non-lucid

The following dream I had on 5-hours sleep. This would have been my 3rd REM cycle which means this dream may have been over 45-minutes long. It was extremely, extremely, realistic. To the point that when I woke up I felt I had not been home in days or weeks. The visual quality, in complete honesty, was more vivid than real life. I say this because in real life our eyelashes block our view and veins in our eyes can make some lighting conditions slightly blurry. I have 10/20 vision so this was not a product of wearing or needing glasses or contacts.

I woke up. My long time friend Lynn was massaging my right hand as I did. She didn't look completely sober and she seemed very bleary and passionate about giving me this hand massage. I felt uneasy, because I have a jealous girlfriend and I was wondering how I let myself alone with Lynn in a room.

Sitting in the room on a chair a few feet from my bed was an earthy/hippy looking guy in his mid 20's with rusty blond hair and beard. Lynn was saying something to me about working my energies or something. She eventually got off my bed and headed out the door. The guy sitting there laughingly told me about how Lynn had pulled a similar stunt and acted really weird to someone else recently in attempt to practice her Chinese medicine.

I did not recognize the room I was in. It was beige, metallic, somewhat cramped and had no windows. I felt confused as to where I was or how I got there. The guy started making small talk (which I don't recall and) I wasn't paying much attention, as I had a sinking feeling I was some how terribly lost.

The guy suggested I go into the living room with him, so I got out of bed and followed him. The living room looked shabby and unimpressive. We sat down on a brownish colored sofa and continued to talk as I desperately tried to orient myself. Soon afterward, one by one, all my "roommates" came home. There must have been at least ten other people I appeared to be living with. I didn't know who any of them were, but they all seemed very familiar with me.

They all sat around talking to each other about various things. (This part of the dream could have easily lasted 10-minutes by itself.) I sort of made excuses for myself for not knowing what the hell was going on. I just woke up. I didn't feel too hot. But eventually admitted, "I have no idea who any of you are!" They laughed it off, and implied I had done too many drugs or something the night before. I started to become terrified of the possibility I had a massive case of amnesia. I hid it, but inside the fear was swelling up strongly.

Then, Sabrina, a girl I haven't seen in many, many years walked in with a big smile. She looked thinner and healthy and I stood up to greet her. I somewhat shouted for joy. "Sabrina! Now you I know!" Everyone laughed. At this point I said "Now I don't know if I'm dreaming or not." I was so relieved to see another person I knew, the fear level dropped and I could pretend to fit in a little. (This part of the dream could have lasted another 10-minutes.)

Eventually my girlfriend walked in and it looked like she had just got off work. She looked sweet and very calm like she had a good day. When I saw her I felt desperate to take her aside and confide in her how lost and uncertain I felt. She told me "Lets go up to our apartment." I felt relieved, because I thought we all lived in that small unit together and I couldn't understand why I would ever choose to live that way.

We walked into the halls which were also metallic and had dark worn-out atmosphere difficult to put into words. The place looked futuristic but extremely old like something from the movie Bladerunner. I followed my girlfriend up flights of stairs like a lost puppy. She remained calm and not alarmed. On the way up the stairs I asked her "Can we go back to my home? I just want to know that it's still real." She laughed it off and we walked to our apartment door.

At this point I turned around and saw a crazed looking man was following closely behind me. I opened our door, which sealed like the door of a submarine and had a bright red glowing light above the thick black metallic peep hole. I seemed to know how to open it perfectly well and I shoved her in the door, followed, then double locked ourselves in. Checking the locks from inside, they seemed loose.

Our door entered close to the kitchen. The place looked even darker, more cramped, and less inviting than the first apartment. I was starting to become very, very, uncomfortable again. Our apartment was divided into three floors. The basement level I never went to, but it was nearly pitch black save for a few red LED's on the walls. I followed her upstairs to our bedroom area. There laying on a chair was a very pale girl with shorts on sitting on a chair half dazed.

I was alarmed, but my GF explained that was only our roommate. I told her I couldn't take this place any more and asked if we could go for a walk outside. She agreed, and we left through a side door and went outside where there was only an empty parking lot, and gray looking forest. We walked into the forest and I started to feel dizzy. (The dream started to destabilize.) Horror struck again...

I put my arm around her for balance and asked "Am I mentally retarded now? Did I have some sort of accident?" She only just slightly smiled and looked at me. --Then I woke up.

I want to emphasize, when I woke up I felt I hadn't seen my bedroom in at least 2-3 days. I felt like a stranger to my own life, and I noticed that my real room was not as visually intense as my dream room.

This dream falls into a common category of my dreams: Bizarre Apartment

I'm not sure what order these came in.

1. My mum came in my room and woke me up to tell me what she was going to do today (weekend) (After I woke up properly I reality checked and thought to myself, 'I don't remember what she said to me'. Went out and checked her room and she was still asleep.)

2. I was with two other guys, and we had to get down a huge sandy/rocky hill. We tied a rope to a ?rock? and let it fall. We noticed it only went part-way down, and there was a colour change in the sand where it ended. One of the guys said that that was where the 'magnesium' ended and we would have to use a different kind of rope for the rest of the way. So we tied a red rope to the end of the normal rope and climbed down. There were a lot of sharp rocks at the bottom and I thought, 'Lucky we didn't run down here'.

This dream sort of morphed into my nightmare, I think I was supposed to be with one of the guys

3. (Nightmare) This guy and I reached our destination, (the scenery reminded me of Atacama Desert in BFBC2) we were sort of just instilled with fear and images of the ?teenage girl? flashed up a lot. (Its a bit vague how I knew it was a nightmare at this point). I 'woke up' to find myself in a dark room next the the other guy, and the girl in front of me. She said something like. 'Oh, you woke up. We'll just have to use a different method then.' I saw her move over to a selection of sharp and painful surgical items. By now I knew it was a dream but I was too scared to become lucid, so I decided to wake up.



On reflection, I should have stayed in the dream 'cos no matter what happens I'm safe.

Had pretty good recall lately, and have just been overwhelmed with too many long dreams to write down.
This one if from today, and I may write down some of the more interesting ones from the past week later on.

TSA at Disney Land
Recall: 6/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Unknown

My family and I are at Disney Land. We have just entered, and my brother and I are walking along the outer gate when we are accosted by security police. They begin to give us attitude, and when we try to extricate ourselves from the situation, they accuse us of hiding drugs and demand to search us. I tell them "I don't submit to searches", but they grab us and begin to search us anyways.

One really tall security guard in particular is a real dick. He's over 7 feet tall, and I think to myself he just thinks he's tough because of his size. I wish his buddies weren't around so I could cut him down to size. They tall guy puts is hand down my pants to search me, but he just fondles me with a sneer, enjoying his abuse of power. I rage quietly inside the whole time.

They finally let us go, and my brother and I walk down a hallway filled with old people. There are walkers and canes littered everywhere. I pick up a metal cane, and think this would be a good weapon. Then I spot the tall asshole. I grab another cane and use them like my legs are crippled to sneak up on him.

Just as I'm about to jump the guy, I see my parents, and figure I'd better let them know I'm about to be kicked out of Disney land so they don't go looking for me. Then I go up to that tall son of a bitch and whack his knee, which drops him to the ground. I beat him senseless with the metal cane.

Back at our Hotel, there is a wicked awesome anime on the television. It's about a guy who's the only one who can see this demon-like entity with a goat skull for a head. It's always surrounded by they spirits of the people it's killed. The main character doesn't trust the thing, but he finds out it's incapable of lying, and it tells him he's the chosen one. But chosen for what he doesn't know.

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I'm dropping my girlfriend off at home before she and her family go on a long vacation. They are all in their rooms when we arrive and I let her know I don't want to stay around for dinner, though I normally do, because I'd feel like I was overstaying my welcome. Instead, I eat a few slices of grilled chicken real quick and stuff some steak into the front pocket of my shirt.

Her mother walks out from her room. Instead of her normal self, she is Fran Drescher. And though my girlfriend is still with me, I feel very awkward when her mother begins to start conversation with me and ask me about my day. Her mother laughs under her breath at my lack of social skills, but passes it off as though nothing happened. I take my girlfriend out to the car to say goodbye to her officially, but she wants me to test out the helicopters with her they'll be taking on their trip.

I agree and jump into the back of one of the two helicopters now in the middle of their house. Her mother, who is now back to her regular self, lifts the helicopter from the ground. She has clearly never done it before and I remember being worried she was going to crash it. I informed her how the controls worked so that I would feel a bit safer. She seems to get the hang of it very quickly. I told her you can pull up as fast as you want, but you have to gently lower it to keep it from slamming into the ground.

My girlfriend wanted a turn, so her mother handed the controls over to her. She was very forceful with them to the point that I had to tell her to take it easy. She pulled up as hard as she could and when she was lowering it, slipped. The helicopter crashed into the water. Everything turned dark blue and I couldn't see the inside of the helicopter, much less which way was up. She made it out fine, when relieved me. I then took my time unbuckling my seat belt, the entire time wondering if this was really happening. Upon getting it undone and exiting the sinking helicopter, I decided it wasn't and woke up.

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04.03.2011

Glasses Classroom (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Log: 11:00pm Friday, march 3-4th, 2011
6:00am
Hours: 7:00m Alarm: 6:00am Natural Awakening: 4:30am

The first dream starts out as i walk into a class late. I had my flippy glasses on and as i sat down the teacher told me to take them off. I took them off and we got started. After a minute, he told me to take them off, and i was confused because i thought i did... But i didn't apparently. It happened one more time and by now, i was laughing and so were the other kids inthe class, and the teacher. It was funny. Then it ended.

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04.03.2011

Choir Running Singing (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This second dream started in the hallway near the band and choir rooms. All of the choir plus Jacob was there, and we were all running and singing at the same time. We sang one song, then starting singing Poker Face by Lady Gaga. I remember specifically singing it, it was weird... But we kept going and kept singing until we got to the ramp. We went down it and into the West Atrium. There were many people, and they were confused about why we were singing, but they also started to realize and get happy about the fact that they got a show. Jaocb wanted to sing a specific song, so he needed someone's phone to look it up. He got someones, and it was fancy and big, and he searched and found it, and the one he chose was that which contained a funny Japanese man singing a very annoying tune, but as it played, and my brain comprised a song to play, it was more of a techno song and i could never hear the Japanese man. And then it ended.

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04.03.2011

Hugs and Warmth (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

The was one of the best dreams i have had in a while, it was so simple, yet so amazing. I was in my room with Izzie, and we had been hanging out or something previously. It was casual and nothing was really going on, but it was nice. It seemed as if it was time to go now, and we were heading out. I was giving her a hug, and it was nice, but i said, " Oh, come on, you can do better than that!" So i squeezed her tight and she squeezed back and it was very close, and very warm. We both smiled and walked dowstairs. Jacob and Megan were in the basement and they were talking about how Megan needed to get home and she might have to take the bus, we were simpathetic and all trying to figure out how we could get her there. We thought of going with her on the bus, but we didn't. I cannot remember the dicisionwe finally came to. And then the dream ended.

Dream - Lucid - AP

I was at some birthday party, I think it was at work, but it looked different. My coworker, Virginia, was there. I ordered a piece of the chocolate cake we carry. They ran out, so they brought me a different kind of chocolate cake. I took a bite, and it was super chewy, like a tootsie roll. I didn't like it, and it stuck to the roof of my mouth throughout the whole dream, no matter how much I pulled out.

I wanted the last of the cake that Virginia had (she got the last piece of our regular chocolate cake) because she had some left over. I started to eat some, and got one bite in before Virginia and another girl picked at the rest, commenting on how good the cake was. I looked back at my plate, and instead of cake, there was a small piece of a pita. I ate it, and didn't question what happened (dammit...missed a chance to become lucid).

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I was in some sort of aparment, but it was like a large cabin room with lots of bunk beds. Instead of being assigned an apartment, you were assigned a bed. There were community showers as well. I was in the process of moving out. I remember getting my things together.

Then, I was at Courtney's place, talking to her. She was asking me if I would like to move in with her, and I told her I would if I wasn't moving in with Ryan. She seemed dissappointed.

I then went back to the cabin-apartment place, and someone had already been assigned my bed. My mom was there with me. Also, my cat was there, and she had a very long tongue. She kept putting it under things in the room, and one time when she did it, it got caught and part of it came off. I picked it up so we could take her to the vet to get it sown back on. I felt so bad for my cat, but she didn't seem to notice. She wasn't even really bleeding. I even talked to her at one point in the dream, and she said something about not knowing or remembering what had happened to her tongue.

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I was looking into some water, and two cartoony-looking water spiders with suction-cup feet were skating on the water. A yellow one, the female, was skating on top of the water, while a green one, the male, was skating under the water, and their suction cups were touching as they skated in harmony. I figured out the green one was a scientist who turned himself into one of these water spiders so he could marry the female one. I also knew that he was already dead, and what I was seeing was past information.

I then saw him as a small fish, still green, inside the water. He pulled a huge fin off of a bigger fish for him and his wife, now a small yellow fish, to eat.

Throughout the dream, the scientist was narrating a lot of things.

Also, I'm going on vacation tonight and won't be back till Thursday. I'm bringing my laptop with me, so I'll try to update when I can.

2/28/11

In this dream, I was walking down a path (Much like the one my avatar features currently) and found a swan, and I petted it on the head and it nibble at me affectionately. I continued on down the path to a house with an irregularly shaped pool in the back and a gazebo on another pool, and I found a big, dead turtle underneath it and a cygnet (swanling.) nearby.

2/27/11

This was the only fragment of a dream I remember from this dream, it was about putting roux (a foundation of a gravy or thick sauce, a mix of flour and fat.) on top of an unbaked cake, which I found really weird.

Im watching some live concert and Im in the audience with my synth. I just randomly played a piano song and the performer wants to perform it. So he performs it, but because its so short, I start to play my own synth. I play some simple techno song which was really familiar for me in the dream but now I cant remember it...


Im at school and see L getting thrown out of the class, and I ask him why did he get thrown out of there, he answers me and at the same time HP walks by.
I need to go to the sportslesson but Im not sure where its held. I see W's class standing outside waiting to get in, but they are not usually in my class. W and some other guys are bald and Im wondering why. While I was going there where W was, A and V cycled by.
HP asks why Im not in the classroom, so I explain to her that I dont know where should I go. I phone S, and ask him where we should be, he says inside. I look to the window and see the others there in the hall. HP says she can let me in, so I follow her into a classroom where MK stares at me weirdly. HP then takes her keys and opens some door from the wall and I go through there to the hall. Other guys are wearing thight suits which they wear in wrestling. I need to change that suit also on and Im going to the locker room and P passes me with some box of donuts. I go to change my clothes and some little boys come in and I act strangely to them. I go up from there and spray some water on the boys then they laugh...


I captured my own brother and then tried to release him without him knowing what was happening to him... The environment was pretty weird.

Beach Movie

I am playing a marble game with a big structure full of holes and tunnels for the marbles to roll around in. A few of my friends are with me in an obscure setting playing this game. Jamie stands up from the structure and tells everyone he wants to see the new Jack Skellington movie. Some of us want to and some of us don't, but we all end up on a beach.



It's night time, so things are difficult to see. Everyone went their separate ways on the beach, which is where you can watch the movie. The shore has scattered people facing the ocean. However, the ocean is not visible, because a crowd of thousands of kids are all standing in the water facing the shore, chanting for the movie. I can't make out any individual people; there is just a giant blob of kids, some holding signs. My friends all eventually end up in the crowd.

On the shore, my plot line diverts from my friends. A woman is holding two staffs with glowing rocks on the ends of them. One is blue and one is green. She's looking for something with them, using them as a natural flashlight of sorts. We exchange dialogue (but I never remember words in my dreams) and I end up helping her. She gives me the blue staff, and I jab it around the beach.

On one end of the beach, there is a kind of couch cushion that's upside down and connected to a "wall" that ends the beach. Her daughter is inside the cushions I think. I let her try to pry her out and go look for other things that were missing. I turn my back to the water and the sand, and there is a hallway that leads to Heather's house. I don't go down it, but there is a box in the hallway. There is a tiny zebra in the box, which I take, feeling slightly guilty but not really.

Back on the beach, I go up an adult in the water who is hiding behind a big sign that is declaring his love for the movie. He is handing out taffy to everyone. I take some and notice the calories: 400/inch. Yikes. My dream-mind doesn't like that either, so I throw it away.

Dumpstering

I'm in a mall with Tyler and someone else. It's night time and almost time to leave. There's barely anyone here. We steal some ice cream and eat it as we walk around. Alex, a guy from school, comes up to us with melted ice cream in two glass cups and starts singing some song about having sex. His girlfriend is with him and I wonder how she feels about this weird situation. He passes us.

I tell Tyler that because it's night time, we can try to dumpster dive out back for books they throw away. She's really hesitant because it's still a bit light out and she's afraid of getting caught. I persuade her, however. We go to walk outside, and the exit that we chose is in an area of the mall called the "Drunk Exit". We talk about how dumb it is because "you can't even drink in the mall!"

I have a very distinct memory of opening the door to exit. The door was massive, and my hands couldn't fit around the giant handle. It was clear glass and a white frame and even when I looked up, I couldn't see the top.

Outside, the first thing I see is a white rooster. It's just kind of standing there and I think of how odd this is. I go near it and it doesn't move. I do a dream check, and decide it's normal. (FUCK)

Tyler and I run through the woods near the exit and I spy my friend Dylan in the woods a few feet from us with some kids. They're all playing with this weird material I've never seen. It's orange and very surreal. It's kind of like foam but not even really "there". Strange indeed. I dismiss this. (FUCK)

Tyler and I duck behind a big dumpster and a car drives by with the U.S. Military emblem on the door, so we book it back through the woods because we're scared. We end up on a trail lost in the woods. I jump really high and step on a lot of boulders, just kind of messing around, trying to get to Tyler who's ahead of me. I accidentally crash into her and we wobble on the boulder we're standing on. She's really terrified of falling. I do this again on accident, and she's mad.

Somehow we get back to the mall and I cross the street. Tyler doesn't follow me, but someone does. I don't know who they are for the rest of the dream. It's morning now and the sun is coming up. We're at a skate park area and I'm on my longboard, turning in circles in the parking lot.

"You should have gotten your board!" I say to the other person. We talk about how they lost it or something. Then we notice a group of snobby teens playing in the park. We go up to them and kind of listen in on their conversation. They are talking about not doing certain things because it's really dumb, and I say something really snappy about not dying my hair blonde because it's really dumb (I wish I remembered the whole conversation here, my dream-self really thought I was clever with the comeback.)
One of the guys who are with them laughed, and he looked so out of place in the group.

I notice that Jimmy from Degrassi/Drake the artist is with them, too. He's in a wheelchair like he is on the T.V. show. Slowly he's lifted from the chair and has no clothes on and is trying to stand. I ask how he can do that if his legs don't work, and Heather suddenly pops into my dream and explains the episode he's re-enacting.

One of the funny guys who doesn't belong gets naked too and I am about to leave. I go up to him and tell him he is very funny, and his friend is too (the original guy who laughed at my joke). I make X's on their lips and the sun rises and rays align with the X's. I leave somewhere.


Fragment

I'm in a town where Heather supposedly lives. We walk to the store in all red because there are gangs and red means you're safe. At the store, we play with marbles in a structure (very similar to my other dream). We leave our shoes here and walk home. Then we notice we want our shoes back, so we go get them.

I was having a party at my house. People were starting to arrive. My friend Julia texted me, saying her mom wanted to know who was coming and something about one of Julia's friends Ellie. My friend Kat texted me, saying her and my other friend Mina couldn't find my house. Unfortunately, I fell asleep and my phone died before I could respond. When I woke up, I turned on my phone to see the battery was somehow recharged without me charging. I walked into the living room. Three girls were asleep on the couches. I called Kat. She said it got really late so she was going to come in her pajamas.

It was nighttime. My boyfriend and I were sitting at a picnic table with two unknown people. There seemed to be some sort of concert going on either behind us or outside of where we were. The table had a checkered table cloth on it. On the table were bowls of snacks like cheese puffs and such. A guy walked by and my boyfriend shouted "Hey, Quincy!" The guy turned, smiled, and waved at us.

The main character is the eldest daughter of an inventor. I "am" her at this point. I guess she is about 16. A flashback occurs. The inventor puts something into this big explosive ball in a thing that looks like a giant coffee pot. His family is in the protective pod.



He pushes the big red button and dives into the pod. It starts closing. The eldest daughter, a toddler at this point, almost sticks her head to see out of the crack in the sliding door. The father pulls her back. The eldest daughter has a Nintendo DS. The ball explodes just before the door closes. Everybody was safe. Flashback over. I experiment with inventing. My father takes me to the explosive pot at the prompting of my mother. I'm supposed to experiment with putting energy balls into it. I put a ball of energy in and dive behind father, who is wearing some sort of futuristic armor. Part of it is a protective cape. As the pot explodes, a small chip is blown through the armor in his chest plate over his heart. At this point, I am now the father. Someone examines me and says I will go into cardiac arrest soon. I am at my house now. I can feel the heaviness in my heart. I ask my wife for sex. "Last chance now" I say. She says I should teach the eldest daughter some more. Sex with my daughter crosses my mind. I can see the daughter doing her father who is unable to resist due to physical inability. I'm not sure if this image is part of the dream or if I am woken up and just visualizing it. The heaviness in my heart goes away a few minutes after I finally get out of bed.

I am at the grocery store with my mother. She wants me to type something as she says it. I chose the Nintendo DS (the phat version that I broke some years ago) over my phone and netbook for quick booting.

All the standard relatives are at the Th.'s for some sort of partyish thing. They make coffee in the far back addition. I decide to help by making coffee. I do it on a small table next to the stairs up. I end up with some grounds floating in otherwise clear water. Grandma Th. comes over and asks what I was doing. Her coffee pot shatters. Eventually I am let off. I sit at the table in the kitchen next to uncle Er. He has a strip of paper with a domain name on it next to some dollar amount. He just bought it for a fictional website. I wonder about the domain name I was going to get. I don't remember after that.