non-lucid

I'm in a car with a DC that seems to be my friend. We just got out of school (I think). We're going to a record store to apply for a job. He drops me off and I walk in. It doesn't really look like a record store, there are shelves of other things, like socks. The owner of the store greets me like we've meet before.

He shows me a vinyl of Pullhair Rubeye by Avey Tare and Kria Brekkan. (in real life this album is backwards, so the normal record the songs are reversed and if you want to actually listen to the song forwards, you have to reverse it on an audio program or something).
I say "I'd buy it if I had a way to reverse it, do you know how?" (in real life, someone that had the vinyl version of this asked this question in a forum I was reading last night and someone linked to a youtube video of how to make a record play backwards)
He shows me a reverse switch on the record player, so he flicks it and plays the record. It doesn't sound like it does in real life, it's just basically white noise that sounds kind of like music. He explains why it doesn't sound like I thought it would, something about how the speed of the record reaches your ears. I accept this explanation.

My friend comes in and he wants to by some socks for his little brother. The man shows him some socks and he decides to buy them.

I didn't apply for the job, but I got it anyway. It doesn't turn out to really be much of a job, just hanging out and talking about music. The record store gets bigger and turns into something like a warehouse along the way. There's a group of people that work here with me, one a friend from real life that I haven't seen in a while, Zoe. We watch some rap video on a big screen. I don't remember the song, but the video consists of a guy in really big clown shoes stomping his feet. A member of the group says its a nice remix.
We read some music newspapers that are up on the wall, there's an article about Ke$ha. The headline reads "Do you think Ke$ha will cause the third world war?". It's a serious article. I make a joke about how horrible autotune is and that it's going to be the cause of the war. We sit at a table and discuss Ke$ha, her music and if she's a bad influence on kids. There's a whole survey about her and we start to discuss the questions.
"Maybe if her parents loved her more she would make better music." I say (I don't think this in real life, lol although I don't like her music)
this causes an argument about parenting.
We talk about Kesha some more.

After this, we have circle time and talk about ourselves. I can't remember exactly what was said here.

I see a sign at the front of the warehouse/music store by the door that says something like "RIP David Bowie". Looking back on this, I should have realized that it was a dream because I couldn't actually read the words, I just knew what it meant.
"He died?" I say
"Yeah. It's pretty sad news." says the record store owner
"I totally called this! I knew he would be the next to die, after Michael Jackson and whats-his-name. You know, that old black guy singer, he judged on America's Got Talent."
"George Shopez?" says the record owner (my subconcious' version of George Lopez I guess lol)
"Yeah, him! I knew Bowie was gonna be the next to die. "

After this, I go out into the driveway and push a cart into the warehouse. I stop randomly to do a reality check. I count all my fingers on one hand, because my other hand is on the cart. all 5 are there and look normal. "Yep, it's real life." I think to myself. Looking back, I should have stopped and thought about my surroundings but everything seemed so natural at the time.

I continue with what I'm doing and leave the warehouse. I go to the dream car, but now my old best friend from real life who had a similar car to the one we were driving before is waiting for me. "I gotta get my backpack!" I say and go back to the warehouse. The dream ends.




After waking up I felt kind of stupid for failing the reality check. I'm going to try to be more careful next time and think about what I'm doing.

Things start off with my parents and I hiking a mountain. We just seem to be hiking and I don't know why. Eventually we get to a house and apparently we "are there" like we had a destination in mind. I don't want to go into the house so I keep hiking. I am reaching the top and start to get some weird vibes, but I continue on. When I reach the top some strange dog-like creatures appear and start to chase me. There are some ordinary dogs, but there are also these muscular, stripped dogs that are much scarier. I run back to the house and make it just in time and slam the door as a dog is jumping at me. I yell at my step dad and he gets an assault rifle to kill them. He goes outside and starts shooting at them. For some reason he shoots at their feet. Eventually they go away and I want to go hiking again. I start out and things change and I am in a jungle setting. Up ahead I see a group of elephants walking upright and talking. I over hear that they are seeking some treasure so I follow them without them knowing. Eventually, I end up in some cave. I think the elephants are with me but it was quite vague at this point. The cave is like a puzzle and you have to walk around on these steps that go in order. It is difficult and I have to be very acrobatic. It reminds me of a jump map (kz) from counter-strike. Eventually I get to a portion of the course that has an electrified handle that I must grasp in order to continue. I focus on this for a bit, but the dream fades quickly.

I was in the living room with my Sister and her friends. It was early evening, and it was dark outside. There was a mixture of boys and girls in the room, however most of them were leaving, with my sister, to go shopping. However, Sam. D and Stephen. C were staying here, which I found odd. I got really happy, as those two boys are good friends of mine, and both play video games. I was looking forward to the others leaving, as we'd most likely occupy ourselves with the Nintendo Wii. However, my sister forced Sam. D to come with her as he is her boyfriend, and Stephen followed. I was sad

I was in some boat and was smuggling some stuff. It was night outside and I could see the moon. The place where I was sailing a boat was somewhere near a Miami. I could see a palms on the sides as I sailed the boat. I started thinking about robbing some supermarket but I didn't have rockets to do it. I am now in my cousins house. I was sitting on floor and talking to someone and then I saw someone through the window and said that thieves are coming. The person that I was talking to gave strange response to what I've said and suddenly I find myself riding on a tomahawk rocket that is going for some huge supermarket. I look around and notice more rockets flying. As I looked back I saw a many palm trees and my boat behind them. After that the dream scene changes again, and that time I was walking out of a supermarket with an intention to find a job. I entered some weird building and someone asked me If I would like to become a butcher. I refused. I entered in another building but supposedly it was the same place and I noticed someone entering into the fridge room. I could see a cold steam flowing out of it.

I was in my town and there were 2 armies marching up the town. My whole dream was black and white. I suddenly found myself marching among those soldiers. Everything looked like it was from old times. The soldiers were holding a rifles with bayonets and they were wearing those weird hats. I was talking to someone who was supposedly my brother and I was telling him something about joining other army and stuff like that. Suddenly I find myself walking with some woman and I was holding an umbrella. The woman had a white hair and she was dressed like a princess. While walking with her I met my brother and he said something to me.

I was in a car with my friend. We were driving around the town and then we went towards the school. It was sunny outside. I noticed that I am wearing a t-shirt. I started to feel cold. My friend accelerated towards the walls of school and then stepped on brake. There were lot of people I know around that school. We turned around and suddenly I noticed my other friend in a car. We started talking where should we go next...

Dream - Lucid

I was at work, but I don't think I was on the clock. I saw Chris come in, and was trying to avoid him seeing me. I only saw his back, though. Never saw his face. He was standing in line wearing a black polo. I ran to the back, and there were dishes soaking in pink sanitizer in the first of the 3 big dish sinks. Usually they soak in the 3rd sink, though there were dishes also soaking in pink sanitizer in the 3rd sink as well. There was a guy working back there, setting many dishes in the 1st sink. I looked in the sink, and every dish that was in there was cracked and breaking. The guy didn't seem to notice. I started to freak out. Every time he'd pull one out, it would crumble and break. I went and got my boss. I told her she wasn't going to like what I was going to tell her. I showed her, and she said they had been having that problem all day. Apparently, the excess sanitizer was causing the dishes to break. I took some of the dishes out, or rather, pieces of dishes.

Then, Caitlin called me up and told me she wanted me to be maid of honor at her wedding. She was supposed to marry a guy we knew awhile back named Jarred. I was confused, because I thought Courtney was supposed to marry him (they dated back in high school). I told her I would be honored to do it. The ceremony was on Friday.

I then went back out into the dining room at work, and saw Chris's back again. He was sitting down, drinking a double shot of espresso. I went back into the back to avoid a confrontation.

I talked to Caitlin again, and she said she wasn't going to marry Jarred anymore, because he moved to New York with some girl, but they were still going to have a ceremony/party.

~

I was at school, taking (another) statistics class. Caitlin was in it with me. I commented on the teacher, and how I had had her before, and since she was very Chinese, it was very hard to understand her. The teacher started to teach and write on the white board. I looked at her again a little later, and she had turned into this very southern, red-headed woman I know that frequents the coffee shop. Still couldn't understand much of what she was saying.

Then, I was walking down the hall of what looked like my old middle school, trying to find my literature class. It was room 306, and I was in the 340's. I went down to the other side of the hallway, and found it. A girl I went to middle/high school with, Lauren, was there. She was commenting on some guy she was dating. I thought that was interesting, since she had been married and had a kid. I assumed they had split, and I didn't ask any questions. I also saw Nick, a guy I had briefly dated in middle school and had a quiet falling out with last year. He ignored me completely.

I entered the room, and the desks were pushed together in groups of 5 or so. There were few seats left, and Lauren invited me to sit with her. There wasn't a chair there, so I got one from another group and positioned it under the desk. The legs of the chair had to fit under it in a certain way, it was weird. The male professor started to lecture about some weird stuff, and drew a diagram of the inside of a mouth on the board. He was explaining how, to be good at literature, you had to talk a certain way and position your tongue a certain way. I copied the diagram, which had a weird, sparkly, optical illusion look to it on the board, and on my paper. I thought about the class, and how I had skipped it many times. I zoned out of the lecture.

Not gonna lie, I am so sick of dreaming about work and school. When I'm not there, I'm dreaming about it. Ugh. -_-

Ok last nights dreams...

Blizzard

I was queuing at the bus stop on my uni camps and there were a lot of people. The queue was really long. There were these groups of school kids that were walking by us every so often as in the dream there was a school not far from campus. I was remembering how glad I was that I didnt have to go to school anymore. I was with a couple of my uni flat mates and we decided we were fed up waiting. In the distance I could see this plane and I knew that was where we needed to go. Once I got there I was on my own once more. I waited for a while wondering where the piot was and then got fed up andclimbed inside the plance. However, once I was inside I relaised it was not a plane I was in. I was in some kind of room, with stone walla and a stone floor. It was cold. There were these speerate vehicles that could seat three people. Then my friends reappeared. There were five of us so two would go in one and three in the other. Maisie and Hannah were in one and Becca made some comment how we were not going to all fit in there as Maisie is big and Emily (me) has big hips. It was very random. We did squeeze in. Then Becca dissapeared and it was just the three of us. I don't know where Jasmine got to. It turned out we were in a a boat os some kind and our destination was across this expanse of water. But it was very heavily snowing and dangerous. We all set out into the water without really thinking and got very lost. It was white in every direction, couldn't see a thing, and was freezing. I then said shouldn't we have waited till this man? arrived or told someone we were going before setting off. I only then realised how stupid we were being. Somehoe we managed to get back to the cold stone wall (which opened out at the front into the sea like some kind of harbour. There was snow partially overing the floor in the room and on the counters. This leader (man) had arrived by the the time we got back and we pretended that we hadn't even set out. He got us all hot drinks. haha.

Gorilla!

This is another dream fragment that sticks out in my mind. I was with a dream mother and father. The only resemblance to real life parents was that were arguing a lot. The woman wasnt happy and wanted to leave the man. (real life seeping into dream) Slightly. Then the dream gets increasingly strange. So far the setting has been within a large house. There are some gardens across the top of the house. Within one of these inclosed spaces a large gorilla is kept. The woman goes and 'speaks' to the gorilla and then leaves. The fencing is very small around the gardens, and only now the gorilla jumps out and bounds off down the roads. I then leave the house and walk into a supermarket where I meet my parents, different people in the dream, but these resemble my real life parents. I tell them how a gorilla is loose and they say they heard on the news. I say how scared I am. It could be anywhere. And were really near where it was let out.

NOTES/NON-LUCID/LUCID

Alright, so I consider this 'Day 1' of my attempt to have a lucid dream within the next week, since I am off work and can devote time to lucid dreams.

No lucid dream last night, but at least I have some recall. Hopefully that will improve throughout the week as well.

I was someplace far away from home with a group of friends, and it was time to go home. We loaded up in the car and drove off, but in only a couple hours (which passed like seconds, but the car clock said it had been hours) it was getting close to time to eat, so we started looking for restaurants to stop at. We attempted to stop at several, but something or another would cause us to leave. Sometimes they were closed, sometimes the service was deplorable, and sometimes we'd just plain decide we wanted something different. This went on for several more hours until finally we found someplace where we could actually stay and eat. The day was already ending at that point. I commented that we had not made much progress, and everyone kind of just nodded and kept eating . When we were done, and back in the car, we drove down the street the restaurant was on, rounded a corner...and then, to my shock, I recognized the road we were on. Somehow we'd made it back home while we were searching for restaurants!

The dream faded out then, and I soon woke up. I tried to DEILD or WILD, but no luck. Eventually I did fall asleep for another hour, but it was dreamless.

Failed RC

I am walking down a hallway in part of a much longer dream. This leads into a sort of place that is reminiscent of the food section of a fair. I recognize this as a dreamsign, and think that I had better do a reality check. I pinch my nose and try to breath. I can't but I try harder and for a little longer to be sure. I still can't breathe.

I think about trying to fly, but there are too many people around. I figure I would look silly trying to jump into the air, so I just decide to rely on the nose pinch RC.

Anyway, I continue walking in blissful ignorance down the hallway, and come to a set of stairs. Down these stairs is a little courtyard where supposedly I always go to get away from the crowded city. I don't remember it from real life, but I do know that there is something in my life that is like that place. It's a representation of something real. I think about going down to sit in the courtyard, but decide not to. There is a guy sitting down there on a picnic table. I look around, and see that there is graffiti all over the upper walls of the place. It detracts a little bit from the peacefullness, but I still like the courtyard.

I should have seen this one coming, cause I had social studies test today.
I always get a FA when Im concerned about the next day or morning as I was today also.

I am at our backyard, Its summer and a school morning so I have to go to school. I hear that RV is calling my dad and then I see RV walking down the street near our house, shes a bit drunk and I suddenly try to rush inside. I have this tiny music bow with me but its grinding my shit(???) and theres like some brown liquid and lumps of shit dropping from the music box when I play it. I get into our garage and Im parking my bike there when RV comes there. I see my moped there but I also see another moped which is not mine. Im wondering why is that, that I have 2 mopeds, but I dont become lucid.

I also have these feelings of stress and hurry...

Dream Lucid Me DC

Dream 1
I´m at an arena. Someone tells me its an arena where adventurers can battle each other. I see Fry and Leela from Futurama sitting there. They tell me that their going to enter the tournament. At some point, I become a healer and join their team. My classmate M is also there, looking for a teammate. (The rivalry begins...) Later I get an clarinet and find an song to play with it from some forest. It´s an healing song. (I also got another song from an canyon, but can´t remember what it was.) When I get back to the arena, I find out that M has found an teammate. I think he was an warrior. I wake up.

Dream 2
I´m back at the arena. M has made my teammates to eat some magic gingerbread to prevent us from competing in the tournament. I forgot my healing song, so I go back to the forest to get it, but I wake up.

My Notes
Non-lucid
Lucid
Awake

I awake to my 6 hour alarm. Before I went to bed, I made sure to remember to be more alert when I awake. This worked, and I remembered to get up and think for a few minutes. I was in bed and started trying to WILD. I got in a comfy position after stretching and attempted to enter SP. After a few minutes, my feet began to tingle. Every few minutes, for a few moments, my heart rate would increase dramatically. This may have caused brief arousal .
My entire body began to feel heavy. I did for a few moments begin to see small HI, but this never lasted long. It was mostly just weird textures. I eventually was forced to give up, as I went to bed later than I wanted and really needed my 8 hours.

In my first dream, I'm extremely angry at my mum. I don't know why exactly, but I just am. We're in my family car (the old one) parked outside someone's house. I can tell it's a hot, clear sky day. Two kids are about to pass the car. I know I really shouldn't, but being extremely angry, I hit one of them very hard in the face through the window. For some reason I thought they were a threat. My mum and my brother (both also in the car) are horrified at what I'd just done. They made it seem like I committed murder. I remember seeing her calling someone on her phone. The police?
I'm now inside my house, running from my bedroom to the living room. I pass my dad, who is sitting in the main TV chair.He greets me with a smile and asks me what's wrong. His calmness temporarily calms me down. I tell him how I really hate mum, and how I really mean it. Before he gets a chance to respond I run outside. There are black leather chairs and lots of rubbish outside. I sit on one of the chairs. I remember seeing my dad with a confused expression looking at me through the window.
That was a pretty awful dream. I never like being angry at my mum, and I'm usually not. That's not the first dream where I've hated her.

The second dream was very short. I was in my older brother's bedroom with the light off. My little brother was with me. He was showing me a HTC "phone" he'd just bought. It was basically a watch with a screen. The screen expanded across the entire wrist band. I recently bought a very nice watch that glows in the dark very brightly. That could explain this dream. I remember wanting to buy one. I knew there was one out even better than his, but I thought buying one better than his new one would be unkind. I watched Top Gear last night. In it they were making fun of James because they had a Ferrari much better than his. I did feel a little bad for James. This would have also contributed to the dream.

In the third dream, I was with my friends Luke, Joel and George. We were all camping together. This is probably my 1000th camping dream after participating in Outward Bound. I was talking to George, something about how you should cover yourself in warm water to warm up. This made up both laugh. It's the afternoon and I notice nobody else is here. I look around, and I'm the only one there. I stay calm; at least it's not night. Later on Joel and I are at a wooden fence. I look over it (it's very tall) to find someone's backyard, with a bowl of dog food in it. I realise that this is actually a set-up camp. I go to tell Joel.

I was watching another game show from a high view - I was either watching it on a TV or from a far back row in the audience. The audience chairs went diagonally up, like on most game shows. Penny, the female character from The Big Bang Theory had her tits out, and was balancing them in her hands. She seemed very tired out and excited at the same time, as she was doing some form of energetic task that involved her moving around on her spot. Suddenly, she got a question asking her something about food, such as "what did you eat last night"? She got all confused, until she said Spaghetti. "Spaghetti" turned out to be the answer to the REAL question, which was "What can you NOT make a baby out of?"

I was on some form of gameshow, and was in the studio. I was sat in my own little private seat on the wall, like the room the guy who controls the projector sits in at the cinema. The room was semi-lit. I looked forward, and there was someone sat next to a desk. I can't remember who this was, but I'm pretty sure it was a friend of mine. They began to interrogate me, asking me if I was eating "Gay Breakfast". At the time, I was eating a bowl of Coco-Pop Rocks. I told them I was eating breakfast, therefore we concluded that my breakfast was gay... The presenter was Asian and very eccentric.