non-lucid

15.10.2014

Annoying neighbor won't allow me to connect with Spirit (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was living in a huge house, massively big in fact, because the den where I was was about the size of a football field. It was made out of wood and it felt like it was somewhat abandoned because the ceiling was falling appart. It looked like stables in a very bad shape, but for some reason we were living there and despite the condition of this house, we had high end furniture at it:







There were several kids living with us, I believe they were neighbors but they were living at the house with us. I was trying to get ready to do readings, as I had a lot of orders waiting, but the kids were making a lot of noise and I could not work.

I was pretty upset, as the first reading was a medium reading. I could see the Spirit who was my client's mom, and he was trying to communicate with me throught clairaudience but I was not able to hear him because all the noise that child was making.

I complained to my wife that I needed to work, but she said he was a neighbor and that I needed to wait.

Non-Dream Dream

Dream 1:

I am jogging through what looks like a bunch of freeways. One section in particular looks like the 405-101 interchange. There are a bunch of homeless people sleeping / living up against the fences on the side of the freeways. I encounter a young woman speaking to the homeless people and one of the guys offers to buy her car for $2000. I quickly intervene because I get the sense that these homeless people are trying to screw her over and I say something like "shame on you."

Dream 2: I am with my Dad (maybe whole family) in a one-street town. Can't remember much else about this one.

Dream 3:

I have a gigantic backyard and I am attempting to build a very large swimming pool. It seems to be about 20-30 feet deep and as large as an olympic sized pool. I believe there is also a gas station in my back yard. Several friends (I think - can't recognize them) and co-workers show up to help. One of my friends, a young woman, steps into the back yard and is not paying attention. She falls into the pool and I am terrified that she would fall all the way to the bottom. Luckily there is a large cypress tree growing in the pool and she grabs onto it and climbs out.

We all move inside to play an indoor baseball game. There are several coworkers there - especially from TA's group. Other people that are participating include SC and BW from work, my one year old son and Kevin Cosner. The game somehow involves us splitting up into pairs and my son was the pitcher for a brief moment until I realized it might be too dangerous for him. I don't recall who my partner is but we are very vocal and having a great time. Towards the end of the game TA confronts me and says something like "I was hoping this game would allow you to come out of your shell." This really pisses me off because my partner and I seem to be having the most fun. SC and BW were partners and weren't talking to anybody yet TA still decided to call me out. I start yelling at her and say she is a weird and awkward bitch and several other things I can't remember.

At 10PM I had a glass of milk and went to bed, setting my alarm for 5AM. I have nature noises (river water + crickets) playing through my pillow speakers. Noises wake me at 11:15PM, but I promptly fall back asleep. A bad dream wakes me at 1AM.

Snakes in the leaves
I'm writing a fiery letter regarding a pastor and church building. In it, I say that I'd love to welcome him back as a friend, but that I'll fight him tooth and nail if I have to. I'm embarrassed about using such strong language, but I feel it's what I need to do. I'll be sending the letter off to Frank to get his opinion.

Now I'm on some church property trying to clean up a huge accumulation of leaves. I'm by myself, and I take a moment to savor my picturesque surroundings, with woods all around me and the old building off in the distance. Now the thick carpet of leaves has been turned into a bunch of big piles, some of which are now in bags. As I'm working, I consider myself fortunate that I haven't seen any snakes in this mess. Immediately after thinking about it, I see a brownish snake in the bag I just stepped over. It doesn't strike, but it does seem to be waking up and shaking off a stupor. It really blends in with all the dead leaves, and I thank God that I didn't step on it. As I back away from the bag, I become aware that there are a lot of these snakes around, all waking up, all starting to head towards me. I turn and run, then trip and fall. As I'm picking myself up, I see that one is coming straight at me. I manage to grab a bag and swing and throw it as hard as I can at the snake. It doesn't impede the snake at all, and I feel panic rising in me.

I wake up, heart pounding. I jump at every little noise I hear, and it takes about an hour to fall back asleep. My alarm wakes me up at 5.


Swim goggles
I'm standing on a platform in the middle of a pool getting ready to jump in. I've got my swim goggles on, but they don't feel right. I press them to my eyes and find that they don't suck on. I wonder if they're broken, but then I realize they probably just got dried out. I take them off and dunk them in the water, then put them back on, and they stick properly.


Problems at church
I'm at Frank's church before the service starts, waiting in the bathroom for the computer to become available. A well-dressed man (black, but with relatively light skin) is using it, and the longer I wait the more I suspect he's not going to give it up any time soon. Now I'm in the service, in the middle of singing a hymn. Mom is to my right, and my son is to her right. When the hymn is done, we all sit back down. My son is talking to a girl his age sitting to his right, so Mom shushes them. He tells Mom to be quiet, then turns back to his friend and keeps talking. I get back up, tell him to follow me, and leave the service with him.


Fragment: I'm walking around outside a building under a covered walkway preparing for some kind of party.

A young woman stands downstage center, facing the audience; she never turns around. She's performing a simple, faltering version of the whirling, intricate dance going on behind her - contemporary ballet, the entire troupe on stage behind her. Everyone is in black and silver and painfully beautiful. This is her dream we're seeing play out behind her, her ideal. But the music is melancholy, nostalgic even - it's a waltz in a minor key, reminds me of Dvorak. Starts with just a music-box-like piano, but the music swells as the dancers behind her become the focus, all strings. I get swept up in the overwhelming sound of it and the movement of the dancers, until in the end it gradually fades away again to those music-box-like piano notes. A woman's voice from offstage calls to her to come to bed, the sun has risen. I focus on her profile as she turns to look offstage, towards that voice; when I look behind her again, the dancers have vanished. She leaves the stage.

10/15/2014
"Mercenaries, Wolves and Savages"

Spoiler for Short Version!:

Summary:
From out of the frying pan and into the fire. I found myself trying to escape a military facility. After fighting my way passed the soldiers and their arms; as well as a pack of feral wolves; I wound up being chased by indigenous people, living in a huge hole in the earth, whose most treasured artifact I had the overwhelming urge to steal on my way to safety.

There was a vast military facility, set in a rocky, mountain terrain. An acquaintance and I were seemingly prisoners or captives on this base, and were sneaking around the yard in an attempt to make our escape. Our captors were more ruthless mercenaries than your standard soldier, and we knew that being caught again would mean certain death.

It didn't take long for the base to go on alert, upon realizing we were no longer where we should have been. Everywhere, squads of these men were mobilizing and searching frantically for us. One the closest end of the base was a wall with a framework of openings, but on the other side was a wide-open clearing, for miles. We could already hear the helicopters beginning to circle. We would be sitting ducks out there. The only way to safety would be to make it across the compound and to the opposite side, where the geographic conditions were much more conducive to escape.

Unable to keep ourselves hidden for much longer, we soon found ourselves sprinting and scrambling through the yard, dodging machine gun fire so close that I could actually feel the bullets tearing through my clothing and brushing my skin at times. Turning a corner - after having lost my companion, somewhere in the fray - I saw a large, metallic object wheeling itself around a nearby building. It was a tank, and the turret was already beginning to rotate in my direction. I broke into a lateral sprint, running as fast as I could, toward the closest structure. It was one of those moments where time stands still, and you're in just such utter terror that you are absolutely, positively sure you are going to die.

I heard the tank fire the shot, just before I was able to reach the corner. Luckily, the shell flew just a few feet behind me. I could sense it as it passed me before exploding, harmlessly, about a dozen yards away.

Still on the run, I happened upon an enormous crevice that led down into the ground, just outside of the military compound. It was a great gash in the earth, about the length of a large yacht, and it was apparently the entrance to a network of caverns which stretched deep below the surface. I climbed down to lower passageways and attempted to wait out my pursuers, thinking that I might have enough concealment down here to successfully get away. Then, I saw a silhouette on the wall. It was a wolf. A very large wolf. It was sniffing its way around toward me, but I was out of its line of sight and it hadn't yet noticed me.

Quietly, I began climbing back up toward the surface, out of the path of this beast, and started to weigh my dwindling options. Poking my head just above the surface, I was met not with the automatic weapons of the mercs that I believed were still searching for me, but with the sight of about five more wolves, sprinting down out of the nearby mountains and directly toward me at breakneck speed.

Frantically, I slid back down into the crevice and to the lower level. The wolf was there waiting, and I ended up having to fend him off with my hands, grabbing his snout as he lunged and grappling with him just long enough to slip away before the others could descend into the cavern behind me. (I think I killed it, but I'm not sure.)

Continuing further and further down, and just as I was beginning to feel that I had rid myself of the ferocious wolves, I found myself dropping into a wide open 'room' within the cavern. It was about the size of the underwater cavern in my dream from yesterday. This time, though...it was full of people. Primitive, indigenous people, who seemed as though they had been living here for eons. A lost civilization. And they all immediately stopped what they were doing and stared directly at me.

I was standing on some kind of pedestal or shrine, and surrounded by precious artifacts. The centerpiece immediately caught my eye: a large, gem-encrusted plate, in the shape of a skull, which looked like it had come straight out of an Indiana Jones movie. Suddenly, the air turned hostile, and this entire tribe began converging angrily upon me. I was off, again, instinctively grabbing up the skull-shaped relic and dashing off of the pedestal, running through the caves while they gave chase. Some of the natives also dealt in magic, because the last thing I remember is hoping from ledge to ledge while a handful of them threw glowing, blue spells at me, which exploded into bright splashes of hot liquid.

I don't think they ever caught me, though!

Well... good night last night. Took me an hour to type this up.

I was driving along in a mountainous region supposedly on some family vacation with my parents. The sky looks to be a very deep shade of blue and I think there were some planets in the sky. The mountains we are on don't look very earth-like either.
The mountains are made out of a light brown/tawny rock and covered in moss that seems to flow over them like water. Exotic fern-trees grow in some of the more level areas but the mountains are fairly jagged.
The road we are driving on is narrow (two lane) and built up on this really high end, futuristic looking bridge. Eventually I saw that we were coming up on a settlement in a valley.
It was a very small settlement. Two houses, one of the houses is very modern with a big glass wall on the front and a solar array on the roof. The other one looks older, being made of bricks with a circular drive out front. There is also an old fashioned well and a park with swings and a play structure.
My parents said that we had been driving for awhile and that we should pull over and eat lunch as a family in this park.
...
This somehow led me to becoming lucid. I ran into Manei, who had taken on a youthful form, she was about 8. She then turned and ran and I came after her. I chased her across the playground structure and she went down the slide.
"Come on! Go down the slide!"
"mmm... Ok."
I go down the slide, trying to rack up a little bit of dream stabilization along the way. I recall the slide being a reddish color, and having scuff marks on it. Before I reach the bottom, she says something else.
"When you get to the bottom, don't stop!"
I slide down and when I come off the end of the slide I go forward a little bit because of my momentum and land on my butt in the wood chips. For some reason I seem to sink into the wood chips.
"Good, I had to make sure you were still (able to act like a child). The Dwarven Guardians who run this place really like that."
"...?"
"I'm going to summon the Angelic Dwarven Guardian now. Now you won't be able to see him because (He exists across the fourth dimension), but (He will be standing right in front of you) you will be able to communicate with him through thoughts."
Manei changes into her base form (goes through puberty in a couple of seconds) and begin concentrating on summoning him. The dream begins to shift, I have a false awakening, or a scenery change, can't remember. Anyways, I'm in my bedroom. The wood chips I was laying in have become my bed. I lose some lucidity.
The dream scene changes again. I am now in the basement of my house, standing. Manei continues concentrating for a minute or two and then all four of our family's cats (including the dead one) show up. Our youngest cat is particularly interested in whatever she is trying to do. He meows and rubs against her leg.
"Rrrrgh! No! (Facepalms) That's not what I meant to do!"
The dream carried on for a minute as Manei became frustrated in her attempts to summon this being, and I just sort of stood there patiently waiting to see what exactly was going to happen. I began to feel like the cat, the young one was somehow a representation of the being we were trying to summon. I tried to lock onto the cats energy and he and I engaged in a staring contest. I could feel something else in there. I could see it in his eyes. I was about to tell Manei that she should change her approach when I woke up.

5:10. Let's go back.

I had a dream where I had gotten a job at a superstore, like Target or Wal-Mart. I was the Janitor and my job was to clean the interior windows on the office walls in the back. My boss (a grouchy, short, fat, black haired man) gave me a toilet brush that had been dipped in soapy water.
"Get your ass moving now!"
I walk into the back of the store and begin scrubbing the windows. I haven't been told that I have to dry them or anything, and wasn't given a towel, so I just scrub them clean. The first office is really easy, but the second office, for some reason, someone has splattered a muddy brown substance on the window. I couldn't tell if it was mud, chocolate, caramel, or *shudders* something worse.
Regardless, I'm the Janitor, and I guess they have to put up with stuff like this, so I just push past it. I start scrubbing but my brush gets contaminated with the muddy substance. I'm not really cleaning anymore, I'm just moving the dirt around. I decide I will go back to my boss and tell him that I'm going to need a bucket of soapy water.
I start walking back across the store floor to the front where my boss is; in the front. I don't get very far until I come across my mom who is shopping. She tells me that I really should put on some pants if I want to impress my boss, and I realize that I am wearing a shirt and briefs.
Lucidity hits me like a brick wall.
There was this weird part though where the scenario repeated itself semi lucid. I was in a library this time, and my boss was a female, but no less grumpy. I went through scrubbing the windows, but there was this extra part where I was trying to clean the brush off in a drinking fountain in the back of the library.
...
Regardless, I had a false awakening. As my eyes started to open, I could tell I was in my bedroom.
My lucidity was clear enough to remember that I had gone to sleep in my college dorm room. I did a nose pinch.
"Yeah! Just what I thought! A false awakening!"
Something felt odd about my bedroom, like everything was reflected to the opposite side.
I started to get out of bed and I took note of how dark everything was. I decided to turn on the lights. The dream glitched here and I was instantly over at the door, facing as If I were walking into my bedroom. I flicked on the light-switch and nothing happened. I flicked it up and down two times, and nothing happened.
"Wait... don't light switches not work in dreams...?"
The light flashed on blindingly bright for a fraction of a second. I heard a loud scream, then everything was black. I could feel myself falling for a few seconds.
...
I false awaken. After one false awakening, I was ready to catch the second one, especially if it was to be in the same place as the first. I was in my bedroom. It was dark. I looked at the floor to see that it had been extruded down about 20 feet and filled with water back to the level of the original floor. The weird part was, all the furniture was sitting in place on the surface of the water.
I recall the water being dark and murky, and seeing a large shark or predatory fish of some sort in the water. I must not have been fully lucid because I felt trapped by it. Eventually a blurry-faced dream character in a tiny yellow inflatable dingy came in, rowing with a wooden paddle. When they came up to my bed, I pushed them into the water and stole their little boat.
I rowed into the guest bedroom for some odd reason and the clarity and mood of the dream picked up significantly. I thought that I was in a surreal painting or something. The water here was very shallow, six inches at the most, and clear. There were brightly colored fish in it, and the carpet flooring had been replaced with wood.
There was a waterfall flowing from a bottomless pitcher suspended in midair, down a wooden desk, then onto a wooden chair into the floor below. For some reason, there was also a coat rack with a couple of bird cages hanging from it, with brightly colored birds in them. Some of the cages were open and a couple of exotic dream-birds were circling around the room.
There were vases of flowers everywhere and lily pads in the water.
I saw a turtle in the water. The turtle had mosses and grasses growing on his shell. I asked the turtle if he would protect me from the shark that was in the other room. He then created this little explosion of bubbles and a tiny fish appeared. It was black and brown with yellow spots. He told me that the fish would protect me.
I turned back and looked around the room. My lucidity was slipping and I had to remind myself that this was just a dream. I decided to go outside. I began walking out of my house, and the water floors were fading away now.
...
I open the door and take one look. I couldn't help myself.
Holy S**t!
The dream world was so bright and realistic. I could make out every leaf on every tree, blowing in the wind. I could see a full, white moon rising in the daytime sky. The sky still had that look that it had in the first dream though, it was a darker blue than it should have been. All of the colors seemed to pop, though.
The trees in our yard were not quite right though. They seemed to be of different species. The one that is right out the front door was replaced with this one with millions of tiny bright green leaves. And where our pine tree was was a palm tree that started with a single base and split into multiple tops. Another tree was replaced with a giant red and white mushroom.
As I looked more closely at the sky, I could see a structure in it. I couldn't really describe quite what it looked like in words, but it was made up of these circular nodes. Each one had a rune symbol on it. The rune symbols were connected by large beams with small white lights along the edges. Between those larger beams were smaller intricate spiral and radial patterns, sometimes centering around the nodes. The structure arched across the whole sky.
Although I couldn't quite tell what it was, I could tell that it was solid, probably made of stone or metal, and that it was at least a few miles up. It had a sort of technological look to it, like the surface of the death star would. But also a very mystical, design. There were a couple of clouds in places obscuring parts of the structure.
I was a bit taken aback by all this scenery. I almost lost the dream.
"Keep it together (Jade)! It's just a dream... A very very good lucid dream."
Then, just when I couldn't taken any more, we got planets. Two of them. Somehow visible past the barrier. Both of them looked earth-like, with atmospheres and oceans. One was larger and looked pretty flat, mostly land. The other was much more topographically interesting with craters and oceans.
I had to contain myself a second time. I tried to think of something I could do. I then thought of the "Lucid Barrier" and thought that perhaps that huge structure in the sky is my lucid barrier. I should fly up and destroy it!
Okay, usually in very stable, vivid dreams, flying can be a bit of a hassle. I try not to think about the fact that there is a massive structure hindering my lucid dreaming ability right above me. I start running from my front porch, toward the road. I try projecting my energy out of my hands to generate lift. I can't feel any energy flowing. I look upwards, at the house across the street and try to imagine myself being pulled toward the second floor.
I jump, and notice that I don't seem to be heading back toward the ground. I feel the energy start flowing from my hands, and my little hand rockets ignite. Classic.
"Haha! Yeah!"
All of the sudden I hear a horn. I am now in the middle of the road, and only a couple of feet off the ground. A large white van careens toward me. I get struck on the left and side of the van and spun around by the impact. But it doesn't really hurt, despite the fact that I was hit at a fairly high speed. I try not to let the spin destabilize or change the dream environment.
The van fares a little worse though, it careens off the road and hits one of the neighbor's trees. The dream character; a black man with dreads gets out.
"Hey! Watch it! I... You're flying... He's flying!" The dream character yells.
Something made me realize that the huge structure in the sky was not my lucid barrier. I decide to manifest a physical representation of it and destroy it. I turned around, and in the middle of the street was my lucid barrier.
It was made out of rings of a pink polished stone, like a target, with a white four pointed star, also made out of polished stone. There was a ring of grey polished stone that connected into a pedestal and a crescent of more white polished stone along the inside of the outer ring. It was actually a beautiful sculpture and I felt a little bit bad for having to destroy it.
I started to fly at it. For some reason, my flying was a little bit awkward and I was flying feet-first. I wanted to turn myself around, until I realized this was actually perfect. I kicked into it, knocking out the white crescent and breaking the outer ring ring of grey stone. I looked back to see my work, and a little less than half of the wall was gone.
I felt my lucidity get clearer. Then I realized the reason my lucidity was so clear, and that my mind was so awake was that I was actually waking up.

Hopefully now that I started tearing down that lucid barrier my LDs will increase.

Dream - Lucid

I was in a city. I was trying to bake some cookies, all with different flavors of things on/in them. Some were, of course, chocolate chip, another was cinnamon I believe, and there were more but I can't remember them. I put them in the freezer when I realized that I needed to brush some sort of oil over them, so I did. I didn't think I was supposed to do it when the cookies were frozen though. Oh well, too late now; I'm sure they'll be fine.

Then, something about being with someone else and we were running away from two cops. It kind of reminds me of one of those comedies with Seth Rogen in it, kind of like Super Bad or something; it just had that feel to it. We would hide somewhere in a building, like in a garage, and hope the cops didn't catch us.

I kept going back to the cookies throughout the dream to work on them.

My grandma was in this one too at some point.

~

Dallas and I were enjoying our last day at Disney World before we had to go back home. We both went off and did our own thing that day. I spent the whole day in one part of the park. I called it "Fantasyland", though it looked nothing like the IWL Fantasyland at Disney World. It had more of a pirate/water feel to it, with many rides that looked like pirate ships that would swing around. There was one that Swung around in some half-tubes of water. I didn't want to ride it because too much swinging around makes me sick to my stomach (true IWL; forget going on carnival rides!). Dallas had wanted to ride that one. I had told him he could ride it, but I didn't want to.

Towards the end of the day, I was thinking about how quickly our time at Disney went by. I couldn't believe it was already time to go home! I also thought about how I had spent the entire day in one part of the park.

~

I was getting online to play League of Legends. I picked my character and was taken into the loading area. My character looked different; it was drawn in Rugrats-style art. In fact, it was from Rugrats (it was a character that doesn't exist IWL). I somehow went back to look at what character I had picked, and I had not picked any Rugrats character. I went back to the loading screen and it was still the Rugrats character. In fact, now that I was looking at it, everyone had Rugrats characters! It must be some event that Riot is doing to promote a new Rugrats things. I saw that the classic characters were there as well. I remember seeing some cut scene of them all coming up individually on the screen and saying something. My character did it, but so did the classics. I remember Tommy, Phil, and Lil.

The game then started. The map looked wildly different; it was more Starcraft-like than LoL. We spent a lot of time just chatting with each other, not making any moves to do anything towards winning. This lasted for some time, maybe 15 minutes or so. I kept thinking about this and how the other team must be so far ahead of us. I then broke away from the team to go gather resources (another Starcraft reference). I noticed that the others were now gathering them as well. In fact, they were being gathered so quickly, when I tried to gather them, they disappeared super quickly! How odd.

I then saw something on another screen to my left saying that the only people in the game were me and this other guy. He apologized to me because he told me he was trying to find someone to sell him some weed. I saw him say this on the computer screen in a chat, but then again I saw him, this time I actually saw him, walking around with a cell phone. He was trying to call people to sell him weed.

Then, I was in the bathroom playing the game again. This time, there was that screen to the left on some what looked like hot plates sitting on the bathroom counter. It had some pictures of characters on it. I started to do something in the game, and the hot plate turned on, making this crazy noise. It also looked like it was plowing hot air into the air (kind of like a teapot). It didn't seem like what was supposed to happen, so I freaked out and turned it off. I turned it on again, and it kept happening. The air wasn't hot that was coming out of it, I now noticed, but maybe a little warm. Still strong though. I turned it off again and gave up.

~

I was sitting on this long, silver chair that was an outdoor elevator sitting with Laura, one of my old managers. It had a safety harness pulled down in front of us. It was slowly bringing us down. It was nighttime. It had something to do with going to work. I was talking to Laura about my work concerns. The elevator chair then got to the bottom and let us out. It almost started to go back up again when I realized I had left my purse on it. Laura grabbed it for me, and then it started to go up again. I thanked her.

I then was walking into a fast food restaurant that I was apparently working at now. I had a bright orange long sleeved shirt on. I noticed that all the other employees had on light blue short sleeved t-shirts. Was I wearing the wrong thing? As I walked further into the restaurant, I noticed some people with bright orange on. I saw some short and long sleeves. I didn't feel so bad now.

I then sat down at a booth, and my boss, an older Indian gentleman, was sitting there across and diagonal from me. Next to me sat another employee. The boss then told me to scratch out this word that was on my name tag in the background that advertised a certain product they carried and to write this other one in in its place. It was a weird word that started with "cha", but I can't remember the word right now. I started to scratch it off. He was explaining to me what they did: Each employee was assigned a product at the beginning of their employment. It was random. But then, after a bit, they were assigned a new one. That product was the one they had to push and advertise. I thought to myself wow, what a unique advertising strategy. The guy next to me was scratching his word off the tag as well.

I then saw something written on a menu about employees all being given a nickname. It explained about one guy whose nickname was "Um" because he would slip the word "um" into almost everything he said, both in English and French.

10/14/2014
Dream One
"Pirate Punishment"

I was boarding a ship with others. It looked to be a cruise ship, but smaller than the large vessels that you would normally see leaving from the cape. I don't remember where we were going, but there were quite a few people on the boat.

While out on the water, before even having gotten too far, our ship was attacked by 'pirates' (for lack of a better name). These guys were real bad news, and seemed as if they had just stepped out of the pages of a comic book. One of them was a dark-clad, helmeted, Darth Vader-looking s.o.b., and he was apparently the overlord of the group.

The majority of us were down in the ship's hull. The bay door was open, and these goons were ordering us all to surrender to them, or they were going to blow us out of the water. Though there were only a handful of these assailants, we could see that they had the weaponry to take us all out (some of them having metaphysical powers, as well). There was no way we would be able to stop them.

That's when I realized that I was dreaming.

Despite having planned to use my lucidity for other things - and never being one to shy away from lucid combat - I allowed the storyline to conduct me and stepped out onto the open rear hatch, eager to turn the tables on these guys. I assured the rest of the people that things were going to be just fine, since "this was just a dream" and "no harm could come to any of [them], anyway!" With that, I levitated out from the wide mouth of the ship's bay door, hovering over the still water of the harbor and squaring up in a position to where I could better face our would-be captors.

I don't remember too many details of the battle, but I was controlling my flight rather well, changing elevations over the water while evading the attacks from the group of baddies. A bit more action took place between me, the pirates and the passengers, but I don't recall much. Throughout the fight, there were a few times that I used telekinesis to sling my enemies in all directions, but the main thing I remember is facing off against one guy, in particular, that had a throwing knives or straight-razors, that he would throw at me. I don't remember if all of the pirates were able to fly, but I know this guy could. We had a good mid-air cat-and-mouse, and I kept flicking his projectiles away with TK, before they could reach me, guiding them with my hands outstretched, to mentally arc them around my body.

Finally, unexpectedly, he pulled out a large meat-cleaver and chucked it at me. Still on a telekinesis roll, I waved the weapon off to one side, but then imagined it spinning around behind me, hooking around from my other side and launching back at its previous owner. In a state of shock, the other guy didn't seem to know what to do. It tore through one of this legs, opening an enormous gash in his thigh. When he grabbed his leg and yelled in horror, I knew he was done.

With the still-spinning cleaver now hovering in the air, nearby, I turned to confront the rest of the invaders. Unfortunately, I don't remember anything passed this point.


Fragment Two
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I was on a ranch, and about to be taught to ride my first bull, just after seeing a more experienced rider get dumped on his ass. They had smaller, tamer bulls for us amateurs to ride, and I got a good look at mine, through the rails in the fence, while making my way to the pen. Smaller or not, I was preparing for the worst, and wasn't feeling all too confident as I climbed on his back and began to strap myself in...

All I remember.

Unfortunately, my laptop is temporarily out of commission, so I don't have access to a few of my notes for the past week, but I'll get back to them. Here are the ones from Monday morning, though.

10/13/2014
Fragment One
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I was with a group of people, exploring a vast, underground cavern. It was maybe half the size of a football stadium / dome, and loomed over a massive body of water. At some point, I remember that we were hanging from the ceiling, though I can't remember how we got up there. I can only recall that we were trying not to fall in the water, due to the notion that there was something large and deadly living in it. (Possibly inspired by reading a dream of OpheliaBlue's that referenced huge, underwater beasts, recently).


Fragment Two
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I was talking with an apparent 'girlfriend of a friend' (though I don't know who), about her "superstar" ex-boyfriend coming to town, soon, and her wanting to go to dinner with him and catch up, despite being in a relationship with my friend. (A topic of conversation, that came up, a couple of days ago.)

Already seeing significant improvements in my dream recall. Determination and sticking to my various mantras seems to be paramount. The difference between today and yesterday is staggering. I must keep this up.

–Myself and five other people were sitting at a table, at work. Though it strongly resembled one of those heavy wooden tables you’d have sat at back in school. For some reason that I can’t recall, we weren’t able to work. At some point we couldn’t talk either. I remember someone quietly made the joke that maybe we should pass notes, and soon thereafter Miranda actually passed me one. She claimed to understand me and to know what it’s like to feel the things that I feel, and told me that I’m not alone in all of that. Essentially is was a note implying her as a kindred spirit to me. I was attempting to write her a note back when I awoke from the dream. For whatever reason, my writing was terrible in the dream. To the point of almost being unreadable. I made several mistakes as well and had to scribble out a big spot on the page, and I remember at one point while writing I came to a part of the page that had been scribbled out and I hadn’t even done it.

–(Flash) A skull wreathe, like the kind of wreathe you hang on your door at Christmas. But it was a circular formation of skulls instead of the usual green thing.

–Road work happening near Amy and Andy’s house. Remember it happening near Dunkin’s Market (where it intersects the highway) specifically. Perhaps near Superama too. A large group of monkeys called Orathrapods (as identified by a worker I was speaking to once while stopped) was assisting in the construction. The air was very heavy and dusty with cement powder, which I remember seeing in large amounts laying in quite a few places about the scene. At first the worker identified them as some sort of plant before correcting himself and labeling them as monkeys. Perhaps the name Orathrapod was actually the plant name he give me before the correction? Don’t remember for sure. Would have been a GREAT time to say “this shit isn’t normal” and perform a reality check. Need more practice to make that a habit. This dream occurred while under the influence of one sleeping pill.

Work On:
–Work seems to be a reoccuring theme. Reality check often at work (especially in the back room).
–More reality checks when things seem strange.

Non Lucid
Lucid

Dream 1

I remember I was talking to my family and other people when suddenly on the news there was a reporter saying that three kids were shot at a local store near the dream house I was in. I got scared because my phone recorded the incident by mistake. I took a guitar I found and started singing. Than I asked a dream character to play a song for me. They played for a bit than stopped. After that I went to another room to see my cousin watching a Spanish novela. She was complaining about it to me but I wasn't interested in hearing about the show so I went to a store with someone and asked for candy. The guy said the candy I wanted was $1.25. I couldn't find the money but I took the candy and left without a problem. I arrived at my room when suddenly the dream changed quickly.Now lucid I was watching a documentary. First I was a different person on a bed in my room looking out the window. It was supposedly the past and some guy was explaining an event that occurred. "I was asleep with a swollen toe that was caused by a needle that was shot through my window. There were African American guys who beat up a guy dressed as a leprechaun. They stomped on his head and buried his ashes in the backyard." Is what the guy said and what I saw. The scene changed back to the new dream house and I was floating like a spirit to see my cousin talking with my brother and cards that looked like a anime game you could play with a console. Than I woke up.

Dream 2

In my other dream I was talking with my family when something made me aware I was dreaming.I looked around and I was in some type of cartoonish mountain area. I decided I would change the scenery so I shouted for the place to turn into a ice cream place filled with candy. The place change into some sort of candy land like I wanted but a cartoon dinasaur like thing came out of no where and pushed me off a cliff or something. I was falling down and called for my dream guide Dawn. He saved me from the fall and we were now in my room. I noticed he was sort of faded though and the dream changed to darkness. I couldn't move but I wanted to wake up so I kept trying to move. It felt like a pretty long wait. I appeared in my bed again after that and it was still dark. I heard my brother say something about death than started biting my hand to wake up. I still had to wait a while to wake up though.

Dream 3

I was in my kitchen making platanos for my dinner because my mom said she only cooked sweet ones for my dad, aunt and her. Than the place changed to a office place and I was working for a lady but decided to quit.
I noticed it was a dream so I left the room and appeared in a place where my cousins were. It looked like we were in a island/exotic house. I saw my cousins counting candy and was pondering what to do. My cousins than left so I followed them asking where they were going. I noticed that we were in a wide open forest area now and out of no where I heard a guy shout at another guy for making the wrong move. Apparently he let the dangerous birds know that we were around. I started running to and noticed a gang of guys with guns. They were shooting at us so I went in and out the ground and appeared in a park like place. As I was walking a lady came up to me and asked why I was frowning. I laughed a bit and she said "There you go! You and charlie need to break out of that grumpy bear frown.' Than I woke up.

Dream 4

I appeared in my room quickly and out of no where a guy appeared. I shrunk him though because I didn't want him there. Randomly a dream views page appeared and in the forum someone was saying that no one can be smarter than Buddha, a evil entity and something else. I thought that was fun and walked out my door to see it was sunny outside. But I didn't know what to do. It got dark very quickly after that so I closed my eyes and started spinning. I was now a anime character floating down a beautiful bright city at night. Than appeared in front of my house again and woke up.

14.10.2014

Strange cart/running race (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was on a track and apparently I was on a race, but I had a hard time to control my cart and people was passing me. I focused on my driving and I realized I had a small cart:







I started to race and to cut on the turns until I started to pass several other racers, getting to the end in a pretty good position, but suddenly, my cart stopped working and there was sand undr me, so I decided to start running.

As I was running, some other guy started to pull my shirt back in order to slow me down. I found that to be very unfair and suddenly, I could not run as much as I wanted, I was going like in slow motion. This guy was passing me and I could not catch up. There was a huge bush ahead that was a blend of poison ivy and lavender. I figured that there would be a ton of bees and I would freak out and run faster, but as I got into it, even that I saw the bees I did not feel scared and I could not run, in fact, I was getting stuck out of the poison ivy for some reason. I ended up 5th on the race and I was pretty upset from the cheating from this guy, however, on the standings I was still at a better position than him.

Black: Non-dream
Blue: Non-lucid
Red: Lucid

Day 8 SSILD - Did the cycles before I went to bed, I ended up having a FA around midnight. Was pretty weird, the feeling of waking up, and then waking up again. Also did some cycles around midnight and 3:30ish but just fell asleep shockingly fast.

Note: SSILD seems to be helping with my insomnia.

Note: Didn't put a great deal of effort into recalling my dreams this morning, I forgot 2 of them and most of the one that I do remember. They were all quite vivid and intensely long though.

Dream 1 - Cleaning
In a hall place, I can recall seeing people sitting at a desk writing stuff out. Then for some reason I was cleaning stuff in this room. I saw a few people from my geology class which is a dream sign for me.

Can't put as much effort into lucid dreaming sadly exams are taking up my focus for the next few weeks.

I spent a few minutes reading over my dreams from the past week, then went to bed at 10:50. I woke at 2:30.

The parking deck
I'm on the 6th floor of the parking deck at work. Another man is with me (I don't know if I knew him or not), and there are also a lot of Google+ people around (I wrote that in the middle of the night; I have no idea what it means now). The 7th (top) floor ends abruptly right above where we're standing. With the problems they've had in the past about getting heavy machinery onto the parking deck to change the sign on the back of the building, I don't know how they managed to remove half a floor safely. Now things have shifted: we're still on the 6th floor, but now it's just the two of us; and the 7th floor still ends right above us, while in front of us the 6th floor now also ends abruptly (though it's protected by a wrought-iron fence). I decide that the fence is too "girly(Huh?)," but that it'll serve its purpose well enough. We look over at building C and decide to try to demolish it. Now we've put something disk-shaped onto the ground and turned it on. It's vibrating like crazy, and if we can get it tuned to the right frequency then it'll vibrate the whole building down. My friend is the one tweaking the frequency, and he gets close. The building starts visibly shaking. I put one foot on the gizmo, holding it down against the ground with my weight. I'm getting tired quickly, and I hope the building gives out before I do. We seem to get just the right frequency for a moment, and all the windows twist in their frames. I'm pleased that we managed to achieve that much, but I'm disappointed it was all we could do.

Now I'm inside the library, one of the rooms with windows affected by our gizmo. The windows are still messed up, but people don't seem too bothered, and things are generally going on like normal. As I'm looking at everything, it dawns on me that there may have been video cameras on the parking deck, and that if there are then everyone already has a copy of it and will be looking for me. I try to think back to where we were in the deck, and I can visualize cameras about 10 feet from where we were standing. I start to panic a bit, but I get it under control. Now I'm back in the deck walking with someone. I've been able - so far, at least - to blend in with the other students and not get picked up for my involvement with the seismic gadget.

Now I'm in a car with a few other people my age. We're trying to get to ???. I'm following the GPS directions, but they don't make a lot of sense. I make a left but then realize I probably shouldn't have. I check my phone and see it's at half battery, and I realize I don't have any charger with me. We'll be in trouble if the battery dies. Now we're further down the road. Somehow we need to turn around and go back a bit to get my GPS - it's no longer in the car. I look for an opening to get into the left lane to get ready to turn around (there's a median in the middle of the road, so I have to wait to find a gap), but then I realize that the left lanes have train tracks running on them (like trolley tracks), and I'm not willing to ride on train tracks for any length of time. Further up, we find a place to pull a U turn that doesn't require being on the tracks for long.


After journalling, I used the bathroom and returned to bed at 2:45. My wife's alarm woke me at 6:30.


Flying back to the car
I'm with my family, returning from somewhere to the house in a nearby neighborhood where we parked our car. Somehow, we're traveling over some other neighborhoods to get there. We seem to be in a ballistic trajectory, since we're not in any kind of craft and have no control over our own flight. I'm not aware of any wind, only of movement over the ground. We're moving quickly, yet the houses below us seem to pass slowly, so we must be fairly high up. As we go, I point out different roof tile colors and patterns to my kids. Most of the houses seem to have dark gray roofs, so the kids have fun pointing out other colors. Most of the rest seem to be brown roofs, though there are a few that have mixed colors; the kids are always really excited to point out one of those. I also think it's interesting to look at the colors of the houses. Most are normal colors, but I see a few blues and greens and other odd colors. The kids don't seem to care about the siding colors, only showing an interest in the roofs.

Now we've landed. We're in a carport getting into our car. I'm standing near the door to the house. I have a remote control for the car and fiddle with it for a moment, turning the car's engine and stereo on and off.


An unusual day at work
I'm at work at the start of what's going to be an all-day meeting. We're all well dressed - I'm in a black suit. Now we're taking a break, and I'm in the break room with a couple of other people. They've had the meeting catered, so I grab one of the frozen omelets out of the freezer, put it on my plate, and microwave it. I decide to heat it most of the way through, then add a couple strips of bacon for the last few seconds so the omelet and the bacon will both be hot at the same time. Given how many people there are, I'm surprised at how little food there is. Someone says that Arby's is in the process of sending over more omelets. The woman who ordered the food describes her phone conversation with the woman at McDonald's. The McDonald's rep could tell that my coworker wasn't really going to order anything, that she was just calling to get prices to help her negotiate with the restaurant she actually wanted to order from, so she was working hard to change my coworkers mind to get her to order from McDonald's instead. My coworker said the McDonald's lady actually negotiated pretty well (not that she was going to budge), right up until she said something about "And just think of how much the children love our pancakes!". My coworker explains that she has children who love those pancakes and she always has a struggle with them when she tells them she's not buying them.

Now different people are in the break room with me. Something comes up about the guy at Arby's that the food was ordered from and how he has a thick German accent. I make a joke in poor taste, something about how the language sounds so harsh that no matter what they're actually saying, it always sounds like they're threatening you. The others with me don't appreciate it, so I apologize. I'm reminded of an old Simpsons clip in which Lisa asks a couple of Russian men for directions. The captions show that they're speaking very kindly to her, but their angry, shouted words and pounded fists cause her to run screaming in terror. I decide to find that clip and show it to these guys, thinking that maybe that'll help them lighten up.

Now I'm walking along outside the fence of "my company." It seems to be a big industrial complex. A female coworker is walking with me. We come across a skinny German guy trying to slip through a gap in the fence and ask him what he's doing. I point out that the main gates are just down the road and there's no reason for him to try to sneak in this way, but then I see that the main gates are closing as we speak. My petite coworker decides slipping through the fence is an interesting challenge and manages to do it without messing up her nice clothes (I was sure she'd rip something). The German guy follows her. I see security headed for them, so I run around through the main gate (which by now has started to open again). Even though I'm not wearing my security badge where it can be seen, the guards all know me for an employee. The ones doing normal guard duty ignore me, and the ones taking away the German and my coworker stop and listen when I explain what happened. The German is tossed back out, and my coworker is given a stern scolding.

Now I see the German man in his command center van looking at printed schematics and looking things up on his computer. I know now that the German was actually a saboteur trying to plant something inside our complex that he could trigger remotely. He pulls up info on both me and my coworker, and he visibly starts when he realizes who she is. It seems he'd started to fall for her in the couple of minutes he'd been around her, but now he finds out that she's the same woman he'd been sent to kill years ago. He failed back then, but he decides that he's not going to fail this time.


Prank gone wrong
As I'm driving along a five lane road, I see a couple of people sitting on a bench with a large teddy bear and decide to prank them by hooking the bear as I drive past to make them jump and have to hang on. Unfortunately, it turns out they're waiting for the bus and are asleep, so they can't hold on I end up holding the bear in my lap. Now I feel terrible and try to figure out how to return the bear. I'm stopped at a red light and consider just getting out and running over to them, but the light turns green. I look around for a driveway to pull into, but I can't see anything that would work. As I'm considering just pulling over to the side of the road and turning on my flashers, a middle-aged female bicyclist comes up to my window and starts scolding me for what I've done. I tell her that I'm already feeling terrible for doing it, that it went much farther than I'd intended, and ask her to return the bear for me. She agrees.


Augmented reality game
I'm with a few other guys in a room as part of some kind of augmented reality game. We're all well dressed and carrying various forms of weaponry. The room we're in is grayish and almost completely bare except for an unknown object right in the middle. As we're trying to figure out what it is, I remember my "gun" has a special ability that lets me "shoot" an object to identify it. My fellow players warn me that this gun seems very finicky and doesn't usually work. I shoot the object and, sure enough, nothing happens. I decide to try charging my gun before shooting, and this time a popup appears near the ceiling telling us about the object. I try a few more times, giving the gun a charge each time, and each time I get the popup (though the popup gives me different information each time). The other players are impressed.


Senile goddess
I see a group of people milling around in a large field. In front of them is a treeline broken by a fairly small gap, wide enough for three or four people to walk abreast. Beyond the gap is a brilliant, glowing field. An old goddess lives there, but she's so old that she's gone blind and senile. Her followers in the field still revere her and are sad at her condition.


Fragment: I'm with my old boss Dave and coworker Troy near a car in a small parking lot behind a building.

Non-Dream Dream

Dream 1:

I am at a fancy bar / restaurant with a few friends - I believe they are the guys from Workaholics. I am drinking wine for a while then switch to very cheap whiskey. Suddenly the place gets much more crowded and lively and it seems to be like a high school reunion or something. Throughout the dream I find that I am either really bad at talking to chicks or I just have no desire to do so.

Fragments from this dream:

- Ders from workaholics had invented an automatic lawn mower and was testing it out outside. It works really well but he has the settings coded wrong. It goes too far laterally during the turns and won't overlap the previous path. This leaves long lines of uncut grass. I go up to tell him how to correct it and he had morphed into my friend BW.

- There is a very long and steep gravel driveway outside. My friends and I slide down the entire thing on our feet.

- There are lots of older people and they are disgusted by our behavior.

- Two chicks are in a battle over who is hotter. We determined who is hotter by asking them to show us their raw steaks. The girl sitting up at the long table shows a very thick and bright red ribeye steak. The girl sitting down at the round table also shows a nice steak but I can't describe it in detail. The crowd unanimously votes for the girl with the ribeye. I was the first to declare her the winner. I had been mean to her earlier in the dream and she didn't like me but now she does.

- We are all signing a card towards the end of the night. It is massive with seemingly hundreds of notes / signatures. I can't think of what to write and my writing is very sloppy. I am also having difficulty gripping the pen. The card is taken away from me.

- My friend and I ask two chicks to join us in a dance competition. It turns out to be a mixture of dancing and golf.

Dream 2: The golfing continues on an actual course with different people. The first whole is a short, 115 yard par 3 with a huge lake between the tee box and the green. The first lady to hit is new to the game and very intimidated by the lake. She hits a low line drive that looks like it will carry the lake. She is very excited thinking that she did it. The ball does in fact carry the lake but hits the wall behind the green and bounces back into the lake. I am up next and I am trying to decide which club to hit. I pick the pitching wedge and then wake up.