non-lucid

It was dark outside. I was in the kitchen with my mother enjoying a bowl of warm soup in front of the stove. My mother was standing to my left as I ate. I brought the bowl very close to my face and very quickly, I realized I was dreaming! I don't know what caused me to know why I am dreaming, I just asked the question am I dreaming. After realizing it, I went all crazy and started yelling in front of my mother's face and releasing all the excitement I had. That was probably why it ended so quick.

I also had another dream, or it was after this one(I don't remember), and this time I was walking on a really long dirt road somewhere in the beautiful meadows. There were also other people walking with me. I tried to keep up with most of them but there was a girl I found attractive. She was Valerie. I saw her in a few dreams, I never got to talked to her in waking life. She looks the same in the dream.

I walked a little bit more and encountered a few animals on my way. There was a small dog chasing me. I'm not sure what it wants. I remember it was attacking some other time in the dream. There was also a cat behind me but it didn't seem dangerous. I saw the dog coming after me and when it finally did, the dog and the cat were fighting each other. It was either a good thing or bad thing. I was never sure which ever one wanted to eat me.

Sleep – I think between 11:00pm-12:00am
Wake ups – N/A
Finial Wake up – 6:30am
WBTB – N/A

I was at school and I was going to a maths lesson. I walked into the room that I normally have maths in. There was a different class in there. It was called something along the lines of social studies. I asked the teacher where my class were but she just looked at me puzzled. She then started going on about I either need to join a social studies class or do a maths exam. I chose to do the maths exam. I looked down into my bag to get a pen and when I looked up the teacher had changed into another teacher. This was another female teacher and she carried on the conversation like she had always been there. I then noticed, out of the window, that it had started to snow.

I am at some type of party, like a new years eve party or something. I am in someone else's house and there are old ladies sitting on the furniture around me. I don't see anybody but a bunch of old ladies. They are given busch light beer in a red cup since we are celebrating something. I hear one say it tastes too sweet or something. The old lady sitting in front of me has this really weird ass dog that has some huge problems. It is deaf and blind or something. It doesn't move or blink the whole time I am staring at it. It has these big, round wide opened eyes that are blue and very creepy, just staring blankly. The lady is petting it but it continues to stay extremely still.

Dream skip

I am at my friend's dad's house (Brian is his name) which is similar to mine but the carpet and walls look like his place. We are partying and I see my dad on the couch with Brian and they are laughing watching TV or something. I see two people I knew in high school (Cody and Jayben) playing on a computer. I am eating a bowl of cereal and drinking a beer. The beer is finished and I seem sober until I somehow am overcome with a feeling of inebriation and hit the floor getting milk everywhere. I feel somewhat embarrassed because I can usually easily tolerate one beer. I hear Cody and Jayben making fun of my fall. I try to tell Brian I don't know what is going on. He tells me to get up when I can't seem to control what is happening to me. I continue to stand up, walk, then fall over a few times before I am starting to freak out because of it. He watches me as I helplessly lie on the ground and am scooting across the ground without being pushed by anything or anyone. I pass out then wake up at my house on a workout bench (there also IRL but not exactly in the same place). I get up and see dad sitting in the rocking chair the glass windows on the double doors. I knew he was waiting for me to wake up because he was worried. I don't want to go out of the room yet and sit down on a futon thing (not there IRL). He sees me awake and I go out there to tell him what happened. I explain I believe it was because I was soar from working out the previous night.

Dream skip

I wake up at another house. I come out of the room and see my friend Tyler talking to some chick. We talk about the party that happened last night. I still seemed really tired. He tells the girl saying something like "We're gonna fuck right" and joking around about me joining in with them or something. I all of the sudden wake up on the table. I get up and see him standing there in the living room. He was waiting for me to wake. I tell him I need an energy drink because I am just too tired to want to do anything. He explains something about a game we could play that should give me some energy. We hear a storm coming about outside. We walk out on the steps and see the dark clouds rolling in. I see the fucking sun crawl straight up the sky in a fairly fast motion like when you watch a camera speed up a filming process. The clouds are also moving quickly. I watch it go up and pass the moon (like when you see a reflection of in the daytime), which I am thinking in the dream this is crazy seeing the moon and sun almost right next to each other, and go back down and to the left and it turns into a small little light ball now. I point it out to Tyler and he is amazed as well. He walks over to the neighbor women who is standing outside next to her pool. Tyler talks her into letting us use it which she says we have to pay her 5 bucks each. I am taking my shirt off and shit when she mentions sarcastically something about it being a perfect time to swim even though it storming. We jump over the fence and get in anyway which I was thinking about the storm too but I continued on. I was still tired and wasn't looking forward to swimming. The girl jumps in with a bunch of other guys I don't know and then I wake up.

I am in a house somewhat similar to mine. I am in the kitchen area and it looks bigger and nicer with a huge glass window on the wall. I am talking with this kid that I was in a grade lower than me back in high school. He is telling me a lot of disturbing things that have happened to him (being raped, etc). I am trying to keep him calm because I remember him having a gun or a knife in his hand. I then go into my room where I find a shit load of different guns, assault rifles, pistols, all that good stuff. I see my friends AK-47 under there as well, but it is taken a part a bit. I look outside to see an Army hummer like vehicle pull up and release a bunch of soldier guys with their guns. I am like holy shit because I know I am about to be arrested. I get down next to my bed to hide some things under it and an one of them pushes me on the ground and hand cuffs me.

Dream skip

I am walking with other prisoners at an airport off of a plane. I come upon this room where I see jars full of cannabis buds sitting around the room, I recognize I am in a medical marijuana shop. I am hoping I can take part in purchasing this fine medicine.

Dream skip

I am free of any law enforcement and am in a trailer with some old dude. I am talking to him about the kid with the problems and tell him how his father killed himself and his mother raped him. The guy is saddened and shakes his head saying how horrible it is. A lot of shit that I don't remember happens. I wake up.

14.01.2013

Chaos Emeralds, Pseudo-Self-Hypnosis, and Apophenia Actually Saves Me!! (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I'm inside a classroom, and I believe I'm assigned with a partner to find the Chaos Emeralds, and the whole Sonic associations come in random moments with the simulated version of waking life. It feels so awkward as more anime and cartoon themes started to intertwine.

One moment I have my middle and index finger together as if I'm trying to do an instant teleport in DBZ,

and the next I'm back to Sonic related themes, specifically the Chaos Emeralds. I'm actually using the motion for the instant teleport to locate where the Chaos Emeralds could be, and while other teams are out scavenging for them, finding the items was easy for me.

There were 6 in total, and not 7 oddly, that we had to find. I found about 3 within the room, and I realized I'm wearing a white tuxedo suit with white pants that look like they're tight on me.

Probably because I put 3 Chaos Emeralds inside the right hand pocket. I felt like bragging to the others that I already found half of them, but I was also afraid of what they might do to me if I did. So I just sit down resting my chin with my arms at a 60 degree angle.

I decided to do the instant teleport motion (but I'm not using it to teleport, just to track for more Emeralds), and found that the fourth one was in the hands of Amy Rose.

I also had a glimpse that she kept it in a leather bag, a really light brown one, and ironically, this would actually save my life, but you'll find really quick.


So after sitting around doing random stuff, the dream now shifts where I'm in a different room that's brigther than the last, and it seems I'm being questioned. Apparently, if I don't answer the question right, I die.

And guess who's the person who wants to question me?

Masami.

I think my hands are tied behind my back on the chair or maybe not. She's wearing the outfit she used to ride her vehicles in the show "Legend of Korra," and I really don't know why out of all dream characters, we would be one to question me lol.

I don't even recall seeing anything Korra related after the end of the first season of Korra, and that was months ago.

Anyway, she as her left leg over her right, and she has these white flashcards and informs me that I have to pick the right answer. I'm not sure is she's interrogating me, or if this is some kind of twisted foreplay for sex.

I actually feel that if I don't think of a right answer, I'll really die, so I get hyped up, and decided to think things thorougly.

The question was something I can't recall, but I had three possible answers, and I had to pick one, and they were:

- Tropical Beach

- Leather bag

- (And Some other choice I can't remember)


Oh and before I go on, remember the leather bag thing I mentioned about Amy Rose? You'll find out how it helped me in a bit.


So when the question was asked, I decided to relax, get into self-hypnosis and tried to visualize what the question is wanting me to find. I immediately see a faded out image of a Tropical Beach that looks like it's a cartoon version of one, but it's also realistic in some sense.

Since that was the first image that popped into my mind, I stated it was "Tropical Beach" as the answer.


So Masami asks,

"Are you sure?"


So I think again one more time, and honestly, I didn't know what else to choose, so I'm just assuming whatever comes up in my mind as potential answer. So apophenia starts to kick in, and I'm like, "Screw it, whatever" mode, and saw a leather bag and Amy Rose.

The I presumed the question was related in finding a Chaos Emerald or something like that. I decided to go with leather bag based on the previous experience where I noticed Amy Rose had the 4th Chaos Emerald, and just made meaning based on that.


When I stated "Leather Bag" as my response, my eyes are squinting even harder, and I don't want to open them because I'm wondering if the Apophenia was worth it. Then some random voice stated how I got the answer right.


After that, I was free to go.

Yep.

That's about it for that dream.

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14.01.2013

Not enough food in Cafeteria (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

So I'm going to a cafeteria in a random High School, and the whole place looks like it's barely even operational. The lights are too dimmed out, the whole place looks a bit dark, and the unlight from the big glass wall that's maybe 50 feet away from me is the only thing giving the majority of the light source in here.

To the left of me is a random dream character serving lunch, and it's mostly hotdogs, which is enticing to me and a few others. However, there was something about the hotdog that people didn't like, and I decided to go with the conformity to save myself from being disgusted with eating the hotdog. I quickly moved to the other two sections in front of the previous one, and I didn't really like any of the options there.

So I quickly moved back to the first section before this tall dude gets a spot in the line. He looks a lot like a guy named Elliot I knew in High School, and this dreaming counterpart is passive like all of them are in my dreams.

The dream shifts where I'm sitting at a table that I don't feel I belong in...great, nice High School nostalgia to reflect on and make me feel better........

I asked the random people on the lunch table, excluding Elliot of course,

"Can I sit here?"

They all say in unison, including Elliot,

"No you can't"

Well fuck, normally people say, "Oh sure!"

Nope.

They were blatant with the whole response, and I felt even more awkward. Then I realized they didn't really give a shit if I sat there. I guess it was just me getting answers I wouldn't expect them to reply through.

Then I had some weird conflict with Elliot, and after a while, he gives me a small piece of paper stating that he was a cop or something like that?


Okay...........when he gives me the paper, I calmed down a bit, and for whatever reason, this same piece of paper had a location instilled into my mind or something that I would plan to go to after the dream school experience ends.

And that's all I remember, probably would've recalled more if I decided to type things out early, but I couldn't skip breakfast before going to college classes, otherwise I might pass out and die of starvation....wouldn't that be fun!?!?!

I guess the recall is okay after not focusing on it for nearly 10-11 hours now.

14.01.2013

I'm Assigned to a Bing! Search Engine Seat (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Yeah, I go into a room, and I'm assigned a seat. I told the teacher planning things out about something, and he's like "Cool."

More like "Cool Story Bro," and I go ahead and sit down and saw on the Computer on my desk that I'm assigned to the Bing! Search Engine site.

Apparently they wanted to separate the seating arrangment so that a person who would also have Bing! assigned to them would be 5 seats away from me...left, right, up, down.

This is the most lucid dream I've ever had, and I'm still sceptical as to whether I was awake or not, because I feel like I really was.

I can't remember the dream before or after my false awakening, but I remember waking up, turning on my lamp and getting my dream journal from beside my bed, I lay on my stomach and started writing down notes on my dream, a voice was trying to speak to me, now that I think about it and I was getting distracted, I got down "short"then some dot points on the first dream, but I remember finding it very hard to concentrate as I was falling asleep and my eyes wouldn't stay open, so I went back to sleep. Now I think back on it, I do remember putting the pen into the book, but not putting the book back on my dresser or turning the light off, only flipping onto my side and going back to sleep into another dream. Also, everything about my room, which I was "awake" in was exactly the same to my memory, nothing was different/changed or dream-like.

I woke up this morning at about 9:00 and immediately went to write in my journal, then remembered that I had already in the night, I flipped the book open and there was nothing there, I got pretty freaked out because I swear I was awake, when obviously I wasn't. I don't know why it happened, but the writing in my journal part was because I only just started this journal after reading about lucid dreaming induction only a few hours earlier, so I started the journal and there was nothing in it.

Peace out.

Fragment

I was at the path intersection by the middle school from my old subdivision. It was summertime.

Fragment

I was on some beach or pier looking across a harbor to some high-rise apartment building. It was overcast/very cloudy and raining.

Fragment

Some kind of conspiracy about NASA. Supposedly there had been a shooting at the nasa offices and 26 people were killed. They locked the building with all of the bodies in it. Nobody had found them until "now" and they had all become skeletons. I remember seeing horrific imagery of skeletons and being told the story, that's all.

Dream. (Saturday Night)

I was given the power to create my own planet. I began creating this world with beautiful tropical forests and mountain ranges. There was a large sinkhole that all of this water was falling into.
Eventually some people came along in this high tech vehicle. It was a sort of grayish green color with huge wheels and this large satellite dish on top. When they activated it, it began sucking things twoards it, like some kind of gravity ray. There was a sort of blue aura to it.
I wanted to stop the ray, being the creator. I flew in (I had been flying the entire time I was creating the planet.) But I got trapped myself.

Dream (Last Night)

I was out on the ocean, in a dingy. I think my mother was there, as well as this old man with a beard and a cap on. It was nighttime and very dark. Although there was some light from the huge full moon.
The old man explained to me that there were dangerous snakes in the water. He explained that if they try to bite you, you have to shake them off quickly or they extend their teeth and poison you.
Then, the dingy started sinking. (Of course!) I swam clear and looked around, the shore was only about a quarter-mile away, and I decided to swim. I looked down and saw the snakes in the water.
They were only about three-four feet long and about an inch or two in diameter. They had a black and yellow diamond pattern down their backs. The issue was, there were at least a dozen just in my immediate area.
I felt one of the snakes bite my hand. I shook my hand off and I saw him fly back. When he did, it was kind of in slow motion, and I saw that he did not have teeth, just knobs in his gums where the fangs should be. But the knobs would open and the teeth would come out.
I kept swimming, but there were so many snakes, I had to shake my whole body constantly to keep them from biting me.

Another Dream (Last night)

I was standing on or near the ground. Someone was behind me. They did not show themselves or anything, though they told me that I was dreaming. I could somehow sense that they were behind me.
Then, they lifted me up into the air. We flew many miles up until the clouds were way below us. They said that they were going to drop me, and that I would have to start flying on my own.
I looked down, and realized that I was so high up that I could probably start flying before I got too close to the ground. If not, atleast have fun "falling with style"
When they released me, I fell the entire distance in only a second or two. When I hit the ground, I was paralyzed, and couldn't move. I slowly started sinking into the ground and realized that the ground was turing into small colored squares. It was around this time that I lost lucidity.
I broke through the ground and saw the whole world that I had just been to crumble away into colored squares, until eventually it was just one square and the square slowly faded away.

So anyways, I don't think this officially counts as a lucid dream. Not a good one anyway. It was way to hazy and unclear. I can say I was lucid, but I can't really call this lucid dream on that issue.

So I'm driving down the road, and there's this huge bear stacking monster truck tires. A couple of people went up and started taking pictures of it. Being the smart person that I am, I kept driving. I came across some unfenced bodies of water, and noticed there were huge fish in them and turned around and got out. They looked like trout...and near the edge I saw lobsters. I went to the edge of the water where they were and tried to feed them. They ate it....and were talking to me.....and some kind of way became two small women. They wanted me to take them home, but I didn't know how I could keep them alive, so I was hesitant.


I'm at church, but there's a crap load of people there....I mean tons.


I'm at my house, and a few of my cousins are there, and they started talking about how nice they were in Mario, and I was hoping they would turn that on so I could show them what's up.

I was playing some sort of top-down 'roguelike' shooter(roguelike according to dream, don't think it can be classified as one since it was in real-time not turn based), my player character was an sphere, apparently i was playing with some LP'er in multiplayer. We were on small maze'ish map and apparently we have spawned in different places of the level. We eventually found each other and proceed to the exit.
Now we were in some big wooden hall with 3 height levels connected by stairs, i was in game from first person now instead of controlling normally. As we was choosing another map i noticed an light switch. I flicked it a few times, and each time there was same choir coming from somewhere below.
Now we have started another map, i was controlling sphere again from top-down. Map was spiral like, and we have found badly placed trees that had right enough space to go in between, leading right to the exit, but we have decided to use normal path for the sake of recording. LP'er suddenly ran into bunch of hard enemies and his player character died, i went to that place and started shooting some small spheres at those enemies, who were spheres as well. It was hard, but after some ridiculous dodging i managed to kill all six of them, i have looked at map(which was Doom like) and it showed that only 2 out of 8 enemies were killed apparently. I have revived LP'er but apparently he was refusing to get up.
Suddenly we get teleported back to the wooden halls, view switches to first person and LP'er character is now an black cat apparently. He's saying that he's too sleepy to continue. I flick the 'choir switch' a few more times, and wake up shortly.

non lucid
*Transforming in the Mahakaruna
*Looking at my self in the mirror with my new glasses.

Sleep – 10:40pm
Wake ups – 3:27am
Finial Wake up – 6:30am
WBTB – 3:27am-4:02am

Dream fragments

- I was fighting a massive demon with blue eyes and red skin. He had wings about the size of his body and he was probably about 100 feet tall. I jumped through a portal and went into the demon world. There I had to fight two dragons. They were about the size of a bus and one could breathe fire but the other one couldn’t. I had a sword in my right hand and nothing in my left.

- I was building a computer. I was checking to see if I was missing any wires.

- Someone blew up chunk of the moon. You could see the chunk missing from earth. I could see lots of other planets that were really close to earth. (I knew it was earth because I was standing in my back garden.) They all had chunks missing from them that were visibly missing from earth.

- I was sitting in a car while it was raining heavily. Two of my friends from school both called Jake walked into the car park I was in and noticed me. They walked up to the car and got in. Then we started talking about lucid dreaming and how they had just got into it.

- WILD attempt – I couldn’t feel most my body and I could see shapes appearing right before me. I got excited and I lost that feeling and the feel of my body returned. I tried again for the next half hour but nothing happened.

A Plane Going Down

I was on a yellow air plane. It had gaping holes as though large doors and windows were missing. It was as though we were in a huge, plastic, childs toy plane that was really flying.

There were a couple other people in the plane. The pilot was flying low, and going lower. The terrain was mountainous and jagged. The pilot was now flying along the inside face of one of the mountains. Then the pilot said, "I'm going to get out" or something like that.

A passenger objected, then the pilot explained how everyone would be fine. "All you have to do is go like this" and he flew close to a ledge and skid on his but along a smooth, flat ridge.

I ended up getting out in a similar fashion, but I was just all of a sudden outside. Then I was busy trying to keep wild dogs away. (I saw several dogs IWL yesterday) I somehow obtained a chain with something on the end which I used to protect myself from the dogs.

Then I saw a woman that had another chain weapon thing, and I wanted it. The woman was an extremely attractive cinnamon girl with dark hair up in a bun. She was wearing a white bath robe. I walked up to her and held her in my arms and said what she was thinking, "When will this stop happening?"

Then there was a dog in front of me. I took the chain with the weight on the end and swung it. It wrapped around the dogs mouth.

Then there was a scene with my son , my keys, and I was trying to get the keys or show him where they were for him to pick them up. There was a dog there and we needed the keys. I tried to get the keys with my chain thing. Then I woke up.

Dream - Lucid

I was working on a Monday night 5-close, which was apparently a very slow night, at some registers that don't exist in the store IWL (they were in an area that looked similar to a store I worked at a few years ago). My friend Courtney called to ask if we had #2 Christmas tree poles (she didn't say poles but that's the closest thing I can think of). I said no, we only had #1 Christmas tree poles. She came into the store after that and purchased a Christmas tree pole...I guess we did have the one she was looking for. I thought about it, and the #1 poles were for huge trees, the #2 for smaller trees, and so on. She got some other stuff too. We talked a bit. When she left, I saw a flash of her at her family's house with half of the Christmas tree being broken off. She took the box with the pole out. I hoped that it would be the right thing.

I had a few customers, not many at all; it really was an excrutiatingly slow night. I sat on this couch that was there in the store by my register. There was a tall black guy there with dreads that went down a little past his shoulders. He said something to me, though I don't remember what. I think he was saying I was allowed to sit on the couch, or I should sit on the couch. I think he worked there.

I then was on break by a pond. It was an outdoor scene, but I don't think we were outside. The dirt around the pond was all a very dark brown. This guy that works with me (who gets on my last nerve IWL -_-), B, was also there. I was crouched down by the pond. I saw a small, beautiful black and white butterfly fluttering by the shore. It briefly landed on my finger, then kept fluttering around.

Then, hopping around on the shoreline, was a beautiful, small bird that I referred to as a finch, though I don't know that it really was one or not. It had white closer to the bottom of its body that slowly faded into a light, baby blue at the top of is body. It did not seem to be afraid of me. I held out my hand to it, and it wold come close, then hop back away. It never took flight, nor did it ever hop too far from my hand. I just kept holding my hand out there for it. I want to say I stroked its back. It was such a beautiful little bird; I was so intrigued by it! It really stood out against all the dark dirt and such.

Then, we had to go back to work. B. was there now with me as well. He had a small key chain hanging from his left pants pocket that looked just like the bird from the previous scene. I was concerned that B had killed the bird and made it into this small trinket. I asked him if that was the same bird, and he said no. I was still very skeptical.

We were then trying to close the store; it was 9 o'clock. Lindsey, a girl I also work with, was there trying to lock the doors. She commented on the people still in the store that didn't know we were closing. Of course, many people waited until the last minute to finish shopping and make their purchases; a line started to form at the customer service desk. I went to my register to try to flag people down to come through my line, but another cashier, a bigger girl, went to a register before I did and got some people. They then put me at a register at customer service, an area I haven't been trained at. But I did it anyway. A lady was trying to return some jewelry. I had to print some piece of paper off about it. I don't remember a whole lot of this part of the dream.

Then, I was by my original register, and I spotted a light brown wicker basket that contained a small blanket/cover, and a note. The note had some riddle/joke on it. I don't remember what it was, but the punch line was "Ham and eggs". I opened up the blanket, and there were a bunch of uncooked white eggs, chopped ham, and some bacon. I laughed a little at the joke.

The next day, I came in and the basket was still there, and little smell lines were coming off of it like they would in a cartoon to illustrate that the ham and eggs had gone bad. I examined them for a second, thought about how warm and gross they were probably getting, and I threw them away in a trash can. Someone then asked me about them, and I said I tossed them because they had the little lines over them.

Unfortunately, I have been slacking with my discipline and efforts to have lucid dreams and therefore didn't just have no lucid dreams in a long time, but even started forgetting my non-lucid dreams again. This morning, however, I woke up and remembered this dream:

Standing in our newly purchased manufactured home with my wife and some other people (In my dream it was only about a third as wide as in real life and a lot more mobile home like), I was on the phone with someone when suddenly the whole house jolted. My first reaction was "What the hell is going on?" and looked out the window as the whole house started rolling. I saw it hitched to something and remembered "right. it is a mobile home after all, but why are we being towed?

Being that I had been talking on a more traditional land line phone, I tried to figure out if the phone still worked, but it didn't. I had been disconnected. The telephone line was also rather loose, so I started pulling it to see why. I pulled and pulled and found a backpack on the other end which looked like a construction-site phone-in-a-backpack with several buttons on it. The blinkythingies it seemed to have were dark so I figured it had run out of battery.

Looking up again, I found myself in a train of sorts. I guess my house decided that it if was moving, it might as well transform into something that did it properly. There were other people in the train, too. We stopped, the door opened, and something I had dropped, something small, cylindrical, started rolling towards the open door, and someone was nice enough to kick it back to me to keep it from rolling out of the train. I picked it up. My wife decided to go investigating what happened to our house and walked towards a staircase descending into the floor of the train as we started rolling again. I ventured on to find some answers on this level. I quickly reached the end of the train and sat down. An ugly girl appeared behind the sliding door of the end of the wagon and hesitated to come in. Maybe because I didnt invite her in. After all, it was my house. So I nodded to her and she came in and sat down. She explained that because she's ugle, she is used to not being welcome everywhere.

Eventually, we reached a train station somewhere in the city and got out. Neither of us were familiar with the place but decided to find our destination together. Our journey first lead through some darker garages of sorts and then alongside the masonry structure around a cathedral. On the far side of the cathedral, going down the hill, a group of people, quite a fuzz, stormed the other way. Amongst them were a few policemen and women. I tried to get the policewoman's attention but she just sprayed me with something in excitement. Upon seeing my dumbfounded reaction, she just said that's what the police do when there's a tumult.

Accepting that I was going to get any help from her, I walked on. The end of the hill lead to a street and I turned and followed the sidewalk. The girl which accompanied me had turned into my niece from Colorado and suddenly, the place didnt seem so strange anymore. It was her home town. I noticed there were a lot of broken light bulbs on the ground. They were all over the place, like it was the colorado version of the occasional piece of litter on the street. I had already stepped on a few small ones, breaking them under my shoes and my cousin commented that here in Colorado, they didnt have recycling programs for light bulbs and people didnt know what to do with them.

Thats all I remember.

In my dream, I bought a new house. My husband was still living in our old house until we sold it, but I was going to live in this one until he could join me. Our two dogs and two cats were there with me. He was there after I first bought it, with some friends, to check it out and see what it was like. It was two stories and very spacious. Most houses I dream of have doors that don't lock very well and it makes me afraid that someone might break in, but this one was a very secure house, with secure doors that lead to a screened in porch with another set of secure doors, so it felt very safe. I also remember thinking it felt more solidly built than our last house, so maybe it would be warmer (less drafty). The siding was very old and you couldn't tell if it was suppose to be green, yellow, or gray, so I knew I'd want to replace that eventually, but it was fine for now. The backyard was up against a field, so it was nice to only have neighbors on two sides for a change. There was an old gravel road that led to the back of the house, but it didn't look like it had been used in a while. My only concern was putting in a fence for the dogs and if we could put the fence through the road. I didn't think it would be a problem, though, since it only went to our house and nowhere else. At first Paul and our friends didn't like the back yard, they said it was too small, but after really looking they noticed the whole side lot was ours as well so it was pretty spacious and nice.

I noticed a dog in the house that didn't belong to us. It was medium size, brown and black in color, and very muscular and mean. It kept trying to bite everyone, specifically me. My sister was there as well to see the house and she commented on the dog. I said it was left from the previous owners so I had to figure out what to do with it. I was thinking of taking it to Tails or something because I was really afraid of it. It kept nipping at me and it really hurt!

To try and appease my sister, I decided to try to be nice to the dog. I went to pet it and it latched onto my hand and kept growling at me. I tried to pull the teeth apart and talk soothingly to it and it slowly started to let go, but it still wasn't sure of me. Eventually it let me pet it and it calmed down. Now it was a very tiny white dog and I wondered why I had been so afraid of it; it was clearly just afraid of me because it didn't know anybody in the house and it lived here before we did. The fur felt kind of yarny, so I knew it needed a bath. It looked neglected. I picked it up and carried it around with me. I realized it probably hadn't eaten in a while, and when I went to rub its belly it had a small plastic bowl (like a prepackaged meal) tucked away in there. It came with a little plastic fork and everything. I tried to feed it but it wouldn't eat for me. I also noticed a small dropper, dog teeth cleaning utensils, and other things to take care of a dog, so she looked high maintenance, but I was really starting to love her.

I remember trying to take the dogs outside to see if they had to go potty, but it was difficult since the whole yard wasn't fenced. I had to get them to this small penned in area and then none of them would go. My dog Bailey just laid down and looked depressed and I felt bad because I know she loves to run and she couldn't here. I'd have to get a fence soon.

At some point I finally figured out how to feed the dog that wasn't mine. I had to give her some milky formula with that dropper (only 4 drops), and then hand feed her little pieces of soft food with that little fork. She wouldn't eat if you just put it in a bowl in front of her. I realized she had been really spoiled and I really had my work cut out for me with this one, but I was willing to do it for her.

Suddenly nobody was there except me, the three dogs, two cats, and my two kids (which I don't have kids). They were older, one was maybe around 8 and the other maybe around 6? I think both were girls but I'm not sure now. We were trying to figure out what to do with the house first. It had a lot of windows but no curtains, so we needed curtains. I knew it would be expensive and I had a tight budget, so we would probably have to start with super cheap curtains. I knew we could at least do the kitchen and living room, the rest of the house might have to wait.

The walls needed to be painted, and the kitchen had this awful, old, flowery wall paper that needed to come down. I remember wondering if I could just paint over it, but knew that was a bad idea. I told my kids that we had to figure out paint color and curtain color, and they had to go good together, so we had a lot to think about. They were excited and eager to help. I was happy and having a good time. I knew I'd get the fence first too, even if it meant taking out a small loan; it was important that my dogs were happy.

That's about all I remember right now. I woke up early today, so no alarm.
Side note: I start back to school today and I haven't been looking forward to it. Not quite dreading it, but just having feelings of being unsure of my major and so on. Maybe the dog represents my fear of my decisions? Maybe I just need to follow through and I'll find that I like it regardless of my fears? Just a thought....