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+ I go back inside my childhood home because we left it and I think I may have left a door open. Inside, I go to the alarm keypad code and start entering the old code, then I remember it has changed as I try to enter it, I try to remember the new code but can't. The alarm rings a bit? I leave out the front door and up the steps to the street and encounter there a guy who was leaving me some notes about stuff that was in my house?

Outside on the street some of our stuff is laid out on a table. Oh, good so not all was stolen. A guy there says "Hey will you take a picture of me standing here next to your stuff?" I say OK. The guy then says, "HAH! Never take pictures of other people next to your stuff! They might claim it as their own!"

+ in the Sierras, not my camp but nearby, lovely mountains, lakes. Bunch of people there. I ponder the notion that people gather around by the campfire in camaraderie but back at some stay to themselves.

+ in childhood home? I snap open a newspaper and glance at the comics (seems to either be the comics section or the opinion page [same thing? haha]). I wonder what the world would be like if there were no such thing as thin paper but only thick cardboard, what would newspapers look like?

+ on a plane there was some big scandal where one type of thing got replaced by another?

+ (f) in class, asking DD for notes on the class that I missed

+ (f) turning on a light switch in (my house?) and watching the lights go on/off

+ (f) in childhood home living room, my mother receives a note of appreciation from two girls with Japanese names (Tamriko, and ???)

+ this was very long and very vivid:
in dentist office, dentist starts talking about cancerous cavities that DD has, I see a 3D view of his back molars

Go out, concert, hear a guy playing my instrument and I nod and look at BeDo (high school pal) and he looks at me like "is that your instrument" and I nod "yes." The player is not very good but passable.

Back inside, the dentist is Donald Trump. He lives in this office. He's rich, why does he live here? DT gives a tour of his kitchen. He folds down some table/cutting board thing that is stainless steel and supposedly very cool. I then see a used cereal tub (tupperware) and I see chunks of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in there and look at DT and he says s.l. "don't be looking in there."

We're heading outside again to the big party. DT has made a bunch of baked goods and people are taking them outside. I grab a cupcake/muffin, a cookie, and a mini-cupcake. We go outside. I eat them. I think "oh man that blows my calorie budget for the entire meal right there."

+ pulling up and double parking outside a furniture store. I go and and lay out my stuff (fluffy animal skin rugs) right next to another guy who has almost exactly the same things. I tell to someone how I love this store, I always come here to sell my things. "Hey, why not get $50, $100 for your stuff?" I say.

It felt like a long night of dreaming, I came away with two solid dreams

+ I'm trying to get with SG, we're starting to have suggestive conversations, but her relatives get in the way. At one point, I'm feeling her juicy girl-bits and she likes it but we want to get more serious, but can't. I'm on the back steps of my childhood home leading to the back yard, and I think ah well, if I can't get with SG, at least I can fly a bit and take off down to the back lawn. My family is on the lawn and my (mother?) chastises me for flying, saying "you know how that bothers us." There is a big white ceramic sink there, and I notice a small bit of hair sticking out of a drain. I grab a set of needlenose pliers and start to pull it out. A nasty dirty chunk of the sink hair comes out. Then I see another portion, and I also start puling it out. This is a long piece that goes on for a while I keep reeling it in, finally it ends. I feel a bit embarrassed about doing this. My sister is nearby and she (says?) that this is probably her hair.

+ (f) some club activity regarding books?

+ (f) some overhead view of a building and people leaving it wearing odd clothes (?)

+ (f) driving up the snow-covered ramp on to a (battleship?). I'm concerned the car will not keep its traction, and even slide over the left side as we head to the left lane.

+ I'm in some building (indoors glass walled room? [dream sign]). There is some bomb thing on the floor? An automated turret? There is also a turret outside. The turret outside is remotely controlled by some enemy it turns out. This activates the bomb/turret inside. The turret can fire bullets, and it automatically tracks people. I walk bath and forth and the barrel of the gun on the turret tracks my movements.

The teams are arming for battle. I"m sitting at the top of a winding slide together with a man on the enemy team, it's like he's sitting on my lap. He is armed with some sort of (nuclear?) bomb and a big heavy pistol, which he's holding in his hand. I grab his hand holding the gun so he just can't shoot me when the "go" signal is given. I think and say that this battle is pointless, that so much life on each side will be pointlessly lost. I'm rethinking my participation. Some leader (female) calls us and we slide down, she's going to re-arrange the rules so that we're not fighting each other? The guy I was sitting with says he left the bomb stuff back up at the top of the slide.

+ (f) something in a (Mexican?) restaurant

+ (epic) On a small golf course set in Africa, the narrator says despite the conditions it's a fairly good course. There's one guy putting there. The country is some N-letter African country like Nigeria or Namibia.

I look around, and notice the vegetation is strange, exotic, fairly sparse, like it's a dry region. I see rolling hills running far into the distance over a huge open plain.

I'm near a ridge up ahead, and I hear the roar of a raging torrent of water down in the valley beyond the ridge, I love big rivers so I run to the tip of the ridge and look out over a massive river valley with a huge river running through it. The river starts to flood, and I turn and starting running. Then I start flying.

I'm flying around some buildings trying to keep my bearings trying to find the way back to where I started. I sense where I'm going is up ahead and a bit to the right.

Then I'm in a room in a building, I'm trying to get out of here. There's a guy talking to me but there is really loud music playing at the same time and I'm yelling at him over the music to turn it off, eventually it gets turned off. I'm telling him about the flood heading this way and point out the window, the wall of water in the distance is approaching, we can see.

I'm searching for the phone number of the place to call that will suck me through the phone out of there like in The Matrix. I think it's the number for some Mexican-sounding restaurant that starts with A or B. I imagine I could google it but never do.

I'm a captive here. My captor enters and I'm attaching a long jigsaw blade to the power knife and it goes up and down a big I show this to him and this is how I will cut all the meat. I get the guy to leave me alone, so I can continue searching for the phone number that will get me out of here.

He comes in again and I plead with him to leave so I can plan my escape more. There is a tall pile of large gold coins (chocolate?) on the table and I take a handful and put them in my pocket, this will help me somehow, the guy sees me and tells me to put them back.

At long last I see my chance for escape. The doors to the garden outside is open and there is a short piece of ground heading down a bit and then over a drop and I plan to go out and fly away.
I walk outside and take some running steps and launch myself out into the air and start gliding away. I'm not going very fast and this concerns me. (I imagine I have jet engines coming out of my feet? Doesn't help). I'm a few hundred yards away from the house and I look back over my shoulder, to see if I'm being pursued, and I see the launch of a small thing that rapidly approaches me.

I catch it in my hand, it's a small (mechanized?) bird with a poison bite. I ask it if it wants to come with me to California. It has a cartoon face with two dots for eyes and a line for a mouth. It "nods its head" yes, but then it still tries to bite me, so I squish it in my hands.

A bit later I'm flying down into fog, but there are some pursuit vehicles behind me with glowing magenta engines. I hope I'll lose them in the fog.

+ climbing up a hill covered with grass, there are strange hexagonal cushioned sections set into the ground and this reminds me of the place I was before. At the top I do something with my old Boy Scouts sleeping bag.

+ (f) riding a bike to SF. Friend NI and someone else is on the back. They're distracting me and saying they don't want to ride the bike there and back that's too much. I drive into a ditch and the front wheel hits hard and I say "see that happened because you're distracting me"

+ (f) in a talk about context-sensitive grammars. A few of the grammar rules are written on a board. There is a girl sitting close to me on my left.

+ (f) a fight situation. I push an opponent girl off a ledge and she falls a far way and I look over and see she landed on a big giant inflated thing

+ (f) climbing/sliding/drifting down a giant scaffolding

Overflow night. Lots of dreams, nothing epic, but tons of recall

+ stocks, "completely retarded English language education"

+ SB in trouble in house, starts doing dishes to help, too little too late, complains that old woman is gone a lot, woman says "No, I was on a Saturday night date"

+ flipping through papers in class, all marked "A", friend MR wants to help, go to restaurant and they're serving signature bloody mary's and keeping everyone's glass full

+ fight in some place, hit guy hard on head, then we start drinking shots/cocktails with a lot of hot peppers added

+ Showing U. lake to girls, the water level is low, show the dam, go to dam and concerned about them getting close to the edge it's a massive waterfall

+ inspection at the bridge toll-house, "We'll teach them a lesson," they impound our couch until October, I complain that's not fair we've done nothing wrong, I'm outraged but the guards are pissed. I laugh "haha I had a dream about getting stopped at the bridge inspection"

+ flying in vehicle, it goes by a vertical cliff and flies right up along it I'm nervous about this

+ the pool we must dive into is really cold. In the water with some girls, the girl wants to stay close to me to stay warm, I'm quite happy about this

+ see some guys looking at me from a bar, do I know them? I pretend I do, I sort of recognize one of the guys, we start talking about when our term papers are due

LD Feb goal: achieved 4/10, 6 to go!

recall sort of "supressed" it seems at the moment, I'm guessing by intense my diet & exercise regime. I'm only managing short snippets of what was happening right around when I wake up.

+ birthday party, champagne and red wine (someone says "give me whatever is healthier", I think and say "that would be the red wine"), TZ plays guitar awesomely, son S2 is there with messy hair [true], I'm worried that I can't eat the pizza because I'll ruin my fitness program.

+ flying a jet and firing on ground targets. At first it's a simulation and I'm waiting for the targets to turn red on my HUD, but then it seems real. At first I press the wrong button on the joystick to fire but then I pull and hold the proper trigger button. I'm holding my fire for a long time on targets but they don't seem to explode/die for some reason.

+ driving in a car quickly at night, pass some guys walking on the street who look like trouble, quickly turn into a driveway way too fast (another guy is driving), hope we don't hit anything or anyone, come to a stop by the house, get out and I see bees flying around I think this is a bee farm, and I'm looking for the restrooms which I think I see in the distance.

Later we're walking in a mall lot and my wife points out a large restaurant in the distance and says "why don't we go eat here"

+ LD#178, perhaps my most poorly recalled lucid, very odd. I swooped in to kiss a girl, got lucid, affirmed out loud "I am dreaming," I look around to stabilize, worry a bit about waking, and that's about all I remember. I'm sure there was more. But by my rules I'm counting it because I made a positive affirmation of dreaming.

+ returning to our car with a (black?) girl, we go to the front passenger door, and she sees that we've left a bunch of things on top of our car. I go to the driver door and we get in and we're talking about how this could be, she says it's because nobody wants anybody else' old moldy clothing, etc., and we agree this would be a great way to hide things we don't want stolen, inside old dirty sheets or clothing.

There was a lot more but it slipped away.

4 nights left in Feb and 7 LDs remain of my goal! Had a BTS victory this morning with the intention of LDing, and the subject of dreaming came up and I even did a RC but I was just showing off for my friends, not really suspecting, so I just went on with the dream.

Recall not great tonight, but some fun moments!

+ see hot neighbor woman from my window through their window, play frisbee with her and her husband in their yard, frisbee goes on their roof and they're off to play tennis so I go home, and there's an odd gasoline dispenser in my garage that won't stand up straight and there's some strange guy on it

+ sitting on some (boat?) vehicle or airport seating area with my two sons when a girl comes up and gives something to each of us which we don't want. She sits down to our right (sons are to my right), a narrator says that she must sleep with us (as is sleeping). Girl says "oh I won't sleep with *them*" meaning my sons, "but I'll sleep with *him*" meaning me. I feel a little zing from this.

+ in a yard outside I'm sitting at a table and I unzip my jeans for some fun time, but I hear someone on the edge of the area clear their through "hem hem" and I freeze, there's a girl there reading something. I don't want to zip up my pants because the gesture will be easily seen and they'll know I had previously unzipped. I stand up and try to find a place to zip up but can't, and go back to my seat still unzipped. Girl comes over and sits next to me at my table, says "I didn't want those guys looking over me" (there were 3 guys standing behind where she was).

It turns out she is a student of (information warfare?, the art of convincing people to do things for the government?). She talks animatedly about her studies in some detail and I'm very interested. She has a thick pile of books and I glance at the titles along the spines. She is thin, and has some (in an adorable way) not perfectly straight teeth, and has deep brown eyes.

After some while of speaking with her, I get bold and place my hand on her thin thigh (she's wearing jeans) and mention something like "it's time we got down to business"?

Then we're having sex, I want to change positions, and as we do, she disappears, she's replaced by a magazine (comic-like) of many pictures of her, I think somehow if I can get her to reappear from this comic. I head upstairs, (it's now my childhood home), I notice a door off the side of the stairway to an attic area [false, no such door] is slightly open and the light from inside rims the door frame, I think my mom is in there looking for something.

+ Next scene: I'm sitting on some torture/interrogation chair, and some bad guy is pacing behind me, I place my fists up tightly under my chin so he can't put a strangling cord around my neck. There is a girl in the scene and I manage to convince her to come sit on my lap (and I pull down her pants?)

+ (f) pool, swimming laps, going faster than someone to beat them to the edge

+ I'm in my house and there are several people there taking showers. Some women are toweling their hair on the other side of a barrier and I walk around it to check them out. They're all wearing disposable robes and shower caps it turns out. There is a tennis shoe that I pick up and look at closely, it is white and clean except for the tip, it's not my shoe though. I head out to go take a shower, and people tell me that towels (green ones) are folded on the table by the doorway, I see them, but I already know this because it's my house!

+ (f) see my reflection, I'm starting to look hot with all the exercise I'm doing, women in shower checking me out.

+ joking around outside with friends. I say "hey I'll check to see if we're dreaming, ha ha (I think, obviously we're not), how can I do that? I'll show you, <nose pinch> (I think I can't breathe, but not sure), I slap myself a few times jokinging, "hah, see, told you!" and then we clear out of the road so the procession can come by. Hitler is giving a speech across the street and we want to go listen.

+ a small girl wants me to move her to another bed, it appears a small boy is bothering her in her bed. I take her to my parent's bedroom in my childhood home. The bed's been lifted up and there is clothing strewn around the room, the bed may be put back down later. I look for sheets to place on the carpet to make up a bed for her.

+ (f) basketball, trying and eventually get a good jump and make a successful dunk. Try again and can't dunk again.

+ (f) rabbits. Strange odd rabbits, and going into a store and doing something with them.

+ riding lying back on a bicycle with a girl on top of me and I have fingers in interesting places, I have her boob in my mouth and she says "oooh, you've never kissed me like that before!". I'm getting shy since people in cars are looking and I try to move the girl around and block her privates with my hands from onlookers.

We arrive at a building and go in and I wonder where we're going to park/lock our bikes.

We're in a room and there is a middle-aged man there and these chairs with spring-loaded seats that start high (so that homeless won't sleep on them), and you push them down, and then it springs back up quickly like a toaster, throwing you forwards and up into the air.

We're then walking back down the stairs towards the bike, (rest forgotten)

+ I'm in a basement. I'm barefoot, and I'm trying to avoid stepping on anything sharp or nasty by blowing on the ground in front of me to sweep away anything I might step on. I come upon some construction materials and tools, hammers and nails on the ground, and I think these should be cleaned up but keep going. I notice that I can see windows that reveal the ground level about 6 feet above the floor of the basement, there is a path along the house there.

Along the wall of the basement, I see roots of plants growing extending down into the basement. I see along the wall 90 degrees from the root wall a bunch of small bright green houseplants in pots. I see a bright green frog emerge from one of these and say something like "hello, frog!".

The roots I'm looking at now are very thick, and run vertically and horizontally along the wall, they're the trunk of a tree in the garden. It's a very rare tree. I'm looking up at the canopy (only about 10 feet high), it's a bright, beautiful site.

This last dream was very vivid and present (VnP).

+ (f) football, watching some teams play. There is a little dwarf coach who runs out on the field in between the plays and runs back off to the sidelines for the play.

+ I'm telling my elderly neighbors to water the garden plants for me, at least once a week, or else my wife will be furious to return and find them all dead. I'm thinking they can use the back-and-forth sprinkler on the left side, and there's a little round sprinkler down in the lower right corner for the right side. Location: on street outside childhood home.

+ (f) I'm leaving the house and its pouring rain outside. I start putting on a full body rain suit

+ I'm leaving and airplane, and I'm in a real hurry for the connecting flight. They tell me while I'm running off the plane NOT to turn to the left. I get to the terminal and the attendants are directing me through a series of side corridors: "Hurry!" "He won't make it!" I get to a place outside where the planes taxi in some back area and I keep expecting to see my plane taking off but it doens't appear, so I keep running, and I think I can make it, I meet my family (with small kids) in the terminal later

+ Some girls appear on the street driving a golf-cart-looking car. "Let me drive!" I insist (because I'm the only one with a valid driver's license) [true]. They don't let me drive. "LET ME DRIVE!" I yell but they don't let me, they make some gesture with their hands about how their hands and legs affect the steering.

At a table in a restaurant, a waitress brings up a glass and says "here's your beet juice." It is a small glass of it and very pink/red/beet colored. Then the girl next to me has a beet-colored tumbler full of some slushy cocktail. I'm saying that all the local football teams lost. A preppy guy at the table seems annoyed with me (hear him rather than see him) and he says "I bet you only ordered cheese and pepperoni on the pizza."

+ (f) at work with young colleagues

+ instrument got all mixed up, in the music room of the instrument makes, tons of instruments and parts of them strewn all about, including "instrument making class" where I try out the student projects, funny overlarge mouthpiece, they say "this is a professional player"

+ pool, girl with misaligned bikini bottom and exposed bits, great view, follow her around, she notices me, group of people in water, they drain the water out of the pool, time to get out

+ (f) in a hallway playing awesome scales on my instrument

+ (f) girls scrubbing the sloping cobbled floor with soap and water in a resort area

+ standing on a road in an area nature of a big/medium city (my hometown), struck still by the view of a beautiful untouched wetlands area, go on a long monologue telling a guy standing there about how it's such a shame that this place used to be so beautiful now it's all built up, but "that's progress," how everyone thinks "I should be the only one allowed to build here, nobody else," but since everyone thinks this way then that's how areas lose their pristine nature.

Then I notice his car (he's there with his wife [and kid?] on a [camping?] trip). It's a sort of two-level open jeep-like thing. Very boxy, orange/yellow colored, open. The driver's seat is up on the second level, and on the first level there is a large covered area. I climb in and look all around, appreciating and telling the guy that you can fit all kinds of things in here, that you can sleep under the covered area very comfortably. I tell him about my cars, I mis-remember my last big minivan, then I remember it and look and see that it now is a huge motor home, slightly confused by that. Get it in with my wife and pull a U-turn and drive away, almost wacking the people I was just speaking to with the back of the van which whips around very fast. Wife tells me to be careful an I realize I always forget about the back whipping around thing when making a tight turn.

recovering from a string of underslept nights.

Dream boundaries? Who knows, a jumble of scenes:

at work with work colleagues talking about tech stuff?

+ ted cruz walks by (man that guy looks just like Ted Cruz!), it's his birthday? He asks why are we sad? It's his birthday?

birthday girl (pretty)

billiards guys one is cheating by hitting the cue ball with his cue stick twice per shot
they go down stairs and the roof doors close over their heads, barely enough room to fit

a girl is talking to a guy, (it's a TV show?) about how she's glad that she slept over so many times at his house and he never tried anything with her. He gets progressively more turned on and climbs on top of her.

Then she's "screwing in" a dildo that looks completely life-like to some base. I'm starting to get uncomfortable since I'm watching this show with my sister. Then she's topless but it's clearly a rubber facade that she's wearing on top of her skin, the cover goes down below her belly button and at the boundary with her real skin there's a lot of colorful confetti.

Then she's on her knees with her butt facing the camera and I'm thinking I should tell my sister something like "wow TV shows sure have gone downhill lately" and how we should just turn it off.

night:
+ in a large outdoor park, with a friend. I'm concerned about a lion. A lion shows up, and we circle around a large patch of shrubbery trying to keep the lion on the other side from us. I make my way to the exit, and notice the park attendants (who are nuns?) are closing up the park, I notice multiple rings along the walkway, this is used to close the area by stringing a cable through them?

nap:
+ I'm in a room with a long piece of rope I've just constructed. I'm whirling one end of it around trying to crack like a whip. There are some people outside (the master and his apprentices) who are probably enemies. He enters and I hand him my rope to inspect. It is uneven in diameter and I mention this. Towards the end there is a very well done, smooth section, and he seems impressed with this part. Towards the end where the tubular casing finishes, he asks me, "did you run out of tape here?". He peels open the tape and takes look inside, I think because he wants to see how many strands the rope is made of. I think rope is made by braiding together smaller pieces of twine. My rope is really strong.

A group is walking along the rooftops of buildings outdoors. Upon some signal, a bunch of them take out name tags and put them on, this is to disguise themselves when they start the attack.

In the distance, a large floating air vehicle (blimp?) is rising up from behind a building into the air.

Late bedtime again. Need to fix this.

But a very long night of dreaming. At least I didn't get up until about 8:45 hrs after bedtime instead of just 6 like the previous two nights.

+ cleaning leaves in street outside CA home, there's a group others are mad, I say it's OK I'll do it, the angry peole don't want us to do it, I notice thick, heavy pieces of fairly shiny metal (like a steel horse's hoof?) in the street with loops in them, and I say we can recycle these, they wanted to get the money themselves from turning in these chunks of metal.

+ restaurant, déjà vu, another group of people with some women I "recognize" [false], I know I've seen them before [in a previous dream?], and it looks like I'm following them but I'm really not, I happen to be going in the same direction as them, some of the women notice and start teasing me saying I like one of the women there, I get annoyed and keep walking past them and put a hand behind my back giving them the finger as I keep walking on. Up ahead I see a friend and his wife [RiBe from boy scouts?] at another table, to and say I'd really like to sit at the table next to you to talk but I don't want to bother you, I keep talking and sit down still unsure of whether they want me there or not.

+ a plane must immediately take off, I'm on the maintenance team, we must do something very quickly with each of the 4 landing gear units. I'm holding a power screwdriver and for each of the four units I must unscrew and re-screw in a particular screw, there is a big sense of urgency.

later:

+ I'm in a room in a large area with a glass wall [dream sign] and I go to the door and notice on the ground just outside the door that someone has brought me a glass of white wine in a goblet. I open the glass door and shield the glass of wine with my arm from people walking nearby so they do not kick it and spill it. A small child (boy?) walks by finishing off the last gulp from a glass, the liquid is dark red. Is he drinking red wine? Or was it grape juice? I do not want to drink from his glass to find out, I take a sniff but I do not notice any aroma.

Back inside the room is JaCo from boy scouts. There is a discussion about [working hard?] he mentions that he works hard but because of "128x128" [?] he has limitations. I think that I should offer my services to teach a class on UNIX command line usage and editing, the exercises could include "delete the last word from the command line" (^E M-B ^K).

A small dog (flies?) by and lands in the upper area of a child's large playground construction. He pours a bowl of pasta and covers it with ketchup and starts to eat.

I'm standing in the area now on top of the playground tower and want to come down. I'm not sure of which path to take, I feel leery of the height. As I go to the railing the structure starts swaying precariously back and forth, and I hold on tightly so as not to fall off.

I look down and see a path and climb over the railing and start climbing down. As I do so there is a mother of some kids our kids were friends with n CA saying she didn't know what to do because of her frequent flier miles. I'm thinking I need to teach (her?) hot to tie some basic knots.

poor sleep, frequent wakings
bedtime around 10:30pm
phase 1
~ 04:00

+ reaching into a mass of cob webs strung over a chair, putting (taking?) something from underneath where there is apparently a freaky dead gnome zombie/skeleton

phase 2

+ My wife wants to do a prayer at a holy place in a grocery store, and I'm stuck unable to speak and can only desperately point at a black woman (ghost?) who comes up behind her of whom I'm terrified

+ Driving around suburban neighborhood, see a group of kids and some adults returning home

+ A baseball player makes the final catch in a neighborhood ball park to win the championship

phase 3

+ In an office building, there's a guy trying to write (love?) notes (written in nonsense) to my wife, "sssh" my wife says, here comes the cleaning woman," she looks really weird, she's here to clean up the Christmas presents.

+ LD#170: I get pulled up into a building where I get lucid, reject caveman mode, and try to teleport, resulting in a FA.
I'm outside some tall abstract building, it's dark. I try to fly up but can't. I see a part of the surface of the building has a circular hole that you can grab, I grab it and it the whole thing moves up, I think this must mean I will go up, too. For a second or two I do not move, then I'm drawn upwards. It sort of tosses me onto the lobby of one of the floors high in the building and I slowly float to the ground. "I'm dreaming," I realize. There is a small cabinet on the opposite wall, is it a mailbox? What shall I do, something with girls? Nah, I'm not feeling the urge. Let's teleport to my favorite destination again! As I imagine the destination (I'm aiming for right in front of the fountain this time) the scene fades, and I get "woken" by a loud sound from my wife and loose lucidity into a false awakening (rest forgotten).

+ Tour of a small pond with lots of fish in shallow, clear water [dream sign], tour guide says "This is the home of Freddy the eel."