non-lucid

So I've recently joined this site, and thought I'd put up a few things I wrote down. I don't regularly maintain a DJ, but I have a notebook I keep random notes and stuff in, and I put a few dreams in there.

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No date on this one, by location in notebook, I estimate end of 2013:
Stuck in cave with many other people, blast it open but water rushes in, have to swim out of the opening, but it's underneath the water. Most people not having any trouble, but I keep floating on top weakly instead of being able to dive down. Air is running out, I have to hurry. Finally swim out into an airport.
(I remember this one had something to do with terrorists, but I guess I was too lazy to write down the rest of the dream. Also, I think the airport kind of looked like a mall for some reason.)

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No date on this one either, probably summer 2014:

• Anna (my name in this dream for some reason), have to save someone whose name starts with a D, Dom? Dido?
• Short blade
• There's some kind of virus, it grows out of love into violence (causing people to be violent to the ones they love)
• The virus spreads to her children (Anna's?)
• Some kind of enemy army nearby (set in a much older time, think around Mongolian era or older)
• Someone yelled 'Anna, no!'
• I (being Anna) stab myself in the stomach and fall on my back

(This one I remember actually feeling the warmth of the blood and as I died (not instantly) I woke up. Weird stuff.)

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This one was written immediately after the last one in same pen, looks continuous. I think they happened in the same night:

• Jumped from ~20th floor, felt like all my organs and body hurt but I was mostly fine and walking around like normal
• Went back up in an elevator
• No intention of dying, I must have been locked out on the balcony by someone?

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I've got about 3 more in this notebook here, slightly longer ones. I'll post them later.

Dream 2

I was in a carriage being taken to a huge castle by the wind. I was curious to what I would find in the castle. But I was dissapointed. When I went inside there was that annoying DC again. It told me to take a pen and stab it and made dirty jokes. I told it to leave me alone and tried to escape out through the window. It ran after me but I pointed at it and told it to freeze. It froze in place and I flew out the window and kept going higher and higher. It followed me though. But out of no where I appeared in my house bathtub and a invincible lady was throwing salt or sand at me while she talked on the phone. I started calling for Dawn after that and he burst in and broke the door. He screamed at the lady saying what the heck was she doing to me. Than proceeded to beat her up. I woke up after that.

Dream 3

I was reading a manga about me and my characters and found a shiny silver ring with 3 green gem stones.

Previous scene had been on the subject of breaking through layers - in a futuristic setting, there'd previously been a big struggle to break through (something, either the earth or a ship - either way, the important part is that it's the ground we stand on), and we'd thought that was the end of it; now we're discovering there's another layer to break through.

In that same setting, I'm part of a team of people in uniforms, rounding up some wild animals. But most of the scene is spent in disembodied 3rd person, following one of my partners. She's watching a boar - huge thing, at least twice my height - and a voice is saying to her through some communications device, "If (something), think how much could be got from a boar of that size under good conditions."

She asks, "Are these good conditions?" She's referring to the boar's behavior.

"Best I've ever seen," is the answer.

She's nervous, but she activates this sort of mechanical set of wings she's wearing; they glow green as they lift her into the air, and she starts rounding up the boar - chasing it down, frightening it, until finally a great green light bursts from inside the boar, creating this swirling transparent sphere around it, fragments rising and dispersing in the air. The light's invisible to the animal itself. She lands on it, clings to its side and uses a vial to collect that light. It's a kind of energy we use, given off by these creatures' heightened emotions - it's the same thing that's powering the weapons we're using to hunt them.

I wasn't really half-lucid so much as half-awake during this dream. I could feel my waking body, and was somewhat aware of this thinking.
Something to do with Marcus inventing these goggles that allow you to see different layers of a person's inner workings. One setting allows you to see their internal organs such as the heart and intestines. Another allows you to see like X-rays to see bones and stuff. Then there are settings for other things There is a setting to see someone's ora. There is a setting to see their chackras (which ones are open/closed) and one that allows you to see someone's consciousness. The consciousness looks different for everybody and radiates a different kind of energy.
I was looking at some weird blue-haired girl sitting in marcus' house eating cookies. He asks me to test the goggles on her. I look on the first setting and I can see the inside of her body as she chews and swallows the cookies and they go down into her stomach (gross). The X-ray setting shows just a skeleton. Her ora is a dingy blue-gray and seems rather faint. I 'remember' other oras being much clearer. All of her chackras are closed. I was about to switch to the 'consciousness' setting when I woke up.

I think my dream was inspired by an action adventure video game because, except that it felt like I was in an alternate reality-maze of some type and I was desperate to return to the world I knew.

The dream began with a boat trip that I planned to go on. Little did I know I was about to embark on a long and intricate journey into a past which I did not know. The boat itself wasn't the focus of my dream, but rather this stairwell within the boat. It was a spiral staircase which was a few floors in depth and it's doors led to all kinds of rooms. When I saw doors that led to places like a the inside of a department store and a school's outside lunch break area I couldn't believe it, it wasn't possible! I passed by these doors and opened one that led a street in a city where my parents are from. The street was busy with cars passing by and all the cars were old from the 1970's. All print from the signs and store shops were in that bubbly 1970's font. It was really bizarre, like I had travelled back in time. I tried to find my parents and walked into this department store that sold clothes and jewelry and lots of stuff. I asked a person in the department store to help me find my parents. The person agreed to drive me around looking for them. I kept seeing this sign hanging over the street with the words "TRAX" on it, not very sure what that meant but it was affixed over the street every few blocks. After travelling around and not finding my parents I returned to the door with the stairwell from the boat. I walked back up the stairwell and went through this door that led to a large cavern with a waterfall and rushing water like the one from The Goonies. There were monsters and obstacles I had to go through to get past the cavern, like from an action adventure game, even a boss at the end of the cavern. The whole time I had to be brave like Link and keep my fear at bay. The cave seemed so real, I could feel the wet and damp atmosphere like it wasn't a dream. At the end of the cavern was a door that led back into the stairwell from the boat. I went down the stairwell and saw a door that led into the inside of the department store from that 1970's town. All the lights were off in there, so I did not go in there. I turned around and went back up the stairwell to this door that led to my highschool's outside lunch break area. The door was hard to open, but it did open, and it opened through the back of a locker. These lockers were like large book lockers that all schools have, at least my high school had them, and they lined a wall near the lunch area. Well, I stumbled outside of the locker, from the door at the boat stairwell and the locker closed behind me. There were lots of people eating and they all looked up at me probably thinking 'what the heck?' I opened the locker and the door into the stairwell was gone. I started crying, like really crying because I was so happy to be safe afterall. Then I went back home around the corner from the high school to my parents house and there they were safe and sound. I hugged them and kept crying. Later we drove through town and then I saw the sign "TRAX" hanging over the streets.

I don't really know what the dream means. It left such an impression on me that I thought I'd share it on dreamviews.

Thanks for reading!

non lucid
*Someone release many different types of animals from a shelter of some sort. First I noticed a small
cow then followed by many other animals. I told someone I was with that my meditation in this location
is always good because the Buddha attained enlightment here. Then I thought wait but I'm not in India so
how could this be. Then I thought well there are many Buddhas. I noticed I cat that also escaped. I felt
that this is the cat I want but when I start peting the cat I realized that no cat will be like mr. binks.
(my cat who ran away)

*Angelina Joli was on top of me as we were having sex.

*I looked through pictures of my parents visit to san miguel. Then all of a sudden I was in a catholic
church. Were there was a ritual that involved pouring holy water into this bowl that seemed familiar to me.

Dream 1:

It was nighttime, and me and another man were being escorted by a black man to a nice looking home. We stepped inside to an extravagant kitchen centered around a massive pillar. The other man and the black man stepped away and went somewhere else. I decided to investigate and walk around the pillar, which was covered by a counter going around the circumference. Dinner had obviously been cooked just recently. There was a all-steel stockpot whose lid was rattling around like whatever was inside was about to over boil. There were cooking implements scattered around and a glass baking pan with some pasta and a half-eaten slice of garlic bread in it. I took a sample of the bread; It was great.

I stepped outside to a small-church-graveyard-looking thing, with a black spiked fence surrounding it. There was fog all around and a tomb (mausoleum?) off to my right. I approached the tomb and the black man, now dressed in surgeon wear, stepped outside, mumbling something about the surgery he was performing inside the tomb. The black man turned surgeon and the other man began chasing something around the house.

Dream 2:

Me and at least ten other people were tightly packed on a tiny green hill with a coffee table in the center of us. My mom was among the crowd. Some were standing, others sitting. Someone was making a performance. I had a pepper grinder in my hand and as if it were second nature, smacked the bottom on my open palm. I raised the grinder to reveal a wooden statue now on my palm, no bigger than the diameter of the grinder and not much taller than it. I was amazed and did the same motion to get similar results, a wooden circle on the bottom and some complex wooden design raising above it. Some designs were more complex than others. By this time I was standing and had garnered the attention of everyone else in the group, including the performer. They ooh-ed and aah-ed every time I revealed another statue. My mom in particular was very impressed, and I kept thinking that this was no sleight of hand, this was actual, genuine magic.

Eventually I revealed the most complex design of them all, with thin ribbons crossing over each other, balls scattered throughout, and resin anime figures, which was weird. I was very impressed by this one, and shortly after I woke up from the dream.

Night. I was on the second floor. I dropped a yellow-and-black boomerang on the roof below, and then it fell on the ground. A guy passed by. I asked him to throw it up, but he missed twice. I told him it's okay, I'll just pick it up later. I think I thought of making a move on him. A name: Maranao, a local tribe ("People of the Lake (Lanao)"). (I don't think I've thought of the name for years).

Day. We were dancing along the street. We were practicing. I recognize Kris.

Night. Traffic in a rather woody area. I was in a building. I imagined EDSA (highway), with all the night lights of its tall buildings and cars.

Day. I was in a desert. I was a creature or a monster of sorts. Lizard-like. Nearby, there are people/buildings. Blood samples from a frozen plant.

Night. I was going up the third floor. Saw someone there, someone I like. I forgot the name/face.

11/20/14 Earlier an incredibly vivid non-lucid and possibly a little semi-lucid in spots before my LD. I'm on a trip to a hauntingly beautiful Pacific Northwest town of "Ted"...was that correct? is there such a town? Town name given to me when told where I would take my blood to a "lab nurse assistant" in town..."Where's Ted?" "It's this area we are in." "how much do I have to pay?"(for the lab work) -I just put the hotel on my amex and wondered if i will have enough credit for the whole trip. (Rushed notes mostly for myself...sorry so sloppy...feel free to skip to the blue text=lucid dream) My #Dad is there. We have at least two rooms. A 2nd employee came shortly after I got in line to check in at hotel and he helped me quickly. At check-in they gave us a black vinyl record with a label indicating it is about the local area. "So each room has a record player??" Transition to us "watching" the record (record has an ability more like an old video laser disc?). So I am watching this tour of the beautiful local area in what is revealed at the end to be a VR motion simulator. The simulator is apparently where I am seeing the beautiful images of the coastal area and thickets that we are now flying over..."we would call those thickets because they are areas hard to walk through." The scenery and beautiful/gloomy slightly foggy "air" of everything makes me think of a dark crime movie where a young girl's death was being investigated. I even have the thought that this experience (which in hindsight is definitely a dream) could be affected by that movie...as if I am semi-lucid..? (About a week ago I was reading about the director's more recent movie and thought about having seen this older movie years before when reading about the director). People in lobby with a suitcase open, is it theirs?...girl friday I pretend I don't particularly care that she just arrived...where was she? oh yeah she drove separately and left later...I'm naked on bottom and I put my underwear back on and seemed confused as if I was in the middle of changing. My #eldestNephew is next to me on couch...larger group on trip than it seemed at first. #eldestBrotherInLaw says the #4 needle was perfect but the #2 needle hurt (bad) which makes no sense (possibly record needle to medical needle dream transition). Transition to where I draw blood in bathroom, no pain. blood spill...blood bag too full. 2 different hotel workers come by as I am now in hotel hallway. First one I tell him it's blood...2nd one named Hank is very curious about my cup...I now claim it's juice (after I moved blood into small white paper cup). Blood quite red at first but with 2nd guy Hank, in hotel cleaner garb, blood was purplish and cup barely filled now...blood seeping through paper? Wake.

Previous dream was one of those dreams that launches a thousand ships due to its awesome vividness...or at least a dozen!..launching a nice longish LD with multiple scenes! :

Later-morning LD...
(I think this is the beginning of my dream, so possibly quick DILD realization) I'm in a bedroom/living room combination and I hear the answering machine come on and it is "Jane Green of Columbia" asking me to call her back and I immediately recognize her name from my previous dream (though I can't remember the context...possibly false memory) and realize that this is a dream. On the other side of the room is my brother and I tell him how glad I am to see him and I interact with him a little bit . The dream then fades into what at first seems similar to dreamlets but I am able to enter most of them and watch many of them form in front of my eyes including a school hallway scene and in between would be void-like darkness where I used a rhythmic squirming motion (dream body is present) much like what I imagine a mammal with it's appendages would use to swim underwater or may be based on videos of such swimming. Weird! But it kept me moving and felt great moving me into scene after scene. I am hopeful that I was navigating some very brief NREM moments...otherwise my dreaming mind simply created such a dream with void-like gaps. Anyway some of the other scenes include being in a hallway and seeing the door that had a beach scene on the entire door kind of like a poster but more like a professionally designed door that led to a spa facility perhaps. I was completely expecting to phase through it and into a beach like scene but I think I did have in the back of my mind that phasing could collapse the visuals even though I have had no issue phasing at other times...I got a dark void again but wasn't the least bit concerned and I squirm/swim my way to the next scene. There was a scene with a bad guy in a black cloak and hooded outfit and I fly towards him throwing energy bursts at him. I get another bad guy in the next scene but ignore him and look around. There are quite a few scene changes that I am losing some of the details. Scenes with a sexy woman. And one of the last scenes I got caught up reading aloud a fairly long passage of text and seem to be lost in the moment before my awareness kicks back in and I realize that I'm back to dreaming again. I pause in order to commit all of these scene changes to memory and the blackness this time is the back of my eyelids....Counting as one long-ish LD and I am sure I am forgetting some details due to the vastly different scene changes. 233

I had a wake back to bed between that really vivid non lucid dream possibly becoming semi lucid and the subsequent series of lucid dream scenes. Instead of my normal SSILD I go back to bed and lightly and dreamily think about my previous vivid dream and go through my memories of it and this seems to keep my head in the right place to allow me to quickly become lucid when dreaming starts. Yesterday I also played with self awareness through a little silly dance or silly faces which seems to allow me to see myself from the outside more quickly than my usual clear light based perspective and found it clearly bringing more awareness to my self.

11/15/14 Unstable OBE after SSILD and vibrations, didn't get very far, should have been more patient at the beginning. 232

I had to put this somewhere...I just saw Jessica Chastain in last night's Daily Show interview...and I must say my heart fluttered...dang is she so lovable and stunningly beautiful in that interview! Maybe I can go on a date with her in dreamland!

I was looking at a couple having sex on a bed. They don't have clothing. Yellow-themed. The woman leaned away from the guy. There's some sort of oil on the guy's chest. He's mostly hairless. I licked on the chest and got some of oil on my tongue. My tongue went numb.

I was in a room with a lot of people. It's still yellow themed. Not sure if this came before or after the previous one. I was practicing my Capoeira moves, while trying to avoid hitting people.

I forgot about my dream goals cause I was so distracted.

Dream 1

Something I don't recall happened. Than I was in my house and was about to eat the rice and sashitas my brother told me to eat. But I was distracted when a trailer similar to the Steven hawking movie appeared. Instead of him though the main character was Miley Cyrus. She said she could do whatever she wanted to make her life exactly how she wanted to live it. Than suddenly we appeared on a beach and she was with a buff guy and a horse. I was like seriously? I was surprised that her money was able to do these things for her. That's when suddenly animals like the penguins of Madagascar appeared and started fooling around. They weren't penguins though, I think they were koala bears or something. They were small, fluffy and had ears like bears.

Dream 2

Once again something I don't recall happens. Than I appear in my living room in the dark. Someone who has a brightly colored wand that looks like its from sailor moon comes up to me. The guy says their going to stick it up my butt if I don't do what he wants.I didn't like that outcome but just ignored him and made sure he stayed far away from me. There was someone else around but I don't recall what they were doing.

I think the scene switched after that and I was now in a outside area surrounded by eviornmentalist people. A lady was doing a show of her eating a strange insect. She was reminding the camera people how it was a foggy day at the time but they made it look sunny. Than suddenly a guy and a little boy dressed like DBZ or a orange fox got attacked by a fox. They got hurt in the leg but the soidgers were able to kill the fox in time. After they were taken care of and were happy again the scene changed.

I was outside in a fence like area with a Asian man and I was a Asian woman. The man was worried and told me to stay close. I than noticed that beyond the fence was another area where soidgers stood above a crowd. We were trying to get on the ground but I felt that the area was too open to hide. I also noticed a couple of anime characters that seemed villainous there. I told him it would be OK and went through the gate ghost like. I began to tap the anime character shoulders and started creeping up on them trying to speak japanese. My voice slowly started to echoe and was slowly getting loud. I began to count them in Japanese Ichi, ni, San, shi, go, roku,hachi. Than suddenly a guy that looked like the main character from yowamushi pedal grabbed my tail or leg.

The scene changed again after that and I was in a small room with my sister and my cousin. I was about to eat a big red gum but my sister said to eat the juicy fruit gum instead. We started talking about something I don't remember and the scene changed.

I was now on my bed and couldn't move much. There was a T.V. and a old lady on the screen was talking about how she wanted to lose weight I think. Than I felt someone come into the room but I closed my eyes cause I was a little scared. After they touched my hand I saw a image of a paper and a anime doll that looked like kirito on the table. I also saw chibi drawings and a clay model of a anime girl. Than the scene changes. I'm looking in the eyes of someone else and a lady and others are trying to get ready for a picnic or party. But one of the guys there tells the lady " Sorry. But the anpan, the patalios and the crescent fell off the toaster oven's thing. Basically it was a mess. The lady just fixed the food I think. Than I appeared somewhere else.

I was in a light blue room and in front of me was names and number of comments and chibi pictures of dreamers that were awake and dreamers that was asleep. I saw a chibi dragon on one and thought it was cute. I clicked on it but than I woke up.

The weird thing is that when i woke up like 1 sec as I lay down I felt a small burst of vibration in a part of my head. I think it was cause I woke up from a deep sleep so I'm not worried about it though. I looked it up online and others have experienced something like that too after waking up.

Dream 3

Something about eggs.

Dream 4

I was in my house and there was a baseball field in a small hole and someone hit a golfball to my brother's head. The ball had blood on it and it fell on the floor. I picked it up and it changed to purple. I threw it out though since it had blood on it.I knew it was a dream for some reason and ended up in a downstairs room. A girl DC appeared and two other DCs. A girl dream character brought me cake. Chocolate cake, coconut cake and another cake. It was sooooo good.

She said if I slept with her she would give me more though. But I just kept eating the cake and told her no. I wanted to see if I could go through the roof to the living room so I started jumping on the bed. But I couldn't fit my whole body through. I looked to the side of the wall and saw the year 1779 appear. I thought how weird that was than left the room and saw that everything was turning black. I summoned a DC to carry me through the darkness but the DC dissapeared and so did everything else.

Dream 5

My dad sold my parakeets cage and put my birds in a tiny cage. I was mad but than everything started turning anime like. I was a little girl and me and my friends were going to a pet shop to buy more birds and a cage. But before we could I picked up a small yellow bird I found on the floor with the other birds. Than I woke up.

Hi Gig*

Last week Saturday 23 Jan (2010) a long term guest and friend here at the boarding house told me he was going interstate for a month to have a holiday with friends. Later he handed me his key as he enthusiastically pulled a suitcase trolly out the front door, heading off to the Interstate bus station.*

A couple of days later, say, Wednesday 27 January, I was coming out of my room and as I walked down the corridor I saw the guest (Steve) come down the stairs and turn to the bench, checking to see if he had any mail. As he picked up and looked at the envelopes I thought "he is supposed to be at the Gold Coast for another 3 weeks with friends having a holiday".*

I distinctly thought:*

"I guess things have gone wrong for him to be back so soon but I will not pri as he probably won't want to talk about it".*

I said "Hi Steve" and with out looking up he said "Hi Deb". And I walked passed him to the kitchen and put the kettle on and went on with my day.*

I didn't see him Thursday or Friday or Yesterday. So, to day, while I was cleaning I asked some other guests if they had seen Steve in the last couple of days. They hadn't.*

So that was a blinking DREAM.*

It is as if my mind is going to extraordinary lengths to get me LUCID.*

There was absolutely NOTHING dreamlike about that experience, except that, in the dream, I knew he shouldn't be there cos he was at the Gold Coast having a holiday with friends.*

Just thought I'd share that.

I found that old experience just now as I was reading som of gigs interesting old posts on another old site and decided that I want it in my dream journal.

Steve returned after his month holiday. That was over 4, almost 5 years ago.

Had my first lucid in nearly a month! Pretty happy about that, and I actually remembered a larger chunk of the dream!

Dreamt I was at work doing my usual thing like I do in real life(I work as a stock person at a grocery store). I checked around the store in my sections to see what needed filled, and for the most part, everything needed some work(side note: I hate dreaming about being at work). So I went down the dairy isle of the store and checked out the milk. It was nearly empty, so I made sure to prioritize that. The dream was surprisingly accurate with the way the store looks in real life. As I "ventured" down the dairy isle I noticed my friend who also works there in real life trying to decide on what to buy. She was on break and browsing over the meat(even though it was the dairy isle). I tried suggesting items to her, as well as an old lady who was in the isle. After awhile I gave up and left the isle. I then came across a white table in the middle of the store with a bunch of people sitting around it. I know some of them, but the others were just random DCs. For some reason, they all wanted me to sing a song, but I wasn't all for it. I explained to them that I was working and I didn't want to get fired, but they didn't care. One girl who I know came up behind me slapped my butt(yeah that's not weird). Feeling very uncomfortable, I gave my consent and decided to sing, but I didn't know what to sing. Suddenly, music began playing from nowhere, and it was instrumental. So I made up lyrics on the spot and sang. That's all I remember from that dream.

I awoke and the time was a few minutes before 5am. Only an hour left to sleep. I go to sleep and enter another dream.

I don't recall the events leading up to this point, but I dream I'm on the side of a freeway. I don't recall how I got here, but here I am. It doesn't take me long, and I realize that I'm dreaming. I decide I wanna fly off somewhere, so I ascend into the air and fly away. I pick up speed and fly at Mach speeds. I stop momentarily, and I stare off towards something in the distance. I decide to do a little trick and see if it'll work. I point at the thing off in the distance, and I press thumb down like my hand is a pretend gun. I then spin around once, and to my surprise, I'm at the thing. The thing turns out to be a lovely house, and so I enter. I look around for awhile, but I end up awaking soon after.

I slept very little last night, so I only have a tiny dream and a fragment:

I was taking my dog for a walk. For some reason, we'd always cross the patio of a stranger's house, but the owner had blocked it. So, instead of turning around and going back home, I decided to try to find a different path. We kept walking for ages, until I remembered that I had to take my dog to the pet shop, because it was his bath day (which... true, he always gets bathed on Wednesdays). Finally, I found the pet shop, because they had moved to a different place (also true, they're moving in about three weeks). It was night already and everything was closed. I checked my phone and it was after 10 PM.

I freaked out cause it was late and I should've been home a long time ago. I started running, until I was on this very steep street. I could barely walk. My cousin showed up and said we could get the bus, since we were five minutes from home. I agreed, we got on the bus... and it went towards the opposite direction. I freaked out again and we finally got off the bus. I called my mum to let her know I was almost home. She was mad at me, saying that my grandfather was already asleep (makes no sense? he doesn't live with us) and that I had woken her up, which was horrible cause it was almost 2 AM and she had to get up to go to work in three hours.

The fragment: I was making out with a girl I know. I have a girlfriend, so that was wrong. And also, I've never felt attracted to this girl at all. I wanted to stop, but I knew that if I told her that, I'd be considered a racist, cause she's black. So I had to keep kissing her. Weird.

Date: 11 Nov

A great deal of strong vivid dreams (alas no notes for all taken or reviewed)

Nld frag: Some sort of cool TK practice and one of the DCs asks me how I have achieved such proficiency. My reply - I have practiced this a lot in dreams.

Mini wbtb: dreams were cool, so I had the desire to just sleep but forced myself to repeat a few mantras and reviewed the tasks.

LD: At our old home with mom in the corridor. There are little bugs that mutate into flies and we try to hunt them. After a while I leave the place and am in an unknown location with Chinese mint candy that is the cause of all the bugs. Once I open it, a little bug comes out and runs away to mutate.

There's a Chinese guy sitting next to another DC and I go to him to explain what happened before that.

Memory gap and scene transformation. I'm in what's supposed to be a dream version of a slightly familiar neighborhood. I greet a number of praying people, while flying around the corner. I continue on my way in this now nicely looking neighborhood, my awareness is gradually increasing to lucidity as I continue gently flying forward and up and down. I recall a recent conversation about flying and think about that for a moment.

Then I remember the totm about finding a pile of leaves and jumping in it and look around. There is a beatiful blossoming purple magnolia tree and lots of petals on the ground. Could that do? No, wait! It's supposed to be fall right now, but oh the tree looks great and a version with petal jumping would have been awesome too. I decide to scan the area for any proper for the season vegetation and see some leaves on the ground and a few piles of them. As I approach one of the piles, it diminishes in size, so I turn to another pile that is neatly gathered in a wooden crate.

At this point, I begin to feel the dream thinning so rush forward and jump into the crate. I fall inside with the leaves and the dream nastily generates a number of metal pieces where I hurt myself. I find myself in a fallen semi seated position thinking about all this. This has been one of the very realistic experiences where you actually jump, fall and hurt yourself. It feels very physical, with great proximity to real life sensations and aching feedback from all body parts and your position. The pain is more towards dull, but equally realistic. In this moment, I hope that the amount of sensory information would help stabilize the dream as is often the case, but the dream comes to its natural end.

I'm happy about totm, but feel sleepy and do a rather quick mental review.