non-lucid

There is a woman—some dark entity had reached out for her, badly frightening her. She has shut herself away somewhere to get away from it, but it can still reach her. I can hear her screaming there—but I’m on my way to help her.

The first thing I have to do is get out of a sort of wooden elevator running down the center of the building. I seem to have entered this way, going down, but none of the doors are opening. Somehow, I can see perfectly fine into the space beyond the shaft, but the walls are definitely there, and the doors are not only solid but quite heavy. I’m alone here in the elevator, but in communication with someone else—someone I know to be my mother, although she isn’t my actual, waking life mother. She seems to be playing some kind of guiding or teaching role.

Above my head, everything just fades into darkness, like the heights of a cavern. Apparently, it doesn’t occur to most people who come here to look up for a while, and so this comes as a bit of a shock to them, but I can remember having been through this series of events before, and so this place holds no surprises for me. Besides that, I have access to a deeper understanding of the space I’m in: it’s defined by solfege, as if the intervals and their syllables are acting as some kind of abstract structural parameters, and they are also structuring what I am able to do in it and do to it.

Once I finally manage to get out, I find myself in what seems to be an iteration of my old house in M---. This version looks twisted, hollowed out, dark—actually, there doesn’t seem to be a source of light anywhere, which would explain why, even though I feel vividly present here, it has an odd visual quality to it, and the only non-black color I can see here is blue. I’m using night vision. The blue is brightest in the fog hovering throughout the house, moving as though stirred by currents of air. When this fog is concentrated, it indicates the presence of a ghost—or perhaps it simply is the ghost.

This whole place gives off a decidedly creepy vibe—a palpable sense of decay and malevolence. But the fact that I already know where all the dangers are takes the edge off the creepiness, as does the fact that this seems to be a case where there is no outcome but success. I already know things are going to turn out fine, and so I don’t let the place bother me too much.

Now the person who is my mother is physically here with me, a couple rooms away—although, either because the walls are in ruins or because I can see through these ones too, she’s still visible from where I’m looking around the living room. Nothing much seems to be happening at the moment. I’m just keeping an eye on the blue fog. There are some mirrors there in the room: I use them to check my form as I practice jumping from side to side, moving between stances I might need to use later.

(7.9.18)

I'm with a friend in a truck driving around a new quarry site. He doesn't like it for some reason so he's trying to be annoying and kick up as much dust as possible with the tires so it will blow towards the site. The plan doesn't work though because the wind blows it the other direction. Later, I'm in a hotel- looking place with many friends. We are about to do something but everyone is taking a nap first.

Date of Dream: SAT 8 SEP - 2018



Dream No. 418 - An Unexciting Family Holiday

I don’t remember much about this dream. From where I do remember, I was at home and my parents were planning for the whole family to go on a holiday somewhere. It wasn’t just our family that was going to go but also the family of one of our friends. The dream camera showed where the location was going to be and it was some sort of beach but the sky was grey and the weather was cold and ugly.

We then got to the location and there wasn’t any indoor accommodation that my parents had booked. Rather, it was all outdoor, on just a grassed area with some sandy areas and a big garden bed nearby occupied by a bunch of bright green frogs. My parents were picking on me for something but I forgot what it was specifically.

Later on, near the end of the dream, it was just showing random bouts of where everyone would be sleeping. The location of where our family friends would be sleeping wasn’t specified. My family would be sleeping on the grass near the garden bed. Then lastly, the dream (though my voice) had mentioned 18-Volt, both he and I would be sleeping on the big wooden ledge surrounding the garden bed. It actually showed me sleeping on one side and 18-Volt sleeping on the other side. That’s all I can remember for this dream.



Dream Tasks
- Have Logan receive harsh penalties from Dreamy WB due to reckless social behaviours (Achieved? Partially)
- Have all members on the dream guide team obtain and apply knowledge on how to provide in-dream discipline to unruly parents (Achieved? No)

Challenges
- Start the dream off with Dreamy WB already present (Achieved? No)



Dream 418: Results (Competition #7)
Competition Night: 7
Lucid or Non-Lucid?: Non-Lucid
Dream Guide: 18-Volt
Emergency Team: None
Eligible For Competition Points: Yes



Points For This Entry: 4.0
Calculation Details:
- Non-Lucid Fragment (0.5)
- Have A Dream Guide Automatically Appear (0.5)
- 3-Day Recall Chain (3.0)

+ Previous Total: 29.5
Total Accumulated Points: 33.5

Date of Dream: FRI 7 SEP - 2018



Dream No. 417 - Separated Sections

Dream 417 A - The Car Is No More
I don’t remember how the dream started. From where I do remember, I was back at Killester College and the year 12 co-ordinator Ms L came up to me. She asked me to head into one of the classrooms but she would not tell me why. As soon as I entered the room, one of the teachers was holding the keys to my mum’s car with a somewhat sad look on her face. My year 12 homeroom teacher, Ms Ko. broke the bad news. She said that taken my mum’s car and destroyed it.

There was then a sub-scene projected into the dream that the first thing that was shown was a partial image of MN… He was responsible for the damage. Then it had shown that the bottom of my mum’s car was all ruined and crumpled over. The top however, weirdly sprouted out into some sort of wooden tower. I thought to myself, “My mum’s car has been turned into a tower!”.

It then went back to the actual current scene and I started crying. Everyone in the room was now comforting me, saying that they were sorry for my loss. Strangely, Ms Ch. came up to me and I said, “I love you”, then kissing me on the cheek. That’s all I can remember about this dream.

Dream 417 B - Church Service Gone Wrong
The dream started with me supposedly waking up and getting out of bed with the clock saying 9:00 AM… There was no abnormality on the digital clock and so there was no trigger to become lucid. I came out of my bedroom and saw that my brother was still at home, he was supposed to leave for his work site at 7:30 AM. I asked my mum, “Why hasn’t NB gone to the distribution centre?”. My mum explained that a family friend EW had called him when he was supposed to be leaving and so NB then decided not to go at all rather than turning up late.

Apparently, EW was holding a boys only welcoming church service for his newborn baby XW. Despite hearing “boys only”, I thought to myself “Grr, why wasn’t I invited?!” and I now had ideas to sneak into the service. It was then slightly later on in the morning and my brother was upstairs. I was looking up at pieces of paper on the fridge door and mentioned that there was this WarioWare game for the Nintendo Wii but we don’t even have a Wii, let alone the game. My brother said that the Wii was going to cost $5,000 AUD but that he would buy it today. I questioned him, thinking “But that’s a lot of money, are you sure you would do that?”. With a smile on his face, he said yes.

The next scene of the dream took place at some unknown outdoor area, it felt like it was outside the block of this accommodation complex and I was outside with my mum, standing under a tree; apparently my dad and brother were now at the service. I took my mum’s bag so she wouldn’t have to hold it all the time and said that I would look after it. Then the scene transitioned to just me inside a cabin, supposedly full of girls, about 7 or 8 others.

In the cabin, I was going to put my bag down where the rest of the bags were stored, in front of and on top of this cupboard in the corner of our common room. I figured I would only have one bag to put down but when I put down two, I realised what was going on… I forgot to give my mum her bag back in the last scene. I thought to myself, “Shit... I forgot to give mum her bag back. I hope she doesn’t need it anytime soon”. My bag was a woven Coles bag that had a black and red pineapple printed on it (these bags actually do exist in real life).

And then my attention is turned to the couch just next to the door to the entry of the cabin. “Everyone, I’d like you to meet my dream guide, his name is 18-Volt” I said as I gestured with my hand to have him welcomed… He was staying in the cabin with us. He was literally all flopped out on the couch, in his WarioWare Gold appearance, looking like he had been resting for a while. His proportions in this dream were of a realistic human scale, about 1.5x bigger than me. As a side note, he was silent in this dream and didn’t speak.

I came up to him and gave him a hug with him hugging me in return and then he got up, grinning at the girls as he carried me around the room, proving to them that he was my dream guide. In this part of the scene, the dream camera was playing the position of third-person mode, so I could actually see 18-Volt carrying me. He had both his arms remaining around my upper-middle back from the hug while mine were now around his neck. My upper body was supported by his chest but there was no weight support for my bottom half, my feet were seen dangling a few centimetres off the ground, swinging from side to side as he walked. Thankfully though, I didn’t feel as if though I was going to completely drop down to the ground anytime soon. I was wearing my school summer dress.

Eventually, 18-Volt had put me down and now I was just casually chatting with the girls. I soon decided to go by myself and explore the area. I came to the area where the boys’ church service was being held and it was a part of the same complex where the cabins were. It was this grand room made of mostly marble and there was tiered seating along the two opposite walls where the congregation would sit. The room was almost completely dark; the only form of lighting was this ambient spectacle of green dots as a well as a long solid panel of green light ascending from the edges of the floor.

I wanted to check out what was going on in this service but I also knew that I was not to be detected by anyone in that place. I ended up tip-toeing to one of the entrance archways as quietly as I could, swinging my head around the corner. I ended up catching sight of one half of the congregation who were facing my direction, the other half were on the side of the entrance and so my vision in that direction was blocked. To the ledges that were visible, I saw EW, my dad and my brother along with all these other men. I could also hear this heavenly singing but could not make out what the specific song was.

Once I was satisfied, I decided that I would head back to the cabin. I had come across some other cabins and when I entered it, I found that it was a cabin with only boys in it, just like I had a cabin with only girls in it (besides 18-Volt). I had panicked, saying something like, “I thought this was my cabin for a minute”. The boys did in-fact explain to me that it was their own cabin. I then left the boys’ cabin but rather than attempting to find my own cabin, I now decided to explore the rest of the place.

As I got further and further, some parts of the complex were getting weirder and weirder. The area now looked like the outside part of some university campus, especially with the styles of buildings around. All over the ground were these LED strips, lights off though, some were blue and some were orange. I believed that the blue lines had something to do with if you had a good moral code and that the orange lines had the association of a bad moral code. There wasn’t a good feeling around the place though; there were a lot more orange lines than there were blue lines.

Still, I kept exploring the area and ascending the gradual steps to see if the lines would actually lead to anything. When I got as high as I could, I started to feel more on edge. Apparently, the dream got me to think that nearby, there was some sort of chute and that if I believe I was living a life based on bad morals, then I should jump down it. I looked down the chute and it felt sickly terrifying, it was made of some really dark metal and it was in-fact really dark inside, like pitch black… It felt like some deep robotic hole of death and despair.

I thought to myself, “If you’re not careful, you could slip and fall down there”, so I moved back. As I was moving back though, I must have accidentally stepped onto one of the orange lines on the ground as it lit up. There was then a sub-scene playing that took place in the church. The lighting that was green now turned red, and the priest? Archbishop (that was his name) was now evil. He had the worst, most twisted look on his face as he said everything that was the opposite of a blessing. This was going to be one scary mass for the participants.

Back to my scene, I realised that by activating the orange line, I had turned the church evil. I was now freaking out really badly and I decided that I would have to go down there and stop the service before things got worse. With a bad feeling in my chest, I cried out for 18-Volt, emphasising that we need to go and save the parishioners. There was no physical response from 18-Volt but I could feel some new, slightly calming energy descending on me amongst the currently stressful environment. I ended up accepting the fact that he didn’t show up and I rushed over to the church myself; I wasn’t scared anymore, now I felt confident that I could stop this; in my heart, I knew he was with me.

I flew over to the main entrance of the marble church hall at top speed and I made my presence known, urging everyone to stop and listen to me. As I started to give my lecture, the dream was causing some really bad throat phlegm. I was stating that “You’ve got to think back to the real reason why you’re here, you’re here to bless XW and give him his life”. As I would continue to talk, my throat would get more choked up with phlegm. This time, instead of forcing myself and going completely muted, I stopped and cleared the phlegm.

Once my voice was clear though, the dream tried to stop me with another bout of phlegm. I knew what was going on and so this time I shouted, “Before I lose my voice, just let me finish my sentence”, “Please! Let there be peace!”. Then the red lights went off and now the church lighting wasn’t on at all, I had successfully ended the service. Also, the priest no longer had the look of evil pasted onto his face.

When the majority of people had left the building, I approached the alter and saw that there was a running sheet on there. Some events were marked in blue pen and other events were marked in red pen. The events in the blue pen took place in the first part of the service and the ones in red pen where when I had activated the bad moral and evil energy. I don’t clearly remember this part but I think the priest had a look of regret on his face and somewhat apologised for the concluding actions.

It was now time for me to leave the site altogether. In this dream, I flew everywhere whenever I travelled far, this was the same for when I was going to catch the bus back with my high school. I realised that I was about to miss the bus and I panicked as I flew towards it at top speed, thinking it was going to drive off on me. I got in that bus just in time! Ms McD. was the teacher and she welcomed me aboard the bus.

As soon as I got seated at the very back of the bus, I checked my bags. I realised I had my Killester College navy backpack with me but I soon came to realise that I left my big navy suitcase back at the campsite. The bus then decided to leave the area, driving off and that’s when I said, “Err… I could’ve waited for the next bus...”. Ms McD. then turned to me from her seat and said I didn’t need to do that. I then thought to myself, “That’s true actually… I don’t need to wait for the next bus, I’ve got 18-Volt, he can bring my bag back with him”. I then slid my window open, stuck my head out and yelled “18-Volt! Get my bag, now!”. That’s when the same warm energy from the end of the orange line scene had descended on me again, I was heard.

I stuck my head back in, now looking out the window, smiling with confidence and this reassurance that 18-Volt was going to take my bag back with him. The girls were then chattering on the bus, reflecting on what was apparently “year 12 camp”. As soon as the bus drove into the start of the suburbs, I woke up.



Dream Tasks
- Have Logan receive harsh penalties from Dreamy WB due to reckless social behaviours (Achieved? Partially)
- Have all members on the dream guide team obtain and apply knowledge on how to provide in-dream discipline to unruly parents (Achieved? No)

Challenges
- Start the dream off with Dreamy WB already present (Achieved? No)



Dream 417: Results (Competition #7)

417 A
Competition Night: 6
Lucid or Non-Lucid?: Non-Lucid
Dream Guide: None
Emergency Team: None
Eligible For Competition Points: Yes

417 B
Competition Night: 6
Lucid or Non-Lucid?: Non-Lucid
Dream Guide: 18-Volt
Emergency Team: None
Eligible For Competition Points: Yes



Points For This Entry: 4.0
Calculation Details:
- Non-Lucid Fragment (0.5)
- Full Non-Lucid Dream (1.0)
- Have A Dream Guide Automatically Appear (0.5)
- Fly (1.0)
- Help Someone In Need (1.0)

+ Previous Total: 25.5
Total Accumulated Points: 29.5



In the scene where I was terrified, the church being turned evil, I was in such a panic but then I actually paused and realised that ever since I had introduced 18-Volt in the cabin, he was actually with me the whole time. That cabin scene in a way was his introduction and then he must have physically stayed in with the girls for the rest of the dream but he was always listening and travelling with me in the form of that energy. He just needs to improve his method on how he carries me (I'm not as light as that DS he would usually have on him), he needs to support my lower end as well so I don't slip, or at least allow me to clip my legs around him. But then again, he may have only been like that because he didn't adjust from the hugging position. This is his first time holding me, so that's major progress. He looked after me so well. Amazingly, all the events of Dream 417 B happened only in a time-slot of 1/2 an hour; between 9:15 AM and 9:45 AM.

Date of Dream: THU 6 SEP - 2018



Dream No. 416 - Bouncing Across The Lava

I don’t remember much about this dream. From what I can remember, I was at a shopping centre that was claiming to be Brandon Park but also The Glen at the same time. There was only one small section that was open and the rest had construction materials everywhere as there was a big renovation going on. I explored the area but forgot the specific details of what I was doing in that scene.

Scattered around the complex were all the characters from the WarioWare series, I remember going past Kat & Ana, Ashley, Dr. Crygor and Mona. I couldn’t exactly communicate with them in this dream though. I said to myself that I was looking for 18-Volt but I couldn’t him anywhere. Eventually, I came to what was believed to be the end of the complex and it was some strange environment in a now volcano and lava climate.

The next part of this scene makes barely any sense and so I will recap what I can. I felt like I was now playing a game and the level was in the lava scene. It was Dribble and Spitz as a pair that I was controlling. I had to get them to the end of the path without them touching the lava, or they would be bounced back to the start. The first two times, there were bounced back but on the third attempt, they made it to the end.

The dream then went back to my perspective and I was now going to head back to the public part of the shopping centre. Still, I was carefully looking around for any sign of 18-Volt. Just as I am about to approach the escalator to head back to the top floor, which is where I started, I turn my head sideways and see access to a lift. For a short while, I stand there hesitantly, staring at it with a mixture of scared and puzzled emotions. After a while, I walked off and continued my own way. I can’t remember anything else about this dream.



Dream Tasks
- Have Logan receive harsh penalties from Dreamy WB due to reckless social behaviours (Achieved? Partially)
- Have all members on the dream guide team obtain and apply knowledge on how to provide in-dream discipline to unruly parents (Achieved? No)

Challenges
- Start the dream off with Dreamy WB already present (Achieved? No)



Dream 416: Results (Competition #7)
Competition Night: 5
Lucid or Non-Lucid?: Non-Lucid
Dream Guide: None
Emergency Team: None
Eligible For Competition Points: Yes



Points For This Entry: 1.0
Calculation Details:
- Full Non-Lucid Dream (1.0)

+ Previous Total: 24.5
Total Accumulated Points: 25.5

Non-dream stuff - woke up at about 8:30 again, so I know that my alarm is being able to wake me up again. Still didn't have enough willpower to not stay in bed and slept another 2 hours again. Remember one of the non-lucids.

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Dream sequence:
I remember being in this office/computer room as I am in now to write this DJ, or perhaps a similar room. I remember then being in the kitchen and I was talking to my partner about an appointment I (actually) have next week. In the dream the appointment's location was somewhere in Illinois.

My partner was somewhat upset because we hadn't made any preparations at all and it was actually impossible for us to drive there. We would need to go an a 6-hour flight (which is inconsistent with the real distance, which would take longer) and then there was some kind of transition.

I was now in a plane, which actually looked like it had a fair bit of room, but the plane wasn't on an airport. It looked more like it was in the middle of a town and people were all waiting for take-off. The plane had a layout I can't really explain or detail, but it was not at all like it should have been. Some people were complaining that things were falling apart, and I think my dad was there commenting that it was fine and that actually those parts were not crucial.

A man next to me spoke in my native language and voiced his own concerns, and I tried to tell him that it probably really was nothing to worry about. I remember he had a drink in a plastic cup and then behind me there was some sort of drink dispenser like a water cooler, with more of said plastic cups in a slot. The cups were a blue-hued non-transparent grey. The light coming in through the windows was orange-ish, in a way that implied it was early morning, likely at sunrise.

Then I remember being outside, either walking around or being driven somewhere when I pass the plane, which is sitting on a street, wingless I think, next to some terraced houses. The plane didn't look like it crashed or anything; it was just sitting there.

I know I interacted with someone else after that but I can't remember any more details specifically now.

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Notes:

• I can't remember having many (if any) dreams with planes.
• The dream context of "travel" is a consistent theme across some of my most common dreamsigns however.
• It's likely that I had this dream because last night my parents wanted to speak to me and I was feeling too tired so I didn't speak to them; and they presumably wanted to talk about a trip to where they live, which I really didn't feel like thinking about.
• In dreams I don't particularly feel stressed with travel, but in the waking world, traveling can feel stressful for me if it involves large gathering hubs or if it's highly disruptive to day-to-day life (i.e. if it's a trip away for a considerable amount of time).
• The way my partner was upset at me about the trip was a bit different to how the reaction would have been in the waking world, which might still have been slightly cross but more forgiving.
• I still find it odd that even though in the dream I was at locations in the house, I never did a reality check in the dream. Lately I do RCs quite often, even when in the house, so it seems odd that the "habit" of simply checking reality anyway doesn't even occur.

I'm with Mom about to go hiking. She's driving and parks in a parking lot in the middle of some beautiful scenery up in the mountains. I get out with the dog that looks like ours and we start walking. Somehow, I realize that Mom may have parked in a no parking zone and I ask her about it. She says hopefully we're back before anyone comes to give out tickets. We start hiking but the dog starts running off farther along the trail and I go after her. Eventually, the trail crosses a road and the dog has already ran across. I call her name to tell her to stop, but instead she runs back towards me. She avoids a car passing by and I grab her collar as soon as she gets close. I see Mom driving her car and pulling up next to me. I put the dog in the back and Mom tells me that she already got one ticket and they were going to give her more if she didn't leave. Later, I find myself framing a murder by cutting significant support off a giant tree. so if anyone goes in to inspect the body laying underneath it, the tree will fall. The ground around the tree is cracked where I had apparently cut some roots as well. I did this all with a small curved knife I'm now carrying. I start to walk away and see a large dodo bird off to one side. It's as tall as I am and just grazing on some plants when it sees me. After I get out ahead of it, it starts to charge me. I raise the curved knife behind me like I'm about to throw it, and the dodo turns around and retreats. I continue walking along a path that leads to what looks like a ski resort. I see the patchy, discolored snow on the slope and realize it's still pretty early in the ski season. However, there are still a significant number of people on the mountain. I pass right under a chairlift and weave through the incoming skiers and boarders headed to the life line. I head farther in to the mountains where I know the trail will take me somewhere.

Sep 7 2018

First dream of night: I'm at childhood home. I'm younger, I think. There is a party or gathering coming up, and we're discussing it in the backyard. My mom wants us (fiance and I) to wear a giant Barney suit. We tentatively agree. I try on the suit and can't fit the headpiece on. It's a rectangular oblong plasic open box (thinka tupperware container, but oblong. It was in no way the appropriate size for my head. On the two, I think there was a felt cap or something (driveR). I think the torso had a separate piece from the legs for the costume. After trying the headpiece on without the tupperware "structural mask", mI found that I could shift my focus and see myself in 3rd person (still non-lucid). I remember it looked nothing like a Barney head or any formed animal costume head for that matter; instead it was like a purple ghost outfit (i.e. loose draped rag with eye holes).

The dream shifts and we're all in a parking lot. My mom's request for us to work during the party has come up, but it turns out she wants us to work for 5 hours each. I say that's bullshit, she wsays "well you agreed, you just idn't specify timeframe or current ball timeframe". We were in some kind of parking lot, I was in a white van I believe. I was trying to pull out of the spot and around the corner. I fought with my momm about this and eventually resigned us completely from doing the ball.

Before getting in the van I believe, I was walking around a version of the parking a lot that was fused with my backyard. Off towards the far right/forward corner of the yard, there's a system of roots that went on for a few fet in either direction. I didn't realize, but some of them are completely rotten. I step over them and they collapse, while the healthy parts remain intact. The rotten roots fall away into a large grave-sized hole.

The dream shifts and I'm inside the house, in a false version of my room. My fiance is there with me, but is playing the role of a sister (posibly step sister or family friend, it was vague). The mood was fierce and rebellious. We are talking about how best to approach the Barney situation and my dad ends up walking around the corner. He has a few guys with him and he cracks some inappropriate jokes, and some of the guys with him say some stuff that's way out of line. My zipper is down. Before this my "sister" and I were watching TV or in the kitchen.

Dream fragment about "how to meet your heroes" or something similar.

Edit: In the main dream, I remember at multiple points having to swat away both lovebugs and wasps.



*Note: Seems like in my dreams, I usually get in huge fights with my mom (way more intense than anything ever IWL), and my dad is always laid back (innappropriately so).

I start this dream off in a rather strange place. It looks to be my sister deon's place but it is all big and not right. I'm in a dark area but I can see orange light coming in from another room. There were pillars or tall dark things around like they were holding up something and I was at on of them. I was using a hand help phone and there were people there. They were my friends who I play games with. They wanted me to play with them so I joined up. I spawn in with a group of 6 people and each had their own personally made avatars. They looked like Final fantasy characters. One was a fairy with white wings who wore a sparkly pink dress and she was hovering next to a short green Orc. I was little old me and didn't see the rest of the players. Before we knew it we were plunged into a dark room and was filled with things that wanted us dead. We ended up having to scatter as a rotor blade swung down from above, nearly hitting the orc. I ducked just as an axe swung at me from the left then red hot laser shoot up from the ground. We managed to escape that room just before the doors closed. Now we are in some kind of arena where people were watching and cheering at us. The place was lively and had sand on the ground. Some gates opened up and two vicious 6 feet tall dogs came barreling out like hungry beasts, snarling and spit flinging into the air from its mouth. The fairy screams and fly up high as the Orc charged at it with it's hammer. The leader of the group who looked like cloud tried to call him back but he was two reckless and the beast swung its paw at him, swatting him away like a tiny fly into the stadiums. He went flying through the wall that collapsed onto him. "Damn it!" The merciless beast charged forwards and as it did so I can see someone on top of it. It was a blue colored robot who had an axe in his hand and tried to decapitate me but I ducked and he missed wildly. Cloud order the fairy to use her magic to teleport us out of her but she detested that it was a one time use spell and was not ready to use it yet. Cloud waited until the beast charged him then right as it got to him, he slid under the beast, cutting its legs with his giant sword. The beast cried out in agony and collapsed, throwing the rider off and he went tumbling across the arena and out of sight. We tried to see if we can find him but was couldn't and we left that place.

As we were heading to the next area cloud was looking angrily at fairy who flew over to me to avoid him. She said something to me but I forgot what it was.


Now the dream shifts and I'm back at my sister's weird house and I see cloud over in another room, talking to fairy about her actions and are to listen to orders. After that the orc came up to them and told them to both cut it out and that we need to get out of this dangerous place. So we make it into another place and there are platforms here. There is a key on the otherside and the key will help us escape out of here and get a power up and a rez potion. The fairy tried to fly across but turrets ascended from above and she dodged just in time just as a red hot bolt zipped past her, singing one of her wings. She flew into cloud, who put her up on his shoulder. "hold on tight." He dashed forwards, yelling for the rest of us to come on and hurry. Fast moving platforms, turrets and no way to see God knows what else that awaits us? "oh that is real smart to rush ahead like that.! I shouted. Cloud points behind me and I see crisscross lasers coming and fast! I bolted ahead just at the laser caught the heel of my shoe. I was careful not to knock anyone off into the bottomless hole below us and brought up the rare of the group. Then I seen that the platforms where moving closer and closer together and realized that there were walls here that were closing in and we were almost there. Cloud and fiery made it and, the orc and the newly revealed avatar Fox made it out and I did too, just barely getting my foot through the walls as they slammed shut. "is every one ok?" Everyone nodded. As I walked ahead with cloud and fairy the Orc and fox sat down to rest up abit. Suddenly a wall rose up from the ground, cutting them off from us. "Shit!" Cloud ran and tried to put his sword in between the wall and the ceiling but it was too late. it slammed shut, separated us from the other two. I can hear them on the other side yelling and pounding on the wall, trying to get back with us. Cloud turned to fairy. "Drop the portal. Now!" She used her want to open a vortex on the wall. As she was doing that, a blue and white gun rose up and shot her as she was doing that, and she ended up on the other side of the wall with Orc and Fox. I hear a metallic laugh coming from behind us. I turned around and seen a hologram pop up. A blue transformer appeared on it with a white door on it chest. The image was all fuzzy and glitchy. Cloud shot at it before he can say anything, burning out the device and sending it careening across the room.

"Soundwave..." Cloud said softly. As we were messing around, the room began to slowly formed and change. Now we are in some kind of control room and I am only with cloud. "what happened? He asked. "I don't know, the place just transformed." I said. I began to feel uneasy since we are no down to three people but felt secure around Cloud. There was a tall old school looking panal that was connected to the ceiling and it was facing away from us. As I studied it I saw two figures materialize in front of it. They were facing towards me but the panel blocked them from seeing me. One was white and the other was blue. it was soundwave! The one tried to decapitate me at the arena. It's him! I aimed and shot the panel they were at and it exploded, send soundwave crashing into the white one who I now see as Megatron. Megatron charge at Cloud who was ready for him and monkey flipped him into a pile of boxes. I started to go help but the was cut off when sound wave lunged at me, pinning me to the ground. He was massive. " I have had enough of you." he said in a monotonic metallic voice that seemed to sing. He wrapped his arms around me and started to squeeze me and as he did that, I felt his body getting all hot. I was kicking and yelling over at cloud but he was too occupied with Megatron. I felt sometime on my stomach and saw that it was his buttons. "Yuck!" I kicked him in them and I heard him make a sound. I saw a sudden white flash in my right eye ans then pain. He must have head butted me or something because next thing I know; I'm on the ground with him upon me, struggling to get free. Soundwave laughed at me not being able to get free and shoved my fave up against his glass chest.

I had a horrid image of my skin getting stuck to his hot chest when I pull away and for some reason I thought that'd it'd be a good idea to tell him this. "Don't get hot!" Some strange rap music that I am familiar with began to play.

I knew it was all over.

Next thing I know I'm back at my Sisters house again and the group was too. I saw cloud with Orc and fairy laughing about something and went intoanother game. I tried to join up with them but was having problems.
I got kicked out due to an error which I was glad about since it got me away fro Soundwave burning me but pissed at the same time since they were waiting on me. I texted them, saying I couldn't get in since it was passworded. They sent me the pass but it was hard to type on the phone. I told them to go ahead without me and I'll join up later. I continued to have issues until my sister actually came and I gave her the phone so that she can put the pass in since I know dreams will not let you type so easily, lol.

I was in a formal dress at a big meeting where there were rows and rows of seats. I don't remember anything about the meeting except that this was one of my dreams where languages kind of mixed randomly and people would switch between Korean, English and Spanish with no rhyme or reason.

After the meeting a shady looking white guy in a trench coat asked me if I would hand over an "item" to one of my Korean friends for him. I don't really know what was going through my head but I agreed and took some weird black package he had stuffed in his trench coat. I found my old friend in the hallway outside the room where the meeting was held. We said hi and stuff, and suddenly he showed me a big open envelope for me to put the package in. I understood the gesture despite him not saying anything, and I attempted to put the item in the envelope. I was a little clumsy, though, and I fumbled with the package and then dropped it on the ground. When I went to pick it up some government officials, who were big men in suits wearing sunglasses, introduced themselves to us and then told us in English that they knew what we were doing (funny because I still didn't really know what I was doing) and that we would need to come with them. My Korean friend deliberately only spoke Korean to them and eventually they gave up on talking to him, but they took me into a dark room with a single spotlight over an interview table.

They started asking me for my name and identification papers (I didn't have whatever those were supposed to be), and they interrogated me about the package. I woke up before we really got started though. Or maybe my recall just fades off at that point. I'm not really sure.

Sep 6 2018

Not enough sleep. Have been having to work late.

First dream segment. There's a guy with a giant (2x2 or 3x3 inch) black square earring. The place is like a video gaming convention, and it's sort of simultaneously indoors and outdoors. I'm maybe drunk or something, I remember talking to a lot of DCs. At one point, I lean over the edge of a display to the concealed camera section (used to record the event or maybe for use with some kind of Kinect-like game) and I say something like "you can't stay here/keep playing forever". I think at some point, coworker A shows up and accompanies me and my group of DCs.

In the next segment, we're on the road with my mom. She's driving us somewhere, an old vacation home maybe, telling embarassing stories. Coworker A is in the backseat driver side, I'm passenger side. There are other DCs shotgun and middle backseet. We talk about various things, such as A being a bartender at a restaurant I used to work at. The subject moves to "romance" novels written by women. Eventually my mom puts an audiobook on or maybe reads aloud a passage, and everyone critiques it harshly, but halfway through I realize due to some turns of phrase and nicknames used that she must have written it. I feel guilt but don't say anything. We pass a couple of very shallow interstate exits (an interesting feature that's kind of hard to describe, but I know it when I see it -- possible dreamsign). Eventually we arrive at our destination.

I'm now in a house, it's an old vacation home I used to visit, but not with my mom. I think in the dream, the other DCs were my "real" brothers, and somehow my mom was a step or non-biological mother; the general feeling was that I had some long-forgotten history that I was reviving. After walking around the house for a bit and looking at different things, I came across some large scrolls! They were proably 2 feet long (including handles and such) and reminded me of a Torah scroll, but less formal looking. When I unrolled one, I could see that the letters were a mix of Chinese symbols (although I interpreted them as Japanes kanji and understood them) with smaller Hebrew and latin characters mixed in and surrounding them. The text was distinctly red. Everything in the scrolls made complete sense to me, and I talked them over excitedly with my brothers for a long time. This was what was meant for my life. My mom was in the kitchen or somewhere else; I could tell that she was happy for me, but at the same time sad that I was so excited about a life besides the one she had given me. Coworker A is in the house but not near and my brothers, off in the kitchen maybe.

I'm going on a road trip with some friends for a birthday celebration for one of them. We leave my house and are headed for some place in the mountains. We are taking 2 cars. I'm driving the first one with someone else in the other.

Fragment dream that leads into the second dream I had afterwards.

The Bully Boyfriend

I was in a school that I didn’t recognize, but I didn’t really care to look around since I felt kind of scared and uncomfortable so I stayed in the classroom. There were at least six or seven other girls with me which made me feel a bit better. We talked about basically anything. Then one of the girls giggled and started to talk about a guy in our school that was really hot and popular. AND cool. The other girls quickly joined the topic and added even more to this list of how awesome that guy was. I knew very well who he was and felt the scary and uncomfortable feeling increase out of nowhere. Suddenly, like lightning followed by the thunder, the door slams open.
A tall guy with brown hair and blue eyes stares at me. Behind stands three other guys waiting. The girls were screaming with excitement and everyone was sitting down on the floor. Forming a circle. I was not sure what was going on but it kind of freaked me out. I got this burning feeling on me like someone was staring, as I looked up from the floor my eyes met with his. That scary guy from before. The other girls were trying really hard to get his attention but failed. These kind of meetings with the other students happened everyday during school. But between classes as the guys were older than us girls. Soon that scary guy tried to make it clear for everyone that I was his girlfriend… which I hadn’t agreed on. But I didn't dare to say anything since the guy had a really bad reputation as he would beat the shit out of you if he didn't get the things he wanted.

The girls were really jealous and tried their best to make us break up. Once someone had eaten all the special food for those with allergies and such. I was really upset since I was so hungry and skipped the school’s lunch. But “my boyfriend” heard about it and scolded the girls who did it. Then he tried to buy some food to give me but I didn’t wanted it. Another time the girls and I were in the classroom playing truth or dare and drinking soda. Then one of the girls who was obsessed with “my boyfriend” dared me to throw ice cold coke on him. I was cool with that and walked outside to the school’s yard and found him fighting with another guy. The guy he was trying to beat was way taller and bigger. All “my boyfriend” did was provoking him and tried to watch out for the punches. At first I was so pissed at this and was walking towards to crowed of people prepared with the glass of coke in my hand. The ice cubes were clinging as I came closer. But as soon as I overheard the guys and realized why “my boyfriend” was fighting I stopped. He was just trying so hard to protect me from other people trying to cause me any harm. Stunned I slowly turned around and walked away. The other girls were looking at me and shaking their heads.
The girl that was obsessed with “my boyfriend” marched over and grabbed my arm so aggressively so the coke flew out of the glass. The girl scolded me for not breaking up even though I didn’t like him. I didn’t know anymore, what I felt or anything about my thoughts of him. He wasn't that very bad as a person after all. She suddenly went quiet which caused me to look up from the ground. “My boyfriend” was standing there with a huge stain of coke on his t-shirt. His eyes looked so sad but only for a second before they changed. His stare was cold as ice and it kind of freaked me out. As he clenched the jaw he glanced at us with fury. I tried to reach out to him but I felt so ashamed and a tear was slowly trying to escape.

He pushed away the obsessed girl so she almost fell and strode away.

Non-dream stuff - woke up at around 8:30 with the normal alarm but still fell asleep and woke up again about 2 hours later. Some non-lucid dream fragments from both awakenings persisted.

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Fragment:
I was in a mountainous area, and there was a town or something. There were rocky overhangs and the landscape looked like something I'd only see in games in general; the stone was mostly all like limestone, which reminds me now of an area in Dark Souls III. It was a bright and clear day.

I remember fighting some sort of blue dragon, not unlike some of the Rathians in Monster Hunter. It got tired or was scared off and flew away eventually.

Fragment:
I remember briefly a subway train station, similar to the last one I've dreamt of, but in no particular way other than how it felt; the lighting was perhaps a bit dim, like the other one. Then a train was arriving and it looked full-ish on some carriages and there were plenty of people on the platform; but I chose to go to a carriage that was not as close to me and it was much emptier.

The seats were in groups of 5, with their backs toward the windows. The seats were low and sort of cushioned. I was about to sit down when a woman on this row of seats said to me "could you please not sit down on these two", gesticulating at the particular seats; so I sat on the 2nd seat of the row, and she was sat on the 4th. She said something like "I'm sorry" and "... my assessment ...", the implication being it was some sort of benefits assessment. Somehow I knew she had children though they were certainly not here. I'm sure the train had set off at this point but I don't remember noises, come to think of it.

Fragment:
I was in some version or another of World of Warcraft and I was in a player group. The group consisted solely of my character, which name I don't remember reading, and another player/character whose character name was simply "Marshal". My character was a warrior, and the other player was another plate-wearing class, maybe a paladin; both characters were human.

We entered an Arathi Basin battleground together, but a lot of it looked subtly different; I remember both me and the other guy had full grand marshal equipment (which is the highest PvP rank for the Alliance faction), and I had two of the great-swords. We went separate ways but I sort of patrolled on my mount around the central blacksmith (which in the dream was more like a lumber mill) and the gold mine.

Oddly enough, despite being in a battleground, I don't remember seeing any enemies, though I know that our team was fighting some on the other side of the map.

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Some notes:

• Subway train stations are one of my most obvious dreamsigns, but I always seem to miss them. Part of it is because I don't expect them to come up, even though they are fairly common, but another part of it is that whenever they do show up, I had not set any sort of intention to recognise them as a dream-sign. They are a dead giveaway of the dream-state these days because I don't use the subway where I live (because there isn't one).
• I can't remember what the woman in the train looked like exactly; but she looked local to where I live. I remember feeling sorry or perhaps worried for her. Recently a friend of ours had an appointment for an assessment for benefits, so perhaps part of the context here is because of that.
• I haven't played WoW in quite a while now, and truthfully I don't think I will play it much more in the future; but I played the older versions a lot when I was younger and my dreams about the game are invariably about some sort of nostalgic feeling of those old times.
• I never attained the highest PvP rank in the classic game, but my eldest sibling nearly did.

I'm pretty sure I was lucid this past week, but only briefly and I don't have time to search for where I wrote it down as it's the first week of classes. :/

Last night, I was on a public balcony/observation deck that overlooked the ocean with my mom and possibly one or both of my siblings. There were some enormous ocean waves going on, and some even spilled over the top of the balcony. However, despite my anxiety, we kept sitting there and chatting for some reason.

Finally, one giant wave started heading towards us. It was terrifying...And then I woke up.

For whatever reason, enormous waves tend to be a recurring motif for me in my dreams...