non-lucid

Screwed-up Performance (5th June 2010)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

It's about time I update my Dream Journal. Luckily for me I remembered this dream; I forgot every single dream I had recently. This one is quite short.

From where I can remember, the dream started out in Zhonghua's school hall. The stage was much bigger. I was standing at the side of the stage, and the Chinese Orchestra was performing then. Jetaime asked me to join in before running off to her seat and started playing. I was quite confused because it was CO that was performing, not band. I ran down the stage and made a big U-turn about in the hall.

*loss of time here*

I then found myself on the stage, preparing to play with the band. Ms Ong was together with the audience. Mr Chew (conductor) turned to the audience and asked them to listen to us while staying in the push-up position. Relunctantly everyone in the audience, including Ms Ong got down and did as they were told.

As Mr Chew flicked the baton the band screwed up. Apparently we were supposed to wait for the 3-beat roll, but some of the people in the band started playing already. Horrified I turned and looked at KiHyun.

Splitting Portions of Chicken (1st May 2010)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

(I forgot a lot of things in the dream. I could only recall the last few seconds.)

We were in front of my school's staff room. Sharon had entered the room and was playing rock, paper, scissors with no one in particular. This was a time turning technique that Sharon has, but this time it failed because she was inside the staff room.

I called Mr. Hazry out and told him that Sharon could not turn time in the staff room, but he replied, "I know." So then we were puzzled on how to split portions of the chicken.

After much discussion, I suggested that we give him the chicken thigh, while we take the rest. Mr. Hazry agreed. Back in class, Sharon decided to make Chicken Curry with our portion of the chicken.

I woke up.

Cat-Eating Zombies (30th April 2010)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was in my previous room with my dog on the double-decker bed. My dog was on the steps and I was on the bed, and we were both hiding from my parents, who apparently had turned into zombies that would turn people into their kind upon attacking.

I noticed my dog cowering in fear, and I was relieved that I had my dog with me to go through this whole ordeal together. I quietly approached my dog down the steps, coaxing Deuce up to the bed with me, but then suddenly my parents' door flung open. In horror, I quickly sprung back to my bed and tried to lie down to avoid being seen, but it was too late.

My father came out of the door and immediately pounced on me, trying to break my jaw. We struggled for a while, and in the end my father managed to break my jaw a little.

I walked to the kitchen where I saw my father again and asked him to just finish me off. Once again he tried breaking my jaw and it came off.

I saw my mother cooking cat meat, and asked if I wanted to take a bite. I replied, "No." and walked to the living room and switched on the television. It was showing a documentary about MRT (Underground Train in Singapore), and there is a station in the Circle Line that is right underneath England.

I woke up.

I don't know what I did right last night but I woke up three separate times and each time I had a really lengthy dream recalled. Lengthy at least for me, that is. I hope this is a precursor to things to come. I would love to experience my first LD.

I come to in the back of some truck on some highway. We are speeding down it and I notice we are being chased by another truck. This one has a yellow cell in the bed of it and it says "jail" on it. A friend of mine with black hair (who I've never met) is driving. We race away in an awesome chase and manage to pull over and we both jump out and run.

Now we are in some sort of cafeteria and my friend looks depressed. I'm trying to explain to him that they chased us because we don't belong in this world and that it isn't the normal one. He keeps getting more and more mad even though I'm trying my hardest to be nice.

He finally eases up on me and we make some sort of amends and before I know it we are driving back on this highway. This time we aren't fast enough and we get caught by the people driving that yellow jail truck. Once caught I demand to know what we did and they tell us we are an abnormality and we don't belong here and it's their job to catch abnormalities.

So we are thrown into a weird yellow prison and locked there. I don't know how it happens but some woman comes and helps us break out. We steal the jailers truck and speed back off on the highway. We pass by one of the big jailers and he knows we aren't real jailers because of how fast we are driving. He says the speed is irregular. We pass a semi with him in pursuit and pass one that's laden with tires. As we pass it we slam into it causing it to unload it's tires on the people chasing us. The dream fades.

I'm in some sort of underground cavern. Again Pastor Li is there and he seems to be running everything. There are crowds of people there and a bunch of kids about my age. Lawrence is there and I go join him.

It looks like Pastor Li is hosting some sort of summer event where the kids all play games. This event has a bunch of kids partnered up in doubles and staring at a row of big statues with televisions on them. Each television has an album cover and a song and artist name.

The Pastor explains that the point of the game is for him to play a song and we have to guess who's it is. Whoever does it the fastest wins that point. The first song is clearly by The Who but we have trouble matching it up with the title. Literally as soon as it starts playing Lawrence mouths the artist name to me. I raise my hand to guess and I'm wrong. This goes on for a little while with each group guessing until finally I get another chance and I nail it. The next song is some sort of heavy metal song and I have no idea. My team guess all of the album covers with heavy looking fonts.

Eventually this part of the dream fades and now I'm separated and somehow upstairs in a different room in the cavern with different kids playing different games. I don't like it because I miss people that I know. So I leave and try to find my way back. On the way I stumble by a staff bathroom that has all of its info written in Spanish. I go in anyway and go to a very narrow stall. It has someone else's name on it and there's a man in the one next to me. I don't feel like getting on trouble so I leave and find my way back to Pastor Li and everyone else.

He is underwater with about 18 kids and they are playing some sort of game involving some sort of religious dance underwater. Julie walks up and notices this and says mockingly "Are they really doing a holy dance?" I turn back with anger in my eyes and say that they are and of it bugs her she can leave. Now she looks mad and asks me angrily why she would want to.

I watch for a little bit until Pastor Li notices me and invites me to play. The dream fades from there.

Pastor Li buys a Borders for 14 mil
--says he can make 14k a day with it

Lawrence and I want to buy the Borders
We drive over make an offer
-The place is under renovation since my Pastor had just purchased it. We walk up, through the doors, and see Li there overlooking the process.

Larry says he wants to offer
They act shocked and say just by virtue of owning it they've made 10000 bucks in a day.

We leave with a crowd of people down cement steps. It's sunny out. I make a zombie noise and everyone laughs and runs. I catch a ride with Lawrence but he doesn't wanna drive me cause he's nervous around me cause he's shy or something. I don't get it.

My nightmare

9/9/10

This dream was a nightmare.. never had I ever experienced a nightmare in this manner. I was unable to control my dream.. I felt weak but in my dream I knew I was in a dream. Trust me I wanted to control this dream but fuckk I failed... to save that man.

In my dream I am walking through a crowd..
Don't remember anyone because I don't know who these people were in my dream. There was this man walking funny and my attention turned toward him.
He was sweating .. just disgusting his clothes where unclean too. I thought to myself it was a drug addict.. an abuser of spirits. He starts coming towards me in my dream and I see that his skull was being dented in.. like the way cartoons show lumps when a different character hits them on the head?.. but his head was exploding and he had lots of lumps going around his skull and this man was screaming.
I panicked he was coming towards people near him ..damn it was a nightmare seeing something like that.
Don't remember what happened but someone had a star in their hand.. like a literal star from the sky.. all I could recall..
I woke up I was so scared.

So, I started off in the museum where the Hope Diamond is( I don't know the name). I'm a private eye. I ask the manager what happened. He said someone stole the Hope Diamond. Now, who the hell would steal the Hope Diamond? I mean, the thing's cursed. Anyway, so me and my partner went out to find the thief. We ended up at my house(DS). We found the thief. He fired at us and ran. We chased him. I aimed at his back and fired. I got him! Neither of us was man enough to go and pick it up. Then, a dog picks it up and begans to chew and lick it! The dog then comes over to lick us. We ran away until I awoke.

I was in some sort of game, and I had become stuck in this very long corridor stretching off far into the distance, into the darkness. I was near the entrance to the corridor, from outside. The corridor had no ceiling, but other than that it was a large, rectangular stone corridor. The stone was worn, it looked like it had been there since the beginning of time.

Anyways, in order to teleport to some location to continue the game, I had to eat a number of corrupted peas. Let me explain... vines covered some parts of the corridor's interior, and pea pods grew on the vines... every once in a while (the distribution was random) you would find a peapod that was dull red, with short purple vine-ish protrusions coming out of the ends... these were corrupted peapods. Apparently dark energy had leached into them. The number of corrupted peas I had to eat was enormous, 120 I believe, and the corrupted pods were so infrequent that I lamented ever finding enough to consume 120... however, with a few minutes of exploration I discovered that the corrupted pods appeared with an ever-increasing frequency the further you went down the corridor. I should have turned back then, but my oblivious non-lucid self kept walking, leaving the entrance further and further behind... remember that the corridor was open air, so I wasn't walking into pitch-darkness, but I sort of was, because after a while suddenly there seemed to be a roof, and even though it wasn't pitch pitch black I still got the feeling that I was walking closer and closer to some source of darkness at the end (and I mean that both literally, as in dark, and figuratively, as in evil).

I trotted happily along, collected corrupted pods to absent-mindedly pick open and eat the corrupted peas while I walked... eventually I felt as if I was no more than 100 feet from the end of the tunnel. I saw a side chamber, and felt an evil presence approaching from the end of the corridor... instinctively, I ducked into the side-chamber. I watched in hushed silence as a being of darkness floated past the entrance to the side chamber where I was hiding... my memory is a bit blurry here, but it looked like some sort of humanoid form composed of white and black flames. When I saw it, I got the instant feeling that it was a "lost soul," an "empty soul," a "hollow soul." And I also know that it would kill me if I alerted it to my presence.

When it was sufficiently far away, I exited the side chamber (interestingly enough, I had found my IRL neighbor's cat in there, that was the only non-creepy part of this whole dream hehe)... anyways, I exited the side chamber and walked briskly down the corridor once again, determined by some sort of mad curiosity to reach the end and see what was there. I found a glass push-door. I pushed it open, went in, and found myself in a very ordinary building. The whole building was one large room, with couches and bookshelves and other furniture. It was very large, and had massive wall-windows that let in sunlight from outside. There was no one in it. I sat down, wondering about this turn of events, wondering if it was some sort of illusion. It was all o innocuous.

Then I saw Y (IRL friends will be referred to by the first letter of their first name) with a bunch of her friends, J, and a bunch of other people I recognized, all walking down the corridor. They were talking and looked as if they had all been going down the corridor exploring together (I saw them approaching through the glass door from inside the building). I looked and saw that, at least to my eyes, they were all wearing black (I got a slight feeling that only I was seeing this, and in each other's eyes they were all wearing normal clothes). They opened the door and walked in as a group, and suddenly...

*An episode of missing time occurs here, it doesn't feel like the dream just skipped ahead though, it feels as if the missing time was an actual part of the dream and something happened in between and we were all made to forget what took place, like it was cut out of our memory)*

...suddenly we were all outside, in these gorgeous mountains that surrounded the building. Tables were placed everywhere outside, elegant wood dining tables, and they all had a lavish assortment of delicious food on them... the whole scene was backdropped by a magnificent mind-shattering sunset that was happening everywhere, in all the sky somehow, like the sun was at multiple points in the sky and was setting at many points in the horizon simultaneously. It was like a symphony of color.

Suddenly, I had a horrible epiphany.

I don't know where it came from, but suddenly everything fell into place and made sense.

I hurriedly clambered up to a table that my friend J was sitting at, with a blonde girl across from him. I sat at the table, ate some food, then leaned to him and told him what I thought "J," I said, "we're all going to be trapped forever here, eating this food in this sunset for all eternity."

It was all an illusion. I had had a sudden feeling, and I'm convinced that it was true, that in reality we were all lying unconscious in that building (which probably looked very different than the sunlit room which it had appeared like to me) with shadow creatures feeding off of us, feeding off of our energy.

The mountains, the tables, the delicious food, the table settings, the light, the sunset... it was all in our heads.

It was like the Matrix, but more horrifying somehow.

J turned to me, a worried look on his face as he began to comprehend what I had just said. He started to examine his surroundings, a look of horror creeping onto his face...

And then the dream ended (thankfully).

If it had lasted longer, I probably would have told everyone else there and then tried to find a way to escape from our mental prison and fight the creatures off (when we had returned to what was reality in the dream, rather than the fake sunset world, I mean), then leave the Corridor of Darkness and never return.

Dream of September 9th, 2010

I remembered more of the dreams earlier in the day but after school I forgot most of the details.

I remember warriors, fighting, and such and I remember ceiling cat appearing at one point to smite some dude.

I later woke up at 4:00 and then went back to sleep.

I dreamt that my family and I were walking our dogs Suka and Aurora. We went into someone’s yard without asking them and it made me a bit worried. Their yard was beautiful with many flowering trees and gardens. Later the owner of the house and yard came and gave us a ride in their helicopter.

The dream later somehow transitioned from the helicopter to me riding on the front of the jeep. There were handles in the front but I sometimes accidentally put my feet on the ground while we were driving. After driving for a while we came to a forest and started to slow down. Finally, we stopped and I got off the jeep and everyone else got out of it.

While walking down the road in the woods we encountered some strange chipmunk like creatures. They kind of freaked me out because their eyes were super wide and were placed too far apart. One of them walked up to me and bit me; it didn’t really hurt but it left a purple mark. I tried to push the chipmunk thing away but a bunch more came and also started biting me. Wherever they bit me a purple mark was left behind, soon after they started attacking me I woke up.

Middle of night mild nightmare startled me awake and caused a shout. About what? Towards morning at an outdoor square where shirtless David W. was getting shaved by a young girl. As I walked past twice or more she was shaving ass hair, presumably, from the outside of his gym shorts. Thought it strange and something sexual related.

I remember looking at some booklet about college football teams, and telling the guy to check the older version, because the the stuff he had was wrong/different......

Then I'm at some war torn city. Buildings are chard and ruined and I'm a laser cannon at some monster that keeps changing its form and wont die.

Then I'm in some high tech building with a humanoid frog. Everything is polished and shiny. It looks like some sort of lab. Theres a girl on a table who's either dead or unconscious. She's wearing a futuristic jumpsuit.

Then the frog is laying on the table, and she's finally conscious. She's sad because the frog killed himself to save her...or something?

I'm walking kind of by the wharf in Santa Cruz. I make my way up west cliff, although, as dreamscapes often are - things were quite different than the actual place. There were several restaurants where lighthouse field should have been.

I saw someone I knew from a long time ago walking towards the ocean. I started to follow after them and maybe say hello, but they turned and looked at me, the look on their face said that they wanted to be left alone.

Instead, I turned and went into the nearest restaurant that i could find. It was a tiny little taqueria. I saw Donald who was sitting by himself at a table. I went and sat with him. At the table next to us was an old woman. Honestly, the only words I can think of using to describe her are "old hag." Well, I suppose there are others but those fit her best.

I noticed that she had a box full of kittens. "Ten dollars for a kitten," her voice rasped loudly.
Donald turned to me and asked if I wanted a kitten. I looked at the kittens and saw a completely white one that was staring at me. I went over and scooped up the kitten. I'm not sure if I exchanged money with the woman, but she seemed to think that me having the kitten was a good idea.

I was very happy to have the kitten. I went to the ocean and sat, watching huge beautiful multi-colored waves crash along the cliffs, the kitten sitting calmly in my lap and sometimes on my shoulder.

mostly slept like a rock and don't expect me to be so passive in a fight. unless maybe it takes place in school...

School Fight and Alien Movie (non-lucid)

I am on my way to the cafeteria. It is crowded. Someone from high school grabs my shoulder, I turn around. He throws a few punches but I dodge them and block. He runs away and gets in line. I am fine. Someone gets a teacher. "That guy attacked him!" he said. "Yeah! I saw it too." another agrees.

I am told to sit on a bench while the kid is taken away.

Eventually I get up and go to English class. We are watching a weird version of Ridley Scott's Alien.

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:
In real life I have a Chamilia charm bracelet, which is similar to a Pandora bracelet. The bracelet has a charm made from lavender-coloured glass, and a silver charm shaped like a sunflower, with gold accents.

In this dream fragment, my bracelet was the same as it was in real life, or at least very similar. I had taken the bracelet off and was putting new beads on it. These plum-colored glass beads were more than twice as small as they should have been. They were tiny. Even though the bracelet itself was a thicker one, and the holes in the beads were tiny, they slid right on. Physics definitely didn't apply in this dream!

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 have no idea what time of day it was, because I was in a building with my father. We were in a dimly lit room, probably around 30x30 feet with fairly high ceilings, but not high enough to make the room feel too spacious. There were very dark shadows cast along the upper edges of the room, and the walls were a darker warm color.

Stretching across the entire length of the room, parallel to the walls, was a black fissure; whoever fell into it would disappear into nothingness. Suspended across this fissure was a wooden bridge going a good five or so feet above it. The bridge looked brand-new, except for the fact that it didn't look polished or shiny. Under this bridge was a hollow square box made of wood; one could climb through it and go across the fissure, emerging on the other side. The box wasn't dark or shadowed inside because it was only a few feet across, the same width as the fissure. There were a few other tight tunnels going in different directions; one went diagonally up over the top of the bridge and down again onto the other side of the fissure. Inside this tunnel it was very tight, only two feet worth of space across. There were thin panels of wood placed horizontally in this tunnel that you could grab onto and step on to climb up it, and then down again.

My dad went in that tunnel, having to squeeze in as if it were a claustrophobic underground cavern. I went in next and once I got my whole body in, the dream skipped.

I was now on a square wooden platform on one side of the bridge, the other tunnel still being there. The platform was a few feet across both ways, and there was another rectangular piece sticking out of it. On the end of this piece was a beveled, pale blue arrow pointing to the other side of the fissure. There was a structure on the other side, the same height as the platform I was on, and it was four or five feet away. I had to jump to get to it, and "I'd win the game". Hmm.

I jumped in an effort to get to the other platform, and the dream slowed down a bit. Slow-motion-like, I fell into the fissure. After a brief moment of falling, I suddenly stopped and began floating. A skinny dark tan hand appeared, five fingers I believe, and it had longer black pointed nails. It wasn't dangerous in the dream, but it did tap me and tickle me a bit. I curled up and put my arms and hands against my ribcage, because that's where I was (and am) the most ticklish.

This one is going to be hard to explain. It's one of those dreams that made sense to me while I was dreaming it, but not so much when I try to write it down.

I was in some sort of school-like place, alone in a classroom. I wasn't there for very long when I realized that there was some invisible guy hiding in the corner. He was really huge - like 7 feet tall, 500 lbs, and gigantic arms. I asked him what he was doing there, and he told me some story about a professor in the basement who was planning a conspiracy.

I believed him (I guess?) so I went down to the basement and started confronting the professor that the giant guy had talked about. We had a long conversation, but I don't remember what we talked about. Eventually I became convinced that this professor guy wasn't bad at all. It was then that I discovered the invisible giant hiding in this room as well. He ran out into the hallway and I chased him.

When I caught him, I threatened to "turn him in." He lifted me into the air with one hand and started punching me. Struggling to break free, I told him that I might not turn him in if he told me what he was trying to accomplish by hiding in all these rooms.

That's when I woke up. Really strange dream!