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    1. Over Unity land

      by , 02-03-2015 at 12:34 AM
      Had a dream last night that I was in this theme park shop kind of center where everything was powered self sufficient, and I went around collecting toys like bike helmets and browsing around the shop for things. There was games to play and seemed generally like a magical land in outer space that I had found. I thought this is far away from earth where things are different even gravity worked a bit differently. I can't remember much of the dream but took the chance to note it here while I could.
    2. Visiting Germany and Greece DILD - Sensei's Competition

      by , 02-02-2015 at 10:26 PM
      I​ recommend reading my previous DJ entry first. Only 6 views and it is more eventful...(apparently DV only allows members to view DJ's now...unless it is a bug.)

      1015-1030? 238am-320am? for wbtb. leftist rally in Germany? German accent: "... ...in the mother fu**ing ..." was the name of event or rally. Night time. Familiar train station? Fragment.

      Greece LD wake from LD ~4:50pm
      I'm with brother in law E and brother-in-law B in the dream but we're meeting the former at a coastal cliff side house in some town in Greece. We are walking along the beach and up a path and we see beautiful views of cliffs all around. After we get to the home and visit for a little bit we're heading back to where we came, this time along with brother in law E on this return leg. He seems to know a shortcut and he's going around the other side of the cliff and the footholds are not very wide and they're going pretty quick ahead of me and I'm cautiously taking my time. They stop at a bend in the cliffs and look at a swimming spot down below. It is absolutely beautiful down there and a beautiful sunny day. They continue on, but the path seems too narrow and not worth the risk when I can just go back the way I first came earlier in the day along the beach. When I think about the earlier path along the beach it seems like it was a dream memory maybe from a previous dream and I realize that this is a dream right now. I float up in the air just enough to confirm as an RC. I then start to fly back towards the beach going slow and not with a lot of directional control at the beginning which is a little unusual for me. I go back and forth left and right to correct my direction flying over a rugged rocky area. It is beautiful and exhilarating being up in the air reminding me of my simulated flying last night while a passenger in a car going over various overpasses (for day practices)...but so much better! I am unbounded drifting across the sky. I still have not seen any DC's so I decide to turn around and see if I can find my brother in laws and surprise them or something on their trek along that narrow path by the cliffs. As I fly down that way back towards the cliffs I feel myself abruptly return to bed and the way I woke up and my level of rest seems to indicate I was at the end of an REM cycle. Too short but back to lucidity after too many dry days! Found motivation for day work and also did a number of "I'm dreaming" mantras during the day. Corrected monkey brain during SSILD. No.274


      Cafe epiphany NLD or semi: I'm modern me sitting outdoors at a cafe soaking in the moment. I see happy and sad faces on this beautiful day . "If you don't open yourself up to the world around you, you will miss out on so many experiences," I tell my companions. People who look sad look like they're walking around "in a bubble" with tunnel vision, seemingly oblivious to all the beauty around them.

      Updated 02-03-2015 at 06:49 PM by 61674 (add color)

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      lucid , non-lucid
    3. A deal

      by , 02-02-2015 at 10:14 PM
      A woman is standing in my home - I'm not physically present at the moment - and looking into a mirror that's showing her various visions. Currently it's showing her the man she loves with a very beautiful young servant standing underneath a tree, carrying out an affair. This isn't a surprise - she was already aware of it.

      The scene in the mirror changes, showing her an image of herself in a shop. There's no sound but the shop owner seems to be repeatedly asking her something that she refuses to respond to. When he approaches her, she throws out a hand to tell him to back off, but her nails brush his throat and cut it open, covering her with his blood. She looks shocked, but quickly recovers and hurries out of the shop.

      This second vision reminds her of my instructions to her. She has to eat a human heart tonight if that young and beautiful body I gave her is going to become hers permanently. And regularly after that, but that's not important, that's just basic dietary needs - the important part is this first time, making a deliberate decision.

      She steps through a portal back into her world, the courtyard of her own home. But as she looks around things look strange to her - most notably, the sky is covered with grey clouds that seem unnatural to her. It's as if she's seeing both her world and mine at the same time, and she wonders if this is how I see her world all the time. I'm thinking, you're getting a bit mixed up about which world is yours now.
    4. Life itself and the Queen of Swans

      by , 02-02-2015 at 10:03 PM
      I was among a crowd of people (outside I think) and was walking around a conversing with them. Some of them stuck their fingers in my mouth and moved it around. At one point a bright light outside my vision appeared and the entire crowd (including myself) started running towards it. When we reached the light we turned around and started running away from it because the light was "life itself". At the time it seemed funny rather than scary, maybe there was some part of my mind realizing how absurd it was?

      I was in a carpark when a man started shooting at civilians. I curled up behind a pillar and began to shake. I knew my mother was in the carpark too and I kept looking around for her in fear. Eventually I saw her walking away in the distance and felt relieved. At this point the danger was gone but I knew (didn't see) that the man had shot and killed a young woman. There was a brief moment when I heard her friend crying.

      After the shooting I met a woman who was grateful to me (for some reason) and she invited me to her home to stay the night. (I got the impression I couldn't go to my own home) When I arrived at her home she forget about me and started wandering aimlessly around the room. Her daughter arrived home at this point and sat down on a couch. (I'm not sure but I think she was watching tv) The woman gave me some chicken nuggets (although the were more like chicken balls) and I ate them. (I don't remember what they tasted like but I was happy with them I think) I told her I'd sleep on the couch, I had a blanket in my hand. The couch was covered in dander and fur.

      After this something happened in a supermarket and the woman attempted to cast a spell on herself (I think, this part was super foggy) but accidentally caused her daughter to disappear. The woman was distraught and I watched her grow old. (I think some time passed) I was then with the woman outside when two swans appeared behind us, flying upwards in a circular motion. A young woman in a light coffee coloured dress stepped out from the circle. It was the daughter who had disappeared. (After I woke up I remembered her face incredibly vividly, although it's become hazier since then) She was wearing glasses and had her brown hair tied up in a bun. I think she looked a bit like a mousier Audrey Hepburn. She declared that she had become the Queen of Arendale (too much once upon a time) and I noted that she was probably the Queen of Swans too.

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      I mentioned it already, but the most exciting thing about this dream was how clearly I remembered the daughters face when I first woke up. It was like seeing someone in real life, turning around and trying to visualise what they looked like.
      Categories
      non-lucid , dream fragment
    5. The wednesday ritual

      by , 02-02-2015 at 08:40 PM
      NON LUCID
      *I observed this strange guy covered in tattoos which at the sight of him gave a sick feeling to my stomach, bad vibes you could say. I seemed to being attending some kind of a roof top party. Somebody struck up a consersation with him by saying, "You practice witch craft too?" I thought,"This is why I got that strange feeling from him!" The strange man began describing a protection ritual he called by the name of "The wednesday ritual". This reminded of the R&B artist the weekend, because he also has a song titled wednesday. I thought maybe is it possible The weekend is involved in witchcraft. LOL.
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      non-lucid
    6. 2015-01-29 Comp (SCoAA) night #9: searching for the sun

      by , 02-02-2015 at 08:27 PM
      The impression of lots of dreams, recall spotty though

      + ChrBen is not playing right, I follow him calling out "might as well call it "glinklesplort" <some nonsense>"

      He's playing the game wrong, he's making multiple hits and following the (ball?) and keeps presenting this as one turn, it's obviously cheating so that we may as well call it a different game.

      + billiards: I give the shaft conditioner to the girl who uses it and I use the tip sandpaper myself, up-close view

      I bring out the shaft conditioner (basically a hollow cylinder made of a mildly abrasive material), mention you need to blow on it to get out
      the old dust. Then I take out my tip rougher (small plastic doohicky with sandpaper glued to it) and start roughing up the edges of my tip. I watch while the girl runs the conditioner up and down her cue stick, and then she really starts grinding it a lot near the tip. I think she probably will like how smooth it is.

      + crazy billiards: lots of obstacles on the table: vases, pieces of paper, etc.

      +(f) oral sex?

      + taking the girl out to lie in the last rays of the run for the day on yellow towels, two-finger-kiss salute to girl in house, is the house locked?, walking looking for sun, raised cement/pebble platform, dilapidated wooden bench, "if you're happy and you know it"

      I'm in a small house and am taking a girl out to sit in the sun. We need two large yellow bathtowels. We have one but need one more, there is (my other girlfriend?) lying down on a couch/lounger on top of just such a towel. I reach under her and pull it out. I wonder if she'll mind that I'm going out with this other girl. I bring my index/middle fingers together, kiss them, blow he the kiss then point the fingers at her, she makes the same gesture back to me so I guess she's OK with out.

      Going out, I try to remember if I've locked the door.

      We're walking around a university campus (my old one) and see that the patches of sunlight are really starting to shrink. At one point she walks on the other side of a building from me but we soon rejoin. She's walking in front of me slightly and another group of students walk close to her, startling her, making her jump a little bit and look suddenly to the right at them. I see her face in profile clearly, she is Asian (I don't think she was at the house).

      We're walking through a small area between buildings with stairways going up, some students are sitting on the stairs, few spots of sun around but just on the bare ground, not really acceptable.

      We're walking and she points out a place ahead, but it's just on the concrete, not grass, she indicates she doesn't like it. I say "well that's what you get (for going out at the end of the day when the sun is disappearing)".

      On a sort of raised patio I see a higher patio with some grasses growing to the right, I make for it. Some other students are heading there, too. I want to get there first. I'm looking at the pebbly/concrete "steps" making up this raised area and thinking about jumping up there.

      I look across the patio we're on and see a long, dilapidated wooden bench running along the entire edge of the patio. It looks to be in pretty bad shape, but I offer that as a possibility.

      I'm standing there with a guy, some children are singing a song ("let the sunshine in"?), and he's upset about this, saying, "Are you *CRAZY*?!" (he thinks the singing will bother the wildcats who will go nuts and (attack us?)).
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      non-lucid
    7. 9th Night Sensei's Competition

      by , 02-02-2015 at 06:25 PM
      I was watching a scene where a bunch of guys (don't know why but I'm pretty sure they were the German football team) were in a platform in the middle of the ocean in their speedos jumping to the sea.
      I'm guessing they were training.
      One of them was really afraid. I was afraid too. He started to swim really fast (I saw a commercial yesterday where a shark ate a girl. I kinda hate sharks. Thanks Spielberg).
      My vision shifted to first person. I was swimming and was dragged by a wave to the shore.
      It was a beautiful beach. It was sunny, hot and very real. I stood there watching for a second and i realized I was dreaming.
      I'm starting to realize that I tend to get Lucid every time the dream is more real or every time I just stop doing what I'm doing and just calm down a bit to look at things.
      A guy comes running and I go talk to him.
      I realize I haven't stabilize the dream yet. Everything seems stable but I stop and look at my hands anyway. They're normal size but glowing like that faggy vampires from twilight glow in the sunlight.
      There was a recent joke in a thread in another forum
      (non LD, music related) where someone posted this picture.

      I'm pretty sure this was the guy Anyway...
      I ask him if he knows anything about my dream guide. He kinda mumbles something and I completely ignore him.
      I turn around to the sea and when I turn again the guy was on his way running and another one exactly like him comes running towards me. It's too weird and I ignore both.
      I look towards the sea again and there is a lot of people there.
      I totally forgot the tasks I'm supposed to do. So I try to fly. There's no place were I can jump from so I try and levitate from the ground. I feel like a turtle stretching it's neck. I look around and there's a couple standing 1 meter above the ground completely still levitating. Don't know if they're mocking or trying to teach me.
      I levitate just a bit but fall immediately.
      I start walking. I recognize the beach as one near my hometown (SR). I look to my hands once more to stabilize even though I don't think I need it. I should do this more often.
      I literally don't know what to do.
      I recognize two sisters I've met before.
      We engage in stuff I'm not proud of...
      I know realize I'm starting to lose lucidity. I deserve it.
      I wake up soon after.

      I should have known better than to behave like a horny teen.

      Updated 02-02-2015 at 07:07 PM by 64282

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      lucid , non-lucid
    8. Lucid Frags

      by , 02-02-2015 at 03:05 PM (Lucid Time!)
      There was a long and particularly drab space travel dream. I was landed on the moon with two other astronauts. One of them was dumping liquid fuel onto the surface of the moon so that our capsule would be lightweight enough to fly home.

      When I got on the capsule (That was huge on the inside despite being tiny on the inside.) my parents were there, along with many a familiar member of my family. They told me 'Happy 19th birthday' (IWL that isn't for another couple weeks. And they gave me this weird cake. It was like a small loaf of bread and filled with this thick buttery like cream. I didn't really like it and told them when my real party came, I wanted a chocolate cake.

      I got distracted from the birthday party scene because I had to dock the caupsle with a space station. I got the strangest sense of Deja-vu, as though I had done this in a previous dream or a long time ago.
      Why does docking with the space station feel farmiliar...?


      I was watching the superbowl, live from the stadium. The game had just started and the football froze in midair. All of the players started dog-piling and jumping to get at it.

      "Uh-Oh, looks like that's an illegal anti-gravity ball. Minus 20 points! And *some player* to the time-out square for you!"


      I realized how absurd this was. (Now IWL, I don't watch sports, and TBH I don't even know the rules of football all that well.) But this was just so strange that I had to be dreaming.


      I woke up though. I took a leak and then it was WBTB time.

      I found myself on my bed. (False awakening.) Though my bed was replaced with this odd powder, like finely-ground flour. I realized right away that I was not fully awake. I began to mess with it. I thought that the reason I was in my bed was because I was still partially awake and I shouldn't move too much because I might start to move my waking life body and wake up.

      At one point, I decided to smell it. It did have a smell, though faint it did smell a bit chalky, sort of like baking soda or flour. I can't say so exactly, but yay for finally smelling something in a dream.

      ...

      I was by a lake. My friend pointed out that there were squidfish in the water. I asked him what a squidfish was and he showed me. They were these fish, perhaps a foot long with all of these tentacles on the front of their face. They were carnivorous and ate other smaller fish whole.

      I then noticed that there were large fat fish swimming around in the air, a few feet above me.
      I became lucid, but the dream promptly faded.

      ...

      There was one other lucid fragment from this morning, but I can't recall what it was, just that there were three frags involving lucidity after my WBTB. I had the number on my mind all morning.
    9. Chased in a university!?

      by , 02-02-2015 at 11:10 AM
      Wed, 28 Jan 2015

      I don't remember the dream before this one, but it is connected to the one I am posting.
      So I'm in a university. The front of the university has a big panorama.
      I am walking from the right wing to the left wing on the university. There was a car outside which was following my every move. If I moved right it would move right, if I moved left it moved left. I got scared and started running towards the left wing. I told my self that if the car doesn't see me, then it can't follow me, so I fell on the ground on my knees.
      I looked trough one of the windows and I saw that there was nobody around the car. I slowly moved towards the door. At that moment in which I was going to open the door so I can exit, I saw 2 men coming towards it. I got scared again and I started running. I think he heard me and followed me. I ran to a laboratory of some sort and hide behind a char in the corner. The 2 men entered the room. One of them was touching the desk with the chemicals. They were talking to each other. The one that was right next to me ( I don't know how he didn't see me ) decided to clean the blood out of his knife on my shirt.
      Aproximatly 5 seconds later the desk with the chemicals started burning and burned the face of the one next to it. I got up pushed him aside and I ran.
      Now this part of the dream I don't remember very well. I know that I hit one of them with a broken bottle and found him under the shower taking a bath
      I hit him and I started running towards a shelf filled with cosmetic products. I got a cream and started spraying them with it. I wanted to find a spray so I can spray them in the eyes, but I couldn't there were only perfumes.
      Right when they were about to catch me the police came and chained them.
      Some of my friends from another dream were there. There was a police oficer which wanted to ask me some question. I went to him and started explaining and I woke up.
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      non-lucid
    10. Meeting up with a friend

      by , 02-02-2015 at 10:51 AM
      Wed, 29 Oct 2014

      I exit my mothers hair saloon and I see my friend, who is a girl which I will call J. She was on the other side of the street so I decided to say hi so I teleported next to her. It seemed like she was talking on the phone, because she told somebody that I teleported next to her.
      We started walking so I can get back home. She had a purple spray with which she started spraying on stuff. I told her not to and she painted something and put it away.
      So we said goodbye to eachother with J and I continued back home to my block. I went to unlock the front door when I saw another 2 of my friends sitting around the table, which is right beside our block. They were talking about something. They finished their talk and S. went away. I woke up.
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      non-lucid
    11. The Vatican?!

      by , 02-02-2015 at 10:43 AM
      Backing up some dreams that did not make it here on time

      Mon, 27 Oct 2014 Non lucid

      So I dreamed that I am in a city that looked like the Vatican. I was wit a woman. She showed me around. She brought me to a very big and beautiful house. The house was black and white. It had a magnificient panorama and in it I saw a gigantic chandelier. I wanted to stay and go in the house, because I was already in the yard of the house.
      The woman asked me whats wrong. It looked like that we were in a hurry.
      We went to a street where the buildings were very big. We entered one of them. We went to a very big room. There was another person sitting on the table. We went to him to say hi. The woman then said "Here's your father" and he entered the room. Then the man and my father started talking about some towns here in Bulgaria and I woke up.
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      non-lucid
    12. A lot of short lucids

      by , 02-02-2015 at 08:46 AM
      Saturday Night:

      I became lucid at the end of a nightmare and tried to change what happened by restarting the dream, but I woke up instead.

      Sunday Night:

      DILD #1

      I was in a fancy restaurant with Dreamer. We were lying down on a secret upper platform that was covered in a silky, pink blanket and plush pillows.
      Spoiler for Slightly Sexy Scene:
      She said to me, "We have the best seat in the house."
      I nodded my head in agreement, then she clumsily fell off the side of our platform and onto a table where a nice elderly couple were eating their dinner. I looked down and saw two Dreamers.
      I looked back and forth between them with my mouth agape in shock and excitement. I then did a noseplug RC and air went through. I grabbed the hand of the real Dreamer and we took off flying. I woke up, DEILD'd back in.
      I was still flying with her except we were outside of an epic sized shopping mall. She remarked to me that my dreams were quite short compared to hers. I sadly agreed that they had been very short lately. We landed and I used my super leg muscles to jump super long distances, all over the top of the cementlike shopping centre structure. I was like a human grasshopper.
      Woke up into a false awakening.

      DILD #2

      I had been talking with dreamer for a while about, I don't know what.
      But eventually I remembered that I needed to do an RC after waking up to make sure it was real. I did a nose plug RC and air went through again. I then took her hand and we went flying again and I moved some stuff around with my mind powers for fun before waking up.

      WILD

      I had been trying to WILD for what felt like ages when I finally got into a dream, I did a closed mouth RC to make sure and air went through. I got really excited then woke up immediately.

      DILD #3

      I had become lucid while talking to Joffrey, he was telling me that he was a master at dream control and I challenged him to show me something. He refused though and then I woke up pretty quickly.



      DILD #4

      I was talking to an old friend from high school when I realized that I was in a dream again. Dreamer was with me. I took her hand and we went flying towards these ancient ruins of an industrial city. Woke up before we got there.

      DILD #5

      I was in another dream with Joffrey. He was the same character except we were in another room that was brightly lit with warm light pouring through a few windows. I remember how pretty it was to see the light illuminating the red wood floor. I was watching some show with Joffrey when I decided that I wanted to change the channel. I tried to change it with telekinesis but it wouldn't work, I became frustrated and realized that I was being ridiculous and I should do some cool dream control stuff for fun and to farm points. I looked at these playing cards that were scattered across the floor and made them all fly up into the air. I made the cards fly in a circular pattern above me before making them fly off in all different directions. I then looked at B-Dog, who was lying on a bed, and tried to make time slow down for him. Wasn't working. I then tried to make time speed up. B-Dog began to lick himself and move very quickly. I returned time to the normal speed and I could hear the ticking of a clock slowing down while I was doing it.

      I then walked over to Joffrey, turned off the TV from his keyboard by pressing the space bar, and then told him to stab me with a pen because I was invincible!! He did it and I laughed at him. I then told him to give me some of the chocolate and raspberries that he was eating. He refused. I tried to make him with mind control, but it didn't work. I got frustrated and then grabbed the chocolate and raspberries and shoved them in my mouth, YUMMMMm. His drone/slave DC walked in and started talking to him. I could feel the dream starting to end so I made fireballs appear in my hands and I juggled them in the air then threw them at the walls.


      Note: Before this night I had tried something different from my usual mantra. Instead of trying to feel as though I was in a dream while repeating words, I instead repeated the phrase, "I am dreaming" about 30 times while trying very hard to remember it. I felt like I was trying to memorize something, I was trying really hard not to forget. I also combined that with Dreamer's awesome daytime method for having super long lucid dreams, but I didn't do it right.

      Updated 02-02-2015 at 09:09 AM by 66732

      Categories
      lucid , non-lucid , nightmare , false awakening
    13. Mrs. Kelly's Science Class

      by , 02-02-2015 at 06:57 AM
      It was the first day back at school. I was laying down on the warm carpet floor with my back against the wall inside an office-like building. I stood right next to the classroom door, which was only a few inches away. Me and the other 15 or so individual students were waiting near the entrance waiting for our teacher to open up the door. I stood there observing the environment around me, absorbing the same depressing, atmospheric feeling of the first day of school. One of the students walked up to me, a girl. She stand down right next to me and, if I remember correctly, she asked me if there was anything wrong. I don't remember what I said to her.

      When the time finally came, a moment difficult for me to recall, the door opened and we were all able to walk in to the class. I got back up on my feet and slowly walked through the doorway. The crowd of the students followed. As I was walking in to the classroom, I noticed a similarity of what I had seen in one of my previous dreams. The same classroom layout. Every single object within the room looked exactly like it did the last time I was here. Everything was in order. The desks, walls, carpet, and window were all recycled elements of my past. I never questioned whether I was dreaming or not.

      As everyone was deciding where going to sit for the rest of the year, I quickly walked over to one of the tables laid out just right next to the front podium of the teacher's work area. I sat down facing her right side. I waited there for a few seconds and then a few other students decided to sit at the table. I stared at the front of the class and waited for the teacher's introduction.

      When the whole class was set and everyone placed in their seats, the instructor begun teaching. I looked up at her and realized the person teaching us was going to be Mrs. Kelly, an old science teacher back at high school. I wasn't sure whether I was die of boredom or see something in class I probably have never seen before. As soon as she started talking to the class, she already started pointing out the different meanings of each term that was laid out on the overhead projected just behind her podium.

      I sat there in my seat wondering when she was going to be done teaching. My eyes began drowsing off to sleep. That's when I questioned whether or not the subject material she was teaching us was boring or not. I spent a couple of seconds trying to focus on what she was actually talking about. After a few more seconds of listening to her, I begun understanding what she was actually talking about, making learning a little bit better for me.
    14. Over The Top DA + DILD

      by , 02-01-2015 at 11:12 PM (Inner World حلم Gamma Waves)
      I discover I was in another building, I notice the front door to this place and open it to find myself outside next to a yellow lamppost. It appeared to be night, next to it I manage to see another building and my mother returning at the beginning of the road. This house lock was already open, I decided to enter inside and close the door. There was no lights except for a little lamp on a black desk. I then heard a lot of loud banging on the door that I had just lock. I peek through the blinds to see who it was but could not see properly.

      I then open the door suspecting it to be my mother. However I discover it was no one and quickly after I have a FA. I woke up and realize what has happen before. I observe the room to see if there was anything wrong. I notice that the tv was hook up highly against the wall. I then began thinking that the chances this is a dream are great, suddenly I could feel myself waking up. Lucidity Time: 5 seconds
    15. Ephigenia, an interrogation, don't interrupt the music, St. George and the dragon,

      by , 02-01-2015 at 10:07 PM
      I'm giving a woman a ride somewhere in a carriage, and when she's gotten settled I knock on the wall twice and we start moving. I go to lower the curtains on the windows, and as I do I catch sight of her fiance out on the street, obviously looking for her. She's already made it clear she doesn't want to be found at this moment. As I'm looking at him I'm struck again by how incredibly dull he seems. I say to her, "On God's green earth, what do you see in him?" I gave up my chance with her so I have no right to judge the man she chose, but still - him?

      She says, "On God's green earth, I won't let you steal my plan. I can't." Either she has drastically changed the subject or else I've drastically misunderstood their relationship - either way, I have no idea what she's talking about.

      Just then, her fiance spots us - I should have lowered that curtain - and he shouts her name, Ephigenia. He is being ridiculously overdramatic, people will think I'm kidnapping her.

      (Woke up. Back to sleep.)

      Disembodied, I'm watching my son be interrogated by a pair of policemen. We don't have any legal ties under my present identity, at his insistence - he's old enough now that we look the same age, so adopting him again wouldn't have been practical, but I'd wanted to arrange something, and he'd refused. I'm particularly annoyed about that now, when a legal connection would come in handy.

      They've accused him and his sister - his biological sister, I didn't raise her, hadn't known she was alive until just now - of murder, and he's been repeatedly telling them he's innocent, but they've just produced an audio recording of what is clearly his voice stating that "we" - he and his sister - have been waiting for this since he was nine years old. As I hear the recording, I see a mental image of him at the moment he spoke those words, with a man tied up in front of them. Up until this moment I'd believed he was innocent. Back in the interrogation room, he's insisting that the voice on the recorder isn't his, but he's clearly fooling no one. They've been letting him tell his story, knowing he was lying the entire time.

      I've heard enough. I remove my awareness from the interrogation room. Back in my body, I'm standing in my son's apartment - a tiny studio with a mattress on the floor, cluttered with random piles of clothes and other things. He wasn't doing well. I'm extremely annoyed about this situation - he'd betrayed me, he'd made it clear he was going to cause trouble for me, but for him to simply be removed from the situation like this by unrelated people, that doesn't sit right with me.

      (Woke up. Back to sleep.)

      I'm running - as fast as I can manage, which isn't very - along a snow-covered mountain path, trying to hold my throat closed as much as possible. I'm wearing black leather gloves, the blood blends in very well. This isn't the first time I've had my throat slit, so at least this time I know my voice will come back eventually - just the memory of how frightening it had been the first time I had my throat slit still makes me uncomfortable. It's still incredibly inconvenient until it heals. One of my least favorite ways to 'die.' I'm thinking about the man who 'killed' me - a soldier on the same side I am. I don't know why he did this - he enjoys violence in general, so I'm hoping it was just something personal and not something larger I'd have to worry about.

      Thinking about that man's possible motivations prompts a scene change. I'm peeling an orange as a visitor goes upstairs to meet with that man who'll slit my throat. I can hear the sound of an opera recording on the phonograph, and I warned the visitor that it's best not to interrupt while he's listening to his music - I didn't say this, but I'm pretty sure opera is the only thing that man loves aside from violence - but the visitor ignored me. Shortly later I hear the visitor scream.

      I'm looking at a painting with the artist beside me. St. George and the dragon - I recognize that the dragon is meant to be myself. After noticing that, I recognize who St. George is meant to represent too. I say to her, very slowly and deliberately, "George can't save you." Whether I can do anything for her either isn't certain, but "George" definitely can't, despite what he believes.