1) Me and my friend Dan. S were waiting at the bus-stop that I always wait at to go to college. I think we were with our other friends Tom and Matt.B, but i'm not sure. It was very sunny, and Dan was showing us his revolutionary, new idea of eating Peanut butter and Jelly. All he did was spread a bit of Peanut Butter onto a regular knife that I was holding, and then proceeded by putting some jam on it. I then ate it off of the knife, and it tasted pretty good - no better than eating it in a sandwich though. Me and the others just let him have his fun and agreed that it was a good idea, although we weren't convinced We then started walking up the hill to another bus stop. 2) Me, Tom, Will, Matt.C and some others were at an open evening at our college. We were in a fairly big hall that I had never seen before. It was very dark inside, with no lights on and only the some faint street lamps outside making it able to see people. Everyone's parents were there two, but we wanted to stay together, so they were all separate. I looked to the far back left, and saw my Dad stood on his own, trying to look over the large crowd of people building up in the hall. Everyone was stood up, talking and waiting for something to happen. There was music in the background playing popular radio songs. It was a similar atmosphere to waiting for a band to come on at a gig...except it was a parents evening Eventually, some teenage girls started doing some sort of dance on stage. There was about 15 of them, and they were split into blocks, moving together to create shapes. There were exclusively black girls in the middle of the rectangular shape, which I thought was a bit racist. 3) IRL, there's a boy who walks around my College dressed as a pirate and in this dream stem, my friend Chelsea called him a "fucking hipster". 4) A kid who I used to play football with when I was younger who left my secondary school in year 8 called Harry.W's family bought the Tower of London as a family home. I think it was for his Dad's business, but Harry was just living there for the fun. His bedroom was on the top floor of the tower. I'm fairly sure the building was the Tower of London, however it was much more modern - more like the Empire State Building, but definitely in London. In this room, he had access to the cameras that take souvenir photos that you can buy. Because of this, he regularly had friends round - some of which were my friends, like Latham.C, Luke.Y, Matt.S etc. When they were round, he'd take a lot of these pictures and put them all on facebook. His profile picture was him with the bedroom window view of London in the background. It was cloudy and fairly dark outside, and the dream was shown through a series of snapshots of novelty pictures.
Last night, I cleared my mind on my dream journal in order to get back into my good recall. I hate great dreams 1) I was in my bedroom, and it there was no lights on. It was mid morning - around 9am - and it was raining fairly heavily outside. Me and my friends Matt.B , Tom and Will had some sort of plans, but I have no idea what they were - whatever it was, we were very frightened to go outside as it was raining. I remember feeling quite confused, as it really wasn't raining that much, and whatever this day out was, it was based indoors, therefore rain shouldn't have been a problem. I was playing on my synthesizers, specifically my Juno 6 and my EMX-1. However, the Juno was very small - a two octave keyboard at maximum. It was also looking very old and battered. In addition, I seem to remember there being an analog drum machine, but my EMX isn't analog, so I don't know where that came from... I was playing around on the lowest keys, along with some drum sounds, but I was struggling to get the right sound. At this point, Will called me, informing me that apparently Tom had slept in and had only just woken up - we were supposed to be leaving very shortly. I also remember finding it quite funny, as I told everyone I was ready but really I wasn't properly, and was just engrossed in my synths. Halfway through me and Will's phonecall, my Parents called, despite being only in the living room. I think it was my Mum on the phone, but she was speaking for the pair of them. They wanted to know what our plans were, when I was leaving, and if I was going to let the rain call off the trip. During these calls, I was still quietly playing with the keyboard. All of a sudden, I was informed by Matt.B that his parents would be happy to give us a lift. I told my parents this on the phone (however I'm pretty sure I hanged up to talk to Matt...), and they seemed okay with this, but they started to worry and ask questions as for some strange reason they thought Matt would be driving us with his Dad/Mum in the passenger seat. I told him this wouldn't happen. I remember feeling really excited at the thought of us 4 going on a road trip together, with the sun blazing, music pumping with all the windows open. 2) I was on Facebook, and there was a post on EITHER Amy or Matt.B's wall...but I cannot remember whos. It read something along the lines of "There should be a homophobic hairdresser xx". If it was on Amy's wall, I don't think it was meant to be, and I think I meant to say either "there SHOULDN'T be homophobic hairdressers" or "there SHOULD be a homosexual hairdresser"...weird. Either way, Amy 'liked' the post. 3) I was on Summer Camp with explorer scouts in what looked like Cornwall. Amy got upset about something, and ran away from the site. She'd ran away before IRL, but this time she LITERALLY ran away - I had to chase her. I was with a strange looking new best-friend of hers called Bryn. She was skinny, average height, with black short hair that swept neatly around her head like the "emo" hairstyle. Bryn and I tried to calm her down, but she just kept on running. We chased her for a while until she got to a footpath style, at which I figured she'd stop. However, she continued to run across a long field towards a mountain. Before we got in sight of the mountain, Amy tripped over and landed face first in a sloppy puddle of mud, luckily only getting the tips of her hair muddy. At this point, me and Bryn stopped as we figured she'd be upset and eventually sit down and break down crying. However, she continued running! The route was gorgeous - the kind of place I would love to visit in a lucid dream. It was quite cloudy, but the sun was bright and was shining brightly through. The field had a well kept and slightly bendy path down the middle, with huge amount of yellow corn on each side. The mountain reminded me of the big stormy mountain on Zelda: Ocarina of Time I think I eventually, I got angry and walked back to the campsite. Suddenly, I was in the top floor of a double decker bus, with the interior set out like a church - the seats being pews. Me and my college friends were engaging in the usual banter, when someone announced cautiously that Amy had returned and was about to get on the bus. Amy and I have always had a bit of silly banter, but I took it too far and thought it'd be funny to put a white sheet of cloth with the words "Fat Asian with holes in her nose" on the side of the bus around the middle. She entered the bus, happily walking along, and she walked past the sign, then did a double take. Everyone burst out laughing, and she looked humorously annoyed and had a laugh. I then did a kind of "ooh, come here you " thing, inviting her over, grabbing her by the waist and gently pulling her towards me. She didn't resist, and came and had a cuddle next to me on the bus seat, which for some reason was facing the opposite direction to all the others. She then informed me that she ran to the top of the mountain at which there was a town. She ended up in a charity shop, where they comforted her We were suddenly sat on a clearing up a steep but small hill, next to the Beach in Port Isaac from Doc Martin. Me, Amy, her friends in her yeargroup, Charlie and some others were sat eating lunch. I was eating an extortionate amount of Nachos in a pizza box. Everyone was happy, and it was the same weather still - sunny with some cloud cover. Suddenly, Richard, Matt.C and some others walked down the hill and bumped into us, exclaiming to Charlie, "Oh look, it's the Weed organizer!!!" Everyone laughed. Suddenly, an explorer in Amy's year popped out of a bush to the left of me, telling me that Dan. P, my leader, had been shouting my name at the beach for about an hour. I didn't worry, and eventually Dan came up the hill to where we were say and cheerfully greeted us. He looked like he'd put on a lot of weight. 4) My family, some friends and I were in a cottage in Cornwall still. It was fairly dark with no lights, and cloudy outside, but it felt warm and cosy somehow. Me and my mates (who I cannot remember the names of) were planning on making a surprise dinner for my dad - a huge dixie full of some sort of gravy meal - with frog in the name. It was like toad in the hole, but different. Nicola went down the shop and bought about 10 different cans of food for the meal, and I was really surprised and respectful that she helped us out. However, something happened just before we were planning on making the meal that really made him angry with us, and suddenly the prank seemed like a very bad idea. I saw Nicola in the background with the cans, struggling to think of what to do with them.
Right, i've had enough of all this "off and on" dreaming - i'm getting back into it, NOW. My standard procedure when I want to get back into dreaming is to clear my mind of recent dreams. So, here are a few dream stems I remember... 1) I was in a pick 'n' pix section of some sort of shop - I think it was Woolworths. It was in the top left corner of the building. Sweets were in the regular see through boxes lined against the far wall and in the middle of the section also. I was with a man and someone else, who I cannot remember. The man, presumably my dad, looked like a Cub Scout leader I used to help out. The room was well lit. I was digging out massive amount of sweets and piling them into the pick 'n' mix bag - one main item i remember included in the bag was a dark-green, large gummy worm at the tom of the bag. For some reason, I didn't think this would result in a very expensive sweet session - I thought it'd total at around £3. But when it was weighed, the scales told me it'd cost £13 and so many pennies. As I was weighing them, someone who I was with said "I'd be surprised if it costed anymore than £10". When I saw the real price, I returned to the boxes to put the green snake and other items back to get it back under £10. 2) I was out and about with my girlfriend Amy. I think we were at some sort of party, but I really can't remember much at all. 3) My friend Chloe, her boyfriend and myself were in a newsagents in a Northern state in America. It was very sunny outside and it was early evening - about 6pm, around sunset. We were about to go to a video shooting for a music video (this was genuinely happening IRL, but not in America ) and we decided to stock up on vodka and Milky Bars for the party atmosphere XD Me and Chloe aren't old enough to buy alcohol, so Laurence who has fake I.D was doing that. He went up to the counter whilst Chloe and I were hiding a couple of metres back in the chocolate section, pretending to look normal looking for milky bars. Once Laurence had successfully bought the booze, Chloe decided to leave as she was getting worried about the police catching us. However, I really wanted my milky bar (it was one of the large bars), so I placed it on the counter in a flustered hurry. I then got worried also and dropped my money on the stool that my chocolate had been taken for, leaving more money than the Milky Bar was worth. I got scared, left the chocolate and tried to pick the money up, but the money was made up of 50p coins that were hard to pick up off of the flat surface, so I ended up making a run for it