non-lucid

This dream is little more dark than the last two, but I figured I'd entry it anyways.

I dream I am exploring the backyard of my old house(which I did IRL that night, the house is condemned and locked off). I have my bull mastiff dog Dracula with me and we are walking around the yard just to see the state of everything. We go up to the back door and look inside of the house. Despite the fact that it is filled with mold, I enter the house and walk through the kitchen. Looking around, everything is how I suspect it would be, water damaged and torn apart. It's a pretty upsetting scene. As my dog is walking around I make my way down the hallway to my old bedroom. I walk in and the dream actually has depicted the bedroom to look very similar to what it looks like in real life. There are a few hiccups on accuracy, but that's how dreams work. I'm just surprised how accurate the house looks all together. But anyway, I continue searching around the room looking at all of my old things I left behind. Two AH-6J Little Bird helicopter toys(I never owned in real life), and my older brother's airsoft gun collection(much larger than it was IRL). I pick one of the guns up, a replica of an AK-47. My brother also has some tactical vests the military uses too, which I take. I unload the AK and look in the magazine, which is actually filled with nerf gun bullets. I turn now and see my older brother standing in the doorway. He tells me to out the gun down and leave. I do as he says and I follow him to the front door where my Dad is waiting. I now follow them outside to the front porch and then I awake.

Now something a little more interesting, which is actually kind of funny because this wasn't a lucid dream.

Anywhore...

So I dream I am in some sort of Hunger Games/Battle Royale kind of competition. Myself and several other people are all closed off in some sort of environment, and there are supplies all around the area for our survival. Most of the weapons scattered around the area are automatic weapons of all sorts.
I happen to pick up a small PDW of some sort. It is a machine pistol of some type, which a high fire rate. It will be perfect for engaging other survivors in close quarters. I now take the weapon and run up some sort of scaffolding that leads up to a dome tower. I notice that there are multiple survivors running around and shooting each other up in the building floors below the dome. I reach the first floor and sneak my way past all of them and enter into a room. However, someone spots me as I enter and chases after me. I turn around and three people run into the room with guns. I pull the trigger and mow all three of them down with my only magazine of ammo. One of them tumbles back into a closet, another to the floor, and the third one hits the walls and falls back. My blood is pumping adrenaline rapidly now. I now walk outside and look around for a new weapon. I look down and spot an AK-47 sitting by the railing surrounding the building. I pick it up and run back into the building. I notice several more survivors coming up the scaffolding. I wait in the building, and I do so, I awake.

It's been quite a while, since I've updated here, so there we go.

Date: 13 Feb

Pre bed: 3 mel

Wbtb: 1/3 latte

I have a non-ld at my grandma's, then another one at an unidentified place that resembles our old place, where I'm trying to ld while family members are walking around.

Mini-LD: I have a short ld that feels like a dream from scratch where I suddenly find myself in this dream scene. I examine myself in the mirror. Memory gap.

LD:Now I am at our old place and remember to do breathing exercises. This goes on for a while until the dream collapses.

LD: I'm on the street now facing this mexican looking DC, he seems quite lively and says something that's in line with what I was thinking/saying. This leads me to initially believe that he's a smart DC. I start a conversation with him, asking him about stuff of interest.

As I talk to the DC, I start noticing that the background kind of flickers (the light in the entire scene), it gradually becomes thicker with this additional layer of light. In the meantime, it seems there is nothing to be learned from this DC as he keeps on coming up with random words.

I start paying less attention to him, continue expressing my thoughts and desires. I pay more attention to what's going on, don't analyze the situation, just witness and feel this energy. The dream layer of energy and light becomes brighter and more dense, it's like I can feel the entire field of dense energy that is over everything and there's a slight hue towards the very light blue to it. It's somewhat pleasant but I totally get the feel and worry that the dream might be coming to an end, while this is happening.

I then recall my restaurant task and look around. The street is rather deserted, just warehouses and no restaurant nearby. The energy effect gradually diminishes as I concentrate on my task. I get the feeling that it might be difficult to change things in this dream, it seems realistically stable when I look at the warehouses, but then get an idea to think about McD. I think about finding a McD around and sure enough, I see the familiar M (or something close to it) over one of the places at the warehouse.

It's closed though, I can see that it's empty and the lights are off. But no problem, I instinctively cover the place with my hand and think about it being open and working/full of people. I move my hand away and it is! I head in its direction, happy about the summon. There are large pictures of burgers all over. But wait, do I really want to eat McD in a dream? I continue inside the store, which feels like some part of mall now. There's this undetermined place that kind of looks like a supermarket section or a convenience store, whatever, it is adjusting to my thoughts/expectations as I come closer.

In the end as I reach the shelves, wondering what to pick up to eat, it becomes a sushi place. I examine the food, wondering what my subcon will come up with, trying not to influence it too much. There's delicious looking sushi with red caviar and also another box that I can't recall in detail. I grab those two and head towards the cashier. Here, I want to play around some more.

There are two female DCs working there and a number of DCs queueing to pay. I go to the counter and expect to be immediately served. They direct their attention towards me and take the boxes, giving me a slight look of discontent. I feel like I don't have any money with me, but instead of summoning them, I decide it will be more fun to pretend that I am paying and everything is fine. This is exactly what what I do - after the old Chinese lady tells me the price, I make a movement to hand her some invisible banknotes which she takes and gives me back a receipt and semi-existing sort of change (a coin or so). She also hurts me a bit with her finger nail and gives me a somewhat angry look (as if she knows what I'm doing). I take the stuff and get ready to leave but the dream fades and I find myself in bed. I briefly wait to resume, but it doesn't immediately happen, and possibly better for journaling.

Hey, I won't say many details about this dream because I was going to write the entry a few days ago when it happened but a bunch came up and I came back today and it didn't auto save anything, so I'm not gonna write a detailed DJ, especially because I have several others I'd like to type up tonight that were much more interesting, but ironically not lucid.

Anyway, I dreamt I bought some soup at a Chinese restaurant and I had no money, so I ran off with it. I became lucid in the process and threw the soup aside. I then spawned in an orange Dodge Charger and get in it to drive. That's about all I remember.

Don't worry, much more interesting dream journals to come in the next hour or so.

I start off in a massive, dome room (the ceiling is like the top half of a sphere). The atmosphere is precisely that of Twilight Princess from The Legend of Zelda series (amazing game... if you haven't played it, you should). The room resembles a cathedral The floor is made up of large, stone bricks. Some of the bricks are cracked and crumbly, while others are perfectly intact. The bricks are about two feet by four feet. There are dark red colored bricks and light grey bricks. They make up a target symbol with a red circle in the middle, then a grey ring, then a red ring, and the outermost area is grey. Each ring is about six bricks across. The walls are curved to line up with the ceiling and they are concrete. They're also cracking in some areas. There are pillars attached to the walls. They look like Greek pillars. I am unsure of how many there were, but there were many. On some of the pillars there are torches for lighting the room. I walk forward toward the center of the room. A large, scaly sphere bursts through the wall I'm facing. The sphere is covered in very dark red scales. The scales are fairly large, about a foot in length and ½ foot wide at their greatest width. I have to dive to get out of the way. It hits the wall opposite from where it came. I notice that the wall was is severely cracked where it hit. The scaly sphere sits there and I see its eyes. They're nearly perfectly hidden under two scales. When I make eye contact with it, it lets out a growl of hysterical anger. It starts off very low pitched (like a lion's growl), but the pitch slowly rises - as does the volume. As it growls, it begins to vibrate. The growl becomes so loud and at such a high pitch that it is almost unbearable. The higher the pitch and the louder the growl gets, the more it vibrates. I feel the vibrations in my feet and shins. It finally reaches the highest and loudest point and rolls towards me once more. I dodge once more, but this time it doesn't hit the other side or stop to get all mad and changes its aim to me once more. I know it will hit me and it does. I feel the scales grinding against me, but it does not hurt. They mostly feel like small pulses of pressure running down my skin. It is as if I am made of a squishy, latex material. The sphere and I propel through the wall. The area the sphere and I broke through leads down an underground tunnel slide. It is too small for the sphere creature to fit through, but I am sliding down the tunnel. I come to a harsh, sudden stop when I hit the ground. It causes an intense vibration from my hips down. The sensation quickly fades, and there is a shift to

a very sunny, bright area. I am in the center of a slim pathway made of very dry soil. On both sides of the path is grass. It is more luscious and green than any grass I have ever seen. In the distance I see many buildings, but they are distorted. It just looks like they're blurry and swaying back and forth... similar to the way heat makes something look. I walk forward and pass a white picket fence. I think of it as pointless because it isn't on the path, and it only goes a couple feet on either side of the path. Anyhow, I pass it. There are small trees on the left side that still need posts for support because they aren't big enough to stand on their own, and there are a couple brown, wooden benches on the right side. I eventually get to a round-about sort of thing. It's a larger path in a circle, and it has a small median in the middle filled with little pink/red/purple/green flowers, and another small tree in the middle. It's just as big as a normal round-about. I go to the right side. There's a very old-looking pickup truck that's pretty much all rusted. It is approaching me, but the closer it gets, the slower it moves. The driver yells at me and tells me that I should pick up a flower from the ground and give it to a girl. I pick it up. When I see it the first time, it's purple. I walk further into the area and notice that I am just outside of a small, country town. There is an arch in front of me to signify the entrance to the town. There are two buildings; one on each side of the arch with their sides facing me, and their entrances facing in towards the path that continued on into the town. The path is straight and seems to go on indefinitely, as do the buildings... just one after another. The buildings are mostly old-school brick houses, but there are a few that are made of wood instead. I look for a girl to give the flower to around the outskirts of the town, but all the girls I see are with their boyfriends, husbands, or kids. I turn around and see a girl sitting on a bench beside the path facing the town. She is dressed in a black, long-sleeved shirt, and black pants. She's not sitting with anyone, so I approach her. The flower I picked up is now green. I sit next to her and give her the flower, but she wants a dandelion instead. I look down and there is, conveniently, a dandelion. I pick it and give it to her. After I look up from picking the dandelion, she isn't in all black anymore; she's wearing blue jeans and a white shirt. We stand up and begin to walk towards the city. I almost get through the arch, but then the girl starts to walk backwards away from me. Her movements aren't like normal backwards walking, they're forwards walking, reversed. The next thing I see is the rusty truck passing me, but it's going backwards to where it came from. Its backside was facing the town, and the dirt was dropping from the backside instead of coming up from the ground from its front side. The people were also moving in reverse. I could still move freely, though. I, again, almost got through the arch, but that's when I woke up.

A fragment about a castle where there's a bottle containing the souls of witches, kept as a historical item for tourists to look at.

Based on Legend, I'm visiting Darkness. He's going on and on about his plans to marry Lili, have her kill the unicorn and so on, gloating. I say to him, no. Her human boy, Jack, he's on his way here, and she's going to have to make a choice. She might have sided with darkness for the moment, but my side's going to win her in the long run. Darkness grants me that point - but "we don't have years." The choice she makes in the moment is the one that matters, not whatever regrets she'll have afterwards.

I was in some sort of real life game where you had to shoot people, but they wouldn't die but rather get knocked out of the game. Sort of like a harmless real gun paintball. The first game I took a sniper rifle and did pretty well. The second game I also had a sniper rifle but at one point I was the only one left where I was standing and I could see 10+ people in three different locations, aiming at me. I shot a whole lot of those people down but I never got hit myself, nor recalled any of them firing at me for real. At one point I picked up another type of sniper rifle but the gun was really weird and flexible and someone was about to explain how to fire it but I just dropped it and went on my way.

I'm back to keeping a dream journal, after not keeping one for years.

3/5/2014
Dream 1: I remember being in my house and Jen was scared because there was a spider on the ceiling of the kitchen. I looked at the spider and it was very large, white and furry. I didn’t want to touch it so I grabbed a plastic container, reached up and trapped the spider in it. I tried to put a lid on the container and the spider turned into a large white mouse that was trying to bite me. Then I woke up briefly. I didn’t make a note in my note pad.
Dream 2: I’m in a strange place, surrounded by wooded hills. There are run down little shacks everywhere. I know that my parents own this property, and I am disgusted that my father has let it get so run down. I know that I have to fix everything. I am driving a little tractor around and I know I have to mow acres and acres of land, plus I have to fix up all the run down shacks. At one point I find a larger old building and notice my father has put a bunch of furniture and other stuff outside. There is water everywhere and I am angry because I need to clean up the mess he made. At some point in the dream I remember speaking to my brother, but I don’t remember what I said. Throughout this dream I am feeling very angry.

3/6/2014: (I only remember 1 dream) I am in some kind of mall, it reminds me a bit of the Woburn Mall mixed with some elements of older buildings you might find near the ocean (on the Cape or at Wells ME). I remember looking at a court yard in the mall, which was very large and had a fountain. I was walking with other people, who I knew, but I don’t remember who they were. At one point we are walking past a store with glass display windows and there is a pretty black woman standing inside the display. I make a comment to the people I’m with that she looks just like “the other woman we just saw”, although I don’t remember seeing another woman previously. I stop in front of her for a moment and look at her face. Then I tell her that she is very beautiful. She smiles at me. I’m feeling very confident in myself. We go into a store. Immediately to my right is a display with large (3 ft. tall) decorative whisky bottles. I comment to the people I’m with “These are just like the bottles my father used to own.” However, in RL he never owned bottles like these. I move to my right and there is a large fish tank, inside are some fish swimming around. Then, inside the tank, a very impressive hologram of an oversized red human skull appears. I know that this is meant to do this. I comment about how cool it was. The next thing I remember, I’m in a large open room with many windows and several doors. The room reminds me of the 200 year old house I lived in when I was 10 years old, but it is much larger than any room in that house. I know I need to take a shower. I am shirtless. I don’t want to completely undress because the windows have no shades, curtains or blinds, and the room is on the first floor so anyone walking by could see right in. I am a bit frustrated by this situation. My alarm goes off and startles me awake. I laid in bed for a few minutes struggling to recall what I could about this dream

3/7/2014: Dream 1: I remember being at a skating arena. I was skating with Jen and a group of people (I don’t skate in real life). Then I remember sitting down on a wooden bench. Jessica (my ex-wife’s sister) comes over and sits next to me. I know that we are supposed to go to lunch to catch up on things. I feel nervous, like this is a date. I ask her if Ken (her husband) knows we are going to lunch. She says he is fine with it. I look across the arena and there is Ken. He has a snow shovel and is doing some kind of work. I wave to him. He smiles and waves back. Then I pick up one of my winter gloves and carefully fold the fingers back until on the middle finger is sticking up and hold it up so he can see it. He laughs, but I notice my old boss Gail to my left with a bunch of kids. She looks offended by my gesture. I wake up. I didn’t check the time.

Dream 2: It is night and I am in the parking lot of White City Plaza (at least it reminded me of this place). I’m with my friend Joe (friend from high school who I haven’t seen since 1987). We are going to my grandparent’s house. I know that they are dead, and have been for a very long time, but I have a key to the house and we are going to get something to eat. We walk across the wet pavement (it looks like it rained earlier) and up to the front door. We go inside. It is a very small house. The first room is the kitchen, with a little white stove to my left and a small table to the right. We go to a room on the left that has shelves with cans and boxes of food. I my head I know that this is not my grandparent’s house, but my aunt Jane’s house. I vaguely remember eating something sweet (it may have been frosting). We stuffed some stuff in our pockets and go back to the kitchen. I remember looking at a small counter which had an old white rotary phone, and some papers on it. I also remember looking into a small room which looked like an office. Joe and I left the house through the same door we came in. We start walking back to his car when two police officers approach us. They tell us to take them back into the house so they can check to see if we stole anything. I’m feeling scared. We go back into the house. Suddenly I realize I’m part of a comedy TV show. Joe is now Ashton Kutcher.. We are standing in the kitchen as the police are looking around. Suddenly I notice that my Aunt is stuffed in the stove. I can see the back of her head and neck pressed against the glass window. She is wearing a blue and white flowered dress with a white lace collar. Her weight is pushed against the stove door and it is starting to open. I sit down on the floor in front of the stove and try to hold it closed by pressing my back against it, but her weight is too much and it keeps opening. I can hear the laugh track play at the comical situation. I turn around and push against the door but it keeps opening and I keep pushing it closed, hoping the cops don’t notice. I put my nose near the crack of the door and inhale expecting to smell rotting corpse, but I don’t smell anything because this is just a TV show. Then next thing I remember I am in a heated pool with Jen. We are swimming in the deep end. The water feels amazing. She swims up to me and starts kissing me and rubbing against me. We continue to kiss as we swim to the shallow end with the intention of having sex. I wake up. It is 4:20 am.

It took me a while to fall back to sleep. I believe I was dreaming, but my alarm startled me awake. I lay there for a few minutes but couldn’t recall anything.

3/8/2014: I woke up early in the morning and lay still trying to remember my dream. It was very frustrating because I know I was dreaming just before I awoke, but I just couldn’t recall a single detail which would have led me to recall more. I managed to fall back to sleep.

Dream 1: I vaguely remember walking in a mall and knowing I was skipping school…. The next thing I remember I was back at my parent’s house. There is some kind of event going on (maybe a cookout). I am outside near a rail fence. There is a computer screen there and I am accessing my email account. I have my email account with the Disney channel, so the web page has all kinds of pictures of Disney characters (Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Mickey Mouse, etc). Suddenly some childhood friends come up behind me; Jim & Eric. I am happy to see they came to the event, but then I realize that I haven’t showered and I am wearing my mother’s old pink sweatshirt which is very dirty and way too tight for me. I need to shower and change so I go into the house. I walk to the bathroom and close the door. I look in the mirror and notice that the entire left side of my face is covered in a horrible rash. When I look away from the mirror I am now clean and dressed in blue jeans and a t-shirt. I walk out of the bathroom and into my parent’s kitchen. Eric and Jim are there along with another tall guy who is sitting at the table with his back to me. He is wearing a long black coat and a black winter cap. I expect it to be another childhood friend named Jeff. The man turns around and he has a graying goatee. I don’t recognize him. I hold my hand out to shake his hand….the dream fades and I wake up.

3/9/14 – 6:30 am: I remember that I was walking through a town on the Cape (in real life my wife was at the Cape with her friends yesterday). I am walking on a street that is high above the town, so I have a nice view of the town. There is snow everywhere and my childhood friend Dave is with us. The next thing I remember is I am at some kind of outdoor mall with my wife and some other people. There is an outdoor restaurant area with lots of 4 person tables set up in a grid formation. My wife has the design plans and has to find the best place to put 4 telephone booths. I am looking at the plans with her. There is already 1 public telephone at the upper right corner of the layout and I tell her that she should put the 3 more right with the already existing booth because it will save the cost of having to purchase the 4th booth. She ignores me and adds all 4 booths to another place on the plans. I am very annoyed with her. The next thing I remember I am sitting cross legged on the floor of the restaurant near the entrance. Several old ladies enter and are annoyed with me because I am sitting too close to the door and they are having trouble getting by me. I try to move out of there way, but there is nowhere to go. Across from me is sitting the wife of Mark B (a guy who went to my high school who is now a P90X instructor). She is dressed in workout cloths and sitting cross legged. I ask her how she got into health and fitness. She tells me that she is diabetic. For some reason I know I asked her to hold my wedding ring. I ask for it back and she gives me 2 smaller rings and 2 pennies. I am annoyed that she hasn’t given me back my ring. Then a woman walks in the room and shouts “Who wants some chicken granderra!?!” The dream fades and I wake up.

Dream 1:

I was a dragon trying to terrorize a village. I was actually a reincarnation of an older dragon that protected the village but I knew that I had to let myself be defeated in order to get closer to the village. So I let this knight slowly hack at my wings until they were completely cut off.

Dream 2:

I was part of a group of knights that were battling dark knights. It was very RPGesque, every time we'd beat a stage of dark knights we would get the option of taking their armor or weapons to upgrade our own before we continued on our quest. Pretty fun time.

Dream 3:

Playing some kind of shooter game in this dream. We were sort of like futuristic gladiators that were enslaved by the government. They put us on opposing teams in an arena where one team was on a track, trying to escort these supplies to the end. While the other team was off in the distance trying to shoot us. First time around we made it fine, then we realized we had to keep going around in circles until one team was completely dead. The other team charged us with impossible weapons (20 foot long chainsaws, power drills the size of cars). I took a screw driver and stabbed them all in the head repeatedly. I supposed I became semi-lucid when I stabbed them multiple times in the face and they wouldn't die. My team won and we were freed.

Dream 4:

Combination of the games Gunz & Gunz 2. Was just hanging out in an arena talking to people because nobody wanted to fight.

Included in this night's competitive dreaming: a WBTB fail

Dream one:

It all began with me being on a science expedition in South America, looking for the mysterious beings, which had been reported to splash about in a broad and deep waterfall and sing to each other.
We found them and they looked quite unimpressive - rather like some sort of mobile coral - 20 cm times 10 cm small and consisting of brown lamellae forming a bunch of flutes. Just that - no heads or eyes or anything. They let air through themselves and did some compressions and so produced their curious singing.

Despite being wordless - they gave us to understand, that they are from a planet in our solar system - we knew, which one was meant, but I have no correspondence to a real one, from what followed.

For further exploration a rocket-launch-pad was erected - looking more like a dangerous fairground ride, which shot a sort of train in the sky at an angle.
I was a bit afraid of that and not on the first mission, but took part in a further one - I really dreamt this roller-coaster feeling in the stomach, when we accelerated.

Its a bit weird then - it feels as if I had later remembered having been on that planet when I was back, but I don't remember the stay per se.
Really weird - I remember telling somebody about it, being back down again - like a false memory - and that was accompanied by pictures, too. The planet had a fluid brownish red surface - that's all there was.


Dream two:

Nothing out of the ordinary here - once more removals to another city and looking for a flat.
I found something in a beautiful, several hundred years old, but huge house.
Inspecting empty, architecturally pleasing flats - another dream-sign of mine - same as me emptying out an old residence - there was a bit of that as well later.
Also happens often - I find such a flat higher than ground floor, but over the time of inspection, there always comes about a connection to a terrace or garden - to greenery outside.
It's in real life so, that I really insist on having a balcony at least.
So it was here - a balcony sort of morphed into a terrace over inspection - and it was soo beautiful.
A little inner yard with really old trees and wines and flowers, architecture a bit damaged in a picturesque way - a bit of an enchanted spirit. And my blue bell flowers again - could also be a dream sign.
Once I like a patch of greenery - they are almost bound to be somewhere, too.


Dream three:

Started with a bit of an argument with my partner - then we went to a public swimming pool - an indoors facility with a wondrous basin.
It was sloping pretty steeply, maybe 40 m long, and sported some waves and whorls, but had a rather still surface overall.
Theoretically the surface shouldn't have been staying like it did under normal gravity, since it wasn't a river, wasn't flowing through.
And I even thought about that - but of course decided, this must be some new entertainment technology..
We had lots of fun and frolicking - having the whole thing to ourselves later ..


Dream four:

I was visiting an old friend of mine at his parent's house, and they were hanging in his ears about marrying a suitable woman. He had broken up with his girlfriend, who was a complete bore, but would have fit right in concerning social status and financial background.
Was one of these strange dreams, where something is told and at the same time I can watch it like a movie. Here it was the mother, explaining how it all should be.
We got a peek into the lives of two daughters of a bank-director - bit ridiculous, like checking what sort of watch they wore, if they had impeccable style. Beautiful they were, and a story of a maritally created business connection of the families was spun out.
He didn't want either of them.

My dream starts off with myself and two guys running around in what appears to be a whole set of underground mazes. We each have a bunch of things that we're carrying, though most of it seems to be contained in the knapsacks we're each wearing. On top of this, however, we each have a knife strapped to the outer part of our thighs, as well as a gun in our hands. I carry what simply appears to be a pistol, while my companions have what seem to be much more military grade weapons. The tunnels we're in seem to be very dark, though we appear to know what route we're taking, but we're constantly looking behind us due to low moans and grunts that echo through the stone walls.

We eventually come to an area of tunnel where there is actually an opening in the ceiling above us and for some reason this room is lit up. This is the place we're looking for and I drop my things and get sent up first. Once I'm up my first male friend starts passing me his equipment before I haul him up, and we start doing the same for the second guy. However, the second dude is taking what seems forever to send his stuff up to so I remember remarking how 'You need to stop sending your shit up to me one at a time.' Just as I'm telling him this a loud noise echoes almost right beside us and the third of our group pales, looks down the path we came from, and looks briefly at us before running down the tunnel saying, "Guys, I'm sorry." He starts making a lot of noise as he goes, looking to draw the zombies away from where we are. It doesn't take long before it seems they catch up to him when he starts screaming and wet noises fill the tunnel. It's past time being able to save him.

We scoop up all of our belongings and exit the room into what seems to be just a normal (albeit larger) home. We walk through the kitchen and living room before exiting the house and it turns out that it's built on a beach. Walking out from the home has us standing almost at water's edge and there is an entire community of people living here: there are people sun tanning by the water, kids swimming in it, and it's just an entirely laid-back atmosphere. A couple of older men approach us to welcome us to their home and take most of our inventory besides our knives to a communal armory. Some other people encourage us to go enjoy ourselves, so we shrug and decide to go find stuff to do. I decide to go swimming so run up to the water in my clothes and go right in.

I'm swimming only until I get to water depth about twice my height when I notice a small body just sitting at the bottom of the section of ocean. I can somehow tell it's not a zombie, but instead a small boy of maybe 8 years, and I swim down to pull him up and out of the ocean. Once I get him out I run to take him over to a building side and start trying to do anything I can to get water out of his system, yelling "Are you ok?" He swats away my hand and simply replies, "I'm fine." It gets awkward and silent for what seems like an eternity and I ask what he was doing at the bottom of the ocean. This look that gives me chills passes his face, and replies, "You'll find the answers you seek on the dark face of the moon." The kid then looks like he's about to try to eat my face and I scream, but instead his body becomes translucent and he absorbs into me. As he does a million different images of the future pass through my head, though I do not know if they're different moments down the same timeline, or a million different possibilities for the future that our timeline could progress down.

Thoroughly freaked out, I go inside to try to find something to eat. My friend is there in the kitchen with a female just a bit older than me and she's cooking for the group. She hands us both another, much sharper knife and explains exactly how to strike a zombie to minimize damage so that we can filet it better and cook it up (not only do zombies apparently come through the tunnel every now and then, but they are available to eat). Just as she says this, a couple actually appear from the catacombs and we follow her instructions to kill them clean. Just as we're dragging the bodies towards her, a few more come up and we do the same thing. She remarks how odd it is, as only a couple at the most tend to come up a day. Another body appears from the tunnel, but the results are much different this time. While the person looks like another zombie and is even partially decayed, it behaved like a human. It ducked around our strikes and grabbed the knife from my friend before lancing it through his throat. As my friend is collapsing to the ground, the creature runs back to the tunnel and somehow destroys the narrow opening, so now it's a large, sloping gap for a horde of zombies to come up. Most are normal, but there are quite a few who look like chargers from Left 4 Dead, as well as a couple that look like tanks from this game.

The female and I both try to run back out, but I'm the only one who actually leaves. I start screaming for everyone to get out and to run just before the horde comes out behind me. Many people aren't fast enough and become lunch for the group of zombies. A large creature of our own appears, seeming to me like an almost mini-Godzilla but with wings. It scoops up a couple of people and prepares to take flight. I just about get grabbed by a zombie, but a woman pushes me out of the way and screams when the zombie bites her in the throat. When the Godzilla creature grabs me to take with it, the woman gurgles out, "You've seen the future and you'll be the one to save us all." As the creature takes flight and takes us with it, my dream ends.

/** Notes on WILD Attempt #1.0 Alpha
Oh I almost forgot about this part okay so.
After my 5 AM wake-up-call I tried to WILD with BillyBob's tutorial and using Harionago's technique as an anchor. I laid down and tried to relax while picturing my dream body clapping. It was a little hard to hold onto, but I managed to keep it up for a while as I started to drift off.

And then, maybe three or four separate times the clapping I was doing started to sort of "fade in": it started to feel like I was the one doing the clapping, and I could actually hear it, and each time my brain reacted like a lightning strike. It felt like touching metal and getting shocked, except totally mental and a little more subtle, like something that had been waiting had snapped awake. And each time the "faded in" sensation vanished as a result. Eventually I just fell asleep and had a normal non-lucid dream.

It was pretty annoying, but hey, that's a first attempt for ya. To me it seems very very promising, if I can keep it up. I really want this whole dreaming thing to be a skill that I master, even if it occasionally takes a backseat to other skills I enjoy.



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OKAY LEMME TRY TO WRITE THIS DOWN WITHOUT TAKING HALF AN HOUR (NOTE: I FAILED)

First part of the dream, my brother and I were going to this winter retreat which was pretty exciting, I think I can remember the sort of planning and packing that's typical of that sort of thing. Mostly though I remember skiing down a slope. It was just me and Ben, nobody else around, and the slope we were going down was in the middle of a forest, and the snow wasn't even all over the ground. Most of it was piled on the slope which was good because otherwise we'da died or somethin. I remember skiing down and then my second try was snowboarding and it was fun but YOU KNOW. MY VISUAL MEMORY AINT AMAZING. Or I wasn't present or something idk. I think my recall is fine and I need to increase awareness/presence somehow...

At the bottom of the slope (it's a wonder we weren't just sent flying into it) was this great tree house sort of thing. It wasn't confined to one tree either, it was sort of all over the place. And there were animals all around or somethin?

Anyway the dream shifted at this point, so now instead of Ben and I it was just Protagonist Dude and Protagonist Female. Or whatever. That's not the names the dream gave them I just came up with them. I did a bit of exploring of the tree house as Protagonist Dude, I think. There were some animals in cages. Actually, it was almost like the setting of this peaceful story had been partially combined with that of a cold, scientific lab somewhere, because I'm pretty sure some of the animals were distressed. That's the impression I got. Protagonist Dude didn't seem to care very much?

so now the setting changed to be an anime that my boyfriend and I were watching and let's see man it's so hard to remember everything that happened

I think there was some stuff here about the Protagonists and y'know some bad guys but I can't remember >:U

oh well I like this part at least

the anime sort of introduced us to these bad guys at some point? they were supposed to be these super mysterious watchers who were behind a camera of some sort, it was like, how the bad guys or the government were keeping tabs on the good guys and it had sort of a 1984 feel to it. anyway it shows us these watchers, there were only two of 'em in the whole place, and you're introduced expecting them to be these evil autonomous Watchers who just Know Everything and junk, and it turned out to be two frightened protagonist-looking-people, one of them probably in his 20's and the other a bit older, just absolutely terrified that they were going to be squashed by the government for missing something.

which I'm pretty sure one of them was.

and then I remember that the episode had ended and boyfriend had stopped watching and I was checking out the preview of the next episode and this is SO CONFUSING but basically the two Watchers were sword-fighting in the most obnoxiously happy way possible, just fighting all over the place so professional but also laughing the entire time. And there was some sort of hint that it was actually a dark scene or maybe an old memory that no longer mattered or whatever, and then the preview switched to the main part, which was that the 20-something Watcher had been freaking out about something. And then what the dream gradually revealed was that he'd had trembling in his vision, and now the shaking had stopped. So there was this cool bit where he was lying in this super-green grass and I got to see from his perspective how non-shaky his vision was now. Which would normally be pretty boring because most people have non-shaky vision and the idea that it had even been shaky at all had only been introduced like 30 seconds ago, but it was still a sort of touching moment. And evidently he was freaked out in a GOOD way about all this. Or idk maybe he'd been freaking out about the government maybe squashing him.

Anyway the last thing I remember is seeing things from his perspective, including him tilting his head way back to see the grass and sky. And you know what. Right now I couldn't tell you which was where. My brain says "oh the grass was on the bottom and the sky was on the top because that's how perspective is supposed to work" but when I tilted my head back just now my bed was on the top. Or idk the bottom. UGH SO CONFUSING, BLEH. My brain tries its best. I don't blame you brain </3

The beginning is a little confusing. I entered some sort of castle - it was not really a castle, but some sort of ruins of a big, ancient building. The stairs seemed to be made for dwarves, as I could barely go through them. One of them was destroyed so I had to use a rope to go up to the next floor. When I arrived to the top somehow I was in my old house, and a skeleton told me that he had to kill my father. I agreed with that (?) and he touched so I could see him (he was invisible for other people). I could barely see him, only a tiny reflection in the air.

I went to my father's room and my grandmother was there, making the bed to go to sleep. I helped her as the mattress was too heavy for her. She starting arguing with me about how bad that mattress was, and I told her that that was the most expensive in the store. She went to sleep and I started looking for the skeleton. Not here...neither here... What are you doing behind the curtains? That's fucking creepy you know?

My parents arrived home and entered their room to go to sleep. I understood that it was not correct what I was doing, so I told my dad to go out of the room for a second, since the skeleton who wanted to kill him was standing there, waiting for the precise moment.

Okay, come with me and don't ask me anything - I told him as I indicated the main stairs to go outside. My mother went out of the room and I asked her to shut up as I was fearing that the skeleton would come out and kill everybody. I followed my father downstairs and when we were almost out I started to feel anxiety because there were a lot of bugs and leaves in the bottom floor. The thing is that all that was being told to me mentally, like somebody's was narrating an adventure story. We went out of the building.

I saw my father going upstairs again. The hell are you doing?! - I yelled at him - come the fuck down you dumbass he wants to kill you! He went down again and I told him to go to the boat and to be prepared for us to escape. I went to the top again, but this time climbing with a rope, since I didn't want to meet the creepy bugs and snakes again.


At this point my father enters into my real life room and I wake up. ''I just dreamed about you''.

Two dreams recalled, and going by the latest trend, first was hazy, second was clearer. I'm really hacked off about these though, because my top dream signs were EVERYWHERE.
Went to some place with my girlfriend and her mom. Sadly I don't know where it was. This one was pretty hard to recall.
Second Dream: My friend Aaron and I ended up going to an anime convention. For some reason, the convention was themed around Madoka Magica, even though I'm not a fan of the show in real life. We stayed at a foreign-looking hotel, and kept messing around with a weird alarm clock that looked like a bird.

All in all, not too much recalled. Daylight savings wasn't helping much either. Still though! Look at all these dream signs! Last night, I had that dream about the girl trying to go lucid, as if my brain were trying to tell me something. Now, I have two dreams containing my top dream signs. If I can work on increasing my awareness more, I might have better luck noticing all these signs. It would be ripe for going lucid.

1. [Non-Lucid] [Emotional]
I'm looking for Emily as I have become worried because I haven't heard from her for a while, I even thought about contacting her mother at this point.

Now I'm at a party of some sort and I find Emily and we start talking, she says "I love you" this surprised me and I replied with "What?", (You would not believe how much I love her in waking life) not sure what happens next but I follow her and then she runs off leaving me.

I go find her, she's sitting at a table looking down at this sheet of brown paper with text on it on the table (fat guy with a grey shirt on a couch opposite her saying something), so I approach her and I ask what's wrong, shes silent, this is worrying me, I talk to her then she lets out a few high pitched screams so I back off...then this random guy comes and crouches beside her, he says something to her, i don't know what but she seems ok with it...she then runs off I think, I stay at the table and cry. I wake up crying.

This felt so real, the emotions felt so real.

2. [Lucid] [WILD/DILD?]
I'm laying in my bed then all of a sudden I hear the sound of air rushing past my ears, I then see like a movie shot of me falling down to earth. (It was so colourful, was like an evening orange sky)

//I'm now in my bedroom standing in the middle and the front door is open so I rush outside onto my street (its quite bright) and I activate super speed and started running up the street about to fly// but I wake up. I was also wearing a white cape.

Sidenotes:
Should have stabilized first.

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Fragments:
Wrapping this thick black wire around a palm tree on the floor or something.

Possible dream signs:
Emily