FryingMan

(early)
+ flying through hallways, some sort of college dorm? I reach the end and do something with a (note?) for my former GF, KS.

+ I'm at a swimming pool, about to swim some laps, it is crowded, there are some less crowded lanes on right, and I think about getting in those lanes. Then I'm outside, there's another pool there, including an odd triangular section of the pool on a heavily slanting incline, gravity is adjusted perpendicular to the surface as you step on to it. I'm aware of the moment of the transition of the direction of gravity.

(mid)
+ [very vivid] former CA home: in garage, super confused about water heater: what happened to it? It was switched out by somebody to a tank of tiny capacity. Moving back and forth through the kitchen/garage door, inspecting the heater furnace, and wall structure (roof is supported by metallic cylinders at 45 degree angle).

Dealing with neighbors in the shared garden: at first they're smoking, and standing on our side of the yard ownership line. There is a lit cigarette hanging from a tree on a line with smoke rising from it. The neighbors are standing leaning against the fence and smoking. I point out that "this is our side, that is your side."

Later on, I'm standing inside my house and look out to the yard, and see that the neighbors have piled up boxes/chests of equipment along a low fence on our side of the yard. I instantly shout out "NO, NO, NO!" (in foreign language) and run out to the yard. They have placed a collection of antique typewriters on a table there in the yard, they're all a gift to me (?). I'm inspecting them and see all the complex mechanisms inside them.

BTS here? (or in earlier section). Awake for a while, I get myself back to sleep by concentrating on feelings of gratitude and loving kindness, and a bit of the throat Ah visualization.

(late)

+ Sitting with people outside in stadium-style seating (on benches on a steep incline) [DREAM SIGN]. My head is leaning against a woman/girlfriend: my right chin/cheek is pressed firmly against her left breast, I feel the softness, my right arm is around her back and I'm holding on to her waist and caressing and squeezing it. And she is rocking me so gently, it's very hypnotic/relaxing. I think it's inappropriate and my wife would object, but it is so comfortable that I just go with it for a while.

We get up as a group and head down the stairway towards the ground level, then once there, <something about regrouping>

Then we're getting together to watch TV sitting on a wide bench/couch thing, and I arrange it so that my girlfriend is on my left right next to me, then (my wife?) comes up and I indicate that she should sit on my right (so I can be close to my girlfriend) but instead of moving how I suggested, she stands there facing us and looking suspicious.

+(f) some large animal (cat? rabbit?) is inside a room with a tiny door and a small being is avoiding it?

Recall was for the most part bad. Too much waking life crap going on which I'm having trouble keeping off my mind during the night.

Lots of sex scenes spread over the night after a fairly long absence. So I'll just make the rest of this entire DJ entry into a spoiler.

Spoiler for many sexual scenes:

+(f) sex outside by a river? Then a scene of a girl pulling stuff out of her mouth?

+ close up view of the process of a sword being sharpened by laying it on a bed of fist-sized rocks and rubbing rocks and things on top of it. Sitting at a table and I want the guys at the table to take a look at my sister's (instrument) and I pull it out and hold it in my hands and look at the strings and try to figure out which string it was I wanted adjusted/replaced, I want to pass it around the table but I know my sister would probably hate that, I ask her and she says "Oh, so they can ruin it like they did with <some other thing>?"

+(f) <perform an impossible sexual stunt>

+ I'm in a dark bedroom, my friend MR has brought a girl for sex? I get a brief glimpse of her, I close my laptop (which has pictures displaying on the top of the closed cover? 2nd time that's happened), I'm standing in the dark bedroom and turn around and the bed is empty, I believe that I can will the girl to return simply by expecting it, I open the covers and get into the bed but she never returns

+(f) outside daylight suburban street scene: I see some odd animals and insects. Some "bunny" is on the road with people around it and they're goading it to do something? I see some small thing like a mouse in its mouth and the rabbit is shaking its head vigorously.

+ LD#204 LUCIDD (<- my new DV-search-friendly keyword for finding lucid dreams in my DJ) #204 I'm about to try doing an <impossible sexual stunt> and, remember that I did this earlier in a dream, If I can do this, that means I'm dreaming... and it works, and I get lucid, and I continue for a bit. I stop and get up and there are people at the door (a man?). I'm in my CH sister's bedroom. Then a woman enters and her top is open and and she gets down and continues the fun. I first try to stabilize by noticing the surroundings, the floor is littered with clothing, I look at it and touch it there is a pile of red cloth there (a shirt?), but I soon wake up once she starts.

+(f) I see a line up of girls who will be participating in the porn shoot in the next room? I go to the next room and some people direct the girls to get into position there in the scene

Just a short outtake, there were more fragments during the night, with many wakings.

+ flight simulator? Handling the landing velocity is taken care of in a roller-coaster-like ride in a (boat?) on a (river?) or a long, curving path with the edges lined with green metallic sheets that our vehicle rubs up against on all the turns.

+(f) march: the band is marching through the streets and trying to choose the right path to the final concert site. I announce to the crowd that "This was made possible by <mother's name>"

+(f) playing my instrument, I'm playing fast scales up and down and arpeggios and it sounds great, I'm impressing the people around me.

+(f) [vivid] in an apartment, I'm observing all-white furniture like a desk with a roll-down top, and I'm thinking about how I'd dust it: wipe it or vacuum it?

+(f) I'm outdoors in a courtyard, daylight, there are businesses nearby and some of (my friends?) are trying to use the ATM? I see a woman nearby who triggers a strong sense of deja view, I know I saw her before (in an earlier dream?) and I do a nose pinch RC, I can breath, but I don't get lucid and the dream ends/transitions?

+(f) observing a US football play in a game, a lot of women on the offense including the quarterback, she does a long/strong forward shovel pass that is incomplete, and there is also a punt that went to the left side of the field but should have gone to the right?

+(f) something about giving someone my dental work in a bag?

+ in a grocery store with an attractive girl and (her boyfriend?) I'm supposed to show her to the coffee section, I tease her that I can't do that because I need to go to the bathroom and I take her hand and start leading her through the store and she comes to understand that I'm actually taking her to the coffee section. Along the way I see people walking the other way with T-shirts that read "Utah - alone" and I think about Texas for some reason. We get to the coffee section and I think about her leaning over the refrigerator section and

Spoiler for sexual thought:

I'd reach between her legs and caress the skin of her perfect legs, since she's wearing jeans shorts

+(f) road car race, I'm driving in a car and racing with other cars along a winding hilly road

+ FPS game: I've ordered and set up a huge (1.5 meters on a side) square highres computer monitor on my bed against the wall. I'm standing at the end of the bed appreciating its huge and awesome picture. I'm anticipating playing the game, people will come and watch me here and be amazed. I will set up a stand for the controls. I think this is the reason I've ordered and installed this monitor. I have a brief thought of using it to view some salacious material but don't think of this long.

I sign in to the game and begin playing, then my view is in the game itself, not watching it on a screen. It's a CTF game. There are incoming enemy light armor guys going for my flag, I'm shooting them with a shotgun. Then I decide to go on the offensive. I slide down the very edge of the map on the right hand side. It is dark and hazy and there are large hills all around. I'm on a recon mission, scouting enemy base and territory. The closer I get to the enemy base the more "red triangle" (enemy team) characters I see. I'm sure I will be seen soon.

I'm "flying" along the top of a fence and approaching an intersection where tons of enemy combatants are walking around. Visuals become live action, not game-y or computer-y any more. Some leader walking on the ground sees me and calls me to come down. I get into a discussion with him, his name is (Dave?). I'm half walking/flying and talking with him, putting a hand on his shoulder blade and leading him along the street, telling him, "Dave, you know how this works, there is military intelligence and there is military action, " I think I say this a few times and the dream ends.

(early)

+(f) [vivid] I'm working on a computer system, the terminals are on the floor, I'm using them to enter various searches.
Something about animals (lions?). Vague things with people in buildings.

(late)

+ on 2nd floor of home, studying computer science (graphics), on the board is written something about a document/class that teaches about graphics curves/ splines, and each document (something to do with Python?) costs $10. Doorbell rings and I go down stairway to first floor, I think it may be my [deceased] mother at the door, I hear her voice? I wonder how it could be her? I get to the door and it's ToZi, he comes in I'm a bit unsure how to greet him I shake his hand. I've been looking for my graphics computer science textbook, my books are spread all over the place and I can't find them. He says that we do not need the paid documents, that we can do what we need with free Python resources(?)

+ LLM (lots of little moments) in (same?) house, first floor, it's a rental(?) we're on vacation with friends(?), getting ready to go to (the beach?), some interaction with the young boy and girl in the family. I'm thinking that my towel is still wet and that I need to get it and hang it up, I see a tall wooden drying rack with 3 solid colored (one green, one blue) towels already hanging on it.

I'm inspecting the wallboards that run along the walls at floor level. They're about 3-4 inches tall and appear wooden, I notice the grain. I'm following the line along the floor and trying to detect differences in the levels of the floor and the height of the floorboards. I finally see an uneven spot where two slightly different levels meet.

There is a bed lying on the floor, there is a mattress there and I turn it over thinking about what may be underneath it. The mattress is covered in a bright blue sheet with designs on it. I turn it over and am a bit surprised to see nothing is underneath it, it's lying right on the bare floor. There are things on the floor. One of them is a key of some short in the shape of a small rifle. It fits some thing and I realize I've finally found the key for the missing (lock?) I put it in and turn the key and it opens. I then hang the key on the object in a way that the key won't be lost again.

I'm in a convenience store and there are slices of cake nearby. One of them I think is red velvet. There are different kinds of thin, individually sliced pieces. I pick up a piece of white cake and bring it close to my face so I can read the nutritional information on the label. The piece falls out of my hand to the floor and it breaks into several pieces, falling behind a shelf/counter. I bend over to try to get to it but can't reach it. I imagine that the store owner has to deal with damaged inventory every day. At the register I'm getting change from the clerk and he's giving me lots of coins. There are 2-cents left in the change and I see that there are 1 (cent) coins left that he could give me, but he instead reaches for a blue surgical glove worth 2 cents to finish my change. I ask why can't he give me the coins instead and he says he can't.

I'm sitting at a dinner table with my (Indian) friends. There are different dishes. The mother who is working in the kitchen right behind a counter under shelves hands me a piroshki-shaped piece of soft, shaped, spiced mashed potatoes. I take a bite and think it's good. I see that she is working on the next dish which is made of small cups of brown and orange (lentils?).

(early, first/second sleep cycle)

+ martial arts class: teacher critiques my stance ("widen your stance, everyone's laughing at you, stop standing on the last toe joint, stand on the 2nd joint instead!"). I'm trying to copy his double fireball blast movement, it's a pattern where your body moves in a slow circle, with sweeping arm movements that shoot the double fireballs on each half-turn. I'm trying but my movements are clumsy.

+(f) in a room talking to people observing the decor on the walls, there is some transfer in management/ownership happening? I walk by a storefront on the street and the new owners are walking though and planning the remodel there are large (colorful butterflies?) evenly spaced on all the walls.

+(f) standing in group outside, we're getting ready to perform a big run and the guys are warming up on the road

Try to WILD, "mind awake body asleep" mantra, takes me a Looooooooooooooong time to fall asleep again.

(middle)
+ [long] fighting class? Hotel guests are arriving to? Working with personal trainer. Looking through a strange device that includes a sight scope, that apparently measures the amount of drift in your gaze. This whole place is a big club with standard advancement procedures, one of the options is signing up for the food basket and then growing/eating particular things out of the basket as measurement of progress.

+(f) flying into a tiny opening from outside a building in order to get inside, too small to fit into but I know that physical dimensions are not a limit and I fly headfirst into the opening, making a breaststroke swimming gesture with my arms to "pull" myself through the threshold

(late)

+ swimming in cold ocean with friend & wife is on boat, my friend and I talk about the unexpected coldness of the water it's a solid brownish green water with no visibility. Sitting with friends around table MR (current company S) says something about not starting without me but he doesn't realize I'm sitting down on the other end of the table and I say "here I am", <something about the food on the plates>. I'm getting ready to go brush my teeth and I'm naked, I think should I put on a towel but I decide to put on a large shirt/sweat shirt wearing it around my middle instead. I walk down the hallway to the bathroom and I encounter a bunch of girls and guys doing the same, most are wearing towels, but one girl in particular is naked and I'm checking her out, I'm quite surprised at this and I'm watching her walk by and noticing her pubic hair. I enter a room with a committee of girls on it and they all know me and are surprised to see me, this is a small, tight-knit community, I am a person of some significance, I'm happy to be part of this group. They're talking about a guy who is on some sort of scavenger hunt, he is an expert scavenger and always finds his stuff but he's been away for a long time, they're sure he'll find everything.

Recall's in its waning phase apparently -- hope it's short and epic dreaming returns soon! A bit late to bed two night in a row.

+(f) something about JT and choosing sausages in a market?

+ [vivid] I'm walking past a pedestal, and there are two glass bottles of what look like croutons there. One of them is labelled as <something, forgot>, and I reach for one to taste it but a friend with me stops me and points out that I'm about to eat the outer packing, not the stuff inside the bottle. I pick up the one bottle and smell it but I don't smell anything and say so.

+ I'm in a building, I'm apparently some sort of mediator for a fight or a battle that is about to begin. I specify a list of my requirements that must be agreed to before I accept the position.

+ I'm on a team of guys preparing some important demo on various computer systems attached to tall posts that have huge water tanks associated with them. I'm thinking a lot about managing this water how long it will take to fill up the tanks. The location is [after waking realization] CH Park BB level.

+ I'm outdoors it's a bleak, mostly dark night, I'm evading some scary stray dogs, pushing them away, climbing on a table and a roof to get away from them.

+ Climbing down into an area with shacks/derelict structures, we're again preparing our computer demo. I walk through an inside location and I see there are 4 computer stations prepared for us where each of us will set up. [some stuff happens outside] then back inside, I'm looking at the spots in a cabin where we will sleep and now our sleeping bags are laid out on the floor, and a computer desk is set up by each sleeping location, I think early in the morning, some of us could get up and use their computer and that might make noise bothering the sleepers. Go into the next room into a bunk with one of the partners and we start singing and I'm harmonizing (Sound of Silence). I'm mostly singing very high lines and my voice is very accurate and the harmony sounds great . I have to pee so I get up and go to the next room, and I ask the guys "so what was the high point of the day for our demonstration, do you think?" One of the guys reaches up and blocks some air vent with a small yellow piece of paper which gets partially sucked in and then stops there, I think this will block the flow of air into the room. I go back to the bunk but I still have to pee (I don't remember peeing last time I got up) and returned to the room, then I wake up and really have to pee!

This was a long night of dreaming with many many details and many experiences, a lot of which have faded. I did "sit on a bench in the park" mindfulness meditation for 20 minutes yesterday, then about 10 minutes more walking meditation, focusing on being present in the moment. It was wonderful.

+ LD#203 music lesson, wake next to mouthpiece, wrong clef, practicing taps mentally, FA in CH, tell wife about music lesson, see strange lighting shining on city buildings far away, see colorful dot flying through air that becomes UFO, comes right down outside my window, nose pinch, get lucid, walk to dining room, open door, grab UFO/alien in my arms and make a wish: GIVE ME LUCID DREAMS ALL NIGHT EVERY NIGHT, ALL NIGHT EVERY NIGHT, ALL NIGHT EVERY NIGHT! GIVE ME LUCID DREAMS ALL NIGHT EVERY NIGHT, ALL NIGHT EVERY NIGHT, ALL NIGHT EVERY NIGHT! Then I remember my goal of summoning Chloe Grace Moretz. I walk out to the deck and around the corner to the left I do a left-handed behind the back summon and bring forwards a DC, looks about the right height, hair is blonde but I can't see her face. I continue holding her hand in mine, up over my head, and we're sort of dancing around each other in circles, I'm trying to see her face. I finally stop and say "show me your face!" It stops and looks at me and resolves into a 60-70 year old short bald white man with bags under his eyes. In disgust I dismiss it/him and summon JG (SG): I get a girl of about the right age/height but her hair and face is wrong. I then corner her against the deck railing and demand from her "Are you SG?! Who are you?! Who!?" I lean in for a kiss despite her face still being wrong and
wake up, only imagining the lip contact

+ energy/magic battle

+ enemy gang room, "what's happening here?" "All is OK"

+ coming in to house out of the rain getting my backpack in the living room? Go to garage clown in right corner, punch it but it's just a dummy, my master <a Mr. Miyagi type> is there and is performing a ritual with object at an altar and his hands start glowing with rainbow colored power, I go to the altar and do the same and see the same on my hands, and I take a deep sniff of the burned-woods, then Master takes an awesome balancing crouching one-foot on ground Kung Fu position which I know I can not duplicate. Then a huge truck starts coming down the garage and Master says "Oh so they've decided to come here," I look out and there are very odd looking people/being in the cab of the truck, they back up then head down another way, and the truck transform in size while it moves down the path to become much smaller, because it has the ability to fit into any space it drives. The truck is carrying my opponent whom I must battle.

+ laptop NSFW screen in CH bedroom with wife and another, close screen but some picture shows up on the laptop outer cover (not NSFW) and I think that's a really bad design

+ In some concert, wife and I are doing to a Michael Jackson concert? Some interaction with usher man? I need to return to car parked a few blocks away a van is blocking the path after stepping stones walk around it enter park through fence by drinking fountain and take blob of gum out of my mouth in pieces, trying to put each piece in the garbage can there but don't want to touch all the other gum pieces around the tiny opening. My waist bag is missing [DREAM SIGN] and I need to get it, there is alto the bottle of valueable liquor/wine my wife mentioned, I think I left them in a tall garbage can in the park, I start heading that way but a large rowdy gang of thugs appears too and at first I wait or them to leave, but they're going for the garbage can with my stuff so I gather my courage and go there, too. They find my bottle of liquor and eventually give it to me but I refuse, saying "you probably peed in it" they say they didn't.

Then I'm sitting in a sport in a small cafe with my wife, my arms are full of things I'm carrying and placed on nearby tables. More people come in and I'm getting self-conscious about all the space I'm taking, but I don't want to move it. Some people ask me to move things and I do a little bit. Then they make what I think is a disparaging remark and I scream out "WHAT!? WHAT DID YOU SAY!?" They answer "thank you for moving your stuff", I say sheepishly "you're welcome" then someone on the other side of the room snickers, I think at my out of place anger.

+(f) DO: man and woman on bed

~ 4 hrs
+ work buildings, petite blonde, KS, lunch cafeteria, coins
I'm walking from outside to inside a work building, up a ramp, there is neon-like lighting around. I'm following a petite blonde (very short) girl. I'm admiring her petite-ness. Inside, there are more petite blondes, including KS my jhs "GF". She seems me and our eyes meet and we approach each other, <forgotten>

In the cafeteria at work, trying to get food? Is it too late for lunch?

On the ground I see some interesting looking coins and pick them up, some are large and valuable-looking. I bring them to a table where some people are and put them down, on is a ($12?), and one is a $21 coin, the larger coins are golden colored the other ones are silver metallic.

take 4mg galantamine and 300mg alpha gpc and head right back to bed to sleep.
Never make it back to sleep, get up around ~7 hours and watch videos for about 3-4 hours, then in early afternoon collapse into bed exhausted for 3 hours, wake with a dream recalled

+ on a path, the road is washed out and cars cannot progress. Thoughts of backpacking. Inside a large church-like hall auditorium seating [DREAM SIGN], I'm talking with NeM and AnM (gs friends) about some things.

Lots of little sort of fragmented experiences, 3 fairly longer dreams but each made up of fragments.

+ driving to work, feel the road is wrong, I at the last moment take an exit with a strong feeling I'd be going the wrong way, I had glanced at a road sign and felt I needed to take one of those exits. I'm then taking an on-ramp, it's like I'm on a motorcycle, I rotate back the throttle and will myself to go faster as my bike accelerates on the circular on-ramp and on to the freeway.

+(f) with a woman and her daughter: I say for them to meet me at the store front and I'll (give them a ride home?)

+ I'm coming up to a small food kiosk (like in a food court), there is a choice of two different ones: Mexican place with burritos on the right, and an Asian noodle place on the left. There are wooden bars in front of the Asian place on the left where I really want to go. There's a woman inside and I knock on the wood to get her attention for service. She is eating from a large bowl with rice and things in it. She looks up at me and shakes her head, indicating that they're closed for the moment. I guess it's there lunch time and everybody there is eating now, I wonder about how I could know ahead of time that this is their lunch and avoid this time.

+ I'm closely inspecting and observing a rechargeable battery recharging station/device. It is a large device with many many slots in it for many different types of batteries. Each slot has tiny red print describing exactly what kind of battery goes into this slot. I'm amazed at the tiny writing and think someone with a steady hand and a really fine pen/sharp pencil wrote those notes. I think I want to buy a recharger here (in America?) and take it back home.

+(f) I'm with my dad and I'm showing receipts, there was some question of whether I had bought (2 things). I take out the receipts and look at them, they're small square white pieces of paper with black printing on them (machine generated), and I show them and this proves I bought those two things.

+ futuristic spray that explains everything, you learn all about a person's experiences from a device selecting the questions you want to ask, this saves time.

+ I'm DO in space, the situation is that there are journeys that go out and comeback once a generation. When they returns things have changed. For the first 3 trips the space stations around Earth get bigger each time (I see each of the larger and more complex stations). On the (4th?) return trip, space has been commercialized. There are now store space stations, rotating, this seems comical and I chuckle to myself as I glance at one rotating station (from a distance) and try to make out the "Target" name that I know is there.

Then I'm inside a store in a space station, in the aisles of a department store. Women staff (who look part-pig) are promoting perfume that changes your personal characteristics (makes you stronger? Truthful? <don't remember exactly>), and is being demonstrated on little donut/anemone things that pulsate open and closed on a counter.

I'm talking with a woman who's been sprayed by a perfume that makes people around her know things about her without having to ask. This saves time by avoiding small-talk. I'm holding a device with switches and buttons on it that when pressed also give you knowledge about her history, to save time having to ask.

I'm standing under an overhang that contains automated turrets firing energy bolts at me. I'm shooting the turrets, but my energy gun has no effect. I switch to a "boomstick" (shotgun) and shoot a turret point blank range, it seems to stop firing but is not destroyed (and starts shooting again?)

I'm walking in the mall/department store, come around a corner and walk past a (naked?) pink/red-skinned pig-woman who is facing a screen. Then she is sitting on my bare leg, I notice she has overly-pronounced genitals, and I feel them on my leg.

Spoiler for sexual moment:

I reach around to her front (she is facing away from me) and feel her (ahem), she is sopping wet, I feel the warmth as well

+ bowling; we have 4 lanes at the rightmost edge against the wall of the bowling alley. I bowl a ball on the 2nd lane from the wall. I'm thinking because I'm left-handed that even bowling against the right wall won't bother me, but it might bother right-handed people. My lane is not turned on yet, I think about hitting a button to get the attention of the front desk, but then I see the pins getting set up still in the dark and then the light turns on. I'm trying to position myself properly on the correct starting foot arrows but the ball return is in my way and my right leg is pressing up against it. I make my approach and aim for the 2nd arrow like always, expecting the ball to go down the left side of the alley curving towards the head pin but instead my shot goes badly to the right crossing over to the right side of the lane. At one point I'm face with having to makie a 2-pin the two pins are in the middle of the lane about half-way down, the pin on the left is more forwards so I will need to aim at it first. I'm trying to decide how I should approach making this spare. I have to hurry up because the 2nd pin is moving, it is sliding backwards, and its angle relative to the more forward pin is changing. (Because some people are standing in the lane and moving it?) I bowl and instead of rolling on the ground the ball flies through the air and hits the forward pin on its head and then the ball bounces off to the right, (missing the 2nd pin?), I'm a bit surprised that the ball went through the air

+ JG in CH, kitchen, sister's room, outside at the intersection
JG is in my CH and I'm trying to get alone with her. We're at the kitchen sink and there are dishes in there.

Outside on the street at the intersection of F and S, there's a car standing there and JG is there?

Inside CH upstairs in sister's bedroom, JG is in bed under the covers and I think looking at me seductively. My BF MR is in the room but not paying us attention and I ignore him. I go to JG and am feeling frisky but she rebuffs me telling me I have "too much complacency". "complacency" echoes in my head for a while as I try to figure this situation out.

+ [first dream forgotten for now] [REMEMBERED!: the tomato sidewalk gardener guy!]
Outdoors, daylight. Several times throughout this dream, I walk past a guy with no arms (and no legs?) who's sitting on the sidewalk where I'm walking near the curb, "gardening" in the cracks and little holes/open dirt square areas along the sidewalk. I notice him several times and get a sense of deja vu each time. I look at what he's gardening a few times and it's small bulbs of little vegetation growing in clumps. The final time I stop and look at what he's doing, he's growing odd-looking tomatoes. He slices open(?) some tomatoes and is describing some (magical?) properties that they have as I peer down at them.

+ driving up S street avoiding man in van that handles poorly driving too fast for turning ability of van turn R on to GPB into oncoming lane concerned about oncoming traffic one appears coming around corner but I make it back to my lane. Going too fast this van does not handle well like my other van, I can't make the bend in the road to the left and the van drives right off the road which heads down a hillside. I have a brief thought "oh boy now I've done it." The van is sailing through the air I'm anticipating impact, thinking "man I hope my van isn't ruined." The van lands (backwards?) and the impact is barely noticed. I'm on some side road with no way back to the main road, not for a long, long way. I come up to a memorial plaque that I "recognize" [FALSE] and think "Oh, I'm here at that place" in some public park, I wonder if the gate is still open, I head out to the gate and see a map and try to understand it to find where I'm going but can't. I try each of several different swiveling gates leading to different levels of road.

Then I'm in some convenience store, some younger guys are there talking about "rack and pinion steering" and I think maybe my van is missing a "pinion" or something.

+ epic: seattle: stamp, selling house (maybe sell and re-rent?), girl pops out from under armchair to answer question (this surprises me a little, didn't know she was under there), ask about best thai place in city now, answer: "Panda." I describe the [correct] dates of my graduation and point out I haven't been in town in a long time. Ask if "Panda" is downtown or in the U-district. Girl writes me my copy of the birthday party rules (includes rules preventing people from leaving early even if they want to go to bed on time in order to dream, I wonder if I should tell them I'm a lucid dreamer), handwritten in red/orange/yellow script. I'm amazed she hand-writes these rules for everybody in the house.

I'm lying stomach down on the floor with the birthday rules girl next to me on my right also lying stomach down our bodies aligned, I snuggle up to her and we get close, I press my head against her and nuzzle her head with mine, she reaches down under me

Spoiler for sexual moment:

and tickles my (ahem) a bit it feels really good and I moan a bit in her ear.

I'm sitting on something up high, like on top of a bunk bed, in the living room. I glance out the window and I see a view extending into the distance of a busy freeway with cars with red tail lights and I assume I'm seeing I-5 heading towards downtown.

Girls in costume appear in the living room, I'm still sitting up high. There are two, one is petite and pretty and grabs my attention and our gazes meet and hold for a few seconds. She's wearing black? The other one, white? They walk past me and brush my legs dangling down from the bunk beds.

Our group is now outside, it's night, we're on an open square near a trap door, our group is down there, I think "what if they (group of enemies?) arrive at the same time (or are already down there?). Then an enemy group is there and we're struggling [this part details forgotten], I'm pushing them around.

Then I'm standing in some sort of artificial tunnel/cave trapped inside a long cylindrical cage made of metal bars, I'm going back and forth trying to find the way out of this cage but the openings are all too small. My friend hands me a metal folding chair through a hole and tells me to use it as leverage. Now I can get out. But I think it's ridiculous: the hole is large enough to get out without leverage from the chair, the chair is pointless and I try to show this to my friend.

Another great, long dreaming night with 1-2 epics. And a first! Probably my earliest LD ever, somewhere around 2.5 hours in the first (noticed) waking of the night. And not just a weak, low-awareness LD, but a TOTM success LD that included a successful teleport out of the void! I set very strong intention to get lucid tonight. I also prepared 4mg galantamine + 300mg alpha gpc by my bedside for WBTB (but never took it, keeping it in reserve for tonight perhaps).

@ ~ 2.5-3 hrs

+ lucid 202: I'm hugging my old dog L. He's facing me and hugging me back (in retrospect a bit too tightly and compulsively but in the dream it seemed fine), my face is buried in his chest and my hands are holding him tightly to me, I'm telling him "I love you, I love you!". Then I'm in my CH living room and I'm lucid. Lighting is subdued, like it's dark outside. As soon as I'm lucid I think "woohoo, #202". I'm pacing around between the living room and the entry hallway. I remember TOTM and I remember grow a tail. I'm standing on the corner of the big buffet which has a mirror and I will a tail to grow. I move it around over my right shoulder then I see it and touch it with my right hand and inspect it. It is a flat dark brown color, slightly fuzzy, and feels like the tail of a stuffed animal. I will the tail to move around some more and see its shadow on the floor in front of me, moving, I say "swish! swish!" I now want to do a basic task as well and I know I know the tasks and I feel positive that they will come to me at any instant but I just can't remember them. Next thing I know I'm pacing in total blackness. I decide I don't want to be here and I want to try a portal teleport. I lift my right hand and start to draw a portal in the air in front of me, expecting to see a shining outline appear, but nothing appears. I start over again, still unable to see any portal trail, but now I finish drawing a large oval in the air in front of me. I imagine it leads to <forgotten!>, as I start to step through I think perhaps I should have specified instead that it leads to Amber [Zelazny's fantasy realm] but I decide to keep my original destination.

I find myself in a brightly lit city scape full of people, sort of medieval looking, the city is on a hill. I take off flying and I'm immediately surrounded by thousands of little flies or tiny drones, the faster and farther I try to go to evade them, the more that surround me. Lost all lucidity now, I'm talking with someone about what the cost is to (teleport me?) get to somewhere else. The guy says that he does not accept military contracts and there is something about the cost he offers.

wake up and review dream, check time, about 2.5 hours after bed. I decided it was too early to take the galantamine, and went back to sleep. Very happy with what is probably my first successful intentional teleport.

(@5-6 hours)

+ CH thief:
I'm standing on the street looking down the driveway at my CH and I sense something is wrong. The doors of the house are open and the lights are on. I'm looking and noticing open doors. I decide to jump down and surprise the thief if one's there. I "jump/fly" down in one swoop from the street down to the back porch of the house and I detect an intruder in the house who runs away. He runs down the back garden stairs and jumps off the lawn down to neighbor's back yards. I do another big jump/fly down to him and there's a branch on the ground and a pair of long-handled pruning shears which he picks up and faces me to fight, <rest forgotten>.

+ slop:
I'm sitting/lying on the ground outdoors. A small girl comes up to me and lays across me diagonally and hugs me and I hug her back, I feel love coming from her, she tells me, "Thank you for holding me!". Then I'm lying in some sort of trough and my wife and some other women throw in buckets of what I think is "pig slop", grey and thick and muddy, which I had been expecting but they threw it before I expected it and it splashed on my face. "Great!" I say with sarcasm, "you got it on my face!" and they react with concern.

+ scoot:
I'm on a bicycle on mixed suburban/urban roads, I approach a busy intersection and use the hand brakes on the handlebars to slow down, I notice that the "turn left" arrow is lit and I'm following a dotted line painted on the ground that leads on to a sidewalk, and I follow it there. There are some cars coming down the sidewalk the other way and I'm surprised/annoyed by this. I continue on the sidewalk, now scooting? Now on inline-skates, I'm coming up on some people who are slow moving so I speed up to overtake them right as a guy is trying to pass me. My new speed prevents him from passing me and we're now running/skating side by side. "I'm sorry, I didn't know you were there," I explain to him. Now I'm pushing myself with cross-country ski poles, still on inline skates, and getting some good speed from this. He's running. I wonder now many miles we can go like this, probably all the way up into the hills.

+ epic: ski
I begin with thoughts and light visuals about a job where I worked at one former job while I worked still at another former job -- this is a (somewhat) reoccuring dream pattern about work. Then (I? someone?) says one of the benefits of the job is the big ski jump hill they build outside, and I imagine a large, wide, slide with alternating steep and level sections. Then someone else talks about the downhill skiing park that was built, then I'm standing at the top of the hill with skiis on and start skiing down. The guy had been saying about how fast you could do. The hill was quite steep but fairly flat. I'm hopping between left ski downslope and right ski downslope skillfully and wondering about just how much time it takes to perform one of these hops once you decide to do it. Then I run off a series of jumps off the left side of the trail, and finally I'm falling about 100 feet or more and think "oops now I've done it" and I'm trying to plan my landing place. I'm anticipating a bad impact really hurting my legs. But then I realize that as long as I land on a steep part of the slope below me there won't be much impact. I land and feel no problem with my legs. I jump again and this time I'm jumping over a river and I need to plan my landing, this time the snow runs out and my skies are clattering along bare rocks but on a smoothed pathway. I thought my skiis would get ripped to shreds but the stones are very smooth and I just slowly glide to a halt.

Now what am I going to do? I have probably skied somewhere around 20 (kms? miles?) and trudging back up that massive hill that long with ski boots and my skis in hand is just not going to happen, so I resolve to go forwards to see where I am. I quickly come across a building, sort of a cabin, with a sign on it, amidst pine trees, it's a large building like a camp building. But sort of run down, like it's not popular any more. I come across the main camp building which is similar (sort of run-down, out of date architecture), with people milling about. The camp is not in session, it's called "sundowner <something>" or "summer <something>". I talk to a staff member about getting back to where I came from and she mentioned that they had a taxi that I could take. "Taxi! Perfect!" I say and go to it. I'm then standing on a mini-bus holding a pole and I'm thinking about how I'm going to pay the taxi since I don't have any money with me. I then realize that I don't have my skiis with me, and that I don't remember taking them off, or my boots, or putting them anywhere. I just remember that my final skiing portion was near a river/creek and ask the driver to take me by there so I can look for them.

While standing on the taxi I "remember" that I came here with some friends and they're not all here, we have to find them, I'm confused about where they are. I'm going to have to call my dad to come get us(?) and figure out how to meet him. "Where's Lawrence Y? [boy scout]" I see a double ski holder thing (that you carry skis in on the roof of your car) in the bus and I open it and look at the skis and they're covered with colorful shiny glitter stickers.

I walking then go through a door and inside CE (my movie buddy when I interned at lab) is teaching a piano harmony lesson. She is going to play improvised scales in D-flat (major?) She begins and starts with something like 6th and 4th chords, then normal ones, I keep listening for a Maj7 chord but never hear one, and feel like I should sneak to the keyboard and hit the Bb key to make her do it, but I never do, I'm listening to her scales for about a minute.

wake:
I'm thinking now that it's too late to take the G. Review dreams, toss and turn a bit, work on BTS and get BTS. Tell myself "the next thing I see will be a dream" and performing the dream-hand nose-pinch RC on exhales once in a while. Tell myself "I will fall asleep and get lucid." BTS

(9-10 hours?)

+ elevator: there's a problem with the work elevator, I'm talking with the CEO (female) about it. It has to do with the old power board. I walk down the stairs with my son and realize it's a long way down and I head back up to fix the power board. I continue talking and say that the issue is due to the software's access pattern of the various power terminals. We could fix it by making sure the software doesn't use too many of them at the same time. But couldn't we just buy a new power station, "it would only cost, what, $20,000?".

+ cables/work/girl: <a bunch forgotten> also at work and there's a presentation being prepared in some large audience or dining hall. I have cables that are part of the projection system in my hand. We're (taking a break?) and everyone's putting their components of the projection system down on a table in front of a techie guy, and I put two short orange cables as well and say these are important. I'm moving through the crowd and a lot of people are in my say. There's are some young people on the stage and I notice in particular a cute girl with lipstick on, briefly. Then I'm moving back stage and a girl is there and I encourage her to follow me. I see a tent set up and open it and motion for her to go inside. We go inside and make out a bit?

+ (semi)epic: park / basketball:

... I'm looking at the newly refurbished basketball level of my CH neighborhood park. They've replaced the concrete/asphalt with a slightly bouncy black material like on modern playgrounds, it is very black. I'm just standing there on the far side facing the main entry side, noting all the changes they've made. They've adjusted the positions of the basketball hoops somewhat, moving the one by the back road fence even more to the left, and the main basket has been raised very high, and there's a secondary basket twice as high as well. I notice that they've also built very tall fences between this level and the middle level (guess so that balls thrown won't go between levels or get lost in the foliage). I continue looking at the tall netting and notice then that there is also a ceiling netting high over the entire basketball level, 50 or more feet up. I hope that it's strong so that if anybody climbs up there, it doesn't rip or they'd fall. I see briefly a circular section of the netting that looks like a 10-foot diameter spider web.

I take a running leap off the raised pathway and fly/glide low over the courts to the opposite corner (by the bike rack). The entire court is covered in what looks like scrunched up brown paper napkins/towels. They're light and I can easily brush them aside to see the shiny new flooring/ground-cover they've installed. There is some "new plastic" odor. I see shiny markings on the ground, bumpy and extending up from the surface like the stuff crosswalks are painted with, but colorful. I start to run across the ground and pump my legs really fast and wonder about running really fast. Then a brilliant emerald green object on the ground catches my attention, I'm wondering what this beautiful thing could be. As I can see more of it I "remember" [FALSE] that I've seen this before, it's a sort of walkway made from modular pieces that you can put together to make a path, and parts of it are black rubber and parts are that emerald gemstone material, but I think it doesn't look quite as good as I thought at first.

I notice on the main basketball court on the lower (but still high) hoop there is a sign: "females only". Well that's ridiculous, they've taken two of the courts and made them girls only, hardly any girls play basketball here, what's the point?

A man/coach is there now and he's getting some guys together to play some basketball. I say I can't play because <I have to do something, forgot>. He's got only 3 guys together to play, that's not enough.

I mean, I'm sick . Poor sleep. Many potential WILD attempts though through the many wakings.

+ some weird thing about counting my breaths falling into numerical patterns. Then talk changes to a timesharing computer system for 128 users running on a Commodore 64 which got my attention: how can that possibly work? Then I'm sitting at a computer screen like C64 and loading a program. First I type "LOAD <something>" wait for it to finish, then I type "RUN" and the screen switches into graphics mode and two detailed animated grey/black vertical (like seahorses) dragons are swooping back and forth along a platform. Then I start controlling them and they're like demons/balrogs running along a platfomer game. I cause the character to move and run and jump on to the next platform, the game is sort of 2.5D but still retaining 3D qualities. Then there is a fight with a wizard character on the top of the building/platform

awake, doing TDY "Ah" throat visuzliations, and ...

+ ... BANG! There is a loud sound like an explosion and I'm standing next to a building where a bomb has apparently just gone off. I look up and a narrator says you can see it was on the 5th floor because that's there the wall was blown off. Actually it's an exploded view of the building so you can see into all the floors but the 5th / top floor had explosion damage. I'm walking around the side of the building and now I'm standing on a tall/small platform with no railing several floors up and I'm a bit concerned about the unprotected fall, but I'm looking up at the door/balcony of the exploded apartment and I'm making a comment about the guy who's place that is, the door opens onto a very small balcony barely enough room for a chair, the doors and walls are glass [DREAMSIGN]. I'm looking up at the building and down at the fall just one step away, it's a sort of very small open shaft that all the apartment windows open on to. I'm standing just outside an apartment and I get down on my hands and knees and crawl carefully back inside the room so I don't fall. As I'm crossing the threshold back in to the room, I notice that there is a 1-inch gap between the floor of the room and the window/door sill leading out to the terrace, so you can see down to the apartment below. Each apartment has this same gap, and I put my eye to the gap and look all the way down the ground floor through all these gaps. I think that must be terrible for noise insulation, you'd hear everything from your neighbor.

Then my college roommate FG is standing down there one floor below and holding a toy suction cup dart gun up in my face like he's going to shoot it at me and I block it with my hand and we say a few things. I think that loading a suction cup sphere into a wrist rocket would be much more effective than this toy gun/suction cup dart thing.

Wavering half awake/asleep a long time, bad crick in my neck can't get comfortable fully sick, stuffed nose, etc., but suddenly....

+ ... I'm standing in front of a clothes washing machine. I'm apparently trying to calibrate the settings and all the clothes are coming out partially dry and partially wet. I'm doing really small loads and trying to figure out the right settings for the device. I think this is silly and I should just chuck all my clothes in there and do a single large load. I'm fiddling with the controls of the washing machine and finally pull out the circular setting knob to start the cycle. I look to my left and I see my blue jeans spread out on top of something and I notice they're pretty dirty, especially at the knees.

very vivid & present dreams, especially later ones. Not all that many, but the detail and length were good.

+ the metro/subway train arrives and the doors open (outdoors?) daylight. I'm looking in to the wagon to see if there's space. I'm not sure this is going in the right direction? I get on. I'm inspecting the metro line diagram and determine I'm heading the wrong way. I can get off at the next stop and go across to the other platform to start heading in the right direction. I get off and I need to cross the tracks to the other platform. A man is quickly walking across the track directly and I decide to do the same. I'm watching carefully and a train starts coming from my left across one of the tracks. I feel the rumbling of its weight on the ground. I think I could get stuck here if another train comes the other way, sandwiching me between them. Another train does come but from the same direction as the first. Eventually I make it across to the other platform.

+ "Visigoths" battle.
Starts DO, observing a combatant from pirate times with 4 rifles set up behind a large fallen tree. He's crafting an automatic firing mechanism with string that will let him approximate an automatic machine gun. The enemy combatants outnumber his side considerably but never underestimate the effectiveness of a small force of sharpshooters with muskets. I begin a severe slashing battle with the enemy leader. I'm swinging my sword with wild abandon and hacking objects in the surronding area. I get close up with the enemy leader and take my (broken?) blade and stab him underneath his chin sending the blade up into his brain, killing him.

In the aftermath of the battle once things calm down, the animals begin returning. I look out a door and see an entire field filled with crawling beats, sort of a mixture between a dodo bird and a turtle. They crawl with their bellies on the ground. They are laid out in perfect rows and columns, and move in total unison. They pull themselves forwards and then plop down again and rest and then make one more movement forwards.

A narrator is talking about the front along the Atlantic, and I see an overhead map of the area. I wake up thinking these combatants were "Visigoths."

+ A chess board fills my vision. I'm planning an attack against my opponent (who is MR, best CH neighborhood friend). I see that I have some devastating attacking lines with my two rooks against his king who is exposed in the center of the board. I can't see completely how my attack will work, it may just fizzle out and I may lose. I see that I can take a pawn on the flank but this will in turn allow him to open a file for his own rook. I make a move that opens the line for my attack and MR makes his move in response quickly and without consideration to my coming attack, so I begin it and I'm pretty sure I can manage a mating net around his king.

+ Outdoors, in daylight, I'm lost and I want to call (my wife?) on my old-style cell phone and find out where I am

I enter some store with friends. On the way out on an impulse I enter the dark/dank little side casino they run. We move past the door guard even though we're not much more than 21 years old, I think he may card us but he doesn't. We go inside another room and enter the tiny dark casino, I want to play some blackjack. There are two tables, I look to see the table minimum and one is $5, another one (where there's a player?) is also $5 minimum. I have $10 on me I know so that doesn't allow much play potential. I look around the room, and see a queen-sized bed in a side room that is screen by a curtain that is currently most of the way pulled back. I think this bed is odd/out of place.
We begin playing and I get a hard 17, so I must stand, and another time I get a hard 18 and also must stand. On one deal, my friend (to my right) gets the King of Clubs, I get the Jack of Clubs, and the dealer gets the 10 of spades. We all got 10s, maybe I'll get a blackjack? One time I think I may need to double but I don't have the cash. Another time I'm dealing (for ourselves and the dealer), and I encounter a card (the two of spades) which is turned face up. I freeze, unsure of what to do. The dealer takes the card and puts it face down, inserting it into the middle of the remained of the deck which is in my hands.

At one point I realize I'm up a lot of money. I should probably set some winnings aside as a minimum so I don't lose it all back. I'm sticking bills back into my wallet? There is talk of the time and how I'm meeting someone (a girl?) later. At one point I'm thinking about asking for a free drink, my favorite blackjack drink, a Jack Daniels and Coke [TRUE].

wake
BTS

+ I'm outdoors at night on the street in a city. I'm standing on a corner where people are with a parked car. I'm trying to read the parking sign on the corner that describes the times it's allowed to park there. Something about Saturday and Sunday. I can't see well and want to climb up on the parked car in order to see better but don't do that because the owners are there? I walk further down the street and see a fire engine parked, and a large section of parking area marked off by a ribbon (from the fire dept?). There's an open street down to the right with potentially lots of parking but I ignore it. I'm maneuvering a wire small shopping cart in front of me, I think that I will leave this in a spot to reserve it and then go get my car but then think this is ridiculous, so I head back to where I came from in order to get my car.

Inside a grocery store at some prepared hot foods counter. I am spooning out the remains of one of the hot dishes, the contents consist of many things, like beans, hot dogs (in the shape of a double-sided wrench?), and I'm taking the last of it. I get some melted cheese on one of the t-shirts there on a shelf that I'm also going to buy but instead of putting it back and taking another one, I try to pick off the cheese from the shirt. Then I'm talking with the girl behind the counter and asking her what it is that she would like to do in a technical/programming profession that she is considering. "Simulation? <other stuff?>" Then I get a sense of deja vu and realize "ah yes, it was modeling that you were interested in."

+ I'm sitting in the stands at a football game. One side is punting, the line is directly in front of us, we're at a medium distance from the field. The punting team is punting from our right to our left. It is a low, line-drive punt. I'm impressed, the line is around the 20 and this kick looks like it's going to go all the way to the end zone, a very long punt. But then the punt hangs in the air, like getting suspended by the wind, and starts traveling backwards towards the kicker and drifting to the side over the stands. I think the net yardage will be not as much as it was appearing to at the start. I watch how the ball wafts over the spectators and settles softly down a few rows in front of us and to the left. The ball is now in the shape of a large inflated cucumber?

I'm considering my seat. I turn around and place my legs onto my seat, my legs are horizontal and I'm blocking our row so that's not idea. Then I go and take my seat a few seats down the row with a friend and there are some seats open to my right but belong to our friends. A small black boy comes and sits in the seat next to me and I feel a bit hesitant but ask him to move because that's our friend's seat, he moves over one seat to the right but I think that may be our seat, too, but I don't say anything more.