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17/1/10
Looking to get back into things in the holidays.

This was the first lick of lucidity I've had this year; it wasn't planned.

I had been doing something in the building near the roadway of my old primary school. I remember thinking I it was boring and stepped outside onto the concrete. It was night but the sky was a weird dusty-brown cross purple swirl; like a twilight desert in the sky. Not knowing what I wanted I saw it and decided I would fly off to somewhere more interesting. Sometimes this sort of spontaneous flying away fails on me, but this time it worked fine, as I gained height however I became more aware of RL and while not wanting to wake still woke up.

It has motivated me to get back into my dream journaling.

20/10/09
Rating - 3/5
Classic Robot Wars
A good team of transformer robots/technoman suited men were battling each other, medieval style. The fight started out on horses that seriously should not have been able to support that much metal, but nevertheless got some good speeds going. The machines would charge each other and take swings at each other as they past in a duel like fashion.
The leader of the robots I affiliated with eventually jumped to the his feet and performed a charging roll into the air, ripping his opponent in half with a razor blade/sword attached to his arm.
Here everything started becoming more modern and about a dozen both good and bad robots poured out of nowhere to start brawling with each other. The leader was stacked 3 vs 1 but tanked them all hardcore and killed them all.
Pushing forward through the grassy battlefield, big flaming projectiles were flying into the melee from what initially appeared to be a catapult. The evil robots were soon dispatched of but this artillery kept firing and was becoming increasingly accurate and powerful.
Rushing to stop it, the leader and his second in command discovered a huge yellow and silver robot back over the hillside. It stood easily 6 times their height; like something from an Armored Core game. It continued to fire down at the two machine-men but was slow to reload and seemed incapable of movement. It also didn't seem concerned for its own safety as the two smaller mechs climbed it and tried to hack pieces off of it.
Upon reaching the torso area, they found an access hatch/switch which they activated. It opened the whole chest cavity and inside was another, normal sized unpolished silver robot. It carried some controls that obviously controlled the big yellow machine. He tried to escape but was easily cut down.
The controls to the giant AC were destroyed deliberately and it was dismantled.

19/10/09
Rating - 4/5
The Next Techno Man
Hundreds of thousands of humans were working in an insanely massive subterranean cave doing some kind of mining/excavation. All of the people I saw were women, probably because their huge alien overlords wanted them segregated; there was some taboo on human breeding. In the centre of the whole cavern that seemed to drop down endlessly into the earth spiraled the mother of all aliens. It was in complete control over all other life on the planet and cared not for the life of its human slaves.
All of the people I saw up close were women that wore a pink and blue tightly fitting uniform. At some point here everything turned into old anime styling visually.
The main character that I was following had apparently been hiding a baby she had had and was about to get found out for it. She asked her best friend to take the baby boy and escape with him to a safe location. As soon as the baby was out of sight, the huge overlord alien was informed of the child's existence and began somehow yelling at everyone that "Whoever has done this will be found and dealt with!" which pretty much meant they were killed. It extended an arm-like tentacle out toward random miners and as it turned to pass over the women who was to blame it grabbed her. The tentacle split and sprouted out numerous other tentacles that clung to her and also kept searching around the cave walls and tunnels behind her.
Knowing it had found the right women, the alien didn't kill her immediately but instead began crushing her alive, slowly, so that she would tell it where the baby had gone.
I don't think so told it, she just let herself die for the child's sake.
The child had to escape for there to be any hope for the other humans and the mother somehow knew this through an ancient prophecy. He would eventually return to his birthplace and save his family/humans from their enslavement.

Been sleeping really well lately and my dream count, vividness and recall are all improving as a result.

Unfortunately I didn't have time to get anything down this morning so most was lost.

9/10/09
Frag
Walking through a mildly altered version of the botanic gardens I had some kind of dream memory that it was Monday. That, combined with the fact that I did not remember travelling to where I was now (there was a lot of other dreams before this) made me question my surroundings.
I immediately knew it was a dream. I didn't feel in great control and I haven't gone lucid in a while now so I wanted to do something fun before I lost it altogether. I jumped off a rock and began flying in low over the rockflowing creek next to the path. My instability in the dream was making an unnatural darkness descend but I didn't mind. I decided I wanted some supernatural fun while I could and brought out my favourite dream power, lightning.
I was casually letting electricity ripple and spark out of my left hand as I cruised along through the air. I was letting it snap to the water below me as I flew and loved the contrasting electric blue glow in the darkness (3rd person view).
Really not wanting to let it go so early I landed and went to RC because I promise myself that every time I get lucid I will attempt to ground myself as much as possible in order to maintain control. The finger through the palm worked exactly as it does and the familiar (but long missed) sensation of my index finger in my palm came back to me.
The unnatural darkness unfortunately was diminishing my vision and I must have begun to wake up. I had the great idea of opening my dream eyes properly which pretty much involved me opening my RL eyes and waking up completely.
Oh well, there wasn't much left in the dream anyway.

4/10/09
Waiting for my school bus at my regular spot I was with at least one other friend. In front of us at the roadside were three girls from a different school. A couple of buses came passed which was weird because normally its just ours. When it came we briefly checked with the driver that it wasn't ours and went back to relaxing on the wall we had been sitting on.
At some point later I was on the bus and it was pretty full. I was moving up and down it talking to people and everything was really fun and friendly. At an intersection the bus stopped and I was standing next to S. I turned to her and told her that I had had a dream about her last night (see above; although here my memory of it was different) and she said how cool that was. She was in a really bubbly mood and gave me a really nice, friendly hug.

3/10/09
Rating - 2/5
Reload that Thought
At my primary school's hall/stage area with the extra stage area setup to give us performers the most room possible while we practiced for our Rocka performance. Everyone had been on holidays for a while and really needed to put in a few good hours to get back into sync and up to scratch to perform in a few days time.
I had a unique role at the beginning which wasn't hard or very long but I really needed to nail it. Unfortunately my partner wasn't around and I couldn't, for the life of me, remember the movements. I started to freak out that I would screw it all up.
I knew a couple of the moves though so I went out the back stage entrance door to practice outside. Outside appeared to be a sort of park area with wooden benches and tables scattered around the grassy area. There were also other school buildings that are unfamiliar to me lining the area snugly.
N was with a bunch of other girls who were sitting around, practicing spins and some other Spanish moves. This encouraged me to do my own practice and not bother about others watching me because I knew I could do it all properly.
In going outside I pulled out a black, really sleek, sliding pocket computer because I wanted to be able to play the music track I was practicing for.
I told it to copy the files off another remote computer but when it got to playing it only had one of the other tracks. L was part of a small group of us performers which also included S and T and backstage crew and she told me to reload some piece of hardware. I did and all the tracks loaded perfectly.
I knew I should have done some training but I also wanted to hangout with this group of friends in the sun while we could, so I compromised to listen to the music while we hung around (better than nothing).

23/8/09
Rating - 4/5
Sucked In

On a foreign planet human forces had conquered an alien race. Enslaving them through the capture and threatening of the queen mind, the humans felt invincible. A few months into their rule, the humans had established a calmer control over the aliens as the queen mind seemed to have become resigned to the fact that the humans had won.

Walking through a subterrainien cave, the commanding officer of the human forces was talking to the queen about further exploration of the planet. There were large parts of the planet, including the immediate area, which the humans hadn't explored because the caves were designed for alien movement. The queen being a huge pulsing brain-like organism explained that she maintained control through the use of a strict hierarchical system of lower-order thinking 'male' brains.
The commander demanded an explanation as to why he was not informed of this before and put one of the queen's bobbing, membranous brain sacks into a head/brain lock with his bulging arms. Displeased but still following orders, the queen summoned one of the lower-order brains.
It rose insanely fast out of a huge hole in the cave floor and began making oozing and sucking noises with lots of tentacles. The humans tried to capture this brain as well but as the second-in-command for the humans climbed onto the 'male' brain's body, the queen burst open with hundreds of tentacles, filling the entire cave in a second and sucking up the other brain. She practically ate the other brain and in doing so, consumed the human on top of it.
Then just as quickly she returned to her passive size (about twice as high as an adult human and about 8 wide + feeling tentacles as leg like movers). The hole in the cave floor was empty, sucked clean. The second-in-command officer had completely vanished as well.
Feeling rather pleased with herself, the queen confidently summoned another 'male' brain. She announced that it would take the last one's place in the order of control. Turning, the queen obvserved as the human officers, including the commander, backed away from the queen slowly.
The humans had not realized just how shallow into the planet their forces were. The aliens would rise.

20/8/09
I was in the final round of an Unreal Tournament. The last mission was an assault on this huge satellitey space station from the earth. We had to climb up and get to the top to steal/sabotage this huge electric blue power core. Using a complicated yet very fun system of jump pads I systematically worked my way up my section of the instilation. No one else was around because we all had very different and very specific jobs. Mine was to take the initial few levels of the open-sided complex and then find a set of extra weapons for everyone.
Out on the wings in obscure places were these weapon caches but being guarded by big laser turrets I couldn't get through to them. One of the other team members had completed his job which was to hack the lower regions security network. This him to cover me with big red lasers from above as I recovered the weaponry.
The mission in the end was a success.

3/8/09
Something about K or L setting T's arm on fire. It was a cool looking trick where they had it burn without actually hurting him but since they don't actually like him that much they weren't all that careful about it. He freaked out and got a little burnt.

A priest/religious figure head was speaking to a group of people and I was sitting at the back. He was an excellent speaker and I remember thinking he really engaged the young audience well. He even demonstrated a point by giving the birdie, which I thought I would never see but he was not nearly as conservative as I had expected.

2/8/09
Frag
I was driving to school but had left really late. By the time I arrived I had missed half my classes and rather than going to the other half, I decided to get some food from the cafeteria. There were a few others around talking casually. I bought a blue (bubblegum?) Fanta slushy and filled it up myself from behind a counter.
Later on I was still hanging around the area but it was dark outside now and more people were arriving. I asked a Mr C what I had missed in English today and he gave a vague answer that it was nothing important. A person had just gotten another Fanta slushy and started yelling that they had won! They had won a trip for themselves and one friend to go overseas on a safari. It seemed like as good a time as any to try my own luck, so I went and bought another. This time though there was this bald asian guy behind the counter and he made me give him the cup to fill up. When he gave it back to me he said that I should turn up to the awards giving event for all the winners "Just in case" which meant I had won but he wasn't allowed to say it outright.
I kept re-reading this number code on the side of my cup which was about 10 digits long. Someone eventually called out my numbers and I got so excited as he got to the last three numbers because I knew I was going to win from what the guy had said earlier.

25/7/09
Frag
I was part of a work team that was reconstructing parts of a pure urban area; it was just buildings, paths and tunnels everywhere. The dream was primarily from a top down, map-like view of the city. The team I was leading had a certain section to change in order for the tour de france riders to get through. Just as they were about to arrive we quickly shifted walls and buildings to make a clear pathway for them through the city. It had to run like clockwork so as to not disrupt the city's workings for too long.
We got everything moved perfectly and the timing was excellent. As the riders came along, these coloured train carriages joined in the race. They had brilliant timing too as they slotted inbetween the riders perfectly. They came out of some of the tunnels and railways between buildings and onto the raceway. They couldn't do the whole race because it was not possible to move all the carriages that far but for our sector of city they all passed through, even where there were no rails.
Everyone got lazy as the racers came through and lounged around in a further off city sector that we created just to watch them all below us.
Eventually everyone has passed and we reconstructed the city again back the way it was; a big hodge podge of urban sprawl.

22/6/09
I arrived first at a new apartment complex that had been constructed for a whole bunch of new students to live on our new campus. I was somehow in charge of making sure everyone arrived and found a place for themselves in this large building. While I waited for people to begin arriving I fiddled with a light switch on the wall which had a good dozen switches, all for different levels and rooms of the building. I didn't leave any on since it was the middle of the day and while the rooms were kinda dark, it was also nice and cool too.
As people arrived I greeted them and soon the common room began to fill up. We had a very large mess/meeting table with chairs all the way around. The room also had white-boards on several walls. After a lot of people had arrived and everyone was chatting, being casual. Dr Cox (Scrubs) came in, who I greet warmly and he also gave a fairly friendly response. He was wearing his usual white lab coat and quickly checked a few things off on a clipboard as he walked through a few rooms.
Upon his arrival, students began to take seats at the table and Dr Cox gave us our first lecture, I can only assume on something in the field of medicine.

19/6/09
Moonlight Mayhem
In a forest village, I was a young boy that was caught up in an attack by thousands of these blue/white teddy-bear/RL bear hybrids that were only about 30cm tall. With me was my parallel in female form, a young girl who I was trying to lead to safety with me. Initially there were only a few groups and lone bear attackers where we could fight a few off and then escape because they only had little legs.
Somewhere along the way out of the village the girl and I found a very small child that we knew was vital/essential to the survival of everyone (the dream plot line). He was hardly more than a baby so we took turns carrying him as we ran deeper into the forest. As we progressed, the trees became larger but further spread apart. Everything was bathed in blue moonlight as it defused through the loose canopy above. With the added room to move, the evil bears grew in numbers and spread out to cover everything behind us.
The surging bears gained speed as their mass grew and I soon realized we wouldn't be able to out run them much longer. At a natural rock/shrub curve in our path I jumped up ontop of a huge tree branch and we hid behind the trunk. The girl frantically points to the ground because we had accidentally left the child behind lying on the grass. With no thinking to my own safety, I jumped from the tree, picked up the child on the fly to my chest and dove into the bush. I ended up rolling down a leaf littered dry creek bed. Disoriented by the spinning, I had momentarily escaped the bears, but the moonlight began to make things seem very eerie and frightening now that I was apart from the girl.

14/6/09
Rating 3/5
Spanish with Style
At school in the hall for a performance rehearsal. Everyone in the Spanish scene needed a colored bandanna but rather than having 100 of them, people were painting them across their foreheads. 'Sharpie' (camp leader once) had the purple paint which I was supposed to use for myself. He was being an ass and not letting people (me) use it. As I continued to get fed up with his childish attitude he said, "Drop your ears last" and then he would give me the paint.
Ignoring his comment I took the paint and painted my bandanna on (from an external POV).
Once we began the opening scene everyone was in their Spanish red/grey/black outfits and the bandannas had disappeared. Because we were beginning from the small stage I didn't have enough time to get out and down to the floor for the start of the dance set so I just jumped down, ignoring the stairs.
The dance didn't go anything like what it does in RL. It involved a lot of crouching and jumping. Then at the end of the set the room went dark and like a half ring across the front floor/stage area were half a dozen flaming lanterns and people were doing all this crazy break-dancing out the front of the group. I wanted to join in the fun and jumped into a one-handed handstand to do some handhops. Falling back down to the floor afterwards I spun out with a few more ground moves and ended with a back flip on the spot.
As the hall continued to grow darker, us Spanish dancers died and began to leave the stage (as it goes in RL). Above me on the stage, as I stepped back up, was L playing dead/injured. It wasn't my job to carry her off but I picked her up anyway since she is nice and light. Moving out into the back room I got to a doorway and A was sitting there on a chair being very inconvenient but deliberately so as a way to make me hold L some more. It was all very friendly.
In a back room since we had finished for the rehearsal E was there with A and some others. She said she had "hurt" her bus pass as it had been bent over one half. It was a yellow text one.

20/5/09
Around 'school' except it was different and had lots of construction areas set up. Chainlink fences blocked off large sections of dirt and rubble that was just messy space. Going to assembly, the school was sitting infront of one of these areas. Mr R was on assembly and asked who had lost their pokemon gameboy, which looked exactly like the one S has been playing at school in RL. Looking around I saw her and N nudge each other and then he got up to fetch it. A general murmer about such old school pokemon began to arise but Mr R mad some negative comment about it. This was received with everyone booing loudly at his rather simple joke.
Around here, I was distracted from the front by this old bag of a teacher that was patrolling around. She had this annoying, I'm-higher-than-everyone air to her as she walked. Watching her, she came up to me directly and told me to go somewhere or that I was in trouble for something which was absolute crap since I had been sitting down for the last 10 minutes or so and couldn't have possibly done anything. Finally seeing the flaw in her logic she grudgingly let me off but had to make it seem like she was doing me a favor which just really pissed me off. Trying to ignore her now and turning to the front again she patted me on the head saying something about how unappreciative I was. I pushed her hand off without looking at her and continued to try to ignore her. However that freakin' persistent witch started ruffling my hair rather hard and wouldn't stop. To which I stood up and yelled at her in a huge voice that everyone could hear, "Stop touching me you cow!", glared at her, then sat back down like nothing had happened. Everyone was obviously against her as well and getting the message she finally left; rather quickly as well.