Extra Lives

I was watching some ridiculous on-stage performance where some "bad guy" was causing problems for this "good guy" and his woman so the guy strikes back and end up capturing the villain and hoisting him up into the air after tying him up with ropes around his body. Pretty sure there was a ball-gag used on him to shut him up...

Also, I was moving somewhere and this semi truck picked up my furniture. Inside the back of the truck were a lot of other people living. They slept on their beds and had all their furniture. Abigail was staying on the bed next to me. I thought it was funny that we were going to be bed-mates.

[This is the most full night of dreaming I've had in a long while. Yaya!]

1. I'm heading for some sort of mountain retreat, which will include time in nature as well as some paintball. Before the trek up the mountain, however, we are required to learn how to fly. That's right! I am in a beautiful, low-lying pond, a couple feet deep. The water is clear, there are rocks all around to rest on, and the forest and mountains climb up on all sides. The reason we can't fly, I learn in my dream, is that we don't believe it is possible. But once we break that belief, it's as easy as just jumping and willing yourself to stay in the air. So I jump and I fall to the earth again. Then I use my arms and this time I stay up, and after that I don't have to do anything except will myself to float and move forward and backward. I can stop on a dime. It's amazing. I practice with some of the guys in the area. We float toward each other and stop as soon as we are about to collide. It was so fun!

Then I'm looking in the water and I see little smooth rocks, and some change, and a single car key. I go to pick up the car key, and underneath is a piece of paper with the name Camila on it, and I look around and say, "I wish Camila was here." And a girl next to me said, "You mean Jamila?", and I was confused how I forgot my friend's name, but just figured I misread the piece of paper or something.
Then I find myself in Cafe Monet sitting down at a table. The girl who works asks me if I'll be painting, and I say no. I'm just sitting at the table looking at this beautiful piece of pottery that Camila made. It has her name on the lid and the colors inside and out are beautiful swirls and dabs of blues and oranges and yellows.
Then some Arab children came by and I started to speak Arabic with them, but I kept messing up and inserting Spanish words (like saying 'y' instead of 'و' for 'and'). Their mother is behind me, and we have some small talk.

Then I'm hanging out with my sister (which one??) and her boyfriend and the guy's mom. We're sitting on a couch watching TV. The woman is cool, but I don't like the boyfriend. He and I go outside and he starts giving me some attitude, and I'm explaining that I don't want him around my sister. Then I woke up.

2. [This one is more spotty due to not waking up from it as quickly.] I was in a house finding secret passages. It was like a video game. I had to be sneaky, but I'm not 100% why. People were outside with dogs and guns and I think even a llama at one point (I saw them thru the window). Eventually, I leave the house and try to make a run for the river, but these dogs have good noses and they start barking and everyone runs after me. But when the dog gets to me, I just pet him and he becomes friendly. Then I realize there is something about my touch that calms people and animals. So everyone that was chasing me started walking with me, and I felt really good about being able to help relax people.

I was in some weird entertainment building (food out front, shows inside) and I was with my brother J. He was asking me to take pictures of this performance which involved a girl playing a violin and one or two people dancing to it. The camera was impossible to focus, and the buttons were not reacting how they should. After taking a few pictures of the door frame or something else on accident, I gave the camera back to my brother.

Later, outside the building, I was at one of the dinner tables and a group next to us had left some huge potato fries on their plates, and I was going to eat them. But the waiters told me not to, like I could get sick. But really they just wanted me to spend money. Jerks.

[I got 5 hours of sleep so far. I'm gonna have to go back to sleep soon.]

1. I was somewhere in the freezing cold of winter, and I was doing some hunting or patrolling in the snow by a river. The imagery was really awesome and expansive. I don't remember much besides really not wanting to be out in the snow and freezing.

2. I was talking with some guy about geometry and life and personal growth. [This is probably what woke me up and kept me up. Damn dream philosophizing.]

EDIT: [I went back to sleep for 3 hours and had some more dreams. Fragments.]

3. I was looking at porn on the internet and I was asking myself "why are you doing this?". I stopped and went to school. I was going to school, and my mom told me to take pictures of things. She mentioned the diving board, and I was confused why she would want that. I went into the building and went to the pool where I saw J___ W______ (guy from the military) and he was swimming with his girlfriend. The last thing I remember from this dream is someone saying "When everyone chooses differently, the world will be different".

[I've been trying to achieve an AP, OBE, or LD. All seem cool, but I've only ever LD'd before. After spending 2.5 hours in a weird state of sleep / not-sleep, I gave up on the AP attempts and just fell asleep. The dreams I had were fun, but I hardly remember them now.]

1. There was a girl in the road and she got hit (?) by the car I was in, but I think I was sitting in the bed of the car. She just hurt her leg a bit, and I was initially upset at her for being in the road. Then I took pity and helped her hobble out of the street by letting her put her weight on my right shoulder.

2. I had a job at a front desk (that was located in the back of a house or something). I was supposed to work the register for a car wash (?), but I didn't know how. A guy comes in and wants to pay his bill and hands me cash. I ask him his name, and he tells me (I forget it. Started with a J maybe??), but I can't find his name on these little yellowish 3x5s that the company uses. My only thought was to put the names onto the computer so the boss would be happy, and my job would be easier. I didn't know what I was doing and I just kind of fumbled around with the cards flipping through them for a while before the dream ended.

[I remember bits, but I'm not 100% certain of the order.]

I try to draw a bust of a man way in the sky, but it ends up looking like a dog on a bike with a piece of straw in his mouth. I did the drawing with simple lines that just took shape on their own, but even my drawing was like something I'd do on paper - pretty amateur/broken-hand. The image turns into 3D and shifts slightly left and right, and other people are able to see it. A guy nearby talks to me about the bike-dog, but I don't remember what he said. I'm walking along an ocean-side promenade and I'm by a cafe. I was thinking how odd it was that my drawing of a man ended up looking like a dog on a bike, but I somehow explained it away. I continue walking along and I come to a swampy river that runs off to the left from the ocean. There are lots of spider webs and spider and I'm holding a flashlight and watching the spiders' eyes reflect back at me. [I was just telling a friend about this last night, so it's neat that it showed up in my dream.] A guy was with me, but he jumped into the water and I was worried that the spiders would water-skip towards him. They didn't. I continued following the swamp until it ended at a place where a lot of trash (left behind by children or washed up from the swamp) was collected. I found a discarded bundle of paper that was some girl's college paper. Her name was maybe Jennifer, and the paper was possibly about either religion or education.

Then I'm in a large, lit, underground cave and I'm around a table with my classmates. The teacher is walking around looking into our notebooks to see if we did a writing assignment. Everyone else had theirs, but I had forgotten to read the syllabus and I was kind of upset, but I realized it was only one assignment and it would make up a small percentage of my grade. I thought about trying to show the teacher some previous writing I had done to fool him, but decided against it. Mostly because I thought he would see through my BS.

Dream 1. I was at the house my family used to own on 142 N______. I was in a relationship with S again and it wasn't working out...again. (Even in dreams....)
We were unhappy, or she was or I was, I can't remember. She was storing her things in thegarage preparing to move out. It was night time and possibly raining.
My parents and J were coming home and I was embarrassed that they were going to see the poor state of my relationship.

Dream 2. (That's right! 2 in 1 night.) I had an old white VW Beetle that got stolen from a super shady grassy hotel parking lot. I knew one of the guys that worked in the hotel and I went inside to explain what had happened.
Outside the front door, there was a smoldering fire pit, and sticking out of the pit was a charred human leg. I was disgusted, but I chalked it up to the work of drugged out homeless nearby and ignored it so I wouldn't
be the next target.
Also, outside the hotel people were smoking cigarettes and their second-hand smoke was getting into my lungs and making it hard for me to breathe. I was breathing out thick rivers of smoke, like I had been smoking hookah.

The color Orange denotes things that could have made me aware that I was dreaming. Need to perform more reality checks during my days.

[I'm happy to have remembered a few details from my dreams last night. One step at a time.]

1. I was on a U-shaped dock in the middle of water. Others were around me, but I don't remember the feelings / happenings.
2. Friends were coming over to my house. R and G from CasaG were there. I was worried about them seeing the notes I had posted around my room (uplifting messages, like I do in RL), so I hurried around my room to hide them. Also, there was a surprise toilet/bathroom I didn't know about in my room. And there was crap floating around in the toilet. I remember trying to figure out why my room didn't smell because I had no idea how long that mess had been in there. I sprayed air freshener and moved on.
3. I was trying to get a job, possibly waiting, but I don't think I had the right qualifications. [Haha.] Then something about foreign languages, I was trying to speak with or learn a few words from different people around a dinner table.

[I'm getting restarted with this dreaming thing. I've been out of practice so long that I rarely remember my dreams. And my dreams have always brought a special meaning to my life and sleepy times. I don't want to miss out on any of my life, especially the most free-thinking, creative 1/3 of my day!]

3 Sep 2012

Set in a huge cathedral, my brother J was there, and it was really religious in theme. Christopher Hitchens was giving a speech in the hall, and I was reading a Reader's Digest about religion. At one point, J wanted a book and we tried to sneak it out, but the cathedral had those library theft-detection devices, so we (J?) threw the book out of a large window and it landed in a pond.

4 Sep 2012

I was in a big square shower room where soap and water was constantly being sprayed onto me from the walls. (The house was owned by D**** M*****, who I recently heard from after years of no-comm. She made a short appearance.) I also remember that I was running or hiding from someone/something. It wasn't anything malicious, just something I didn't want to deal with maybe.