Krista's Dream Journal

Dream - Lucid

I'm at my house, and the weather is getting stormy. I remember the weather channel saying that it wasn't supposed to get too bad, but it is getting pretty turbulent. There is supposed to be a tornado. My family wonders where they should go, and I tell them to go into the coat closet downstairs, where we usually go. We all herd into the closet. I realize that I need to get some things out of my room, so I go upstairs and grab my purse and a couple of other things. It's kind of dark upstairs. I go back down into the closet. I look out the window before we shut the closet door, and I see a small tree about to get snapped in half by the wind. My mom tells us to all duck down and cover our heads, like my brother learned in school. We all duck down, and my family starts to pray out loud (very reminiscent to real-life events of about 7-8 years ago).

I woke up after this dream all scrunched up, when I had fallen asleep on my back.

I turn over to go back to sleep, and I start having extremely vivid auditory hypnogogia of the sound of coins hitting each other, as if I were counting down my drawer at work. Then, I have some hypnogogia of me observing people at work, and Jessi, a girl I work with, drops a glass and breaks it. The sound of breaking glass was so vivid, I snapped out of my half-asleep stage, and panicked for a minute, thinking someone broke into the house.

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I was not myself. I was a teenage boy, and I had two girlfriends who didn't know about one another. I remember being in my waking life car, driving around. I woke up in the back seat, and my waking life purse was being stolen. I also remember being at a baseball park.

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I was at school, I think it was supposed to be college. I'm in a "social studies" class, and three professors are teaching, one woman and two men. They are VERY liberal, and teach by acting out some sort of skit. They are trying to convince us to see something from their point of view.

Then, I was at home, eating ravioli. It was delicious and hot. My brother is in the kitchen too. I asked him for some butternut squash ravioli that he had been eating, because I had to compare the two for my class. I think they were trying to convince us that the squash ravioli tasted better. My brother gave me some of the leftover squash ravioli. It was a little colder than room temperature because it had been in the refrigerator, and had very little flavor. I concluded that I liked the real, meaty ravioli better.

Then, I was standing in the quad outside the library of my college. There were trees in the middle of the quad. It was very bright and sunny, and I was very, very hot. I was trying to find shade under the trees. I was smoking a cigarette. A bigger guy with red hair and facial hair resembling someone I know in waking life came up to me and told me something about him and his friends smoking 10 baggies of weed. I laugh loudly and say "I bet!". Then, another guy comes up to me. He looked kind of "ghetto". He had short, dark brown hair, a white basketball tank with light blue lining around the sleeves, and to top it all off, one of his front teeth was gold. His teeth were bad also. He asked me "What's so funny about weed anyway?". Then, I saw my dad standing in his running clothes with a huge, warm smile on his face.

I then woke up and my room felt like a freakin sauna. No wonder I was trying to find shade. o_o

Also, sorry for the switch in tenses. Some dreams are just easier for me to record in present tense for some reason.

Dream - Lucid

I remember something along the lines of The Golden Compass. I'm outside a gas station with the woman who seperates Daemons from their humans, and one of her male assistants. It's nighttime. I realize who they are, and I get angry and tell them that I know who they are, I and run away. They become very angry.

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I'm at a restaraunt, apparently the one my old roommate Katherine currently works at. In waking life, we had a huge falling out, and don't speak anymore. She is running around with her waking life cat. She keeps chasing him around, frantically going from one table to the next. There are no customers. I'm with my friends Caitlin and Katie. I try to avoid Katherine, but I know she's seen me. I believe she's trying to think of a way to approach us. Caitlin is sitting on a counter in the kitchen-type room we are in that reminds me of a very old house I used to live in when I was little, maybe with a mixture of my old apartment's kitchen thrown in. Katherine walks into the room dressed as Alice from Alice in Wonderland. She says hello to me, and I say hello back very hesitantly. We are all kind of smirking at the fact that she's dressed as Alice. She leaves, and comes back dressed as The Queen of Hearts. She switches back and forth bewtween these two costumes. Both costumes remind me of skanky Halloween costumes. She keeps trying to nervously talk to us, and gets frustrated and tells us she hates us all, and she leaves.




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I'm at my house, and I walk into my room. My mattress is gone. I get very, very upset. I go into my parents room, and I ask my mom about it. She says she is trying to sell my bed. I cry and get very angry and emotional and tell her no, it's my bed, and I want it. She says she didn't tell me that she was selling it to avoid the emotional outburst I was having now. I demand my bed back, and she says she was going to get me a new one. I didn't want a new one, I told her. I wanted my old bed back. She concedes and gives it back. I'm still extremely upset.

Dream - Lucid

I had some really weird dreams last night, but I can only recall bits and pieces. I know the first one was much longer than what I remember.

I was at Hogwarts with some friends, 3 of which I remember vividly being Courtney, Stephen, and a girl I was acquainted with in high school, Ashley. We were outside, overlooking a lake. We were all herded, by what I can only assume to be Death Eaters, into these carts with hard, dark red plastic seats. We were crammed in there, waiting to die. They were picking us out one by one to kill us. I was crammed between Courtney and Stephen. We were supposed to be quiet, but none of us were. There were actually a lot of people in cheery moods, which didn't make sense, because we were all there to die. I looked at the few rows in front of me, and saw Ashley laughing with her friends.

I knew what had to be done to kill the Death Eaters, and that was to create a tornado with some sort of spell, and it would wipe them all out. I knew Hermione was supposed to do it. Throughout the dream, I was concerned that this wouldn't be done in time to save us.

Then, I was in the middle of the lake, hanging onto this huge rock formation. All the rest of the people that were previously crammed into carts were in the water, brutally killing these huge fish. I was being forced to be in the water with all of the fish remains. I tried to stay atop the rock formation, but I fell backwards into the water, and saw all these huge fish eyeballs and fish heads.

Then, I think my brother casted the tornado spell, possibly with Hermione's help but I can't be sure, and everyone was fine. I remember a female death eater in the middle of casting the death spell on someone. "Avada Keda-" is as far as she got before the tornado hit her.

Not sure if this was part of the same dream or not, but...

I was in my middle school gym in my old volleyball uniform. I was standing by the door, waiting for the star player of the team to get out of the car. I was relieved that the Hogwarts incident was over. The star player pulled up in a white car, got out, and entered the gym. The coach, my old high school volleyball coach, Mrs. S, was dressed in one of our uniforms. She was talking to the star player and I. I got tired of listening, and since I wasn't going to play anyway (I'm not sure what the situation was, I think it was the last game or something), I just walked away. The coach broke off and just watched me walk away. I found my mom.

Dream - Lucid

I had a very strong urge to try to have a lucid dream all day yesterday, so I did my MILD mantras before bed. ("I will become lucid"). They worked wonders...I had the longest LDs I've ever had.

I also want to find my dream guide pretty badly, so that was my goal going to sleep.

I was at my elementary school, apparently taking the 4th grade again. I was the same age I am now though, 22. I went into my classroom, and my 4th grade teacher was there, Mrs. B. She looked the same, only she had 2 nose rings, one in each nostril, and many earrings. She saw me, and told me I looked familiar I said "It's me, Krista, you had me 1999-2000 (not true in waking life)." She thought for a minute, but didn't say anything.

Class started, and no one was talking. The teacher was sitting at her desk, doing some work. I didn't want to repeat the 4th grade, I was not happy about being there! I stared at this one girl with short red hair for awhile, that looked like a girl I really did go to elementary school with. She smiled at me and stared back.

I wanted to get out of there, and realized I was dreaming. I took off through the ceiling, going up through empty classroom after empty classroom. I don't really recall where I ended up, but I created a portal by saying "Portal, APPEAR!". I didn't know where I was going, I just wanted to create a portal. I heard some ambient music, and a white light outlined in bright yellow appeared. I jumped through it, tumbling through the darkness for awhile. I don't really remember where I came out, I think I was at the same place I had originally created the portal.

I couldn't remember what I wanted to do, so I thought I'd create a portal to GMoney's dream. I started, and a portal similar to the first appeared, only this one was outlined in bright red. I decided to abandon the effort though. I then wanted to create a portal to Ryan's dream, but try as I might, it wouldn't work.

Then, I was back in my classroom. I floated lazily towards the ceiling, but when I hit it to go through it, it felt solid. I floated back down and blasted through the ceiling with more force, and it worked. I floated through the empty classrooms again, and then I heard a voice ask me if I wanted to go to a world where yaks rode on humans. I said ok, and was taken there. It was outside of my elementary school at night. It was snowing. I ran through the snow, and saw a bunch of cars in the parking lot. I wondered to myself how yaks could possibly drive cars, and decided they must be made differently. I then saw a group of yaks walking towards the school on their hind legs, with human clothes on. Then, I saw some humans standing by the school. It was a group of 2 or 3 teenage boys. They looked normal enough, nothing weird about them.

Then, I either woke up for a second or I had a false awakening. I remember asking myself if I was having a false awakening, and I decided that I wasn't. It was very dark, and my eyes felt like I had fallen asleep in my contacts. Then, I either fell asleep again, or the FA continued, and I was up writing down my LD in my dream journal.

Then, I was suddenly standing by a beach. The sky was very cloudy, like it might storm. There was a HUGE wave forming. It was a beautiful greenish-blue, and very clear. I could see thousands of fish in the wave. I knew I was dreaming immediately, and stopped the wave from crashing to the shore. I turned around, and there was a young black man standing there. I then remembered my original goal before I went to bed: To find my dream guide. The man smiled at me, and I hugged him. I pulled away, and, with my arms still around his neck, I asked him if he was my dream guide. He laughed, and told me no, he wasn't. I then asked him if he was just a dream character, and he said he was one of many. I then asked him if I did indeed have a dream guide, and he told me yes. I asked him to take me to him, and he said he would.

I examined my hands to induce clarity, but they were very out of focus. My DC came up behind me, took my shoulders in his hands, and started to gently sway my to the right and to the left while talking to me. I figured he was trying to keep me in the dream. I glanced over at the wave, which was still stopped. Around it was a very, very vivid triple rainbow.

My DC jumped into the ocean, and I followed. We swam underwater. I was having trouble breathing for some reason. It felt like a heavy weight was on my chest every time I took a breath. I ignored it though, because I knew I'd be alright since I was dreaming. For a brief moment, the ocean floor became a set of digital-looking white circles, but quickly changed back. I remember the ocean being very dark.

Suddenly, my DC and I were in what looked like a small basement storeroom of some sort. It was well-lit, and the walls were white. There was a table off to the right with a few men sitting at it. My DC told them that I wanted to go meet my dream guide. We walked on. He told me to take this very flimsy looking paper key and put it in the lock of this electrical breaker box. I did as I was told, though the key didn't really go in the lock because it was paper. I turned it, and woke up.

Dream - Lucid

I was at my house in the front yard. There was a guy there that looked like my ex from high school, but he also kinda looked like another one of my ex's from the beginning of college. I knew he wasn't really the guy from high school, but for the life of me, I couldn't figure out who he was. He said some really weird things to me, and they didn't even really make that much sense in the dream. I can't remember exactly what was said though. I know that he liked me and wanted to be with me, but I didn't want to be with him, because I was with Ryan.

At some point, there was a white cat with multicolored pastel spots on her back. I named her Sparkles.

Then, I was trying to handle my real life cat, Belle. I would pick her up and she would scratch the shit out of me. I took her to the vet and had to put her down on the ground because of this. She ran around the lobby of the vet's office. Then, something about the guy from earlier, weed, and my laptop, and these little clip thingies that could come on and off of the lapop.

Again, I took Belle to the vet. I got in my mom's car, and was holding Belle in my arms, because her carrier was too small. We got to the vet, which was, in the dream, located in the area that my dad's office is in waking life. She was fighting me again, so I let go of her, and she took off running out of the car and down the street. My friend Katie was there with me, and she took off after Belle. She didn't catch her, and Belle was nowhere to be seen. I was very upset. Then, I saw a group of dogs of all different kinds outside the vet's office. I started to hear birds singing, which jarred me awake.

Then, I woke up, and realized that my alarm hadn't gone off for work. I had heard the birds in my dream, which triggered me to freak out and wake up, because birds should not be singing when I have to get up for work. Fortunately, I made it on time, but I realized I had set my alarm for 5:30pm instead of am...whoops.

Dream - Lucid

I was pregnant. I had a belly and everything. I had already had another child, a daughter. She was at my parents' house. I'm pretty sure the children were Ryan's. I was eating at Cracker Barrel with a friend and smoking a cigarette, even though I was pregnant. I felt a sharp pang in my lower stomach, similar to menstrual cramps. I got up to go to the bathroom, thinking I only had to go #2. I sat down on the toilet and had a miscarriage. I saw lots of chunks in the toilet (gross). I was really upset, because I had wanted my daughter to have a brother. Throughout the rest of the dream, I noticed my belly getting smaller.

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I was waiting in line in some gymnasium to go see a psychic. I was waiting behind a lot of teenage girls. The gym looked similar to my elementary school's gym. The psychic was in a room in the back. I waited my turn, and when I got close enough, I saw the psychic sitting at a table in a well-lit room. Behind her was a sign with her services listed and the prices next to them. I had enough money for the second thing on the list, which was "Astral Reading and Aura - $8". There were two other girls in front of me, one was already finished, and the other was filling out some sort of form or questionaire. They were both kind of overweight.

It was finally my turn, and I gave my money to the psychic. She made small talk with me for awhile, and then I went into the next room, which looked like a McDonald's or something. I was getting a little antsy, because I really wanted to get this reading done. I went back in and sat with the psychic, and before she could start the reading, I woke up.

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I went to classes, and came back and took a nap and had a mini dream this afternoon.

I was at the beach with Ryan. We were sitting on the shore. He found a tiny clamshell. I commented on it. I watched the water lap in and out on the shore. Every time it went out, I saw crabs burrowing into the sand where the water had just been. I was afraid they'd pinch me, so I avoided them by backing away from the water every time it came in towards me. I watched the crabs burrow in and out of the sand.

Dream - Lucid

I woke up and got on Skype. My friend from Belgium that I met on this forum was online. I hadn't talked to him in a long time. He had tried to message me the night before, but I had left Skype up overnight. We were talking about movies and he was sending me some really cool pictures. I knew I needed to get in the shower to get ready for classes, but I couldn't get away from the computer. I walked into a sound studio and was getting taught about how it worked. I knew I really needed to get in the shower. There was an episode of Family Guy on one of the screens in the studio. I saw a couple of my friends from school. Then, I went back to the computer and talked to my friend some more.

This morning, I got up, showered, and got on the computer, and my friend was on Skype, and he messaged me! We haven't talked in awhile either. Neither of us have had time to get online. Craziness... o_o

Dream - Lucid

I was at a pool with Ryan and someone else. It was dusk, and continued getting darker and colder outside. We weren't supposed to be there. If we stayed and/or got back in the pool, we'd never be allowed to come back. The seasons were also changing. I needed help getting a raft out of the pool, so I asked Ryan to help me. He helped me to get it out, and we ran off through the woods, with him in front of me. We were laughing as we ran.

Then, we came across one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. There were glistening waterfalls everywhere, reflecting different colors, and they were running backwards. In the middle of the dreamscape, there was one big waterfall with a huge shimmering sphere on the top. The sky looked like dawn. I was awestruck. It was beautiful. This description doesn't even do it justice. I heard a voice, it sounded like the narrator from Little Big Planet. It said something like this:

"You see? The only difference between us is that it's not hard for us. It's more difficult for you."

The voice was very calm and comforting.

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I was at my friend Courtney's family's house. We were in the living room with her two younger brothers. The living room looked like it did when we were in middle school. Courtney said something about wanting to go to my place later because she wanted to smoke weed. Well, that was a problem, because I didn't have any weed. I stopped smoking it. So Courtney asked one of her brothers, Tyler, if he had any. He said yes, so she went to get it.

She came back with a baggie of weed, but it looked like raw spinach leaves. She took a handful and put it in a vase of water, and put whipped cream on the top. Apparently, this was supposed to get you high if you sat near it and just kind of smelled it for awhile. So that's what we did, and it did get us high.

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I was looking at my friend Bret's Facebook page. I saw pictures of him and his older sister. She was graduating college, and he was with her in the pictures, looking very sad. She was apparently graduating from Brown University. She had a red cap and gown on in the pictures. I think he wanted the honor of graduating from Brown. His sister looked like she was trying to cheer him up in the pictures. I wrote on his wall, recollecting a "memory" of us doing lots of drugs together, and how much fun we had had.

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I was at a coffee shop, I think it was Einstein's (a coffee and bagel shop). It was very crowded, and I was sitting with my friends Sara, Sarah, Leigh, and Stephanie at a booth. The waiter, a man with short, curly hair, resembling a customer that frequents the shop I work at in waking life, came up to our table to take our orders. I ordered a small cappucino and a sandwich. The waiter told me that they were out of small cups...all they had left were larges. I told him alright, give me a large, but just fill it halfway up and charge me for a small, because there was no way I could drink a large. He left to go fill our order. I watched him go to this big bar in the middle of the shop, where they did all their cooking and drink building.

We all sat around and talked for awhile, and it seemed like our order was taking forever. Finally, the waiter came back with our drinks. He placed a small mug in front of me that was only half full. He left before I could say anything about it. Everyone else's orders were correct. I also didn't have the sandwich I had ordered. Stephanie offered me some of her tomato basil soup, but I said no thank you, and that I had eaten that for lunch that day. I got up to get my drink corrected.

Then, I was outside, and there was a huge line of people dressed in Renaissance clothing, all waiting to get into Einstein's, but they were all waiting outside not a shop, but an area full of tents. The sky was cloudy. I approached the manager, a bigger Indian or African man with light brown skin. He was also dressed in Renaissance clothing. I said hello, and he shook my hand. I told him I had a complaint, and he told me to follow him to his tent. We went up to his tent, and I told him about the drink mishap. He nodded and listened. Every time I looked at him, his skin got darker and darker.

I don't remember what he said, but he seemed...off. Like he had something up his sleeve. I realized I was dreaming, but kept talking to him. Then, as I got up to leave, I decided to take control of the dream. I examined my hands to induce clarity. I started to float upwards, but then, I remembered one of my lucid goals: To talk to a dream character. I turned around, and said,

"You know what? This is a dream!"
He didn't seem to believe me, so I kept talking. I decided to ask him some questions.
"What's 2+2?", I asked.
"4!", he replied.
"Ok, what's my middle name?"
"Nicole!", he replied.
I continued,
"Now how could you know that if we just met today? How could you possibly know my middle name?"
He got very flustered, and said
"Uh, um...uh...because...because..."
I finished for him.
"Because you're a projection of my subconscious!", I said triumphantly.

I decided to get out of the tent by floating up through the top of the tent. I flew up, and started to tear through the burlap of the tent. I felt how real the burlap felt. I tore through layers and layers of it, and then everything went black, and I woke up.

Dream - Lucid

So I went out drinking last night and got VERY little sleep, but this morning, while staying with Ryan, the man I'm currently dating, I had a very vivid dream.

Ryan was taking me back to my parents' house. It was very bright outside. We got there, and my mom and dad were outside in the front yard. There was a burning tree stump in the middle of the road. My dad and I tried to put it out, but to no avail. I tried dumping water on it, but it didn't really do anything. We couldn't stop it from burning. The fire started to spread.

Then I woke up extremely dehydrated with a bit of a stomach ache. Gotta love hang overs.

Dream - Lucid

I was sleeping outside, on some slab of rock, in some kind of courtyard. Then, I remember I was eating something, I think I was with my parents, and I saw a tooth fall out into my hand. I didn't think it could have possibly been my tooth, but I felt a hole in my gum, in the middle of the bottom right side of my mouth. I started freaking out. I needed a doctor, but it was Sunday, so no offices were open.

I decided to go to my old apartment complex to see if the doctor that was apparently working there could help me. I walked up to the gate-like door to the entrance, and there were 2 guards standing there. One of them, a black man, (he looked kind of like Dr. Foreman from House), asked me for my ID. I got frustrated, because I knew he knew who I was. He had never ID'd me before when I lived there. I told him I didn't have one, nor did I live there, but I needed to see the doctor because my tooth fell out, and I needed to get it put back in. He refused to let me by. I started getting angry, very angry. I somehow fought my way through, despite him trying to restrain me.

Once I was all the way through, the guard called out, "Security!". I tried to convince all of the guards and security officers that I just needed to see the doctor. It wouldn't take very long. I begged them to please let me, but they refused, since I didn't live there anymore. My mom had been with me, and they escorted us out. I was very distraught. My mom told me as we were leaving that she would look up how to fix my tooth online. My dad apparently didn't think this would work though.

I was then walking with my dad, talking to him about some research I wanted to do on lucid dreaming.

Then, we were all at the grocery store. I kept tounging the hole in my gum, and I was getting restless, because I knew that I only had a certain amount of time before I could no longer put the tooth back in. I took the tooth out of my jacket pocket and dropped it, but quickly picked it back up. I told my dad to hurry up. My dad told me to relax, and that I had 3 hours before the time limit was up. It had already been an hour and a half, and he was taking his precious time at the store. He picked up 3 small squares of Jello that were on a plate, I know one was red, and maybe one was green but I can't remember the other color. He asked us if we wanted the Jello or something else, and my brother said that he wanted the Jello. We wandered down the aisles, and I was getting more and more impatient.

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An old coworker of mine, Jonni, was very sick in what I can only assume to be some sort of hospital bed, but it didn't look like a hospital room. It looked more like some sort of bedroom, and the bed was huge. I had to take care of him throughout the dream, and I kept going back to check on him from time to time. He had to miss some concert or something because of how sick he was, but he didn't seem very disappointed. He knew he was very ill, and couldn't go. I felt like I really needed to be there for him; I had a strong urge to take care of him.

Dream - Lucid

I was at work, serving some special coffee drink to a table.

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I was telling someone about the above dream, I think it was my mom, and she thought it was “wild”.

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I was working with my friend/coworker Tori. The lights weren’t on in the coffee shop. A couple that frequents the shop came in, and the woman asked me if we still had the special that was on the board. I turned around to see what the special even was, and it said “piggys in a blanket”. I told her to hold on, and I’d go check. I went and asked Tori, and she said yes, we still had it, and showed me where the “piggys in a blanket” were. I told the lady we had them, so that’s what she ordered. I got the little link sausages wrapped in crescent rolls out of this small box, and put 6 of them on a plate. I couldn’t decide whether to give her 5 or 6 though. I finally decided on 5, and put one of them back.

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I was in a building at my college, the old gym, with my brother. A girl I’ve known since middle school, Amanda, was there. Apparently, she had never really liked me. I wanted to know why, so before we left the building, I demanded that she tell me why she had never liked me. She told me to hold on, she was going to use the bathroom, but she’d tell me when she got out.

As soon as she went into the bathroom, a big, light blue neon sign appeared on the wall close to the ceiling that said “Emotions” in cursive. It lit up the room. Apparently, this was normal for her, and I told my brother that. I “remembered” that, usually, it would immediately go away and be replaced by another neon sign, this time red, that said “try harder” in cursive.

Amanda finally came out of the bathroom, and the sign did something new. It turned white and said “please wait”, again in cursive. Then, it changed again, and said something along the lines of “congratulations”. Amanda was overjoyed, because she had always gotten the “try harder” sign, no matter what. I cried tears of joy for her, I was so happy. She hugged me and thanked me for being such a good friend. I was overcome with emotion. I told her how happy I was for her. I looked at her face, and it was covered in scratches and bruises, but she still looked so happy. I left with my brother, still crying tears of joy. I then explained to my brother that, usually, when the “try harder” sign appeared, enemies popped out and she had to fight them off. I “remembered” when this had happened in high school.

When I woke up, I still felt like crying, it was intense.

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I was in a giant warehouse. A customer from the coffee shop, a man who constantly cheats on his wife with pretty young female students (he’s an anatomy teacher at my college) in waking life, was there. He had a huge tattoo-type thing on his leg that said “FAMILY” in black lettering, though I hesitate to call it a tattoo, because it was like it was a part of him internally. It’s weird, it was like engraved into him.

I was supposed to kill him. I had been spying on him for a lot of the dream, and I somehow injected a slow-acting acid into him. I tracked the progress of the acid by watching his “tattoo”. I noticed the acid filling up the letters, and eating away at the “Y” of “FAMILY”. He didn’t notice it at first.

At some point, I talked to his wife, and discussed all of this stuff with her. She was kind of in on it, but reluctantly, because she loved him.

I finally saw the acid take full effect. I saw him bleeding profusely on the floor, in agony and pain. I felt horrible. I cried. Then, I knew I had to shoot him. But then, he had a gun. He was suddenly up off the floor, and was pointing the gun at me. He looked crazy, like he had gone completely mad. I was terrified, and tried to wish a force field around me, to protect me from the bullets, because I was dreaming.

Wait, I’m dreaming! The bullet came out of the gun, but when it hit me, it felt like a pebble bouncing off of my body. I examined my hands to steady to dream and induce clarity. I told the guy it was a dream, and he looked pretty happy about it. He smiled, and his outfit changed to this white and red suit. I turned around and saw a bunch of computers. Most of the screens were black, and had random letters and numbers on them. I tried typing in “Access Krista’s memories”, but nothing happened.

I was so excited to be in an LD, I couldn’t remember any of the goals I had set. I decided to, of course, fly. I blasted through the ceiling, and flew into the night. I felt a little unsteady, but I overcame it quickly. I flew over The Avenue, an outdoor shopping complex in my town. I decided to check out The Icing, a Claire’s-type jewelry store. There were a few people in there, but not many. I saw a pair of pretty, dark blue dangly earrings, and took them (stealing isn’t something I’d ever do in waking life, no idea why I decided to do it in the dream). I put them on, and flew out of the store. Then, I remember being on the ground again, and trying to will a hand-held mirror into my hands so I could see the earrings. Nothing happened. Then, for some reason, I tried to will fire to appear in my hands. All I got was smoke. In all my excitement of the LD, I had forgotten that verbal commands are what work best for me when I’m lucid, I suppose. I took off into the air again.

Then, I "woke up" in my mom’s car, and it was morning. We were driving, but I’m not sure where. I looked at the digital clock in the car, and it said it was 9:17. Crap! I had a 9:10 class, and I had missed it. I asked my mom what happened, and got no reply. All she told me was that I needed to take off my atrocious earrings.

Huh? I still had the earrings from my LD, only now they were bunches of blue, dangly bells. I started to get upset with myself for stealing them. Then, I thought about class again, and my brother asked me what I was going to do about that. I told him I didn’t know, and started recording my dream in my dream journal.

Then, I woke up for real, in plenty of time for class.

I'm usually excited to be LDing, but for some reason, the excitement this time was really intense. So intense that I couldn't remember any of my LD goals I have set.

I also seem to end up in a lot of giant warehouse-type places before I become lucid, or sometimes after. Hmm...very interesting.

Dream - Lucid

I can only remember a fragment...

A girl I know, Abby, was upset with me for something I did to Austin. I think she was texting me to let me know this.

Lame. I know that dream was a lot longer too. Stress does a number on my recall.

Dream - Lucid

I was in my brother's room with Drew, an ex from high school. He wanted to have sex, and I didn't think it was a good idea to do it in there, but he insisted. So we got naked and had sex. He threw the condom and the wrapper away in my brother's trash can. My parents found the condom and the wrapper, and weren't really mad, just annoyed. I think we were planning on doing it again.

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I was at my grandparents' old house, but I don't remember seeing them at all in the dream. It was Thanksgiving, and my Uncle Mike was there. I was making candied sweet potatoes in a small pan. I kept thinking I was doing it wrong, because we normally use a huge skillet to make them. I continued making them, and my uncle took them and put them in a pot on the stove. I think he was going to boil them, which is definitely NOT the way you really make them, but it made sense in the dream. We sat down to eat, and the fried chicken strips we were eating were very pink and underdone. Everyone was complaining about them, so I just put my plate in the microwave for 30 seconds to see if it would help. I took them out, and instead of getting whiter, the chicken turned more brown, though it was still very pink. I didn't eat any more of it.

Then, I was driving. It was the middle of the day, and I was high. There was no traffic at all. I thought I was driving to The Avenue, an outdoor shopping mall in my town. I thought I had been in the car for a little too long, but I didn't pay much mind to it. I saw what I thought was The Avenue, and pulled into the parking lot. It wasn't The Avenue, but a giant Target store and a couple of other stores. There were very few people in the parking lot. Apparently, I had driven out of my town, and was in between Crossville and some other town. The shopping center with the Target was called something mixing the names of the two towns. My dad had been expecting me to be home at a certain time or something, so I just left the shopping center.

I was at home then, I don't remember driving there though. I was just there. I had just bought quite a bit of weed, and stored it in a drawer in a desk. I could still smell it though. Mk was there, and I heard her talking to my brother in the other room, sounding very upset. I heard her tell him that all I do is smoke weed, and she didn't like it. Then, my mom came in my room and started opening drawers. She tried to open the one with the baggies of weed in it, but I held it shut. She asked me if I had bought weed, and I said yes. Then, I told her I hadn't done it in a very long time, so it was ok. That seemed good enough for her, and she left the room. I was trying to figure out how to smoke it without it stinking up the room, and I decided I should just blow it out the window. I "remembered" getting high with my parents and brother.

Dream - Lucid

My friend Virginia and her boyfriend Zach wanted me to meet her at a water park. The only problem was that it was 10 PM and she lived 2 and a half hours away. My family and I started to go though, regardless, and then all the sudden we were at McDonald's. My family was ordering their food, while I sat at a table and started cleaning out my pipe. I was going to trade resin for food...? Weird. My family didn't seem to notice what I was doing. They asked me to get in line with them and I kept telling them to hold on. I kept thinking about how there was no way the water park was going to be open when we got there.


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My family and I were going on vacation, though I'm not sure where. We were driving. It was nighttime, and all the sudden, we saw a tornado made out of water. It was behind us. So what does my dad, the driver, do? He does a U-turn so we're facing the tornado in the distance. Traffic is backed up pretty bad. We decided to go to a hotel, and apparently, due to the tornado, all rooms were free that night. That meant that they would fill up fast, though.

There were people standing outside the doors of their hotel rooms to claim them. I saw an empty one, and I got there and stood in front of the door. There was another guy there though, apparently, and he got very upset with me. I guarded the room very diligently, even when he started throwing huge pieces of metal bars at me. I avoided them, and he finally gave up. I told him he could stay in the room with my family and it wouldn't be a big deal, so that's what he did. He ended up sleeping on the floor, while my family and I all slept in beds.

Dream - Lucid

I was playing Starcraft, but it was with dinosaurs. I had to make two little triceratops swim across a lake to get to my base. One of them was yellow, and the other was green. They looked like Sara off of The Land Before Time. I saw a T-Rex's shadow and heard it coming, so I had to try to evade it.

Then, I was the Zerg race, and I couldn't find my base, so I started building one from scratch on a section of land. I was immediately attacked, and had to restart the game. I saw a little gray circle on the map, and went up to look at it. It was the perfect area for a base, and yet again, I had to start from scratch. I played around with it for a little while, building structures and warriors, even though I had started with nothing at all. I got attacked a few times, but I fought off the attackers. I remember seeing an option to build Zerg houses, but they were useless. You could build lighthouses too. Then, my game froze, and I had to restart it.

This time, it restarted right at my base, and I didn't have to start from scratch. My base was already there, and I had the Zerg drones to mine with and turn into Zerglings and such. They were moving super fast though, so that made it difficult to click on them.

~

I was back in middle school, but I was taking college courses. My brother was there with me. We went to our Social Dance class, a class I've already taken in college in waking life. We were in a classroom instead of a dance studio. We listened to Paco, the teacher, introduce himself and talk. I zoned out since I had already taken the class. A bunch of people started to get up, so I got up too and followed them. We went into the band room, which looked like a regular classroom.

The 8th grade band was playing William Tell Overture. Supposedly, I was standing with a bunch of 7th graders, who were listening to the 8th grade band. I left, kind of embarrassed. I didn't return to Paco's class. Instead, I contemplated leaving to go home. I knew it was risky and I'd probably get caught, but I was 22, what could they really do to me? I'm not a kid anymore. I went down some stairs, and at some point, I saw a "gothy"-looking couple holding hands, walking down the hallway. I wandered into a lobby area. I wanted to leave, but I couldn't remember where I parked. There were people changing classes, and it was almost time for the next class to start. People started to thin out. I knew I needed to leave soon if I didn't want to get caught. I opened a door, and saw an empty hallway, with my middle school art teacher, Mr. Hayes, standing in there. I quickly shut the door. At some point, I saw my friend Sierra, and she said hello to me, but then I thought it was probably her younger sister.

I decided to look at my class schedule, which was embroidered on this little decorative pillow. It has half in Spanish, and instead of room numbers, it had vague directions on how to get to the classes. My next class was "Below JOUR 1-7". I thought that was kind of ridiculous.

Then, I ran into my mom. She told me that there had been a change of plans, and they were leaving to go to Oregon in 4 minutes. I asked why, and she started talking about some disease that started with an M. For some reason, I became depessed around this point. I kind of tuned her out, and started to think about what I could do since her and my father wouldn't be home. Drugs sounded like a good idea. Painkillers? Yeah. That's what I wanted to do. I thought of this as I went down another flight of stairs. I walked by Paco's classroom, and he had a chart out with a diagram explaining how to swing dance.

Then my alarm went off, and I woke up.