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Okay, so I had been helping tear down a Superchic[k] concert in a church in a nearby town that I've never been to before. (Because I had helped set up.)
As the last things were being loaded into their trailed, I walked back into the the backstage area, which was designed to also function as a small gymnasium.
I paused and thought for a moment...
I am in a what?
Big, empty room. [dreamsign]
With what?
A small number of people in the far corner. [dreamsign]
And there is what outside?
A trailer full of stuff.
Which is?
A sort of collection of things. [DREAMSIGN]
And what just got over?
A concert by a band that is probably a step up in popularity than this venue would be hosting.
And you're helping them pack away their gear?
Yes. (Hmm... that's weird)

...hey, what's that fifteen feet up the wall?
It's a door- wait, A DOOR?!?!?
Yes, it's a door.
What the heck is a DOOR doing a foot from the ceiling? Wait-

I promptly spent [roughly] the next 200 seconds performing up to two DOZEN reality checks, many of them multiple times.
No dice.

Whaaaaat??? All the criteria in the book have been fulfilled, I have GOT to be dreaming... right?

Well. I guess not.

Was actually ready for it last night but nothing happened when it was over...my guess is I should have just tried getting up and RCing.

In other news I had a dream my pops was off killing snakes.

I was in something like a beach front fortress at night.

It was a beautiful night with stars, clouds, and moonlight. The fortress was more like a palace built to withstand an army. It was made of a radiant blue-ish steel. It didn't seem ancient: it was clean and well kept.

I do not remember the details of this portion of the dream unfortunately. I was a guest; and honored for my mystical abilities. I have vague visuals of being escorted through halls and warm chambers and generally feeling delighted to be there. I recall I was asked by the "kings messenger" to help avert a crisis if I possibly could.

I was informed: Tsunami's were coming that night and they wanted to know if I would be able to do anything about it... --I felt confident that I could.

I was taken to a huge half-open metallic chamber that nearly met the ocean and sat directly on the beach. Waves would crash inside the chamber so that it was an area like an enclosed private alcove. I was left alone. I started to consider how I could affect the massive wave best. I started to use lucid logic...

I can't just stop that much water directly. I have to use the energy from the wave against itself. (Almost word for word the thoughts running through my head.) I saw a moonlight wave bulging up near the horizon. I lifted by hands and clenched my fists as if to grab the underside of the wave. It quickly swelled up higher than 100ft: then I released, as if I was dropping the wave at the horizon. The tsunami disbanded. A tiny wave shot towards the beach and wet my feet.

Another one was coming rapidly.

This time I felt like I had the hang of it. As the ocean bulge reached the horizon, I grabbed the air with both hands, and threw it up like I was shaking out a sheet. The tsunami wave shot into the clouds: when it reached full height several claps of lightening erupted from the clouds and arched into the wave, and under the water, and thunder sounded.

Once again a tiny wave rushed in and gently splashed my bare toes.

A third wave came. I handled it the same as the second, but this time there were thick forks of lightening colored pinkish. It was spectacular. --Before the third wave rolled in completely: -I woke up.

I don't recall being openly lucid. Although I categorize this as semi-lucid because I seemed to have working techniques for manipulating my dreams. As if this is a normal part of my waking abilities. I have caught myself flying dodge all number of things in dreams, and not get lucid thinking that I could "just do that."

Note: This is my 3rd dream involving lightening bolts on Dream Views, and my 2nd dream involving a Tsunami.

Dream Statistics
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Dreams Remembered: 6
DILDs: 0, DEILDs: 0, WILDs: 0, WBTBILD: 3, OOBEs: 0, MILDs: 0
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Key Dream Points
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Recognizable Characters;

(1. None
(2. Star Wars Characters
(3. Friends and Family
(4. Friends and Family
(5. Star Wars Characters
(6. Jason Segel and my Mom

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Other Notes;

On my first dream I was flying to some mystical place that may have been Asguard.

The second dream I was going to some place that was similar to a temple in starwars I was good and I was doing something ..

The third dream I was in some house and we were having some sort feast. It was this kitchen I was always around/ The first time I went in there was a lot of food I wanted and everyone was there. The second time the majority of the food was gone and people were leaving.

The fourth dream I was by my house and I knew I was lucid. The background around the area my house was all white and it was like a boundary. I had different powers like I could jump higher, I could make things do as I say with my command. I could do anything.

My fifth dream I was back at the star wars place and I knew I was still lucid. I had to sneak past a few golden R2-D2 like guards and such without hitting them directly. It was sort of like a video game.

My sixth dream was the exiting dream, which I knew I was lucid for sure. Two versions of Jason Segel with glasses on were there. They were telling me what I should do when I woke up and such. I knew it was lucid because I remembered it was daytime before I went back to sleep.

I can't say my dream was fully lucid, as I was not able to control anything, but I did tell myself that I was dreaming in the dream, so I was at least aware of the situation.

I'm driving in my SUV, and for once it isn't pedal powered. I think I left that behind with my old vehicle, which was such a pain. I'm in familiar surroundings a few miles from home, driving down one of the main roads which I have driven hundereds of times in the past. As I pass through a major interchange I find I'm paying a lot of attention to the radio where a CBS anchor is describing a storm situation ahead of me. As I listen to this suddenly available XM station I see the storm ahead of me, and something I have never seen before, a tornado touching down about a half mile ahead of me. It may have been closer(or further) for a tornado but the scale was off in my dream, one of the most annoying qualities of the dream world. I thought to myself, "Cool! I've never had a tornado in my dreams, before, I'll have to tell Jen about this." My thoughts being that Jen used to tell me about how she always used to dream of tornadoes that frightened her and I have never had one in my dream. I'm still driving closer to the phenomenon (unusual because this area is not frequented by tornadoes) when I realize I had better slow down or I'll drive right into its path. I slow and watch as the tornado crosses the road ahead of me, then procede ahead. The announcer on the radio is describing people getting hurt and tossed around and as he says this I see him with a victim of the tornado along the side of the road. He is an older man dressed in a suit, holding a Bob Barker-style microphone and kneeling down next to a man who is broken and hurt, still talking to his unseen radio audience. I drive on by, not worrying about the situation because it's not my problem (I guess) and continue another perhaps mile down the road. I find I have now gone around a curve which is not normally part of the road and I find I am also in another state, perhaps Washington, and I don't know where I am. I wonder how I got there but it doesn't seem to matter much. I'm too busy hiding from my son's friend on the side of my house. I crouch down behind the yard waste bags my neighbor has placed on the edge of my property instead of his and my son's friend, Seamus, is walking up my sidewalk. I know my son thinks he is smelly so I hide, and peek around the bag at him. I think he may see me and feel stupid so I stand up, only to discover it is not Seamus but Samuel, and I can now see my son coming up behind him. They want to play games on the PS3 and I am resistant, and this is where I lost my focus and can't remember how I got from there to the classroom I find myself in, taking a test that somehow relates to driving but doesn't. I am in a classroom with a lot of strangers, mostly Hispanic, and I feel like I don't need to be there because the test isn't required and besides, I don't really belong in this class because I didn't do anything wrong. I don't want to be there but I know that somehow I have to be there because I am required to. Fine. I'm hungry, so I venture into the adjacent room where my stuff is (backpack?) and I pull out a snack. Upon returning, I find a woman has taken my seat. I know her, somehow, but I don't know her at the same time. She is polite, and asks me something about who I am, but the answer is now lost.

I know I had more dreams but I can't recall them. I do note that my standard themes continue: Storms, driving, being in school (with clothes, thankfully). I have noticed that I become edgy when it hasn't rained for a long time in the real world, and that's when the storms in my dreams become most severe. Today it IS raining and I seem fairly calm.

February 5, 2012
I had a pretty vivid dream last night, although not the most vivid one I ever have had. Strange thing is I saw a building in it that I believe I have seen in previous dreams Possible dream sign? Maybe....

1) There is a substitute in History class and he tells us that our teacher ordered us to get a packet of worksheets done by the end of class. I look at the board where she usually writes down our homework and realize that I haven't done the homework that was due that day- so I start it. I can recall sitting at my desk and doing it as descretely as possible so our sub doesn't notice. I think he was watching me with a disapproving glare but didn't say anything. Everyone begins to split into partners and so I sit down with my friend Abigail. We begin our packet and I remember the question being "what are the names of the four slaves?" or something similar. My dream switches to a new scene of a family of slaves in a wooden pen (the whole slave thing is relevant to what we have been learning in school on RL). The whole thing is fuzzy but I can remember writing down their names on the paper. The man's name started with a T but I can't remember what it was. I think the dream went back to the classroom where I was doing a few more questions and then finally switched back to the slave scene. This time the man's name wasn't the one that started with a T, but Olaudah Equiano, a famous slave that we had learned about in RL. They are still in the wooden cage-thing when someone (possible me) goes to their prison and tells them that she will help free them. She orders them to do something but I forget what it was. Anyway, after they do what she tells them she comes back and breaks wood off of the side so they can step out. They are all happy and thanking her but she warns them that they have to move quickly and get to this diner to meet someone. All of them start to move out and crouch next to a building, except for Olaudah. He gets too excited and says he is going to run across the feild to get there. She warns him but he takes no notice and starts to sprint. Everyone is worried but miraculously he makes it across without a scratch. He runs into the diner (this is the building that I have seen in my dreams before) and starts to skip around all happy. He is all of a sudden in a nice suit and runs down the isles to get to the woman they are supposed to meet. I remember wondering why no one did anything when he saw him. When he reached the booth he sat down and started talking animatedly to the woman about how he's never been so clean. They chat a little more about stuff I cant't remember. Then I wake up.

2) My second dream was about me looking on my iPad at my email to see if my teacher had emailed me back about something. I remember noticing that she had replied- but I don't know if I replied back. I wouldn't have remembered if I hadn't checked my email when I got up

I woke up this morning to no recall, only to look through my DJ and see this scribbled down:

Went through some obstacle course, sitting a bench in gym hallway (school) talking to some kid asking what my powers are. "I'm really fast and strong and I can turn into a vampire and be even faster and stronger" I told him.

lol... I don't remember writing that I think the vampire thing is from reading the Rosario+Vampire Manga these past couple days

Red Lobster seems to be on my subconscious a lot lately... Probably because I used them as a reference for one of the restaurants I applied to...and when that restaurant called them, they were told it had been too long since I had worked there for them to give a reference for me (only 2 years). So I didn't get that job - and I guess my subconscious mind just hasn't gotten over that. But this dream ended up being an exact play by play of me confronting my general manager LeeAnn about this happening.

I walk up to the front doors of the Red Lobster I used to work at. I look at the sign at the right of the door that displays the name of the general manager who works there. LeeAnn's name is still there - good. I go inside and look to see if I can find her. The layout is definitely different than what I was used to when I worked. I spot LeeAnn in the doorway to the kitchen. She has an apprehensive anxious look about her, which tells me she probably knows why I am here. But unlike on the phone, she can't exactly ignore my presence. She sits down with me at one of the empty tables.

"How are you?" I ask her.

"I'm good. Look. I have to cut down right to the chase. I can't give you a reference from me. It's been too long since you've been here."

"It's only been two years though," I say, "I wanted to transfer to a Red Lobster where I live now, and I couldn't find any that were accepting transfers. So I applied to Best Buy and was hired there. I've been with them for two years, but I've always wanted to go back to serving. Now that I had that opportunity, I couldn't get hired because you guys refused to give me a reference!"

"Yeah, the other managers told me they get a lot of reference calls about you though."

"Why does that matter? To be honest, I know I was a great employee. I gave you 2 MONTHS notice when I left. I never made any trouble for you and always did a good job."

"Well, why get back into serving again?" she asks.

"Because it's the best pay for the time spent working that I can get right now. Not only that - you get to interact with many different people and it's never boring. It's fun, and not monotonous whatsoever."

She laughs, "You are so passionate about it we should get married!"

We get up and walk together, down a corridor and into a seperate room. There is a queen bed in the middle and I can see my friend Brittany laying down in it. She makes a joking comment about how me and LeeAnn better not be having sex. LeeAnn gets out a piece of paper and asks what I want her to write for a reference letter. She ends up writing down a list of good qualities I have. I don't remember what exactly they were. I just remember that I wasn't too impressed - but it would do.

Brittany speaks up to her, "Don't forget to sign it for him!"

She quickly signs it and then hands me the slip of paper. I feel accomplished right before I wake up.

Couple of dream fragments before I woke up:

It all begins with this girl (let's call her V initial letter) V contacting me in some sort of modern way (phone, inet, some dreamish version of tecnology) and telling that she waits for my answer to some conversation she's put up. Like there is some new community-project / forum up that I'm not aware of. She's tried to contact me before for it and I've been like avoiding all the ways anyone can reach me. It's all political or aware in wrongs of modern world. I'm telling her that I've been trying to dodge those kind of projects for I'm going to live this country and those project should't be depadent on me.

..then there's this haze part and dreamsift..

I'm telling her that I should put up 'profile' about me always waking in the same body and different hotel room (I've been travelling outside my home city, not really living in hotels though). I'm playing with words like Hotel Self and Hotel Flesh.. ok, first I came up with two these words, after them I started to think about waking up to them. So I guess I reached atleast semilucidity at that point... So I come up to either Waking in Hotel Flesh or Waking up to Hotel Self.

Then there is this fragment where she wonders about her psychedelic history and comes up with rye bread and actual fungus Ergot starting it at some past century... This fragment might also have been before previous one, or surronding it.. don't know how it's with you but to time some parts of dream a hard to put into linearity.. it's like they exist outside of time or then some fragments get repeated or dejavued in dreams.. Then she feels totally guilty for forcing me into lone wandering life in lonesome hotels realising that I'm sort of like her DC that she hadn't had time for. So I'm just left with uneventual life with almost no-one contacting me. And she also only contacted me for project she has in mind for me. In undertone it's not all about dream put also her feeling that my lifesituation and lack of happiness is her fault. She says she'll change that. I tell that I'm going to oppose her doings, so that she would realise that world doesn't circle around her. So I'm gonna enjoy my lonely hotel.


Shortly after this I wake up

In reality I'm going abroad this spring and I've been travelling my home country for about three weeks now. Today I'm meeting girl called V, who I haven't seen for over 6 years. Girl in my dream wasn't this V but her namesake who I've met at later point of my life. V of dream was visiting my hometown (where I'm not) yesterday and my friends from there had parties at our place which is quite big house. V of dream did drag me to some political or aware project before she got bregnant. Also the V I'm meeting quite soon has children now. I haven't yet seen either of them with kids, which is going change today. (I saw V of this dream when she was very long with her pregnancy, so it's not so hard to think her as mother.. althought in dream she most certainly was outside mother-role)

I remember dreaming about D....he was using an Iphone......then I'm in my bed. I can't move. I try fighting it by moving one arm....it's moving. I focus on the next arm...it's moving as well. Then all of a sudden, both arms are where they started. In reality, they haven't moved an inch. In fact, the only thing that has moved are my eyes. They're open, and I've stopped hallucinating about weird stuff....I can see my actual room at this point. I try it again, and wake up. And yes...my room and the position looks exactly the same.

On that note, I need to start relaxing again whenever iI get SP...I feel like a noob again almost. I've missed a ton of LD's because of it.

I remember dreaming about D....he was using an Iphone......then I'm in my bed. I can't move. I try fighting it by moving one arm....it's moving. I focus on the next arm...it's moving as well. Then all of a sudden, both arms are where they started. In reality, they haven't moved an inch. In fact, the only thing that has moved are my eyes. They're open, and I've stopped hallucinating about weird stuff....I can see my actual room at this point. I try it again, and wake up. And yes...my room and the position looks exactly the same.

On that note, I need to start relaxing again whenever iI get SP...I feel like a noob again almost. I've missed a ton of LD's because of it.

Due to quite the eradic sleep shcedule recently I only remember a couple frags, but its better than nothing

I was at our town park with a friend of mine and we had just pulled in and parked on top of the main hill. I asked him where the jump was and he said right down at the bottom. I looked down the hill but didn't see anything. Then I started to walk around a little pavillion type building that's on the hill and, once I was around the corner I could see it, a little jump made out of snow. Too bad there wasn't any other snow on the ground





I was in a parking lot driving a car around. It was me and Travis Pastrana (lol?) and we were drifting around in it. The entire cast from the show Nitro Circus was there watching us. That's all I remember

Just a few fragments- there was a dream that had something to do with a laptop I had left at my house (don't live there anymore) that looked like a giant n3DS (cyan-colored), and felt really light (practically weightless, like it was hollow inside). I had left it at the house, hidden and constantly turned on so I could sync. my current laptop to it to monitor the house (it had a camera and microphone). I was also using it for extra storage or something for my laptop. Other than that, I can't remember anything.
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Second dream with something Nintendo DS related... possible Dream Sign? (lol... DS=Dream Sign)
Also, it had to do with my old home again too. So there's another.

Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Since I found out about Lucid Dreaming my recall has been terrible. I haven't been able to remember a single dream since Jan 28 when I found Lucid Dreaming. I think it might have to do with my exams and being woken up in the mornings. Hopefully now that i can relax my recall will improve. Hoping the next entry will be about a dream.

Man.....past days just been going through SP every freaking night. Most recent one felt like a giant hand was on me. Been interrupted on my dreams too. Recall is kinda garbage....the only thing I remember was something about Kingdom Hearts last night.