a teahouse inside my head.

I think I've found something. I only have a fragment of my dream from last night but the rest is "on the tip of my tongue", which doesn't really fit here, but it has the same feeling.

Dream 1: A fleeting memory
I only have one image left in my mind from this dream, and I can't really explain it. I do know it involved a boy from my english class and one of the girls from the dream last night. I have this feeling that it might have had something to do with a boat or a rollercoaster but I'm not sure. I can also slightly picture a room that we were in.

So I very rarely have dreams on a normal school night, I just don't get enough sleep to be rested enough to remember my dreams. Until now I thought the only way to combat this was to go to bed around 9, which I doubt will happen again for the rest of the school year considering my workload. This was until last night... I had a dream and I remember a large chunk of it pretty well. I stayed up quite late last night and I was stressed so it can't have anything to do with being well rested. Then it hit me what was different about last night. I was listing to music! I always need some sort of background noise so I'm always playing some sort of "meditation" music when I'm falling asleep, but yesterday I listened to this rather sad and calm mix CD I had made. That is the only thing I could think of effecting me, lyrics. I'm not sure if this would make any difference at all, and one night isn't enough of a test for sure, but it might help. Needless to say, I'm listening to the CD again tonight.

Dream 1: Woodshop + Tumblr + Party?
There were three sections to this dream, and I have no idea what order they went in because they weren't really cohesive. I'll just post the parts in seperate paragraphs.

-I was with two girls that I am okay friends with (in real life they kind of hate each other, or just mutually dislike). They were kneeling next to a bed on opposite sides in a purple room. They each had pieces of wood about the size of a paperback book in front of them. I think they were supposed to be decorating them but they were both very plain, if not completly plain. These weren't supposed to be art though, they had some purpose. There were other people making these too, also kneeling against the bed, about 15 people in total (it was a really long bed). I walked into what felt like a class and the "teacher" (who was standing in the middle of the bed pacing back and forth) told me I would have to catch up.

-The same two friends were on the website tumblr making a blog (this segment of the dream will make more sense if you are familiar with tumblr). I asked if I could reblog photos with them. They said no. I walked over to these two boys I'm friends with (I have no idea where we were). They said I could post on tumblr with them.
(this shows how totally and embarassingly I am addicted to tumblr)

-I was at a party with one of the girls from the other dreams and both of the boys. We were outside on some sort of patio and there were lights strung between the trees. The boys had one glass bottle between the two of them and I had a glass bottle that looked identical. The bottles looked like the kind you would fill with colored sand and closed with corks. They were both filled with a clear (possibly slightly pink tinted, probably alcoholic) liquid. I asked them if they wanted to mix them even though they were the same thing. They said no. Then the two boys started talking about some game like World of Warcraft.

Again, I do not remember any dreams from last night. I didn't feel any emotions about a dream I had woken up from this morning, and no matter how hard I tried I could not get any sort of memory.

No recall last night. I laid motionless in bed for about 5 minutes without the slightest fragment of recall so I called it quits and got ready for school.

I did discover something fascinating about my dreams though. I had a dream that should have been in my dream journal entry for Friday, and I forgot to post it because I wrote it down on a separate piece of paper and then completely forgot about it. It involved my math teacher handing back a quiz (the one I took on Friday). I got a 90%. Then for some reason my really nice math teacher turned evil, and not "oh I hate this teacher, he's evil" evil, but super-villain evil. Anyways, today I actually got my quiz back and I actually got a 90%. Even weirder is that one of my dreams from yesterday had to do with my day today. My family never eats California Pizza Kitchen, but my mom picked up a cheese pizza from CPK after work today.

Two precognitive-ish dreams in the span of 3 days? That seems pretty bizarre.

I was expecting to dream chain this morning and I even woke up from a dream and stayed still with my eyes closed, but I waited for over 5 minutes with no indication of SP or anything, so I gave up. I don't think I was tired enough. I do have two dreams to share with you!

Dream 1: Who wants some pizza?
I was at school, and I can picture exactly where I was standing and exactly the way everything looked because it looked exactly like my school actually looks, down to every detail. I won't sit here describing my school for you though. I was standing at a table with my really close friend and two senior girls I've never really spoken to. We had about 6 pizzas from California Pizza Kitchen, 5 of them were cheese and one was veggie. We were trying to sell them for some cause. We also had a ton of candy we were selling. All of a sudden I ate 4 pieces of cheese pizza, and I paid a quarter for each one. Then I tried to buy a veggie one but as I reached for the piece I wanted, an African-American lady that seemed like she was a parent or teacher walked up and took the piece I wanted. The only one left barely had any toppings on it. I remember taking a mushroom that had fallen off another slice and putting it on mine and eating it. That was the whole dream. I find it odd considering I can only eat about 2 slices of pizza at once.

Dream 2: Project Runway/Top Chef
I was in a show that was a combination of Top Chef and Project Runway. That is, it was a show where there were designers who designed things based on food. I wasn't actually a contestant, it was as if I was just watching it, but in person. The challenge was to create a pair of shoes (why would clothing designers be making shoes?) based on button candy. One of the designers were making these really ugly shoes in this shade of purple which I find really ugly (and isn't related to button candy at all).

I went to a party last night and one might say I did some things that would destroy my recall. Needless to say, I do not remember my dreams from last night. Luckily I don't have to wake up early tomorrow and can attempt some DEILDs or just work on my recall.

So this is what I should have posted yesterday but I was too busy to do. I actually don't really remember the dream at all anymore but I have my small amount of notes, therefore what I say may not actually be what happened.

Dream 1: PAARTYY!
I was at a party and people were taking embarrassing photos of me. Then these two boys in my grade got in a water balloon fight. The dream was really long and pretty detailed, I just don't remember it now.

So I went to bed at 9 o'clock last night and it was exactly what I needed. I remember a fragment of one a dream and a large amount of another. I also feel so much better. Sadly that was pretty much a one time only thing, I don't even understand how I had so little homework. Tonight I have a ton of studying to do so I will not be going to bed early. I would also like to say that I am keeping a DJ every day, but tomorrow I will not be home at all. I'm going to write my dream down at school in the morning but I cannot post it online until Saturday. Now, on to the main event!

Dream 1: ???
I was with my friend Jacob.

Dream 2: Alone at His House
I was at my friend Maxx's house, though it looked like a mix between his house and the house from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and we were in the kitchen. His mom walked in and she looked nothing like his mom (she was really tall and blonde, his real mom is 4'10 and has black hair). She took a box of something out of a cabinet and then left. A bunch of 17 year old boys showed up and we ended up hanging out with them. Then we weren't (I don't know what happened). All of a sudden I was just alone in Maxx's kitchen. He was gone and his parents were gone too. I just sat on the computer for a while, shopping for bikinis. Then his mom came downstairs (even though she hadn't been home) and started yelling at me for staying up too late (the sun was just setting). For some reason I just slumped in a corner hugging the laptop close to my body.

Not very interesting but better than no dream at all. I know there was a lot more to the dream because I felt like it was really long when I woke up, I just don't remember the parts in between.

Again I cannot remember any of my dream, even after laying in bed trying to recall it for 15 minutes. I think it's the fact that I have to go to bed around 11 or 12 because of the amount of homework I have, and I have to wake up at 6:15 to get ready for school in time. I think the not remembering dreams is because I haven't been getting enough sleep. I had a light amount of homework today so I'm going to go to bed around 9 tonight and get a lot more sleep than I normally do. Hopefully this will let me remember at least one good dream. Wish me luck!

I am so mad at school right now. Not only do I have a ton of work and no time for anything fun, but it is ruining my dream recall. Today my alarm went off at 6:15 like every day. I woke up and I didn't even have the slightest image of a dream. I laid there for a second while the radio played, trying to conjure up any image from my dream, no matter how small. I couldn't think of ANYTHING. I got up and turned off my alarm (it's on the other side of my room so I don't just fall asleep) and decided to crawl into bed again for a moment to try and remember my dream. Suddenly it was 7:00 and I still had not even one image from a dream. I was also late and had to rush to get ready and to my carpool before we'd be late.

My recall is pretty weird in that a lot of days I'll remember a single image or just a general idea of the dream in the morning and then remember more and more as the day goes on. Sometimes this even works when I don't remember anything at all. Sadly, this was not the case. I remember nothing from last night.

If anyone happens to read this, I was wondering if anyone had advice on keeping your dream recall up on school days. I remembered two in pretty good detail each day over the weekend (and last Thursday when I had a day off from school) but I can barely remember anything on school days. Even in the past when I've kept dream journals for weeks I would barely remember anything on weekdays. Is there anything specific I could do to help with this? I'm never going to make any progress if I can only recall dreams 2/7 days a week.

Before I get to the actual dream part, I have realized something about my dream. I only dream about people I'm friend with but not that close with unless it is a dream about a big group of people. I don't know why, but it is only people that I'm not that close with. The friends in both of my dreams yesterday, and my dream I will be posting right now are all my friends, but mostly at school or in group situations. Just an observation.

I only remembered one dream most likely because of waking up at 6 instead of 11. On weekends I naturally dream chain, but never lucidly. I just wake up about ever hour or so and end up remembering more dreams.

Dream 1: Pillows and an Orange Sauce
I was video chatting with this girl in my grade (who I was actually supposed to video chat with last night and didn't end up doing) and then she invited me to her house. All of a sudden I was at her house. Her walls were this dark shade of bright blue and the carpet was light grey. There was a navy plaid pillow sitting on the floor near the door with her 17 inch old (circa 2007) macbook pro (yes I know the model of her dream computer) sitting on top of it open to a video chat screen with just her picture on it. There was no bed in the room, just various pillows sprinkled around the room like islands in a sea. There was a flat screen TV on the wall to the left of the door, and the wall directly in front of you when you walked in was 90% window (or sliding glass door to a patio). The room looked very similar to my friend's older brother's room. Some random other girl was there too. I remember jumping over a bunch of pillows for some game or dance and then ordering chinese food. Then all of a sudden there was this orange sweet and sour sauce all over one of the pillows. Then this boy in my class that I kind of like showed up on the patio. We let him in and he just starts pointing at the sweet and sour sauce saying, "it's on the pillow!"

Last night I took a One A Day Teen Advantage for Her because my mom bought them for me and they happen to have various known lucid aids. I had one dream and woke up for a minute afterward. I was stupid/tired and didn't even think to try DEILD-ing. I did fall asleep and have another dream that I remember quite well. Then I again woke up and again did not DEILD. I fell asleep after going through my first two dreams and trying to make sure I would remember them after a third dream. I fell asleep and had some sort of dream, but minutes later I couldn't remember it anymore.

Dream 1: Not Prepared
I was packing for a cross country skiing trip. For some reason I hadn't purchased anything I would need. I live in Los Angeles so I obviously don't have any snowsuits, etc. The dream skipped forward and I was just finishing packing my suitcase with anything that could possibly help. All I had were about 5 of these all with a tropical beach scene painted on them. I gave up on finding anything that would keep me warm. Then I heard a honk coming from outside our house. It was my friend and her dad who were coming to pick me up. I jumped out of my window and landed right next to their car. I put my bag in the trunk and got in. That is all I remember.

Dream 2: Not Your Average School
I was starting at a new school with another one of my friends. It was giant and looked like an ice skating rink about an hour away from my house that I haven't been to in years. Our first class was Gym. We went to change into our gym uniforms and all of a sudden the principal, half of the teachers, and about 15 boys come running in. Suddenly all of the other girls are fully dressed but I'm still half naked. Everyone starts dancing and running around the changing room while I try to cover myself. All of a sudden my friend and I were in the cafeteria. It had the same coloring and design as a Starbucks, but it had aisles like in a 7-11. All of the food looked like it was from Starbucks. I stood there debating between a cinnamon roll or this cupcake that looked like it had donut glaze and giant sprinkles on it (like, comically large sprinkles an inch long). I remember reading one of the plastic containers next to the pastries and seeing that it said "Breakfast Salad" (this is the first time I've read in a dream). I ended up purchasing the donut/cupcake hybrid. I took a bite. I do not remember what it tasted like but I remember thinking that it was delicious. I can actually imagine the texture when I bit in though.

Dream 3: ??
I keep trying to remember this dream and I can't think of anything but walking down the street and possibly tapping someone on the shoulder.

I remember two short dreams from last night, which I guess is pretty good, but I don't think my recall is anywhere good enough to be able to remember the things I would want to do in LDs. I used to have pretty good recall and then summer messed it all up, so hopefully I can refresh myself quickly.

Dream 1: A Tornado
I just now realized I was reading this post by WakingNomad soon before I went to sleep and I'm 100% sure that's where this dream came from.
I was in a car with my mom driving on a curvy road through a dense forest much like you would see in a car commercial. We finally arrived at a beach. There was a big group of people I didn't know there (I often see people I don't know in real life in dreams, but recognize them as generic "friends". These people were generic strangers) as if I was getting dropped of at camp or something. We stood on the beach for a while and then the sky turned greyish yellow.
All of a sudden my mom and I were standing outside a log cabin. We walked in and from the inside it looked exactly like a normal room (no logs or anything). The walls were color changing (white to blue to yellow) and there were a bunch of windows in the room but I don't remember much else about the inside. My mom and I spent a long time looking out the windows amazed at what was happening. There was a storm outside but there was no rain and no thunder. There were clouds and a strange constant sizzling sound coming from the sky. The sky then lit up light a nightlight and a giant grey tornado began moving towards us. My mom said "Hey! Let's get the trashcan!" We ran down a long grey flight of stairs that wasn't there before until we reached a giant trashcan (about 4 times the size of a normal one). I can't remember anything else.

Dream 2: Stationary Store
I was in Osaka, Japan (I recognized one of the buildings) with a generic friend (or I just can't remember who it actually was) and we were standing on a street corner extremely bored. Then I saw what I thought was a Sanrio store behind me. I said something similar to, "Let's go in there, it's less boring." We walked in and it wasn't actually a sanrio store, just a generic stationary store. The lady working there wasn't Japanese either, she was Kitty from That 70s Show. I have no idea what else happened.