non-lucid

Night of 2/7/09

My Lost Ring

Backstory: I had this really nice sapphire and diamond ring that my dad got for me for a birthday. I don't know when it dawned on me that I couldn't find it. I've been looking everywhere for it for more than a year now. I keep wondering if it's just somewhere that I haven't looked yet, but I think that maybe it was stolen. My parents' house is always really busy and there are people always coming in and out so there's a good chance that someone just went in my room and helped themselves to it.

So I'm in a house that I don't recognize as my own. I think I'm in a finished attic because I don't see any windows. In the corner of the room is shelving built into the walls and some drawers. I look in one of the drawers and find a jewelry box. I open it up and tucked into the corner is a piece of paper. Written on it is an apology from my ex Lauren saying that if I just keep looking, I'll find my lost ring. I don't know why I never saw this note before and I start looking in all the corners of the box and there are drawers in the box and I keep finding all this jewelry! I go back to the shelves and find more boxes to look through and it seems like it's just all jewelry all different kinds. I don't have the feeling that I'm snooping around someone else's stuff, and that note was just for me, so it must be my room. I just keep looking and looking and don't find my ring.

The Souvenir Shop

I'm at what seems to be a beach souvenir shop. I'm looking through a shelf of suntan lotion. All the bottles are clear and shaped like Bond #9 perfume bottles. They all have different names on them of suntan lotions and they're not in any particular order. I don't know exactly what I'm even looking for. I take a bottle up to the register when I see a display of those drink mugs that you put in the freezer and there's liquid in them that freezes to keep your drink cold. I walk over and start looking and see one with a picture of the Simpsons on it. I think my dad would want it so I take it to the register to buy it.

School / Grocery Store

Next thing I know I'm in school. It's my old middle school. I'm walking around finding these gold coins all over the place. I'm just walking around looking at the ground finding these coins. It didn't feel like I was in a video game or anything, though. I had the notion that it was a competition and whoever found the most coins won, but only a certain group of people was looking for the coins because not everyone was looking for them.

I made my way to class still looking for coins and it must have been Spanish class because the teacher was handing back our group compositions. I got my group's back and gave a high five to the other guy I was working with because we got a hundred "because we're awesome!" is what I told him.

Now I'm in a grocery store. Instead of looking for gold coins, I find class rings all over the place. I saw one and it was from a student who went to Harvard and I stuck it in my pocket. Then I realize that they're part of a display but I didn't put the ring in my pocket back where I found it. (I think I'm a klepto in my dreams, I'm forever finding stuff and putting it in my pockets!) I find my way over to the vegetable section and see my ex Mike standing there looking at vegetables. Someone else, a girl, walks up and asks what he's wearing, and I say, "of course it's the Cool Water I got him when I was on vacation in Spain." (Which it true, I did go to Spain and bring him back Cool Water.) He must not have noticed me until then and turns to me and says that he's so glad to see me and things aren't working out with "Sara" and he still has feelings for me and he knows I still have feelings for him.

I woke up wondering what was up with 2 of my exs coming up in one night.

Night of 2/6/09

Two-Sided Beach

I know I've had dreams in this location more than once. I start at a beach. Nice sand, beautiful water, but there aren't really any waves, so it must not be the ocean, but a lake or a bay. I wade out into the water and there are tons of people, almost too many to be able to get anywhere in the water. I don't think I've gone too far when I see the other side of this body of water and it's just another beachy shore. This is strange to me because I've never been to a place like this IRL and it comes up in my dreams enough that I recognize it.

You're in Middle School?

I'm in a school hallway and I'm walking somewhere. I see teachers as they're coming out of their classrooms and each one of them is doing that thing where you make glasses on your face when you make the "ok" gesture with both hands and flip them upside down so that the "o"s are over your eyes and your other fingers are cupping your chin. I'm really happy as I'm walking down the hall and I do it back at them! Everyone's smiling and having a good time with this.

So I make it to a staircase and realize I'm on the second level. On the staircase are students eating lunch. They've got their food all spread out and they're sitting in little groups eating and talking. There is no way to navigate my way down the stairs unless I sort of shimmy down the banister. So I start going down the left hand side with my butt on the railing and my hands balancing me and my feet are tiptoeing over the kids' food. I finally get to the bottom and see that it's the lunchroom. I stop at a table and start talking to a girl who's by herself eating lunch. I don't remember what was said, but I asked her was she like a sophomore or junior and she said she's only fourteen and in the 8th grade. I was stunned that she was in middle school because she looked much older and was acting so mature.

Night of 2/5/09

Breaking into Victoria's Secret

I wish I could remember how this started. I was just so stunned when I woke up from this that I could only focus on the end.

I'm in Victoria's Secret at a mall. I think I was shopping for something, but I'm wearing my new pajamas (that I just bought from Victoria's Secret yesterday!!). I look at the door and it's two glass doors that are closed and locked. A mall security guard comes up and opens the doors and comes in. He doesn't see me, so I sit down in a chair and pretend I'm asleep. Or a mannequin. I don't know which. I think my eyes are open though, so I see what was going on. The security guard comes in with a guy and a girl and they're both wearing dangly earrings.

Next thing I know, I'm being interrogated by the security guard and the guy with the earrings on and now he's only got one earring in. The security guard asks me how I got in there and I said, "I don't know, I'm dreaming, I must have dreamed myself in here!!" (Makes perfect sense, right? Like I knew VS was a real place and I could really be in there, but not after it was closed. I'm stuck with not knowing whether this counts as lucid or not.)

I go on to explain that, "All I know is that this guy was looking for his earring and he had two before and only one now. Then you start interrogating me about how I got in here." I was so confident in my answers. I'm amazed that this happened in my dream... that I told someone I was dreaming.

Michael Cera at Toys 'R' Us

I'm at a toy store riding a BMX bike around. I ride around until I find that there's an event going on. My boss comes up to me and asks me to introduce the pro bike riders who are doing a demonstration. I get off my bike and grab a microphone and there are bleachers and people sitting everywhere. There are a couple of pro bike riders going up ramps and doing tricks. I walk down into an area that's kind of like a big box. There are no ramps, just walls. It's a special area where the bikers can go straight up a wall without a ramp or anything. I'm not even saying anything into this microphone, I'm just watching. One biker rides into the wall, goes up it and launches into the air. He does a flip and it looks like he's going to land on his side, but as he lands, he lands on a peg on the back wheel and just spins around parallel to the ground.

I leave this area and walk around looking at the crowd now like I'm security. A few other employees and I are talking when we see a biker, who is now on a motorcycle, crash into a little girl who is walking with her mom and little sister!! I run to the store manager, who can't be bothered about this, and she tells me to go find Jeff. I find Jeff and I'm yelling his name cuz he's in the area where the demonstration is and it's hard to hear because the crowd is cheering so loud. So I grab him and bring him to where the accident is. As I'm walking there, I accidentally step on the little sister's hand because she was crouched down with her mom checking on the girl that just got crashed into. She freaks out and screams, "I'm going to need an x-ray!!!!" And starts crying. SO I walk away.

I go down the aisles and I see people in brown uniforms putting stuff on the shelves. I figure it's the overnight crew. There are some Oakley sunglasses in a box by the baseball bats, so I grab a pair and put them on. They're like fake plastic little kid sunglasses. I should have known. I push them up onto my head. I see some employees by the cash registers talking and walk up to them. At one of the check out aisles, I see little tubes of M&M's and have a moment of clarity and realize I'm dreaming, but it fades as soon as I grab one of the tubes of M&M's and open it and pour some into my hand. I turn around and one of the employees is Michael Cera from the movie Superbad. I look a him and ask him point blank in front of everyone else if he would like a blow job. He looks so surprised. So I grab him by the hand and lead him to the restrooms. We go into the handicapped stall and he unzips his pants. He looks down and seems embarrassed because his penis is so small. I turn around and see that there's a mirror on the wall. I look in the mirror and see Michael behind me and now he has a penis growing out of the front of his neck. It is the worst penis I have ever seen. It has like polyps all over it and is bumpy and just bad.

Next thing I know, Michael and I are in the parking lot outside and I'm telling him I just couldn't do it, and I'm sorry, but I think he has an STD. He says, "STD stands for Southern Texas Defense!! I don't have that!!!"

Wow.

Night of 2/2/09

There were four parts to this dream and I remembered to write them down when I was in Social Justice class:

- kick Missy out
- Zelda video game
- $20k for killing guy on boat
- "Odie" dog's personality

I have an ex named Missy who I hate. we were at a party and she was there. I didn't want her there and made a big fuss about it and had her kicked out. this actually led to the last part about "Odie." I remember driving somewhere and someone was talking about this dog that had multiple personalities and when he was evil he went by "Odie."

it started out wth me being a spy on a boat and there was a bad guy on a boat (which I somehow hijacked) and I killed him. when I got back to shore there was a big party and someone said I got $20k for killing the bad guy. I remember thinking "great now we can pay off all our bills!!!"

no idea what the Zelda video game is about.

((The dates on my DJ have been messed up, because I've been dating my dreams as occurring the night I go to sleep, when they usually occur in early morning, so it looks like I skipped a day but really I'm just doing things differently.))

I know I had more than one dream, but when I awoke from my first dream, I decided to not record it because something about it bugged me, like it was boring or something. All I remember is I was late for work.

1- The Poetic Parrot
There was a brownish orange bird that flew down from the sky and landed on a lamp post. It began reciting a poem. When it was finished, it said, "That poem dates back to... what was it? 18..." All of the sudden, Stewie from Family Guy shouts from his stroller "ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!" The bird was taken aback by this. "Well, you have no pleasure in life at all!"

Dream recall was very bad last night
Only a snippet and a portion of another dream

Snippet: I steal a Porche super car, it's either one of a kind or extremely rare. I escape through a parking lot with lots of cops with flashing blue ad red lights in black and white cars chasing me (we don't have those kind of police cars here).They chase onto the road, I take a side road and it looks like I'm gonna get away but then it turns into a sidewalk which leads back to the road where the cops are.... That's all I remember.


I'm at a meeting with some of my bike club friends, one of them has emptied a pile of stuff onto the table from his pocket or a bag. I take all the coins and start counting them, I make a high tower of the R1 coins and it falls over.... Later we're riding bikes, we're at the top of a steep dirt hill with sandy tracks coming up. We go down one at a time to take turns coming up, C rolls down backwards and almost gets hit by a car on the road at the bottom of the hill. M is next but she uses my bike, because it has the lowest seat. She also rolls back quite dangerously and drops my bike as she starts, I'm not bothered or worried about it at all, she barley makes it up and we have to grab the handle bars and hall her up the last bit. It's my turn and I ask if I can use the other DC's bike (I don't know him). It's a HP2 , at some point the bike develops peddles and it is discussed that I should be fine because I have the right shoes?? I ride down and turn around safely and smugly, I ride up the hill on only the back wheel and ramp over the crest still landing only on the back wheel. I do a bunny hop thing up a step just past them.

This dream is basically a video game inside my head. In fact, I actually remember seeing a flat top-down map from a video game growing into an amazing 3D castle in seconds.

I remember being in my house. Suddenly, we realised that my little brother wasn't there. Immediately, I went into the lift in our house (which doesn't exist in real life), and went down underground into a crazy mystical land. Well, it wasn't at first. At first, it was just like an infinite nothingness, with a 2D map on the totally flat ground. Suddenly, in front of my eyes, the ground expanded into full 3D, building up from the ground.

I don't remember too much from inside the castle, but I do remember being inside the castle in a room with stone walls around me, and a moat of lava between me and a bunch of enemies (who looked surprisingly like Goombas from Mario).

I think I woke up after a couple of minutes of battle.

One thing I can say is that this was by far the craziest of dreams that I've had, and I'm shocked that nothing about it seemed strange enough to go lucid. In some ways, though, I'm quite glad that it didn't. It was a great dream, and by far the strangest that I've remembered yet.

I'm so excited-and p.o.ed. I have been trying to have a Lucid for about a week and on atempt 4 (1-3 were all failures), I had one! It was last night. I have a big 'A' written all over (on my mirror and hand, for example) so that when I see them, I do reality checks. Well because of this, I have been in the habit of doing the plugged-nose-breathing one really often, especially in bed. So I am in bed and decide that I should do one for funzies and don't you know, I was able to breath! I remember thinking loudly (if that's possible) "I'm Dreaming!" and then I woke up for reals.

Special note: If you are reading this and you are a first timer having troubles, I would suggest trying the MILD method. The first 3 times I tried the WILD method with absolutely no progress (granted it was only 3 nights). The MILD worked the first time, even though it was for only a moment.

This morning I woke up, and I was disappointed by my lack of dream recall from the night before. I know I had at least a few dreams but could only remember bits of one or two. I decided that since I was still somewhat tired, I would take another crack at it.

I laid in bed and attempted to initiate a WILD which I have not successfully done yet. I tried looking for hypnagogic imagery but saw none. Long story short, I fell asleep and into a non-lucid dream. In this dream I was in an airport terminal. It was dimly lit and I remember a significant lavender hue to the setting. I was a bit chilly and as I looked around, I was surprised to see that many people were lounging about in sleeping bags and mummy bags. Some had tents pitched. Somehow, this did not strike me as strange in the least, perhaps as the result of a recent camping trip I'd been on in my waking life. I determined that these families had been holed up here as the result of flight cancellations. My logic was clearly off. Anyway, I settled down in a bed which had been provided for me; apparently I had also been the victim of flight cancellations. I remember seeing a pair of faded yellow jeans and liking them as I crawled under the covers of the large bed. Many other individuals were also in the bed, which for some reason did not concern me or make me feel strange. I remember seeing a family next to me. There was a strange looking father and I vaguely remember a wife and daughter.

This is where the dream got interesting: As I fell asleep within this dream, I attempted what I thought would be a WILD. It was not, since I was already sleeping. This time it "worked" and I became momentary lucid, but without any control. In this dream I became a sort of camera, swooping over fantasy cities in the night. As I zoomed over one city, I located the town center which looked EXACTLY like the town centers from Age Of Empires II. I remember laughing in the dream.

Eventually, the excitement brought on by lucidity sent me out of the dream and I woke in the dark lavender light of the terminal. Then, the strangeness of that dream struck me almost instantly and I woke in my room. The double awakening struck me as pretty cool. All in all, this excited me, even though I was only lucid for a short and uncontrolled period. I have had poor dream recall lately and also, I could not remember the last time I dreamed in color, so the purple of the airport terminal and the yellow of the jeans were good to see. I am excited to give all this another shot tonight!

My recall mantra didn't work last night as I only remember one out of five or so dreams, but it was quite vivid. I'll need to be patient about lucidity.


First thing I remember is coming down an escalator into a really small shopping centre/mall, being led by terrorists. I was with people from my church again, and the first thing someone said was "Oh no, not here!". I had to figure out quickly what was going on, and I had just been plonked here with no memory of getting here, but that didn't occur to me

We were passing some people sitting at a Chinese restaurant, and, as the terrorists were in front of me, I somehow changed one of the lights from green to red, in hope of warning the diners of the danger.

We were led down some stairs in the corner of the shops, to a little hallway with a large metal door at the end. The terrorists, who looked like normal people, were discussing their plan, and heard them say something about detonating so I made a break for the door, which opened up to a small, ground-level carpark with a kid's playground in the far corner. It was nighttime.

Another person from my church was standing to my right, and I went over and talked, then I looked back at the door and all the others were coming out. One of the terrorists had the bomb attached to her.

I went over and said "So there is a bomb under all those clothes?" to which she replied "Yeh... um, you should go over there," pointing to the group of terrorists and church friends (hope there's no connection )

I was on my way back, and the girl with the bomb came towards us really slowly. Someone said "Kevin's dead," referring to my distance from the girl. I turned to see her walking like a zombie towards me, so I tried to run around her towards the fenced playground.

Using my dream-only parkour skills, I tried to vault over the fence, but my stomach hit the top of it so I kind of flipped up. I could her everyone shouting, saying "No! Stop!!" but I didn't listen.
As a got back up I ran for the fence on the other side, and the girl jumped into the playground after me.

I remember getting over the other fence, turning to see her, and I thought she was going to explode, so I pulled myself out of the dream.


So, I'm not sure if she really exploded or not, but at the last second, I knew I was in a dream so I should just let myself get killed.

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 took a nap a few hours ago as I was tired; this dream is the result of it.

It was light outside, and this light was spilling into the room of this fairly modern house. The room was no more than fifteen by fifteen feet, and there was one square archway in the center of one wall. In the middle of the room was a pale burgundy mat with an intricate pale gold pattern and an old-fashioned dark wooden table with the kind of legs that curl up. The flooring was white marble tile with slightly darker grout; the dark marbling of it was only barely visible so it looked more like basic white tile.

In the left-hand corner of the room, to the left of the archway, was a large potted tree, the dark green leaves amalgamating into somewhat of an egg shape.

Although it didn't happen in the dream, I knew I was following a few cats around the house. I already saw a black one that rolled over and let me pet its belly, but now I was looking for another one. My sister appeared and I asked her, "where's the brown and white cat?"

She pointed behind the tree, and there was the cat, lying down, half-hidden behind it. My sister disappeared and I knelt down to have a closer look. The cat curled around the pot a bit to get closer to me. It was white with a dark brown back, but its most striking feature was smaller dots of orange all over where the brown and white colors met. It looked at me with intent.

I reached out to pet it, but I stopped advancing because its eyes had widened and its ears flattened. Its mouth opened but nothing came out. In a few moments, it returned to normal so I reached out even more, slower this time. I touched its head and it made an evil "mrrrrow..." noise as if to warn me to get my hand off. I took my hand off and as soon as I did that it got up, leaning towards me but not taking any steps. I lunged out slightly towards it as if to say "I'm the boss", towering over it, and it recoiled by flattening itself to the ground and wearing the cutest expression.

4th dream within 2 weeks that I've had about stealing merchandise.

The other 3 dreams were situated in CTcon, the anime con I went to in July earlier.

This dream I was in Wal-Mart.

It was nighttime, and my friend Andre and his mom drove us to the store and I had to buy some things. When I went to the check out I let the other customers ring up my stuff while I looked around some aisles. I noticed a bag of RPG dice (they were 8mm dice too, so clearly something I would only come up with and more suited for CTcon..) and even though the price tag read 1.46 or 2.46 (strange numbers) I felt a huge urge to steal it.

I glanced half way at the dice again, feeling the urge creep up in me, something I started to struggle with. I was wearing a sweat shirt, so I thought okay I'll put it in my sweatshirt pocket, empty it out so it's easier to hide...and while planning this I grabbed it, and my fingers were clumsy this time, and I sort of fumbled with it. My past stealing dreams I was quick and nimble, (although I wonder if being dressed as Rikku from FFX-2 in those dreams has anything to do with it...she's a thief).

I also looked up at the ceiling and noticed about 30 surveillance cameras above my aisle, and there were more mapped out evenly around it, and a security man came toward me as I tried to leave the aisle- he shook his head at me. I said "What?" and he looked at my pocket and motioned for me to give it to him. I emptied my pocket (still managing to leave some dice in there) and handed it, feeling really guilty.

Oh man...

So my first dream was strange because I can't even recall myself being in it. It was basically just like watching an episode of Friends about Chandler...funny though

Dream 2:

I was with my friend and she was basically chugging this Mickie of Smirnoff Vodka. I keep telling her that Grey Goose tastes better and she says that she wants some, so we go looking. We end up going to some basement that's really messy and filled with all these random old toys, decorations and things. Kind of like a basement filled with old childhood memories or something. In there I find Miley Cyrus and she's completely drunk off her ass. She says she wants me to write her some movies to corrupt young children, and I tell her that I will add a shit load of dirty humor in the background where people won't notice. (see Rare's Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie) She has an evil laugh and then for some reason I'm turning this weird Key Device thing attached to a big ball and gold chain.

looked something like this



I'm not really sure what it was supposed to do.





Dream 3:


So now I'm in my friends backyard and with another friend, and he's looking really Grey and pale. He tells me that he's suicidal and so they gave him antidepressants. Then he goes further to tell me that the drugs are making him homicidal and that he has to kill me. We start pacing around the backyard as I try and convince him that he doesn't have to kill me and that he doesn't want to. He keeps dissagreeing and slowly becomes crazier and more bloodthirsty. The next thing I know he's running after me. I bold to the glass door that leads to my friends house but fall. Then I start begging him not to do anything as I cant get up (typical). He comes closer to me and....

I wake up.

In this dream, I was out in my town, and there was a really steep hill, it was also like a slip and slide. There were some other people there who wanted to go swimming in this river, and it looked like a river filled with mud. I slid down the hill on a blue raft thing. After I did, those people came down and said that was pretty cool. I told them they shouldn't swim in the river, and told them about this one river that i normally go to that's great. They didn't really listen. A girl that was there started saying something about my fingers, because one of my nails are infected. I mentioned how I don't like to talk about it and lets talk about something else.

Then I woke up.

27.07.2010

My wife + Coworker + Old ex = New girlfriend (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Not one of my best nights! Four dreams but nothing fancy.

Fourth:

I was indoors. It was a huge place. I had a girlfriend that looked like a female co-worker I had at the olive oil store, but her name was like a real girlfriend I had in the past. At the same time I knew I was married but for some reason I enjoyed this DC company.
We were in public place but there were beds and other furniture. We kissed each other several times. I kissed her around her neck and she avoided it. I asked her if she did not like it, she told me she liked it too much. I was happy because she was Psychic. I was excited that it was going to be the two of us with Psychic abilities at the Olive Oil store and I was not going to be on my own anymore.

She told me she was going to grab stuff and place them on their eyes, then she would kiss me. She went to another room and brought like a Tupperware with onions. She was holding them with her eyes. Then she kissed me a few times. This scene repeated with different colored cans. (Just needed to be lucid for the basic task of August) Suddenly, she took longer to come. I heard like war-cries and I saw like a trebuchet with several people on it armed with swords and shields. In addition, I think it had a canon as well. I was wondering if she had that whole thing attached to one of her eyes. I could not wait to see her again and make out.

A few people came in from a front door. They were referees of some sort. They had a big panel and they announced, "Well, here is the Magic The Gathering tournament listings." I just saw a small basketball field at the end of this big room and I said, "I do not play basketball anymore!"

My DCfriend came back, kissed me and said. Finally, I have the password for the #DVA room for the finals. The password is "Soncha!" As I heard this word, I woke up abruptly, I do not know why.

Missed dream Signs:
- The DC girlfriend of mine.
- The stuff she could hold with her eyes.
- The place were I was itself.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Ask my DC Girlfriend who she really was and find out about what was happening. I am sure I would have discovered something interesting in my subconscious.