non-lucid

Notes| Dream|Lucid

27th May

Remember being at school in my Physics classroom, sitting next to one of my friends John. The teacher asked me if i'd done my homework (False memories: we were lighting croissant[spelling?] with bunsen burners). I told him that i had it drawn down the croissant but i hadn't shaded it yet.
"You better shade it in, then."


LOL what!

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Good morning! Got Lucid last night, only I didn't remember my tasks. Didn't seem to be thinking clearly at all really.

23.30: Sleep

08.00: A-bomb dough MILD
I'm with a couple of people on a dock, kneading together different coloured playdough. I mix the colours and try to make an atom bomb, I actually know the way to do it and soon I've got a big lump of purple dough. I make another piece which is going to pierce the lump and make it blow up. I make it into a spear and pick up the lump and spear, they're pretty heavy. I walk up to the edge of the dock.

I realise I'm dreaming. I jump in the water and start sinking right away. I just relax and imagine the big lump I'm holding not weighing me down, but carrying me upwards like a balloon. After atleast ten meters down or so I start floating upwards and I soon brake the surface. I spot two glowing eyes nearby. "Watch out for the fox!" people at the dock starts yelling at me. I swim away casually as the fox closes in.

When it reaches me, it turns to my brother Morgan. He dives and I follow him under. We stay under for a long period of time. "You gotta get back up and get some air!" I tell him underwater. He doesn't want to.

08.00: Fishing
I'm with my friend Henrik and we're fishing in a lake. There's plants and seaweed everywhere but I manage not to get stuck. My fishing bobber goes down almost right away and I pull up a small brown fish and throw it back in. The next fish in line is cut in half. "Oh damn, this one's been bitten by a pike!" I say and hold it up for Henrik to see. "No it hasn't" he says. The fish starts talking. "I'm going to be a professional swimmer when I grow up" I throw the fish back.

I get another fish which has been ripped open and throw it back. After a while Henrik gets a big one, atleast big enough to eat. It's a seabass and I inspect it closely. It's got a sickly yellow colour instead of green, and it has red veins going all over. It doesn't even feel healthy. I tell him to keep it if he wants to. A big boat appears and I change my fishing spot. Up ahead by the shore I spot a few book shelves. I walk up to them. They're completely filled with food. A food storage! The book shelf furthest in is filled with different kinds of pancakes.

08.00: WBTB 10 minutes

09.30: Jumping around MILD
I'm at work. My coworkers Björn and Fredrik is there. We're talking when I suddenly get Lucid. "Hey, if you jump several times, you will get higher and higher each time" I tell them and start jumping. With each jump I get higher and higher and they're amused. Soon I'm a few meters up and I make a frontflip, but somehow I start sliding to the right, down the wall we were standing on. I scramble to my feet on the side of the wall, holding a metal rod. Hmm, I wonder why you can't just pierce solid rock like that, just because you know you can't in real life.

I stab the wall and hit a hole in it. Oh well, this will have to do. I make a one armed pull up and walk up to Björn again. "Hey, do you have the working diary?" I ask him. He checks his pockets. "No I don't, sorry." "Yeah you do, look, I can see it in your pocket there" I say and point at his leg, a diary is clearly in there. He picks it out and hands it to me, it's all black. Passive control is cool.

09.30: Fragments
*I'm with a couple of people in the middle of the woods. I've got two buckets of soil and I pour it out on some plants we planted there earlier. I'm doing some kind of trial and there's another guy with us who has just recently passed it. He's got a bandage on his arm, covering up a wound which indicates he made it. Suddenly we can all hear a loud noise. It sounds like gunfire or an airplane. "Yeah, there it is" our leader says. We stalk down the path and try not to make too much sound. A big wall made out of mud appears infront of us. It's got a big face carved in it. I hold out my hand and try to make it go away. The other guy uses his Earth powers to do so. "Does everyone have an affinity towards Earth?" I ask the leader. He nods.

*I'm in a big lake with several others. We're lined up on surfing boards and plastic floating matresses. Under us are different water animals, stingrays, a big whale in the middle and big fish. I hold on to a stingray under me and we're all going really fast over the water. Once we stop I lie down ontop of my matress and relax, I can't breathe properly because of the water.

09.30: Wake up

Amount of sleep: 10 hours

Supplements: 200 mg B6

That's it! I also tried to WILD or DEILD in between the dreams, but I only got some weird SP sensations including people singing, got a bit too excited and couldn't do it so I just fell back asleep. I need to experiment more with that, it's so awesome.

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

Getting back into lucid dreaming as of last night. some dreams I had


1. I was thrust into driving for some reason. I don't have a permit in real life, so I was terrified. My driving was terrible, and I was all over the road. I hit several cars and buildings and such, but like a video game, it seemed mostly cosmetic damage. Then I picked up my friend to drive him somewhere (it's funny because we do the opposite a lot). He was making fun of me for being a bad driver. then it started raining, and I was flying all over the road. He bragged about knowing how to hydroplane (another conversation we'd had). We somehow made it home safe.
I dunno. maybe I'm stressed about taking my driving tests.

2. I'm with some sort of group of people. My teacher and some friends are there. I talk to the teacher and exchange some nonsensical words before she gives me some consent to leave. I open a gate and fade to black for a few seconds, leading into....


3. I'm in a room now, with my little brothers. I have the knowledge that this is my grandmother's house. I feel like she's alive, but there's some foreshadowing to her death, adding a level of creepiness. I see notes and letters that have been written from years ago. I tell my brothers not to touch anything. I look around the house, and then hear a door creak. i look over and see them opening a big cabinet with clear doors. They go to pick up a little figurine. I yell at my brother and take it back. Out of the corner of my eye, I see something edge around a corner. But it stops, so I can only see the edge of the object. Outraged at his incosiderance, I start attacking my brother, hitting him and yelling at him. By the time I finally stop, I see the object has come fully around the corner. It is a rocking chair. I feel that it is somehow upset by our violence, and is coming at us with full intent to harm us. It moves in hopping motions. I can see it through a door with a clear window in it. I'm filled with a sudden dread that it has blocked out the only escape and is coming with us. I feel it has full potential to harm us.

4. Before I went to bed, I left myself a note saying "I will have a lucid dream tonight". I wake up in the dream, standing in my hallway, looking at my mom's chihuahua. I ask her if she wants to go out, she runs away, and suddenly I'm hit with the realization that I'm dreaming. There is something about the atmosphere that tips me off. My dreams are dark, dimly lit, and grimy. Very depressing when indoors. Anyways, I know I'm dreaming, so I take a second to stabilize. I look at objects, feel them with my arms, focus until they sharpen in my vision. I go outside, and find it cloudy, but filled with a luminosity. It's suddenly raining and windy, but the whole thing is filled with a certain brilliance. there's a power and sharpness to it that makes me feel awesome. I run and feel it, and it feels chilly, but only as much as I please. I feel as much rain and wind as I need to to get the effect, but am never uncomfortable, only thrilled. I decide I want to go up and join the storm in the sky. I run and jump, to no avail. I try jumping and flapping my arms, as well as holding my breath to inflate. I don't have the willpower to accomplish any of it. So, instead, I tell myself that behind a bush, I will find a jetpack. I look behind the bush and find it laying there. As I'm strapping it on, however, a man comes over to me. He informs me he is the head of some dream committee or something. he then tells me they don't like it when people mess around in their dream world, and that I should hand the jetpack over to him. I continue to try to strap it on and he threatens me, and tells me he'll give me one last chance to hand it over. not wanting to spend the rest of the dream fighting, I decide to give it to him and find some other way to fly. Instead, I wake up.

I dreamt that L and I were actors in a remake of Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe. The same director decided to make the movie again with the same script but with actual twenty-something nerds. Obviously L was Romana and I was Scott. We met up with some other people after the initial shooting... something about a car and a hill?

My father and I were trying to go to some sort of show.. but apparently we tried twice. He bought tickets for it online, and we went to the venue. The entrance to the venue was the mens change room in a department store, such as Best & Less. The process of handing in our tickets was a lot like a checkout at a supermarket, and I remember noticing a flame at the register. It confused me at first, as it seemed uncontrolled, but then as I analysed it I realised it must have been a gas lighter built into the desk that was always on to burn used tickets. It made sense at the time..

The dream skips, and I don't remember ever going into the show, but everyone is now talking about a different show they all want to go to, and I'm not interested in it, and I quickly forgot what it was called, and I was quite confused. Dad again bought more tickets, perhaps we didn't get in the first time? I'm not sure, but we decided to go again. When we walked through the store we passed through the children's toys section, and he commented on the old, broken stock. I looked down, and saw a box for a small child's chair, and the box was extremely worn. I remember actually thinking about how detailed it was, and how real it was. I think this was a brief moment of questioning my surroundings, but it didn't expand into me getting lucid. At least my awareness is transferring over into my dreams.

We were about to go through to the entrance to the venue, but dad spotted a leather jacket on a shelf. Somewhere earlier in the dream, he had wanted a leather jacket. This one was extremely small, and looked like it would be tight even on a small child. It had a large diamond pattern on it, and looked like it was made of thick rubber. I asked if he was still trying to find a waterproof leather jacket (the image of a wetsuit and a giant seaworld whale tank showed up in my head). He said yes, but commented on how extremely slim the small was. I checked the tag and saw that it was indeed an S.

We went through to go to the ticket register again, but there was a massive line up. A few of my school friends were here again, I note remembering Lachlan and Isaac. Isaac said the cue was for something called "Dual Falls" and instantly I remembered that it was the dual waterslide from the local fair.

So I was in my classroom. There will be an exam but there's technical difficulty (which I don't remember what) so we have to wait. During the wait I ask a girl student in front of me about her makeup. She didn't wear her makeup smoothly. So I gave her an example. And also I realized that there are several celebrity in there, including a local singer of my country and the actor who played Salieri in Amadeus. And then a teacher came and ask the class why the exam didn't began. and I woke up

Okay, this one might be a little confusing.

The dream started in the wasteland from fallout 3. I was walking around, when i came upon a small cave. I walked in, and after a short load time i found myself talking to a strange man who looked like a doctor. He told me something about monsters living deep in the cave, and that he would pay me some caps if i killed them. I accepted, and went further in. After a short while of walking, i entered a final fantasy vii style battle sequence with a big dragon. I killed it, and kept going. Somehow, i ended up in an area that looked like a ruined, old doctor's office. Inside the room was my brother, wearing a white trench coat. He seemed to be troubled with some xrays of what i thought was a patient. I entered another ffvii battle sequence with sephiroth, randomly. After i won, my brother started telling me about how the doctor i had met at the beginning of the cave was doing some horrible experiments on people back here. He showed me the xrays, and they were of terrifying creatures that looked like ripped up people with aspects of animals. As i looked at them, a deadspace looking creature burst through the door. His face looked like a bird with no eyes. My brother lept up and tackled the beast, and i whipped out my knife. However, my brother commanded me not to kill it. Instead, he snapped off the beasts legs and threw them aside. After that, a second beast ran into the room and grabbed me while i wasnt looking, and i woke up.

Or at least i thought i woke up. Instead, i was in the bed i had as a kid, and my mother opened the door to wake me up. She told me that dad wanted to play a game of chess with me. I told her a website url and rolled over. I grabbed the gameboy color sitting next to my bed, and started to play pokemon red version (one of my favourite games as a kid.) I was talking to professeur oak when i woke up, for real this time.

I don't remember much but I remember being held down by this random guy with a scruffy chin. Was basically raped.
So, I ran down the street and found one of my "dream friends"(I don't really know him) Charlie running in the opposite direction toward me. We both sprinted down the street into my neighbors, the Hylands, house.
Moments later as we were trying to explain the situation, the man that kidnapped me came to the door with a couple of his friends asking if they saw us and the Hylands pretty much just gave us away. They stormed in, I grabbed a knife and started stabbing this guy like 8-12 times. (I know. I'm fucked up.).
I either went home or was randomly there out of nowhere. My brother and his friend were there playing with my hamster lol. This is where the dream ended.

I was Robin Williams and I was going to sneak into the graduation of all the kids from the Dead Poet Society. I was wearing the strange red robe he was wearing in the movie, it was great. I was concerned that they had become to much a part of the system after I left. But now that they were going to have a diploma I was going to break them out.

I ordered new robes online that said something along the lines of "Dead Poet Society-Seize the Day" but I forget what it said word for word. Instantly after placing the order they were there (I wish!) and I was going to have them change into the robes and a rebel statement!

I grab the box of robes and head to the ceremony. I head up to where they are and open the box to find something I did not expect. It was tan t-shirts with the confederate flag on them that had different writing (I knew what it was in the dream but don't remember). I was confused and left the box behind.

There was a bit of a dream skip but some how I found them all and we were leaving the ceremony giggling and running. They were happy to see me again and we all felt such a feeling of freedom.

We ended up running into another graduation that was going on for the "longhorns". They were all wearing longhorn hats (almost like viking helmets but longer and curvier). I assume their colors were red and yellow because they had tons of stuff of those colors. Some were shirtless and painted yellow or red, there were large clothes and everyone that was wearing clothes had a design from their school, and they were all cheering like it was a football game. (There was one random guy in the back that was painted blue, but I think it is just because I watch "Easy A" recently.) We ran through cheering and they cheered back.

Further through the same venue there was a guy that had an outfit completely made out of full cooked chickens covered in barbecue sauce. (must have been hungry ) We ran past them and I woke up.

Okay, I did pretty good today. The first time I woke up I remember I was in my in-laws basement. I was talking to my brother-in-law about ping pong balls or something. (we had been playing beer pong last night over there, so... yea.)

Then I went back to sleep and had a few dreams that I cannot seem to put in order at the moment. I remember I had traveled somewhere, Florida, I think. I was thinking of picking someone up that was there, well, that I thought was there. Then I told someone I was heading to Canada to hang out with someone. I think I was talking about the member and a very good friend, Seroquel. =)

Anyway, I had also been with a bunch of people in this house that seemed to be in a woodsy-type area. I remember my husband standing across from me and I was wearing my swimsuit and dancing. One of his friends had come up beside me and had his hands on my hips and I kept dancing. It pissed T off pretty bad and he called me a name and told me to leave. I got upset and tried to hold him. I didn't mean anything by it, I was just dancing, those were my thoughts. He didn't want me, and I threw a few punches at him for some reason. Then I went to leave.

Well, my brain doesn't seem to remember more, it might flash at me later, because I know I probably do know more. OH well, I'm happy to have remembered something.

P.S.
Just edititing because I remembered another part. Yay.

I was driving in my car with my son in the backseat. We were heading to Island Park. I got there and was excited to go play with him. I was getting ready to get him out of the car when I realized the weather had went from nice and sunny to a bit cloudy and chilly, like it was going to storm. I was disappointed and got back into the car to leave.

Sigh. I don’t remember any dreams. All i remember is that I was playing Annie in League of Legends. I think most of my dreams were in League of Legends lol.

After WBTB:

aw yeah baby… finally became lucid, and this time for a pretty good length. first, let’s talk about my unlucid dream.

my unlucid dream was like, me driving this giant giant giant giant ship, through this narrow narrow hallway. it was almost like a game.. one of those games where your trying not to hit anything while steering something. I managed to hit the boxes like 10 times lol and had to start over. Then it switched to like.. me at a party. and I was married lol. And my wife was complaining about a fake dress, and I told her she looked beautiful and that we just couldnt afford to buy her a brand new one. So she said okay, and then she’s like go pick flowers for our kids. lol wut. So I did. Then comes the infamous chain FA’s…

First FA. I knew I was dreaming, because my closet was open and I always close it before I go to sleep. but as soon as I found out I awoke.. into another FA.
Went unlucid, got up, and I was like wait… how do I know I’m not dreaming. I look at the clock and it’s some weird ass time. Like 41:.039. In my mind it looked like 04:39 pm. So I was like, hell no, it is not 4:39.. did I really sleep that long? I look away, and back at the clock, and it’s still the same time. But then, the clock and everything around the clock started moving in a wave like circle. I did not find any of this weird at all.. sigh. I was still having a hard time determining if I was dreaming or not.. but by the time I tried to do another reality check, I woke up, for reals this time. I was frusturated at myself for not going lucid from that FA and was wondering whether I should keep sleeping and trying or get up. I ended up sleeping, and had another FA. This time, I made sure I became lucid. I didn’t even check the clock or look at my fingers or plug my nose. I think I just knew, because it was dark in my room and I knew that it was sunny outside. So I was like OK, I’m dreaming. I open my door expecting to go somewhere magical, nope. Although my bathroom was on the opposite side of the wall this time… clear indicator that I am dreaming. So I was like, alright, for sure I know I’m dreaming now.. let’s not lose this. I go downstairs and I almost fall because my hand goes right through the wall when I try to use it as support lol. Keep in mind I’m only in my boxers for some reason. I get to the game room, and it’s pretty foggy/hazy dreamlike. The dream starts going black, but I don’t really panic. I try rubbing my hands and spinning… but it doesn’t work. It seems like I was still in the dream, but I was like blind. I could feel myself rubbing my hands still. Eventually the dream came back, and I shouted “INCREASE CLARITY! INCREASE LUCIDITY!” “MAKE IT BRIGHTER IN HERE!” and eventually, the sun came up in a matter of 2 seconds lol and the dream became VERY vivid. I say okay, let’s go outside. I go to open the door outside, when I see Ian and some other guy about to open it too (wall hacks ftw). I was like oh shit.. im naked, and I lock it. But then I’m like wait, I’m dreaming.. they don’t care. So they open it, and they look at me noticing I’m naked, and shrug it off. They go inside and I go outside. WOW, everything was so real and so vivid.. I touched the walls (which were a different texture than what I really have), everything felt so real. My dream goal was simply to have a long and vivid lucid dream, so that’s what I simply did. I stared at the wall, looking at every detail and texture, trying to make the dream more vivid and vivid.

After satisfying myself, this is where I start to become unlucid and kind of let the dream take over me. I think of MH (a person), and I expect her to be in my backyard. I’ve never met her in person yet, so.. lol. So as I head toward my backyard, of course, she’s there. But there’s this other random guy. He eventually disappears, and MH is like, “whoah? where’d he go” and I was like “Oh, he left.” I believe I forget anything about my lucidity here.. and I go unlucid unfortunately. :/ I think it was the loneliness inside of me lol. Even though she didn’t look anything like MH, she was supposedly my girlfriend. We were hugging and kissing, and we layed down on the grass in my backyard, and it became night. The moon was huge, and we were cuddling under the night sky, talking about random things to each other. I remember the cheesy lines we said, but eh. The dream fades from there. I go into another FA.

I know I’m dreaming, I forgot how though. I do the same exact thing. I open my door, I see that my bathroom is on the opposite wall again lol. I go downstairs.. but the dream fades. I wake into another FA. SIGH these are so annoying. I’m not going to explain this FA, basically I knew I was dreaming again, but I wanted to wake up. I eventually wake up, and the time is 11:30 am, so I know I’m not dreaming anymore. All in all, good day for dreaming

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Good morning! Was out drinking heavily last night, but I slept for so long that the REM rebound must have kicked in. Had a couple of fun dreams including some lucidity.

02.00: Sleep

13.00: The beach
I'm on a beach with Monica and my friend Felix. Felix is out in the water. I see a huge wave coming in. "Felix watch out!" I yell and the second later it crashes down on him. The water washes over me but I don't care, although the people sunbathing might. I look behind me and see a mother and daughter lying there. They squeal when the water hits them.

I've got a surfing board and I decide to try it out. It's white and pretty small, like a plastic board or something. It's awesome! I ride the waves and I'm pretty good considering I've never done it before. I start thinking of dream control and know I can control stuff. I make the thing spin around and around while going towards the beach. Monica is gone I realise when I head for our blankets. Although there's a piece of reed sticking up from the water. I grab it and Monica comes up with it. "Damn it!" she says, her ninja attempt thwarted.

13.00: Fragments
*I'm with my friend Henrik. We're going to a natural water spring, apparently they've made a big fountain there. I can see water running down a mountain wall and Henrik reaches out with a bottle. The water hits a pine further up and I don't feel like drinking pine-water. I spot a huge tanker truck by the well. It's filling up with water.

*I'm playing World of Warcraft. I walk around in some neutral city and head up a mountainside. There are no people around strangely. I walk up to a shop and try to find some item I want. It's only got high level gear, and a fancy tune starts playing as soon as I talk to the NPC. I leave him and head up the mountain side. I stop at the top and look at the view, it's pretty cool.

*I wake up in my bed. All I can see is Monica's panties in my face, she's frisky this morning I think and kiss her. I look up and around the room. Our kitchen door is dark brown. That's not right. I count my fingers and realise I'm dreaming. The dream becomes unstable right away.

I end up in darkness and get some SP sensations. I visualize sand in my hands and start spinning.

Suddenly I'm standing on the beach again from the previous dream.

I lose the dream again and I relax as much as possible again.

I wake up in my bed, I've got seven or eight fingers.

I wake up for real.

13.00: Wake up

Amount of sleep: 11 hours

Supplements: Lots of alcohol

That's it! If nothing happens tonight, I'm doing a proper WBTB tomorrow morning, wish me luck!

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

im sitting in my living room watching TV, there is no one else around me, i look to my right to see what appears to be a black hole on the wall next to me, i raise my hand up and put it near the spot and saw my fingers get pulled in and warped, it begins to gain strength and my hand is pulled in, no matter how hard i try i cant pull them out, eventually my entire arm is inside it, i look around but no one is there to help me. after a few minutes of trying, i finally manage to get my arm out, i then walk upstairs and, oddly, begin to write a dream journal of this exact dream when i wake up in my bed.

This is one of my usual brief encounters with the lucid world.
All that happened was I walked into my bedroom and immediately said out loud "I am dreaming!" I became happy and walked to the kitchen where I spun around a few times which was a bad choice because my dream body became groggy and I pretty much faded into a regular dream right after.

Dream #1:

M, J, and K are in a soccer league. M + J's team is playing K's team. K's team is winning. M is goalie, J is something like a defender. I am watching from the sideline, but on M + J's side of the field. I am on M's right. The goals are close to the corners of the field, and are tilted at an angle. M + J's goal is on the opposite side of the field from me. The field is divided into zones, and you can only hit the ball in one certain way, depending on what zone you're in. M is not doing a good job of staying near the goal, and the other team keeps scoring.

Later, I am goalie in a different game. A couple of balls get past me, and I look at the back of the goal. There's a little poster, the size of a regular piece of printer paper, which is white with a picture in the center of the top half, and a quote on the bottom half. The picture is of a dejected-looking robot, who also looks kind of wimpy. The quote is something like, "We're hanging on - that's all we can say." It's supposed to look like someone on our team said that, but I suspected that the other team just made it up.


Dream #2:

Mr. K asks me what my favorite piece of music is. I am taken aback. I tell him I have three candidates. I then adjust this number to four. I start thinking, trying to narrow it down. I throw out the piece that I thought of that made me change the number of candidates to four, which was something by Beethoven but I don't know what. Then, I say, "My third favorite piece is Beethoven's string quartet no. 14." I feel kind of guilty saying that it's my third favorite, because it used to be my #1 favorite. Next, I say that my second favorite piece is Messiaen's Twenty Gazes on the Infant Jesus. I notice that he is typing on a computer (which I don't think was there before). The screen is pointed away from me, but I can see the keyboard, so I watch him type and figure out that he's typing the name of the Messiaen piece, but in French. He has to backspace a lot, but he finally gets it. I tell him, "If you want to buy it, you should get Peter Hill, Roger Muraro, or Nigel Simeone." I get confused, because Nigel Simeone never recorded it. So I say, "You know what? Just get the Muraro. And watch out for Yvonne Loriod's recording. She was Messiaen's wife, so she knows the piece better than anyone, and it's a good recording, but the sound is bad." I was going to tell him that my #1 favorite piece was Messiaen's opera St. Francis, but the dream ended.



Dream #3:

J is at Brandon's birthday party. He is eating pizza. B+T show up. I want pizza, but J eats it all. First, he eats what's left of the sausage pizza, which I wasn't interested in, then, I see pepperoni and reach for a slice, but he grabs both the remaining slices before I can get one. Then, I see a canadian bacon pizza and decide that I will have to settle for that, but he scoops up all the slices. It was a thin crust pizza, cut into tiny little squares, so he just grabs the five or six squares that were left. I ended up not getting any pizza.



Dream #4:

Something about a lava lamp. It had red, blue, yellow, green, purple, and orange little lava things, but the purple and orange dominated.



Dream #5:

My sister and I are at an outdoor celebration. Someone is giving a speech, and I am supposed to launch a rocket at the end of it. The rocket launcher is out on the lawn, and the button is on a wooden table with a lot of wires on it. The button is red, coming out of a green little stand. I accidentally knock the button over, and it rolls off the table. The cord doesn't allow it to fall all the way to the ground. I pick it up by the cord and start to put it back on the table, but the cord brushes against another wire on the table, and this triggers the rocket. I look over at the rocket. There is a red explosion, which doesn't seem to have any purpose, then a white explosion which launches the rocket. It only goes up about 15-20 feet, then falls back down. Since it was in the middle of the speech, people are confused and start clapping a little.

Later, my sister and I are looking for a little v-shaped nail. She finds it in a sandbox, but it is too small for her to pick up. I bend down and grab it, but as soon as I move it, ants start pouring out of where it used to be. I tell my sister to move, but she is laughing and looking at something. I keep telling her to move or the ants will get her, and finally she moves, but she doesn't seem too concerned about the ants. I realize that the whole time I was trying to get her to move, I was standing right in the middle of all the ants, so I retreat and start brushing them off. However, every time I brush them off, more start crawling up my legs! I get into this pattern of taking several steps away from the anthill, then brushing my legs off, but I never can get far enough away that they stop coming.