non-lucid

I have a DJ gig to work, so I get my stuff together and go to this apartment building. The equipment is all in one matching green color (think Kawasaki's racing color), and uses alot of digital technology that I have yet to learn how to use. I have to break the rig down and set it up in another location. This place is not dangerous, but it is unfriendly. My brother is there to help me move some of this stuff. I leave a speaker and a stack of records sitting outside on the curb and go inside. Of course, it's not a friendly neighborhood, so the stuff is gone when I get back outside. I'm pissed. I go to complain to the building superintendent about the theft, and he does not really care...

REAL LIFE NON LUCID
(btw, I'm starting to structure my DJ like this from now on )

I went to bed tonight at around 9:45, and I'm pretty sure it took me only a couple of minutes to fall asleep. I did a WBTB at 4am, and recalled the following dreams:


1) I was stood in the little hallway/corridor that aeroplanes have in-between areas of seats or separating first class from second class. I was looking right, into the class area. There was a man sat in a large, leather armchair to the left. He had a lot of legroom, and I think he was drinking champagne. Has getting all of this kind treatment as his Father owned the travel company. A woman was sent out to see him, suddenly appearing behind his chair. His chair was now centred in the middle of the aisle, and so was the woman. The woman was old and withered, with a blue flowery dress and short, frizzy, black hair. She was screaming at him, asking him if he was grateful for all his Dad had done for him. She didn't give him a chance to speak, continuously asking the same questions. She had a very harsh voice, much like Howard Wolowitz' mother on The Big Bang Theory. After she stopped being so strange, his dad began to get extremely close to his face with a professional camera. He was moving fast and all other the place, to take pictures to remember the moment. He then shouted "You know what's important in Paparazzi!?!? TAKING THE PICTURES!" This made me and Richard (who was suddenly stood to my left) laugh.

2) I was in my school canteen, pondering over what to do, as I had forgotten my packed lunch I decided it'd be a good idea to queue up for the canteen kitchen and try to blag some food of the dinner ladies, as I felt I had the charm to do that. I was whole-heartedly planning to pay them back. When I reached the front of the queue, my favourite dinner lady Shirly was behind the brownies and other cakes. She looked the same as usual, but had some sort of green bandanna pulling back some of her hair, which looked strange as she's about 60 years old. I told her my situation, however she could not reply immediately due to the large amount of kids wanting to buy food. Eventually, there was a dip in the queue and she shook her head, telling me she "couldn't do that". However, she then continued to pick up 3 oat-cakes, stacked on top of eachother. She wrapped them up in the normal green/white stripy pieces of paper, and gave them to me. I was very grateful for this, and kept telling her how 'awesome' she was.

After receiving the oat-cakes, I walked out of the canteen kitchen and made my way to the far front-left door, where some of my friends would be standing. I stepped outside, but there wasn't anyone It was sunny outside, but heavy cloud cover was covering this up. It was warm however. I then saw some of my friends Jake, Matt and Jack by the far snack shack. I approached them.

Suddenly, I was halfway through the opened french doors to the school Gym. Me and Matt.C knew there were modelling auditions in there, so we thought we'd check it out I was first to step in, and approached a large number of girls in my school year. Most of these girls were naked in some way, the majority topless. I approached one of my female-friends (who's name will remain silent for obvious reasons XD) who was topless, and leaning backwards to look diagonal. It was SOOOO hot. She started talking to me, before looking right at me. She had larger tits than usual, and the nipple was brown...not that I'd know the usual colour

3) My friend Robbie is travelling from the Shetland Islands to Derby this year to go to the Bloodstock Metal festival. He has been asking me to come for a while, but unfortunately I cannot. We were talking on MSN, and I WAS planning on going. However, I was worried, and stated that it’d be very awkward as we’ve only ever talked on the internet. I was only planning on arriving at 4pm, therefore his theory was that he would be pissed by that time as he was arriving at 12pm, and he would be much more relaxed and it would not be awkward. He described it as being “nicely drunk”, and how it’s a nice feeling. He said this as if it made a change from being absolutely hammered


I went back to bed after 30 minutes of being awake. I had gone to the toilet, had a small sip of water, written notes of my previous dreams on my phone, and sat down relaxing, thinking about lucid dreaming. However, I did not have any luck. I feel this could be as I was almost forcing myself to be confident that I would lucid dream. In addition, this meant I did not fall straight back to sleep after 30 minutes - it took me about 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, I moved from laying on my back to laying in my comfortable position of on my side. I fell immediately asleep, unfortunately with no luck of a lucid dream I did however recall the following dreams in the morning...

4) I ran from my house to a local town, which is about 35 miles away, in 5 minutes . I took the route that I have used in the past to get to a local village about 2.5 miles away, however in place of a field was the town. I then ran from here to a train station, and from there to a large concrete bridge. This was right next to an Inn which my friends' band plays at occasionally. It was very wet and cloudy, and the area was extremely grey, creating a very dark atmosphere. However, I had just ran 35 miles and was very pleased with myself. Whilst stood around, I met a few of my classmates who had taken the train to get to the same place, and it had taken them 25 minutes. I began to boast to them about how much easier it is to run, as it takes such little time. I then began to consider having a regular running route to this town and back.

I was stood in the little hallway/corridor that aeroplanes have in-between areas of seats or separating first class from second class. I was looking right, into the class area. There was a man sat in a large, leather armchair to the left. He had a lot of legroom, and I think he was drinking champagne. Has getting all of this kind treatment as his Father owned the travel company. A woman was sent out to see him, suddenly appearing behind his chair. His chair was now centred in the middle of the aisle, and so was the woman. The woman was old and withered, with a blue flowery dress and short, frizzy, black hair. She was screaming at him, asking him if he was grateful for all his Dad had done for him. She didn't give him a chance to speak, continuously asking the same questions. She had a very harsh voice, much like Howard Wolowitz' mother on The Big Bang Theory. After she stopped being so strange, his dad began to get extremely close to his face with a professional camera. He was moving fast and all other the place, to take pictures to remember the moment. He then shouted "You know what's important in Paparazzi!?!? TAKING THE PICTURES!" This made me and Richard (who was suddenly stood to my left) laugh.

My Notes
Non-lucid
Lucid
Awake

I was supposed to try an ISO tone last night, but I went to bed too late and was too tired. I'll get to bed at a normal time tonight and try it with WILD.

The first dream was short and un-detailed. I was at home, waiting for my Mum to return with Hungry Jack's (or Burger King). I went out the front to find a bag half the size of me, filled with our meals. I took mine.

In the second dream, I'm at an airport with my older brother and mum at night. I remember walking around an empty town / city.

The third dream was weird. I was in a small room. It looked like a arts & crafts storage room. It had white walls, as do most rooms in my dreams. I saw a man leaning against the door. He was trying to get away from from a ghost. The ghost wasn't really a ghost; it was a figure made with the items in the room. The man pulled up a pair of scissors. I see, outside the room, a girl reaching through the door and grabbing them. I don't see what happens next, but I fear the man, with no weapon, was killed by the ghost.

The fourth dream was quite vivid. I had gotten a new keyboard (musical instrument, not computer keyboard). It was attached to a TV. Both the TV and keyboard were old and dusty. I remember the telly was brown and analogue. They were both mounted in the middle of a room. The telly was in the middle of, behind and above the keyboard. I walked up to it and filled with a switch. This dream was vivid, but also short.

In the final dream I only remember being in my bedroom, walking to my pencil case in the cupboard and finding some old chocolate. I pondered for a few moments before deciding to take it.

a
Feb 13, 2011
Nonlucid
Dream1: Egyptian Honey

Some other dream stuff happened but I was in a parking lot next to a large field. There were random people around doing stuff. A girl in a white shirt and white sorts runs to get a tennis ball that has gone over the short fence. She runs to the fence and bends over it. This is a little sexy so I watch to see how this develops. She bends way over now obviously teasing someone, I am pretty far away. Then I see that I can see somewhat through her shorts, just a blackish area under her shorts where white underwear should be. I wonder if I should be watching so obviously but I did’t care.

Then she runs to some friends and I sit with them too. There is an older woman about 30 with about 4 tweens sitting around like she is talking about something. She is talking about Egyptian honey and is showing everyone the jar of it. I realize she has no shorts on and her privates are showing! Again I wonder if I should stare but this time the girl across the way sees me and gives me a glare so I listen to this story. The lady says about the honey it is “so dry one taste and you’ll have to drink water nonstop!” In reference to how drying this honey is I said, “They used this to dry out mummies.” They all looked at me like “who said you could contribute stupid comments?” Feeling this I doubted my comments and said, “oh I think they used salt.” They all looked at me like that was just as unlikely and were going to ignore me now.

Upon awakening I realized I was right though. The Egyptian did use honey in some of their embalming but primarily used salt.


Dream 2: Star Trek

Nonlucid I had enough lucidity to realize this was a dream but not enough to control anything.

I find myself I a room with a group of people that see themselves as all dear friends and there was just some kind of toast to this friendship and the journey. I then decided this was all nice but I should leave. I walked out to the big wooden double doors. As I started to push a door open another guy in a strange Star Trek like clothing was also doing the same and said, “Excuse me” with a big friendly smile. He reminded me of Riker from Star Trek but it wasn’t him. I thought maybe they were all there after a long space mission and this was their welcome back celebration. I thought of how great it would be to have memories of such a great thing. Once I wished to have these memories pictures and emotions of me with various people on a Star Trek type bridge and in hallways. It was all very intense and shocking, I staggered as if sick or hit with a gunshot. The emotions were happy, friendly, and had a touch of reminiscence to them. I was overcome by these emotions and started to cry profusely, it was the sheer power and number of emotions. Crying my eyes out I had to sit down and sat at one of the finely decorated tables. Some guy in a tux or something came over to see if I was OK I said “sure I’ll be OK.” Then I took a moment to think about what just happened and if I wanted to “remember” any more.
I drifted off into a grayish darkness and shortly woke up.

im in some mall with 3 friends from my old school.
we walk around causing mayhem, eventually they are about to watch a movie in the mall. i say i cant, i have school the next day so i need to sleep its 11:30.

jump to the same mall im with a friend ive been hanging out with a lot recently, and he points to a girl and says her name, but i cant understand it. it sounds like an alarm.
then i get woken up by my alarm.

(a dream from a few years back don't exactly remember when)

It started with me walking in an unidentifiable area when a random guy walked by and said something along the lines of "what is that under your shirt" I look down to see a lump under my right arm. I lift up my shirt to see that there is a small undeveloped third arm (about 2min long) growing out of my side.

While at first it creeped me out, I was soon trying to see if I could move it. It was hard and awkward, (like writing with my left hand). After a little while I was able to reach into my pocket and take out my pocket watch (which I actually had at the time in real life). But I was becoming frustrated because it was so hard to move it the way I wanted.

I have the thought that since the arm was new that it was just a baby arm or something, and that if it grew I would be able to control it. Another random passerby suggested that I electrocute my arm to stimulate the cells into growing.

I began to carry around jumper cables and shock it every 10min or so.

By the end of the dream it had grown passed the elbow of my right arm and I had full control of it.

That was when I woke up.
There was more to the dream that I did not remember involving a train and Skexies from the Dark Crystal. But after awakening I could not connect the ideas.

After I woke up I felt it like a phantom limb for nearly 2hrs.

(Dream is a few years old, but just found this site ^_^)

It started out as a festival that my village had every year (my village having a striking resemblance to a slightly decorated version of an apartment complex my dad used to live at XD) and everything was going according to plan and tradition.

I was then approached by one of the leaders of the village that was organizing the festival and was asked if I would be part of a reenactment of the ancient story that our village had the festival in honor of, where the Ice Princess vanquished the oppressive lava lord to free our village from tyranny. She asked if I would play the ice princess since I was the best swordsman in the village. I agreed even though I did not like the idea of wearing a dress.

I started out on one side of a long skinny bridge that was ice-like on one side and lava-like on the other. (I say ice/lava-like since it was not actually hot or cold but just looked like the elements). It met as a circle in the middle where there was an ice and lava orb on pedestals on either side of the circle. I somehow suddenly knew that I had to destroy the lava orb in order to win the match. I was dressed in ridiculously accurate clothing to the myth.

Then my opponent entered, and I became extremely curious as to who they chose to face me. As he came to the lava side of the bridge I saw that is was one of my friends from my sword fighting class. I laughed a little since I taught him everything he knows about the sword. He also was dressed in ridiculously accurate and well made clothing, he looked like the real dictator.

I could see on his face that he was nervous and asked me to take it easy on him. He laughed lightly, and I told him that there was no way I would have mercy on the lava lord. We both laughed at the idea, and walked toward the center of the bridge. We drew our swords and the match began. I was way over confident and attacked first, pushing us into the lava section. He easily blocked and the onslaught began.

He somehow drew six swords and began to attack with all of them at once. It took everything I had just to keep him from striking me. He seemed surprised that I was able to hold him off. I quickly realized that his power increased in the lava section, so I decided to draw him into the ice section. I began to fall back to draw him into the ice section, and he seemed to be taking the bait. I was able to take the offensive and get some hits in.

I was winning for only a short while, he seemed to be growing stronger. I was almost back where I started when she stopped attacking. He looked behind him, back at me, and then turned and ran toward my orb. He hit the orb a good five times before I chased him off of it. I looked at the orb and it was riddled with cracks.

Suddenly there were three anonymous judges there to say whether it counted as my orb being destroyed or not. I just looked at them and said "come on..." and right then a huge hunk fell off of it. The motioned that I lost and the fake lava lord began to drag my into the building on the lava side of the bridge. I pretended that I was scared and frightened for the sake of the reenactment, but as soon as we got in I playfully shoved my friend and asked him how he could beat me. He said that he cheated and that it was rigged all along for me to loose because they thought it would be funny. The lava section had slowly eaten away at the ice section of the field making me weaker and him stronger. (As for the six swords thing, the only explanation is that he was cheating XD)

For whatever reason we had a fake funeral for me to add to the joke, but then they decided to reenact the actual story for the sake of the festival. I was fine with that, I wanted a rematch.

I came to the bridge again and looked across to the other side. I was shocked to see it was the real lava lord the legend spoke of, and he reacted to seeing me as well. He points to me and says "I have found you ice princess." I was so confused and shocked that I just said "What, no! I'm not--" he grabbed me and jumped onto a flying chariot that flew by. I screamed and everyone in the village seemed to be freaking out.

That is where I woke up.

I have the feeling that they are the same dream, but don't remember how they connect.

One was-
I saw my roommate Br (who in real life is a black belt, but I have never seen her fight or anything) was in a sparing match with someone. The guy seemed to think that he could win, but when they started fighting it was clear she had the upper hand. She began to attack with graceful and inventive attacks involving flipping and rolling. I had a sort of Mortal Kombat view point and thoroughly enjoyed watching her kick some random guys ass.

The other was considerably longer-
Tons of people (some I knew, some I didn't) were being sort of filtered into one room. It was a sort of competition to get a job. (I think this originates from current budget cuts at my school). People came in small groups and it was announced the job that they would get if they won. They stepped into the arena and either played some sort of video game or had some kind of fight to the death match with what seemed similar to NERF guns.
One of my roommates S was randomly there and she did not really know what she was doing there. I suggest to her to go for the job I have so we could work together, she agrees.
I end up almost facilitating the event since I am the only student worker left (Budget cuts in real life again! ) the game starts and a bit into it I realize that she can't have that job, because she does not got to my school. I yell this to her, and she ceases to care about the game and just goes through the motions since she can't win.

DELETED

a
Feb 8 2011
I was in a Lowes like store shopping mindlessly. It was a sad day as it was increasingly nearing the end of the world as we knew it. An old lady coughed a few times, she was sick like all the rest of us, we will all die from this disease one day. Then I had to cough too. I coughed twice, I felt something in my throat coming up into my mouth, and it was a wad of shredded paper, the classic symptom of this fatal disease. Then I coughed up a second wad of shredded paper and it felt good to get that paper out of my mouth as it was dry paper and scrapped my teeth and roof of my mouth with a dry papery feeling.

I am thinking this is an allegory told by my subconscious. I think it is saying this is the end of the world and times of the paper-world and it is. This is the computer age and the times where we where just about choking on paper is coming to a slow but inevitable end.

14/02/11 I am in some sort of apartment complex that is nothing like the one I live in. Although I live there. Daniel and Mick are going to join in for some wow. I telle them I will take them through some instances to boost them a bit.

…

I wake up, I realise I have slept little more than 5 minutes, I cannot understand that and I ask Thure if it is the next day or something. I am getting a bit ill. I take an apple and go back to bed.

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I am at a bus stop, some woman is asking me to look after her kid who is not far away at the stop as well.

I find him and make sure he is within my sphere of attention. I look across the street and see Maria, Swedish Maria from EIMS, and give her a brief nod.

She nods back and looks at me in a funny way.

I start dancing down the street, in a particular way I end up spinning around impossibly leaned backwards being held up by the momentum, until the point where I have to break it off because I am headed into a tree.

This gets her attention and she is now laughing, I compliment her on her hair. Inge is walking by and apparently they are headed towards the same pub for a dinner arrangement.

I walk with them in and at this dinner arrangement turns out to be my entire family. I shake hands with a lot of them and exchange compulsory pleasantries, but I am headed for the door.

I get stuck between a huge man, called Marius who apparently is the new boyfriend of Nancy (who died recently).

I sit down, and my grandfather on my mothers side asks me if I would like to start us off, whereupon he can continue talking about “Peder-something”. I have no idea why I am there, but start off with explaining I might be difficult to hear.

I then make some linguistic fuck up, by mixing Danish and English and explain that I do that a lot, and that probably my grandfather, on my father's side could help me out with that.

Then I start speaking about the things I have learned from my other grandfather, my mom starts laughing as if she could read my mind about the joke I am about to tell. That I have learned how to drink Schnaps from him.

There is more I want to tell, but I wake up before I get there.

a
Wednesday Feb 9 2011
I find myself in a stage like place with red stage curtains. I looked around and notice the feelings of the place, it’s a strip club and everyone is getting the place ready for the coming night's business. They quickly leave at the end of the night, sleep, and clean up later in the day when it starts all over again. I knew I didn't work there and was partially lucid and just decided to try to fit in so I started looking for things to do. I saw a lot of sweeping, washing tables, and even one of the girls holding a plastic box where she kept her dollar bills, a few dollars and her pocket change was in there at this early hour. The place had only one traditional stage, not the polls and stages.
I remember enjoying the very different psychic energies of some of the people in this place and just standing there soaking it in and thinking “I’m not usually around people like this, this is good stuff.” Their energy felt rough and edgy and iconoclastic. I tooled around some more, not really doing anything, surreptitiously soaking up the extra energy in the room like psychic sponge. No one noticed anything strange in me and when I felt I had enough (enough being their energy was starting to make me become like them a little) I decided to get out of there.

Plans: No new plans, just the normal tasks and goals. I am camping... I'm not sure what effect that will have on my recall... but I'm hoping for the best.

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DDO Explorations
I am inside of a game of DDO with Tigress. I don't even consider that I'm dreaming, I am too busy thinking how cool my new virtual reality system is. I can't believe how realistic it is, it looks like a really vivid dream. So Tigress and I are exploring an area of the game we have never been in before, we have decided to just explore and kill stuff for now. The area is crawling with enemies, so there is no shortage of things to kill. In fact, we are constantly being attacked by all manner of enemies from orcs to bugbears to goblins to humans, there is hardly a break from it.

We find some caves and hidden places to explore, as well as a few rare encounters. In one chamber we are attacked by a giant orc who seems intent on smashing us into the ground. I use a lightning attack to knock him down and Tigress cuts his throat, killing him. We continue exploring the are until we find a group of Devourer minions making a sacrifice to the Devourer. They have three women tied to a wooden pole, all three of them are naked, and a ring of fire has been lit around the women. The Devourer minions are standing in a circle around the ring of fire chanting in some strange language. A couple more of them are throwing fuel on the ring of flame to make it burn higher. The fire burns so hot the chanting minions have to back off a bit due to the heat. The heat in the center of the ring where the prisoners are tied must be extreme. We are spotted by one of the minions building up the fire, and he announces that there are intruders, kill them! The sacrifice must by completed! A couple of them keep chanting at the fire, most of them attack Tigress and me. Their plan to kill us meets with epic failure as we kill off the attackers with little difficulty. We kill the last two who are chanting at the ring of fire. Now to free the prisoners... But the fire is much too hot to get through to the prisoners. The roar of the flames, over that sound I can hear at least one woman screaming in pain and fear... I want to get to them. Tigress casts an immunity to flame spell on both of us. We get through the flames to the prisoners, who are no longer tied to the pole. The ropes burned away, but there is still nowhere for them to go since they are surrounded by fire. Tigress casts immunity to fire on the prisoners so we can get out of the fire. Once outside I see that the prisoners have burns over most of their bodies. I use healing spells on them and we are able to scavenge some robes off of dead Devourer minions to clothe them. We continue exploring and come to the sea where we are attacked by some kind of giant sea creature that is being controlled by sahuagin.

We defend against the creature until we're able to find a psychic sahuagin controlling the squid. Once that sahuagin is dead, the sea creature feasts on sahuagin before returning to the sea. We spend the rest of the dream exploring and fighting off random enemies, there are no more rare encounters before I wake. The annoying thing is there don't seem to be any chests left by these rare encounters! What a rip off!

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Map of the World
I am looking at a map with Tigress, it is a huge map that looks almost like a map of the world. The cities and landmarks are all fictional, however. I look at the names on the map and I recognize such places as Korthos and Stormreach as being DDO locations, but there are sooooo many more locations than just those. Are all of those just the small places to be found by exploring? Or are there more cities and stuff that Tigress and I have left to find? I see a couple places near Korthos, to get there a traveler would have to go through an area that had previously been blocked by ice before the dragon was set free. So Tigress and I make plans to more completely search the area around Korthos. There is so much more to do out there! So many more quests wait, so many enemies need to die! Let's go! I am excited to go, but instead I wake up in my bed in the tent.

Plans: No specific plans, try to contact MoSh's guides again, do some items from my list of goals... I won't be able to post for a few days, though, since I'll be camping.

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Sky Beam
I am in a mountainous area, I am climbing on some rocks. I am surprising myself with how easily I am able to climb the rocks without once feeling afraid that I might fall. I get to the top of a rock and I look off into the distance, where I see a strange beam coming from the sky. It seems a lot like the light beam I am used to seeing in Stormreach in DDO, so I do a RC and I find out I'm dreaming. I look around for a bit more, this clearly isn't Stormreach, so there must be some other explanation for the beam. I then remember the latest primary task for the LPTC, which is to stop a laser drill coming from a space ship in orbit. The beam isn't too far off, so I fly towards it and I get there quickly.

I look at the energy beam from the sky, it has a sizable tunnel drilled into the ground already, but I don't know how far down they've gotten. The beam is just energy in the form of a laser... so I fly out over the hole they are drilling, which is about 20 yards across, I fly directly into the path of the beam while activating a spell. I use the song spell Whiplash by Metallica to reflect the laser beam back into space. The reflected beam follows it's own path back into space, and shortly later I see an explosion in the sky as the orbiting space ship is destroyed by it's own laser drill. That seemed pretty simple, too bad I'll have to wait until after the camping trip to post this dream!

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Obstacle Course
I am somewhere I don't recognize, I am there with MoSh and a couple of other men, who don't seem too pleased with my being there. I wonder if they don't like me or if I did something to annoy them or if they are just always like that. MoSh is talking to them about finding a girlfriend... maybe one with a few less obstacles to them being together. One of them says obstacles are merely tests to be overcome. I ask what exactly they expect MoSh to do when the person in question has such a serious case of depression that she won't help herself, I add that I can relate to the depression and I know it is hard enough to be helped by someone there in person let alone by someone on the other side of the planet. Which brings me to the geographical issue, which they have done twice now, because helping her or getting her help might be possible if she was closer... and I mean a lot closer... Then there's the issue of being engaged to be married, which they have done twice now. And now a possibly insurmountable religious issue? So how about a nice local single woman... where if she does get depressed, MoSh can directly help with a hug and an attentive ear. The way they've been going, I wonder if they are looking for as many obstacles as possible to be between MoSh and the woman. I am getting glared at again, one of them says if I know so much, why don't I find someone? I say if my powers worked on this plane I would help MoSh find someone... Damn these powers that only work in dreams...

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Assassin's Creed: Slave Trader
I am at home, doing nothing particularly exciting, and I decide it would be awesome if I was dreaming... Maybe I should do some journaling. I am thinking of dreaming, so I do a RC and I discover I'm dreaming right now! So I say goodbye to my DC mom and I go outside to fly. I fly into the air and open a portal in front of me with no particular destination. I let Avalon guide the portal. I fly through it and find that instead of flying over a desert I am now flying over a lush tropical forest. So many colorful birds are flying around, I also find images in my mind of what I need to do there. It looks like I've been playing too much DDO, because the information comes to me as a list of DDO quest objectives. 1. Locate the slave trading hideout. 2. Stay hidden until the leader arrives. 3. Kill the leader first. 3. Kill the rest of them. 4. Free the slaves. Ok, well since I don't want to be spotted too soon... they will certainly kill the slaves and the leader won't come... I transform into one of the colorful birds.

I fly over the forest, surveying the are until I finally find the camp. A lot of people are locked in cages on wagons, packed in like sardines. The slave traders are talking to each other mostly, a couple of them are tormenting the prisoners, poking at them with spears. One of the others says if the ones tormenting the prisoners kill a slave it's coming out of their cut of the money. After a couple more pokes they stop. I perch in a tree among other birds of my kind, waiting for the leader. The birds around me leave to the other side of the clearing. I follow, but they avoid me. They can tell I'm not one of them. The leader soon arrives on a horse, leading other horses. He is exchanging money for the slaves. I turn back to myself, with a crossbow, I shoot the leader through the neck. He falls over and chokes to death on his own blood. The others are surprised at the attack. They see me as I jump down from the tree and use my Witchblade sword to kill them all. The prisoners don't seem to know what to think of me, so I cut through the locks on the cages and tell them they are free to go, but make sure the horses are looked after... they're not wild horses, so they need shelter, food, any other care. One of the prisoners says the horses will be cared for, those slave traders had been working them too hard and not feeding them enough. The prisoners lead the horses down a trail into the trees, thanking me as they go, only a couple of injured people are riding horses. Someone is bitching about walking, others tell him to shut up, the horses are overworked, too. Everyone who is able will walk. One of the prisoners is saying she would like to give me a reward... but I wake up before she can offer me anything.

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False Awakening
I wake up in my own bed and I realize I have to use the bathroom quite badly, so I carefully get out of bed so I don't disturb the cat I'm sleeping with and leave the room into the main part of the house. I notice it is very quiet in the house, so after I do my business, I go to see if my mom isn't there for some reason. I find she is, indeed, not there. Her car isn't in the carport. I wonder where she has gone, she hadn't said anything about going out. I still have to use the facilities even though I just did. So I use the bathroom again and then go back to bed with my kitty, never once do I suspect I was dreaming. The dream seemed so real that when I wake up I think my mom must have really gone out during the morning, though she says she has not and she isn't dressed to go out... she is in her "hanging around the house" clothes. Damn... if only I could remember to RC every time I wake up!