non-lucid

This dream was very creativity oriented. Felicia Day was visiting at a house/apartment where Peg and I lived. I asked her if she could recommend any good new video games to play. I mentioned that Peg was becoming bored with World of Warcraft. Felicia answered, “Oh anything.” Which I did not find helpful and which made me feel less connected with her, like she was aloof. The three of us were sitting on a big white couch watching something on TV. I was sitting in the middle. At one point Felicia re-positioned herself so that her head was resting on my knee. This made me feel more connected with her. But I was concerned that Peg would thing she was being overly familiar with her husband.

Felicia shared that she had been feeling creatively blocked. I suggested that she tear up slips of paper, write down names of things on half of them and musical styles on the other half. Then pick one slip randomly from each half. This would produce results like ketchup and reggae. Then she should go and make herself write a song about ketchup in a reggae style.

I think she liked the idea. I started considering using the idea myself. Then I was experimenting with art techniques like using static electricity to create patterns of strands of hair or fabric on a canvas. And I was walking through an art gallery where the paintings were large soft pastel-ish caricatures of rock musicians and I was thinking about doing a painting in a similar style.

I only remembered a tiny bit from last night.

Dream Fragment 1: There was a guy who played clarinet with the rest of us (I'm in the university band at my school, and we had rehearsal yesterday, so).

Also a note that I couldn't read.

Dream Fragment 2: Something involving a snake. My notes were rather lacking last night. :')

And now I'm off to sleep for night 13!

I had a lot of amazing dreams last night... but I forgot them almost as soon as I woke. I recall only tidbits:

In one dream, I was pregnant and excited about it, but someone shoved a knife between my legs repeatedly to give me an abortion (I had that dream thanks to having a pro-life/pro-choice convo with my daughter and then seeing a news headline about an abortion survivor speaking out before Congress)

In another dream, I was stuck in a dream loop, changing history over and over again until I could get it right (probably inspired by "Under the Dome" which I've been binge watching).

I was flying in another dream and that's the one I wish I could recall most of all. I love flying dreams.

Yet another dream was, of course, zombies I haven't even been playing 7D2D lately. My son says it's withdrawal but I have the dreams even more when I do play my game I enjoy them, though, so I'm not complaining.

Fitbit: It's been very bugged lately. I even manually changed it, but it just changed itself back. It *says* I was asleep at 1:19AM (it was really 2:30AM ) and that I woke at 1:25PM (it was really 2PM) But going on what it says, I was restless 15 times for 2 hrs 48 minutes which means I got 9 hrs 18 minutes worth of sleep.

26-01-2017

Nothing recalled.

27-01-2017
The exam

I was in school, just about to take an important exam. There were several prepared seats where one could take a registry and start counting and writing. There were many people, interrupting participants in writing, taking pictures. I took the registry and started writing random numbers in it.

26-Jan-2017 - ND: Training room

5AM WBTB, attempt WILD, fall asleep

ND#1: I am in a meeting room, together with many collague, some I know
R asks me to take this chance to give these people some short training on a subject I know well
I tell yes, get up, introduce myself, start talking, stop due to noise in the room
I continue, move to drawing board, sponge some writings away, use chalk
Missed dreamsigns here (!!) : chalkboard isn't really used anymore, sponge doesn't perfectly clear some parts, chalk is quite clunky
I write very small and not readable stuff
After some talk, more noise, people open an internal window to an adjacent room with a tattoo shop (!!)
Someone asks me a question on our products, I get angry at him (!!) because I cannot answer it properly, I even tell some bad words
Later, it's dark, we decide it's time to break and perhaps continue another time

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27-Jan-2017 - WILD: Boat, dolphin ride, underwater city + 2ND Fragments

ND#1: Playing Skyrim (fragm)
I erupt flames from my hands
I decapitate someone, I turn my monitor so my son cannot see, his bed is close to my PC (!!)
A long scripted ending move, with my character moving through a long corridor before delivering a final hit

ND#2:
I am dressing up, someone opens a window in front of me,I think I may be visible from outside but not care much

WILD#1: (5:45 AM)
After much HI and some stabilization, I want to attempt dolphin TotY
I am on a beach. I get on a small wooden boat (Minecraft-style)
I use a paddle and sail to get in open sea
I look at my body, I am wearing pull and jeans, think it's not appropriate for swimming, take some swimming boxers, remove my clothes, find I've the swimming boxers on
I drop in the water and descend until I touch ground
I find a giant stone statue's face, partially sunk in the sand, then another one, even bigger, with its mouth open
I enter it, it's black inside, then it opens to a nice city with spires and towers
At some point I think I am doing well for the task
I shortly explore the city, walking on paved roads

6:30 work alarm rings, I think about the LD and notice I was wrong, I missed the dolphin ride part. I stay in bed, fall asleep again, WILDing

WILD#2: (6:30 AM)
I start in the boat again
A dolphin approaches the boat, I observe its nose
I mount on its back, in front of the dorsal fin. It swims above the water for a bit, then descends
It finds the same underwater city. I get off its back, and after a short walk I meet a couple of mer-folks
Their skin is green and they have fish-like bottom half, green-ish as well
The guy has is chest naked, the girl has two shells covering her breast
First thing I do is removing the shells, so I can look at her mermaid breast, which is green but nicely shaped
Then I ask the guy how they have fun down here. He answers their sport is catching dolphins with a net

View shifts a bit, the scenery behind him reminds me somehow of roman circus, although it's fading in the deep blue water
The merman is in front of me, he gives a signal and from my left, a dolphin sprints towards my right
I launch the fishnet I have in my hands, but it moves slower than I expect, and I miss the dolphin
Another dolphin sprints, he launches his net and catches it at first try
When it's my turn again, I time my launch better and this time catch the dolphin

Wife calls, it's 6:45, I get up

Last night had some weird military focus. It's hard to remember exactly what happened, but I was a soldier, and some other soldier managed to fuck up something important while I was near it. I was in disbelief at this dude's idiocy (he blew SOMETHING up, I can't remember what it was), and then the nearest commanding officer spotted me near the thing and thought it was my fault.

So then she chewed me out for a bit or hurt me or something. I didn't really care that I was getting the heat for it because the dude who'd actually done it had ran off and I didn't know his name or face, so it's not like I could've pointed them in the right direction. She got most of the rage out of her system and I rolled my shoulders and carried on. Easy.

In a large split office room, workers are crammed in chatting loudly. A voice comes over speaking telling us to shut the noise down. I am agitated as I didn't hear anything saying we couldnt speak.
Apparently our company has been taken over by a big corporation and we are all being interviewed.
Pretty well everybody files off into the next room, except me and two others one I recognise as an old lady mate and one as Anthony from work. Eventually we have to go to.
I head off from the white office through some big darkened glass doors. I see loads of people being lined up to have a test.
I see that people are being injected in their necks and operated on. They have four big chunks taken out of their necks at the front.
I think hell no! and start to back off but hear that even if you don't want a job the operation is compulsory.
The door I came through is now locked.
With part adrenalin part powers I break the door open and get out of there.
Finding myself outside in a street. I try to fly but can't for some reason, and so set off on foot.
It is sunny day, with a clear blue sky and a townscape that feels American
.
I know people are coming after me and I head down one street but find all streets are shut off.
Going through someone's house I find a back window and try and squeeze through.
At this point officials bust through the door and an old lady their starts to blab on me, so I use a pressure point hold on her to knock her out.

By now I am lucid,
Getting out the front window just in time to see a long car pull up. I cross the road just as he is getting out.
He pulls a long rifle or shotgun up and out as I try to fly, I crash into him and smash him into the car which crumples. I am flying at last and head up and over the town scape.
Panic and teleport to my apartment. I hunt around for things to take with me. Soon enough I feel the people are closing in again.

...

Have been having lots of dreams last few weeks, but really bad recall. They are just on the edge, I know I had some and I almost feel what it was about, but no enough to get any details out of it.

Remembered this one before 2am. Bed was 8:30pm last night.

I live in same town as Ophelia. I want to go there and leave her a note, but I'm not sure. Even more I just want to hug her to let her know everything is ok, without saying anything. But I know it's most likely never gonna happen.

Only a few quick dream fragments and one full dream from last night.

While admittedly I haven't been doing spectacularly well this contest, it's still been extremely helpful so far. I mean, now I'm actually writing in my DJ regularly, and that's awesome for me.

Fragment 1: I was talking with Tess and this girl, and the girl's boyfriend was there. Both the girl and her boyfriend were true dream characters; I have never seen either of them in the waking world. Apparently, it was like a double date or something so romantic things started happening, but I don't quite remember the details lol.

Fragment 2: I recall a series of random images culminating in...Donald Trump. Yeah. I don't know. xD I guess he's all over the news these days so it makes sense that he'd find his way into my subconscious mind.

Full Non-Lucid 1: I was at my film development class with the other students. I was actually accepted into the computer science animation emphasis program in the story of the dream (now if only it were real...). The professor acted differently. I think he was super nice and not the really harsh art critic that he usually is. I think he asked me to go fetch some donuts for the class or something. I don't remember precisely. But hey, if you're going to actually accept me into your program, I'll buy you all the freaking donuts you want!

I had a mint-green OC that had a striking resemblance to Lyra, but taller and slimmer. Later, I was in a small town with a sad old lady and 2 cats, one of which was the size of a lab. This town was on a steep hill, with a waterfront at the bottom.

This is possibly the most consistently thematic dream I have ever had.

I was watching TV upstairs when I heard a knock on my door. My grandma answered it. A police officer was at the door. He said that I was being put under probation. As soon as I heard that, I immediately rushed to the door, asking how long I would be in prison. He told me an hour and then I was taken to a large human centrifuge where i'm assuming the strength to fight back or escape was taken away from us. The guard said to get in there and choose between either 0 or 2 and I said "0... no no 2!" Once I was out, he directed me to my cell. I asked him what I had done and he showed me a keychain. I told him that I didn't do anything. He then replied telling me not to argue with him and I entered my cell. It was a pretty big cell with a guy who had a hockey mask on. I sat on the ground as this person talked to me. I then played doom, but it was ported to real life. The goal was to kill all of the monsters and get the key. I remember being bitten by the rottweiler from quake. I got the key and then I was released.
This next part really ticked me off. I don't think anything in a dream has ticked me off in real life this much. After I got out of probation, my crush and my friend literally kissed in front of my face. There was romantic music and everything, and my crush was LITERALLY wearing a red dress! All the while, I was staring at them in jealousy. Me and some other friends then fled and tried to find our way back home. We found a McDonald's that actually exists in real life, and that's where things got weird. All of a sudden, I was in a green cloudy area, and there was a person that had a sign next to him. It said that the person was put in captivity and was given a beaten up doll to satisfy his boredom. The doll was yellow-tinted-white, but with a splatter of blood on it.

This dream has an exposition, somewhat of a rising action, a climax, and a falling action. I highly doubt this will ever happen again.

...

Customs problems
I'm in line to go through customs. I'm going to be leaving England to come home. Thankfully, the line is short. Customs is just a guy sitting at a table - it's amazingly stress-free. I think the customs guy looks familiar, but I can't place him. Now I'm at the table and I realize I don't have my card out. I apologize and dive into my backpack, pulling out the cards from its card pocket. He's very laid back and doesn't mind at all. I root through the cards, but my passport isn't there. I sheepishly apologize again and say I'm going to go look for it. He still doesn't seem to mind at all, and he suggests that, if I can't find it, I could just become a citizen. I tell him that Mom is British, but that she never felt comfortable with a dual citizenship, but thanks for the advice. I note that he's wearing a Fitbit, but it's one I've never seen before: it looks like a large silver men's watch.

Now I'm back in my hotel room. As I start looking around for the card, a couple of women enter the room dressed in a casual uniform. They explain that it's Tuesday, so all the rooms get cleaned. I ignore them and keep looking around, especially in a stack on top of the little fridge in the room. Now I'm holding a long orange extension cord and looking out my open window towards the pool below. I think about throwing it down, but I refrain because I don't want to hit anyone. Now I'm in some kind of break area. My sister-in-law is heating up some pizza, and I realize I'm really hungry. The customs agent from before is also there, and he offers me a piece of fish he's just pulling out of the toaster oven. I ask him if he's sure, and he practically shoves a piece at me. It's the largest piece of breaded fish I've ever seen - it looks like a misshapen football.


Guild castle
I'm approaching what looks like a (small) modern recreation of a medieval castle. All the stones are black - it looks very ominous. Now I'm inside, in a small room, listening to people outside. It seems this is the guild house for some kind of gaming guild. Now I'm doing something with cards.


Fragment: The side of a craggy gray mountain.

D1 - A large grey wolf was in the back room of my parents house.
I let it out of the window for it to relieve itself. It turned into a tall dark man. It all turned very sexual Oo lol he found some lady.

D2 - Trying to copy a dvd using an old style stacking mini stereo unit. Interrupted by return of parents. I removed a load of cables so they wouldn't notice or hear it.