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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

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