non-lucid

Dream - Lucid - AP

I was at a mall with my friend Rachel. My mom was there too. We were in a department store, I think it was supposed to be Sears or JC Penny's. Rachel and I were picking out shirts that we liked so we could go try them on.

Then, a voice came over the loud speaker saying the store was going under lock down because a man was in there who was going to rape and molest women. He was described as wearing a big, black jacket. I saw a picture of him walking on a TV screen that was on the wall. After that, all the lights in the store went out, and everyone scattered to hiding places. I called out to my friend Mary Katherine, who was there now as well. I kept calling "Mary!" and she finally answered me, and I hid with her behind a shelf. I had also been separated from my mom, but I couldn't do much about that, since I was already hidden.

I had my cellphone out, and I think I was trying to contact my mom, when someone came around with a box of these huge, bulky, silver flip phones. We were supposed to use them while the store was under lock down if we needed to make any calls. I took one, and entered my mom's number in the phone. I can't remember if I got ahold of her or not, for some reason, I don't think I did.

Then, everyone was running outside, so I did the same. A young man with blond hair and a striped shirt, he kind of looked like Draco Malfoy except for not as pale and a little skinnier, came up behind me and asked me if I wanted to get raped. He asked because I was running so slow and was confused about where to go, and was in danger of getting caught. I put my arm through his arm and we ran together to hide. When we were hidden, and I don't remember where we hid, we laid down, with me on top of him. He started to blow lightly on my lips, and I kissed him. This happened 2 or 3 more times. I also figured out the young man's name was Caleb.

Then, I was back in the store, and the lights were back on. I then got attacked by a middle-aged man. He was going to rape me. I yelled out..."Help me! HELP!!" over and over again. A lot of people just stared at me, but someone came and got him off of me before he could do anything. I tried to find Caleb, but couldn't. I then realized that I didn't have my cellphone with me, I still just had the big silver one. My mom found me, and we searched for my phone. I picked up a couple of other phones that looked like mine, but when I looked at the front screen, they had different backgrounds. I finally found mine, which, in the dream, had a background of a world map on the screen.

EDIT: There was a shooting on my campus today, and we are now on lockdown. Sounds like my dream was kind of precognitive....

Dream - Lucid - AP

I was at some sort of carnival with Ryan. There were carnival rides everywhere, I especially remember some virtual reality ride that made it feel like you were riding through space. I also remember some ride that swung you around in these little pod things, and there were birds in all the seats.

I was walking with Ryan and we were talking. I got on the virtual reality ride, and this group of people, both guys and girls, who had it out for me for who knows what were on there too. They were just being mean to me the whole time we were on it, saying nasty things and such. I got off the ride, and walked down a path with Ryan. The group started throwing rocks at me, and saying more nasty things. I yelled back, getting quite angry at this point.

Then, I was at home, and one of the girls was in my room, trying to steal my stuff. She had a huge, black mesh bag with her. I caught her and told her she wasn't going to do that. I grabbed the bag from her. At one point, I was trying to hit her, but I couldn't hit, it felt like my fist was going through water. I thought about that for a second..."Why can't I hit? That happens in dreams."...when something distracted me from the thought.

Then, I was back at the carnival with Ryan, and the group of people still wasn't giving me a break. They were saying more nasty things to me, when Ryan cut in and started to defend me. They kept trying to make a point, but he would throw it back in their faces.

Dream - Lucid - Other

Last night before I went to bed, I took a Tylenol that had codeine in it, because I was in a lot of pain (thanks to mother nature). I should note that I very rarely take these, this is probably the 3rd or 4th time in my life that I've taken one. Let me tell you...I had a very intense experience. For now, I'm going to categorize it as "other" to separate it from the "dream" and "lucid" categories.

I was in sleep paralysis. I started to sit up slowly. I thought I was doing so in waking life. I thought it was my real body sitting up. But then, I seemed to float. I could still feel the sleep paralysis and heaviness of my body. I opened my heavy eyes, and looked in the mirror. I saw my body lying in bed in the reflection. I kept feeling this "tugging" feeling to go back to my body, and, after trying to resist the feeling, I inevitably returned.

After that, I was transitioning in and out of this state over and over again, every time feeling my body in sleep paralysis even though I wasn't "in" my body. Sometimes, I could manipulate the light in the room, like I could "turn" the lights on and off. One time, I pulled myself up out of my body, and was looking over my body in bed, and I saw myself blinking my eyes open and shut. This freaked me out, so I went back. I kept wanting to fly through the ceiling, to get out of my room each time, but the "tugging" sensation always brought me back.

I also sleep with a sleeping mask on, and in one of these experiences, I felt like it was covering my eyes and I couldn't see, so I kept taking off "layers" of the sleeping mask to improve my vision, which only worked slightly. Each time prior to this, though, I could feel the sleeping mask, but could see pretty clearly.

I also started trying to "roll out" of my body. I would feel myself turning over and over, and when I felt ready, I'd "roll out" of my body.

Each one of these experiences was pretty brief, with the first few being the longest. I finally decided to dream, and stop trying to project, or whatever was going on.

Then, I had a lucid dream, where I was in a different version of my house, trying to project like I had been doing previously. I dreamed I was sitting up in a chair, trying to exit my body. I remember my mom being in the room too. This kept happening over and over again. It was like I was trying to show my mom what I was doing.

Then, I was in the street of my dream neighborhood. It was nighttime out, and very vivid.

All the sudden, I was flying through space, and then, there was the moon, right in front of me, rotating, looking very different, like there was some sort of community built there. I thought about WakingNomad and his visits to the moon. I kept feeling like I was going to wake up or lose the dream, but I was determined to stay in it. Everything blacked out, and then I was on the moon in one of the buildings. I examined my hands to induce clarity. Two young men approached me, and asked if I knew where WakingNomad was. I told them no, I was actually looking for him myself. I turned one of the windows in the building into stained glass. I didn't have any particular pattern in mind, but what came out was a cross in front of an airplane. Then, I entered the room into which the window looked into, and there were those stained glass windows,with the crosses in front of the planes everywhere in the room.

At one point in this dream, I tried creating a portal by saying "Portal, appear!", as I usually do. I think I was already on the moon when this happened, and I either woke up or entered another dream upon doing this.

Dream - Lucid

I was in my room, lying in my bed. My room was dark, as the sun hadn't yet risen. I saw, through the crack in my closet door, someone climbing up through my closet. I had, in waking life, heard some noises as I was falling asleep, and I thought to myself in the dream "So that explains the weird noises..." I yelled at them, saying that my dad had a gun and I was going to go get it. I opened the closet door, and it was a young woman dressed in all black with short, dark brown hair, trying to climb up through some passage to the attic that was apparently in my closet. She was then with my father, and was apparently a patient of his. He just let her go, and I wasn't sure why, since she had broken into the house.

She had apparently stolen a Super Nintendo game, a Mario game to be exact. One of my friends was there with me now, and I turned the SNES on without the game in it. It turned on the system, but a lot of the aspects and words in the title screen were missing. I let it sit there for awhile, and saw a video of an old man and a younger woman, the woman holding a young Princess Peach. The old mad was molesting the young princess by sticking his fingers up her ass. It was disturbing and gross. He took off his pants and had a hard-on, but his hard-on quickly went flaccid. Even more disgusting. My friend was commenting on how gross it was, and I thought something alone the lines of "Oh those silly Japanese people and their games," haha.

Then, my mom had the game, and was watching the actual opening title screen in her office. I watched some of it with her, and it was pretty normal, though I can't remember any details.

~

I was watching some cartoon, I think it was The Fairly Odd Parents, and a couple of the boys in the cartoon were having some kind of competition. A grown man told Timmy that he had to sell a warm can of ginger ale in a certain amount of time. He was at a lemonade stand type thing, and poured the ginger ale into 2 cups, one much more full than the other. He was yelling "Ginger ale for sale!". There was a cooler behind him, and I think I somehow opened it, and inside were small bottles of rum, marked at $12.00 and $13.00. It was the grown man's liquor. Couldn't sell that, so he shut it. He then ran out of time to sell the ginger ale, and his friend won the competition.

Then, I saw some monkey bars on a playground, and from one angle they looked very high and treacherous, but when they were showed at another angle, they were just normal, safe-looking monkey bars. I also saw who I think was Cosmo from the cartoon flying over them.

Dream - Lucid

I know I had more dreams than this last night, but this is all I can recall.

I was with my mom and brother in the car. We were going to eat at Subway. We drove up to the Subway, and it looked closed. There was a note on the door, saying they were moving locations or something. We went in anyway. There were still people working there, and they took my mom's and brother's orders. When my turn came, the girl behind the counter was going very slow, taking her precious time. We were talking as I told her what I wanted on my sandwich. When I told her I wanted a few jalepenos, she said something along the lines of

"You've gotta watch out for those jalepenos!", and then something about the owner of the restaurant.

More people started to come into the Subway now. In fact, a lot of people were in there, waiting in line. The girl that was making my sandwich was holding up the line. By the time she finished and gave it to me, my brother and mom were almost done eating. I walked over to them and said "Finally..."

Then, the Subway had two sandwich bars and two registers. They had opened up the "other one" because it had gotten so busy.

Then, I started to see these cloud dragons, with heads like Chinese dragons, but clouds as bodies. Their cloud bodies were just a long trail of clouds, trailing behind them. They had no limbs. They were floating through the air of the restaurant.

Then, I was in a cloud world, full of beautiful colors like a sunrise. The cloud dragons were everywhere. I was walking along some path in the sky, when I came across this tiny monkey-looking creature that was about the size of a guinea pig. I held out my hand, and it climbed on, scratching me a little with his nails, but it wasn't that painful, just uncomfortable. He started to talk to me, though I can't remember what he was saying. As I walked along, I encountered more of these, and talked to each one. Then, I saw a mini stegasaurus-looking creature, about the size of the monkeys. I called to him. He looked very sleepy, but slowly made it onto my hand. He didn't have nails, so he didn't scratch me up like the monkeys. He talked to me as well, though I can't remember what he said.

Dream - Lucid

I was in my room, trying to conceal a baggie of weed somewhere in my closet. I remember Ryan and one other person, a female, being there. I put the weed in my pocket. Then, I was suddenly wearing a blue jean skirt, and the weed was in my underwear? I was trying to hide the fact that I had it. Something was wrong with the shower head, and I think Ryan was fixing it. It was squirting water in a weird direction.

Then, I was in my middle school lobby. It looked kind of similar to how I remember it. I was carrying this huge bag of stuff with me. I saw to my left a glassed-in office, and the assistant principal was talking to a girl in there. I dropped the bag, and lots of things fell out. I distinctly remember two containers of yogurt falling onto the floor. I dropped down on my hands and knees to pick everything up. I was still concealing the weed in my underwear, and hoped that it didn't fall out.

The assistant principal came out of the office, and said he needed to talk to me, because I wasn't supposed to have food in there or something. I thought he would catch me with the weed. I told him no, I wasn't going to talk to him, because I didn't even attend school there. He said "Oh, alright," and walked away. I joked about this experience to Ryan and the female.

~

I was working at Kroger again. I was supposed to be a cashier, but I was on the wrong side of the register. The store was relatively empty. I was ringing up a lady, and she wanted to know how many points was on her Kroger Plus card. The store's system was messed up to where it told everyone that they had zero points, and I explained this to her. Then, she started telling me that I needed to do this complicated process to get her the points. I had no idea what she was talking about, so I left the store and let someone else take care of her. I was apparently going with my dad and brother to pick up my mom from the airport, because she had just flown in from Oregon. I remember being in the car with my family, saying that I needed to get back to work. I was worried that I was going to lose my job since I had just kinda up and left.

I returned to the store, and no one was at any of the registers. It was empty, apparently closed for some maintenance issues. I went back to my register, and they had moved it. My purse and other belongings I had brought there were sitting by the register. Then, there was an announcement that the store was reopening. At some point, I "remembered" how cashiers had to carry their extremely heavy, bulky-looking registers to the back to count them down, as opposed to just taking the drawer out to count it.

I was then at a table at the front of the store, dealing a game of Texas Hold 'Em, but it was mixed with Rummy. It was "Poker Night" or something for the customers. Apparently, this was my job. I was confused about the rules of the game, but did it anyway. I saw a girl at the table behind me, shuffling her cards all fancy, doing all these tricks and stuff. Then, half her cards fell onto the floor. There was a male employee sitting with me at the table, and he looked like Dr. Venture from the Venture Brothers. He looked at me with a concerned look, and I explained to him why I had to leave the store earlier. He said something along the lines of
"I rarely hire female employees, but you're the first that's ever had a fainting problem."
I said in reply,
"What? I don't have a fainting problem. Did I faint earlier?", but he didn't respond.

Then, I was looking at prizes for the game, or something. It was all meat, and was in a glassed-in cooler. I "remembered" seeing people chop off big chunks of the meats to give as prizes. One was just lobster meat shaped into the form of a lobster, and it was wearing bondage clothes. It was titled "Awkward Lobster". (WTF)

Dream - Lucid

I slept pretty hard last night, so a lot of my recall is shot till I had some dreams/FAs/weird experiences this morning. I do remember a fragment from the night though.

I was at my grandparents' house, smoking weed with my grandpa. I wasn't supposed to do it again for some reason, but I found some extra that I didn't know I had, and hid it away. I also almost took a whole bunch of my grandpa's weed, but decided against it.

~

I was in my high school's band room, but I think it was supposed to be elementary school. There were kids standing by the door, lining up like they were ready to go somewhere. The teacher, my old 2nd grade teacher to be exact, was standing at a podium at the front of the room. It was very quiet, and I realized I was dreaming. I examined my hands, and counted 6 fingers on my right hand. I looked at one of the girls standing in the room, Chelsea, and I said

"Chelsea! I'm dreaming!"

She just looked at me and smiled. The look on her face and on the faces of all the other kids who were now staring at me, was one of pity, like I was crazy and they felt sorry for me, but they were going to humor me by smiling and keeping silent.

I examined my hands again to induce some clarity, but I felt myself losing the dream. I shouted "Increase vividness!", and I still felt like I was losing the dream, but a little more slowly now. I felt one of the chairs closest to me, and felt the hard plastic material it was made out of. I started to fly through the ceiling, when I woke up into an FA.

I woke up in my bed, and looked at my phone for the time. 8:30, right when I was supposed to get up. One of our cats, Pounce, walked into the room and jumped on my bed. I pet her a little, and she started to scratch herself. She drooled everywhere (she drools in waking life, haha). I said "Are you drooling, Pouncer?". Her drool got all over one of my green school notebooks that she was sitting on. I looked up, and there was a TV in front of me, with some weird episode of Family Guy where everyone looked like purple aliens.

After this, I really woke up. Tossed and turned a bit to get a little more sleep before I had to get up.

~

I woke up again, this time to my alarm going off. I looked at my phone. 8:30. I tried to turn the alarm off, which was barely going off in the first place, and ended up accidentally resetting it to go off. I finally got it turned off, and got up to get in the shower.

I entered the bathroom. It was very dim, and the sinks were missing. It was also bigger than my waking life bathroom. I went to turn on a light switch, but the wall around it was covered in these light brown moving spots. I went to the other side of the bathroom to try to use the other light switch, but it too was surrounded by these light brown moving spots. I wondered to myself if they were bugs. I repeated the process of going back and forth a couple of times, now trying to turn on a light to see if the spots really were bugs. I decided that they were, even though I never got to touch the light switches to see for sure. I thought to myself "I could go to another bathroom without these bugs in it if I were dreaming."

Then, I was in my bed, but it took me a minute to figure out where I was. There was a mirror behind me, but when I tried to sit up to look in it, I couldn't see my reflection. In fact, moving itself was a chore. I could barely keep my eyes open, they were very heavy. I was trying to look around, but it was so difficult to keep my eyes open, just looking around my room was a chore. I closed them for a minute, but forced them open again, because I knew I'd wake up if I closed them. I wondered if I was having an OBE. I tried to fly, but couldn't. My body felt very heavy. I fell onto the floor, still with my eyes struggling to stay open. I don't remember seeing my body on the bed, so I was then very unsure of what was really going on. I knew I wasn't awake. I then got up off the floor, put my feet on the edge of the bed, and was lying down in midair, with nothing supporting my weight but my feet on the edge of the bed.

Very strange experience...very strange indeed.

Dream - Lucid

I was at work, but I don't think I was on the clock. I saw Chris come in, and was trying to avoid him seeing me. I only saw his back, though. Never saw his face. He was standing in line wearing a black polo. I ran to the back, and there were dishes soaking in pink sanitizer in the first of the 3 big dish sinks. Usually they soak in the 3rd sink, though there were dishes also soaking in pink sanitizer in the 3rd sink as well. There was a guy working back there, setting many dishes in the 1st sink. I looked in the sink, and every dish that was in there was cracked and breaking. The guy didn't seem to notice. I started to freak out. Every time he'd pull one out, it would crumble and break. I went and got my boss. I told her she wasn't going to like what I was going to tell her. I showed her, and she said they had been having that problem all day. Apparently, the excess sanitizer was causing the dishes to break. I took some of the dishes out, or rather, pieces of dishes.

Then, Caitlin called me up and told me she wanted me to be maid of honor at her wedding. She was supposed to marry a guy we knew awhile back named Jarred. I was confused, because I thought Courtney was supposed to marry him (they dated back in high school). I told her I would be honored to do it. The ceremony was on Friday.

I then went back out into the dining room at work, and saw Chris's back again. He was sitting down, drinking a double shot of espresso. I went back into the back to avoid a confrontation.

I talked to Caitlin again, and she said she wasn't going to marry Jarred anymore, because he moved to New York with some girl, but they were still going to have a ceremony/party.

~

I was at school, taking (another) statistics class. Caitlin was in it with me. I commented on the teacher, and how I had had her before, and since she was very Chinese, it was very hard to understand her. The teacher started to teach and write on the white board. I looked at her again a little later, and she had turned into this very southern, red-headed woman I know that frequents the coffee shop. Still couldn't understand much of what she was saying.

Then, I was walking down the hall of what looked like my old middle school, trying to find my literature class. It was room 306, and I was in the 340's. I went down to the other side of the hallway, and found it. A girl I went to middle/high school with, Lauren, was there. She was commenting on some guy she was dating. I thought that was interesting, since she had been married and had a kid. I assumed they had split, and I didn't ask any questions. I also saw Nick, a guy I had briefly dated in middle school and had a quiet falling out with last year. He ignored me completely.

I entered the room, and the desks were pushed together in groups of 5 or so. There were few seats left, and Lauren invited me to sit with her. There wasn't a chair there, so I got one from another group and positioned it under the desk. The legs of the chair had to fit under it in a certain way, it was weird. The male professor started to lecture about some weird stuff, and drew a diagram of the inside of a mouth on the board. He was explaining how, to be good at literature, you had to talk a certain way and position your tongue a certain way. I copied the diagram, which had a weird, sparkly, optical illusion look to it on the board, and on my paper. I thought about the class, and how I had skipped it many times. I zoned out of the lecture.

Not gonna lie, I am so sick of dreaming about work and school. When I'm not there, I'm dreaming about it. Ugh. -_-

Dream - Lucid

I was giving birth to these silk worm type things...it really freaked me out. Chris was there, and he told me that they needed a dry place to make a nest, and they'd come out as caterpillars.

The worms were very tiny, and so were their nests. Chris showed me 3 of them on the back of some kind of weird chair. He warned me that they had to stay dry, or they would die. I examined the little white nests on the weird, blue chair. A man sat in the chair, and his head came down on the nests. He then saw them, and started splashing water on them. I was upset, because he was killing them! Only one of the 3 ended up hatching into a big, fuzzy caterpillar.

~

I remember being at a crowded bowling alley. I was on my way out, and I saw these two Pentecostal teenage girls sitting at a bench, talking shit about someone or something. I thought this was very contradictory to their faith, so I was a little upset. I sat down next to them. One of them looks at me and starts talking to me. I say something kinda bitchy to her, and she gets all offended. I get up and leave, feeling satisfied with myself.

I went out to the parking lot to leave. For some reason, I passed my car and started hopping on top of the cars down the row. Then, on my way back to my car, I noticed that I was holding someone else's keys. I thought they must be the Pentecostal girl's. I dreaded going back in there to return them. I also couldn't remember where my keys were. I decided they must be in the front seat of my car, which they were. So then I was holding both my keys and the other keys. I decided to just give the other keys to the front desk, which I went up and did.

~

EDIT: Changed my mind and decided to type out the dream. I think I have it a little more ordered in my mind now.

I was texting some guy that I knew long ago, in elementary school actually. I didn't want my old friend, also from elementary school, to find out, because they had dated. I don't even remember what I said, I think I asked him to hang out. I was sitting in my elementary school's cafeteria. My brother picks up my phone, and I have a text from "josh ___ " (can't remember what his last name was). He announces it to the table, but it's not the same guy I texted. It's actually my friend Jared from waking life. He tells me he can't hang out that night because he is busy managing his club, called "Crazy Girls".

I then "remember" seeing a picture of a huge group of my femals friends in bikini tops, sunglasses, and cowboy hats. The back row is skinny, attractive girls, and the front row is bigger, less attractive girls. I remember the back row having my friends Courtney and Caitlin in it, and then the front I remember Rachel and Laura. There were about 10-12 girls in all. I "remember" getting invited to go rollerblading with them the summer that picture was taken on this walking path in my town, but I turned down the invite. I saw them, in particular a girl I was acquainted with named Casey, and then Laura again, rollerblading down the path, and then getting "discovered" by Jared, and getting their photos taken. They were now famous, and performed at the "Crazy Girls" club, which was named after them.

Then, everything was like a video game. I was in my brother's room, and I signed up to be part of this random selection mini-game type thing. Everyone participating (and there were hundreds participating) was assigned a cartoon character's picture for their avatar. I was some sort of cat. I watched the process of the random selection, which was the pictures of the avatars flying by on a screen with certain ones lighting up. Mine was apparently chosen, and I was in a mini-game in my brother's room.

Everyone in the game was shrunken, and we were trying to avoid being eaten by these giant cats. I remember being face-to-face with one. I was not worried about the outcome though, since it was only a game.

Then, I was in a Starfox-type game, though it was just a cheap ripoff. I was shooting enemies, and I heard faulty, fake Starfox music in the background. Then, I got to the boss, and he was supposed to open these huge metal doors and fly out, but he refused to open the doors for some reason, so the game ended.

Dream - Lucid

I was in my old apartment, in the bathroom. I had a record player and some old CD's I was playing on it. I think I was trying to play an old Eiffel65 CD. Everything was dark, and the remote for my record player wasn't working. I wondered to myself what made me want to live alone again, since I had moved home because I didn't want to live alone. I tried the remote again, and it tried to make me enter a password on the digital screen of the player. I didn't know the password. I left the apartment, and tried to call my mom because I was lonely. I got some weird hold music and a weird pre-recorded hold message. I saw many people in beds as I was going down the stairs. I had to step over them, because it seemed like their beds were just kind of in the middle of nowhere. I remember one of the sleeping people being an old friend, Alex.

~

I was shopping for bargian Christmas decorations and ornaments for my mom. I found a few, but they were ones she had bought and returned because she ended up not liking them.

I was then in my house, looking at these things through the glass of one of our cupboards. I asked my mom some questions about them, asking if she had previously had this blue Christmas decoration that lit up. It had big, blue stars and a cartoonified Santa on top.

Then, my mom started trying to come on to me? (Fucking WEIRD), and asked me if I was a lesbian. I told her no, I was 100% straight. Then, she admittid she was a lesbian. WTF MOMENT. I was dumbfounded.

Then, I was at this scavenger hunt thing with a group of sorority girls, the leader of whom was an old friend I met when I lived in the dorms, Nicki. I was holding a cute little handbag with a swirly, multi-colored 70's pattern on it. A girl asked me how to open it, because she didn't know how. The prize for the scavenger hunt was gaining access to some secret sorority information, which I didn't care about. I was just doing the hunt to humor Nicki. We went around for awhile, finding hints and such, when I saw my mom and one of my female professors (who is very butch-looking in waking life) trying to attach some sort of tag onto a magent on a refrigerator, proclaiming that my mom was a lesbian. They were having trouble with it, and, with tears in my eyes, I helped my mom attach the tag to the fridge. It was like an ID tag, saying she was gay. I went into the next room, and my mom was laying on a couch. I was very upset with her. I yelled,
"You're not my mother!", and she didn't say anything.
I wasn't upset because she was gay, I was upset because she had hid it and tried to cover it up for so long. I was upset because she wasn't being true to herself. I asked her
"Why did you even marry dad?", to which I recieved no reply. She just gave me a solemn look.
Then, my dad appeared in place of my mom, saying that a divorce would be too expensive or something along those lines.

~

I was in some sort of videogame similar to Little Big Planet. I was skateboarding up some obstacles, and kept having to restart because I kept falling back to the bottom of the course. I got to this huge, blue slide, and took a carpet-type thing and slid down it. Someone I knew from high school, an obese guy, was trailing behind me, saying that he could go faster if he wasn't so big. I was flying down the slide, having a great time.

I then figured out that my cousin was going to Germany, and taking Belle, my kitten with her for a 2 week trip. She was going to take her as a carry-on on the airplane. I had apparently agreed to let her do this, because she didn't want to go alone. I had told her that Belle was very "travel-friendly" (she's not at all in waking life). I remembered telling her this when we were very young. I regretted this decision.

Then, I was in the car with my mom, going to our house. I was crying and very upset about her taking Belle, because apparently, she had come to get her already and was gone. I tried to deny ever letting my cousin take her, but my mom told me that I had already agreed to it. I told her I wanted to change my mind, and I wanted Belle back. Nothing worked. I then figured out that they probably wouldn't let the cat over there anyway for some reason.

I started to wake up, but my head screamed "I'M DREAMING! I'M DREAMING!", but I thought it was too late. I was then back in the dream, in my room. I examined my right hand. I counted 6 fingers. I flew around a little bit, frantically thinking about my dream guide. I went down into the kitchen, and wanted to find the young black man from my previous LD. I told him to appear in the broom closet. I opened the door, and he wasn't in there. I then yelled
"Dream Guide, APPEAR!"
Nothing happened.
I started trying to float up through the ceiling, thinking about how easily I could fly in LDs now. I broke the celing, and saw lots of insulation. I floated back down, examined my hands trying to prolong the dream, but I inevitably woke up.

~

I was at work, at another location we had apparently opened up. I wasn't working, just observing. It was all men who were working there, and all they were serving was cold coffee drinks and food. No hot coffee. I saw a nasty kitchen that was visible to the public through glass. I saw a little black girl, and she started telling me about how she didn't want a grilled cheese because it had so much stuff on it. I asked her what she got, and forgot what she said. She said something about her daddy buying her houses. I answered her and turned around, and a girl in line thought I was talking to her. I told her I wasn't.

Then, Andrew, a man who used to work at the shop in waking life, told me they could used my help. I said ok. I looked behind the glass and saw this nasty machine that squirted mayo on sandwiches. I gagged.

Then, I was apprently on break from work, and trying to clock back in. I saw a touch-screen computer station to clock in on, and entered my number to clock back in, and this little mechanical arm with a small arrow-point on the end emerged. It started to prod and poke my hand. It didn't hurt, but felt very uncomfortable. When it was done, it said on the screen "SPECIMEN RECOGNIZED".

Then, I was in the car at a stoplight of an intersection. My friend, Jase, was in the car in front of me. He was talking on the phone and smoking a cigarette. The car was red and submarine-like. He was trying to turn, but was very close to my car. I ignored him, when I felt someone hit my car. Apparently, Jase hadn't been paying much attention to the road. I looked up, and Jase was wrecked into my car and a jeep. The jeep was totaled. The guy inside, who was about our age, looked very annoyed. We all pulled over, and I put my emergency lights on. Jase apologized to me, and I looked at my front bumper where he had hit me, and there was nothing more than a scratch. I told him it was fine. I thought that I was probably going to be late for work, but I didn't care too much.

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.

~

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.

~

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 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.