hermine_hesse

Glowing Straw
Noelle and I are in a strange downtown. We are with a DC friend of mine, Crowe. We are looking for a place to stay for the night. We walk into a creepy, horror-themed hotel. Someone is playing Nightmare Before Christmas music on the piano. As he is playing, he and the piano swirl and change into Nickelback (ugh) and the scenery changes to a house party.
Now at the house party, I feel I am hiding from someone. Suddenly, a large group of people physically throw me out of the party. Somehow, a large wire gets shoved through the bottom of my foot. I take a deep breath and pull it out. The whole experience is very painful. [When I wake up, I can still feel the pain in my foot.] I am aware of an argument going on inside the house. There is a large anthropomorphic fox and weasel at the party. I think the weasel is who I am hiding from, but the fox is helping me. I run from the party and through a corn field. I end up at a bar where my dad is the bartender. I order a drink and some food. There is someone sitting next to me at the bar. I suddenly have a profound sense of deja vu - that not only have I experienced this before, but I know everything that will happen. I am somehow disconnected and outside of everything, yet destined to repeat the same actions. I focus on the straw in my drink and it starts to glow. I wonder if everyone else can see it. I wonder if I made the straw glow, or if I can just suddenly see the inner light of the universe shinning through to me.

Fragment
A guy and a girl are arguing in a gas station bathroom about a job on the road.

Going to a Costume Pary
Noelle and I are in a house preparing for a costume party. For some reason I leave and end up in another neighborhood looking for something in this girl's van. She gets in the van and starts driving. At some point, my friend John ends up in the van too. They are also going to a costume party and there are lots of costumes in the van, including a Sgt. Pepper costume. We arrive at my and Noelle's house. Both Noelle and John are dressed as Roman soldiers. I am wearing a froofy pink dress.

At Work
I am at a place that looks similar to where I work (Aveda). I am in just my underwear, waiting for Noelle. A car pulls up near a drive-through window and just sits there. I look at the car and it pulls forward. Dayne and Desiree (my coworkers) are in the car and I give them both a glass of water.

Loud Girls
My sister, my parents, and I are staying as guests in a large house. There are many other girls around my age staying there as well. They are being rude and disturbing my family's sleep by being very loud late into the night. They are downstairs partying, and my family is upstairs sleeping. One girl refuses to be quite, even after I asked everyone to quiet down. I walk down the stairs and punch her repeatedly in the face, but none of the punches have much effect on her.

Fountains
I am at "work", but everything looks completely different. There are beautiful red and white fountains everywhere. Everyone who is normally a brunette has a large, blonde streak in her hair.

Energy Escalators
I am traveling somewhere with my parents. I notice my luggage keeps changing - and I keep having two mismatched shoes. I don't become fully lucid, but I have a vague sense of it being a dream and being able to control things. I am on a moving walkway. I realize I can change and direct it with my energy. The moving walkway bends and goes up, down, and around. I feel I reach a new level of dream control. Instead of just thinking or willing something to happen, I can feel an energy carrying me forward and begin to guide the energy like levees around a river. As I do this, the walkway changes around me without me actively willing the change. It feels more like surfing, not god-like control.

Fragments

• Another dream about my sister
• A guy with a pickup truck
• A dress with mirrors in the pockets
• A creepy amusement park-like ride

Lucid fragment of floating

I attempted a WILD, but achieved a DILD instead. My current dream goal had been to meet Nietzsche (my favorite philosopher) and have a conversation with him. At this point in my quest, I had become less interested in talking to Nietzsche, and more concerned with completing a dream goal and learning to find or summon someone in a dream.

I start off in a non-lucid dream. I am in a house when I hear a name said aloud and know it is the name of my goddess. (Unfortunately, the name now eludes me.) I call her name and start climbing up the side of a cabinet up towards the ceiling. I float up and start to push through the ceiling. I attempt to do this with my eyes open, but it produces very strange sensations and only causes the ceiling to move up a bit like rubber. I close my eyes and it works. I start flying around and become lucid while in flight - a startling and exhilarating experience.
I remember my dream goal to meet Nietzsche. Instead of creating a portal like I had previously been trying, or making a magic circle and summoning him like I intended when I went to sleep, I decide to try a different method. First, I call to him loudly, but yelling while I'm flying around somehow doesn't feel right. Also, it is nighttime and I am soaring over houses, so I decide not to disturb my little DC's that might be asleep below me. I also notice that if I concentrate on something else to hard I start to waiver a bit in my flight (which has never happened before). I whisper into the sky "Bring me to Nietzsche."
I dip into the roofs of one of the houses, look around, then leave. I do this to another house and find a group of guys balancing on beams in an attic. I leave this house as well.
I dip into another house and perch on the top of a post of a large, strange, wooden bunk bed. Each bed contains a little girl asleep in it. The girl in the bottom bunk crawls out of bed and looks up at me. Involuntarily, I turn me mouth and teeth into a monsters mouth full of long, sharp pointed teeth, snarl at her and scare her back into bed.
I start to fly away, but am drawn back. I ask the little girl in the top bunk if she knows where Nietzsche is. She sleepily says, no. I crawl down and an older girl, probably their baby sitter, is awake in a chair across form their beds.
I ask her the same question. "Yes," she replies. I ask if she knows where he is and if she can take me to him. She answers in the affirmative to both the questions. She leads me out the room, through a series of rooms, through a closet, into another room. Nietzsche is in this room. Sitting next to him is a younger boy who seems to be taking care of him. His hair is disheveled and he has his characteristic mustache, however, he is wearing modern clothes - a red track suit.
He is sleeping sitting up in his chair. I walk up, sit across from him and try to rouse him. He is very gruff with me. I ask if he is indeed Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. "Yes," he answers in a thick German accent, "What of it?"
I tell him how it has been my dream goal for sometime to meet him and I have been searching for him for almost two months.
"Two months! Humph!" he exclaims.
"Is that a long time?" I ask
"Well, I suppose it is not so bad," he replies.
"Do you have any advice for dreamers?" I ask.
"Just...fix the universe!" he says before walking off, and the dream ends.

Blair
Noelle and I are with Blair (old friend from New Orleans). Noelle is asking him about his music and album releases.

Dream Reading
I am reading an article on how to induce nausea with an alarm as an aid to stop smoking.

High School Reunion
I am being taken to my high school reunion by a Delta Airlines driver who is very unpleasant. I arrive at the reunion, having forgotten that it was supposed to be a black tie affair. I realize I am wearing jeans and a tshirt. I went straight from the airport to the event, so I am hectically trying to find a little black dress and high heels.

Walmart
I am at a very large Walmart. There are many cookie samples in the front and I taste all of them. One of them turns out to be a meat cookie and I stop eating it. (This is especially gross for me, since I am a vegetarian.) I walk around and end up in an aisle of many books. I keep walking and the book aisles turn into the Library of Congress. I walk into a further back room of halls full of people wearing black suits. I get the feeling like I am not supposed to me there and leave.

Pothole
I am in a car full of girls pulling up in front of the same Walmart. There is a guy stuck in this meteor-sized pothole.

Volcano
A large group of people and I are at a beach with a Volcano. My sister, Melissa, is at the beach dying her hair orange. The volcano starts erupting and I take the orange out of Melissa's hair and put in on mine, then we all run. We are back at a house and I am dying the rest of my hair orange. I look in the mirror and now have short, orange Annie Lenox hair.

One of Noelle's sister (a dream invented sister, not a real one) antagonizes us for being gay, but I tell her off.

• a short lucid involving a threesome
• a Disney-land like teacup ride
• work dream

I have a pet green lizard. It suddenly turns on me after being my loving pet and tries to bite me. I put it outside in my little fenced in yard. I look back through the glass doors and can see it still wanting to attack me, trying to bite and claw through the glass door.

Noelle and I are watching Zooey Deschanel's Wedding on the tele, then suddenly we are actually there. Zooey and the groom are saying their vows, then both accidentally fall into the 6ft tall wedding cake. Somehow, we fall in too. I eat some cake off my hand and vividly taste chocolate and coconut.
I wake up soon after this with the aftertaste of the cake still in my mouth.

Noelle and I are in a hotel room constantly doing small bumps of coke. I start to feel a little to fucked up and stop. (...btw doing drugs in a dream is always a very weird experience for me) Then, we are looking through a window to my grandma's farm. I see a huge brown horse with brown, eagle wings - a Clydesdale Pegasus - flying through the air. Everything is incredibly vivid and I wonder if I am hallucinating. I ask Noelle to look out the window to see the horse, but it is now gone. I miss the dream sign and conclude I hallucinated the horse because of the drugs we have taken.

After WBTB, I had a second short lucid the same night as Strange Conversations With Sharon.

I become lucid in a small bedroom. There is a large bed with tall wooden posts and a white, fluffy duvet. I climb up to the top of one of the posts then jump off and float down to the bed very slowly, like a feather. I plop on the fluffy duvet and a pillow and the dream ends.

I don't remember the first part of my dream or how I became lucid, but I do remember the moment of awareness and trying to tell another DC. Everything was still kinda fuzzy and not as vivid as it usually is in a LD. I am in a landscape where it is dusk and the sky looks purple. I remembered reading about investigating where dream light comes from, so I start to look around for a moon or light source, but don't see one - everything does seem to have an inherent glow. I remember my goal of wanting to talk to Nietzsche - so I teleport to Germany and his house. As I am traveling through the teleport tunnel I can't remember his exact city or what year he lived and felt like I should have known this to be able to teleport to him. I do succeed, however, and end up in his house. I sit down at a table to talk to him. The dream is very unstable, and I don't remember the conversation.
I walk outside and decide to start looking for a light source again. This time it is daytime and there is a sun, but the sky is strange and there's still a patch of darkness. I feel the sun somehow isn't "real", so I reach up and pluck it form the sky. When I place it on the ground, it looks like a raw egg yolk. I look around, then put it back in the sky - certain that this daytime landscape has an inherent glow also. I lose lucidity sometime after this.

I am in a public bathroom putting on makeup. I walk out form where the mirrors were. Even though I saw the women's bathroom sign when I walked in, there are now guys in the bathroom. I walk out to make sure it is a women's bathroom, but the sign has also changed and now says men's. I walk back in and the bathroom has now turned into a locker room. I realize this is weird and suddenly become lucid.
I then fall through a tunnel made of brick walls with little bristles coming out form them. I feel the dream start to fade, so I rub my hands together. I spin around in the tunnel and the dream solidifies even more. I fall through a portal to a park. The details are very vivid. Unfortunately, the grass in the park is dry and looks like it needs to be watered - not a pretty sight. I see a blue haired girl across the park that I believe is a fairy. I hear a name in the dream, but can't quite make it out - it's something like Adelle, Amelie, or Amelia. The blue haired girl leaves, so I fly to a street where I thought she had walked. I start talking to a blonde-haired girl. I feel the dream start to fade and am aware of my body in bed. I want to have sex with the blonde-haired girl and I wake up.