non-lucid

---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

14/12/15

Dream 1: Me and my family were out somewhere getting a makeover. It took a while, and then afterwards we drove home. My mum got out of the car and walked away. I saw a strange looking man come towards the car. He hesitated a bit when I saw him, then started walking even faster towards the car, I realised, to try and steal it. He tried to jump into the empty drivers seat, but I reached across and kicked him out before yelling for help. The guy ran off then, so we narrowly thwarted that attempt .

Dream 2: Fragment, playing a video game in a sort of Egyptian themed dungeon.

I went into a pretty blue building in some other town. There was a sign outside that said free bottle of wine and I think it was a promotional thing to get people to buy more wine from the wine shop. But when I went inside there was not really a free bottle of wine. The wine was free but I had to purchase my own container to put it in and some of the containers were $6 and I didn't buy a container for the free wine because the sign was deceiving and the containers were no good.

The shop had other things so I got two bars of soap. One bar of soap was bright yellow. When I went to the counter to purchase the soaps the woman asked if I wanted to hear about their other offers and I said yes even though I really didn't want to. Then she tried to sell me Christmas cards. She was trying really hard to sell me those Christmas cards. She even wrote messages in them for me and then held them up for me to read and asked me questions about how I liked them. Even though I had no intention of buying any Christmas cards, I let her show me at least three Christmas cards because she seemed so nice and I couldn't think of an equally nice way to say I didn't want to buy any Christmas cards so I was relieved when I woke up.

I'm entering a large parking lot area. I'm in a convertible with a friend. I notice we're in Los Santos when he yells out "We're in Los Santos, baby!" A prostitute comes up and my friend ask her where to buy drugs. She takes us to a little boy who is selling pills. Is he selling his ADHD medication? The prostitute takes the pills and the kid whispers something to her. The little boy turns into a little girl and the prostitute says the little girl is turning tricks to sell the pills. The prostitute says the girl has an infected vagina. The girl shows it to us and it is indeed red and infected-looking.

I'm in a house owned by a young couple at night. They are people I know from work. They ask if I'm getting wasted on a Friday and I say I'm not. They are drinking beer and invite me to join but I want to keep our relationship professional.

First dream

I was with my parents, waiting for a train at a bus station. We asked from which track the train would move, and they said that it would go from "Understation" - a slums complex connected with local train station, built over 50 years ago. I told my parents to wait for the train, and then I went to dormitories to take packages left for me by my associate - this place was a coal mine in the past, and except many beds and hammocks added, it remained mostly the same. There were two packages - beige medicine bags with labels "Head" and "Hat". I took them and tried to give no suspicion, and avoided guard officers wandering the station. I met with my father and gave him the bags, then the train arrived.

We entered the closest wagon, while my mother entered the right one, on the front of the train. There were guard officers inside, looking for bags we had. My father opened window and climbed up the train roof. I went on as if nothing happened, and looked for my mother. I found her soon - we had places assigned to stairs, and had to sit on stair steps all the way. She told me to go and look for father, as he haven't appeared yet.

I went to another wagon... and found myself in Hawaii, in the middle of a crowd. I tried to find my father, and when I thought that I met him, I said "Let's go." It wasn't him, but one of the guard officers. Looking back, I saw that somehow I can still enter the train, as if I was in different dimension, and wagon entrance was gate back. The officer chased me, but I escaped. When I got closer to the wagon, it just disappeared. I went downstairs to a beach, where I met a chinese martial arts master. He trained me for a while, but I had more important things to do. Instead of saying that I must go, I splashed him with sea water. He did the same, and after a while of splashing, he took an enormous mussel out of the water, and thrown at me.

I dodged, and found a boat. In the same moment I hear screams. There were devils running on the beach. They were small but muscular and whole red with mischevious smile. They spawned a huge beast, and teleported back to hell. I shouted "Onward!" and crashed my boat with the beast. It died. I knew there was a building where I can find persons responsible for that.

There was a two storey wooden house nearby. It's backyard was cluttered with dismembered limbs and bodies, there were also weapons and strange carnivorous monsters. I took weapons and entered the house. There were cultists inside. I tried to shoot them down, but they were immune to my bullets.

(My recall wont be as good as it took a bit of a backseat behind finding out my year twelve results this morning :p)
14/12/15
1: Fragment now, having lunch with my grandparents

2: I was having Christmas as a kid. The family were at a holiday house/hotel, the tv was on with Christmas shows and I was back to being about 6 or 7 again.

3: Fragment, I was roaming a renaissance/gothic town at night, filled with vampires. Oh wait some recall is flooding back haha. I was accepting an espionage mission from an old woman hidden away in a building; I was to go to the local inn and try and find out who the leaders of the town were. When in the inn however people were very suspicious and I ended up being caught out. Not sure what happened next.

4: Me and my brother were hanging about near a lake. It was summer and we were in boardies, and there a large rubber tyre floating around at the edge. We swam for a while until we saw there was a bit of a waterfall. My brother went back and got the tyre, then sat on it and made me push him over the waterfall. He fell a few metres and bounced off once he hit the bottom, lucky to not injure himself.

5: Fragment about JaclynGlen getting a breast reduction (?)

6: I was at a school assembly, bored. I tried flirting a bit and then was talking to some friends, until a girl stepped up to speak. She was meant to deliver a speech/read a poem in Macedonian, but she kept on making mistakes and eventually got so embarrassed she stopped and refused to start again.

I gave an old woman a recipe which includes a poisonous flower. She later turns up dead by the effects of that poison - but I suspect her son took advantage of that situation to kill her himself, knowing that it would be dismissed as an error in dosage. There's an inheritance involved.

Disembodied, I'm 'standing' at the edge of the ring of a gladiatorial circus, observing a man who's now lying on the ground looking half-dead, but he's nonetheless victorious and a crowd-pleaser. I'm bored. These games have been going on for days now and it's gotten repetitive, I'm impatient for him to move on.

I shift my perspective, finding the emperor in a large private room attached to the circus. A man in armor is talking to him about the man who's won the games, and the emperor is incredulous - why should the emperor fear or make concessions? That man fears him, the emperor - the proof of that is in the way he travels from place to place and uses the name he does. (His name is a word literally meaning "dark," but associated with low, dirty things.) The man in armor raises the issue of Dark's rumored connection to the queen.

The queen's present in the room, tall and dark and with green-tinted hair, hair mostly covered by a black veil. She's legendary for her beauty and suggested to be not entirely human; there's a rumor that Dark is one of her kind, and looking for her. It's close to the truth, but not quite it - in actuality, he's a survivor of the court of her previous husband. She's unaware of this. She only survived that massacre because the emperor refused to give her up, treated her as a prize.

She joins in the conversation, teases the emperor, saying that if she ever sees this Dark, she might recognize one of her own kin and turn on the emperor. Her voice is nasally. She then speculates more seriously about what would happen if she ever really did meet one of her sisters - "Lure her to her death."

The emperor is irritated with this line of conversation, and tells the two of them that this is enough talk, focus on the tribute instead.

Later. Dark is standing in front of an open shrine, holding an antique sword in poor physical condition but with great symbolic meaning. He's telling the spirits that if he enters the dream with this weapon, with all that meaning attached, it will become something miraculous. He's lying. But in actuality, it will lead him to a cross buried in the ground - I see the cross glowing dull red - and then to a bow which will infect him with hatred for a time.

I have a body now. I'm standing in a temple somewhere bright, talking to a woman who's explaining to me that she won't leave this building. She took a demon into herself, made herself its prison. She describes how she'd been fighting someone, and when it was over, a part of herself that should have been restoring was draining instead, and she hasn't been able to stop it - she can feel herself flaking away, and if this continues, there'll be nothing left of her in a mere few thousands of years.