non-lucid

Hey, I've been spinning in my dreams a lot. For example, i was on my way to sleeping and I found myself spinning and then going down a hole with all kinds of things and beings. I've noticed the more relaxed I get the faster I go... and as I surrender it feels really good, almost like flying. I sometimes spin upside down, like a top... again, as I relax, I spin faster. Does anyone know what this means? Is it common?

I hadn't remembered my dreams in years until this last week when I finally began writing them down. All are dream fragments. Here is the product of this first week:

7/13/10 - I'm fighting in a building, looks like some sort of government building lots of wood carved pillars. Fighting against men in suits, shooting back and forth from cover. Dove behind a bar, shouting that they were using nos(?), which meant their bullets were piercing our cover. At that point I was shot sideways through the throat and was left there while the other people on my side ran off. Did not wake up immediately at this point, felt myself choking on my blood at which point I eventually woke up. Died slowly, which was a new experience.

7/19/10 - Remember my mom in my dream very upset with me because she found out I was dating a much older woman.

7/20/10 - Dream 1: Just remember emotion of the dream, I was very upset and was crying.

Dream 2: Just remember a visual of a video game screen, seemed like some sort of merchant. My dad's voice was saying that he was buying something.

7/21/10 - Dream 1: Invented a toy submarine that turns into a beer chugging device like a beer bong. Gripped from front. Open, cage-like in front. Filled from back.

Dream 2: Working as a tech support person in a snow fortress. Out of iPhone 4 replacements, my bumper on my iPhone is warped so the charger doesn't fit. Some girl is talking about leeches and how they cost the country $400 million per year because they chew on your spine. (weird).

7/22/10 3:15 AM - Playing some sort of button game. Three colors, red, green, and blue. Seems like a matching game of some sort. But collectible buttons. Buttons are easy to obtain, playing some girl.

7/23/10 - Went through a martial training program in the mountains. I felt like I was some sort of visitor but was still participating for some reason. They were split into separate groups based on the elements. I was participating in the earth group. I sparred some girl from the water group in a river. There was constant deep chanting, like Tibetan chanting. I helped my partner pass his test and they all thanked me for my help as I left with others through what seemed like a normal door.

Night of 2/1/09

Walking on Water

I was with Shannon who I work with and we were driving somewhere in a beach area... the biggest thing I remember about this dream is that we had to cross a lake or some body of water and we got out of the car and Shannon just stepped out onto the water and started walking across it. There was a bridge under the water that we couldn't really see, but she knew it was there. I remember having dreams like this before.

Home School

I'm with Andrea and we're walking down a street in like Carytown. It's dark. There's a line of people waiting outside of an ice cream parlor. I see some people I know that I don't talk to anymore and hook arms with Andrea and walk a little faster to get away from the people in line. She pulls away and starts talking to someone else in line. I'm frustrated so I keep walking and make it to a building that I suppose is our apartment. I walk in the door and it's a classroom with desks and people in it. I'm confused so I start yelling and tell everyone to get out because this is my house and what the hell are you people doing in my house?!?!?

No one leaves. They look at me like I'm crazy. Then I see this girl that I knew from elementary school. She's crying and freaking out for some reason, so I go over to her, and she's under a desk. I hold her and kiss her on the head and tell her it's going to be ok. I look over and see Andrea sitting in one of the desks. I give her a look like, "help me!" and then I wake up.

Hmmm.

1.) In an airport. At the check-in counter. I think I was a spy. I was trying to re route my trip through 23 different cities so that the people following me couldn't find me. Then I walked out and found my mom and dad in a chauffeured car and we went to a copy shop. I said I needed a notepad for my planner.

2.) At my parents' house. In the kitchen. Danielle, Jen, and Jen's girlfriend Heather are there. Danielle's phone's T9 isn't working so she hands it to me to fix. Then I get mad and throw her phone at Jen and tell her she needs to get out of the house, I don't even know why she's there. So I go to punch her and she dodges it. So I put her in a headlock and bring her to the front door and tell her to leave. She and Heather go to the car and Jen's just generally bitching. It's pitch black outside. Then everyone from Jamie's house across the street come outside and start heckling Jen and Heather. I look down the road and see a horse drawn carriage pull into someone's garage and some kids on a swing set. Then a mack truck comes down the street. The front says "Richmond Times-Dispatch." On the side, it says www.bearbackers.com. Then Jen comes up to the front porch and sets off fireworks. A cop driving down the street does a u-turn and chases after her. I turned to Danielle and asked her, "Is this really happening??" It just seemed like it was too much going on. I feel like I was lucid for just a moment because I figured out that I was dreaming.

whatever you do, don't go to that website!!!

OMG I haven't had any worthwhile dreams lately. I had one where I was skydiving and I landed in front of my grandma's house... One where I was outside and went down some stone steps in pitch black darkness on stilts made of toilet paper tubes and I found a laptop computer when I made it down the stairs... and a bunch more that I don't even remember. My memory for my dreams has been pretty shitty lately. I'm not really stressed out or anything but school has started back a few weeks ago so maybe I just don't have room in my brain for dreaming *and* remembering them. We'll see.

OK, I remember last night's dream. I was at the Superbowl, but I don't think I was supposed to be there. I was on the bottom level and it was all indoors. There were different rooms and I kept looking into them. I found one and it was right on the fifty yard line. The Bears were playing (they're my favorite team). It was like a conference room and there were people in suits all over the place. I sat down at a table and a guy in a suit offered me a slice of pizza. I wasn't interested in the pizza and the guy in the suit told me that if I wanted anything I should ask the waiter and I could have anything I wanted... there was no menu or anything. I said I wanted a quesadilla. After looking around the room for a while, one side was just a solid window that was like right where the action was, the waiter came back with my quesadilla. I don't remember much else.

01/26/09

The Hispanic Lady Talking About Shrooms

I'm driving on a highway and I get off on an exit that leads only to a parking lot. So what else is there to do but park the car? I get out of the car and I start taking a small dog for a walk. I'm in a townhouse complex but where I parked is the only parking for the entire neighborhood. All the rows of townhouses are set in a grassy area and there's not even really any sidewalks. I'm walking this dog and he's just a super cute and friendly little brown and white fluff ball.

All of a sudden, the dog banks to the left and runs to the end of this row of townhouses as I'm chasing after him because he's still on the leash and runs up to the porch of the house on the end. The inner door is open but the outer glass door is closed. A woman comes to the door and opens it to let out a medium sized dog and my dog and this other dog are like hanging out. So the owner and I sit on the porch and I told her something like, "my dog must have wanted to see your dog!"

Then, in Spanish, we start having a conversation about how she was just involved in a car accident. She was turning a corner and she ran straight into two cop cars. I asked her for a cigarette and she goes into the house and brings out a cigarette and a yellow clear Bic lighter. I hand the lighter back to her and tell her that I have a lighter in the car. Then we start talking about a book she's reading about shrooms. I tell her, "no way! I'm reading the same book!!!" So she brings me into the house into the den and starts showing me all the books she's reading. They're all wrapped in clear plastic like they're collector's comic books or something.

Then it's time for me to leave and I get my dog and we start walking back to the car. Now I'm at a busy intersection and as I'm about to cross the street, this little rice burner car comes barreling across the street and comes within inches of hitting me and my dog! I was so scared that I picked up my dog and ran across the street crying because my dog almost died! Then I get into this car with this red headed guy who I think was Darryl, a guy I knew briefly in high school. I ask him if he would take me to drop off my Netflix at the nearest mailbox.

Grey's Anatomy Bus Accident

I'm in a hospital. There's been a terrible accident and the waiting room is full of people. There's a guy with no arm. His arm is actually behind the check in desk hanging from the ceiling. I tell him I'd love to help him, but I have some people to check on and I'll be back in a few minutes. He seems really calm.

I walk down a hallway and peek into all the rooms and see that everyone has visitors. I feel like this is strange because it feels like it's two or three in the morning. Everyone's hugging someone. Then I walk into a room and see Dr. Sheppard and Dr. Bailey spooning in a patient's bed asleep. I think I woke them up somehow and Bailey gets all mad at me because she's just been in surgery and needs a nap! So she gets up and I guess goes off to find another bed. Dr. Sheppard asks me if I have the patient's medication and I get it out of my pocket for him and hand it to him. I see that the bottle is filled with white pills and there's one dark blue one in it. I tell him that's my ibuprofen and I put it in there because I didn't want to get pocket fuzz on it. I leave the room and Bailey comes out and starts bitching at me again, so I go and hide in a bathroom.

I get out of the bathroom and remember I have to find the guy with no arm. I go back to find him and he says he wants to introduce me to his wife and two little girls. His wife is a girl I went to high school with, Tiffany. I give her a big hug and tell her I'm so sorry. She seems not to care that her husband has lost his arm, either. They're either in denial or they're taking it really well, I think! So Tiffany takes me into the waiting room to meet her twin daughters. They look like they're eight years old. She grabs one girl's wallet and opens it up and hands it to me. It's a learner's permit. I'm wondering how old these kids are and then how old I am because there's no way Tiffany can have fifteen year old daughters.

So I start talking to the girls. They're both very smart and they're working on homework. Go figure, it's Spanish homework. So I start helping them with it and I see that they've drawn pictures in place of words they don't know. So I ask them who drew these and that I thought it was a combination of the both of them and they said yes... this whole part of the conversation was in Spanish. Then Tiffany starts writing down the side of the page, "dance dance dance." I looked at the one girl and asked if she liked Justice and all I could think about was D.A.N.C.E. "Do the dance... do... the... dance!" She looked at me kind of puzzled at first then caught on to what I was talking about.

1/25/09

Watching a Scary Movie

I'm not in a theater, but I can tell I'm watching a movie because I'm not acting or affecting the action in any way, and I'm not involved as like a third person scenario.

There's a man and he kidnapped a kid. I can't remember what was leading up to this or what the scene was, though. Next, there's the kid in a pit with an angry snarling beast of a dog. It's like a german sheppard on steroids. The man comes back and puts some gross looking food in like a trough for the dog to eat. He says that it's human body parts and the only way the dog will eat it is if he mixes in his own food with it.

Then somehow, I guess my brain made a connection with food and the next thing I remember is making a wrap with turkey and cheese and tomato and lettuce on a tortilla in like a convenience store.

Shoe Shopping

I'm at a place like Famous Footwear or DSW and I'm looking at a wall of shoes. (I remember having a couple of shoe shopping dreams before sort of like this.) They're all skate shoes and tennis shoes. They're all on SALE!!! So I start picking out shoes and it's like I can't stop! I find four pairs I like and I think they all have some sort of purple on them. I go up to the cash register to get rung up and there's a huge pile of unsorted socks next to where I'm supposed to be rung up. I start going through and finding matches and they're on sale, too! So I end up with four pairs of shoes and a ton of socks and I'm ready to walk out and I think, Andrea's going to be so mad that I bought all these shoes... maybe I can put them up on ebay. Ha!!

Army Video Game

I'm in the woods and there's a dirt hill with little spaces cut out into it. It's in a semi-circle shape and all flat on the top. In front of this "hill" are dog crates. They're plastic with a metal grate for a front door. I see that people are getting into them and other people are handing them laptops. It's for a video/reality game. These people in the dog crates will be navigating people in the woods playing an army game. They are set up with laptops and headphones and infrared goggles. When they get into their crates, people push them into these holes into the side of the hill.

A guy I used to work with, Scott, goes into his crate and freaks out and says he can't do it, so I get into the crate and put the goggles and headphones on and they push me into the hole. I'm looking at the computer screen and I see tanks and army men shooting at each other. I doesn't seem like the game is really taking place in the woods I was just looking at.

This dream is already very vague for me as I chose not to write anything major down immediately after waking up. I remember that I was suddenly in grade 12 again, except my whole class and teacher were all working in my house. It was business, I remember this because the head of the business department was the teacher. I remember I was with my friend David in the kitchen and for some reason we were both trying to draw the Canadian flag with absolutely no luck. I no longer remember the rest of the dream, though I do remember that before I woke up we were walking up to my room. A lil Wayne song was playing and it somehow started transitioning into that really crappy new Usher song (Oh My God, I think) and then into some hilarious Jamaican sounding dialect. Then I woke up.


This was a morning dream, and what was strange about it was that it carried a similar characteristic to many other fragments I had that morning. I was sitting on the floor of a mall near my house with a kid from my old Highschool that is a nice guy but I was never really good friends with. I'm not sure what we were talking about, I just remember that I had a very strong cold and that it made him uncomfortable. My nose was stuffed and I was coughing and I felt like shit. He was kept moving around me, I guess in an effort to avoid getting sick. Then I woke up.


This dream also took place in the same mall, except it was with people that I actually see on a more regular basis. I remember that we were walking towards a down escalator. I was sick, much like I was in the previous fragment but not nearly as bad, and they were keeping a distance because of that. (when I woke up I noted this as a dream sign for the morning) I remember someone having some sort of portable video device, possibly an iPhone, and talking about Grand Theft Auto 4. I said, "Hey, I wanna watch the trailer for that game cause then maybe I can fall asleep and have a lucid dream". My friends gave me a weird look and then I woke up.

I just joined this site. Lately, I've been having trouble with dream recall. However, last night I remember having three dreams. None of them lucid, of course. The first one was just a fragment, but I remember flying. I had wings like an airplane or something. I also remember something about a toy box in that dream. I remember that i woke up after each dream, which gave me a chance to write all of them down. I didn't use that chance after the other two, though, so I remember that I dreamed, I just don't recall what about.

I used to have lucid dreams all the time when I was a kid. I'm really not sure how I managed it. I had never even heard of lucid dreams. I remember that I really wanted to learn how to control my dreams somewhat because I had nightmares all the time. At the time, I didn't realize what kind of power I had within my grasp. I just used the knowledge that I was dreaming to wake myself up when I had a nightmare if I chose to.

These days, however, if I remember my dreams at all, they are vague and blurry. If I could just learn to recall my dreams better, I think I would also remember how to make myself lucid.

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I dreamt that I was rollerblading through an area near my house right by this convenient store. There were some kids behind me and they were talking about someone I used to know, calling him scary and exaggerating characteristics about him. I started laughing out loud to taunt them because I know that the guy is totally harmless. Then I went into the convenient store from its back entrance in order to make my way through to the other side like a short cut. Before I left, the store clerk who was somewhere near my age started telling the kids who were trailing me that the guy they were talking about is harmless. He mentioned his ex-girlfriend and I told him that they broke up a few months ago and that he broke it off. I left the store and I started to wake up. At this point I became aware that I was dreaming and tried really hard to focus on staying in the dream, I heard a sound from the real world but simply imagined that it was a truck passing by on the road next to me. I woke up. (Looking back on it I think that this was a false awakening) Determined to make this work I forced myself back to sleep into the same dream, only this time I was slightly further away from the store. I was sitting on the sidewalk with the guy from the store and he was holding a book about lucid dreaming saying, telling me that I was dreaming. This time I actually got up and said, “Hey I’m dreaming!” but I could immediately feel that I was waking up. I got up and started rubbing my hands together, which didn’t feel fully real but I was able to feel a chalky texture in my hands. I’m not exactly sure what happened in-between, I either had a false awakening or was just transported to my room somehow, but the next thing I knew I was standing in my room to the left side of my bed, lucid but struggling not to wake up. I remember that behind me, where there is usually nothing, were some strange looking objects including a red triangle. Now this is the weirdest part. In an effort to stay asleep, I continued to rub my hands and thought, “hmm… maybe if I change something about the situation I can remain dreaming”. So I walked up to my door and said aloud, “There is a black room behind this door”. But when I opened the door there was no black room. There was the hallway to my brother’s room as there always is, but there was my brother standing there looking like a broken hologram. I’m not sure exactly how to explain this, but imagine as if there was some sort of futuristic holographic projection device displaying him, except it malfunctioned and he came out like some sort of pixely, flashing black silhouette. This kind of scared me, so I retreated back into my room. He started walking towards me like he would if he really was my brother, but it was insanely creepy because of how he looked. Then I started to loose my grip of the dream, things got really faded and I woke up.


I remember thinking, "Fuck, I should have tried spinning with my eyes closed!" But this never would have worked because this was a morning dream and something like the 5th one I had. But either way, I'm very happy because this is the first time in 5 years that I have had a lucid dream.

July 23, 2010

5:00am
Train station
I'm at a train station. I use some keys to unlock some doors. On the other side, there is a man coming up the escalator. He's old, and false memory tells me his name is Joe, and he's falling into dementia.

He walks past me and he says, "Oh, thank you for unlocking the door! My dog, Joe, ran through here, and I need to find him!"

Even though it was supposed to be my job to kick him out, I decided not to.

Cameras
I was watching security cameras, surveying the festival grounds that is in town (it's actually over, now). I realize I have been missing things, and I feel guilty for not doing my job right.

5a-7:30a
WILD. Failed - I fell asleep

7:30a
School crimes
Myself and another classmate got called out of class. We went across the hall to the washrooms, where there were more police. Someone had been murdered in there, and they think he's still in the building.

I suddenly get this vision of two people sitting next to each other, engulfed in flames.

We go back across the hall and out the windows everything is pitch dark, and the other classroom building has fire coming out of every window. I'm glad I'm over here, but my locker is in that building. I wonder how much stuff I kept in there?

Forums/HI
I was on the DV forums, in Naiya's WILD class. She was listing off a bunch of people who were successful last night. I was very disappointed that I wasn't one of them

9:50am
Wonky Elevator
I was in a classroom again. Nita (old classmate) gave my water glass to someone else. I was rather upset by this, and walked out to get another glass of water before class started.

I only needed to go down two floors, and I contemplated the stairs, but I was feeling really tired, so I decided to take the elevator. This girl asks me to hold the doors. I thought she was Nita, but it turned out to be a DC.

I hit the button for 64 (we were on 68). She hits the button for 2. The elevator doesn't even stop on 64, and the girl is all like, "WTF?" She tries to choose another floor for me to get off, but it still doesn't work. Then, it feels like we're going sideways, rather than down! I think to myself, "Wow, this elevator is acting rather dream-like!"

The girl distracted me from my brief lucidity by telling me we'll have to jump out of the doors once it reaches the main floor. We do so. I really don't need to be this far down though (and I've completely forgotten about the lucidity). I feel tense, because now my class has started, and I need to get back up. I have to try to jump back on the same way I jumped off...

July 22, 2010

Dentist
I needed to go to the dentist, but I was avoiding him, because he wanted to do another costly procedure on my teeth. My dentist was actually "being played" by my doctor.

I told him I had to reschedule, because there was a meeting came that came up for some school thing.

Keyboard
I was at work, playing the keyboard (piano) in the server room.

Walking
I'm not postive as to why, but there were hundreds of people walking along the road. I was walking fairly slowly, and lost Jack in the crowd. There was a DC-guy who told me he would stay with me.

My old college instructor, Jules, turns around from in front of me and tells me I look like Grover, from the Muppet show



I tell him, "That's not a very nice thing to say!"

regular dreams: 7-23-10

Train

Me and my friends were going somewhere, I think it was to a Summerfest type of place because we had to take a bus to get there. Well actually, that bus turned into a train. We would sit on the edge of the train tracks until the train would come because it was surrounded by water. It was pretty dangerous because when other trains come, we would have to jump out of the way quickly and duck and it would go over us. It got to the point where we would have to lay down on the ground to avoid the train hitting us. I think one time we got knocked into the water somehow. I looked around and saw a few of my friends struggling in the water. Dani came up to the surface out of breath so I had to help her get out of the water.


Playing in the Clouds

There is one thing that I’ve always wanted to do in life, and that was go above the clouds and be able to look down over then without being in an airplane. I’ve also wanted to be high enough to be in a cloud and be able to touch it. I pretty much experienced this when I hiked up Pike’s Peak a few weeks ago with my family and clouds covered the mountain. For a few minutes, we appeared to be in a cloud so I went out and took some pictures. Well anyway, this is probably why I had this dream.

I was inside my house when it started to get really cloudy outside. These clouds were really puffy and they were close to the ground. Instead of being foggy and misty-like, they still looked like actual clouds do when they are up high in the sky, but they were coming closer and closer to the ground. I remember that I had always wanted to touch a cloud, so I looked in my backyard and saw a cloud within touching distance. I didn’t want to look stupid, so I quickly opening my door, ran outside and touched the cloud (which felt really cool, like you feel the cloud but you don’t because your hand just sinks right into it.) and ran back inside and shut the door. I wanted to try this again so I went to my front yard to try it but this time I saw people staring at me. I felt like they thought I was crazy.

Then, I appeared to be with my dad in his car. There were clouds everywhere now. We were at some kind of park and I got out of the car an faced a wall of clouds. It looked so fun, and I couldn’t help myself- I just jumped right in! I think my dad might have joined me at some point. It was an amazing experience. It was like swimming through the clouds. There was a child and a mother by us, also playing in the clouds. After awhile, the clouds got really thick and I couldn’t breath that well. I tried to make my way back to the car but it took some time. I was almost out of breath by the time I got back into the car.

Then I remember going home and telling my mom about the experience. But now, the clouds were really dark un my backyard and not as close to the ground. They appeared to be almost black. I also remember posting something on my facebook wall that said “My wish came true! I touched the clouds!”

This was a really fun dream

I was at Cutteslowe skatepark and there was a boy there with a bright yellow BMX. He was near the blue metal structure we sit under and just infront of him was a roll in ramp. I was looking at him from a diagonal behind him.

This dream went on for ages but was always this same picture. It was as if a tape had froze and I could only see this one picture. But I remember this dream went on for a long time.

It all starts with me chilling in NY house. My mom is there, and she informs me that Aunt S is coming and that we shall go to the theme park and eat out. I find this a little strange, since it's really late at night. Aunt S comes and we talk for a bit. She comments on how skinny Amber has become, and how she doesn't really eat much nowadays. I'm like, well she was always pretty skinny anyway. Then Aunt S says that she's going to get married soon and lists a couple of different ceremonies that shall take place in the near future. I'm surprised once again, but I figure maybe she's met some guy at med school. It is the only explanation, because I know Amber well (or at least know enough to know that she would never allow being commanded around). I go upstairs to put on makeup, only I don't put on much at all and opt instead to put on contacts. I'm surprised because they go in without much trouble. My hair is a mess and I'm trying to fix it to no avail. This goes on for a bit (what a waste of dream time). Aunt S comes up to the room and we converse. She asks me whether I get bored to death in VA. I respond with an honest answer for the first time, telling her I don't get bored. I explain to her that I keep busy with work, books, internet, et cetera. Although. "It does get bland after a bit. Especially when compared to NY." She nods sympathetically. We're both gazing out of the window, apparently waiting for my dad to come. I pull the curtains completely to the side and notice something strange. The sky outside is the color that the sky hits right before dawn. It's lighting up rapidly. I find this strange, because it certainly isn't time for that yet. Aunt S agrees, and we both wonder why the sky is this color. Finally, I see my dad arriving along with Rana. There has obviously been a problem, and they seem to be coming into my neighbor's house instead of ours. I go outside and ask him what the issue is. He said they met some criminals and one of them shot Rana. I am so glad that my dad's okay/ They do have the food though, I guess. At some point amidst all this the scene transitions to the theme park. My mom and I go to this kiddie ride, only it is not really. My mom leaves at some point but I stay. It's like one of those rides with swings that rides round about. Only the swings are ridiculously long and it's like we're swinging about the empire state building. The feeling is amazing and I stay on for a few rides, feeling fear but thrill. It is morning here, strange. Scene transitions back to .. some place. It is meant to be the same but it's not.

Now it's totally dark - night. I'm standing outside an unfamiliar row of houses. One of them is supposed to be my NY house, apparently. My parents have just told me to stroll by this other house that is my brother's to check on them or something. When I walk into the night, I feel fear again. There is definitely something lurking in the dark. I try not to pay attention as I navigate the streets to get into the house. It's a huge house, and from behind (which is the view I have), I see it's shaped like a building. The back is completely glass and reveals a large set of stairs. I enter them. They are like the kind of stairs that if one looks down from any given level, they can see the whole floor + stairs down below. Everything is exposed from the top. (It's a combination of floor and stairs, so it's not really a set of staircases) The stairs are dark except for moonlight coming in through glass walls. I walk up to our floor, and head into a well-lit hallway design like the stairs except with walls now. There are doors everywhere, and I walk into ours. My brothers are eating, acting like usual pigs, and I see that the penthouse is huge. It's also a huge mess, which comes as no surprise. I leave after a bit of small talk, entering the hallway.



^ Like this, only totally dark and more glass less wall. Also it's bigger.

Now this is "supposed" to be our VA house, ad I find it weird that I've never been to these staircases before. Each door in the hallway leads into a room, and I wonder which would lead into my room. As I stand there, a large group of construction workers start arriving. They are going into one of our rooms for construction work it seems, and in the group of workers I see old classmates (the only one I remember right now being Taylor). They are happy, conversing, and I patiently wait for them to subside so I can continue my business. It's shocking how many of them just pile in, and I'm standing at the edge of the hallway through which they come in,s o I can only see them coming close up (in other words can't see the whole group). Finally, they leave. Now I go into the stairs. I don't feel that much fear anymore because there are so many loud, boisterous people around. I pin myself to the wall out in the stairs, and I see that there is an old couple in the penthouse next to ours. Taylor asks me to wish them happy anniversary or something, and it looks like all the workers have brought food and other party ingredients. I do so and a party begins. It' not the couple's anniversary party however, it's just some party consisting of the whole neighborhood. Before I know it, people start piling in to the stairs/floors. I watch as they do, the stairs are now slightly illuminated with the light from the actual floors.

And then I see this guy. It's (dream) love at first sight. He's standing on the other side of the floor, tall and wearing this shirt that says "Ten Commandments." He resembles Martinez, although in the dream he is just a guy from the neighborhood. I'm pretty much entranced as I gaze upon him. Everything else goes silent.



For a while I just hang out in the stairs. I know, instinctively, that something evil is still lurking. I also know that were something to happen, such as an attack, it'd be completely up to me to defend the people. So I patrol the halls, trying to look casual and succeeding. So this guy has a little brother, an infant really. He's playing catch with him with a baseball. I watch them from the side, and I'm surprised to see that the little infant ventures off the staircase into the empty ground in the middle (where one can look down and see everything), I wonder a) how this is possible and b) why the infant wasn't scared. I am reminded of this psych experiment I once read about having to do with how well infants could detect depth. The younger ones usually couldn't. But then I see this sorceress next to Martinez who has apparently lifted the floor so he can practice ball. I get a little disappointed, thinking about how I could have done him that favor. At this point I know that I have a lot of power, although I have no plans to use it nor do I know how. Finally, at some point, I do end up exchanging some form of small talk with Martinez and I know that he has mutual interest in me. But i don't think it's love at first sight for him. (hehe) While this is happening I think about how this would be an awesome location for a college party. So now the danger begins. Somehow, its is daytime. What I have feared happens. I hear explosions going on outside the building. The glass wall is suddenly gone, though not out of explosion. One can climb right out into the building's ledge. I quickly exit, positioning myself at the ledge, above a gargoyle. The world outside is completely different. The sun streams into the earth, and the whole landscape is huge. It's like we are smack in the middle of a city clearing with building and such surrounding us. It's pandemonium. People are battling and getting slayed, and the battle participators seem to be hovering slightly above the ground. The enemy has a leader, a guy who looks to be in his 40's with black hair and a pale-ish tan complexion. He looks Turkish. I panic, because I have no idea what to do. My human powers mean nothing against him who seems to be exercising magic easily. I become lucid. I realize I can just fly up into the air. I do so, flying immediately above everyone. It is an amazing feeling, as always. The villain has a cronie, a monster-esque creature killing everyone in its sight. I approach this creature and use a spell to kill it. It immediately fades. The Turk gets attention of this, and he's angry but laughing. I guess he's surprised that I did it, but he approaches me and tells me he's glad to see me here. he was expecting me to come, it seems. I'm afraid for my life. the battle's still going on in full fury. I glance quickly back to my house-building and Martinez is still there. Mostly, I am afraid I won't get to pursue things with him.

I fly to a broken glass window, and the villain stalks me. I try to use magic on him, but it doesn't work. He has another monster-cronie with him now. We're floating right next to my house. People/creatures have stopped fighting and are staring at us. I'm dodging whatever the villain attacks me with, until one last moment. I spot my dad, And of course I'm distracted because I don't want anything to happen to my dad. The villain takes out a gun, along with the creature, and shoots. It misses me, but it doesn't even matter. The presence of the gun alone is enough to announce my death. I am some kind of creature who dies instantly when a gun is upon her. So I know I'm dying. It's sad, really. I float over to my dad. I explain to all the people that my death will be finalized when the sun turns me into a "wisp." A wisp of a golden feather. It's like I'm reading of a chronicle. My dad engages in a weird duel with the villain, in plea for my life. I don't remember the details unfortunately, but it was complex and interesting. I tried helping him too (even though I was dying I wasn't weak or anything since nothing had physically hit me. I was just waiting to turn into a wisp of a feather..) My dad loses, and he reassures me that everything will be okay because I'm "going to heaven." I laugh a bit, and tell everyone (everyone in the city has stopped doing whatever to watch me, flying in the sky, die) "But I don't believe in god." I want to live so badly, and I stare into the sun and think, "If I am suddenly brought back to life instead of dying, I'll believe in god." Then I think, finally on the other end I'll see what really happens and whether god exists/after-life exists. In any case, I start giving out my death messages as I fly over everyone. Some to do with my parents, but I remember only one clearly, which was for Martinez of course (yes, dream love is powerful). I figure I might as well declare my love for him as it doesn't matter anymore, so still flying like a bird, I say, "And to the guy wearing the Ten Commandments shirt, who I've fallen in love with, even though I completely disagree with some of the commandments.." It was meant to be a slight joke because i was getting really emotional, and everyone laughed a bit. And when I looked back I saw him staring back at me, smiling an amazing smile, and that's when I knew feelings were mutual. I stared into the sun again. It was very powerful and vivid.



Finally, my physical body dissipated and I was watching only in spirit I guess (ha ha). I looked to see a small wisp of a feather floating where I had been. And just like that, my spirit was flying right into the sky.



But something weird happens. I float into a land, a desert land populated with thousands of warriors. I am approached by one of the warrior leaders, and he says, "We've been expecting you." I know, that these warriors have been training here for years (and for some reason this is China or Japan maybe because most of the soldiers are Japanese). I'm surprised, and the guy (who had been my friend in the real world I realize,but had "died") says, "Well, we weren't going to leave the evil on our world that easily, were we." So I'm like the real leader of all warriors and I feel this immense sense of adventure. We are not really dead, we just had to leave Earth when exposed to "violence" (the gun I assume). I fly over the desert land and marvel at how many warriors we have, who have all "died" only not really. I talk to my acquaintance, and we both discuss the pain associated with our perceived deaths on Earth. He goes into his own death, saying he had died centuries before when they used to train creatures like us for fighting. He said he had actually died when faced with a villain his first time. There's a flashback to the super-swings I was on earlier - they had been his death site. I feel for him and explain to him that I knew nothing about my uh race (?) or the powers within. I do tell him that I managed to kill a monster. I am excited that we'll soon be able to return to Earth and unleash our fury, not only because I want to save the earth from the villain and namely my parents, but especially because I want to meet Martinez and pursue our love.

Alas. I am jutted into consciousness and it's a huge freaking shame because I wanted to finish the epic adventure.

* I had to leave out a lot some stuff that wasn't too important because this was getting too long.