non-lucid

I'm posting this dream because it is quite funny. When I woke up I couldn't stop laughing:

I am standing in a window, watching the rain storm outside. I get the sudden urge to run in the rain, and I touch the glass. The glass is warm and I can feel every drop of rain that hits it. I say aloud, "Eww, that's icky rain." and then the fun beings. I say to myself, "Now, you may ask, 'Grant, how did you come up with such a creative and incredulous name such as 'Icky Rain'?' Well I'll tell you, my friend. I first came to the conclusion that this is, indeed, rain of the same origin as pleasure-giving rain. It must have came from the same clouds as a pleasant shower, but under much different circumstances. No, my brother, I tell you. This rain is rain from the heavens but it had its birth in Hades. It is composed of the same molecules, but these molecules behave quite differently than the molecules of the ideal raindrop. These move faster, further, and are nigh unstoppable. These raindrops... have.... HEAT!" I say, putting one hand into another for extra wrathful and angered effect. "No, this heat is quite different from that in your easy bake oven, little man. This heat is unpleasant and undesired. If it had a mother it would be rejected as an unwanted child. These foul drops hit this window with a scream, as they feel their short lives coming to an end. They all shall die. None shall be spared. We can not live in the same world as an everliving icky waterdroplet. No, I tell you again, their crimes must be stopped." I finish with such passion as though I had just finished giving a speech. Normally I can't remember much dialog in dreams, but this one has stuck with me for some reason.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Good morning! I will be experimenting with the doses of B6 this weekend, I tried taking 150 mg last night (one 100 mg pill and one 50 mg) and I had two pretty long dreams. I'm not sure if one of them is more effective than the other, and that's why I'm gonna try them out.

03.00: Work
I'm at work with my friend Henrik. We're doing some ground work and it's really confusing. I wonder why the hell I don't know how to do this (on the brink of becoming lucid). Henrik tells me has to take a walk and walks down a path into the forest. I figure he just needs to make a call or whatever and continues working. He comes back and we do some more work. After a few minutes of digging in the mud, he tells me he has to go take another walk. I'm starting to suspect something and I follow him.

I walk with my eyes downcast and I see he's meeting up with his real father. They notice me but I continue walking up a hill. I walk up to a guy at work and I start talking to him. "Don't take this personal Matteh, but you gotta learn how to do this properly" he tells me and points at a map. "Yeah I know, don't worry, I'm not mad" I tell him and feel like an idiot. My boss comes up to me and starts talking about David.

"He's become such a slacker. He will never make it. He started out as a good boy, then ended up smoking and cheating on his girlfriend and everything" I agree with him.

07.30: McClub - höhö
I'm with a few friends and Monica at some kind of mc club. Apparently we're just about to have some fun with go-carts. I try them out a bit and I notice I can barely turn the thing without my wrists hurting. "Oh well, I'll just look then" I say and walk away. I grab a sandwich and sit down on the ground next to a small yellowish box. Inside I find alot of pictures of Marilyn Monroe, and she's naked in many of them!

I take a good look at her perky black and white boobs before the owner of the club comes up to me and tells me to hand the box over. Suddenly I get the urge to play Magic the Gathering and my friend G tells me to get the cards in the car. I walk outside and it's night out. There's a couple of guys standing outside of a bar and smoking. I grab the card boxes from the car and I lock the doors. "Why weren't they locked before?" I wonder and start walking back. I hide the cards under my sweater and has to walk a bit retarded.

Two guys walk past me, they're twins I notice and I start wondering about faces in dreams, since you can only see faces you've once seen (according to the myth). The dream changes and we're at the grocery store. Monica has taken a shopping cart and I notice several coins under it on a tray. I start collecting all the 50 cent ones (they're not valid anymore) and I get a whole bunch. An old lady comes up to us and starts talking about random things.

I spot several 1 kr coins, but they're more like euros with gold on the outside and silver in the middle. Only these had bronze on the inside and silver on the outside. Pretty cool! I show Monica. An old taekwondo friend (Juan) comes up to us. He's alot taller than he actually is. We greet and he tells me he has to buy some stuff, but the store is closed. I look behind him and see a few people standing there, waiting for it to open. Doctor Cox from Scrubs is there and he sneaks in. Soon everyone enters the store and Juan aswell.

Amount of sleep: 9½ hours

Food before bed: 1x 100 mg B6, 1x 50 mg B6, 2 Omega-3 pills.

That's it! I had just a few fragments the last two days so I couldn't be bothered writing them down. Anyways weekend is closing in, and I am so having a lucid dream! Was too long ago now. I've started realitychecking alot more often and meditating. Will be awesome.

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

Dating Class

I was in a class about dating with my gf. We were in a lesson about how to construct the perfect date. Me and my gf dissagreed with what the rest of the class said.

Tha Kings

I wanted a pair of giant earrings shaped like dice. The dice were made out of platinum and the dots were made from diamonds. They were called "Tha Kings".

The dream starts in my ecology classroom. The teacher has just handed back an exam, and I've done particularly poorly. I start to complain, arguing for several of my answers, but the teacher doesn't budge. I become louder and more forceful, flailing my arms and even screaming. My classmates start to look at me funny, but I don't care...

I wake up into the same ecology classroom. I realize that the previous dream had been caused by me falling asleep in class, and I'm quite embarrassed. The teacher scolds me while handing back the actual test, on which I've done well. It seems that I actually moved a bit while dreaming, and I apologize. This is, of course, a false awakening, and I soon wake into real life.

Don't remember much... I was at school talking to someone about something. We were just chatting and I realized that Mrs. B. was there.

Also had some other fragment, but I forgot it.

dream started with me inside my grandmothers garage and army trucks filled with russian soldiers driving by and stopping. they weren't killing anyone but they were taking food supplies and kidnapping people. i ran inside with my brother and got my grandma to safety. we hid inside one of her rooms. dream ended soon after that.

I had just gotten out of school and a few friends were playing basketball. I know I suck at basketball, but subconsciously I knew it was a dream because I even said it'd be fun to play dream basketball. I still sucked though. I saw a few volleyball nets set up and asked if they wanted to play. They started walking towards them and I wanted to take my car. It was sort of flat on the ground. Like when you see the wheels go horizontal and then it's a hover car or something. I get it and start the car, it raises a bit. I look down to put it in reverse and where it says the letters normally aren't there, I somehow managed. One of my friends yell to me to raise it up, he tells me to shift it right, it's an automatic car. It works. I'm driving and I notice it's a church I go to. I'm doing 40 in a parking lot and slowing down enough for the speed bumps. I get to the other side and see some family members. I just get out and ignore them. Walking to the nets I count we have 6 people, so I yell to play 3 on 3. Then I woke up.

Earlier on the night I had a false awakening.

I got out of my bed and opened the garage door to see my mom in the back of her car. I just go back in and try to go back to sleep. The dream house was similar to mine, but much larger and the door to the garage was facing a different way. My mom comes in to talk to me, she thinks I have a problem with my mind. I go on to explain for the hundredth time that I'm fine. She calls me abnormal. I get frustrated and tell her that my mind if normal and most of the people's minds in this world are abnormal. She gets mad and hears a sound because she goes to close my door and in a very scary way, tells me to hush. I woke up with intense emotional feelings, and wondered if this could be considered a nightmare or night terror, since I haven't had nightmares for a very long time. I just pass it off as my dreaming ID's intense feelings and go back to sleep.

I planned to not record my dreams this night. I just wanted to get a solid night's rest. So no recall in the first half (the usual reason). And for the first couple dreams I didn't write anything down. By the last two, I realized the dreams were worth writing down so I did so.

"Do Nothing"
Lucidity: C
Vividness: C
Control: C
~0800: No written notes, so this is spotty from memory. I don't recall how I became lucid. The first thing I recall is doing a nose plug RC. I'm sitting at a campfire circle. It's dusk. It seems like I'm in the giant doorway of an abandoned factory or airplane hanger. A few other DCs are around the fire. They look like migrant workers. The scene made me think of movies like The Motorcycle Diaries and Mi Mejor Enemigo. I remember my plan: "Do nothing", practice reality checks, focus on all 5 senses.. For taste, I lick a rock on the ground and it tastes like dirt! I vaguely recall that I did things for the other senses. I think I had double vision and that frustrated me. I try to talk to the DCs but I don't recall they said anything.

fragment
~0915: C. No written notes, so this is from memory. First thing I recall is a false awakening. I sense there was more before but no detail. I'm in my own room. I get out of bed and look at the time: 1:30pm. Crap, it is really that late? I get up, take off my Zeo headband and dock it in the bedside unit. It gives me a sleep score of 42. Really? I thought I slept better than that. Wake up for real. It's only about 9. My Zeo score for the night ended up at a more respectable 83.

Unfocused Lucid
Lucidity: C
Vividness: C
Control: D
1100: Just a few notes so this is mostly from memory. I'm in a classroom. It's a art or shop class so all the students are standing at work tables. In the dream, I seem to be distracted or sleepy. The teacher is a woman and there are one or two girls sharing my table. The first thing I recall is the teacher scolding me for not paying attention. So I become aware of what we are supposed to be doing. We have a piece of paper with a drawing on it. On top, we have a piece of tracing paper and we are supposed to trace the drawing under it. The drawing is an architectural sketch of a colonial era boat, I think. So I start tracing but there is a time limit. The teacher is nearby, watching me. She thinks I won't finish in time. The other girl at my table is done and she is also watching me. I feel nervous but I act confident. I think we do two tracings like this. The next task is to trim a large piece of meat. It's really thin, more like a the hide than the flesh. The tracing paper has become butcher paper. I move to a larger table and spread this gross sheet of meat over the paper.

Skip. Now I'm outside in what seems to be a school campus but it's unfamiliar. I'm walking up a grassy hill. There are many other students around. It's bright daylight. I see a girl who I recognize as a high school classmate, Beth. I'm not sure but I think this must be what made me lucid. Her hair is weird, kinda like dreadlocks but also kinda like bananas. Anyway, her face is recognizable. Lucidity and control are low at this point. I don't RC or stabilize. I just march up to her, say hello, and demand a blow job. She starts doing it but soon turns into a weird creature and I stop.

I walk away and I'm starting to get my wits about me. But lucidity, vividness, and control are still pretty low. I try to think of my tasks. The only one I can remember is flying barrel roll. I hesitate because my recent flying has not been good. But I can't think of anything else to do so I jump and spin. It works! I'm able to hover horizontally a few feet off the ground and a spin multiple times. (Wikipedia tells me that this is actually an aileron roll, not a barrel roll) I fly around spinning for about 30 seconds. Maybe I popped out to third-person a bit. My lucidity was fading away.

Skip. Now I'm in a building. The school gym or theater maybe? Maybe I lost lucidity for a while and then regained it here. A troupe of clowns is performing a circus-style act. I am in a corner back stage, near the exit. I see a door but I want to try walking through the wall. I try a few times but fail. I try to convince myself that I can do it. I know this is a dream and that I can walk through the wall. But no luck. Dream ends. In retrospect, this attempt at control was too forced.

Dream Within Dream
1130 C. This was a combination of false awakening and false memory that made it feel like a dream within a dream. I sense that I am out of town for work (this is the false memory). I'm staying in a hotel and I'm sleeping and dreaming. In the dream, I am in a WWII-esque battle among the ruins of a bombed city. I'm with my childhood friend Collin. I only have a tiny pistol in this big fight. I see an enemy across the way and fire a few careful shots. The gun is very inaccurate but I manage to hit him in the head. Everyone is happy and celebrates me as the hero.

I have a false awakening in a hotel room. In the dream, I think that the war scene was a lucid dream and I remember the two real previous lucids. So I congratulate myself for 3 lucids in the night.

Skip. Now I'm back in my apartment. Combining the war dream, the false awakening in the hotel, and the false memory of traveling for work, this all creates the dream within the dream phenomenon. So anyway, I'm home in my apartment but it looks totally different. I sense that, as I returned from traveling, my roommate has just left. I see that he has left a bunch of books and devices about lucid dreaming. He is just starting to pratice having lucid dreams. I go in the bathroom and see that the faucet has been left on just a drip. But over several days, the drip has flooded the room with an inch of water.

Some of my family was at my house and I was watching the football game. It was the packers verses some random team. There were some pretty good hits, and the score ended up being 10 to zero. My brother stopped by and said "are you guys ready"? My sister said yes, and I threw on some last minute clothes.

We headed to a house that was apparently owned by some relatives I didn't know about, and my sister and I were outside. They had about four dogs, all of them were huge, and they were nice to us. I remember one slobbered on my hand, and I let it drip down on his face and told him "you see, this is how it feels".

All of a sudden all the dogs left at once, and I heard some noise coming from around the corner. I looked, and there was a bear in the yard. The dogs were barking at him, and the bear was growling. I wanted to help out, but not without some sort of weapon. I looked around and saw some lighter fluid and a shot gun, but the gun had no bullets. My sister told her kids to get back, and I kept looking around for something I could use.

The neighbors were shooting pellet guns, and I knew that was out of the question. I headed towards my cousins house, and asked them if they had any guns. The lady is taking her sweet time to find it, and she comes up empty handed. I hear the kids and my sister screaming, so I rush back over there, and I see the bear has one of the dogs wrapped up, and it's pounding away at it's head. Each swipe the bear makes, flings blood tens of feet in the air. I'm so mad, but I can't do anything.

I was giving some speech to a guy and a girl about how we're going to make it out alive. I told them to do the best they could do, and that should carry on into our performance. Other than that I initiate the action, and they follow.

I got into my old school delta 88, and charged in. Some guy fired a RPG at me, and I turned the corned just good enough to make it skip off the side of my car and blow up behind me.

I also remember a frag involving chatting someone I thought had left for good.

I was on the cellphone talking A, and she wanted me to go to the military grocery store with her. I was asking her which one and she said, "all the way up in Canada". I remember having some kind of cellphone problems. It either had to do with dialing the number or my phone itself, but I was also supposed to meet D there.

All of a sudden I'm at the parking lot, and I see one of the house keepers from the hospital. She's telling me some short story about how her husband didn't notice that she did something with her hair, and I gave her a hug, and kissed her on the cheek and said "don't worry...he's probably just a little stressed right now or something". I went inside, and I saw A, and greeted her with a hug. She was ready to go, and I asked her what did she need to get. She told me she was going to go down every isle, and I got kinda worried. D also showed up, and I was like "oh you know A" right? He said yeah, but he wasn't sure...like he saw a pic of her of my FB but thats about it.

I walked around and saw my bother there, they were already in line, and needed someone to do something, but their keys were missing, and one of them was talking about how the breaks were bad on the car. Everything sounded like a series of mishaps. D tapped me on the shoulder and ask me if I wanted to come with him. I didn't hesitate, and we walked up to this archery game. It used Styrofoam targets and blunt tipped wooden arrows. My first shot was directly at the bulls eye, and my last one was was so awkward because the arrow itself was too short for the bow. Several arrows broke as we shot them, and we needed to pull out and keep the good ones. Some guy who worked at the store came up and said "good rack". After double checking that only broken arrows were left.

While we waited on him to return with more targets and arrows, I looked outside and saw Dr. K. She was trying to talk to some soldier who was ignoring her. It was really windy outside, and I noticed there was desert everywhere. Things weren't adding up....I looked back outside expecting to see more desert, but it was green. I saw mandy walking around and I stopped her and asked "where the hell am I"? She told me the location, as she conveniently had a map with her. I understood that, but what I didn't get was why I was on a military base with civilians from back home. Also supposedly this base was back home. I rc'd....it didn't fail, but I failed to notice the lack of pressure with the nose pinch. I did it again...same thing. I started thinking about all the people I've seen since I got here, and knew non of it was adding up. Then the dream ended.

Fragment: Ruler of Poland
There are elections, and anyone from Canada or Portugal can apply to run for President of Poland. I apply for a laugh, but actually get a lot of votes.

The people of Poland need to be evacuated, and I send them to an old radioactive bomb site. One of my advisers warns me about the radiation, but the bomb there went off so long ago most of the radiation is gone. Plus there really isn't anywhere else to put them.

Looting
Clarity: 6/10
Importance:8/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Unknown

There's been some sort of nuclear catastrophe, and there are hard times ahead. Being the keen survivalist I am, I determine we're going to need supplies to make it through this disaster. There is a Bi-Way down the street, and when I look out the window, there are already people breaking into it.

I lead my small group inside the store, and instruct them to grab non perishable foods and supplies. I tell them to think long term and to stock up on everything we need now, since other people are going to raid this store. We fill several shopping carts and go back to our house.

I go to bed and wake up in my underwear. I need clothes! I ask if the men's clothing store is still there, but end up back at the Bi-Way for some reason. Other people are catching on and raiding the place en masse. Still in my underwear, I pull some blankets around me and crawl through the smashed glass door, stepping on broken glass in the process.

Once inside, I see employees restocking the shelves and cleaning up. They all stop to give me a dirty look and I run out. Seems like things are getting back to normal, and the power is back on.

Had a shit sleep last night. My dad's noticed so he bought me a lavander air freshner plug-in for my room. I hope it works! I should just run more to tire myself out.

Awake Non-Lucid Semi-Lucid

I'm in a lakehouse. It smells damp, everything seems to have lost colour. I walk around slowly, listening to the creak of wood. I'm on a second or third floor.

Lauren is behind me. I snarl at her, she's such a bitch. She laughs and grabs a bag from my shoulder, which I didn't even know was there. She turns to Amy, and laughs again. She's pissing me off, but alos upsetting me. I glare at her and storm towards another room. There's a man selling cookies. I grab one, and leave without paying. I ignore him when he shouts after me.

I feel like ripping Laurens fake, bleach blonde extensions out at the roots. Ugh, everything about her screams artificial.

Instead, I run down the stairs. I ball my hands up into fists and hold back tears. She upsets me just by being here. Now I notice the lake. It's the one I go to for my jogs. I smile because the sun is setting and it's so pretty. I walk along the edge, careful not to fall in.

I notice a figure, standing watching me on top of the water. I think I recognise him... Wait! I do! He's Paul (My almost boyfriend *winks*). I smile and shout to him to catch me. He grins and holds his arms out. I take a running jump off of the edge and land in them. He quickly sweeps my legs up so I don't get my feet wet. I close my eyes and he pulls me close. I can kind of still see though. *Sigh* It's so nice. But soon, he says he needs to go. So he carries me over to the edge, and I watch him leave.

[These dreams, all of which were non-lucid, are actually from the night before last. The ones from last night are private.]

I'm at a supermarket. I attempt to get money out of an ATM, but my card doesn't work. While I'm there, I run into Jenny A. [She's a real-life friend of mine.]

I'm with a group of people my own age, and we're all studying for either the A+ or CCNA exams. We're discussing whether or not you should broadcast SSIDs. [That question has come up as I've been studying for the A+ in real life. The sample questions say you shouldn't broadcast them, but they're apparently operating under the assumption that the wireless network is only there for the benefit of company employees. If it's there for the benefit of customers, then of course you should broadcast the SSID, so your customers will know which network is yours.]

I'm outside a tall office building with P. We need to get into a conference room, where lunch is being served. The way we're going to get there is by riding up to the outside window of the conference room on a porch swing being lifted by a helicopter. P. goes up first. She tilts the swing so it's not at a right angle to the chains [by flipping it over? I guess so, but I didn't see her do it] and stands on top of it, holding on to the chain to her left. [I think] I tell her that that's dangerous, but she ignores me and rides up. She has no problem stepping off the swing and into the conference room.

I don't get to enter the conference room by riding up on the swing. I have to get there by climbing up this net of ropes that has appeared on the side of the building. My mom is there cheering me on. On my way up, I can smell the coffee in the conference room. When I get to where I can see into the room, some of the monsters from Sesame Street are there. Also, Mr. Saito is one of the people at the lunch meeting. [Why is he the only one from the Dream Team who's actually shown up in any of my dreams so far? I think it's because of my long-abiding love for Japan and everything about it.]

Lately, I haven't been hanging out at my friend Mitch's apartment because I'm a rather shy person and they haven't been specifically inviting me, even though I have an perpetual invitation to their place.
Last night I went out with them and hung out with them and he was wondering why I haven't been over there in forever.

I dreamed that I did go over there, but of course everything was different. I think I remember going from outside into it, and it wasn't like an apartment, it was like a real house, and there were steps to go up to get in the front door. I'm pretty sure JC was there and Laura might have been too.
We went inside, the layout was pretty much completely different. The kitchen was too the left from the door and the fridge and stuff were further in the same direction and the hallway was to the right from there.
We were sitting at the kitchen table that was in front of the fridge, and eventually I had had 4 beers.
I had to go to the bathroom, which happens a lot when I drink soda or beer, and has happened IRL at their apartment.
I went in there, and it was very strange, there were two showers that were like public showers, with shower curtains that wrap around three sides. I remember there being something strange about the urinal(?), but I don't remember what it was.
I think someone came in there at some point, but this is about where I can't remember anything from the dream.

Not really sure what any of this means.