cbernard

1. I am standing in a bathtub/shower, but not bathing. It's night, and the lights are out, and it would be pitch-black except for a little nightlight plugged into the wall. I am taking a sort of emotional bath- there's no water involved, but I am being washed with a feeling instead. I can physically feel the feeling: it feels kind of like sand, but more fluid. It's very comfortable and mildly warm (definitely not hot, but better than lukewarm). I am looking at the wall opposite the bathtub, where I know the door is, but I can't see anything. Suddenly, a soft white light turns on behind the door. It must have been really bright, because I can see it right through the door, as if the door was translucent. However, the light that gets through isn't very bright and is kind of in a blob-shape, resembling a shape that spilled water would make. When I see the light, I quickly step behind the bath curtain, which is pulled all the way to one side, but I can still see the light through the curtain. After about half a second, another light comes on, in the middle of the old one. Light #2 is much brighter and rounder, like a flashlight's light. I am starting to become very nervous. After another half-second interval, a third light comes on. It is laser-green, and it forms a ring with a dot in the middle, like a cross-hair, but without a cross. It is very bright, so bright that in real life it would probably damage your eyes to look at it for too long. As soon as I see it I drop to the floor of the bathtub, trying to get all of myself under the rim. While I am still falling, the final half-second interval passes and the last light comes on. It is an intense flash, like the flash of a camera, but so bright that your vision becomes completely white for a second, even if you're looking in the opposite direction. It was a scanner that the badguys were using to see if I was in the bathroom. Apparently we were being raided in the middle of the night. I don't know who 'we' were exactly, all I knew was that I was in some sort of base with my allies, and this raid was from an opposing faction. They were coming specifically to kill me, and they didn't really want to get in a fight or cause a commotion because there weren't enough of them- only three or four. So they were trying to scan all the rooms to find me before just barging in. While I was hiding, I was trying to figure out why they wanted me specifically. I thought that maybe it was because I knew some of their secrets, or maybe it was because my side would crumble without me to hold it together. I wasn't really sure. Anyway, since the light had flashed while I was still dropping, I was worried that they had seen me, but apparently they hadn't. They kept warming up and flashing the light every ten seconds or so, and I was trying to stay below the rim of the bathtub, but it was really hard and I kept slipping, so that my toe or something would be sticking out. However, somehow I was managing to keep out of the light. They started asking me questions, trying to trick me into giving myself away. I was answering the questions, but I don't remember what I said.


2. I was in a star wars jedi battle. I was on the good side, and all of us were running to meet the badguys. We finally came up to them, and all of us started lightsaber-battling the jedi who was in front of us. I noticed that all the goodguys had blue lightsabers, and all the bad jedi had red lightsabers, so I said, "hey, this is like color stereotyping!" I was fighting Anakin Skywalker, and he was already evil. He chopped off my hands, and I fell down. He grabbed me and dragged me through the battle and into this tunnel. Obi-wan Kenobi was following us, and he was really upset that I was dying. Anakin threw me into a spaceship at the other end of the tunnel. I sat up as it was taking off, and looked up, and there was a princess girl with hair in the shape of a giant fan and white face paint (can't remember if there was anyone like that in star wars), only her face and mannerisms looked like Lucy (a girl at my school). There were four of her (because she had four lives) sitting in a row. The spaceship was really small and rectangle-shaped, and they were against one of the smaller walls, so the four of them took up the whole wall. In the back-right corner was a bed. When they saw me and how I was dying, they all expressed shock: first the left-most one, then the next, then the next, then the right-hand one. Then, the left one's hair turned to grey, and then the next one, all the way down the line again, then once they all had grey hair, the left one said, "I'm dead!" (because apparently she had died from shock/grief at seeing me), then the second one said it, then the third one, and I was thinking, "oh no, the princess is about to lose all her lives here and now", except the last one didn't die but said something about how she would have a hard time coping with her grief. It was as if their shock took away like 90% of their collective lives, so the clone for 1-25% died, then the clone for 26-50% died, then the clone for 51-75% died, but the clone for 76-100% didn't die, just got really injured. I don't know if that makes any sense. Once I saw that the princess was not going to die, I struggled my way to the bed and flopped down.

I dreamed that it was the start of the school year and I was supposed to pick up my class schedule and then start going to classes, but I had lost my keys and key card and I needed the card to get into my classrooms. I started looking for it, and for some reason it was dark outside even though it was morning. I reach into my pocket to see if my card is there, but it is not. My keys are in there, though. I decide to go to my dorm room to look for my key card. I enter the dorm building and find my room. I go in using my keys, and find my roommate from last year standing there instead of who I'll actually be rooming with. Seeing my old roommate struck me as really odd, and I was thinking, "how can this be possible," but he said something about having signed up as my roommate again. I was fine with having him again, so I stopped worrying about how it had happened. We had a huge, long, room, about the size of three hotel rooms all lined up in a row. On the left were the beds, and on the right were a bunch of drawers. Everything was wooden, including the floors, and dusty/old. There was a wraparound window running from about halfway down the right wall to about halfway down the back wall. I looked out it, and it was bright outside. I looked at the clock to see how this was possible, and it was 10-something. I thought that it was probably the tinting of the windows that caused the difference in brightness. I decided to look through the dresser and see if my card was in there. I opened the top three drawers, but they all had my roommate's clothes in them. He had left the bottom two drawers for me. While I was searching the drawers, Christian came in. We said hi to him, and then I reached in my pocket and pulled out my wallet. I opened it and looked at all the cards. None of them looked like my key card except for one. I tried to pull it out to get a better look, but it was really hard to pull out. I finally got it, and it was a gift card instead of my key card, but I was still pretty excited because I had pulled it out successfully. We were all laughing, and I looked at the clock. It was 11:21. I was thinking that I probably had a morning class, which meant either that I had already missed it or it was still going. I decided just to go to class and hope someone would let me in. My roommate and I tried to talk in Chinese but we didn't know any words, so we started laughing again. We started walking outside, and ran into my roommate's friend, only he called him his little brother. Then we went to my roommate's car to get his keys. I got in the passenger side and reached across to pull his keys out of the ignition. My roommate and Christian were following along. They were laughing about something, and my roommate says, "That's bad." I say, "Simpsons bad?" He says, "Yeah." and we laugh even more because that was funny for some reason. I turn the key and pull it out.


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There were so many places in this dream where I should've done a reality check, but my brain just rationalized it every time. Any tips for how to get better at this?