non-lucid

Old Friend and Bruce Lee
It's nighttime in a shadowy and sparsely-lit apartment. I see an old Australian friend, didn't she move? I ask her this and she says she moved back since she missed everything too much. I tell her I'm glad she is back and that I always liked talking to her in a rare moment of candidness.

She asks if I'd want some weed and I'm hesitant, not really wanting to say no as to not hurt her feelings but not really feeling it at all. She comes from the kitchen with some green spacecakes and I eat one of the small ones she brought, it should be relaxing.

I sit and wait for it to take effect. I feel relaxed and light, anxiety and tension melt away. I don't feel woozy at all. I begin to walk around. I see a wooden part of the house appear, it has a hall on the second floor to the right. It is lit with candles and has a spiritual feeling to it. We see Bruce Lee appear and he begins to do some martial arts moves. He is doing them really fast and furiously, his manager or his mom tells him to take it easy so he doesn't hurt himself. Despite her warning, he keeps on doing roundhouse kicks in the air, jumping onto a piano.

On the second floor I look down at the floor below and feel relaxed, almost a spiritual calm comes over me. An old master is in the other room behind me, working on something.

U2 in Concert and some Tortilla Chips?
The sky is a light blue like an early Spring morning. I enter a small concert hall, the size of a large classroom. U2 has just finished a concert and the crowd is going crazy. They play a final encore song, it's one of their greatest hits. I'm glad I had a chance to listen to at least one song of the concert. The song is weird in the sense that it sounds normal but everyone in the band is playing the drums. Weird how they got all the parts of the song to sound right only using drums.

After the song ends Bono asks The Edge to find a woman who fell with her roller during the concert so she can come backstage and meet the band. Bono asks this very politely and the I think it's a sweet gesture.

I'm in my grandparent's old house. in the living room, daytime but the curtain is drawn like usual and give the room a grey and dreary light. I see a bunch of barbecue-flavored tortilla chips. They are sticky and brown with a flavoring sauce. I eat them all up, I'm very hungry. My clothes are all over the floor, I try to gather them up and to separate the dirty ones from the clean ones. They are all over the place and it's hard to get them together.

My mom comes over and she is going to give me a ride to my friends place. She is being very loud and obnoxious as I try to gather my clothes together, intentionally trying to embarrass me in front of people in the room. I feel angry and aggravated, in frustration I bite my arm. There is no pain.

In the blue morning daylight I head to my friends old place.

Cousin in College?
I see a very stereotypical picture of my cousin in a college shirt smiling widely. It looks very 90's. A man talks about how she is his girlfriend. I keep staring at the weird picture.

I had more than two dreams but two are how many I was able to remember after I got up.

First I was camping on the beach with a group of people. Everyone's camping spot was a hole dug into a sand dune. Everyone picked their own sand dune and dug their own hole in it. We were camping quite close to the ocean. It was night time. I went to dig my hole, but the camp leader said I was too far out; I needed to move closer to the others because in front of that area, in the water, are lots of clams, and the water is full of minerals. I walked out into the water a little way to see if I could find any clams but I didn't see any. Near the camping area was a hotel that I would walk to because it had a better bathroom than the campsite, which only had an outhouse. Then later, in a fragment connected to this dream, near the hotel I saw someone running and thought it was on a long hiking trail, but it turned out just to be a very short loop, like only a quarter of a mile or less, that the man was running around.

Next I was in a classroom and the professor gave us an assignment that involved going to the bowling alley, picking groups, and then bowling, and then writing about it. I arrived at the bowling alley and still hadn't picked a group yet because I didn't want to. A group of about three girls walking in front of me into the bowling alley all had the exact same shade of pink nail polish I had (I wasn't wearing pink nail polish IRL); I noticed because the door was heavy and we had to all hold the door open to get through. I got in line behind the girls at the counter where you could purchase snacks and bowling games. I got two chocolate chip cookies. I tried to find an empty bowling lane that I could go to by myself so I wouldn't have to pick a group but all the lanes were filled so I sat down near two girls, and a guy sitting off to the side, and thought I would ask them to be in my group when I got around to it.

I sat at a table and ate half of my chocolate chip cookie before I got full and decided to share the rest with the two girls and the guy and to persuade them to be in my group. I went to the restroom which was cool and had a cool sink, cool green soap, and a hand dryer that looked like a hair dryer. I bought four games of bowling for $4 and asked my group members what kind of music they liked because the bowling games came with different musical soundtracks that played while you bowled.

Then we were all sitting at tables doing our writing assignments. When I handed mine to the professor he frowned and said "What's this?" I had drawn arrows into the margins where I had written commentary and notes on my writing assignment so I told him it was commentary and notes. He said that isn't part of the assignment and he wrote something on my paper in pink pen that said that I had permission to turn in the paper one day late without points being taken away. So I took the paper back and started erasing the commentary and notes.

I slept a nap at three until half past five. I intended to do WILD but i felt asleep without being aware. Here it is what i dreamt:

• I was with Edward Snowden in a house in Thailand. He was helping my mother because some poeple in the bank were trying to scam her heritage money. She was trying to buy a house, but the bank was estimating how much she had to offer her a house where she could pay only interests of it and loose all the money without having payed a single dollar on the house. So Snowden as a cool guy was there, i was surprised about my mom that she was friend or have met him. Well, he was on a computer trying to hack the bank or something, and they were waiting until they could call the bank's number. So my mother left with my little sister and i was alone with him. I said cool movie you made, and he talked about the movie Citicenfour that yes it was cool but he didn't liked how it finished, that it was said that he would finish a foreign course or something like that about computer. I told him well, there are many possibilities in life, that it was not like a hollywood movie where they would invent an epic ending or something similar, it was real life and it is often said that life goes beyond science fiction. He was given back permission to go back to United States and he was living there. After i said those words to him i went out the window and started to jump in the roofs. There was a large cloth in a building that people was complaining about because it was not hooked so well, and it was responsibility of buddhist monks. If a wind blew it could fall and due to the size of it it could kill people.
  
• The other dream was me being in the house of my grandfather or my fathers. I took a banana and i ate it, i was going through doors (probably Baigorria's house) but i was heading to the bathroom. So i went to the third bathroom of the house while my father questioned me why i didn't go to the second one, and i told him i already know that one, i want to find out how the third looks like.

I finished dreaming. I thought i had wrote down some notes but i didn't, so memories was all i had.

My favorite dream that I had last night was one that I was at Bratayley's house. I was talking to Annie, and I was really excited, I kept giving her hugs. I woke up and did my wbtb, and decided to induce a dream about meeting her, since I had found it so pleasing. (I was doing mild) I'm not sure if my thoughts turned into really dreams about it, but it seemed like I really had an induced dream about meeting Annie.
Another dream last night that stood out to me was that me and my brother were in Paris, and I was running to keep up with him. For some reason everyone there was Mexican and spoke Spanish. We kept running until we reached a staircase. We then ran down it, where there was a whole bunch of people preparing a feast.
I also had several dreams about dreaming about LDing last night too.

I'm with my mother and sister, we're travelling and looking for a bird, a white phenix. My sister thinks it's a small thing, but I'm convinced it's bigger, like a swan. My mother gives me reason, and we see a crude drawing of it: it has a curved, yellow beak, long head feathers and golden trails in it's tail. We're walking around in a town with houses connecting to each others, some of them with public pathways going in the middle of them. I'm separated from my family and keep looking for the bird. I cross path with Michael, my novel character; he's dressed in a traveler garb, holding a backpack. We chat a little, a very tall, brown haired man joining us brefly, but I feel compelled to go, and Michael isn't the kind to linger anywhere. He gives me a sweet smile and goes on his way, into a forest at the end of the town. I wander into a older part of the place, the light is fading and the building are very dirty and mouldy, leaning over the street. I reach the end of the path; through a long, narrow window I can see a bright orange sun setting over the forest, miles and miles below me. It's breathtaking, and before thinking about it I flight myself off the path and into the void, but instead of falling I soar up on bright white wings.

I was to be born. I had no physical body yet. And I saw gods, they had plans for me. There was also someone who was my mother, but not physical one. She had clothes made of bread... And I eat from those clothes. And she spoken with one of higher gods, she tried to make him to teach me. She wanted him to teach me for 16 years. He said: No. Mother was disappointed. But that god continued: Even 17 years will not be enough... I will teach him for 18 years.
I don't know what I learnt during this time. Time jumped and I found myself meditating on the orbit of the Earth. Without any protection in quietness of vacuum. I was upon dark side of Earth, I saw only thin crescent of by Sun lighten atmosphere... and vastness universe full of stars. I felt I had to fly back... So I flew down fast. The air burned orange hot around me. I went back where gods lived. There was very long stool with chairs. We used to hold debates there. Some of gods were not exactly friendly towards humans. One of them(Anubis) held soul of girl. I felt connection to that girl. I felt the need to save her. So I tricked somehow Anubis to look at something for just long enough to take that girl from him and to take it to chair where I used to sit(there was written Isis on the chair) For some reason Anubis named me Bhagavadita (I looked on internet and I found something named Bhagavad Gita... but that is a book according to internet???) So Anubis went to me to punish me and to torture the soul I tried to save. I took that girl/soul into arms tightly and started to change mental state. The reality as I observed it changed. I saw us as small clouds of light... I was very bright sky-violet, girl/soul was orange- it looked as if orange ribbons are intermeshing with my larger bright blue-violet cloud... and Anubis was black cloud. Other gods were also differently colored shining clouds. Anubis couldn't overpower me.
Then again, I found myself on the earth orbit, on the dark side... in vacuum. I started to think... how could I breath vacuum? I found out that I don't breathe. Nothing to worry I decided. Breathing is disturbing my meditation. I observed myself enclosed in about half meter thick blue-violet aura. After some time I felt I need to go back. So I flew down and I woke up.

Remarks
It was somewhat chaotic dream.
Isis was my mother?
I was Bhagavadita? I remember seeing that book(cover of it) in book store. I didn't read it.
Holding that soul/girl was so great... I felt her missing after I woke up.

I set the alarm at 5:30 AM so i can do a WBTB and try WILD technique maybe to have a lucid dream and break the dry spell, but i would see something that OpheliaBlue said last night on Chat that is: "I find that DILD is like algebra and WILD is like calculus. You cannot do the second if you haven't learnt the first, but after you have learnt the second it easies the first". This is what happened to me last night:

I was in my bed thinking about plants, specially about Salvia and Cannabis, plants i would not like to have, but at the same time that i would like to have just to have some plants. I was thinking where i could have them, how i would take care of them. And i find myself in a shop buying some plant pots. The shop keeper showed me two main kinds, so i bought one of the larger and i payed him and then i decided to buy two of the smaller ones. He told me "go outside, to the right, head down there and pay them there". I thought and i said "Mm ok". I went out thorough the big door, it was a large building where i was. I see that the street was large, as an earth highway, but there werent many shops there and not many houses, it was probably part of a route. I headed to my right and i went down. It was an earth path (similar to the side stand of some houses in Argentina) and i saw some dogs outside and an open door, and there were people inside. Next to the door i saw a window with some women. So i went there and i asked if i had to pay there, and she said yes. So she tell me the ammount and i hear (13 with 30). I couldnt believe what i heard since the other one was only a bit larger, it was one and it costed a lot more, like 5 times more. So i asked again and she replied to me 13.30, still couldn't believe her, so i asked again [Lol i should have realized i was dreaming, yet i did not] and she said 13.30, still couldn't believe her but i decided that okay i would pay... so i took out 13.30 pesos and i payed her, and she refused to take it, she said "no no no, thirteen thirty" i was like ... wtf so i gave her the double 26.6, and i think she took it [maybe this reminded me when i used to play poker, when i betted some ammount of chips some players wouldn't go, but if i doubled the ammount they would call]. Then the shop keeper came and asked something like what was going on, so i explained to him the situation, and that i was not trying to scam nor anything but just try to resolve the conflict.

Then i went to my house. It was a big house and i was living there with my sister.

The next dream i have is being in the street Bolivar, in my bicicle, and there was a shop nearby which i knew it was of an exfriend. So i entered and left the bicicle in the entrance. It results that my sister was working in that shop, with another girl. She was speaking on phone. It was a quite big shop. I see there was a TV turned off and a guitar, so i go and grab the guitar. And since my sister was talking on phone she asked me not to play it. So ok. Suddenly the shop changes and i don't realize it. It looked more like a barn. I see my father for a moment and some workers. Actually the place looked like my father's factory, and the workers like the workers of my father. So there were like 4 or 5 of them, all busy. And soon i see my grandfather and he tells me come with me to say hello to these people, so i went and we quickly said hello to everyone and he introduced me.

The next dream is a bit confusing. I was underground but i knew where i was. I was in the subway or train station in the city of Cordoba, Argentina. I was beyond the dining hall of the university, but it results that was going through the street Ituzaingo, but also heading past the street San Juan. So a mixture of those three places/streets.
What's next i was with some members of my family, and this is really weird but we were playing with the food, leaving it in some table with our hands. I was having corn and it was invisible! I could note how much of it it was because of tactile sensation.

Then i woke up.

To conclude i can say: that a WBTB would work perfectly probably as a MILD before WILD,if i would have developed DILD skills.
I found some situations which was tipically of dreams, like the woman unable to speak properly, like nasal sound, and always saying 13.3. Those are perfect moments for reality checks.
I should "expand" my imagination in my dreams since the scenario is still limiting. Although i dreamt with new characters at the beginning of the dream i had recurring family members in my dreams, and i think that is limiting as well.
I found myself in a scenario where i dreamt already, which doesn't exists like that in real life. So i can put that as a rare dream sign, the university dining hall.
When i notice supernatural stuff such as invisible food, instead of getting excited i should do reality checks and then get excited because i have a lucid dream.

That was all.

early:
+ (f) backpack in the bed of the pickup truck, I need to move things into the cab in order to be able to drive

+ (impression) in a large house, flying around, people around

+ friend MR is learning to play <my instrument>. It's going to be a while before he can play a duet with me because he's just starting. I think about/see a mouthpiece.

+ (f) with a guy stopping at a place that has a restaurant and a convenience store. The convenience store is really crowded, this is a good location with a lot of traffic.

later:

+ Sitting at a bar counter talking with a guy telling him all about double buffering, 2d vs. 3d, vertical retrace. Leave and encounter a guy I worked with a long time ago, we're going off again to solve a problem we solved 20 years ago.

There's a little dog who barks out something that sounds like "Bad dog!", which makes me laugh.

Talking about a piece of software, the question is how to save the images. Should the app save the image in the resource section of the executable or somewhere else? Then the view changes to a large athletic field at a University. Still a thought remains about the application. It's early morning but the sky is clear, no clouds. I notice down towards the end of the fence around the field is a topless girl. I think they're out to catch some sun. I get the impression of naked girls around the fence.

Spoiler for a bit risque:

Moving up towards the university, there is a narrator telling about how the standards of fallen. Inside is the art room of a (dead?) painter in the university. I think he was just an "old goat" who liked to use his profession to get close to nude models and paint their pubic region. Several close-ups of female models pubic region with sculpted and artistic pubic hair arrangements: leaves, flowers, abstract shapes.

+ (semi-epic) lying on couch, head towards the middle (pointing towards dining room) and suddenly a full-sized adult pig jumps up on the couch and snuggles in right next to me, I'm lying almost on top of it. It's head is facing the other way. I'm touching it's bristly skin. I think "pigs make great pets!". I look back and notice my mom is leaning up against the end of the couch, the pig's face is pushed up against her. I get a creepy feeling that she is enjoying the pig "too much."

I get off the couch and I'm flea-combing my cat and dog (switches between them). I'm putting the fleas into a bowl of warm soapy water from the comb. One flea jumps off the comb on to the carpet and I'm trying to catch it. It's hopping 2-3 inches very quickly and the carpet is making it very hard to see and catch it. I eventually run the comb through the carpet and pick it up and quickly move it into the water. The flea is walking along the surface and I'm trying to dunk it down. My cat gets up and walks away. I feel something brush against my back.

I look around the carpet and notice that it is dotted with a number of small (3-4 inches) shallow pools of water, in which are swimming a bunch of little fish. I stand up and notice that covering this floor of the house a 3-4 inch deep layer of water. I go to the dining room and look out the sliding glass door and see that the entire area is flooded with water right up to the level of the deck [which makes it a biblical flood since my childhood home is at an elevation of about 1000 ft.]. I go back out the front door and see the edges of the flood poking in to the front yard. I run upstairs and call to my parents to come and see the flood. I'm thinking I hope my dad will help me with the sandbags.

My dad comes downstairs but looking out the sliding glass door the water is gone. Looking more carefully I see the water level is lower and suddenly while I'm watching it drops another 100 feet or more and I call out "did you see that!?". I'm calling urgently to my dad to come to the living room to see the pools of fish there. He moves slowly and I keep calling him to hurry. He gets there and it seems that some bowls of fish have spilled and the fish are flopping there but the pools are mostly gone. I ask my dad if he's going to clean up the tadpoles I see lying in a place on the carpet but he indicates he does not want to.

back to sleep / sleep inertia:

+ baseball play: bunt, many replays, the runner was clearly safe on first, I demand (hope?) that there will be a review and the inning will be allowed to continue. The first base coach tells the runner "get back on base!" The runner cannot rely on hearing (the ball?) and should run to first base at top speed.

+ sitting with girls outside on chair, I'm about to sit down at a table and a girl sneaks in and takes my seat. one gets up and brushes up against me moving past me and a bit of her breast runs across my hand.

+ in my cousin's house, the book about diamonds in a bookshelf with many books, I think if you read all these books you'd know a lot of things, should I go upstairs?, there's a girl up there, but maybe going up there would be conspicuous.

+ talking about illegal garbage dumping and avoiding discovery in the back garden under the drainpipe with lots of drops of water coming down

+ going for a walk with wife and son and leaving the park through a private garden of someone we know who's quite wealthy whom I hear talking through their open front door, my wife sees a plant she wants to have so she pulls off a leaf (it's sort of a lettuce plant) and I get nervous we'll be discovered. I prepare a statement in a foreign language talking about their "former baseball team" (prior dream?). There are very beautiful flowers of all sizes lining the stairs that we're climbing to the road, in particular the yellow roses are lovely.

Outside the garden on the street, across the street I see that our car (where I remember it being parked) is now tightly surrounded by very expensive big cars like Range Rovers. There must be a mafia meeting or something now. I keep looking but just can't see our car. We go around to the side and our car is there apparently, a convertible, and my wife gets in and some old Asian women get in and one takes my spot in the front seat, I will need to ask her to move.

There appeared to be three delivery trucks outside the window. There were actually two but a reflection of one of the trucks made it seem like there were three. I was excited to get packages though I didn't realize that I hadn't ordered any packages and I didn't realize I was dreaming.

There were other dreams that I don't remember right now.

I'm in a school. The walls are made of old stones with long, narrow windows; it's surrounded with pine trees, and it feels like it was a monastery before being converted to a school. I wander a little in it, going up some stairs and getting highter and highter. I reach a balcony overlooking the forest. Under it I can see the path going up to the school, running alongside a small stream separating it from the pine forest. On this balcony is a old woman. She walks in my face and start talking gibberish, cornering me to the edge of the balcony. I jump, extending my arms, and when I'm over the stream and almost on the floor my body change and I can flap my wings to land safely. In the water reflexion I can see that I was a bird of prey, a kind of hawk with the coloring of a snowy owl. I look up to the pines; they seems to go on forever in the sky, touching the grey clouds.

Dream One - I am on a raft on a river, using a long stick to push against the bottom of the river to steer and move the raft. There is a young girl on the raft, she's maybe between 5 and 7 with long blond hair that's curly at the ends. She looks a bit like my daughter, but in the dream I know she is not my little girl. I am trying to take her home, though I don't know where her home is. I pass a man standing in the water neck deep, and in the dream I know him and say hello to him. He wishes me a good day as we pass, and I wave to another person who is also standing neck deep in the water farther down stream, but I steer the raft to shore here. There is a factory by the river, I don't remember what it made but I think it was either a snack food factory or a soft drink factory. The little girl and I walk past the factory and up a sparsely wooded hill that's almost big enough to be a small mountain. At the top there is a multistory brick building and we go inside b/c I feel drawn towards it. I walk into a room and feel the familiar presence of K, but there is no one in the room. I feel the pulling in my chest and follow it to a secret brick passage way. The tunnel turns left a couple time and leads up to a room maybe 8 feet wide by 10 feet long. There is a single twin sized bed to the left and a circular window to the right. On the bed lies K asleep. I walk over to him, smile, then bend over to kiss him awake. He wakes up, rubs his face, and asks me how I found him. I reply to him that I felt him and that I am a very determined person. The little girl speaks up now, and tells me that he is her daddy and that he protects her mommy and keeps her safe. I feel a brief flash of jealousy that I haven't seen him in my dreams in ages and it must because he's taking care of someone else. The flash of jealousy fades very quickly though as I remind myself that I've also stopped the constant search in my dreams and waking reality for the last few years. I turn to the window and absent mindedly ask the girl who her mother is. I wake up before I get an answer.

Dream Two - I am trying to buy pizza at Pizza Hut, but when I go to pay I remember I forgot my wallet at home. They are going to go ahead and make the pizza b/c I know the manager and they trust me, and I am going to go get my wallet while the pizza is cooking to pay when I pick it up. A little girl in the lobby with dark hair about 4 or 5 is playing with my bike, but hands it to me as soon as I walk over. I get back to the tall brick building, only I forget where I am going and ride my bike down the stairs. There are two older ladies talking about a mental health patient at the bottom of the stairs. Overhearing them, I realize I was supposed to go up and turn around to go back up the stairs. When I make it to the apartment I remember in the dream as being K's, I walk in to find a woman from work there going through both his and my wallets by a table that has pictures of he and I. Strangely, his hair is dark instead of it's normal blonde. I confront her, and she says she needs the money and he's too nice to tell her no even if she had asked for the money, and takes two bank cards from his wallet. She throws my bank card at me and tells me she doesn't need mine, she'll make do with his, and leaves me standing there speechless at her blatant rudeness and thievery. I feel bad because confronting her with words didn't stop her, and I know that K won't be mad at me because he knows I am bad with confrontation and standing my ground, and that makes me feel even worse. I go back to the pizza place to pay for my pizza, but the pizza isn't ready yet, so I walk into the store next door to kill time looking around instead of sitting in the lobby and wallowing in how bad I felt for letting his cards get stolen by someone I knew. I see the woman from work in the store, and confront her once again. She tosses one of the cards at me telling me she already used that one for lunch so I can have it back, but she still needs the other one for her shopping. I jump on her and try to wrestle the second card back from her, and wake up.

Dream Three - I am at my dead Grandparents house, down in the garden. There is a group of 10 - 20 men marching behind me in black leather armor with gold studs and rings. We are each carrying a cut Christmas tree. I slam my tree's cut trunk down into the ground trying to make it stand on it's own, but it falls over. One of the men behind me laughs and tells me I have to use my true power, my human form won't plant that tree. I try again, this time reaching within to find the feeling of control and power that will allow me to shove the trunk of the tree into the ground, and further more cause the tree to take root from the cut end. The men behind me do the same until we have a small forest in an almost tear drop shape. I turn back towards them and start to walk between them, until I meet in the middle with the dark haired K who is still carrying his tree. Together we walk back to the front of the formation where he plants his tree at the very point of the tear drop formation and cries out, "For Asgard!" I grow wings, jump into the air and fly above the men to the center of the formation once again, this time drawing a glowing line with my finger that opens a large swirly purple portal. I cry out, "It's the second coming of Asgard!" and wake up.

Date: 28 Dec

A typical chase-run scenario - it's been a while since I had one of these. With this one, not so much being chased but rather running away. At the old place, menacing DCs coming, I jump out the window, land on the neighbors' porch, grab some food and take off again. I continue running and flying at top speed in the neighborhood, passing by houses and yards. My awareness gradually increases and while I'm flying around this interesting old looking red building, I begin to tell myself that I'm dreaming. Now, I also find myself circling around the building while using the sticky fingers technique to hold myself to the surface. Yes, definitely dreaming.

I remember the first part of the mantra, the basic totm which was to laugh in front of a DC. There's only buildings and trees around so I fly ahead to reach the street where I spot a weirld looking DC. He's the unpleasant overly active to mildly aggressive DC type. Couple more DCs appear near us and I send him to the side to interact with them instead. I come across a tall handsome Swedish looking guy with ear-length blond hair. I make a mental note of his appearance. Ok, task time already - I announce to him that for this totm I will have to laugh like a crazy person. He waits in expectation as I laugh out loud in a manner that sounds very unnatural. This doesn't seem to impress him much and he just keeps looking at me with a blank expression. I think about the other tasks but the dream thins out and I wake up.

Date: 22 Dec

A nld scene with classmates and unknown DCs. Later the unknown DCs cause tension.

As the DCs keep looking me in the eyes, I begin to realize that I am dreaming. I examine them in greater detail, now fully convinced. I tell them this and start to control them, making them look happier and make them loudly express their excitement.

We are in the living room now. I recall the phone task, look to the side, where there is a black home phone, a slightly older model. I ask it to ring, it does so a couple of times, then pick it up. The first try it's just the normal ready to dial sound. I hang up being confident that somebody will start talking soon and repeat the ringing, pick up again. This time it's my mom trying to lecture me about something that I'm not doing the way I should be. I feel a bit disappointed but make a mental note of it anyways.

End of memory. Other dreams.

*sigh* My dream recall was actually better this morning. But I was forced to get out of bed fast, so it kinda went away in a couple of minutes.

And of course, that was eight hours ago.

So we're back to dream fragments...

Let's see, I was driving around. I had to find my car, which I did. I think I talked to my dad about something. I was hungry and I wanted to have some Pringles, but I'm on a diet, so I told myself I couldn't. I also wanted to go to McDonald's, I think. Then I went out cause I had a mission. I got my car and I think I drove to this shop at the beach? It was night. I ran into my cousin and we started hanging out, she was there with some of her friends. So we walked together and talked and then she went into a room. I followed and she was peeing, which should've been awkward, but I didn't even care, I just washed my face while she peed. I guess she didn't care either, since she never said anything.

That was it.

I'm in an Adam Sandler movie (the horror!) about this screw-up guy who has only been able to get much money from various crime, who suddenly must take care of a number of children. I think I'm one of the children? But I'm aware that I'm smarter/more mature than the other "actual" children. I kind of secretly help take care of them the whole time, since Adam Sandler is doing such a terrible job. Near the end, he learns that being moral in his pursuits and taking care of the kids for real is what he really cares about, etc, but it's too late and his actions have caused most of the kids to be taken away from him. At my house, in my basement, with the help of Fred and George from Harry Potter (who are, in this universe, apparently both technological/programming wiz kids), I am able to get in contact with/get back a couple of the kids, though one of them is a cat (were they always a cat? I don't remember). I go out and get adam sandler just as he is about to leave in a car with some other people, and I tell him that he wouldn't believe me if I told him what was at the house, but he needed to follow me (he did, and was happy when he saw the kids).

In another dream, I'm in a house that sort of resembles the house I stayed in during PHP. I'm a ghost, and there's a lady there that can see me, but she's being a jerk to me, too. I keep trying to communicate with her, but she's not being patient enough with me. So I decide to have a little payback. There are a number of people in the house, and only one other person can see me - she's nice to me, and she's kept me a secret (not even the jerk lady knows she can see me). I fly around rattling doors, moving things, and being a general annoyance in a way that the events get blamed on the jerk lady. At one point I'm sitting (floating on top of?) the counter with a person who can't see me in front of me and the jerk lady to my right. I look smug as, while the jerk lady is trying to discretely glare at me, the person who can't see me talks to the jerk lady about moving their things, occasionally making oblivious gestures that send her hands right through me. At the end of that dream, I eat one of these fruity/custardy cup things that I can for some reason eat, and then I fly to another floor. Then I decide that I want one more, so I go down to grab another one, and get scared for a moment when I realize I've been caugh t- someone is looking at me with the tart in my hand - whether they can see me or not, it's bad news. But then I realize that it's the nice person who can see me, and we smile at each other, and then I fly off to another floor again, popping the tart in my mouth.

In another dream, I don't remember much, but I can fly, and I have my phone with me. I try to chase the deer while flying so I can get video of them, but flying ends up being pretty difficult and confusing when I get going very fast at all. Some of the deer have strange markings, and I get excited about it, until I realize that the reason they look different is because they aren't deer at all - they're dogs. One was a border collie and one was a german shepherd. I decide to abandon trying to take pictures/video while flying, as flying is just too hard/hectic/scary, and trying to take video/pictures during flight is both pointless and exacerbating of the previously mentioned adjectives. I end up finding some elk in a field, which I'm very excited about, since I don't usually see elk (irl, they don't live anywhere near my area). I decide to float slowly closer so I can get some video/pictures of them. I think maybe to sit at the top of a tree, but I can't get a good handle/branch, and it's hard to keep that altitude up for long, so I float down and find some clothing racks to sit on top of. I take a few pictures, but an elk comes up behind me and starts chewing on my pants or something like that. It scares me, and after a bit of fumbling, I fly out of range. Apparently there was a forest guardian type woman off to my right who encouraged the elk to do so, since I was apparently bothering them. I felt a little embarrassed about that, but also a little indignant, since I was only taking pictures, and if I really was doing harm, then she should have just asked me to leave first before scaring me.

There was another dream where there were two bunkbeds in a room, and I had just been assigned that room. I went up there to put my stuff away, and as I was listening to music as I did so. I thought the room was empty. I danced very enthusiastically, then turned around and saw that every bed besides mine had somebody in it, and at least one of them had seen me. One of them was giggling at me. I nervously said something about how I just dance sometimes, but I couldn't really hear myself because of the music. A little later, I tried to stop the music. I took out my headphones, and I messed with my phone that they were plugged into, but nothing could make the loud music stop. It was really stressing me out.