non-lucid

In one dream my boss by mistake got contact info of someone he was not supposed to be a le to contact. This man could give my boss inside info on why certain decisions had been made that affected our system negatively.

In another dream we (was it family or coworkers not sure) visited some sort of farm, and there were tons of cats everywhere, and one of them had very unusual impossible green fur. Everyone came to get some coffee but there was no more cup left for me, so I drank out of some sort of weird pitcher, and it overflowed and watered some flowers on the table below.

my boss was driving a car, and some young man whom I don't know in waking life but who in the dream was a coworker, he tried to impress me by hanging out of the car when it was on the highway, and he almost fell out, and I told him I did not find stupidity impressive.

I was in a church with my father. At some point the woman reading the second reading had some sort of emotional breakdown in the middle of it, and could not go on. Those who ran this church, (strangely led by a woman, even though my father is Roman Cathoilic in real life) the church leaders insisted that now the service needs to start all over again, not just the reading, but the entire service.

I do not know whether there was a transition from the woman's breakdown to my issue with my father, but at some point in the service, I said to my father that maybe it is time that I sat on my own in church, or maybe went to a different church than him. For the rest of e service we just sat apart.

I then went to the home I shared with a room mate (who is a stranger in waking life), and I told her, I would have to move away, and also get a new job or new research project, that I need to do things my way.

I think this may have been part of this dream, where I found I had some sort of health issue, I think some hair falling out, and I thought it may have had something to do with a research project I participated in with my former research advisor / boss who in this dream was a medical doctor. my roommate advised me to go see him, but at first I said his appointments are booked, I would never get to see him, but she insisted that since I used to work with him, he would see me without an appointment.

Fragments: I also had some dream fragments about family I think, and maybe others I forgot now, but may have recalled when I woke up.

5:35am
So I "remember" I got lucid briefly, but I do not now remember that dream nor how I got lucid. Maybe there was a lucid or maybe this part is a false memory and this dream was all about the non lucid false awakening? And e more I think about it the more likely I think that is because I really remember nothing about that lucid, so I think this was a false awakening with a lost false memory of a non existing lucid most likely.

I remember "waking up" and taking my iPad to the couch to write down my dream. notice I failed to RC upon waking up, argh! And almost did that again a moment ago, but remembered now.

So there I was about to write my dream down on iPad and I had huge trouble closing down the game app that was there.

This game up was loud, so it woke up almost everyone else, including a visitor staying over at our home. In waking life we have no such visitor and in fact do not know him, but I did not notice that in the dream. He was a boy, older than my sons, but not a teen yet. He was Asian perhaps Chinese American. Very polite. He came to me, and wanted to know if he could play games on my iPad. I said, no, I am using it, and got to write down my lucid dream before I forget. He accepted that and left. My husband briefly came too.

I started to have doubts, and thought that it was inhospitable of me to not let the guest have the iPad. and besides I was having trouble operating it. I rationalized that by thinking I must have upgraded the operating system alas. (I should have realized that this was a clue, and reality checked, but I did not!)

The visitor was in the bathroom, so I was going to prop my iPad on the floor next to the bathroom, so he could see it when he emerged. And that's when he emerged. It was a bit awkward with me still bent down to the floor. I told him, I changed my mind and would let him play. I said that the rules of using the iPad were that he needed to only do stuff on it that his parents would approve, follow his parents rules for electronic device usage. In my dream I think there was a second rule, but I forgot what it was. He politely thanked me.

So I went to the bedroom to write down my dream on my iPhone instead. y husband grumbled that I had to hurry up, there was not much time. I realized I had forgotten my lucid dream! Although I remembered that there wasn't much to it, just became lucid and woke up, but I wanted to remember what happened before that!

And that's when I actually woke up.

7:35am More fragments/dreams - later in the morning, but no awareness

I attended some sort of birthday party at someone I considered a neighbor in the dream. there was a pond. I noticed some dead fish, so I suggested that my almost 5 year old help pick up the dead fish and a banana and put them in a trash bag. I remember there were some amazing creatures in this pond, including a Betta fish that gracefully glided on top of the water surface and then transformed into a human and walked on the surface of the water. the neighbor got upset with my family for something, don't remember what, and for a while we feared revenge, but then he forgave us. I think especially one family member it was not certain whether he would forgive, but he did.

my boss and me and a few others were planning to do a job interview, and those who had arranged the interview (some strangers) were saying that maybe my boss would not like the person interviewed, They said it in another language that my boss could not understand, but I could. They said that he might no approve of this person because this person was overweight and American, and while they thought my boss might forgive obesity in a foreigner but not in an American. Meanwhile my boss only understood his name and demanded a translation. I told them they might as well translate or else I would tell him what they had said after they were gone.

In my work I found out that entry level people do more complex work than I do (not true), and I suggested that from now on I should be involved when they are getting their assignments to see who is more appropriate for a task. It was not that they were doing a poor job alas, but rather i felt inadequate, like i should be doing more complex work than them. I also found out that someone in another team, who in my dream was a retirement age biologist (but in waking life is not), I found out that he knows a lot about creating charts and that we could learn from him, but that he alas is retiring now so we can't. He was leaving and I felt deep respect for him, and had the sense it was mutual. In waking life I know almost nothing about this man other than he works on the same floor as I do, and is much younger than in my dream.

My younger son was lost. My mother called, but I said I could not talk and hung up on her without explaining why. I was combing the streets shouting his name when suddenly my husband appeared with my son. my husband was supposed to take a flight somewhere, and apparently our son tried to stowaway in the luggage and come with him, but was discovered at the airport. I was so relieved to see him.

In my dream I found what looked like pieces of scrap paper near the printer in our home office. I looked and they were pieces of copies of my family's birth certificates with highlighted notes on the back on sections of information that we still needed to provide. I recognized my mother in law's hand writing. I "remembered" that she was doing some project for us that required paper work with birth certificates.

That's when I noticed the "original" white out on my certificate. I got upset and told my husband "Your mother cut up the only original copy of my birth certificate." Him "No she didn't." Me "Yes, she did. Look at the white out." Him "Well, this is their fault." Me "What?" And that's when I woke up.

Notes: My birth certificate does not have any white out on it. My mother in law would not make such a mistake as to cut it up. I have not given her any such project, and she is currently in another state where she lives. I would not recognize my mother in law's handwriting by site. Whose fault was it supposed to be at the end there??

for the first dream I have a vague memory of having sex in the trunk space of the van. I do not recall who with and don't really recall much about the experience, but it was not with my husband more with a faceless guy. now the van was like our current van, which has almost no trunk space: there is absolutely no way for one person to fit in there in any way, let alone for two people to be doing anything. I recall there was one or maybe two male strangers who happened to be in the backseat of the van while we did it somehow in the trunk, and the backseat and trunk are open to each other so it's like doing it in their presence. I don't remember enjoying the experience or being embarrassed or any emotions really.

the second dream starts out in some sort of class that I took, continuing education. then I am in a store and I fall in love with a red dress. I remember it was like thirty some dollars but in my dream I hesitated because of how expensive it was. And then the sales person found out I was in a class, and he had seen me looking at some fancy candy too. So he offers me a deal, he will give me the candy for free as long as I share them in class and tell the class what a good deal I got on the dress and candy at his store (advertising). I agree and then do just that. The candy is not really enough for everyone in the class. They quickly eat them all and I have none left. But I still think I got a good deal.

In the third dream I remember I went to a concert. The performer was Polish, and the audience was packed. I remember my kids were in the audience too, but with a babysitter not with me (?!). I remember going across the street to some sort of restaurant or store, ad saying that I was surprised at the crowd, and the guy said that it is because the performer is that good. He named the performer, but I do not recall the name.

My recall did a weird thing of at first kind of combining the class and concert dreams, so that the class was the concert, ad the place across the street was the store with red dress and fancy candy, like the two dreams were overlayed on top of each other. But then when I concentrated on recall more, these two distinct dreams emerged.

To introduce this dream, in waking life, my younger son's 5th birthday is coming up, and friends of ours have a son who is turning 7.

I dreamed that I had let my almost 5 year old choose a gift for the almost 7 year old friend. He chose a doctor's kit which included like a toy huse that one could go into to go to the doctor's office. I checked the recommended age, and it was 7+. So I ordered it online.

We had a huge dinner like a banquet that we attended and so did our friends, and I only then remembered that my friend likes to be consulted on which gift her son gets. I considered telling her then, but she was eating and in conversation with others and on the other end of the banquet table.

We had already received the toy in the mail, and out of some reason, I became suspicious of its age recommendation,and I looked at the box, and it was 7+infant - so not for 7+ years but for 7+ months of age. Clearly an inappropriate toy for a 7 year old boy.

I discussed the issue with my husband. In my dream there was not enough time to return the toy and then get a new one, so I suggested to my husband that we first buy another toy, and then handle the return of the inappropriate toy.

This morning noted these notes about dreams

Instead of something, something else?
Computer system?
New email notification at work

All I remember is watching some sort of orgy of three people. I neither participated nor felt any emotion from watching though.

Fragment: System Overwrite Would be a Lie

Something was wrong on system, and someone else suggested to overwrite it all with different version, but I objected because that would be a lie.

Over the Top Gift for Stranger

A woman whom we do not know in waking life, who in the dream was a neighbor of someone we know, in this dream this woman was retirement age and she had a granddaughter, but I did not see the granddaughter.

The dream starts with the woman picking up a brown paper bag contents unknown which I had set out for her in my front yard which was different than waking life. I saw her, and said something like, you must be so and so, nice to meet you.

Somewhere in this dream, the woman lent my sons something of her granddaughter's. So to repay the favor I bought for the granddaughter an electronic gaming device with one game and a Halloween costume (I think it was an Iron Man costume, anyway a superhero one, mostly something a boy would be more likely to like). My husband saw me buy all this, and he said it was over the top, but out of some reason the part he objected to was the costume not the electronic device. He thought the costume should be for our son instead, but I objected that he wants to be Peter Pan for Halloween, not Iron Man.

I did not have sufficient system access to do differential comparisons.

Hmm, I had the strong sense that this DJ entry was just like another one I had recently, but I cannot find it, so maybe I had another dream like this recently and did not write it down?

I believe in my dream I could travel in time across parallel universes and relive variations of my life. I knew what was going to happen in the one I was in, and that everyone including me would die if we tried to save the baby.

The baby was supposedly my roommate's baby not mine. The crib started flooding, and luckily I knew that there was nothing we could do to stop the flood or to save the baby.

I told my room mate that this was not really her baby that we needed to leave. My roommate looked, and the baby's hair had turned grey, and now e head was turning orange, and the baby was growing into an orange monster. Luckily my roommate realized that I was right and did not try to save the baby.

I ran out of the apartment door first, but then waited for my roommate, pulled her out and kicked the monster in the face, and as it fell back, I closed the door. I had a brief flash of accidentally kicking my roommate instead, like that was an alternate turn of events that I was aware of, but this time I managed to kick the right one.

Hesitated briefly over whether to take the elevator or stairs, but I knew the stairs would be better. I do not remember actually running down the stairs, so I think we cut to the lobby of the apartment building like in a movie scene.

As we ran out we shouted to lobby attendant, something like "Evacuate! flood!" He tried to stop us, but we ran out of the building. As we kept running, I called 911 on my cell, even though I knew I would be blamed for starting the flood, and even though I knew they could not stop it, and that a lot of residents of that building would die despite is call. But I did not know what else I could do.

This was where the dream faded/ended, and I woke up.

Dream Fragment: A boy posted to DV that he had never felt emotions in dreams until now.

I think we were scientists investigating some sort of substance of which there was less than 0% in food. While investigating this sneakily in enemy territory in some place that could have been a pyramid maybe, we got captured by a bunch of ninjas. We were stripped naked and taken somewhere to their camp behind a mountain, where we would be held as their slaves. There were other slaves there already. We were chained up.

Running a checksum in a database that represents some aspect of life does not produce same result as expected, but someone points out that maybe expectations were wrong.

Another fragment: got a new iPad, won it somehow. My mother in law was in this dream too. I think maybe she won it, and gave it to me. Oh, and I remembered telling my boys that this new iPad does not have all the games yet on it, except for a few which grandma downloaded.