non-lucid

Color-coding: Non-lucid, Semi-lucid, Lucid, [Commentary made while awake]
Bold text indicates a “dream within a dream,” meaning any dream scenes that followed after I dreamed of falling asleep

I wake up in my current bedroom. I can hear the couple who lives downstairs in the master bedroom arguing. The woman says something like, “I have to get up now and get ready for work!” I can't sleep with them arguing, so I decide, “Okay, I guess I'm up for the day now, too.” I get up and start trying to take a shower, but the hot water keeps turning cold because the woman downstairs is taking a shower at the same time. After I'm done, I'm still feeling so sleepy that I decide to go back to bed and try to get some good sleep while I still can. It's still only 4:15 AM, after all. So I get back into bed and go to sleep.

[All of the above paragraph was a completely convincing false awakening that I failed to catch. I've never heard the couple in question argue like that, plus, in the dream, the residents of the master bedroom were the parents of the girl who actually lives there in real life, and I thought nothing of it. :/]

I'm visiting EM and SM's house in Omaha [something I did in real life recently]. It's morning, and we're all getting ready to leave the house for the day. They have a gigantic, elaborate house [way bigger, fancier, and more high-tech than their real house]. While we're in the kitchen, SM says something like, “You haven't had a chance to eat today.” I answer, “I know. That's why I always keep bananas in stock.” I show her that I'm carrying a banana with me, which I intend to eat for breakfast. SM has an eyepatch over her left eye socket, with a cool outer-space vista on it. It's embedded into her skin, and I can see muscles twitching underneath it. It's kind of creepy.

We get outside the front door when I realize that I don't have any shoes on. I say to EM, “Could you unlock the door for me, so I can get back into the house? I'm not wearing shoes, only socks.”

EM takes out a door key and uses it to unlock a lock in a wall, which opens the front door. “The front door” consists of a zig-zagging wall of metal panels that cross a wide, concrete courtyard. The panels that are parallel to the house swing open, toward the house, when the key is turned; they're the doors. I go into the house and run up the stairs to the room where I'm staying, to get my shoes.

When I come back outside, I find SM sitting on something in the middle of the tall, light-green grass on the wide front lawn, waiting for me. She doesn't have her eyepatch anymore; both of her eyes are normal. [This is the case in real life.]

“Wait just a ding-danged minute here...” I say. This discrepancy has caused me to begin to suspect that none of this is real. To test whether I'm dreaming, I turn to face a low rock wall nearby and start walking toward it, willing myself to pass through it intangibly [something I know very well that I can do in dreams]. I find that I can't pass through it; I just bump into it normally. In the moments that follow, I'm very acutely and vividly aware of the world around me, of my own self-consciousness, and of the fact that I'm not sure whether I'm awake or dreaming at this very moment. [I finally started watching the TV series Awake a few nights ago, and this is what the protagonist experiences all the time, a fact which is reiterated at the beginning of episodes 2 and 3. That is so cool, that I got to experience that personally in one of my own dreams! ]

After another moment or two, I do realize that I am dreaming. [I don't remember specifically how or why.] By definition, that means that I am getting some good sleep now, I reflect gratefully. I smile and decide to enjoy myself here while I'm getting that restorative sleep I needed so much.

As usual, all I want to do is explore the dream world, so I start flying up and away from the house. I see SM's car driving away below me, and wave goodbye to her. From up here, I can see the entire city spread out below me, covering the gently rolling hills like a blanket, and it's very beautiful. It's also very windy up there. I think to myself: I've got brains in my head, I've got feet in my shoes, I've got levitation powers in my mind. I can steer myself any direction I choose. [This is a reference to the Dr. Seuss book Oh, the Places You'll Go!, from which one of my contacts in Omaha read a passage to a graduating class while I was there. Hmm. No idea why I thought of them as “levitation powers” instead of “flight powers.”] I try to fly into the wind, which is coming from my left, but can't find the strength to fight against it. I decide to fly with it instead. I think, Why not? When you're going bicycling, you'll probably choose to ride with the wind, if you have a choice.

I end up flying through a neighborhood filled with lots of cute little houses that line narrow, old, little streets that wind around every which way. [Just like in the real Omaha, or, at least, the neighborhood where EM and SM live.] Every front yard has big, tropical-rainforest-looking trees in it that reach across the street, forming the beginnings of a canopy, but not a very thick one. There are exotic, tropical birds in every tree. [Um... not at all like in the real Omaha. ] I fly along, following the streets and admiring the beauty all around me.

[Dreamskip - I don't remember getting from one locale to the other.] I'm still in Omaha, but now I'm in a gigantic, elaborate, multi-story library and bookstore. It has lots of glass walls and ceilings that let in the sunlight, and they're arranged in a square geometric pattern, just like this library. It's filled with lots and lots of shelves of books, and there are plenty of people walking around. I'm still flying to get around, instead of walking. I fly up from one level to another, in search of the section where the most popular books are kept. I want to check one of those books out, but I don't have a library card yet, so I'm limited to buying it. I definitely intend to get a library card when I move there, though. [True in real life, too.]

When I get to that section, I land and start walking. I'm looking for the second book in a series I'm reading. I have to think about it to remember which one it is. It's not the Twilight series; it's the Hunger Games series. [Which I haven't even started reading in real life, but I would like to.] I look through the neat, white, bright shelves and find the book I'm looking for. I pick it up and start walking away with it, reading it. There's a computer kiosk that beeps at me as I walk by. I look on the screen, and it has a written message directed at me, chastising me for cracking the spine on my book. Doing so somehow disrupted the operation of a pacemaker of somebody in the immediate vicinity. [I don't recall seeing that somebody there, though.]

I continue exploring the library, and decide I want to go down one floor, but I don't want to fly because there are lots of people around, and I generally try to avoid using any of my dream powers when there are people around to see me. [Yes, they are just DCs, but I always think like that in my lucid dreams anyway. I don't know why, but I do.] I see a wide, steep, carpet-covered ramp leading down to the level below me, and decide to roll down it.

[Dreamskip. I'm not 100% certain that I was still aware that I was dreaming in this scene, but I may have been.] I'm walking along a city street and see a restaurant that is closed. I'm disappointed to discover this, because it had belonged to my friends. I wander through it, looking at all the debris left in the abandoned building. I walk to a side entrance and go out through the patio, where I see that people have begun seating themselves at the patio tables. I realize that they must have seen me walking around inside the restaurant, assumed it was open, and sat down. I feel bad about it, but I start telling them, “Sorry, it's closed.” They get up and leave.

[Side notes: Heh. I love how my subconscious has turned Omaha into this perfect tropical paradise with an awesome library, a place where everything I saw around me was incredibly cool and gave me nothing but happiness and joy. Omaha really does have a gigantic central library, although it doesn't have that cool architectural design. That part came directly from the library at UC San Diego. I didn't go to school there, but EM did - a fact which I had consciously forgotten about until I told my mom about this dream later in the day. Hmm. Omaha also has a zoo that I didn't actually see, but that everyone tells me is pretty awesome. Okay, subconscious, I get the message: Don't give up on Omaha yet. You may still be able to find happiness there.]

It started with me in a old school playground and it was sunny and nice. I remember seeing a bunch of old familiar school mate faces and one of them was martha hamlin and she told me that the woods behind the playground across the street was haunted and that really sparked my interest. I then walked into the school and saw a bunch of my old friends drinking four lokos and i made fun of my friend greg and then swiped his four loko out of his hands and began chugging it. As soon as i finished The whole school turned into a gymnastics class and everyone was working out and i didnt want to look dumb so i joined in. After that I decided to Check out the woods. I dont remember much from it except it being really foggy and really scary and something was darting between the tree's. After i left the woods i was in the street and i ran into a half dog half skunk looking thing i started to pet it and we became friends! soon after that i walked up the street and hung out with these random ass people in an old SUV and told them about my experience in the woods and we all laughed and shrugged it off. After that I was then at this club and there wasnt many people there so i decided to leave in a hurry and my way of getting out was taking a old go-kart and driving it out. when i got out of the doors of the club i was in the falls of my town and i felt like i was going to get in trouble for riding the cart around so i got off and pulled it using my bike. After that I was then in a car with my friend mike at his work smoking a blunt and getting high as all hell it was to the point where i could feel my ears feeling weird in my dream and when i woke up i felt the same way for a little while!

Me and my ex gf where hanging out over this kendra girls house. we got to he room and it was really weird all of her walls except the back on was normal and the back one had a huge waterfall made of weird discolored water. We then went to her fridge and we found Gatorade bottles and we asked what kind they where and she said they'll make you trio so we drank them! And all of a sudden i was on an all white race track covered in blackness and i was in mariokart!. next i remember i was infront of bowser and i threw him of the track and instantly after i was lubu from DW and was fucking up peons and i remember instantly fucking up Zhao yun. After the battle i remember being at my dads in the backyard and it was really weird looking and the dream morphed into me and my my driving past the district court in Springfield. Then i got a call about taking photos for times magazine at a new korean mall so i took the opportunity and then was in a multi colored wall corridor thingy with a i guess my camera crew? the weirdest part to was the halls were lite up with x ,mas lights i do remember also DC's getting mad about me getting in the way. then i was at my hotel room and i remember my co worker being upset i suppose about me losing my camera but then another crew member showed yup and had it in his bag. then bam someone stormed in and was like keither needs your help which is weird because i dont with him plus im supposed in korea? so i go outside in a sunny parking lot and hes working a black comaro but he lifts the body and it was made of all wood and another co worker dc showed up and reminded me of a previous dream.

I was trying to break into an 18 wheeler on a fridged cold night then i was instantly ina huge field and bam next to me popped up a huge gray bunker and I was in a huge grassy field. When i looked over the horizon i could see an ODST soilder trying to use the hover ability and he was having trouble so i attempted and to no avail...

Hungout at my ex girlfriends house and then left to meet up with the guys from workaholics and they were in a school it seemed to be a science class. They then started rapping and they all had king constumes on and they then were rapping about cereal and how they wanted me to bring it to the boiler so it could be warm.

Barely any recall except me looking at a mossy moldy rock pedestal from skyrim with a lock of hair on it :/

The following is a true story of a near-death experience I experienced today...

I won't go into details about the passing out part because it really isn't important.

Today I passed out from low blood sugar and while unconscious i dreamed this:

I was on clouds, I was surrounded by endless mist and clouds. I had no idea how I got there, where I was before this, and no knowledge of ever falling asleep. It felt real as real gets. I was floating above endless landscape but in the clouds only, no closer. I thought, I was just living how did I get here? Am I dead? I thought I might be due to the odd circumstances and that I couldn't wake up from this dreamlike world.

Was I ever living? What am I now? Am I still human or some sort of spirit-being? I then heard voices, "it will be alright." Who is that I asked? No answer. Then I walk around questioning what is real and what is imaginary. Then everything goes dark and I see light and a face but I can't make it out. The person says, "stay with us, wake up, you're going to be alright."

I thought, is this still imaginary or is this all real?

The face goes away and I am back in the clouds.

What is going on? Then I felt like I was dieing of thirst and I was soaking wet.

I was cold.

Then I give up thinking and just relax and it all goes dark again. The light comes back in a few minutes. Now I see flashing lights on a firetruck and 3 paramedics. Then I blink and now there is only 1. Then I close my eyes again rest. I try to figure out what had happened.

I wake up and now realize I had blacked out. It takes me a couple of minutes to realize what had happened. I had low blood sugar and blacked out in my truck while backing up a trailer into the driveway. Thank God it was in park when it happened.

It takes me at least an hour to remember the whole story from the little bits and pieces of memories I could remember from before I passed out.

It was a very scary feeling, to be awake an active to dream state in a blink and no memory of what had happened.
This is a first time for me when it comes to passing out.

It started with me and my friends trekking through the woods so i could get a good wilderness shot for a contest and we chased after a fox. in the middle of the night we finally caught upto it next to a river and there were two sea lions and pig/cat thing,i got the pictures and turned around to see where my friends where and my friend mike finally caught up. when i turned around BAM the sea lions were now people and we started smoking and I was then at my grandparents house and my little brother was crying and sleeping on an ironing board and i tried making it copy for him but couldn't figure it out

it started with me walking around walmart in circles i kept running into my friend kyrstal who had know clue what was going on. i dont remember why i was there except getting my friend a present for his date and i remember waiting in line for forever. Then i was in a haunted house with the three people from paranormal activity 3 and the girls in it where trying to light each other on fire

it started with me laying in my bed but in a different place sorta like a warehouse except my room had a huge window that i could see a courtyard out of with a massive amount of people filling into. some of them noticed me and waved and some came into my room and talked to me surprised to see my room and i asked them what they were doing here, they said that there was an alien invasion taking over they were going to be the only survivors. i ran into a conference room where i confronted Alec Baldwin about his alien takeover and got on the mic to tell all the aliens off. The next thing i remember i was speeding down a dirt road in a huge high tech Humvee with my friend chris and his topless gf ^.^. next i was in a soccer field looking for my friend Monique and i couldn't find her :/

I was walking into school and sat at a desk like normal and talked a little bit. Then a bunch of people moved to the cafeteria for a conference and a lot of my friends were upset about their friends leaving. then some girl bite my neck and i instinctively pushed her away because i didn't my my gf to get mad. U then left the school to find myself in my friend johns non exsistant white suv. we then skateboarded around till night then i was going to my dads house and there was a party there and they were all talking about skyrim and my uncle was talking about dragons . I then remember having a knife fight with Morgan freeman and dreaming about demons attacking me...

A very short fragment from the first page of my dream journal!

I was playing football for some random team and I recall using the Bathroom and hearing about Germany and how we are now at war with them

im a US soldier in another country, I think south korea. Im with my 3 other brothers and Ghost Leader from ghost recon: future soldier. we are walking along a dirt road into a small town, I think we just got back from a mission. It is very hot and we are all tired. we are thinking of transferring here permanently. we get to the house were stationed at. we enter the house and I realize the living room looks the same as my grandmothers with all her furniture. there is a married couple living in the house with a daughter or niece who is about 30 years old. ghost leader talks to us about staying here, he wants us to reconsider and leave to fight in another mission. we decide to refuse and stay. my brothers go to their rooms, I sit in the living room for a while, but I become uncomfortable around the married couple and girl. I get up and check all the rooms.

I dont remember anything after that.

dream : comments : lucid

I don't really remember anything from last night, so let's go back through the archives and post one of the most standout dreams I've ever had which was lost when that hacking incident occurred. This is a slightly smaller version of the original post due to me forgetting a lot of it during the interim.

It has a really vivid series of characters, most of whom I know from real life but only in vague sort of ways.

Shit gets a bit full-on at the end and I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts on it:


10th of February, 2012

It was mine and Nooks' wedding day but I'd forgotten to organise a suit or even groomsmen.

Eventually that fact changed and the wedding was to be tomorrow instead, so it all worked out. To celebrate this new fact, I went to a casino-type place and ate oysters covered in absinthe and vodka (*shudders*).
After a fair bit of rowdiness and haziness, I awoke in bed with Danni (a random girl who sold Nooks her car) but it was a purely platonic thing; I was just sleepin'.

Danni told me that her wedding to Arin (her boyfriend at the time) had been particularly average at best, and that he'd most recently just gotten her porn for her birthday. She was pretty upset and we talked for a while with her warning me to do my best or some such thing.

At one point I must've left because I next found myself coming home, where I discovered a bunch of people (Danni included) moving our bins out onto the kerb for collection. They were bringing them out of a strange little indoor glasshouse/bike shed so I went to help them and casually mentioned that today was my wedding day.
To clear my head I went for a stroll/ride down the street where I bumped into Seon's dad, who was apparently a doctor. He looked at me then ran into the street and began yelling out this amazingly lovely speech about me- things like "His eyes are truly open!" and semi-profound dream statements like that.

During his little moment, Arin came up and was talking to him and crying. We asked him what was up and he said that he and Danni had broken up but that it was okay because she was beautiful and wonderful, but not the girl he really loved.

After that he went off and began working at a corner-store which I followed him to and ordered a spring roll. He got one from a bookshelf and gave it to me and I thought it was only half cooked coz it was all soggy on one side. Turns out it was actually half cheese, half spring roll. D'uh.

I realised I'd left my phone and wallet on a table outside at that moment, so I went out to collect it and eat my gross lunch. From the doorway, I noticed Tabitha taking my money and gleefully counting it. I accused her of stealing but she refused to give it back so I started getting physically violent with her. I decided that the best course of action was to have a People's Court and asked those around what they'd seen. Somehow they sided with her so I grabbed her by the throat and threw her inside the store, warning her that "I reckon at least one prostitute is killed by a man every day... It's a bad day to be a prostitute." Then I laughed coz it was a bit of a stupid insult.

Somehow she became a deputy of some kind that I reported to a Sheriff who was having a cup of coffee nearby. As I was doing that, I noticed a TV playing in the background which I entered the vision of:

It was a woman sitting on a deck in a rocking chair, slowly cutting up a baby in this profoundly, excruciatingly, extremely graphic nature; just sort of peeling it and getting covered in blood. The baby was just sitting there staring straight at me and blinking every now and then. Not making a sound as she slowly cut off it's arms and feet. It was mortifying but I couldn't look away.
After a while of watching this I began to vomit grey goo over the railing and then I woke up, disturbed yet intrigued by the contents of such a dream.

I'm in the kitchen, cleaning up after a party. There's a couple guests that I don't recognize and they are helping me wash dishes. My ex-stepmother is also there. She's not really helping, though. She's decided to rearrange the kitchen to suit her. She decides that the cabinet we use for plates would be better suited for food storage. I ask, "Well, where are we going to put the plates, then?" She chooses to put the plates away on the top shelf that I can't reach. I point out that this is pretty useless for me since I'll never be able to reach that shelf. She ignores me, so I appeal to the guests to understand my problem. They don't respond.

I must have left because now I'm at a pool. There's a mushroom-shaped hut on one side of the pool where the crew of a visiting spacecraft is staying. I come up with a clever idea of using a note to ask one of the crew members to have a drink with me at the poolside snack bar. It works, but he brings his commander with him. I get another girl to join us, but we end up in a booth with me sitting across from the commander and the guy I want sitting across from the other girl. Then they start bringing in other people, and I keep getting pushed further away from the guy I wanted to talk to.