FryingMan

WBTB insomnia continues, BTS at long last, for a lucid and some decent competition points

01:00 pre-bedtime
01:30 (?) bedtime

06:23

+(f) at the dentist?

+ epic: gassing the truck: trying to find the gas station (north north south south), dodging cars in the road, go the wrong way & get mugged, dodging trains (they dodge me!), football & racists, cup at the picnic, meatball on exhaust pipe, gas tank adapter, skanky gas station alcoholics, "You think I wouldn't recognize the truck where I got half-pregnant 2 weeks ago?!", water-filled replica sex dolls of one of the skanks are very popular, they line the shelves

Settings: a drab mostly industrial semi-suburban dilapidated neighborhood with long narrow streets laid out on a rectangular grid

I'm driving a big-rig and cars along narrow roads. Daylight/outdoors, I see but miss the exit to the gas station, the street is long and narrow. The streets are laid out on a rectangular grid, there's no where for me to turn around. I pass a street and look to my left, it extends a long way along a channel of water, my lane is broken and spans an open channel of water. I pass this by and return to it, I think I have to take this street.

I drive up the left-hand side (oncoming traffic side) because the other side is dilapidated and broken and I'd fall in the water to the right. A truck comes around the corner at the end of the street, I try to maneuver as far as I can to the right but there's not enough room. Suddenly, the truck swerves and tilts to the left onto its two right wheels and I pass by underneath.

I'm getting closer to the corner (bends to the left), I'm hoping nothing else comes. Then a TRAIN LOCOMOTIVE turns and comes right for me. It's huge, no dodging it, uh oh. Then it, too, tilts to the left and goes up on its two right wheels, and I pass underneath it. Wow that was close, I got scared. Reach the corner it's a tight turn to the left and turns a full 180 degrees to go back along the next street over. Standing on the curved portion at the tip are two guys. I need to get across, but there's water all around. I guess I'll have to jump?

Driving/moving on roads, the path to the gas station is "north, north, south, south." I'm trying to get to the gas station. I'm on foot outdoors at night, a very small car turns the corner and almost hits me, it swerves to its left just barely missing me, I see the driver in the car.

I've taken a wrong turn down some dark deserted street. A thug comes at me and swings me around by the hood on my jacket. I'm trying to run away, this is the wrong street! Another thug comes up though it doesn't look good.

Indoors, the train engineer who pulled the magnificent stunt of tilting the train to miss me is there, he's a young man. There is a large long horizontal stick connected to a control vertical rod, and he maneuvers the rod to the correct position and then cockily walks away, that's against rules, you can't leave the throttle unattended. Someone notices this and he gets in trouble.

Outdoors, daylight, in a parking lot. I'm playing catch with a football. I have the football and I'm trying to fancy-pass it to my "quarterback." I hold it behind my back with two hands and flip it over my head at him. Then I do a around-the-back throw to him, I'm having trouble aiming but I make it. He then tosses the ball to me several times. Each time I catch it and pretend it was a touchdown in the end zone, like reliving memories of our past victories.

Group of football players: there's a new player, a black young man with an afro. He's really fast. Will he be the quarterback? He's describing a play, some players are racist and don't want a black teammate and are ignoring him with earphones in. He tries to get their attention, calling to them to listen. The play involves setting up a pass through a gauntlet of arrows, he sets it up and passes the ball which flies through the arrows to the receives, it was a great play.

Still in the parking lot/field: A racist guy has quit (a mechanic) because a black guy was hired. One guy decides to leave. The racist comes back, he has red hair and blue eyes. His "resignation bag" a large white bag filled with his "stuff" is in the parking lot. He's trying to get the leader's attention so he can give his resignation, I'm standing there on the border of the lot and the sidewalk next to this guy, also waiting for the break in the conversation so he can resign. Racist guy asks me "So what was that guy doing [the black guy he passed on the way here]?" I said "he quit." Racist guy: "ok, then I'm back." [not quitting].

Outdoors at some meal/picnic, I'm trying to think if I should clean my cup?

Back looking for the gas station: "north, north, south, south," I'm going really slowly and moving block by block, counting off the directions, the streets are narrow and closely spaced. I pull up to a gas station, I've found it, but I don't like the look of it.

I go inside, there's some question of where to put the gas nozzle in the truck. I'm looking at the tailpipe (indoors!) with one skanky alcoholic woman who hangs around the gas station, there is a dome of raw hamburger meat covering the tailpipe. We dig through the meat and find the adapter: a small red cylinder. Some discussion of whether they have a tool to connect to this adapter. The skank pulls out a collection of small nozzle adapters and chooses one and attaches it.

Skank #2 looks outside at my truck and says, "You think I wouldn't recognize the truck where I got half-pregnant two weeks ago?" Then I have a vision of store shelves filled with water-filled sex dolls based on skank #2, she must be very popular.

WBTB, up for several hours

+ sex at the pool, "you've had enough of this dream," sex with imaginary/invisible girl on chair; (lucid) enter beauty salon picking the prettiest behind the counter, banish the beefy naked hairy guys, "we need to rehearse our lines"

I'm underwater at the pool

Spoiler for sexual content:

checking out hot babes. One has a great a$$, another great boobs. I take the a$$-one in my hands and pull down her bikini bottoms and rub my face in her stuff, rotating her around to get to her front. I then go looking for the nice-boobs one. Then I'm out of the water and looking for more action. Right next to me are two extremely hot naked girls standing together (intertwined?). I jump right in to the mix and concentrate on the one of the left, forgetting the other one. Move for intercourse right away. Trying to get things to fit (mostly works), I'm at first trying an upright angle to get things to fit, then pull her down on top of me. We're up against a semi-reflective wall and I lean forwards to see the view back there. Going at it a bit and I get even more bold and decide to stick a finger "up the rear." I'm feeling around and can't find it, then I do and put it inside. After I do this, the girl immediately stops and gets up (guess she didn't like it!) and says something like "OK, that's *enough* of *that* dream!", like what was before was OK but the finger up the backside was a step over the line . I'm confused about what she said and say "what?" She repeats pretty much the same thing again. She's gone, I let her go. I'm still horny. Semi-lucid at this point, I realize I can just imagine a girl. There are people all around and I know it doesn't matter, I can just ignore them. I imagine a girl face down on a chair next to me and I start "intercourse". I have to imagine her, there's a girl fading in and out. Older woman walks by I say "Don't bother me, I'm f%^&ing this girl!" I know my "wife" is in the dressing room and could come out any second, but I realize this doesn't matter. I look down and there's a large plastic bag (like a clear dry-cleaning bag) and I'm pumping it, looks like my imagination needs help.

I'm outside in a car, I realize I need a "real" / "bright" girl in order to stoke my imagination again, I get out and enter the first store nearby. I see behind a wall/counter a very beautiful girl. I move forwards and see this is a beauty salon, with a long counter with hairdressers and receptionists behind it, at least 10. On the far (left) end, I see hair dressers who didn't seem that attractive but had wild huge hair-dos. I look to the right to find the most beautiful girl I had seen before, I see her and I move quickly towards her, behind the counter
I pretty much already knew I was lucid, but I do a quick nose pinch, "yup, lucid." I reach the girl she has long blonde hair and gorgeous boobs, she immediately moves away from me through a door. I pursue her. Through the door there is a large crowd of naked (topless at least), hairy, muscly guys. I think this must be a porn shoot. The girl is lost in the crowd of guys, I think they could be trouble I must get rid of them. Partway down a stairway in this crowd I "tell" / think at the guys, "You go on ahead and start the shoot" willing them to be gone, they vanish, leaving the hot receptionist behind. I go up to her and tell her "We need to stay here and rehearse our lines!" and as I approach her the dream fades…

Weird night, half-busted WBTB, upside down night: coherent dreams early, weak fragments galore later

+ 2 kids have bowling balls in school which are rolling through the hallways, banging into wall in the classroom

2 kids have bowling balls: one blue, one red/orange. I try my fingers in the holes but they do not fit. The balls are rolling through the hallways, I tell the kids that someone may get killed if the balls fall down the stairs. In a classroom, one of the bowling balls bangs hard into a wall, I look at the wall for damage and their appears to be an indentation on the baseboard.

+ driving to work, preparing to transmit the access code via potted-plant

I'm in my car driving towards work on CeExprwy, and I think that I must start preparing my transmitter to send the access code. I think about the transmitter and wonder about its range. Getting closer I start to try. The code is transmitted by touching small plants in a particular order all planted together in a single pot. The correct code involves strawberry plants and some other herb. I have trouble figuring out which plants are which, I'm looking at the pot and the plants and see the little leaves and the dirt.

I arrive at work and 2 security guys approach, they laugh since it's so easy to figure out the right plants. They take my tablet/phone and start doing things, I'm a bit concerned about this. One of them says something to me and waits for a response but I don't answer him, he then says "no response, eh?"

+ art class in school, teacher draws plant/flower, assistant copies, redhead with head leaned back by door ('look out for the door')

In a classroom (kindergarten level), the teacher is giving a draw-by-example class, where she makes several gestures and the results is a drawing of a flower. 3 Asian men are appreciating this and think it's well-done. The male class assistant is attempting to copy the gestures the teacher is making on "my" workbook, I look at his work and it's a really poor copy of the teacher's work. There are a number of different boxes on the paper with individual pieces of the final work. I look at him and he looks at me and knows the work is crap and crumples up the paper.

I move to leave the room. Seated near one of the two doors at a desk is a teenaged girl with bright red hair and intense (blue?) eyes. She is sitting with her head leaned back fully. I wonder if she is inviting me to kiss her? I don't. I see that the door is near her head and say "look our for that door hitting your head," she doesn't seem concerned.

+ motorcycle: revving and spinning wheels, our target drives by; restaurant stake-out guy with girl outdoor tables, I sit nearby to keep an eye on him

a motorcycle appears (in a white void?) It is bright red/primary colors. It is a standard style, looks like a 1950-1970's model. It is fairly loud, and it takes a lot of gas to run. It is revving its engine and spinning its wheels but it's not really going anywhere. At one point the back wheel appears to be two wheels (like a trike-style motorcycle) with almost no tires and very small. All our attention is on this motorcycle spinning its wheels and not going very far, at that point farther into the scene the guy we're supposed to be tracking quickly drives through an intersection and drives away.

Sitting at a restaurant outdoors (the guy we're supposed to be tracking?), the guy is sitting with a girl. I sit at a table nearby to be sneaky and order something, (this restaurant has been chosen because the dishes take a long time to prepare?)

later:

+(f) driving on electric scooter/cart, GPB, taking forever it's so slow, outdoor daylight

+(f) walking through shopping center/stores, people

+(f) elevator, get on choose floor (35? 38?), doors open, not level with floor, get out, get on top of it?

+(f) outside some store front indoors

+ leaving room, black wool cap on couch, "where's the black cap?", guy drinks shot, messy room bed w/sleeping bag, thermos

I'm in a room, looking around, on my way out I notice a small black wool cap sitting on a chair/couch. Outdoors in the hallway someone asks "where's the black cap?" and I say I don't know then I realize I saw it and say so. A man comes out of a room and tosses back a shot dramatically leaning far backwards, the shot is a pale amber-colored liquid.

I re-enter the room and look around, I see a water boiler/thermos and think this is where the guy keeps his booze. There is a sleeping bag set up on a cot, opened up, the room is full of clothes and is messy, I think it took this guy a while to bring all of these things here (he's like a counselor in a camp?).

+ bathroom butt against window/blinds, advertisers hawking outside more and more people appear, donut shop

I'm in a dark room 2nd floor overlooking a dark street scene, it's early morning. I have to go to the bathroom and maneuver my butt to the toilet but it's in such a place that I must stick my butt right up against the bottom of the window. There are venetian blinds on the window and there's a gap at the bottom so that my butt would be clearly visible to anybody outside who's looking. I'm not really concerned about this.

Outdoors down at street level there are several advertises hawking their service/wares. Some of them are in competition, one of them has a map.

I'm in a hurry, I walk by a small donut shop. I stop and go in I want a glazed donut. The shop is small more like a large booth, only room for a few people to stand. There is a tall corner counter where the donuts are displayed under clear covers, and a woman stands inside the counter area. The donuts look really fancy. I ask for a glazed donut, she says yes, then, "it will take a few minutes to prepare," I say no, I do not have time, I'll choose another one. I look closely at the donuts, they are highly intricate, not solid, several of them appear to be finely woven lattices in the shape of a donut.


There are 3 mini-glazed donuts for 10 cents each, I decide to get these instead. I pay by tearing off 3 small chunks of a donut that I already had. The three chunks need to all be the same size or they won't be valuable.

I walk out thinking I made a very good deal, I probably made money on the transaction.

A decent night before WBTB turned into a great recall night after WBTB and successful BTS (back to sleep).

23:30 pre-bedtime
00:00 (?) bedtime

06:26

+(f) bunch of dogs digging in a hole in a little hut, "dig dig dig dig dig dig!" someone (me?) says, "where's the hole? where's the hole? where's the hole?"

+ picking and eating red/blue berries from a bush; showing people around AH, our old bike jumps, 'lost my two front teeth"

A number of people are standing around a tangled, medium-sized berry bush. There are blue and red colored berries, I'm looking to try to find the best berries.

I'm walking along the main street on AH showing some people around: we reach the "end" of the street where there is a fairly large dirt pile. I explain that this is a bicycle jump, one of the many that we build on the hill. We walk back the other way towards the berry bush. I'm saying there are jumps all over the hill and we used to ride all over the hill doing this jumps, and that is how I knocked out my two front teeth.

+ kayaking homeschool, fast, sleek kayaks, channels between the reeds, rain

I'm floating through narrow channels of water amongst tall reeds. Children are zipping by paddling kayaks at fairly high speed. They are really good at it. This is a homeschool where they teach kayaking, it's an integral part of the curriculum, you wouldn't be able to do this in a normal school. The kayaks are sleek. Small girls are paddling them, at high speed, I'm admiring their skills. It starts raining, I imagine they must go inside and wait for the rain to stop before continuing kayaking, what will they do inside?

+ outdoors outside building, google project(?), the walls have ears (typos), people digging up, record and print my words

Outside a large concrete building on a sloping lawn with a group of young people, like outside a University building at a college. I'm talking, I'm saying lots of things. At some point I realize that my words are verbatim appearing as text on the walls of the building we're next to. "The walls have ears!" I exclaim. I see that even my mis-pronounced words are recreated exactly using "typos" in the words on the wall. This is some sort of privacy-invading project run by Google. Suddenly a team of workers appears, they begin digging around the base of the building, pulling up plates of concrete. Something we've said is "against their rules" and so they must enter the machinery and erase it from memory.

+ fire alarm/brigade, drive through town (deja vu), moving extremely heavy concrete blocks car prototype ('sorry, no fire'), club house 2 men workers installing diagonal windows ("look out, or they'll 'get' us") girl digs out extra room, keys on shelf, throwing tokens, change shirt, drink of water (dip whole cup?)

I'm a fireman? on a fire truck responding to an alarm, we enter a city and must wind our way in between buildings, I've been here I think, have to find the fire. Arrive at some building and get off and encounter a group of people moving incredibly heavy constructs made from cement/cinder blocks. They are building a prototype (vehicle?) from these blocks, and they're working on solving the problem of the large blocks slipping. Should I help them move? I don't.

I'm replacing keys and a small fob-like device on some shelf, I'm looking for the right place to put them, I see some keys and put them with the keys.

Some pranksters are throwing things at me? I go outside and dip my hand into a pouch by the door and pick up a handful of little stuffed-toy-animal-eyes (the sort where the 'pupil' moves inside a clear container) and throw them at the guys, they're amazed that I took it for so long without responding.

I have to take off and change my shirt.

I'm observing a small side-buidling, in one area two men workers are working on installing large glass windows that are diagonal with the top more outside and the bottoms more inside. If we're not careful they're "get us" and "even we [meaning the guys] are not safe." There are more girls in our group than guys. There is a small room to the right of the workmen's room, it's packed full of some material (crumpled up paper?), and a girl from our group enters this room and starts using her legs as a piston to clear out the room, compacting and clearing out the material. At some point the room is clear, I'm looking at it wondering if she's going to use the room for herself, she discovers me looking in the window into this room.

I'm in the clubhouse carrying a plastic cup approaching a big container of fresh water, I want a drink: should I just dip my whole cup into the water directly? (Is the cup clean?)

07:00 ? up for WBTB

go to kitchen, sit with cat, drink cup of milk and eat a small chunk of rye bread

07:45 ?) back to sleep

Feel deep wells of drowsiness, aim to sink deeply into it and fall asleep fast. I'm able to ignore sound disturbances and fall asleep.

+ bikini block party

I'm outdoors in daylight, one some typical suburban street. All the neighbors are out lounging around. In the middle of the street two girls are lying in bikinis on a very large picnic blanket that extents from the middle of the street up onto the sidewalk. The girls are lying on it in the middle of the street. They say something (but I forgot).

My wife and I are standing in front of a group of girls/woman in bikinis on their front lawn and sidewalk. Farther up the lawn is a very tanned (including the face) of a woman in a sexy black bikini, it's so tight that a camel-toe is very pronounced, and I sneak several peeks at this.

There are two girls at our feet in bikinis, one is on an air mattress, which starts to leak. Did we pop it? I get down on the ground and try to re-inflate it while the girl is still lying on it. I'm blowing into it but air is still escaping, there must be a leak. The 2nd girl is to the right and my right arm is rubbing firmly against her left leg (she's lying on her stomach) and I really enjoy this contact. The air-mattress girl gets up and I keep trying to inflate the mattress, I pat the mattress several times and it seems to me holding air now.

+ red quarterstaff

I'm in a room with a closet. I go to the closet and inside I see a big collection (10+) of "quarterstaffs" in tall leather holsters hanging there. They're all dark with one exception of a bright red one, I snort and say of COURSE I'll select the red one. These staffs have been placed here by (my patron? lover? Some male [ew!]). I take it out into the room and withdraw the staff from the holster. (It's more the size and shape of a Tae Kwon Do stick). At one end of the stick is a gel grip, I grab it and feel for the grip it gives. I notice the opposite side of the stick has a longer grip, it must be the base, I grab a hold of it and get an instant thrill of the sensation of the grip. It's not a gel grip, I notice it's some sort of luxurious fur, and run my finger in it and look closely at it for a few moments.

+ super hero costume leggings

I'm some house, super hero family?, the men need to go out and rescue some of the women(?), I say "bring me my costume" and a guy brings it to me and I start putting it on: it's knitted leggings/hose, of multiple colors like a rainbow. As I pull up the hose over my legs I start noticing imperfections and larger holes in the hose. These were supposed to be brand new! I mention the holes and the guy says "you should have checked them before putting them on."

+ terrifying train ride, fast food leftovers

I'm holding on to the left outside of a large train locomotive while it is moving forwards. The train track has a wall along the left side which is getting disturbingly closer to me, I may be squished! I'm trying to lean my head out farther to the left to look ahead to see if the wall opens up or closes more, but the train is going so fast and there are things jutting out from the wall so I dare not stick my head out and I hold tightly to the train while the wall closes in on me. The train reaches and intersection and stops and there is some director man on the ground, who starts criticizing the train engineer for stopping, my wife is the engineer. The guy says "distracted female driver is not paying attention!" my wife responds by immediately starting the train forwards again, I'm calling in a foreign language "Honey! …. Darling!" trying to catch her attention so I can climb in to the cab. She does not hear me.

I'm on top of the front of the train, slowly directing it along a very curvy path. A sharp left turn comes up, I see the two parallel tracks. I think we can make it if we go really slowly. We make it. We're trying to get back to the street. We approach a fast-food restaurant and I direct the train to drive through it?

I'm walking through the restaurant looking at the tables and the leftovers there. I see a very small mini-cat jump into the leftovers on a table and dig in eating vigorously. I walk by one table and notice it has a small cardboard box filled with one of the specials: a pile (dozens) of small circular meat patties piled deep in the box. Something like this:



+ shark slide hill inflatable ride

I'm riding up a large inflatable slide ride on some inflatable boat. It is a water ride. As we're nearing the top I get concerned about a shark attack. Our boat is near the left side of the water near the "hard ground" and I want to get off because it will be safe there. Right here on the shore in the water is a dangerous position. We right back down the slide, just about all the way to the bottom, and I think how are we going to get back up again?


+ (near miss) the video game that seemed so real (white bladed dagger & short sword, tools, dice, family's voices), touching chairs, digging out wall panels

Semi-lucid. I'm in an indoor location and I recognize that I am not in a waking/"real" environment. I'm amazed at how solid and real things look and feel, like the wooden knob on top of the back of a chair, I touch it and think it feel like waking. I rationalize the thoughts by imagining that I'm inside some ultra-realistic virtual reality video game. There are little cubbies against the wall, and a number of discolored places where I dig into and find items. I find a small white-bladed knife embedded in one of these wall holes and pull it out. I notice grates on the floor leading to passage ways below(?). I continue pulling out white-bladed devices: one has a very short blade, one is longer, and a third one which is an indeterminate device. I hang all 3 of them on my utility belt.

I hear the voices of family members (son S2), and I imagine they're just beyond the wall in the next room. I'm concerned that if they enter in my room that they will disturb this game experience and it will end. (Probably incorporating waking voices into the dream).

I'm back in the cubbies along the floor next to the wall finding things. I find a strange multi-faceted game die, 20-side I think, but it's more egg-shaped than spherical. I also find two normal cube-shaped 6-sided dice. I imagine I must roll these dice and the outcome will direct what I must do next in the game. I put these dice into my pockets which I think are getting quite full.


+ (f) meyer's lemon tree

I can't even remember the last time I only recalled one dream. Usually on the worst night my memories are poor but still I recall at least half a dozen scenes, usually more.

I took two capsules of motherwort before bed, concerned that they might suppress dreaming, well guess what, THEY DID. I slept OK, but no middle of the night wakings recalled, and only one short dream. At least it was more than a fragment!

+ in a car with new staff members from the boy scout troop (scouts who recently were promoted from patrol leader). I'm telling them about how the staff (later teen scouts who have graduated from the patrols but are still active in the troop, they basically run the camp under the supervision of a few parents/leaders) arrange their tens and sleeping bags. "We usually all set up tents in case of rain, but usually sleep out under the skies nearby the tents. Since you are all staff now", I look around and these kids they look really small, way too young to be staff members I think, "you get to set up your sleeping place on AR <staff hill>." We're then moving by AR and I look up on the top and see a few staff already standing there.

Detailed recall still a bit down but dreaming up again, thankfully! Lots of scenes

02:07 bedtime (aaaaa!!!! LATE!)

early:
+ scene ending with (looking for babies?) around a swimming pool, some kid lunges at me he has cat heads instead of hands at the end of his arms

+ mercilessly heckled while trying to give a professional talk, the twins pin me against the wall

I'm standing in a large open lab room at work. I'm giving a talk about my extensive personal experience, this is a talk I've given before IWL. I'm describing the very surprising aspect of the system that turns out to be the most complex, because it involves an undocumented legacy system. My audience are people to the left, but a guy to the right across the room starts heckling me, questioning my authority to speak on this. I do a quick calculation and mention "This is my career, I've been doing this (calculate…) 24 years" (almost right, 25 actually). The heckling does not stop. There is conflict with a pair of (blonde?) young men/twins. They pin me against a wall at one point.

later:
09:30

+ I quit because the stock was going to reverse split again, some people had been fired

+ (f) vending machine

+ new room, but view is from parent's house, beautiful colorful view, blinds & drapes can close completely for excellent darkness for dreaming

I'm standing in a room with dark walls, looking out the window. Outside is it bright daylight. The window has both blinds and drapes on it. Excellent, I think I can close these for a completely dark room (which will be great for dreaming?)

+ fascinated by the 4-way folding, retracting porcelain toilet, while peeing into it, multiple toilets in the room

I need to pee, I go into the bathroom, it's in a house, I start using one close to the door but think I'll be seen so I move to one farther back away from the door. It's just a tall rectangular thing with no toilet bowl, I bump a place on the top of the tank and the toilet bowl emerges, "unfolding" from within in 4 equal quarters that merge together into a single toilet bowl. There is a lotus-flower-like center piece in the middle of the bowl (which is the pee target?). While I'm peeing the bowl starts to unfold and retract again, so I bump the lever and the bowl re-emerges fully.

+ searching for suitcase at airport, led on wild goose chase by baggage handler back to where I began

I'm in a small group of people, I have two suitcases (and luggage tags?) my sweatshirt is on the ground(?), I give my suitcases in but need them again, I start looking for them, I stand on some platform that shoots up high suddenly (luggage loading platform?), I find a baggage guy and give him the (tag number?), he leads me through rooms and the path gets progressively more narrow until I can no longer make forwards progress. I see through a crack in the wall the same group I started with, I've been lead in a circle back to where I began!

+ killed by crowd/bad girl in a school cafeteria, she wants to leave town but her b/f says no way

I'm in a school cafeteria, across the room by the windows a smallish boy (an enemy) is walking with a baseball bat. I'm pretty sure I can take him. I can use a chair as a shied held in front of me, and if I close the distance to him quickly I can be on him before he has a chance to make a proper swing at me. I'm now by the window, and the group is approaching, I think if they impale me (on a spike?) they'll kill me, they do it and I die, the bad girl to my right killed me. I tell her "you're a murderer" she says "yeah, I am." She gets up and walks towards the entrance and says "I need to get out of town," her (also bad) boyfriend says "no way, I was with you" (he's concerned that if she runs he'll be caught because it's known he spent time with her).

+ refrigerator door/shelf stuck, fix the stuck hinge, they took my drink, "I really lose my temper when people drink my Kemper!" armful of bottles, girl with long red hair says she's heard everything

I'm looking into a refrigerator. The door is stuck, doesn't open well, I move it back and forth a few times. I notice that there are a series of clear plastic hinges running down the left side of the shelves, and I see one of them is stuck out of position. I move it back to position and the door/shelve now moves freely.

I'm looking for my bottles of drink, I can't find them. I'm upset at first but figure ah well a lot of people live here. Then I have a lot of soda-like bottles in my arms and I'm struggling to hold them all.

A girl with long red hair appears, looks at me, and says something like "I've heard everything." I'm a bit concerned by this.

+ in a show, half-man actor appears out of ground and scoots around the ground with a taped-on nose "costume", I think it's degrading.

On a black-walled black-floored stage, a half-man (head and torso but no hips/legs) emerges from a hole in the stage floor and on a small scoot-cart, he pulls himself around with his arms. I notice there is a small fake nose taped on top of his real nose. I think he's an experienced actor and playing this stupid role in this bad show is probably degrading for him.

+ tucking gun into front pants while riding in little go-cart, friend says must be bold, enemy group walking by

I'm sitting in a small go-cart rolling with a friend, I'm trying to tuck a pistol into the front of my pants. My friend says you have to be bold and act fiercely, a group of our enemies is approaching and passing by me on the left.

01:06 ugh late, behind schedule

early:

There were probably more dreams, I don't get up, catching up on sleep

+ cooking steak for the family & cousins (on a grill / in a toaster oven?), they're impatient and I'm serving them

I keep slicing pieces of the steak off to serve them and so the remaining pieces will cook faster.

09:16

+ earthquake while sitting on floor talking to guy; wrapping a present package/book; inspecting/pulling thing out of toenail find a huge rotting cavity in toe with rotten teeth growing in it; mini-portable washer/dryer, runs on a hose, can I take it home?; spreading out the soap in a running washing machine; see books on wall, kids would feel nostalgic about their old rooms

I'm sitting on the floor in a room talking to some guy when I think I feel the entire floor moving. I say "is that an earthquake?" I'm sure it's an earthquake. The whole floor is moving back and forth, up and down, it's doing this for a while.

I'm inspecting my toenail on my big toe (same place, with same guy?), I see a little "chunk" of something (fluff? nail? tooth?) at the right corner where the nail meets the toe, I pull it out with some tool. I see a little hole see some black rot and look closer and discover a huge cavity there it's like the entire toe is hollow, inside there are soft rotten teeth growing I'm digging around in there to get them out, it's nasty.

I'm looking at a cute little portable washer/dryer machine, it's sitting on top of the full-sized washer and dryer, I'm talking to my parents about it. I think it's just large enough to be able to wash a single piece of underwear and a single shirt together. There is a coiled up garden hose around it, this is the water supply. It's cube shaped and about the size of a bowling ball polishing device or microwave oven. I wonder if I can take this back home with me on the plane.

I'm standing in a room in my old house, I see a book/toy shelf on the wall and think my kids would be nostalgic for their old/childhood rooms if they came here. I'm not sure if I'm in son S2's room or the office, probably the office I decide since there's a book shelf there.

I'm wrapping a present, it's a book, I pull off a piece of tape from the roll and it gets folder over on itself and isn't sticky any more. I pull it apart then attach it to the wrapping to the book, then pull off another piece of take and do the other side, it's not very well wrapped.

+ annoyed by noisy motorcycle, he pulls up, his wheels are shredded, sis and bro-in-law are helping him

Talking outside with sister and brother-in-law, a really loud motorcycle is riding around it's very annoying, he rides up to us and stops right next to us, I start to tell him off but I say "Hey,…" then the words catch in my mouth and I decide not to say anything more. His suit/motorcycle are blue and orange. I notice the tires on his wheels are entirely shredded, that's where all the noise is coming from. There's some rubber/left on the front wheel but on the back wheel he's riding on the bare rims basically. He mentions that he's in line at the free motorcycle repair clinic at the park but in about 50th position. My sister/brother-in-law move to help him with his wheels.

+ order a chili dog with soy sauce

In a cafeteria line, order a chili dog with some soy sauce.

+ walking up a street and see "cave paintings" outside a bar on the wall, local "Cossacks"

I think, "Where there Cossacks in B.?"

+ in a restaurant with an asian young man friend. The restaurant is packed, every table is full. He's pouring me drinks and we're drinking. Purplish drink (IWL I was in an asian-themed restaurant for dinner yesterday and had a tasty hot purple fruit/berry tea). I drink from the spout on the irregularly shaped rim of the glass and he says "if you drink from there then (….ARGH forgot what he said)," I jokingly responded "yeah that's what I'm doing". He offers to pour me some "nutrient boost?" which is also purplish, then he pours a huge amount in my glass, I'm concerned about that much, I don't want to get diarrhea.

23:49 bedtime

00:00 2015-01-21

A number of dreams, didn't record, still catching up on sleep

06:14

+ monitoring some countdown across parallel screens high up from the ground; they say don't eat the green pizza (I ate it anyway)

+ (f) (brother in law and sister at concert?)

+ fight! chrome-mirror armor black fins morph inside; disarm woman, partner and I fight her

It starts with a close up view of my (guy) partner's armor: I see the chest and shoulders. It is full-body plate mail that is so shiny and reflective that it looks like polished chrome. It has a lot of (blackish) wavy/frilly ornamentation/fins on it near the joints. These "fins" are a disadvantage in battle since the opponent could use them to get a grip on you. So in preparation for the battle, I observer as the armor morphs, "sucking in" the fins inside the armor and closing the gaps so that only shiny chrome remains. This happens 3-4 times.

Then the battle begins. It's me and armor-guy against a woman. As soon as the "go" signal is given I instantly bat my hand at the woman's weapon and disarm her. We are fighting on the outside of some sort multi-story structure with many different platforms of elevation. Her weapon goes clattering down to the "moat" around the structure on the ground, I jump/fly down to pick it up to make sure she remains unarmed.

The partner amor-guy is pommeling the woman and gets her "down to 3 hit points" left, at which point she inexplicably recovers and goes on the offensive.

06:18 back to sleep

06:47 can't sleep, wife's snoring/breathing loudly, get up go to kitchen, drink milk, work on laptop/chat a bit with Sensei

I'm really upset that I can't sleep. I'm missing the best REM of the day! But I start to feel tired eventually then decide to rush to bed before it gets too late. Wife is still a bit noisy and traffic is starting outside for the morning rush but I feel tired and I aim directly for sleep and I fall asleep in just a minute or so.

In fact, this may be an ideal wake/sleep pattern on days when I can sleep in. If I had tried MILD I may have had a good shot at lucidity since the dreams were fairly aware. But I was so concerned about getting to sleep that I just aimed directly for instant unconsciousness, and I nailed it.

08:27 back to bed

10:42

+ adventure with guy with power shoes who can enter pictures, I show him the power can work even without pictures

He finds these magical shoes, I'm walking around with him and look at pictures/scenes with roman-looking column work. I'm telling him that he can use the power without needing images, it's up to his imagination.

+ wife chastises son S2, he's with his GF and one guy friend, they give wife nasty look, his GF writes me a message

My son is playing a video game with his girlfriend and another friend. My wife chastises him for wasting time, they stop and come out of the room, his girlfriend gives my wife a nasty look. I receive an (email?) from her and read it, it has something like she really likes fathers that "….???…" I think about this message later on in the night and wonder if she "liked" me.

+ see son S2 in small room with another girl, playing with animals, I enter, play with animals, huge black bear outside room wearing a gas mask

I see my son S2 in a little play house in a room, with another girl, and they're playing with some animal. I go in and look at the animal (like an otter?). Then it's a sort of a dog, and I'm taking off some underwear with scratch mark/poo on it, and the dog gets its nose tangled in the underwear smelling it, and I'm trying to get it away from the dog thing when I glance to the left and THERE'S A HUGE BLACK BEAR sitting just outside the playhouse. I think "oh man I'm a goner." The little playhouse will crumple with a single touch of this massive bear's giant paws, then this huge bear will surely maul me. I see wavy like white things where the claws should be. I think of my pepper spray and start to take it out of my bag to try to scare away the bear by spraying its face, then I get a better look at its face (it's wearing a hood?), and I see IT'S WEARING A GAS MASK! Argh, there's no hope. Some point later I'm outside the play house and the bear is reduced to the size of a small stuffed animal.

+ waiting to go to toilet in middle of room, more cleaning women just keep entering, shoo them away, room bounces on waves

I walk into a room, it's a fairly large indoor room, in the middle of the room on a sort of a raised platform is a toilet. There is some writing on the closed lid of the toilet and I'm walking around the toilet to try to read it. There are also some red "alignment marks" on the closed lid, and there are matching red alignment marks on the floor. Cleaning woman come in from a staff room to the side and tells me that I need to stand on the red floor marks to use the toilet. I tell her I understand this and I'm trying to read the writing on the lid. I'm walking around the toilet waiting for the cleaning people to leave so I can pee. More and more cleaning women come in. After waiting for a while I tell them in a foreign language, "I NEED TO USE THE TOILET." Most leave to the utility room except one. I can't wait so I whip out the thang and start to go, but now I'm standing not over the toilet by in an area closer to the windows and this utility door. I imagine she may get a peek at my (ahem). It's out and I see it, longer than waking (woohoo). The entire room/building starts rocking violently up and down like it's riding on waves, and I look up and out the tall glass wall windows (dream sign) out on to a lake. I think big waves come in from that lake and cause this entire building to move like this (I don't see any waves on the lake though).

+ see stunning topless masseuse/escort walking outside going into another building, building a rug store

I'm walking outdoors towards an entrance to a fairly large high-tech style building. A woman has left a door to my left and is also heading for the same entrance as me, our paths will intersect at the door we're heading for and she's on my left. I notice she's a stunningly beautiful young lady and her top is entirely open and her lovely breasts are completely exposed. I imagine she works in a masasge/escort spa and is on break, and that she doesn't care if she's exposed.

I enter the building and a large store within the building. I glance at another naked young woman who's running by, and see her (fairly small) breasts and also her exposed v-jay. I enter an opening in a railing to the (checkout area?) of this store. I glance behind me and see a man doing remodeling work in a large enclosed store-within-the-store and think this will be a rug factory/store, and they'll have trouble because there's already another rug store in this complex.

+ altercation with annoying guy in aerobics class who taunts me

I'm in an aerobics class. The teacher and the students are all shuffling to the left, then come back shuffling to the right. I'm standing in place because I think this shuffling is stupid. I'm standing, with my legs spread out and leaning far forwards doing a stretch. The class moves around me, and some guy behind me starts taunting me about the fat around my ankles (!). I stand up and face him, he continues to insult me, and I respond with some insults to him (forgot the dialogue), at some point I push him down(?).

+ kissing a girl

Quick kiss at first, she's responsive, I go for more lips action, get lucid as I wake up moving my lips?

+ surprised by old house cleaner woman who slept on couch, enter garage girl's passed out, she's naked, I carry her to the bathroom in my arms, have some fun

I'm striding in to the kitchen of my prior adult house (I recognize the location only after waking up). As I pass the opening to the family room on the left an older woman quickly strides out of the family room into the kitchen ahead of me. She's wearing a (pink?) robe and looks like she's wearing rollers in her hair and looks like she just woke up. I'm a bit surprised/startled at her presence, I think the's the cleaning/helper woman and she must have arrived last night and spent the night. I glance to the left into the family room and notice a makeshift bed set up on a couch. We both go to the garage door and open it. Standing immediately inside the door with her face pointing to the right is some other woman. She looks stunned/woozy. She immediately falls forward flat on her face onto the ground behind the washer and dryer, she's passed out. I'm trying to pick her up. I eventually get her in my arms with her head to the left and her feet to the right.

Spoiler for sexually explicit:

I notice she's naked. I'm a bit concerned about the other woman but I get bold and forget about her and think this is a great opportunity. The woman I'm now holding seems extremely attractive, with really beautiful breasts. I cup her left breast fully in my left hand (while still carrying her) and it feels FANTASTIC, firm yet soft, amazing, I really like this. I take her to the hallway bathroom (to rouse her in the shower?) and I notice we're alone there. I'm still carrying her and standing directly in front of a large, wide, tall mirror which seems to be the shower door. Nobody has followed us, again I think this is a great opportunity, and spread the girl's legs widely and get a perfect view in the mirror. I reach down and rub her v-jay briefly, I get concerned she may wake up and remember so I stop (and cup her breasts once more?)

then wake up.

00:07 bedtime

Lots of dreams during the night -- just interested in catching up on sleep, and it got really cold (-12C) during the night, so with the exception of the below dream which I particularly spent effort on recalling they all evaporated . But this was a pretty awesome dream with fun flying so it's OK.

08:40

+ (mini-epic) flying speed control lessons with superman (fists [medium], flat hands [top speed], arms down [slow]) then lots of practice

I'm (DO?) following cars down a highway, they're testing steering control during heavy ABS usage, how well the cars and veer left and right under full ABS heavy breaking, and how fast they can stop. I feel like I've forgotten something at home so I tell the others I'm going to fly home to get it.

I turn to the right and take off into the air. I decide to try flying this time with my arms at my sides, it works fine. I'm heading up in to the (B?) hills and there are a fairly large group of people at the top of the hill, I do no want to give away my presence/flying ability to them so I bank to the left, there are still some people there but fewer.

I'm on the (back steps of my childhood home by the top near the garage?) I'm standing with two (?) people, one is a girl, I'm talking about a (different?) girl and I'm feeling a bit leery about giving away my identify (as superman?). As we're talking I'm doing something with (putting a shoe in and out?) a (tree stump? / hole?)

I go up to the street and start flying, superman is with me and I ask him about speed control. He shows me that you can modify your speed setting by the gesture you make with your hands. I wonder about punching the arm forwards but he doesn't mention that.

Closed fists mean medium sped, open flat hands mean full high speed, and (arms at the side?) means low speed. I try both fists and open hands and do experience a speed difference.

We're flying very low over the roofs of the neighbor's houses (G and M's house probably) in face my waist bag/belt buckle is scraping along the roof of one house, and we (land/appear) on the lawn. There's some contractor there complaining that we busted the <something>. I know our guy can build a better <something> and I see him working on it. It ends up being a small square (about 1 foot square) piece of wood with smaller pieces of wood that have been attached perpendicularly to the plane of the square piece and sawed off and sanded down.

As we're walking away from this area we pass a table with a lot of muffins on them. My attention is grabbed by a quite large "strawberry muffin" that has different cake colors on it but most importantly a section with pink cake with red chunks like a red velvet muffin and I reach for this and so does some body else, and I yell "Get the FUCK off my strawberry muffin!"

We do some more flying and and up in an open outdoor area. I've lost track of superman and say "OK, where's flyboy?"

I look over a railing down a hill and think about flying down there.

Lots of flying moments with fists and open flat hands working on speed control.

fragmented night, tons of scenes, but a lot poorly recalled

23:03 pre-bedtime, breathing meditation, visualization, intention setting

23:17 bedtime

04:03

+ climbing mountain

(DO) -- outdoors daytime, approaching mountain, flying up mountain sides, it's guarded by elves that can cause avalanches? Reach the top and giant flat plateau with huge flat-topped boulders, I see people-shaped piles groups of stones in the distance in both directions I'm trying to see if they're real people or not.

+ riding in helicopter, system of projection

In a helicopter ride, the pilot is talking about how there is a projection system that can project a view onto the entire scene around the helicopter but this interferes with the elevation (readings/control?)

+ enter schoolroom, one boy there, try to fly outside can't climb up; outdoor seance with psychics, girl ghost

Enter a (school?) room, there's just one (young) boy there, it's a remedial class? See white board? Something about Alaska? I leave the room out to the back yard and want to fly but first I have to climb up the wooden fences, and I can't do it. A woman (teacher?) comes out and starts talking to me

I'm on a sweeping hillside outdoors daylight there are hundreds of people seated on the ground all around me among the rolling hills and on the hillsides. One of the people disappears she was a ghost that has been appearing with our group (of psychics/mediums?) over the years, this was a site of some catastrophe?

+ mathematician working through a series of sine and cosine approximations, graph, eating chocolate, calculating machine that drop things at the proper period.

A mathematician works verbally and with diagrams to calculate sin(4) (?) by successive approximation using the symmetry rules of sine and cosine, sin(4) -> cos(1) -> sin(3) -> picture transforms to a right triangle with dotted lines and there's some rule about the ratio. I"m holding a small pyramid of chocolate and take a bit off of the top and think about eating more. There is an invention of a device that you roll on the ground and it click clacks out a steady rhythm showing the period that the operator must drop things? Related to the catastrophe on the mountain?

+ 3 guys enter security door, chinatown

I'm in a hallway in front of a security door. The door beeps and 3 guys come in, I see their faces, they're talking, one guy is showing the others around and is talking about Chinatown.

+ cooking fish; pulling parasite crab things out of my butt (yep, every bit as painful and unpleasant as it sounds)

(Thanks a lot, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, for this "lovely" experience!) There is a fish we're cooking (on the grill?) we have cooked it as one piece instead of spread in half, and there's some concern whether or not it's correctly cooked. So I'm inspecting the fish lifting up the skin to see if the flesh is cooked and someone comments that the parasites are not dead yet, but if we put the fish back on the fire the parasites will all leave the fish. I see little leech-like things squirming in the fish moving towards the tail.

Then the parasites have matured to crab like things, have multiplied, and have all latched themselves with their claws partly into my butthole. I reach down and one by one pull them out, it's not easy as they don't want to leave and are holding on with their claws. I do this about 4-5 times, and on the last one I have to clench my abdomen and "poop" out the last one, which comes out with a chunk of poop on it. Ew.

+ rescue a guy from a deep rectangular hole, mud and poop on the bottom

A guy is at the bottom of a deep rectangular pit about 20 feet down, it's about a 40-foot perimeter. I tell him to look out for the pile of poop. There is a pile of mud on the floor, too, I lift him out (with a crane?).

+ walking past woman on train who apparently reads my mind, sit with her for a bit

I'm on a train, walking past a woman I consider unattractive, I think to myself "old and ugly", then the woman says something about "old and ugly," and my curiosity is a bit raised, I feel a bit bad about this thought and I ask if I may sit with her for a bit, the corridor is a series of multi-level bunks laid out across the path so you must climb up/down/over each one. Multi-colored (flowered?) upholstery.

WBTB, failed BTS, hours later sleep again/sleep in

06:30 (?) give up, get out of bed

08:30 (?) back to bed,

12:00 approx.

1mg melatonin out of desperation to get back to sleep, doesn't help, just makes me very groggy when I finally do get back to sleep hours later

+ guy jumps on back of truck, ask another guy "what's 'Candy' in Chinese?

A truck is driving down a road (Ce St. in B approaching Sh ave?), and a migrant worker leaps out from between some cars into the road and hops up into the back of the truck. (My view is following the truck.). I think he does this every day in this same truck to get a ride. I'm in the truck and the conversation is about candy. I'm asking a chinese guy who's sitting against the left side of the truck bed "<what's candy in Chinese>" (in a foreign language), he answers, <….>, which he says translates as "sweet children."

+ returning with a group to sit at the table for more drinking, choosing a good spot

At a party with a group, we're returning to the tables in an outdoor patio for more drinking. I'm placing clean classes on the table, there are used pint glasses there I pick one up and see the remains of a previous drink there. People are sitting and I'm trying to choose the best spot among the people I like, I'm finding it hard to get a good spot.

+ placing long stemmed flowers into vases outside

Outside a home in twilight with group of people, I'm holding a bunch of long-stemmed branches covered with little colorful flowers, there is some element of deception going on, I place the stems into pots next to us.

+ (f) old GF, SB?

+ (f) people laughing about translation of address on envelope?

Details to follow later.

One of the most unpleasant situations in my life has resulted in one of my most memorable dreams (albeit nightmare basically):

+ (epic) struggle against me and my wife at work: theft of our precious silver, confrontation, race to the police, return to work, locked in, weird visuals of the process of manipulation of clay into various faces, drive through suburban cityscape with hills of golden maple and pink cherry trees, view of massive mall/movie theater complex to the right

I'm in a workplace with my wife, there are long hallways and clusters of desks spread around. ("We" means wife and I were basically together the entire dream). We go to a different group in a cluster of desks/cubes, they're hostile to us. Their manager is also hostile to us. A guy there doesn't like me wife because he thinks that she is always giving them tasks to do with out any effort spent herself.

I see down a long hallway that this guy is standing at the cabinet that houses our precious silver tableware. The top drawer of the cabinet is open, and this guy has a plastic bag spread out on top and is unloading the tableware into the bag. I run up to him and yell at him and shove him away angrily. I speak to my wife that we need to lock the cabinet in the hallway, I imagine a key inserted into a lock and turning, engaging a lock. I return to the cabinet and open the top drawer, and it is empty, we've been robbed!

We're again with the hostile group, sitting down leaning against the desks, and I get a vibe that the guy is going to attack us, he stands up and starts backing away, I think he's trying to get proper distance to launch some attack, so I quickly run up to him and close the distance, he keeps backing away and I keep coming up right next to him. I look down and see that he has a revolver tucked into the front of his jeans, I immediately grab for it and take it into my left hand, start to walk away and call for my wife to join me urgently, we must get out of here and call the police. The pistol is small, but deadly, he could have shot us. I right away open the cylinder and empty the (somewhat colorful) rounds into my right hand, and place the rounds into my right pocket and the now unloaded revolver into my left pocket.

We're exiting the building in haste, we must call the police, it's important to get our story registered first, the hostiles will try to get their story first. Should we go to the PA police department or the CU police department? The PA does not deal with cases outside of their jurisdiction I think / my wife says, OK, let's go to the CU then.

Outside in a parking lot looking for our car, the spot is empty, "They've stolen our car!" my wife exclaims. No, we "remember" quickly that we simply moved our car ourselves far away, we'll have to go and get it.

Driving now through rolling suburban hills with businesses around. To the left I notice a striking hillside covered with shining golden maple trees. I look closer and the trees seem to be pink Japanese cherry trees. I look to the right and down a steep hill I see a massive mall complex below, it's also a giant movie theater, and as we drive past I think what sorts of movies play there, I see some large (actors?) faces on a marque, maybe I should go to this mall to check it out.

Back in the work place, it's empty, I think they could come and lock us in.

Talking with some guy at work, his job over the years has been to create a system for transforming lumps of clay into faces. I see a lump of clay up close, there is a narration about the different parts of it, and soon it is getting pushed and pulled and formed into a series of about 5-6 different heads/faces with open mouths, mostly sort of monster looking. I'm thinking this has taken a long time and seems sort of like a wasted effort.

(Waking from this dream was a relief, the sense of dread and forboding was constant throughout the whole thing. I quickly realized though that as a dream it was fairly awesome in terms of "present" experience, continuity, length/coherence, and visuals.)

+ pushing through crowds crossing the street to get to the buses

A crowd of people is standing at a crosswalk waiting for the signal to light, some are "beeping" behind us telling us to go. We wait for the signal, and cross the street, and we're in a sort of bus station. Buses and coming and going, our bus is full and leaving, there are so many buses around that we can probably catch another one.

Move into a group of (woman?) talking/laughing about something?

+ (semi/almost lucid) getting sexually daring with a woman and in front of a mirror

I'm in a bedroom, I'm following around a black woman, not terribly attractive but I'm still following her around. We're standing in front of a mirror her attention is not on me, but I get an idea and want to start exposing myself so that I can see myself and the woman in the mirror but so that she doesn't see me. I'm doing this on and off stopping when she looks? Then I take her aside to the bed and pull out my (ahem) to show her, and the dream ends….

23:59 pre-bedtime visualizations intentions
12:12 bedtime

03:13 no recall

several small position change wakings, was on stomach at a few points

04:44 recall, WBTB drink cup of milk eat small piece of bread

+ driving car on streets going through confusing traffic lights, cities on the river, drive to store, packets of BBQ sauce, fireworks at house

In a car driving on streets in traffic. Several times approach traffic lights, and the lights turn off. Does a turned off light mean you can go or you have to stop? Second time this happens I see traffic going? I decide to go, turning left street bends to the left, choosing which lane to go into, 2nd from left?

Thinking about/telling about cities along the river, how one city is between other cities along the river.

I drive to a store and pull up and stop, get out go in I'm delivering a bunch of packets of BBQ sauce. I pull the packets out of my pocket and one bursts and stains the lower right portion of my shirt, I head to the bathroom to wash up (I taste the sauce?). A girl is talking about how she wants to construct the drink cooling apparatus, a medium sized machine that they will fill with cooling stuff including a bunch of tomatoes which will keep things cold? I don't think the tomatoes will work.

I arrive at a house on suburban street I've brought stuff for a party including packs of fireworks (like sparkler sticks) in bags, standing on street next to driveway of party house, a friend takes one and sets it off: he spins around in a circle several times and sets off the firework while spinning, and the firework maintains the spin and corkscrews up into the sky and explodes, I think it's interesting how it maintained the spin. Another friend takes one and sets it off, it doesn't go high, it forms a short word that floats around a circle from the party house driveway to the house across the street and almost hits the garage door of the other house. Friend disappointed in this but I say no it was really cool. Another friend grabs a firework and sets it off, I say "OK, do I have to go hide these in the house?" (it's not time for them yet). I then discover packets of BBQ sauce in my pants will, I've forgotten to deliver them I'll have to return, somebody (wife?) asks if I really have to.


04:53 BTB

Long long long back to sleep. 1.5-2 hours easily probably. Did "relaxing SSILD" for a while, including long cycles. Takes a while for my mind to settle down but eventually start to get the drowsy feeling. Almost got up but felt the beginnings of sleepiness so stayed with it. What worked at last was total letting go on every exhale both physical and mental. Fair bit of almost dream-like (people) HI.

09:24

+ (f) bed mother pee, friend DD

+ nuns(?) are fixing poop plumbing something's clogged

They (women, nuns?) want to try opening up the poop plumbing to see if it's fixed, I really don't want to do that since I do not see a shutoff valve and the pipes are all disconnected still so if I turn it on a bunch of poop is going to come out. They're pouring water into one of the intermediate holes and it's flowing out from the hole right next to it, I think that means it's still clogged somewhere

+ DO woman walking outside drunk guys bothering her, giant comes to defend her pushes them away; talking to man & woman man funny head/nose, talking about literature?; leaving room and return a table is in front of the door

I'm flying DO about 20 feet up over the scene looking down, several obviously drunk guys are following and bothering a woman, then there's a male giant there who bats them away from her.

Talking to some guy and a girl, his head has a ridge along the center top like a Klingon, I say something about this and he presses the ridge down and it vanishes but his nose simultaneously grows very large: it must be either one or the other. Discussing something about literature I say something (forgot).

I leave a room, do something, then return, I see that upon my return a fairly large table has been placed in front of the door, I think this is a good way to keep people from entering. I'm inside the door looking out and notice there is a little path in between the door and the wall.

+ our group walking to convenience stood want microwave burrito people have cake, friend EMW runs store, wait for refund, EMW piano keyboard behind counter, plays riff from concert piece

Our group is heading to the convenience store for snacks, walking in twilight coming around a path bending to the right, others are already returning, they're carrying plates of cake, 1-2 thin rectangular small slices of cake lying sideways on a dinner plate. I think I want something more substantial like a microwave burrito. Approaching store I see someone slicing cake and handing it to someone. Enter the store, this is my friend from boy scouts EMW's store (false memory)! He's sitting behind the counter to the left. He told me (false memory) that the first time in his store he would get me stuff for free! I keep waiting for him to offer to give me free things but he never does. I think it's because I'm here with a group. Our total is around $5. I see he's sitting at a piano keyboard as part of the counter, and recall (false memory) he's a great pianist, and ask him to play a section from his recent competition piece, and he quickly plays a fast run with a strong chord at the end and I think it sounds great.

+ class discussion friends driveway blueberry plant CS question, RB wife can't solve, I give speech about learning new things

Standing in a driveway unknown location outdoors daylight, a bunch of people are there it's a class of some sort. I'm standing on the edge of the driveway at the street on the right-side facing the house. Boy scout friend RB is there in front of me. The subject of discussion are the computer science properties of a potted blueberry plant. RB's wife (to RB's right) seems confused and doesn't know the answer, I know it has to do with constants. RB says "hey that's her, not me" he doesn't want to be blamed for her not knowing. I take the potted plant in my hands and look at it, it is lovely with green leaves and purple flowers? There are about 20 little shoots of the plant growing out of the pot. I feel sorry for RB's wife and show the plant to her and say "at least you can appreciate the beautify of the plant" trying to make her feel better. Then I make a long speech about how "those of us who have been working in CS and reading for 5, 10, 20, 40 years know all of these examples instinctively without having to think. If I were to take up a subject new to me, like particle physics, I wouldn't know the axioms of the subject, the compound and the …(can't think of word for fundamentals) atomic principles of the subject, they would be new to me". The teacher nods his head and says "good job, <my name>"

WBTB long up time (tried short but didn't make it back to sleep) but eventually BTS (back-to-sleep), pretty weird dreams all night

01:00 pre bedtime

04:22 no recall

06:00

early:

+ searching for suitcase (green with red stripe), find it, prepare to repack it

I'm walking around rooms looking for my suitcase, it's the "green one with the red stripe around it", I see many suitcases that I have in WL but they're not the one, I eventually find it and wheel it around, it's pretty heavy, I may have to re-pack it?

+ guy takes a second sip from the girl's soup spoon: this is the secret of winning women's hearts

A guy is taking a sip of soup from a girl's soup spoon, then quickly takes a *second* sip of it, I think that extra unexpected sip is the secret to a woman's heart: it shows spontaneity.

+ climb up onto a giant elephant-like beast with bags of hundreds of acorns/pine-cones, observe the story about the creature that eats then poops out fish for the natives to eat

Outdoors daylight, large strange beast like an elephant, huge bags of acorns/tiny pinecones has been prepared. Up on top of the beast there is a narrated story, of how some native people's never used to be able to catch fish, there is the example on the right where no fish are caught, and the left where fish are caught. A narrator says "they would never catch fish until they discovered (the secret)", which is that there is a strange creature that very easily catches little fish and processes them through its body and "poops" out small fish/larvae that is stunned that can be easily captured. I watch in fascination as this creature does this several times.

+ my wife wants to go into business with some partners, she says "$4 million is not enough, we should raise $20 million," I'm skeptical that any VC will give that much for a simple furniture store venture.

+(f) sex

Unfortunately this vague, I do recall a naked girl and some abstract intercourse (things don't fit? Typical for non-lucid sex) but the memory is really sketchy.

07:00 ? get up for WBTB?
07:26 back to bed

08:00 ? can't sleep get up

08:30 ? back to bed

11:18

later:

+ in a strange place I hear my parents voices, they're turning home I'm really happy and run to meet them

+ tired/exhausted girls work long shifts

One girl I see in a back room lying exhausted on a cot in between work periods. Another girl is sitting down on a chair nearby, I think I see some nipples poking out from her tight sweater

+ retreat to the downstairs bathroom of childhood home for "private time" but now there's a window leading back into the house, eliminating privacy, this confuses me

I'm very curious about this window, it didn't use to be there, I see that it looks back into the hallway by the stairs to the basement. How odd. This window ruins the privacy of the bathroom.

+ bunch of families are going on vacation from the core home, guy hits me on the head hard with a pipe by accident, come up into a room that is really a front for a covert military force (they're observing from across the street); driving crazy in the street have to make a 3-point turn, driving up a road paved with pizza boxes, rifling through boxes looking for leftovers

The (3?) families who live/are visiting in the core home are heading out for vacation. The vacations are all close by. One of the guys is going nearby, I see "it's what, only an hour away?" He says yes. I say "it's great that we can visit these places which are only a few hours away." I'm on an outdoors stairway, the other guy is swinging around pipes and it ends up hitting my head really hard by accident. I'm stunned, and contain my temper instead of getting really mad, I just stand there still for a while.

In a room, coming up some stairs, it's sort of an outdoors area that I thought used to be a store, but it was empty, and I see across the street there are guys inside a building with weapons, they're guarding this area? There's a leader woman there.

I'm driving in a car, vehicles are driving fast and I'm trying to pull a U-turn, I don't make it I have to make a 3-point turn, vehicles are coming fast, but they don't hit me. I'm then driving up a street that is lined with pizza boxes. I think "did we really eat all that pizza on the weekend? How much did that cost?". I reach into some boxes looking for some leftovers.

+ girl who wanted the most expensive music recording device, roller-coaster-like ride up a bridge spire

A girl kept upgrading her music recording device to the best one she could find. The "DD-<numbers>" units. We're driving in a car approaching a bridge with a great view, I say "you're in for a treat!" We drive up the support of the bridge vertically like a roller-coaster then after the top down the other side, people are visible walking/(sliding?) down the cables. There is a large green area(?) where the cell phone signal is blocked and the girl can't check something about the price on the music device. We're in a store and she finds yet a higher end more expensive DD-?? device and wants it, I say what's the point of these expensive music recording devices, you could just re-record your music on (tape?) if you wanted to.

+ guy throws a fish at me, poor thing flops on the ground and is ripped in half by the impact

In a store, unexpectedly(?) there are large fish tanks across the room. There is a guy there and as a joke he tosses a large live fish at me (I think it's a carp?) pretty large, about 2 feet long, and it SMACKs hard on to the ground near my feet, I reach my hand down to it but an leery of it biting my finger into its mouth. The guy comes over and lifts up the fish from the head and only the front part comes up, the fish has been ripped in half by the impact and you can see it's insides. I say something like "good job" sarcastically to the guy and he's not happy about ruining the fish.

+ son S2 is procuring laptops with great graphics, I'm going to sleep but wary of the strange woman in the corner, bunch of kids on my bed I show them how to do front somersaults

In a room like a dorm room, I'm sitting on my bed, my son S2 is saying that he's managed to get approved for our group to get new laptops with the best new graphics, he had to do it now because once the term starts these requests will not be approved. I see over in the dark corner of the room across from me in flashes of light I see some older woman is lying in a bed, I'm trying to get a clear view. I getting into bed for sleep and I do not want to sleep with that unknown woman in the room.

Another younger woman, a mother with kids, is at the root of my bed going in to the next room for a shower, she has some daughters who are naked and are going in to the shower. At the head of my bed is a clothed girl, so I help her do a front sommersault towards the foot of the bed. Then my bed is filled with kids and I'm constantly helping them to do forward sommersaults. I show one with my hand (I see my hand, looks normal) the rounded shape his head should take so that he doesn't land on his head. An adult (form er colleague from KG?) does a sommersault off the foot of the bed and has to lean diagonally to avoid hitting a desk or table there.

+ (long) preparing camp against the nazis, our friends vanish, enemy scout animals/monsters attack our scout thing, beat them to a pulp, train in the distance picks up (soldiers?) & medicine, captured for court martial, "do not commit the crime of 'hearing'", 2 small girls are named by enemy captain, calls one of them to do a delivery.

At one point, I see in the far distance a scene where a train pulls up to a station, and car by car, people fill the car, then medicines flow into the car, then the train advances one car, and the next empty car is filled first with people then with medicines, this happens about 3-4 times.

Generally a dark/scarry/forboding feeling throughout this. I'm with some others preparing an outdoor fortress/ camp (for the winter? a siege?) against the bad guys who will be here soon. We're doing things like scavenging scrap metal and piling it up in our compound behind fences. Most of the people vanish except I have the feeling there's one other guy but I don't see him. I pass over a deep cave going into the ground and say "we may have to go deeper down" to be safe. At one point I'm at a dark place on the road and I see an enemy scout raise up, I freeze but they can still see me. There are two strange little beasts and they attack our beast. I come to its defense and pound one of the small enemy beasts to a bloody pulp.

I have a thought about capture and the scene transitions (I actually noticed the transition!) and I think "we'll be court martialed". In a room with prisoners and guards, the guard is screaming about not "committing the crime of 'hearing'" (meaning prisoners communicating and understanding one another). The enemy commander gives two small twin prisoner girls rhyming names (don't recall them) and summons them to him, they need to deliver some roll of documents somewhere.

WBTB

+ (KILD, LD #94) walking along line of hot girls, checking them out, they're shy, lean over kiss one and get lucid

I'm walking along with a group of girls. I'm checking out the rear of the one in front of me, she's hot. She immediately covers up her butt, pulling down a sweater and placing a backpack right in the way of the view, I think this is funny. No problem, ah there's another sweet one with a tight body-fitting long sweater on with a great a$$, I'll just go and check her out for a bit. I realize I'm walking along besides a girl and I get bold and lean around in front of her and kiss her, as soon as I kiss her I think "I'm dreaming," and stay in the kiss for a while, feeling the lucidity, but visuals are gone (must have 'closed my eyes') and I soon wake/transition.

+ toy vending machine, cost is 198 (298?), girl tells me order is ready, MILF leans over showing cleavage including nip slip, fascinating eye'd girl (violet? gray?) at counter, calls to Japanese boss for assistance, language confusion

I'm in some busy room, there's a small toy vending machine in front of me, made out of plastic, there's a roll I want to buy and push a toy button and an odometer-like display comes up and shows a price of (198 or 298?), I think wow that's an expensive roll. At that point a blonde girl comes up to me and starts discussing my (order?), I'm confused about langauges and start speaking a <forgeign language> asking "where is it? How do I get there?". I get attracted to her and start to touch her arm and caress it but she looks a bit freaked out and edges away. At that moment I look to her left and an attractive middle-aged woman with deep cleavage showing is leaning far over doing something, I admire the view, and realize there's a bit of nip-and areola-slip going on there.

I move to another room and come up to a girl at a counter. I reach up and take off a necklace of some sort that I"m wearing it's related to the object I ordered and need to pick up. More langauge confusing, we start in <foreign language> and she switches to asking a question in English at one point and I notice the shift but I answer "yes" in english. I'm then captivated by her eyes which at first I think are a deep violet color which I think matches her top, then her eyes become completely gray/silver, very remarkable. Her manager comes by, a Japanese man, who goes and stands a bit to the left of us with his back to us and she asks him some question. I"m not sure about where I'm supposed to go and when, but I know that I would not mind coming back to this place again!

lots of night wakings and lots of recall, but consistently short, mostly disconnected scenes

00:17 pre-bedtime

04:35 no recall

07:47

+ (f) parking garage? (voice notes, don't remember this!)

+ the gym admin wants $300 ($300!!!!) for the task of simply retrieving my file from the back room, I'm flabbergasted; haven't been at my locker in long time, combination lock

I approach and look at the combination locks, I start spinning one? Locks that have been not used for a long time have little boxes placed around them, I look on the back of the locks and (the combination is written there?)

10:00 ?

+ I'm waiting for HOURS for my burger in the fast food joint, there's a massive, pressing crowd at the counter I'm pushing them away to maintain my place, I keep telling people I've been waiting for HOURS.

+ The taco place buffet doesn't have tacos or burritos, only less desirable stuff, I go looking for the tacos, find them but they're paid, not part of the buffet so don't take any

+ in a large open grocery store, see someone with a bacon/egg/muffin at the checkout, go to the bacon/egg/muffin counter, select the ingredients, and they cook it for me, I wonder what happens if they break the egg

I choose a slice of tomato, a cooked/poached egg, a slice of cheese? and a muffin and give them to the (lady?) to cook and they start cooking it. I wonder if they break the poached egg so that the yolk runs out if I can ask them to make another one.

+ guiding friends (man/woman/child) from the subway to the playground, they want to take a taxi but I show them the playground is right across the street; playing basketball in the playground

+ lying down in a driveway in winter beside a rolling country road, cars drive by, looking for police cars coming down the road, hoping nobody will run over me

I see the cars driving by while lying down on frozen/frosty ground, I see some cars with lights go by must be a police car, I see a driver inside, but he pays me no attention.

+ a guy makes a great fast move climbing over the naked black giant demon thing and scores a basket, is that thing really naked? yes I sort of see it's "thing"; I'm studying (magic?) there's a bad guy over there, I will never join him

+ outdoors/daylight/huge building: it's a multipurpose building, read the titles on building, restaurants, etc., automated gate, weird simultaneous naked/clothed/jeans, super thick wall street journal on ground, picture/painting of the very large east coast wedding party

The building is huge like a sports arena and is standing to my right about 100 feet away. It's something to do with Russia on the other entrance?

The fence closes slowly and automatically, I"m watching the mechanism of it up close right in front of the door.

I feel like I'm naked ("feel the breeze" on my stuff), I look down, and I see I'm wearing jeans, yet I'm still naked. It's like my skin has jeans camoflage drawn onto it, sort of, I can see my thang hanging down but it's jeans colored. I can't figure out if I'm nakeed or not, doesn't look like it but it feels like it.

I walk by some outdoor cash registers where people are buying things,on the ground I see a massive folded newspaper, it's about 1 foot thick, I rifle through a few pages without actually reading anything and imagine this is the Wall Street Journnal.

Nearby in a checkout line is a wedding party, there's a picture/photo there of a large "East Coast" wedding party, it's stylized and seems half-painting half-photograph.

+ racquetball: observing a game, guy plays a lot at the front, waiting to get my court, challenge court, think of glow-in-the-dark stealth RQB

A guy is playing a girl, I'm observing from the back of the court. He makes a lot of side-to-side at-the-front shots. On one point the girl runs really fast to get to the ball, a great hustle, the point continues, and she tries to hit the ball off the back wall and messes up. I think of the concept of "stealth" racquetball: played in the dark, the ball would be glow-in-the-dark green, and the racquets would need to be longer, like squash racquets, so that your opponent wouldn't be able to figure out where you were (dream logic!). The racquets would be white, too, I see one, looks like a badminton racquet. It's time for my reservation, but the courts are still full of people playing a challenge ladder. I think of joining in.

+ strange quarry: weird processing/gathering trucks, fall into manure hole with pipes, guy in the bag

Outdoors daytime, a large open conical quarry. One level near the top is made of large stones and is being processed by a strange truck with lots of tubes coming off of it. I walk along the path and come upon a 10-foot deep whole with vertical pipes in it, it also seems to be lined on the sides with horse manure. I (fall?) down inside the whole and hear a voice from underneath me, I was sitting on a small canvas bag/sack, there's a guy inside there. He's in there in a hope for his untreatable condition to be cured.

+ semi-epic in technological multi-story girder building: breath temperature detection program, when will it be done, guy sitting in room, scary alien (ghost? bacteria?) is learning, director contacts headquarters, breath calming device (TWO breath occurrences!); two guys accepted into flight school, flying away, views of Disneyland below, bathroom, strange toothpaste, wife, SF

I'm at a desk with a computer system on it in an open modern multi-level office building with lots of exposed girders. I'm building a breath temperature measuring device. I will make it take two inputs from two people and it will do a simultaneous analysis of the breath temperatures. It will measure minimum, maximum, and median (mean, too?) temperature of the breath blown in. The director of the facility asks me when it will be ready, I'm pretty sure it will be ready later this day, but it may take until tomorrow to finish.

I'm walking through the facility, in one open area there's a guy (and a girl?) sitting at a desk.

We're gathered together in a room. We are observing how the scary alien intelligence (bodiless? bacteria?) are attempting to gain control of a mouse on a computer. The alien intelligence is making progress and is beginning to activate the fighter/bomber planes and may use them against us. The director of our facility is signaling headquarters, she does this by signing her signature on a piece of paper and encoding a message. I observe her doing this several times.

I get scared and run out of the room. I move to another room nearby, but the doors are strangely opening for me as I approach automatically. I think the alien intelligence may be doing this to lead me to a trap, I ask someone if this could be and they answer "yes."

I'm pretty scared, somebody gives me a calm-down breathing apparatus for me to have. It works by providing resistance to natural breathing patterns, you have to push pretty hard for it to allow breath in or out. It's a multi-part device, you blow in one end, and something moves on the other and as the breath comes out. This calms me down. I go back to the original room and fold my apparatus and put it on a shelf. I look for it again right away and can't find it.

Flying now on an airplane with open sides/doors (like a paratrooper plane). Two guys are happy, they've been accepted to the flight training program, there is a vision of a bunch of guys in flight gear floating through the air. I see down on the ground below the plane, we're flying over "Disneyland", there are large colorful "rides". The ocean is nearby, it is bright daylight. We fly over another "Disney" amusement park, circling to the right, I look down, it's pretty crowded with teeny tiny people (ant sized). We fly closer to one ride which is little children going vertically up and down on tracks, their mothers are there too.

I'm in a bathroom, (doing something?), leaving, I see on a shelf/counter a completely used up double-nozzled tube of toothpaste:



There is another more normal looking tube of toothpaste with some left in it. I squirt out a large blob of pale green (like old Crest) toothpaste on my brush and am about to brush my teeth with it. I stop and think, where did this toothpaste come from? It's not mine, ew, I shouldn't use it, and dump it and head to leave.

My wife is also leaving, we're in the big city, I think I should hang around in the city and (<do something> )

late morning jumbled scenes:

+ hiding under bath towel, on bus with MR he disappears, strange neighbor sign, strip and engage the girl, problem with electricity in the basement, ham and cheese bagel in parents' kitchen

I'm on a bus with best friend MR heading up S street towards GP. Near the top I realize he's not there and I don't see him. Outside the bus (?) there is a sign put up by a neighbor. I read it several times and am trying to make sense out of it. The part I'm sure about are: "It is our daughter's birthday" and "Yes, this is odd" (meaning it's strange to make such a sign in the first place!).

I'm lying down in a room with people, I'm in an "excited" state, I'm trying to hide this and simultaneously "enjoy" the state, I pull a large bath tower over myself but can't quite get everything covered up.

(semi-lucid)

Spoiler for explicit sexual content:

I'm in a room, there's a hot girl there, I pick her up and put her on a table seated before me. I pull off her top, and pull off another top underneath the first, I think this is going too slowly, she's topless now, and I lean forwards and put my mouth on one of her nipples she's fairly flat chested. I then stand her up a bit and pull down her leggings and panties, and spread her legs, there's a patch of black pubic hair there, and I dive in for oral action. Moving my tongue around I'm delighted to find I'm getting touch feedback on my tongue. I wake up moving my tongue around on one of my top front teeth ()

Dozing in and out of sleep

+ A guy in the basement is telling us something we're doing is interfering with the electrical system and is bothering his sleep since an electrical line is right next to his head. I'm not understanding what he's saying. He says the problem is in the basement. Part of a wall is painted red? I finally understand that something we're doing is causing a change in the flow of electricity and that is sounding like some sort of hum that is bothering him.

+ I pick up a bag and open it from the kitchen table, inside is a ham and cheese bagel. I take it to the kitchen and want to zap it in the microwave, but my dad is in the way, I try to step around him but can't, so I wait for a second then I put the bagel on a bubbling plate in the microwave, slam the front for of the microwave with a bang. I notice the small microwave is encased in a large enclosure, I think this is to limit the radiation. My mother says something about a project (guava juice?) I'm working on it late.