non-lucid

It's hard to guage the times this morning, because I woke up alot over the course of the night.

10:30am
FA. I woke up, and checked my watch. I somehow slept in until 2pm! At first, I was upset, because I wanted to reset myself back to days (even if I have to switch yet again on Saturday). I vaguely thought, "No, that can't be right." I woke up for real and saw that it was 10:30am. One day, I might learn to use a FA to my advantage

10:30a-10:45a
Hannah and Rudy, sitting in a tree...
I was hanging out with Hannah. She was telling me there's someone she likes. She pointed out this guy who was an albino (and had slightly reddish eyes). I had a false memory tell me that was Policeman-Rudy. My brain was confused. Rudy doesn't look like that!

[Field of WTF]
I'm observing Rudy and his partner in a field. It was snowy (and presumably cold, but I don't ever feel things in my dreams) They were checking up on people. They passed this one homeless guy who was huddled down and sleeping. Rudy told his partner to get the guy a blanket.

They kept going, and saw these two guys who were just generally looking like they were up to no good. The one cop started cuffing the one guy and Rudy was about to cuff the other. The second cuffee made a bird-like cawing sound.

I looked off into the distance and saw this bird swoop in. It was a large and very exotic bird. It came down to eye level with me and hovered, beating its wings. We stared at each other, and I reached out slowly and pet its underbelly. It was okay with that.

I saw the cuffee use the distraction to attempt a getaway. I seemed to be the only person to see it. Do I chase and tackle him? I'm a bit confused at what happened, but it ended up not playing out.

There were a group of people around now, looking at this bird. I said, "I pet it, and it didn't try to bite me, not like this dog is doing." I suddenly had this gnawing puppy on my finger. I dangled him in the air, and asked, "What kind of dog is this?" Aidan (where did he come from?) told me what breed it was. Tamika (where did SHE come from?!!) then asks me for the time. I pulled my turtle necklace out and she told me it doesn't have a clock on it. I said I didn't know what time it was...

Some Fragments
Staff Meeting
I was in a classroom, late for a staff meeting. It seemed like everyone had gotten these scratch tickets and pick 3 numbers, and I missed out on getting some. I asked Kirby about it, and at first, he thought I was suspiciously trying to get an edge up, but I said I just got here. This woman came 'round with a tray. She said I could have 1 of each scratch ticket and a chocolate bar.

Affairs
I don't remember much about this, other than recognizing that people were kissing others that weren't their partners.

80's yoga
I encountered some women doing yoga poses in horrendous looking 80's spandex workout outfits.

Should I re-dye my hair?
I was looking in a mirror and wondered if, when I get my roots touched up, should I refresh the entire colour? My hair looked fine, but I noticed the red was looking a little brassy. I looked in another mirror and saw that the red was completely gone, and I was left with this horrible orangey-blond hair (dream sign = colour-changing hair).

V and I are attending a movie, a biology documentary about wetland habitats. The screen is huge and very high-definition; underwater photography, alligators, and birds are all shown in stunning detail. After watching for a while, we move closer and closer, and finally close to kiss. The ensuing makeout is full of energy and passion, and I vividly feel both tongues writhing. There's so much energy, in fact, that she knocks out the filling from my front tooth. Its texture, hard and ugly, now enters the dream, and my brain pulls me out presumably to avoid that feeling.

I wake up (IRL, not a false awakening, thanks to RCs and my own dream journal), but when I go back to bed the dream has continued with a shift of scenes. We're now in the bathroom of the movie theatre, preparing to have sex. I try to hurry up and begin to piss... and I keep pissing. I notice, too late, that the urinal I chose has someone's shit blocking the drain, and soon the water starts to overflow. I have no choice but to continue, but as V knocks on the door to check on me the urinal breaks out of the ground! Water, piss, and shit start flowing everywhere, and she steps in the refuse with her heavy boots. The mood is, to say the least, ruined. I stumble out of the toilet trying to clean myself up and salvage the night, but another student from the research station, S, is crying to herself and washing glassware in the sink. I have no peace and wake up very frustrated.

1. It's nighttime. I'm sitting around drinking something with a friend, when suddenly I start to feel pretty bad. The dreamview switches to a close-up of my digestive tract, which shows itself to be swollen and red and close to exploding. This continues for an uncomfortable time, showing different organs, when the view suddenly goes third-person. My body explodes, splattering blood on the dream "camera" and causing an elderly couple to comment on my rudeness.

2. My brother, my roommate, and I are chasing the girls who live at my research station around the halls. Eventually they start to fight back, and I do parkour down the (IRL nonexistent) basement stairwell to hide from them.

Work Flipped:
I was at work. I served some customers, moved some large tray containers from the floor and there was something about a district manager, possibly me becoming one. The store was different in the back with the big oven on the right side, the large wooden table is horizontal and the exit in located in the north.

Thoughts: Dream fragment again, but, bad night for recall. Still better than nothing

frags

Angel and I are white tigers in a place that looks like a forest in Europe. We are playfully wrestling at the foot of a castle. I feel so natural as a tiger, I have no lucidity.

frag

Angel and I are now in half human half tiger form. We stand at the top of a sea cliff. We are wearing mideavel clothes. The grass is bright green. Everything is vivid and beautiful. We watch a bright orange sunset, and I hold her as the sun dips into the sea.

[I]This dream was so beautiful, I can't really put it into words.[/I]

I attribute this dream of sparse recollection to the extreme amount of stress that's been in my life recently. As most of us know that stress is extraordinarily detrimental to dream recall; and I've been having quite a bit of stress, making dream journal entries difficult

I remember being very upset, I remember this emotion to be surprisingly vivid. I was upset because of my concern for some sort of change in my sleep schedule; I think it was because I wasn't getting enough sleep or something, I don't know for sure (as stated earlier this dream was of very sparse recollection).
I also remember the image of Count Dracula (the literal Count Dracula that actually existed in Transylvania, not the fictional movie character Dracula), and I remember talking about him; asking somebody (I can't remember who I was talking to): "Do you even know what Dracula looks like?!" For some strange reason unbeknownst to me, we were talking about vampirism as if it was an actual disease; and if it's beneficial or detrimental to survival.

Anybody know some tips for helping with dream recall?
And if you do answer, please don't give me that obvious answer "oh you should just read the dream recall tutorial."

Weird and Odd, possibly Scary and Perplexing:
I was on some trip, possibly to Toronto. I was on a ship or a train but with no roof looking at the scenery. I ended up getting onto this train and tried to find a seat. I was signalled by a girl who I knew. I told them I didn't want to be a bother but they said it wasn't a problem. I ended up sitting next to one of the members on this forum(keeping his name anonymous) across from these two girls. I still didn't feel satisified though and they could tell. It was something to do with the guy. I think we were friends but we had a recent fight and weren't talking to each other. The next thing that happened was the strangest thing. While in his seat, he gave me a quick kiss on the cheek(bleh). It was supposed to signal that everything was ok between us and we can be friends again, although, his expression didn't seem to match that. Dreams skips and we have arrived to where we were supposed to go. We walk around near shops and restaurants and it's pretty dark. We pass two girls who are laughing at something.

Thoughts: Soo weird and pretty random. I guess I fufilled the mysterious mind part that I was talking about at the start of my DJ It was pretty quick, so, I don't think much of it. Lucky for him, I wasn't lucid or else Anyways, odd dream and pretty bad recall, since, this was a fragment

I was with Cameron in L4D in real life. We were scared so I went inside a giant building and Cam followed. There were two platform like things across from eachother with cardboard boxes acting as stairs to get up. Zombies were attacking us from all sides. Cameron reminded me of my knockback action to knock them off the platform.

Later we saw a helicopter cutscene were it landed on the opposite platform and dropped 2 healthkits.

Dream ends...

It was the last day of school in a weird school.

I went in the front doors and saw Sydney naked in a fountain with some other girls, I tried not to look (<-That's exactly how I know I wasn't Lucid) I went down a ramp to the left near the commons

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I was in the commons and there were a ton of people going crazy I later found that someone had broken my black glasses in a similar manner as my expensive ray bans.

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I was sitting at a table watching the lunch lady set out lunch choices and I was trying to decide before I got there..

Potentially inspired by that episode of NCIS where the undercover FBI agent attempts to sell the satellite missile targeting system to some arms dealer.

I had to assemble some type of operating system. The man (dunno who) told me that the information was stored on six microSD chips (however, they were much, much smaller than usual microSD chips. They were a bit smaller than the size of an average 4th finger nail). I had five of them, but could not find the sixth one. I later discovered that it was in the apple I was eating. I pulled it from the apple, and assembled the six on the desk that I was sitting on. I had the idea to load them into a computer (I am currently in "my school's" computer lab, however, in real life I had never been in a building like this before) and then copy the information to a flash drive that I had in my pocket. However, I was worried that others would see this and that I could potentially get into trouble.

I was watching this story unfold in third person.

A guy wearing a loose white tank-top with blonde-ish hair was trying to become friends with a group of people hanging out at a park. He hit it off with them at first, but it was soon found out that he had done something wrong, and people began to dislike him. He was sentenced to build a jungle gym in the park. He eventually completed the jungle gym, but people still seemed to be upset with him. He build a slide out of large wooden planks, but missed putting one on, and a kid who slid down fell through the slide. He said that the wooden planks were priced at $128 a piece. I understood why he didn't want to finish the slide.

June 5-6, 2010.

1st dream: Earlier that night, before I went to bed, a relative of mine had to come over. She was sleeping overnight at our house. After I went to bed, I dreamt that we were still awake and we were about to go to sleep. In the dream, she said something like, "I'm going to have a lucid dream tonight so if you hear any noise from me in the middle of the night just know that I am dreaming, and sorry if I wake you up." I remember telling my sister this in my dream, "Wow. She lucid dreams?" my sister was like, "I know." Then I guess I woke up.

2nd dream: I went back to sleep. Then I had this vague image in my head when I woke up, it was of people dancing. We were at a wedding reception the day before, so I guess that's why I dreamt that.

3rd dream: I fell back asleep in the morning, and this is what I dreamt: I can't remember most of this dream, but I remember being in this apartment; with this technician. I'm not sure if I broke something, but that's why he was there. He was also teaching me how to fix this weird contraption, it almost looked like a straightener. The guy left, and this family came into the apartment. Then I woke up.

[B]June 4-5, 2010.

All I could remember was one little picture of a guy talking to someone. Well, it was like a small video clip. It was like I was looking through tunnel vision; it was fuzzy too. And for some reason, the dream theme was blue.

May 30-31, 2010.

I remember a little bit, at the end, there were some fireworks. All within the dream, I was in this laboratory or something, and I traveled in somebody's body I think. And I had a friend with a broken leg or (not to gross you out) a bone hanging out. o-o[/COLOR][COLOR=Blue][COLOR=Black]

May 27-28, 2010.

1st part of dream: I was in this theater looking place. I can't remember what I did.

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2nd part of dream: I seemed to have teleported to a field with a ton of other people, I think they were playing sports and stuff, somewhat like field day. These three people walked up to me. I can describe them: 2 guys, 1 girl; 6 feet tall; and they were dressed in black. They were talking to me about something corny, which at the time, I thought it wasn't. They started coming closer to me, and I backed up. They got a hold of me and picked me up by my shoulders. I was resisting and screaming for my life, I tried to scream my sister's name, because I remember seeing her in the field. Some people looked up, but none helped. Then one of the guys said something like, "Whoa. I just need you to show me how to do something."
I think we teleported to my house. The walls looked a little distorted (like in Dr. Seuss' books). The guy got onto my computer for something. And the computer looked like a giant oven, but I didn't notice that at the time. Then I woke up shortly after.