Hacktrix

Non-Dream Dream Lucid

I've been taking PercyLucid's class on MILD dreaming, and one of the points he's taught us is to focus on what we want to dream just before we go to sleep. Well, I sidetracked a little and ended up falling asleep while thinking about a music summer camp I went on last year.

I arrive at the orchestra rehearsal with my cello. I sit on the third desk back with another cellist and play some of the piece that is on the stand in front of me. On second desk is my cello teacher, and on first desk is a girl I met on the summer camp the previous year. After the piece ends I pick up my cello and move to sit next to her. She smiles at me and the conductor brings us in again for another run through the piece. Something happens though - some younger violins have arrived and take my friend's seat. I look where she was sitting and there are now three short violinists playing there. I find this a little odd as violins usually sit opposite the cellos, not with them.

I look to the left and my friend is putting her cello away; I notice that her hair is a whiter blond than I remember it from last year, and also a different style. I then remember that it's January, and wonder why we are having the summer camp now. I then remember that this summer camp and this girl are one of my dreamsigns, so I hold on to my cello with my right hand and pinch my nose with my left. I can still breathe - I become lucid. I don't feel any great rushes of emotion like I used to with my first few lucids, but nevertheless the deram begins to fade. As my vision is turning white, I realise I should rub my hands together, but I am holding my cello and don't have time to put it down. The dream fades completely and I wake up.

Non-Dream Dream Lucid


I don't really remember how the dream started, but the setting is a summer camp. I'm in a group of teens my age, and we've managed to meet one of the leaders inside. We corner him halfway up a staircase. He is fairly obviously drunk; we ask him where we can find some alcohol. After we promise not to tell anyone he told us, the leader points us toward the staff accomadation. We run down the stairs and out into the open.

We sneak through the gardens and a few of us stop to distract more leaders as we come across them. Eventually I manage to run up a grassy slope and toward a large building. Between me and the building is a gravel car park. I run over to it and am confronted by a Latin teacher from my school. There is a bit of tension while I wonder if he's going to punish me, but then he relaxes and we start laughing about it. He asks me how I'm doing, etc. I turn around and a couple of my friends from a summer camp IRL are standing there as well; I greet them and say hi.

I turn back to the teacher and then around again to see an old childhood friend standing there. We chat for a bit and the subject of girls comes up. I turn back to the Latin teacher and during the ensuing conversation he makes reference to a large wooded ark, then gestures toward the slope I ran up. I look, and sure enough there is a big wooden ark on the slope I ran up; children are playing on it like it's a giant playground toy.

The scene changes, but it is still the same dream.

I am inside, in a building. The setting is almost like a swimming pool, but where the pool is there is no water; there is in fact a large pit. The walls of the pit are lined with small green tiles, about an inch square. I remember a teacher walking past me - I am in a flying school.

I hop off the edge and begin to float down slowly, watching students having flying lessons to my right. I am falling a little too fast for my liking, though, so I fly sideways against one of the walls and land on a little ledge. I walk along the ledge and turn a corner to the left. I see a cube. It is a hollow cube about 10 tall and 15 deep (yes I know that's not a cube but it is in the dream). The face nearest to me is gone, revealing the inside; both inside and out it is lined with the green tiles. I climb into the cube and look around me. It becomes apparent that each of these cubse is actually a little screen that can change between green and white. One of the teachers has written the number "126" on the ceiling in white against the green background. I remember touching bits of the 6 and watching them turn green again. In the corner is a black vibrating stick; touching this on the walls changes the green tiles to white. I put it back down in the corner and leave the cube.

I walk out of the pit into a normal looking corriodor with yellow painted walls; there is a door at the end that leads back outside to the summer camp. I walk to a table and meet an attractive girl who I know from school. I can't quite remember what we said or even what the talking was about, but we gestured to some kind of book lying on the table. I remember coming out of the conversation feeling pleased - she had seemed genuinely glad to see me. I head back toward the cube quickly, intending to retrieve the stick and continute the conversation; the dream fades and ends.

Non Dream Dream Lucid

Ok, I remembered two dreams and a fragment from last night; here goes:

Dream 1: The School Riot
I am standing by the two Astro-Turf pitches at my school. A shooting range is behind them. In my school we have a CCF where we train in either Army, RAF or Navy. I am in RAF (same IRL) and we are having a competition: three other schools have come to us to compete.

A friend from school comes running toward a group of people while being chased by a much larger boy from a different school. He is carrying a rifle from the shooting range. He reaches a group of schoolfriends, puts down the rifle, before jumping over the low fence and continuing to run away from his pursuer. I start to walk towards the range. As I do so I notice a group of boys holding rifles running in the same direction, very angrily. They are opening and closing the bolts of the rifles so I assume they are loaded.

As I walk toward the range, I encounter a teacher who tought me a few years ago, walking in the same direction as the rest. I warn her not to go that way because some kids are there with guns and I think that they're gonna shoot someone. She is rather concerned, saying that they could cause a lot of damage with shotguns; I inform her that they are only rifles so at least they can only shoot one person at once. She thanks me for the warning and goes a different way.

I reach the range, and enter just as the shooting coach returns. I tell him and the other member of staff there that the kids have taken all the rifles. There's not much we can do, so we stay put. I look out the window and see another school in uniform, standing in lines smartly waiting for an inspection.
I cross the room and look out the window in the direction I came from: I see a third school riding into the chaos in blue chariots, all holding blue and yellow rifles pointed ahead of them. I turn back to the teachers and wake up.

Dream 2: Harry Potter
I am lying in my bed at home reading the last harry potter novel for the second time. I hear my parents coming up the stairs so I switch my bedside light off, casting the room into darkness. When the noise of my parents fades, I switch the light back on, but it is not working - it comes on very dim and not light enough to read. I switch it on and off a few times, but it stays the same. Thankfully, my iPod starts playing the audiobook so I lie on my front at listen to it.

The story goes off on a tangent. The voice reading the story mentions three animals; I suddenly have the sense that they are going to appear in the room, so I leap off my bed and stand on guard facing it from the corner of my room. "The first animal is the tiger." I notice a lump under the duvet on my bed, so I whip the covers off. Underneath, sure enough, is a little tiger cub. I don't think it out of the ordinary that the animals are appearing, but I am cautious of the tiger cub.

"The second animal is a pig" I look down and see a little piglet on the floor to my right. I climb back onto my bed. "and the third animal is... the JELLY!" I look down at the floor and see a small, purple jelly-like creature the size of my fist. It has small tentacles on the top of it. It moves toward me slowly.
"This jelly is unique in that eats anything it touches, be it living or not". The jelly launches itself at me; I bat it away with my hand. It tries again but I bat it away again. I pick it up and put it on an inflated baloon on the table next to me. It sticks there and starts eating its way into the baloon, which doesn't pop.

I realize that this is not harry potter. I recall that I was quite near the end of the book and remember a scene where the main characters are adults with children. Sure enough, the voice starts talking about the scene I thought of. Elements of the story continue to be realized when the adult Hermione enters with her infant daughter in a cot/crib and kneels at the end of my bed. She is surrounded by a kind of white halo. I observe her but only treat her as a part of the story, not as a real person.
Suddenly, my dad walks opens the door to my room and walks in, saying he needs to set up a camp bed for my sister. I wake up.

Dreamsigns:

• RAF competition
• Shooting range in wrong place
• Friend running with rifle
• Rifle outside the range
• Kids with loaded rifles
• Chaotic Riot
• Blue Chariots
• Blue and Yellow Rifles
• At home not school
• Reading Harry Potter
• Lights not working
• I don't own an iPod IRL
• Animals appearing
• Mutant Jelly
• Balloon not popping
• Hermione appearing
• Dad setting up camp bed in the middle of the night

Non-Dream Dream Lucid

1. The Fragment
I was standing on the stairs of my friend's house. The walls are blue and the stairs were grey carpet? In reality I have never been to this friend's house, but he and his girlfriend are there with me so I assume it is his. His girlfriend is just saying goodbye and leaving; she is a little embarrassed about being intimate with my friend because I am there, so she offers him a handshake. I turn away as he kisses her and says goodbye. She walks away.

2. The Dream
Ever played the game Wii Play? There is a minigame on that called Tanks, where you control a tank, and shoot at others while avoiding being hit yourself. The game is essentially in 2D, as you have an aerial view of the battlefield each time. My dream was like this game but it was more real. There was the same 2D aerial view, but I was looking down upon myself, the main character. I was also not a tank, but a human carrying an RPG and a machine gun; I think elements of a flash game called Gunmaster Onslaught worked their way in as well.
Anyway, the game started and waves of enemies started appearing; I hopped in and out of a little safe zone to shoot them. The whole dream was like a computer game - there were even red letters in the top left telling me how many lives I had left and what level I was on. The map was the side of a house, with a roof at the top and a street at the bottom. It was in 2D, though, as I mentioned earlier. Enemies that I remember consisted of snipers on the roof, then tanks and footmen coming out of the windows and walking toward my character. It didn't hurt when my character got hit, just the same as a real flash game. I got to level 13 before there were too many of them and I jumped out of cover completely. I started spraying bullets around me but started taking a lot more fire - eventually I lost all my lives.

At that point the scene transforms. I (the real 3D me) am standing in a fairly empty room that upon awakening I recognise as the basement of the church I used to go to. There are two colections of electronics, one ahead of me and one to the right. There are some people that I know standing by the one ahead of me, a PlayStation 2. It is making a noise that is slowly fading. I walk to the right and there is an amplifier, also with a fading noise. I recognise the noise as the fans of whatever was running the Tank Game I just played. I want my amplifier to be the last noise to die completely, so I rather rudely walk over to the PS2 and rip out the power cable, cutting its noise dead. My amplifier finished making its noise and I wake up.

DREAMSIGNS:

• My friend and his Gf - I had talked to him on fb that very night
• Being in the Tank Game
• The whole electrical scene

Non Dream Dream Lucid

Ok, I actually remembered bits of quite a few dreams this morning, so I'll enter them all in sections.

Dream 1: False Awakening
Not much to tell really. I woke up and sat down at my desk. I opened my dream journal to write something in it, but it was full, so I went back to bed. This should have called a RC but it didn't. When I actually woke up and opened my DJ it wasn't full, and i realised that before was a False Awakening.

Dream 2: Tenacious D
I am listening to the studio version of "The Metal" by Tenacious D on my music player. I remember that I have the live video version of this song as well, so I find it and play the video over the top of of the studio version. Obviously some of the lip syncing isn't perfect. I remember Jack and Kyle (the band members) having some rather comical expressions on their faces in the high bits, kinda like in a cartoon.

The scene changes; it is still the same dream, though. I am envisioning a pair of siamese twins, joined down their sides. They are wearing a double guitar - one guitar with two necks and two sets of strings. They are playing one each. (I think "The Metal" is still in my head but I can't remember) Suddenly I realise it would be cooler if one of the necks was a bass guitar; the top one changes to a bass neck, longer and with four strings. Then I realise it would be even better if the twins were joined back to back, and each was playing their part of the guitar - this happens as well. That's all I remember of that dream.

Dream 3: Hustle
That evening I had watched the lastest episode of Hustle, a TV drama about a group of 5 con-artists.
I am the young man from Hustle. We've just pulled off a successful con with and we're choosing where to go and celebrate. We're looking at a map; the woman we pulled the con with suggests a chateau in France that she knows, but I decide on Turkey.

Scene change - we are on a bridge in Turkey. The view is fantastic and we are leaning against the side, sipping champagne. The three other men look the same as in the TV show, but the woman is different - the one in my dream is a brunette and has freckles. We are arranged in a line looking over the road and out into the water beyond. The three men are on the left, then the brunette woman, then me, then the woman we pulled the con with. One by one, the three men make their excuses and leave, exiting to my right hand side. The woman to my left crouches down to have a look at the map in my hand. The other woman makes her excuse and leaves; the woman to my left starts to suck my fingers slowly. I look down and realise she is actually fairly attractive. I am contemplating what is probably about to happen when the dream ends

Dream 4: The (Short) Lucid!
I remembered this happening as I woke up. I really don't remember very much at all, but I do remember being Lucid and being in a classroom full of schoolfriends; a recurring feature in my Lucids so far.

Dreamsigns

• Dream Journal being Full
• Playing video over music on my player
• Tenacious D's comical expressions
• Siamese Twins
• The Double Guitar (recurring)
• Characters from Hustle
• Being in a Classroom

Being in a Classroom has been the subject of four of my lucids; the other was walking to a class. Unfortunately this is a very inconvenient dreamsign as I am a student and spend over half my waking life in a classroom.

Non-Dream Dream Lucid

These are fragments of a dream that I remembered over breakfast - I remember all of them happening but not how they all fit together. The entire dream was a confusing mix of two places - my old school and my current high school. Despite being many miles apart in the real world, in my dream elements of both existed in the same place. Here are the fragments:

• I was in hockey training on my old school grass pitch
• I walk to my current school's pavilion where two boys from another school are sitting
• They don't have enough people to play a match
• They are wearing shirts similar to a certain house shirt at my current school
• They are from their school's first XI
• I am in my school's last team
• We decide to play them two against my our entire team
• CUTSCENE: What I understand to be a dormintory from the boys school. There are two columns of six or seven bunk beds stacked on top of each other. There is about 2m in between each level. There are boys jumping and swinging from rafters. One boy jumps on the matteress of the top level bed, and plummets through all seven mattresses below him, only to grab a beam just before he hits the floor. I remember thinking "you could only jump that high in a dream"
• SCENE 2: I am in my room at my high school.
• My mum calls me and asks me to meet me half way to the carpark of my last school, a five minute walk.
• I am in my room again, with a friend from my old school. He smells faintly of smoke.
• I am in my room again, a teacher from my old school has come to visit. He comments on an elecric photo-frame showing pictures of me and my old-school friends.
• I am in my room again, with a the parents of a friend from my high school.
• SCENE 3, different dream? :Looking at what an internet game called ArmorQuest with a friend from my high school.
• Despite being an internet game, it is a real book resting on a table.
• Me and my friend establish that the game used to be RuneScape, but had a name change.
• We open it to have a look, it looks quite like 'Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War' computer game
• We decide it must be like Warhammer Online, and resolve to try it out when we get home.

I feel I should point out that I have not played RuneScape or Dawn of War since I was about 12. I last saw the teacher from my old school over a year ago.

Normal text Dream Lucid

This is the entire dream as I remember it. It consisted of lots of different scenes, most of which seem unrelated.

The dream begins. I am one of a group of about seven people, all of us scientists. We are in some kind of laboratory workplace where we work. But something is wrong - we've discovered that one of our co-workers has been affected in some way by one of our experiments, and he is now a murderous psychopath. He walks in and starts talking to one of the female members of our team, trying to persaude her to stay behind after work; we know the real reason why he asking and manage to escape. We manage to lock ourselves in a bathroom. The murderous one is outside the door, some 20 feet away. One of the team doesn't make it in time and is stabbed. We watch through a crack in the door, but there's nothing we can do.

The dream cuts to a new scene. Us survivors have managed to escape the building unharmed and we are walking down the street, feeling pretty pleased with ourselves. It's night and the street is dimly lit - tall brick buildings line either side of the street. We get to a crossroads where we are surprised by a crowd of about 20 people coming the other way. But they're not just passing by, they came to stop us. As we stop, more crowds of people come from the left and right, and from behind us. It's an ambush. There is a brief conversation with one of the leaders of the ambush. I don't remember it word for word, but he makes it clear that they're here to stop us. "We can't let you do that", he says. Suddenly the crowd swarms inwards; some of my coworkers are being wrestled to the ground by three or more men. I sprint through the crowds into a corner and use my speed to hoist myself up onto the top of a wall. It is about a foot thick with a drop on either side and I follow it carefully round the side of a building. I look down and the wall is easily high enough to kill me if I fell. The wall forms a kind of rectangle against a building, with a drop on either side. Men from the ambush are starting to follow me round the wall - some of them slip off toward the building - the rectangle forms a small garden for a block of flats. The drop on that side is not as high as the other but still a good 20 feet. The two that slip off are killed by the fall. I decide I need to get out of here and so climb down carefully, into the little walled garden. More men are climbing down after me.

I look for an exit but see only a little tunnel facing into the building in the corner of the garden. I run over to it, but it is almost completely bricked up. It is circular, about 2 feet in diameter. I pull at the bricks and they start to come out, but it is too slow. Instead I start pushing inwards, and push the whole layer of bricks into the tunnel using my head. It seems one of my coworkers made it the same way as me, and we both turn a corner in the little tunnel and escape out the other side.

This is the next major scene change. The inside of the tunnel is like white plastic, very clean. I exit and am faced with a mobile operating system - I am literally looking at Google. I tell myself there's something not quite right about that, at which point it turns into a room, or rather three rooms. They are arranged in a line, and all the walls and ceiling are made of this white plastic-like material. There is a room on the left and a room on the right. I have a look at the left one first. It is spherical, and there is clutter everywhere - it looks lived in. Maybe a children's bedroom? There is a cupboard on the right. I walk back and into the room on the right of where I came in. This is a large room, normally shaped. There is a large TV on a table in one corner and near to it is a big old TV with a GameCube hooked up to it. As I turn around to leave, I see more, similar stuff on the floor.

The owner of the room has arrived back. I sprint back to the first room, and climb into the cupboard, pulling a blanket over me. The friend who followed me in re-appears and climbs in to hide as well. The owner opens the cupboard and sees my friend; he doesn't really react though, just closes the door again.

Suddenly I can tell that an exit has been opened - possibly due to a loudspeaker announcement? Previously there was no way to get out of the three-room suite; I've forgotten about the tunnel I used to enter, so it disappears. Anyway, me and my friend climb out and go to the other room - a pair of black stairs as appeared going upwards. We climb them and come out in a large office building. Suddenly the other co-workers are there too - I just assume we all made it. We have no idea how to get out of this office building, so we wander around that level for a while. The building has very high ceilings, a green carpet and featureless walls. We walk down a long corridor and find another set of stairs going up - we climb them. At the top is a corridor exactly the same as the one below. There is, however, an office leading off the main corridor. I am about to lead us into it when I hear voices - I stop and listen. I hear two men talking, one fo them says "Haha, they think they're free."

They are talking about us, I am sure of it. And what's more, they know exactly where we are. I creep back down the stairs and am wondering what to do, when I have an idea. I follow a green sign for a fire exit; it points at a large wooden door. I pull it open and inside is a toilet, not obvious exit whatsoever. Nontheless, I pull two of my friends (that's all that would fit) in with me and close the door. I then hit the big circular green button with the fire escape logo on, hoping it would give us an exit and not set off a fire alarm.

Immediately after pressing the button, the floor dropped down from the walls like a hatch. We plummet down into darkness. I honestly can't tell if we're moving or not, and it's taking a long time to do anything. Just as me and my friends start wondering if we're gonna be stuck here, we feel the floor beneath our feet - we're in some kind of foyer. There is a receptionist behind a desk, and one of my schoolfriends playing on a GameBoy. The rest of the group arrives next to us and we walk out the front door, onto a busy daytime street in London. We've escaped! Our group has grown to about 20 people, and I remember one of my teachers from school congratulating me.


Now we have the major plot shift of the dream. It is still one dream and flows smoothly from that last scene to the next, but almost all of the plot is forgotten.

I am now with two friends from real life, not imaginary characters. We are on some kind of island, and they are looking for a swimming pool/leisure center. This entire phase of the dream is weird: it is both real (we actually act it out) and it is in a computer game, and we control it with the arrow keys. There are elements of both.

Despite the swimming pool being apparently quite close, we get in a gyrocopter (yes, a gyrocopter) and start scanning the coast of the island. my friend is both flying the copter round a real island and controlling it with arrow keys round an island from a video game; the gyrocopter is red and yellow.

After painstakingly searching about half of the coast and crashing the gyrocopter, I tell my friend to give the controls to me. We get back in a new gyrocopter (respawning on the game) and I crash it almost immediately, as the up arrow makes the copter go down, and vice versa.

I get back in the copter for third time, and have slightly more success, but end up crashing it near a bank. The dream now switches 100% back to the 'real world' view. I figure we should ask the men in the bank for directions, but upon approaching, a security guard runs out and tells me not to come any closer. It's fair enough, I suppose, I did almost just crash a gyrocopter into the roof of his bank. I call him over and he comes to talk to me and my friends. I take pains to ascertain that he speaks Italian (I have no idea why, because I don't), and then ask him in slow English where the leisure center is. He gives us directions: "just over there, cross the road and then go back"

We follow his directions and reach a busy roundabout - suddenly we have 10 people in our party, spread out into groups of two or three. I am at the front, and I cross the road leading in to the roundabout first; I reach the grassy patch on the other side, then set off from the same way I have just walked, leaving the others to catch me up.

I reach a collection of brick buildings; it looks like I'm at the back of the leisure center, as it looks run down. After some searching, though, I find the entrance to the changing rooms; a dim room with wooden cubicles for changing. The cubicles have swinging doors like you see in the bars in western movies. I get changed, and then me and my dad (he's suddenly there too) walk through into the leisure center. The dream is beginning to fade. The center is a fairly large square room; my dad gets in a hot tub/jacuzzi that is playing music, this all seems normal. I remember commenting on how jacuzzis always play exactly the same song, and I remember walking toward a shower. Then the dream ends and I wake up.

And the funny thing was, when I first woke up I had no recall. Then I remembered one fact, and slowly this entire story unravelled itself for me

DREAMSIGNS:
Really? There are so many dreamsigns here that I'm not going to list them all - I honestly don't see anything that would definately not be a dreamsign! I'm not going to list everything, but ones that stand out are the constantly changing numbers of people in my groups and the gyrocopter.

Hacktrix

Non Dream Dream Lucid

The housemaster of my boarding house has everybody in my house gathered outside the back, both he and the matron are shouting at us from some steps. It seems that two old boys have came back last night to visit and the housemaster found out - he got very annoyed. The two old boys are there too, it transpires that they left for a party at 00:40 the night before. They say "twenty past midnight" but I think of the time as 00:40. Fancy dress is mentioned - one of them went as a photographer?

There is a large camera on a floor mount - one of the old boys gets walks over to it and sits down behind it - he starts using it like a turret gun, only it shoots water out the lens whenever he presses the shutter. Sort of like a giant fire hose. Everybody starts scrambling to get inside. I see a boy from a different house; we get in through a door into a hallway of my boarding house.

I am being chased. There are two girls slightly older than me who are for some reason trying to chase me out of the house. I turn through the door on the right and enter a bathroom - it is a large, square room with a square column in the center. Urinals line the column. I run around the left of the pillar and slide to a halt on the floor; one of my sister's friends slides in behind me and we both start laughing. Her sudden presence does not cause me to question anything. One of the two girls pursuing me enters the room - I crawl around the pillar and find that the floor is bended up into ramps - I hide behind one of these. My sister's friend starts using on of the urinals. I get up and run out of the room.

Coming down the stairs I am met by the other of the two girls. Something happens which I don't remember, but suddenly the two girls that were pursuing me are powerless. They come back into the hallway with the stairs and leave together by the same door that I entered. On their way they kick off a power switch near the floor - something was plugged into it, I can't remember what.

Me and another girl (a 'good' character) check the bathroom that I just exited - it has now changed completely. There is a brown carpet and the walls are green - a kind of billiard room. Various paintings line the walls. The urinals are gone, as is the pillar. I do not find this strange but me and the girl link this to the exiting of the first two, "they put it back, huh."

I go up the stairs and find enter a very large, dimly lit room. The room feels old and dusty - old leather furniture is in places - piles of clutter are everywhere. I see some of my friends from the boarding house at the other end of the room, I walk over there. I remember a TV and a kind of balance board; not much after this point.


Then my alarm goes off and I wake up.

Non Dream Dream Lucid

I was in what I understood to be my Grandparents' house. Most of it was the same as real life but odd rooms were different. I do not even notice. I am standing in a small, carpeted bathroom with a low ceiling. My grandfather walks in and we have a mini-argument over who should use it first... After a while Latin excersises come into the argument, i don't remember how.

Then my alarm goes off and I wake up.

DREAMSIGNS:
1. Being in Grandparent's house - I'm currently at boarding school
2. Some of the rooms being different
3. Latin - I gave it up 3 years ago so shouldn't be doing any excersises.