dream fragment

sleep ~12am
wake ~6/630am
attempted to go back to sleep till 9, didn't work out - was 'awake' and annoyed by neighbors radio.

Visiting partners mother. she lives in a house with two other women. the two other women seem to be in a relationship. They help us leave - I don't think they wanted us there. we didn't wake up till 2pm - it was very warm (the warmth being what woke us up) - but our plane didn't take off till really late (after 10pm) so it was ok. we had to go back to the hotel to pack. apparently we hadn't intended on sleeping over there.
In the house upstairs - two beasties after me. largish - wolf or big cat or something. I think I am whatever they are. there is some sort of communication

running from something (might have been the beasties above)

memory of flight. how or where is forgotten. the outside seems most akin to void when I try to remember it.

((Woke with tool playing in my head - 'i barely remember, who or what came before...'))

((Kind of irritated. yeah, that nightmare was disturbing, but not worth loosing this much friggin recall. I know that if I had had more awareness in the moment that it could have been easily dealt with, and that I should get to the point where I CAN deal with nightmares. *sighs* I feel like i'm building up my recall from scratch again. oh well - bit by bit))

Its amazing what a few days of willfully ignoring your dreams can do for long term recall.
I've been going through the buffy series again and all I really remember from the bulk of the dreams last night was that they were about buffy and the characters on the show. As
I was waking up I had a few more snippets, but a week ago that same state of sleep/wake would have pulled a few paragraphs - vivid remembrances. In any case, from my paper DJ:

Buffy. coffee shop closed. world covered with snow, most dreamscape and not characters ((was trying to say that in the dream i was making note especially of the world around me, and that there was little if any focus on people walking around)) spike trying to skate with buffy and angel (he had no shirt/pants, but I couldn't see below the waist anyway). My mind was very busy creating the last 30 min or so. most still faded before i got to the notebook. ((entered later))There were cigarettes smoked at some point.

12-1 sleep
9 wake
All these children had become possessed or cursed or something. They were coming after us. Their touch evoked extreme fear - I was screaming at several points in the dream. Ran up stairs and barricaded the children outside. There were a lot of people in here. They didn't quite believe me, so wound up pilling the barrier (barricaded door) down and experiencing the fear themselves.

there were two kittens - one orange one that looked like a cat i used to have (sammy). He got loose and I freaked out. Eventually got him back but he was a little more brown than orange. mostly dirt, but some a natural darkening of his fur as he grew

Had climbed up to the top of this really tall mountain. There was a lot of fog around the edges, so must have been really high up. Was there in a largish group of people (hiking or something I guess). The view was beautiful. The mountain was a giant world tree - the branches running off into the distance. I almost fell once. I was overcome with fear at the edge of a drop (we were really, really high up. Couldn't see anything below us - just a kind of foggy distance).

there was an earlier dream with the tag 'captivity', but its gone now.

1.there was something to do with bdsm.. like a party or maybe just someone talking about it. ((was a non-rem dream - in the first 3 hours of sleep - very short. it was linking from last nights party.))
2.i stole/borrowed a usps truck because i was late for something. later obama was there and i was in trouble.
3.((later in the night/morning, but probably connected to #2 anyway)) i was being questioned for the numbers to a safe. i was in trouble for something, but not exactly 'in custody'.
((f'ing neighbor had her radio up REALLY loud - pissing me off and making me less than inclined to focus on my dreams))