FryingMan

+ the toilet bowl and the tank are packed full of peaches, I'm pulling them out one by one with my hands. I don't understand why they were thrown away like this because my son loves peaches, why would he get rid of them?

+ gathering the lavender moths from the plant, carrying them in baggy and in my hand, there was a bee there but I shake it out

+ in an airplane and the two twins are outside the cockpit on the windshield, using their bodies to bleed off the airplane's speed

+ in a car, someone else is driving, we enter a dairy store which is large and circular and on a hill, all the products are packed onto the floor, our car is wreaking a path of havoc through the products leaving a wake of destruction behind us, around the end of the circle and reaching the door again, I (hear? think?) that the products may have been a hologram all along.

Also felt like a night full of dreams but recall only OK.

(early)

+ in an apartment talking with girls about school. Trying to decide where to live. They're asking if I'd really want to live away from home while going to University, missing out on all that good home cooking and comfort. I think yeah, but I want to live closer to school so it won't take so long to go to/from classes.

(later)

+ DO, view high above a city below, night, large circular spotlights then pan over the city. Attention focuses on one central spot, narrator says how the foot traffic in this place is wearing down the (grass?). View then swoops down over the city, passing by a house where a family with small kids lives, the kids are laughing and playing a game inside, visible through the large glass walls [DREAM SIGN] where they run and then slide along the slippery floor.

+ [long, many scenes] I'm in a lab high on a hill, I do not have access to be here and so could be caught. Moving from room to room. Working with designers on some technical project. In a break room where there are pastries in bright colors, built to look like ground meat sandwiches. There is a guy caught from the other side, a friend of mine? I'm trying to get leniency for him? I can't do it and say sorry, I tried but there's nothing I can do for you. He gets really mad and threatens to stab me with a knife. Riding from one platform up the mountain on the tram: you straddle the metal cable and hold on and it moves you up really fast, I'm facing forwards, a bit leery of falling but I don't fall

+ [long, detailed, vivid] down below in the city, it's night-time I look up behind me and see the tram cables and lines dotted with red lights leading the way up the mountain. There are several lines going up the hill and I'm trying to figure out which one leads to the place I remember being before

I'm walking a hilly suburban street with another guy. We want to go down to the (college?) in the city at the foot of the hills. I climb up the steep incline we're on to where it levels out so that I can get a running start to fly/glide down into the city.. I want to lead my friend into flying. I take a few steps and start flying/gliding and look behind me, my friend is still standing on the ground. I lead the way around several turns and he's still on the ground and I say "when are you going to start flying?".

We reach a place and I start talking about it being a good location, being near to the rose gardens and the public tennis courts. I'm leading my friend by the hand and running through my house, the friend is now my sons's ex-gf and we're giggling and running down stairs, I see my son briefly at one point and he makes a comment. We end up in some family room and I realize I don't have a shirt on, I want to put on a shirt, I see a piece of clothing sitting on a couch and want to put it on but see it's some sort of animal costume with a hood so I don't put it on. Again I see it and want to put it on but see the hood again and so don't. The girl gives me some clothing and I think at first it's a shirt but see then that it's a pair of underwear. I think this means I need to take a shower and head into the bathroom.

[not sure of sequence of this part, before or after shower?] I'm on a tennis court playing tennis with my son and his ex-gf. They're (or at least she) is bad at tennis so I'm just standing near the net hitting soft lobs so she can hit them back, the ball zips back by me and I miss it and have to go pick it up?

I enter a bathroom that I realize I hardly ever use, and this how this means my place is actually much larger than I thought it was. Walking back into the bathroom the white tile floor gets slippery, the floor is very wet and soapy. I "remember" that my wife told me that one of the shower heads is broken and leaking. There are 3-4 shower stalls all in a row on the left. As I walk towards the far stall I see there is the stuck shower head attached to the ceiling up over the right hand wall and it is emitting a spray of water that is causing the floor to be wet. I walk back to the first stall and I notice that there is a deep level of water in several of the showers, about a foot, and I'm wondering why it's not draining, because the leaking shower head is not producing so much water that the drains couldn't keep up with it.

Then I'm looking at the floor leading into each shower, it is a strip of slightly raised tile with an arching hump over the place where you'd step into the shower. There is an old man next to me and he's saying that the aluminum insert should be removed. I'm looking closely at this arched tile area and agree, because the level is too high, it makes it hard/dangerous for older people to step into and get out of the shower. Some elderly people are walking with canes and the canes are also slipping on the slippery floor.

+ driving in a car on freeways, I take several on-ramps and off-ramps. I arrive in a suburban neighborhood with houses set down below from the street. I think this is not a great area of town and I hear some thug-like talk from down below. One guy approaches me looking at me from another direction and I realize that "recognize" him [FALSE] from the ad that I came here to answer? We go into a house. A party is being prepared. The host has pizza, several types. The crust is not crispy so the pieces are floppy when picked up. I say that he'll need to heat the oven and put the pizza in there to get the crust crispy again. One of the participants is really excited about this guy-party. He says there will be yogurt and (rice?) and is looking forwards to it.

+ I'm in some shelter, outside it is starting to rain and I see the water hitting the pavement just outside and I'm trying to figure out where to put my shoes so they don't get wet. I climb up a tree inside the covered shelter and I'm moving out among the branches to pick something from the tree. I look down and see that I'm pretty far out on a branch and I don't want the branch to break. I notice something there on the branch and realize with a shock that it is some wasp nests and I see little things flying around and I don't want to get stung. Then I see that the wasp nests are tiny, only the size of a walnut and there are only a few of them so now I'm not so worried.

+ I'm in a room with some middle-aged men. We're sitting around a counter talking about pizza [DREAM SIGN]. I'm saying how I like Round Table. One guy wants to get a combo pizza but doesn't want the expense of the King Arthur Supreme. They want to go to a restaurant that is far away and I don't see the point.

+ walking towards a building that I see is tilting severely, it's a house-boat on water? Multi-story. The view of this building really gets my attention. Some things happen inside with people, there's a rotating (log?) on the water that is part of a pump system moving the water?

There is someone talking about the water system, I also say that the water is what we use to do many things, and I'm standing on the bridge over a river and holding a thick hose (like a fireman's hose) and spraying some water around, including on some (pigeons) sitting on another bridge near-by.

Later I'm indoors and opening windows because it's really warm inside.

Outside later people are putting on robes.

I walk up to a building and look through the large windows/glass walls [DREAM SIGN] to the inside. There are a bunch of young people inside cavorting in a hot tub (mostly girls?). One girl is standing up in a bikini, and I see clearly her bikini top is pulled a bit down to expose both nipples. Our eyes meet, and while holding my gaze she slowly pulls the bikini top back up covering up her breasts again. There is a fair bit of nudity and some sexual activity/play going on to the left as well.

(early)

+ I'm walking along a series of multi-level terraces (above a seashore?), this is my place. It is night. I look down and see I've climbed on to a medium-sized rectangular terrace/platform with room for several chairs to sit comfortably but not much more. There is a bright, intricate pattern on the tiles that line the terrace's floor. I look towards the water/away from the hill and I see a small/square pool (or large Jacuzzi) which is lit inside. The light from this pool is shining into the night lighting the area around. I know this is my pool. (I think about turning off the lights?)

+ in a room with some (friends?), people are outside, it's a threatening situation. I see my (girlfriend/wife?) 's naked back and it is covered completely from top to bottom with a "design" of self-inflicted cuts that forms a picture/words. I'm wondering how she did this, with a mirror perhaps? I think that every time I see her like this I will be reminded of what she did to herself.

+ I'm in a kitchen fighting with two young punks. It is a vicious fight. I'm throwing them around but no matter what I do they keep getting up and coming at me. There is blood smeared all over the floor. Sitting in the corner of the room is a crazy old hag with skin pulled tightly over her face like a mummy almost and a very wild look in her face. She shouts endlessly "HEH! HEH! HEH! HEH! HEH!..." I go to window and pull aside the curtain to the front yard/street and peer outside, it is night, I see that there are about a dozen (children?) standing there in formation on the street, standing still (with head down?) like zombies, it's a freaky scene.

I go out a door and the punks follow me I pick up stones to throw at them. There is a bin of smallish rocks there, black, and one of bright shiny bronze. I throw the rocks hard but it's like I have no strength in my arm and they don't fly very fast. The rocks do no damage at one of the guys even manages to catch one of them.

+ I'm driving on a bridge in an open vehicle (like a small scooter). There are dark figures (in robes?) I pass standing on the side of the bridge. A tall truck in front of me loses control, weaves, and topples over to the left right in front of me. I think that had I been there, just a small bit more forwards besides that truck, it would have crushed me.

+ Two people, a young man and woman, are racing (on scooters?). There's going to a particular destination, and the thing they're riding has some long wire about it, and a precise way of measuring distance. I think the destination is at reading "3000." I think the young man will win.

+ I'm in the common room of a suite of rooms that open off of the common room on the sides. It's cluttered and full with appliances like washing machines, cupboards, etc. Ahead of me in a room off of the common room is a team of kids, they are our enemies, but in this place there is no fighting or throwing things, but we do trade (candy) with them sometimes. A kid comes forwards and we trade candy, I get his Butterfingers. He says "it smells like mouse crap here" and I do notice a musty smell. And I then think I hear the scratchings of a mouse under the closed door to an adjoining room to the left. I get down on the floor and look under the door (there is a step or two up to the door from the common room to this is easy to do), and I see it is lit in there, and I see a band of mice in there, with brown fur, and they are emaciated/strarving, I don't think they'd make much of a meal they're all skin and bones.

1mg melatonin @ around 11:30pm

wake around 5 hrs

recalled 2 dreams at the time, now forgotten

awake for a bit, then decided to listen to / do Daniel Love's WBTB "lucid trance" youtube audio. Key last thought: the very next thing I see will be a dream.

+ I'm standing at window in a bedroom looking outside through large window/glass walls [DREAM SIGN]. It appears dark outside, but there are some large objects outside that are white and lit. I'm on the second floor. I'm having an internal discussion of some sort trying to reach a conclusion about what I'm seeing but I do no RC and continue on. There is a bed in this room and I decide that I'm tired now and I will go back to bed. I get under the sheets and my wife comes in and starts talking to me / asking me something?

+(f) (was this an earlier dream? Not sure) I'm in a house, fairly tall-ceilinged room, and a very large bus enters from the upper floor heads down the stairs and gets stuck trying to make the turn into the next room. I think "there's no way it's going to make that turn, it's too tight."

+ At some large mansion, concrete curvy walls, stairwells around. I need to find some way through to some destination. I need to pour out some garbage bucket. I pour it out over a railing down a road that runs in between this place and the neighbor's place. I hear the slapping sound as the liquid hits the wall of the neighbor's place, like water hitting a plastic tarp. I'm looking down at the splash of liquid and am trying to see the things that I think are in it. I see then several dozen parasitic worms that were in the garbage, as they wiggle their way towards and under the neighbor's fence.

+ at a billiards table [DREAM SIGN]. I'm watching an expert play and demonstrate "draw" (applying backspin to the cueball so that it will zip backwards to the place you want to shoot next), he doesn't get quite the position he's hoping for. Some object balls almost make it to a corner pocket but they stop disadvantageously one blocking the other. I'm presented a cue stick without a proper tip, it's more like a rake. I demonstrate "draw". I am the tip of the cuestick low and hope I won't miscue. I notice that a girl has a cue stick with a proper, rounded tip.

+(f) in a house, with people (N & A MK grad school?), upstairs, having to climb over some woman's kid to get into a room

+(f, faint/vague) outside with some attractive girls, I'm friendly with them, giving them hugs, (kissing their heads?), one is in a tank top?

+ long, vivid multi-scene sequence. There is some competition involving one team throwing things at the opposing team into a court surrounded by a net. I'm moving around the surrounding roof-tops with a colleague and we're trying to find a place to line up good shots. We are pushing over large soccer-goal-like angular structures that are straddling the peak of some roof-tops. I try to lob a (water baloon?) into the court and it hits the surrounding net-wall and pops and the water splashes down, I think this is pretty good and I'll probably get the team in the court wet this way. We continue circling around the court on the roofs. We reach a position in our "base" and lie down facing the court near a ledge, and below is a former boy-scout troop scoutmaster, looking up and complaining that our position is not fair, that we have an advantage up there.

I find some little bottle, like a medicine bottle with a label on it with a name and I go looking to deliver it to that person. I'm walking up a stairwell with low baby gates periodically blocking the way and I step over these and walk by the people sitting near them. I reach a hallway where there are two doors. I'm trying to read the label of the bottle and trying to get the idea of what it is and who it is for, and I'm trying to read the name on the doors across from me. The guys in the doors are some high-up gangsters? A henchman (or two) approach me and I say that I'm bringing this bottle to the lead guy (in the room). The bottle is not full I see. The henchman says the boss is going to ask where's the rest of the delivery? I say I don't know anything about more, this botltle is all I came to deliver. I repeat this and say "so it's probably better to only deliver the full shipment than this one bottle, huh?" So I leave in search of more. Then I'm going through a pile of teeny tiny bottles, trying to read the labels, there are letters there and one bunch is something like "melatonin" (but not quite) so I think it's related to sleep.

Returning to the court area it's now a fairly large athletic field surrounded by stands. On the field is some large animal/beast, like a white polar bear, the bear comes in to the stands and returns to the field. I see a very large "disc" of about 1-meter long bright orange/red feathers that suddenly appear around the neck of the animal and I think this is particularly noteworthy/interesting. The game is started by tossing the "ball" to the bear on the field but the ball is really a large chunk of a large fish. The bear falls over backwards behind a fence trying to catch it and I think it may be injured.

I move forwards to the other side of the field and I'm following someone/something. I'm staying very low, crawling on the floor in between chairs. I emerge between two chairs and they squeak when I move them and I think this will give my position away.

I'm now in a library (or book store) looking for a particular book/series on a particular subject. The book titles show series one or two, in different colors. People are talking about these books. I'm walking along a bookshelf and I hear the librarians talking, I know they are all militant feminists. They're saying something about "Even Edward Norton would(n't)..." most are women, but there's a man librarian (also a feminist) there, too.

Another big night! Semi-lucid moment, but otherwise, tons and tons of vivid dreams.

+ At the shoreline looking [emerging DREAM SIGN] looking into the water: it's fairly shallow and the water is full of reefs covered in rough white circular things like barnacles or clam shells (insides facing up). I'm looking for a spot where it is deep enough to snorkel and I'm not finding a lot of places.

I'm standing on the shoreline looking down in sand and the wave pulls back to the ocean and a little sand hole starts bubbling I stick a tupperware food container down on top of it in order to see it more clearly and like a screen I'm watching the bubbling hole through the semi-transparent tupperware: bub bub bub. Then I see other circular flat sea creatures like the cross-section of an anemone though the tupperware and I'm sliding the container around on the sand towards the water to observe more sea creatures

+ DO [disembodied observer], high (50ish feet) over a river, the river flows from right to left, I look along the length of the river to the left and I see that there are rapids areas, and large shelves of boulders emerging from the water. I'm looking for a path through the boulders and I see such a path. It leads to a very narrow, steep rapid chute. I see canoers heading for and entering the chute: each canoe is very narrow and long has 2 people: one in front, and one in back. As they enter the chute I feel a bit afraid for them because it's looks quite treacherous, but they dig in and paddle through it and emerge out the bottom. The force of their speed puts their canoe entirely under water by several feet, the heads of the people also underwater, and I see that they are continuing to paddle while completely submerged.

+(f) on a stairway leading up to a building, there are several buildings in the complex. There is some narrator or advertisement running about the company that operates these buildings

+ In some kind of structure, bare concrete walls and floors, someone is flipping quarters along the floor and they're bouncing off the floor and walls and this has something to do with some plan? Then I'm on the upper floor of this structure, it is an attraction run by my family. My mother [FALSE, not really her] is running the ride (which seems to be a slide?), I'm right in front of her. There is a container of squishy meat like some pate? There is a tube up from which come real coins which are the payment that the customers use, and also plastic coins which my mother takes and gives to the customers after receiving payment so that they don't use real coins for the payment. My grandfather [TRUE] is sitting on her right (my left) ahead of me, he's in line with my niece(?). I notice him briefly and think about talking to him and/or taking his hand which is close to mine, I get a warm feeling of love coming from him. I'm hugging my niece, she's as a small girl here, and rubbing my hand through her hair.

+(f) spiky/chainy/bicycle/motorcycle. Outdoors but under a cover like in a carport. Leaning against fence is a tall bicycle but it's full of sharp protrusions and has chains running all over spokes. I was going to ride it by GB from grad school jumps on it instead and rides it towards a table.

+(f) with group of people, we're talking about thin strong plates made from vegetable fibers, broccoli, celery, etc.?

+ I'm at my house and inexplicably my mother starts really nagging me severely (unusual) about getting ready for school?, and I have a thought that if you're going to do that it's better that (terrible thought). I'm outside and thinking about how I need to go to high school to take Spanish. I realize that I'm late and that registration is finished already, I'll probably be assigned a random schedule with all of the worst teachers. I think that if I have to go back to high school full-time, that would not be so bad after all. I'm thinking because I've lost a lot of weight that I'll probably get some attention from girls. Then I have a view of myself, slender, dressed in an orange shirt and a brown sweater vest, the shirt is coming out of my pants so I tuck it in. I think this is an odd combination but the more I look at the the more I think it's actually a nice combination. Then it seems like I'm looking not at me but at my best high school friend wearing this outfit.

+ I'm with my dad and I just learned that my mother died. I get incredibly sad that I'll never see her again, and turn away from my dad so he won't see my crying while I'm trying to write something on a piece of paper. I can't believe this news, she was just alive the other day I think. I think how sad my dad must have been on the day that she died, knowing that he had to take her to (the hospital?) and knowing he'd return without her. Strong sadness/grief.

+ I'm standing outside my CH on the street and face the house and get the idea to fly/jump up to the roof. I take a few steps down the rough/ruffled driveway and make a leap towards the roof over the garage, I know I'll take it but I'm not sure how, is my jump enough? I get a funny feeling like I may be able to fly? I seem to glide a bit in getting there. I'm standing on the roof over the garage and looking at the roof of the house, it's making some noise as I walk around a bit and I decide not to walk to the central part of the roof because my parents who are inside (the kitchen?) will hear me and I don't want that. There are metal angles set on top of the peak of the roof that I don't want to walk on. I turn around back towards the street and glide back over the street I decide not to land on the street but to keep going down the M's driveway that also desencds down giving me more room to keep gliding. I'm using my feet and hands to adjust my glide flight, and pull myself vertical to slow myself down. I land at the bottom of the M's driveway even though I could continue going as the land slopes down away from me. I see a fence about 20 feet ahead of me.

wake
Long BTS. Big struggle to get BTS. Try many things, visualizations, eventually, just "let go" more and more on every exhale.

+(f) there is a school bus parked in front of me, instead of windows all along both sides it has squares of wood paneling. Someone is talking about the white schoolbus. I'm watching it as it rides down a street. I correct the narrator, it's not white, it has wood paneling.

+ I "wake" to find myself lying in the gutter near the curb of a street in my boy scout sleeping bag. Standing over me are several girls, the girl in front of me is bottomless and I get a very clear view of her (ahem), I'm pretty amazed by this. I also notice the girl to my left is bottomless and I get even a better view of her's. I'm lying there then with my eyes closed and I feel her leg pressed up against my body. I stay like this for a while. Then I open my eyes and the girl in front of me is gone, I'm a bit surprised by this. Then I look to the girl on my left and she's lying uncomfortably and uncovered on the concrete sidewalk. I unzip my green down sleeping bag and spread it out and offer her to climb in with me (just as friends). I think that it's still really uncomfortable lying directly on top of the asphalt like that.

+ [vivid, beautiful] I'm entering a walled garden. I'm met by a beautiful girl dressed in light colored lavender. There are round bouquets of green plants with purples flowers on them hanging all over, I think this is lavender and pick up a bunch in my hand and bring it to my face to smell. There is a sarcastic girl there, too, who criticizes the lavender-wearing garden attendant/fairy girl. I walk through the garden, seeing round bouquets of handing purple flowers, these are pure purple with no green stems in them. I think they're amazingly beautiful. I say to the sarcastic girl, "Even if you're sad, you still can find beautiful things in life to make you happy."

+ indoors, I'm with a famous martial arts practitioner (Bruce Lee?). He's telling me that he's going to train a girl to fight. We're standing at a weapons locker and he's choosing two weapons that he's going to teach her with. The first one is like a quarterstaff with large (4x normal size) whisks at each end. The quarterstaff goes back and forth between being stiff and a flexible cord. I'm holding this thing and trying to figure out how you're supposed to fight with it. The best I can come up with is that you use the whisk end to trap your opponent's fingers in the metal loops. I hold the whisk end in my left hand and hit it and rotate it against my right hand, trying to trap my fingers in the loops. If doesn't work very well. There's some other weapon, small and (white?) made from a short cord and one or two things at the end that you're supposed to spin around in a circle really fast, he/I am spinning that thing around quickly.

I move back to the original room and someone enters suddenly and I leap up quickly into the air and float at the top of the ceiling (pretty high, 20+ feet?) and am looking down to see if I succeeded in avoiding being noticed.

+ (f) outside, bunches of people walking along the top of a concrete barrier. There are some girls there with whom I'm getting a bit "hands-y?"

+ Arriving at some garden terrace restaurant outdoors, tables there. My son S2 arrives walking with what looks like 3+ bottles of beer and something else and sees me and my wife and turns away quickly so we won't chastise him about having alcohol. I see son S1 sitting at a table drinking from some large container, and each time he takes a drink he shudders and shakes his head quickly like it's really strong alcohol. After he does this several times I ask him jokingly, "What are you drinking there, airplane fuel?"

Then my son S2 tells me how these two big black guys are running a blackjack ring where they take cash and turn it into chips and play and turn the chips back into cash, and I ask him, "Have you invested in this venture?", I wonder if it did but then where did he get the money to do so? Then a narrator is telling about blackjack. Standing at some metal door there is slot in the middle through which I see a section of a blackjack table. The narrator is saying that it is much better to play solo at a blackjack table, and en example is given where one guy (on the right) was playing with other people and "they took his good cards" and he lost. It's also better to play multiple hands at the table at the same time, you can get a lot more money that way. Then the view is of a full table as in a casino, several people are playing, and on the left towards 3rd base two dads and their kids are playing at the table standing on the dealer's side.

+ In some rich mansion, a woman has come to inspect? There is another woman there (who's work is being inspected?) There are also two ghosts/spirits/witches? there, every time the inspecting woman looks one way, the two spirits *POOF* into existence (with an animation like Harry Potter death eater translocation with smoke) and start doing things (cleaning?), and when the inspecting woman turns around they *POOF* vanish before she can see them. The problem is that the room is very cold, and the cleaning woman exhales and I clearly see her breathe vapor in the air, a big whooosh of it. Then when the spirits *POOF* back into existence they are covered with flames: they're burning so that they can warm up the room. They *POOF* in and out several times as the inspecting woman moves about the room.

copied from summer competition, forgot to post here in the DJ proper:

I'm walking towards a tower with a group of people, we're tourists visiting some attraction, we enter the staircase inside and begin the climb and I have a slow dawning awareness that I'm dreaming. I notice girls among the group climbing the stairs and I stop time and I notice all the DCs have frozen in place. I come up behind a girl and hug her from the back. We all continue the climb again and I hug another girl from the back briefly, but I stop myself and remember there are points to be had! I begin by recalling goal. I recall 3-step #1 and turn and face the wall (grey concrete) and think "there is no wall" and easily push my left hand through the wall up to the wrist, and pull it back out. Then I raise my right hand and think "wall is now solid" and tap the wall with my right index finger, my finger stops at the surface and it feels like I'm tapping solid concrete. I'm really happy at this immediate success and do it some more. I notice my best friend MR and say "Hey, M, check this out!" we're standing on a landing and I push my left hand through the wall up to the wrist again, this time it takes more force and there is resistance like the wall is made of solid styrofoam. MR is amazed and says "Whoa, how?!" MR and I continue climbing the staircase. I turn to MR and look into his eyes, he's standing close, he looks young and his face is accurate. I tell him "You're in my dream, you know!" MR says "Yeah!? Wow!" I give him a friendly hand squeeze of his shoulder and say "I see you in a lot of dreams," and while I continue to explain he gets sort of an expression on his face like he's not sure if he likes that fact, I think he thinks they're gay dreams or something, I quickly then say "we're usually drinking or <some other thing>".
I turn again to the wall on my right and this time I push my left hand through (again like stiff styrofoam), pull it out, tap the surface with the index finger of my left hand, feel it solid, then push my hand through again and pull it out. I feel completely confident that I can produce the solidity/transparency of objects at will.
M says something while we climb, suggesting some activity, but I say "no, I need more points!". I'm thinking a bit about dream duration, it seems completely stable and clear. I think of breath awareness for a minute (new personal goal). We emerge from the staircase onto a large open rooftop, and I hand MR my watch, it's an elegant small analog watch with a ticking second hand, which I give to him to hold for me. The second hand reaches 12 right then and I begin awareness of my breath and breathing on purpose. I realize I don't need to look at the watch because there's a clock right in front of me now, like an alarm clock, with a larger face than the watch, so I just focus on watching that and counting seconds and following my breath. But this is the most bizarre clock I've ever seen. There are multiple dials and devices all in motion over the face of the clock, each "hand" is a different color, it is a chaotic mess of color and swirling movement. The "second hand" swoops randomly from number to number, but still keeping a pace of seconds. I'm standing still watching the clock and following my breath. I get up to 35 seconds, and I feel

the dream fade/transition.

hard time falling asleep initially, lots of thoughts, very stressful day, took 2mg melatonin after about 45mins of trying to fall asleep

+(f) entering (saloon?) with lots of people, entering auditorium with sloping curved seating area [DREAMSIGN] walking along top, playing some sport/game with girls / balloons running/flying up and down over the seats

about 4 hrs:

+ LD#199 in room doing math homework with BF MR, equation, trying to find pencil with eraser, erase extra zero, easy equation, is this only the 4th math assignment all year? Turn page over to front to look. Problems are of medium difficulty stay up late to finish, MR talks of dreaming! (head that pops up, fall into arms of dream girl), I get up and move to curtains all along windows to the right and around the corner of walls blinds vary, some venetian and pointed wrong way, pull-down polarized shade, outside it is night but there's a parking lot with tons of lighting so lots of artificial street-lamp light is shining in, I want to close the blinds so we won't be seen [DREAMSIGN] and move from window to window, some close OK, some won't, as I go the blinds and the polarizing pull-down sheets get rattier and full of holes. I return to my place at the table across from MR and as I sit down I'm surprised to see that there is half of a broken plate on the table at my place. Why is it here/where did it come from? Did MR break the plate? I'm confused/shocked by this and do a nose pinch, feeling a bit embarrassed about doing so since I'm so clearly awake, but I can breathe and I'm now lucid. I get up and go around the table behind MR and say "Hey, M, I'm dreaming! What do you want to do? <something>, <something else>, Get some girls?" MR doesn't answer so I decide for girls . I decide there will be some girls behind the front door. I turn towards the front door and now I'm outside in daylight in a wide open parking-lot like space and the white front door is about 50 yards away on the far edge of the lot. I gesture towards the door and two women come through. A bit old, but I approach them and hug one and while I do I'm noticing that there are people entering a shop to the left, including a cute girl. I move to go into the shop but the crowd interferes so I fly/jump up over the people and the stuff in the way and enter the door to the shop. I look around and see the girl to the right sitting down, I go to her and sexy time ensues (meo 2016-09-01#1)

Very excited by this early LD, very very bright and clear and vivid, takes me some time to fall back asleep.

+ I'm standing on a beach facing an ocean. There are large (1-meter) waves crashing on the shore every few seconds. I'm peering into the water, I'm trying to determine how clear the water is. It is mostly clear but has a little bit of the "Caribbean blue" tint to it. I see that visibility would be very good. I think about going in to the water with goggles or mask and enjoying the clear water. I think I see something in the waves submerged (a walrus head?).

+ billiards get a table only 9-ball rack, will ask for 8-ball rack, look at balls, many of them (the non-9-ball ones?) are not spherical! How can one play with this? Two guys next to me, talking about smoking, I think isn't that illegal indoors now here?, one lights up and stands in area open to the sky not covered by ceiling and I see a cloud of his smoke quickly dispersing up into the sky, he stood there because it's more efficient to get rid of smoke that way

+ basketball, can't make a shot (airballs, even from up close), pull-down temporary basket in addition to main basket, my basketball keeps becoming a pumpkin, sometimes so large it clearly won't go through the hoop, make a great bank shot into a sideways pointed basket, proud of myself, then another guy after me makes the same shot

+(f) ST #1

Spoiler for sexy encounter:

grab the boobs of a woman, perhaps lucid?

+ ST #2 Zombie/discolored Paul McCartney being interviewed, tray of 4 small round tribbles/girl heads/faces

Spoiler for sexy encounter:

pick the cutest of the head/animals in the tray and, uh, make use of it

Go outside and look up at the sign on the storefront, narrator says that your abilities that you use become part of the traits that are passed down to your descendants (talking about game characters?), I'm wondering what my traits are, and on the sign I see different kinds of tea advertised (green, black).

+ ST #3 I'm sitting on the side of a tub next to the toilet in a bathroom (in my house [false]), there are guests over and naked girls keep appearing and getting into the tub. The crowd in the room grows. One (naked too) is kneeling down in front of me leaning her torso against my legs and her arm is draped across my knees. I'm liking this attention and contact but I'm wondering what my wife will think of it so I'm trying to stay cool and not react. I'm trying to peek around obstructions to see the "good stuff" on the various girls but not much is clearly visible.

+ LD#200 walking in crowd, notice cute girls, think wouldn't it be great to be dreaming now? Ah well, might as well check, <nose pinch> HEY! I AM dreaming...sidle up to one but don't engage, keep going, in the distance I see a woman and I'm thinking of Carmela Soprano, get with her and a nice ST ensues (meo 2016-09-01#2)


+ overhead view, it seems to be some sort of video game. There is an above-grond space and there is a (manhole?) leading down to a lower subterranean level, I decide to (click?) to go down to the lower level, inside there is a wild castle with moving parts, and I go closer, I have a view down into a palace of some sort with no roof. There are chests in a room and what seem like some treasures on tables. Aha, if I could get in there I'd get those. As I watch some character picks up a treasure and walks with it down a hallway, I want to keep watching so that I can see which chest he places it in.

+ LD#201 walking down stairs with some short/boy DC and I suspect a dream do a nose plug and get lucid. The moment I'm lucid but still finishing the nose plug we reach the bottom of the stairs and the boy turn his head to me looking over his left shoulder and his head is distorted and strangely shaped (too short, overly wide/round) and has an odd looking face. His expression is not friendly. Decide to get a girl for both of us. Go to a girl and things get very abstract and weird, but continue anyway, I go first and then indicate he should take a turn, then I take over again and wake up.

+ in scene in restaurant people seated at round tables, I'm standing and my [deceased] father in law is sitting at a table, I'm standing behind him he turns towards me away from the table. He's talking about his home town I'm having trouble understanding his foreign language, he says "Sevastopol" [FALSE]. My attention is not on him fully. He chastises me for not paying attention, "looking over there, looking at the hair on the back of the head of that woman there,". Then I'm in a bedroom my wife says her mother [deceased] is outside in the car and thirsty and needs water, I'm sitting on something and hear the crinkling of plastic containers. I reach under the blanket and pull them out. They're filled with water. One of them is the old milk bottle I've been using as a water bottle but recently lost [TRUE!] and think "Oh, there it is." I show them to my wife and get up to take them to her mother out in the car, but I notice that there is some debris/little pieces of junk [dental floss, a flosser?, small white plastic thing] in the water and I go to a toilet/sink there in the room to pour it out and clean it but I think the plastic think may clog the sink.

+ girls/class, paper, registration, the girls are filling out some forms on pads of paper. I'm annoyed that nobody gave me a piece of paper to fill out. I notice that they've drawn their names by filling in square boxes (like graph paper) on the paper. I see the paper is normal lined paper so they had to draw in the vertical lines themselves. They say they filled in one for me so it's OK? I see that there are sections on the form to indicate which side you (use as a computer mouse?) so these forms will be used to customize the keyboard given to you?

+ I see a board of electronics, kid comes with spare parts saying he has "milli-watt capacitors", I say debugging/fixing this circuit will be too complex even with that. I imagine we could analyze half-adders, I see little components arranged and lights that would light up to indicate the result of the input bits and the computed output bits.

+ sitting at a table in large outdoor or atrium restaurant. There are two people sitting with me at the table. Some narrator (or I think?) before this something about one person being very well known and something to do with me killing him? I'm speaking: "now explain to me how genetic algorithms work, I've heard of them but never really understood them. They're main mode of operation is.....?" [woken by alarm as guy starts to answer]

up for a bit, BTS

+ standing with my mom and a doctor at some clinic. The doctor is behaving strangely and standing right up in my mom's face and is telling her off (or about to), I wonder why he's doing that and I plan to tell him to back the F* off away from my mom. I go through a door into an open room next door (no visuals at this point), go up to a girl and pull her pants off and I'm kneeling and have her straddle me? Half-daydream?

+ I'm in our car, driving, and there is a bad sound coming from the motor like something is very wrong in there, then the sound stops. I thinks this means the oil filter which they just replaced [FALSE] has come entirely off. I look at the instruments to see the oil pressure reading but don't see anything. (I turn off the engine?) thinking that without oil it may seize up at any time (?). I get out of the car expecting to see a mess of oil everywhere and I do see a large patch of it on the ground. I see on the hood a small round black thing that I take to be the oil filter which popped off. I open the hood and start unloading small rectangular plastic containers (like refreezable ice packs) which are covered in black oil, so I can get to the filter?

+ there's a group outside standing in circle down a hill a bit away from me, someone says "they're into Big Boob" [meaning some large women go topless, don't see it], then I'm with group playing catch with a volleyball and I'm lying down girl intercepts throw to me I get back at her by holding out my hand and "force pulling" the ball back to me

Inside a room/building with a door to the outside, there's a man there he opens a drawer it's filled with individually cellophane-wrapped treats, I open one and eat it it's a small ice-cream sandwich with white ice cream and plain brown cookie "buns", it's creamy and good and I'm taking bites from it for a while

I'm in a large open outdoor area in sunlight, I see a path on hills to the side, then I see a hillside next to me up close: it's remarkable, it's a natural display of multiple levels of earth and rock formed over the aeons. There are fields with tall weeds/grass nearby. My dad is in an adjoining field, far away to the side. He's saying something about trying to climb up the dirt cliffs on the other side and how hard this may be, it might collapse. I turn in his direction and head his way, I see that his position is under a cliff with tall trees growing on top. I jokingly call out to the tune of "George of the Jungle": "WATCH...OUT...FOR THAT...TREE!".

+ (vivid, present) I'm standing alone the side of my former CA home [location details don't really match though at this point], walking along the fence, and I stop and notice a break in the fence. This has me really confused, I can't remember a break in the fence. I'm standing for some while here trying to sort out what's going on. I don't remember this break, you can see right through to the neighbor's yard. I have a vague recollection that this part of the fence was previously broken [FALSE]. Then I see that it's not open at all, there is a chain link fence in the gap in the solid fence [this just appeared now], now I'm satisfied and stop thinking about it. But now I see that the fence top curls over our property and that someone could climb this fence and get into our house through a window.

I'm in the back yard of former CA home [this time accurate], playing tennis ball catch with my old dog L along the long open width of the property over the grass, some people are watching standing in the middle of this length around the start of the grass. I'm holding out my left hand with thumb separated from fingers widely in a "grabbing/grasping" gesture in order for L to run up to me and shove his face with the ball right into my hand so I can grab it, just the way I did with L when we would play this game. I grab the fall firmly, L lets go and starts running away from me in anticipation of the throw, and I bowl the ball quickly/strongly so that it overtakes L and L puts on a burst of speed and adjusts to the path of the ball. I throw it for L several times then I get concerned that L is old an this may be too taxing for him so I decide to throw more slowly and stop the game, and on the last throw L slows down and lies down for a rest. I think the observers are impressed with L's chasing ability and speed.

+ walking outdoors daylight I'm walking along the top of a dike's concrete spillway. Some European country? There are large bodies of water both on my left (at the level of the top of the spillway) and my right (10-20 feet below the level on the left). I reach a place where there is a valley/chasm, a bridge and a security/guard station is right there. The chasm is deep and the way to the bridge requires jumping/scrambling down rocks and leaping out into a platform. I'm quite hesitant because the drop is very far, a deadly fall. I end up making a "leap of faith" and grabbing quickly to the surrounding rock outcroppings to stop from falling, and turn around. Some people (backpacking/hiking?) are coming up, a family group, I speak briefly to the man?

+ indoors I'm sitting with a group of young people in a room, we're all sitting along a bench/couch along the long wall of the room. I'm leaning out and describing the rules of a game to everyone, I'm the game director. The rules are that each person gets a turn at first to take some action. Then the person they act upon gets to respond to that action, then (and this is the original part of the game I mention), the original actor gets to respond to the response. After each person gets a turn at an initial action and all the follow-up actions/responses are complete, that constitutes one turn. I say it can easily take 20-30 minutes for one turn. I'm wondering if I'm prepared enough to lead the story of this game.

+(f) arriving outdoors to some house at night, a deserted area nothing is around but open fields.

+(f) inside a house on a second floor room, I see a disheveled big dirty man, at first concerned but he introduces him self as [some single syllable name] and holds out his hand and I shake it and he says he's signed up for 2 days of work, then he'll leave.

+ in group of people at some party/barbeque, SerAru is on the other side of a glass wall (he's cooking at the barbeque?), and I open the door and lean out and first sing a little bit, I think people will think I have a nice voice, but my voice to me actually sounds fairly out of tune. I say to SA I'm going to the game, does he want to join me? He shakes his head.

Later, I'm shopping for clothing (for others, uniforms?) and taking off a sticky label from the clothing. [It's a purple and white horizontally stiped golf shirt?], I'm wondering if I should get matching shirts for everybody?

done from memory just now:

-------------- 3 nights ago:
+ up close newspaper [DREAMSIGN], I poke it with my fingers and letters appear on top of the type, I draw red/brown lines under words in the paper, I can read the words clearly (but forgot)

+ surfer red head/face in water car floating (long, vivid)

+ girl on girl friends planning a road trip, playing old pinball game the girl on the girl is standing and hanging on my shoulder.

+ in the bedroom of girlfriend, caress her blonde hair/head pushing her hair back from her eyes many times (kiss her?) I notice a large closet with a mat on the floor is that where she sleeps? Then I see I'm sitting on one of two twin beds in this room.

+ small headed girl [DREAMSIGN] making out, turns into a sequence of brief sexy times with different partners, a bit abstract.

------------------ 2 nights ago:

3 times paralyzed:
1: I wake (FA) in the dark from a sudden loud sound. I'm in bed with my wife (dream house). I should get up to investigate. I try to stand up but can't and am pulled back in bed like I'm attached by short strong bungee cords. My wife gets up to look around I manage to get up. It's very dark and everything's hazy, I'm walking around and wonder when I'll encounter my wife again and we should be careful not to scare each other.

2: I'm on a bus driving along the east side of campus on CD by dad's old office, I see redhead old high school friend CB walking by I think this name and then I see he's walking with our friend DD (jr high best friend), I say "ah crap!" because I wanted to talk to them, I'm with grade school/neighborhood friend EB who complains "hey!" like he thinks I want to be with the other guys more than him. Then I'm lying in bed with EB and he's rolled on top of me and I can't move, I tell him to get off of me, and I get out from under him and I'm stuck a little bit in the sheet

3: outdoors with guru(?) and people there's a clear sign I can read it (but forgot), I'm making a religious gesture with my right hand but I can barely lift it above waist level a force is holding it down, I try to move slowly and carefully and find I can movie it more freely then. Someone comments on my old work t-shirt which has a picture of a slice of pizza on it.

+ at JE? (grad school first GF)'s house, there is a sudden loud sound which I immediately interpret as the newspaper bow throwing today's paper and it hitting the window to the living room in which we're standing. Go to the dining room table and a bunch of people are there. One of the house residents has completely deconstructed several ball-point pens and the parts are all organized and laid out on the table. Each part has been completely pulled apart down to its smallest mechanism, each part is very small and there are hundreds of parts all laid out on the table. I recognize the writing tip just a few milimeters long pulled out of the end of the ink writing tube/refill.

+ outdoors daylight over/in large body of water with waves? Approach shore there is a boardwalk(?) there with large (cartoon character?) statues to one side. I start flying and rise up into the air and am flying along the windows of a hotel, looking in. The windows are very dirty and the view inside is hazy/unclear. I'm searching for hot girls? I come to a window at the left edge of the building and I see two girls inside the room, each on their own twin bed, they look pretty good so I open the window and climb in. Sexy time ensues with the girl on the left and it goes wrong fairly fast

Spoiler for sexy time gone very wrong:

Getting a BJ from "her" and she seems to have become an Indian man but I don't particularly care, I decide it's time for intercourse and I want to make sure "she" is a female again, I'm getting on top and its body has become grossly fat with a huge mounded stomach, I think there are "girl bits" down there but I no longer want that. So I lay down on my back on the bed and indicate for the BJ to continue. It says "what is that!?" and is looking at my crotch. As I look down there, (which is much darker, both hair and skin, than normal), I see there are some rotten small berries stuck in my pubes which I recall picking up from somewhere earlier, the berries have attracted a swarm of flies which take off and fill the air.

So this isn't working and I get up and now I start thinking I should have used protection, and I go into the bathroom to the sink to wash my (ahem). I turn on the tap and lean in and wash off my (ahem) briefly and I notice that the door is only a half door on my left, like a saloon swinging door, and the 2nd guy (who started as a girl) is standing there peeking over the door at what I'm doing.

This second guy is saying they're heading down for the meal which I didn't think would be until later but it turns out it's at 7:30, in only 9 minutes. I go back to the window which is a back way out of the room and go through a door or two and fly out, I at first intend to go around the buildings but then I go up over the roof and into an open window in another building and start flying quickly down a stairwell. Round and round the stairwell and down and down I fly, very fast. At several of the landings I see a clock whose minute hand is approaching the 30 minute mark. I end up in a room with an elderly woman at table and some (weird?) objects (for not very long but the detail forgotten).


----------------- last night:

+ dueling/fencing competition lots of thoughts on the scoring involving the square root of 3 as a factor: I battle a girl, I'm holding a fairly stiff fencing sword, probably epee or saber, I feel the curvy grip, I strike a fencing stance I know how to fence and she does not, I will lunge and this will be a pretty easy win for me. I lung and I hit her squarely between the eyes on her nose bridge on her helmet. I win the bout. But later I think this was just one score, we probably had to have several more. I plan and need to avoid swipes to the legs. I plan parry riposte movements.

+ at work of a competitor talking about what work and designs I did before on previous products, what I've done before, [DREAMSIGN].

+(f) view from below up a hill with a snowy slide/chute where people could come swooping down

+ in an office cube on my computer, running some program there. I have a colleague in my cube, I'm picking up trash from the floor and throwing it away.

+(f) some guy is displaying his invention, a sort of coffee table/clothes washing machine (?) with slots for magazines

+(f) shuffling cards, reversing a stack of cards by laying them out then flipping them over

Very strange night -- woke at about 2 hrs with a quite vivid, generally coherent dream. But I couldn't go back to sleep after this, and ended up getting up for about 4-5 hours, then falling asleep exhausted, and having some decent dreams, sleeping for about 4 more hours

~2 hrs

+ music, interview? I'm reading sheet music at a desk across from one person, I'm quite confident I can play this. I'm wondering what cleffs they will give me to read, I can read generally all of them so I'm not worried. I look the music on the lower right corner of the right-hand page of the open notes and I see bar-long whole-notes of slurs from the mid-range up to the high-range, I think it goes very fast and I recognize the melody as a famous piece, I know this will be hard to play. There is suddenly a second guy there sitting across the desk from me and I turn the page and I'm feeling the music, reading the notes, and I say "this <piece> has/requires a lot of dynamic energy!". The 2nd new guy turns the pages to find another place but the first guy says "don't lose my place!"

I'm walking outside and I see TZ coming out of a buiding, I ignore her at first, but then I realize that I have a folder for her back inside, I waffle between getting it or not, I decide I should just go and get it and give it to her now, saving a trip of driving to her house later. I (get it?) and follow her as she's gotten a bit ahead of me. There's a woman following her who I'm looking at and trying to decide if it's T's mother, PZ, she has sort of dreadlock-y hair, she turns and speaks to me it's not her, it's some other woman who says that PZ is (not here?).

up a long time, 4-5 hours, something weird in the atmosphere? Nobody can sleep in my house tonight

BTS

+ calling the conductor on a rotary telephone to see if they want me to play in the concert, I could do it but since I haven't been at any of the rehearsals I expect her to tell me "no." I have a small pamphlet with her phone number, I go to the phone and I dial a 9 on the rotary phone and immediately I'm connected to my cousin (KeR?) and she's telling me something. I'm confused by that and I hang up and try dialing again, I get KR again after the first digit of the number.

+(f) DO watching some golf tournament, they're teeing off from an outcropping on a very high cliff

+ (f) long-ish sequence going upstairs and downstairs, something to do with a fish?

+ running in to a house where there is a fire burning but I realized I had left all the windows closed, I get in to the house and there is some smoke but it's not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. Returning to the entrance room my dad is there and he says something.
There is some conflict going on, something in the garden, we're fighting with someone else over a path of growing things, I look out the window down on the patch and see that the other party has pranked us by replacing the plants with something that looks like large hot dogs in buns with mustard on top? My dad says something about the inevitable escalation.

Returning from one area to the building there are a bunch of guys in "bank robber clown masks" and someone is warning me against of the guys in that gang, I was going to go with them but I think I should get a mask, too, but I'm concerned that they've already seen my face

+ (f) entering some fortified castle/building, the guards are checking ID

+(f) (with NM?) outside, dealing with chunks of concrete that must be made to align

+(f) it's raining on the work area, we're pulling a huge tarp over the entire area

+ a man is reading a newspaper on my CH stairway. I admire the newspaper, it is large and colorful and I say what a great printer they're using. I get up close and look at the quality of the type and it gets a bit pixelated but I'm still impressed. I go into my room and the man comes upstairs and heads to my parents bedroom and I think my mother is changing in there so he shouldn't go in.

+ in a gym locker room I'm locking my locker, there are people around, I put the key on my keychain?

Many vivid scenes throughout the night

+ boy scout UL campsite, I'm choosing my spot, I "remember" my place, it's a bit away from the others, I think it may be a bit too close too a footpath.

+ with kids, they're "dressed" up in "costumes" on their faces consisting of colored (rice? noodles?) that makes it look like they have no skin. I think these would make good halloween costumes.

+(f) (vague, impression) outside, merry-go-round?

+ (vivid) walking up pathway towards building: large white curving building, all residents moved out [DR from "Suits"], about 10 stories tall, about 4x wider than tall. People climbing stairway on right side of building, go in, room full of equipment

+ (vivid) crazy advanced fast line printer with full-page "print head", watching its operation for a long time in the computer center, guy and gal operator. It prints entire pages with one strike of the print head. The printed patterns are very dense and black and organized. Once there is a page of "random" characters printed. The gal says at one time there was a page with just one letter on it.

+ on phone with boss, standing in doorway looking out to front yard, young boys are playing a football game there, I say that half our workforce is there outside, at one point I see the ball fly up into the air and I shout "WHOA! FUMBLE!" The boss is there with me and he's saying that the work must be finished immediately [DR, "Suits"], I don't want to work because it's Sunday I know. I say the work could easily be finished Monday or Tuesday

+ (vivid) CA adult home, lying in bed with master bedroom, (with college ex-gf?), the "detached vagina" which is formed from wiping your face and its lips are formed from your eyelids (!?), it's quite strange I look at it time and again many times. Get up and look into walk-in closet, and I see that it has the same floor tiles as my CH bathroom. I "turn on the shower" in the closet then enter the master bathroom. I see that it has gotten a bit grungy since the time we remodeled in before we sold it. I go into the large shower stall and press on the tiles in the wall. I feel one that is loose and I press it a bit more and it pushes several inches into the wall, I look at this. Then I press on the other tiles on the wall trying to find more loose ones but they're all solid.

+ (vivid) with wife in "new home", on (external, open) stairway walking quietly, surprise her with her nickname, notice many individual chunks of wood burning in various fire places, in the kitchen, outside in the patio, I think they've all been started by my wife with fire-starter liquid

+ campfire song, singing with kids on top of a playground swing at night outside

+ raquetball playing with wife, I'm serving and quickly building up points, loud couple comes to play in court next door and we interact

+ "woken" by kid in house of other people, walk around neighborhood, wave to L (CH neighbors across street) family through windows, see delapidated exposed partial construction, fallen and dried/soaked by the weather exposed beams; talking about a particular computer instruction set is direct or microcoded, several colleagues up close all talking over each other (WD for sure, JD around the corner?)

+ flying: heading home to CH but flying going so well I decided to head down the hill but then apply jet engine out of my butt to climb back up and it works, get to CH and want to drop off my heavy backpack and keep on flying, Ricky Gervais is getting in my way on the front steps I put down my stuff under a bush

+ walking the puzzle/path with kids outdoors scary dark places below but I eventually go inside and follow clues and climb up the square uneven "staircases" choosing the inner path twice and emerge at the top and see a priest in his gold vestment robes and then get confirmation from a team of young people that this is the finish, they congratulate me; indoors in some gym a see a foreign team lead by a man in his 50's / 60's I see they're from America and I go to him to shake his hand then I "remember" [FALSE] him and we talk a bit

BTS

+ (f) LOTR dream of some sort?

+ driving car around SH ave near V (old grocery store) see big semi truck cab I get in front go through parking lot of grocery store to get to gas station across the way station lot on hill try to park to get the car washed, there are vehicles moving around in the way I get out to find a spot and my car is gone, it's been stolen, spend a long time accusing the staff of the station of running a racket overflow parking outside I scream at them "The last time this happened the car was returned after I threatened suing you, why isn't the car returned this time?" I'm planning to threaten them to expose their criminal activities, I plan to set up surveillance. Walking through shop I see tons of things on shelves, a little mini grocery store including motor oil (I pick up one gray bottle and carry it with me then I see that there is no round cap on it), I see blue packages of zip-loc baggies also on the shelves. Walking towards the opposite side away from overflow parking to check to see if I can see my car there I'm choosing slippers to put on because my feet are bare, some guy says "I'd offer you mine but I have a <xyz> [meaning walks with a severe limp and the slippers are not evenly worn" I choose a pair of slippers and continue on down to the sidewalk out the side and see large metal industrial tray tables filled with meat dishes, I see/help an elderly woman back up a step? Driver around neighborhood looking for car, wife and guy in car I think it's pointless I'll never find the car it's probably already in a city far away, the guy says we should look very carefully for it all around town. I'm glancing at all the cars along the side of the road and quickly trying to identify my make and model (FF). I'm trying to remember the exact year of the car and tell it to the guy, I'm calculating backwards from when I was in university and arrive at it's a 1979 model.