FryingMan

00:00 Saturday 2014-08-09

01:46 quite tired, drove to the country in traffic, took about 3 hours.
3mg melatonin, alarm set for 3.5 hours (05:15)
to sleep kind of slow but not terribly.

05:15 alarm, take 2 x Galamtamind 4mg, 300mg Alpha GPC
Not too hard getting back to sleep for once!

07:30

fascinating long nld: "Dreamviews European adventure" featuring: fogelbise, StephL, and "golden lion". Ordering is a bit unclear, but there was a number of scenes:

Trip to Europe with fogelbise, giving a presentation at a conference on the subject of brain-operated devices. We're staying at StephL's place. I was confused throughout most of the dream about what I was doing there and what was going on.

I'm in the kitchen of a large 1-story home with open floor plan. There is a group of people sitting away from me they're being a bit stand-offish, there is a woman there and I ask someone "is that StephL?" I decide it is. She has thick long dark blonde hair.

I return to bed, where fogelbise already is lying under the blankets, and move to get in (we're sharing the bed), but he blocks me and gestures across the room, I see that he's made a bed for me on the floor across the room. I'm a bit confused by this since I had woken up earlier in the same bed with him previously, after all it's not a gay thing we're just sharing the bed, that's all. I see him begin his night-time dream preparations: he's mouthing some mantra and beating his chest rhythmically with one hand.

I'm telling fogelbise how I had taken some galantamine, I was confused about the time, wondering if I have time to sleep for it to take effect.

I see my cat in the living room, but I didn't bring her kitty toilet, where is she going to go to the bathroom? There's another cat here, are they going to fight?

I can't tell what time it is, am I in a different time zone? The (analog) clock on the wall seems to indicate a different time each time I look.

The conference is about brain-activated control devices. That's why they invited lucid dreamers. I introduced myself once as "Luke", I couldn't remember my dreamviews handle, then I remembered it and said "FryingMan," and I make jokes about heroes and Hiro saying "FlyingMan" with a bad Japanese accent so it comes out "FryingMan." A middle-aged man introduced himself as "GoldenLion" from dreamviews.

Two presenters are using a fascinating electronic multi-layered easel to make a presentation, they built this easel themselves. There is a bright orange 3-d display on the front made up of thousands of little orange plastic rods that can move forwards and backwards to form a display (like the kind of monochrome 3d- graphics the Kryptonians use in "Man of Steel"). The easel is many layers thick I get a view of its operation. At the back of the easel is a place where a large drawing can be stored, one of the two presenters repeatedly pulls out the drawing from the easel so it's visible, and then pushing it back in, then pulling it out again, and putting it back.

I'm in a car driving to the conference, it's dark. I'm entering the front seat from the right hand door, I'm confused by the dashboard, where's the steering wheel? I think I find a mini steering wheel very low below the dashboard.

Back in StephL's kitchen, talking to fogelbise. There are two strange microwave-oven-like devices: a two-sided mini-refrigerator, that's very handy because you can get at the food on the shelves from either the front or the back. Next to it there is a two-sided refridgerator that turns out is a wine refrigerator with a transparent front door. I see about 6 bottles of white wine lying on their sides within on several shelves . StephL is standing in the kitchen.

A guy in the flat is playing a fascinating odd recorder with strange tubes protruding from the main playing tube.

I'm looking for a shower and there are large piles of towels and blankets all through the house.

09:10

I"m outdoors across from a large science museum (with dinosaurs and things) there's a large open square between us and the big building, which doesn't have many windows and is really tall and made from concrete and brick. My sons and I are running and jumping, racing across the square, I'm running in a straight line and that means having to jump high (20+ feet) up running over the corners of some structures that lie in my way. We borrow some wheelbarrows/carts from a guy, he's carrying cardboard in them, S2 finds a pair of headphones, S1 wins the race and finds something like a car that he'll be able to sell for a lot of money.