non-lucid

I'm working with several others to get tags for a lot of untagged merchandise so it can go back to the sales floor. We seem to be working in the dark in an empty storefront, which is a much larger space than the small security desk that I'm used to. We're also working in the dark, which doesn't faze me. What does get my attention is that I'm having equipment troubles trying to print tags, but miraculously, I find the right tags on the desk. The phone rings and I try to answer it since I'm the closest person, but I can't figure out how the system works. There are so many buttons! I hit one and accidentally answer on speakerphone -- or so I think. One of our assistant managers is on the line and praises someone on our team. Then another person comes over and points out that I'd put the call on the PA system so it was broadcast throughout the building.

One of my team members needs to be treated by a doctor, and I join her husband in the waiting room to give some support. The doctor tells us that they'll have to amputate the woman's foot. He gives me a folder with some more information on recovery from amputations. I start leafing through it and notice that it's full of jokes! I'm somewhat in shock, wondering who the hell put this together and thought it was appropriate to add the jokes.

I step outside and see a restaurant that I want to try since I'm not always in the downtown area at lunchtime. It's a strange set-up. I enter the building on the ground floor, but the dining room is apparently in the basement. I head down a flight of stairs but don't see a host stand to wait at to be seated. I start moving towards the back of the room and find myself in the kitchen. There's a pale guy wearing a suit, and I realize he is the owner. He ignores me, but I don't linger in the kitchen too long. I head back to the stairs and see there is a large line snaking around the staircase. The owner comes over, and it turns out that he is working double duty as host. He tells a couple in line that there's a two-hour wait to get a table.

I head outside, irritated that I'll have to find someplace else for lunch. I find myself wandering around a parking deck, trying to find my way back to the street to look for other restaurants. Somehow, I end up back in a car. I start driving down the road, but the car seems to veer towards crowds of people lining the right side of the street. I panic, wondering why the car is heading straight into the crowd, and it veers suddenly to the left.

I'm now in a hospital room where my sister is in bed. She is complaining about how she contacted a childhood friend about her illness, but her friend never responded. I tell her it doesn't seem likely since we've had a falling out with the whole family. There's a bar(!) at the side of the room and I offer to fix her a drink(!). She points out that she can't have too much caffeine but "8 oz of Coke should be okay." I'm trying to measure out 8 oz. when I hear her talking to someone. I turn around and there's the mother of the ex-friend, yelling at my sister to that we'll never hear from her family again because our dad insulted them. I start to argue back, wanting to protect my sister, but I wake up.

Some long elaborite dream about a football game taking place on campus. My extended family was there and my grandparents were exceptionally annoying in-dream. I also recall us having some problem with parking our cars.

I had to sneak away and help these people hide a dead body before the police found it.

I feel as though I have had this dream at least twice before today, but only recalled it this morning. The setup is always exactly the same:

I am a covert spy/assassin working for some sort of government agency. High tech gear, intense training, and an assistant that I can communicate with to help me hack doors and all that. My mission is to find and kill someone inside this lodge that appears to be in the middle of the desert. I only have a limited amount of time as my assistant is trying to convince the government not to drop an anti-mutant bomb to stop something bad from happening.This time I run out of time almost as soon as the mission starts.

"Get out of there, you're out of time!"

I haven't had a chance to even walk inside to investigate the lodge. A nuclear blast goes off in the distance and a wave of fire engulfs me and the lodge building. I am left completely unfazed but the lodge is instantly ignited. I hear people screaming as they are burned alive. I then see the slenderman standing in front of the flames in the main door of the building. For some reason, he has a really large round head. This is what causes me to become lucid, because I know I have seen this scenario before.

I am a covert assassin so I pull my pistol off my belt and fire at him. No effect. Somehow, he gets to be right in front of me. I reach for my combat knife but it is already gone. There is a metal pole that was blasted out of the lodge laying on the ground next to me. I grab it and stab him in the chest up through the top of the head. His flesh sort of feels like putty. He does sort of reel back and go "urff" as if this is hurting him, but he grabs me in his tentacles and starts to pull me apart.

Before the dream ends, I try to say "Stop, I am not afraid of you!" but nothing audible is heard and the dream ends anyway.

By no means scared, but somewhat annoyed that I could not speak. I guess the scenario is so overblown and trying so hard to be scary that it ends up coming off as rather silly.

I considered that it could be a scenario that I am subconsciously afraid of but not aware that I am afraid of. (A short story I was working on with S explored this exact concept yesterday.) As such, I have had my fill of that theme and do not need a dream to further explore it.

Semi-lucid

I was kinda semi-lucid - I could controll all my moves and plan them, though I didn't knew it was a dream. It was dark and cold evening. I was walking down a street. Everything was covered with dense fog. I looked around, searching for something to do. Suddenly I saw a weird, red car without roof with a blonde girl sitting inside. I turned back and went away, when suddenly everything went black.

Second dream

It was cold evening. I was in an old, ruined manor with some random DCs that were acting like my family. They were arguing about something, and everyone left annoyed. Only I have stayed, alone in the old manor.

flying saucer attacks the Kroger in NI by my house in the middle of Th. day, not a cloud in the sky. I'm walking in my childhood neiborhood going to the market to buy somehting or other. It's a bright sunny day and i'm walking through a bright green field on gravel path when i see a smalll speck wy up in the sky. It loats down and becomes a silver old school flying saucer. It hovers over the Kroger. The center hub holds still and the outer ring starts spinning. a come of light emits tfrom the bottom of the ship and covers the grocery story. I feel like "HOLY SHIT" and the grocery store catches on fire. I wonder where I'm going to get what I need. I realize that I don't remember wht I"m supposed to buy.

Argument with the owner of the skating apparel company when i still have a stuffy nose

alfalfa from teh little rascals movie is posting updates to a new version set in midevil times. He's like a Perez Hilton type figure and I'm taking an online quiz to determine if the new piece of information is coming from him or TMZ. The little rascal is going through a gritty reboot. Alfalfa is going to get hs head chopped off. Spanky is a vengeful king. Buckwheat is the spsirit of vengance. I wonder why I care about this. I have no feelings for the little rascals.

oprah winfrey climbs in a trashcan and rolls down a big green hill in a park. I'm thinking to myself. Ratings must be BAAAD if she's resorting to this!

Remembered snippets from a longer, more vivid dream this morning. This was the part that stood out the most.
I was on vacation with my girlfriend and my family. The area I was at was similar to the place I went just a couple of weeks ago IRL with my girlfriend and my family, so this was those memories coming back up.
Only this time, we stopped by a really large pizza place on the way there, as we all had the munchies. We ordered our pizza, and I grabbed mine (a large pepperoni), but as I went to go bring it to my table with my girlfriend, a really bratty little kid walked up to me. I could tell by the look on his face he didn't have good intentions.
"Want some pizza, huh?" He sneered. He grabbed about three slices off of the plate I was carrying and 'accidentally' dropped them onto the floor. Everybody in the restaurant gawked at the sight. I glared at the kid, and just said "Thanks for that," and walked over to where my girlfriend and my family were sitting.
I explained the situation to them, and naturally they got very angry. I blew it off and just ordered another pizza, explaining the situation to the cashier and getting it for free. In the end, the kid got kicked out of the restaurant.

We were at the beach. Me and friends were playing catch me if you can. So we were running from the guy who must catch us, he was running after a girl, then he saw me and run after me (I was getting angry), I shouted to him: ''man why are you chasing me, why you don't chase the girl that you were running after''. But he was still following me. So I went to him and kick his a... so that he understand I was not playing anymore. .....

I was walking in a small town/province. I was walking my dog(s). It walked near other dogs. It went ahead while I was still walking after it. The other dogs started walking towards me. They weren't menacing but I felt they were going to bite me. They're small dogs but not puppies. I was trying to avoid them, even posturing, but they weren't intimidated. Eventually, around three of them reached my legs and bit me. I somehow got bitten on my arms as well. It was like radioactive. The bite marks were glowing.

I thought that I have to get a rabies shot. I was worried though because I heard it was really painful. I went to the hospital, which happened to be very, very close. Mom was there and she's a nurse/doctor. She got a syringe and when she was about to inject it on my left arm, I looked to the other side, looking outside (we were just along the corridor near the entrance, sitting on a long chair). But I didn't feel any pain and I told her so.

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Notes:

- Slept at around 5 a.m., woke up around 1 p.m. I had the dream before that, but I fell back to sleep, confident that I will remember it.
- Woke up at around 8 a.m. to alarm. Solved math problem.
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Aldo vs McGreggor
I can see Eddy Betts. He's just kicked a bag full of goals, maybe 8 or so.

I'm at my home and I see Eddy and Connor McGregor outside, under the veranda. They're about to fight. A referee is also there, it's Yamasaki. As they're waiting for the fight to start, they are pretending to attack one another, by getting really close to each other, but not touching. I think Eddy is now Aldo. Aldo is the first one to crack, and actually begin fighting for real. They are both on the ground and grappling one another. Connor throws a reserve elbow from the ground and it brutally knocks Aldo unconscious. It's a sickening blow. I go over to Aldo to check if he's ok, but he's still unconscious. I think Aldo is my dog REX for a moment, before turning back to Aldo. I lay down next to Aldo and get him in a submission while he's still unconscious, by pulling his head a certain way which will cut off his ability to breath, causing him to pass out. He must wake up mid way through, as I feel a resistance. I feel this just as a wake up.

2:38 am

We was sailing the seas on a big wooden warship, there was others in the distance. Im not sure how exactly it happened but we all went overboard, something took me into its underwater kingdom. Hundreds of jellyfish was circling me, I kept having to swim up to breath but then I realized I could breath underwater, which seemed perfectly normal. Then it started, I god like voice from nowhere started to talk, images of a giant jellyfish kept flashing....

I was stood on the balcony of my flat but instead of looking into the city all I saw was fields of green grass, another castle in the distance and a river flowing to my left. Below mewas an army we must be under seige, among the crowds was two young girls dressed in simple grey robes. They where whipping other children, I shouted in disgust to those being beaten "hit them back!" so they started to fight back. Then out of nowhere a giant arm came out the ground holding the two girls in it's hand, they where placed on my balcony next to me. They lunged at me, started to scratch my hands, flesh was torn off. They ran for the door but we managed to restrain them, we all sat back on the balcony and smoked together...

2:25 am

The land scape was dry and empty, a vast plain of nothing. There was three of us myself, girlfriend and another male whos identify is unknown. We must of broken down because the only thing other than us was a stationary dark colored jeep, blue or black. The unknown male took the doors off and piled them up, out of nowhere they began to burn, an attempt of a smoke signal. A lone plane began to cross the sky but there was no evidence that it even saw the smoke, its trajectory remained constant. The sun began to set, the fire started to dwindle as if the oxygen was exiting a long with the sun. Panic started to kick in and the realisation of a cold night sunk in, however the tempreture never changed. As we lay on the ground we just a blanket for comfort the itching began, as if the earth was covered in insects.

Connections to waking life:
Jeep - I watched casey neistat's vlog which had the exact same jeep, with removable doors.
Itching - Watched episode of orange is the new black, infestation of bed bugs.

4:38 am

My girlfriend is away for a few days, so i decided to have a few friends over for drinks. At some point I must of gone down the stairs and outside with mates for a smoke, on the side of the bulding was a tv which displayed other people in a different flat. Somehow I was able to send a picture of the tv to the people without knowing them, next thing I remember was that they where back in my flat getting drunk. Because my girlfriend wasn't there I took a picture and sent it to her, but the intention was misunderstood she thought I was breaking up with her. There is some faint memory of being back downstairs but this time there was a red coat on a door handle. Then for the final time I was back upstairs but was outside my flat door, my friend lewis was helping his girlfriend carry down four suitcases.

Connections to waking life:
Girlfriend - She is going on holiday next week without me.

I was walking down a road with some small factories, just round the corner from my childhood home. I spent a lot of my time down there when younger, but there was something different,. There where four metal containers, one of them had people in it, I remember them speaking but not the content. I was under the impression they was doing some hardcore drug, I didn't see them intaking but there was some sort of dark presence. I banged on the container and began to run away, they finally apeared, two males and a female...

Next thing I remember was that im bouldering at some rock climbing centre, they where there, the two males and the female but how? Their faces where dirty and I remember that the womens hair was all bushy, one of the males stood out just a bit, he was huge...

I'm going back to my parents with my girlfriend, it was night time and I was just around the corner from my house. The street was dark and had some spooky feel to it, Hattie my girlfriends cat was walking across the road just a little further up. I shouted for her "Hattie!", hoping she would follow, something was odd about her as if she understood my intentions so she followed. There I was, stood outside my house finally with a single light on in my childhood bedroom. I didn't go the regular way in, instead I went through the window, fortunately there was a ladder. When I saw my room I was surprised to see how big it had gotten, the bed in the middle of the room was supported up so it was atleast 4 foot of the ground. "I thought it was a middy bed not a high bed"....

Interesting to note that this non-lucid dream incorporated the action I had planned to try while lucid.

I'm driving down the highway. There's a pair of guys with me, and they're brothers. I think they're both band members who are on tour for the summer. We stop off briefly to get gas, and when I get back in the car, I notice that the seat doesn't quite feel right. I fiddle with the adjustment, but the next thing I know, the brothers and I are walking down the hallway of a motel. We must have stopped for the night. One of the brothers pulls me into a room. We start making out on the bed. He says something about how our relationship isn't proper since we're related, but he can't help the way he feels about me. I think I recognize him as the guy I've been interested in lately (who is definitely not a relative).

Dream views had a yellow/purple decorated background and i saw that Jade changed his dream journal entry title name.
There was also a purple dot next to his entry and i got the feeling that Manei was online too and posted something.

-A penguin like in the anime "Polar Bear Cafe" mentioned how he was trying on a bra and a dress to disguise himself as a girl but it wasn't working for him.

-Than something happened where i was riding a bike on a city street, daytime, trying to catch up with my brother and some other people. There were too many people around though and i ended up having to get off the bike. The bike also had training wheels.

-Something happened where i had a tiny little red bear toy and was told to give little tiny girl people the size of dolls milkshakes because after 30 secs they would disappear.

-I was following a girl who wanted to go inside a really cold place where you can become frozen. Think we were headed up a mountain. She was searching for hidden treasure i thought at that time. Anyways when we arrived I saw it was like a old abandoned castle. The girl showed me a move, sort of like fire bending, that you can do so you can launch your self into the air. I did it with a wooden shield she gave me and launched into the air. It was fun being in the air that high than coming down. The girl than mentioned how she wanted to get more outfits. I said no and she kept asking till i said yes.But than suddenly someone came and shot an arrow to the side of her head. My perspective changed to that of a viewer now. The other girl ran into hiding and the intruders took the girl who was supposedly my sister away.
The intruders were three anime boys who were perverts looking for money.

Immersive e-book reader
I'm watching a group of 5 young adults exploring some woods. They find a device and turn it on, not knowing what it'll do. It projects what looks like a cone of blue lasers. The cone hits one of them and gives him a great desire to jump into the device. The rest of them try to hold him back and get him out of the beam, or to turn the beam off, but they can't seem to manage it. Finally, one of the girls, for whom this has always been a secret desire, decides to save him by jumping in herself. She's disappointed by what she sees: a dark blue, kind of cloudy, background with white text hovering on top offering a handful of options. It seems to be some kind of e-reader. Unfortunately, she can't move any more, so she can't select any of the options. Her friends end up setting something up for her so she's able to do some reading.

Later, another member of the group somehow switches places with her, but he has the same problems she did. Meanwhile, I've been watching the group as if looking down at a map. They're moving right to left, and a little up, aiming for the upper-right corner of the map. I know that once they arrive, they'll turn and head due left right along the top.


Undiscovered planet
For some time, a team has been tracking a new planet in our solar system. They've gone on site somewhere to take better observations, but to their surprise the planet isn't where it's supposed to be. In fact, it's almost directly opposite where it's supposed to be. They do a bunch of math and figure out that there must be a second new planet, a massive one, that they haven't discovered yet that's somehow throwing off this one's orbit.


Haunted house puzzle
I'm in a haunted house, moving through the hallways. Now I've got an overhead (maybe 3/4ths) view of a good sized room, and I'm trying to solve a puzzle. From my perspective, a red laser shoots along the top of the room from left to right. About two thirds of the way across it hits a nice padded chair and is stopped (no damage is done to the chair). There's a lever about half way along the wall, but it can't be approached because of the laser. Near the upper-right corner of the room is a portal of some kind, and there are a couple of other objects I can move. I think I see how the puzzle is supposed to be solved, but I also see what I think is a hidden solution. I'm right: as soon as I get everything into place, a thick stream of coffee starts to pour from the ceiling coming down right in front of the chair, which now has someone sitting in it. I explain to him that in a minute the coffee will gain life and start walking around in a humanoid shape. I do my best mad scientist laugh and then leave the room.


Kitchen improvements
I'm at home in my kitchen area [nothing like my real one, of course], waiting for something with my father-in-law. Now, our handyman has arrived and is finishing some work he'd started earlier. He's looking at some new shelving brackets he's installed near the fridge. He's really disappointed in how they turned out: they're all crooked and seem to be falling out of the wall. At first, we think it's just one that's messed up, but as we look more closely we realize they're all bad and are all worse than we first assumed. Now there's something about having to put something around the fridge to help with its airflow, except that my step father had already done something, and the handyman is so impressed with it he decides to leave it and to do the exact same thing to the fridge on the other side of the kitchen.

i was in an area that looks like our hometown. There is an eatery.

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Notes:

- The dream was a lot more detailed than this but I quickly forgot it when I woke up. Hopefully, I can recall it.
- It was much more colorful and exciting.

Black: non-dream
Blue: non-lucid
Red: lucid

Dream - Surrounded by Friends
This was a pretty nice dream... I lived next door to a friend and he was having a party or something, he seemed to have them all the time and I didn't always go I think. They order pizza a lot too, I was surprised how the pizza man had never accidentally come to my door because of the way our houses were, they were pretty much conjoined with a single shared gate and no driveway. The gate was part of a brown picket fence and the pathway leading from it split in two towards our doors. I went out to join the party, it was like I was finally rejoining them though, as if I had isolated myself for a long time and wasn't used to the atmosphere. Someone yelled that he was taking a picture and everyone got together, I recognized a lot of friends and among them was an old friend called Aaron. Aaron and I had been friends since we were 2, but he moved away and we fell out of touch after a couple years, but it was a really nice dream, like we had done a full circle.