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16.08.2010

The One Where I Play The Piano (Non-lucid)

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NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Originally Posted by Mzzkc

Not convinced of our abilities, Jeremy Clarkson, one of our instructors, forced me and the one other pianist in the orchestra to compose three separate, complex pieces on the spot using nothing but our pinkies; the music we created was beautiful, exciting, and inspiring, yet also morose and haunting.

All I remember is something about people fighting in an arena. That's it.

Commentary || Lucid || Non-Lucid
I went to bed at about 11:30. Set me alarm to wake up at 5. Go figure, I woke up at 4:50. I went to sleep and recalled two dreams.

Dream 1

I was teaching this girl how to fight. She had an attack which required to be charged up. When she finally released it, the Earl (from the anime D.Gray Man) was gone. There something about here attack that resembled an octopus that I didn't recall.

Dream 2

I was staying at some hotel at some camp. I was staying with my brother, and we hung out at the pool several times. I recalled some events about a car (My Aunt's? Maybe some Dream Residue here because she visited my that day). It was red with a red/black custom interior. We were then in a library. This black guy sprayed some spray (pepper spray?) at my face. I got mad. My face felt warm and I couldn't see. I started swinging at the guy. After I was finished, I saw I had beat the crap out of him. I avoided him for the rest of the trip.

So I didn't manage to get up completely. The alarm went off at about 6:30am, and I kind of lay there waking and falling asleep on and off for the next 50 minutes or so. Still got out of bed (7:20am) an hour earlier than usual, so it's a start.

Before I woke up I dreamed as well:

Dan and I were in Sydney having drinks at The Oaks with Shea. We were drinking this big green cocktails. I kept ordering more. I wasn't talking. I got up and ordered another drink, the guy went and got me a drink.

I sat back down with the guys, who proceeeded to ignore me. Sitting near us was a girl from High School that I never talked to (I guess she was in the dream because I read a Facebook status from her yesterday), I said hi, asked her how she was.

The three of us left. We went through some underground arcade looking for something to eat. There was a weird McDonalds cafe with gaming computers and this place that made roasts. Shea looked at the menu-sign thing and said, "Oh look, Chris they do vegan roasts as well."

I looked at the sign but couldn't see what she was showing me.

We walked on, walked past shops and stuff and through a garden like thing. They were talking and laughing, with their arms linked, so I had to get out of there. I walked off into the bush and followed a dirt track that wound around a stream. There were some rocks that crossed the stream, so I sat down to watch the water, and relax.

When I got up I knew that the other two had walked past and were looking for me. I walked, and the area I walked towards looked like my old High School.

I walked back the way I had come, trying to get back to a place I knew. I had to climb a ladder, and I climbed up past a house. I could see another house beyond that. I couldn't squeeze through where the ladder ended and a big tree branch was.

I heard someone call out, "If you like climbing ladders, I've got something fun for you."

And there was a ladder that went onto a garage/shed roof.

I got home and was thinking, "Damnit. My mind is blank, I can't remember any dreams."

Having trouble sleeping, which may account for my sporadic dream recall.

Two dream fragments. One from last night, and the other from the night before.

1. I am at work or something. Something has happened. My boss tells me I'm getting a pay cut, along with others. We have to make ends meet....

2. I have no idea where I am, there are loud noises and people running and shouting. Everyone is drenched with water, and you can see through their clothes to their underwear. I can't tell if everyone is happy or upset...

COMMENT LUCID NON LUCID DREAM SIGN

8/16/10

I had a dream I was by a running track.. like ones that athletes use. I saw a famous athlete by the name of Ochocinco ( must have incorporated him in my dream after watching his show last night ). He was doing stretches along with some other people who were exercising and training.
I found myself trying to impress him so I attempted to do some back and front flips.. what was funny I don't know how to do those flips in real life and in my dream I knew I was not able too.. but I told myself I am going to do it...
So there I was walking pass ochocino.. he saw me looking at him and I bit my lip in a flirtatious way he was very tall..lol
So I walk pass and he glances at me smiling but continues on with his training as well as calling someone else over to him. I go on the opposite side of the fence and start doing stretches.. and I try to flip...
..what was funny is I found myself padding the pavement like a running dog.. but I was so determined to control my dream to flip.. I failed several times because it appeared as if I was on all fours hopping forward.. I was scared to flip.. but I told myself " I can do this!.." I run forward and ocho is passing by .. he pauses and I run forward and flip multiple times!!... lmao!! yes I did it and I felt the rush of happiness come over me.. it was not so much of ocho watching me but actually doing the flips!! ha!... he tells his friend.. oh you like that?..
Scene switches to a train station and ocho is there with his friend.. I was standing with them talking and flirting a bit.. but here is where something weird happen... I was talking to him.. but find myself not the girl talking to him.. weird.. it appears I switch roles and I am a different girl... hmmm..weird.
I had a huge tattoo on my right side.. went from my stomach to my thigh and I was showing it off ..
Scene switches and I get on this roller coaster ride.. it is dark out and I get right in it.
When it begins I notice the track the cart was on was a bit old and unstable.. the tracks were going very high and I barely was able to breathe when it would drop down.. the cart would slam onto some tree branches and I had to cover my face with my arms to prevent getting hurt by them..
..I got off the ride and told others to be careful .. that the ride was old and someone could get hurt.. people thanked me and didn't bother getting on...
Scene switches and I am on the phone with a friend who called me to go to the club with him... I couldnt remember most of the conversation but I remember looking at a huge lake and my house was on the other side of it.. I was wondering how I would get across... I saw this old train track and I figured I can skill across it and get home.. I get on this track and once again wondering why the hell I decided to get on it in the first place.. it is shaking underneath me waving with each step and I couldn't go backwards because I was just to far out on the track. There is movement under the water.. light grey creatures barely breaking the surface and I got nervous again.. I began to talk on the phone as a guide to take my mind off this journey.. even inquired about another friend who in real life I lost touch with..
..I finally get home and prepare for this party... my dad is in the living room asking me where I was going.. it was night time

That is all I could remember for I was awaken..

Yesterday I decided to learn how to lucid dream, so here's my first attempt at simply remembering my dreams. I'm actually surprised about how much I remembered, but I suppose it was because i was writing on a notepad through the night. I'm obviously no where near lucid dreaming, but here we go.

Falling asleep was really weird for me last night. I'd get very vivid images in my head before I was entirely asleep and I'd write some of them down, but others I'd just keep falling deeper into sleep, then a couple times I got those jerks that feel like you're falling. I know that has a name, but I can't think of what it is.

Here's a few dreams and fragments:
A drawn face that looked like the mad tv kid, on the front of an oregon trail style wagon.
Walking down a sidewalk on a very bright day, grass on both sides, that seemed to stretch forward forever.
I was on a boat, for some reason I think it was the titanic, with two people from when I was younger. One boy I was friends with when I was 15, and a girl that I went to kindergarten with and see on the bus, but never talk to. It was dark, except for a strong yellow light, almost like a light on a set.
My sixteen year old sister announced that she is legally able to drink alcohol. We had a lot of beer in the my parent's kitchen, and they were asleep. I thought, "ew, lager." she was chugging and i grabbed a bright yellow beer with the word lemon on it. I spilled it by the kitchen door, which was open.
I saw cartoon mice very briefly, reminiscent of old school disney.

This was the doozy for the night-
I dreamed I was visiting my aunt in Tacoma (who actually lives in Puyallup). My two sisters kept shifting- one minute I was with my 10 year old sister, next she was my 16 year old sister. We were trying to find something to do to pass time. We decided to go to a place called Tacoma Land, which was apparently a bunch of roller coasters over a swamp. Shift to my best friend's apt. It doesn't look anything like her actual place- it is carpeted and decorated with lots of mirrors, and is very clean. We're throwing a party, but I don't see anyone except my two best friends. The skunk that is always outside her place was wandering through the halls- it looked more like a black persian cat than a skunk but it was spraying like crazy. I'm at the table with my mom and a boy I went to high school with who made fun of me. My mom is drunk and he is being nice to me. Everyone except for him and myself went to another party downstairs. He says he thinks I'm cool, but that my mom is a profanity that i don't remember. i think he said bitch, maybe? I went behind a bunk bed to a random toilet to go to the bathroom. There's pee on the floor, and a girl tries to walk over, I tell her to leave, I'm using the bathroom. She was wearing navy blue clothes of a canvas-y material and either has short hair or it is in a ponytail. She is completely silent, and I think that she is a mime. I dodge the skunk and go to my own apartment upstairs. It's furnished similar to a hotel and I think that it was nice of the apartment manager to furnish it for me. I walk to my bedroom and there is a sliding door with a patio. I see tibetan prayer flags and walk outside. The grass is dead, and my yard has a perimeter of flags. These are triangular, not prayer flags, but they are the same color. There are a lot of neighbors outside the perimeter and they look, for lack of a better word, like hicks. I stand near them and stare but don't say anything and they don't say anything back. I try to pet one of their many dogs, but it walks away. I try to walk inside, but suddenly the neighbors are angry and chase me inside, the leader looked like annette benning. They trash my place, and open my mini fridge, which has lots of food, but the only thing i recognize is hummus. She is yelling at me for not introducing myself, she wraps her hand around my neck and puts me into a trance- i remember seeing a piece of paper explaining exactly what was happening to me, but I don't remember what it said except there was a pencil drawing of someone being choked. She jammed her leg between my legs and i fell to the ground and woke up.

I'm actually kind of glad I didn't go lucid last night. I probably would have done something other than go through this totally awesome dream I had. It was super vivid and realistic...I seriously felt like I was there. And honestly, I might have been just a tad bit aware that I was dreaming, due to the car thing...but I'll just tell you what happened now.

It was a pretty normal day...to begin with. I had one of my video jobs to do that day, and it required a team of people driving from place to place all day long. We had it all organized and figured out, though, so it wasn't stressful or anything; just another thing to have to do for the day.

The first three film locations were easy and went smoothly. I got all the footage I needed, and everybody did what they were supposed to and did it well. We stopped back at the hotel we were staying in for lunch and planned out the remainder of the day--still normal. But when we were about to leave again, I went to the bathroom and on my way out discovered that everyone had left without me! I gathered up all my equipment as fast as possible and tried to run after the car, but they were already way too far off to hear me call, and it was impossible to run while carrying all that stuff.

Fortunately, a friend was driving by just then and he stopped to ask if I needed a ride. I got in his car (which was unnaturally small, and which I observed without gaining full lucidity, if any) and he took me where I needed to go. However, once at this final location, things would go anything but as planned...

I caught up with my team by nightfall. They were gathered in a dark alley, all of them evidently very scared.

"What the heck was that!?" I shouted. "Why did you guys just leave me back there with all the..."

"SHHH!!!" They all replied desperately.

Then I saw what their problem was. A few feet away from me, out of the pitch blackness, a light turned on, and I heard the familiar sound of a Geth. Within moments, a million other similar lights turned on all around us, the same sound of communication echoed through the walls, and we knew we'd be dead in a few moments if we didn't get the heck out of there.

"Hey! In here!" I heard one of my team members shout.

We all turned around to see him at an elevator on the outside of one of the buildings. We got in as fast as was possible and rode it to the top floor, hoping to escape. But on our way up, we heard the chilling roar of a zombie, and soon witnessed several jumping down onto the glass roof of the elevator. Fortunately they were not too bright, and when they collided with it, they simply were thrown off from impact...but there were more where they came from.

We got to the roof and instantly looked for a door to get us inside and away from harm. We found one, but halfway there, I stopped everyone.

"No." I said. "We have to finish this!"

I clamped together the tripod legs on the camera I was carrying and tightened the camera itself so that it wouldn't budge from its position. It was a metal camera, and I figured it would make a great club.

"We can take them."

My friends got the point and hurriedly threw together some makeshift weapons. Then we waited. Before long, zombies and Geth and headcrabs and other such creatures began climbing up the side of the building and trying to attack us. With a loud war cry, I swung the camera and tripod through the air, doing a spin move, and landed the camera right on the head of a zombie. It was thrown back over the side of the building and burst into pieces when it hit the ground (it was probably an 80-story fall).

It was a huge battle. We had to stop each and every creature from climbing onto the roof, or if they made it all the way up, we had to knock them off the edge immediately. My group and I were doing well, but it was only a few of us against millions of them. Even with my camera-club (which was by far the best weapon we had) and crazy attack moves we were slowly being pushed back.

I hurled my whole body against an oncoming zombie and threw him over the edge. The effort made me stumble and land on my knees right on the edge of the building just as another zombie was reaching up to pull himself to the top. I remember his face...skin totally white and rotted from death. His hands and arms had no skin left, just a bloody mess of muscles and bones. As I sat and watched this monster approach me, I thought for sure he would grab me and throw me over the edge before I would have a chance to do anything about it. And then...

The Indiana Jones theme began to play as the man himself burst out of the door behind us and start pulling off awesome moves with his whip and gun. Shortly after that, Lara Croft, Luke Skywalker, and Jake Sully (in his Avatar) showed up, too! We had a chance now, and with my renewed hope, I grabbed the face of the zombie with my bare left hand, ignoring how disgusting it was, and then bashed it in with the butt of my tripod. The creature screamed and then fell, defeated.

After that, the fight was an easy victory. The last thing I remember is peering over the edge and looking at all the bodies in piles below...

and then I woke up. But here's a funny little sidenote: all the moves I did in the dream with the tripod I can now do IRL! Hmm...

I started off at AN. St. I was apparently going to school with KY and V. It was a snowy day, and we had just gotten off the bus. We decided to detour a bit so that we could miss a little bit of class.

When we got there, I was sitting beside KY on some wood-edged floor. Below me there seemed to be a marshy sort of creek. I was reading a book about ancient Egypt, and looking at all the pictures of the drawings. I saw some indents on the pages too, as if I had attempted to draw something but tried to erase it. Then, we looked out the window in front of us, where it was snowing, and we saw V leading two or three kids who were apparently his little siblings. I thought that he must have used that as an excuse to leave school.

Then I was with my friends in some sort of ballet studio. There was supposed to be a show, but I had never done this before, and no one had told me what to do. They told me to pick out a costume, and I thought about being a flower, but they said that I would just have to stand there and do nothing the whole time. I didn't want to do that. I also decided that I would use my black tutu and a purple top with white or black leggings.

I asked MA if she could tell me what to do in terms of the dance, and she started reciting the dance to me. Then there was one step where I was sitting and had to jump up with my hands in the air, but I couldn't do it. I told her that, and she seemed to get angry. She told me I couldn't do it.

The last part of my dream, I remember briefly being in a playground with my friends.

I was helping my family with cleaning. My dad was sitting in a golf cart and my stepsister was on a hill hosing down a wagon. She fliped the wagon and water flowed into the golfcart with my dad in it. Somehow.... my dad got out but the golf cart caught fire. The golfcart ended up on an interstate not pulled over... and turned into a car. I realized i was dreaming. it WAS NOT physical this time... and I woke up... maybe.

I could not move. I saw a little girl standing on the side of the bed that appeared to be a demon. I knew i was either in sleep paralysis or dreaming. I began to move a little bit and did a reality check by plugging my nose and trying to breathe in. I could still breathe. I began to try to wake up again... and after about 5 minutes of terrified struggling... i was awake for real.

No lucidity tonight, and a few pretty mundane dreams. But, I am relieved to see that my recall is better again, it was bad last week.

#1
I'm sitting at a table in a restaurant. There's a woman sitting beside me, and I have the impression that she cares about me. A man that I barely know sits across from us, he's the woman's friend, not mine. I look at the menu and realize that there's not much here that I can eat, although I don't know what the restrictions on my diet are. When the waitress comes I order a salad. The woman beside me acts concerned; she scolds the man for choosing this restaurant again, and asks if I want to go somewhere else where I can get more to eat, but I tell her I'm fine.
We're sitting near the kitchen so that I can hear the busboys. They're talking about something that had happened the night before, one of them mentions a knife and the other is concerned that he's going to lose his job, but I don't know exactly what they're talking about and then the dream dissolves and I wake up.

#2
I'm in a Chapters bookstore with a girl I used to know in high school named Carmen. We've been walking and drinking coffees, but mine is empty, and I walk towards the coffee shop in the store to take my cup back. At the back of the coffee shop, a woman in changing into a latex cat woman outfit for a performance. As I set my cup on the counter, I see a bag of food that no one has claimed yet, and I consider taking it, but in the end I don't.
As I walk back to where I left Carmen, I find another friend of mine who I don't see very often anymore, Jordy. She's standing by the entrance to the book store with some people that I don't know, but they don't talk. I talk with Jordy, and after a while a boy who used to make fun of us in high school walked by wearing huge glasses. Jordy laughs, but he says that he thinks they look awesome. I tell him he looks like George Jones, and Jordy laughs.
I leave her to go look for Carmen, but in the comic book section I find another old friend, Kirt. We look at the shelves for a while, I'm looking for a copy of Sandman. On the end shelf, we find a bunch of framed photographs from when we were young. Most of them are of kids that we went to public school with, that I'd mostly forgotten about. She picks up a picture of me that looks like it was taken when I was about 13. She says that it doesn't look like me, it must have been before I went all 'gothy.' I say that it was just a good phase between two periods of awkwardness.

#3
Honestly had a dream that lasted what felt like hours, about laying in bed and being frustrated that I couldn't get to sleep. I hadn't noticed the transition into sleep whatsoever, I was even still doing my mantra in the dream. When I woke up and realized it, it felt like a serious waste of dream time.

#4
I'm out in my backyard with my boyfriend Mark, and all my portfolios and binders from school are laying in the grass near the house. There is a woman further off in the yard, going through someone else's binders, stuffing pages into garbage bags, and putting what's left behind a tree. She comes over to start going through my things too, but I get angry, and tell her not to touch them.
Offended, she leaves.
Mark tells me that I'm being rude, that she's just a housekeeper trying to do her job, but I still don't want her touching my things, and I'm glad that she's gone. I pick up my things and lean them against the side of the house. We go inside.
We sit down on a couch in the basement. I try to crawl into his lap but I cant get settled and we both start laughing. For some reason I decide I'd be more comfortable outside again, and I yank open the window, but the way out is blocked by the portfolios I have stacked against the wall.

#5: the interesting one
I'm sitting in my basement with my dad when a huge, pale-but-colorful butterfly flies into the room. I watch it float around the ceiling for a while, and they it lands on the wall and I run upstairs for a camera. But when I get back down, the butterfly is gone. I go upstairs to look for it, and find my cat Tristan laying at the top of the stairs. I kneel down beside him, and ask him if he ate the butterfly. But then I notice that he has tiny wing nubs growing out of his shoulders between his fur. They're the same color as the butterfly was, and when they start growing bigger very slowly, they get the same pattern too. Shocked, I say "Tristan, you are the butterfly!" I start taking pictures of him.
My mom is standing at the kitchen counter, leaning over something, and when I look at her I see that there are wing nubs a lot like the cat's, but with no pattern, growing out of her shoulders and getting bigger. I start taking pictures of her and she gets mad. She starts yelling at me, and I dart back into the basement with my camera, where I'm alone.

Only remember one dream from tonight. Alyssa and I were watching porn together in her basement. Eventually, her dad came home (who apparently was Bruce Willis), and he started screaming that his daughter better not be pregnant.

Missed Dream Signs:

-Bruce Willis.

8.16.10 dream #5

this is my 5th dream posted from last night and i have saved the best, longest, most interesting, and most insane dream for last. It was incredibly wrong and i hope i don't leave out too much. I will do my best.

I am on a huge world. It is not earth. It is a fantasy world and i am in a little army that is part of a fantasy adventure. It is a massive quest so vital that, the fate of the world (don't know what it is called), could be decided on it. While i am also a soldier in the small army, i also observe the story from two other points of view. They are from the points of view of two main characters. The two good guys, they are best friends and they are both fighting to save the world. Other people that i remember in the army with me are my brother (wow, hes in almost every single one of my dreams!) and one of my best friends. It is almost like my brother and I are messengers between the two main characters. They are not together and they are both in charge of a different part of the mission. since i remember frequently seeing both of them i am now deducing that i was some kind of messenger. Getting back and forth could be difficult sometimes and I have one distinct memory of having to climb through a a lot of barbed wire to get up a staircase. We had to eventually ask one of the local aliens to help. He brought out a flame thrower and melted the barbed wire away.

Often times i remember climbing along the edge of a cliff with a vast ocean below. There was also one scene when we were flying over a forest and eventually landing in front of a massive wood building. I don't remember the objective there or what we ended up doing but that flight was very memorable. Perhaps one of the most memorable scenes was near the end. I was with the rest of the army and one of the two leaders. We were about to reconnect with the second leader and if we succeeded, we would save the world. We were in a large room with and the door leaving was locked. No one could get it open so we started looking around the room. Eventually we all started hearing voices telling us each individually what to do. Whoever was talking to us sure did wreak some havoc. Everyone started to point their guns at each other and shout. The voice was telling us that we had to kill everyone else to survive. I quickly made my way to the leader and said that we couldn't possibly kill each other. We had to work together and all that the voice was doing was trying to get us all killed. I shouted at everyone to stop and think about how we could get out without killing each other. my best friend had his gun pointed at me! I begged them all to see my reasoning and think about escaping logically. Eventually when they all listened to me and put down their guns the door opened. We had passed the test.

I then remember making my way out to the edge of the cliff and standing with my friend and brother. The two leaders were reunited and the world was saved. The last thing i remember was them embracing like the best friends in the world.

While i remembered a lot from this dream there are still some questions that certainly need answers. some of these questions are:
was i really a messenger?
Where was this world?
Who exactly were those two leaders?
What were we saving the world from?
How exactly did we succeed in saving the world?
who was the voice in the room?

I will probably never get the answers to these puzzle-solving questions but it was still a pretty memorable and, in my opinion, epic dream.

8.16.10 dream #4

I'm in school, going to my gym class with my brother. we have the same class which is unusual since he is two years older than me. We go and talk to the gym coach. The coach quickly tells us that we are going to be playing a game in class today and we can go as soon as everyone gets changed. Along with the rest of my male classmates, I make my way to the boys' locker rooms. We have to climb up a long, winding, spiral staircase to get there and when we finally do get there. I am shocked. The locker rooms are massive. people start to change immediately while i explore a little bit around the locker rooms and eventually change. After we are all done in the massive locker rooms we leave through a back door into the gym (so we don't have to walk all the way down those stairs again). I don't remember a lot of details about the game and the teacher isn't someone i recognize from real life. We play the game until the end of class. The last thing i remember from my dream is walking down the staircase with my brother saying "that wasn't a bad gym class"

8.16.10 dream #3

I'm in high school and it will be starting in about 2 weeks. I think this makes the "first day of school" dream quite often. This time i'm not at school, but sitting on the corner of my street. I'm talking to this girl (rather attractive girl) about what classes she has. I'm hoping that we will be in some of the same classes. I tell her all the classes I have and if i can remember correctly we have 1 class together! I think that i was waiting on the corner for the bus, but i can't remember if it ever came.

This is my least exciting and shortest dream of the night. Almost definitely missing large sections but this fragment is all that i could remember.