non-lucid

Well I haven't had a dream like this in a long time, maybe it's because I took the night off from LDing. Anyways here is my dream:

The dream starts out in room in a brick house. The room has a cabinet of china on the right side of the room. There is a couch in front of me. I am talking to my friend from my Video Production class, ______. He tells me about this time traveling device that I have in my hands. He made a joke about it then left. Now supposedly this device was in a movie, a real old one. So I now go outside the house and suddenly there are guys with guns on the rooftops. A guy inside radios for all of us to get in the house. I now run into an alley where the walls are similar to velcro and they are slowing me down. I finally get passed them and open up the door to the living room. I then start to experience with the device. The device is about 2 inches long and about 3/4 an inch wide. It has a pale surface and a red outlining. There is a small display screen in the middle and numbers on the top. Then there is a small button on the right side. I try to get the device to work by pressing the numbers on top and pressing the big button in the center, nothing works. I then ask for help, the guys come over and tell me how to work it. I press the right button and then type in the year I want on the top, then I press the big button in the center and then I see a portal-ish thing in front of me. Then I disappear in a way I can't really describe. I then am now at an 80's like school. There are kids with old technology all around me. I am outside the school and the school has two small hills on either side of it leading to the back side of the school. I come up to the kids and start making fun of them, saying how old their technology is. I am now at the back of the school. Some kids are around me and I am still making fun of them. So I then go back to my time. I can't really remember what happens after that as there is a gap in my recall.

So this is the second part I remember, I am in my local Church's parking lot and I decide to travel through time again. I went to an old place like Jerusalem, then I want to go back to my present time. But I get scared because I think that I will get there when the year started. So I go back to the parking lot and ask one of the guys from the house if I can go back to the exact moment, then suddenly I tackled by one of the guys I was hanging out with, he tells me that I can and we laugh. I then remember being back in that city and in the house. We were teaching people about LDing except we really weren't. We were scaring them (I know I changed from present tense to past tense) my friend David was wearing a blue coat and it said he was teaching WILD on a little thin in front of him. After our little class was over we decided to go home to our actual houses. We went up this street and then into a marsh area. We tried to stay out of the water but it was hopeless, we started to trudge though the water, there was a barge type thing in the water. We were nearing the end when I fell and snapped the device, NOOOOOOOOOOOOO. David picked it up and we got onto a little ATV trail with some fat lady who was his mom. People were approaching fast, we had to get out of here, I started up the device and started working with it. I set it to the year 400, people were 10 feet from us. I finally got it working and now we were in the crowd but this would take to long to get home. So I said, HOLD MY HANDS. I started up the device and we all time traveled to the year 400. We were walking though a hall that went upward.

That's the end!

Whew that was long

Went to bed: 12:50
Goals: teleport
Didn't sleep too well
6:30 Im in a big colloseum and there are two dcs who are really annoying me. One of them is another fighter and the other one is a spectator in a white shirt. I rem the other fighter saying something about the spectator getting something that belonged to me and the spectator just kind of smirking and mocking me. All else i rem is my sister all of sudden begins chasing me around the arena and i think she was carrying a sword, i try outrunning her for a bit but she manages to keep up with me, i rem running to a room thats supposed to be mine but she followed me ther. Last thing i rem is grabbing a stone and hitting her in the neck with it. I remseeeing a wound form on her neck with some blood. It looked pretty gross. I cant rem what happened afterwards.
Couldn't get back to sleep after this...

This dream was from June 10. It was an amazing and vivid dream. I can't believe I forgot to post it.

UFO/Alien Dream:

I remember being outside. I was with some people watching the sky. We were waiting for something. I saw Ray Y standing on his roof. Suddenly this large thing materializes above his head. I realize that it's a space ship of some kind. It was brown and rough and looked like a huge boulder. A section opened in the side of the ship. A light shown out. Next thing I see is that Ray is floating into the opening. I knew that this was what he was waiting for.

A short time later I see Ray's grandson sitting in a chair. He looks lonely. I ask him if he is sad because his grandpa is gone. He tells me that he misses his grandpa, but that he's glad that he was able to go in the ship.

I suddenly start worrying. Maybe something isn't right. What if the aliens are bad? What if Ray never gets brought back? I start worrying about all the worst case scenarios.

Later I'm with my mom. We are in my sister's apartment talking. Suddenly the earth shakes. We look outside and see the ground cracking open. We ask each other what could be happening. Then the ground shakes again and the floor in the kitchen starts cracking open. As the crack opens further I can see the aliens are now underground. I can see the top of one of their heads. There is still a barrier between us that looks like it's made of clear plastic.

I am suddenly terribly afraid. Again mom and I are like, "What do we do?"

I said, "Let's call 911. I don't want to deal with this myself."

I knew there wasn't a lot that the police could do, but I really just wanted company right now. I was really scared.

I ran upstairs to get away from the crack. But when I got there I saw that the aliens were already there. There was one standing right next to Roger. The alien had dark brownish grey skin that was rough and had very dark eyes, but it was humanoid in all other ways. The alien was holding what looked like a very large needle up against Roger's back. I tried to get Roger way from the alien. Nob was there. He told me that it was okay. He seemed so calm and peaceful in spite of what I thought was a horrifying situation. I wondered if he had been mind controled. Maybe that was what the needle did.

Another alien came up to me with a needle thing in hand. I knew I was next. I also knew that there was nothing I could do. So I just asked the alien, "Will this hurt?"

The alien's voice came into my mind. It was a feminine voice that was beautiful and kind. She said, "The old fashioned way? No, dear." I knew that this meant that the needle would not be stuck in me, but to be used in some other way. Her voice was so comforting that I was no longer afraid.

I watched as she waved the needle up my arms and then down my neck and back. I could feel myself merge with this lady alien. I felt such peace come over me. I was amazed. Part of me wondered if this was part of the mind control and wondered if the aliens were bad, but that I no longer cared.

But it felt so good and so right.

Then I could hear the voices of several aliens in my head. They were discussing the people of Earth. They said that they knew that this would happen (I knew that they were talking about the awful state of society) when they had left. But that now they would help get it to how it needed to be.

I suddenly saw scenes in my head of a father leaning over his newborn's cradle and gently and lovingly touching the baby's head. I saw a mother and father running around at a park with their kids. I saw several other scenes that were filled with love and happiness. I knew everyting was going to be alright.

Everything was going to be perfect.

Later I was told by the aliens to write down this experience in a journal. I got out a notebook and started writing it down.



I woke up with a start from this dream and was suddenly afraid. I actually had to turn on a light for a few minutes and kind of get my bearings. Then I got out my notebook and started writing.

I only had 5 hours of sleep and I only dreamt. This was dream was different since I was mostly watching from the third person. I was dreaming that I was streaming a few games, one was a Halo game were you played as a Grunt (I haven't played Halo since Halo 3), one was Starcraft 2, and another I think might have been my life but it was extremely different since I was older, probably about 23 and that I was at a higher position in whatever I did.

I failed to become lucid in this dream, probably because it was very short and I require more time to become Lucid. Think I'll need more triggers to realize I'm in a dream or something.

I am with Pavel in her grandmother’s house in Zasada. But the setting is different. It looks like that the house is in the middle of nowhere just an asphalt road is in front of it. There is a heap of the asphalt in front of the house on the road which I removed at some point, by some drastic method. However, for some reason Pavel doesn’t want anyone to know that it was us removing the heap from the road. At some point a man in a blue t-shirt and some girl come around asking what happened on the road, referring to the heap. Pavel is very aggressive and he wants to kill them. I go pretty crazy arguing with him about how insane it is, and that he is overreacting! But he is not listening. (I wonder about how is it possible that his mind is so stubborn. How come people cannot accept different perspective) ((I think this has cause in my recent arguments with Melissa about her view on life)). I tell Pavel that I am leaving, because I don’t want him to get me in to some serious trouble because of the heap on the road. He is threatening me that he will tell that it was me removing the heap. For some reason I don’t want anyone to know.

Dream - Lucid

I was looking at a man who was supposed to be my dad in the dream (he didn't look a think like my real dad). He was laying awake in bed. It was nighttime.

The next thing I knew, I was somewhere else, I'm not sure where, but my mom texted me and told me that dad was dead. I was in total and complete shock. I kept thinking about him, hours before, just laying in bed awake. He was just alive, how could he be dead? He had apparently died from eating some sort of contaminated fish. He had gotten some kind of weird fish that looked like a Chinese dish. The fish didn't even look cooked; it still had a head and everything, and had something in its mouth, I think it was one of its eggs.

Then, it wasn't my dad, but my friend Caitlin who was dead. I saw a flash of her in what looked like our old high school band dresses. Her hair was much shorter and she looked a little annoyed. I thought to myself that I was supposed to hang out with her that day. I couldn't believe she was gone.

Then, it wasn't Caitlin anymore who was dead, but my friend Kacey's dad. I was with her in what looked kind of like the coffee shop that we work at. I then "remembered" a dream that she had had about her dad dying the night before it happened. I mentioned this to her, saying it was weird. She agreed with me. She looked sad.

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I was waking up. I looked at my phone to check the time. It was after 7A.M. I looked outside. It was pretty light out. Shit, I couldn't remember what time I had to be at work.

Then, I remembered. I was supposed to have been at work at 6:30. I was way late. I couldn't believe it. I checked to see why my alarm hadn't gone off. I looked at my phone, and I hadn't set the right alarm. At first, I thought I hadn't set it at all because the little alarm clock symbol wasn't on the front screen. Then, I looked back after messing with something, and the symbol was there. I had 2 alarms set for some time in the afternoon. I deleted them.

I apologize if I wrote this in a bit of a confusing way.

There was a competition held by an evil spider lady who loved to kill people. Me, Kenneth and vin were on a team vs a group of girls. She forced us to do meaningless things and if we argued we would be killed. The person actually doing the event was like a gameshow host/announcer. We had to jump into a pool and grab the sponge/die with the right number on it for the question. It was soon 2 to 2, but we knew we are all going to be killed no matter who won the contest.

I remember that earlier on I was in a room with a huge slide-like thing with huge pearls going down it. The lady and I were at the top. It's like she was training me to be like her. There was a screen at the top. She asked me what my favorite animal at the circus was. I replied lion. She pressed something on the screen and a lion came into view and started attacking the people on the screen. It was only like an animation, but it represented what was really happening somewhere in her huge building. She was telling me how to work the machine. I was begging her to stop but she wouldn't listen. After that, she made me work for her. My job was to collect the pearls that didn't have numbers on them. While working I tried to rebel and attack her but she got mad. I can't remember what happened, but then it skipped to the competition.


New dream, I think this one was before the whole evil lady dream. I was in the huge decrepit mansion. The place was made of only wood. Soon these pink-skinned dragonlike creatures broke through the ceiling and began to attack everyone and crush everything around it. People were screaming and running. I looked for an exit. There was a girl on a sort of loft-like platform with a ladder leading up to it. She told me this was the only safe way out. I started to climb up but there was a huge spider on the ladder. I freaked out (I hate spiders) and the girl was getting impatient. I could still here the crashing of wood inside.

I also remember being in my moms car while she was driving over a steep hill. So steep that it was almost a 90 degree angle to the ground. At the top we could see an ad on a bilboard for six flags. It said that you can buy their commercials on a DVD for ten dollars. "why go to six flags when you can experience it from your own home?" I asked my mom why they were selling commercials on a DVD.

I'm in the kitchen and there is some scorpion on my arm digging into it and trying to put it's babies in my left arm. Eventually I wipe it away and kill it. Later on in the dream, I feel this itching and burning in my skin. I look down at my forearm, and I can see something is clawing it's way up from beneath my skin. I scratched at my arm, and there was a full grown scorpion underneath the torn flesh. I spent the remainder of the dream getting stung and pinched while trying to kill it.




Had another dream last night where D was over my house, and it was 3 in the morning, but when I looked outside, it was day time. I couldn't figure out what was going on. Even the clouds looked real...like they were eye level, but I never pieced it enough to realize that I was dreaming.....so rusty.

02-07-11 I am at home and I am headed down the state library to hand in some books and pick up some new ones. When down there having dealt with the books I had to I notice that there are several bibles around in a shelf for overdue pick-up dates. I am not sure if this means that I could just pick them up or I have to wait for some sort of clearance. I try to find help, but am unsuccessful, which leads me to the decision that I will just take one. This book is a monstrosity, not sure it is the same size as an actual bible, seeing as it is 15-20 cm wide. I briefly wonder if it will be able to fit in my bag with the other books.

The reason I am interested in this bible is that it is from 1861 and I want to check for inconsistencies with any current edition. I want to check for myself if what I have read is true that it is difficult to tell what the bible actually says as it has been altered that much. I do think that it is a bit of an additional workload seeing as I have my bac project coming up dealing with lucid dreaming, and as I know I will have to read two versions of the bible (as I haven't read it) I will be in for some hard work. I tell myself that I will just briefly through the bibles and then continue with the dreaming stuff.

When I get back home I tell Thure, I talk to my flatmate about how we have access to a lot of information and that we don't actually need to borrow all the books from the library, because we live in it. We can just read through the books we want at night time. With this in mind we start exploring the library and move to the floor above us. This particular section contains a lot of board games and we start looking for one that looks good. I find a board edition of Doom 2 and we start opening that and laugh around with it.

When we are about to get started we get interrupted by a female middle aged librarian wearing a night dress. She asks us what we are doing here at this hour, and she seems ready to call security. We tell her we live here and she immediately asks if we are the ones living below first floor on the right. I confirm and tell her that we can leave if needed, but seeing as we live here she accepts that we are there and begin to retreat to wherever she came from. I tell her “Thanks beautiful” and she smiles and laughs a bit about being called beautiful, she is pleased.

A mate of mine turn up and start hitting on the librarian, they talk for a while, but I don't know if it actually went somewhere.
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I am driving somewhere with a lot of friends of mine. We have access to a mini-map that gives us an indication of where we are compared to each other. It is clear that we are in a race to get where we are going. it is a pretty even run, and you can see on the mini-map when people are hold up waiting for the lights to change.

As we approach our destination it is pretty much a tie and I end up driving my car over a ridge and land on a blue car of one of my mates that has driven a different route and is approaching the lake from below me. Although I land on it, I only skim it, it makes a dent, the damage to the car is really quite limited. All the cars there are expensive and although mildly annoyed that his car has become dented. It isn't enough to ruin his good mood and expectations for what we are about to engage in anyway.

We are going out to a lake to para glide on the water. Not quite kite surfing, but that is the closest way of describing what we do. Before hitting the water I (I think I have turned into “the rock” by this point) I tell my friends I have never done anything like this before. They just laugh, give me a shute and tell me to hit the water. I try and I manage to keep myself above water, but it is difficult to get the shute high enough into the air to give me proper speed and jumping capabilities. I just keep experimenting for a while and one of my mates tell me the wind is sort of dead towards the middle of the lake and the waves are high. I notice this as I nearly crash into a huge wave but manage to avoid it.

After some time I notice there is a talking rat with us that is clearly part of the group. With the appearance of this rat the dream goes full on Narnia on me and Aslon decides to come along in all of his majestic feline form. I have a brief thought of cats hating water, but what the hell it is freaking Aslon. Two of my friends have brought a special edition of the shute harness for him, as his body is somewhat different and heavier he needs two shutes. He informs them that he has never done it before either, and asks what he is supposed to do. They tell him to just try it out and he does so by gracefully flying around making huge jumps and always keeping his shutes high in the air. I hate him a bit for that, but am also impressed with what he can do.
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I am in a kitchen with Delfine and Ronja. Ronja and her are talking outside my hearing range. We are supposed to go and pick up some washing powder or something. After Delfine and Ronja are done talking Delfine comes over to me. She asks me if there is anything going on between Ronja and I, to which I reply no. She tells me that Ronja isn't interested in going out pick up up washing materials, she wants someone to take care of her and start a life. I get the message and feel extraordinary guilty, because this is probably something I have started in the past. She asks me if she should go inform Ronja that I would be glad if she came on to me and I reply “No” and the guild train hits me at maximum velocity. I look over towards Ronja as Delfine is done delivering the message and I feel like a coward for not being able to deliver this myself. I look towards Ronja and I can't decipher if she is crying or not, but if she is it isn't as bad as if her world had completely collapsed.
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I am writing something on my bac project involving lucid dreaming. When I do a count I see that I have more than 5 pages and the semester haven't even started yet. I want to call someone or tell someone, but I can't really think of who.
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Something about big round egg like electrical objects I blow up pyro-kinetically.

My first dream of the night, I can hardly remember, I know I went lucid near the end of it though due to my nose starting to bleed in real life, it eventually woke me up.

My second dream started with me living in some kind of apartment place, and my mum had these two friends who she said could live me with, I didn't like it. One of them was male and he started to act like he owned my place and said stuff like "I'm going to my room" when he didn't even have a room. My perspective changed and I saw a crater with people crowding around and a news crew filming, pillars came out of the ground and created some kind of shockwave that killed everyone one, and aliens came out of the crater. It switched back to me, in a shop. I tried to get back to where I live. At this moment I became lucid by looking into a mirror and seeing a reflection that I know could not be true.
I've never had a dream about an alien invasion before, so I thought I might aswell have some fun with it. So I just went along with the dream, but not the way that it was obviously not how it was originally going to be. I decided I'd make my way back to where I live just like what I was going to do before becoming lucid. I got home and noticed that man was still there, he was really annoying so I shouted "You're still alive?!" then I got woke up.

Type: Regular dream.
Lucidity: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Vividness: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Notes:
Is there some sort of connection between summer and really insane dreams? Being chased and escaping long-haired bears simply by running away, hunting as a bird, and shopping for pokemon cards hanging on a tall sheet of ice, all in one dream. A long one, too!

I was in my subconscious' rendition of the arctic. This place wasn't as flat and barren as you see in photos; instead, it was relatively bumpy with hills and miniature cliffs all over the place. Strangely, there was a very high ceiling surrounding everything too, just floating in the sky - there were no walls; you could see arctic scenery for miles if you looked, but the ceiling still made everything relatively dim because it blocked out the sun. And you couldn't tell where the ceiling started and ended.

There were a few thicker logs strewn around, all of them acting as ramps to get to higher vantage points. One of them had branches that were much more twisted and stronger than they should've been, almost as thick as the log itself. The whole place felt deliberately set up and it almost reminded me of a museum diorama, but to my dream self, it still looked very real.

Within this setting, I was standing around and talking to my sister and one of my friends. I can't remember the subject matter, but I had essentially stolen something from my friend, and they didn't know I was the person who stole it. I was trying to keep them from discovering that. This conversation lasted a few minutes. We were in a sort of alcove, surrounded by walls of ice about 7 feet tall. There were a few large logs that were angled against the walls, which provided escape routes if we wanted to leave the alcove. I broke away from the group and started to walk toward one of the logs, hoping to climb it out of the alcove. However, as I reached the base of the log, I came face-to-face with a large brown bear. The bear was big, probably eight or nine feet tall if it stood on all fours and it had especially long fur, twice the length of a normal bear's fur. It bared its teeth at me and opened its mouth, roaring in my face. I turned and booked it towards the other log, running up it and stopping when I got to the top. I looked back down and saw the brown bear coming up the log quickly, a speed that would only be possible if it were just skimming over the surface and not actually making contact with the wood.

Forgetting about the two people who were still in the alcove, I turned and ran away from the bear, hoping I'd lose it. Somehow, I outran it. Still running, I took a right turn, veering behind a big ice shelf. As I turned the corner of this shelf, I slowed down to a walk. The bizarre "ceiling" that I described earlier disappeared, and it was now lighter outside; it was definitely daytime because the sky was blue and I could see the sun. The snow was pretty close to a pure white, maybe with a tint of blue.

As I walked, I thought, 'I have to start a new life here, because I can't go back'. I started looking for something to eat.

Eventually, I came across a small group of evergreen trees. There were a few brown sticks and twigs growing out of the ground around them, too. Some of them combined to form other, tinier trees. Between two of these trees, I saw a small ferret, mostly white with tiny black eyes and grey ears. It was probably twelve inches long, and not quite as pudgy as a regular ferret. It was sniffing along the ground, moving as if in slow motion, but twitching and acting like a regular ferret all the same. I knew I would need to eat it.

Somewhere during this, I assumed the form of a bird. I leaped at the ferret in slow motion, and I saw one of my feet reaching out in front of me, in an attempt to grab it. The foot was dark grey, and it had four toes with black talons. I ended up passing right over top of the ferret, missing it, and landing on the ice in front of it. I spun around to see where the ferret was, but it wasn't there anymore, even though it should have been. Instead, I heard it "chirp" behind me.

The dream skipped a bit, and then I was a person again. I was at the base of a snowy hill, digging a small hole in the snow with my right hand, using my fingernails to scrape the slushy ice out. The final hole looked extremely neat and slick, not at all like I'd dug it up using my hand; it was more like someone had taken a cylinder, shoved into the snow, and pulled out a snow sample. Then I snuck to the top of the hill, crouching down a bit, and hung around there for a while. I'm not sure what happened directly after this, but after what I "knew" was some chunk of time, I returned to the hole and found a small, square-shaped steak right outside of the hole. I had "caught" the ferret.

I ate it, but I can't remember how or what it tasted like.

After eating, I started to walk back to where I'd ran from the brown bear, past the ice shelf. Now, however, I "knew" that there were Pokemon cards on the shelf. There were seven or eight small metal nails pinned evenly in two rows; hanging from them were cards in realistic plastic sleeves (not the reflective kind, just clear). A few of the cards were big, around the size of the cover of a small novel. I spotted these ones immediately and knew they were fake.

The dream ended.

Non-Dream/Lucid/Non-Lucid

DREAM 1: I was in high school...
At first I though it's a nice high school. One of the professors was really nice...he was showing us the places and stuff. He entered with us in a cave where he told us: "You have only 3 lives! If you discover the treasure until the next day which is hidden in this cave, you will live on. If you lose all your lives you will DIE!".
I though it was a joke...until I met my mom and one of my buds and they told me I have chosen a satanic profiled high schooland that the part with dying was freaking serious!! They were telling me that the next lesson is about satanic rituals and stuff...
I was scared....I didn't even knew what to do. My mom wasn't helping me at all, neither my buds.
I tried to go to the professor and talk to him about it. He just got nervous. Didn't helped at all either.
DREAM 2: I woke up at my home and my bud was staying in my sis' bed. I though it is reality and told my bud that weird dream with the satanic high school. After telling him all about the dream, I turned on the Wii so we can play something. I was laying in the bad so I had a bad angle from the sensor and I was keep activating a lot of weird channels. I couldn't find Mario Kart and my bud left.
DREAM 3: I dreamed that a hot girl entered my room and she was letting me touch her boobs.
It was just....AWESOME!!
DREAM 4: My sis put me to bed and was asking me if I'm a homosexual, because I didn't got a boner while touching that girl's boobs. I explained her that I got a boner, but she got naked and was dancing around me to see if I get a boner.

[This is a catch-up post. These dreams are from the night of June 9-10, 2011.]

Awake, Non-lucid, Lucid, [Commentary made while awake]

I'm walking around the downtown area of a city. Every block is covered with tall buildings. Most of one block is covered with a three-or-four-story building with signs that identify it as “Jews' World.” It's their community center and place of worship; it is built around a narrow, rectangular courtyard/entryway with doors to various rooms leading off of it. I look at it and think, Wow, that's pretty cool, having a community center like that.

Directly across the street from this center is a similar, five-or-six-story community center and place of worship for the LDS church. A woman walks out of that complex and walks down the street. We pass each other in the street between the two centers, walking in opposite directions. The woman recognizes me and calls me “Pie [$RealFirstName].” I know that “Pie” is a nickname for [$OfficeBoss] [yes, he is LDS in real life], and that the use of that nickname as a title before my name indicates that I am a member of the in-group associated with [$OfficeBoss]. I'm rather disturbed that the woman both knew who I was and associated me with [$OfficeBoss] in such an intimate and familiar way.

Having realized I was dreaming at some point during this sequence of events [again, I'm not sure when], I decide to start flying. I take off and get pulled in a random direction, backward and sort of sideways. I try to control my flying and start flying forward by concentrating on details of the scenery I can see in front of me and trying to examine them more closely, as I did in my previous lucid [on the night of June 5], but it doesn't work. I attempt this method of control several times. When it stubbornly refuses to work, I just give up. I think, Fine. I'm just going to let myself get pulled along to wherever.

Then that dream faded to black, yet I remained consciously self-aware. I'm not sure if I was actually awake [more likely] or still asleep and self-aware during the gap between two dreams. At any rate, I remember that I knew that I was still asleep [however that works; I really don't even know what was going on here] and that if I just waited patiently, another dream would begin. I did, and it did.

I'm in the central courtyard of a big, old church made of yellow-tan stone. On one side of the courtyard, there is a large, windowlike opening in the wall with no glass, and on the other side of it are rolling vineyards. I briefly think of going flying over the vineyards, but I decide not to. Instead, I explore the building I'm in, and find a large kitchen knife. I pick it up and look at it, reflecting upon it: What's this doing here? We don't do sacrifices of living creatures in my church. We don't have to.

I go into the building, find the kitchen, and put the knife away. To get to the kitchen, I have to go through the parish hall. There are other people in there. I continue to explore more of the building, concentrating on just what a wonderful gift it is to be here in a dream and be lucid. [That's the last I remember.]

[Later, I had another nonlucid.] A whole bunch of the important businesspeople I know in real life, including [$OfficeBoss], have come over to House #2 for an early-morning presentation that I'm supposed to be giving, and they've all crowded into my bedroom. I wake up late for the presentation. In order to get into my closet, I have to ask [$OfficeBoss] and another man to move aside. I'm embarrassed to be seen by all these people while wearing only my black nightgown. [It was the same one I was wearing in real life that night.] I take too long to get ready, and all my guests wander off.

I go out into the rest of the house and see that my mom has put up all the Christmas decorations, even though it's June. I run the vacuum cleaner in the study; P. is there. I get a second shot at doing the presentation, and this time, it works out. I'm grateful that the first attempt, where I got up late for it and everyone left, was just a dream. [LOL!]

[Fragment] I'm in a house or hotel somewhere with MLT [a real-life friend]. I demonstrate to her the fold-out bed that's built into the wall, and she declares it to be too opulent. The building is cylindrical.

[I have been writing DJ entries throughout June, both by hand in a paper journal and in a document on my hard drive. I feel like working on bringing my online DJ up to date tonight, so I'm going to.]

Night of June 5-6

I'm in a bedroom that resembles the one I had at House #2, but isn't exactly like it. I'm getting dressed, and my mom is in the room. I explain to her that I don't own any khakis or chinos, only jeans and black pants. [This is almost, but not quite, true in real life. I do have some khaki capris, but only one pair.] In a drawer, I find a couple of pairs of khaki capris, one pair of which is a light brown with a pretty, darker brown pattern of flowers and leaves on it. I think they might be too small for me, but I put them on anyway.

Night of June 6-7

A woman is being held in a dark, underground room. She's being tortured by having her hands bound together above her head in such a way that her elbows are being forced to bend the wrong way. She laughs and is good-humored about it, but this is just a facade to hide the horrible pain she's in. Other torture goes on, with torture implements, and other scary things happen [but I no longer remember the details]. All of the events of the dream unfold visually, but are accompanied by ongoing, simultaneous background narration provided by [a novelist whose audiobooks I often listen to]. The events are are all part of one of his novels, which I'm listening to. [I've been listening to his stories all these years, and they're just now giving me nightmares? Actually, I think I know why this might be: Now, I actually have a visual image in my memory to go with the concept of 'torture implements.' I got this visual image from seeing “Limitless;” that scene freaked me out, and I had to look away. That fact, plus the fact that I was really anxious about real-life stuff as I was going to sleep on this night, most likely caused the nightmare.]

Night of June 8-9

I instinctively realize that I'm pregnant, with twins, while I'm out and about, doing something. Later, I go to a hospital because I think it's my time to give birth, but it doesn't happen.

[Different scene.] I'm with a bunch of my friends, cleaning up the mess left behind after some big event in a large, indoor area. Cleaning up includes gathering together, sorting, and storing all the leftover pens and markers that were being given away at the event.

[Yet another scene.] I'm going to the hospital for a checkup.

At some point [I don't remember in which scene it was], I put my hand on my lower abdomen to feel the small bump that's starting there, and think about how I should stop drinking soda and eating unhealthy foods. [This dream felt very real while I was in it, so much so that when I woke up and recalled it, I went, “Wow, all that was just a dream? Whew, that's a relief!”]

I'm back, and hopefully for a while! With the difficulties of school and busy schedules, I think I lost interest in lucid dreaming last year, but I was thinking the summer would be the perfect opportunity to build up recall and maybe start having lucid dreams again! Anyhow, I read through my dream journal last night, and did a sorta WBTB, and ended up having a couple fairly vivid dreams, the latter of which SHOULD have been lucid, had I been paying enough attention. Also, I failed to write my first dream down, so now I barely remember any of it. Oh well, you win some and lose some.

Alaska Cruise (Fragment)

At 6:00 AM, I'm pretty sure I could have gotten a good couple of paragraphs out of this one, but by now... not so much. Basically, I was on a cruise from Vancouver up the coast of Canada and to Alaska with my family. I think I was looking for someone, or exploring the ship for some reason quite a bit, but other than that, I don't recall much.

Pulled Over

This one was a little more bizarre in some ways, and I really should have realized it was a dream. I was at a party, and decided to go ahead and go home early. After saying goodbye to my parents, I started to drive back. After leaving the house, which now that I think about it was more like a small mansion, I began to drive past a small suburb in a valley. The road was one way only (or at least without any yellow lines) and was built into the side of a steep hill. To the left was a decently sized group of houses, small stores, and other assorted buildings. As I drove, I was talking to my dad on the phone (talking on the phone while driving being something I'm sort of uncomfortable with still) who was telling me to come back to the party and help clean up. I told him I needed to pay attention to the road and would call him back, before I broke through a fence into a small industrial/factory area.

This is where it gets a little weird. It's a decent drop, maybe 6 feet or so, but it feels longer, and a lot bumpier. I try to regain control after landing, swerving a few times and dropping down some other small hills, before finally turning myself around and pulling the car back onto the road. At the same time, I find a gun in my car and decide to reload it (???), and when I notice a lever outside the factory I pull that too. No idea what it actually did, though. Anyways, as I pull up onto the road, a cop is driving by, and I accidentally run into them. Predictably, they pull me over, but somehow the scene shifts back to my bedroom.

At this point, the cop is interrogating me about why I had a gun (no idea), why I was driving so crazily (talking on the phone), and why I would decide to pull a random lever on the side of the road. At this point, I express the thought that I might even be dreaming, and ask the cop to hit me to make sure. He does, and then I slap my own hand, but I think I feel pain so I decide it isn't a dream. (Stupid stupid reality test! I know better than that! >_<). My dad walks into the room at this point, and says something along the lines of, "What have you done?" I explain that I was pulled over, then the scene shifts again.

Finally, we end up in the hallway outside of my bedroom. The cop is testing me to see if I've learned my lesson. He places a red, then a green lever in front of me. When I refuse to pull them, he seems satisfied, because I shouldn't pull a lever unless I know what it does. He turns the green lever around, and tells me that if I had pulled it I would have contracted a deadly Elephant STD. (Crazy brain. ) At this point, the dream ends.

I woke up, and was all, "See, I knew it was a dream!" I was more relieved that it wasn't real than disappointed in myself for not realizing that it wasn't.