One Up Seeker

1. I was walking home from the area where my bank is at. Multiple people whom I didn't know were walking in the same direction as me. It was nighttime and rather quiet. Suddenly I thought to myself, "Why am I walking so slow and why am I even walking home in the first place? Is this a dream?" I ask. Now I become lucid, but I look at my tattoo just to make sure. Immediately I notice that my tattoo is insanely smaller than usual, the font is different, and it is now near my tri-cep/elbow area of my arm. It took me only seconds to notice all of this and I was on my way. "What should I do?" I thought to myself. I start running and just looking at my surroundings. I see that there is a mexican grill in front of me, and there are lights surrounding this building. "Oh, I gotta get that time dilation watch" I said to myself. Just then I manifest a trail of light that will lead me to the watch, and indeed, a glowing yellow neon trail appears at my feet.
I start following it with a quick pace, and soon I find myself running once more. Suddenly my pace started to pick up without my intention of doing so and I was now running incredibly fast and also sliding at times to get to my destination. At one point, I could see ahead of me that the trail actually went into the ground. As I looked exactly where it went into the ground, I saw that the area of the ground that it went into was transparent. Because of this transparency, I could see below into another "level" of the dream? Or Earth maybe? It was rather confusing. In this other "level" of ground I saw a smooth clean tennis court that resembled something out of a video game. While still maintaining an incredibly fast running pace, I jumped and dove head first into the transparent part of the ground with the intention of going through. While doing so I manifested music and musical effects into the dream. As I went through the ground I heard futuristic electronic noises. Seconds later I "awoke" in my bed.
I immediately grabbed my Dream Journal from the side of my bed(I haven't used an actual notebook to journal in over a year) and I start writing stuff down. About a minute later I lay back down and within seconds find myself in another dream. I'm now in Walmart. In front of me there is a large kiosk with interesting looking products on it. Suddenly I become aware of how the current situation is odd and I once more ask myself, "Is this a dream?". I then become lucid and decide to look at the products at this kiosk. As I walk right up to the kiosk I pass a coworker I know and she says "hey" to me with which I reply to with a "hey" back and continue on my way.
I kneel down and see that these products are something I've never seen before. I have no idea how to describe them. I can say however, that each product had a word on it. One product had "Wealth" written on it, another had "Health" written on it, another had "Happiness" written on it. None of these products really interested me, except for the health one. I look a little to my right and see another product labeled "Sleep and dreaming". I pick up the health product and then grab the sleep and dreaming one out of curiosity to see what I can do with them.
Suddenly I am transported to some sort of busy market street where I am getting shot at from almost every direction except for directly behind me. I see tons of bullets fly past me and I have no idea what is going on. I attempt to "pause" the situation, and as I do so, a pause menu pops up and takes up my view. Though this menu is now fully taking up my view, I am still being shot at and nothing has been paused at all. Through the transparent pause menu I can see this clearly and I can also see that I am losing health extremely fast from looking at my health bar on my HUD.
Within seconds I lose all of my health and die. Everything just suddenly fades to black and this time I actually awake in my waking life bed. "Holy shit" I think to myself as I make a note to remember everything I had just dreamt as I turn over and fall back asleep.
Suddenly I am back in Walmart and have just walked out of the backroom. "Why am I here? I'm off today? Is this a dream?" I said out loud. Instantly I knew that it was and started on my mission: to find A. I see my manager Treyvon a few feet ahead of me. "Hey trey, have you seen A?" I ask him while unintentionally yelling. "Yeah she's right over there" he says as he points over to the cosmetics area of the store. I take off and start running over to the cosmetics area. Suddenly I see a girl with black hair. "That looks like it could be her" I think to myself. I go up to this girl, but as she turns to look at me I realize that it is not her. "Have you seen A?" I ask this random girl who is about my age and rather short.
"Yeah she just went down this aisle" she told me as we walked onto the aisle she pointed at. Just then I see her. She's wearing a tan long sleeve shirt and black leggings. Her black purse is on her shoulder, and overall she is looking fine and fancy. Seconds later A looks right at me and instantly we start walking towards each other. Now we are standing not even a foot apart, and I'm just looking into her dreamy blue eyes. "Wow" I say out loud. I notice that she seems mad/annoyed by the look on her face. Suddenly I get a really really strong notion that she's mad at me for not coming to her earlier. A then turns to walk away, but she only takes one step before I grab her by the arm(softly). "Woah wait, you're not going anywhere yet" I tell her. I then pull her in for a kiss and she doesn't fight it. As my lips are literally inches away from hers, the dream starts destabilizing and everything quickly goes black and I wake up.

Note: in this entire dream chain, each dream was crystal clear and as usual, felt hyper-realistic.

1. I was sitting in a desk inside of what seemed to be a rather normal classroom when I decided to do a reality check. I look down at my tattoo and see that it is really fucked up in that it just looks really messy and that many parts of it have peeled off. "Holy shit, what the hell" I say out loud in a rather highly distressed tone. Instead of realizing that I was dreaming like I normally do, I become worried. Suddenly my friend Emily walks through the classroom door and comes to my desk. "Don't worry, I can fix it" she told me. With that she got on her knees and somehow got one green, orange, and black marker. She then proceeded to draw my tattoo back in with these 3 colors, with which she randomly alternated between. I remember just being really concerned with just how stupid it was starting to look. Sure, she had filled it back in, but it looked even more messy than before.
Parts of the letters on my tattoo were in the color orange and green, instead of the black they should've been. On top of that, Emily had managed to smear all of these markers all over my tattoo so that now it could've passed as a kid's drawing or something of the like. "All done" she said. "Okay thanks" I replied. With that she then got up and walked out of the classroom. "Jesus Christ this looks horrible. I wonder what people will think when they see it" I thought to myself. Just then something inside of me made me want to turn around, and so I did. At the back of the classroom(I was sitting on the first row of desks all the way up front) I saw A, and she was already looking at me with a wide smile. Immediately my heart started pounding and I was filled with emotions of joy as my stomach was filled with butterflies.
I get up out of my desk and walk to the back of the class where A is sitting. I see an empty desk right next to her and sit in it. "Glad to see you again" A said with bright eyes. "You have no idea" I told her as I failed to contain my smile. "Hey, what's your snapchat? I want to add you" she told me. "I don't know, but I'll show you my snapcode so you can add me that way" I replied. A already had her phone out, but I didn't, so I reached into my pocket and got it out. As I turned it on to open up snapchat, something messed up and I remember it taking me a minute or two to actually open up the app. Once I did, I went to my snapcode and showed A, and she scanned it and added me. I remember mentioning my score being around 22,000, and A told me hers was 30,000 or something like that. But when I went to look at my score it only said 2,002 or something like that and I felt a little ashamed(lmao).
When I looked at A's score she only had 3,000. We sat and continued to talk for a while longer, and once again, I made her laugh a lot. At one point I remember her looking me in the eyes with the most beautiful smile I've ever seen(God I mention this so much, I know) and she told me "I can tell we're going to become really close" and then she giggled. In this moment I couldn't help but adore her giggling, but I also felt a wave of happiness come over me because of what she had told me. "For so long", the thought echoed in my mind.

Note: my tattoo is now showing up in basically all of my dreams every night, even the ones I don't journal. Also, she is starting to show up in my dreams at least once a night. I'm making progress and damn does it feel good.

First off, I just want to say I definitely should've become lucid in this dream, I don't know what the hell happened.

1. I found myself inside of what appeared to be a coffee shop. The floor was made of black and white patterned tiles and the walls where slick black in color. All around me were people socializing, drinking what I assumed to be coffee, and people in line ordering whatever. Through the front windows of the shop I could see outside. It was raining fairly hard and thunder roared from the sky frequently. From where I was sitting I could only see a super busy road filled with futuristic cars, pedestrians, and buildings with neon lights that looked like they belonged in the movie total recall. "Wow what beautiful architecture" I thought to myself. Suddenly I get a text from my mom saying "What time do you get home from work?". I ignore the text and get up out of where I had been sitting and walk outside. "Jesus I should've brought an umbrella" I say out loud as I quickly become drenching wet due to the rain.
I walk to my right towards a parking garage. As I get inside I "remember" that I had parked my motorcycle at the far end of the first floor. It's fairly quiet, and on the way to my bike I don't see anyone, I just hear the rain and thunder still. Once I get to my bike I put my helmet on and start it up. I realize that it probably isn't too safe to be riding out in this weather, but oh well. Just as I am pulling out of the parking space I hear someone behind me, "Got room for one more person?". I turn around and see A. "Wtf is she doing here?" I think to myself while at the same time feeling extremely happy suddenly. "Uh yeah, hop on" I tell A with a confused look on my face. She then gets on the back seat of my bike and wraps her arms around me.
I drive out of the parking garage and am now on the same busy street I was looking at only minutes before. "Can you take me home?" A asks. "Sure, where do you live?" I say. "You'll see" she replies with that same insanely beautiful smile she always has. With that I just start driving down the road I am on, waiting for her to tell me where to turn. At this point the rain has slowed down to a light shower, and I am starting to feel cold. Just then A rests her head on my shoulder to the point where she can see everything that I can see. After a few minutes of driving, A tells me to take the "next left". I do so and find that I am now driving down a quite rural looking road. The road itself looks pretty neatly clean though; the grass is cut, the road looks new, and the random trees fit in well. As I keep my focus on driving and not crashing due to it still raining and me being on a bike, I hear something off in the distance. "Home will always be here, unseen, out of sight. Will I disappear, and hide?" a voice says. I recognize the words from a song that I know, but I couldn't remember it at the moment.
Now I'm on the verge of lucidity. Suddenly A tightens her grip on me and kisses me on the cheek. I'm sent into a moment of blissfulness while at the same time realizing that I no longer have my helmet on. "I wish I could see you more often" I tell A. "When you lose yourself I'll be right beside you" she replies. Out of no where my vision starts to fail me, and it's as though I don't have my glasses on anymore or something.

Note: I figured out the song, its "Umbrella Beach" by Owl City.
Also Note: I AM going to be lucid the next time I see her. She's basically a dream sign now.

1. I was in the backroom of my job, Walmart. I remember standing in the very back of this area, and A was with me. It was rather dark, but to my right there was some sort of extension of the building that led to a hallway that was made completely of furnished shiny wood. In this hallway all of the lights were on, so it made things easier to see from where I was currently standing. Suddenly I hear someone in the front of the room say "All right group, it's time for our daily meeting" they said. It sounded like Erica, one of my co-managers. I knew then that A and I had to get out of here otherwise we'd get in trouble. At the moment, no one could see us given that there still wasn't much light, and also that there was freight and pallets of stuff everywhere blocking our view.
I hear a lot of people walking. As I peek out from around a pallet that was taller than me, I see all of my coworkers standing in a circle. The meeting is about to start. "Just tell them you're my girlfriend" I told A "they won't be mad about that cause my other coworker's girlfriend sometimes comes back here to bring him food." "Okay" she nodded. With that we walked out into the open and now everyone was looking at us. Suddenly my other co-manager Joe activates some sort of super loud alarm. Just then I say "Wait stop, this is just my girlfriend" I tell Joe. "Oh okay" he says. He then deactivates the alarm by using his MC-40(a cellular device for company use like tracking inventory, orders, etc) and the alarm stops.
Now we are standing in front of everyone, not knowing what to say. "So what is she doing back here?" one of my coworkers that works in electronics asks. "She was just bringing me food" I reply. "What kind?" someone else asked. Suddenly my electronics coworker starts making up shit about how A is here for some other completely random reason that I don't even remember. "No she just brought me some Jack-In-The-Box" I tell everyone.

Note: I've noticed that every time I feel like I'm losing myself in waking life, she shows up in my dreams without any effort on my part.

1. I was inside of some sort of college building sitting at a table with A. I remember just thinking "I can't believe she's really here." Everything about her was just how she was in waking life. Her smile, her eyes, her soft voice, her personality; everything. We sat and talked for what felt like a really long time and I remember us just really connecting again like we used to a while back. At one point we both got up from the table and started walking around. Somehow we got on the topic of our ages. "You're only one year older than me Cory" she said playfully. "Not even that A, it's only a month remember?" I said as I teased her over her mistake. "Well I'm 18 and you're 19" she told me. I agreed even though her birthday is literally a month after mine and is coming up soon.
I remember that we continued to talk a while longer while walking out of the room that we were in, into the main area of the building. "You never told me what you were majoring in" I said. "I'm majoring in business and I'm going to transfer to U of H after Lonestar" she told me. "Holy shit, we're majoring in the same thing and transferring to the same college. I'm definitely going to make her mine" I thought to myself. As we approach the exit of the building I ask, "So do you want to go on a date?" I asked her. "You know how I feel about that Cory" she replied. Just then I remembered how she had just recently broken up with her boyfriend so I realized how she was feeling. "Don't worry there won't be any feelings. It'll be just us two getting food and nothing more" I told her. "Okay fine" she said with a bright smile. I always fell in love with her smiles; especially the way her eyes smiled with her. I just couldn't couldn't get my mind off of how beautiful she was.
As we continued on our way out of the building I remember making her laugh a lot. At this point I was just so happy to see her again and everything was perfect. As we walked out of the building we came to some sort of marketplace with tons of food places. The sky was overcast and it was a little cold, yet all around the marketplace there were torches lit. This just made everything more dreamy than it already was. For some reason I turn around and look back at the building. When I turn back around she's gone.

"she is like the wind."

1. I was inside of a large room. The lights were off but I could still see extremely well given the fact that there was still a good amount of natural light coming through the windows in front of me. The walls were white and the floor was covered in a nice looking soft white carpet. Most of the room was empty except for a few things here and there, and a TV that was in the corner of the room. Suddenly my friend Taylor walks into the room through the rooms double doorway. Immediately I notice how different she looks. "Oh my gosh, you look like a midget" I tell her(no offense to any midgets that might be reading this). "What the hell Cory!" she says jokingly as she laughs. The Taylor I know in waking life is about 5'6, but this Taylor looked barely 5 feet tall. Her head was also wider as well and some of her facial features were slightly different.
Suddenly the TV in the corner of the room comes on and on the screen there is a random black car and a huge monster truck looking truck parked next to it. I unintentionally focus on the screen and suddenly find myself going into it. I was aware that this was happening, but I did not become lucid. Seconds later I am now standing next to the black car and monster truck that were on the TV screen I was looking at only moments before. I open the driver door to the small car and get inside. I don't remember starting the car, but that being said it worked perfectly fine. As I start driving I notice that Taylor is suddenly now in the passenger seat, and there are also two random girls in the backseat. I don't really care, so I keep on driving. I am driving towards the end of a cul-de-sac, and I notice that it is extremely packed. There are cars parked on each side of the road, and there is an island in the middle of this cul-de-sac with a rather extremely large tree coming out of it. At the end of this cul-de-sac I can see an opening where a fence seems to have fallen apart. Through this opening I see a field of grass and more houses in the distance.
I remember exchanging some conversation with Taylor and the other girls in the car as they seemed rather unnerved. As I ever so slowly drive around the island to make a U-turn and get out of the cul-de-sac, I see a really tall old man start to approach the car. Given how slowly and cautiously I'm driving to avoid hitting any of the parked cars around me, this old man is catching up to us fast. The old man looks to be slightly above 6 feet in height, and he is wearing a white t-shirt with a green jacket over it, old faded blue jeans with holes in them, and old sneakers. At this point I hit the gas with immense focus as to not get into an accident or hit something. The old man starts running now, and I find myself going even faster to get away from him, all the while every female that is in the car with me is screaming. I make it past all of the parked cars and now I am just focused on getting around the large white monster truck that is parked in the middle of the street.
I am now approaching this truck pretty quickly, so I think fast. I plan to slow down and drive around it; that simple. As I get about 30 feet in front of the truck, it suddenly turns on and the headlights come on as well. No one is driving it, but it is now accelerating straight at us as though it were alive in some way. Looking to avoid complete disaster, I look to my left and see an area of grass that I could drive into and I realize that I might be able to get out of the trucks path and still escape this dangerous neighborhood that I am in. Seconds later I enact on this plan. I drive into the grass just as the truck gets no farther than 5 feet in front of me, however, the truck seemed to anticipate this action and swerved right into the grass and ended up colliding into my car head on. At this point, I am now a point of consciousness, but I am still in the car. I hear a male voice say, "The car is totaled and no longer usable; you have failed".
With that I end up coming back out of the TV and back into the same room I was in before. Suddenly I got the notion that I was late for work considering it seemed like quite a bit of time had passed so far, and I thought I had woken up. I walk out of the room and find myself in my room in my own house. Still, the lights are off but a source of natural light is making things easily visible. I quickly put on my work clothes and check my phone for the time. The clock on my phone reads "3:41 P.M". "Shit" I say to myself as I become anxious to get to work. I walk down the stairs and while doing so I look out the main window at the front of my house. Outside the sky is dark and there are literally pitch black storm clouds that are starting to fill the sky. As I walk into the living room I see that my father is watching the news. On the news, the new anchor is saying that "it is going to pour".
After watching the news for those few sparing seconds, I then continue into the kitchen where I see that my dad has been preparing a meal. I see that he is making home made macaroni and cheese and something else that I recognized as the main part of the meal; I believe it was some sort of meat. The kitchen is filled with the strong aroma of what I knew was going to be delicious food, but I knew that I had to wait until I got home from work to eat it; that was, if there was any left. "Shit, tamara, noah, and devin will probably eat everything before I get home" I think to myself. Just as I am about to leave to go to work I see that more macaroni is being made. On the granite counter, my dad has placed the home made macaroni onto some sort of frying pan and I can see the mac and cheese literally scorching, but somehow it is not burning. The mac and cheese isn't even properly being fried as the frying pan is just dry except for the mac and cheese.
I remember how I'm already late for work, so I hurry back to the front door and go outside. The sky has cleared up a little bit but it is still rather dark. Suddenly I just somehow end up at work. I don't recall driving there, I just sort of teleported somehow. I now find myself standing in the Toy's section of my job(I work at Walmart). As I am walking to my department, the Garden Center, I think to myself "Gah damn I might really be fired this time." I notice that almost all of the lights are off in the store currently, so it is rather dark. The only part of the store where the lights are on is the electronics area, and over there it is extremely bright. As I continue walking through the Toys section I see my co-worker Don. Just as I am about to talk to him a lady on one of the toy aisles to my left asks "Excuse me sir, can you help me?" I am rather annoyed, and I end up just ignoring her and walking over to electronics for some reason.
As I get over to electronics, my eyes adjust to the bright light immediately, which is contrary to what I expected. This area is packed with people, and there is a really long line of people waiting to check out at the electronics cash register. I don't think that I really had an agenda on my mind at this moment as I ended up just looking around at stuff. One thing stood out to me in particular. As I walked through the line of people, I saw some sort of large pod type display setup that was holding a large amount of tumblers and other types of cups. These cups were not zoned very well though as almost all of them had fallen over and it looked a mess. As I got up to the display I looked into it and noticed that this pod-thing had sucked down extra cups into a clear storage compartment right below where the rest of the cups were laying. It was an interesting sight and I was fairly intrigued. I knelt down and tried pushing more cups down to get the pod to suck them into this other storage compartment. After about 2 or 3 failed attempts, I finally got the pod to suck a blue tumbler cup down.
Suddenly it occurred to me that it was time for my lunch. I knew that I hadn't even been working that long at all, but I didn't care. Out of no where I teleport back to my house with no break in consciousness. The inside of my house is even darker than it was before and I can hear thunder outside and heavy rain coming down. As I glance out of one of the windows I see a few yellow bolts of lightning. I remember that I only have 1 hour for lunch, so I go into the kitchen with the hopes of eating some of the food my dad had made before I left for work earlier.

1. I was sitting in a barber's chair inside of a relatively medium sized room. The floor was covered in carpet and the walls were painted a soft dark yellow. Suddenly a thin blanket is cast over me covering my entire upper body. At this point I realized that I was getting a haircut. "You want a 1 or 2 on the sides?" the barber asked me. "Actually I want a 0 on the sides" I replied. I remember that the barber himself was light-skin and had medium length black hair. Next thing I know, something happened and I ended up having to get out of the chair. I remember some of my friends suddenly coming into the room and causing a disruptive scene. As I got out of the chair, I looked to my right and saw a set of 3 tables. Each table was round and made of an extremely light brown wood and was polished. Around 4 to 5 chairs accompanied each table.
I walked over to these tables. I assumed that all of my friends were sitting at the left most table, so I took a seat there. Upon sitting down I noticed many girl like things laying on the surface of the table; like pink and purple highlighters, neon paper, and other things. Just then, my friends walk towards the tables and they all sit at the right most table. Seconds later, a group of girls start walking towards the table I'm sitting at. "Shit I guess this was the table they were sitting at." I thought to myself. The 4 girls then sat at the same table as me, and they didn't say a word. I then realized that A was sitting in the chair directly to the right of me. I felt a little weird in this situation. I kept getting the feeling that A was waiting for me to talk to her, to say something.