non-lucid

11/12/11
NON-LUCID
We were following these people (I didn’t know who was with me, but I just felt something). We were chasing these people who were trying to get some files. I think I was with my mother now.

We were going through a hallway and the elevator was broke. There was an alternative way to get to them.




There were two walls close to each other and I had to use my weight to shift upwards. (Kind of like in Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones)



Then I see the files that we need, the criminals had one half but we had the other half they needed.

They heard that we got the files. At first they thought we were bluffing but they decided to chase after us.


But there were on the other side so it gave us enough time to escape.

I slide down the same walls and the dream ends there.

The next dream is that I’m with EVA from Metal Gear Solid 3. Blondes are recurring characters for me, and I’ve wanted to meet Eva for a while now.



We had to assassinate some old lady driving a car. At first it was easy shooting her, but then I had to kill her again for some odd reason, as if the dream just repeated the scene in a harder difficulty.

I tried to shoot her with the machine gun that I couldn’t hear, but she still kept driving really fast (granny has some skills!) and we could barely catch up to her with our own.



I got really mad and decided to get off the vehicle and dash towards this woman and set mines to let her explode.

Then I decided to make a run for it since the police heard about it. I completely forgot about EVA following all this time, but I felt her presence with me, so I didn’t worry too much on it.

I think I was riding a Soap Box Derby vehicle with blue and white colors mixed in it. I was in a position as if I was laying on my bed, and had a black control lever on my left and right side to steer the vehicle.





As I dash towards two cops who were just receiving the news, instead of driving too fast to make things suspicious, I decided to park to the nearest fast food place, which was Whataburger apparently. I get out of the vehicle and dashed, then I realized Eva was following me.



I stopped and turned around and told her “Come on Eva! Let’s go!” Dream ends.

Then I’m going towards this hill and I there were a group of people that were drunk, and I was afraid to go near them because they looked like they would do something wild.



They didn’t do anything to me though, but I just walk past them pondering on what they would do behind my back. I kept walking and see more drunk people.

Then the dream switches and I see Odd from Code Lyoko and Jim grabs his hand and Odd is asking what is wrong with Jim.



Then the scenario switches where Odd was the bad guy and the Principal comes in and says he should be arrested. Jim tells the principle that he’ll take care of Odd, and that he shouldn’t be arrested.




Then Jim randomly flips a pot. I think that was a day residue from reading Queen Zukin’s where I saw a post of a picture of a pot and nothing else lol. After that the dream ends. LOL

I was in Aida's (a famous chicken inasal eatery in Bacolod), with some friends. We ordered a pitso and a paa, and a few smaller stuff, I think, but I'm not sure. Joerome was a chef or something, serving behind the counter. He asked me if I already had mine served. I said no, I just ordered, and I'm waiting for the number. They were moving other people's orders through that window/counter. Finally, one of them gave me the number.

I went back to the seat with my friends. I had to arrange the number so that it's easily visible to the waiter.

I was outside the eatery. Emerald came out and told me the food's already served. I returned, but instead of going the roundabout way through the door, I walked straight through the glass, thinking about astral travel. I didn't go through the glass; it opened like a glass door. I sat down and found that the others ate a lot already. I complained jokingly, and they also jokingly replied that's what I get for arriving late. I think there were three of them there: Emerald, Chris and Grey.

I was in our living room with some friends. We were talking with one, in particular. A guy with long hair, a bit skinny. We talked about stuff, and then finally pointed out zodiac signs. The guy was reading a book about it, and he said he's not sure what sign he is. We asked his birthday. He said February 3 (not sure if he said the year). We told him he's Aquarius. I borrowed the book he was reading. I looked at the window to the outside.

I entered a bathroom. Andrei was there, peeing on the toilet. I thought he was done, and I peed on the toilet too. I saw his penis, and he doesn't seem to mind.

When he was about to go out, I told him to just close the bathroom door. He did, but while both of us were still inside it. Then he turned around and looked at me. I somehow sensed what he wanted.

Aliens were occupying the Earth. They were doing something to people through long tentacles hanging from their low flying crafts, spraying water. Some people started to dress like them in hope they will think we like them and won't be killed. It was a tall yellow-black metalic cape. I tried to buy me one too. I picked out a light blue cape that came with pants. it was different material and looked different. I had some money to buy it, but not enough. I tried to give shopkeeper some of my posessions, untill next day, when I would come back and give him rest of the money. But I was worried, he won't give me back my stuff - it was some letters, postcards, stuff from school.

I was (or we were) being chased. We were inside a mall, and I jumped over to other floors and run up escalators to avoid the chaser. Then I was in a forest of sorts. Or maybe a park. I used a flying unicycle. I encountered the inspector (who was chasing us) down at the plaza (unfamiliar). He tried to grab me, but I was able to push him back. I keep trying to avoid him in that area, but he's fast.

I felt very uneasy seeing him. Like he's going to do something bad to me. But since he's an inspector, and I'm probably a thief of sorts, I might have done something wrong, and he's just trying to bring me to justice.

November 11, 2011

I had a pretty memorable dream for 11/11/11. I even became a smidgen lucid! It was a bit scary, but not really a nightmare, more action-y. Here it goes...

I was in some sort of fort in a forest. Some Asian people came in and said that they were moving in. This part was blurry, so I can't exactly remember everything.

Next, I had left the fort, because I had to practice for cross-country. It was at Holmdel, where I had my meet this morning (which was next morning last night). My team was running, and we came to a lake. My friend Rob explained that it was called Medusa Lake, because anyone who fell into it was turned to stone. Needless to say, we went around it.

We came across a large mansion. We could hear noises inside, and it sounded like a party. Knocking on the door, an older man appeared, dressed in a red velvet bathrobe. "Come in, come in!" He said. "There's always room for more at my parties!" He seemed nice enough, so we stepped inside. There was a huge chandelier, and the whole place was decorated lavishly. "My name is Jaggers," the man explained. "Why don't you come into the dining hall? I was just about to make a speech!" We followed him on, and found ourselves in a large room with guests dressed in suits and gowns. I felt a bit underdressed for the occasion in my running clothes.

"Attention! Attention everyone! Are you enjoying the party?" Jaguars asked. A murmur of yes's came from the crowd. "Good," he said. "Because you are never going to leave!" Suddenly, he shot out beams of magic from his hands, which hit a lady in a long blue dress. Instantly, she began to transform into a tiger. Everyone screamed, and Jaggers began to transform more people. "We need to get out of here!" I yelled. "Oh no you don't!" he cackled. Flying towards us, we made a dash for the door. When we got outside, he yelled, "Curses!" and didn't follow us.

There were only a couple of us left; everyone else had been transformed. "What will we do now?" asked Brian. "We should probably move," I suggested. "Jaggers might come back." We began to run, and suddenly I thought, Gee, this is usually the part of a dream where a bear comes out and begins to chase me! Sure enough, one was right there. Wait a sec... This is a dream! I'm dreaming! I made the bear disappear, but I lost lucidity right away.

I came up to Medusa Lake, and began to shimmy along a fence in order not to fall in. I climbed under the fence, and my dream slowly started to fade away...

Analysis: I had my cross-country meet earlier today, which was tomorrow last night, so I was really looking forward to it. Medusa Lake, I don't really know where it came from. Jaggers is the name of a character in a book I'm reading in school, Great Expectations, but he's a lawyer, not an evil wizard. The woman who transformed into a tiger might have to do with the fact that there was a tiger in one part of a movie I had watched. Some Asian guys too. But the fort, I don't have a clue about.

Category: Barely-Lucid

Lucidity: 4/10
Clarity: 6/10
Length: 7/10
Enjoyment: 6/10
Overall: 5.75/10

I'm looking at a map with little landmarks. A female voice behind me tells me to sketch a river on the map with ny finger. I move my finger from the bottom of the map to the top.
"Why?" I ask.
"Because," she says, "it is going to be the river I throw you in if you continue to bother me."

Awake - Dream - Lucid
"..." shows where time in the dream is missing.

Time: Night of 11/11/11 or Afternoon of 11/12/11

I can only remember bits and pieces of this dream. I was woken up by my dad, but I fell back asleep and I think that's when I had it, but I'm not sure.

I go to bed way too late, like almost 3 AM. I go to bed listening to a lucid dream induction video on my iPod. (The one I listen to currently can be found here.) I try to think about how easy lucid dreaming is, and what I'm going to do in the dream, (as prescribed in Silverbullet's Key to Lucid Dreaming). Eventually I fall asleep.

I wake up, but still lie in bed. My dad comes in to wake me up because it's like 1:15 PM. He leaves and I lie there for a bit. I drift back to sleep and I think that's when I have this dream:

... I was overlooking some massive, beautiful city from a hill. The city looked kind of futuristic, and had glistening tall buildings. It was near the sea, and the sun was setting...
With a group of some of my classmates from school, we were being told about some upcoming train ride. I don't remember what the train ride was for, exactly. I was asked if I wanted to be some sort of handout person on the train, handing out information to other people about something which I can't remember...
We are on the train now, but the room we are in certainly doesn't feel like a train car. It is a large cafeteria type room, with tables set up with free food. Although this obviously didn't look like a train, my mind still told me I was on the train. There were windows. I looked out and saw that we were on an elevated track on some sort of bridge thing extending over some beautiful, misty river valley. It looked like a very cool environment...
In the cafeteria car thing I'm eating donuts, I can't remember if I actually tasted them...
I'm looking out a window in a different car, which is still too big to really be on a train. I look out a window at the scenery below, which is similar to the aforementioned river valley. I walk away from the window towards some hallway-thing, and hear a girl from school laugh. I turn around and imitate the sound. I walk into the hallway thing, which I can now tell is an actual train car inside, as in how one should normally look. It's very narrow, with some seats facing forward, on the inner side (I don't know how there can be an inner side of a train, but it didn't have windows), and seats facing inward below some long windows. There are a ton of people from my class in this row, standing up. They were told to begin doing the handouts. I saw one of my friends was wearing a vest that said "Baptist Church" on the back, which confused me because I know he isn't Baptist. My mind tells me the train is now headed back to the city, though I didn't remember stopping anywhere in the dream. I felt happy that I didn't decide to be a handout giver, but I don't know why now...
The scene is now a flyby of the train from the outside. It is on an elevated rail still, over a massive ocean. The sun is either rising or setting, and the train was shaped like a normal train! There were no bulges from big cafeteria cars or anything! Inside the windows I could see people sitting in their seats, riding home.

I wake up, but don't remember that I had been dreaming for a few minutes. I finally do remember after feeling sad that I didn't have any dreams. That's when I got up to write this.


This is the first dream I can remember having since I joined DV. I want to make good use of this journal. This is a good way of keeping track of dreams since my computer's in my room and I hate writing by hand. I want to maintain a constant format for my dream recordings so that it becomes easier to recognize dream signs and such.

NOTES

• I don't know for sure if I had the dream during the night or after I woke up and fell back to sleep, it just seems like it happened after I fell back asleep.
• The fact that I was confused by my friend wearing the "Baptist Church" vest is interesting because it shows that I was able to remember real-world facts even while dreaming. This could help on my path to LDing.

In the village from before, a peaceful afternoon turns into hell. The main gate to the village is blasted down and an army dressed in red pours in. They set fire to some of the buildings and do not stop until they are met with our own resistance army. As the two forces are in battle I and someone else help put out the fires and rebuild the buildings. Then we head off to fight the battle.

Im on a hill overlooking a village. There is a waterfall behind us, the water roaring lound. Drawn down the hill is a dirt path to the village. With me is a sorceress and a creature I beleive I captured in my space dream. Our job is to transport it to the the designated spot in the village with no harm coming to the villagers. We begin our way down the path and as I learn the creature sometimes leaves lava in its footsteps. I go to clean them up and how I do so, I do not know. As we make our way further down a caravan parked to the side is attacked by the creature. I summon a lightning spell that hits the creature and causes him to back off. We make our way down with no further issues.

I'm on a spaceship in space, of course, and we are searching planets for any signs of life.

I have a red turtle that is able to understand and speak english and the main thing it talked about is being able to go outside. I head into my parent's bedroom and place him onto the bed. I head into the restroom and shut the door. I come back out and he dissapeared. I search for him thinking he has gone outside but instead he was on the floor. I put him back on the bed and reenter the restroom. I come back out and everything repeats itself. I once again go back into the restroom and come back out and the turtle is once again gone but this time a man with a french a ccent has appeared. I think he talks to me about buying the turtle.

As I'm watching the pep rally, my friend named Dayza comes up to me and asks me for a charger. I tell her that I do not have one on me so instead I go to help her find one... in the women's restroom. We enter a huge stall that was like a seating room which housed a gray bench and two gray seats on the left wall. Dayza sits down on one and a sickening squish is heard. She had sat in a lady urinal that was soaked with piss. As we are exiting the restroom, we run into boys and girls who are familliar to me entering together. When we start heading back to the viewing window there are two security guards staring at us. When we look through the windo we see a huge plastic bird with its limbs outstreched like it is flying and it is attached to the roof by a thin line of string. The final words of a song was sung. "I don't mean to break your heart." As these words were sung the string attached to the bird snaps and the bird falls to earth.

The dream opens with me looking through a window like hole in the wall on the second floor of the school. I'm watching a pep rally and the band is playing right now. The drum majors are conducting on atleast a hundred foot tall platform. The drum majors are one of the normal ones a man but the other is unrecognized, some random lady. On the ladder heading to the top of the platform, I spot Brittany. Once she gets to the top she asks the lady if she can conduct. The lady allows her to and she clims off of the platform. Now Brittany is conducting and you can see her smiling wide. After a few moments Brittany starts to close the distance between her and the edge of the platform. Finally with a shock... she falls off. The dream fasts forwards and Brittany is back at the pep rally and she looks horrible! Her whole body is mangled and disgusting.

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It was some kind of holiday and I was at Auntie Nanie's house. Stasia and I were at the doorway saying bye to Nana and Nanie while they went to go pick up some relatives. Nana took a huge bunch of grapes from the bowl beside the door as she left. When they were gone, Stasia got all excited about showing me things around the house. Behind the shelf beside the door, hidden under some leaves of a plant was a big bowl of pureed red bell pepper. Stasia said Nanie loved it so much she kept it hidden. There were also giant bell peppers beneath the shelves, red, orange and yellow ones. Stasia was cutting them open looking for something, and every slice she made I'd pull open a little bit to peer inside. Soon the halves of all the peppers began falling to the sides and she said, "What did you do?!" Closing them shut didn't work so we rotated them on their sides.

As were were hurrying to get the place back in order before Auntie came back, someone came to the door. Stasia answered it while I was kneeling below one of the coffee tables rearranging a carpet. I turned around and saw it was two nicely-dressed young men with a little greyhound puppy. I quickly finished what I was doing and ran over to see her (the dog). I realized the men were salesmen and they were going door to door trying to sell this cheap-looking jewelry. One of them said something about living comfortably around this neighborhood with his husband, gesturing to the other who stood a few paces behind. As he said this he took my hand and wrapped a thin gold chain around a wart on my finger, pointing at it and describing the different styles of jewelry they had. I got uncomfortable and pulled my hand away. I felt like the cute dog and the mentioning of the fact they were gay were only ploys to try to convince us they were liberal, well-intentioned people.