non-lucid

I am in Tokyo, I think. I am staying inside of this bunker-like thing in a park. David, a friend of mine, hands me some guns and explains what all of them do. I just laugh at him, wondering why I would need to know what all of these guns do. After my "briefing" on the guns, we decide to head outside. To get outside we have to go through iron doors - much like the doors to get inside of Sandy's Dome in Spongebob. While looking around, guns still in out hands, we notice an astonishing amount of aircrafts flying around. While walking around a bit, David yells, "Watch out!" At the sound of his voice, I turn to see why he would yell that. I see a plane diving out of the air, heading straight for the two of us!! We panic and begin firing our weapons at the incoming plane. It pulls up at the last second, barely missing us, and begins flying around again like the other aircrafts. Soon, it repeats the same procedure. Noticing that this pilot is clearly not a normal pilot, I begin watching the plane very carefully. After it pulls up - again, at the last second - it heads towards a city block. Upon reaching the block, I see a bomb drop from the plane. I yell at David to get down as I dive to the ground. From this point, all hell breaks lose. There are explosions everywhere, so we retreat to the bunker and I wake up.

I am in someones car. He parks in front of someones house. I am on my laptop in the car. He parks in front of a tree, this blocks the sunlight from coming in my eyes. I say "Good parking"
The person I am with says "Like a pedophile he is going to get us". Some other person is walking to us. Both of them begin to go up to the house. I am lagging behind. I am trying to pack my laptop. I am also trying to change my clothes, the clothes I am wearing are dirty. This old lady throws out an old green tower on the ground. I say "Is that it" and the person I am with just repeats what I said. When I woke up the baldurs gate fighting theme was playing in my head.

I was on the phone to my sister, who was asking me where I was. I could somehow see the room she was in, although only that she was next to a fish tank or maybe a terrarium. I said that I was at home and was confused, because I wasn't exactly anywhere out of the ordinary. Not pressing the point for much longer, she started introducing me to some person next to her for no clear reason, who I could barely see, but at that moment I'd thought she'd finished and put the phone down.

Then, I remember something about boats, floods in the streets, and an independent fragment about chimpanzees starting to get more intelligent and how they'd destroy themselves quickly if they were able to use weapons.

Methods/Aids
Thoughts
Lucid
* = Dream signs/cues
Non lucid
Dialog bold

Dead End Road - 2:06AM
Driving down same road as snow dream. Sudden dead end solider support troops concert in a pasture. Turn around pushing cart with TV*. TV keeps falling. some kid keeps begging to use my tv to play game. I carry TV and wife* carries xbox. I tell the kid, "I will punch you in face." I see him and his dad and appologize. Dad is smiling. I say, "I thought kid was much older." I feel ashamed of myself.

Hospital Crowd - 3:44AM - Attempted WILD
Lots of FAs. Hospital waiting for elevator. People crowd me. I want to change my mind and go another way. Lady put her purse in my wheelchair I was pushing. Have to wait. I feel crowded. I see Spenser. I push him and scream, "FUCK, PEOPLE! BACK OFF!" I decide I'm leaving. I go to get my wheelchair and see my empty sugar bag and my wheelchair is now a flat cardboard box.* I storm off pissed and go into a room. I see my wife sleeping. I think that I just woke up or something.* I feel really hot. I turn the air down. The room looks a little off but I don't notice. I think must have had a dream and try to DJ about the crowed hospital*. I see baseball videos vididly on my phone. It looks like the Astros. I see a name. Rodriguez. (Does he play for them?) I try to type it but its all messed up. There are characters on my keyboard that glow like strange symbols.* I stare at it confused. I can't see to focus on my typing.

EDIT: Well I'll be damned. I had no idea. It looks like him too! Rodriguez

My Dead Uncle - 4:37AM DEILD attempt - mantra "Remember Dreamsigns and Dreams"
I am back in the hospital. I have my son, Riley. Mom is holding him. I look back and see my niece, Elizabeth is way younger and really thin.* I feel half asleep and groggy. We sort of wonder around lost. We stumble into a room. I see my deceased Uncle Vernon*. Mom hands him Riley and says here's your grandson (WTF?). We are sitting at a folding table. There are 3 windows in front of me. I stare out the right side window and see a boney rib of a carcass of some long dead beast like a cow in the lawn.* I feel confused about this. I ponder why that would be there.
Mom interrupts my thoughts and asks, "Did you leave the window down quarter way?"
I am confused. I ask, "What? The House? Car? This room? WHAT?"
She laughs and sarcasticly says, "The north side of the dog house."
I keep seeing that carcass outside the window. I think on this again. I feel that there is something I am missing. There was something I wanted to remember. What is it. I must know. The sun starts blinding me from center window. Mom draws Curtains but the sun moves to the left one*. I stare again at the carcass in lawn wondering what it is I am trying to remember. I am on the verge of DILD when baby decides he wants a bottle and I wake up.


PISSED! 5:56AM DEILD attempt - mantra "Remember Dreamsigns and Dreams"
We are at Walmart and I round the corner to see my wife kissing some guy that looks like her ex boyfriend.* I get so pissed at her and start cussing and yelling. She starts acting just like my ex-wife and I lose it. I can't remember what was said but later we continue to shop because I really want to find a halloween costume. We walk and into a mall. I open a door and find a really dark and hot room. There is one light and a ton of button up shirts with vertical stripes. I look them over. I notice that there a lot of noise in here and I can't hear to yell at my wife. I say, "We are probably not supposed to be here."* I am still so pissed of and I want nothing to do with her.
We are getting in the car. My seat belt gets all effed up and wont work right. She tries to help me but I am so pissed that I push her hand away. I get out of the car and find some type of harness on me.* I rip it off and get in the car again. This time it works right. I try to drive out of the parking lot but I see a strange path and try to follow. I cross a bridge. Some adults yell at someone I can't see. I see them flip someone off. Then a little down I see some really young kids do the same. I think how bad that was but don't interfere.
I am now by myself on a 4-Wheeler.* I try to go up a really steep hill. I try to angle it but the 4-Wheeler rolls. I just off and land on my stomach at the bottom unhurt.* I get up and have to rock climb to the top. I have a strong hand and foot sensation here. At the top there is a couch and TV. I sit down. My ex-wife's brother is there and he sits next to me.* I try to ignore him but he excitedly holds out a large phone and says, "Hey you have to watch this funny video!"
BTW my wife would never do that and we never fight like that. That anger actually carried over into waking and I had to apologize for being hateful this morning. LOL.
There were so many dream signs last night I woke a little mad at myself for forgetting after putting so much effort into remembering.

Waking Day Journal, WBTB WILD, DEILD, Autosuggestion

I had quite a vivid dream involving a ghost the morning of the 3rd. I first noticed it moving the kitchen faucet. The ghost would just interact with random objects at first, but as the dream progressed it became more violent--bending window blinds and trying to rip down decor and curtains.

This morning I was back in a school building. Hallways and bathrooms. Even school buses right before I woke.

Had a dream last night, and attempted to recall it, and this is what was written on my phone.

1) Out at mine people meeting swam! Stole my fagMartin chocolate spread Clo so funn. (sic)

Yeh. Hahahahah! The only bit I actually remember was being sat outside on my patio with some friends in fairly nice sunny weather with a bit of cloud.

This was a bad, and scary dream... I was walking through some sort of mansion or castle or something, like a big house. I was running from something and I ran and hid in a room, but could still see into the hallway. A door then opened in the hall that I could see, and about 5-7 people came out into the hallway. They all had weapons, and seemed evil. But they also seemed kinda stupid because they didn't even bother to look into the room that I was in. One eventually did. A woman, who I guess kind of looked like my mom. I remember being back up against a section of the wall that had a window on it where I was, and the woman hit me with something that was a long piece of cylindrical wood with multiple and long sharp spikes coming out of 2 sides of it. I got hit in the left side of my neck with it hard, and didn't feel pain exactly, but I "felt" it. It felt like I was dying a few seconds after I was hit, and that the dream would end. But it didn't, and I came back to life. This happened multiple times before I started to realize I was invincible. Even so, after every time I was hit, I got that "dying" feeling. Then she got a bit of an attitude and stuck the weapon in the left side of my neck and jammed some other sharp object in the other side of my neck. I didn't die after that either. In fact, I actually escaped and ran down the hallway and then the dream ended.

This was a bad dream and all, but it was definitely interesting.

I rate this bad dream 4/5 awesome dances.

Dream - Lucid

I was laying on a hospital bed. I had just gotten my right leg amputated below a bit below the knee. Interestingly enough, in the dream, I had gotten it amputated before this, and given a metal prosthesis, but then, they put my real leg back on after only a few days. I "remembered" something about being with the old manager of the coffee shop I used to work at, Andrew, with my old prosthetic leg, before they put my real, organic leg back. But now, they had to amputate it again. They had already put the metal prosthetic leg on me as well. I'm not sure what the purpose of all these leg procedures was, but I knew they were necessary.

I was walking around with this new prosthesis. It felt weird, like I was still feeling the ground below my prosthetic foot through a phantom limb or something, though the feeling was a bit "muted" and off. I figured I'd get used to it with time.

I was worried about having a prosthetic leg, just because it was, well, a prosthetic leg and not my real one, but I pictured myself in shorts, wearing it with confidence. It was a really cool thought! I knew that I'd make it through just fine.

I then walked by my brother, who apparently, also had the procedure done; he too had a prosthetic leg. I think he was playing with some Legos or some kind of action figures. I asked him how he was holding up, and he said embarrassingly, or just not so well, something negative; he was not handling having the prosthetic well.

Throughout the dream, I walked on the prosthetic leg, each time feeling the oddness of my "phantom" foot as the prosthesis hit the ground. It was like I could still feel the leg, though it was gone.

Leg amputation is quite the common dream theme for me, though it has been awhile since it's recurred. An odd dream theme to be sure; I'm curious as to what it could be implying.

10.04.2012

Alyzarin Filling (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Alyzarin wants liquids inserted her holes.

Yeah.....not going to go far there.

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10.04.2012

Sonny from General Hospital 6 Pack Abs (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Sonny Corinthos from General Hospital is half naked and has six-pack abs and an overall lean, muscular body figure. He's talking to someone, but I'm not sure who it is, all I'm see is just him looking pissed off and pointing his finger at the person.

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10.04.2012

Prince of Tennis Sakusen Playing+ Walking with Chicken (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Seems I'm walking with fast food chicken breasts/tenders in a box that I have half way open. While I'm slowly eating the chicken, I'm walking down a diagonal path (but it's straight from my perspective) at an area near the Sul Ross Statue at my University, and the "Sakusen" song from Prince of Tennis is playing.

Like really? That's playing while I'm eating chicken? Like....am I suppose to say....


"Mada Mada Dane!"

*takes a bite*

"Mada Mada Sune"

*Takes another bite*

Then at 0:42 seconds of the video I posted above,

"Almost at the last bite!!!!"

Then at 0:52 seconds,

"You still have lots more to work on..."

Then at 0:55 seconds,

*final bite*

Then the rest of the song,

"YESSSSSSS I DID IT!!!!!!!!"

Then Tezuka randomly comes in doing Tezuka zone and says,

"Don't let your gaurd down....and EAT THAT CHICKEN!!!!"

LMAO. If that actually happened in the dream, it would make it a little bit more interesting. But really, that song added to this dream is SO random, I didn't even have it playing in the background in waking life at all, nor did I listen to it during the day....

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10.04.2012

I need a Pizza (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I walking slowly, or maybe watching someone do it, and I am/whoever they are is/ heading to an area that sells pizza.

"I need a Pizza..."

That's all I remember.

You get what you pay for (7:08)

A couple of my cousins are in town, and Mom is driving all of us plus my youngest sister to a class. My sister and I aren't in the class, so we're just coming along for the ride before Mom drives us somewhere else. But when the class starts, to my surprise, Mom starts lecturing. It's a class about conducting an orchestra. Quietly, I remark to my sister that it seems like we'll have to stay for the whole class. She looks outraged.

I decide to open my brand-new conducting baton. For some reason, it's hard to see from the outside what the baton will look like. When I tear open the plastic-and-cardboard packaging, I discover that it's some sort of assembly with a handle and four identical attachments that look like big hexagonal construction nuts. The handle emits a broad-angle red laser, which you can focus to a narrower beam by adding one or more of the nuts (which are apparently lenses).

After testing this out, I'm angry. I just read somewhere that conducting batons work by blocking the light from objects behind the baton, so you can see it. But this baton just emits light of its own, and there's no way it's effective. I'm mad about what I got, as I'll tell anyone who will listen. Honestly, instead of all that fancy laser stuff, it would have been even cheaper to make a typical white plastic dowel, or whatever. Why couldn't they have done that? Mom stops her lecture to come down and see what's bothering me. I realize that I only paid six or seven dollars for this baton, which is really cheap, so I shouldn't expect good quality. You get what you pay for, I suppose.

Recreational Vandalism (7:08)

While riding the subway with a friend, I happen to have a couple of baby carrots. I wonder if they're strong enough that if I stuck them into the window, it would open and close a few times and break off entirely (sort of like jamming a gear with a wrench). Even before I say so out loud, my friend suggests we have fun and vandalize the train. Well, okay. So I do the thing with the carrots, and my friend does something similar about six feet away, and it turns out to be really effective. Half the side of the train on our side breaks off, exposing us and the rest of the passengers to the wind. The train pulls up to the next station, and I try to act nonchalant as I get off, despite the fact that the car around me is completely destroyed.

Of course, there is an investigation. My sister is very angry with us for having done what we did, so she helps the investigation assemble evidence against us. Once, I come across a big pile of evidence on the floor, and I wonder what would happen if I just took some of it. I'd probably get in trouble for obstructing justice, though, so I leave it. When the day of our interrogation comes, my friend and I try to be extremely friendly so the investigator will be on our side.

Frags:

• Two of my cousins have come to visit. I have a sort of friendly crush on one of them.

I woke up at around 5:00. I had become lucid and immediately woke up. I gasped for breath and my eyes were open immediately. (I always wake up like this, this makes DEILDs impossible for me.)

I decided to try a WILD, though I'm not entirely familiarized with the procedure. I can remember trying three times. The first two times, I snapped out of it because I was drifting to sleep non-lucid. The third time, I drifted off into a non-lucid dream.

The dream was about my technical campus. (I am dual enrolled, at high school and a tech school visual imaging campus.)
Anyways, our instructor was explaining a new assignment that we were getting on Photoshop. We had to draw a planet.
Then he showed us this stunning visual demo of a planet somebody drew. It was a planet made out of technology (think death star surface) but it had an atmosphere glowing bluish-green. The visual zoomed in and we went inside the planet. there were multiple layers of this city-technology, separated by empty space.
I stated that I thought the planet looked a little like Dovia. (This was a planet from a science fiction novel that started writing last year.)
Then, I began drawing my own planet. I decided that I wanted mine to look like Jupiter began drawing this orange planet with a green spot.

I made a host of mistakes here, and I know what they are:

1-Not incubating my dream to the planned beach setting.

2-Not knowing the WILD procedure very well.

3-Not waking myself up enough.

With that in mind, I can try again tonight.

I am looking for a job back home, for some reason, bump into an old manager in an underground subway type walkway (JH) and discuss it with him and tell him about the role I am doing now. Afterwards I meet my current reporting line (PM) who talks at first but is visibly upset, he has either just had to, or will be attending his daughters funeral (he has a young son IRL). He is wheeling a small cylindrical bin like object on a wooden platform on wheels. When we get to the road I carry the bin across for him and he carries the wheels. The dream ends there.

NB: Coincidentally weird, but on the tram today I was sitting reading on Facebook about my friend who's daughter passed a year ago. He had just updated his status saying he was at her grave. When I look up, PM is on the tram next to me on an adjacent seat.

Next dream and I'm at the top of the stairs of some sort of temple and people are attacking me, but it's not that threatening. I think one of them may have been my girlfriends brother, but I was able to just push them down. I remeber going into the temple and there is a square stone on either side with what I perceived to be a spirit in it, it was saying who could and could not come into the temple. It had something to do with a school (I think) and you had to have had an association with it to be allowed to pass.

Then I'm in a car with B who has notorious dealings and a girl who I can't remember or place. We are driving to what I perceive is a pub in fife when we are stopped by police, he is calm but we are worried. He puts it in his jacket pocket and in the glove box and the police put him in the car for questioning. We are allowed to leave so I drive his car away. To the pub where I park it and am told I cant park there, it's for either players or workers. Anyway, I can't recall going inside the pub. Just that later on B arrives in a car, which is supposedly his but it's a newer version of the one we were just driving.

Finally, I'm in what seems an Irish or Scottish style pub, a lot of wood on the walls. At a table with 3 people I don't know. In the dream I knew them. I see 2 men, one who I currently work with and another who I worked with back home, sitting together having a drink. They see me and come across and mention that it was nice to have met my parents/family. This seems to have been a reference to something earlier in the dream that I can't place.

Yet again small fragments, but I am certain writing them is a good idea.

Dreamed: 3.10.2012, Written: 3.10.2012.

I remember this very vaguely, but I'm pretty sure I was standing in front of the mirror in my bathroom.
I don't remember seeing myself in the mirror, or remember anything the would've caught my attention happening there.
I have a feeling that I was lucid, I don't know why.
I remember standing in front of the mirror and whispering a lot of things that sounded like insane gibberish.
I'm not sure if this was from the same dream, but I remember later not being lucid, I think, and going out of the toilet and towards my computer desk, I remember being very angry and frustrated, I felt I wanted to destroy something. although this wasn't lucid, thinking about it, it just seems like that actually happened, though it didn't.
I was near my computer desk and looked for something to destroy, something like a match box or a toilet paper roll.
I remember not finding anything, then I saw a knife under my headphones, the handle was bright blue.
I then almost grabbed the knife still angry, maybe with the intent to hurt myself, but then I snapped and thought to myself "I need to relax, I could seriously hurt myself this way".
I think I calmed down after that, and sat in my chair, calm.
That's all I remember here, I really am not sure why I thought I was lucid in the first scene, just a feeling.

Also, the night before I was thinking about how fascinating I find mirrors in dreams, that my brain actually has to imagine every little detail, twice, and that I think mirrors have quite a potential for something, I came up with an idea of a "Change your look" stations using mirrors, you could touch you face and hair and so on as if the mirror was a touch screen, and change things.
That's why I think I dreamed of this, and maybe this made me semi-aware for a very short time.

The second dream I remember, which I think I might have returned to after waking up once, wasn't lucid though.
Was quite a long dream I think, I tried to recall it better after waking up, but I couldn't remember much, and it has been hours ago so I forgot even more of it.

The dream occurred in a place which was a hybrid of my old school, my current school and some things that were different but not from either of them.
Almost all of the dreams I remember for about half a year already occur there, and I think it changes a bit every time.

While writing this I'm starting to recall more, so here's what I currently remember.

I was sitting in my new classroom, which looked a bit different, with a friend of mine, from my old class.
In the seats in front of me were sitting two girls also from my old class, they were mocking me and my friend for not believing in god, I remember me and him telling them things but I really don't remember what me or he said.
I then talked with him about things, but again, I don't remember the conversation.
Then I was coming back to my seat holding something which was either a bunch of seeds or coins, or something else completely.
I heard the girls talking about how they are in need of the things I was holding, I think I might have brought it just because of it, I don't remember.
I then dropped one off on their desk without saying a word and went back, they said something along the lines of "Huh, helping now, after bribery?" and laughed condescendingly, I don't know what that meant in context of the dream plot.

Later I was outside of the school, It was my old school's outside environment, but different.
I don't remember some parts of what I was doing outside, but then I remembered a certain girl sitting near another girl on a big stone near me, I know exactly who she was based upon.
It wasn't really near me, but not far away.
I remember that I have met her in this dream before this, inside.
I remember there was a conversation, but I can't remember it, I only remember that it was a friendly conversation.
She saw my outside after sitting down on that stone, she waved at me and yelled something, I think she just said "Hi there!" or something along those lines, again her appearance made me feel comfortable, and a bit in love actually.
I think I greeted her back, I'm pretty sure I did.
The girl next to her then asked her something along the lines of, "Does he ever talk at all?" kind of in an intent of offending me, she answered "Yeah, all the time! I like talking to him".
I think what she said was a bit different, but this seems close enough.
Again I felt good hearing her.

I think there was more to the dream, but I can't recall any further.
Oh wow, I started writing this with
"Yet again small fragments, but I am certain writing them is a good idea."
And ended up with a decently detailed entry, I guess writing this up really was a good idea.

I also think my dream recall is improving, a bit slowly, but improving.

Edit:
Huh, minutes after finishing this I remembered another dream.
I was in my bathroom, which I am beginning to think might be a dream sign, third time I'm there in a dream.
Instead of my toilet seat there was a tall yellow contraption there, with about five rows of buttons, every row had a different amount of buttons, now that I think about it, there might have been two rows,
The first row had more than five of them, I think.
The second one I didn't really pay attention to, but there were less there.
The first row was about different flushing functions, so this thing was a toilet after all!
I pressed a button and then a stretchable leather like fabric went up and stretched blocking the toilet seat.

Huh, I wonder how many dreams I forgot like this.

The following was typed up as soon as I woke so I'd remember the details. Before I paste it in here, I should point out that I am a female with no desire for a sex change lol. I also don't have any kids and I'm no longer married.

I lived in the future at a time when robotics were used to control almost everything. I was physically enhanced by them myself with extra strength, speed, hearing, and something which made it impossible for me to drown which will be significant in a moment. Everyone was connected to an internet type thing via an implant in their head as well.

In this dream I was a man, and my wife and 3 daughters were at this beach place. It was a river with a fake beach added, like what actually exists near me. However at the end of the river there was this tunnel where all the water was drained. I don't know where to.

I cant remember what but I had to do something so I told the kids to stay in the beach area and walked away. Somewhere during this, two of the kids, the youngest and the oldest, got swept away. I dove in after them. They were getting beaten up by the rocks and things on the path. I caught the youngest, but she was already beaten to near death. I tried to get to the oldest too but she was pulled into the drain.

I jumped out of the river up onto the high banks. The child was screaming in pain and I could feel her vertebrae in the wrong positions. Some were sticking out and her bones all were badly placed but not protruding through the skin. I shut off the pain center of her brain somehow using the implants, and she immediately fell into a coma-like sleep.

After I got her to shore I left her with her mother and returned. I was going to hunt for the other child, but she was gone. I was also sure the one I saved would die because she had a previous illness that had only been recently gotten over. I do not know what it was, but it was something she was born with that had been expected to be fatal.

I don't know what made me go looking for clues about what happened to her previously. I honestly have no idea why I went searching for this. But I then decided to find out more about her past. I went looking in this old trailer park we had once lived in. I think in the very early beginning I might have been here as myself. Anyway I found out she spent a lot of time with this neighbor named Jamal, so I went to see him.

Through a sort of memory sharing process I learned that he had been abusing the girl. He was laughing while he shared this. I don't recall the actual fight but I remember I left his body essentially crumpled into a ball on the floor. Then I left and suddenly I was a girl again. I was riding a bike in my nightgown when I passed this factory where implants were added to people. I pulled in and I was a guy again as I walked in.

Around me were in the tens of students getting implants. I was looking into some extras to add to the ones I had. Somewhere in here I became aware or remembered that I had served 2 weeks of time in a freezing jail, like they froze you solid for however long your sentence was. I was still worried about police catching me for killing Jamal so I don't know what for or really when.

I expected my daughters illness to make recovery impossible too so I was looking for something to help me to help her. I remember passing doors with labels on them each one telling what sort of implant you got in each room. I went in to get one, but I cant remember what they were. I ended up in the back of the place in almost a wilderness type area.

At this point my memory of the dream starts falling apart. I remember there was fruit growing on bushes, and I remember being terrified she was going to die before I got back. Then I was talking to my wife and I told her I was going to search for the body of our other daughter who had died. I was heading for the river when I woke up.

The third daughter was there only for a small bit at the beginning. After that she wasn't really mentioned anymore.

Someone Else's Dream (6:29)

There's something strange and kind of scary going on. One at a time, a couple of my friends and I have been drawn into this dream scenario. The rule is that the last person to arrive is in control of the dream, even if they don't know that they're dreaming or don't have good dream control. It's scary, because that person could unknowingly force you to do very dangerous things. I'm discussing the situation with my friends when suddenly a new person enters the dream, a stranger to all of us. It looks like a small four-footed creature with wings. We're worried, but then someone points out that the new entity seems very attuned to their mental state--they've already realized they're dreaming, and they're trying to escape. Indeed, the creature is energetically bouncing up and down. After a few moments, it disappears, leaving the previous dreamer in control of the scenario.

Spider Cleaning (8:06)

I'm in the basement of my house when a brusque girl comes walking up to me. She's been sent to clean out the spiders. I hadn't realized there were any spiders, and I say so. In response, she points at the ceiling of the bathroom. There's a sort of shelf made of cobwebs, with a couple big spiders on top and another clinging to the bottom. Oh. Wow, that's actually kind of scary. Then the girl starts swatting at the web with a broom, and the spiders fall to the ground and start crawling everywhere. Naturally, this makes me jump around a lot, and I'm impressed by how the girl seems totally unfazed.

Conference (8:06)

My partner and I are sitting down to have a civil conversation with the villains we've been tracking down. We accomplished this civility by trading parts of the skin from our face. So one guy has darkly tanned skin above his upper lip, and paler skin on his jaw and chin. The other guy has mostly dark skin, except that his lips and a patch of skin around them are lighter. (There are no scar lines at all, so it's not grotesque; it's just weird seeing such stark contrast in skin tone.)

Out With a Bang (8:06)

It's been a long story, and it's drawing to a close with the sole performer remaining on stage dancing to an upbeat musical number. With the final note of the music, she strikes a pose, and at that same instant, my alarm goes off and wakes me up.