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!