non-lucid

january 6: in a motel setting but it appears very wealthy-like (almost feels like a hotel, but I know it's motel) the rooms all combined so there was a bathroom sink on a wall in the center of the room. Pat Frankenthal wanted to have some cake and mentioned it. sure enough I turned around and saw some cake in a pan on the sink of course. the cake was extremely soft, yet chewy but very delicious.

phase 2: In a car by alex vincents house with a kid and some goofy ass dude. He smokes a giant blunt filled with heroin or something he mentioned. the blunt is about normal sized by his mouth but the width of the end part is slightly smaller than a paint bucket (it was nuts). I got parnoid that cops were going to arrest me for hanging with the junkie, so I ran out of shotgun and ran to where it seemed like a ditch would be; the chrome bars that prevent people from falling were there. So I swung around the edge of the smooth chrome bar (which seemed new) and found myself a crumbly rock formation. I jumped backwards into what appeared to be a lake or ocean. the water was colored faded light blue. I then went for the beach and there were some people there.

The dream begins with my dad, brother, and me going to a restaurant in the town over. The restaurant was located where a Pizza Hut is in real life, yet this isn't what it was. We go in and sit down in a booth. I have to sit by a guy who's already sitting there. I was really drowsy (even though I was already in a dream) and kept falling on the guy. I eventually apoligized and we left. On the way back, it's just my brother and me, he's driving. We're driving head-on into traffic dodging cars left and right. I remember seeing a rabbit and a porcupine. We drive a while until we get to Sturgis high school. In the distance, I can see their girl's softball team playing Lakeland's. We descend into an outdoor basketball court. It''s snowing. There's this hot blond cheerleader dancing to music. We were going to play basketball but we all pickup sticks and start to fight with them. My cousin Ged is there.

Didn't write anything today but still have a bit of recall.

Power Outage
With coworkers in an unfamiliar house. Power outage. It's dark. The microwave has a backup battery, but only enough to power the clock for a few minutes.

Chinese Market
At a small Chinese market with coworkers. One section is traditional Chinese medicine ingredients. I see a tiny octopus, alive, in a small vial of water.

Weird Protective Father Thing
I'm Amish and have a family. We are exiting church with many other DCs. I have two daughters. Outside the church is an area to tie up horses. But instead of horses, everyone has slaves who look like Calvin Klein models. My daughters run off and have an orgy with some guys.

The Lion Tamer

i'm an elephant at the circus and the lion tamer wants me to jump through a ring of fire but i'm too tired

Purple: Nonlucid Green: Lucid

eh, I might as well start this off with the dream I had 'bout two days ago. This one isn't lucid.

I was at school. There was a lecture going on by Gene Simmons about drugs. I was sitting next to my friend, Jake. I asked him, "Who's this guy?" and he said "You haven't heard of him? He's John Lennon!" I knew that it was Gene Simmons and knew it was a good chance to go lucid, but I couldn't for some reason. Suddenly, a bunch of ninja skeletons busted through the ceiling and took Gene Simmons. A few kids in the audience went like "They took John Lennon!" but I was kinda just sitting there, chilling. Then suddenly a burst of purple gas got blasted through the hole in the ceiling. It was turning other students into ninja skeletons, but I had an immunity to it. I did a few things that I forgot, but then I started fighting the ninja skeleton students. I don't remember much of it, but I won by roundhouse kicking the ninjas. Then I woke up.

Dream - Lucid

I fell asleep this morning after being awake for an hour, and slipped into a dream, fully conscious of the fact that I was dreaming. I guess I kinda WILDed!

But anyway, I was fully aware that I was dreaming, but exhibited no control. I was in a bathroom, it looked similar to the bathrooms we had in middle school. The floors and walls were tiled in a dark greenish-blue. A man I'm acquainted with in waking life, Ben (I'm using real names now, stupid initials are getting confusing), appeared in front of me. I had a feeling he would for some reason. We started making out against the wall, when a group of elderly people walked in. It was all women and one man. Ben disappeared, and I was going to leave too, when I realized I had left my purse in one of the stalls. I went to go get it, and all the women were standing around the stall, and the man was walking in there. I kept saying "Excuse me, can you hand me my purse?", but they were too busy chatting it up. I persisted, and the man handed me a plastic shopping bag I had apparently also left in there. I could see my purse behind the toilet. I told him to please give me the purse too, and he started shutting the door. One of the women gave him a q-tip to, apparently, clean out his urethra. He shut the door, and I started yelling at one of the women. She was wearing a white button up shirt, one that I just bought in waking life. I was calling her a bitch, and telling her that I had already asked nicely many times. I took her by the collar and shook her. Everything else seemed to disappear around us. She never said anything, but she looked at me with this sad, terrified face.

~

Something about a bleach spot being on the shoulder of a pastel blue shirt I had that resembles a pastel purple shirt I have in waking life. The shirt was on this big clear plastic hanger.

~

I bought a lot of weed. I think I was at my fam's house. The weed seemed to be gone very quickly, so I went out to get more. I was stopped somewhere by these 2 men, and they asked me if I was buying. I told them I already had, and they said something about their concert. I told them I thought they had meant was I buying weed. They had meant was I buying tickets to their concert. They seemed disappointed. I asked them what their band was called, and it was something having to do with monkeys. They walked off. Now, I'm on a beach in Ohio? I'm wearing very warm clothes, the outfit I wore yesterday actually, and my snow boots. I walk on the shore and watch the water lick my boots. I hoped that the water wasn't going to ruin my boots.

It was actually pretty cool that I ended up on a beach, since my goal setting (still trying to share a dream with GMoney) was on a beach. Yay! I feel like this is progress.

EDIT: I remembered a fragment about me being able to see people's auras. That's really all I can recall.

01/06/2011

Two more Fragments (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Two dreams that I kinda remember from today... The first was about either Morrowind or Oblivion. I loaded up a character that had a bunch of mods and tried to play it without those mods, but I got frustrated so I put them back.

The other one was dealing with some sort of schoolwork. There was this assignment that was due today, and I hadn't done several of the questions yet because I didn't know the answers. I worried about how I'd get them done in time to turn it in.

Finally! New content!

I am playing Myst Uru. At the same time, it is real life. It begins to rain in the Cavern (from here on out I will write as though everyone knows what I'm talking about, even though they probably don't). Apparently, it has rained in the cavern on previous occasions, but this is a hard rain. More like a storm. And it continues for quite a while. Suddenly, a Bahro swoops down out of the sky and attacks two fellow explorers. They are killed. Then, while the rest of us continue to contemplate this, the Bahro return and kill three more exlporers. Everyone goes into a panic! I run towards the Hall of Kings, hoping to hide in the shelter. I know this is a little futile, but it is better than being out in the open.

Other explorers had been chatting, even when the first Bahro attack happened, but now they too begin to realize that something different is happening. By this time, I make it to a flea market someone has set up outside the entrance to the Hall of Kings (obviously not there in real life, another one of my dreamsigns). I decide to try and hide among the clutter. All the while, the rainstorm continues.

The Dukes

I am with my family at Lake Erie. My father and brother take our 14 ft aluminum boat out, even though there seems to be a storm (maybe this is part of the above dream). My mother and I go out on a small inflatable raft not much bigger. As she starts the outboard motor we have fixed to this raft, I look back at my father and brother, a little worried. The waves are really big. Then our own motor revs up, and we are zipping along top speed through the storm.

We come to a cove, full of dead trees and debris. I warn my mother to slow up a bit, but she doesn't want to. Then we go over a large tree, and come down on the other side with a noticeable crash. We keep going a bit longer, but I can feel the air leaving our raft. We have been punctured.

Mom steers us to shore, and gets out. However, before I can get out the raft sinks. All of this occurs within seconds, before I have a chance to put on my life jacket. Fortunately, I am somehow able to climb from the bottom of the lake up to the shore.

Standing on the shore, I see two people chasing after us. It is Boss Hogg and Roscoe P. Coltrane. I now find that I am one of the Dukes of Hazzard (I used to dream this all the time. I don't know why). Bo, Luke, and I run up the shore, until we cross into Canada. Boss and Roscoe catch up, but I warn them not to come any farther.

"Not unless you can extradite us," I say.
"Roscoe, arrest them anyway!" Boss orders. "They don't need to be extradited from Canada!"
"You'd better not," I warn, "Unless you want to be in a lot of trouble."

Boss Hogg seems to fall for the bluff, but Bo and Luke and I decide we had better seek asylum from the "Governor". We walk to the governor's office from where we are, to find that the governor is none other that Huey Hogg, Boss Hogg's nephew. We speak to him through a small window, and explain our case.

"Suppose you started out in another country," I say. "In, to be exact Hazzard County. That's in - wait a minute, what state is that in. Hmm, Wyoming? No, it has to border Canada."
"Hazzard County's in [Wisconsin?]" says Huey, "and don't you forget it!" (I don't know why I couldn't remember Hazzard County is supposed to be in Georgia)

The dream gets a little off track here. Bo and Luke and I have to wait outside a while in folding chairs, and then Bo and Luke go into a warehouse to check on some illegal activity while I act as lookout. As I'm sitting there, I see a "Journey Cloth" (from Uru) on the wall of the warehouse in front of me. Even in this dream, the Journey Cloth seems so wildly out of place that I blink and rub my eyes. Then I get up closer to it, finding out that it is in actuality only a metal cover to something.

I sit back down, and look at a television. The Dukes of Hazzard are on. Not only that, but the episode playing happens to be the one I am living out right now. The episode seems to be a condensed version of the "real" thing, so I see the ending on TV before it happens. I suddenly realize what I am supposed to be doing.

At that moment, Boss Hogg and Roscoe show up. I have a vague impression that it is a little odd that I should be here with these people at all, but shrug it off. Then Boss and Roscoe disappear, and it's night. I know that Bo and Luke will get into trouble in the warehouse and I am supposed to rescue them. I try to run, but obviously that doesn't work. I walk down to the warehouse and see a dark van show up. A few hoodlums get out and enter the warehouse. It is some smuggling racket run either by Boss or Huey. I enter the warehouse behind them, knowing I have to warn some people inside. I am forgetting who at this point, other than Bo and/or Luke. I see some guy who winks and gives me a thumbs up. Thinking this must be a signal, I say "we've gotta warn Bo and Luke and get out of here!". He nods, and says he will.

Talking about my dream (lucid, sort of)

I "wake up" from the Dukes dream, and decide to post my dream journal on Dreamviews. While I'm typing, I question reality and discover I am dreaming. I have a hard time holding onto this, though. I try various things to anchor myself, but it doesn't help too much.

New Job

I get a new job, working for a rotund and rather gruff man. He is not exactly mean, but when he gives me a vague job to do and says to have it done by tomorrow I get a little nervous. The job involved copying text from greeting cards, but I don't know how or what to copy the text to.

On the positive side, my job seems to involve working with a beautiful nude model. I don't have any idea why, but I have her pose while I take a photograph. Then, working together, we use a computer to copy text from the greeting card onto the scene she was poing in front of. Then we put her picture in front of the text.

We realize that we can't see the text now. I make a text box on her torso (now it is partly on the computer and partly in real life). The text box is too small. I try to resize it by hand. Now it is big enough, but it covers too much of the model. I reposition it a little so it only covers her stomach area. Then I accidentally do something, and it resizes the model. Now she is really skinny and out of proportion. Fortunately it is not too hard to reset this.

Now one greeting card is finished. I still have a whole stack to do "by 3:00 tomorrow afternoon". Well, at least I know how to do them now.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Good morning! Didn't intend to become lucid last night, but I guess my extreme trying and dedication the previous two days had an impact. This is the third day I become lucid, and tomorrow I will go for the G+C combo, so I'm hoping for a fourth!

03.15: Sleep

10.15: Magic the gathering
I'm at my cousins place. I'm playing Magic the gathering with two my cousins and my brother Martin. We're all playing against eachother. We play for a while, but in the end, Martin gets defeated by Therese. I think I'm safe to do my thing but she puts a card infront of me. I can read the card and it's a three step card. "What?! You can't do that!" I say and her father laughs with her. "Yes she can, it's an old card" he tells me. I get mad and is about to leave. My mom gets in the car and I just have to grab my jacket. My mom's cat is injured and is being operated on by my grandpa. I later hear that the cat died because of bloodloss.

10.15: Back at work DILD
I'm walking down the road next to the local mall. I'm back at work and everyone around me is busy with different tasks. Most of the areas are being filled with soil which is then watered down. I spot a guy with a huge beard who I recognise. "Hey dude!" I say. "Oh cool, welcome back Matte" he tells me and shakes my hand. I ask a few questions about what they're doing. He explains it all and asks me how my wrists are. "They're okay, still hurts though" I tell him. We're standing by the traintracks and we need a ladder for some reason. I spot one on the other side of the tracks over a fence. There are a few people standing next to it.

"Hey! Can you give us that ladder?" I ask them loudly. They ignore me. "Idiots" the guy I'm with mumbles and walks across the tracks and jumps the fence. I follow him halfway and end up on an overhang of rock. It's smooth and I have to keep my balance to not fall off. I spot a huge plant with sticky balls on it. It must have fascinated me alot since what the guy brought back was a plant like that, not a ladder. We walk over the tracks and up on the platform. "If you pull a string, and they all fall, someone will like... die" he tells me and shakes the plant lightly while holding it as an umbrella. We both laugh.



Infront of me the railroad shop has closed already. We have to walk around the shop. My boss calls my name and tells me I have to do some kind of job. I don't really understand what I am supposed to do, but I walk to the toolshed and figure I'll just bring something I might need. I find an electric saw and a drill. I also pick up my red helmet. I walk back towards the platform and I pass two coworkers. "If your brain starts getting fucked up, just run" one of them tells me. I start wondering what the hell he is talking about. "Is the job I'm about to do dangerous? Like radioactive or what?" I head across the tracks just as I can hear the bell starting to warn a train is incoming. When I'm safely over, I can't find anyone. I look around me but I don't spot anyone wearing yellow.

"Where the hell is everyone?" I ask myself. Suddenly I'm not holding the tools anymore. They are on the ground. I pick up my helmet and put it on. I turn the music on and I'm glad it's still working. I spot a second red helmet with black markings on it. I recognise it as mine. I pick it up and now I'm really confused. Three more helmets are on the ground and I pick them all up and run back across the tracks. "This has to be a fucking dream!" I say but it's more like I'm kidding. I try to find any excavators around but I can't see any. After a few seconds I spot one standing next to the toolshed. It's Nicke's machine and he's standing next to it. I run up to him to confront him.

The machine is a truck with a loading dock and I slam all four helmets into it as hard as I can. "What the fuck is going on?!" I yell. An old, short man is there aswell and Nicke asks me why I'm so upset. He helps me pick up the pieces of the helmets and I pick up some styrofoam. I am pretty certain it is a dream by now and I throw the pieces into the back of his truck. "This is a damn dream you fool, here look!" I say and hold out my hand. At first it looks normal but after a second, two of my fingers are together almost all the way to the top. I hold out my pinky and there's another finger growing out of it. I touch the finger with my hand. "See? This is a dream". I jump up and do a handstand on the old man's head. "Hah!" I exclaim as I feel very light.

I want to fly, so I grab Nicke's hand and jump up in the air. "I haven't flown before" he tells me with a frightened smile as we rise higher up. Ten meters or so I make us fly straight. "Oh look, there's our king!" I say and point at him walking beneath us. I spot a huge rotweiler and I point at it aswell. Electric cables starts appearing and the way we're flying reminds me of Peter Pan. I grab his clothes on his back instead and let him fly under me so we can easily dodge them. We follow the road below. "What should we do now?" I ask him when we've flown for a while. He can't come up with anything. The end of the long building is coming up and I know what I want to do.

I release him and let him fly on his own. I go around the corner of the building and land at a very exotic-looking, open bar. Nicke introduces me to the bartender, a relative or something. I shake his hand. "Hi! I've met you in real life, but never in a dream before" I tell him. He gives me a confused look. I look around and try to decide what to order. I spot a few heineken bottles nearby. "Nah, I drink that all the time" I think. "Two beers, and two jaegermeister shots" I say. I intend to put the shot into the glass. He pours a small bottle of jaegermeister in a glass already filled with beer. The black booze runs out! We all stand there shocked for a second. I take the glass and divide its contents with another one. I start waking up.

12.30: Gold
I'm riding on a very old cart with an old man. The roads are slippery with snow and I'm afraid we will crash. In a very sharp turn going into a tunnel I get off and try to stabilize the cart. The road starts to lean upwards and I have to push it. The horse can't take it anymore. Suddenly the horse is gone and I have to push it myself. It's not a cart anymore, but a sled. The gold bricks are wrapped in brown paper and we have to deliver them in time! I am exhausted by the time we reach the houses we inteded to go to. The old man drops a few of the gold bricks below the entrance as I enter the house. It's a cozy place with a fire in the corner. I can hear two ladies talking about how awesome it feels to work out, and how energized you feel afterwards. I also hear something about fake gold. I walk out again to help the old man but a young woman is already doing it

12.30: Jesper
I'm in a videostore with my brother. They have closed up the regular section for christmas and we're allowed to look in a few bags for videos. There's a stand with magazines in it. I guess they trusted you to pay up and take the video you wanted. I don't find anything good and leave the place. Suddenly I'm at our old appartment. Monica is there with a few new videos. I recognise the name on two of them, but I haven't seen them. She's bought them for her father. Suddenly I'm eating food with a couple of people. My coworker Björn is there and Emil from work aswell.

I tell Emil how Björn intends to shape me into a better person with better morals. We all laugh. My friend Jesper shows up. I have paid for something for everyone and we're about to go and have some fun. "How much you want?" some guy asks me. I tell him 150 kr is enough. I walk into the kitchen when my phone starts ringing. It's Jesper and he tells me some useless facts. He's at the toilet and I hang up on him. He calls me again and I ask him why he's calling me when he can just talk to me. He gets pissed off.

12.30: Fragment
*I'm singing in a very stable and clear voice. Very cool as I can't do that in real life.

12.30: Wake up

Amount of sleep: 9 hours

Supplements before bed: 150 ml applejuice, 2 x Omega-3

That's it! I will try to play around a bit more with telekinesis tomorrow rather than flying. I haven't realised something, and that's that I don't wake up as soon as I fly anymore. Sweet! Practice makes perfect.

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

I get a birthday card in the mail from Colm (who in real life didn't wish me a Happy Birthday on Facebook). I open it & it's addressed to someone else, a "Michelle", & it's a Happy 16th birthday message. He has also written her a lengthy note about how he used to babysit her & how much she's grown. He's put her full name & phone number at the bottom. Turns out to be the same phone number of a party I'm supposed to be at. Then I'm at work & I get into a conversation with my supervisor (a friend as well) that Colm quite obviously expects me to call this Michelle & tell her I have the card & ask if she has the card Colm was to have sent me, if there is one. In that way, I will have reinitiated contact. (In real life I've made it a New Year's resolution not to do so and to wait until he initiates things this time.) I remark that it's not going to work, no matter how tempting it is to find out whether Colm did in fact send me a card. My supervisor remarks that this is what very attractive Leo men do - manipulate things so that it is the ladies who are pursuing them. A fear grips me that perhaps if this is the case with Colm, he doesn't have a clue how to pursue a woman he likes. Moreover, if he's scared to, he might never initiate anything. Then I get distracted by a surly server's refusal to give me a lunch I had ordered one hour ago (before this intense conversation had begun) wherein I yell at the server and go to McDonald's. They have a quarter-pounder all ready for me.

First I saw a dream where I were in some sort of warehouse with some women. Then some men with guns broke in and one of them (he was one of my classmates) said something like "How many lives do you have, (cant remember what name he said)" to me and stabbed me to the chest with a knife several times. This made me wake up.
In my next dream I was in my grandparents farm with some people. (I got the feeling that the dream continued and we had escaped, but these were different people) For some reason we had to make it snow, so the only woman in the group had mixed something up to make fakesnow that was cold. Then some soldiers started chasing us. First I was running with the others, but in a flash the others were much further away from me and I was allmost caught by the soldiers. I shouted at them to wait for me, but only the woman reacted (she was running between me and the others). She turned to look at me and somehow I understood that it was a dream. I turned around to face my chasers, but as soon as I did, I couldnt move at all and was floating to darkness. Soon I couldnt see anything and I knew I would wake up. Then I fell to my bed and woke up.

06.01.2011

Scandal (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Preparation:
I went to bed at about 10 pm. I had two glasses of water, did some light sitting meditation then went to bed. I affirmed to myself as Naiya suggested in the article, "I WILL lucid dream!" and also did some visualization/ day dreaming. I imagined myself on top a tall building and jumped off. I did that for about 10 minutes then nodded off.

I am walking past Edeline-1 and she starts talking to me. She asks me if I know this Thai boy and Thai girl. I ask her who she is related to and she says 'Pin' (it's a Thai name. But Pin in real life is actually related to Madge-3). I say that I know her and she lives north of Christchurch. She looks and and I feel like she's my Thai friend's girlfriend on Facebook named 'Cat.' Apparently there's something scandalous going on between them with their relationships.
I sit down at a long white table in a food hall. There are two girls sitting to my left, one to my right and one in front of me and slightly to the right. They are about to go and see a movie. The lighting is fluorescent. The girl in front of me who is eating some yellowish tortillas on a paper plate says it is vegetarian and asks me if I want to eat them for her because she doesn't like it.

I was at some area with my cousin....he was trying to get me to play cards and smoke out with him....I just kept trying to explain to him that my lifestyle has changed.

Had another dream...but I totally forgot it....kinda in a rush atm.....ah school.

06.01.2011

I am winner (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was in a hypermarket called prica (it has another name now but it still had that one on the dream) with J and Jv. There were some ps3 move games outside (I've never played them but that was the idea) and J started playing one. Then I decided to play the same game on a different machine. I had to do a lot of kicking in the game and Jv began bothering me so I told him togo away. I paused the game and I saw Nic, who was looking for Nés so I told him where he was. J got a score of 62 in his game. Then I saw Ul, but I decided to ignore him. I finished my game (I remember having to move the controller following some arrows, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly) with a score of 155, which was still not very high, although I'd played on hard mode.

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06.01.2011

Above the influence (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was on a sort of school trip with my brother. My cousins were also there although they had come on their own. Then I met a bad guy who told me that I had to search a mine for this really valuable gem in exchange for him paying some debts I had. I went into the mine with my brother and I found a diamond and a red gem along the way, but these were not the gem that the bad guy was looking for. I kept following the passageways that had a sign reading "start" but I didn't reach anywhere.

After a while I reached a crossroad and my cousins were there. There were two paths to choose from, one that read "with sex" and another one that was a shortcut without sex. My cousins went to the sex one and my brother wanted to go there but I told him that we didn't have any time for that.

My internet at my house has been out for a couple days, as people weren't around to pay their bills. Therefore, this is going to be a pretty long update - 5 updates since the last time I updated!

12/26/2010 - First Person Shooter and Real Time Strategy

I was on a space station. I entered a large room and picked up a couple weapons (one of them was a gun like the ripper in Unreal Tournament). I entered a large chamber that was open to space. I recall looking up and seeing a number of stars and the planet that the space station was rotating around. I saw a large creature that was channeling what I can only assume was the power to destroy our galaxy. Needless to say, I engaged it.

Since we were open to space, there was little gravity, so I was able to flip around all of the elevated floating platforms in the area. I began flipping about, him remaining stationary while shooting beams of energy while I was firing my Ripper. Sadly, they were ineffective. I switched to another weapon to continue shooting him, but there was a tingling sensation as his channeling began to become powerful. I could feel the hairs on my arms begin to stand on end.

I landed on a platform high up, and spherical orbs of light inside a ring began to converge on the center of the platform. I knew it was too late. The disks circled the platform..the orbs shot out and then converged. There was an ear-deafening boom...and the galaxy was gone. I woke up.

12/28/2010 - Helping a Brother

I returned home again, and sadly my dream recall suffered, as I was sleeping on my house couch again.

I remembered that Eric had asked me a few nights before to wake him up and make sure that he went to the airport to pick up his girlfriend. I assisted him in waking up and helped him get all of his stuff together. I then woke up, realizing that this was a false awakening.

1/2/2011 - Dream Fragments - Free-running and Lightsaber Duel

I had two dream fragments this night. I know that in my 3rd dream of the night, there was a lightsaber duel, but I can't recall specifics. I also recall that I was free-running around an Arabic city in my 4th dream.

1/4/2011 - Zombies (again)

I was traveling through an abandoned city with James, Lane, Shane, and I. Lane was wielding double pistols. I was carrying something tech related, but I didn't actually have weapons (bad call, I know). James was decked out in odd vagabond clothes and double Uzis. Shane had a shotgun and a metal bat.

We fought our way to a safe room that was in a room high up in an apartment complex. It looked like a hotel room, however. There was a device outside the room that apparently controlled the heat exhaust for the entire building. I was concerned with the level of energy that the building was putting off, and realized that if I were to change the settings, we could conserve energy - but make ourselves more visible to zombies (apparently they have heat vision in this dream). The setting I picked helped us save energy. However, a zombie ran up the fire escape to confront us. I ran inside.

I slammed the door behind me with the zombie's upper torso and arm stuck in the doorway. I shouted at Shane to come over, who readies his bat and bashed the zombie's head in when I opened the door. Lane and James then ran out of the room upstairs in order to apparently take care of more zombies. Shane shotgunned the zombie's lower jaw off.

I changed the setting on the device, and once I had changed it James and Lane returned. Lane was bloody and said that he had been bitten. I saw his inventory with 17 bullets in his double pistols. We yelled at my brother to make sure that he wasn't bitten either. Lane hands me his pistols and takes off his arm guard. I wake up to a text message.

1/5/2011 - Australia

My dream started with an intricate flyover of the white, sandy beaches of Australia. We (myself and I'm not sure who else) were having a good time on the beach. We talked about all of the animals there and I recall looking down in the water and vividly seeing an eel that I walked across in order to not get shocked. I wanted to take pictures, but I forgot my camera back with my family. I was really devastated. I started to call my mother in order to ask where the camera was when I woke up.

I stood up and glanced around. I then made my way to my computer tower to look for my camera. I realized that it didn't make much sense for me to look for the camera and I did a reality check, but it was just me sleep walking.

Tonight I'm going to try to record three dreams and attempt to wake up enough to WILD during that third dream cycle. We'll have to see how it goes. This next weekend is going to be stressful, as I'm going to be doing conferences and retreats, so I might not write in my journal for a couple days!