non-lucid

There was a house, almost like a church... Doug (a kind-of friend.. more of my mother's friend's son if anything) had just entered, complaining about how he can't help because of this and that. He did his usual shin-dig and made a mess of the place throwing a fit like he's a little kid. We calmed him down and discovered the root of the problem was family issues. Which were mainly just him over reacting.. as usual..
I'm not sure why we had all gathered in this house.. there was me, my parents, Doug, and two people I don't recognize. I'm pretty sure I knew them, but I don't remember enough to make an assumption.. I think we were planning an event, but who knows... I woke up before anything really happened (thank you alarm clock )

Are my dreams supposed to be this short and such during CAT? Am I supposed to be dreaming at all during CAT?

Night three of CAT (4/3 - 4/4)

First

I'm in a bunch of people that are being moved from a city to another area, where the water is clean. We need to stand on boxes and they are using an excavator to throw us into a truck. A womans leg is severed in the process and flies of the truck. A young girls asks if she is alright and she say it's okay, since there will be clean water where they're taking us.

The destination seems to be a large concrete facility. There is a large pool of water flowing trough the building. The girl is swimming with the woman, with her leg now back in place. They are happy to be able swim but the water is not good for drinking. We go looking for drinking water.

Second

I'm in a store and there is a counter with drinks, coffee and such. The others order what they want and when it's my turn I just want water. There is a self service automat for water but what comes out seems moldy and dirty. I ask what's going on and a service person gives my water from the faucet in the kitchen.

After we get the drinks we apparently need to pay them at the checkout. I join the line even though I just have water. I don't know if it costs anything.

Third

At the coffee place with N. I see the name of a comic their selling. It's in some language I only speek a little. N notices it and tells me what one of the words in the title means. I know another one and we are happy we have decoded the whole title. We sit at a table with three other people. The seem to be speaking at least two different languages. I comment about on of them, a gir, being able to speak three European languages, but not English, which I think is weird since English is so usefull. She understands me and replies to me in Finnish. I'm impressed since she actually knows four European languages.

• I am staying in a hosue with a bunch of other people who are all vegan and keep eating the food I'm buying
• a classroom
• at a museum with Noelle, my sis, and others. The museum is in Europe. Noelle loses her sunglasses. Someone tells us we should go through the museum lost and found and get some new/old ones.
  We should leave the museum and go straight to the airport, but Noelle and I get in a fight and she storms off. I have a scooter and am riding it through the coblestone streets, trying to find her. Her phone number is not in my phone, so I keep calling Melissa, Lauren, and other people to get it. I end up at a cupcake bakery. Eventually, I realize I will have to leave her if I can't find her.
• my cat, Morrissey, in a car

I am taking a summer college course. I miss the Monday morning class, but still have to show up for the evening exam. For the exam everyone is required to wear a white shirt, black pants, black vest, and black tie. I wait until the last minute and am scrambling to put on clothes. There is a blonde guy there who is also going to take the test and we are going to ride there together.
I am finally at the exam, but have forgotten my pencil and the test which I was supposed to bring with me. There is info on the chalkboard, but it keeps changing every few minutes, like a projector on a timer. All of the text on the chalkboard is steady.

Suddenly, I am in another dream. I am at an Aveda meeting. We all have to go around the circle and tell about our weekend. Desiree says she saw Noelle's band play. I also saw Noelle play and took a math test for my summer cosmetology course.

• I am in a house with white walls. It is one of my aunts' house. It is also a restaurant, but has only one table.
• something about a flood

• on the run
• a sevret room by the beach
• kittens
• a gril following me

(Trying out a new format. Hooray!)
Dream Type: Non-Lucid
Mood: Awkward, Angering, Somewhat Eerie
Settings: Gamestop... Somewhere.
Characters: My friend Anthony.

During the start of the dream, not much comes to mind besides me driving on a strange freeway, which is strange. I usually never take the freeway, much less have to. Still, I was in a car that I did not know very well, though I was driving with my friend Anthony who has made our friendly relationship very awkward because of his advances to try to 'get with me', even though I am not gay. So in this dream, things were much the same. We were quiet in the car. We barely said a word to each other, until we got to our destination; Gamestop, which is also strange, because I don't see why I'd go on a freeway to get to Gamestop, when they have a store right up the street from where I live. Whatever, still, we poofed into the shop. I was apparently looking for a game (dunno what else I would be doing there...) and so I looked around. He suggested a few games, all of which seemed uninteresting or just dumb. I then found a game, which I thought was Fable II, but in reality was not. Still, I waited in line with the game, while he awkwardly waited next to me in a submissive stance that made me feel embarrassed. Not much after that thought. A very static dream.

This was from my first night in Las Vegas, I fell asleep after finishing a bottle of champagne.

#1 - My New Bathing Suit [Non-Lucid]

This one was kind of odd, more like a visualization-induced non-lucid. At first I was just drifting off in bed, and I was thinking about walking around the hotel pool. We'd stayed there before so I know the area pretty well. In my imagination I was walking around in something like this, but like all black:



At first I was just sort of wishing I had that kind of bathing suit, but as I got more and more tired the scene started to expand and suddenly I actually was walking around the pool in that suit. I wasn't lucid though, so I didn't really appreciate it. I remember thinking that I was supposed to be meeting up with some friends of mine, some random female DCs who were busy changing into their suits, but I got distracted by a food stand by the pool. I tried to get a hot dog, but they were out. :C I saw my dad lounging by the side of the pool and went over to him and asked him why there were no hot dogs, and he said that they ran out of meat. He got up and started walking off with me and I started complaining about the situation to him, but I don't remember much after that. I think I woke up not long afterward.

#2 - Fading Phone [Non-Lucid]

I had taken a bunch of downer drugs, and I specifically remember that Ativan and Xanax were two of them. I was partying all night, and I woke up the next morning while it was still dark outside. My dad was there and he asked me if I had gone anywhere while I was on the drugs, and I said no but joked that I couldn't be sure because I had blacked out. He looked concerned, and I layed down on the living room floor only for it to suddenly morph into the hotel room bed. Without changing position, I reached over to grab my phone and start typing up my dream. Suddenly, my dad gets up and walks over to my bed and is acting all emotional (I can't remember exactly what that means, but that's what I wrote down) My sheets are pulled up over my head by an unseen force, then my dad grabs my hands through the sheets. I'm overcome with a fear, and suddenly I realize this isn't happening. It's a very odd sensation to describe, it's kind of like... you're staring at the ceiling the whole time, and you're just really confused about what's going on, but it doesn't change the fact that you were just staring at the ceiling, it's just that you don't really understand it at first, so much that you think all this other stuff is happening, but then when you finally do, it still feels like that's all you were ever doing. Anyway.... I grab my phone again and start typing but it suddenly phases out of my hands, and I try a couple more times but it never works, so I give up. I have the actual feeling of being stuck, which is rare for me even in sleep paralysis, but I manage to shift my line of sight to the left. There's a faint light visible from something in the room, and as I stare at it it starts moving closer and growing and creating strange alien symbols, and I'm filled with a fear again, but then suddenly I snap out of it and am fully awake.

#3 - Lucidly Non-Lucid Bad Trip [Non-Lucid]

This was a terrible dream. :T I took Benadryl, or diphenhydramine, at a hallucinogenic dose. For those of you who don't know what that's like, basically it's sort of similar to non-lucid dreaming, only even more schizophrenically psychotic, and layered over waking reality at the same time. Actually, it can be sort of like the way I described the sleep paralysis, everything is just so unbelievably confusing that even though you're interacting with reality, you just interpret it allllll wrong. And so that was reproduced, accurately I might add, in the dream. And diphenhydramine is an unbelievably terrible experience, not to mention I know how bad it is for you and already had to overcome an addiction to it, so this was a nightmare. The worst part about this experience was that I believed I was in this dream-like trip, so I was paying extremely close attention to the dreamy nature of everything that was happening, and yet no matter how odd it was it couldn't tip me off to the fact that I was dreaming because it fit the scenario perfectly. My mindset was basically like being lucid of the fact that I was non-lucid, and it pushed my dream insanity to a whole new level. I was at my aunt and uncle's house and even my family members over there were becoming extremely confused at the bizarre and unexplainable things I was doing. Yes, I was so non-lucid that the DCs were confused. I can't remember much of the actual plot, though.

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This dream was from the second night we were there, and I fell asleep after more drinking and taking some Soma (carisoprodol).

Dream Fragment - I took a large dose of methoxetamine, which I've never taken in waking life, and ended up tripping out. I was in a classroom somewhere and someone was giving me a foot massage, and because of the drug it felt like my toes were floating off of their original spots and randomly switching places, which made me feel warm and giggly at the time. That's about all I can remember, though.

Don't you hate when your having this great, vivid, dream and you wake and see your late for something and in all the rush you forget what you dream was about...ya that's you my morning went. Anyway this is what I do remember.

I'm in a mansion through some means I can't recall and I'm with two other friends. We can't get out and one of my friends disappear. Me and the friend still with come to the conclusion that he was kill be the evil guy who owns the mansion, he is also the one who trapped use here to begin with.

(Lots of stuff happen that i don't remember) It's been a long time and we are still in the mansion(I'm talking months) We are exploring the endless rooms when I come across the first locked room. Me and my friend force it open to find a room full of stuff like a TV and fridge, bed etc. There are also the belongings of our missing friend. I remember saying "He's been here all along." We look around and (I don't remember how I came to this conclusion) We realize the evil guy that trapped us here has taken him again. Then I see A open Cell phone on the ground by the bed and pick it up. My missing friend's mom is on the other line. "Mike! Mike are you OK! Answer me!" I explain the situation to her that Mike(My friend) has been taken again. She says she is sending people to get us.

Time passes and me and my friend(Who is a guy, don't know his name) Are waiting at the main door for people to get there. We are eating chips and dip and just chillen. I don't why but for some reason when they get there I become terrified and think they mean me and my friend harm so I hid behind the door when it opens. Last thing I remember is my friend saying it's alright to come out.

Normal Dream

Night 25

I. I am at the mall with my brothers, it is snowing outside, and we find this new shop called Exit Boys, it was dark with black lights on inside. We go in and it has similar clothing as Hot Topic, but there was also art canvases for sale. We leave but the next store is also an art store and my brothers go in to paint some canvases, I didn't feel like it at the time so I just watched. I remember my oldest brother painting some sort of old ship at the bay, while my other brother was painting an environmental piece with mountains, they were doing really well. My memory fades for a little and then we are walking to the parking lot, and they had these jewelry display cases in the hall, and I remember seeing some classmates I went to school with. Dream ends.

I had this dream on 10/21/2011.

This dream starts out with me (I have no idea who I am) riding on a train but this train travels above and below ground within a city (or cities, I am not sure). All of a sudden, the train starts going faster, and faster... I notice that something is wrong. Most people don't even realize it. The train is speeding up more and more and more.. I looked out the window and noticed that everything is zooming by at super-high speeds. SLOWLY, people begin to realize that the train is going like 2-3x faster than normal. It's a fkn runaway train but I hadn't known it then.

My perspective switches to a bystander waiting for the train in an underground tunnel. I am standing like 2 feet away from the edge of the platform. I look to my left and right--there are a few people waiting for the train. A young black girl I remember in particular, wearing a blue jean jacket, blue jeans, and brown boots, was standing about 5 feet to the right of me and she had her back turned to the railway, looking down at her cell phone. The train shoots by us. There was some force but it wasn't anything serious. All of a sudden, I am another passenger on that train....

We are above ground, I think the train missed another stop, and it later obliterates a DUMP TRUCK that was crossing another stop further up ahead. The impact was insane but the train keeps going. I AM DEAD. I am looking down at the runaway train from the sky not too far above it. The next thing I know, my perspective switches to a bystander who is waiting for the train in a subway. I know the train is coming and that there is literally no time to warn people OR RUN. I scream "RUN, MOVE, GET OUT!" There's a couple of people standing on the platform fkg close to the railway. I am standing about maybe 10 yards back and there is a thin brick wall I can take cover behind right beside me.

I look to my right and I see this Caucasian girl walking towards me and there is a mirror on the wall behind me, right in between us. The train is here. It BLAZED past the platform, blowing everyone away with sheer force in all directions. The girl that was walking towards the mirror got SLAMMED into it and most likely died instantly. I had jumped behind the thin brick wall, tucked in my head and legs, and still felt the incredible force from the train. I am fine though.

My perspective shifts back to the train which is above ground again. I am another passenger and the situation hasn't changed. EVERYONE is going crazy! There is literally nothing we can do. Up ahead there is another train stop and lot of traffic passing over it. There are semi and very large trucks crossing over. The train slams into them and everything just explodes. I AM DEAD AGAIN but for some reason I am rising out of a lake (or pond, IDK). Perhaps I was somehow ejected from the train and tossed into a lake. I cannot see my body or feel anything like the first time. I have no idea in which direction the accident happened.

The dream ends there and I have the EXACT same dram AGAIN from beginning to end right after going back to sleep!

Italics are side comments I've made, blue text is lucid dreaming, and normal black text is non-lucid. Also note that I refer to my family as my 'real' family because a lot of times, I will have a separate family in the dream


Day 1
Posting on Ponychan
Had Pinkie Pie temporary tattoo
Girl recognized it (at Steak n Shake?)

Zombies?

Went to Kangaroo Express store and bought sunflower seeds and ice cream


Day 2
Ezreal does super cool Lux ult across the map (a map I’ve never seen before)
Family is going to see The Great and Powerful Trixie, my real grandmother tells me that if she flies that I should leave, etc
Amusement park?

I burn something down


Day 3
Given loan by my real aunt and I’m expected to pay it off immediately.
Play game (LoL?) with MaximumRevolver and some others, have to avoid a lot of Galios
Playing as Mitsuki (An OC of mine I was using in a roleplay at the time), I’m super strong

Cuddling

Twilight Sparkle survives a thingy

I am in a grocery store trying to catch a shoplifter


Day 4 (Hehehe I love this one :3)
I am a prince. My brother wishes to wage war on a dragon, but I won’t let him. I was on a ship at one point, either looking for a shark or worried about one coming. There was only one small accessible room on the ship, but there were no other doors on the ship. I said that there might be another room we haven’t found yet, and we all have a good laugh about it.
My brother ignores my order, waging war on the dragon. I have to ‘redeem’ myself. My sister has to stay near me, but she wants to go off by herself. She locks me in my room with silk rope. I get out and go to find her.

I am holding a pillow, can’t see very well, and there are kids near me. A DC says “Don’t you remember them?’ and I respond that I can’t see them because they were behind the pillow.

This one guy is voting, and I have to disguise myself as him to change the vote (we were voting using urinals?)
One of his look-alikes beat me to it and I am relieved.

Day 5
Girlfriend mad at me for not getting Gameboy. I have to prove myself by playing a minigame. I’m at a convention.

I am in Walmart or Kroger. People are singing and dancing.

There is a katana in a convenience store. I compare it to a really crappy katana and have to throw the crappy one away.

I don’t know where I am.
I’ve lost my sense of direction.

My friend promised he’d draw a picture of Rainbow Dash for me


Day 6 (Listening to 3.5hz binaural beats)
Something about LoL


Day 7 (same as above)
Someone prophecizes to one of my real stepmother’s brothers about a lot of stuff: like his cellphone being destroyed.
Get a new dog (to make a total of like...6)


Day 8 (OBE Music)
Had a lot of dreams but didn’t write them down when I woke up :<

Playing as Poppy on Twisted Treeline


Day 9 (OBE Music)
(Shizune is going to start showing up in a few of my dreams. I'll go ahead and let you guys know that I'm talking about the deaf girl from Katawa Shoujo)
deadmau5 hangs out with me, Shizune’s dad was complaining about his age and I have a FA. ‘Shizune’ (as in, I think, my body pillow) made my dream into a game before I woke up. (I didn't become lucid even after Shizune pointed out the fact that I was dreaming. Fail... ;_;)
Driving to my hometown.


Day 10
Had a car that (Note: Read following text in the heaviest redneck accent possible) “even John Deere would be proud of” and ended up having to dodge through a crowd of deer before finally crashing into one.


Day 11
Found new energy source - 8x the power of the sun. Compressed that power.
Very hectic, tiny robots, carrying an egg around and transporting it.
Compression complete.
Egg hatches
Solar system is blown out of existence.


Day 12
Building a house like in Sims 3

Tryndamere
Minecraft crafting: Fish + Paper = Fish Paper?
Someone’s mad at Tryndie.

I don’t remember it, but I have a feeling that Shizune was indeed in my dream. (At this point in time, I was actively trying to have Shizune show up in my dreams)

Driving in town, stop at ALL the Burger Kings. Co-worker from WalMart shows up. Something about a puppy. We are driving in circles.

Girl is trying to join army
Suddenly it’s me (or rather, I’m the girl)
Talking to my real dad about Doctor Who, 9 seasons or summat
Picking out pants, but I find something in it from “last year”
Assigned many things, fails.

Princess receives message, travels through what appears to be a Kirby stage.
I’m assigned to protect her, but Kenji (From Katawa Shoujo) finds us. Back to girl’s POV. She says that she thought that he’d shoot her, but he doesn’t.

False Awakening.
I’m cuddling with Shizune. (Body pillow again probably)
I wake up after a while of just enjoying cuddle time


Day 13
Altair and Ezio upside down from each other in some sort of meditative state.
In WalMart, my real sister's boyfriend is supposed to sing but he doesn’t want to so I do but I have to vs. two of my friends from high school

On a mission to chase/destroy a carriage
Assassin’s Creed style carriage chase, but with a boat-carriage
We took a shortcut over water and took a rest
I was going to check to see if some sort of slug was poisonous but my mentor told me they were.


Day 14
My real sister gets married, my real mom is with her boyfriend, but I’m suspicious of him
We were at my grandmother's old house, but then at a con
Tried to make a nest for ducks but the egg wasn’t...incubated?
My real mom gave us(?) lessons on nests and Christmas trees.


Day 15
Takes place at my grandmother's old house.
Snake on front porch, reeeeeeeeally long.

Secret agent taser?
The Doctor. I toss his sonic screwdriver down from the floor above.

I have a girlfriend (or ex-gf that I make up with) and we have a famous trio of friends.
Roll a Natural 20 on our check to look awesome with the trio.
Some sort of event, taking lots of pictures.
Go on date with aforementioned girlfriend (ruins?)
We spend the night at gf’s house. We watch Disney movies and ask if we can sing along
Watch Powerpuff Girls.

I sit down beside the rest of the trio at the event the next 'day' and some guy thinks that I’m just a random dude, rather than a part of the trio

*Before all this, I woke up in the middle of the night and was afraid of something. I thought about putting my headphones back on but decided against it because if I did, I’d never be able to get over my fear
I tried to block it out of my mind. Why...? (After studying up more on lucid dreaming, I now know it was probably a FA. I didn't do a RC.)

Was an assassin

League of Legends

Hiding in clothes


Day 16
League of Legends hack, gives a metric crapton of AP. I played as Amumu and solo defended the Nexus, but went to the bathroom (cause I was getting real cocky) and lost the game because of it.
Next game, we forgot to put the hack on so we lost...or maybe I quit. I don’t remember.

Telling a story, maybe a Visual Novel?
Rabbit pet, Martha Speaks

Girl (Akira? (My DnD character)) wearing an apron with a camera and some boxes, working on an alarm.

Storms, went over to my real little cousin’s house for some reason.

On public computers

Fighting monsters? One was weak to water I think.

Visual Novel/Anime that I made, showing it in Anime Club

Rock fighter! (I have no idea what this means.)

Solving mystery. Coal and smoke and fuel. There was an old guy there driving a car. Crazy driver; I’m pretty sure he ran through some walls.


Day 17
My Little Pony plushie conspiracy
Subliminal message pictures by my real stepmother.
Zombies?
Was a ping pong ball inside the Twilight plushie with a quarter inside.
Real stepmom was arguing with her mom and I stood up for her


Day 18 – Incomplete WILD transition
Noises all around, spinning, felt like I was being picked up by my arms
School? Teacher was giving out work to non-existent student?


Day 19 – Incomplete WILD transition
“Englaand” language, real sister asking about dreams, talking about how she was reading a book but it “tried to eated" her, old house’s land and pond. Transition stops. I go to sleep normally.

Sewing leather guy, bald
Soda cap hits him in the face

Asking for extra pair of socks, complicated

Before: 6-month long League game


Day 20
Hanako (From Katawa Shoujo) doing speech/signing in Japanese (Like Wakfu ep?) <- No idea what I meant by this
Could understand

Saving some sort of hippogriff?

M&M contest/snowball


Day 21
In front of house, did reality check (nose plug), rubbed hands together to stabilize. There was a cat there. I made a Kit Kat bar appear. I tried to fly and it worked, but I lost control of my dream. I need to stabilize better.

Tonight, I will have a dream about Kurisu. For the record, I didn't.


Day 22



Day 23
Dystopia - guys can’t physically touch each other
No one/girls can’t give opinion on someone else’s work unless it’s a compliment.
Can’t make suggestions.
Main character (girl) falls in love with another girl and decides to get rid of the dystopia.

My irl friends spend the night at my old house - time travel to a point where we didn’t own it.

DBZ characters seeing themselves in the past with time travel?


Day 24 – 3/30/2012
At Highlands. Usual Vent people are there. Crossdressing. A lot of people compliment my dress. Something’s after us, but someone says they’ll protect me.

Batman, no one can beat him in the shadows

Meadow. Very green. Perhaps a distortion of my old back yard?

Wakfu clan member star on dock

Vegetable farming


Day 25 Nap – 3/31/2012
Ozen (my right-hand man in my guild) tells me that Cassidy (Our in-game nation's governor) needs copper and iron, so we try to gather some for her.

My irl cousin is wearing an orange and black jacket, tries to explain orange and black so he points to something to the side, game show host points out that he is wearing an orange and black jacket.
Orange power ranger and black power ranger? I wake up.

I am some sort of royalty, maybe? Or from a wealthy family at least. My sister is an assassin. She looks older than me, but I still have the feeling that she is my younger sister. She makes a comfortable pile of pillows or something. Trying to seduce me? I wake up.

She finds out that she needs to travel back in time to save someone (a little kid, maybe?) She comes to spend time with me in the past. I don’t know who she is. I take her shopping, and I find a tie-dye shirt with the Mane 6 on it. We go into a shop that is laid out like GameStop, but isn’t GameStop. It might be a bit bigger. She wants something, and after a bit, I reluctantly get it for her.

There’s a kid that is going to be blown up by some dude. I’m on my way to save him. There’s a cat guarding, but my mouse friend beats the living hell out of him with a monocle, finishing by putting the monocle on and striking a pose. I wake up.
Most badass mouse ever? I think so.


Day 26 – 4/1/2012
Last night was hell. I kept randomly waking up in the middle of the night and it was hard for me to fall back asleep (probably because I have never tried DEILDing before.) I don’t think it was the alarm, but it could have been. I hardly remember any of the dreams I had last night.

My friend Jacob is Akizuki Ryou (the irony of this is just too good. He's made it a point to express just how much he disapproved of crossdressing/traps/homosexuality) in the woods, attached to a ball of yarn. He starts to run down a hill, but I pull on the yarn and he comes back.
Random girl in same woods, someone important like a princess or something. She runs away, but comes back so people think she’s lying about running away.

Some sort of apocalypse going on? We are a group sent to Brakmar to help keep everything under control. There is some sort of demon wolf thing who gets mad at us and starts attacking us. It keeps getting hit by these swinging pendulum things, and eventually falls into an abyss.
In a tavern, really noisy, someone shouts "____ has been defeated!" (the wolf, I don't remember his name) and the tavern is instantly quiet.
The Brakmarian governor is worried about the wool economy.

Some guy is in a guild, and as a joke he leaves the guild and waits in the guild bank with a hat and a ring, waiting for someone to come and check it.


Day 27 Nap – 4/2/2012
Planning on DEILDing tonight, going to sleep at midnight. Also, since I didn’t get much sleep last night and Codey didn’t get any, we’re going to take a nap as well.
No luck. Didn’t fall asleep.


Day 27 – 4/2/2012
Last night was ALSO hell. I’m not sure DEILDing is for me, but Imma keep at it for a while.

This dream started off with me walking through a shopping mall. As I was just strolling along, a girl standing out in front of a store walked up to me and said she needed my help. She was about my height, my age, had dirty blonde hair just below her shoulders and a slight New Zealand accent (which was totally hot).

She was trying to explain her dilemma to me, not in a frantic manner, but rather cool and composed. It wasn't making sense to me for some reason, so I ended up telling her to just take me to the problem so I could see it for myself.

We walked out into the parking lot and there was an airport shuttle van waiting there by the curb. I jokingly asked, "You're not going to kidnap me and rape me, are you?" She laughed and said "I like that, but no." (Liked the joke, not raping people haha) I appreciate a dark sense of humor here and there.

We arrived at a dilapidated old building surrounded by a chain link vence. The vence had a wooden or tarp screen on the inside of it so you could not look beyond it. As we walked into the gate, the area opened up into a messy junkyard. Old rusted cars, discarded appliances, it was all there. For some reason I specifically remember seeing a green 90's Subaru Forester.

We came to a dimly lit room where there were wide wooden planks running across one of the walls. The planks had markings and notches etched into them. The girl went up to them and ran a dry washcloth across the wood and music started to play! Right out of the wood! It was an electronic-indie type song... Which was ok... but the cool thing was that this chick somehow managed to record music directly onto wood. No speakers, nothing; You somehow plugged the microphones into the planks (I didn't get a look at the interface between the mics and planks), recorded, and just ran the cloth over the planks and the song would play.

I was completely amazed and immediately started asking questions. Apparently she played all the instruments herself, recorded and mixed the entire thing. I grabbed the cloth and ran my hand across the etchings. The sound of the cloth sliding across the wood made the song sound like it had a phaser/flanger effect on it.

I was in love. If there's one characteristic I find more attractive than anything, it's intelligence (humble intelligence at that). Smart, kind, gorgeous, New Zealand accent, inventing new recording mediums that defy the laws of physics, sign me up. Dammit dreams, why do you tease me!!

I suddenly remembered that I had come here to help her out with something. She told me she actually didn't need help with anything, she just wanted to show her crazy "wood recording" to someone who would appreciate it. Radical.

Another dream I had earlier this year involved me and some other people desperately trying to take shelter from a giant bird-like creature that wanted to eat us. We managed to escape into a small building and after a while, that bird thing broke through the roof with its head, desperately trying to grab anyone of us. I doubted anyone cared about saving their friends and such at that moment--I sure as hell didn't.

Speaking of androids, I remembered another one I had a long time ago. I'm an android and I'm walking through a dark alley and there are some really shady guys handing around there. I walk up to one of them and I punch him in the stomach and the dream ended there. I didn't feel any impact from the punch. I thought that was kinda cool.