non-lucid

30/8/16
Dream 1: People were getting sucked into a big pipe and being spat out the other side as similar but slightly changed versions of themselves.

Dream 2: I was given some advice and instructions by a pro gamer in both Dota and Wizard101.

I'm somewhere in a city, together with a white girl my age. We seem to be spies and we're a team. Perhaps we are also in a relationship, though I'm not sure about that. We're about to start our mission. We've definitely done something similar before, because as we start I even say something like "here we go again" in English. We're a few metres above street level and jump a bit down onto a brown wooden walkway (which I think wasn't meant to be a walkway) to cross the road. On this side of the road are a bunch of shops, in a neat row, like any shopping street. The building style is quite old, gothic perhaps. There's grey concrete pillars and presumably arches about 2 metres in front of the shops. We take care cause we spot a police officer outside and there's another one inside one of the shops. Both of them are white, one male, one female. I think it was the female who was still outside. We hide behind one of the pillars. We're right in front of a bookshop and we decide to go in, I think for information. The bookstore is well lighted, everything is bright. It's a neat place. I get a bit distracted by my passion for books. We look around, trying to be inconspicuous. They are having a sale. Every single book is 9 ... euro's? Pounds? Not sure. 9. As far as I remember, only the owner of the shop was present. She reminds me of a university lecturer I had.. or perhaps it's her. A white woman in her 40s with slightly curly hair. I'm not sure of the colour anymore. My partner and I only look, never touching any of the books. We're standing at a low bookcase near the window. My partner decides to go outside to view the books in the window. She gives me a look. I don't remember what type of look. Not to get distracted perhaps? I walk around the bookshop and once I've reached the final bookcase, I let out a small sigh. The owner, who is behind a round counter, responds to it. Something along the lines of "can't find what you're looking for?" I respond with "you must've heard that sigh a lot." She starts asking me about my book preferences so that she can help me out. I tell her that I'll read a lot of things. The last things I've read are fantasy books though. She is a bit uncertain, but finally decides to show me two books. I don't remember the first one (or perhaps the second one). The one that I do remember is a gigantic book. It's got a blue cover. At one point it's open on the very last page and I see a price that says "0.09". I know it's meant to be a price of 9 ... whatever currency. The girl is now back as well and we go through the pages, flipping carefully towards the front. There's no text. It's all paintings. At one point I see a painting of a man's face that a friend of mine made a year ago, only this is much bigger. I'm surprised by this. Did my friend's work get published somehow? Did she just copy paint an existing painting? We continue flipping. Dragon. Some of the pages are torn and the lady says we have to be careful. People have been mishandling this book, causing some tears along the lines of the paint. I like this book, especially considering it's price. There's no way I can take it with me though. I start anticipating a sales pitch from the woman. I anticipate that she will suggest home delivery. Even then, it would take up too much space in my room.

I don't remember this dream well, but I will do my best at describing it.

I was with my mom and were going to a shop, from outside it looked like a bakery, the pastries were so deliscious looking, but alas we couldn't go in because it was closed. My mom and I left, we came to a counter, a mixture of walgreens and something else came to mind as my mom had to sign something for us to leave. As quickly as we left we returned, and still the bakery was closed, once again a major disappointment. We signed to leave again.

And finally, a third time. We came back, it was dark in the bakery...but also....it looked different. Not because it was dark but, it just looked VERY different. The walls were no longer white, they looked to be a shade of tan or brown, the floor wasn't tiled anymore either and the glass that pastries were in, wasn't there. Though it was pitch black far back. A counter with a black rim was to the left from where I looked inside the window. And a man, his hair was pulled back and he was dressed nicely. His hair was silver and his skin full of wrinkles, but only for a second. He became a young man with pretty brown hair and flawless skin, still in his nice clothes...and...now this is the weirdest part. He wore a black gas mask with a copper end, he looked at me for but a second. But a second was just long enough for the eerie feeling the building now held to become, almost like fear, not run away screaming fear, but just 'I'm gonna turn around and never come back' fear, if that makes sense. My mom began walking and I followed, we left for the last time, and then I woke up.

9/6 D1: As I was walking all through this dream I was walking in & out of decades & centuries! It was so odd. I was living in a home w/ other women we were always discussing men & women like things. We went to a store where I met a man. The store started out as a wal-mart/k-mart like store but then turned into a very old time store. Someone had stolen something & I went outside but now it was me walking out of a house onto the porch of a house that had a crazy Victorian like look & feel to it! I was still looking for the culprit but as I walked I kept walking in & out of time. Like whatever was there previously was where I was walking. As if many things had been built in the same place over the yrs. The landscape stayed the same. Then things were on fire & I saw a man on fire & melt. It was terrifying.

9/6 D2: I was w/ the same man from before & my parents were saying they were coming to get me. After I had told my parents about the previously mentioned store/house & being in & out of time they said they thought they should come get me. They probably thought I was losing it. They are atheist's & would never understand this concept. I was wanting to spend more time w/ the man I was with but the dream faded as Meesha Cat woke me up.

9/6 D3 & D4: Took a nap. Both were nightmares that I just couldn't hold on to because they were all jumpy & w/ my Veritgo it just made me dizzy trying to think about it. Let alone write it down.

Today: D1: I was in this big Victorian house. I've been in this house before in past dreams but it's been yrs since I've seen it. Friends I used to have were there & I wanted to buy the house. I was showing Mike the house. I spent an immense amount of time just walking through this enormous house because it was so familiar to me. It was greatly detailed. Light fixtures, books, bookcases, doorways ect.

I mention ppl that used to be my friends & by used to be I mean just that. I used to do drugs w/ them in my twenties & got the hell away from them. They were even to this day toxic people.... The house I mentioned could be a past life thing. It was amazing! I could've walked through it all day long!

Today D2: I was in this Dollar Store. I was trying to buy things early for Christmas but as I would pick up a few things & throw them in the basket, I'd look back & the other things I wanted would be gone. Then things from my basket were missing. This process repeated over & over & over.

All Non-lucids

Morning of September 7, 2016. Wednesday.

Dream #: 18,160-02. Reading time: 1 min 28 sec.



I am on the set of a new Indiana Jones movie, but it takes place in an unknown modern city that seems like a part of Third Street in La Crosse, near business buildings. I seem to be the director.

There are two beds (as in my recent lions dream), but which are outside across the public sidewalk, perpendicular to it.

Kate Capshaw is on a bed on the right from the street view. At first, she is happy about her movie role, but there is an uncertainty of whether she is going to be eaten by a lion. There is the idea that a lion will at least reach over her bed and paw her abdomen. That does not happen. (I am non-lucidly directing the scene). She does not seem angry or afraid. Instead, she only seems annoyed over the idea of having to “really” die in her role. She asks me if I am going to direct the outcome that way, but I am unsure. No lion appears. (“Capshaw” is a distorted association with “cat’s paw.”) I get the impression there is an “invisible duplicate” of her in the other bed related to the filming, but the situation does not make much sense.

I am later in the house we live in now, but there is a duplication of the lounge room from north to south. There are two bowls of popcorn, one in each room in the “same” area and I am puzzled about whether there are meant to be two bowls or one. Our youngest daughter is present, but I briefly consider if there is one or two of her and if so, if the “right” one is home. One bowl of popcorn is hers.

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This dream is like a combination of aspects from one from the 5th (Directing Godzilla with the Book that Controls the Universe) and one from the 6th (The Lions of Coalescence Guide me to “Nature’s Call"). There is the awareness that my non-lucid scripting relates to a movie within my dream. Although there is an artifact association (“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”), there is no direct presence of a “dreaming crystal” as in my dream from the 5th.

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1) Sitting in a car in a street, waiting for something. Then walked through a door it was some sort of exhibit of a miltary nature, there was a large picture on the wall, there was someone miltary watching. I stood back to loom at the picture, he was not happy and shouted that I had to do it again properly. I tried again making sure that I marched in, did an about turn and saluted the picture. He still wasn't happy and insisted that I improved my drill. He had me bend my legs and checked the angle then left me squatting there.

2) In Hampstead with an old friend we were looking for a pub for a drink. We walked into a pub, and ordered 2 apple juices. My friend ordered a pancake but he was told they had just run out of batter, the people next to us were just getting theirs. A man walked back in with a small amount of batter in a jug and poured it onto a surface to cook, I looked really closely and it wasn't cooking, he turned in some of the edges but it just went into a mess, I stood even closer and watched.
Then we were in a cave under the pub, I was reading something, someone said look it's the Beatles and there they were walking towards us. Suddenly it became a scene from Help (the Bealtes film) but they were battling some sort of green monsters. Then I was outseide and it was dark and I was worried that we hadn't paid for our drinks, so I went back to the pub but it was shut.

3) I was in an operating theatre. The surgeon was explaining to me how to correct a hypospadias and laughing about it. I was scrubbing up to help and pushed a button to get soap instead a jet of water sprayed out across the operating theatre, I apologised becasue I was sure I had pressed the right button. A nurse said it was OK.

4) In a building next to one of the twin towers. Climbing up the stairs, they were very narrow, I was thinking how would hundred of people get back down these if there was an emergency. I got to the top and could see a twin tower rising above us. The building was swaying in the wind, although there wasn't much wind. It was moving hundreds of metres at a time backwards and forwards which I was told was normal.

I'm in one room together with my mom and Len, a Dutch friend. My mom is seated on a chair close to a wall. My friend is also seated on a chair. I'm either seated or standing up. I remember there being a window, showing daylight. My mom is talking on the phone in Dutch. I'm talking to my friend. I don't recall how, but we've come to the topic of politics. He asks me for my opinion on a specific aspect of the democratic system. I don't remember the exact question. I explain that I think that direct democracy was probably the best system in the days of the old Greeks, but that right now it can't work. I'm also not satisfied with the current system though. We end up discussing 18th - 19th century philosophers. My mom gets off the phone for a few seconds to say something. Mid sentence I say something like "yes mother, go ahead". I remember being satisfied with my ability to transition that smoothly. I don't remember if I was satisfied switching topics/attention so smoothly or switching languages. My mom says something like that she hopes I won't be discussing this all the time with her. I tell her that I will be on Flores, so not to worry. I focus on my friend again. I tell him that I've never been good at remembering what each philosopher was about. He tells me it's easy for him to remember.

I have vertigo as a result of the last 3 days swimming. I was able to write things down but I'm too dizzy to log it. I'll have to do it tomorrow. Sigh.

I'm in some kind of school,a high school I think. I'm walking down a hall and reach an intersection and get stopped by 3 or 4 girls. They demand 75 cents to pass. They claim that's the rules. I'm a bit disoriented not remembering how I got in this school, I'm thinking this sounds a lot like a shake down but until I'm sure I just figure I'll pay them. I give them a dollar and ask for a quarter back. She sort of laughs and says “thanks for your sacrifice” and ignores me. It's clear to me now that it really was a shake down. So I pick her up and turn her upside-down and shake her so coins fall out of her pockets while saying “I'm reversing this shake down”. I put her down and pick up upwards of $1.25 in change. One of the girls says “hey you can't do that!”. I say to this group of scrawny little girls “well then do something about it.” I'm sure I can take the whole group of them fairly easily. I walk away and hear them getting a security guard. Not wanting to deal with them playing the victim I go outside, but realize I'm not going to get anywhere fast enough from out here, so I wait for the group and security guard to show up so I can at least explain outside of the commotion of the halls. A heavy set girl who seems older then the other girls comes out and grabs me. I push her off easily and say “relax I'm not going anywhere anyway”. I end up in some student/teach court type of thing. I'm forgetting a lot of details at this point but I make my case, get some laughs with some jokes I make and win. After words, outside of the room the court was being held in a teacher approaches me and says something like “you're not the type to just follow the rules quietly huh?” and I say “it depends on if they are fair or not. Our conversation ends at some point and I hear her on the phone, what ever I hear sounds like some kind of conspiracy. I pretend not to be listening as I look out a window.


I find myself in another dream, in a different setting. I'm escorting a girl outside of a hospital. She points to a building and says “that's where we're going it says -i forget what she said the sign read- “ but at I look at the building the sign is only halfway up and doesn't say anything close to what she said she was reading. I assume she can't read well and just memorized what it has said before. We end up looking at a map of the buildings. I remember some very rude woman not letting us look at any of the maps on the walls while she was pacing back and forth using them. There is an evacuation at some point,a fire alarm or something, I'm not sure. Everyone head away from the building. I go the other way hearing crying. I look under a table and there is a little Hispanic girl crying with her umbrella turned inside out. I know I help her, but I can't remember anymore after this.

First Lucid

I was in a school auditorium filled with kids. I than left because I got bored of the event taking place.I was now in a temple like area that reminded me of Ocarina of time and became lucid. I had the sword in my hand and put it in the stone that takes you back in time. This was kind of unsettling because I remembered that there was zombies that appeared out at night. Only...I forgot it was when you were older that the zombies come out and I think it's at night. Anyways I left the temple hearing some zombie noises. I decided to change the scene to the neighborhood I use to live at when I was a little girl. I floated up a bit looking at the sky and house thinking how it was a good copy of the original.

After looking for a bit though the scene changed and I was now looking at a site that looked like dream views. There I saw a lot of writing and a picture of Elainey's avatar and my avatar.A voice of a guy than came up making me think of Nebulus. As he was talking the writing grew bigger and he said he was writing to show how he was grateful for the kindness the people at dream views shown to him. Oh and a picture of my literature teacher popped up as well which was kind of funny. However,the scene changed and I was now in my room with an invisible figure. I thought it was Eye and wondered how long I could stay in the dream without doing much. It lasted for what seemed like a few minutes than I woke up.

Second Lucid

I don't recall where it started but I was in my room when I became lucid.I called Eye and he came but than I got the feeling to call Dawn. I called for him than went to the room he use to appear in a lot. He was there laying down on a bed than got up when he looked at me.After that I went with him to my room but than Eye ended up doing something annoying. I can't remember what it was though. I decided to focus on Dawn after Eye did the annoying thing and looked at Dawn thinking about his appearance. He than picked me up and I was now above his shoulder. I pointed out how tall he was than after a few seconds he put me down.He wasn't very talkative in this dream.

I didn't see Eye around anymore so I decided to look upstairs for him.I lost my lucidity after seeing different birds inside my parakeet's cage. A little boy mentioned how they put them in there because they got lose. Worried I tried to take the bigger birds out and put them in the bigger cage that was now next to them. I only managed to put one inside before I woke up.

Monday morning's dream was a pretty teeny tiny fragment, involving a super smart yet annoying guy barging his way into my house and demanding me to solve his riddles.
This morning, however, was a bit more fruitful! Especially due to the re-appearance of a dream sign of mine.
But first, middle-of-the-night-wake-up-fragments.
I was on a huge ship in the middle of an ocean being ravaged by a raging storm. Alongside the storm was, of course, a sea monster, and the whole crew (me included) had to square off against it in an RPG-styled battle. And thennnn!
I was homeless, and wandering the cold, dark streets of a city I didn't really recognize. I was trying to find shelter in whatever place I could, till eventually I met this family who decided to take me in for the night.
Now for the non-lucid.
I was in the house I used to live in, and sitting on the couch nearby was my ex and her boyfriend. All three of us were getting ready to watch a movie, but I was feeling pretty glum and sour about the situation, so I moped my way over to the kitchen area and pet my ex's dog for a little while. Eventually, I decided I'd just leave, and this was no small undertaking as I knew it'd be a long 6 hour drive back home. I relayed my plans to the two of them, and my ex pleaded that I stay and enjoy the movie. I, however, was resolute. I headed out. The in-between here is a blur but I do remember driving my way home on dark roads.
Too bad I didn't do an RC. I've been training myself IRL to reality check whenever my ex sends me any messages, or if I catch a stray thought about her. However, she hasn't appeared in my dreams much lately; this was the first time in a little while now.

Bed around 8 am - 3:47am

DR at 11:57pm
I'm walking outdoors with lots of people. Feels like when we went on these kinds of walks with "civil defence class". I follow one guy who is really fast. We are climbing up a smallish hill. Grass is all stomped on and lots of dirt is showing from all the feel that went there before us. I try to grab on something and find places for my feet to get myself up the hill.

I come up to some old, concrete semi-circle platform hanging over some water. Looks like dam building over lake. I follow a narrow trail with my eyes and I find the place where I need to go. It looks like there is a shortcut, but it's a dangerous narrow path over the water. I look into water. Lots of leafs on the surface and mud and leafs on the bottom. Not too deep, maybe 4-5 feet. There is some wide pipe running on the bottom of it.

I don't want to fall into water and hit the pipe, so I decide not to take the shortcut. But the normal route is also dangerous. Looks like something from Indiana Jones. The panels of the road are wobbly and I feel like they are gonna fall while I walk on it, like a trap. So I figure I need to run across. Or go on this narrow concrete side, that looks stable.

I walk into a tiny circular booth standing in the middle of the platform. The walls are made of glass windows that cover the whole length of the room. I push them open so I can get out if I need to. I find some items that I feel will help me complete this task. Military badges, police badge, some money, other items.

A real mish-mash of dreams last night.

1) Walking down a wide open road which I had to cross. Quite a vivid dream, I was looking back up the road waiting for a chance to cross, I waited for a motorbike to come past, then crossed to the midle of the road before a large lorry came past. I was on the other side and I think I was with my daughter. We entered an office and talked about looking something up on a very old computer system but decided against because we were trespassing and left, I closed the door behind me (good detail). Carried on walking and past a restaurant, it was the Paul Daniels restaurant (?!), looked at the menu only two things were on it both pasta. At the counter we could see that the food was sitting in a chiller and it was being put in the microwave to be served. We said it was a bit odd but looked nice and we might come back for lunch.

2) Walking along peeling an orange with my family. There was some sort of ride ahead with lots of water, not really a fun ride it seemed to have some purpose. I watched some people on it.

3) In a house with Derick Trotter. He has to go and visit another daughter of his, his wife seemed quite happy about it. Not sure how I fitted into the family. Then someone came to visit him, I beckened him across throught the window, Del told me to let him in. The doorway was more of just a window with a latch on it he climbed in through it.

4) I think I was flying and became semi-lucid but had absolutely no idea what to do and tried to fly towards something - very low level lucidity. I woke up into another dream:

5) In a bed in a bed showroom, pulled the covers up. The bed was very comfortable and I fell asleep in it again.

6) Fragment. I was going somewhere leaving a large playing field. I heard a scream over on the other side and rushed across to help. Nothing was really happening. A boy was making a lot of noise but he semed fine and I ignored him.

7) Taking the children to school. A muddled dream. I looked at the queue for one school but then realised it was too early, and my other daughter is going to a new school so wouldn't be there. Then I was driving. there was a very small gap to get through with cars parked on either side. Someone was blocking it up totally and other people were shouting at the car.

I'm in the lobby of a fancy building. I'm together with a woman and her 7 year old son. All I remember is that her son has an Arabic name. Not much later the son is gone and it's just us and some other people. There's a turnstile to enter a certain area of the building and there's an entry fee to be paid.. or actually more like an exit fee. Just like when parking your car. We're here to pick something up or to talk to someone, so I feel like it's unnecessary for both of us to go in and pay the fee. Eventually I go in. There were 2 guys at the turnstiles, one of them some kind of enabler / smooth talker.

I walk into the 'restricted' area, which is a big Chinese themed establishment, mostly coloured red. I walk around a bit with the smooth talker with me. The woman I was with is nowhere to be seen. The guy thinks I'm here to buy drugs, which I'm not. I forgot my real purpose, but I do tell the guy that I'm not here for drugs. The guy finds it implausible. Eventually I bring my face close to the guy's face to let him know that I'm not looking for drugs, but if he's got stuff, I'm interested to know what he's got. Hopefully he doesn't think I'm a cop. I remember at this point that I had one ring on each hand, two different ones. I walk and see a group of guys and 1 girl from my elementary / high school. I'm quite surprised. Here, in China? These are the people whom you'd expect to amount to nothing, so it's surprising to meet them on the other side of the world. The smooth talker greets them, I kinda awkwardly wave from a distance.

I continue walking around. I remember the left front tooth on the bottom being slightly loose. I push it back in, but do so a bit too far, pushing it further down than the other. I eventually manage to get them on the same level. I came here for nothing and now my tooth is messed up as well, because I came here. There are some seats which look like airplane seats. I'm holding a blanket which I intent to throw on the seats, but instead just drop on the ground. In the mean time the smooth talker is telling me about how impressive this place is and that it's all a facade for illegitimate business established by his boss, whose name I've forgotten. Even my 'friends' are part of the 'make it look legit'. I walk over to a table and sit down. Meanwhile a man picks up the blanket I've thrown down. I take out my laptop. My background image has the same checkered grey pattern as one of my boxershorts, including the buttons. I ask the man where my girlfriend is. The woman is not actually my girlfriend, but I feel it's easier to state it that way. A sliding door opens, showing a hidden room. The boss, who is some slick dude, is in the room with the woman (who has now changed appearances) and another girl. They're on a bed. Nothing is happening yet, but the woman I was with does look sorta busted. I know the other girl is someone's girlfriend. The guy is holding a big, black smartphone and it seems to be opened on a Whatsapp conversation. He gives "my" girl his phone, I suppose for her to insert her number. They end up making out. Throughout the whole ordeal she looks at my once or twice with a look that tells me she feels sorry for me / guilty, but hey, irresistible rich guy. I keep a straight face throughout.

Had a couple of of non-lucids but I had to get up early for the last day of the pool. I just didn't have time to write them down but they weren't really memorable hence I wasn't pressed to write them down. However, if I had had a really great one I would've had to make time.

Today was really fun on our last day of swimming & they are always laxed on the last day so I did a cool trick off of the wide slide. I kept my legs wide apart & went into the water head forward into a hand stand in the water & a flip. I did it a whole bunch. Plus we got quite a lot of time w/ the basketball in the water & I scored 25 in a row but in the last 20 minutes Mike finally outdid me. He got 72 in a row! Damn him, lol!!!