovered why he was there (breaking in to steal the evidence).

Meanwhile the brother at the doctor's office was telling the female doctor about it, and he had a nosy audience of a small group of people listening.

That's all I can remember. None of the character's were known to me, nor does the plot ring any bells in my mind: it does not remind me of anything that happened nor any movie or book. Just a really weird dream.

Some good recall today.

Dream 1:

Can't recall much at the start of the dream, but there was a story about two worlds and about that 'being lucid' was meaning losing control of body in one of the worlds due to something related to ghosts?( )
I was in some kind of hotel and there was some kind of problem with insects. Then i decided to play some video games while waiting for someone to find some information that i needed and i recall one of them looked whole lot like Medievil and another one was 2D platformer where one of the levels was in the sky and there were many platforms that fell after landing on them.
At certain point i got distracted from the games because the person that i sent to get information never returned, but i have got the information about the last location he was seen at. It was in the other world and that's where the weird occurrences of people 'being lucid' were happening, so i quickly transitioned there and met up with my team. We were some kind of detective team and were searching for the case of people "being lucid' and we discussed something for a while, then went for the place that i had information about
The place was a mansion with pink walls and the landscape around was pretty nice. We were searching around, but shortly we were interrupted by tall anime-looking lady with a weird haircut that i can roughly describe as horns of some kind, she was presumably the owner of the mansion, and she invited us into it. We were sitting around the table and there was discussion, but mostly we were just asking about the weird occurrences. The discussion kinda went downhill and to cheer everyone up, the lady started pushing the black umbrella, that she had, against the floor in the rhythm. it caused a music to start playing out of nowhere, someone from my team said that it looks like some kind of control over the ghosts and then i said that it's suspicious indeed but even if it is, ghosts would be more dangerous without control. Just in case i ordered part of the team to keep an eye on that while i went with remaining part of the team to do more search.
We were searching for a while and it was getting late and dark, we were somewhat away from the mansion. Then something bizarre started happening(can't recall what though) and we had a problem. The rest of the team came to help us, and the lady came as well. Suddenly some carnival lights started appearing around, shortly i heard lady saying "Stop, you are doing it wrong" and they stopped and there was a voice from nowhere "Fine", then she started rhythm with umbrella and carnival lights started again and there was also carnival music. I was stunned in some way and shortly everything blacked out.
I woke up in some different place, there was weird kid and i said "Why i was actually lucid" and then dream faded out.

Dream 2:

I was playing some Warcraft 3 looking game, but it had the interface of AI War. I was controlling some base and there were bunch of enemy bases to take care off. I was lacking much units and defense but still was managing to repel enemy attacks. I built some golem constructors and was making some brown rock golems with rocky poles of some kind, think combination of rock golem and minotaur model from warcraft 3(and which were made in similar way starship constructors work in AI War), but my resources were still incoming faster than i was spending them and they reached 99999999. I decided to build something else and send golems to auto attack enemy bases.
Later the game turned into some first person game, and i was in the game. I was in night forest and apparently i was a ninja. I was searching for some kind of artifact and there were ruins and mineshafts around. Ofcourse there were traps around the place, but they looked quite obvious. I went down through the hole into some underground area, which was one of possible locations for the artifact, but i have found only a bunch of traps.
Soon game switched back to Warcraft 3 like perspective and i was controlling some hero unit that was exploring some kind of temple. There were instakill spikes all over the place as well as traps and it required some hardcore navigation, but i managed to go through and get to near the end. There was some place that contained some useful item but was walled off by spikes completely, i thought it was there to fool players into trying to do impossible move while failing whole level right near the end. Then suddenly server's host logged on and reset the map while switching it into multiplayer mode, i was confused but i now have got more powerful hero unit. The game continued to be a battle of two hero unit teams between each other while racing through the temple. It went very messy and i have managed at one point to accidentally kill an ally hero unit due to misclick, using some ability that was a combination of 'holy light' and 'death coil' abilities from original game(how does that even works). Dream ended roughly midway through the game.

I dreamed I was at a pizza place... sort of. There were children who spoke Old English learning modern English with some sort of weird alphabet system, and machines that made snowballs, and everybody was having snowball fights. Then I went into the school, which became a pizza place. Then I was at a coffee/tea shop that only served tea that was friendly to your kidneys and had a lot of info on kidney health and which teas were good or bad for you. I had a string hanging from my mouth that was attached to my gums somehow, or part of them. I wanted to pull it off but was afraid I'd hurt myself and it would hurt.

The pizza/tea place had tables with umbrellas, even if it was inside, so I stole one and dragged it outside. I was in kind of a strip mall place. I went out to the bus stop but it was pouring, so I dragged my table/umbrella with me. The bus was already passing as I was getting to the stop, so I waved my arms and yelled so the bus driver would see me.

As I stepped onto the bus, I became lucid.

I didn't do much in this lucid except practice maintaining lucidity. I sat down and looked around and reminded myself to remain aware. The dream was going in and out of focus - sometimes it would be clear, sometimes it would be blurry with little detail. I practiced bringing the DCs around me into focus and was able to give some of them faces. There was a youngish asian kid and a grandmother with a young boy. I practiced changing my own clothes (I changed into a red polka dotted bikini). I tried to summon Robert Downey, Jr. but was unable. Mostly, I just rode the bus around and worked on staying aware. When I felt things fading, I would periodically remind myself to stay aware. I think this whole thing lasted 15-20 minutes of me just riding the bus around. I made it day and watched light shine through the windows and cast shapes on the floor... then I made it night again, then I made it rain.

I woke up in a puddle of drool. I guess I was concentrating a bit too hard... haha

Every once in a while I have these dreams that upon remembering them seem like I should call it a nightmare but during the dream I react so calmly that it does not feel like a nightmare. It is almost as if I am numb. I had one of these last night and it sort of followed me through a handful of dreams throughout the night which caused me to wake up at many different times. All of these are only vague fragments but I did my best to remember them.

Initial dream:
I was at some sort of dull party at night. It started raining which made me very excited because I love rain so I went out onto the deck to stand in it. as I walked onto the grass a dark figure approached me from above and my mood instantly changed from joy to shock and anger.

Somewhere in the middle:
I was in a car with one of my friends and we were driving around trying to find this dark figure so that I could confront it.

Last dream:
I found myself in some sort of maze-like underworld. It was dark with a red glow and there were these menacing creatures that were the dark figure's minions. These minions seemed to ignore me or not see me. I was in this underworld trying to find the dark figure.

There were other shorter dreams in between all of these that were somehow affected by the presence of this dark figure. It made for a very restless night of sleep...

I am currently sick enough that I could not go to school today. As such, I woke up at roughly 6:40AM and fell asleep about an hour later.

I experienced three dreams, one before that particular time, and two after, one of which is a fragment.

Dream 1: I was in a restaurant, in a mall. There were a few of my friends there, though I barely remember whom. I stood up, and walked to another area in the mall, where I found someone entering some door, to an area that was apparently a photo booth. I saw a bright light from the crack in the door, and they walked out wearing something completely different, and also wearing sunglasses. In a relatively-dark mall.

Two of my friends went in there, at different times, and the same thing happened. When the door was open, I could see that there was some passage forward for about roughly two meters, and then it turned to the left.

I did not enter myself, and turned to the left, and after a bit of walking, I found another entrance to this area. At this point, the walls of the immediate area had changed to resemble the stone brick block from Minecraft.

I had apparently made it my job to figure out what was going on. I had someone as an assistant, though I don't think they were anyone I knew personally IRL. I opened this other door, and stepped in, and found some pressure plate. I removed it, heard some whirring, and jumped out. As the door closed, I heard some high-pitched sound and the area inside was too bright to look at.

I had my assistant enter and exit this area twice. Evidently, the machine or room or what have you was now damaged, as the only changed appeared to be the color of her hair, both times.

I went over to the other entrance, stepped in, and apparently found a ledge covered in bags of chips. I knocked all of them down (there must have been thousands, to fill that area, and I somehow knocked them all down all at once), and exited the area. A friend of mine asked where I got the chips, and I just pointed to some area to the right.

At this point, the scene changed. It was an open area, floating in some bright void, though the immediate surroundings resembled this machine, which appeared completely wrecked. The front part was completely destroyed, but I apparently described it as the gaping maw of some monster. The whole thing also appeared as if it were in Minecraft. The interior was just an empty, unlit space. On the outside, embedded in the edges, were pieces of rock with glowing lines through it (If you have played the Thaumcraft 3 mod for Minecraft, they looked essentially exactly like infused stone). There was apparently someone else here, and to "mine" objects we had to jump up or down or hit the bottom of the block (by jumping up on the block beneath it). We reached the top, and the dream ended.

Dream 2 (fragment): I was at the house of one of my relatives. It was a clear, summer day. There was an oddly-constructed "outhouse" (which was more like a bathroom that was simply disconnected from the rest of the house, rather than an actual outhouse, as it had plumbing, lighting, and heating). We had found a dead woman in this place, though there were no injuries of any description. As we were trying to figure out what to do, she apparently got back up. I cannot remember what happened between this and the next part, however.

We went back to the "outhouse" and found her there again, once again "dead." There was some pole, about two meters long, suspended from the ceiling on a string and swinging around the room somewhat. She got back up again, and some other girl, apparently her daughter or some such, also appeared out of nowhere. I cannot remember anything else, though I do remember there being more.

Dream 3: I was in a room, part of some "palace" (though it appeared to be a hotel of truly bizarre design). Outside was a series of seemingly-random hallways and doors, many of which would lead to rooms that would qualify as closets, assuming they were there. This particular dream constantly swapped between two different scenes, one in this "palace" and one in a snowy forest, trees separated by wide paths and clearings. It was apparently being narrated by a kobold, though I never saw it. There was some war going on in this forest. The narrator said that he had betrayed his people by being a spy, and was responsible for their defeat or some such. The scene kept going to someone running around a clearing, full of large igloos, firing some kind of weapon, which apparently fired some large, green projectiles. This person, apparently the leader of the narrator's people (and also apparently Gangrel from Fire Emblem: Awakening, judging by his appearance), kept randomly firing up into the air.

If that was their leader, I'd hate to see their soldiers.

Anyways, the scenes back at the room in the "palace" varied in content - sometimes I would head outside, and it would be a clear sunny day. Sometimes I would be in the hallways, almost always going back from a bathroom to the room, and sometimes I would just be in the room, too sick to do anything, and drink something. The narrator would always speak during this, too.

Said narrator went on to say that he had asked a general, apparently Yoda, to tell him where their troops and refugees were - and would send it to the enemy leader.

At this point, I apparently knew that the enemy leader was Bowser, and that he was currently at the other end of this "palace." I cannot remember anything else.

Just remembered a dream from Wednesday morning.
It was one of those where you think you are getting up and doing what you need to do for the day.

Dream:

I "woke up" and got dressed and started driving out to Susan's. I made sure I had the address sitting by me in the car in case I forgot what she had told me over the phone. I was thankful that I was able to find the house without any problems. I went to the door. Susan informed me that the plans had changed and that we were going over to the other Susan's house to make the calls. She told me I could drive there with her since I wasn't sure how to get there from her house. We got to Susan's house and she had cinnamon rolls ready for us to eat. I started asking about how we were going to do the calls. She explained that we would all call and that whoever got ahold of the Grand Canyon Phantom Ranch Reservation Desk first would hand her the phone since she had all the info and prices ready. In a few minutes Marsha showed up. Something had told me she would make it after all so I wasn't surprised. So we all sat down and started to call....and call...and call....

And then I woke up and realized that I would have to do all that again. Little did I know that we had 2 full hours of phone calls ahead before we would get through.

This dream is a little fuzzy, but I want to get back into the habit of writing down all my dreams.

I was with a group of friends hiking. Our group had split into two. I was with a group that was going sooo slow. I was frustrated. I know the other group was going to see so much more stuff. We were back in a canyon that reminded me a little of Willow Gulch but drier. Finally I could see the other group ahead and I hurried to catch up with them.