Last night was finally fairly productive, dream-wise. I have three, maybe four dreams that I fairly clearly remember (I'm unsure of the number because some may have connected together.) Interestingly enough, I didn't try and do anything different sleep-wise last night; no WBTBs, auto-suggestive mp3's, or anything else like that. I just went to bed, said a mantra, "I lucid dream and remember my dreams," until I fell asleep, and slept through until morning. The only thing that I did differently that probably helped quite a bit was, when my alarm went off, I turned it off and laid in bed for another couple of minutes, to see if anything else would come to me. When I thought I remembered all I could, I recorded a few details of each dream, and got up and around. Here's the dreams, organized into what I think is sequential order through the night: Large Library and Gift Shop A friend and I are walking through a large library in the middle of the day. There are a few other people around, but not many. From where we're standing, I can look up and see at least three other floors, maybe more. I've been here before, in what I now recall as a dream from a few months ago. My friend and I walk up to a TV which is showing some sort of video concerning the Harry Potter books - a documentary, or history, or making of, or something of the like. We're fairly interested, until we see that to watch the whole thing, we have to spend $95, which isn't going to happen. We begin to head towards the door. On the way, we pass at least one shelf with Harry Potter paraphernalia, such as fake wands and candy from the book. A short, stocky man comes up to us and asks us if we want to buy anything. We mumble a negative and move out of the shop. Frustration in the Parking Lot Another friend, or maybe the same one, and I are now driving around a parking lot, trying to find the exit. We think we're almost out, but we see that we have to detour up and over an overpass, which will put us completely out of our way. We're trying to get somewhere in a hurry, and we're really annoyed. The parking lot is enclosed within a square of buildings, and the only way out is a tunnel on one side, but traffic is backed up too far, and we know we'll be stuck there for a while. Dead Tower I'm an experienced soldier, and along with a less-experienced person, am assaulting the tower of a sorcerer or evil being. At the top is trapped a friend of mine/ours, locked in a cage, and it is our mission to rescue her. We teleport (my browser dictionary doesn't know that word?) unto a balcony of the tower, on what is about the third or fourth floor. We sneak in through a window, and look around. The less-experienced soldier I am with is very excited, and states that he thinks the job will be a piece of cake. I get angry at his irresponsibility, and ask him, "Do you have any idea what we're up against?" Looking down, I search for something on the floor below it. Finding it, I point out a huge, red-eyed, black-furred, demonic rat to the other soldier. The rat, of which there are several more, is extremely strong and possessed by a dead spirit. He seems to understand the danger, and starts to shake. We move on up the tower, and my recall ends. Battlefields This time I'm the inexperienced soldier, and my commanding officer is going off on a general rant on the inefficiency of the training system. He says/yells, "They think that a few months of training in a controlled setting back home is good enough to prepare soldiers like you for the realities of war! Well, it isn't. You need field training, in an actual battle situation, before they should even think about sending someone as green as you out here." Just then, someone comes up and informs us that a battle is about to occur. The officer glares, but permits me to fight. The battle is, for whatever reason, somewhat reminiscent of the first campaign level of a Halo game; the last dream, though in a less conventional battlefield, was like the last campaign level. Going out onto the large field, I have a feeling at least one of our soldiers is definitely going to die, though I don't know where I get this sense.
I remember three dreams; two fragments, and one longer dream. First, the fragments: 1) I'm playing the new Pokemon game, which I strange, because I haven't played Pokemon in years. It's a lot of fun, and has pretty good graphics. Go figure. 2) My orthodontic permanent retainer, which goes behind my teeth, has broken and cracked in a bunch of different places. I'm worried about how to hide it. This, minus the hiding, somewhat reflects a waking life situation from a week or so ago, where one of the brackets broke. Now, for the relatively more vivid dream: Backyard I'm in the backyard of what I guess is a daycare of sorts; physically, none of the people here are young children, but that's what the situation feels like. We're going to eat lunch outside, and I grab a drink from the cooler. The backyard is fairly large, with a few tall trees, a brick or concrete sitting area (maybe 20 by 20 feet), and all around of it grass and more trees. I can't recall an end to it, but on one side is the building itself, which is one story tall and not too wide. I can't tell how far back it goes. There are several other people sitting and standing around, though I don't recognize them. I walk along the middle of the brick section. What I had taken to be leaves on the ground, I now realize are GIANT SPIDERS!!!! I have no idea where my subconscious thought that one up, because I'm not particularly afraid of spiders, nor have I thought much about them recently. Anyways, these things looked like blown up daddy longlegs, but the size of a dinner plate, I-kid-you-not. I moved towards one, and it jumps at least twenty feet into the air (I decided it had pulled itself up on a web really really fast. Genius me) before floating back down. I moved a good distance out of the way, because I didn't want it to land on me. Next, I'm playing with some sort of legos or blocks with a couple of other kids. Clean-up time is called, so we begin to put everything up. We get done, except that I have a collect of four, rainbow colored plastic semi-transparent cups that I have no idea what to do with. I take them over by the cooler, to someone I do recognize: I'll call him TR. He seems to be somewhat in charge, so I ask him, "Where should I put these cups?" He becomes annoyed, and says, "Why didn't you put those away earlier?" I argue that I didn't have them earlier, then give them to him. End of dream.
Yesterday during the day, I felt fairly normal physically, and maybe a little more awake in the morning than normal. I had a few worries and stuff that I was thinking about, but I was able to lay that aside once I was ready to sleep. However, last night was really worse with recall than the previous. I can't even really remember any fragments, and I only have a vague sense of what my last dream might have been about. Here's how the evening went: I was working on homework and stuff until close to 11:00. By the time I was ready to sleep, it was 11:15, and I didn't really spend any time focusing on lucid dreaming. I said my mantra ("I lucid dream") and watched the images behind my eyes until I fell asleep, which only took a few minutes. Next thing I remember, my alarm was going off at 5:30. I hit snooze, to see if I could remember any dreams, but no luck. The only thing I realized a few minutes later was that I think the dream may have had to do with math, which was what I was doing right before bed, and that I was thinking about first thing when I woke up (thinking about the subject itself, not really any particular facet of it.)
Recall for me as of late has been, to say the least, sporadic. I'm thinking it's because, during the school week, I'm probably not getting quite enough sleep, or maybe not steady enough, but I'm not sure what I can do about that. Last night in particular, I remembered two dream fragments. In the first fragment, I'm in a huge city, walking around with a gang of kids. (Think the beginning of Ender's Shadow.) The buildings tower over us, and I don't think I can see the tops of them. This is kind of interesting, because as I fell asleep, I tried to visualize a building that I could take an elevator in; I wonder if that affected this dream. Anyways, there are six or seven other kids along with me, and all of us are young-ish; I think the oldest one was about 10 years old. I'm also pretty sure we walked under an overpass at some point. The second was less of a full-fledged dream and more of just an image: when my alarm went off, I dreamed that the beeping was actually my computer, and that the screen of the computer was actually melting. Or maybe melting isn't quite the right word; it was oozing an orange goo. After a few seconds, though, I woke up. For the first few seconds when I awoke, things looked weird (my clock looked wrong, things were blurry), and I was sort of confused and thought I might still be dreaming, but I wasn't and on second glance things looked normal.
It's a weekday (and a school day) so I'm not getting near enough sleep. As such, with recall that isn't the best anyways, I'm not having much luck remembering most of my dreams. I do remember a couple of fragments from after I hit snooze on my alarm for about five minutes. In the first dream, I'm playing some sort of computer game, while in my pajamas. I think it's supposed to be Starcraft, though I've only ever played the first one, and only for a few minutes. In the dream, I'm trying to hide what I'm doing, though I don't know why. In a second dream, or a continuation of the first, I'm in the kitchen about to enter the bathroom when I realize somebody spilled something all over the kitchen floor. I quickly try to clean it up, so I think that the 'somebody' may have been me. However, a friend of mine enters the room and teases me before helping me clean the rest up.
14.09.2010Escaping the District (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID Last night broke a relatively dry spell of dreaming for me. It was pretty exciting - I woke up and was getting around like normal, when I realized, "Oh, I remember that dream. Oh, wait, I remember those, too!" It was pretty exciting, because lately my recall has been limited to one, if any, dreams per night. Well, without further delay, here's the first dream: I'm in a small building, really not much bigger than a shack. There are at least two people in there with me, interrogating me. Something happens to distract them, and they leave for a moment. I escape, running out of the back door I know is there. I keep the building between me and the interrogator's trucks, as to stay out of sight. I look back to see if I'm being followed, but so far, I'm in the clear. I run into some woods, where I disappear out of sight. I'm running towards a fence which I know to be electrified, keeping all of the people within the District. I poke the fence with a stick, and realize only the top barbed wire is electrified - the rest is not. I try to climb the fence, and somehow balance the stick and use it to climb over, but this plan (obviously) fails. Next, I spot a tree next to the fence, which I climb up, before remembering that there are defenses in place, including razor wire and (oddly enough) shrink wrap to prevent this. I manage to swing around and escape the district. I continue to run through the woods, which are more tightly packed than inside the district. I'm not sure how I'm going to survive outside, and realize I should have stolen a book on How to Survive the Wilderness, as if such things existed. Eventually, I come out of the woods into a beach, where I meet an old man. Recall ends. _________________________ 14.09.2010Storytelling (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I'm retelling the story of my previous dream to another guy who I instinctively know to be part of my church small group, though I've never seen him before. He's not wearing a shirt for some reason, and I note that he looks pretty strong. As I tell my story, he says that he had a very similar dream. I don't remember his face. _________________________ 14.09.2010Fast Food (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I'm standing outside in front of a large building, which I assume to be some sort of government building because of it's size and architecture. Next to me is a friend of the family who we went white water rafting with last weekend. We go inside of a nearby fast food restaurant; my mom is there as well. I'm not really hungry, and the cashier is annoying me by throwing gum wrappers at me, so I don't get anything. She apologizes in a robotic, scripted-sounding voice, not sounding genuine at all.
Writing the title out like that, the dream probably looks a lot cooler than it really was, but oh well. Me and my friend D (who has appeared in my dreams multiple times lately) are programming in Java. I'm doing my own thing, maybe working on a project for the fun of it, or maybe working on a previous assignment. I look over to her screen, and I see that she is working on a really cool program. It's not finished yet, but it has something to do with all of the planets. Each of the planets, though, has it's own special keyword. For example, on the screen, it may have been something like Uranus - Neo, or Mercury - Aqua. That's not quite right, but I thought that it was pretty cool in the dream. The most interesting part of the dream to me, though, was that I had been programming less than an hour before sleeping. I actually had the conscious thought - 'Oh, I know that our dreams often have to do with what we do in the last hour before sleeping, but I doubt my brain will do much with programming. Well, I guess my subconscious proved me wrong!
08.09.2010Dating (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I've again not had very good recall the past couple of nights. I really should write stuff down when I wake up, either from an alarm or naturally, because I always forget what I dreamed of by morning. Anyways, this dream was one of those where, when you remember it, you feel really sad because it wasn't true, no matter how possible or not it is. I'm in some situation, with a friend who I've had a crush on in the past, though never dated. She admits to me that she really has feelings for me, and I tell her the same. We hug. Next, there's a sort of series of scenes, where we're very happy together. The dream ends, or fades into another.
05.09.2010Bodyguard and the Mayor (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I'm in what appears to be a warehouse or small factory. There is a large firefight going on around me, and I have a gun. I have the impression that I just entered through a door behind me, though I don't know what I was doing before that. I am not my waking-life self, but someone taller and stronger. I may or may not be an android or some sort of super-human, I'm not sure. I am a bodyguard for the mayor, who, for some reason, I know I need to get upstairs past the people I'm fighting with. I do, however, have others on my side. I take the Mayor across the main large room, which has a balcony above, into a side hallway. There are even more 'enemies' here, who I quickly shoot down. We enter into a sort of service elevator, which a make go to the second floor. We come out onto the walkway around the main room. I then jump back down for some reason, and continue to fight. The dream scene changes. That scene might have been somewhat inspired by Wanted, which I saw yesterday. I'm now sitting on the bleachers of my high school gym, with the newly elected 'mayor' of my high school and a few of our friends sitting next to us. I'm not thinking this is related to the mayor from the earlier dream scene, other then in name. This mayor is more like the class president or a similar office. I'm dissappointed that I wasn't elected instead of this guy, who is really shy and quiet. I decide to leave, and walk out with one of my friends, who tells me that it's alright. The dream ends or transitions into another.
05.09.2010Illegal Driving (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I'm hoping last night marks the long-overdue end of my dream recall dry spell. In real life, I just got my learner's permit a few days ago, so I'm still very nervous about driving, which probably led to this dream: I have been at some function in my school, but I can't remember what. It may or may not have been actually part of my dream. Anyways, I am pulling out of the parking lot of my school, and onto the main road. Once I get started, though, I realize that I've left my dad back at the school, and I'm (illegally) driving by myself. I panic somewhat, and make a u-turn to go back. Problem is, I somehow get lost. Now I'm on a road surrounded by trees, at an intersecting. I think that I'm waiting for a red light to turn green, but then I realize that I only have stop signs, so I should have already gone. I know that the other drivers behind me are annoyed, so I quickly turn to the left, towards where I think my school is. The dream ends.
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