obfusc8

23/1/2016 (fri)

Before 5am
Fragments
-In bed trying to sleep. AB shifting around. AB leaves and then comes back.
-Trying to look at a forum on my phone. There is music playing in the background. Loads of new posts. One with a map and some kind of coloured board with markers on it. A game?

5.30-7am
Medium LD 346 "Catch the Waves"
I am on holiday on a tour, trying to pack a bag. The room is filled with mess. Nearby someone has a bag of sandwiches and I decide to make some for the journey. The cupboards turn out to be fake cupboards concealing metal pipes. Finally I find the peanut butter along with a giant chocolate cake and a tub of chocolate spread. The tops of both spreads are off and the contents have glooped out everywhere.

A nearby DC tells me that the chocolate is better. Then AB's father walks past and gruffly says he wants to speak to me later.

I find a computer and try to log on to a forum, but there is a problem with the page. It also starts playing a Disturbed song. Hearing the noise, three cute goth girls head over and start talking to me. Two of them have Slayer T-shirts on.

They tell me they are going to meet 'The Band' (unspecified), but they are concerned because 'they are sexually transmitted'. I realise this doesn't make sense, but before being able to put any thought into it they invite me to go with them. I agree, enthusiastically, eager at the prospect of meeting the band (and potentially getting it on with one or all of these hot chicks ).

Two of them leave. The last woman has now turned grown really tall and has short ginger hair. I wrongly identify her as someone I used to work with. She asks me to stay close while we are working with JP (Operations manager from previous job). The woman is afraid of JP for some reason.

To try and convince me, she puts a hand on my chest. Whatever the gesture means, the words that pop into my head are 'manipulative bitch'. I also recall that neither me or JP still work for that company, and become lucid.

The internet cafe is busy and filled with people. The screen seems really blurry, so I spend a few moments stabilising the dream by rubbing my hands together. The tall ginger woman is still there, so I mentally suggest that she should leave.

Outside the sky is covered by a huge concrete overpass. I start flying, casually at first, doing barrel rolls and loops. There is a rainbow in the sky, so I consider doing another TOTY. My crazy flying is making things unstable, also, stupidly, flying is starting to hurt because I'm using a casual sky-swimming method rather than quick flight.

Trying to speed up aggravates things. The blue sky above and the green grass covered platforms below are spinning so fast I almost collide with one of the huge flying grass-covered rocks. Then the blue sky has become the sea, filled with enormous waves. I fly underneath a massive wave and through a tunnel of water, like a surfer.

I try to find the rainbow again, but wake up.

False awakening? Remembering that IB wanted to talk to me I head over to AB's parent's house. His dog, well, bitch, a black labradour, is lying on the ground. Her fur has turned grey. She is so old now, I remember when she was a puppy... there are now two black puppies bounding around.

24/1/2016 (sat)

Before 4.30am
ND "Body in the Tree"
The top floor of the house is level with the top of a giant tree. Up in the branches is the unmoving body of a small boy. I head downstairs, somehow ending up outside. The back door of the house is hidden behind the lower leafy branches of the tree. I push through and step inside the house.

My parents are sitting inside the room. I tell them about the body. We all walk outside together to see if we can get the boy's body down.

The tree is now colossal, towering over the house and area, higher than a skyscraper. It is also carved into sections. My father explains they are doing maintenance on the tree. We walk past a huge stump that itself is taller than the house. There is a deep vibration in the ground beneath us. Dad asks if I can hear it. It is the main root drilling down into the Earth.

We continue forwards and find more parts of the tree. It is like a jigsaw made of horizontal sections that slot together into the trunk.

Beyond the tree are standing stones. They too are cut into sections which form giant triangular pillars. They are carved to look like Iron Man and Captain America.

5-6.45am
Long LD 347 "Chasing Rainbows"
Sitting in front of a computer, playing Warcraft, when my phone rings. I hear the usual ringtone song, AC-DC Shoot to Thrill, but it is wrong somehow. My sister is on the phone. Wow this must be expensive, calling from China. She tells me about a new game she is playing. While on the phone I flick through a hardback book.

My sister stops speaking. The phone has turned into a remote control. I see my phone on the desk and pick it up, still connected.

The dream shifts to me and AB walking through a park. A dirt road runs along one side of it, separating grass land from green metal-fenced enclosures. Inside them, people are playing tennis and football. AB is tired and climbs onto my back for a lift.

I 'wake up' in an odd room with wooden panels and shelves. There is an old black cabinet as well. The room needs redecorating. It is dark and depressing. I consider getting the white paint from the garage and covering the dark wooden walls.

In the next room two people are having guitar lessons. One is using a real guitar. The other guy is using a set of buttons on a plastic board. The guy with the real guitar is very good. He plays an incredible guitar solo.

I head through the room and find a hospital filing room. It is filled with desks covered in paperwork. The walls are white with details in green and blue. Sitting at one desk is the compliance manager from my previous job, SK. He starts a rambling story about blinds. I want to say "just get some, and send me the bill", but I'm concerned about what the cost will be if they are non-standard size windows.

False awakening. I'm in a light room, it seems to be late morning. An enormous truck drives past the window, just millimetres from the wall. The cab is above the height of the window. Several men are looking out as they go past. I start to read a book, remaining in bed.

The next truck comes through the wall. The convey of heavy machines continues, tearing apart the wall as I dive out of the way across the room. This is insane. I become lucid. The trucks have gone, leaving the inside of the room a complete mess but the wall somehow intact.

I phase through the wall and see the convoy of trucks, which are now giant robot machines, heading off down a road towards a town. I'm kinda angry, and decide to chase them down. Using super-fast flight I head down the twisting roads into the town and catch up with the rear robot.

Using super strength I pummel the huge metal machine with my standard fists, smashing it apart and throwing large sections of it into the air. The dream scene is unstable and rewrites everything as a game on a tiny screen, with me flailing around controlling a little character, like it's Kinect or something.

My parents are sitting nearby and patiently ask what I'm doing. The screen refuses to project itself up onto the wall, so I phase through the wall in search of a new goal. Opposite is a cafe/bar full of DCs staring at me. I clap my hands to check how stable the dream is. Seems fine.

I start running fast through the streets, searching for a motorbike, when the TOTY springs to mind. I start flying fast again, shooting up through the buildings into the sky. Sure enough there is a rainbow there. It looks like a gigantic beam of energy coming from another planet. It also has a countdown of numbers projected within the beam. The race is on. Flying as fast as I can, I follow the beam of rainbow coloured light. Just as it looks about to hit the ground, it twists back up into the sky.

7-8.20am
Short LD 348 "Rock Tree"
For most of the dream I am exploring an unknown city with JR. We end up at a beach. It is sunset. Another DC starts talking about climbing the cliffs and we head off to give it a try.

Later in the dream I am trying to deal with a possessed kid, or possibly a ghost boy. It's not clear. The evil/ghost boy flies up to a high shelf in the kitchen and starts pushing items off. They tumble and smash on the ground. I notice there is a real boy, probably just a couple of years old, sitting below, and run to protect him from the falling items.

After some false awakenings, I end up in a room full of people slapping each other. They refuse to stop fighting. In the corner of the room is a Christmas tree. It is also drawing in energy to the whole room. I become lucid and spot several holes in the tree-thing, which now appears to be a stone statue of a tree. On the floor are a bunch of glowing rocks, and I pick them up and start placing them into the holes. The tree pulses with more power. It almost falls on me and I push the tree, which is also as heavy as a rock, back upright.

The fight around me is getting a bit out of hand. I try to stop it.