FryingMan

Still recovering from the end of vacation and the travel home. Turbulent take-off on the plane, the pilot was rough during the taxiing, I was in the very back row which I've noticed tends to really feel any shakes.

Not bad dreaming but recall poor. No night-recording hurts unless I'm really caught up on sleep.

earlier:

+(f1) foot racing, many scenes of racing/running, against boy scout friends(?)

later:

+(f2) the guy likes to walk his dead dog. He keeps its (bloody?) pelt around his house and takes it outside. He sort of squeezes it so that it moves like it's alive. There's nothing underneath the fur and no eyes in the eye sockets (can't see this but I know it).

+(f3) film festival, I'm putting on some movies for friends outside and I'm selecting the movies, moving around in groups outside

+(f4) I'm waiting for my parents to arrive, I go to the front door and see a note in my mom's handwriting that they came by earlier but nobody answered the door. I'm sorry I missed them and I'm upset that it was so noisy inside that I didn't hear the knocking/ringing. Maybe part of (f3) film festival.

+d1 Playing Quake-like FPS against big strong monsters/demons. I'm running around like crazy trying to avoid being shot while looking for the strongest weapon to use against the big bad CyberDemon (which is pink?). Chain gun? I'd have to hold aim for a long time while avoiding his chain gun. Rocket launcher? I could do rocket jumps(?) with it. I run around in loops picking up spawned ammo and weapons.

Analysis:
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Presence very low, felt "far" from the dreams. Probably still tired. I'm trying to adjust my schedule so that I go to bed and get up at regular times. Trying to spend more attention to waking life responsibilities. Some work stress. Need to pay attention to waking life closely so I'll do the same in dreams.

Misses: dead dog, my deceased mom, English language conversation, active in large groups of people, FPS computer game

Practice:
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Day practice: being aware of my awareness.
Night: nothing, light intent at bedtime, fell asleep instantly, very tired from short day yesterday.

earlier:

+(f) I'm waiting for public transport. It's outside, and there is a multi-level interchange, I'm on the upper level. A train arrives and people board, I'm approaching but I think I'll have to wait for the next train, I wait for it to leave then go downstairs. I'm in an entry sort of area with a lot of close doors. Some older cleaning women are there, on of them is right behind me sort of in my way.

later (alarm)

+(f) at a grocery store checkout stand [dream sign]

alcohol (against my will) before bed, and chocolate,
bedtime OK but late-ish

+ I'm looking at a colorful bird that's running around in a creek area under trees (a friend is trying to catch it?), it's going back and forth. Then I see it is a colorful pig/bird, a pig with feathers and birdish features, standing right next to me. I "know" the pig/bird thing can be dangerous and aggressive so I stay quiet.

+ boy who fell on the knife. It was a stick with a metal knife and a white ceramic blade attached as a crude spear. I'm concerned and go to see if he's bleeding. I'm holding the broken white ceramic knife which has a jagged tip (it broke off in his body?), he thinks I'm coming to stab him but I just want to see if he's bleeding and if the knife tip matches his wound

+ soldiers in big weird hazmat suits are walking through our area looking for (criminals/terrorists?) There are 3 big weird suits. A trainer not in a suit is covering them, they need cover otherwise an enemy could sneak up on them and shoot them at close range. Should I put my hands up as they walk by me?

+ at the childhood park basketball level [dream sign], a number of scenes and returns:
I find myself on the basketball level of childhood park, there is a low fence in front of me, I'm at the far and by the drinking fountain/sloped hill, for some reason I decide to run, jump headfirst over the fence and bellyflop onto the asphalt. I do this and hit fairly hard and feel like I get some scrapes. Then I see a (boar?) running at me and I turn to the left and run with strong legs (I have been training) up the hill quickly. Back on the ground a wild dog/wolf is running at me and I think about timing the sword blow to hit its head (will its skull be too hard for the sword?)

The evil guys are plotting to kill people. The girls come and say they've brought the flowers. I walk among the flowers it's like a florist shop.

I'm playing basketball at the best (most level ground) shooting hoop (just shooting). I have my red, white, and blue basketball [true]. A friend takes a shot from far away and misses entirely. I give him a two-handed bounce pass that ends up going a bit to the right, but he catches it and passes it right back to me, he doesn't want my help. I think he's not doing it right, that far away you need to take a step to add momentum to your shot. I try the shot and I think I"m cheating by taking one too many steps so I'm too close. I throw up my shot and it also misses (it hangs in the air?)

A building on the sloping hill behind the basket sucks up the basketballs? A truck with a long thing (missile?) backs up to the basket, blocking it, I complain and the driver or someone else explains. I command/TK that my basketball comes back to me, hold up my hand to receive it. Two orange basketballs come but they don't land properly in my hand. I say, "No! Deliver my red white and blue basketball, and right to my hands!"

I walk to the entry (sloping road) side of the basketball level, my son is rolling a jet-ski slyly, it's one of his pranks he's stealing it?, he goes up on an elevated level and starts it up, it sounds like a motorcycle?, people are watching and grinning?

There is a high cube-shaped room in the air in the bike-rack corner, it's almost directly over me. A round hatch opens and a I see an object coming out. It is a huge heavy weight that falls right down and completely flattens the guy next to me. I run away, and I think someone is projectile vomiting behind me because of the squished guy. I hide[dream sign] in a high enclosed nest by the exit road corner of the level, one of the plotting guys is driving below me in a car, I think my hiding place is not sufficient[dream sign].

+ I'm driving in a town and see up ahead a (wagon?) with soaking wet guys and girls, like high school students, (narrator?) commends them for completing the task and sticking with it after others have left.

I'm driving by a house and look at it there are people mulling around the front, I wonder if this is the Halloween party I want to go to.

I pull up in front of a house with a Halloween party going on. There's a girl on my lap, sort of vague/hazy.

Spoiler for explicit sexual stuff:

I'm in the driver's seat and she's sitting on top of me (facing away?) I start kissing and licking her leg, she doesn't complain so I reach for her pants button. I unbutton her pants and in one smooth motion I pull down her pants, she lies back sideways with her back/head on the passenger seat, and I lean down and begin oral on her. She says "oh yeah, eat my <epithet>!" I'm going at it and I look at her face, it is a very accurate rendition of ex-gf SB including hair color. In my peripheral vision I notice the (high school kids?) from the party are climbing up on the hood of the car and looking in the windshield. I say (in a sexy way, not concerned), "do you like it that they're watching me eat your <epithet>?!".

Apparently, however, she does not like it, because she sits up and seems shocked/mortified. I'm miffed and decide to start the car and back out / start driving. She opens the door and gets out. She is now a different unknown girl, long dark hair, quite pretty, there seems to be a contact sheet of images floating around the windshield and her image is also there. I command her "get back into the car!" but she shakes her head and doesn't get in. I get angry and drive away in a huff.

WBTB. Long BTS. I feel myself slooooowly sinking deeper into sleep, but it's really slow and with many thoughts arising that I need to continually let go and focus on relaxation. Finally "call in the nukes" and turn on to my stomach (position of last resort), and fall asleep.

+ I'm at the base of a tree so tall it's upper branches are shrouded in darkness. For a long while I'm just looking up the length of its branchless trunk, straining to see any upper branches but up high there is only darkness and shadow. There is a woman and her daughter there too, the girl is sitting near me, maybe leaning a bit on me. I ask the name of the tree, the woman answers "a red <something>." I say in a foreign language, "it's very tall."

My back is to the tree and my wife is there, I want to go to the glacier, but in the dream I can't remember this word, I ask her "what's that place <with snow, in foreign language> called?", she refuses to tell, since she doesn't want to go there. I ask her several times and get frustrated both that I can't remember the term [glacier], and that she's not telling me this word.

+(f) walking along a shoreline, seeing people swimming / bobbing in the fairly large waves [gee it only took almost 3 weeks at a seaside resort location to get one of these]

+ (LD#138) I'm in a store/gym, I'm walking and stepping my way among some stuff on the ground, I feel funny/dizzy like I'm losing my balance, I suspect, despite feeling *completely awake*, pretty much lucid now, nose pinch confirms. The people around me mostly vanish, there's one clear DC in front of me, I reach for it, and take each one of its hands in mine, we're facing each other and looking into each other's eyes. I start to transform it into a girl of my desire, saying "You look a lot like <xyz>". But I stop myself. I think of TOTM. I try to remember my chant/cheer and come up with "fart bus." Fart is easy/fast so I decide to do that, there are people still around me. So I stand up tall, stick my butt way out behind me and push a bit, but get no sensation or sound, but regardless I stand up and jump up and down and shout out "It was me! It was me!" Satisfied that I completed the task, I grab my DC again, and tell it

Spoiler for sexual stuff:

"you like to [give BJs], don't you?!" It's sort of a "living stick person" with no features at this point. It's short so I kneel down and position my face to kiss it and think of some BJ action starting

but then I wake up.

+(f) with my kids as they were small, contemplating the time when I'd be able to hold conversations with them

+ I'm standing on the street outside childhood home, I notice that the neighbors to the left have considerably raised their roof up to about 3 stories tall. It seems to be on an adjustable (hydraulic?) system that can go up and down. My home has also been built up a bit but not by as much.

I notice a new amazingly complicated traffic light has been placed at the corner. I point this out to my wife "Look, look at it!". It has so many signals of different types that it's really hard to understand. I see it cycling through red/green very quickly, and making odd flashing combinations. I see a red left arrow at one point yet cars coming down S are turning against this light. At the intersection there is a rectangular area on the ground painted in orange/white stripes, this area is related to crossing guard arms that come down.

+ (old?) multiple computers, a guy is playing a game called "King's Quest" with weird controls on the screen

+ the clubhouse, leave, return, who will take care of the pets, trying to find a place to avoid detection in the big white room. There is a cubby against a far wall, but it offers no adequate hiding places. I think about the place nearer the door, that this offers the most hiding opportunities, but I'll still be easily discovered.

+(f) outside in a group/club

+(f) with old friend NI, he's not very friendly

+ huge club for very talented children, all hyperactive boys, they're everywhere, running around and doing various antics. I wonder if there are any girls here. I do see one, but she looks weird: I see that she has just one central very large eye on her forehead.

+ I enter a room, a long table is there (extending left and right), along the opposite side are a number of people seated along it. They are dressed all in white, and their faces are painted & powdered white. Some look at me with a surprised/challenging look like this is a secret gathering and I'm not supposed to be here. A woman (older) is naked, back to me, butt on the table, she's having intercourse with the guy seated there.

Spoiler for sexual theme:

I look forwards to when she "pulls up" so I can get a view of her (ahem). She does raise her butt up but her sexual organs are unappealingly highly swollen to bizarre size

, I move on around the table and to the next room.

There is another table there with people seated along it, I walk around behind them eyeing what's on the table. I notice platters of small round thin cookies. I grab one after hesitating for a bit and eat it.

Farther along I see another long table and people dressed in casual clothes seated at computers. This must be the control room for the bizarre white banquet/orgy party. The people look like computer geeks. There is a woman manager standing there. One of the white banquet guys comes in and the manager groans, anticipating another outlandish request. But the attendee just asks "can you make the mashed potatoes thicker, please?"

+ walking through industrial maze-like area, tall corrugated metal fence/walls all around me. I think about asking directions to the "???" place where I'm going where I know my friends are. Passages go here and there.

I notice at the level of my head a door, small, dilapidated, narrow, and think this is the door to my friend's place. I open it but all that pops out is a bar that falls to the raised area behind me. This is the fold-out step that allows you to climb up, so I do. I tuck it back away once I've up, not into the door but just a fold-out thing from the opposite wall now.

I'm on this higher columns that are sort of swaying, it's hard to maintain one's balance. Up ahead is a wide open flat area below, I think how to get down there but I automatically zoom/glide there, I aim for a couch so as to land softly. I walk out of this area (and the people there throw books at me?)

I find my desired destination and enter, but I realize I don't recognize anybody. It's a big party and people are dressed and made up, I notice a woman with a striking appearance.

I realize the people are all slightly taller than me, I think I must have gotten old and shrunken a bit.

There are a guy and two girls messing around. One guy and girl are holding the other girl and dipping her limbs into a series of pools.

The guy dips the girl's leg in one and says "Toxic!"

The girl holding the girl dips her limb in another pool and says "Toxic!"

The girl being dipped dips her own limb in the next pool and says "Toxic!"

Early alarms, wine before bed = bad recall. Dreams were longer, but just tiny fragments remembered.

+(f) in a busy office, pushing tons of paperwork around, a lawsuit?

+(f) one (or two?) of my ex-GFs as younger girls on TV shows, faces distorted & wrong, SB was not accepted

+(f) the guy was jamming on the improvised guitar in the boy scouts(?), I hear another patrol call my name they need my help

+(f) young boy (midget?) grocery store checkout clerk helps be with my items

+

Spoiler for sexy time:

I'm running my finger over something that resolves into a girl's (ahem). I'm rubbing her "button" and she's saying "ooh, that makes me feel all warm in my tummy!" I decide since she likes it I'll take her upstairs to the bedroom to give her a proper tongue-lashing. As I carry her upstairs she turns into a mouse/rat. I do a brief bit of oral on her anyway [ew!]

She then jumps out of my hands and runs out of the room, she's completely shocked and mortified at what I was doing. She runs to the phone and is going to call someone to tell them what I was doing. My life is ruined.

I'm standing at the toilet and start to pee. The wall to my left has a large, low open window opening on to the street, so I just turn to the left and aim out the window on to the sidewalk (haha!). I notice outside is dark, and I vaguely see my car across the street is double-parked blocking in another car. I make a mental note that I should go properly park my car.

I'm walking through some random hardware store, I see an attractive tall woman manager with long dark hair wearing some sort of hairnet on top of her head. She says something about the stuff being quick-drying.

+ I'm standing outside the baseball bat factory sweat shop. I pull back the curtain and go inside. (I'm apparently a manager?). I'm holding up in my hand a very rough short broom made from sticks. This is not an acceptable baseball bat. I think of showing the difference in hitting a baseball with a proper bat versus this sad little stick broom. I'm a bit concerned that if I hit the ball to well with the bad bat, it will be a poor motivation for them to improve. The stick broom turns into a branch?

I see across the room a pile of lumber and go and pick up a small rectangular block of wood, I turn it over and see it is hollowed out (like the bottom of a wooden jewelry box), I think briefly if I should be picking this up. This "reminds" me of something and I begin a teary, inspirational speech. Something like "*This* (block of wood?) is how I got started! <some more stuff>". "Now, please, if there are any questions, ask! Don't feel embarrassed to ask!" (I see some of the people snickering at my sincerity).

A man then comes forward and says "It's important to note that AM (old friend of my kids) is using way too much gas", the man is holding a small device of transparent plastic in his hand.

I'm walking through a large showroom, I see a rack of really long black fishing rods. I look down at a price tag but can't see the price, I think this should be fixed. I also notice a small seat at the bottom of the fishing rod, like it's also a bicycle.

I see a (red?) normal bicycle covered with "price" license plates/stickers, one of them I think is "$100". I see one guy selling another guy a bicycle, telling him how awesome it's going to make him. Then I figure out he's not one of my salesman, he's actually an outsider trying to sell his own basket-attachment to the bicycle customer, the basket is made of a few pieces of rebar.

+ In childhood home, in parents room, leave, at the top of the stairs I look back and see some water splashing out from the faucet [false] that I "remember" I had turned on as I just left the room in passing. I go back to the (parent's bedroom) to turn off the faucet, and get a quick glance of my mother in there. I go down the stairs and start sobbing thinking I won't see my mom there any more and that I should go cry with dad who's down at the bottom of the stairs, I haven't yet grieved together with him.

+ parking on some chunk of random city street. I turn to the left, and as I do so I look for cars coming from the right, but notice the street to the right is blocked by a barrier of poles. Ahead there are cars parked to the right, despite there being three thick red painted lines (messy and jagged) which I think means "no parking. To the left cars are also parked but someone is pulling out. I move to parallel park pointed the wrong way. I have trouble getting lined up. Someone else is there in a car but doesn't interfere. I get finally backed into the spot and the car drifts a bit out of my control [Dream Sign]. In the rear view mirror, I see I'm quickly approaching very close to the car parked behind me. I pull the parking break and stop just in time. I see there is a large woman in the car behind me giving me a "look" about my car approaching too close to hers. I pull a little bit forwards.

Getting out of the car, my wife says since we left the usual math books at home, do I want to use this other book instead (we have to teach some small children?).

Pretty decent night, with @5 hrs recording + WBTB

Slept late again, to 11 hrs, BTS after WBTB long, maybe an hour, due to wife noise

+ track team practice: run till you drop, boy with baby teeth cut from the team; 3 on 3 football, I cover the receiver poorly

+ google/work dreams: tons of short scenes
Arrive to work, "building 85", tons of people are milling around in there because it's lunch time. I hear someone directing a meeting while I approach.

girl watching streaming movies (including light porn?) at work

CD doesn't want to work at google, but I'm such a worker bee that I have no problem with it, I'll just go to my desk and quietly code

HR girls are preparing a strange device that can authenticate a message

Two guys discussing behavioral problems entirely in foreign language, I join in in the foreign language, shake hand with one of the guys afterwards

The VP moment as he meets the group of people in the hallway and we all (as is his prior requirement) must place all of our cups top-down on the ground. We all do so theatrically, and he says "ha ha (sarcastically), OK, " and then goes on to say something else.

Outdoors basketball competition, we have to (use a famous player?) devise a system to help make baskets from far away

Mock city: many outdoor city blocks in a mock downtown, to practice laying asphalt and doing road work, they lay some right at my feet as I watch

WBTB

+(f) telling the little girl on the stairwell that she should stay in school

+(f) tooth conference(?), giant teeth statues standing outside

+ crazy subway driver; rehearsal
I'm on the way somewhere, trying to decide which subway line I should get on. I choose the one that forks off to the right. The driver is crazy, he's driving the train so fast I feel very strong centrifugal forces on every turn. When my stop is reached, I make a desperate fast run for the doors, afraid that the driver will close the doors before I get there. I make it out of the train but realize I've left my blue backpack at my seat, I see it there and run back inside for it, but the driver closes the doors before I can get off again, I wonder how I'm going to get back to where I need to be.

I arrive at rehearsal and realize I've left my instrument behind. I'm walking out to get it and run in to another <my instrument> player, I "recognize" [false] him (looks sort of like a young Steve Wozniak, asian-ish features, beard) and say hello, then I see another <my instrument> player, and wonder if I'm still the principal player or if they've replaced me.

(Talk about the crazy subway driver? A guy says "Yeah with driving like that no wonder there are so many derailments", I agree entirely).

+ a massive military plane flies low and circles around my childhood home, I watch out the window and call my dad to see. I wonder what they're doing there. I imagine they're hunting fugitives. Later I'm discussing what I saw, "Yeah there were guys in full military gear sitting at the doors with huge gun turrets."

+(f) I TK a medium-sized boat out of the river onto the dock so my wife can more conveniently board. It's a bit slow to respond to my mental commands but it eventually does. I also rotate it 180 degrees (front to back) before landing it on the dock.

+ save the fish, butch bus driver, turpentine birthday ceramic dish
There has been a really big major move. Crates are all around. Including many glass fishbowls full of fish (mostly large goldfish). Some fish are alive, some look nearly dead (swimming with their tails pointing up). I think the oxygen must be nearly depleted from the water and rush around trying to save the fish. I need to find some water. There is a blind corner in this area, and as I'm heading back around the corner to the right, l big yellow school bus ZOOOOOOOMS in right along that wall next to the corner and stops a meter or two beyond the corner. I just barely avoided being hit. The driver is a large, round, butch-looking middle-aged white woman with very short hair. I'm giving her an evil look for almost wacking me. She sees my expressions and says "WHAT!?" I wonder if the bus managed to avoid the fish in their containers that were sitting along the wall she just drive in on (very very close to it).

The bus driver and others are also rushing to save the fish. I see they've found a working hose and are filling a pile of bowls. The bowls they have are mostly ceramic and quite shallow. I say "those bowls won't work well because they're ceramic, the water will soak through them." I have my own bowls, I look and see they're not much better, one looks like a rusty cast iron frying pan.

I look down to the ground and see a decorative art glazed ceramic bowl and think "that's what we need." I pick up the bowl and say "we should use (glazed) bowls because they won't leak water" (?).

Then I'm standing at a table with two other guys. I'm holding my glazed art bowl up and it's now some sort of multi-layer sculpture thing (not clear), and I say this is my birthday cake platter that I just received for my birthday [false]. I say the colors come from turpentine (?). The colors are blue, purple, and white, all swirled together in a beautiful way. One of the guys comments on the turpentine colors and I think no, that's not right the colors come from something else. I'm adjusting a doily under the plate so it doesn't mess up the table? The two guys also have bowls that they got from somewhere else?

I got fairly pissed during the day that all my day work was yielding crappy nights. So I set very strong intention to notice the dream state and to remember dreams. Well, at least one of the two seemed to work!

I had a great recall night (finally) with 3 semi-lucid moments but I'm not counting them since I didn't make the critical cognition of "I'm dreaming" and did not think of goals.
Going to bed on time makes such a difference in dreaming. Actually in bed for approaching 12 hours, about 1 hour awake @ WBTB, SSILD finally got my mind calmed down enough to return to sleep for the after-WBTB marathon. This may be my non-recording recall record in terms of variety.

22:30 bedtime
00:00 2015-08-26

(many earlier dreams, forgotten)

05:00

+ cat/crab
I'm eating a bowl of some food and I notice that on towards the bottom it becomes gravel. Then some things are moving in the gravel and it's live (hermit?) crabs. The crabs are out on the couch (disembodied claws now?) and are severely pinching me when I reach for them. I say (to the cook?) "At least you could have cooked them so that they wouldn't be alive and thinking when I eat them!". Then my cat is going for the crab/meat chunks and severely bites the back of my hand. This really pisses me off and I lean down and severely bite the top of its head in order to get it let go. It does but it has successfully captured the morsel of food and it wolfs it down doing the cat/dog head-jerk bite motion to try to eat and position the food in its mouth at the same time.

WBTB

+ driving SUV on freeway from back seat, guy with tablet/ magazines
I'm driving a SUV on the freeway. I suddenly realize I'm driving from the back seat. I stand up to try to move to the front seat but this seem to dangerous so I sit back down and keep steering. Then I realize that this is incredibly dangerous since there are no brakes in the back seat. I imagine some dagerous situation forming and all I'd be able to do would be to steer and keep moving at top speed. My vision of the road ahead is blocked by the sun visor, I'm basically driving blind and with no brakes. Enough of this, I decide, and start to climb to the front seat. It's not easy, and the front seat is getting in my way, I keep moving things out of the way. The SUV starts to drift slowly to the left and I try to steer by leaning and pulling on the headrest of the driver's seat. This does nothing and I feel silly for thinking it would affect the steering. I make it into the driver's seat and now am just about to head off an exit on the right side and hit the left turn signal and move back onto the freeway.

Then I take an exit. There's a young man talking "I had to use my (tablet) because my big glossy magazines are all under my bed"

+ the birds
Standing outside, I look down and two beautiful interesting birds about the size of pigeons run to our feet. They have very interesting red feathers/things hanging off of their necks, I'm fascinated with them. My cat is also at my feet and I wonder if she'll pounce on them and she does, she grabs one with her claws and teeth. "Nooo!" I say and quickly reach and and pry the bird away from my cat. I'm holding the bird and look at it and see a small hole in its chest but it otherwise seems fine.

+(f, semi) kiss "kissy lips!"
I'm standing (kneeling?) in front of a girl and kissing her. There are some people beyond us. I say "make kissy lips" and she puckers up, I lean in for a *smack* and pull back out. This happens several times.

+ I'm entering a building, there's a weird old guy hanging around right at the door, I know this door should be closed (and tell him to go outside?). I go up the stairs (two sections, 180 degree turn between them). At the top of the stairs there is a girl sitting down on the floor with her back against the wall, she's facing the stairway I just came up. I glance at her in passing and say "How's it going?". She answers "Great!". I'm a bit surprised as I keep going that she answered in English. I go through a door and am probably semi-lucid/caveman at this point and sort of dive into a crowd of people reaching for a girl and I grab one but wake up.

+(f) vague sexy time

+ (semi) I find myself lying down on my left side, I'm right next to a girl. Very bright/clear/vivid. Caveman thoughts right away

Spoiler for sexy time:

I bring out my (ahem) and say "Hey, let's try this!" and put it in her mouth. BJ action for a short while

then wake/transition.

+ Burglary Hostel (FA)
I'm waking up and notice that all around me people are also waking up. It's a large open dormitory-style hostel. I think how funny it is that people tend to all wake up about the same time when they're sleeping in a large area all together. I see people sort of on bed/ladders in front of me across the room. I say "Well I intend to keep on sleeping (because I want to dream more!)" and the guys in the bed next to me agree. Hmm where'd they come from? There's at least 2 of them, one of them is upside down (head the other way), he's a boy who's tired from his athletic training.

Then I'm standing out of bed and looking at the lobby area (across the street?) and thinking of having some cereal for breakfast. There are shelves of products that the hostel makes available for you to buy. Then I think suddenly of my bag and panic, where is it!? I go back to my bed and see it under my shirt on a night-stand. I pick it up and look through it, in the wallet section it seems like someone has gone through it, there are keys in there strewn in ways that they shouldn't be. I think about my S-city apartment and wonder about the key for it. I'm on my way to S but what will I do there and where will I stay? I'm not going to sign up for classes because I'm done with school. I'll call CL and see if I can stay with him, only until I find my own place. I don't have a job so I'll have to go job hunting. I wonder if I can stay with them because his wife J pretty much hates my guts.

I have a pile of strange keys in my hand, very strange shapes, one of them looks like one I had been searching for recently [false]. A hand reaches to take one of the keys but I turn away, I may need these keys later I think.

I think about checking for my passport (it's there?). I then check for my smart-phone and it's gone. I start to panic. "Call 9-1-1!" "Call the police!" "I've been robbed!" Nothing happens, no one seems concerned.

I'm standing at my open locker, which is sort of in a dark corner of the room away from where I was sleeping. I should have chosen a better locker location, somewhere lighter. I imagine a thief moves around the room at night stealing things from people.

I reach to my (backpack?) in my locker and pull out a large rectangular box. I think it's 1980's calculator. "Magic-II: the gathering"(?) is written on it. I walk holding this up into the room and say "They stole my phone and replaced it with this old calculator! Did they do this to you?!". A guy answers "No, I slept in my own room." That gets me thinking: why didn't *I* sleep in my own room? I must have been exhausted from driving to choose this place. How hard would it have been to find a normal motel?

wake-up, very relieved it was a dream. BTS

+ job interview
I'm sitting at a desk at a job interview across from the (boss?). He asks me about my work experience that has lead me here at this time. I'm confident and arrange my thoughts while I start talking. I think I should probably not emphasize moving from company to company, that may seem flaky. I enter a long monologue about my work experience.

+ Return to Burglary Hostel
I get a mobile phone call from front desk. I pick up my phone as it rings and see some strange symbols which indicate the call. The clerk asks me "would you like to check out in one minute or at 4:30?". He's trying to rush me out. I answer him "after having my stuff stolen at your place, you are going to give me flexibility regarding checking out."

+ pink nuke bomb:
Some kids are returning to their parents, one of them is upset, the mother asks the kid about it. The kid says s/he was told about the coming explosion. This was me I know, I warned him/her about it. They go off into the distance. I keep walking the other way. There is some sort of chemical/nuke bomb combination that is going to go off. Then there is a big explosion and I look into the sky, in the distance I see a huge, tall bright-pink mushroom cloud. I start running for cover, and yelling "I TOLD YOU SO! I TOLD YOU SO!". Up ahead I see a small depression in a corner, I want to jump down there there is some pink liquid down there but I jump down there, kneel down (duck and cover!) and stick my head back under the pavement of the street I was just walking on, I hope I'll be able to breathe, and sit there waiting for the blast.

Afterwards, I'm walking along the bridge which has an entire section under glass as a memorial for the victims of the bomb. There are cars in there with dead/mummy bodies of the people visible. The glass raises up and I can walk among them. Some of the cars are still moving slightly, "That's what is really freaky, that some of the cars are still in motion." Towards the far end of the bridge there are mummy/old/freaky looking faces of people in the cars. Something about some medallions on the floor of a car proving/disproving the identity of the body of the guy in that car who was well known, and had freaky wrinkly mummy face that was looking at me.

+ Return to Burglary Hostel II:
There was apparently some guy with his eye on me at the hostel before. He didn't know me back then but now we're friends. He shows me the wires he strung (about 4 parallel) across the room leading over my bed. He prepared "nitrous bombs" made of soda cans filled with a flammable liquid. The cans would be send down the wires and ignited when they reached the area over my bed. I remember back in time [false] when I arrived to my bed area and looked up and saw the wires there and wondered about them but then promptly forgot about them, but now I know what they are.

+(f) the dance
There is music playing, and two couples who are mixed up (their beloved is each dancing with the other person's beloved). DO at first but then one becomes me? The slow dance is playing and we have to rush to get to the dance floor. The natural couples are not supposed to be together, but we just can't be kept apart. I come into the arms of my girl and we run to the dance floor, I hope the music will last a long time so we can slow dance. As we approach the music stops, but we stand there and embrace in a hug anyway.

+(f) on the job site: chip in car chassis
Talking with the boss about this new chip job, it's meant for a fancy car. The major customer wants to try it out in the car directly. I'm concerned about complexity, and ask "is there any testing framework that allows easy access?" "No, they want to try it out in the real car," he says. "That's going to make testing really hard" I say, he agrees.

+ Walking to come join a bunch of friends sitting around in circle with best friend MR. Two really hot girls are just in front of me, I think I recognize one of them and I want to be next to her. I manage to sit next to her and our hips bump a bit as we sit down, which is exciting. MR's (deceased) father is leading the discussion. I can't wait to introduce myself, I'm really excited!

+ (semi) in the office, a number pretty girls are there, I want to party. I say "You don't have to finish anything today, do you?!" I notice that there are some who do continue working and ignore me, not everybody wants to have a party. Sitting on a platform with everybody around, I start discussing LUCID DREAMING. I say to everybody as they gather around, "How do you know that you are not dreaming *right now*!? You have to do reality checks. What makes a good reality check? Well, rubbing your hands for one" [oops!] and I rub my hands. I look around and people are doing weird things like pulling on their eyelids. I think about finger-through-hand. I say "Pinching your nose and trying to breathe through it is an excellent reality check!" Then I pinch my nose and inhale, I can breathe! "See! Look at me, I'm pinching my nose and I'm able to breathe!" I'm holding up my left elbow high and reaching over and pinching my nose. I grab it tightly to make sure no air can escape, and I do another big inhale and exhale through the pinched nose. This gives me a funny feeling, I'm wondering what this means for the people all around me. I think I say (or just think?) "See? You're all dream characters!" [upon recalling this dream later, I groan "you've GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!"]

+(f) I'm sitting with some friends (leaning forwards on something?), a cute girl short hair in a grey tank-top is right next to me,

Spoiler for minor sexy comment:

I look over at her and admire her nicely-sized and shaped right breast, the way it presses against her shirt

, she demonstrates a (sign language?) gesture on smart phone with a green screen, she makes a few quick gestures on her phone. I tentatively and slowly lean in for kiss, she does too and eventually a quick peck results. "You're really cute and I like the way you do those gestures!" I tell her.

+(f) something about elevators

+ work @ Microsoft: we're making a new game, sons S1 and S2 give the demonstration. S2 messes it up a bit while S1 is away. S1 is knowledgeable about graphics cards (sort of surprised me), me mentions one by it's technical name.

Join a table of colleagues for a meeting. Most are seated across from my and to the right. They're talking, one of them makes a comment about the best workers. I make a pithy/clever comment that "the best workers stay the same, they just move around to different companies". Mostly nobody heard me because they were still talking, but some started to listen towards the end of my statement and they asked me to repeat it. I repeated it, the chuckle/nod in agreement.

I look down at myself and see I am not wearing my shirt, I see my bare chest. I feel this is a bit inappropriate at a meeting. My shirt is in my hands and I see it's inside out, so I start correcting it and then I'll put it on. Across the table I see is the group leader, he has a scraggy beard. The colleagues at the table are all guys about my age.

+ repairing the roof: I start high flying DO over the roof that several women are repairing. It's a fairly decrepit single-room building, dark wooden shingles, and they're renovating it. They're trying to figure out how best to pry off the shingles, there are some gaps on the roof near the peak/top where they've already removed some. The renovation leader makes a comment that the box just under the top of the roof should be replaced. I think they're trying to save as much old material as they can. The leader mentions that it would make a much better (lab?) if they just built a new building.

+ walking outside on street. My wife is ahead of me and initiates a conflict with some large dangerous looking thugs. As I approach she expects me to handle this mess she's started, and I say "Oh, No! No way!" and keep on walking ignoring the conflict.

At the end of the block there's a (convenience store?) and some hipster-ish girls are sitting down on chairs, they're wearing tank-tops and I'm vaguely aware of their cleavage. I think we're politically incompatible though.

In a group/club next door, some are sitting on a couch and we're chatting. I'm standing behind the couch with my hands placed on top of the back of the couch and sort of stretching while talking. Then a girl who's standing behind me responds to something I say with the comment like "...<something> about other gay guys." She thinks I'm gay, this makes me really mad, and while my body is still facing forwards I bend back behind me and give her the finger and hold it there in her face. She can't figure out what made me mad and I want her to figure it out on her own. After holding this pose a few seconds and storm off with the comment "f^&*ing <bleep>!".

A bit down the street they're talking about a building to the right (used for the military?).

+(f) DO flyover of 2-3 flutists playing on an exposed ledge in a (destroyed castle?), they're covered in flour/dust (and a cloud of it puffs up when they play?)

+(f) talking to a group of cute girls in passing, I stop and ask them how old they are

+(f) the late-teen tall beautiful middle-eastern girl confidently takes to the stage, several middle-eastern men huddle and watch backstage and bid on her to be their wife(?), one guy 1000, one guy 100 (clearly not enough)

+(f) snowy celebration, so happy to be there among the holiday decorations, sad for people who do not like this time, (check the time on the clock tower?)

+ two characters, a boy and a girl, are running from us, they turn invisible. We bring in the detectors which are strung on two parallel wires at about chest level which extend through the scene from left to right, and another parallel wire above the head, the detectors are little square objects (lights?), we'll see those two now, I look around and see them moving around a large open area, predator-effect of body-shaped distortion of the surroundings, when they stand still they're harder to see, the girl becomes visible briefly at one point while I'm looking at her, they seem like anime characters, the guy is Sensei(?), why's he running from me?

+ the guy is holding the platform as a challenge for his bride, more and more people pile on to it to make it harder, heavier and unbalanced, but he holds it and balances it, at first I think he's beneath it holding it on his back, but late I see him on top holding it up with a rope in the middle, the judge rules he has satisfied all requirements

+(f) helping the boy put on his ski boots, there are many clasps, laces, and snaps, some which don't quite work right

Work, lost phones, missing cars, sock sale, bleh

+ at work, rows of people all next to each other filling the room, see the S brothers/twins, everyone's tired big deadline soon; lunch counter, server ignores my order, I keep asking for (fried egg rolls?), a friend spills his cup of hot (sauce/coffee?); lost my phone, call it and talk to guy who found it

+ sock sale at department store of my favorite white sock with the colorful band on top, they roll a cart full of them by and I get excited that I can buy a bunch of them here and I'm not even on a business trip. I enter a section of socks but can't find the right size. I'm looking for the "large/wide" combination and I can only find other combinations of small and/or narrow trying to find the right size, think about asking for help from the woman who is here a lot

+ in parking lot, I'm standing next to my large white cargo truck, I see a nice wide parking spot just next to me and I'm guarding it standing in it, a woman driver moves to (I think) take it and I wave her away pointing to my truck that I plan to take it

I return to lot, I see there are no cars parked in the area I think I parked in, a lot of workmen and trucks/vehicles are noisily busily cleaning/landscaping the entire area. I run into the lot with the sinking feeling that both our cars are gone, who will we get them back?

Enter (follow DO?) a hallway that turns to the left, meet there a girl, she's standing with her sister and her brother, both the girl and her sister are showing some cleavage that I briefly glimpse at, another girl asks the main girl about the college she was accepted to and how she (the asker) was (trying to get in?), the main girl says (about how she got admitted), "To save my sanity I took two years" (of extension classes). I shake hands with the main girl's sister and brother quickly as we leave back out to the entrance.

+(f) (late recall) setting up a large fold-out mesh tent/ hammock system with large multiple sections

Two nights ago:

afternoon nap:

+ With my wife, we crash a private backyard swimming pool. I hear a gasp of surprise, and see a woman and young girl, supposedly the owners of this house, so my wife and I make a quick getaway. We ride on top of one of those propeller beanie hats, but it doesn't have the power to fly us up and away, it only cushions our decent down to the bottom of the hill. We run to hide in a large store there that I later see is a Safeway. We're moving through this large store going up and down elevators trying to evade detection from the swimming pool owners who are chasing us. I say "we have to move from the (front/left?) corner of the store to the (back/right?) corner." By a back door of the store, we go out but there is a guard there at a gate. Back in the store I see a car (toy?) that I figure I can carry out taking a few trips (seats, etc). I mention something like this to my wife and the guard overhears and says "What?! What's that?!" I make up something like "oh I was asking about his chess teacher." At the gate the son of the swimming pool owner man I think recognizes me and signals his father, who is a swarthy short man leaning against a wall.

night: sick, fever:

+(f) the grad school colleagues recognize me

+(f) walking through family where the women have really strange breasts, don't stop to look because the mother is holding a revolver

last night: dreams galore, probably a lot forgotten (mental journaling, no recording until morning)

+ ex-gf SB, phone, "she wants to marry me!", but I discover only because it's advantageous on her applications

+ adventure with biker gang: Tribes I raid: destroy enemy generator, package up their energy into canvas sack, must finish this in under a minute

+ with dad in backyard, asking him about how all the systems work (in case he passes away)

+ In some sort of scientific building, my son S1 declares himself a dedicated chemist, a DC says in an exasperated voice: "Chemists! Once they realize the power of the molecular model, they think it can solve any problem!" I'm performing an experiment which proves some fundamental axiom of chemistry. I form three small bubbles, and on each one extract a colored bump: one is blue, one is red, one is orange. Then I combine two of the spheres into a larger blob, and after they merge they cannot be separated again, which demonstrates/proves the theorem.

+ trying to open the door to let girl teammate in, finally open it, she comes, and our group gives each other an emotional hugging farewell and write in each other's yearbooks

+ I'm in a grocery store buying things for lunch, I put my items at the checkout and then go looking for frozen desert. I'm at a freezer floor container, looking through packages, I think about finding some key lime pie, and find a back but there are too many slices in it, it's heavy, at least 12 slices or more. Around on the other side of the freezer container I see an open topped large milkshake with green ice cream (is it pistachio?), it is labelled s.l. "Milk-I". I see that there are people waiting at the cashier (giving me frustrated looks?), I get back to the cashier and she wants to add a surcharge because the transaction had already been closed. I get outraged, and say "so if I'd bought toothpicks for $1 and a fork for $2, you'd want to charge me more than $3?!"

+ I "come to my senses" and find my self vigorously rubbing the stockinged leg of a female friend (not my wife or GF, just an acquaintance) during a party sitting next to me on the couch, I'm running my hand up and down and up and down her leg. I stop and sit there frozen in embarrassed shock, the other women are sitting far from me because they know I tend to do this.

+ Arriving home in car, go to house, wonder why my niece E is not coming with me, realize I'm naked, and understand that she's waiting for me to enter the house first

+(f) (DO?) woman phases through glass wall, approaches group, there's a surprise there

+(f) I see that my portable chess set has been put in the bag, I open it up to make sure all the pieces are there, the housekeeper must have put it away

Yesterday (morning of 2015-08-18 comp #1):

+ pool party for cool guy, girl jumping across pool stream, girl drowning in pool stream (T daughter), pull her our and administer CPR, she's a barbie doll, coughs our brown/yellow water eventually

WBTB

+ teaching S2 to drive, thugs in the intersection (there goes the neighborhood!), at first I'm nice with them "I'm teaching my son to drive!" then I get angry and chase them off, throwing swiss cheese at them, I get concerned that they're Danny Glover's kids. A black man starts walking following us in the (now toy) car, I'm concerned this is Danny Glover and I try to ignore this and take several short turns, I decide I should turn and face him, then I see he is not Danny Glover. He says "You told my kinds you'd make our lives hell if we moved here?", then he jumps head first into the ground up to half of his body and only his legs are sticking up and one of them sort of folds over flapping there.

+ work meeting at N, there's a mole from R; girl talking about how many day's I've been working

+ at DD's dad's restaurant, they specialize the sauce for each individual customer's preferences

+(f) climbing a large structure of rough rocks

+ early investors complaining complaining that later investors got a much better deal

+(f) decorating a very large room


Today (morning of 2015-08-19, comp #2):

+ talking to guy who gets scary, flying (backwards?) over pine trees and little flying (bullets?), strange procession including the "King of the University" who approves my request (thanks to dad)

+(f) sexy-time

Spoiler for sexy time:

I'm finger-blasting a girl

+(f) a guy and a TV, trying to get it to tune in

+ bowling 2 frames, floating over the lanes, tripping the foul line

+ reading music, playing my instrument, the notes are mostly low, including an F#

+ major renovation at childhood park, basketball level extended far forwards adding two more rows of courts, they've cut down most of the trees in order to make space for this, scary guys, look underneath the ground to see massive (water?) storage tank area

WBTB

+ CD wants to move to "Heh-ward", I think this is a bad move, but I decide it's poor form to say anything

+ standing at counter, trying to figure out CG model, sexy-time a model?, girl at counter chastises me for confusing things; son screwing a girl on the side of highway, "they'll see what you're doing!"; pretty girl calibrating sensitive speech-recognition device, see counter girl again and joke about earlier antics

+ (LD #137) strange stars/lights, massive crowd laser-pointer effects show, climb hill, people sleeping on blankets among the crowd, cat walks and sits on guy's face, evading assassin with Kyle Chandler, assassin captured and put in irons, enter store, give guy my second soda, stop by pretty girl sitting at a table with another girl. She's sitting with her legs up on the bench, I'm on her right side. She is leaning up against the back of the bench.

Spoiler for Sexy-time content, LD#137 inside:

I come up to her and reach out my right hand and rub her stomach, I'm a bit concerned about a reaction from her or the other girl. I look at her crotch and she's wearing a very thin covering like a bikini bottom and nothing on her legs, I can clearly see the shape of her (ahem) through the thin outfit, a very clear camel toe. I look at her face, and I tell her "You're really pretty!", she answers in a really sweet voice, "Thank you!". Then I realize I'm dreaming and say "I'm dreaming" as a confirmation. I look back down at her (ahem), and lightly reach out a finger towards where her skin is poking out a bit from under her covering, think about reaching in under but the clothing is too tight. There are a few small whips of hair poking out. She peels off her bottom and her (ahem) is fully exposed. I lean down and lick around for a while, then sit up and look at her, wonder about the dream stability, and

I wake up.

melatonin hangover semi-epic:

+ "This is the end": 1) classroom, "mother-f^&*er", handing out earbuds, the bomb hits, WTF, waiting for the blast wave: "I love you guys"; flying fast through town, call wife on cell, she never answers; 2) evil guys (zombie?) fight tearing each other apart, moves to childhood home, dining table guy tie; 3) last stand in the room, escape from the room, they're coming for us, turns out they're nerds who need our help

+ ice river celebration: I've been accepted into the military, big procession, jealous women with cakes/raspberries

later, BTS victory:

+ sister, semicolon

+ kids playing at the gym, I notice one speaks English, they must have hired a Enligsh staff member just for her; lying in (empty) bathtub naked in the middle of the gym, cover myself,

+ LD #131: police stop & search on the freeway on-ramp, almost rear-end guy in front, toss phone, move pillows, see extensive searches, they don't stop me, can I go?, people walking on freeway, see cars in garage, in restaurant cafe, get lucid, grab "Judy"'s boob, proposition her, wake up