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19/1/2016 (mon)

Before 4.20
ND "Problem with the Lights"
The lights aren't working upstairs. I try the spare room and those are dead too. Fuse must have blown, or it tripped out the breakers. Heading downstairs, the layout of the ground floor all different, but I try to find the cupboard under the stairs where the circuit breakers should be. Instead the box is mounted on some kind of cabinet thing. The whole room consists of piles of random junk. Sure enough one of the switches is tripped so I reset it.

After this we start cleaning up the room, passing bits of rubbish into a bag. A group of people are standing in a line as if waiting for a photograph to be taken. I stand next to NH from work and chat to her for a bit. Someone hands me a token that is the size of a 10p piece.

The dream shifts to me playing a tablet game. My cousin C leans over and presses a button, telling me it is an upgrade I should have got much earlier because it is really good. The game features small monsters fighting. Across the table people were looking at pictures I'd drawn of different types of swords. They said they like them. One appears to have a word written down the blade.

Well, it's time for a cup of tea. I collect some mugs and head into the kitchen. A female DC tries to help me make tea in a green tea pot. She says we need to put in extra tea bags, when of course it should be one for each person and one for the pot, everyone knows that!

ND "Private Auction"
I wander around an unfamiliar city with my friend JR. We are following MG, who keeps running ahead and then momentarily stopping to wait for us, which we just walk normally. We head through several streets and then head up a set of stairs into a station.

As we climb the steps a young boy stops me and we speak for a while. A couple of other guys are trying to break the kid's leg. I threaten them, saying if they hurt the boy I'll do the same to them. They back down.

Afterwards we head up the steps into the station, which turns out to be some kind of private auction, to which we are not invited. JR bids on the first item, which is a bottle of expensive wine, and then apologises for us crashing in without invites. "Add it to our fee."
Er No, please don't, I think, wondering how much these items are worth. Everything looks expensive.

4.50-6.30am
Long LD 343 "World War Orange"
The dream opened with some kind of documentary about the start of a world war. They were calling it world war orange, because of everyone trading 'Red Nukes'. Most of the footage is of missiles being fired and tanks rolling out over farmland.

Somehow I end up riding my motorbike into the oncoming enemy forces. Various vehicles come down the road towards me - tanks, trucks, rugged adventure motorbikes, weird three wheel rickshaw things. They all seem to ignore me as I go against the flow of traffic towards their homeland, which is apparently Russia. Some of the motorbikes heading towards me look like Ducatis. That's weird. Why would the Russians ride Italian bikes? Especially into a warzone.

I start to take out some of the smaller vehicles, causing them to crash by essentially playing chicken with them and riding straight at them. I become lucid and decide to steal one of the bikes, picking up one of the knocked over Ducati Panigale 1299s and trying to ride it. The bike refuses to start, despite all my usual tricks to try and get vehicles working. Eventually I have to fake a push bike just to get it moving, pedalling like mad to move at all.

The road leads past a Harley dealership, so I pop in looking for a less troublesome motorbike. Inside there is a ladder up to another floor. I start to climb it, awkwardly as the ladder doesn't join up properly.

Screw this. Might as well do part of my 2 step task and teleport. Recalling the weekly challenge task, I start to spin and focus on teleporting to an underground location with a sunken pirate ship. My spinning turned into swimming, and the sensation of water all around me. The water is murky green, but ahead I can see the wreckage of a ship and start to swim towards it. There is a massive hole in the hull, which I swim through, searching for a treasure chest.

Finding something wooden and bulky, roughly the right size for a chest, I grab the side of it and start kicking up to the surface. The chest is heavy and keeps trying to drag me down. Persevering I finally make it to the surface and hoist the chest out onto a small dock.

The chest is made of blue leather, with a pattern like crocodile skin. Will it contain treasure? I open it up, or rather unfold it like a package. At first it just looks like a lump of rocks and mud, but then something moves. A small crab hops out and starts bouncing all over the floor. The dock has turned into a sandy beach at this point. The sight of the hopping crab makes me happy for some reason, and I chase it around on the sand for a while in carefree joy.

Beyond the beach, heading back inland, I find a small motorbike and jump on it, determined to not let the earlier troubles bring me down. This bike is much more responsive and I start weaving through a busy market filled with stalls. This leads back to the room with the ladders from the Harley dealership. This time it is filled with people. I recall another goal, one that I thought of before bed and hadn't posted yet.

After taking a look around I slide my hand around the waist of a blonde woman and ask her to come with me. The nearby doors lead into toilets... hmmm, classy. There is another door that leads to a room with a guy and a girl on a bed, and a second guy watching them. I tell them to leave. The naked guy pulls out a phone and starts calling someone in protest at me stealing their room.
"Put down the phone and leave." I command him. They all leave and I start having sex with the blonde woman.

6.40am-7.30am
Short LD 344 "Pushing a Motorbike"
For unknown reasons I'm back living with my parents. They have a new house, with a large garage on the side of it. There is a motorbike parked inside, not mine, a Kawasaki from the style of the headlights. I head inside and find a table with my keys on it. The keys have all been removed from the rings and some are missing. I can't remember what they are all for.

Back outside my Mum is standing in the garage next to the motorbike, which is now my RL bike. The garage has no back wall and leads straight into the garden. I become lucid, but in a calm, not hyper-aware mood. Unable to think of any goals I start pushing my motorbike down the garden, which leads downhill. The view over looks a valley and a forest and river below.