non-lucid

NON-DREAM
DREAM
LUCID
FALSE AWAKENING
NIGHTMARE
FRAGMENT
(Unconnected dreams indicated by a *. Connected dreams indicated by a •. )

First night of CAT, woke up in the night but I said to myself "Perservere!"

I am in the first week so I won't be getting any LDs for a bit, just resetting my circadian clock. I also had a slice of colby jack 30 mins before bed. This dream was recorded around 6:20 AM.

*Lilo and Stitch have traded species, with Stitch being a human and Lilo being an alien. Alien Lilo looks like a cross between the Thing and The Incredible Hulk.

16/12/15
I forgot a lot of what I dreamed
There was a fragment about an elf and repairs.
I had to solve a super hard maths/logic puzzle, got there eventually.

MILD

*Trying my brother's canned whole chicken.
*My father was angry with me.
*Why are you playing tyrese?

A high-ranking mortal man is reminiscing about a woman he'd been involved with - the queen from the other night's dream, now in a modern setting, and not a queen here though I'm going to keep calling her that for lack of something better. This man had a sort of fixation on images of people with horns like demons. She had encouraged this, and gave him the idea of having scars where the horns should be; she'd helped him in scarring himself.

She's looking up at a statue of a bull with a human face, like a lamassu with horns. It's a religious statue, but this isn't somewhere religious - it's an important government building. As she watches, it becomes animated and begins to speak with her fondly. It refers to her as putting things in order - I think of Ma'at.

I’m on a date with my previous step dad. We’re eating dinner on a balcony across from a hospital. It’s night so I can see inside some of the rooms with lights on. My previous step dad has a double who is working at the hospital. I see him in the room opening up chlorhexidine wipes. The one I’m on a date with asks what I do for a living. I point to his nursing double at the hospital but he refuses to look. I don’t like him and I’m totally over the date. I’m eating a snack bag of potato chips. A girl and her mom come over to my table (both overweight) and ask to have the chips. I tell them absolutely not! They then offer to pay for them. Once they get up to the $20 range I let them have it, it’s half eaten anyway and I start to feel like I’m cheating them. In the process, some other guy gets involved and I ditch my date for him. “Are you sure? I don’t have that much money.” He asks. “You have more money than him.” I say while rolling my eyes. We end up getting married and buying a house together. It’s a pretty old house on a farm. I feel like I’m settling a little bit but this is good for now. I like the surrounding open spaces with horses. He is excited about the view on the roof from the hot tub. We end up having 6 kids. 3 of them are now teenagers and 3 are toddlers. My husband gets into the wrong crowd and starts dealing drugs. From third person I watch a car and motorcycle chase he’s involved in. I shake my head in disappointment as he drives by the house and he looks surprised to see me. At this point it’s as though I’m in a movie and I know what’s going to happen next. I call a hitman on my husband who sits outside my house in a yellow minivan. I don’t know when he’s going to shoot so I’m trying to hide. I expect to hear gunshots but he must have used a silencer. When I come out to look, he’s shot all of my children except my teenage daughter who got away with an unwashed keepsake jacket from her brother. Each of my toddlers are sitting in their highchairs with bullets in the heads, surrounded by blood. I’m devastated but because this was like a movie I’d seen before, I expected it. The van was still there and they were watching me. I was hiding behind an ottoman and eventually they lost me so they started raiding the house. I ran out the front door with an overweight female friend. She was shot on the way out and dropped. I didn’t have time to save her. I ran faster than I ever have. I almost ran into a tree so I jumped off of it, which set me back a couple of feet. At this point the man was following me and gaining on me, yet he was walking calmly. I’m not sure why he didn’t just shoot me. He catches up to me and I jump on his back to attack him. He gives me a marker to write a specific derogatory term on his chin. I rebel by writing different derogatory things elsewhere and trying to choke him. He gets some kind of sexual pleasure out of it. I wonder if he’s someone from my past that I wasn’t nice to. Perhaps I bullied him in school. He takes me to a motel who shelters abusive evil people. Through the windows I can see men who have skinned their own faces, raping women. I know I will find no refuge here. I leap into some bushes across the street and stay still. My captor is pissed off and asks a female from the hotel to help find me. I suddenly feel him start touching and grabbing my body but he’s not sure if it’s me. “I think this could be a hoodie.” He said as he touched the hood on my jacket. The lady made them tea from an apartment right next to me and turned on the pool lights. They started swimming and I figured they were distracted enough for me to run for it. But I had nowhere to go but in the pool with them. I tried to push them underwater and drown them. They stopped following me but I still didn’t feel safe without knowing if he was dead or not. I called 911 but they didn’t help. I went to my aunt’s old house and ate purple flowers. They tasted very perfume-y. My sister and some of her friends were there and they were sharing recipes. I was just drawing in a notebook with wooden pages. I was supposed to do my hair in a specific way in three low buns and I insisted I knew how because I wanted to be left alone, but I didn’t know how and people had to come back and help me. They told me my bobby pins suck. I went back home, exhausted of running for my life. I thought I had to do it more but I remembered that the rest of the running was on Breaking Bad and not part of my personal story. Although now I do have all those precious plastic beads I have to hide. Everyone knows that drug dealers (like my deceased husband) are great at making jewelry and their enemies want to steal the plastic beads. I went upstairs and grabbed some boxes of beads trying to decide where I could put them. There was a whole room full of them. I took them to a window overlooking a football field hosting a game and threw some out of the window. I was worried it would hurt the players. I didn’t want to be involved anymore so I went to the party room. It was nicer than I remembered. The floor was a nice hardwood but it was messy. I went in there and relaxed with the college kids who were playing drinking games during daylight.

I was playing like a 3D version of an old game, and then I talked to a friend (who happened to be there with me)
about this one I played a lot when I was younger. Then I got to see him playing another one and that's it.

- Hope I get more lucids... the ones I got so far were so short I couldn't do much

---Final Art Pool
Lucid Dream #/ >

Total sleep: 5:27
Daytime Techniques: Keep calm and Gravity RC (while doing Dream Experiments + Documenting in Dream Journal)
Lucid Techniques: "I remember I'm dreaming" and know it. WBTB
+ Easy Lucid Dreams Video + (1-10) + plan a title for my next dream experiment BEFORE I dream it + put in 9 DJ templates and tell myself that for my next dream, I just need to focus on getting ONE Dream Experiment done because I have EIGHT more shots to get others done.
Recall Techniques: "I wonder what Lucid Dreams I'm having tonight..."
+ "I remember my dreams when I wake up."
+ Easy Lucid Dreams Video
Asleep - Awake: 12:15 AM to 5:43 AM
Vividness: (scale of 1-15, 10 is waking life vividness): 7
Awareness: (1-10; or lucid): 4
Length (how long it felt like! Because that matters): 12 mins
Emotions: generous, frantic
Dream Signs: F-A-C-E
Lucidity Trigger: /




-Myself and other people in my painting class are on what seems to be a variation of the ninth floor/Art floor in my school. Everything is white, though, just like my actual school. Apparently, people are doing their final projects for painting. Apparently, final paintings are due. But, I did mine already. In fact I've done two. I remember walking down the hallway and turning to the right and looking in the room where both of my paintings are done. I'm not sure what they are. But, they look OK to me. Somehow, I know that Professor Ziegler is calling me. So I turn back, walk a few doors down and make a left. I am now in what looks like an indoor public pool area. I see my art professor standing next to the pool in front of the doorway. I hold my breath and dump my head in the water for some reason. I put the back of and fours and start talking to her. I don't know what we're talking about. Then, I go back through the doorway that I came from. I make a right and walk down the hall way once again. I looked to my left and I see Ciara and other students that are painting for their final. Someone asks me for my paper, which I think is my syllabus, and a pen. I give them my paper from I don't even know where and my black and blue spare pen that I keep on me in WL. Somehow, I know that professor has called me once again. So, I go back to the same public pool room. We start talking and she asks for a paper from me. I give her two pages stapled together. However, those are the wrong papers. The papers is that she wants are the ones that I gave to that classmate a few seconds ago. So, I frantically run back to the room and ask for my papers. Someone says that it is in the front pocket of a black handbag. I reach inside of a handbag that is on a stool and there is a big white envelope that kind of looks like a package of papers that you were getting the mail from the college acceptance or something. I reach in my right hand, pick it up, and go back to the room where I was speaking to my professor. When I enter the room, I don't recall of my papers being in my hand anymore. However, for some reason, I dunk my head in the pool once again and get on all fours and start talking to my professor. The dreamscape changes…

---Journey to Yorland
Lucid Dream #/ >

Total sleep: 4:45
Daytime Techniques: Keep calm and Gravity RC (while doing Dream Experiments + Documenting in Dream Journal)
Lucid Techniques: "I remember I'm dreaming" and know it. WBTB
+ Easy Lucid Dreams Video + (1-10) + plan a title for my next dream experiment BEFORE I dream it + put in 9 DJ templates and tell myself that for my next dream, I just need to focus on getting ONE Dream Experiment done because I have EIGHT more shots to get others done.
Recall Techniques: "I wonder what Lucid Dreams I'm having tonight..."
+ "I remember my dreams when I wake up."
+ Easy Lucid Dreams Video
Asleep - Awake: 12:39 AM to 5:25 AM
Vividness: (scale of 1-15, 10 is waking life vividness): 9
Awareness: (1-10; or lucid): 7
Length (how long it felt like! Because that matters): 1hr 20mins
Emotions: scared, concerned, happy, ecstatic
Dream Signs: F-A-C-E
Lucidity Trigger: /




-I am in a forest with a whole bunch of people that are held captive apparently by some army people. We are fed up with being captured and treated badly by these army people. And apparently, there is some toxic gas called "T9 "that is preventing us from moving a way that we usually want to go. So, we have to climb over some rectangular metal boxes and hop over funds. I remember that the one leading us says something like, "When we go over this, it will be nothing but red, green, yellow, and orange." However, the small group that I'm in is committed to getting out. So, we follow him over the barrier or fence-like thing. We are all walking. We approach some part where it is kind of like a river and we all have to grab onto a proper log. If we don't, the river will lead us in a different direction. Everyone else is getting a log, but the two people that I am with (A man and a woman who I think are my parents but look nothing like my waking life my parents) are eating dinner. We arrive to the log grabbing place at the last second and I think that the father grab the wrong log. He grabs some kind of green small plate, one apparently he is supposed to grab a spoon looking thing. We go through the river tunnel or whatever it is and the dreamscape changes…

-We end up in some place with snow. I feel like it's either Norway or someplace called, "Yorland". For some reason, the graphics look like an old Spyro game. We realize that we grabbed the wrong log and missed our group. We go back to some forest and I remember seeing the toaster that is in the kitchen in WL facing us and it is giant. Apparently, our village her friends are on the other side of it. They miss us as well. One of the woman villagers say something like, "You were too busy eating that you missed the log grabbing." My "father" tries to deny and said something like, "What? No. She decided that we should eat and we grab the right brown strips." trying to blame his wife. We all decide that we will eat together one last time. So, we open the toaster door and start holding hands. As we are holding hands, there are lights going all around us. The toaster is on my right and I grab someone's hand who is standing on the other sidethrough the toaster. When we do this, there are lights all around us and they light up like a circuitry. The lights are yellow or white. There issome metal part on the toaster that I keep pressing on harder than later to make the lights around me move back-and-forth. I seem to be having a lot of fun. My "father "decides that he wants to try it too. So, I let him. Finally, my "parents" part ways with our villager friends.we go back to Norway looking place and Bear is some lady there sitting on a chair and appears to be sleeping or very very relaxed. For some reason, my "mother "decidesto start yodeling really loudly while walking to her to get her attention. The lady wakes up and says something like, "You don't need to do that to get my attention around here."for some reason, my "mother "puts her hands on the ladies cheeks while she is sitting down. The lady says something like, "Whoa! Your hands are cold. You guys must not be from around here." Before I know it, I'm a little further in this "Yorland" place. Apparently, I am looking at of the black dragon from "How to Train Your Dragon." The lady that was sitting in the chair is now close to me somewhat. I don't know where my "parents" are. The lady is describing to me that the dragon's mother just had four kids. It looks like something is wrong with the dragons hand, as if it is a little injured in the middle. For some reason, I feel like we have a mutual injury. Now, I think I'm getting a little bored. Then, out of nowhere, the dragons moves me up on his back and we rip through The sky ceiling and through some tube. On the other side of the tube is a small, but open space. We start flying around and there's some music that is playing. I'm having so much fun. Somehow, I am seeing where I just was and I see the lady saying something like, "Yeah. Everyone gets bored until they starFire on on the dragon and then (starts humming the song that I was hearing in the small, open space). I think the dragon and I go back and then, the dreamscape changes…

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I was preparing for a sleepover with my nieces and their friends. There were two campers that we were going to sleep in so I guess we were camping and I realized I didn't want to have a sleepover with them but it was too late.

I was raking up something nasty. I think it was small pieces of dead, burnt animal carcass.

I was at the beach preparing for an ocean kayak race. Some person was showing the group the formation we were supposed to take before the race began. As we were loading up the kayaks I wondered if mine was stocked with food in case I got lost in the ocean.

I was at the beach playing in the ocean. Some kids were there playing in the ocean too. A big wave swept over me and I started doing back flips in the wave and though I wasn't under for long, I couldn't hold my breath anymore so I found my way to the surface. I wanted to jump off a high cliff to land deep into the ocean but I thought there would be a shark.

Then I wanted to go skimming but I didn't have my skimboard so I decided to walk to a nearby beach store and buy a cheap one. But I wasn't where I thought I was and there wasn't a beach store within walking distance. I drove to a grocery store and looked for a skimboard but there wasn't one in there. Then I thought there might be a skimboard in the trunk of my car but I looked and there wasn't one. Being at the beach without a skimboard happens to me a lot in dreams so it might be a dream sign.

MILD

*John told me I would be in the next training session.
*I perform liposuction on myself in a doctors office. They warned that this procedure increases a heart attack by 50 perfect.(I am not fat in realy life my any means so this is strange.)
*My brother and father were involved in a huge gang fight. Somehow they escaped the madness.

Dream
Pretty much just dreamed about stressful things. Ben came back from college but I was so angry with him I wouldn't even talk to him or acknowledge he was there. Granny woke up in her coffin and hurt her hands banging and clawing at the lid until she was let out, though once she was, she looked even healthier than before she died. And Dad got into Harry Potter lore and said something casually about how he thought I was like Voldemort, a racist sociopath, and I snapped and yelled at him so much he ended up physically backed into a corner.

BLEH. No fun dreams lately.

15/12/15:
Dream 1: I was at a pier with a lot of people from school. Everyone else was making their way into a boathouse type building, however me and a girl stayed in a car. She was asking me some questions, and it slowly morphed into a more and more sexual situation. Eventually she made her intentions clear and we got it on in the car. Afterwards we got out and entered the boathouse like everyone else, no one having any idea of what just happened. Inside there was a party going in with lots of food and drink. I joined in some party game for a little bit before going to the food. There was a giant tub full of pancakes, so I grabbed a few and started munching away. Some people laughed at me a bit but it was all in jest.
There was a cut in the scene and we were all back at school, during lunchtime. Feeling extra confident after the party, I held peoples gazes and smiled at pretty girls. I went to my locker area and saw an old teacher who sounded just like one of my teachers from a few years ago talking to a student. He was talking about auditions for an upcoming school play, and how the student shouldn't be nervous about it.

Dream 2: I was at the MCG with tons of other people. The details are a bit fuzzy, but I remember there was some danger, like a collapse or natural disaster or something. I was being offered a job when people started screaming and trying to evacuate. I started to join them when I saw five people in coloured suits fly around, dressed like power rangers. They were attempting to save people but were stuffing up sometimes, causing as much harm as good. Eventually people yelled at them to stop and explain themselves, so they all took off their masks. Surprisingly, they were all young teenagers, looking scared and nervous. I slipped away from the crowd and made it outside, trying to meet up with people in the park outside.

Fragment: Playing a game, having to sneak and jump around an area, sneak past guards etc. This was a long and detailed dream but I forgot it when I woke up and only just remembered it now. I was with a team and the enemy were sort of fish creatures.

12/13/15

*dream
*lucid

I was in a pizza place, I orders a piece of pizza and took another one. But it just seemed like a compulsion cause I wasn't really hungry and the pizza was totally gross. I put it in the front pocket of my backpack and when I went to pay for my other slice, the guy ringing me up noticed the piece in my bag. He didn't get my in trouble but he made me feel super guilty saying "look I'm broke, too" and turning out his pockets, so I said I'd pay for the pizza. My mom was there sitting at a table, but I didn't have much interaction with her.

In a dark house with lots of rooms. Most of the rooms had beds in them. There were a couple of people, but the only one I remember clearly was my ex boyfriend Brandon. I remember that he went to lay down in one of the rooms, but I followed him in and asked him if he wanted to go to one of the lighter rooms with two beds, cause it seemed lonely and scary in the small room he had chosen. We were sitting next to eachother and I went to do a reality check, I was teaching him about them, maybe I thought it would pull him out of the sad mood he was in. My hand didn't go through my hand so I tried the nose breathing one. That worked and so I concluded that we were dreaming. After that I took that information and tried to walk through a closed door...it didn't work so I tried turning around and summoning someone. So neither of these things worked...and I think the key word is "trying" I was "trying to do these things" not believing they could happen. This is actually something I've been fretting over because after first reading about LD techniques I was super excited, but it seems like I've become worse at it because believing I could do it already has turned into trying to do something that I already could do! Does that make sense?

Blah.

I'm at a long, one story house with a terrace and a low roof. The sun is hot and the light has orange undertones; the garden is dusty and the trees and bushes are darkened and leaveless. I'm here to baby-sit three kids: a girl in here late teen, a boy slightly yonger and a girl barely out of toddlerhood. All three are dark-haired and rather cheeky. I take them to the pool behind the house to cool everyone off. The father, an whale of a man with a walrus moustache, makes a rude comment about the contents of my bathing suit and I dive into the pool. The water is warm and murky, the bottom of it full of slurge. My hair obscures my vision and when I wave them out I see that a whole wooden boat is embedded in the thick slurge of the bottom of the pool. I resurface and swim to the side to get out of the water. It runs down my body, making dark puddles on the stone terrace. I tells the family about the boat and the father is very excited about it, making it sound like there is a treasure in there somewhere. I have to keep the children from trying to explore it, and I'm annoyed with the rude father not thinking about their safety and oogling me.

I'm wandering around my neighborhood at my school at night. My dad is coming to visit and suddenly I'm in his car. We pretty much teleport to this building that has a cliff on the left side, an open hallway looking straight and wall to the right. We walk through and inside is an elaborate store full of food and toys. I ask him how he knows this place, and he tells me that when he was 10 years old his family used to take him to this store. I look right as we walk into a main area to see two women dressed in chef attire grilling a lot of meat. I look forward to see my family and friends sitting at a booth. Then, I realized this was a surprise dinner for me and it makes me feel happy. I walk over and sit down on the left side of the booth. My mom and grandma are to the left of me. I look forwards and a guy from my freshman dorm named Toben and a girl named Carly are across from me. I look right and see Dana's friend Kristen. She walks to the left and Dana appears. She walks over and sits on my lap as I put my arms around her. I asked her where she was or something like that and she responds. I don't really remember what was said.

Sleep Paralysis: I found myself in sleep paralysis face down. Above me was a teacher shouting at me to get up, but I couldn't move from the ground. It's really hard to breathe. I start breathing out of my mouth but nothing comes in or out. Next, I try breathing irregularly to wake myself but it's not working. I've now been in this for 30 seconds and I'm getting really frustrated. I'm screaming and trying to roll myself out of paralysis. Finally, I manage to roll over and wake myself up.

Fragment: I'm walking into the gate of the pool I work at. There's a huge event going on and there's a lot of water going everywhere. Parents and kids are standing around the pool but it's different than IRL. My feeling is that I'm too old to be here, that time has passed and now there's a whole new group of people working the pool. I look around at the lifeguards and recognize none of them. At some point I think I'm in the pool doing something but I can't remember. Somehow I end up in Star Wars Battlefront walking in a large expanse, like a red earth with mountains surrounding me. A ship flies over me and I start to switch guns to take it down. I find the gun I'm trying to use but my friend ended up waking me up.

SC1) 02:02
Dream 1 - Future
I remember that it was like I travelled to the future and my name was 'Shin'. This is the exact storyline from a light novel I'm reading, 'The New Gate'. After arriving it turns out I have been a leader or something which is why I was so strong.. I think? Most of this is learned through observations while being guided around town, I'm trying to stay on the down low.

SC??
Dream 2 - Avalanche
I'm on a snowy mountain walking by a wooden hut on my left, to my right is a valley that rises up into more snowy peaks on the other side. Some kind of loud noise (maybe?) goes off and I immediately think that the other side of the valley will have an avalanche. Sure enough, cracks in the white snow start appearing but they spread, "oh ****". I originally thought I was safe on this side, but the cracks spread out in front of me. There's going to be an avalanche... I turn tail and run, trying to get beyond the collapsing slope but I'm just not fast enough. I'm sliding on the snow down slope and I start running atop the snow in an attempt to not get swallowed up by the snow. Even this fails me, and the snow soon consumes me as it roils downhill. I've stopped and I think I'm a couple metres beneath the snow, I won't be able to breath.. I need to do something! I end up waking up.

SC5) 06:56
Dream 3 - Survivor
This dream seems heavily inspired by Fallout 4 at least in theme.
I'm in my hometown in the basement of the arts building (though the basement doesn't exist like it did in the dream). The basement was dark with stone walls, it continued for some distance like it was some sort of tunnel. The place was dark, dirty and damp. There had been some kind of apocalypse event and there were maybe 3 others in the basement with me. One was an dark skinned old man, another was a crippled white woman in a wheel chair, I can't remember the last person.. Oh and I also had a little white dog. I was in third person, the person I was looking at (me) was the dad from 'Mr Robot'. He was in what can only be described as an empty mining shaft or elevator shaft. I/He was unconscious and there was a ladder behind him. There were people on the surface world who were kind of like the orchestrators of the apocalypse, they end up doing some douchey things. They act like we need to be quarentined, and they end up killing my little dog. They send down this machine via the elevator shaft, it descends and looks like it will crush me but as it descends it gets caught on the ladder which crumples slightly beneath the pressure. So close, the machine is only an inch away from the unconscious me. I wake up around this point, I think I had been tied to a chair or something, and managed to get out. While I'm still sitting a saw blade swishes past my head but can't get me. I decide to move now, and start climbing on the machine (it's really big height-wise, which reaches all the way up to the top of the shaft). This part is quite difficult to describe, I remember the details of climbing up through this place quite well but it'd be too hard. I remember when I was close to the top that there was someone else with me, another guy about my age, I think it may have been Daniel. We're at the top and look around us at our home village... It's night time and there is a kind of festive vibe to the lights around. There's a bunch of cars passing by on the road in front of us, I remember the red tail lights looked very vivid as they passed by. I think me and Daniel may have spoken, but we didn't need to say much. We knew we had to run or we'd be caught, so we ran across the road and started heading off in different directions. I woke up as I reached the other side of the road