non-lucid

Goonie's Treasure
Recall: 5/10
Sleep: Poor
Sleep Position: Unknown

My brother and I are sweeping out something like train cars, from the back to the front. Each one was a level of some treasure dungeon we just completed. We get to the front compartment and a group of us begins pressing colored crystal buttons to gain access to the treasure.

Some people warp to the treasure container while others stay behind to fiddle with the crystal code. I say I want to be there when the treasure opens to see it. We hit the combination of crystals to warp me to my desired location. I fell myself begin to fade out and reappear elsewhere in total darkness. I then hear an error message saying thee are already 2 emerald coffins and 2 gemstones in this area, and I warp back to where I started, curious as to what the gemstones looked like.

As the others play with the crystals, I walk up to the bone keyboard from the Goonies. I press some keys, and the whole thing falls over, then sinks into the floor. A small bar then appears in it's place, and that too slowly sinks into the floor. I try to get the other's attention, but they ignore me. The bar reappears and again sinks through the floor. I call to the others again who finally look.

Somehow, I've reset the entire dungeon, and we have to start everything over again. We think it should be easy this time because we know what to do. The room we are in gets a large puddle in the middle of the floor that begins to expand. There is also an extension cord plugged in the wall and sitting in the puddle.

"This room was electricity!" one of my companions says. Another runs up and quickly unplugs the cord. We think that solves our problem, but two glowing electric hands materialize out of thin air. I can't remember how we dealt with this last time. Perhaps luring the electric hands into the extension cord? I look for the cord but it's gone.

The electric hands chase us and we flee before them. They almost corner me a couple of times, and I just narrowly avoid them. They chase, way too close for comfort, and I sprint up some stairs. The hands encounter an invisible barrier at the bottom of the stairs, and flame up as they press against it.

non dream dream lucid

I was sitting in my room. Everything seemed normal. I left my room and went to the living room, thinking my parents would be there. They were'nt. I went to my little sister and little brother, who were playing in their room. I asked them where mom and dad were. They said that they were probably in their room, watching a movie. So I went in to their room. They were not there. It looked like they had been, but they were not there now. I panicked and called them on their cell phones. Neither one answered. I called my older brother, Zach, and he didn't answer either. I ran back to my brother and sister and screamed, "The rapture happened, we were left behind!" then I noticed they were no longer there. They had gone too. I didn't understand why I'd been left behind. I've been a Christian all my life. I loved God. I was ao confused. I cried and screamed and kicked everything I could. Then I saw my bible, sitting on my bed, and I cried harder. I went over to my window, outside it was a sickly yellow color, and I prayed to God to give me a second chance. I knew he wouldn't. I had missed it. Now I was doomed to the same fate as everyone else who had been left behind. I walked to my school, and went into the band room. My best friends, Emily, Daniel, Keygan, and Jared were there (Jared is also my boyfriend). Both Emily and Daniel are Christians like me and they knew what was going on, but like me they didn't know why they'd been left behind. I looked at Jared and Keygan who were confused and said, "Guys, Jesus came back and took all the Christians. It might seem bad now, but it's gonna get worse." Jared embraced me crying and said, "You were right! All those times you told me about God, you were right! Why didn't I listen to you!?" I hugged him back and said into his ear, "Give your heart to God, he's the only one who can let us survive this. Please. Do this for me." Jared nodded, still crying uncontrollably, and he gave his heart to God. Keygan did too, and he was crying. I reached into a bag I was carrying, it had bibles in it, and I gave one each to Keygan and Jared. Emily and Daniel had one with them. We left the school building and went to my house. We all cried and prayed. I held on to Jared, sobbing into his shoulder. Emily, Daniel, and I didn't know at all why we had been left behind. Jared softly kissed my cheek in an attempt to comfort me. Then they all went to their homes. I felt so alone. My family was gone. I had been the only one left behind. I loved God just as much as they did, but I was so confused. The next "day" we all met back in the band room and discussed who the Anti-Christ might be. We had no idea. Suddenly, someone was in the room with us. He looked evil and we ran from him, going through a corn field and ending up at my house. There we stayed for "days", not daring to leave the house. Outside there were people cutting down the little woods that was near us. We held bible study every day, it seemed to be the only thing keeping us alive. One "morning" I "woke up" and looked outside, the trees there were gone now. Jared walked up to me, and I told him, "What if this is all a dream? If it is, I want to wake up NOW." the dream went fuzzy, causing me to go lucid, and I told myself to not wake up. I looked at Jared with teary eyes and said, "This is a dream. When we wake up, everyone will still be there." Then I embraced him, kissing him slightly. He asked me if he and the others were dreaming too. I said, "I don't know. But if you are, then I hope you have learned from this dream, and that in the waking world, you'll give your heart to God just like you did here. I love you. I'm going to wake up now." Then I grabbed his hand. And I saw myself fade away as I woke up. This was one of the most vivid dreams I've ever had in my life.

I am driving my car and I turn into a mall parking lot. As I drive towards the other end of the lot all of a sudden a small naked child runs in front of me. I slam on my brakes an manage to miss him. After that cars keep backing out in front of me, I am getting very angry. I all of a sudden have a blowout on the right side. I keep control and soon it goes back to normal. I am so angry I speed up and speed through the parking lot. Just as I get out onto the road I pass a cop. I then notice I'm in the wrong side of a four lane road. The cop turns around and turns on his siren. I pull over to the side of the road and tell him the story. Dream ends there.

I just remembered it when i was watching an advert about pizza...
We had ordered dominos and i asked for the texas bbq (obviously ) wen it came my pizza was square and looked more like toast than pizza...
Anyway, I was really sad because I really wanted texas bbq and they gave me plain. So i phoned dominos and asked for a texas bbq.
At the same time I was moaning at them for sending me a square plain pizza.... thats all i remember...

Awake Non-Lucid Semi-Lucid

I'm walking down the road that's outside my school. There's a guy with me, but I don't pay much attention to him. I've traveled back in time to see what my school was like fifty years ago. I'm not that excited. Everything has a slight brown tinge, as if the atmosphere is old.

I walk into the entrance hall, and am quite surprised by how similar it is to the one we have now. I don't look around too much. The guy who's with me says I need to get changed for P.E.

[Dreamskip] I'm in the quad. I am astonished that instead of concrete, it is grass, and the school is in small, pretty blocks of white and brown houses instead of the disgusting dark square we have at the moment. "This is what it was like?" I whisper, and several of the people around me look at me as if i'm crazy, because they obviously belong to this time.

I get the faint idea that i'm dreaming, and the dream becomes a little more vivid. I walk to the back of one of the blocks to look around. Someone shouts behind me, and I spin around to find Snape from Harry Potter pointing a thin, black wand at me. I pull out my own wand.

"You think you can defeat me?" He sneers. I feel determined. I shout a spell and expect it to blast towards him, but instead, a pink trail of cloudy smoke appears from the tip of my wand. I heads towards Snape, but he slowly walks out of its way. When he fires a spell, it does the same.

I'm tired of this boring "dual". "Expelliarmus!" I shout. Snape's wand flies from his grasp. "Accio wand!" It soars into my outstretched hand.

Snape's face falls. He knows he's failed. I glower at him. "You have been defeated," I hiss. "Go home!" I point away, and he shuffles off into the distance.

29.01.2011

You alien fool, you can't take me down!!! I am indestructible!!!!!! (MILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I had two interesting dreams today. I woke up around 2:35 am and went to my reclining chair to try to Astral Project. I could not focus properly. Yesterday I prepared my taxes online and they worked out better than I though, so I was somehow excited. I went back to bed without success at about 03:02 AM. I have a few metaphysical requests to complete, but I know when my body is ready for that, and it wasn't last night. I focused on having a lucid dream, but on nothing specific. I completed the task of the month for February. I do not stop surprising myself with these taks. I have not incubated this task at all (in fact, I have not even focused on it) I guess my alter ego or subconscious loves these tasks... I always end up doing them, sometimes without knowing how. In fact, I only do the ToTM, because I am not really interested on the ToTY (my admin status would override the ToTY status) My streak is for eight months in a row... At least, I saw this on the 27th and dreamed it on the 30th.

Second dream (ToTM):

I needed to go to catch a plane to go somewhere. I was on a dirt road driving my car. If I had enough speed, my car would turn into a plane and started to fly. The interior of my car was exactly as my real waking car. I started to drive and to increase speed. I suddenly saw a 40 limit sign. I was suprised there was such sign, the road where I was, was exclusively for planes. I suddenly saw a lot of turns and made my driving harder (I was going fast and some where sharp turns) I could see the sand and dust around the exterior of my car, some mosquitoes and the bright sun bothered me (I wore no sunglasses for some reason)

Suddently, I found myself running in these weird place. I could see two planes getting farther every time and flying away. I was pissed because I missed my plain and it would be impossible to catch it. I tried to take off without success, I needed to run faster to take off. I ran a few minutes and got to the end of the road. It was night now and I saw a city with a lot of lights and buildings.

I realized that it made no sense all these plane stuff so I turned lucid. I was not grounded enough and somehow still following the plot. A voice told me that I needed to fly to the plane. I started to fly to the plane and the voice told me to fly faster. I started to complain out loud, "Gee... easy to be said. I just turned lucid right now and it has not been a lot I fell asleep. I will wake up!!!" The voice ignored me. I saw a few planes in the sky, some where close and some where far. I saw a few tiny planes (well, not tiny, but those were far, far away already) The voice told me my, "Your plane is one of the farther ones, get it." I complained, "Oh come on!!!! Those are very far and I will not even know which one is mine." I saw a plane pretty close to me. The plane had little dots of light (like starts) following it.

I landed and I though, "Screw this plane thing... I do not care. I am dreaming." I approached a wall and I saw a very dark void. I realized it was a wormhole. I though, "Well, another ToTM where my subconscious does the hard for me, good!" I entered the wormhole and saw darkness for a few seconds. I moved my head to not wake up and appeared in a weird city.

It was night and the color of the sky was dark-reddish. All the buildings were extremely tall but thin (they were no wider that 10-15 square feet) but each building had like 500 stories. It looked like this:








I landed in a weird looking restricted area and entered a room. I saw a female DC, human alike but had three boobs and was levitating. I though there was always time for a "quickly" in a lucid dream. After all, she was a dream character and would not complain. I made sure I kissed her a few times for the basic task.

I left this room and took off again. I entered a one of these weird buildings, but I found it empty. The doors opened like the Star Trek ones. Even made the same noise (funny... I have not seen a single episode of Star Trek for at least 12 years) I entered a room, but it was empty. The bed was pretty small and there was almost no furniture. I decided to leave and I flew through the window. I made a small hole and crashed, but when I attempted a second time, I could break through.

I flew over a military restricted area. I suddently avoided a fire beam and landed. There was a weapon about five feet long and three feet wide. It had a lot of different ways to shoot. There was a guy, about three feet tall and he tried to kill me. He told me, "I want to try this out! Stop there!" I told him, "I will help you, but first tell me. Were are you? Where is this planet?" He replied something like, "We are a more advance civilization that you. We are in a parallel dimension of your planet. We are not violent, but we like to have a good defense, now stay still." I was happy I completed the ToTM again and suddenly, I got hit by another red laser beam. I stopped in the ground and opened my arms. My chest was pointing that huge weapon. The weapon shot me fireballs, pink beams of laser, uzi alike amo (but a lot faster), electricity and white blasts. The alien started to get frustrated and I started to laugh out loud. I started to walk towards him and the weapon went berserk, it started to shoot even faster. I could feel the hits from it and heard several different shooting noises (lasers, electricity, uzis, explosions) I said out loud, "YOU CAN'T HARM ME. I AM NOT IN MY PHYSICAL BODY! I AM INDESTRUCTIBLE!!!!!!!!!!" I closed my arms and surrounded myself in a energy bubble. I focused on expanding the bubble and destroy the weapon. It was too powerful. I should a dragon ball alike cry and my energy bubble expanded and grew bigger in seconds. It incinerated the weapon and some buildings around, however, the alien was still alive. He ran towards me and tried to punch me, I avoided him and flew away. I woke up.

I was walking with my friend near some familiar place. It was very hot and I could see green trees everywhere. Suddenly my friend stopped at a center of road and I was like o_O. The car hit him. The guy who hit him pulled over and got out to help him but my friend was alright. After that the guy who hit him stayed at the center of road and a car hit him too...I was standing there whole time doing nothing and my eyes were probably like o_O then O_o and O_O. Amusing...

I had a pretty long dream last night, about 1/4 of it was lucid, though I can't remember it very well.

I am in a place in which I have been in another dream. There are some people there also. I only have some vague memories of the next parts of the dream. In the dream there were two villages that were in war. The other village was ruled by an evil witch. We go to the good village. I've no memory of the next 7-12 minutes. We decide to attack the bad guys. I've an extremely foggy and strange memory of the next few minutes.
We are now at the outskirts of the village. There is a very steep, almost vertical hillside in front of us. Above us, on the hill is a big building. There are dead leaves all over the place, a sign of the witch's corruption. The next thing I remember is being on the building's roof. I see the ocean in front of me. I become lucid. The witch is hovering in the air some distance away from me. She is a tall woman with a dark yellow, almost golden hair. I strike her dead with a single thought. The next (and the most important) part is foggy. I do a part of task of the year, but I just can't remember which one. I suspect that it was the Nightmare at Elm street one, because I remember killing someone and I had also decided to do it when I went to sleep. The task could also have been an imaginary one.
After the toty I jump off the roof head first, and fly back to the roof several times. That's the last thing of the dream I remember.

Pawn search

I was in a pawn type shop and was looking for a baby book to send my kid. (This is strange, because I don't have a kid. My ex-girlfriend had a miscarriage) I looked through all of the book sections and I couldn't find any that I thought were suitable for her age. I looked through on section of used books. They were really gross though and sometimes wet and moldy. I then went to the back of the shop. It seemed as though a whole guitar section of the shop had been added on when I wasn't looking. I then found a part of the shop where the items hadn't been sorted yet and were just sitting in piles. Radiohead's "In Rainbows" stuck out to me. I then left the shop and was walking with my parents through the mall. I talked about how I needed shoes. We went into a safari themed clothing store to look for shoes for me.

How I met your mother

I was watching a TV commercial where the people from how I met your mother were talking about wearing hats drawn on by pain (the computer paint) to hide that their sets were being worked on. Barney's character then kept talking and I was surprised to hear that he actually had a British accent. My mom said how nice of a guy he seemed to be in real life. The more I looked at him he had only one eye. For some reason I thought that this was normal though. He then started to act strange with the interviewer. At the end of the interview he kissed the interviewers hand.

Strange game

I was at my friends house and got on his computer. I started to play a game that was a mix between warcraft 3 and starcraft. It was an RPG. I was a space marine and was in a mid-evil type town in the middle of a desert. I then left and had a really fast horse. I rode across desert plains and started to dodge black spirits. I made it past all of the spirits . I then saw a fort and went through a broken part of the wall. There were huge block like enemies. One noticed me and started running towards me. I then stopped playing and looked through a booklet of the different sex scenes that were in the game. They were all very graphic.

The military

I had joined the military and was with my cousin chase. We got our rifle, but I wasn't sure how it worked. Aunt Becky was there and she was helping to show me. She showed me how to turn the safety on but I forgot shortly after. I went back to her and asked again. She showed me how to do it but accidentally broke the tip of my gun off. She apologized and left. I then went out into the cafeteria where they were going to give us a speech. I saw my friend Silas and a bunch of other kids from my school. It surprised them that they had all joined the military. I saw down, but I started to feel bad that I had joined the military. I stood up and started to yell at them that I didn't agree with the war and that I was against it from the very start. It seemed to be a good speech and wasn't met with any negativity. I saw a girl with a sniper rifle at the side of the cafeteria and was surprised that she didn't shoot me. Girls then started to strip down the bikini's on the back stage of the cafeteria. I thought it was strange that they were using girls like this as a reward for us.

[taken from my dream blog at Oneironeer | Exploring Dreamspace)

So I haven't blogged since January 26th, but I've had some "activity" worth mentioning. I was super stoked about my seemingly close NILD (Nap Induced Lucid Dream) variation of a WILD, and although I started this week off swearing I wasn't going to lose sleep and attempt any crazy dream techniques, I was SO looking forward to doing the Wake Back To Bed method of setting my alarm just before my last REM cycle and going back to bed concentrating on lucid dreaming.

My friend and I have been discussing our dreams with each other via text messages, as he lives a couple hundred miles away, and it's been encouraging to have someone else who's almost as crazy about all this as me, to bounce experiences and ideas off of. We've discovered the Airplane Mode on our phones, because we keep sending each other horrible pictures of creatures and fictional mutated profiles and creepy audio clips to scare each other in the middle of the night.

I prepped for Wednesday night. I've read to hold off on Vitamin B until I awake around 4:30 a.m., and to go easy on the melatonin just before you first go to bed. So I took about 6mgs of melatonin. However, feeling like I might've been coming down with a cold, I may have taken some Nyquil also (I don't remember). I wrote in my Day Journal (prime the brain pumps) just before bed, and I was set.

At midnight, I was out like a light. Between the melatonin, sickness and possible Nyquil, it was a DEEP sleep. However, at 1:00 a.m., I opened my eyes, kicking and screaming at the following visage...



I do not remember waking up. I simply remember a strange, asexual mime trying to get WAY to close to me. As I heard it in my head, it was cooing or softly voicing it's displeasure in my feet in it's chest and throat. "OooOOooEEeeeEEooo???"

In the FAR back of my mind, I was glad to be tossed into a horror-based nightmare, because they always tip me off to the fact that I'm dreaming. I then become lucid, and take control of the dream. The creature looked almost as scared of me as I was of it, and it didn't seem like it wanted to hurt me -- but I needed to get it AWAY from me so I could take control. Something strange began to happen, instead of shifting or becoming hazier (or waking up), the dream was becoming MORE vivid. MORE real, despite the strobing lights and darkness.

I could hear my wife calling out my name and screaming, "No! Stop! Stop!", which angered me a bit. Why would you WANT me to STOP attacking this thing, don't YOU see it?! I got REALLY worried. Had I broke Sleep Paralysis and been flailing in our bed? Had my dream research flipped my lid? The creature was now at a legs length away from me, so I screamed to my wife, "WHAT?!"

"It's Matt." I looked at the thing, and didn't understand. At first, it looked like a clean, zombie version of the character Lutz from 30 ROCK (a show that's been turning my brain to oatmeal, as we've been watching WAY too much of it before bed). But now I could see, it was some strange version of my friend, and he was doubled-over smiling and said, "It's just a dream!" and started chuckling. My wife replied back, "It's just a dream," and I thought, "Now my DREAMS are mocking my attempts at lucidity!", but I soon realized that it was my friend, either in a False Awakening... or in waking life.

"Do you wanna get beat?"

He started laughing and my wife said it again, in disbelief, "It's just a dream." I still didn't understand. A charlie horse in my leg started to tip me off and the Rocky shirt my friend was wearing certainly wasn't scary. I could then smell him (ah, the last sense to wake up).

"Supriiiisssse," he whispered. He then mumbled and ran out of the room, leaving my wife and I in the dark. I groaned at the pain in my leg. Chuckled a bit. Breathed. Turned to my wife and asked, "What just happened?"

I used the bathroom, texted my friend, "Where are you?!" and he replied, "In my car, I think I peed my pants!" and I finally really realized...

That had all just really happened.

Now I present to you, the video he filmed of himself scaring me into a near convulsion.

Went to bed at about 1:00am, and took some melatonin to help me sleep. I remember having many dreams, but have a hard time recalling them. The following is the longest coherent stretch I can remember:

New Boss

I am working at the Greenhouse again. I walk in the door, and I see that our boss is there. In waking life, my boss was a big jerk. Here, however, it is Rand Miller, the creator of Myst. I wave hello, and walk up to the group of fellow workers. Rand starts to give orders, the way my old boss used to, and tells me to follow him. We walk down a narrow aisle of plants, and he shows me a spot where he wants me to wait. He points up into the sky outside, at either a large star or a small moon.

"Line up your sight from this pole," he points to a support for the greenhouse roof, "to that star".

He goes back into a back room somewhere, and begins fiddling with controls. I begin to hear a mechanical grating sound, and the sky outside of the tent begins to change. It changes colors, fading from the night sky to a lighter blue, then to a reddish pink as though the sun were rising.

"OK, it's changing!" I call to him, thinking that it was my duty to let him know if I saw anything. Then I realize I have lost my line of sight with the star, and try to get back. Rand continues to run the machine, changing the sky outside. I think to myself how working for Cyan is a whole lot of fun. Apparently I am now working at one of Cyan's offices. Originally I thought it was their headquarters, but their headquarters is in Spokane Washington and we are in New Mexico...

... I walk down a hallway, and sit down in a chair. Barbara Eden, who played Jeannie on I Dream of Jeannie, sits in a chair next to me. There are a few of us sitting in chairs in the hallway, and we do something that I can't remember.

Don't know if this was a lucid or not (fragment)

I am somewhere. I am up high, I think. I am shouting "more lucidity!" and "more vividness". Meanwhile, the landscape gets brighter and more vivid around me.

Note: The above fragment followed a visualization I did as I was falling asleep. An obvious incubation success, and possibly a successful MILD, but I don't remember if it was really lucid or not.

Also, the appearance of Jeannie in my dream is interesting because this morning my parents were talking about their upcoming vacation. They are planning a visit to Cocoa Beach.

The second of two dreams, but an alarm killed the first one.

I come home to all of my roommates and on of my roommates teachers (not home in real life but roommates/teacher in real life). Everyone looks really sad. "What is it?" I asked. L, my roommate, explains that she messed up with a simple mistake on an animation assignment, and holds it up to me to show me the error. She continues to say that in a different part of the assignment the teacher wanted the drawing bigger. I am confused because I still don't see why everyone is so sad. Her teacher is drinking some hard liquor and seems even more depressed.

I soon realize that her teacher, Trey G, has been fired and that she herself was academically terminated. I become enraged and begin to yell about how the assignment should have every little to do with her GPA and that the assignment should not be that bad of a grade anyway. I realize that Trey is there because he must have gotten fired (I know it is a separate issue that is just happening at the same time). I say to him something like "You know that I could rally up students for you with no problem at all in protest, people love you." (true in real life ^_^) His expression melts and he says "really." He never acts that way in real life so it surprised me. He is the tough as nails, nothing bothers him guy.

We decided that we had to do something about everything that was happening.

Suddenly a tour of students from our school walks through the hallway. (For some reason we can see them, it is like we have an archway instead of a front door). They are going to see the school RA for a tour, one of the new students I have meet in the film program runs in to say hi to me and gives me something, (I forget what it is), then runs out. since L used to be an RA her heart sinks even more because she feels like she lost everything.

Dream cuts to us in the car I look out the window to see a baseball field where the grass is starting to die in places, I think we are going to protest and try to get L back in school and Trey his job back.

I think after I wake up that it might be my anger toward current school budget cuts in reality, since tons of good people are getting fired.

I picked up an XLR cable and attached to it was a Colorado ID I had had I long time ago (not in reality but in the dream I had). I thought "wow, this is old" (In reality I did use to live in Colorado).

next dream

Me and S (friend in reality), are at my moms rich friends house (exists in reality). We are there to watch the fireworks, but we can't get a good view. There are to many trees in the way. We decide that it doesn't matter, that we will get the best view we can. S says something like "this place is awesome when it is just us" and I say something like "yeah, it sucks when G (house owner in reality) is here, or anyone else" ...we laugh

that's all, short one!

I was visiting Millersville University with my parents ( Before I started going there ), and my dad had to pay this
security guard for parking. So He parks and the guard comes over and my dad takes out a wad of cash and starts
flipping through hundreds. He hands the guard something like $300 and we get out. It wasn't any parking lot at
MU though. It looked more like the parking lot at the Philadelphia Art Museum. Anyway, we go to some Computer
Science demonstration, as I am a Computer Science major, and it is a little fuzzy after that but my dad was asking
the professors a bunch of questions ( as he did when I actually was visiting college campuses ), then we go back
to the car and get in. The security guard comes over and my Dad starts talking to him like a well known friend. He
hands him another $300 or so and the dream ends.
I wake up and look at the clock. It is 3:30 AM so I go back to sleep.

Good morning, everybody.

My nighttime discipline has been terrible lately! Last night, I spent too long watching the Girls' Generation "Visual Dreams" video and some anime stuff on YouTube. It wrecked my dream recall.

One thing before I do the dreams. At the Japan Society in NYC a series is currently running showcasing the work of the director Sabu.

On Wednesday I watched Sabu's film Monday. The plot of the story revolves around a businessman who wakes up after having been drunk for two days. He slowly recalls all the things he did while he was drunk.

The story reminds me of waking up and looking back on a dream. But at a certain moment the main character takes charge over his actions. At this moment, the "dream" stories become more like lucid dreams.

There aren't any extreme special effects. But I think the film, in itself, is very good. And I think it's also good as a metaphor for the dreaming and lucid dreaming processes.

Anyhow, I want to suggest that anybody in or near NYC go to the Japan Society to check out some of Sabu's films. Sabu is there to introduce each film and do a Q&A. So that's also incredible.

Dream #1

I was in my great-grandmother's backyard on a sunny day. My great-grandmother was still alive. My family may have been near me somewhere. My great-grandma was talking to me, possibly standing very close to me, or possibly through some kind of telepathy.

I was now in my "great-grandma's basement." I stood before a bed that was covered in deep blue sheets. My great-grandma told me something about my great-grandfather. I got the feeling that this may have been the bed my great-grandfather had died in.

My great-grandma now told me that I had to lay in the bed. It was as if I was going to be in town for a while, and that I would have to stay at this house while I was here. So I'd be using this bed.

The bed was now different. The previous bed didn't have any headboard. But this bed had a very fancy headboard of nice wood. The bed also had blankets. In fact, the bedding appeared to be a very nice, homemade quilt with mint-green squares alternating with white squares with pink flower (?) designs on them.

I was a little afraid to lay in the bed. I felt like it had been empty for so long that maybe bedbugs had started to live inside of it. I thought I would check the bed for bugs. But I knew my great-grandmother was somewhere around me. I didn't want to check the bed in front of her and offend her by implying that she had neglected the bed.

Dream #2

I was in some museum or art gallery. I was in a room, possibly laying face down on a cushioned bench that was backed up against a wall. My head kind of hung down over one end of the bench. This specific room was spacious but small, kind of dimly lit, with white walls and possibly some thin carpet.

There had been some big art exhibit opening. The opening included some kind of presentation by the artist, a woman who kind of looked like Laurel Nakadate. Now everybody was milling around or leaving. Most of the people looked like somewhat wealthy business people.

The artist woman leaned against the wall near the bench on which I lay. I was playing with some device like an iPhone. All the icons on the phone were squares with a swirly pattern of pinks, browns, and oranges. I was scanning through a number of different icons.

The artist said something to me like, "I could never figure out how those things worked. You seem to know it pretty well. You must be smart."

I figured from this that the artist couldn't afford to own an iPhone. I let her look at mine, so she could figure out how to use it. But as soon as I handed it over, I felt a little bit of anxiety. I knew I had a lot of really wacky porn sites still up on my internet. I hoped that she wouldn't look through my internet history.

The artist, did, however, end up scrolling through my internet history. As the artist continued using the phone, the phone became something like a sit-down driving game like you would see in an arcade. The artist was sitting inside the game, scrolling through my internet history, which was a black screen, with old, pixellated, dim-white lettering. The room also became dim, like an arcade.

The artist, thankfully, kept scrolling down to sections full of internet searches I'd apparently done for really fancy recipes. Also, there seemed to be some sections where I'd taken pictures of these fancy dishes I made.

The artist may have made some comment about how nice it was that a guy actually put effort into making all these delicious meals. That comment made me even more afraid of the artist finding the porn sites.

I thought that maybe I'd get lucky and that the artist might not happen upon any of the porn sites that I'd looked at on my phone. But she eventually did. The porn sites in question were apparently of me, all by myself, on my bed, masturbating or dressed in women's underwear.

At some point the arcade game version of my phone became my phone again, although at certain times the views were coming straight into my head, as if I were just imagining them all. The artist was gone, although I may have heard her talking to me, as if I were hearing the conversation telepathically or through "memory-phone."

I now stood before a bed in an almost completely dark room. I may have thrown the phone on my bed. I still had the weird photos of me running through my head. Eventually I got on the bed, standing on my knees.

(Side notes: Dream #2 implies that I look for porn and fancy recipes on the web. This is wrong. I don't look for fancy recipes. But I probably should, because I think cooking is really cool.)