FryingMan

23:56 bedtime not bad, couldn't be helped, family watching news on TV in our room

00:00 Wednesday 2014-03-19 Competition #17 night #12

07:24

1) At near-night-time in childhood neighborhood park, very dark but still can see. I'm on the middle level near the path down to the bottom level on the right. I notice a tree that I think I used to climb, it looks very old, near dead, and that's depressing. I look up and see a small group of green leaves. I go partway down the hill and look at another tree on the hillside going down to the basketball level. The ground had been built way way up and I knew the base of the tree was buried deep in the dirt. The whole scene seems a bit spooky. I'm down on the bottom level looking at the path up the other side, I catch a glimpse of someone running down the far path, I can't see the person clearly, I'm a bit concerned about encountering him. I see steam coming out of two vents in the ground, I wonder what kind of steam it is and suppose it's not healthy to breathe. Someone runs by me kicking a plastic milk jug full of some red/pink liquid, the jug scoots by me and up the hill a bit, I laugh at this. There is now a group of young punks walking towards me and going up the hill. They look at me. I go up the hill with them. One of them is throwing acorns at me which is annoying. I say "Hah, you think that hurts? I grew up in the B schools, every day I had *stones* thrown at me."

2) Dance party. Packed with young people, wife is there. Two people arrive, one is a short Asian woman who looks really strange, I think if she approaches me to dance I'll quickly go to my wife and dance with her. A staff members comes out and announces "ok you kids in the back, you can have beer but can't have harder alcohol, and you'll have to order food." I go to one of these guys and say "Hey, I wish I was in trouble for underage drinking, because that would mean" (do some math in my head), "27 years younger!"

F1) I'm playing in an orchestra on my instrument. One of the punks complains that the music is bad, I say that it's better than the pop music at that dance place which was playing for hours and hours and hours.

F2) I kick over a stool accidentally and it falls into a guy sitting at the next table, I profusely apologize, and say I didn't realize anyone was sitting there now. His friends joke about this, I say I'm not that drunk.

3) With Jr high friend DD, I was telling him "did you know I used to be with AG, and it sucks because I gained a lot of weight in December," and she broke up with me. I see myself posing in skinny jeans sticking my butt out and striking stupid magazine style poses, then I see myself heaving with a noticeable roll of fat around my middle.

We went to a place famous for its furry rats. They come up and climb all over you. One was climbing all over me, I was freaked out by this, i couldn't use my hands to brush it off of me, I said "get it the hell off of me!" My friend said "It's OK, let it crawl all over you, even your face, you have to do that." I didn't want to. There was some schematic drawing of the rats showing their long fur.

08:51

4) swimming. I'm coming from another pool walking by a larger pool and I get in because there are a lot of free lanes. As I'm getting in I start to see swimmers in each of the lanes in the pool, so I take the right-most lane by the wall. There are some people in the way, I'll just swim around them. One of them is a woman with a very large bust, I think about checking her out more closely. But it doesn't quite work, I turn around and go the other way. There's another attractive woman swimming there and I check her out as well. I think "oh man the next time I lucid dream I'm going to have a good time!" I get out of the pool, I hop out and I'm instantly on my feet, I'm amazed at how easily I got out of the pool and on to my feet.

Leaving the pool there are a bunch of people outside, there it a little girl touching pieces of styrofoam, I put one in my mouth it's already a bit wet and I think she probably put it in her mouth already. There were a bunch of little pieces of styrofoam on her shoe, I blow at them to clear them off and most fly away but not all of them.

1 hour swim, 2150 m., moderate sprint lap every 250m

23:06 bedtime

took a while to get to sleep -- deep drowsiness but some room distraction, sleep time maybe 23:30-23:45

00:00 Tuesday 2014-03-18 competition #17 night #11

04:17

1) I'm in a large open luxurious apartment with (fake?) wife, another adult woman, and a child. There are floor-to-ceiling walls and I'm positioned so that I see the full panorama outside. I see that a huge wind is starting I can see the wave of massive wind blowing trees over on their sides horizontally, I say "Get away from the windows! The trees are going to fall!" and I see huge massive trees falling towards our place. The people won't move away from the glass, I'm yelling but my voice doesn't come out well. Some other trees fall on the other side of the house behind my back and this breaks some other glass walls we have. "See!?" I say.

2) In my parent's house, my mother is showing my wife and me some cabinet. She gives us the choice to see the old one or the new one, let's see the new one. It has doors that close down to the bottom. She has two pictures of short-haired 30ish women on the bottom of the cabinets, their name's start with "K". I think my wife might be jealous that my mother has those pictures there. My mother opens a giant trunk to display a huge set of files, 2 meters by 1 meters packed with files and papers. I'm impressed at the amount of correspondence she has. My wife is talking about how she confirmed our wedding date in November (false, it was another month).

3) I am configuring a can of Coke. It has lots of electronic controls. It takes quite a while to get the can correctly configured. When I finish, I look up and see an Asian man, he's expecting me to continue. I think this is going to take a really long time if we have to configure every single can by hand.

F1) G and the cousins spending money for something

F2) the celebrity singer did not want to come

06:27

4) I'm in a small room with a window looking out over a city street. I look outside the window and there is a procession in the street. A car like a limousine is driving very very slowly from left to right. The passenger's side door is open and I see inside. There are some adults and some children there. As the car passes I see that there are bicyclists on the far side of the car to the back and riding behind the car. They are harnassed in some way to the car so that they are pushing it. I think that's a hard job probably and explains why the car is going so slowly. I look farther to the left behind the vehicle and see a topless attractive young woman on a bicycle. I look away in embarrassment at first, then I think what am I doing, take a picture at least! I think I need to find my iphone or my iPad, and run ahead of the procession and take a shot of her. As I go inside to find them I feel like get lucid or start to get lucid but the dream fades and I feel like I'm waking up...

...discontinuity...

...into bed in a very large open white room with very tall ceilings everywhere except for right over my bed which is on a raised platform. I have forgotten the previous dream scene. There is a normal height ceiling over my bed. I sense that my bed area is is on a raised platform. There are no furnishings at all. I sense that the main room is all around and below me to the right, straight ahead, and left, situated on a corner. I look up above across this opening to the wall near the far ceiling and see "windows" (flaps of wall on hinges) that can open and I think people could probably see me through those (dreamsign). I'm looking through one of them which is propped open and I see an industrial looking unfinished space with a long bright white flourescent light tubes on the ceiling of that room on the other side of the wall. I hear what sounds like a circular saw and I suppose they're doing construction to build that space, maybe they're building a restaurant there, but if they do then there will be a lot of people there and they could see me. The vision into the other room with the flourescent lights is extremely clear and bright.

23:42 bedtime. Not bad, still earlier would be better, but before midnight at least.

00:00 Monday 2014-03-17 Competition #17 night #10, LD #26, KILD, kissing the realtor, TOTM

No memories from earlier wakings.

06:29

1) Playing with a little doggy. Cute, this is some woman's dog from next door that has wandered in my front door. I think he's trained so I want to see him to tricks. I'm lying on the floor close to him. I say "lay down" and gesture 'down' with my hand, he lays down. I say "up" and gesture up but he doesn't get up. I say "lie over" and he rolls to his side. The owner comes up and says you need to use a treat to get them to stand up, and I (or her) gets him to stand up leading his muzzle with a treat, I remember that yes treats help in training.

2) Med school.
Not total memory, but they're all from the same dream I'm sure, so I'm counting them as one dream instead of individual fragments.

Meet a group of old friends (in parent's living room?). I see CB and his older brother AB (they don't look right). Another friend to the left is saying that he is going to Med school but is not looking forwards to it.

I'm going to med school but I'm not looking forward to it. I know it will be a lot of work, and despite working really really hard I may not succeed.

I'm talking to some (woman?) who is going to the med school, she (?) is some sort of gender changer? I think she/it may be AM, a friend on my kids.

A group of students are at a table debating the merits of various 3d graphics packages.

After that the students and I climb up a large grand white wide staircase, and stand there.

Our group is standing at the "board of pathetic-ness" and trying to choose an activity. The absolutely most pathetic thing to do is to stand on the street, spread a few streets apart, waiting for more cool people to come by and hope they think you are good enough to come with them even though they know you're pathetic, but they see potential in you.

Our group is skiing down (to town?) I'm DO flying overhead. I see the people skiing and the paths their skis make in the snow, it's dark twilight outside in trees. We're going downhill and that's hard enough work, how will we get back up again?

3) I'm in a group we're trying to find our way through gardens. I see a strange walrus/dog/worm thing in one garden we go through, I think it's a "heffalump." We reach a stone wall leading up to a neighboring garden, and I see there a young and an adult "heffalump," they have huge blue watery "seal-like" sad eyes ("awwww"). The adult has a deep voice and I think we should avoid it. We turn to another tall (red?) rough rock fence nearby and start climbing it, the stones are very irregular and not totally secure, I climb to the top.

4) Singing Sweeney Todd in the pub. In a pub/bar location, lots of people in booths, a big bearded young man approaches the stage. But to sing here you have to lift and hold up one side of a huge heavy container. I see him lift it, should I help? It's really big and heavy, but he holds it up, and starts singing the main theme of Sweeney Todd. I join in, and start singing upper harmony (how wild that is in a dream...). I don't hear/recall all the words. We come over to booths full of young people who are also all singing along, it's a roaring good time.

There's more but it slipped away...

Up, bathroom, sit for a bit, still have one more sleep cycle to go. Mantra.
BTB
Lying in bed a while, not really insomnia, drifting, can't get totally comfortable, lots of dream scene images appear then dance away. Outside noise starting, I get up and close the window. I *know* that if I sleep, I *will* lucid dream. An hour? 45 minutes, not sure... Left hip is sore, right hip is sore, both shoulders a bit sore, can't sleep on back, so pull out the nukes: sleep on stomach. I eventually just let go and relax, relax...and sleep...

08:30

5) KILD, LD #26, Kissing the realtor.

I'm standing somewhere going somewhere I need to be, outdoors, at a traffic light, waiting for it to turn green. A late 20's early 30's woman pleasant looking but not really a beauty is standing nearby. I think she wants to talk to me to get a signature on a petition, it turns out that I am a resident of this place so I could sign I suppose, but I want to avoid the conversation. She starts talking to me and says that she just visited the woman in that house over there (I know she's talking about my mother and my childhood home, but I don't reveal this to her), and she says it's good thing she did because they were going to sell soon (I "know" this is true) and the told them about the benefits of selling vs. renting. The light turns green, I gesture towards the light to indicate we should start walking, and we do. We head down a stairway into an indoor office. The real estate agent (for I realize that's what she is) is talking about all her clients, "I have 130,000 problems I need to solve," she says. I think I just want to get away from her and on to my destination. She then says, with genuine feeling, "I love you." What? I feel very awkward, and say "well....uh....that's nice...." Then something clicks. Ah ha. I swoop in for a kiss, and on the way in I get fully lucid. Have a quick but not too fast kiss, it's *nice*. I pull back, we're standing against a bulletin board with random papers posted. We look deeply into each other's eyes, my face is just a few inches away from hers. She has beautiful deep brown eyes I realize! She is looking adoringly deeply into my eyes. Things seem stable but I raise my hands into my vision on either side of her shoulders and rub my thumbs against my fingers to stabilise. I feel like I should turn away but I can't! I ask her, "What's your middle name?" [TOTM basic (i)]. She just keeps on with the adoring looks deep into my eyes, not even confused, just doesn't answer. Ok, next: clothing color, I look down, and CRAP she's wearing green! Bright green[*] epaulet things (shaped, they're part of the material, not placed on top) on her trapezoids left and right over a white top. I look back up into her eyes and I fade to awake.

About 30 seconds - 1 minute lucid.
[*] TOTM basic (ii) was "pinch a DC not wearing green, describe the reaction."

00:00 Sunday 2014-03-16 competiiton #17 night #9, LD #25

00:56 bedtime, ugh, got lazy, stayed on computer. Bad FryingMan, bad!

05:44

1) Empire plato computer key combinations. I (or I'm watching someone else operating the keyboard) am hitting strange key combinations, at the beginning of key combinations special screen pops up, and there's an interface for selecting which special key you want selected. This goes on for a while, selecting different special keys.

2) see my old car, I look at the license plate to confirm it's mine, I recite the license plate out loud, and look at the car's license plates but the digits aren't quite clear and not quite right. I see a new style of california license plates, they look very different. Ask some woman at a desk outside about the new plates, she condescendingly explains that yes CA has a new license plate numbering scheme, you get a number at first, and then the numbers change a few days later to the permanent license plate.

3) at work sitting at a long table, I have computers and papers propped up in front of me along the row, I have a paper I wrote propped up in front of me, group of managers come and stand behind me, they start reading my paper out loud, at first in a foreign language I don't understand, and then in English. They ask questions about it. Manager asks in front of everybody why I didn't sign up for the monthly bonus/commendation. I think I didn't because it takes more work. He says "everybody here ALWAYS signs up to get the commendation," he's waiting for an explanation. I'm sitting there in silence for at least 15 seconds trying to salvage the situation and make myself look not so bad thinking of what to say. I eventually say I wanted to work on so many other things I didn't have time.

The subject changes to meat. I'd rather work on regular kinds of meat. I see a cart filled with many, huge, long, sliced salamis.

4) At a work secretary in human resources. I was there for a company credit card, she takes out a pile of temporary company cards, snaps one off and hands it to me. I ask her what's going on in the world. She shows me a newspaper article that a young high school guy had killed himself. Then it appears that it was a teacher who was accused of a crime and he was so ashamed he killed himself. I see the face of the teacher, as if on an ID card photo. He was about 40 with a light beard, dark hair.

There was a public service television commercial put together by all the people who defended and supported him because he was a great teacher. The camera swings around through the crowd and shows the faces of the people lined up along the walls. I "recognize" the face of one man in a spotlight as a celebrity/famous person, even he supports the teacher. The speakers say something good about this teacher and that there was no proof of any wrongdoing.

A sport team is running down the hallway by the camera, shouting "woohoo!" There were football players, and a little badminton player waving his racquet quickly back and forth. Then there are a bunch of sports players lying down on the ground, I'm one of them, it's the badminton team, I'm lying half on top of the (team leader?). with my elbow on his waist. The leader is asking about different birdies. One of them is flying around the coach asks me to hand it to him. The birdies used are oranges and lemons. I say "I didn't think lemons were the default birdie, I thought it was oranges" we were joking.

BTB

07:30 wife's alarm

Wife says something, I'm annoyed she's talking to me while I'm trying to sleep. Eventually drift back into sleep, and dream!

08:00 ?? not sure

5) At work, sitting on desk talking with coworkers. Someone behind me is asking about the schedule for a project we're working on, there's a deadline coming up. We're trying to figure out what to do, we're talking about a benchmark, I say "we could always just check for the executable name being <something>.exe!" and we break out into laughter for a while, this is a well-known traditional benchmarking "cheat" for device drivers.

I turn around and look behind me and there is a row of computers at a long table. I see on the screen of one of the computers the remains of the game I was playing there, an ASCII based dungeon game (angband, super fun game: Home of Angband - rephial.org). I think I should clear the screen to hide the evidence. But another coworker goes on that system (a Sun Microsystems workstation) and brings up his game with little graphical buildings and little characters, the whole screen is sort of animating up and down.

I'm a bit farther down the row of desks, I'm trying to walk forwards, but my body doesn't move forwards. I keep trying to walk forwards, pumping my arms and legs, and then I start moving backwards, I feel like I'm being pulled. This is a very comical situation, I"m exaggerating my motions and people are laughing. I think someone must have attached a rope around by waist and is pulling me backwards, I look behind me to see who's doing it.

08:37

6) FA: I wake up in our old rental duplex. My wife gets up and goes to the dining room/kitchen to do something, I'm lying on the mattress on floor level and looking at her through the doorway, I see just her head, I hear her reading something out loud. Someone then starts talking about the name of a child that was born, my wife says the name is <my name>, Junior. We had a child? They're saying that if the name is mispronounced at birth it cannot be correct later on the birth certificate. I hear my name with the incorrect vowel being used, then I hear "Karen" mispronounced/spelled as "Karan".

A woman (the name lady?) is talking with my wife, they're looking in at me, I'm trying to hide my face behind a book.

I'm talking with some guy in a building. He looks like Uncle Hank from Breaking Bad. He's telling me that people were hitting them as they were going up the steps to the hospital in order to give birth. I say we had good luck there, in mid-December so it was not crowded, we had the whole department to ourselves which we needed because both our kids needed... and the guy walks away. "Huh, I guess he's not interested in hearing about our story." I'm looking around, the halls have changed, what used to be openings to other hallways have closed. The same guy (I think a doctor) appears again from where he appeared the first time and walks away through another door and disappears the same way he did before, I sort of try to follow him and start to tell him the story again but I realize I don't know the way back to my bedroom where this started, and I'm lucid (from the location change mostly, ADA/RC-location FTW!). Very unstable, dizzy/hazy at first. Stop, rub hands for a while, start to feel my hands rubbing, and the visuals clarify and stabilize. I clap my hands a few times to finish. I think "OK, I'm going to engage my senses in the dream environment." I really look around, and it's very vivid and clear and WEIRD. The floor, walls, and ceilings are all painted with the same pattern, darkish (army green) pea soup green background, mottled with many swoops/streaks of color, blue and white mostly, maybe orange. It's like the floor, ceiling and walls form one bit pattern, it's very striking. The color seems "wet" and ooze-y like wet paint or playdough. A very "cartoony" looking scene.

I look to the wall on my left and reach both my hands up and flatten my hands against the wall, it's actually a sort of rectangular vent that runs along the wall, I expect to feel cold metal and I do. I rub my hands back and forth, left and right against the wall, and I look at my hands (RC), they're faint/transparent, and they update "at a low frame rate", they look jerky when I move them, not smooth. I turn again to my left (now facing backwards from lucid moment) and start walking forwards. As I turn I think I should summon a cookie into my pocket and eat it (one of my competition plans), but I forget this instantly after I turn. I walk forwards and think I want to hold this dream as long as I can by engaging my senses and moving through the scene. I quickly come up to a corner bending 90 degrees to the right, where there is an open air snack stand on the right. There are 3 young lady attendants there. I have a quick internal debate and "lose" -- surely a quick kiss would be fine. I turn to the right and face one of them, she's cute, slightly dark skinned, she's looking at me, I say/command "come here!" and she smiles shyly and starts to make her way to me, bending over to come out to the hallway under the counter and...I super fast buzz fade to awake. "No!" 1.5 - 2 minutes lucid.


walking the corridors of a hospital

23:50 bedtime, a bit late but OK

00:00 Saturday 2014-03-08 competition #17 night #8, LD #24 (FA)

05:15

1) flying in to Country1, I'm flying over landscape, I land in a large building complex up high. The Country1's have set a trap for me, but Country2's commandos have prepared a way out for me. I make my way back through Country2's front lines and clasp hands with a young Country2 officer and exchange some words of greeting/thanks.

2) Calling S2 on the phone. I'm on a tent on the lower level, and S2 is sleeping in a tent on the upper level on an out door platform. Then my wife and I are going to go to him and check on something, to check on his reading progress, I try to call him while I"m walking up the stairs with my wife to give him a head's up that we're coming to him. We reach him and he tells us the books he read are on the table under the coins. There are about 4 books on the table and a 5 inch tall stack of coins are placed on top of them. One of the books is really think. He said he'd just read portions of that one.

F1) I'm calling someone and saying that the weed was AMAZING (IWL I don't touch drugs, weird), that was some AMAZING stuff!

F2) buying a Honda and waiting for it, other people are waiting for cars to emerge from a building where they've bought them.

F3) S2 is with his friend S, S2 has his shirt off, he's air-chopping with a katana, S is telling S2 he's doing a good job.

Can't get back to sleep.

06:00 out of bed, eat breakfast
07:00? BTB

between 08:00-09:00?

3) FA LD #24. I'm in and out of sleep, dozing for a long time, seeing dream images start to work and then fade away, I see several times what appears to be a wall of bathroom tiles, so I imagine I'm in a shower or the bathroom. Eventually I get up to use the bathroom, I'm using the toilet in a bathroom where the walls are white tiles, after finishing I turn away and head towards the door at the opposite wall, my head feels really heavy/dizzy/drowsy I think I should get right away back to bed and I'll certainly lucid dream. I realize this is not my bathroom, this is a false awakening, I'm dreaming, then I'm awake.

11:44

F4) Horror Hotel -- I'm walking around a bed trying to make it and pull the sheets across, the staff are talking amongst themselves and saying that they can't imagine that I would be staying here after I've heard all the stories. I think I should go farther on down the road to the next hotel.

F5) Singing up the mountain. I'm walking up the mountain in a big group, I break out into a strong song. I think my voice is pretty good but not perfect.

4) Battling the cyber demon, sliced leg. Lightsaber trident I'm showing it off to a woman before the fight, it has a long shaft, I ignite the blades, they're lightsaber power blades curved like horns of a bull in the shape of a trident they're white. In the fight some guy slices me on my left leg on the side /back just above the knee, I reach down to feel the wound it doesn't hurt, am I bleeding? but I feel a long cut I can't tell how bad it is I look to my hand and I see blood but not a lot it's not pouring out like I thought it might be.

F6) dance with the really tall celebrity women. I have a view like standing partly up a stairway looking down. Very thin/tall women are dancing (and doing handsprings?) in a big room.

5) french crinkle fry / dinner suggestion they say what to eat, I'm on a diet dipping a crinkle fry into ketchup and eating it then want to go out I'll go to keep company but won't eat much. They decide that they're just going to order to go, and I say "no, never mind then" and I leave the group and head towards the door.

Lots of detail lost here, there's a ton more action that's just beyond grasp.

23:30-ish bedtime, yay!

00:00 Thursday 2014-03-13 competition #17 night #6, LD #23

03:56

1) I'm in my parent's bathroom, it's night, I know I'm sleeping in my sister's old bedroom right next door. I'm looking out through the window slats I see across the fence in the neighbor's yard two beautiful shining blonde people (BB: ageless, I think!). I think they're the neighbors, I don't want them to see me (DS). I slink back from the window and lie down on the floor with my head away from the window against the cupboard wall my head up against the door. I hear/sense them approaching, I think they must be climbing up the roof (this room is on the 2nd floor). They open the windows and look at me and I look at them, and think/say I could be in the next room, trying to make up some lame excuse.

2) It's the end of the world, and the waters are swirling everywhere. The magic "U" of power is floating in the water and I have to jump for it, I reach it and hold on to it and I'm on dry land. I'm going to be the keeper of the "U".

3) I'm in a bright daytime colorful fairy garden, with colorful magical plants and beings/animals all around. I have a magical ring/disc (like a frisbie but open center and 2-inch thick ring) I gesture / jerk it with my left hand and shoot out a magical force ring that flies off at high speed going forwards and to the right/up. Strange funny creatures and animals and worms come up to me.

F1) in a building getting out other people pushing on buttons in the floor with feet, goo oozes up from the floor when I step on the button.

F2) an outdoor bouncy slide, someone was guided by a force that said they'd never seen anything like that (me), how I was chosen.

F3) a scene of an outdoor movie theater starting to watch some show I'm floating over the top as a DO

4) I'm on a boat in the waters, I look behind me and in the distance I see PT approaching, his son G is already on the boat. I know my children are on board down and to the right.

Get up, bathroom, sit on bed thinking about dreams for a bit, set some intention, then BTB.

06:08

5) ultra long multi-themed dream culminating as lucid. Themes:
A) SB old grad school serious girlfriend
B) NM grad school friend
C) pizza
D) garden hose invention
E) musical competitions, son's playing piano
F) riding a boat with an impressive security system
G) ghost/burglars breaking in to house, get lucid in shock

I'm sitting at a counter in a restaurant, finishing eathing something (pizza I think). My (wife?) calls and is annoyed that I'm not home. I'm looking at a glossy brochure and I realize that it is a proposal for a date evening from my old grad school girlfriend, SB. She has prepared this dazzling brochure describing the evening she has planned. Including the meal, the wine/drinks, and I "recognize" a picture of one my own bottles of wine that she's going to use and I think one of my own glasses/mugs.

I see my grad school friend NM. He is absolutely 100% soaking drenched from the rain outside, he is dripping all over the place. He's inviting me (and SB?) to join him and friends for pizza later, he gives me some phone number to call to meet them.

I'm outside in a garden there are people there including my sister i'm noticing that a part of the garden is really wet and I realize that I've left on a hose. I turn off the hose and get the brilliant idea for an invention: an automatic timer that notifies you when your garden hose has been turned on for too long so you can go and turn it off. I'm amazed that nobody has thought of this, I think this is going to be a revolutionary invention.

Entering a musical competition, my son is entering as the piano player in a piano/string quartet group. I think how can he possibly do this he doesn't really play any more. I see a line of judges , I'm walking by them, some are children, they have distorted faces, I think some of them are friends of my son from grade school days. I hear my son playing, he's fantastic, I can't believe how well he's playing. The judges nod at me when I look at them to indicate their approval, I think they don't really look much like my sons's old friends (the M's). I think my son shouldn't show off so much and should let the string players also participate more. I look at him and he's not even facing the keyboard, he's hunched over a calculator (calculating how to play the piece?) and has a small child on his lap as well, the main judge looks and is amazed at all the things my son is doing there. My son moves to put the child in a bed which I pull down the covers for. I think I see an old boy scout friend (VL) in the bed then.

I'm on a boat it's dark, we're driving in the water, the boat staff are talking about the security system which is to keep invaders off of the boat: I see it, it's a wire that leads from the back of the boat connected to a tall pole, leading all the way back to the dock. They demonstrate it and a bright powerful purple burst of electricity zips down the wire. There's something nearby my head and I don't want to hit my head, and I don't want to get zapped accidently by that security system.

I'm back in the house with the garden hose invention, I continue thinking about it, there could be a wifi transmitter that communicates with a wrist-band display that you carry, and each hose can tell you when it is done so you can see "front lawn finished", etc. My sister is giving me some music but only as a loan.

I'm standing out side the door of another music competition, I look up and see the sign. We're entering and standing at the elevator, I know my son is absolutely not ready for this one, it's a (Chopin?) competition, some other people want him to play anyway, they go up, I hear the piano sounds then, it's an absolute disaster, he's just pounding on the keys randomly it doesn't sound like anything at all.

I'm in an indoor area, large, open, with lots of cupboards and beds like a giant dormitory room. I'm there with former girlfriend SB. We're arguing, I'm trying to suggest something that she may like to do as a job, she doesn't want to do anything I'm suggesting. I say "Do you want to just stay at home and let me do all the work supporting us?!" and she indicates she does, I leave.

I'm returning to this room. I'm outside it, I see the corner of the room, SB is resting, she has rigged a way to hold the curtains closed, the walls of the room are glass from floor to ceiling but with beams periodically placed horizontally and vertically. In the corner there are two vertical beams close together and she has jammed some water bottles into the crevice there to hold the curtains closed, I know she's resting.

I'm inside the room see her lying on a bed, her head's on my left, I see a dark black wet spot near her mouth, I ask what that is she says something, I suppose she's been drooling, she's not feeling well.

I'm standing somewhere with SB and I decide to call NM up and go meet him for pizza. I can't remember his number! I come up with 7 or 8 digits and I'm just not sure, but AHA, All I have to do is look in my phone, start typing in the numbers and it will automatically find the number then I can call NM, and

BOOM!


I'm severely startled out of my thoughts of calling NM by a loud sound to my right. It sounds like something really big banged up against something else really big. I look to my right and see I'm standing in the back porch of my parent's house, and I'm looking down the hallway to the front door which is standing widely open (the wrong way I think) and there's a large green garbage dumpster there at the front door full of garbage. WTF?!

SB and I are now standing at the front door looking in to the living room. She inhales quickly with a loud gasp and clasps her hand to her mouth in shock. I look in to the room AND ALL THE WINDOWS ARE OPEN. The room only has 2 windows that open but there are at least 10 open windows in this room. The furniture looks like it's been tossed around. I feel shivers of fright/shock.

Spoiler for profanity warning, LD here:

"WHAT THE FUCK!?" Is it a ghost? Is it burglars? This is bizarre, I instinctively do a nose pinch and I CAN BREATHE. "WHAT THE FUCK?! I'M DREAMING!?!?" I do a second nose pinch and yup, I can breath, I'm dreaming. I see then that there are three men standing in the middle of the living room by the hearth, they're standing still looking at me. I shout to them "GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!" and "will" them to leave, and I gesture strongly with my whole right arm and index finger pointing at the open front door. I lean my head towards SB and say "S! Get naked!" I then look back at the men who are still standing there and shout again, "GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!" and then I feel a tingly fade to awake in bed.

I lie awake for some while calming down from shock at the dream end and in awe at the amount of recall I have, easily 20-30 minutes worth or more, it seemed to go on forever. I get up to record it, then come back to bed and think about it some more and sleep some more. Should have set an alarm at this point because I overslept my out of bed target by 1.5 hours. I was astonished that all that time, all the things i was doing, all the places I was, was all a dream, and I felt that astonishment when I got lucid, sort of like a brief "life flashing before your eyes" moment.

10:22

6) football fake out play. I'm DO watching the overhead cam view of a pass, a long bomb towards the end zone. A huge pack of red-uniformed defenders are all running after the ball, I think it may be intercepted, they do a running leap in the end zone but the ball goes through the arms of one of the guys, incomplete pass. Then the team coach comes to me, at first I think he wants to pass to me next, but then I realize and say "Oh, you want the other team to *think* they're going to pass to me, but you're NOT!" and he says "SHHH!!!!!", he's going to pass to some other guy after all the defenders cover me because the other team saw the coach talking to me.

F4) something about going around with a group of women/girls and ice cream.

There's more there but forgot.

23:15 bedtime, yay!

00:00 Wednesday 2014-03-12 Competition #17 night #5

02:35

F1) The Flintstones in a park

1) going through an entrance with S2, he takes his shirt off, I make a remark about this. We enter long hallways, we start playing hockey on the super slippery floors with a puck of some sort. We're running down the hallways and richocheting the puck off the walls to each other. Someone scoops it up (it has become a vinyl record in a paper jacket) and drops it back down to the floor.

F2) a teacher summons a shuttle

05:35

2) Horses on a hill in the distance, "Hey look at the horses let's go watch them," they move away. There are some closer horses by a fence, coming closer, suddenly a man turns around next to the horse and looks at me. He is dark/middle-eastern looking. He starts talking about a strange cow/horse thing on our left, it is a bizarre looking beast.

3) I'm bicycling with a group of friends including CL. CL is riding a bike that has a large console on it like a big motorcycle. I'm looking at the handlebars of the bikes the others are riding, I'm trying to determine if they're the old curly-style of road bikes, or the straight out style of mountain bikes, it looks curly-style at first but then resolves as straight. One rider is saying he gear broke and it took hours to fix. Another is saying that his gear broke and after replacing it the chain/deraileur in the front is a few millimeters unaligned so he is always having to fiddle with the gear shift lever to stop it from clicking, I see him fiddle with it. We jump out bikes up to the roof of cars and then back down.

4) sitting high on a shelf in the corner of a tall/huge room, the strange cow / horse thing from #2 is there rolling on the ground, I watch as its head moves between the border of the light and the darkness, I think it will sooon see me and I don't want it to.

5) Happy Birthday, G! I'm in G's house for his birthday. There are two women there, one lying in bed and one standing up. I decide to check out the woman in bed, she's very old and wearing lots of make-up, I think "ew." A bunch of people have gathered together to wish G happy birthday. A woman is pouring a drink I think is for me but G swoops in and takes it, it's a large drink I end up with a small one. I start to make a toast, I'm trying to find the words to praise G, I start the toast praising G, just then a bunch more people arrive I can see them approaching the house from outside, I decide to wait for them to enter before continuing.

6) Standing outdoors outside a restaurant, I'm waiting for people. I go check the internet router which is lying outside around a building, I think the people I'm waiting for may be using it. I think about returning to where I was waiting and go to Jack in the Box and get some Monster Tacos.

F3) showing my wife something on the computer

F4) some weird things on the ground near my car

06:00 - 07:42

Thinking about the dreams, thinking about work. Eventually decide to sleep more and finally eventually fall asleep again.

Took a long time. Probably slept at 08:00

09:18

7) Nighttime at old neighborhood partk, I'm on the middle level, I'm with a car and a bicycle. The lower basketball level I can see is packed with cars as if it were a parking lot, I see a black guy slinking and jumping between the cars, I figure he's trying to steal the cars or the stereos. He's really hipping and hopping and zipping around quickly darting between the cars very suspiciously. Then a second guy shows up with him, I think "OK it's time to get out of here," I move to put my bike quickly in the back of the hatch-back car, I try to close the door of the hatchback but the bike's in the way, I try slam slam slam harder and harder to close it but it won't latch. Then the two guys are on my level and approaching me. I get the back door to latch finally and I quickly get in the drivers seat and turn on the car. One guy is coming to talk to me by the driver's window, I know this is a technique to distract me while the second guy will go around the other side and try to carjack me. I pretend to give him my attention and behave like I'm distracted but I'm really getting the car ready to go. Then I slam on the gas and pop the clutch, the takes a while to get going, like the clutch is really soft, but I get going eventually.

8) driving down a steep hill with my (deceased WL) aunt. I'm the driver she's in the front passenger seat, her window is open, we're driving by houses on the right, she tries to grab something from a pile of papers on some guy's mailbox as we pass by. We have to go back, she needs to do something with this paper, I stop the car and put it into reverse and try to go back up. The car is very weak or the clutch is very soft, it doens't engage well, the engine is really revving but we're moving in reverse very slowly. I hear a horn honking and look left/forwrads and see that there's a long line of traffic heading downhill in our lane, I must have caused a traffic jam with this maneuver. I coordinated the foot brake, the hand brake, the gas and the clutch to get going in reverse back up the hill. We make it back to the house.

Inside this guy's house, he's ordered something and it has arrived and I see the packing containers, he's in the bathroom washing it. I don't want to meet him so I move forwards and descend a stairway to an office area. I meet his wife and talk about something here. I then have a view of this office area from a higher floor looking through blinds, it's night and I see the lights in that room contrasted against the darkness outside and I know that's where I was earlier talking to that woman.

There's a guy talking to the landlord of this house and he's asking about keys. I know I have the keys.

I'm working with some guys in this house on a device that can control the minds of people over the phone. I'm the technical lead behing this project and I'm proud that everyone knows this, I'm adjusting and connecting wires, connecting the devicer to a phone system. I see the two wires connecting into the box. I joke about calling people and telling them to "send all your money to <my name>." I give a test call to a friend, he says it sounded very automated, I listen to a message from the system and it does indeed sound like computerized text-to-speech, and the words become garbled and incoherent and lost most of the words and you couldn't make sense of what it was saying.

9) I'm watching some adult VHS tape, I'm interrupted, I return to find a tape sitting on the table partially deconstructed / disassembled into pieces, there are two guys, JB and someone else, I suspect they know what's on the tape and they sabotaged it. I'm trying to put the tape back together, I pull a long stream of the tape out of the taple player and try to manually wind it back up but I don't think this is going to work because it's badly twisted. I'm conversing with these guys, the topic moves to transferring media from one place to another, they don't believe I can do it, I say I can so, I give a detailed account of "hooking wires to the video player, through the video converter, and then to the DVD burner," I say this a few times.

10) I'm looking at a blank greeting card together with my mother, in their living room, it is dark. It says on one page "Diablo," a there's a picture of a little guy with horns and cloven hooves, I'm puzzled but this, on another page of the card there's a large artistic white/grey picture close up of the devil's head (with "devil" written over it?) sporting an evil grin, I think this is a VERY questionable card to be sending someone, I say to her , "you can't send this card!" and my mother answers, "Oh, I'm going to send it anyway!!" My father is bringing in large pieces of glass and white plastic/metal lawn/deck furniture into the living room, he had just washed it, and he's going to build a display case out ot it.

09:28 up out of bed

23:15 ? bedtime, yay!

00:00 Tuesday 2014-03-11 Competition #17 night #4

04:07

1) On the ground floor of a huge multi-story movie theater. It's closed. The staircase is to the left I think about sneaking up and having a look around, it's a big theater and I've always wanted to see what it looks like. I go to the right into the staff bathroom instead. It's a good thing I'm in the staff bathroom club because the regular bathrooms are closed. I'm carrying a plastic cup with a toothbrush in it. There are young people in there, joking around, sloshing things into other people's cups. People are carrying tall cups with toothbrushes in them. Someone is saying he was pranked and someone put shoelaces in his ??.

2) 50 year old friend CL and his son. CL is shirtless and buff, his son looks like him but smaller, CL is on left, son on right, we're going up stairs, we're going to see if the elevator is working but a gong sounds and that means it's time for a prayer, someone doesn't want to to it, I don't know the words but I'm singing along. The view has changed to outside bright daylight, and after singing the prayer the Mother of God says "the Father has no Father because he's the Father."

3) With some guys in a car I'm giving directions. I'm saying "go to the left, then the right." a guy in the car disagrees and says "no that's the <something>" this is his hometown and his neighborhood, I tell him he probably knows the name of every stone and of every pebble, and you probably would name <some thing> the "bliggersnabble" or the "schlorbleflap", that stone over there.

We're in some guy's house, he's coming home he looks up and sees us, I pretend that I'm trying to help him get rid of something, and set the table.

F1) A guy getting out of a car, shooting something by a house, and saying "the best part of this is that you get to be with Henry."

4) in my childhood room, I'm giving a technical presentation. Someone asks me if I can give thte presentation again, I say I'll only do it if I have notes. People gather together to listen to the presentation. There are a bunch of colored pencils/crayons hanging in the air and I'm commenting on the colors, these look like new colors, there's in particular a very special blues and greens, I'm searching for the term for these colors, "they're not pastel, but they're....?" and somebody
says the (fake) name for them and I say "yeah yeah yeah that's it that's the name!"

F2) picking up a desk lamp which fell/swivelled over and putting it back up on the desk.

07:09

5) I'm arriving in a large dark hall with lots of people sititng around sparse tables, I'm there to get baptized, a big guy says that we need to bring our own firewood to heat the baptism water. He says without that the baptism won't go well. We didn't bring any firewood, I look to my wife and say what shall we do? Luckily there are some manly handymen in a shed, the shed door opens and I see stacks and stacks of firewood, we can use that. The handyman start building a sort of little bridge about 4 feet high and 4 feet long, I'm fascinated with the construction. They take several pieces of wood and start the frame, sliding it into place in a special way it is curved. They start putting on rubbery sheets and pulling them tight, pounding the structure with large mallets, pulling it tight and pounding things into place, the bridge is shaping up with a solid walkway covered in this (green?) rubber.

I'm coming out of a garage-like place and see a group of people standing just outside in the light, they're standing with a big tub of water in their hands, I know this is a "suprise baptism," I check my shirt, it's a white shirt but it has logo of some company I used to work for, I think this is an innappropriate shirt. Their first slosh misses entirely, and I walk more towards them to help them along, I'm sort of sorry for them that they're doing a bad job, the second slosh of water at me gets me wet on a corner of my shoulder, it's not very much, the 3rd slosh also misses entirely.

6) I'm arriving at a home coming up the stairs and we're opening the door, it's FF's house, I'm thinking about his nose (which is large/funny) but I don't see it directly, he's standing to my left. We enter the house and I look at my naked arms, I see the skin on them, (they don't look like my arms), F's wife says something about my skin. There's a table that a cat is jumping at and I see a little fast moving yellow blob, I look closer and I see it's a tiny birt about the size of a golfball, I urgently tell F that his bird has gotten loose, but it turns out that it's just a wind-up toy bird.

8:06 getting up for the day

11:30 - 13:00 2km swim / one hour

00:00 Monday 2014-03-010 Competition #17 night #3 insomnia sucks and the paradox of intent

04:22

F1 entered and followed a snowy path
F2 at a drive through window with Arnold Schwarzenegger
F3 in a very tall steep roller derby with son and our cat kept falling down to the middle of the rink.
F4 pressing buttons and flipping switches on a bottle of shampoo with women around to enable something with a cat
F5 outdoor picnic with the D family.

Couldn't get back to sleep

06:00 up to kitchen for snack and reviewing why I'm not sleeping.
Held purring cat for a while, scratched its head.
Sit in rocking chair for a while.

06:30-ish back to bed.

Decide to hell with it, I had basically no problems sleeping in this bright noisy room before lucid dreaming practice. I take out the earplugs, take off the sleep mask, and decide to let whatever will happen, happen, including just lying there for another couple of hours, not trying to do anything at all.

And of course I fall asleep in about 5 minutes . The paradox of intent.


08:14

1) I'm trying to control a squirming annoyed infant in my arms. It's dark. I bring its face to mine and sort of kiss/suck its tiny (sort of doll-sized) nose and it calms down and it looks into my eyes and gives a cute little baby laugh. I do this a few more times. Face actually sort of creepy and doll-like.

2) A group of people are gathering around in a living room to start a reading, they ask what we've been reading, my wife jumps in and answers for me, we start reading out loud but there's a lot of noise coming from somewhere, I walk into the room to follow the noise and find it and it turns out it's coming from a two-way baby monitor. I walk back into the house as I "know" the parent with the baby is in a bedroom somewhere, I think the parent is annoyed at the noise of our reading and is making noise to annoy us in return, I find the bedroom where there is sound but I do not go in. I return back and am walking by doors, one is cracked open a bit with light and I think that is my friend MR's room, he seems to be stirring / getting up. I'm walking in a narrow aisle between a bunch of single / cot beds.

3) Documentary: The Man Who First Discovered Gold in Alaska. A grizzled distinguished older man with a grey and black streaked beard is standing outside his restaurant talking to the camera crew. He's telling the story of how he was the first person to find gold in Alaska. (At this point: I was then seeing his memories through his eyes). The very first time he panned for gold he found enough right away to buy himself dinner. I see gold flakes under flowing water, and some coins. He wrote messages on paper and folded them up and put them under a stone. I watch as hands fold up a paper and put several like it underneath a stone. It's easy to see the paper I think it's not very secure there.

09:00 up for the day.
09:45 at gym, light weights, some bike, light quick swim, sauna

00:00 Sunday 2014-03-09 competiiton #17 night #2

00:08 bedtime

05:30

1) (WTF?) I'm looking at the ceiling of a room and there are large square gray constructs there arranged in a pattern. I think this is some sort of billiard table and I look for shots I could make and think about where there things would move around to if i hit them. On the walls across the room there are tracks that go up and down along the front of closet doorways (IWL I think this was my parent's bedroom), and two billiard balls are racing up and down these tracks. One of the balls is trying to jump ahead of the other one. The balls are replaced by small dogs and they brake hard by sticking their front legs out straight in front of them and digging their butts into the ground and dragging them.

07:06

2) I'm outdoors, among trees, doing something with the ground, there are tools here. I notice some long straight channels in the ground (looks like made from cement?) that go from one are to another area and I think I need to make some more of these channels. I'm trying to find a tool that will help me gouge the ground in the proper shape. The tool I'm thinking of is like a giant allen-wrench-shaped crowbar, but all I can find are some axes, but I know these won't do a good job. I go looking for my partner with axes in hand to see if he has the gouging tool. I'm carrying the axes two in one hand at first then adjust (like a good boy scout) to carry one axe in each hand proper safety-merit-badge-boy-scout style.

I'm approaching an area where there is a line of shrubs going from my left to my right, I'm near the left end of this row, beyond this there is a hill going up on which are close-built colorful houses in many rows going up the hill. A woman appears from around the row of shrubs and sticks a plant quickly in the ground near the end of the line of shrubs, and she disappears again behind the back of them, I think she's marking her territory. I see my friend/partner and ask him about the tools and he doesn't know. I see a house to my left and a plant that marks the boundaries of the property lines. Then I'm looking up at the rows of houses and telling my friend how to get to a particular place I know up there, you have to go up a steep hill and turn onto a street.

3) can't pick up papers in driveway, why do I bother picking them up I'm not going to use them anyway, I see some handwriting on a page and assume it's my handwriting. There are some people parking and approaching I think we're probably in their driveway I think we should leave we're probably freaking them out. A guy says we're going to use the papers again. The pages are turning into confetti and getting blown away, I can't pick them up. The guys says something about "think of all the computer stuff it was harder to do without what we did."

4) Walking through crowded hallways in some high school. I see a drinking fountain in front of me I want a drink but it's a bad one, as the stream of water flows horizontally and way too close to the bowl/faucet so you risk touching something dirty. A bit farther down the hallway I see a drinking fountain with a more vertical stream. A teacher is showing me around. I wonder if I know anybody at this high school. There's a little 2-lane bowling alley, very very narrow lanes with kids bowling there, I see a control room for the alley next to it, there's a boy sitting in there and there are lots of controls and computer circuit cards and wires there. I think that's awesome. But then just beyond it there's a full sized bowling alley with "23 lanes" full-sized. As I'm walking by the lanes on my left I watch a boy bowl (right-handed) a gutter ball. I think the kids would be amazed if I got up and bowled a strike.

I come across an odd lane where the whole lane is rippling in waves about a meter high and one meter apart between crests. 4 people are standing in between the waves, and the game involves getting the ball to move from one wave valley to another. You also get points to doing maneuvers with the ball. One couple of the people, boy and girl, start doing something that causes the ball to orbit around their necks and heads, and they start kissing. I get a "camera zoom" view flying in a circle towards the woman's face and keeps zooming and zooming up to her lips and I see she has a bit of a mustache (WL day residue!) and the dream ends while the view of her lips keeps on zooming until they fill the entire view.

00:00 Saturday 2014-03-08 competition #17 night #1

01:11 bedtime. Family serious situation event, no avoiding the lateness
Long to sleep, very stimulated. Required self-hypnosis relaxation, probably slept no earlier than 01:45

05:52

1) Cancan dancing party. Several couples in a room cancan dancing, small apartment living room combined with a kitchen, the women are stripping. I'm on the other side of the room, the women are sitting on the couch, they're wearing big fluffy cancan burlesque-dancing multi-layer skirts. Their legs are up and underwear sort of visible underneath all the layers of skirts. One of the men comically crawls out from the couch passing beneath one of the women beneath her skirts and reaches up for a feel as he goes by. A guy asks me something like "with all your super powers, are you able to avoid getting a hard-on with all this going on?"

2) I'm in some guy's house. I see a GIANT rat, beaver-sized, white. It's fairly slow, I think we absolutely have to catch it, we can't let it set up house underneath the guy's bed. I start to chase it, it goes from room to room. It goes in to the bathroom, I close the door on it to trap it and call to the guy. I'm in the bathroom holding a container/cup of soapy water, the rat has shrunk to the size of a small mouse, and it has dunked itself into the soapy water. "Oh, no, it's trying to drown itself!" I declare, I pour out the water and the rat/mouse under a faucet and turn it on, I'm trying to rinse off the rat to save it. It's not moving, the guy says too late, it's dead, it's gone, I keep trying to rinse it off to save it (directing the water into the mouth of the thing, "saving" it!), I see from below the rat mouth, there is a strange two-layers of mouth, larger outer mouth and a small normal rat looking inner mouth with long teeth open in a dead-looking position. I'm looking at these mouths for a while.

3) I've just arrived with my parents at their retirement complex (false location memory). My parents are behind me (I never see them), I'm leading the way into the stairwell, I remember this place, and I perceive that I know exactly that my parent's apartment is, and I want to show that I know the way by finding it myself. I intend to go up a set of stairs and down a hallway a bit. Still on the ground floor entry area, there's a very narrow pathway of uneven paving stones, we walk along this. I approach a table, it shows the remains of cups of drinks, my mother behind me says "see this shows there's always something going on here," there's no way around the table, so I start to climb up a chair to walk directly over the top of the table. Then I suddenly see two women sitting at the right side of the table, I step down immediately and say "oh I'm sorry I didn't see you," one of the women says "oh you saw us." I'm walking along the right of the table right by the two women. One of them does not look very old, young-side of middle-aged, dark hair. She addresses my mother talking about me saying "we have to bring him here more often for a visit," I think she's probably interested in me. I have a glimpse of a head of black hair with some strands of gray here and there. A gong sounds, my mother tells me that this is the signal that the group BBQ is starting, a midnight BBQ I think to myself. I want to go to the BBQ and eat something. Walking over open rolling grass hills, like a golf course, there's a man next to me, very distinguished looking with a big head of hair and a strong bifurcated chin, a Dudley Dooright looking sort of fellow, talking about his family, the women or one of the women at the table were in his family. A staff member arrives, we're at my parent's place, he opens (the dishwasher?) and there's a HUGE shelf of silverware, he gathers up a big armload of it to take to the BBQ, I think this is rude to take this stuff from my parents.

Long back to sleep. Figure might as well get up for WBTB

WBTB - sit in chair and continue relaxation. I'm avoiding looking at the time so I'm not sure exactly when I got back to bed.

Still hard to sleep, finally relax mind enough to head towards sleep, takes a lot of self-hypnosis relaxation but I finally fall asleep, no idea of the time.

???

I wake up, do some recall, don't record, no idea of the time, fall asleep again.

F1) in a house, we're visiting, a group of people, I'm looking around at the floor and we've totally trashed the place. Toys, food, garbage, everywhere. I think it's going to take a really long time to clean all this up.

F2) sitting with a group of people inside, someone hands me an envelope, it has something for me from a previous company, I'm opening the envelope and reading it, a guy comes around and I think he wants to read over my shoulder and I don't want him to.

F3) in a courtyard outside a home, there's a guy there, and a dumpster, and a ping pong ball inside the dumpster. A guy is grilling a multi-layer piece of chicken, I see him flip over the inner layer.

11:38

F4) mafia guys all stuffed together sitting in large wire grocery shopping cart, I'm standing right next to the cart. They're planning a big family meeting, I ask about what if you don't show up, they say you're considered as leaving the family and are as good as dead.

4) I enter a room where our young friend ND and a friend of hers are playing. I have a big bucket of water and I pour it out into a toilet. The water from the bottom of the toilet overflows badly (much more than whatI poured in) and floods the floor of the room. The water is sloshing and flowing around the room, it's about 6 inches deep. I'm scrambling around like crazy trying to figure out what to do I find a sort of mop and try to push the water towards one of a number of really big drains in the floor. One of the "drains" seems clogged so I turn the mop upside down and use the handle end and jam it down in to the "drain" to clear it up, a few times, it doesn't work, then I see more clearly that this particular thing in the floor was a fan and not a drain. At some point later the water has all drained out.

F5) wife on phone talking about costs of jazz lessons, she repeats, $65/hour. I think it takes a long time to learn jazz, my friends in school spent years in jazz band learning to play jazz, it's not something you can pick up quickly.

Great just what I need: a night of dreaming of work. Bleh. That's what I get for a near-bed-time weekly status meeting. At least with the time change it'll be one hour earlier for me soon.

+ trying hard to solve some imaginary work problem all night

+ I need to render the elephants without using a proprietary graphics algorithm and I'm concerned I'll have to write all the code from scratch

+ Some guy is in detail describing the limitations of the system, the X coordinates can only go from -10 to -6, I see an overhead visual graph of this. Also something about only being able to use one side of the coordinate axes.

+ I'm standing outside on some bend in a path, I'm looking at several little signposts with pictures of them stuck in the sand. One is of a little girl, one is of a woman, one is something else like a little a little Pikachu character or something. I sort of adjust and push down the posts more firmly into the sand.

+ I'm at an outdoor company gathering. A woman is sitting down on the ground, I feel I'm acquainted with her (just as a work acquaintance). I sit down right behind her with my hips turned to the left, my right hip is at the base of her back and she leans heavily back on to me, she is not protesting. Her entire upper body/back is firmly against my chest, our heads are close together. It is nice! She pushes back and forth a few times, I feel the weight of her body against mine. I get even more daring and lean forwards and lightly kiss her left cheek just in front of her left ear. She mumbles something like "easy..." or "careful...." we're right out in the open and I know I'm married there could be consequences. She has medium length blonde hair and I think she's 30-something. She may be the woman on the signpost, I never see her face.

Spoiler for sorta sexy time:

I'm sitting with another woman on a chair/recliner. I wonder if the first woman can see me and is jealous. This second woman is sitting on top of me, and my privates are positioned right there between her slightly open legs. I'm wearing grey sweat pants. She is lightly running her thumb in circles about the tip of my [ahem] through my sweats. I'm trying hard to suppress an erection.

I'm standing up, adjusting my grey sweats trying to adjust/hide my protuberance, when I realize I'm shirtless. I'm quite self conscious about this (I'm still at a work event after all). I see my shirt wadded up as if carelessly thrown to the ground farther on.

Walking through the people I encounter a small boy I see his face, I think he's the son of one of the women I was flirting with. He is trying to tell me something but there is a very loud noise and I have trouble hearing him (WL vehicle noise from outside perhaps?), I eventually understand from him that he was selected by some celebrity (?) to ride in a helicopter. I clasp my right hand with his in congratulations, and I think about swinging him around but I remember I have a hurt right shoulder (WL true!).

I'm looking for lunch, I approach the lunch tables set up. There are other people standing there. I see there are only little pieces of sliced chocolates. I exclaim in frustration, "Oh, God, fucking SLICED CANDY for lunch!???!!"

I see closer to the podium, where a company person is about to make some announcement, that there are a few open-face sandwiches left. They are weird many thing multi-colored layers, I start putting some on my plate. I notice to the left there are some guacamole sandwiches left. They are also open face, lying on their sides, with solid dark green tall slices of guacamole on thick pieces of dark bread. Some guy is encouraging me to eat, because when he talks I will need it.

Awake and up unti l10:30, feeling cold and tired so back to bed, some sort-of WILD attempts, can't get in to a dream despite the buzz feeling. Must have slept at one point because there was a 30 second dream. Then wake at 12:30 with pretty odd recall.

12:30

+ I'm in my dentist's house in a bedroom, a lot of people are around, I'm in a rocking chair that falls over first to the right, then to the left, the dentist's (son?) helps me up both times, I see the dentist out in the hallway eating from a take-out container, I'm waiting for him to finish so I can ask him what I should order everybody from Chinese takeout.

+ I'm in a sort of chorus line? I'm looking for another performing group, there they are on the magazine advertisement. They're all facing away from the camera and a girl in the center apparently has no bottoms on. I'm trying to read something on the page about the name/location of the group(?) but all I can read is an apology that one of the performers was wearing purple instead of black, I see one performing whose outfit is phasing between purple and black.

A (dance teacher?) is berating a parent for not understanding the issues of the child, the mother does not want to hear it.

+ I'm arriving home from work, trudging up the stairs laden with food, I hope my family appreciates my work. At the table are kids and my "wife," who makes a sharp comment about appreciating the meal, I say "yum" unenthusiastically.

23:51 bedtime <<<<!!! W00T BEFORE MIDNIGHT!

00:00 Wednesday 2014-03-05

07:01

No recall? That sucks...wait...here it comes...ah, got it. These are from earlier wakings mostly, and I remembered them!

+ in my childhood neighborhood park, on the basketball court level. Lots of people are playing with red, white, and blue basketballs, just like mine. I'm sort of a coach. I'm a bit disappointed that people are kicking them around. The players vanish, I go to pick up my ball, there's one that looks like it in the bike rack corner but is deflated, ah, there's mine a bit farther down towards the fence. I sense that there are 2-3 people who wish me ill / no good / want to catch me on the middle level above me, so I decide to take of flying out of the park. There's some sort of odd ceiling above me but I clear that and head for open skies, willing more speed from the point source of infinite energy in my head. I sense that they see me flying away.

+ I'm on some sort of open train flatcar. Arriving at a transit hub/hotel. I go to a desk with a young woman to register. I think the accomodations have something to do with sharing a room with her. She's nice at first but then she looks at my papers and she frowns and says suddenly "I can't help you there's nothing available." I know somethings up and I say "You're lying! Where's your supervisor?!" She's talking with a supervisor and she says "these <tickets> could be used by *anybody!*". I say that's because they were only very recently arranged by the company.

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This maybe warrants a

+ Non-lucid, but last night I saw streaks of old, pixelated computer-graphics looking lines in the sky. My only thought? Wow those look like pixelated old computer graphics lines in the sky DOH! They emanate from a thing in the distance. Looks like a space ship I think. Then there's the Star Trek starship Enterprise flying about 500 feet off the ground firing bright white phasers in all directions from phaser turrets placed all over the ship's body, and the ship is floating serenely from right to left, turning a bit to the right. I'm wondering about these phaser mechanisms, it seems there are actually mirrors used which rotate to direct/aim the phasers. Then I see one of these mirror constructs up close, I think those must be powerful mirrors. Then I'm down inside the mirror construct like being in a vertical closet in sort of a bin on the bottom pushing controls to get out and I can't. There's a helpful woman assistant there right across from me being very patient telling me what to press but the bin is still not releasing me.

Perhaps day-residue of alien space ships and experiments?

+ I'm thinking of going into the guacamole business! I'm stirring a big tub of spicy guacamole with lots of red hot pepper sauce mixed in. I'm thinking that I can buy avocados and sell them and if they get too ripe I can make them into guacamole. I'm outside a building on an empty lot and there's a large sign for some imaginary Mexican hot sauce.

07:45 drowsy enough to sleep more? I try. Get close. Some SSILD, some relaxing, some daydreaming.

08:58 close enough to my time limit: get up for the day!

Less awareness, but lots of long dreams, only fragmented memories, many random moments. Didn't voice record so much detail lost, but did do mental recall for some while.

+ walking along the shore of a lake, shore to the left, water to the right, a foot or two above the water, a guy in front of me gets mad at a huge boulder and pushes it in to the water, then jumps in after it and keeps on splashing it as I walk by shaking my head wondering why he's doing that.

+ leading some people to a sort of cavern/room where there is a wall/entrance made of beautiful semi-precious stone, like a giant door-sized polished geode.

+ with children, scooting over a floor that is as slippery as ice.

+ trying to find a pool table in a crowded pool hall, one comes free but another group is also waiting for it, I look at the pool tables and see many covered tables but they are really small and of weird shapes.

+ my son tells me that a friend of a friend of his saw me in a restaurant doing something obscene. I think this may be true but I can't admit it, that would be disastrous. I think my best bet is to deny it and try to discredit the source.

+ in some barracks moving among lots of people, many are shaving at sinks/mirrors, the leader of the group is placing some burdensome responsibility on me.

+ my wife is going to go on a walk in a frozen forrest with a friend of hers.

another good recall, lots of detail, two wakings, this time more wild and wacky

00:00 Saturday 2014-03-01

00:40 bedtime

08:41

+ back at a house where I used to rent (or sold?) there are Indian men there (Asian Indian), I'm looking for an old picnic table, I see a new wooden picnic table in the yard, I meet the new guy there he asks me to come pick up stuff, there are folding chairs, and the old picnic table. I'm leaving the place going out through a fence, the fence opening mechism is controlled by a jerry-rigged medium-sized garden shear which you squeeze the handles to operate the mechanism of the gate to open the door, and a rubber band pulls the shears open again after you stop squeezing it. I'm interested in this mechanism and say I wanted to build something like this but couldn't I was impressed he could build it.
A small nuclear bomb flies ahead of me I see it hit and the blast flowing out in all directions, I see the hit adn the blast several times. I think about flying up to look down on the damage. I think that can't be good for the area.

There's a meeting (talking about the bomb strike?).

+ On an outdoor path heading out of the city. To my left are growing a lot of vegetables, like pumpkins, and tomaties, all around there are thick patches of growing vegetables. I'm talking to someone on my left and say "if everyone in the whole world did this there would be no shortage of food." I happen upon an outdoor nursery on the right side of the road with a samping area. I'm looking at all the things and concentrate on the habanero peppers, all kinds of different varieties. One of the guys who works there comes out and tells me the names of the varieties I see some longer thinner ones in a plastic container. I hold one "pepper" up in my fingers it's supposed to be really hot I can feel the spiciness directly through my fingers, it looks like a leaf of raddichio lettuce more than a pepper. Someone is with me and says "oh my god it's free!?" and starts grabbing handfuls. I'm not sure it's free but take some peppers.

I'm back at my house with my basket of "peppers" in my garden to plant them, one of them nwo looks like a huge carrot that has split due to age and the juices are running out I think I should have chosen one that wasn't split like that. The peppers are weird they have two parts, the long pepper part and a really long stem with a small flat round pepper meat head that you also need to plug into the ground. I'm looking at a flyer from the nursery that reads that they want people to return at least some heritage seeds back to the nursery. The flier reads that of all the people who rented baskets from them only two people sent back any seeds. I'm planting them in a row, and the guy from the nursery is giving me advice where to put the tops and bottoms, and says not to push one hard but just drop it into the soil. I think hmm I guess there is money involved. They rent you packages of plants but you're supposed to return the seeds. I felt bad I didn't give them any money.

+ inside a huge house. Funky / home-made house. I'm sitting around a table with a bunch of people, talking and having a good time. I get the impression that all these people all work together somewhere. I have a sneaking suspicion that I know these people and that I've seen them before. I look around the table slowly, looking at each different face intently, I'm trying to place them. There are men and women, some funny faces some regular. And I say tentatively, "Do you guys....work...at the *card club*?!" And there is instant silence all around the table. Nobody wants to answer. Someone eventually says "yes." I didn't know where the card club was but I figured out it must be in this house run by that older grey haired bushy mustache man in his 50s/60s.

I'm walking around the house looking for the bathroom I have to pee. I can't find a bathroom. I find a strange water/heater apparatus with a moving pump hooked up to a small rack of shoe-box-sized computer systems. I had earlier seen the man working on something in the house, that must have been what he was working on. I see down a stairway to a level below the main level it looks dirty/junky/not finished basement areas. Someone points me down a hallway to the left . I enter a room with a little step up, the step is nailed on to the wall at about hip level, and it leads to a very small slit of a doorway leading to a tiny bathroom. The opening to the room is about 2 inches wide. I couldn't possibly squeeze through the opening.

A female country music singer starts singing about the bathroom, I say it's a thumbalina bathrrom because it's so small, and immediately the singer sings loudly "IT'S A THUMBALINA BAAAATHHROOOOOM..." (sings more stuff about it). I say "that's what I like about this house, you have all this funky little stuff like this tiny bathroom."

I'm at the far other end of the house. I notice the colors are pale purple and greens, pastels. I'm talking to the owners and say how I really love his house and say how huge the house is, you could walk forever in all directions in it. He says yeah when he's working on something on this side of the house and forgets a screw in the bathroom it's a long walk there.
Someone asks me about this man and asks if he's Episcopalian.

Outsider the house in the street/road I see kitty-corner a little strip mall with a dunkin' donuts and some other shops. I think "wow, this place is so awesome they even have a dunkin' donuts across the street I imagine that people come to visit and bring donuts all the time....

more recall coming in: washers, dry cleaners

...Inside the donut shop I think there's donuts and there must be fruit, too, but nobody ever buys the fruit, there's a woman behind the counter cleaning a bunch of huge grapes. My parents are in the store and they say they're "donut vegetarians" (meaning they never eat the donuts only the fruit).

Driving away from this place it's dark twilight, a hilly road, heading down through curvy road, I see a freeway onramp sign but the freeway number plate is to scratched and faded I can't read it. I think it reads <freeway #>, so I take what I think is the onramp. It's going downhill steeply, the road becomes heavily grooved with the grooves pointing down hill, the grooves are about 1-inch deep and 1-inch wide. I think that they really help with grip in the rain. I'm going faster and faster (there's no car, I'm kind of floating), I think about my sister because I think she lives in these hills...

.... another memory different dream: walking on dry earth climbing up a hill. I look at the ground and see the dry and light quality of dirt, I look at the vegetation on the hill and think I must be in California. There is a fence at the top of the hill the top of the fence is bent over under a tree, there's some sort of park on the other side of the fence, I go in ther are people there. I'm in a group of these people, I look at their faces, they're kind of Mexican/Pacific Islander looking. Some comment about more and more people are making the town bigger. It's some sort of park and I'm meeting my children there.

... back to the road...there are more and more gough marks I'm going faster, I think this is where people lost control and ran off the side of the road, I lose control and run off the side of the road into the dirt where there are very long think tight coils like vehicle suspension coils but hundreds of feet long. This area is under a lot of trees. I think what does my sister do here, and she tells me "I never go faster than 75 mph." There is a pathway here made up of boxes/doors/scrap painted wood about one meter wide and long and curving off ahead, my sister says "when that's wet you lose control and hydroplane on top of this path".

At the end of the path it's lighter, my sister is sitting on a fence to the left and is sitting next to a patch of yellow and green growing zucchinis, there's a little animal rustling about in the leaves and my sister is touching this plant.

+ Driving through a town, I notice a dry cleaning store across the road on the left. They take in your dry cleaning and they send it off to the dry cleaning factory and get it back and you pick it up again at that store. I look inside the store from across the street and it's almost empty. I see an outdoor complex of laundry stations where you can come to do laundry with big sink areas with an old roller dryer, there's a woman using it who tells me "yeah I'm still drying your pants this way."
Elsewhere in the town talking to my wife on the phone, she asks where I am she's annoyed I'm not home.

I'm standing and looking at this dry cleaning and laundry places, standing looking at them and analyzing them. I really felt like I was there, like it was a waking memory. At the table with the card house employees was also a high awareness moment, I really looked slowly and intently at each one of their faces.

08:56 it took me 15 minutes of non-stop fast talking to get all that voice recorded.

Awake for a while, eventually I gather my will to empty my mind and get back to sleep.

13:03

+ Sexy time on a stage. Afterwards, I'm in the hall, I leave out the back and come in around the front.

+ A huge parking lot is absolutely packed super tightly with parked cars. I'm with my wife we go down to the end of the lot we're looking for our old parking spot. Wife says we used to park right here, it was in a driveway, so I said I didn't think so. We're looking on the grounds and see the old markings of previously painted spot numbers they're close/tight together. Some other woman (the lot manager) and another couple are talking, my wife butts in and says "excuse me excuse me, let me just say something let me just say something," she's upset. I go back to the entrance area to this parking lot I'm now inside a restaurant. I'm standing on a counter, there's a guy there preparing a to-go tasty breakfast for me. He gives it to me. I'm looking for a fork to eat with I'm saving some for my wife I'm not sure if she's eaten anything or not I ask her did you get any of this.

+ A guy is judging girls who are singing in order to select one to sing in his restaurants, I know the judging is rigged and the girl was selected already ahead of time. One of the girls who I know, who is singing really well, he interrupts here and says "yeah yeah yeah only you and <this other girl> are any good," but he selects the other girl. I know it's rigged.

+ In a bar with a stage, some guy is going up on stage, I'm reassuring him that he'll do fine, he gets up on stage and starts acting like a total buffoon and goofy, I thought "oh god why did you do it like that if you'd done it like normal it would have been fine." There were a couple of waitresses standing in front of me by my table urging him on, I pinch one of them on the leg/butt and she then pinches the 2nd other waitress on her butt, who then looks back at me in shock with a "did you just pinch me?" look on her face.

+ a celebration, a bunch of young ladies, a bachelorette party.

+ scene at some house at night time, on the large front lawn, the house is in the distance in front of me, Indian family, father mother, couple of kids, a kid comes out shell-shocked, something happened, his (her?) feet were burned I knew, he/she is asking "where's the water?" I know he/she wants the water for the burned feet. I bring all the family together into a group hug, the father says "everything is OK why do we need to do this?" I say it's OK for the family to hug and to be brought together.