non-lucid

I was in a mall, looking at the stores along the corridor. There were restos, offices, and an art room. I went into the art room, looking for someone. It was supposed to be an office of a friend, but she wasn't there. The color theme seems to be light green. I also thought there's a hidden doorway there.

I took a jeep going... somewhere. I was following the lead of another person I don't know. He went down, and I went down, but I have no idea where we were. I started walking in a direction that I thought was correct. The place is reminiscent of the area near Dimasalang in Sampaloc.

I was in a park party with co-workers. I was walking around. I was thinking of talking about important matters.

I was watching Mario jump around, and there's a spiny fish that always annoyed me. I thought that Yoshi should be able to eat it. I also thought about how easy it is now to finish the game, unlike before.

---

Notes:

- Slept at around 2 a.m. Woke up to alarm at 8 a.m., but stood up at 8:30 a.m.
- Listened to Sam Harris audio on meditation upon sleeping.

The dream I remembered this past morning was awfully strange! It was a literal dream within a dream situation. Basically, I had a dream, then woke up from the dream into another non-lucid dream, and then finally waking up in reality. Here's how it went.
I was in the Bates Motel house with my girlfriend and we were witnessing the final events of one of the latest episodes play out in front of us. We watched it all non-phased, as if we had seen it before, but we were enjoying it nonetheless. (I won't go into the details of what happened just in case some of you watch that show and don't want to be spoiled).
Suddenly, I woke up from that situation. It seems it was a dream! I was in the parking lot of my girlfriend's workplace, having just dropped her off, but instead of heading to MY workplace, I had parked my car in the parking lot and fallen asleep. I checked my phone's clock...I WAS AN HOUR LATE!! Panic filled me as I quickly started my car and drove off towards my workplace.
And then, I woke up from THAT, only this time I was in my bed and in real life. I should've done a reality check in case of a false awakening, but I was too groggy and weirded out by the double dream to even remember to. Not a whole bunch recalled in either dream, but the situation of waking from one dream to another was interesting.

Tonight was great! Remembered two nice dreams and also had a very strange way of getting lucid.

Let's shared dream!

The dream started at my house. I wasn't located far from the kitchen, which had my mother and sister in there. My mother was talking about some show she really wanted to watch, and was making some kind of oatmeal for herself. My sister was also there but I forget what she was doing. She was talking about how she really wanted to lucid dream, though she doesn't actively try to induce LD's in waking life. Then I suggested, "why don't we both dream together in a shared dream?" She really enjoyed the idea. So we both went to sleep in our own rooms, but for some reason both our rooms seemed to be merged into one. We went to sleep and I was in another dream scene where it was this city. It had large skyscrapers and other buildings, and it was night time. There was no one else around me. I was instantly lucid in this "dream in a dream," which at the time I thought to be just a dream. I was looking for my sister but I couldn't find her. I then exited the dream to ask my sister where she was. While she was sleeping? She told me where she was so I went back in the dream. To clarify, I wasn't really going to sleep at that time. It was more like hopping to another scene and thinking it was my dream. I found her near a town center. I said that instead of staying this city we should go do something cool. So I transported us to this small area where titans from the anime Attack on Titan were attacking. By this time I was half lucid (should probably add that to my colour code.), and the titans were attacking this small group of people in a living room. I forgot, but I was probably using the gear from the anime as well to kill them. Then a titan in clothes who looked a lot like a teacher of mine appeared. He started talking about various intelligent topics. Haha, that's a lot like him in waking life. But the gas in my gear ran out, and I thought that humanity was a goner. Then suddenly, all the titans ceased being hostile. Then a female titan who acted but not that much looked like my aunt came, and I grew to the titans' size and she let me piggy-back ride on her.

That's when I woke up. I recalled this dream and went back into another.

Joker to Anger

I started in class and the teacher was checking homework. I didn't finish it (That's very out of character of me(no lies)), so I tried to hide it with my textbook and pretend it's not there. The teacher said someone else needed a textbook, so she ripped half of the back page of the textbook, took the textbook then gave me a different one. Wow, I feel sorry for the kid having that half ripped up textbook . The scene then changed to a different classroom. Everything was the same, only that I was sitting at the far back of the class room at this long rectangular table. Also, I had my laptop there with me as well, and I was using it. Teacher came towards me, not with any mad expression. She then started fooling around with the PC, with everyone else surrounding us. I was angry but she retained her joke-like expression. I clearly remember how her smiling face looked like. Anyway, I tried to shut down, but I accidentally hit switch user, and for some reason it just went back to my user. I then remember her pressing the MapleStory icon, which I don't have downloaded, but I quickly closed it. Second attempt, and I hit restart. That's when she finally left and went back to teaching the class. During the time I was thinking she should be teaching instead fooling around here. Someone else in the class took my laptop and started it up again. He was trying to search for something on the internet. My teacher was mad and told everyone that she was mad at someone. When asked who, she wrote his name on the board. Then she drew arrows to these Google Chrome icons, and my view zoomed in to these icons that were leading to the same icon at different locations on the board. I assumed she was angry about his internet surfing. Fast forward and now people (I felt?) were leaving the class room. I looked at the board again and at the bottom right corner I saw, "[My name], happy birthday!" and it said April 28 2015. I just chuckled and left. It's not actually my birthday then (and actually another one of my family members'), but honestly, in waking life, I really would have just chuckled and left if I saw that. I'm just that kind of guy .

I was going to transfer dormitory. I was checking my room. There are plenty to things to arrange. The color theme is blue. I also recall doing a front flip and hitting the back of my neck. I just stood up.

I was looking for bathroom.

---

Notes:

- I saw stuff being brought down and up the elevator this evening.
- I slept around 8 pm, woke up around 11 pm. No alarm.
- Light was on.
- Thinking of moving.
- Needed to pee badly when I woke up.

I was playing Gothic 2. I was running around the mountains and chasing bandits.

I was in some sort of town. I was with some parkour people. We were jumping up and down walls/roofs/heights. I remember crawling along on top of the wall.

A dormitory of sorts. I was living with some people.

---

Notes:

- Slept at 3 am, woke up with alarm at 8, but went to sleep again until 10 a.m.
- Drank Oishi Choco oats or something before sleep
- Shimmy-dropped from heights yesterday during parkour training. It was scary.

I haven't had a lucid dream in a long time, and it's quite frustrating. I used to be so natural at it. :/

This semester at college has kept me up until crazy late hours (sometimes 3 or 4 AM...) doing homework and working, and it has really screwed up my sleep schedule. Thankfully, it's almost over - just 3 more finals - and I'm trying to get myself back on track. I've been doing more reality checks, and trying a lot harder to get enough sleep each night.

Thus, last night's dreams! I actually got about 8 hours of sleep last night. Unfortunately, my recall isn't as good as it used to be. None of these were lucid. I'll get back where I used to be, though!

First dream: I was walking through this forest on a trail. It was at the edge of the forest, by a cottage. This wilderness guy who lived in the cottage was walking with me. He said that we couldn't stay out too long in the forest, because there would be wolves. o.o I woke up after that.

Second: There was a boa constrictor and another animal. Apparently, they were doing some sort of mating ritual. But the boa started attacking whatever the other animal was.

I had to study this for an art history test: http://instappraisal.quadrixit.netdn...oto%203_36.JPG which is probably where it all came from.

My DJ also says "laundry guns girl and I flew a bit" but I don't remember what any of that means. Yay for half-asleep hazes!

Dream 3: This is where the multi-headed crocodile comes in. I was in the bathroom of some house, and we were attacked by two crocodiles. One was normal, and one had tons of different necks and heads coming out of it. It was the most bizarre thing ever.

Dream 4: I was playing my Pokemon Omega Ruby, and was catching a bunch of different new Pokemon, heh.

That's all I remember. I'm trying to take some good steps in the right direction lol
but now back to STUDYING FOR FINALS :/

Dream 2

I was inside a park I think and was doing some type of challenge. I don't remember what it was or if i was trying to battle villains though. After something happened I was taken by a guy to an apartment building where he asked me what I wanted to eat or drink. I ended up drinking something wondering how to fix my dog Max's problem. A girl who I assumed to be the guy's girl friend or close friend got mad because i was staying too long though. The guy said Max could stay with him until I came back so I told him "okay" than was getting ready to leave. Max followed me as I was leaving but the guy kept him from going out. When I left the apartment I was trying to figure out how to leave the building.Than a Mexican lady came up to me with a leash in her hand and said that her owner's dog was depressed. I told her that she could leave the dog at my place so he could run around for fun.

Dream 3

I was inside a classroom and the building was leaning. Everyone got scared and the teacher told us to prepare for a hard fall. I shouted for everyone to lean on the left so the building wouldn't collapse. At first everyone was like "what!?" than the teacher repeated it for me. Everyone leaned to the left and the building was more in balance. Than i told everyone to run out the building and we started running but than obstacles began to appear. A pillar was about to squish me but a guy jumped over me and covered me with his body. I thought how nice it was to have him protect me and hugged him trying not to get carried away. Hugging him felt so nice though. Than i got up and we continued on but the dream ended up taking a different direction. Forgot what happened though.

Dream 4

I was outside in the city about to take the bus with a couple of girls. But they ended up arguing about something shopping related. After someone mentioned it was going to rain and they had to take the bus I recognized it was a dream and left them. I took out my phone and started calling Dawn but i got the dream ending feeling. i decided to hold onto the dream with all my might and than the scene slowly started changing. I ended up in a small room looking at Dawn behind a glass. He was told to stay put and not to answer my call.

I wasn't happy with that though so i took a big screw thing and hit another screw attached to the glass trying to get Dawn out from behind the glass. People tried to stop me but i told them "No!" and kept trying to break the thing. Than the scene changed to my older brother's room. Dawn grabbed me from behind and took me to my brother's bed. Than he turned me around and kissed me. But than this annoying high pitch voice came out of no where and kept shouting "aoi!" many times.(Aoi means blue in Japanese)Dawn disappeared after that than i spilled a glass of chocolate and regular milk onto the floor. I started wiping it down with a cloth hoping it would keep me in the dream a bit longer so i could spend more time with Dawn. Hoping he would come back. But nope. Other dream characters spawned than i woke up.

Mini dream 5

Dawn was showing me how to make a dream journal. He took a yellow folder and broke another yellow folder to make the cover seal for it. He stapled white paper inside it and said that not much people do this but they should try it because it can come in handy. Its also cheap.

Saddest Dream Ever.

Earthquake in Vatican city. I felt the strongest vibrations and then I saw an earthquake in Vatican City. I was in the Sistine Chapel as I looked up at the beautiful artwork of Michelangelo crumble to the floor. Forever lost and turning into dust, I cried out to Jesus and wept for the horrific loss of one of the greatest accomplishments by man of irreplaceable art .

Two work related dreams recalled this morning, both in a good amount of detail. Work seems to be becoming more of a recurring thing in my dreams lately.
Oddly, in this dream, I wasn't myself, or rather, I was viewing the dream characters in it without them even knowing I was there, almost as if I was a ghost. Not sure what to make of that.
There were four workers who were doing their jobs in a sort of desert looking area, stacking and breaking boxes. They all looked rather miserable.
One of the workers, a middle aged black man, decided that enough was enough, and was going to leave the job later that day. The other three workers tried to console him and get him to stay, but their words fell on deaf ears, as this man had a newfound determination, and most importantly, a plan. Throughout this entire thing, I gazed from afar, although my view seemed to be getting hazy.
Woke up, went back to bed, and BAM.
Back to being myself, this dream involved me at work, doing a job I don't have IRL. I was backing a truck up into the front of this old lady's driveway, waiting for some of the passerby to move so i didn't run them over. Once the truck was parked, I went to go clean some stuff off her driveway, and she came out during this process and proceeded to give me instructions.
One of the workers came over and interrupted our conversation, saying "Tanner! Your mom is here to help out!"
So I excitedly asked the old lady if it was okay if I left, and she didn't seem to mind.
I quickly crossed the area till I got to the main portion of it, and sure enough, there was my mother walking around looking for me. I caught up to her and we talked about a lot as we headed towards the job site.
The actual job here was a bit odd though. When we got there, my dad was waiting there for us as well, so we split up, with me and my dad handling one zone and mom handling the other zone. These zones had snake like creatures poking up from the ground that we had to kill. Dad and I killed it no problem, but mom was in the next zone screaming like she'd just seen a bug and was flipping out on it, based on the noise.
And that's everything. I'm very impressed with the latest boost in recall, and it has me wondering what exactly I've done differently (if anything) to raise it.

I was playing a roguelike game, which had an option to turn on 3D graphics mode. I pressed Tab, to check how it worked. With a press of a button all the models and textures appeared. I ran around for a while, just to see if there are any glitches, and there weren't.

I decided to stop playing and do something another instead, but then my younger sister appeared, and told me that she wants to play it. I started up a new game, set up skills and equipment to highest possible and let her play. I went to drink some tee.

Next I decided to check how's my sister playing. She wasn't sitting near the PC. I turned around and saw her in a heavy, plate armor, weilding a huge claymore in one hand, and shield in another. The armor was purple, made from some kind of refined ore.

She tried to attack me. I jumped on my bed, and started to shout incantation of a spell, and then touched her head, as she haven't had helmet. Then I told:

- I killed us both. It was rain of fire.

Then I went to the PC, and started playing again. I watched the surroundings while walking the mountain path. I climbed down to a lake, and swam to a huge square in front of a palace surrounded by mountain peaks. I was sneaking, trying to enter the palace. From the entrance I turned right, and went up the stairs.

There was a corridor, and wooden door in the end. Suddenly a zombie opened the door. I ran out and jumped into a lake. After a while I swam to the surface, and saw a huge undead army running all around. I decided to run inside the palace, dodging around all the zombies.

Suddenly a trapdoor opened, and I've fallen into an enormous sewer. The stream of stinking water was too strong, and it pushed me down into a deep chasm. I haven't survived it.

Dream 2

Near the end of the dream I was inside a school building and suddenly Ariana Grande comes in the room. As I'm trying to take control of an evil thing inside a doll or puppet Ariana tells me that she will take care of it. But before she does she asks for a hug. I give her a hug than try to leave the room but the opening in the wall where the door is small and narrow.I squeeze through and meet a child as i'm walking. The child looks like he is 4 years old and I tell him I'm trying to arrive at the place with light. I hover up near the ground and tell the boy to fly like me. His mom comes though and ends up talking to him about something as were moving along. We all than end up at a city where a couple of people are moving a medium sized car around and around in the street. I than notice a dream character that is trying to grab my attention. The dream character is a bald man who looks like he is in his 30s, wearing short pants and a white shirt I think.

The scene than changes after i'm flying above the ground a little. I end up in my parent's bedroom but it looks somewhat different. Another guy who looks like the guy from the dream I had two days ago is there and he has a cigarette lighter. He is showing me how the fire isn't working that well. I tell him okay and to use the other one he has. That is when i go to sit on my parent's bed and see the bald guy usher the other dc to go with him out the room. He closes the door but i can still see him. He notices that I'm staring and does a funny looking thing where he glitches and its like his body is teleporting multiple times in the same spot. Than he walks into the room and jumps on the other bed. Than the bald guy shouts for me to look at him. "There is something coming out of my mouth!" he says laughing. A bit of what I assume to be blood comes out of his mouth.I tell him calmly that I'm not going over there.After that he hits the other guy next to him on the leg than laughs. I wake up after that.

Dream 3

Near the end of dream 3 I was with a group of little kids and a man. The man was saying that in order to stop a heart attack you have to rub the left and right side of your chest one at a time. I told him that wasn't true. He told me to prove it so I took out my phone and searched for a app file that talked about heart attacks.But it was hard to find.Suddenly the place began to be transformed into some sort of game obstacle field. I told the kids with me not to worry and that I'll get them out. A monster came out of a video as a small skull than started transforming into some type of green,skull masked anime monster. It was getting bigger and bigger. I told a little kid with me to not be afraid and that he could fight it. He jumped and tried kicking it but missed. He than ran to me and said he was scared. I said"don't worry. I'll defeat it for you"and tried hitting it but it was really gross looking so I shouted for Dawn to come.

He came and hit the monster. The scene began to change slowly until we were in another room. Dawn than said to me that it was time for him to reset himself. That the only reason he was here was to experience being German again. Someone else than gave me a paper and said that I would have to continue fighting the monsters by myself. I looked at the paper and it said "Dawnyeye11...."and the same thing the person who gave me the paper said. There were 2 smiley emoticons on it too.After that I false awakened in my parent's bedroom and was told by my mom that my cousin was calling me to give me papers. I told her I didn't want the papers than woke up for real.

Game of Death
- My family and I were traveling in an RV when somehow all of us were kidnapped and brought to a large clearing in or by the woods. Another family was standing side by side in a straight line next to an RV, their kidnapper as well as ours standing before them. He was short, about as tall as a ten or twelve year old, his skin was pale and his eyes were icy blue while his hair was pitch black. He walked slowly by us explaining that we were gonna play a game, a game he liked to call death. I rolled my eyes and realized in a sudden panic what game he was talking about. I told him that I knew what game he was talking about. He smiled at me and the stranger at the end of the line, the youngest I beleive of the other family annoyed him so he put wires on the kid that connected to the engine of the RV. The kid was shocked and burned to crisp, when he fell down all our eyes were on our kidnapper. He smiled and said the last one living wins.
And then we were released, all of us running into the woods. As I ran I was heading to the center of the woods knowing Slenderman would be there and get me out of this, somewhere along the way I ran into two girls from the other family along with my sister. I suggested to pair up for now and they agreed but it wasn't a team of four more like just two pairs. We ran into two of the other members of their family and I was told to attack. I did, using my wooden sword but since it did no good I used my hunting knife but I couldn't make myself hurt her too bad. So I stopped. I said, "I'm sorry...I just can't."

Pixal Pixie
- I was in an online world. It started off me climbing out of a well and into a huge meadow or feild, bright orange lit up the way to go so I followed. It lead through some dark woodland, looked like the woods from the previous dream. Then into a old time town like in Lucent Hearts. The orange path shut off so I walked around a bit, seeing many people wondering the streets. Eventually the orange path lit up again, leading me over some concrete railing and onto a lower part of the town. From there into a building, I think a hotel? I was supposed to talk to a stranger with black hair and elf ears so I did but ended up chasing him out and up onto the higher level of the city. There is where I captured a small pixie that had been following him around, she looked like that one girl from Sword Art Online, the girl Kirrito treated like his own daughter.

Thankfully, I recalled a pretty good amount of a dream this morning! A very weird, kind of sensual dream at that. And it's a weekend, no less, which my recall has tended to be crappy on lately. But first, a very small fragment from when I woke up in the middle of the night:
My dog, Jesse, was tackling me and licking my face (as he does constantly IRL). However, it soon got to the point where I could no longer breathe, and I was gasping for air as Jesse continued to try to love on me. Running (or nearly running) out of breath caused me to wake up with a start, but I quickly fell back asleep to have the former, more vivid dream I mentioned.
I was at a large mansion on a school trip with a lot of classmates whom I don't actually know. There were about...40 or so of us altogether, including myself. The trip involved us going on a guided tour of the mansion. All of the students were about the same age as me.
In any case, soon after the tour started, one of the girl classmates came up to me and started whispering flirty comments into my ear. Shocked, and a little embarrassed, I turned to face her. Strangely, she did have a familiar quality about her, like I should know her from some where but in reality I don't actually know who she is. Her hair was short, messy, and light brown, and she had very fierce eyes.
I asked her why she was doing that, but I don't quite remember her response. The rest of the tour went on like this, with me trying to pay attention to the tour guide while she continually tried to seduce me, whispering comments and hugging me without anyone around us even noticing (somehow).
Eventually when the tour ended, we decided to hang out and discuss a whole number of things. As we were wrapping up this discussion, she decided to take more physical action, and pulled closer to me. I tried to pull away, and that was when my parents walked in on us and scolded me, with me being like and telling them it's not what it looks like.
After all of this happened, my girlfriend joined me on a wild ride in a futuristic car in an even more futuristic looking city. Weirdly enough, this was in the same dream, and followed immediately after the prior events, with the mysterious girl just vanishing without a trace. The city glowed neon, and I was awed by the sights.
Annnnd that's everything. Very odd dream, but nice and vivid.

Ritual: I don't know if it was the jackfruit seeds or a bad scallop, but something I ate last night was brutal to my stomach. It got so unpleasant I that for a few hours I couldn't do anything but pace in discomfort, hoping something would come out in any direction. Finally I threw up, which usually leaves me feeling 100% better, but this was only a minor improvement. I managed to read for a bit, drinking herbal tea and self-medicating with tinctures of myrrh and wormwood. Around midnight I threw up again and finally felt stable enough to sleep. Although my stomach still hurt for a few hours and I couldn't drink much water at first, by the time I woke up at 8am, I was feeling basically fine again. My dream recall was terrible, though: I knew I had dreamed but couldn't pin down a single detail. At 9am I decided to go back to bed for a bit, performed half-assed WILD technique but started dreaming non-lucidly. On waking up my recall was 1/10 at first, but once I managed to recover the location of the dream I was able to follow the thread and reconstruct much of the narrative, resulting in 4/10 recall overall.

I was in my grandmother's house, a common setting for many of my dreams. The events going on were all very mundane... too dull to go into much detail. Briefly, I was looking for some powder that you could mix with milk to make a shake, similar to the Carnation Instant Breakfast packets my grandmother always used to have on hand, but couldn't find any.

I went into the bathroom and finally realized that my location was a dream sign, so I started to look around and wonder if this was a dream. Everything seemed so concrete and convincing that I had my doubts, but then something bizarre happened: I suddenly felt like I was being grabbed from behind by someone putting their arm around my right shoulder, but there was no one in the room with me! I whirled around to make sure and was staring at empty air. A moment later I felt it again even more strongly: the pressure of the arm squeezing my shoulder and chest, and the pressure of a warm body very close behind me.

Ohhh, I thought. I think I know what's going on. I really am dreaming, and my husband has come back to bed and put his arms around me. Upon that realization, I felt the dream fading, and sure enough, woke up in bed next to my husband.

"Are you going to get up? It's 1:50 in the afternoon," he said. I pointed out that I had returned to bed to for extra rest because I hadn't been feeling well last night. I was telling him about the strange thing that had just happened, how I had felt his presence while I was dreaming. I went on to explain how I should have recognized that it was a dream earlier, because my cousins were all much younger than they should be, and my grandmother's house was in the possession of an aunt (long-since divorced) rather than the uncle who currently lives there. My husband apologized for disrupting my dream, but I said it was okay, it hadn't been that interesting.

As we talked, I was looking out the screen door onto our patio. Where I should have seen the pool and cement deck, instead I was mildly surprised to observe a grassy hillside. I attributed this to some lingering after-effects of the dream state, instead of correctly realizing that I had never stopped dreaming all along. In retrospect this is more obvious, because the way I felt my husband put his arm around my right shoulder was impossible given that I sleep on the right side of the bed, so if I'm on my left side there is no room for someone to lay down behind me. I was also relieved when I woke up for real and discovered that it was only a little after 10:30am!