rantajar

First

I'm at a house in a forest. There is some kind of a game going on, where people enter the house one by one to do a task. I don't remember much about the task itself. During it I think someone is implicated of a crime. After I come out I wander around the house on a path. There are some monsters that try to attack me. I think I'm with someone at this point. I have some first person shooter type weapons but they are not very effective. I'm able to keep them at bay, though, mostly kicking and throwing them. At some point the weapons turn into animals.

Second

I'm with a bunch of people at another house next to the woods. I think my family is there, but there are others as well. We're going to check out the other cabin. I'm walking faster that the others, singing. I ask someone for the lyrics when I forget.

When we get there, there is a lake. Apparently the water has come down a lot and people are worried for the ecological balance of the area. The trees around the lake are almost dead and break easily. We go somewhere to investigate this.

Third

A man, who has implicated of some crime in the first dream, is a reporter and he is ordered to go to some totalitarian country. He should be able to get in even though he now has a criminal record, but there is some doubt. A guard is fiddling with the system, trying to help him, but he doesn't get in. The guard calls for security and a large officer comes. The officer apparently knows the reporter and they were supposed to meet, so all is going according to plan.

Just outside the border control area there is a sport field. I'm in the audience looking at some people from the authoritarian country preparing for a running contest against a group of Tibetan buddhist monks.

First

I'm with a friend and we meet a third person on the street. He has a board game and invites us to play. We play a couple of turns and then one of the dice gets stuck of the side of the table. It's kind of spongy and its hard to make out the number. It kind of climbs back on the table. This starts a new phase in the game and the third person doesn't want to continue. I still go on playing with my friend, but we need to see the board from above.

Were playing in the middle of a street and there is a bridge on top of us. We enter a building to get to the bridge and start climbing up. We reach the to of a tower and there's a bell. The bell starts ringing. Then I suddenly dangle on the bell and try to get down. I manage to get back on the stairs and we go back to the street. We have forgotten about the game at this point, though.

Second

I'm in a large building with my family and some others. I have a lot of laundry to do, at least two machinefuls. My socks are wet and I change them and put them in the laundry. Later, I'm loading the second machineful and my socks are wet again. I change them again and put them in the machine.

Then we leave on a bus. Everyone else is going somewhere and I've backed my packbag too, but I'm going back to the house. They get of the bus at some stop and I stay on it.

The third lucid dream since starting the journal. Again, I seem to be lucid straight from the beginning. Before going to bed I was thinking I’m going to just lose consciousness just for a while and become conscious in a dream.

I'm flying trough the sky somewhere where the lowest clouds would be. I'm clearly aware that I'm dreaming. The sky is clear and I can see the ground very well. There are lakes and rivers and hills. I fly over a haunted house and take a closer look. There is a ghost flying around the house. The ghost decides to follow me. I get a little scared because the ghost my catch up with me and I don't know what would happen then. So I turn up and the ghost just passes by.

I continue up to the sky, wanting to go to space. I seem to approach some kind of a limit and the dream shifts. I'm in the bedroom. I'm still flying, and I try going trough the roof, but cannot.

I'm in my bed now. It's very realistic, I can feel the blanket and everything. I feel hot. The scene flickers a bit and I see some hallucinations. I, maybe correctly, identify them as hypnagogic hallucinations, but fail to realize that I cannot be awake. I see images floating in the room, pictures of things. There is a grill in the bedroom, and the cover part starts moving, flying in the air and making a sound. I'm getting a little scared, this is not really supposed to happen when I'm awake.

My wife wakes up and I ask my her if she sees these things. She says that she doesn't. I figure it's going to pass sooner or later, and it's not really dangerous. My phone rings and there is a message on the screen. "My husband left me." It's some relative, and it's actually a conference call with some other relatives listening as well, as she's explaining the situation. My wife is on her phone and she gives me a knowing look. She's talking with the husband.

I notice it's not really late, not even midnight yet. So I listen for a while.

I wake up for real and do a reality check this time.

First

I'm on a ship scouring the sea. It's actually a very small sea, more of a lake or a pond. I'm diving there and looking at the rock formation in the bottom.

Second

I'm on an airship as it launches, looking out the window. It flies above the clouds and I see other ships launching every few seconds outside. Some of them, shaped like fighters, aerodynamically, turn their noses up and shoot up towards space. My ship continues above the clouds, it's probably a normal passenger airplane, though a very big one.

Third

I'm at the shore of a river, shooting ships with an old cannon. There are others as well, and we are trying to defend a fortress. We don't have any ammo, but we do have some gunpowder, so we use anything we can find. I shoot a kettle at a ship and it get damaged. It doesn't turn back but at least it stops for a moment. I to shoot other things at it, but they don't really work.

First

A woman is explaining something to someone else. It was about something mechanical, I don't remember what exactly.

Second

I'm at work and we're having a coffee break. It's not in the normal coffee room, but at a larger one, in another building. There is also a group of people there that I don't know, but apparently they belong to the same organization, they just organized the coffee break this time.

There's some food also, but the breaks seems to be over and all the food has been eaten. I'm kind of hungry and I'm looking for something left over. There is a kind of a buffet at another part of the room, but there isn't much left there either. There's some rice in a kettle and some vegetables. They even have a waitress working there, for the coffee break, and she's putting things away. She says something to me about there being nothing left.

Third

I'm going on a trip with a group of people. One of us cannot cross some border because he doesn't have the appropriate medical papers. We talk about it and decide that he can see a doctor and join us in a day or two. When we come back, i believe a week or so later, he is still at the border station. He has been to the doctor but he has some minor health problem and getting the papers will take some time.

Fourth

I'm with a group, possibly the same as in the previous dream. We park out car at a small parking lot, next to a large mall. We go in and there is a carriage that belongs to the owner of one of the cars outside. I try to lift it and think that it's too heavy. At this point I'm aware that a crime has happened and I suspect there's something hidden in the carriage.

We go back outside and talk to the owner of the carriage, a young man. We have no proof but I try to intimidate him by mentioning the weight of the carriage. He gets scared and runs away, towards the woods. I run after him and some of the others are running too, but they're a bit farther away. I cannot see him but a follow a trail. The train splits and I ask one of the others to check the other way.

There is an opening in the woods and I see him. He tries to run around me and turn back, trying to trick me somehow. I circle a bit farther than he did to force him to run on the path, where on of the others catches him.

There is a group of young people standing nearby, they were playing before we came. One of them, X, a girl a bit younger than me, wants to join us, thinking it's a game. I tell her that I can try to catch her but if I do, we throw her in jail. She runs towards me and starts to pretend I've caught her.

First

I’m at the L’s wedding. She’s waiting just outside the chapel with her spouse, they’re going in in just a couple of minutes. Apparently I’m the bridesmade, since I’m standing next to her with a feeling that everything is ready. There is a camera just inside, pointed towards the pair, and she wants me to spin her just when the video starts. We practice a few times, but she always goes to a different direction than I’d wanted. I try to tell her the same way every time, but we don’t get it to work.

Second

We’re in a bus with a group of students. There is and exchange student with us and he’s talking on the phone. At some point he wants everyone to talk with the person on the phone, and when it’s my turn, I just say “Hi”. A woman answers “Hi!”. “How are you doing?” I ask. “How are you doing?” she answers. I give up and give the phone to the next person.

Third

I’m with a group of friends checking the new edition of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It’s looks like a golden statue. It’s not out yet, they’re just showing it of right now. We leave on a spaceship. The inside of the ship looks like that of a bus. We take seats and start talking about something.

I’m at a theater, watching a play. The stage is huge, it consists of three or four large normal stages next to each other, each with a different setting. The action in the play is moving to the right, and I’m following. I’m pretty close to the play, not on a seat, but maybe on stage itself. It’s a romance, there is a man and a woman, they’re talking. I don’t remember the plot, but they woman is about to leave, and they may never see again. The man doesn’t want this to happen.

As they are moving to the right, the male actor changes two times. He just gives a white scarf to the new actor, otherwise dressed exactly the same way, and stands still. The new actor becomes active and continues the role. The lighting of course follows the active actor. They seem to have slightly different skills and styles of acting.

The woman leaves and the male actor changes for the last time. This one is a singer and starts singing a love song to the woman he lost. I’m surprised at how good he is, there is no background music to give him rhythm or melody.

An airplane drives in and stops, the door opens. A man says that there is something wrong with the plane. He then accuses another on, who is inside, of not sealing the door properly. Looking from the outside, the door looks rusty, I’m not sure it’s possible to seal it airtight.

I’m at a hospital, sitting in a waiting room. There is a boy sitting opposite to me. He seems completely healthy and I ask him what’s wrong. He says he has prosthetic limbs, and they are just for testing and need to be removed. He shows me his hand, where the surface has been degrading and the machinery is visible. As I look the arm starts degrading, turning into dust and falling apart. So does his other arm, and both legs. I run to the personnel to alert them. When I come back with them the boy is lying on the couch, with no arms and legs, and appears dead.

I only remember being at a conference. I know the dream had some sort of a story, but cannot remember it. It's possible it wasn't very logical. Something to do with the work I'm doing.

First

I’m playing a game on a football field with my brother and a group of friends. I’m the goal keeper, but I seem to be doing all kinds of other things. The point is to get a small towel into the goal and there are several of them in the field. I sometimes take one and throw it somewhere far away. There is always a lot of people at the goal fighting for the towels.

Second, lucid

This dream had the feel of a certain kind of dream I’ve had many times, where I’m running away from someone, trying to loose my tail. In these dreams I’m a bit more lucid than usual, and able to jump really high. This time, though, it never really started. It’s funny that in the beginning of the dream I try to get to the place I then should be running from, without any apparent goal.

I might have been awake just before getting lucid, there is a clear disconnect in the dream. I should of course have tried stabilizing and take it more slowly.

I’m close to my family house, kind of circling around it on a road. I want to see if I can get in without being seen. I go towards the house trough a forest at the back. I approach a couple of times from different angles and then proceed to walk trough the yard. The dream seems to skip and I’m inside the house. I know I've been seen and want to get out. I’m leaving trough the back and suddenly know that I’m dreaming. I fly upward and hit the ceiling, but cannot go trough it. I say out loud “I’m dreaming” two times. It sounds a bit tired, but comprehensible. Then I’m awake and not sure if I actually said it out loud.

First

I’m going to some gathering, don’t remember what. It’s on the other side of a long building, but instead of circling around it I go inside, up to the third floor, trough a corridor with glass walls and down on the other side. I seem to know my way. Later in the evening, there might have been a non-dreaming period here, I’m going back. The way I came out of the building doesn’t seem to exist anymore. I try climbing the fire escape to get to the third floor, but it doesn’t help. There’s someone with me now, and we have to go around.

Second

A friend of mine has a new girlfriend. They are with us in the beginning of the dream but go on a date and I go somewhere with N. The dream jumps to when we come back. The girlfriend is on a date with someone else now. She doesn’t want to talk with us, just goes away. I get the impression she’s not interested in my friend anymore.

I'm teaching programming to someone. I only remember the computer screen, nothing else was visible in the dream. First I go trough a part of code and then he starts writing something. When I see what he's writing I tell him that there is a function that already does that, so he could just use it.

I woke up after this and had to go to the bathroom. I'm not really even trying WILDs but since I had woken up, I didn't wan't to waste the change. It didn't work, any better that in the evening, though. It was probably too late in the morning, I was almost completely awake.

I’m on a subway train on a bridge. I see a valley from the window, and there are people sleeping in groups of three. It kind of looks like they’d had tents in the evening but that they were blown away by storm or something. But they haven’t noticed and are sleeping peacefully.

First

I'm at a large house in the countryside, a camping center. The others are mostly males between 20 and 30 years. For some reason I get locked in a barn with small group. The rest have something against us. I tell everyone I have a plan and light a candle. I escape trough a loose board in the wall. The candle is useless, it's daytime, and I blow it out. Then I go around the back, hiding behind things. I think someone sees me but they don't care. All the others have gather around a hill and are discussing some arrangements at the camp. They're talking about hiring a new handyman.

Second

There are some ethereal creatures and they are leaving this world trough a portal. I'm not one of them, I'm just watching. One stays behind for some reason. She has and emotional connection to this world. Another one comes, a male, and he finds her. He talks her into coming with him, but apparently this take years and in the meantime they fall in love. She still doesn't want to leave completely, but he tells her that they can come back ones in a while, but they can only live here for a thousand years at a time. I wonder how they could hide their identity if they live a thousand years.

Third

I'm returning home, walking by the road in a residential area. The houses don't look familiar, even though this should be my road. I notice the backside of my building on the other side of the block, I've taken the wrong road. I walk trough a yard to a back door. I briefly wonder if my keys will fit, since my apartment is actually on the other side, but I do get in. Something wrong on the first floor, there are people talking about it. I go up to my apartment. I'm interested in what the trouble was but decide to change my shoes before going back, I'm wearing hiking shoes and they are pretty heavy. There are things lying around in the apartment, I've left in a hurry, and I start cleaning them up.

Fourth

I'm in a gallery with small boutiques all around. There is a coffee place and a couple of clothing stores. I woman decides to buy something from a small bakery. I try to decide if I want to get something. There is a third person there, a man, who might know me, but not very well.