non-lucid

-The first dream i had last night, I was traveling around with Scooby-Doo and Mystery Inc., and I actually became a member. We did a good couple of things together, although one sticks ou in my head. We were staying at an old western saloon somewhere in the desert. Shaggy was in his room, and decided for some reason to put on kabuki-style make-up. I walked in on him and freaked out, scaring him in the process. Then he tried to explain it to me. Also, apparently velma had a french speaking clone

-Next, one of my friends, Seth, was captured by an anti-drug organization (he does marijuana), and I assembled a crew of my best friends to go and rescue him in a sort of a spy flick style secret mission. We ended up going through most of the building, though the only room I remember is this narrow hallway that led to sort of a "forbidden room" in the building, you got to sit down on a smal roller coaster, although you could feel gravity slip away from you when you came out. We never did find Seth though...

-In this dream my family was keeping this large turtle named Tek, who was apparently the largest turtle in the world, along with his son, an unamed turtle. We were keeping him in a air-punched plastic container, although one day we noticed that Tek was starting to die, probably collapsing due to his massive size. His son ws also in danger. We tried desperatly to save Tek, although at some point we gave up. I started complaining "This will forever be remembered as the house Tek the Turtle died in!"

Awake Non-Lucid Semi-Lucid

I'm walking down a hill. Everything's very vivid. It's sunny, which is hot on my skin, and I need to narrow my eyes to see properly. I continue trudging down the hill until I get to the bottom.

I stop. There's a small villiage in front of me. The floor of it is made of small white stones, and there's a lake beyond. There are small boats between the houses. Is this Carvahall?

I become semi-lucid as I think of Eragon and how it's a book. This must be a dream. I forget to RC and stabillise, but I know for certain I'm dreaming.

I slowly walk forwards. Carvahall isn't like this in the book. It's a northern villiage where it's cold. There's no lake beyond, but a river, and they're farmers, not fishermen.

Oh well... It's still nice to be here. I notice that one of the boats has turned into a small plane. I turn it back to a boat because I want to feel like I'm in ancient times.

I walk up to a passerby and ask the name of the lake. He looks puzzled. "Why, it's Leona Lake of course!" Then picks up a net and walks away. I smile, because Leona Lake is next to Dras-Leona, not Carvahall. It appears my mind has put all of Alagaesia in one place. Looking beyond the lake I can see the Beor Mountains and a forest that is most likely Du Weldenvarden. Where the dwarves and the elves live.

Hey, maybe Eragon is here! I walk through the villiage until I think I find him. He's heading toward Leona Lake, a frown on his face. He's carrying both a shortsword and a longsword. I sneak up behind him, flip around him and grab both the swords. Then I throw the longsword back at him, hoping for a duel.

He doesn't look impressed. Apparently he's going across Leona Lake to find a captured friend. It's dark now, and there are loads of stars. I offer to join him. He looks suspicious for a moment, but then agrees.

I lose my lucidity whilest staring in amazement at the stars. He points to one of the larger ones and says that his friend is in that direction, so we begin to follow the star. Instead of travelling around the lake, we just get in and swim right through. I can't help thinking that this is so bizarre.

[Dreamskip] We're across the lake and walking up one of the hills that lead to the forest. We find some headstones, but this doesn't feel right. We glance at eachother, and pull out our swords. A moment later, dwarves jump out screaming.

April 22, 2011

Notes
After forgetting my dream last night, had 3 dreams tonight, one lucid. Went to bed at around 1am, woke up several times but eventually at 1:30pm. Great dreams tonight, some of the typical weird stuff that happens in my dreams. Attempted control at the end of the lucid dream, almost succeeded, blocked by some creepy projection of myself. Very memorable at the end of the lucid, very unsettling. Reoccurring people, which I've never noticed until I started this journal, and of course my dog Riley shows up again. Motifs of weird adventures, futuristic settings, otherworldly experiences, school, etc.

Entry 009
My first dream begins in a house. It's my house, only my room specifically seems to be bigger, with a really strange wall shape. The room sits kind of like a townhouse, on the second floor of some other apartment and only loosely attached to the main house. The atmosphere inside is just like my room-- books scattered everywhere, clashing color schemes and fabrics, random nic nacs on every surface. I'm sitting by the window, looking out at the street below. There's an eclectic shop across the road, filled with antiques and dried squid hanging from the ceiling (what?). I see a friend walk into view, maybe Sejal, maybe not, I can't really remember. She waves, I wave back then open up the window and jump down to the street. We go inside the shop for awhile. There's an old woman who looks like some kind of cartoon gypsy or one of those old fortuneteller machines sitting behind the counter, watching us like a hawk from behind her round spectacles. We leave and I go back up to my room, only to find everything either gone or covered in a white sheet. My mom comes in and said she did some "cleaning" and that she's packed up all my stuff for me to go to college.

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Another dream in similar setting to the first, only without the previous one ever happening and with the place that was my room now being a classroom. We live in some futuristic world, with tall white skyscrapers and even a couple flying cars here and there. Despite all the modernity, there are still places like the antique store with dried squid cramped along the narrow paths between buildings.

I'm walking, then I stop at a towering building meant for residential apartments. On the first floor I can see Burell, but I'm not here to see him. I am at a different floor in the building. I ring the bell and Donahue answers. There are already some students waiting inside. I get the impression that we always have school in these residential apartments for some reason, even though the classrooms are more like personal houses of the teachers than classrooms at all. We have a lesson, but I'm hardly paying attentions. My gaze keeps shifting to the wide, floor to ceiling windows which give a panorama view of the world outside, flying cars and all.

Eventually, one lesson ends and the majority of the students file out of the apartment. Only myself and a couple others are leftover, and we're all given instruments. We practice for awhile, then Donahue says something about us "being ready". Apparently there's some kind of festival around a bonfire today (something that seems strangely uncivilized for a nation with flying cars, but whatever...) and they need musicians so that the dancers have a beat. I leave, stop in at the antique-squid place again.

When I come out of the shop I look up at the sky and see it's getting dark. I have to hurry to the festival. Someone or something is with me all this time, but I'm not sure what it is. When I (we?) get to the festival, all of the other musicians have already taken their places in a horseshoe of black chairs set upon a hill. I kind of lurk in the back of these chairs, but never sit down or play. I have an ominous feeling, like something sinister is happening. I see Donahue front and center playing a tuba or something like that. The people around the fire dance.

As I'm walking back to the building, Burell sees me and intercepts. As we walk back together, I tell him I have some strange feeling about Donahue and the festival. Burell then tells me that I was right to, then reveals some dark past of Donahue's; why we have classes in his apartment, why there's a festival, why we were made to play music in the festival. When we get to the building, Burell slips in to his apartment on the first floor. As I'm standing there, staring at the place where Burell was standing only a second ago, Donahue sneaks up behind me and taps me on the shoulder. Is something wrong? He smiles.

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Final dream. I'm lucid. I'm in some kind of futuristic world, an underground society connected by dim, floating lights and wide tunnels of whooshing air used to travel. I've just moved in to a new, comfortable home and I'm inviting people over for a party. We're playing video games, watching TV and talking; just generally having fun. Eventually, however, some neighbors come over to complain. They're already holding a grudge against me for not inviting them, and so they want to interfere in our fun. I invite them in and I get some impression that I shouldn't have. Riley is here, and she's snapping at their heels. The floor is made of large multicolored tiles that light up underneath your feet and I can see myself backing away, lighting yellows, purples, reds, as they move forward.

The dream gets fuzzy here, I think I may have temporarily lost lucidity, but I get the impression they severely beat me up and that one of them rapes me.

When the dream comes back to me, they've switched my new home in to some kind of place of indoctrination. A bunch of brainwashed kids are sitting around me, my previous party guests, all wearing bathing suits, raincoats, tutus and other bizarre clothing. Occasionally a new person tries to enter the room and join us. If we find them attractive we let them in, and if we don't we beat them to a bloody pulp. One fat little girl in a purple bathing suit tries to come in. The room tenses. There's no way we can let her in.

Just as we're about to strike, I stand up and shout "NO". I'm wearing some kind of cosplay or costume with a tutu and a crown. It's very scanty. I run to the front of the room and tell the girl to quickly leave, and she won't get hurt. This action seems to somehow snap the rest of the people in there room out of their daze. I notice the original neighbors look furious. I also notice they don't seem to have human forms any longer, but are more like purple shadows with glowing eyes. I run out of the house with them chasing me. Somehow I am faster or more quick-witted than they are, so I can easily escape. The problem is how determined they are. They never stop chasing me for even a second.

I come to one of the air tunnels people use to travel in this world. There is a slight breeze coming down the tunnel, and floating in the air are things that look like orange lifesavers used on boats. I jump into the tunnel and the wind catches me before I drop to the bottom. I'm still slowly heading to the bottom, however, and I realize that you have to grab the lifesavers for the tunnel to effectively work. I somehow control the wind with my mind to blow harder, and then I'm swinging from lifesaver to lifesaver like a monkey, the wind at my back driving me down the tunnel.

I do this for a long time, sometimes running through crowds of people at entrance to a movie theater, one time skating down an underground waterfall. I have to keep running or else I will be caught. Eventually I'm just walking through a crowd, aware that my enemies are far behind me. My lucid mind starts to wander. I remember that I need to try and control my dreams sometimes, and then I remember that one of the tasks of the month was to gather some flowers, and so I decide to create a field of red flowers. I see a door up ahead and open it. As I do a field starts to spawn ahead of me, an endless field of roses and poppies and other, unidentifiable flowers. I look back and the door is gone. I realize that there is some kind of presence with me. I look to my right and see a carbon copy of myself, grinning malevolently. "You can't control this." She says. I fall flat on my face in the field, and I can feel myself losing the dream. I try to feel the texture of the ground, like I've heard can stabilize the dream, and for a second it works. I can feel myself getting a grip back on the field. Within seconds, however, my twins face is between me and the ground and she's laughing at me. "It's already gone," she says. She's right. My eyes are flickering open, and I'm getting glimpses of my bedroom and the field alternately for a couple seconds. I try for several minutes to re-enter, but all I can see is my own face glaring at me, laughing.

I wake up.

WAKING LIFE DREAMING LUCID
BOLD IF IT FEELS PARTICULARLY SIGNIFICANT

This is a very rough draft
From the night before the night before last


Pairing Off

Going up a long curved ramp/hallway, similar to the casino on Catalina Island
At the top, people are evaluating each other as potential dates, taking turns
each successive pair going inside the large room where the dance is being held
I am the last girl to walk into the room, but I see the guy that is left through the door and I don’t like his body language or the way he’d talked to the girl. I don’t go into the room and instead turn around and walk back down.

The ramping hallway is lined with settings of a wine glass, a martini glass, and other items, repeating over and over. I look for a martini or glass of wine that hasn’t been drunk from yet as I walk down and down.
I unscrew the base of a martini glass and drink from the small, hidden bowl portion of the stem.
a man is walking up
we both think it is funny that I’m drinking from the bottom
I turn it right side up and drink from the “correct” top bowl (It didn’t spill when I’d first turned it upside down). it tastes delicious and I’m surprised. Best martini I’ve had.
I want to impress him and it looks like I’ve succeeded
we walk up together
I think I tell him about a friend (girl/potential date) he should meet

two of my girlfriends are up there and he and one of them hit it off
I’m kind of jealous but also not, I don’t think it is right for me to be with him for some reason (not the right time?)
we dance with yellow (Big Bird color) feathers arranged and held in a shield shape. shields of feathers, lol.
we shake them and are performing or practicing for people (a coach?)
6 groups of dancers. the guy, me, two girls, (and two other people?) make up our dance group

the teacher shows us how to do a yoga pose that is specific to the type of dancing we’re learning
stand on one leg, hold your right foot and press the big and pinky toes’ pads together, as well as the 2nd and 4th toes’ pads together. A might uncomfortable in the dream. I thought it was funny. While in the yoga pose, I struck a playful disco pose with my arms. It actually felt like the silly pose helped the energy align and flow. (makes me think of my PTSD and anxiety. Absurdity can be an antidote.)
I looked at the others and they were holding their foot behind them instead of in front of them so I went to switch, though it didn’t seem right to me to have my foot behind. The dream ended before I finished "correcting" my pose.

Nothing

Arrive at baseball game on bus. Green hills behind dugouts and trees in background. We have 2 girls on our team and so does the other team. Coach tells me I am going to pitch so I warm up with the catcher. I step on the mound to begin the game.

In spanish class, but in the Health classroom. Spanish teacher tries to comb my hair (my hair is long, but in reality I have short hair). I tell her to go away and she goes and tries to comb AE's hair. Busses.

So this morning I fell back asleep, and had the coolest dream ever. It was really long, I dont know. Anyway there was like a race or something, and there were a bunch of people from m school briefly, a HUGE line of people, like 10 people x 100 rows or something. all walking down stairs. Anyway I'm not sure all that happened, it was very surreal though. There were references to a whole bunch of things:
-Star Trek
-Sonic
-Inception
-The Odyssey
-South Park

So what happened. At one point Data (from Star Trek) shaved his head, but left the hair on the side (like a priest) his head was really pointy. My cousin played the new Sonic game at some point. This TV show we were watching (it switched between us watching it, and us being in it) was like the Odyssey, at least this episode was. There were posters of Brad I believe, or posters that resembled this, as well as a sense of Adventure. By the end of the episode there was Towlie from South Park, and I was like 'oh yeah thats how it started...' (on the count of me seeing some of this episode before bed) Anyway there is one part I remember and it was crazy. So we reached the top of a mountain, and this girl said she was going on without us (to the Future, or past I believe), but if it was safe up ahead, she would come back for us. So she went to the top of the mountain, and the higher you got, the more blurry/bright everything got. the mountain became fuzzy, and dough pretty much, and to climb you had to grab into the mountain. once at the top everything became like a vortex, and she grabbed these weird lights that were hanging (the mountain was no all twisty shaped) once she grabbed one, she flew back (because the mountain was doughy, so, she grabbed it, and it started falling toward the ground, backwards) once she reached the bottom she was in the future or past, she wanted to see if her parents were there, and if the world hadnt been changed much. Well the world had been changed, it was now dark, and wall that was left were lights, emitting orangy light, and it was in an apocalyptic swamp. She turned and saw a tractor sinking into the swamp, and she turned somewhere else to see a train driving (halfway under water) toward her, the train emitted light as well, and was very smoky.

The night of 4/21/11-I was in some garden like place when some guys came in and started giving away free money.(however he was bargaining a bit for the easily obtainable money. It was the guy from GTA San Andreas, that guy named Sweet) That's when one of the guys said "it's OK I don't need any money", right at that moment aliens invaded the earth, landed right were we were and said " I'll take it then". At that point we were scared. I ran off to safety, the guy giving away free money and the other people, as far as I was concerned they were dead and didn't care, I just wanted to escape with my life. The aliens wore red, I don't remember much more than that about them. Since they were so short they had been easy to kill but there so many of them that it was useless trying to fight them off. Me, Stan from american dad and his friends were all hiding in my room. But the aliens found us. We fought them off in my room until I woke up, the weird thing is some of them were hiding and sleeping in my hacky sacks, you know those things you kick around and try to keep in the air when your bored. There were other parts of the dream I don't remember. But that's the best recall I've had in 5 days! WOOHOO, probably cause I'm keeping my dream journal right next to my bed now, it reassures me that I'll remember my dream.:D

Can't remember much but it had to do something with JO and KA.

I vaguely remember being with a very attractive girl from high school. Seeing as how I was always a pariah, I never even came close to standing a chance; but in this dream I felt there was some potential because I'm more romantically oriented than most of the immature types she usually dates. I don't remember too many details about the setting - maybe a gaming or model building store...

I was drawing four dresses, After I was done with them I showed it to S. I said that those wouldn't work. they all looked similar. All with straps, my favorite kind. After looking a bit bette i saw that one of them I drew just a dot and nothing else. So I looked at it and got an idea but i forgot.

Next thing i knew i was in an museum or something. I remember seeing exchange students walking around. I was looking around and suddenly it was as if everyone turned hostile at me and I just fled because I didn't want to get involved. However I wasn't afraid or something.

(proly won't stick with an online DJ, i like my notebooks)

I'm in my basement - it's been turned into a restaurant. My cats race up a fake tree in the corner. Then they turn into 2 people I know and start chasing each other around. They run up the tree again and then suddenly realize that they look ridiculous and are embarrassed.

I am driving down a road that I have been on in a dream before heading to my old college with Stefon, there is a cop driving in front of us, speeding. We decide to also speed to keep up with the cop, as we are driving down the road another cop pulls up and is driving next to us in the left lane, I look at his car and have a bad feeling so I take the next right turn, down a dirt road, to try and lose him.

As soon as I turn the cop that was next to us turns on his lights and speeds up down the road. The dirt road I turned down is also a road from another dream, but is not exactly the same like the one to college. I drive down the dirt road trying not to go more than 5-10 over to avoid a really bad ticket if I am caught. As I'm driving down the dirt road I see the cop car to the left coming down a road that connects to the dirt road I am on. I get to the end of the dirt road coming to an old corn field, I ask Stefon where I should go next. After the corn feild is trees and to the right is a path in the woods.

Once I get into the woods I remember where I am and take the path in the woods left. Somehow I end up on foot running through the woods. As I am running I remember that if I had gone right the path would have led me to docks and boats to lose the cop at the lake. As I'm running through the woods Stefon tells me to take a ramp to lose the cop, I get to the ramp to jump over the water but as I am running up it I stop realizing I am too slow to make the jump. I get back on the path and keep on running. I come to another ramp and flip it over for cover as I run.

I reach the end of the path and find my grandma or aunt, she tells me to hide in a corn field next to her house. I only have time to hide at the edge of the field before a female cop that the one chasing me sent shows up looking for me and talks to my grandma.

Wake up.

had probably 3 dreams, but forgot all of them until fixing dinner last night and my bad toe started to hurt

Dream:
I am with my dad and brother outside, I do not remember what we were doing but there was a lot of junk on the ground. I'm bored and standing around so i randomly kick something. Whatever it was was infested with bugs and they got onto my foot when I kicked. My toe feels weird and I look down at it to see small beetles were crawling in an out from under my big toe's toenail. I start screaming for help, begging my dad to come help me. I hold my leg up for my dad to see while he is walking over. I see the bugs continuing to come in and out of my toe, and can feel then as they do so, a disgusting and painful feeling of them crawling and the pressure of them under my toenail.
Wake up.