The Epic Adventures Of Emma in Her Own Mind.

Dream fragments about a wet cat.

I find a small kitten somewhere, and I seem to be running away from someone. The problem is I can't hold cats. I remember a field and then my mum turns up.
"That's not how you hold a cat. Have you been holding her like that all day?" I say yes, and my mum teaches me how to hold a cat and somehow, I end up climbing out a building on a rope.

I'm walking down the street, back home from school (which is strange enough, since it's the school holidays) and it seems like it's taking for ever. I know my dad's car is parked just around the corner, but it's dark and cold and I don't feel like walking. Then a large bus pulls up. I stop, and so does the bus. I look up. The driver is oldish and gives the impression of being mad. There's a skeleton in the back of the bus.
"Don't worry, he's just the driver." The man says. Yes, I think, he's definately mad. I get in never the less, and as soon as the door shuts, I begin to wonder if I shouldn't have got in. I wonder if this man and his skeleton are going let me off. But then he asks "Where to?"
"Just round the corner, on the left, then stop." We round the corner and the bus stops. I jump out and get in the car with my dad, and he drives me to someone's house. It begins to get lighter. I hop out the car and my dad passes me my suitcase. I know I've never been to this house before. The walls are white and there are fancy lights on the walls. The stairs are to my left. Then the dream ends.

My second dream could be part of my third dream, but these are dream fragments:
There is a lake. I am on one side, one friend on the other. The lake is green. There are trees either side, and mud directly next to it.

Something is floating in the lake. A duck? It's grey. My friend on the other side reaches for it.

We walk under a bridge. The bridge is familiar... it's a brown rope bridge.

My third dream takes place on the lake. We are supposed to be going canoeing, but my friends are puzzeled when we are asked to get into a bus.
"Don't worry, I know what's going on. I've been on one of these before. Put a helmet on, strap yourself in and they hold the bus high over the lake" (that's happened in a previous dream) We all wear grey helmets, and everyone on the bus takes ropes and straps themselves in. There isn't enough left for me, so I grab on to a small piece just in time. The driver is having some fun. He bounces the bus up and down, and I bounce loads because I'm not strapped in. It's dead fun though.

I'm at school. Right now I'm in the main building. There are stairs at all four corners and three floors. The bottom floor is four separate corridors with stairs at the end and a hall in the middle. The middle floor has a balcony covering three sides and enables you to see into the hall below. There are classrooms bordering the balcony and the top floor follows the rough plan of the bottom floor. You can also get to the roof from the top floor. I've always wanted to get to the top and swap the flag for something else. In this dream the layout has completely changed and there's a window at one point, with no glass and it starts just above the floor. I stand in it and my friend grabs my arm and says "No, don't go on there you're not allowed!"

When we get out the building, I don't know what happens, but later I find myself in the 'yellow corridor'. From there, the obstacles from the TV show Total Wipeout have appeared. We get into teams and our team is winning when we arrive in the science block. We are all wet. The leader person, who is also the commentator, tells us to run s=twelve months that way, or something like that. We are running back, and two people from the other team (Harry and Kainan, I think. That's two of our class mates) There wet hair looks black and orange. I start whacking them in the face with a woggle and try and stop them overtaking us. My friend, Irene, who is part Croatian, tells me something. It appears to be a Croatian word (begins with 'k') and she says it's like a long month. I run past some bushes, back into the yellow corridor. I laugh and take long, 'floaty' bounds.

I'm in the yellow corridor when the dream ends.

I don't usually take naps, but I decided to try one today.

I close my eyes. I'm laying on the floor, which is surprisingly comfy and after a while I start seeing colours and shapes. After a few more minutes of this, a buzzing noise begins, like a swarm of wasps. It gets louder and louder. The noise distracts me and I slip into a non lucid dream.

It's all kind of white. I look up and there's a girl standing in front of me with blue eyes and dark hair. "Have you seen Mike?" She asks.
"No. Where is this?"
"Nowhere. Are you sure you haven't seen Mike?"
I have no clue who Mike is, or who the girl is, or where I am, so I ask again.
"What do you mean, Nowhere? This must be somewhere. What am I standing on then?" I ask again. I notice the girl is wet.
"Nothing. You're standing on nothing." Then she asks where Mike is again, and I tell her I don't know who mike is. She begins to laugh at me, so I turn around and walk away. She calls after me, telling me that if I see Mike, I need to tell him she asked where he is.

Then I come to a lake. The lake looks really strange, it's just a big blue lake in the middle of 'nothing'. There's a crocodile in the lake, and it turns an eye to look at me. "Hello," I say.
"Hello" says the crocodile "Where would you like to go?"
"Do you know where a pyramid is?" I ask.
"Yes, it's over there." I look down the river, and there's some dark building down the end.
"Well, can you take me there?"
"No. But I can if you give me your shoes." The crocodile looks at my feet.
"No!" and then I say something about if the crocodile doesn't do what I ask, I'll report him to 'the factory' but I don't know what that's meant to be. But the next minute, the crocodile has turned into a large piggy bank. I pick it out of the water, and it's extremely heavy and full of coins. I empty the coins out onto the floor, and instead of having a 'tails' on one side, it has a big letter, and each coin has a different letter on it.

I'm just arranging the letters when I wake up.

My first dream was after my alarm goes off in the middle of the night.
First there's a nice, dark room. It's made of some sort of dark, reddish wood, and the fabric is in the same dark tones. There's a table here too. I sit at the table and look about, wondering where I am. Then a rather old man with grey hair, and thick black eyebrows walks in. He isn't wearing a shirt , and he's quite flabby and has a hairy chest and I swear I can't see any pants on him, but so far he's behind a chair. He can't see me.

Then I find myself in a tent with no memory of the wooden house. The tent is large, blue and pyramid shaped. I remember my old school field , but when I look over my shoulder I can't see the school. But I know this is my old school field (a recurring place in my dreams!) because of the way there are hills on one side and trees bordering the whole field, hiding a wire fence. Behind me where the school should be, there is just fog. I don't know what I'm doing here, but it's like there's something just behind the trees I need to get to so I start running across the field.

These were just hazy dream fragments. When I woke up in the morning, I can't remember either dreams immediately, and I'm frustrated. So I lay down and try to do an early morning WILD, which in the past have sometimes been successful. But today I'm not asleep enough or my sister is making too much noise because it doesn't want to work. I think what happened next might have been an OBE. I could feel my thumb in my palm, even though my hands were one on each side of me. I rub my right thumb in my left palm a bit as I begin to feel my other hands too, my 'real' hands, both at the same time. Then I move my real hands, and I can feel my hands either side of me. My thumb no longer feels like it's in my palm.

The alarm goes off at 3:27am. I switch it off and drop my phone onto my bed, and drift back to sleep. As soon as my eyes close, I shoot straight back up. I have the feeling I should be somewhere, but I can't quite remember where. I remember my phone went off, because I wanted to try WILD, but I look about my bed and just can't find the phone. Then I remember where I'm supposed to be. I look at my hand, because that's where I wrote the name of the place; 'Chichen Itza' It says, but a little bit has rubbed off. When I look again, all of the writing is there, so I do the nose plug RC... Of course, I'm dreaming. I get out of bed, and I'm magically dressed, my pyjamas are neatly folded on my bed, which appears to have made it's self. I walk up to the door and visualise the Chichen Itza pyramid and tell myself it's on the other side of the door. I slowly open the door with my eyes closed. I can feel a breeze in my face, but it's a warm breeze. So I open my eyes. Yes, there it is, the old dark pyramid. I feel like climbing up it, but look at my hand again to remind me what I'm supposed to be doing. The doorway behind me has gone, but that doesn't really matter so I hardly notice and run up to the pyramid. The light is at the top, so I know someone is or has been here already just I can't see anyone. I hear voices on the other side so I run round there. I round the corner, expecting to see at least two people, because it sounded not like an argument but more of a discussion, but there had to be at least two people so I'm really surprised when I see that there's nobody there. I hear voices just around the corner again, so I dash around there. Now the voices have moved to the opposite side of the pyramid. The voices get louder and quieter and keep moving, but I never see who's talking. Eventually, they sound like they're at the top, so I practically cry out. The voices begin to laugh instead, and I'm sure they're laughing at me. I begin to climb to the top. When I'm there, I'm standing in the light, which is so bright Ican't see. The voices are gone now, so I just sit down for a while, waiting for them to come back. By now I'm so frustrated that I jump off the top. I find myself in bed. I do an RC and I'm awake, but the scary thing is is that the time is only 3:28am. I fall asleep and remember no more dreams that night.

So here I am in my dream, and at first it's just a normal dream. I'm walking down my road, and then I turn the corner, and there's this HUGE PIECE OF CHEESE. I'm just staring at this piece of cheese, and my first thought isn't 'Oh, I'm dreaming', it's 'How am I going to get through?' because the cheese is so large, it's just sitting there blocking the road. As I'm wondering up to it, that's when it hits me- I'm dreaming. I pinch my nose and, of course, I can breathe through it. Then I think about trying to get past this cheese, and when I look at it again, it isn't a giant slice of edam anymore. It's swiss cheese. I jump into a hole, and I'm about two thirds the way into the cheese when I begin to wonder what I'm doing crawling through the holes in a giant piece of cheese. I sit down, and pinch my nose again, making sure for definate that I'm asleep. I shove my hand into my pocket, which a second ago was empty, and grab a shovel. Normally a shovel wouldn't fit into my pocket, but today it does, and I dig my wa out of this giant swiss cheese. The top is high up, about thirty metres tall, yellow and shiny. I jump off and land perfectly on my feet. Looking around, I see I'm not in my street anymore, and it's dark now. When I turn around the cheese is gone, and instead, there's a huge tall building. There are lights on at the top and the door is locked. I'm about to run through the wall, when I wake up. I just wonder why I dreamt about cheese.