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+ I lived next door to Susan Sarandon, she had a son named "Matt" who was my son S2's friend, I see Matt is home and tell S2 to go play, I go along, we pet Matt's cat who raises it's butt when I pet it in the way cats do

+ Some narrated commercial about a service that provides plastic surgery for a lady's private parts, to provide just the silhouette she desires when wearing yoga pants.

+ [long, vivid] son playing outside with radio controlled car, our apartment was ransacked, flooded, and covered with nasty graffiti spray painted on the walls, curtains, and ceiling, I'm worried about where we'll go next, I look closely at the graffiti, my ipad's been pummeled with a small sharp object, we uncover a kid's toy pinball machine that some girl appears and plays, and the scene moves into the machine and it chooses an activity for the kids to do.

+ [fragment] some sort of (beauty?) contest involving a lot of people mulling around
excerpt from the major dream of the night.

Details of vanadlized apartment:

+ I'm returning home to our first floor apartment, and I'm worried that we didn't lock the door. I want to call my wife but she's at an event (concert?) The outer door opens without unlocking, and there is a second inner door immediately next to it, and it opens easily as well, not locked. I enter, concerned we may have been burgled. I am not sure right away, I see piles of objects strewn around, and I get the impression everything is wet, like somebody has brought a garden hose inside and sprayed everything. I see my ipad in front of me and pick it up, it is wet, I turn it over and look at the back, it is covered with pencil-eraser sized dome dents, like it was pounded repeatedly with a small blunt object.

Looking around I see piles of stuff. I look around the room and see graffiti on the walls, curtains, even part of the ceiling. I look closer at it. It looks like it was spray painted, it is a brown-ish color, and the walls are a vague tan/off-white. On the wall in front of me is a caricature of a butt-hole with the telltale wrinkles in a ring, on the wall to my left is a figure of a person in distress (being tortured?) upside down, I take a moment to appreciate that it was drawn well. There are "X"s drawn on other parts of the room like the curtains.

There is a child's toy (among row of them), I remove the plastic cover and it looks like a little pinball machine. A little girl walks up and starts playing it, I follow the play inside the game and the view transforms to a place where the ball hits (?) and it starts a transition to a new scene(?)

early:
+ Walking outside, I see different kinds of roof tiles lying on the ground: older ones, and newer ones made from a composite of small stones? I think the new ones will be better.
I realize my former PTL neighbor Mar. is changing her roof tiles, we (me and older son) surprise her with a visit, I enter her presence and wait for her to notice me and son#1, she does, and we we briefly hug her and her daughter with a peck on the cheek in greeting

+ in CH, in parents' room, leaning out the side window looking to the front yard, speak to (woman?) giving her directions on how to take off in her flying saucer from the front yard so as not to scorch the surrounding garden. She should take off exactly vertically and not veer to the side so that the engine exhaust will not burn the plants. I give her permission to take off, go out to the street above the house to see her off, think about a farewell with her but she just takes off directly. I am chagrined a bit and wonder why she didn't say goodbye, she starts to circle around, I think to wave at me?, but flies off.

mid:
+ sitting in a car (driver seat?) by a bus stop by LL park, I'm double parked there is another car parked on the curb, the front of my car is aligned with the back of this other car. Every time I look at the bus stop sign I see that there are different digits/numbers recorded there, sometimes in faint reddish paint, I know that these numbers are messages to me/us. I want my friend to come out of his car and get into mine, I move forwards/backwards (honk?) to get his attention. I think that a cop will come over and say that we can't park here. I drive down the street a bit, pull a u-turn to park on the other side of the street. There are places with meters but I don't want to park in those, there is one spot between where the meters begin and driveway, right across from the entrance to a hair salon, (my friend is urging me?) to park right there where it's free. There is white paint with some writing along the sidewalk and I think this may not be a legal parking place, and I'm concerned that the hair salon manager will come out and say this is a reserved spot.

+ at work(?), I'm with tall lady friend, blonde, my arm is around her, she's a designer, something about clear window dividers low down so that our legs can be seen. Lady friend has made a computer animation, I see sort of cartoony version of dark old-style PCs on a table, and they rotate and tumble around and fall. There is a judge (of the animation?) telling a story (words forgotten, but it began "It was not in English"?), I see his arm, something materializes there, turns out he tattooed the message onto his forearm (looks red, his blood? and white stuff around it), and we're amused because he tattooed this message to his arm to remember it while reading it because it wasn't in English, while the message says that it is in a foreign language, it is in fact in English.

Long BTS. Took about 1-1.5 hours. slept another 1-1.5 hours

late:
+ the army doing training exercises arrives back just as a foreign (alien?) attack begins, good timing!, the army leader non-chalantly gives the command to attack, some thought about parrying going on. The army uses spears.

Overall presence and vividness: low to medium.

Very rare zero recall night. Flutterings of fragments from middle of the night wakings, but nothing solidified. Failed BTS at about 5-6 hours, got into deep relaxation but just could not fall asleep, thus missing the major dreaming phase of the night.

Got to bed late (1-1:30am). Going to bed after midnight fairly reliably means less recall. Need to establish a regular bed time.

Tonight! I remember my dreams!

~3 hrs: no recall

~4.5? hours:

+ math class: in a classroom, I'm wondering which math class
where's building C, ask admins, it's via underground tunnel

I'm in a class room (high school) wondering which math class I'll be assigned to, wondering how I sign up. A middle-aged man, spanish-looking, ruddy complexion comes up, and as he says which class he has assigned me to, I'm hoping it's Calculus, since I'm in 12th grade it should be the highest level of math available. Then I wonder how I'm going to get there, someone tells me it's in "building C," but I say it's been years since I've been here so I don't know where building C is. I make my way to the school office and ask the admins there, they start giving me directions including walking through block-long underground corridors.

~6-7? hours:

+ <ahem> pizza, what size, toppings each as crust, jive guys come in, guy & girl, with female genitalia pizza, pry it open, show the inner stuffings, I decide yeah that looks good, we should order that.

In a small cafe/restaurant, sitting at a counter on a stool (or observing a guy doing so?), there is a small round "pizza" in front of him, he's trying to decide what to order. There is an option to buy different sizes: normal, 2x, 4x, 8x, and so on. These options are not typical: they magnify the size of the pizza by making each major ingredient its own "crust" covered with cheese: the first is bread crust crust, the second type is sauce crust, and these can be folded over and are crispy because of the baked cheese. He/I am not sure of what to order. Then in comes a jive-talking couple, a guy and a girl, with large boxes of pizza, and open them up. They have taken the deal and are promoting it. The pizza is very large, and looks just like large, dark, female genitalia. It is multi-layer. They pry the it open via the outer lips, and spread it out, it is like a calzone with an upper and lower crust levels with the filling inside. I decide that yeah, this is what we want to order.

+ coins and cards: [DO] my dad wants a quarter, I'm going through my coins, I find an "English" quarter with the inscription "to the queen", and one old (silver?) quarter that we don't want, digging through piles of coins, dad points out another drawer nearby, yeah I see it it has some quarters in it and I hand him some. Then I see a drawer with old business cards in it, from the various companies where I've worked. I recall our practice of pinning our business cards from previous companies outside our cubes. I rifle through them, thinking about the companies where I've worked. I see 3 different variants from company "N", dating back to my first day of work, and a 3rd person view of me standing outside the headquarters' main entrance wearing this badge around my neck (false memory). I then see a woman walk with white hardcase travel luggage walking purposefully out of the main entrance towards the parking lot. I think she just got back from a business trip, and that she travels for business a lot.

+ something with my (adult) kids? Taking pictures?

+ class/lecture/pool w/ girl, "gorgeous"

In school, enter classroom, there is a particular man there sitting at a desk. Then I've arriving at a lecture in a large auditorium. That man is giving the lecture. I arrive at a front row desk/seat, (prepare to take notes?) and he comes there, the lecture is over, I've missed it, he makes some comment.

I get together with a young female attendee. We're holding each other close and kissing. We're now in a pool. I need to go off with my friends/family, I don't want to part with her, but decide to, so with a final kiss I gently push her away and she floats a bit away in the water, I wave to her, and she says, "'bye gorgeous!" I'm a bit embarrassed about this. I get out of the water and complain that my dad is late, but he starts ranting about all the things he's had to deal with that day.

final waking:

+ game show/lights/monitors, naked flight sim put on shorts

In a large outdoor setting, computer/screens monitors are all around on columns. People are standing at them looking at the screens?

We're sitting down into flight simulator pods at an arcade-like place for some (competition?) I realize I'm naked and that probably nobody will want to sit at the seat after I've squirmed around on it with my naked butt. So I put on some underwear, and sit down in the chair.

Earlier:

+ Green hills against a blue sky

+ Entering a barbershop in a city that I "know" is actually all a large film set. I'm amazed at the accurate life-like lighting. I catch a reflection of a "wrinkled" section of the dome covering the set that is supposed to be a sky.

+ I see the remnants of large (meter-long), wilted/old mushrooms lying about outside, draped over the base of statues/monuments. I know that Sensei has been finding these mushrooms. I find a fresh meter-long mushroom and I'm going to (give it to Sensei?).

Brief MILD at 5-ish hour waking. Stubborn back to sleep with tongue relaxation (my new favorite relaxation focus, in addition to the classical eye/jaw, all-body relaxation).

+ Enter a men's bathroom, and there's a cleaning lady there, so I leave. She follows me and accuses me of taking pictures of here and comes after me. I insist that I was not taking pictures, bring out my mobile phone to show her, bring up the photos, and there were tons of pictures of her, so I admit that yeah, I guess I was taking pictures of her.

+ Walking down a road and encounter a woman lying there (the cleaning lady?). I engage for sexy time. I realize as I'm doing this that I'm dreaming.
Our legs are tangled and it's very awkward. I sort of pretend that things are going as hoped. I tell her to say <something sexy>. She blurts out in response "EIGHT O'CLOCK!".
I'm looking down at her body and wondering about stability, but the dream is stable enough for a short while.

+(f) (early) Walking with L through some open air seating area, I'm leading her to show her something, across some water there is a dock and we're heading there?

+ workout with Rip on a strange rack in a private gym room, weird rack don't understand how the barbell is unracked and reracked, Rip wants me to squat my first set at 85kg even though that's way beyond my current weight, I fail at even unracking the bar, so I pull the plates off each side and drop them by hand to get out of the rack, in the room everything's tagged with yellow post it notes, it's also a faculty lounge they come in ask me what I'm doing there, lots of people come in and I'm concerned they'll walk off with my stuff so I try to keep an eye on everyone.

+ getting help from colleagues setting up my blackberry-like device, they're moving icons around to sett up email, sit at desk in chair recline back against wall head hits something bumpy on the wall there's a direct view from my chair at my desk in my office of the boss in his office sitting at his desk, I think I should look more busy

+(f) running some sort of arcade for kids where the prizes are small little squishy balls (IWL ate some caviar with dinner) that they can trade in for prizes

+(f) looking at plates of prepared food, my mom has raw pork and she doesn't want it cooked for some reason

+(f) standing at a sink with dish drainers

+ some people (a couple) are coming home, we are in their home

+ a man is standing in front of a refrigerator and it is spewing water out of the two upper corners

Woke around 5am with no recall, couldn't get back to sleep. Took some valerian and hopped online. Got back into bed around 8 and slept until about 10:45. Had a few bits of recall.

+(f) I'm skiing down a hill starting from a completely vertical slope. I'm commenting to (my parents?) about the risk for avalanches and the need to stay ahead of the avalanche.

+(f) I observe a woman moving a man off of a bench and she's really pushing him around, he's submissive.

+ beach, strong tide, watching the water as it recedes back, it moves very quickly, nice clear sandy spot, think this is a good beach to visit, "hey let's get nude" (to girl on area up above beach), she doesn't want to, I tease her about this

+ burgers: first double burger was great, beef nicely well done how I like it, second burger I chose a single cheese burger, but it was too raw. Looking at the meat while eating it. Very thin patties. I definitely felt the burger taste while eating it.

+ theater, looking for seats, they're quickly filling up, trying to find one with a good position for the screen, the seat rows are at odd angles, once I sit an reserve space for my friends, a guy asks if a seat was taken, both I and the guy next to me (stranger) says yes it is, discussion of orchestras with the strangers sitting to my right and in front of me, I state "I play the <my instrument>", it takes me a little effort but I recall correctly the name of the last community orchestra I played in.

+ zooming down hill (bike? car) trying to turn left at intersection but going too fast. Miss first intersection, and also can't make the 2nd one.

+ discussion of wine, can't remember the name of the wine

+ Sitting in group of friends, see KH (childhood neighborhood crush), think she's beautiful but maybe not very nice

+ more, forgot...

Transcribed for the first time using smartphone voice to text:

In the basement with Wife she's communicating with me through a paper in the deck



to dream number to flying past the fire elemental in the evening he chases us we fly into my house asking for safety the thing tries to break down the door another dream



observing people climbing very steep mountain side



In the (work-N) cafeteria and someone is holding meeting some tables walking around observing looking at the tables



Walking through food court I do a spin move and come back to account every think there are burgers but I look at them and they're basically their food is all run out I continued floating down further think I'm going to get probably some tacos



Loading a short little go cart with multiple boxes on the childhood home on driveway



The flying skiing teleporting kind of video game sequence room trying to double click on other Scears in the area and teleport to their position there was a magical key which involves 45 particular kinds of beer cans in order to get to that particular place



There was a mess hall from eating homework or is the students had to eat in groups by time also in the snowing area and then went outside and was looking in through a window and there were like two girls there, topless, brief s-time with chest.



A sequence where there is some kind of a conflict in a room with circuitboard is a an enemy arrives trying to blow up the place with the Bomb board and we deal with him forgotten most of the details there

earlier:
+ in a kitchen, visuals vague, some guy is there, I'm handling and observing a clear plastic package of foot. It is like Orzo or rice crispies (small eliptical shapes) packed in a two-part clear plastic container. I'm wondering if it's spoiled. I pry the two plastic sides apart and some of the pieces of food are a different color. I try one and I think it has indeed spoiled.

+ walking the path / ducks. On a (covered?) slightly curving dark path with family. Come across a duck pond, there are new ducklings there. I point them out to my kids. My son S1 is about 9 years old or younger and is gushing over the ducks, "Thank you so much, Dad, for taking us to see the ducks!" he's saying over and over. The duck pond area is dark and on a tight curve of the path.

+ tennis inside a court surrounded by a high nets all around (all 6 sides), I'm encouraging my deceased wife and I to just hit the ball as hard and high as we can

later:

+ in CH garage, look up the driveway, a girl (or 2) are driving away in a small car, I call out to them not to do, but to wait for me. Up on the street I'm looking at the L's house modifications, trying to understand the changes they made, it's like they made the house longer. Around the side on F street, I feel like I could fly to look more closely around the side, the back side of the house seems entirely open now

+ Cousin Sus and her card of all her cards and gifts for me, showing kids how to nail and screw wood, Sus again shows me her kid's electronic experiment kits and I observe them and talk with (unseen) kid about (TTL?) chips, input/output signals, power & ground, I'm looking at the sets and see a bread/patch-board full of wire connections, I think these are not 5V circuits but might be full-power line voltage circuits and I doubt that I know how to work with them.

+ I'm talking to a guy who I'm going to prank, he's a complainer (about safety?) so I tease him about all the stations that are set up around the place. I jump with him from the 2nd-floor deck down to the ground below and some famous guy is there and I'm still pranking this guy with the help of the famous guy, I'm saying how he's not hurt we didn't jump down from too high up

last night:

+ in the bog/need grass, I say there's tons of it available (in the middle of the country?) fields of it, it will be used to build houses

+ in the house/fence repairs, built-in wall soap dish. It is just a crappy wooden fence around a square piece of land, I'm thinking about the repairs I'm going to do on it. I'm looking at the fine details of the dish, it is roughly shaped wood but quite artistically done.

+ citizenship reception? with NI, repeat visit, just to re-register, say address near grandparent's house in B. Arrive there lots of buses waiting, there are guards beyond rails and I think certain ways are closed. I'm sitting in a side bunch of bleachers and NI is coming I know it's him but his face isn't right.

previous nights:

+ buying the VW bug "Der D...?" race the woman up the stairs, the seller is talking on the radio, he has several to sell, the phrase "Der D...?" is painted on the side of the car I'm trying to read it.

+ jewelry dealer after climbing down the bin with no food left

+ saving Trimmings from the Christmas tree

+ At the Olympic ski venue, walking up the wide long path up the hill, on the left is a massively long line of people (I'm hoping not for the restaurant, which is where I'm going). At some intersections I wait for the olympic athletes to cross. In the restaurant I find my table with friends from grad school, the food is middle eastern?

I recalled several dream/fragments but only one survived a cursory review, the final one:

+ I'm in the seating area of a concert hall. I "remember" that normally I'm not on the ground floor here but now I am. I'm walking a row of seats and there is someone seated there reading a book(?). I turn and look towards the stage, I choose this spot so that I could see the performers, it is going to be some sort of chamber concerto (several instruments). The view is not straight-on but someone to the side. There is a glass wall [DREAM SIGN] placed in front of the soloist' podium on the stage.

+(f) There is a team of people working in a large corner of an (abandoned lot? Public park?). There is a large pile of sand/earth there. They are hiding themselves and their equipment under sand-colored tarps?

+ Miniature golf: it is a timed game I'm playing simultaneously against some guy. The final move is to take a can of (refried beans?) and to slam it down across the finish line. I'm rushing like crazy but manage to finish first.

+ I'm looking out over a lake scene, lake Tahoe. It is pretty choppy and there are large waves, like in the afternoon. I'm telling someone how my favorite time there is in the morning when the lake is completely calm. I see that the wave has washed over the side of my canoe at the water's edge and a container full of potatoes is starting to float away. There is another container of something also floating away and I need to choose which one to save first. At the water's edge I see things moving in the water. I look down and see some small crayfish. There is a huge boulder here where they are hiding. I look more and see more and more crayfish [DREAM SIGN]. I mention that there are some really large ones here, the size of lobsters. As I turn away I catch a glimpse of something on top of the boulder and someone exclaims "It's a grizzly bear!" I look back and see the bear tussing with my wife. I'm trying to extricate her from the bear's clutches (the bear is about the size of a medium-sized dog), and I notice the bear is doing some really strange gestures like compulsively wiping its eye.

+(f) room, group, some spilled water on the floor

+(f) tall statue, see it up close, construction, I think there must be metal internal frame to hold all that concrete. I'm floating around it and observing it, my dad(?) is there? My kids as they were small are running around. I see a photo of them. It needs to be printed out

+ I'm approaching an escalator with a bunch of people. Large crowd. Some sort of official presentation. There is a large chalkboard. I'm trying to move through the crowds of people, there is an official at the top of the escalator (down escalator) registering people(?). Cameras, things on my (his?) belt getting in the way. Someone is finishing a presentation, then people need to put their names on the board to form a line for making individual presentations. Everyone crowds the board. [For purposes of DJ, assume my name is Joe Dreamer]. There are a lot of people writing my name (Joe) on the board. There is not a lot of room left to put my name when I get up so I put it a little bit to the left. I say "there are too many Joe's here!" Then I see someone else write "Joe" on the board. So I decide to add my last initial, "D" after "Joe". Then another guy comes up and writes "Joe D" on the board, and I say "there are too many Joe D's here!"