non-lucid

I was on the street in a normal looking neighborhood, walking along the sidewalk. I had absolutely no idea that I was dreaming, but I knew exactly what I was doing. My plans were to go down the street to meet up with and spend some time hanging out with MoSh. His house was just a short way down the street, and the weather was beautiful, so I had decided to walk instead of drive so I could save some gas and reduce pollution. I reached MoSh's house in just a short time at which point I went right up to the door and knocked. It didn't take long before the door opened to reveal MoSh inside, smiling. He said I don't really need to knock every time, I can just come on in whenever I want to. He stepped aside to let me in.

I went inside and looked around, MoSh had a very nice place there, it looked like a really welcoming place. I was about to say something to MoSh when line of kids came running down the stairs from the second floor, they all charged right out the door with Data right behind them and a couple of dogs right behind him. They left the front door wide open, though MoSh didn't really seem to care, he seemed more interested in getting me to follow him into the living room. Since the weather was so nice outside, I didn't bother closing the door before following MoSh into the living room.

The living room was a fairly large room, MoSh was standing beside a comfortable looking couch and pointing at the largest wall in the room, which was completely taken up by a huge flat screen television. The flat screen television was mounted on the wall, or maybe the television was the wall... I couldn't be sure since there was not a single square inch of the wall was visible. I was wondering exactly how big the screen was. MoSh seemed quite pleased with the television, he stood there for a couple minutes as if waiting for me to say something, but all I could say was one word... Wow. Apparently that was an acceptable response, since MoSh continued to say he had an extensive library of movies and games, so let's watch or play something. I was thinking how awesome it would be to play games on that thing, so I immediately agreed and said we should play a game.

MoSh went over to a shelf and looked at some cases there, talking as he did. He was only halfway talking to me, however, he was mostly talking to himself. He said something about me not liking Starcraft, he muttered some more stuff, then he took a game out and slid it into a slot in the television. Wow! It even had a built in video game system! The game that started up on the screen was a space game, I had been right in thinking a game would look awesome on that television... The graphics looked absolutely amazing. MoSh and I were playing a co-op mission where it was the two of us against a fleet of enemy ships... Fortunately the enemies weren't very bright. MoSh and I came at them from different directions, each of us had a squad at our command, and we took them all out.

MoSh and I were playing a death match version of the game when Asuka came in, I blasted MoSh before I realized he was distracted... Asuka had sat down on his lap and kissed him... Not really a fair kill. MoSh won that part of the game, I have never been really good at death match games. Then we played a version of the game that was a race through an asteroid field, there were rings we had to fly through while avoiding running into the asteroids. I won that one, zipping in, out, and around the asteroids and through the rings to the finish line which was a space station inside a cool looking nebula. MoSh wasn't far behind me. I was wondering what other versions of the game were available, but I didn't get a chance to find out before I woke.

If you can be bothered reading this all the way to the bottom, I will be impressed. It does contain at least 3 dreams from one sleep in a single sitting. Continue at your own peril!

Notes Normal Dream Lucid Dream

For the past week my recall has been terrible, with me only remembering a couple of fragments. This morning I woke up and started thinking through a dream - still half asleep. Suddenly I realised, "I should be writing this down!" So I hurriedly turned over and started writing. Part of the dream was lost, the part I was thinking about before I started to write it down.

First (?) part of dream was forgotten, but I recall entering a dark building. I was sure that I wasnt myself at this point, like I was inhabiting someone else's body. It was an orphanage, and I had the distinct feeling it was where I had grown up. Moving through the building, I found no-one about. Dumping my stuff (when did I get it?) in a room, I moved to another corridor and there was a guy who I knew in real life. Wearing nothing but a very short towel. Not being gay, this was not exactly a particularly pleasant thing for me to witness. "You must be looking for [his mother], here follow me." He led me to the reception (of sorts) and I knew that there was another part of the building behind it, that I didnt get to see. I was taken to a room, "Terga 4" (definitely saw that written down) which incidentally was the exact room I had dumped my stuff, and also grown up in (the person I was inhabiting)

Dream Change

Cutting grass in my current High School, although it seemed slightly different. I couldnt place why exactly in this dream. In any case, I had finished cutting two portions of the grass, and was just about to start the third when I was informed it was military property, and was as such dangerous. WTF? I moved outside the school, along a path. There was a box which provided electrical current to some wires, one along the first portion of the road, two along the second. I reached the start of the second portion the first time I walked along it, being led by a friend. The second time along, I was the one who was leading, and I'm sure we were being followed by a couple of idiots. At some point along the path I touched a wire to see if it was live It was before telling the others not to touch them. For some reason we walked on the part of the road that was narrower, on the grassy bank to the right hand side. When we got to the end of this road, there was a house.

It was dark, or at least stormy, with an illuminated house opposite us, atop some cliffs. A river went by in front of us, making a bridge lower down the only viable way across. Luckily there was an elevator for us (me + several others) to go down. We had almost all managed to fit into the elevator, only two people were not in it with us. As we started to go down, the idiots who had followed us arrived. We touched the ground below, and the idiots cut the rope that would have allowed the other two to get down. Interestingly enough, I predicted this would happen.

We had to get across the river, and once again I predicted what would happen next. The bridge broke. Luckily we were carrying the wooden elevator floor with us, and this allowed us to float. Unfortunately, I somehow fell over the edge and got trapped between a submerged post and the current of the river. Next thing I knew, I was floating near the house, and I remember a distinct feeling of WTF? How the hell did I get over here? I could hear the two friends who had been stranded up on the other side of the river, but not the friends who were actually in the river.

Dream Transition, like a scene change in a movie.

I was back at the first part I wrote about, but there were two changes: I was younger, and I definitely was myself instead of inhabiting another person. Were the two above parts of the dream linked? It would appear so, because there in the distance was the house, but it was daytime. Riding a tricycle, alongside a girl. We were both of about 7 or 8 years old at this time. Of all the parts I've talked about, this is the most difficult to remember. Things were fuzzier, more indistinct. I have no idea who the girl was, and I dont get the feeling that the major part I forgot explained who she was. All I know was that we were playing, and suddenly, she wasnt there. I asked no-one in particular, possibly my brain, what had happened to her.

She had died.

I suppose I knew already, but subconsciously. I think she died of cancer, although what variety wasnt explained. It was very sad, because it was like a childhood friend had died, and I didnt quite understand why.

Dream Change

Sitting down in the shower room, for some reason I put my thumbs on my nostrils. Breathing in still worked. Why? Had I not covered them properly? I tried again, sticking them right in, blocking my nasal passages completely, and yet I could still breathe in and out. With a sudden realisation, I was lucid dreaming! This was only the second time I could ever remember going lucid, and the first time with a conscious reality check, (albeit one I have never used before) and this made me pretty pleased. Feeling incredibly pleased, I sat for a few moments, relishing in the feeling of awareness. I was by this time quite tired of dreaming, I doubt I could have taken much more, so it was quite a relief when I woke up.

Im completely happy with the Lucid lasting only a few moments, because it has happened only once before. My goal now is to have a longer lucid dream, where I explore being aware.

I remember Cacaphony and J were at my house. She hopped on my computer and was complaining about how IRC was black in white. I told her to click MIRC and she should be able to see the difference. J was was in the kitchen talking to some guy....about something...like the guy needed something from him...money or whatever.

FA I'm on the phone talking to J about the dream.

18.09.2010

I am the son of a King. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I finally had a night where I could rest. However, every time I woke up I felt very lazy, I have not been so tired since a lot of time. Two dreams, missed lucidity a couple times on the second one.

Second

I was with a group of people like in a mall and we were planning to go to like a castle. We were inside a warehouse (inside the mall) and there were boxes around. The lighting was not very bright, but I could see well. I was going to stay around, but I felt that I had to go as well.

A made up dad approached at me and told me I had to go to my Castle. I was wondering what was going on and he told me that we needed to meet there. He was the King of the castle. I wore regular casual clothes and my dad advised me to dress like a prince I was. We exited the warehouse and we walked through the mall. A guy tried to abduct me and my dad said, "Yeah, Mark, yeah! There is a lot of security here, you will not be able." He laughed.

I stopped by some books and when I was going to read them, my dad grabbed them and moved them making new books. I was able to read different messages on the side of the books.

My dad told me he had to go to the castle first and I had to go own my own. I did not like that idea, specially with abducters around, but I recalled the way to the castle was all straight and there was a lot of people, so I did not complained.

We grabbed an elevator to go to a basement room. The elevator was small, however, the funny fact that the elevator worked perfectly in the dream. I did not have flaws. While I was talking with my dad, I looked at my hands. I stared at the for a while. I had some sort of "lucid" feeling (I recalled within the dream the feeling I have when I turn lucid) but my hands looked perfectly OK. My dad asked what was I doing and I told him I liked to Reality Check whenever I was inside an elevator just in case. He did not ask further questions as the elevator stopped and opened.

The basement was dark and I saw like a small jail. I found the prince clothes so I started to change. When I was all done, I was about to leave. The room was big, full of boxes and old stuff, and I could see the street outside. As soon as I started to walk, someone placed his hand on my shoulder. I turned and it was the abductor. He smiled and claimed I was going to give him a lot of money. I was worried I was going to be placed inside that small jail. I started to ask for help, however, I did not feel scared. I tried to fight him until I saw a guy who looked like my dad. I told him, "Help!! Mark is abducting me!!" But the other guy was an abductor too. I tried to walk but they were grabbing me, however, I was still stronger than them. I was able to reach the street (which was about 40 feet from where we where. I screamed for help in the street, however, all the DC walking in the streets ignored me. I woke up.

Missed Dream Signs:
- I was the son of a King.
- The scenario with the books was odd.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Talk to the abducter and ask him why his is threatening me.

18.09.2010

Electric Guitar Solo (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I finally had a night where I could rest. However, every time I woke up I felt very lazy, I have not been so tired since a lot of time. Two dreams, missed lucidity a couple times on the second one.

First:

I was walking around a hotel I planned to stay and I saw a pool that was 8'2'' deep. I was excited because I finally found a deep pool. It was warm and sunny and I wanted to take a bath.

I had to go somewhere else but I planned to go to the pool tomorrow. I pulled my cards from somewhere and my Black Lotus looked odd. It was foil (which is impossible, old cards were not foil) and it had a total different art.

I was able to play an electric guitar. A guy owned a place and showed me a song of his. There were also a few instruments that were levitating and playing alone. He told me that the musicians were Astral Projecting so I could not see them.

I played an awesome solo with the electric guitar and people who was around loved it. The owner of the place got jealous and kicked all the public out. When everybody was gone, he unplugged my guitar and kicked me out as well.

The guitar hard some pre-recorded songs inside, odd songs.

So I remember 3 dreams.

1. I remember me and a friend were going up a mountain to save a princess. I was going slightly faster than my friends and I ran into a dragon. A VERY BIG DRAGON. So I ended up killing it by myself. And we went up the mountain,and as we got to the village on top,it started raining. There was a crashed airplane (it was an old one) so I got into it to avoid the rain. Then I was talking to another friend (I think over the phone) and he was depressed,I don't remember why. So as the rain lightened I got out of the airplane and went into one of the buildings where everyone was. I don't remember what happened next but then we were at a party with the princess. During the party some big dude captured the princess,so we followed him back to his house. (horrible hiding spot really) And saved the princess again,by killing him. After that the dream kinda changed,I was in the same village but it was at night,and I was the batman. But I was out of costume. As I was walking to my house,I was trying to find a way to sneak in past the butler,then I saw someone in MY batman costume! So I chased after him,tackled him,and took off the mask to find out that it was the butler.
After that the dream ended.

2.I was in a car with my mom and we went to look at this karate studio in town...and that's all I remember.

3.
I was with some friends hiking up this mountain,right before we reached the top. When we got to the top,I looked down and saw it was the Grand Canyon. For a second I wondered how I got to the Grand Canyon,I mean it's like hundreds of miles away from where I live. Then I didn't really care because it was awesome. So me and my friends hiked along the top to the parts where it was deepest and looked down. I layed down and peeked over the edge and couldn't see the bottom. We talked about how deep it was and then I saw 4 rocks,in a group,all fly up at the same time at me. I barely pulled my head away it time,and of course my friends joked about it. Then we went along to this cave on the mountain,where these 2 police officers were showing a video. It might of been some kinda safety thing,I dunno. Then this other guy who was the karate teacher from before was there,and said "anyone who wants me to keep teaching come up and hug me" and like,right away one kid jumped up and hugged him. Then another kid,after an awkward silence. Then we was all upset and went berserk,and left. Then me and a friend (the others were gone) were trying to find a way off the mountain,because it had suddenly become an island cave. We tried going to the edges of the island,but there was ocean,and we called for the police several times but they didn't come so I went back up to the cave to try to find them,and they were shooting at something. I turned to look and they were shooting at these sand people things,that came out of the walls. I shot one,because I suddenly had a pistol out of nowhere,then left back to the edge of the island. Not knowing was to do. There were these weird things popping out of the ground,and then the dream ended.

4.
I was in some kind of futuristic setting. I was trying to get to a nuclear factory in town before the protesting workers burned it down. So I ran for it,but there were enemies shooting at me. I got past them and continued to the factory. When I got there it suddenly changed to me heading to this group of people for a speech or something. I was suddenly in a tux,and went with them.
Then the dream kind of started over,but this time I had to make sure that they DID burn down the factory. Same thing happened all the way to the building. And suddenly it's that group I'm supposed to be in for the speech thing again. But instead of wearing a nice tux,I was in some kinda ugly jacket. So as we were walking on stage my arms were crossed to cover it,and an emblem on it.

And that's all I remember.

Non-Dream Non-Lucid Lucid False Awakening

I am doing this straight from my memory, with no assistance from my physical DJ. I am hoping this can improve my recall. My dream also fades out at one point because not much action is occurring. I would also like to warn you that anywhere dark as or darker than a shadow in a dream gets me nervous in the dream, usually causing a nightmare, which almost got out of control today.

The dream started out slow. I was in a dark computer lab trying to solve a brain-buster on an unfamiliar website with my PE teacher. When I FINALLY figured it out, I got to leave. When I exited the lab I was outside my home at night. Very creepy. I got in the van that was parked on the street next to my house to find my mom, dad, and brother in the vehicle. I got in the passenger seat, and we drove onto the road. There were no buildings at all, and it was nearly impossible to see anything out the van. There was no starlight or moonlight. Finally, we passed by an odd building, with only a flickering green light to mark it's presence. There was another odd and almost invisible building, where we promptly parked our car. As we entered the building, Laser light shows were creating odd patterns, like the ones created in the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch App, Uzu.



As we walked in the first door we could find, there wasn't much action happening except walking at the moment so the dream faded out. I remember entering and observing various rooms with my family, and seeing our tenant, W. As soon as the dream got clearer, I was walking into a bathroom. I saw a human-like figure hunched over in a towel. I got nervous, since this house has no inhabitants at the time, and he could be... dead. I took a tool (possibly a stick or pole) and whacked the towel off, only to reveal two large dolls put an an odd position. I threw them aside in disgust, and as I left the bathroom, I found myself in my parents' master bedroom. My brother was by the cabinet by the exit door. I said "Hey!", and he promptly fell over and started seizing. He morphed into this zombie-like thing and picked my up by the legs. At that point, I went into third-person view and started thinking, 'This must be a dream...' Now lucid, I kicked my brother away and ran out the bedroom. I walked into the hallway with my mom. As we were walking out, I tried to summon a sword, but I wasn't loud enough, so a half-sword was summoned instead. I was like, oh well (I wanted to teleport somewhere to practice my fighting). I walked into the library, where my mom was showing me something that I can't exactly remember. It was some kind of can or something. I woke up because the dream was too boring.

EDIT:Whoops, forgot notes.
Notes:
Vividness: 5/10 (Wayyyy too dark.)
Lucidity Peak: 3/10 (Did pretty much nothing.)

I am going to visit my fried and his family with my family. We are staying there three nights. We arrive there, but instead of their house, we are at our home. Our room is in the garage, but it isn't like our garage at all. It is nicely decorated. The ladders that lead to the attic are pulled down. I climb up feeling none of the vertigo I usually feel when climbing there. The attic also isn't anywhere near the same it actually is. It a little bigger than in the waking world and instead of the stuff it has in it in the waking world, it is dark and full of mattresses with bedding. I go back down and off the garage.
Around he house is a small village that is in ruins. I explore the village for a while. I go back to the garage and up the ladders to the attic. There is a window of some sort in the back of the room. Out from the window there are DCs coming in. I go there and open the window. I try to put my hand in, but there is an invisible obstacle my hand cannot pass. A DC grins at me while another one comes in. I'm not very sure what happened next. I think I went down and possibly told about the DCs to someone. After it I went to the outskirts of the village.
There my brother and a friend of his comes to me. They have short, wooden baseball clubs and they are intending to beat me with them. I take the club from my brother and hit his friend hard on the head. He seems not to even notice it. He swings at me, but i parry with my club. We trade a few blows. He manages to hit me on the fingers and to the hip. I turn to escape. My brother pulls out a pistol. I run off. I go back to my friend's house. Just outside the garage there is a long hallway. Outside the hallway is the ruined village. I talk to someone. He has a bottle of lemonade in his palm. My mother comes to the hallway. I think we discuss about the DCs pouring into our world. I'm not completely sure what we called them, but it might've well been DC. Someone tells they can get drunk. We cheer. Now we'd only need to get enough alcohol to get them all drunk. I notice my mother is holding bottle of cider. I go to a salon. It, like the other rooms, is heavily furnished. There is a door in the room. I open it. The tavern behind the door is full of dream characters. They are sitting around tables. The tavern is filled with their voices. They turn to look at me. I start mocking them. Everyone around me tells me not to. Apparently they are afraid of the DCs. I throw the bottle of cider at them and close the door. I think someone said "now you got them really angry" or something like that. We go back to the garage and up the ladders. The window is still there. Its dark so I take my phone from my pocket for some light. There are eight of us. We form two teams, four in each. I am with the Invincible Man, Joker and Tower Man. I don't remember who were in the other team. We have a shared dream where we beat the DCs. It pretty much happened so that I had three cards. In one of the cards, there was our team. The picture of us was alive, just like in Harry Potter. The other card was for the other team and the third card for the DCs. Eight blue dots appear in the two cards of our teams, four in a card, under the pictures. One by one they turn into squares. The sames happens with the third card. The only difference is that the dots/squares are red.
I leave the attic and go back to the hallway. There is a lamp hanging from the ceiling. I (or was it someone else?) pull(s) it. The hallway (or a room near it?) changes into something else. The room into which it changes is still heavily furnished. I (or he/she) do(es) it some times more. I say we need to get it turn back into the salon. I think we succeeded (now there definitely was someone else in the room). If the room into which I next went was the salon, I didn't open the door to the DCs' world again. Instead I opened the door that took me outside. Whoever was with me, he didn't follow me there.
I am now in front of our home again. Our car's trunk is open. My mother says we are leaving. Apparently the three days have already passed. I wouldn't want to leave yet. I go back to the garage. This time there is no heavily furnished salon nor hallways. There's only our home's hall. Also the garage is lacking the furniture it had. I doesn't even have the normal tables and shelfs. There is only the empty, gray room. I go up the ladders. The mattresses and the beddings are still there. I don't remember about the window. I go back down and out. There I go around the house, where the ruins were. They aren't there. I go up the hill where my brother and his friend tried to beat me. At the top of the hill there is a dam. There is at least one man there, maybe more, I can't remember. The dam breaks. The mass of water rushes down to the valley below, even though the current isn't as powerful as it would be in the waking world. I go about a metre from the flow to take some pictures with my mobile phone. Before I have time to take it from my pocket, I see some people caught in the water. I go to rescue them. I grab a woman's hand and pull her to land. I see another person in the water, a man. I go to rescue him too. I get his hand, too, but after dragging him for a few metres his hand slips off from mine. The man I first see is shouting at, pleading me to get farther away from the water. I do so. My brother comes at me with a pistol in his hand. He shoots at me, but misses. I only feel a sharp air current moving my hair. I run at my brother, jump and kick him on chest with my both feet. The kick sends him tumbling (or flying?) backwards. There is now a fall of maybe 30 metres instead of the hill. My brother falls down. I'm afraid he got hurt so I go and see. Luckily he only fell for a few metres, down on a deck of a ship. I think I woke up somewhere at this point.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Hello. Thought I was gonna be late for Puffins DILD class. It starts at 7pm -6. I'm at +1... So I'll just wait until 01.00 tonight hah! Anyways, I didn't dream that much, two fragments and a short dream.

D: I'm with two other guys, and we walk up to a house. I guess we must be in a foreign country, I can see jungle around me. The house is out in the middle of a small lake and we rush in. We take out two guys somehow and we loot their bodies. I take a wallet with a couple of thousand in it, and also a passport. I need the passport to get out of this place and I read the name. "Miguel Luardo" or something like that. I take a look at the picture and start wondering how the hell we're going to fool the customs with this. We still decide to try it and walk to a booth not far away. They tell us we need new passports, and that it will take a few weeks. We also find out that we don't need them to go on a boatcruise. "Then let's go to Thailand!" some guy tells me and I get mad at him. "Why the hell do you wanna do that? Let's go to Åland, it's closer" I say and we start arguing.

F1: Something about my brother Morgan. I remember him having a diaper, so I guess he must have been around one year old again. So damn cute!

F2: I remember trying to take something from my mom's dog. She growled at me. She hasn't done that before.

Amount of sleep: 8 hours

Well, tonight is the class. Is gonna be interesting yesh yesh.

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

Hello
Last night I just got 5 hours of sleep, because I went with a few friends to a club to just partying around. I don't have to explain that this little amount of sleep (with the combination of alcohol ) wasn't good for my dreamrecall

That's why I remember just a few fragments.

All these fragments were about parties and clubs, all my bad experiences (and more pleasant ones) and all my fears were mixed together, I remember drunk people; dancing, beautiful girls; flirting around; dancing; enjoying the music, some drunkards having problems with the security; But also all the bad things I experienced because of a girl named N. ( a long story which I already posted here on a thread on DV)
One more memorable fragment is the following one:
I'm outside, there are cars afew friends of mine and this girl N.. There was music playing, a song from the band Klaxons: Twin Flames. We were singing that song (although I'm the only one who knows about this song). The song is about love and being a part of each other lives. N. was also singing, which made me angry. I started shouting at her, saying really ugly things, because she has no right to sing this song, 'cause she doesn't know what real love is and how it feels like.
She stopped and disappeared.

In this dream I remember being in a ghetto of a city. Some small black kid was dragging a bigger black kid toward the fence I was walking by and he said that they needed help. I knew someone, well, that was a buddy of my dads who worked in the "ghetto rehab" if you will. I then went to go greet him, as I did something made me think that I was dreaming, I started getting excited and decided to see if I was dreaming or not. I jumped up like 15 feet in the air and grabbed like a metal leaf decoration that was hanging from the ceiling. I clearly remember the mans face I was going to meet, and I remember being afraid of it, Not sure if it was a 100% lucid dream, but I think part of it was. I also believe I had a false awakening. Was pretty tight, too tired to think of it right now.

I was in a strange town, I didn't have any idea how I had gotten there but that fact didn't occur to me at the time. The town looked like something I would expect to see in an RPG or fantasy movie. I was dressed in the white robes of an Assassin's Creed Assassin' which was a good thing since the sun was shining very hotly and the white robes helped keep the direct heat off. That certainly didn't make things comfortable, however, so I was looking for a public place to get in to so I could cool off a bit, I ended up going into a tavern of some kind, though I didn't notice the name.

The inside of the tavern was quite a bit darker than the bright exterior, so it took my eyes a couple minutes to adjust so I could see clearly. There were lots of people in the place, all talking amongst themselves, making it impossible to determine what any one person was saying. I walked farther into the tavern, I noticed that there were quite a few people looking at me, I wasn't sure why that might be, so I ignored them and went over to the bar and ordered a beer. I wasn't sure why I ordered a beer, I don't even like beer, but I opened it Nd took a drink. It was better than I expected. The bar tender asked if there was anything else I needed, I thanked him and said the beer was it for now... I asked how much I owed him, he said I owed him nothing, I thought that was odd, but I stepped away from the bar.

I was feeling like a character in a video game, which was how I looked, so I thought I should find a quest to go on. This was a tavern, there should be some kind of quest available in here... So I wandered around the tavern a bit, eavesdropping on some conversations to see if there was anyone who sounded like they needed help. I wasn't hearing anything interesting at first... A man was speaking lovingly to a woman, telling her not to worry, his wife would never find them there... A woman getting quite angry, talking to her friend about how she wanted to kill her cheating husband, a couple of women were kissing as lovers... None of this really got my attention, these were all personal matters, so I continued looking. I was starting to worry that I might become obvious when something caught my attention, someone was talking about their daughter having been kidnapped. I sat down at a table close enough to listen in on their conversation.

The mother and father were both talking to a rather creepy looking guy, the mother and father looked like pretty well-off individuals, more so than most of the people in the tavern. The creepy guy, on the other hand, looked like he had crawled out of the city dump, or more likely the rats had thrown him out for being too disgusting. As I listened, I found out that the couple's daughter, 15 years old, had ben kidnapped and would most likely be sacrificed to some nasty called a spider demon. At the mention of a sacrafice, the parents looked horrified. The creepy guy seemed to savor that reaction... Then he continued to say the girl would be alive for a good week yet, since that was the gestation period for the little ones. Apparently there were many spiders controlled by this spider demon, and they would feed on the girl for the entire time while making sure to keep her alive, they would lay their eggs in her, when the eggs hatch in several days, the little ones atr hungry. But no worries, the girl would make a ready food supply, if she was lucky she would be too delirious to feel the excruciating pain as the little ones ate her alive from the inside. By now the mother was in tears... The father was begging the guy to tell them where the girl was being held, offering to pay any amount, but the man said he just wanted to be sure the couple would know their daughter would be dying a very slow and painful death. He walked out, leaving the parents too stunned to react.

I wondered if those horrible things the man had said were true, he also seemed the type to make up a horrible series of lies just to watch the parents' despair and pain... But if there was any chance that was true, I had to check it out, and I had been looking for a quest... So I followed the man from the tavern and onto the street, somehow it had become night while I had been in the tavern, and even stranger was the fact my Assassin's robes had turned black. They were adjusting to keep me hidden in any situation, which I thought was pretty cool. I saw the man moving down the street at a quick pace, he definitely knew where he was heading, and I followed him. I wanted to stay close enough not to lose him and still far enough back that he wouldn't spot me, although my robes kept me well hidden so there wasn't really any threat of that. I followed him for quite a while, he clearly knew where he was going, though I had no clue. He left the town and made his way through the darkness as if he had been there many times before, he had no trouble navigating the narrow trails through the rocky landscape with little to no difficulty while there were a couple places where I nearly face planted due to tripping on a rock I hadn't seen. The man disappeared into a small cave, glancing around to be sure no one was following him before disappearing inside. I noticed that he looked directly at me but gave no indication that he had seen me at all.

I followed him into the inky darkness of the cave, at which point he finally revealed that he could not see in total darkness by lighting a torch to see by. Of course that made it really easy to follow him through what seemed to be an endless maze of caves branching off in every direction. He finally entered a cavern that was illuminated by torches, that was his final destination. I entered the room to find a scene from a horror movie, there was a girl in there who looked like she was about 15 years old, she was naked and bound to the side of the cavern with what looked like wads of spider webs. That wasn't the worst part of it, either. The worst part of the scene was that there were small spiders crawling all over her, it looked like they were biting her, and there were red welts all over her body where she had been previously bitten, and she was hanging limply from her bonds and crying. When the man entered the room, the girl looked up at him, still crying, she said she wanted to go home, please help her... The man looked at her and laughed, he said he was going to help himself to her, that's what he was going to do, and as he said that he pulled his pants down, I was grateful that I couldn't see what he pulled out. The girl saw it, however, and was repeating over and over, "No… no… no…" and "Don't… don't… don't…" through her tears. That dirty, rotten, filthy piece of shit!

This would stop now. The girl fell silent as I walked up behind the asshole, she was looking at me with wide eyes… I figured it probably looked to her like I had just materialized out of nowhere. Time to take out the trash… but not too fast… that filthy asshole… his sickening chuckles fell silent as I ran my hidden blade into him. He turned towards me before I could even remove the hidden blade, which resulted in the wound getting torn even bigger… He opened his mouth to curse, but all that came out was blood, he fell down to his knees and coughed up blood again, then fell onto his side and twitched there for a short time before coughing up blood one final time and then being still. I noticed the girl was staring at me with wide eyes, I wondered if I had made a mistake by letting her see what I had just done, well there was nothing to be done for it now. What I had to do was get her out of there.

I remembered that in dreams I am able to control insects and spiders, so I ordered the spiders on the girl to get off of her, and I was surprised when they actually obeyed. I was actually considering doing a reality check but I was distracted when someone entered the room, this was a big and ugly guy… I remembered the freak saying there was someone he called the Spider Demon. Well, this guy was definitely ugly, but he didn't look like a demon to me. He proved that he truly was able to control the spiders, however, when he summoned all of the spiders in the room to gather around him. I'm not sure what had happened before I had arrived, but the sight of the ugly demon wanna-be set the girl off on some uncontrollable screaming, I wondered what sick things that asshole had already done… He ordered the spiders to attack me, I hadn't had a chance to cut the girl free yet, the asshole was laughing insanely. The spiders seemed to hesitate, but then started moving towards me, but I told them to turn around and attack the asshole. They immediately turned around and surrounded the asshole, completely ignoring his commands now, and then swarmed over him as he yelled his commands at them to attack me, not him. His yelling soon became muffled as the spiders filled his mouth with web, and they completely bound him in web, he fell to the ground, futilely struggling, looking like a big worm trying to break out of a cocoon of spider web, only his nose and eyes were still visible. His muffled cries of anger changed to cries of pain…

I pulled my attention from the "Spider Demon" and cut the girl free of the spider webs, then carried her out of the cavern. I'm not sure how I managed to find my way through the maze of dark passages, but I somehow did and emerged with the girl into the night. She was still crying, still naked in the night… I took off my robe and wrapped it around her, which left me wearing a non-descript shirt and pair of pants. There were so many spider bites all over her, I thought that since I could control the spiders IWL, maybe I could now use my healing powers IWL… so I focused on healing the girl's wounds, golden energy formed and flowed through her, wiping the bite marks away as if they were nothing more than spots of dirt on her skin, the energy also served to calm her down and relax her, she stopped crying, and now she just looked tired, completely exhausted… so I ended up carrying her all the way back to the town, I was surprised that at no point during that hike did I become tired nor did the girl start feeling heavy. I didn't really consider why that might be. I went down the main street in the town and went directly to the tavern, I wasn't sure if the parents would still be there, but that was a good place to start looking for them.

The first time I'd walked into the tavern quite a few of the people in the room had turned to look at me. When I walked in carrying the girl wrapped in my robes, everyone in the room turned to look at me. I scanned the crowd, searching for the parents of the girl I was holding, and I spotted them over in the far corner talking to a man who appeared to be an adventurer or a mercenary of some kind, I figured the parents were looking everywhere, desperate for someone to help them find their daughter. Now they were looking at me along with everyone else. I didn't really know what to say, so I just carried the girl over to the couple, at which point I pulled a fold of robe away from the girl's face, revealing her to her parents. The two of them were beside themselves with relief, the girl had been sleeping in my arms, but now she woke up. I set her on her feet, her parents embraced her, the three of them hugging and crying tears of relief and saying a bunch of stuff I couldn't understand due to the fact they were crying tears of joy. Excellent. Another sappy happy ending, though I wasn't sure why that was the way I was thinking of it… I turned to leave the tavern, to leave the happy family to their celebration, but the mother grabbed me, she was saying she didn't know how to thank me enough, she didn't know how to repay me, I just said I hadn't done it for payment. Both parents were expressing their gratitude now, the father took off his cloak and wrapped it around the girl before handing me my robes back. He said they looked like an exceptional garment… I felt like I was going to wake up, so I told them I had to go, there were places I had to be. I turned and left the tavern quickly… as soon as I stepped out the door and around the corner I woke.

Im scared. I failed an RC this morning. This leads me to believe that my RCs werent good enough. Like, I dont do them "properly". This stops now. A failed LD is what it took me, but im done now. BY THE WAY, karma owes me a lucid. I talked to someone about dreams yesterday, and so I think I deserve it. And I do.

Dream 1: Criminals are lurking in, well, im not sure. Somewhere. They are probably killers, since I watched the Grey's Anatomy killer episode right before. Screamers are also included (in perhaps another dream?), however no scream. I remember the car passing by, but I would not see it. Then, looking down in the comment box, I saw a note talking about how he saw: A flash of light... Weird. Moving on.



Dream 2: Now it is 6 so its ok I forgot most of my dreams. Friday I usually dont write since my mom is home and wakes me up later so I dont have time. But this one is very clear, though there is a big chunk missing right here--->
Walking next to my dad...ah wait I got something. Sitting on the couch, thinking about the wonders of Lucid dreaming. Ahhh, nice. I got really close. Walking next to my dad. It is very rainy outside. We are on a sidewalk close to our home. I look around and see a restaurant called "Chats et vin" (cats and wine) with Rachid Badouri on it. I remember hearing Rachid saying theyre not actually eating cats. Then while walking I see Vincent and a random DC walking on the street next to us, then cutting in front of us. I think about how it would be nice to just walk around with friends sometimes. Then, I think of Rcing, and I do. But while im doing it, I KNOW im NOT dreaming. Im not sure wether I breathed through and not noticed or intentionnaly blocked it. But im pretty sure I didnt get lucid, which sucks. My only consolation is just when I woke up, my mom came in to wake me up anyway. So I would have been lucid for like 10 seconds. But still...

CRAP

Good sleep habits lead to good recall. Zeo shows just three really long sleep cycles and I recalled a dream from all three. This is the first time I've recalled a dream from the first cycle. My pen is running out of ink.

I was really confident I'd have a lucid and I had a few tasks lined up to do. Oh well. Tomorrow will be even better.

0445: Sleep

0635: C. I sense that I'm at work but the building is more like an apartment. It's dark outside, maybe raining. I am sorting laundry in a bedroom. I came to the office to work on the weekend? I was hoping to be alone. I have a bottle of Jack Daniels. Hugh is there. Lucas also works at this place. I am actually an undercover cop and Lucas is a criminal. We are both using aliases. I tell this to Hugh. He's getting ready to leave to drive home. I ask to wait so we can leave together but he leaves without me. Then Dave pops in (with Laura maybe?) He is going to a dinner party or something. I also tell him about being an undercover cop. I show him two photos are me and two of Lucas and tell him the real names. Lucas looks like Wolverine in his photos. Another couple enters the office. I vaguely recognize them but don't remember their names. Dave blurts out "Hey, Michael is really Lieutenant...!" but I forget the name I used. The couple doesn't really hear this from across the office. I shush Dave and he stays quite.

0655: Back to sleep after WBTB

0916: A. This dream was quite vivid and I felt I had an above-average degree of reasoning capability (although what I do in the dream is pretty stupid). Zeo reports that this dream happened during a epic 75 minute long REM cycle. But what I recall seemed about 15-20 minutes. I'm in a house in a nice suburban neighbor, but it's unfamiliar. I'm in a bedroom on the second floor. It's night outside. I'm talking to a girl who is leaving for a house party in the neighborhood. She suggests it's going to be really wild. She leaves. I look out the window and see two plastic baggies on the sidewalk near the lawn. I go outside and pick one up. Inside there is pot wrapped and labeled in plastic wrap and in vials. There's also rolling paper and a condom. I sense that these are for the party. Someone is spreading them around the neighborhood for people to bring to the party. I take them back up to my room and look at the them, reading the labels of the strange ingredients. I hide them under my bed, go outside to get the other bag, and bring that one up too.

I open a laptop and find a live streaming video of the party. I join a live lecture. A guy is going to explain how to use the things in the bag. I feel nervous so I take the stuff down to my car which is parked at the curb across the street. I hide the bags under the passenger seat and lay down in the back seat. I see police cars rolling through the neighborhood. I pretend to be asleep but I know I'm going to get busted. A cop opens the front passenger door and takes the stuff from under the seat. Then they open the back door and I fall out. They charge me with... burglary? It seems the pot was bought with stolen money so having the pot makes me an accomplice to the burglary. I ask, "Isn't that 'accessory to buglary'?" The cops laugh and say they've never heard of that. I argue, "What if you're the guy driving the car from a bank robbery?" Then they say, oh, that's a good point. (IWL, I don't think any of that law or logic makes sense). I am walking with the cops down the street and they are friendly. It's starting to get light as morning comes. They are talking about gambling.

1135: D. I think my recall was good but I was disturbed by my alarm and the dream faded very fast. I tried for several minutes to remember because it felt so close on the tip of my memory. All that was left was a fragment. Something about cooking food and wrapping it in bags.

I was at my "room" (completely different than my actual room). It had an eerie feeling, my sheets were scarlet red, like I'd like my room to be. But the light of the dream was like greenish-yellowish, quite creepy. My dad came in to tell me that all my family was arriving. My uncle came in and told me he had some cards with our names and their meanings. I picked two and the first one said something like the angels cry, their crystals break and the second one that I was in deep sorrow. I then walked out of my house by my best friend, he told me I had to see this. It was too small kids, one girl, one boy fighting each other. I separated them and took the little girl by the hand. We walked and the little boy followed us, but not trying to fight her anymore. Some women that walked with us told him to stay far, but I told them to let him stay, that he needed help as well. When we were walking back I told them I had to go to work just a few minutes, and the place where I was going said something like Police & Mysteries Department, meaning I was a detective and I investigated murders. I came in with the other detectives, and they told me it was all okay. But one guy started to walk in some tiles, and he removed them, we saw a children's carpet. He was removing tiles and stopped, walked over other tiles. He said he knew what was going on, there was a body there. This other agent had killed another agent. When that agent, the murderer came in, we confronted her and she confessed. The tiles went up and we saw the body, it was still fresh. Then the agent took a knife and killed the others. It was like I wasn't there anymore, just an expectator. I went back to my house, and I woke up. Strange enough, this didn't feel like a nightmare at all.

Feelings: creepiness, wonder, curiosity, fear (not intense though), the desire to do something, to do justice.