non-lucid

(Seems like my brain wants to continue the Digimon trend. Alright, I'm game.)

Me and my friends were riding a motorcycle, except there were three of us on there. Somehow the driver lost his balance, and down we went. I was screaming as I hit the pavement, felt my arm drag heavily against the asphalt, but only suffered a minor scrape on my arm. A car was fast approaching the intersection, and as I looked at it, a new piece of fear wove through me.

"Don't hit me! Don't run me over!" I screamed desperately, and I closed my eyes as I heard the car screeching, only to find the tread of the front tire inches away from my forehead. As I breathed a collective sigh of relief, I gathered everybody up and determined us fit and fine. Nobody had been hurt.

The next day I found myself in a department store. It was big, fancy, and very high tech. As I was browsing around, I couldn't help but think that I was being followed. Lo and behold, I was. A man was stalking me through the store, bloody murder in his eyes. Somehow, he got injured - whether or not it was a clothing rack of some kind falling on him or he was already injured - I don't know. But then he was chasing after me.

I beat him to the elevator and stabbed the "down" button, and the doors blissfully shut before he got there. I could hear his screams as he beat on the elevator door. Once out, I quickly looked for a place to hide, and sought refuge in the women's restroom. Crawling under the overhang of the sinks, I tucked my knees against my chest and I waited for the man to come screaming down to where I was. He did, yelling my name and frantically running to and fro, but he could not find me. A young boy entered the bathroom looking for his mother, and I caught sight of him.

"Psst." I said, a gentle smile on my face, "Come here. We'll wait here, where it's safe." He did as I asked, seemingly thinking it was a game of some kind.

As the crazy man drew closer to the bathroom, I remember thinking I wished there was some way I could escape. . . And instantly, I was in another place. A bar, of some kind, with grungy men scattered everywhere. They looked rather like pirates - and imagine my surprise to discover that they were pirates. I soon found that I was in the Digital World, and in a town that had run bone-dry of water.

I don't know why, but I set out to find the problem. Find it I did. A village of smaller digimon had dammed up the lake that led to the Pirate Town. The only way to free this lake was to hit the main control switch at the center of it. Clambering over a trail of floaties leading to it, the Digimon tried to squirrel me away, but I hit it and the dam broke. They were mad at me instantly, but I was mad right back.

"How could you? There's plenty of water for everyone to share. Stop this nonsense right now."

Both towns resolved the matter peacefully, but almost instantly afterwards, I was in the real world. Almost breathing another sigh of relief, I went about my daily life before I discovered my brother handing me an odd camera. He begged me to take a picture of him using the new camera. Frowning, I obeyed, getting the feeling that something was off, and as soon as I did, he disappeared. He'd been transported to the digital world. I tried desperately to find him, but could not.

Right as I gave up home, two Digimon came to the real world - Beelzemon and another Digimon. I was looking outside for my brother to find the pair coming out onto the porch and then shooting fruit. With their incredibly powerful weapons. When I stared at them, about to tell them to knock it off, Beelzemon gave me a "so?" stare.

"I'm callibratin' it." He just replied simply.

I woke up shortly after.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Hey all. Tried a MILD last night, not too hard I guess, but I still lay there for some time, chanting in my head: "When I dream, I will know it's a dream" and even some in the morning after waking up a few times. Anyways atleast I had a couple of entertaining dreams. Nothing compared to a Lucid one. But I know I will get one soon!

D1 Night: I'm at small stream with a guy from work. He tells me he want seeds from those strange three-meter tall plants growing in the stream. I look at them and they look like small trees with a huge pineapple at the top. I jump down from the plateau we're standing on, and down onto the dried up riverbed. "Hmm wasn't there a stream here just now?" I wonder. A narrator voice tells me that the plants like dry places, and I take a closer look at them. The huge pineapple have a hole in it I notice, and they are hollow. Inside I find a small ball-like seed, more like an onion, floating around in water. I can't take it out without destroying the plant so I leave it. I look at the wall of mud next to me, and remove some cloth. A black spider big as my thumbnail crawls away and I see several red ants. After some time I decide to climb back up and I notice the sky is turning darker, and everyone is gone. A few pictures taken on the plants later I start walking away. I walk through a neighbourhood and people are pulling out their cars.

Dreamfragments Night:
*I'm on a boat, some older men are in the water, and dragging the boat. "I thought it was deeper than that here" I say. "Nah it's pretty shallow" a man replies.

** I'm having tea with my family and some relatives. The muffins look great, with pink glaze. I try one out but I don't remember if it tasted as good as it looked. A relative starts having the longest speech ever about children and stuff. I think he's talking about Monica who's pregnant, but halfway through, I realise he's talking about his own daughter, who just had a child. Sadly Monica doesn't realise this and when the speech is over, she thanks them all. Everything goes quiet. I whisper to her that it wasn't her they thanked. She starts to laugh and takes it pretty well. She tells me a few minnutes later that she almost started crying.

D2 11.30: I'm walking up to a house with Monica. Suddenly I notice something's not right and I check the back. I can see a lion's tail disappearing behind the corner. I panic and run back to Monica and tell her to get up on the roof. We barely make it as two lions see us. On the roof I can now see four lions roaming around the house. There's a big hole in the roof and I look down. I see a girl with a skirt bending over and she's wearing a limegreen g-string in the kitchen. Nice! A second later the little girl (OMG) at the age of ten perhaps turn around and greets us. I'm horrified.

D3 12.30: I'm walking around in town with Felix, G and Monica. A guy on a quadbike almost runs over G and he kicks it as the guy stops. The guy gets mad and happy at the same time (?) and stalks off. G enters a restaurant and we figure he's gonna take a piss, so we take a seat outside. After a few minutes he comes back with a tray and a couple of plates. "What are you doing?!" I ask and he smiles. "I'm working, illegally!" "Uhm okay, why don't you say that a bit louder?" I ask and see two former classmates sitting at a table near us. We decide to go and they rise too. Suddenly I make eye contact with one (Charlie) and he greets me, and gives me a hug. I say hi to the other one (Seth) and ask them what they do these days. Charlie points at a big sign with some skiiers on it, and tells me he's doing skiiing tricks. "That's awesome dude, do you make enough to survive?" I ask and he shrugs. We start walking down the street and I hold Monica's hand. "What about you Seth?" He looks down. "I started this business with a classmate, and it didn't go that well..." Suddenly Charlie and Seth starts walking ahead and I tell them to slow down. They don't listen and soon they're gone. A car drives past and splashes slush at us. "What the hell?..." I think as the car crashes into a building a few yards behind us. Two more cars pull up and stop behind the car. I pull out my cellphone and try to film it all. Everyone in the cars go out and starts fighting like crazy. Suddenly they notice us. Some guy acts all crazy and another girl tells us: "Do you know how many people he's turned bisexual? How many guys he has ****ed?" The guy walks up to Felix and tries to kiss him, but Felix pushes him away. I really don't want to fight and tries to calm them down. Malin, a girl with us freaks out and takes off her pants. "I will show you that I'm not bisexual!" she yells and offers her behind to the guy. I pull her out of there and we start walking again. I calm her down and we're walking on a muddy path with numbers on the ground. I have a number in my hand and I show it to a little girl, who does the same. I feel like a handicapped person, and see some german writing in the mud. "This must be from WW2" I say.

Amount of sleep: 10 hours

That's it! I've signed up to a MILD class with PercyLucid. I have high hopes for that class, and I know it will make me dream more. Btw: I often wake up and lay there thinking about my dreams, and I can see myself writing them down, even the feeling is right, until I realise that I'm just lying there. Is that some kind of False Awakening?

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID FALSE AWAKENING


0:10 GMT – Sleep

The two towers towns
Was having a funny dream about being in this fantasy village in the woods – looked like out of Tolkien’s. On this village there was a big wooden tower and I go to it’s top. From there I can see great distances and detect that there’s another twin town of this one, with a similar wooden tower with the same height. They are like defying each other.
I am sitting on the stairs, looking through an opening on the wall, seeing the villagers down there, the canopy, when a lady appears and I ask her about this other village and the meaning of the towers. She says it’s taboo to talk about it, they just ignore each other to avoid trouble. I find this ridiculous and I want to know more. So I fly down the tower and decide to go to the other town. I take a car and drive there (yeah, dream idiocy).
The other town is surrounded by a fortress and I have to go up a tight zig-zag road to get to its gate. When I arrive there nobody opens the gate, nobody seems to hear me calling. So I go back in the car and fall asleep on the back seat.
Finally at dawn I wake up hearing this guy talking to some girl, outside the car. They are looking at me and wondering what I want. I recognise the guy as being Paulo (a guy I know in RL) but he doesn’t recognise me. He seems unfriendly and upset with my presence and I want to tell him “Hey, it’s me”, but in this context I feel it would sound absurd (I am more or less aware I’m in a dream), so I just stay quiet. He decides to allow me in, but he supervises each step and actually I can’t leave his side for a second. I still have no answers and actually haven’t yet asked any questions, because he is definitely not open to conversations.


6:30 GMT

Meeting a friend
I’m somewhere in a countryside town, surrounded by farmed fields. I have this impression that villagers are not very open or friendly and I just dwell. I then find this group on which I recognize H.E. (a friend I don’t see for some time).
I remember I used to have some funny dreams with him, when we were together in college, on which we flirted [I believe they were shared dreams, because on the next day he would be very smiley to me and even call his real girlfriend my name by mistake, pissing her off big time. LOL. But I never asked him, afraid of looking ridiculous.]
Because he is now working on politics (he is in RL) there’s a bunch of people around him, wanting things from him, wanting to be his friends and so on. I ask him if he can spare some time for his old friend. He is not with much availability but he agrees and we go for a walk. We talk, we fly over what seem to be daisy fields. Then we cross some tiny village streets, with clothes hanging dry, very pitoresque. He needs to go to the toilet and enters some house. I wait outside. I cross and arch at the end of the street and find a road leading out of the village. Then I see a bunch of stray dogs strolling down the road. All is fine, but then 2 or 3 cars are coming and not very slowly and I fear for the dogs, so I run to shoo them. One of them is almost hit, but escapes. Then from behind me a procession of strange animals, looking like dogs and pigs, but with geometric coloured patterns (blue, green, yellow) on their skins pass by. I wonder what is this and I follow them. Passing another arch leading to an entrance to what seems to be a farm, there’s a bunch of kids sitting on the floor, with glue, fabrics, inks and other materials. They are making these animals, like stuffed animals and when they are finished, they become alive and walk around! I find it lovely.
I go back to get my friend to see this and then we join them. I am helping this kid making a big animal that looks like a cute monster. When his head is ready, I put it in front of my face, as if it’s a mask and make funny remarks to my friend, and it almost feels like old times. But then I get into physical affection (as a friend, not with second intentions) and he gets dead serious, not so amused anymore. He is clearly trying not to get too involved emotionally. I guess now he’s taking his relationship with his girlfriend a lot more seriously and he’s afraid we might fall into flirting like old times. I think there was no need to be so worried about it, but that his choice.
I actually start feeling bored and again fall asleep in the dream, but since I am sitting, as soon as I feel the fall, I wake up (in the dream).

Social contrasts
I’m walking to some place and I pass in front of a 5-star hotel, when some handsome middle-eastern filthy rich guy gets out of his limo to go to the hotel. For a moment I feel a bit intimidated of my colliding course with him, but then I think that the sidewalk is still a public place and why should I feel intimidated just because the guy is rich? So I keep moving normally. We pass by each other and the guy actually looks very interested in me, he can’t take his eyes of me. I enjoy his attention, but know that it would never lead anywhere. For him, I might be nice to look at, but not good enough for actually get inside his life. We live planets apart. Still, I feel that this guy is about to say something to me when I hear someone shouting my name. I look around, curious and find that behind this guy’s limo is now a really ugly and old car, full of guys and they are calling me. I don’t recognize them but apparently they are my friends. They ask me if I want a ride, since we’re going to the same place (which I have no clue where it is). I think about this other guy still on hold, looking at me, but I decide to accept their invitation and hop in. I think this will show the guy I'm not really interested in his money.
There’s not really any empty space in the car, so we basically stack on top of each other. I feel amused – there’s this guy alone in a huge limo and here we are in a tiny car like sardines in a can, but in the end I decide this life is so much more fun and rich in experiences!

8:15 GMT – Wake up

i had 2 dreams, 1 fragment, and almost went lucid...

non-lucid dream semi-lucid

1.My family, and I (and by family i mean My mother, brother, father, Myself, Both of my mothers sisters, Their husbands, their kids, their kids husbands/wives, their kids kids, etc etc) were in this small old town house in the middle of a forest. It was like we were on the yearly canoe trip but in a nicer house. we were all drinking and happy, even though it was raining. Then there was a lady in a pink outfit at the door. she left, and followed her out , and stood on the porch. I tried to call her back in but she was up at her house. Her house with only two walls. I shrugged and went back in. I don't remember what happened next but i think i went lucid. I looked around, and nobody was there. I went to take a step but i was suddenly pulled backwards and every thing began to get fuzzy and black. I began to spin in a circle as fast as i could, and i stopped moving backwards. I looked around. there was a lot of black and some fuzzy stuff, and i lost it.

Everything went black, and dream #2 started.

2. started out like a video loading on my cell phone, and two big red curtain pulled back, like a Broadway performance. I was in a barn loft with an ugly green skinned witch. she shrieked, and hid in the corner. I tried to pull the curtains back but they were tangles, and even though they moved, they wouldn't close. So i turned around and looked out the lofts window. I told her she need to leave.....
cats began to fight...woke up, passed Reality check....

3.i was riding a horse; a bay mare, probably in her late teens early 20's. I never said it's name but it felt familiar, so i believe it was my first horse Pepsi even though i never really looked at her or got off of her. I was plodding along in my parents front yard (their front yard is behind the house, and the back yard faced the road.) I moved up to the driveway, and came to a stop in the center of the circle turn around. It was night time, and there were a lot of starts. it was so comfortable, until some lady came walking up. She grabbed Pepsi's head, shoved a lamp shade over her ear, and handed my a large doughnut box. Pepsi freaked. She jumped higher than the house, and kept jumping. she went to the left, then forward again taking bounds as long as an acre or so. (it's hard to calculate a different length because i couldn't see the ground, until we landed, and i know the exact acreage at my parents :/ ) She was about to jump out into the street, but even though thee were no cars I pulled back, and she jumped towards the pond. I lost the doughnuts, and one of my arms went flailing into the air. I tried to grab something, but my arm caught a HUGE spider web which lit up like electrical lines when it snapped. Pepsi took one more big jump, and landed in her pasture, hen stopped. The next thing i know I'm walking up to the garage, going "wow that jelly filled was delicious!"
i lost the dream after that...


i cant believe i remembered all that @.@

I was at what must have been a Taco Bell. There was a DDR machine against one wall; two guys were showing off and there was a crowd of people watching. Someone said, "I'm gonna get some food then play some DDR." I replied, "Should play first, it's harder to play when you're weighed down by tacos." (This and the way the setting looked suggests it was a Taco Bell.) Several people agreed. There was a TV on nearby, the news was on talking about a black man (I seem to want to think his name was Leeroy) who was just elected the head of the "Memory Party". Leeroy was in a suit, but acted very ghetto and was apparently rather dumb. He was giving a press conference in which he announced that he was going to run for president. His jaded opponent for head of the Memory Party was in the audience and said something about how a candidate for president should have a name like Leo (his name). Leeroy replied with something about how that'll happen when the white man calls black men white and Asians call them white man-san, and then paused like what he had just said was the wittiest thing anyone had ever said ever. He went on to say something about now he was able to his kids "chains and brains and gems and jew'ry". There were a handful of supervillains watching from their evil lairs, and they were all thinking about how they had to steal Leeroy's evil stupid powers.

Waited all day. Recall is all but gone. There wasn't much to begin with. Tried to early morning WILD more than once and got this.

Catch Me If You Can (non-lucid)

I exhale a cloud of smoke. I am thrust vividly into a scene and begin chasing a small, childlike, naked green alien. (Get it? Because I can't seem to find my dream guide and the alien plays tricks on me. Fuckin' Bastard.)

Another alien scene. I am in a house with some people and I am waiting for the door to open so I can kick someone out and into the bright light and up into their ship. I see the blue light streaming through the windows and the crack at the bottom of the door.

Frags:

1. Starcraft dream! /sigh

I don't think I've been getting email notifications for the past few days. Weird.

09/08/10



Ixburg, SK

2000

He's killed, just like that. His daughter, seven years old, is alone in their apartment across town. I'm the daughter.

I slip from the bed, tiny and blonde and short-haired, and push open the door to the rest of the apartment. Somehow, I'm not surprised to see a man there. The man is stocky and blond, and I can see that he's grinning when the orange light from the window hits his face.

I incline my head. "Sir." I say, my voice neutral.

He grins wider and nods back. I step back into the doorway of my bedroom, and he brushes past me into the bright light of the hallway.

He'll be back, if only to keep an eye on me. I need to leave.

Originally Posted by DreamViews DC

It really doesn't count for the RPG if you make up the stories while you're awake.

Originally Posted by Samael

That's why I'm posting in this thread, isn't it? You know, the planning thread. Plotting thread. Where we plot.

I'm incubating a dream, okay?

Originally Posted by DreamViews DC

You still have to write your character profile, btw.

Originally Posted by Samael

...I'm going to finish the story now.

Unknown, IL

2010

I'm a man in a black suit, sitting in the back of a black car, which is driving to the outskirts of a town in Illinois. And we're in Illinois, of course, because the Organization tracked an Extranormal here. One false move, one positive test, and suddenly Jane Doe (Age 17, Grade 12, parents work from home) is about to be assassinated by a team of armed government goons.

It's funny. Extranormals can't strictly be barred from going to school, or holding regular jobs. Hell, they can even travel. Different countries have different restrictions, of course, but the good ol' US of A is all about liberty. The Organization can track them, though. Legality's a little fuzzy, but some real dangerous ones pop up occasionally. What to do with them?

Here's the thing: Extranormals go crazy all the time. They lose control of their powers and suddenly they're either a human icicle or a pile of ashes. Most of the time they take innocent bystanders with them. It's really no problem at all to fake a meltdown. Kill the EN, murder all the bystanders, blow shit up. It's easy.

This one's powers are a little more subtle, so no flashy special effects. Fortunately, ENs tend to be a little crazy to begin with, so it wouldn't be unheard of for one to suddenly... snap. Possibly kill her entire family with a butcher knife. Double murder-suicide, neat and clean.

The man in the passenger seat has the knife.

We pull up the gravel driveway. The other three men silently open their doors and step out. I hide a grin by turning toward the empty road as I step out of the car. No one's coming.

The plan is to enter the house and kill the parents, then ambush the girl when she comes home from school.

Neat and clean.

Except.

Her father died ten years ago.

Her mother died even before that.

And Jane Doe is a really stupid pseudonym.

The only person in the house is the lodger who rents out the basement. That lodger is an Extranormal himself, a young black man who's trying to lie low. Obviously, that's not working out.

I can sense him in the front entrance of the house, ready to attack the first man who comes in. I give the all-clear to the other men.

The man with the knife kicks open the door and walks into an ambush. I shoot the other two in the back.

Once upon a time, there was a man in a black suit. The man was supposed to sit in the back of a black car, and break into a house, and help murder an entire family. While he was still alive, this man used to really hate shapeshifters.

Scare Factor: 3/10
Rating: 6/10

Brutal Gig

Me Fraser and Reuben were walking through a parking lot. We saw a guy we met at a party and he said there was a gig on across the parking lot. It was his band playing and they could get us in for free. We walked in the doors and it was chaotic! There was a massive fight going on and there wasnt even a stage for the band. Someone got knocked out and then I started getting punched in the back. I kicked the guy down infront of Reuben and he punched him in the face twice. Blood smashed out of his nose and he was knocked out. It got even more brutal and then I woke up.


Pool Tournament

I was at home with dad. He was about to have a pool competition thing. He needed 200 people for his team but I could tell it was going to be dangerous. He asked me if I was sure I wanted to play. I said definatly. The house was filled with pool tables and random people playing everywhere. I went into the kitchen and there was a Nissan Laurel right where the kitchen table usually is. Dad had bought it and fixed the engine. It had an RB25de so I was pretty stoaked.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID FALSE AWAKENING

In general, these last days I have been recalling fewer dreams and totally missing good opportunities when they arise, but we all go through these stupid phases, I guess.


23:20 GMT – Sleep

Can’t really recall a dream, but I woke up with obsessive thoughts about dream control and the serial dreaming RPG tasks, so either I was dreaming something related to that or not at all and felt frustrated on waking up.

3:58 GMT

Random fragments
I’m with a group of kids, brothers and sisters and apparently we are very famous. There’s a huge group of fans stalking us and we just have time to hide in some house. Inside there’s a maid who becomes our friend and keeps our location secret. For some reason we stay there for the night and it is absolutely imperative that nobody find us there.
Then I am on some balcony trying to disentangle something (?)
Then I’m on top of a skyscraper in N.Y. I feel a bit of vertigo.
Then I am with some blond guy and we are making a pact to help each other keep some secret only to ourselves.

4:30 GMT

From a train to a slaughterhouse
I’m on a train station platform and from inside a train a friend calls me, says it is last call for this train and if I’m not getting there immediately I’ll have to go on the next. I don’t know where we’re going, but I hop in. I sit and realise that in the seat in front are my friend R., L. and some other person. They are bragging about their dreams. One of them says she can easily use the train ride to snooze a little and will surely come up with at least 2 lucid dreams. Initially I feel envious, but I shudder this feeling, don't want to give in to envy and just ignore them. I look through the window and I see bulls on some field. Half-lucid I start thinking which animal suffers the worst: the bull that roams free his entire life and is then slowly tortured and bleed to death in a bullfighting arena or a cow that lives an entirely miserable existence of pain in some factory farm but then dies supposedly quicker? My doubt lies now in the effectiveness of stunners that are used to leave the animals unconscious before slaughter. So I find myself in a slaughterhouse holding one of such devices to test it. I thought about trying it on myself, but I felt a bit scared of what I would feel, so I just test it on an apple – not a very clever idea, it just gets some burning marks on it. [chicken!]

A portal
I’m on some house of an old couple and their son. We’re in the middle of an empty room and there’s a portal open in the centre of the room. It just appeared out of nowhere. As it shines and waves in the air, in tones of blue, like water, we wonder what it is and if it’s dangerous to cross it and what it is on the other side. The boy gets behind it and throws something across it in our direction. It was like a piece of garbage. Instead of crossing, it just stays there, suspended in the portal, but it performs a strange mystical dance and then becomes a perfect circle form. Then I don't remember much, but I had no will or courage to actually cross it and think I just left this room and house and continued dreaming outside. [idiot!]

Buddhists and new agers
I'm in this foreign country and my mom came to visit me and I decide to show her around. I’m dressed in orange, top and long skirt and with my purple hat. I tell her lots of monks and Buddhist teachers are also in the city at the moment, for some gathering. We see a group of people waiting for a bus on the other side of the road and I tell her “See over there, it’s Mathieu Ricard with some other Tibetan Buddhist monk”. A bit further we pass by another group of monks, and I tell her “And see, look who’s in the middle of these monks, it’s Tich Nhat Hanh.”
Then we see a large entrance to some place, like a garage, not entirely inviting, but lots of new agers gathered there. They invite us in, they are eating what seems to be lentils and vegetables, so we join them. After the meal they behave a bit childish, like when they start doing this clapping hand game I used to play in camps with other kids.

5:30 GMT

Alone in the city
I am again in this foreign city and I know my mom is visiting, although not with me at the moment. I know it is quite far from home and I wonder how she enjoyed the flight. I feel that flying is becoming quite normal to me and I wonder if I’ll ever be afraid of flying. Then it occurs to me that maybe if I fly to Nepal, I might feel scared because lots of planes fall in that area as their flying companies are not so safe.
While I think about all this I am entering a building, following two other girls who enter a public toilet. It is quite big with large mirrors on the wall over the sinks. The girls are mocking me or something, but I ignore them. I go to the mirror and I spend a lot of time there, looking at something in my face as I continue thinking. Because I’m abstracted, the dream transforms and I am now on top of a hill sitting with a guy and a girl on a few steps and the mirror transformed into a glass wall by my left side. Through it I can see a road down the hill and a city on the other side of the road.
Me and this guy and girl are so packed together (don’t know way, as there’s lots of space around) and the guy is flirting me thinking I’m interested. But I couldn’t care less, I get up and decide to move. I go downhill and cross the street. From there I see than on the side of this little hill, there's a bigger mountain with a forest and old houses in the horizon, outside the city and for a moment I consider going there. But hesitated, and decided to just fly around the city. I am lucid but honestly can’t really tell when it started (think it was gradual, from the moment I moved away from this couple of friends).
For a moment I find myself inside a house with a bunch of other people and I change clothes – now I wear a sexy transparent black shirt. Then I’m outside again and I’m a bit distracted and a car almost hits me. I pause on the sidewalk for a while, just looking to the sky and the buildings around. It’s all so luminous. Then I see lots of jets lifting off and I have this impression there’s a lot of rich business people on this city. The jets lift off, one after another, there’s maybe an airport nearby. But then they start behaving strangely, like they are not flying in a straight line, but a bit randomly and then they transform into giant metal birds, with colourful painted wings.
A Russian guy wakes me up from my mesmerisation and tells me he will drive this car, which is parked right by my side and I’m sitting on the sidewalk, so he’s just warning me to get out the way. He is a bit rude, but he is actually concerned about my safety and I feel he is a nice guy. He is a driver, not the owner of the car.
Then I cross the street on the pedestrian walkway. I didn’t look to see if it was green for pedestrians and a wall of cars comes in my direction from both sides. But I am not afraid. As they approach I think "cars keep coming at me but this is my dream and they can’t hurt me, I’ll be like Moises opening the red sea and crossing safely to the other side". It didn’t quite happen that way. It just happened that the cars would pass in front of me or in my back without ever colliding with me, very elegantly. That was nice, but not awesome, so I stay there and decide the cars will lift in the air and freeze and make a wall of cars. This time I point my hand to them to make it happen, but all it happens is that they started levitating, but not with the desired effect. I think “Oh crap, I really suck at this control thing.”, but it wasn’t that bad - at least it was a very sucessful levitation of cars.
Then for some irrational “reason” when I am in the sidewalk I decide I’m not over with this gimmick yet and I walk a bit further down the road until I find a spot that for "some reason” looks good. There I decide to send a purple light ray – actually more like a laser, hard to explain - to the ground, marking an invisible line where the cars will create this wave or wall of cars, when they reach it. But by this time, the traffic diminished a lot. It’s already dawn and I also realised there’s very few people on the street. A guy coming out from a building – looks like a bank – just saw me sending out “laser beams” and with his eyes wide open he freezes on the sidewalk and moves back inside. I can’t believe he is afraid of me!
I lean on some raised flowerbed outside a building, waiting for some car to pass, but nothing! They totally disappeared. Now I feel pissed. I was sure this time it would work! Then I feel so incredibly lonely, as if I was the only one of my kind in the world - nobody with whom to share my reality and my tricks. Then my cat appears by my side and I hug him, but I don’t feel much better.
[Then I felt totally disappointed that I didn’t remember to do any of the tasks I was supposed to do!]

7:15 GMT – Wake up

08/09/10

Disclaimer: This is the first time keeping a formal DJ, so my style may change with time. Just bear with me - I thought it was best to put *something* up even though my recall is terrible and my writing style is poor.

Wow, alright. I'm finally going to commit to keeping my online dream journal. Adopted yesterday by Spockman, and started getting back into the swing of lucid dreaming again, starting with this. I had 3 dreams last night, the last one being a lucid! So in order, non lucids first:

#1
The first, and shortest dream of the night. I have a feeling it may have gone on much longer than I remember, but here's what i recall. I was playing some kind of video game, only not on a TV, it was more like I was actually *in* the game, controlling the character as a third party. It was heavily influenced by Mario galaxy 2, as well as Sin and Punishment (the two games my brother has been playing recently, hehe). The action was taking place inside a long, giant pipe, with transparent walls. All I really remember is the last part of the action - a big spiral platform that ended in 2 exits, one guarded by blocks. The main character, I can't remember who it was, was floating upward, while the aim was to destroy the blocks using the crosshairs for the secret exit. My brother was talking to me about how to beat the level, from somewhere around me, but I couldn't see him. That's pretty much all I remember. But its my first dream record, so I'm confident that will get better.

I really need to stop dreaming about videogames...

#2
This dream was a little awkward. I won't use real names, cause the topic is a little dodgy. I was on msn, and I was talking to this guy V, who had a huuuge crush on our mutual friend, N (though this isn't the case in real life). All i remember was the outcome of the chat, where I had V spouting off about me setting up one of my other friends, R, with his girlfriend. Something along the lines of "There are 100 x 100 x 100....(etc) people in this country, and you had to choose HER." I remember feeling really guilty, almost as if I'd led him to believe something that wasn't true - it certainly wasn't something I would do in reality. He continued to call me a dickwad, and mentioned something to do with R using the same msn as him. This confused me greatly. Just then, the lights turned on and I was in bed, clothed, using my laptop as my mum comes into the room to wish me good morning. It was the same room I fell asleep in, except it was a TOTAL mess - things all over the floor. I remember as soon as the light turned on I jumped to close the laptop lid, signed off msn and started to take my clothes off (? this was really weird...I think it was to act as if I'd onlly just woken up or something). I also hid my laptop under the bed hurriedly as well as my dream journal. Odd.....since I technically don't have a paper booklet-style dream journal in real life, not to mention I totally missed this chance to have a lucid! She was pretty surprised I was awake, but told me straight away to clean up the mess I had made. i remember climbing down to a hidden compartment in the side of my bed, where there was an opened jar of purple crystals, almost like a powder, though I had no idea what these were. All I knew is that they were all over the floor, and for some reason I freaked out. Then, for no apparent reasons at all, the scene changed to a wall-like slideshow. First, a picture of waffles at a local supermarket. Then, a Nazi flag. Then the dream ended.

Seriously fucked up dream right there.

#3
A lucid dream! I can't remember for the life of me how it came about, no RCs, just realised I was dreaming as it went along. I'd say it was semi-lucid, but I *did* know I was dreaming and I did exert some good control. Only problem was the recall, I forgot about half of it, so what I put here is just the end part and a general overview. The setting was some kind of indoor temple arena, almost like the setting for some kind of FPS game. There were 3 chambers, 2 of which were identical but opposite one another, and had large pools of water. There was a third, smaller circular pool in the main room, and a tall altar in the middle. There were a few other people there who I didn't know, all of whom were apparently lucid and testing their dream powers. I find this really interesting - the setting seemed almost like a training ground for lucid dreamers, and I had absolutely no control over these other characters - they were displaying the same world-altering abilities I had. I don't know what people would make of this, I am skeptical about shared dreaming but I was curious if other people had been in a similar dream, maybe?

As the dream progressed, I had forgotten the list of lucid tasks I had set for that week, so instead I was practising a lot of interesting abilities off the top of my head. I was manipulating the ground like some kind of landscaper (think Samuel from Heroes) using a variety of interesting techniques - using telekinesis, a virtual HUD kinda like on Maya or a similar program, even changing gravity to create some weird and wacky shapes with the ground and the water. I practiced dream flying and shooting fireballs too. There was some kind of minotaur looking monster there as an enemy for practice battle, and at some stage I remember my mum (again) coming into the dream to see how I was controlling these things. The final part of the dream was an attempt at transformation, which failed the first time but surprisingly, worked after that! I transformed into a werewolf (a goal I've always wanted to try) but I woke up before it was complete, so I'm not ready to tick this off my list just yet.

Overall, compared to most of my aimless, short, blurry lucids, this one was quite something. It felt like it lasted 30 minutes, maybe longer, and the level of detail was incredible. I managed to go the whole dream without thinking of my sleeping self, and without needing to dream spin or try desperately to keep the dream scene together. I'm thinking this could be because I was trying out a lot of new things, rather than wandering around aimlessly, summoning girls and trying my hand at dream sex *facepalm*. Control seemed good, I just need to focus more on remembering my lucid tasks, and RECALL. I'm a little bummed that I don't remember so much of this dream, when the parts I do remember were above par to what I usually experience in an LD.

Overall, a very successfull first night not long till I head back to bed and hopefully have another lucid!

Azra~

I'm wandering down a long path, holding a sword. It's a really huge sword encrusted with jewels and rubies and such. There was a woman walking in front of me, also carrying a sword. She paused and looked behind me and told me to hurry up.

We soon found a whole army of people walking and holding swords. They were all in pretty good spirits. Mind you, this did not take place in the past. Everyone was wearing modern clothes, and the mix of people was very strange. Young, old, from every which walk of life - we were walking down a path carrying extremely fancy swords.

The dream changed, and I was sitting in a living room. There was a very large little girl being videotaped by what looked like a few highschool kids. They seemed to regard her as a celebrity, and kept calling her princess. She was spouting off all sorts of things about her personal beliefs which I wasn't paying much attention to. Instead, I was looking around at the house which was completely and utterly empty. The only thing remotely interesting about anything inside the house was one bright green wall, which really wasn't a whole lot to look at.

There was a very large angry looking woman in the room who I hadn't noticed previously. I suggested we play cards and began shuffling and dealing as everyone came and sat in a wide circle. I had intended for us to play solitaire. They were playing it all wrong, and I interrupted and said, "you know we're playing solitaire, right?"

The large woman looked at me with rage. I wasn't scared, mostly annoyed. "You can't play solitaire with a deck of cards," she said, "You can only play it on the computer. The computers have a deck of cards that is designed specifically for the playing of solitaire."
Of course, it didn't occur to me that what was really wrong was that we were playing with more than one player - hence, solitaire. Nonetheless, I argued with her saying how solitaire came before computers and you could play solitaire with a normal deck of cards. I explained to her that I'd played it many times on my own with a deck of cards without a computer. The woman became angry with me and I stormed outside.

I went to sit on a curb outside of the house. I noticed that several of my fish were in fish bowls. I had to feed them, I realized. I kept knocking over the fish bowls and watching as they began floundering about and suffocating on the ground. I would hurriedly scoop them up and look around frantically for their bowl. Sometimes I'd find a cup with a bit of water or something in it and shove them quickly inside before finding their bowl. I felt I had many more fish around than I had previously.

There was one fish, who, was completely red. It was swimming about and as I stared at it was thinking of how completely beautiful it was. I realized that it had a tiny human body, and was a woman. It's hard to explain. She had arms and a face, but the rest of her was a fish. She stood up on the water, in the water. She waved and made a funny face by sticking her tongue out at me. I was taken aback... I wanted to take her somewhere else to have a talk because I realized that there were people all around me.

As I walked with the fish, things became blurry.

I was wandering alone on a seemingly empty street. There was a car up ahead and I decided to follow it so I might find my way out of here. The car stopped and pulled into a driveway at the end of a dead end.

A woman came running out of her house and handed me two bagels and a loaf of bread. She told me the bagels were the best, there weren't many but they were delectable.

Dream changes. I'm inside a house and there are several people playing drums. I think I know them, they seem incredibly familiar. They talk to me about how I should start playing a hand drum. I say that I would like that but I don't have one.

A man, who looks like someone I know, tells me that he can give me one of his old ones. He says it was his favorite, but he has a new one now. I thank him.

... I think that's about it.

Type: Regular dream.
Lucidity: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Vividness: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

I was in some dimly lit small room with my friend, and I was holding my ipod touch. She wanted to look at it, so I entered the unlock code, and she was able to scroll through the music. She tapped on the artist "Coldplay", and it went to the list of songs I had of theirs on my ipod.

However, it only showed "Clocks", and I remember distinctly reading that word. She asked, "that's all you have?" and I looked at it. The other two songs I had on it loaded within a few seconds; one appeared and then the other a few moments later.

Type: Regular dream.
Lucidity: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Vividness: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Notes:
Today was the first day of school.

I was in a casual restaurant like the kind you'd find in a hospital. I was eating some butterscotch pudding with my dad, and I suddenly felt a lump in my mouth. Without hesitation I spat it out onto the table, and then went to the restroom. I spit out at least five different bees. They were tiny, around half the size of a thumbtack, and they fell into the sink, unmoving and presumably dead.

I was at my house, and D showed up and asked me if I wanted to go to my old elementary school and play pac-man. I started asking him details about if they had the arcade machine or an Atari. He tells me it's a brown Atari, and we get to make our own ice cream. I'm pretty excited about this, and he tells me we need baking soda and powdered sugar. (yeah....it gets weirder) I search though the cabinet and find the baking soda. The box is open, so I decide to check through it and see if it's still okay because we had a really old box. Fortunately it's a new box, but theres a rock inside of it. I grabbed it and I was going to rinse it with water because I wasn't sure if it was baking powder clumped together or otherwise.

Just before I turn on the sink water, water starts squirting out from the rock in small bursts like a squirt gun. I get D's attention and tell him about it, and then the rock finally cracks open on it's own. Several tiny lobsters crawl out on my fingers, and eventually without and provocation, start attacking my hand. I killed a few, and turned on the sink and rinsed the rest down the drain.

D (other friend) arrived with a small yacht, and we all boarded. All of the streets were made of water, and even the highways were made of water. It was as if all the roads had been transformed into rivers of all sizes, but everything else remained the same. All of the areas looked so familiar, like I've been there before.

On the yacht, I was telling D about the lobster incident with the baking soda, and I noticed there were ants crawling around. I was sitting on the opposite side of them so I didn't have much to worry about. I stood up and was asking when are we going to fish, and is this water even fish-able. It looked like it could have been, but I wasn't sure. I went to sit down in my original seat but someone had taken it, so I sat on the side with the ants. Of course, they tagged me a few times, and I moved out of the path they had. I turned around and tried to see where they were coming from, and saw some baby opossums curled up, and told D, "man you have to clean this boat up".

We continued down this highway, and I had a moment of Deja vu. I was talking about how I loved the scenery and I wouldn't mind going to this area more often, and then we came up to a junk yard area, and it had a check point. Thats when I realized everything wasn't so beautiful...but I had the feeling like I did that before. We continued on into the city, and I was still wondering if I could fish. I saw some guy fishing a few boats down, but he was hung up on a buoy. (Apparently they were used as traffic signals in this city) We continued on and reached a dead end.

I went inside this building and there was a movie playing. It was towards the final scene, where they reveal who was the real killer, and apparently some lady who was murdered by the killer was actually the killer. They showed the murder scene twice. The first scene involved two people (I'm assuming thats what played out at the beginning of the movie), and the scene that revealed how she did it involved one person. I think she had two types of blood on the scene, and a mask.

Some lady showed up with her kids and we all started having small talk. Her husband was over seas, and thats all I really could remember before I woke up.

I was riding in a small car with my very large friend, who decided to visit a gangster friend's parents. They don't open the door for people they don't know, I warned him. He thought he'd try anyways. Well, someone opened the door.

Inside the house was a newscaster. I'd never been in this house before (dreamsign?). The newscaster was a white man (the gangster family was samoan). The newscaster started throwing sex parties, and the people who came ended up working for him. One of the last people to ask him "for a job" was another newscaster from NBC. He accepted, of course, but before she actually engaged in any party activities she left, second thoughts apparently.

The only sex I remember was when this really cute black girl was in the bathtub with Mr. Newscaster. She was very impressed with his smooth rear entry and quite verbal about it. (Skipping details for the sake of the other members here.) The newscaster left, and the girl stood up in the bathtub to reveal that she had a penis! She began to pee down the drain. I asked her if she wanted to "play" and she rejected me. I was not happy about this.

Skipflash - we were on our way to the supermarket, me, the trans-girl, the newscaster, my girlfriend and my girlfriend's son. It was a PG rated ride. Went inside and the dream came to a soft stop in reality.