A World In My Head!!

December 28, 2011


Synopsis: A volcano is born and me and my sisters try to escape the lava


Notes: Reading LaBerges book and looking forward to re-discovering my dream signs. Abstract dream


Volcano in the City
On top of a steep hill next to the apartments, wild animals are lose. I remember trying to calm an angry startled wolf. He snarls at me and I keep my distance. My sisters aren't disturbed by the animals running around the place, they just keep on gossiping.


Then I see a giant shadow over me and a deer. The shadow is large and round, and it grows bigger and bigger. "What the hell!" Recognizing this shadow from Zelda, I jump to the side and dodge a giant boulder that fell from the sky.

"Thats a volcanic rock!"


"Volcanic?"


The rock is still steaming. In the distance I can see a giant plume of smoke rising. "Look, there's a volcano growing over there!"


It wasn't long before me and my sisters see lava. We try to escape the city, but we get lost in an All-Generic-Building. We wandered into the public restroom, were my sisters make a quick stop. But as they use the potty the ground splits and lava spews out.


Sometimes it wasn't lava. Sometimes it was this nearly black mud mixed with volcanic rocks.


The alarm rings



After Thoughts:
1. dream was abstract with out of place steep hill
2. out of place wild animals
3. dramatic environmental change - the volcano
4. sense of danger and urgency
5. All-Generic-Building
6. abstract messy restroom

(backlog)
November 20, 2011

Synopsis: A restless night where short dream offers me - pain

Note: Hallucinated fruit flies upon waking

Sensation: Pain
Mom is driving me home, she's come to visit for the week. As well pull in the parking lot I show her a strange fruit I found recently growing on the local trees.

When you first peel it it looks like a pomegranate. But it has this pit, like a peach. And the two halves of the fruit can rotate around that pit - making the fruit take entirely new shape. Now it kinda looks like two lungs attacked to a dark brown pit.

When I step out the car I noticed an ant hill. I carefully walk over it - but floating ants catch me by surprise.

At first I didn't know what it was - I thought it was a strange bug hanging from a web strand. It swung back and forth, scared to touch it I'd jump back. But I got a close look at it. It was ants, holding onto eachother and making themselves appear much larger as they swing on this web.

Well I'm glad I avoided them becuase they look aggressive.

Mom is opening the door and I try to walk - but I can't move. Theres ants in my pants and they're biting places they shouldn't. Ow! Ow! I try to swipe them off and run inside so I can get my pants off. Ow! Ow! Their burning stings wake me up. The pain is instantly gone.

In another dream - I don't remember all the details, but at some point I get a paper cut. The really itchy burning kind.

There was a third dream, but I don't remember this one anymore or the pain sensation it gave me.

When I woke up there's a giant cloud of fruit flies buzzing over my head, and a few house flies. They were so real looking. The way they buzzed around bumping into each other. Their tiny wings. Damn. Why are they flying over my head? Are we infested with fruit flies again, I thought we got rid of them?

After a few moments the flies flew away as if they knew they were spotted.

The next morning I went looking for the flies. We had three house flies. But I only found one fruit fly buzzing around the kitchen. The swarm of flies couldn't have really been there - plus such a large swarm would make noise and it was silent. Damn - I'm still seeing gnats when I wake up.

November 21, 2011

Synopsis: A hospital clinic is just behind my closet door, and its headed by pure evil

Note: Im sure the dream is a metaphor I can't figure out!

Closet Clinic
Dad wants me to take him to small hospital clinic. For some reason I know this clinic because I'm there everyday - even though I'm neither a patient or a doctor. I drive him over and take him to the back entrance, I've spent hours roaming the hospital so I knew where all the doctor rooms were.

"You can just go in that room and a doctor will eventually show up"

But he thought it was weird to just sneak into a hospital like that. So we walked all through the hospital just to make it to the front lobby where he can wait his turn properly. Now I know my relationship to the hospital. I tell dad, "I'll be nearby. My bed is just over there."

The hospital clinic is just right through my closet door!

I left dad alone and relaxed in my room. Laying down on my bed, I stared at the eerie glow emanating from the closet door. Now and then I'd open the door to check on dad. The door was like a portal and opened up to any part of the clinic I wanted to see.

But apparently I was seeing too much. I started to get a sense that someone didn't like how easily I can spy and intrude on the hospital clinic. A male presence. Angry.

I asked a few of the nurses if they had felt this presence. They come in my bedroom to talk in secret and they tell me about the head of the hospital, an evil man. Some even went as far as to say he was the devil.

I hoped that dad was okay and that some twisted experiment wasn't being performed on him!

Suddenly my closet door swings open on its own. Its facing down a long hallway, at the end of the hallway was a room - black and red. I can see the tall lean figure sitting on the other end.

If it wasn't for the dream being a bit foggy, this scene would have been totally ape shit freaky. Thankfully, thanks to foggy-dream-ness, it was just weird.

The nurses warn me! "He's coming for you!"

Shit! I gotta get out of here! I slam the closet door. What to do? What to do? I jump out my window and try to fly away. He chases after me and uses dark magical attacks. I dispel each one with my left hand. "You can't hurt me!"

But I was completely stuck. The dream environment was a square. The landscape had walls. The sky had a ceiling. I retreated back to my bedroom as his prisoner. He told me I could never leave, and then went back to his duties at the hospital.

Well, I just can't stay here.

I try again. I fly out my window and this time I really focus on exiting this landscape. There's a posted sign, its not really sign. I don't remember words or pictures or anything. But there was a sign, and somehow the sign let me know that just past it was a peaceful heavenly realm free of evil. Great! I look for a small entrance and squeeze my way through.

When they said heavenly I was expecting something a little more - I dunno - colorful?

The heavenly realm was bleak. Imagine cardboard boxes stacked to look like buildings. Still the people were nice and warmly greeted me. They told me more about this place

"Here, all your thoughts manifest. Go ahead and try it"

There was this weird device in front of me, so I tried rearranging its configuration. I imagined the buttons would follow where ever my fingers moved. The buttons moved so fluidly it was awesome. I started playing with my environment more.

A girl was using her imagination to color the cardboard buildings, now covered in linen.

"Whats with these ugly buildings anyways?"

"Well they used to be oh so colorful, but then we got tired of all the colors so we toned the place down a bit. But I think we can try introducing color again slowly"

BANG.....BANG.....

Something is trying to break through the barrier of the heavenly realm. "Its him! He's come for me!"

BANG.......BANG......

"Seal it up!"

Already two magic doors appeared - and they were unlocked. Everyone races to the doors and seal it with prayers written on paper, like in anime. We sealed the doors but he still broke in. I was ready to stand up to him, and so were my new friends. But I woke up at that point.

October 30, 2011

Synopsis: In sharp contrast to "Fracture", this dream was explosively happy. Another OccupyDallas dream. Robots invade. We win. That simple.

Thoughts Explode
I was with OccupyDallas, a group of about 100. Our happy little group gets infiltrated by alien robots! These robots divide us, to weaken our solidarity. They then milk us for everything we had - literally - like we were cows.

And that's when the protesters scream "But I don't even have utters!"

We got tired of this bull. My captured group of about 10, sneak behind our robot overlord and find a few cables behind his neck. What happens if we - oh - lots of oil spills out. Robot down!

These robots aren't so tough!

"Lets go free the others!"

The group quickly disperses to be re-captured and then tell their captured friends how to free themselves.

Mom calls

"Everythings fine I'm not arrested. Something is going down right now, but soon everything will be okay". I thought it would take a while for the group to collectively to take down all these alien robots. I was wrong. In the middle of the phone call I hear the whole of OccupyDallas explode into a roar of glee!

Just like that, everyone was free!

"Already?"

And I thought - the knowledge exploded like a wild-fire!

The group starts to march a glory march - declaring their victory! "I GOTTA GO MOM IM MISSING IT" I hang up and run as fast as I can to catch up. I find my place in the front and march merrily. Sure we only took down alien robots, but we felt like we could take down anything.

October 29, 2011

Synopsis: This dream reminds me a lot of "I'll never give up". Except now that I've joined OccupyDallas, it has a different context. I'm with a group of rebels that fractures and attacks its own members. And I never found out why.

Fracture
We were a happy group of rebels and we were all united under a single cause. We lived together in the AllGenericBuilding. Something happened, and I never understood why it happened. One day, half of the group decided that the other half needs to be exterminated.

Former comrades attacked me and friends without warning. We fled, as none of us could honestly fight former comrades. At this point we discover our talents. I transform into a gargoyle.

My poor forsaken family lived in fear. I tried my best to find us a safer place to live. Before we feared the government. Now we were fearing our former allies. We flew through room and room and room desperately searching for sanctity.

But in the AllGenericBuilding, everything is like a mall - out in the public.

We tried to blend in in the mall. But our attackers were close by. "Quick we need to leave!". The group races ahead. We reach a fork in the mall. The left leads to large glass doors that lead to the outside. I really wanted us to go that way! But the group felt it was way to visible, they could see us for miles.

Instead they went to the right, down a small hallway and into a room with no windows or doors. This was what I was afraid of. Still I went with them, not wanting to leave my only family now.

We could hear them nearby! Where do we go now? Someone in our group finds a trap door that leads to a basement. Awesome, we can hide in here until they leave. The basement looked like a theatre.

We thought we were safe, but they were waiting for us inside the theatre. It was a trap, and they were leading us like a school of fish the entire time. The battle that ensued was horrible. I remember stabbing some guys eye out with a pen.

Only half of us made it out. I still never knew why they were attacking us, or why half of my friends had to die. This left me so angry and confused. Why? Why was this happening? I looked at my poor group. So torn. So broken. On its last leg of hope. We looked like war refugees - in a fancy mall where no one even knows what we've just been through.

"Come on. We can't stay here. Let's keep moving" So we do

October 2, 2011

Synopsis: We mutants just want to live in peace. But they wanted war. I lead the revolution, everything falls apart, but I'm too pissed to give up!

Notes: Hi, its been a while!

I'll Never Give Up
We all lived in an all-generic-building, mutants and normal people. As the story goes, the mutants were hated and feared most especially by the government. We were treated as second rate citizens and confined to certain areas of the building - our home and prison.

Some brave boys started the revolution. They inspired all of us. Behind closed doors we gathered and pledged united under our single mission - freedom for all!!

I was no one special among the group, just a new recruit. My specialty was lightning. But we mutants were so united, that the power of one could be used by the other. At first our revolutions were harmless! Like college rebels, we mostly did sit-ins or used our gifts in public despite it pissing the government off.

We were thrown out of the building, denied jobs or rights, and forced to live like thieves. So naturally, we were still living in the building except now we didnt pay rent!

After months of trying to rid us like roaches, the government made a compromise. They delivered the letter to me. It said that we mutants would be recognized as citizens again, if only we pay our bills!

I take the letter to our noble and young leader "That's it? They just want money? That's easy. We can do that!"

The revolutionary mutant leaders and several of the top members of our rebel group met with officials to sign the deal. But the officials didn't come. After waiting a long while, I was getting nervous, something is wrong.

Instead of officials walking through the door, we were greeted by, of all people, mutants!

I thought maybe they wanted to join our group, but instead they said "You mutants are all the same. Monsters too dangerous to exist in this world. We are here on behalf of the government to do their dirty work. And the pay is nice."

"Scum! We are fighting for all our freedom, don't you understand what you're doing?"

"Didn't you hear us? We are monsters, so we don't give a damn. Were going to end your stupid revolution by ending you!"

They attacked, and with their fierce powers they killed our young leader, who was too kind to seriously injure another fellow mutant. An all out mutant fight broke out, as mutant children cried for our leader.

I gave it my all! One lighting strike, thats all it takes, one lightning strike! I fought side by side with my friend, who fights like a wild animal. The living room is torn apart. It feels more like domestic violence than something in an X-men movie.

They corner me, but I shift into water and slip away. I share that gift with my friends, and they shift into water and slip away from the bad guys.

I look around me and realize were losing! Our numbers are dwindling and I have no idea where half our team is! Everyone is so terrified as they fight for the lives. This is no good.

"Retreat!"

We escape the mutant attackers and hide even deeper in the all generic building. Speaking only in whispers. Since our leader and all the top members were dead, that left me the next highest rank. I was now the leader of a broken mutant revolution.

I kept us hidden and safe for months. We had more mutant children than mutant adults. So all of us pitched together to keep them safe and happy. We always stayed together. We were family.

It was spring time so together we took the kids on a field trip. Still outcasts and wanted, it was really tricky taking 20 plus mutant kids on a field trip. We ended up hiding beneath a football stadium that had a good view of the zoo.

That's when I noticed that we weren't alone! Cops, school buses, tourists, it seemed the whole city was gathering here and even though there was no game.

"We need to get everyone out!"

But before we could leave the stadium was filled. The mutant kids hiding under the bleachers were so used to this sort of thing, they just continued chatting away anyways. I got distracted by a spider web and moved too much! That's when a normal human saw me.

The old man recognized me right away, seeing as how I was the new notorious mutant leader. But he just asked me which way did his wife go. And I just point that way! It guess not even the normal humans want this war to continue.

After a close call we return to our home in the all-generic-building. We can't keep living like this! I talk with my group and suggest "We can all have an animal form, and take residence in a forest."

"That's a good idea!"

"What should I pack for a forest? What do you think of these pants?"

My friends start to pack big bags for the forest. "I'm not bringing anything" I said "I'm just gonna go naked. Anyways, don't take too long, we need to leave soon!"

My sister, who was normal, came to visit me. These types of visits were always dangerous for both parties. I was happy to see my sister again!

That's when my second in command informs me that those scum-sold-out-mutants were on the hunt again, and they were just down the hallway. Shit! Everyone had to stay quiet. These mutants were powerful and dangerous!

But sis, who was in the other room missed the warning. And she closes the door way too loud.

"They'll hear that! They know where we are now!"

"Quick, get into the back room!"

I tell my sis she has to stay behind, or else they will search for us. She's normal so it'll be okay.

But the bad mutants were already waiting for us in the back room. This raid was even worse than the first one. They swiftly divide our group and drag innocent mutants away to be arrested. Others were less lucky and were murdered on the spot. I fight with everything! But our numbers dwindle. Ten, Seven, Five

Theres just three of us now!! Just three!! We had to run. We leave the building and enter a warehouse with the bad mutants attacking behind us. My team member stays behind to keep them bay. I don't think he lives.

Now its just me and my best friend. "Hurry! We need to leave the city!"
She transforms into a black dog and runs ahead, but she runs into a dead end. I quickly dodge and hide as the bad guys run past me. My friend was too slow and I hear gun shots.

Now its only me.

The bad guys find me.

"Theres no use in resisting. And don't even think to use your powers. I've filled the room with poisonous gas. Your brain is already melting. Just come quietly with us." They smiled. I was their prize. The last leader of the mutant revolution.

I was shaking "Let me see my friend again, I want to say good-bye."

"No."

Now I'm pissed! I'm really pissed, I ain't giving up! I quickly place my hand on their foreheads and let my lighting rip. I think the poisonous gas only made it more explosive. I quickly run to my friend, still in dog form. She's still breathing!

I tell her that I love her, dont die. She gains some strength and gets back on her feet. But I carry her anyways. They're right behind me. I run. Out the window. They chase me in and out of buildings. We run inside a house, my friend hides, but she hides again in a dead end.

"Not in there!" too late

He's right behind me. I screaming in my head "I'll never give up! I'll never give up!" I shift in and out of buildings. Through anything! "Ill never give up! I'll never give up!" I end up in a kitchen with nothing to shift through, my reflection stares back at me from a golden plate.

He's searching for me in the bedroom. "I'll never give up, I'll never give up." I look for a way out. There! A window! I can see my green forest. I can carry out my plan of living life in there - I run towards it. And then I wake up, with the image of my green forest glowing from a kitchen window stuck in my head.

I was upset that I didn't get to finish the dream and rescue the mutants that were imprisoned.

May, 2011

Synopsis: The Goblin King takes me away and forces me to sing (he was no david bowie!)

Note: Before I fell asleep, I asked my subconscious to make me lucid no matter what. I instantly thought of a gross restroom because thats a big dream sign for me. But I hate dirty restrooms, so I told my subcon, anything but that!

The Goblin King and My Song
(abstract portion of the dream) '
Me and my sis are watching Doctor Who. A storm descends onto a large building, and the Doctor knows "who" the storm is.

The Doctor climbs the tower to face this ancient demon, the lord of demons. He does his magical Doctor stuff, and creates a time vortex to suck up the demon and trap it for all time. The demon rears his ugly face as hes sucked into his demise. Hissing and screaming, he threatens that he'll return. And then, just before hes completely engulfed by the vortex, he spears the Doctor with his scorpion tail, and takes the Doctor with him into the abyss. The Doctor is dead.

(the dream becomes more vivid)
Years later, me and my sister were living safe on a hobbit hill, when I hear thousands of steps rushing towards us. Its a goblin army, an army that was once led by the lord of demons. If the army is back, does that mean the demon is back to?

The goblin army surrounds me and my sis and pins us down by spear point. "Friends of the Doctor, we will kill you!" they said revealing the plot line. I knew me and my sister were in danger because these goblins kill without mercy, unless

"We surrender! Take us to the Goblin King, so I can bow down before him!"

The goblins look at each other confused then sputtered "then we will!"

So they take me and my sister to the goblin castle. The King is said to be the right hand of the ancient demon, raised as his son. As we approach the throne room, every goblin and gobliness was so well mannered and regal.

"Presenting the two sisters of the hobbit hill!" Trumpets sounded. Guards open the golden doors. And a red carpet is laid out before the throne where a child was sitting! A kid! The Goblin King is a kid? I can play this game!

"Your majesty were so honored to meet you!" Me and my sister bow before the child king and his court filled with teenagers.

He doesn't look pleased. He looks really annoyed. And bored, which is dangerous, because maybe he thinks killing innocent people is fun.

"Do your people sing any songs?" He asks

"Lots, we have all sorts of songs"

"Sing me a song"

I know one! No wait. Every melody, every rhyme that Ive ever heard or known just disappeared from my mind. I stood there desperately with hundreds of teenagers and their caddy eyes watching me. I can't remember any songs! Why can't I remember?

I look to my sister whos not taking any of this seriously and she starts to sing "Twinkle twinkle little star" in a really weak voice.

The child Goblin King tightens his fist, I think he's snarling. This is not going good. My sis is gonna get us killed at this rate!

"My Lord!" I interrupt my sister "Can I sing to you in prose a song of my own? If only, you would provide the music?"

"Great idea!" He claps his hands and a band behind him begins to play.

My heart is racing. The dream feels too real. What am I doing? I can't sing! The music plays and plays. The goblin king taps his fingers. Hes getting impatient with me. The teenagers sneer.

"I..........love.........the wilderness..........

I love the burning sun in the sky
And the warmth on my skin"

The music is getting louder, and I sing louder too

"I love the river of the forest
And dipping my head in her waterfall"

The wild goblin teenagers are actually dancing to my crappy song, and with dream magic they sing along knowing everything Im going to say! The dream gets full blown Glee'ked! And the entire goblin court sings the chorus with me!

"Other people get drunk and wasted
Not me!
Nature's all I need!"

One blond goblin belts her lungs out and steals the show! Now even im getting into it!

"ohhhhhhh and the moooon! She's so beautiful
I'm in love!

We love the burning sun and the warmth on our skin!
And dipping our heads in the waterfall!

Other people get drunk and wasted!"

Which was really funny because half of the goblins were swinging their beers as they danced

"Not me!
Natures all I need!"

Im out of ideas, so I just repeat the entire song and they sing along. But the crowd starts to die out. And little by little I'm the last one singing and get the cue to shut up!

"Other people get drunk and wasted
Not me!"

I didn't even get to say the last line! They just exploded into cheers and clapping! Wow. Im so glad they liked my song!

The goblin king looks very pleased. He comes down from his throne and smiles at me.

"I have a gift for you!"

My sister interrupts him, all um, business like

"Thank you very much for your time Mr. Goblin and your kind gesture." And she holds out her hand to shake his

"Uh, no not you. Anyone but you. I should kill you"

And my sis takes an awkward step back and disappears from the scene.

"But you, follow me. There is something really special that I want to show you"

I silently follow the Goblin King, wondering what he wants to show me. But he takes me to....the bathroom?

The child king is now an old ugly goblin of a man. The public bathroom was horrifying! Goblins were crapping in the floors of the stalls! There is piss everywhere. And theres this machine in the center of the bathroom that actually squirts piss at you!

"Aaaahhhh!!"

"Aaawwww.....Pure urinic acid. Like lotion. I use it every morning" says the Goblin King as Im horrified

"Is..........this........what you wanted to show me?" No no no no.

"Actually sir" says a janitor who I think is just spreading crap and pee everywhere "Its really nasty stuff. And I dont think you should use it my Lord"

"What? No. My doctor told me, this shit is good for your skin. Urinic acid! Try it!" And he presses a button on the machine and it squirts pee at me

"Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!"

More crap plops on the floor next to me

"OMG!"

Someone get me out of here! Then I wake up. At first I'm pissed that the Goblin King showed me crap. But then I remembered that I asked my subconscious to make me lucid no matter what, but please no dirty bathrooms! Well the Goblin King didn't care and wanted to show me that I'm dreaming. Thanks Goblin King, even if I was too dumb to get the message!

April 3, 2010

Dream Dump: Aliens abduct my friend. I sell my artwork. My subconscious has no idea. I return to SA.

Alien Abduction
Im on vacation with my friend. Like little kids, we sneak away from the other adults and find a strange lady in the parking lot. She tells us that if we take a ride in her car, she'll summon aliens for a personal first contact. It seemed so wrong, getting into a strangers car and tempting aliens at this hour. So me and my friend did. Not that either of us really believed this lady.

We sit in the back seat and giggle like were about to fall off a rollercoaster. The lady flashes her car lights. And the UFOs came. I can't see them, but I can sense them. They're right on top of us! I get scared. So I affirm in semi-lucidity "Aliens are not allowed to abduct me!"

Closer and closer. Again I say "Aliens are not allowed to abduct me!"

The aliens disappear. I stumble out of the car and only then do I realize that my friend has disappeared.

Later Im trapped in a bedroom, and I try to escape by peeling away the layers of the wall.

My Art Sells!
I'm not in a gallery, I'm not anywhere special. I'm just here in my bedroom and a wealthy lady wants to buy my painting! She wants to see the rest of my artwork. I feel embarassed, I don't have anything ready or hung up on the wall. I dig through my closet, behind the door and pull out one dusty painting after another. What to show her? No, these paintings are too old and ugly.

But the women keeps surprising me. She loves my older artwork. She wants to buy three paintings now. She asks me for the price of this old and crappy painting. I dunno, $50? She shakes her head "Don't sell yourself short, its a lovely painting. How about $300?"

Wow. Okay. Deal. She wants to buy another painting for $1200.

Finally she gets her hands on a sketch of mine. Its not even finished. Its her favorite and she insists on buying it. I look at it and think "But im not done with it, and I need the sketch to complete my painting." So I put the sketch away.

It was an awesome sketch. Except it doesn't exist. I've never drawn this. But maybe I should.

I wake up feeling great! That dream lady loving my artwork really made my day.

My internet is sucking right now

March 15, 2011

(Real Life)
The past two months have been maybe the strangest two months in my life. I left a dead end job, my friends who were working there, my parents, and moved out with my sister. We moved during an ice storm, and were stuck on a iced road for so many hours my stomach was sore for days from the hunger cramps (no seriously I was in physical pain for a week from being hungry for four hours). I had no job, still job hunting, but I was happy because I felt there was nothing left for me in that old city, it was time to leave. And I still stand by my decision.

For the month of February, I didn't remember many dreams. But what dreams I did remember are hard to forget.

First there was that dream, on the eve of moving out, where my friends house - which also happened to be my childhood home - was swallowed by burning black oil, pouring out of the earth like lava. All it was all over the news, the house that sank in black oil.

And no, in real life my friend doesn't literally live in my childhood home.

For the next two weeks I kept dreaming I was still working at that old job. In one of those dreams, me and old crew decided to skip work and have a party in the back room instead!! I follow them happily to the back room. It becomes a long hallway twisting and turning. I follow behind them happily laughing because were gonna party instead of work.

The hallway becomes my bedroom. And suddenly I realize I'm dreaming. I'm even happier now, I can really party with my old friends. I grab my friend's shoulder to tell her something, and suddenly she falls to the floor and becomes a lifeless doll. I look around me, and I'm alone in my bedroom. All my friends are gone and in their place were lifeless inanimate objects.

I know this. It's happened before.

They're the part of me that will never forget them, and it re-emerges with me when I become lucid.

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/juro...rget-you-1876/



About a month later I have a really memorable dream. But I didn't understand what it really meant. Not yet.

I saw dream friends inside of a tall building. They were standing by the window and I was looking up from the courtyard. They found it! I don't know what it is, but they found it and its important! Suddenly the bad guy snatches them and it away.

I have to retrieve it! I quickly go into rescue mode, but I decide to be sneaky rather than obvious. I was like a spy with the powers of invisibility. Only now I'm not just looking for it, I'm looking for my friends that the bad guy locked away. I searched through the entire building, I can't find anything! The bad guy is onto me and now he's realized I'm using invisibility.

I try to trick him into thinking I've found my friends, only so I can follow him as he runs to their cell. But it didn't work. He was one step ahead of me and instead led me to a trap. The whole building goes into lock down, and now they've got missiles outside if I try to escape. But I did escape, and slid my way over icy roads back home - a hole in the floor literally. I left defeated and crawled back into my bed where I woke up.

I was confused by the dream because I never found out what it was.

Only about two days later, does the dream theme repeat. Only this time there is no it. Just me trying to find my friends who had been locked away.

To have two similar dreams like that in the same week, that doesn't happen often to me.

I think I finally understand why I've been so bummed out this past month. Today when I close my eyes, I can see their faces. In the dream when they disappeared they weren't just in my bedroom, they were in my closet. I guess I did lock them away.

I miss you

January 25, 2011

Synopsis: In the space traveling future, refugees escape from hostile aliens. But the hostile aliens find us. I dreamed the same dream again with different details

Note: I haven't been consistent with my challenge, moving out has me up and down. But last night I did remember to think how awesome dreams are, and told myself how much fun tonights dream is going to be

Exterminated by Aliens
For this dream, I'm mostly an observer. Every now and then I play out the main character. Other times I only watch her.

We were refugees on a great space ship, like in Star Trek. It felt like weeks passed by as we flew towards our destination. The rooms are filled with fear, anger, and hopelessness. I some how get mixed up with a small battalion, led by a crazy blonde. She is something fierce. The entire trip, she sat in a dim room making battle strategies.

It was time. The space ship hovers over the planet. My character isn't sure why she's here, or why she's going with the battalion, when she's only a civilian. But they insist that she had to go with them. So she descends onto the planet below. It's mostly a barren land, with fields of dry grass.

We came here becuase of the base, our last strong hold in this sector. My civlian character says or does something to upset the blonde leader. As some sort of punishment, or maybe as a way to prove something, she orders my character to fly back up to the mother ship and deliver a message.

So I hop into a little space shuttle and fly up towards the mother ship. She was beautiful. Resting between giant clouds the size of mountains, with the whole of the Universe just above. You can almost see the curvature of the planet from up here.

Suddenly, the hostile aliens attack! Their ships were dark and menacing. The mother ship fires back, but they have her completely surrounded. One alien ship fires at me. What am I supposed to do? I'm not a military personal! I don't even know how to fire even if I wanted to! So my character ejects from her shuttle, in a little round pod, quickly descending to safety.

When she lands on the planet surface she quickly tells the blonde leader that the mother ship is under attack! The blonde leader sees that my character has no battle wounds and scolds her for leaving the fight. Coward! She then commands everyone who can to get their asses up there and fight!

My character pleads to them to stop, its already too late for the mother ship, who was carrying thousands of civilians. But the entire base empties, and my character is all alone on the surface of the alien's planet.

By the time the battalion reaches the mother ship, the mother ship is utterly destroyed. Bits and pices floating. The hostile aliens make quick work of the human warriors. None survive. Say for my character.

She walks alone in the base. No where to go. She wonders if she's destined to live decades alone here, if the aliens are right behind her. It made no difference to her whether she lived or died. She was alone.

Story Time
I wake up, but actually its a FA. I quickly scribble down my dream. Moments later I'm on DA telling other members about my dream. To my surprise, other members this very night had the same dream. They also tell me that our dreams parallel a story. Interested, I try to find out more about this story

I wake up again, and quickly fall asleep. Not realizing I'm asleep again, I still try to write down my dream. Instead, as I think about it it forms again.

Exterminated by Aliens 2
This version was darker. Much darker. The first dream took place in day. But there was no sun or star to comfort us this time around.

The base looked primeval, considering this is the space age. It looked like a boot camp. A shed here and there. But this was all we had left. Our last base, our last hold out against an aggressive species.

I leave the main hall, we civilians and military, don't get along so well. So me and my friends try to find a quieter place. All there was left was a house on the edge of the base. The house was eerie, it looked..normal. Like who ever lived here didn't realize the human race was a dying species. There were pictures of children.

One of the pictures looked a lot like my characters daughter. I don't remember when my character had a daughter. But she does now.

My character and her friends enter the living room and to their horror an alien was there. Disfigured, and standing in a fetal position. They scream like bloody murder. But the disfigured alien doesn't move.

"Is it, is it dead?"

There was something, human about the figure. Almost as if a human was transforming into an alien. The male friend pokes the mutant thing. Its swollen closed eyes twitch.

"SHIT! GET OUT OF HERE!"

They all try to desparetely run out the door, but its looked from the outside. Its like a bad horror movie. The door won't budge! They bang, they scream, inches away from the half human-alien.

Finally I get fed up and jump out the window. The glass shatters everywhere. The others quickly follow. Fresh air was nice, even if it was nearly pitch black outside. What's that?

I notice something in the distance, over there in the fields. What is that? It's moving! It was black as night! It was moving fast!

"ALIEN! RUN!"

I quickly run for the rest of the base, my friends stagger behind. That thing was running on all fours, like some alien hound. It was fast, wicked fast. Its nearly on top of me, but I'm in reach of the main hall now.

Lucky for me a group of the battalion boys were outside smoking, and they had dogs with them. Wolf mutts. The wolf mutts quickly charge at the grotesque black thing behind me. And with a single gun shot, they make quick work of the alien hound.

Dead now. But this isn't good. The hounds come before they do. And they're out there. They could be anywhere, but its so bloody dark and we humans have crappy night vision.

I don't remember when, but sometime during the dream my character and her daughter was attacked by one of the aliens. Who were just as black as the hounds, all you could see were their gleaming teeth. But the alien didn't kill her. Which is unusual, because they want to exterminate humanity.

The blonde leader pulls my character aside as her daughter plays. "We have reason to believe your daughter has been infected"

"Infected?"

"Its why the alien didn't kill you. Even now, the change is happening on subtle levels. Soon she won't be human."

The leader walked away. The warning was clear. My character becomes emotional. Love for her daughter, and sadness of the shortness of time, till the time when the blonde herself will take care of her.

Finally the sun rises. Our little camp survived the night, thanks to the boys who didn't sleep. But I know whats going to happen. Because I know the story, and I know its repeating.

Once again, the blonde finds some excuse to send me to the mothership. I oblige, following the inevitable story. I admire the sight of our mothership one last time. The clouds around her were majestic, even more so this time. She had a halo about her shiny metallic exterior. From here in my shuttle I imagined all the crew and civilians going about their business, just another day.

The aliens come. Only this time they were different from the black greasy aliens that attacked me earlier. These aliens had larger eyes that glowed both red and green. I quickly fly back down when things get ugly.

Once again I deliver the bad news. Now there is a twist. "It was another alien species! One I've never seen before!"

"What does that mean?" says a soldier

"Koji told us we only have one enemy. . . it seems he was wrong. We are being exterminated!" says the blond leader

The base quickly prepares for the battle. My friends and even my family excitedly choose their own shuttle to attack from. It was sunny and beautiful out now. All the soldiers were way too happy. If only they knew. But its like I'm reading a story. I couldn't change the events.

My friends, with a grin, wave goodbye before flying off. I watch and memorize their every movement because I know its the last I will ever see them. But I dont have the heart to tell them. I let them all go.

The base is empty.

The aliens up above were waiting for the battalion. They were on a suicide mission, and the blast was more than atomic. And just like that. There were none survivors. The sun quickly sets.

I'm all alone now, except for my daughter, who only smiles. Quickly, we have to go! Quick! Were not safe here! They'll come back! They'll scan the planet! We have to go somewhere they don't like. I reasoned they didn't like the sun. Well moons reflect the suns light too. So I quickly ran to an open field, basking in the moonlight. But its not enough light.

I stood there in the field wondering if I was the last human, I also knew I was moments away from the aliens. I drift away from my character. Watching her hopelessly hug her daughter in the empty field, surrounded by black forests. She knew this was the end.

I woke up. I stumble out of the living room confused. When two people I didn't expect to see run down the hallway to greet me. My characters daughter and another boy, supposidly my sisters son.

They try to hug me

"Get away from me! You're not human! You're not mine!"

I hear my sister call for me from the bedroom. I'm so happy to hear a familiar voice. I quickly go to her. She tells me she has exciting news. I think "you got a new job?"

"No better. I've been given a chance to ride in a real space ship! Its a mothership. So I get to do a space-cruise too, just like you."

My mother pops in "She leaves tonight! Isn't it exciting!"

No. You can't. Don't go. Don't go. I shake my head but I can't utter the words.

Finally, I wake for real. I think.

January 19, 2011

Synopsis: Three dreams, only one I remember, where I painted and stitched together an alligator at work

Note: First night of my 30 Day Dream Appreciation Challenge
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I said my mantra, recalling why I love dreaming, and tried to fall asleep as happy as possible. But mostly my mind just drifts off into randomness

See You Later Alligator
I don't remember my first dream. Well I did when I woke up from it, but I fell asleep before I wrote it down.

I dream of work again. Usually these dreams are stressful with way too many costumers to ring up. But this time I didn't care what was happening in the store. It didn't even bother me that we weren't selling art supplies, everything but art supplies!

I was focused on one task, creating this life size alligator on the floor. It started out as a painting right on the tiles. Then as it became more three dimensional it became like cloth, and I would stitch pieces on. It was important that he was in the middle of the floor!

At one point my make shift alligator got shoved to the side. So I had to fix him, he goes here, in the middle of the floor! Even if it meant people tripped or stepped all over him, he goes here!

The dream was really unstable, so my alligator kept changing shapes on me. I'd come back and he looked completely different. Of course as an artist this upset me, so I would try to fix him. At one point I got fed up, chopped him in half and redid him. There! The manager seemed please too.

Um, not sure what that dream was about. But I am leaving work. So maybe my dream was a pun!




A Dream I Don't Remember
In waking life, I came back from work and looked at my night-time note pad. I scribbled about a third dream I don't really remember. Which was weird, because what I do remember was that it was vivid. But it's only a vague feeling now.

I was watching TV, and there was this weird show on, about a flood. The scene is so real, I'm sucked in. So I'm just an observer watching this epic story unfold. There is this flood, some kids were caught in it, and a man was trying to save their lives. I watched his entire journey. I think it was a happy ending.

Happy dreaming!

January 16 and 17, 2011

Synopsis: Yesterday, I dream a girl deceives then. Then I have a fun morning VILD. In two weeks I'm moving out, and last night I dreamed of my new apartment!

Deception
There was a gathering happening right here in the neighborhood. It was taking place in a make shift tent-dome large enough to hold over a hundred people. Inside was a teacher, and he was going to teach us something important. It was very secretive, well despite the fact that you can see the dome for miles.

It felt very special inside the tent-dome, and I was really looking forward to the teachers lesson. But then this girl started to ask me questions about oil painting. I try to help her with her painting problems. Now she wants me to follow her. Where I don't know. But she made it sound important.

I decide to help her and leave the tent. I follow her all across the suburb for what felt like miles. I kept wondering, are we there yet? Finally she turns around to look at me, she's standing at the intersection. I think she's finally going to tell me what she needs help with.

But I don't like her expression, there's something, not so nice about it. Suddenly she disappears. And I realize I followed her for nothing, now I'm lost and I don't know which way is the dome.

Fun VILD
I woke up but I was so sleepy. I just wanted to close my eyes. I started to fly over a beautiful scenery. Green mountains with tall peaks. I can still feel my body on the bed, and hear my sister talking in the room. But the green was so vivid, as I soared, the VILD became more and more stable.



Afterwards the landscape became cold. I was flying over snowy mountains which slowly flattened into a valley. The scene became bleak and ugly with some industrial buildings in the horizon. I wanted to go the other way instead. But now I'm stuck. I can't fly, I can barely move, I'm so heavy. I must be waking up from the VILD because all I can feel is my body sleeping on my bed.

I slowly made my way towards a train. I thought, I'll take the train to carry me. I opened my eyes for a second, but when I closed them again, I was on the train fast moving! But then I woke up for real

My New Home
I wake up and look around me. My room is completely different! The furniture the orientation, everything. I look out the window and I don't recognize where I am. There's no ugly highway or ugly fast food buildings. Instead its green, so green! I know where I am, I'm in my new apartment right next to the park!

My mom walks in the room and tells me my sisters are waiting for me. I quickly run outside and me and my sisters have fun exploring my new apartment. I woke up shortly after

December 2010

Synopsis: I should be unlazy and actually use my dream journal! A surreal dream involving a flood with rotten water. Later, I find hippies.

Rotting Flooded Waters
I'm in my backyard. In real life I don't have one anymore, so this is the backyard of my childhood. There is a little pond next to a small tree, filled with healthy fish.

It rains and the pond swells and covers the entire backyard, like a swamp. But all the fish are dead, and now the water is filled with rotting things. I stand on top of something to get away from the diseased water.

Usually the rain water is absorbed by the soil. Thinking back to my horticulture class I say "Theres something wrong with the soil! Its got no drainage." At first I thought it was only my backyard that was flooded. But I took a quick peek over the fence and I could see the entire suburban neighborhood was under water!

This is bad. One house with rotten water is one thing, but an entire neighborhood? I thought of katrina, and deadly diseases. Well, I guess we gotta leave!

My family gather outside on the street and discuss where we should go. Lucky us, we live next to a hill that was spared the flood. We can see little houses up there. We pack our things, which was neatly waiting for us outside our home. A random monkey character helps us carry our things.

When we get to the top of the hill all the houses are super small. And they were all connected to each other. We walk through the common hallway between them. Each little house was more like a tent filled with random items. I guessed that hippies must live here!

My family starts to go shopping. Even though these weren't shops, it seems the tent people like a good bargain. Later on, old friends invite me to a turkey dinner, and I wonder if the turkey has synthetic hormones.

Then I wake up!

November 14, 2010

Synopsis: Two very interesting dreams. In the first I am told I have 20 riddles to solve. In the next, I transform, play around, and find a nightmare deep in the lowest levels of the staircase.

20 Riddles To Solve
I am in a dark misty place. It kind of reminds me of a movie scene from England. A DC tells me that I have 20 riddles and puzzles to solve, all regarding names. He tells me uncovering these riddles will span over several dreams. So I should take notes and repeat as often as possible what I discover so I remember my progress.

I take out a flip book "Good idea!" and I start taking notes. This dream felt very long. I seemed to travel a lot in this misty place. And I talked a lot to, to so many DCs but I barely remember any of our conversations.

All I remember was I solved the first riddle in that dream. And the name, a dream views member. But I don't remember who the name was! But I had a sense that this was a dream views member that I haven't really spoken with, but I should.

Later on we are all watching TV. Wasting our time, I suddenly realize....was my time wasted? Here I am reviewing and going over these notes again and again. And for what? Lucid, I finally realize I can't take any of these notes with me! I'm gonna forget everything!

I yell at the DC "Why did you make me spend an entire dream writing so many notes. Are you intentionally trying to waste my time?"

He doesn't answer me. And I don't like his aura now, its obscured. Not dark as in evil. But dark as in, he isn't who I thought he was. The whole dream becomes obscured and fades away.

The Dark Drumming
I'm having a light adventure dream in a strange abstract city. But my friend disappears when I become lucid, represented by an inanimate toy in my hand. Oh well. Lucid, I transform into a lizard. And then even tinier, and tinier and tinier.

I wasn't easy at first. I had to find a small bush, and imagine the twig was as wide as a tree. It worked! And my point of view flies up the twig, now the size of a tree. And I crawl over the fence.

This simple stupid thing is something I've wanted to do for a year now. It's been a long time since I've been able to alter my size perception.

I crawl away and under a door. It leads to an industrial staircase. I become my human self again and wonder what's down below. I vaguely remember my friend from earlier fearing this place. It's all dusty and gritty looking. And I can hear what sounds like construction down below, a constant banging. Bang. Bang. Bang.

I thought that maybe watching the construction men do their thing would be fun. So I climb two flights down.

But as I get closer, I realize the sound I'm hearing resembles nothing like construction. No. Bang. Bang. BANG. BANG. The sound gets closer. Larger! Overwhelming! They're footsteps!

As the footsteps climb up the stairs, the staircase gets darker and darker. Fear takes over me. The sound is like drumming.

I race back up. But its so dark I can't see the door I came in from. So I have to run several more floors, with that noise approaching me, coming closer. Finally there's enough light coming from the door that I can see it. I rush out the door into the building.

I don't understand. The sound. That sound is still coming closer to me. I can hear it down the hall now. Bang. Bang. Bang.

I find a group of emos who were probably up to no good. But I'll take vandalizing emos over this demon. They take a corner and almost leave my field of vision. Bang. Bang. Bang.

"Wait! Don't leave me!"

I beg them "Something is after me. I'm scared. Can I go with you?"

They look at me making a funny expression . Probably because I'm way to colorful for their taste. "Ok, you can join us." Disdainfully.

I'm so happy to be in their company. They head to the basement. Which does worry me that were going down instead of UP. We relax in a room with a lot of chairs.

Suddenly the leader of the emo gang levitates a chair with telekinesis, and flings it at the wall. No one looks surprised, except me.

"You have powers like the character Tetsuo!" I say

"I hate Tetsuo! He's such a. . fucking. . emo!" Lol. Okay. I'm not even going to bother starting an argument with the poor confused man.

I stand up and feel inspired to show off my dream skills. Suddenly were wall showing off our powers to each other, trying to prove were more awesome than the next person!

Bang. Bang. Bang.

We were so busy being silly I didn't even notice this whole time that we were next to a staircase. "It's him! The demon! We have to go!"

"No" Says the leader "We'll beat the shit out of him together."

We stand in front of the staircase. Bang. Bang. Bang. The staircase progressively gets darker. Darker. As if all the light is being swallowed. I'm scared! I'm terrified!

"Now!"

The leader uses his telekinesis to hurl random objects at it. I gave it my best!

I couldn't tell you if we defeated the monster. I always wake up during the battle. It felt like it was working though. If anything, just because I was in their company.

But the sound still gives me shivers

November 12, 2010

Synopsis: I eat my transformation, yep

Eat It!
I put my brand new shiny rain boots on and go for a walk, even though it aint raining. It's a beautiful day outside and for the first time ever, the neighborhood is actually alive. Kids are playing and the folks are bbq-ing.

I meant to go home, but I was having so much fun walking I totally lost track of time, and next thing you know the sun is going down.

In the back of my mind I can hear my mom lecturing me how dangerous it is for a female to be walking all by herself in the dark. What could I do? I know! I'll transform!

I become a gargoyle like being and run around suburbia with no aim or cause. My family are walking around in a public garden lit by way too many lights. I hide in the bushes from them because I don't want to go home yet. I'm having way too much fun!

At some point I get this crazy idea that I should eat my transformation. So I grab my lion like tail, and eat it. Next I grab my wings, and eat them. Next I grab my clawed hand and eat that. Everything was very tasty and sweet. I had this idea if I consumed my transformation, transforming again would be easier.

Once I was done eating my transformation I was back to my regular me. I rejoined my family and woke up.