non-lucid

I was in CVS with my brother and my mom. We waited until she was gone, then ran to the shelves that had blind bag ponies. There were huge shelves lined with them. You had to put in a dollar in quarters to get one to come out, but you could still see the number on the back. We each bought as many as we could until my mom came back, when we stuffed them in our pockets. It turns out they weren't all ponies, I got a yoshi one and mike got a mosquito looking... thing.

This dream was weird because my brother hates MLP.

The first thing I remember about my dream was that my best friend and I were in this huge canyon in this river. The water was really murky. I looked over at her and I shouted to warn her that two crocodiles were surrounding her. They were not moving at that point, but once I warned her, they started thrashing. So I swam onto the closest shore while my friends swam across the river to the other side. There was barely any shore though becuase at the edge of the waterliine was the wall of the canyon. So, I tried to climb it to get away from the crocodiles which later turned into sharks. I escaped, but I forgot to check if my friend did too! I then was in this weird city looking thing, but it reminded me of a videogame because I had a quest and there was a little arrow in the air pointing to my destination. My quest was to find my brother's book before he does...so I go looking for it, but the arrow disappears, so I'm all alone. The city then turns into Barnes&Noble and I'm frantically looking for this book. For some reason, I then change my mind to want to find a Hunger Games book and I did Barnes&Noble then turns into this school with a bunch of kids in it, and I felt like I was inside of this really corny movie about I guess Middle School romance? I have no idea.... But there were a bunch of love triangles and fights and then at the end almost everyone made up.. I have no idea why I dreamt that. The end of that scene took place in a courtyard outside. Across the courtyard I see the most beautiful modern day castle I have every seen! It was huge, and i told my friend that I would love to live in one of the really high towers. I then realized my brother works there... I go inside and my best friend was there! I looked into the doorway and my best friend's uncle (in the dream) was chained up to be beheaded... Then he mysteriously came back to life and told us that we were going to do great in life.I appeared in my room at this point. I remember looking at this card with a saying on it that said something like "The vampire that looks at this will be dreaming." or something like that. And then I remember questioning reality and doing the nose-plug RC and being able to breathe!!! (Btw, I've read other DJs where people say that they love doing the nose-plug check becuase the sensation of breathing while plugging your nose is really cool. I never understood that until last night. It was pretty cool) But the thing with this lucid dream was that I thought I had been awake and that by my reading the card I had fallen asleep! So my lucid dream within a non-lucid dream felt REALLY unstable and I remember vividness was TERRIBLE! I kept rubbing my hand, but nothing worked! I summoned a door in my window but it kept leading outside; I didn't want to jump out the window. I could tell I wasn't very aware of things because there was a huge flagpole outside my window that is not there in RC and if I was truly aware, I would know that I could just jump out. I turned around and tried summoning another door to a beach, but "woke up" standing in the middle of my room. I did a reality check, but I couldn't breathe through my nose! So, I reread the card and the reality check worked! But the dream was even worse than before, and I "woke up" standing in my room again. It was really annoying because my main dream, or the non lucid part was really stable and clear! But just because I thought I fell asleep in my dream, it made it really foggy.

Haunted House

Other dreams I had of this Haunted House later: Haunted House

I was with one or two friends in a house. I don't know what was going on. Somehow the house was haunted. I left the house and drove away.

A friend was watching us leave as though from the computer. Perhaps I dreamed that part because I was on video conference last night.

I went through the city that this friend lived in, and that I recognized as "The Springs" and then remembered more clearly as "Altamont Springs," an actual place in Florida. I was seeing this in 3rd person perspective.

Then I started going through the down town area. It was like a five-way intersection. There was a festive atmosphere as though it was a tight-knit community.

Dream Skip

I'm back at the haunted house. I'm with my friend--I think it is MJ. We are going back to get something out of a room that we had locked up.

We had to go into a room, then go up a couple steps to open a small door in the back of that room and unlock a sliding lock.

Neither of us wanted to be the first one to go because it was scary. We were running to get this done as though the sooner we could do what we were doing, the better chance we had that the haunting would not have started, but I was afraid, so I slowed down so MJ could run ahead of me. He slowed down too.

Some how, he ended up going first. I had locked the place down, so he should be the one to open it back up.

We got in the building, and I heard my FC T.M. over an intercom saying that we needed to hurry and put in the alarm code or we would hear the most unpleasant sound we'd ever heard. He said they knew how to make the experience very unpleasant.

I put my fingers in my ears, then I started worrying about a smell that would be horrible and dangerous. It would be part of the haunting.

One of us opened the door to the room we were trying to get into. There was a small refrigerator and something in front of it blocking access. Dream logic made me have to go to the back of the room to open a door and unlock that sliding lock to get what we came back for.

I didn't want to go in there because the evil spirit was in this room. I explained how to unlock it, and I got closer to doing it myself, but I never did, nor do I think he actually did it.

Now we were back to the refrigerator. There as a six-pack of ginger-beer. We had to get them out of the frige and leave quickly.

I was afraid of a green fog that was going to fill the room. It was going to be like an evil gas preceding the spirit that was going to come get us.

My friend finally got the door to the frige opened. He was having trouble getting the sodas. Should he get the whole six pack which would be kind of awkward? Just throw them to me one by one I told him.

He started to, but now we were ready to leave. We ran out and went around a culdesac in the neighborhood. There was a guy with a camera threatening to take pictures of us for doing something illegal. I was afraid, but there was nothing I could do.

We went around the culdesac and he started taking pictures, but as we left, it wasn't such a big deal.

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Lion

A lion trainer let me get near a lioness. We were walking up a flight of stairs and it came up to me. I didn't really feel it, but it rubbed up against me and went all around me. At one point it got on my back.

At that point, I felt extremely vulnerable, as though it could turn not so happy to be near me and kill me. It got down and stayed very close to me.

The night before, I'd been chatting with a DV member about cats and how much we love them rubbing up against us.

Rare outfit

I'm some place in a building. A guy has bought a new outfit from some other guy for a cheap price, and I start going "Dude! That's like the most expensive outfit you can get, and it's only one of that outfit in the world!" and also a friend of mine is convinced that it's really expensive clothes. They're blue pants with a red shirt with darker red stripes. The owner of the clothes says he sells it to anyone who bids higher, and first some guy says 100 bucks, and the seller proceeds to say "Alright, nobody else wants it?" and then I shout that I give 10,000 for it, and then someone else shouts they give more for it, and the bidding round just goes on.

Whale rock

I'm on a beach with a lot of other people. We're told some random fact like "Every year 51 kids die because of guns and hide" or something random like that. The message is trying to make is sympathize with something, but I don't understand the meaning, and my twin brother doesn't really care. At the beach, I see a guy throwing out a frees-bee to a dog swimming, and I think that's the message meant that it was dogs that died because on catch and run. In the water, there's a lot of fish, and my brother tells me to let the fish swim around you because it's really funny. I jump towards the deeper and I see there's a toad in the water on the stone, and I avoid to jump on that stone, so I don't stomp the toad. Then I see a rock on the water that is floating. It kind of looks like a whale, so I am really fascinated by it. I drag it towards a group of friends I see sitting in the water and talking. I put the rock next to a friend who does not see it, and tells him to look to the right, he quickly does, and gets really scared, by screaming loud. I can't stop laughing, but the friends in the group didn't seem to notice. The friend I just scared decides to move to another place, so I sit next to another friend. I explain him and show him what happened, and then we all start laughing.

I arrive at a camping center, this happens a lot in my dreams, and get a room in the main building. Some of my friends apparently get a room in the second building. There are at least three floors, with the dining room in the lowest floor. We have dinner and they give us something to do while eating, but i listen to a podcast from my mp3 player and ignore it. On the first evening most people go out in the city. The dream jumps a bit and I'm walking back towards the camping center.

I have some candy in my packbag, but probably should have bought some more from the city, since I have some friends at the camp. I'm in a common room now, and one of the campers has met a girl named Mily. I find out that she is a friend of two girls we met last year, Lily and Vily. Me and my two friends get exited about meeting them, but I come to think that the others don't know them and might feel left out, so I try to keep quiet.

T has something to show me and we go outside. We look trough the window and see the others in the dining room building some electronic equipment while their eating. They are using the campers as free labor. I think it's weird that they let me just listen to the podcasts while eating, but T thinks it would arouse suspicion if they forced everybody to work. This doesn't bother me that much, though, they just should have told us.

Apparently it's time to leave, although I feel like it should still be several hours. Everyone else is already on the bus and I go to my room and take my bag. I go to the bus, where my friends are waiting, and notice that, according to the schedule, it's still a three hours before the bus leaves. I wake up now, and I'm right, I still have a couple of hours to sleep.

2-18-12(non-lucid): So, I was in a zombie apocalypse...Except I was a zombie. The zombies in this apocalypse could think, and weren't necessarily grotesque. The ones that looked normal (except for a very bright silver iris) were the ones affected from the first outbreak of the disease. I was one of those. Anyway, so I was with a fellow zombie and we were in a neighborhood, searching for people. All the houses were empty though, I might have found a skeleton and gotten a flashback, but I don't know if that's my mind just trying to fill in for the boringness of going through houses. Then there were zombie hunters chasing after me, so I ran through a few houses and hid on the second floor of one house and I saw their truck pull up to the house and I ran down the stairs as fast as I could and ran out the back door. Then at the next house over a van pulled up with a woman in the back (who was human) and said she needed help rescuing her friends in the capital. I got in the van and Rajin was there and I was a zombie no longer and I got in the driver's seat and drove out of there. It was night (as usual) and I drove through a countryside, a bit of boring driving that I thankfully forget, and then we arrived in the city...which was overrun with zombies. In the outer parts of the city they didn't know they were dead and felt like voicing that. Quite a few were yelling with disbelief "I'm not dead! I can't be dead!" So we pretty much ignored them and ran towards a roman looking building. Here, in the heart of the city was a massacre. There was fire and zombies killing people. I turned towards the woman and said "They're probably dead by now." She didn't care though, she needed to see for herself. So, we all ran inside, machine guns drawn and these people came out of nowhere. I freaked and one yelled. "Don't shoot! We're not infected!" A group and I headed up the stairs and I thought "We can just go out the front entrance!" So I headed down to Rajin's group. He explained we couldn't because there were too many and he smiled a little scary and said we were heading for the boiler room, which could contain an entrance. He showed me a map, which it was downstairs...in the dark...with red alarm lights going off everywhere...which meant something was down there...He rolled up the map and said everything would be fine and then I woke up.

I'm trying to improve my recall, and this is the first long dream of the week;

I am in a (dream) house (dream, meaning random, something I haven't seen before), in some sort of sleepover with my sister and her children and some random people (about 8+ people).
(Insert dream memory here) We end up in some forest, this part is especially blurry, were in a circle I think, some random bum is talking weird, and mentions something about the green leafs having healing abilities, he had like a pot of boiling water with green leaves in it or something, it smelled funny (green leafs from an RPG game on my phone :p) and then said something important which I don't remember, kinda like "Also, never forget that..." <-- this is important as it affects my dream later on. I wake up.

I go back to sleep, I switch dreams, or remember a fragment from another one, I ended up in my English class, my English teacher is talking about dream recall, and saying how important it is to have a dream journal.. (lol) Anyways, I am in some bus and I have some sort of metal object in my hand that shines a laser light. Some guy in a suit walks in and sits down in the seat across from mine, he is looking for something, I feel a bit scared, as if I have the thing he is looking for. The guy in front of me, has a large orange object, I didn't look at it clearly, the guy in the suit has a large man following him (his body guard). He pulls out an FBI badge, and sort of announces it to everyone, "I am an FBI agent" he pulls out some paper and mentions about how he has the license to kill to solve cases, "he can kill me if he wanted to" I think in my head. (yes this is unreasonable) So then he says a few other things and his bodyguard sort of makes fun of him by saying "Sure, mr. Green" a reservoir dogs reference, dunno how it made sense in the dream, I point my laser at the orange thing object the person in front of me carried. (I forget what happens after this) I end up in a forest with a group of people, and we are all wounded. I am sort of limping forward through the forest, incredible worn out, wounded (and safe in my bed xD). It's all a bit blurry, I think I am either the least wounded, or something I end up ahead of the pack, them being about 50 meters behind me in the (colorful btw) forest. I have a flashback? I remember the bum talking about the green leafs being able to heal. To my right I see a bunch of neon colored plants, purple, pink, orange... and green! I limp to it, and turn around to tell the people behind me, I see one of them fall to the ground, I think, man he/she didn't make it, maybe I can go give that person some after I heal myself (I see the situation as a game, where you simply heal and recover from serious fatal damage). Then I see (there was 3 people) the other 2 people fall as well, I am scared. I see the FBI agent clearly (even though he was at a distance), he had his business clothes ripped, his shirt ripped to his shoulders, and his pants looked like shorts. He had something red in his hand, and was walking towards me, "this is it" I think, I thought he had a gun, but I later see it's a knife (lucky me). He walks towards me, and I limp away, my limp later turned into jogging, as I remembered that important thing that bum said to me in the previous dream (I don't remember) haha I know it was important, because it helps me run. I step into an industrialized urban city with grey like colors. I see the agent come towards me, and I think about what the bum said to me. I know think, "Should I run away? (because I healed?), or fight him and ask him what he means?" I knew he was a dream character that represented something, but I didn't know I was in a dream!!!. So I still feared for my life. He is but a few meters away from me, he starts doing some crazy Bruce Lee like things as a way of taunting me, yelling in karate yells. He has a shuriken-like weapon the size of my backpack and he uses it like a nunchuck. I think maybe I could fight him a little and then ask him, or I can ask him and then fight. Still concerned for my life I decided to simply ask him, and maybe he would go away. I point my finger at him and say, "What do you represent?", His voice distorts as he says (well it is calm/yelled/spoken at the same time) "(something something) the one that you want." I think he might have said I'm the one that you want but I can't be too sure, as he said that I noticed waking up.

my dream starts out future based sky is red and everything around me is either blown up or destroyed. I hear yelling and gunshots and figure out im in a war and the war is based on who will rule Earth us, humans or the species that we were fighting. i am geared out pretty well and what i see is us and those creatures in a big field crowded together jus fighting like theres no tomorrow in which this dream probably wasen't . the creatures were geared up like us also and i kept getting confused on who was who. but, anyways i get tired of bieng in a trench and run out and charge towards a creature and it charges towards me i pull out the blade i have with me and when we meet face to face i stabb it it seems very effective but i look down and there was a blade in me also my eyes get real big the creatures laughs and i look past it and war is going on and i shout out i did this for my uncle i dont know why tho my uncle has been dead for a couple of years know. i fall to the ground my vision gets blurry i still see the war going on i close finally close my eyes i wake up and its a beautiful morning day.....

Friday night, decided to go out.. wasn't worth it, recall suffered.

1:00am
6:30am

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Saturday night, I did remember a couple dreams, but I didn't write them down. I was imagining I was writing them though lol..

3:00am

Fragment: Me and some other people were looking around a city, I vaguely remember a fountain and multi-level carparks.

11:00am

1st Dream after setting intent. I sit in a windowless one room house. I like it. I get up to go outside. This one room little building is at the end of a paved path in the woods.

It is a friendly garden that I have fashioned into a natural woodland.

I turn again to my little one room building. I push the door open. I can see half the room and there is a 7 on the innerwall to my left.

Curious, I step into my room.

Behind the door is the other half of the little room and on that wall is a small number, (a digit) 2.

I wake.

It is now 11:01 am and I've been up a couple of hours.

You see, I set the intent to dream next Saturday's lotto draw 3193 and that was my only remembered dream. Last night I counted to 45 slowely Three times while watching and feeling the body go to sleep.

After a couple of hours thinking about the dream I think it was asking me to consider all fortyfive numbers as being made up of two halves of a whole. As in, say, the number one is not, (1) but, (0-1).

When the door is open only one side of the room is visible and the other half is not visible because it is behind the back of the door.

The number 72 is too big so I think the dream just used it as an example to get me to begin seeing all 45 numbers in two parts. One part visible on the left hand wall as I open the door and the other part as I step into the room and look at the right-hand wall behind the back of the door.

Still nothing special to tell about my recall, and I still haven't had the first lucid dream of 2012. I'm going to crank up the effort by having more consistent tries on WILDs. Meanwhile, the last dream from 2009 to enter in this journal.

Fear of Bodybuilders
Date: December 27th, 2009
Lucid: No

I was walking in what I thought was Helsinki, but it looked more like my hometown to be honest. Towards me there were these two guys walking, who looked like bodybuilders. I could have just gone by either side of them, but no, given that I was walking right in the middle of the sidewalk, I was stubborn and wouldn't budge - I was going to walk right between them.

You obviously already know that it isn't gonna end well. The right-sided guy, who had a moustache, had a wide, evil grin on his face as he grabbed me. I was fearing for my life, but the rational side of my mind also knew, that there would be no reason to kill me.

They pushed me around a bit before seemingly letting me go. But no, you don't think I would just walk away? No, I fuckin' flipped my finger at them! The guys were enraged and that seemed all the good enough reason for them to kill me. So I started running for my life, trusting that I can at least that well against those guys.

There was some kind of construction site next to me. The bodybuilders didn't waste time on chasing me, instead they just went there, picked up some tools and shit and started throwing it at me. Some were near misses, but I did get away unharmed.

Later I was in home and still terrified. I was afraid that the bodybuilders could somehow follow me there.

17/02/12

I was at my primary school and nobody was there, since it looked so creepy I decided to take a picture of one of the buildings. Once the photo had printed (seemingly out of nowhere) I looked at it to see a ghostly face in the window. I looked up at the real window and saw the spooky face still there, staring straight at me. Then it moved and I saw it was actually a school child, as it stepped outside I looked around to see that the playground was now filled with children (all of them playing dodgeball). I joined in for a while before going to help some kids on the monkey bars. They were't like the normal bars, I had to first balance it like a seesaw so a child could get on and then try and walk across. After I made a colourful square out of lego and said it could be used as my avatar on DV (Why did I not RC here!? ). Then I was outside the school looking for my headphones, I found a pair on the floor but they were the wrong ones and the wire was about 10 meters long. I went to the house I found them outside of and the old lady there said she'd found my pair, so we swapped and I went away. The dream ended.

I was walking down my lane with a girl with black hair (<-- HER AGAIN! I think she may be my DG or even another dreamer who always shares my dreams!). We were trying to escape the hold of the government and we'd tried everything we could. The only thing left which we could try was to fight. We continued to walk and I quickly text a friend to remind her of something (I think it was to charge her phone). Then once under the bridge at the end of my lane I drew the two swords off my back, the swords of a ninja. I saw what loked like an army of people coming towards us. The girl with black hair I noticed was unarmed so my priority was to protect her, I fought for our lives and must have slaughtered about 50 enemies. But suddenly one either caught me off guard or had a decent level of skill as they sent one of my swords flying. After a frantic battle I managed to gain my other sword back but it was broken. Even so I managed to kill the enemy. The dream ended here and what a brilliant one it was!

18/02/12

I was doing the last house on my paper round and the grass outside their house was abnormally long and overgrown. I reached the door and put the paper through, but then I heard the lady on the other side of the door say that she wanted the other paper (the one that I was holding). So I put that through too. Then I went up to the village shop with my mother and brother. I wanted to buy some peanut butter to help me get lucid (Why did I not RC here either!?!?!? ). Whilst I was looking among the shelves this shady looking man came up to me and tried to sell me something. I said no and he replied "Do you want me to teach you how to sell stuff and make alot of money?" I said yes. He then proceeded to pick up a book and after making it look well used he sold it for £15 which he then gave to me. But the price on the book actually said £50 in the first place so it wasn't a good method! I couldn't find what I wanted in the end so left and the dream ended.

I was at school and was hungry so I went down to the cafeteria. It was near the end of lunchtime so I knew there wouldn't be much food left, I grabbed a couple of sausages (<-- becoming a recurring theme) and ate them before heading off for my tutorial lesson. When I arrived I met up with my good friend R.B and to greet each other we kissed, she didn't seem phased by this at all. All the way through the lesson we kept kissing, getting more and more passionate every time. Luckily the lesson ended before it went too far, but so did the dream

Fragment: Castle

Last nights dream fragment

All I can remember is that I wore my 7 year olds pyjamas, they fit me perfectly and then I think "what's J going to wear for bed now"

I'm in an apartment quite high up. I look out of the window and I see a planet go past, it's in the sky and I panick. I go outside and there are loads of people looking up into the sky and they are just watching, I stand still for a moment and watch too. I see more planets come into our atmosphere, they come one at a time about every 5 minutes. All the planets look different, we all realise something is quite wrong about this and then the last planet comes. They now all circle earths atmosphere and we can see them all. I hear a man shout "the 12 moons have now come to a stand" I now think "ohh shit" and I now begin to run...I wonder where I can hide so I don't die but I can't think of anywhere!!!

Cay's Dreams

Dream 1
The lower end of my county, the more "rural" of the two, was now filled with lavish mansions. My cousin, a teacher and his wife, a bank teller had somehow moved into one of these. They only had enough furniture to fill the front few rooms. I slipped out at one point to explore a dilapidated turn-of-the-century hotel which exists nearby in real life. I ended up accidentally causing a cave-in somehow.

Dream 2 was a nightmare and rather personal.

Dream 3 gets +5 awesome points for cohesiveness and clarity, but I didn't get lucid.

It started with a limousine depositing myself, my two sisters and Azra outside of what seemed like a hotel, with black glass and a gilded awning. It was nasty out, and a flash of lightning and sudden downpour hurried us inside. The lobby was warm and well-lit, with a bubbling fountain and a black marble-topped desk from behind which a pretty young receptionist called out this greeting: "Reo! So glad to see you back!" Reo is a name a lot of dream characters have taken to calling me. I didn't recognize it, though, and I definitely hadn't been here before, so I was quite perplexed as I was ushered to a podium bearing a sign-in sheet and instructed to sigh for "Reo, party of four". An elevator door opened to the right of the podium and we filed in next to a bearded young operator in a stiff beige uniform. "Going up," he murmered in a thick accent as he pulled the lever.
The doors opened on a damp concrete hallway with a few flickering lights, one of which illuminated a metallic door at the end. A girl stood up out of a folding chair to guide us further. She wore a tight charcoal-colored jumpsuit with red accents. She had a round face, soft features and lots of curly flaxen hair. Her name was Crystal. Soon, we were all outfitted in similar jumpsuits and given what seemed to be Star Trek TOS phasers in black.
Behind the door we met the sixth member of our party, an android with a long, segmented tail and catlike face which spoke in an annoying series of "nya" sounds that Crystal could somehow understand.
It turned out to be a similar concept as my "Sacred Games" dream, where each stage is either a combat situation or a puzzle. The Sacred Games was fantasy-oriented, and this was futuristic, but that was about the only difference. We'd only gone through two stages, one a confrontation with those creepy soldier bots from Portal ("...Are you still there?") and the other a maze within which was a key to the exit, when I woke up.