Lucid-Wannabe's Dream Journal

Notable day substances: No caffeine (decaf coffee, blech)

I woke up for WBTB after about 4 hrs of sleep and then stayed up for about 25m. Getting back to sleep was a little slow.


Dream 1 - Recalled when waking up to WBTB

Tami and Zoë are studying for upcoming finals or something. Zoë is really struggling with something so I offer her some programming to help. It’s just one line of python code that is totally irrelevant to what she’s doing, something similar to:

Study = pd.read_csv(‘data/finals.csv’)

She doesn’t really understand, so I mention that she doesn’t really have to know what it does but just to apply it whenever she’s stuck



Dream 2 - Recalled when waking up to WBTB

I’m in an area that can be best described as where the orcs were working underground in Lord of the Rings. Where there’s lots of fire and mud, gears and machines and scaffolding.

I’m on one of the scaffolds and there is a huge machine in front of me, gears whirring - it’s covered in a thick black oil lubricant which is being splattered everywhere from the mechanical parts moving.

The center of the largest gear is eye level to me, it has a rectangular aperture that begins to slowly open - revealing its interior.

But instead of gears and fire and whatever would be expected to be going on inside, it revealed a view of the inside of a Target/Walmart sort of store. The contrast from my dirty, glowing environment to the clean fluorescent lit view of the store was shocking. The rectangular aperture grew until it was just large enough for me to climb through, which I did.



I was now inside the store and it wasn’t the same as a normal superstore. There were cubicles here and there with people working in them and there were no shoppers. I ‘knew’ that this wasn’t a store for customers but for employees to work, even though there was merchandise everywhere.


So now I’m sneaking through this place, feeling like I don’t belong here. I run into RacheL and Kevin who are casually walking through one of the main paths. RacheL is happy and in a carefree mood while Kevin seems kind of moody, we seem to talk for a moment.

I run into RacheL and Kevin who are walking through the store. RacheL is happy and in a carefree mood but Kevin is reserved and broody. We are talking and walking together now.

We end up finding this long winding 'road' that transcends the store in an upward spiral*. There is no more ceiling, it's night time and the stars speckle the sky. We continue to walk up it.

I feel kind of happy and free, though I feel nostalgic towards RacheL. I felt melancholy. **



Dream 3 - Recalled when waking up to WBTB

Possibly a continuation of the last dream, I'm now in a Jeep with either Bugsy or Bill driving. I feel like Tami/Zoë/RacheL may be there too.

I'm simultaneously in this car yet also have full vision of a game I'm playing with James. It's like a top down sort of 2D shooter style game.

The game is high stakes, something bad would happen to us if we lost and something good if we won.

At one point there are so many enemies around us I mention to James we should switch to area of effect attacks. We seem to be doing pretty well.

Simultaneously, in the Jeep Bugsy/Bill is drifting around corners and has no clue what he's doing.




Dream 4

James, Elisabeth and I are standing on small floating icebergs in the ocean. The beach is nearby behind us and it looks like we hopped from tiny iceberg to iceberg to where we are now.

Elisabeth is out the farthest on a massive iceberg, James is hopping his way over to her and I'm behind him.

I'm thinking just how bad it would be if he slipped and fell in the water, which happens on his next jump.

He swims over to Elisabeth and she pulls him out. I shout over to him saying we have to get out of here ASAP, the exposure is going to kill him. James tried to jump back onto the previous spot he was on but his coordination is all messed up from how cold he is and he ends up back in the water.

I'm thinking he's almost certainly going to die here. I look around for options and notice there's somehow a chain link fence behind me. It goes all the way back to the shore.

I grab it and shake it to feel how sturdy it is, feels pretty firm. Then I see a really long wooden rod leaning against it. It's very long and one end is resting on the seafloor.

James is still trying to get out of the water, I tell him to just swim to me instead which he does.

I get him to hold onto the iceberg I'm on somehow and then use the rod to push us back to shore pretty fast.

Elisabeth hopped back and was with us rather quick and then we all went to my car.

I asked James just how cold the ocean felt when he fell in but he was shaking too violently to answer, I guess that answers that!


*Reminiscent of my upward spiral platform dream in the void recently.
**This is all most likely from some news I heard from RacheL the other day.