FryingMan

late bedtime, ~1am.
Some tranquilizing herb tinctures before bed (hawthorne & motherwort, no valerian this night).

3 phases of dreaming. Very vivid and present (V&P), "alternate life" level dreams. Some long-term dream signs (returning to city S, reuniting with ex-gf SB in city S) but nothing shocking to jog lucidity.

mental journaling, no recording done until this writing

wake about 05:50 (~5 hrs)

+ house construction, architect family is building it for themselves, massive empty pit with walls dripping newly poured concrete, house will be 50,000 square feet enough room for everybody

then in house, looking out window down cliff, put knee on ground to be safe before opening window and looking out, a screen is there anyway, outside on side of cliff on deck, look at the stone of the cliff it's beautiful, wife's pottery wheel seat [false] is a bowl carved of stone, when she gets up she has me sit on it to keep it warm for her

some guy is drinking too much, he shifts to energy drinks, so now he's both drunk and hyper. Move to other drinking guy's neighboring garden, spray (insecticide?) on on lawn, son is there goes into outhouse, I expect the sprayer to open the outhouse door and spray the son and expect to hear a scream of shock from him, but never happens

+ conflict. performances interrupted by conservative protesters, I get in the way. In the streets, a respectable CEO I recognize [false] gets out of this car and attacks me with another guy. I'm confused, isn't this guy a respectable businessman? He hates me and wants to hurt me, I'm trying to dodge, he's throwing apples really hard and trying to pour his drink (beer?) on me.

I am with some friends and I'm still upset about the CEO attacking me, I'm packing up the Asian meat dishes in take-out containers and throw it away. I say I'm sorry for throwing away their meat.

In a presentation, a young girl moves to interrupt the show, I get in her way and push her back.

In a small bedroom, partially eaten sushi take out containers on bed, girlfriend comes in and I start telling her about the "fucking conservative" guy who attacked me earlier and how I was dodging apples. But before I say "f.c." I think, is my gf a conservative? I can't remember, I don't know how to say what he is without insulting her politics.

phase 2:
+ outside daylight, horse, picture, hug and kiss its head, smell its warm rotting apple breath like apple cider vinegar, avoid its biting mouth

+ house party, wife insults guests by blurting out to me, "it's after midnight, when are they going to leave!?"

+ pizza [dream sign] freezer display, many varieties of frozen pizza offered by a young guy, none look particularly appetizing, he throws some away

phase 3:

+ with ex-gf SB [major dream sign], in her house, I can move in. I can help with rent, what if her rent/mortgate is $2,400 a month, I can pay $1,200. SB is in kitchen I walk in and offer to help her with something, she's putting things away, washing dishes? I find out her knee is cut I offer to clean it for her, she accepts and asks "after that, can you give me a back rub?" I think "yes! back rubs were always a precursor to intimate contact with us." we go to sink it's full of dishes, I pick up and move a pink bottle of pink skin lotion I remember [false] she always used, I "remember" the smell, and set it aside. I prepare a set of cotton swabs soaked in a stinging antiseptic, it is a strange clump of multiple swabs at different angles with a plastic handle. I'm kneeling/squatting near the ground and next to a wall/door/ with a window, I look up and out the window and see a pure blue sky, I think the sky is beautiful and am happy that I am finally moving back to city S [life-long dream sign]
, I apply it to injury ( a small chunk of skin cut out from area just below kneecap) and she cries out as I do so.

flying DO overhead, SB is a terrorist bomber, she has planted bombs in buildings throughout the region. I see the bombs go off and the buildings collapse in on themselves. The entire ground is rippling with the force of the explosions. Her own house is affected by the rippling, so that people think she is not the bomber, but her house is fortified and just rolls with the rippling and does not collapse.

sandwich shop with SB. We arrive at a table (in a food court?) and I offer to go get sandwiches for the both of us. I go in, and realize that I don't know what SB wants to order. I don't want to leave and lose my place in line. I'll order something safe and neutral like a chicken sandwich with vegetables for her. When it is my turn to order I ask for <something?> on an onion roll. I change my mind and order a reuben [true, favorite sandwich]. I see the guy is making it on white bread, that's not right, it should be onion roll. No, it should be on dark rye. The sandwich maker is explaining the sandwich he made to a (Russian?) woman there unhappy with her sandwich. It is open and there are layer of meat, he is using a fork/knife to turn over each layer of meat and name it explaining what it is. Some layers of meat have a raised impression on them, he's naming each kind, the final one is a <something>-salami and is mottled with spots of fat like large salamis. I decide to go out to SB and ask what she wants, she wants a "salmon-something" (in foreign language), of course, I remember salmon slices is her favorite sandwich [false], I go back and order it, I'm looking in the meat display case for the salmon slices but only see things like "fat salmon" (in foreign language) which is almost all fat. The Russian woman is complaining about the salmon slices she has.

+ in museum-like place, I'm throwing a deadly boomerang/frisbee like thing about the size of a 10-speed bicycle rear gear assembly, it has razor sharp small blades around its rim, and it rotates extremely fast. it "thunks" into things it hits. It returns to me and I catch it and kiss its flat metallic top, it is my friend, it's sentient. I place it underneath a table among a set of other gear assemblies, it attaches itself with very strong magnetic force, I will return to get it. Some other guys want to pry it off but I lie and say that's only possible with moving some lever first.

+ floating in water with team including wife, I take off my soaked shirt over my head, and tell my team to strip down because wet clothing doesn't keep you warm and just weighs you down.

+ blowing up an inflatable kiddy pool, there is a huge leak and air rushes out, I think I should find some glue to repair this pool. The pool is ready, there's some kid's party. There's a small little slide a few feet high and the birthday boy climb up on it, it is tiling to the left a bit, that should be fixed. He looks up and me and slides down the very short (2-3 feet) slide onto the ground. He does not appear happy.

+ (f, impression) I'm seeing a NSFW picture of a woman from the behind with her head looking backwards and rotated 180 degrees upside down, I wake up [probably a new dream forming and woken by noise/movement by wife].