New Dream Adventures of Raven Knight

Plans: My main plans for tonight were to just remember something, some kind of dreams, although being lucid would definitely be a big plus. It seems my desire to remember some stuff has come to pass, but I was not lucid. What I do remember came in a bunch of seemingly unconnected fragments that make little sense or no sense at all. I really need to get my dreams back to how they used to be. I used to fall asleep in the evening with no dream plans at all and the energy inside me would take me somewhere I needed to be, but lately that hasn't been happening… maybe I'm planning my dreams out too much… I need to get it back.

Where In The World Is Sam?
I am in a mall that I have seen many times in dreams, though I have never seen it in my waking life. I am wandering around in the mall, looking to buy a new Nintendo 3DS, though I know I couldn't possibly afford one. I am thinking maybe I can trade some old crap towards buying it. While I am looking for the computer store, it seems every time I am in this mall the stores have moved, I run into a frantic MoSh. He asks me if I have seen Saim, he says he has to find Saim before it's too late. I stop him from hurrying off and ask if he wouldn't have more luck looking for her in a dream. He calms down a bit and says I am right, he'll go home and try to sleep so he can find Saim in a dream.

Guilty as Charged
I am in my room, I am looking through all of my stuff, I am looking for something that might be worth a bit of cash to sell on the internet. I have to do this because my credit card statement is coming due, and I haven't got anything to pay it with. I wonder how I managed to get myself in debt after the problems I had in the past… My mom comes in and says she knows I am in debt, I'm not sure how she could know, and she clearly doesn't know the whole of it. I decide to come clean and tell her I have a couple thousand dollars of debt. She doesn't get angry like I had expected, instead she looks deeply disappointed, which is worse. She says I apparently learned nothing the first time. I tell her the charges are not mine, I don't even have that card any more. This is a flat out lie. She says she will make a couple phone calls and get it cleared up. I hurry to my purse and take the card out, going directly to the bathroom where I take a scissors and cut the card into tiny pieces and flush them away. There. Now no one can prove I had the card.

Dinner and a Class
I am just walking into a classroom where I have signed up for some kind of school class, though I'm not sure what class I have signed up for. I don't think much about this discrepancy. I know my friend Alicia is taking the class as well, so I look around the classroom to find her. She is near the front of the room, but all of the seats around her are completely filled. Damn… I can't sit with her. I look around for an empty seat and then I spot Tigress a couple seats behind Alicia. I hadn't realized she was also in this class! So while I had just said, "Crap!" when I saw I can't sit with Alicia, I now say, "Yay!" since I see I can sit with Tigress. Class passes awfully fast, then the four of us go out to the parking lot where MoSh meets us there and says he will take us all out to dinner to celebrate some accomplishment. I am feeling uncomfortable about letting him pay for my dinner… especially when he says we are going out for steak… so I say I will have to take a rain check, I have to go home. So as the rest of the group goes in one direction, I walk in the direction of home. I have walked only a short time before I remember I drove to school, so I have to turn around and walk back to school to get my car.

The Punch is Sweet!
I am at a large party where everyone is dressed up and wandering around, though I am really bored right now. There's a buffet table with lots of snacks laid out on it, a couple of large bowls of punch, and everyone is just standing around talking, which is really boring to me. I spot a familiar face in the room, who is going from one person to the next. It's Patrick Jane from The Mentalist. Some of those people are laughing when Patrick leaves, some are angry, some are just confused. Patrick comes over and asks me if I know how to catch a killer, but he doesn't leave me a chance to answer. He says you have to be sweet about it, and then asks if I would mind creating a small distraction… I'm not sure what is going on, but I decide to play along with that. I go to a different table and attach a tablecloth to the shoe of a particularly stuck up woman, who glares down at me as if she was looking at a cockroach. I tell her I dropped something, and I move away. She doesn't see the tablecloth is attached to her shoe. I stay close to her and start bugging her a lot, so she turns and walks away, pulling the tablecloth and a lot of snacks with it, everything falls off with a crash. The distraction works, I look over at Patrick to see what he is doing. He is pouring sugar into the punch bowl, then he quickly moves away. I go back over near Patrick, he whispers that that sugar will quickly reveal the killer.

The Flame of the Dragon
I am in an open field, I look around to see where I am. I am actually on the edge of the field, and I am looking out across the field of tall grass as a gentle breeze blows across the meadow. There is only one thing visible out there, other than this, the field continues as far as the eye can see. The one thing I see is just about unbelievable, so I feel the need to check this out more closely. The grass is so tall I am able to crouch down and move in such a way that I am completely hidden from view. As impossible as it seems, what I saw from the edge of the forest has been confirmed… I am looking upon a dragon! The dragon looks a lot like the one in this picture, a red dragon standing up on two legs and glaring down… right at me… crap… I have been seen. He looks quite pissed off, too. He takes a deep breath and then exhales a huge blast of flaming energy in my direction. I instinctively cross my arms in front of me as if to block the attack… and Witchblade forms armor and a shield to actually do that… So the fiery attack doesn't get through my shield, although the force of it pushes me back quite a ways as I lean into the shield to keep from falling over. I move the shield a bit when the blast is over, and I am now standing on a burned area of the meadow, the dragon is glaring down at me still, though he also looks rather surprised that his attack didn't get through. He quickly covers his confusion with a threat, he tells me that was a warning… and if I don't leave now he will erase me from existence. I have no desire to fight this dragon, and to be honest, I had intruded on the dragon's space. So I don't argue the fact at all, I say I'm sorry I disturbed him, and I quickly return to the cover of the forest.


Animal Rescue
I am on my bike, and I am heading home, riding down a road surrounded by pine trees and other areas of nature that are nothing like my area IWL. The problem I notice is that there is a steep hill going up towards home, and I realize that there is no way I will be able to ride up that hill without having my legs hurting so bad they might fall off. So I get up and walk the bike up to the top of the hill and then the rest of the way is downhill. I get on the bike and cruise down the hill to where the road takes a sharp turn to the left, where I leave the road onto a trail that fortunately goes straight. I slow down so I don't crash, and I notice someone has laid a trap line of steel jaw traps, and there are animals trapped in them. I stop by each trap and release the animal being held there, fortunately they all seem to realize I am trying to help and they don't attack me, not even the ones who would normally attack. I rescue a couple cats, several dogs, a pair of wolves, a bobcat, and more. I am now thinking I should be home by now, and since I stopped to help the animals, I will be late. I figure that my mom will just have to wait, the animals are more important.

Note: My recall has been inconsistent to say the best, as night before last was yet another night of CRS… which really sucks. So my only goal for tonight is to remember dreams, although if I happen to have a dream of DDO, and if I happen to meet up with Tigress in a dream of DDO… or if I happen to meet up with MoSh or Nomad or anyone else I will sometimes share dreams with… or if I meet up with someone new… that is awesome, too!

I am in a place I don't recognize, but it seems completely normal for me to be there at the time. I am an Assassin like those from Assassin's Creed, and I already know who the target is that I am after. There is a specific terrorist leader that needs to be taken out as quickly and silently as possible. He has been located in this city, so trying to take him out with conventional means would no doubt involve killing too many civilians, so Assassins such as myself have been sent in. I have to meet with the others before heading off to track targets. In addition to the primary target, there are also numerous secondary targets… terrorists that are roaming amongst the civilians, so the more of them we can take out, the safer the city will be. I go into a building and down into some underground halls to meet up with my associates, who I find out aren't all Assassins. They are dressed differently, but I realize it is so we can all blend in with the crowds and not have it look like a group of people in uniforms. There are a couple of men there, both are redheads there those two have freckles… and shortly after I get there, a third man shows up. My first thought is that he is kind of cute. I walk over closer to him and smile, but I realize he probably doesn't see my smile because of my Assassin's hood. Then I think about the fact if he did see my face, he might actually be offended by my showing interest in him. So I admire the view from afar.

I figure we are all there to make a plan for how we're going to complete our mission to take out the head terrorist as well as taking out as many of the others as possible. Everyone is talking, but they aren't talking about terrorists at all, actually, I can't really figure out what they're talking about. I go over to the group, I am standing beside one of the redheads and looking over at the cute guy. Someone else comes along before I can get a good idea of what everyone is talking about, he looks at the group of us and asks if the redhead and I are… the redhead interrupts with a definitive, "No!" and he seems to be blushing quite brightly. What was he going to suggest… does he somehow know that we are all Assassins? That's not good… Those thoughts go through my mind in an instant, so I also respond with a definitive, "No!" at the same time as the redhead does. The new visitor points at the redhead and laughs at the fact he is blushing. It still seems that no one is talking about the task at hand, which is to take out the terrorist lead. I finally give up on that, I know where he is going to be exposed most, so I decide I had better do it on my own if I want it to get done at all.

I tell them all that I have to get things done, and then I head off down the hall, heading for the open areas of the city. I find that I have some of the tools of an Assassin's Creed Assassin… I have a crossbow with bolts, and I have my hidden blade… though I don't see my sword. I climb up at some key locations so I can get to the rooftops and not be noticed, then I make my way along the rooftops until I get to a lookout point that is overlooking an outdoor auditorium type area where there are quite a few people gathered around the stage, on which there is a single podium. I duck down behind a wall as someone who looks like a guard goes by, I figure they are there to protect the guy who is actually a terrorist. When the guard is gone I return to my place and I see there is now a man standing behind the podium, he looks like a politician, and he talks like one, too. He is the terrorist, he is infiltrating the rest of the government here, and has definite plans that have to be stopped. So I take aim with my crossbow, load a bolt in, and fire… my shot is perfect, it hits the man right in the chest, right through his heart, for an instant kill. Of course everyone freaks out at that, guards are trying to find where I am, but panicking civilians are getting in their way, all running for cover, all afraid that they may also be targets. Of course I have no interest in shooting any civilians, so I use the chaos to get off of the building and blend in with the fleeing masses.

I am going down a street and I see there are a bunch of guards up ahead, they are positioning themselves to try to keep me from passing. I wonder if they have seen me or if they are just hoping to spot me, but either way I decide to avoid them. I head into a hospital off to my right and I head through some of the back halls. Patients aren't supposed to be in there, but I don't think anyone sees me go in there. I soon realize I am very wrong. Guards are following me still, so I don't want to be found. I have the feeling most of the guards are ok, most of them aren't associated with the terrorists, so I don't want to kill them for doing their jobs. There are a few corrupt ones, which I know I will be able to identify if I see them, I duck into a room to the left and wait for them to pass by me. One passes by… an innocent man… a couple more go by… After the group passes by I sneak out of the room and back the way I came from towards the front of the hospital. I don't go out the front door, however, I head to the side door, which is a service entrance, and I exit into the alley way.

I know now that I don't have much farther to go before I get to a safe place, so I head in that direction. I find myself surrounded by four guards as I round a corner… and all of them are corrupt. One of them asks another if he thinks I know anything, the third man says it doesn't matter whether I do or not. The fourth guard, a woman, says they have their orders, then she adds, speaking to me, that there won't be any going to prison and telling everyone what I know… I will die right here. I have my hidden blade… for some reason they don't seem to realize that, so when they get close enough for me to do so, I knife one with my hidden blade. That takes a the others by surprise, did they actually think I was unarmed? So I maneuver my way around and knife a second man before finding myself suddenly behind the woman, so I take her out, too. (I think I teleported there, but that fact didn't register in the dream.) There is one man left, and it looks like he is thinking about bugging out, probably to get more guards… he does just that, and he takes a crossbow bolt in the back. Those four corrupt guards are gone…

So now I continue down the alley. Someone else is following me, so I duck around a corner. I am prepared to strike with my hidden blade, but I stop myself at the last minute. The guard isn't corrupt. I now have my hidden blade right at his neck, and he is staring at me with wide and fearful eyes, not even daring to make a move for his weapon. He just says, "Please don't…" and I don't actually want to kill him, so instead I hit him upside the head and knock him unconscious. I check to be sure he's ok, he's fine, his pulse is strong, and then I keep going towards the safe spot. I arrive there just a bit too late, it looks like everyone has already left. I am yelling after them to wait for me, I think they were on some kind of a ship going out to sea, but they don't come back. One woman is on the back of the ship, and she yells something at me, I'm not sure what she said, but I think it was something to the point of, "You're an Assassin… find your own way out!" and then she laughs. I do find my own way out, and that way is by waking up.

Note: When I told MoSh about this, it looks like the meeting I was at might have been between Ron, Fred, MoSh, and myself, and of course they weren't talking about assassinations. My lack of lucidity made me not notice who they were. That makes Fred and Ron the redheads, and MoSh was the cute one.

Note: The rest of the dreams from this night are only fragments, and none of them are lucid, but I will post them here because I think one or more of them might have been shared. If you read this and recognize yourself in here, please let me know, otherwise it might have just been a DC that I mistook for you in my non-lucidity.

Area 51
I am in an underground room, there is no way to see that it is underground, but somehow I know it is. It's just a feeling I get like I am far under the surface of the Earth. I go over to the door and find it's not locked, so I walk right out into the hallway. I have the feeling I'm not really supposed to be there, so I try to avoid meeting anyone as I look through the halls. I hear someone coming and I duck into a small room that turns out to be a storage closet of some kind. The problem is they are coming into the closet… I lock the door from the inside, the door locks manually in there, and then I climb up the shelves and through a panel on the ceiling. I get out of sight just before the door unlocks and a man enters, muttering expletives about the door not needing to be locked with all the security on the entire floor. What security, I wonder, I haven't seen any security… I crawl through the vent system for a while, looking down into the different rooms as I pass. I see a computer room filled with computer operators, a lab with scientists messing around with chemicals, an office with a meeting going on, a room with a couple of soldiers aiming a gun at MoSh… wait a minute… aiming guns at MoSh? They want to shoot MoSh? Not on my watch! I go over to the ceiling area right over the soldiers, and I climb onto the panels that I know won't hold my weight… and CRASH! I fall through the floor and land right on top of the soldiers. One is knocked unconscious, the other is starting to get up when I kick him in the head and knock him unconscious. MoSh pulls a kitten with wires on its head from his shirt somewhere. He says he rescued the cat from having experiments done on it, but doesn't know how to get the wires out… I take the kitten and look at it, the wires don't seem to be causing discomfort to the cat, but then I wake up.

Area 51: The DDO Version
I am in what seems to be the same complex I was in during the last dream, walking down the same corridors, still avoiding people because I feel I should not be there. Just like in that dream, I enter a closet and climb into the air vent system. I am exploring that, though the rooms I see below are different than before. There are no computers, though there is a room full of kobolds doing something with crystals. There is another room where kobolds are fighting against each other to train. This is really strange… in the next room there are a couple of hobgoblins guarding a large treasure chest. I hear more activity to my right, so I turn down that vent shaft to see what is going on, and I see there is a large chamber filled with hobgoblins and one person fighting them. I see that person and recognize him… he's Tigress' character from our DDO games! What was his name? Nexiel! That's an awful lot of hobgoblins for one person to fight, though, so I look around for something to be used as a weapon. There is a display of swords on a wall, so I drop down over there and grab a sword. I enter the battle with Nexiel, who seems to know me, leading me to believe if it might actually be Tigress. I don't really have much time to consider that with the fighting going on, cutting, slicing, stabbing… the hobgoblins are gone soon, and Nexiel hands out healing potions. It tastes like fruit punch. We go to the next room, make quick work of the two hobgoblins guarding the chest, but before we get to open the chest I wake up.

The Mist
I am inside an office building yet again, but this time I can tell it isn't underground because there is a window looking outside. It seems I am on about the second floor, but I can't tell for sure because the fog outside is as thick as pea soup, I can't see more than inches from the window. I go to the hall and make my way downstairs where there is a group of people near the front door. I ask what is going on, a man says we are all going to die in here, a woman says we are doomed, there is no escape, and a little girl starts crying. The girl's mother gets mad at the man and woman talking doom, saying they need to shut up and stop scaring the children. I ask again what the problem is. A man tells me to look outside and ask that again, so I do. I look into the fog and ask what the problem is. Sure, it wouldn't be safe to drive in that, but it will burn off in time. Everyone looks at me as if I am crazy, a woman says if I want to go out there and die, be her guest… she isn't going anywhere near that door. Another woman says this is the wrath of God being visited upon sinners everywhere. I just look at them for a bit… going into the fog means death? The wages for sin is fog? I ask if it is toxic or something, an old man says it isn't toxic, but… I ask them what it would take to get them out. A man says there is a big RV out there, if someone could get to the RV, they could all escape. I ask where. He says it is about 600 feet straight out from the door… but that's the length of two football fields! No one would ever make it! Cut that out, wuss… keys, please. The woman who first told me to go ahead and go is now saying she didn't mean it, she doesn't want to see anyone else die. I tell her it's fog, it's not toxic. I'll get the RV. The man finally hands me the keys.

So I head for the door and out it… then I realize I can't see the RV. I ask if anyone has a flashlight, shine it into the fog so I can use that to keep my bearings and not wander off in some abstract direction. A man has a large flashlight from an emergency box and does that. I head out into the fog. Making sure to keep the flashlight beacon behind me, I walk in a straight line towards where he said the RV should be. The fog is actually a bit creepy, it looks like Silent Hill, but I find that rather cool instead of scary. Things are moving out there, thicker areas of fog? It looks like creatures… cool effect… I wish I had something to video tape or photograph with. Something big lands on my shoulder, it is the size of an eagle, but it is not an eagle… it is a cricket! Wtf? It starts chirping in my ear… a deafening sound… I push the cricket off, saying to do that again on the other side, I can still hear a bit over there… The cricket continues to chirp. I continue walking in a straight line and I find there is something right in front of me… it's a spider… a HUGE one…

like Aragog from Harry Potter! It is looming over me menacingly, without thinking I tell him to cool it and go try to scare someone else. The spider obediently goes away. I find the RV and get in, driving it back towards the beacon light. I honk a couple of times and then drive right through the glass doors. Everyone is boarding the RV through the back doors, I get up from the seat and say that was easy… then I wake.

Note: I have been having a horrible amount of nights where I can't remember anything from the night before… and it is really starting to piss me off. Last night I did manage to remember a few dreams, however. None of them were lucid, but it is far better than nothing, and I think I saw a couple of other dreamers in there, though I will have to wait to see if it was really them or DCs that looked like them. After all the nights of not remembering anything, I am happy just to have something to journal.

The Golden Dragon
I am in a forest, it is fall, the leaves of the trees are changing to a rainbow of oranges and yellows and many are still green, so I figure it must be shortly into the fall season. There is a gentle breeze blowing, and it is a pleasant day out. I wonder how I have not found this place to take a walk sooner, since I never get enough exercise. Now that I know of this place, I am likely to take a lot more walks! I follow the path through the trees, I don't know where it leads, so it is an adventure to find out. I come across a stream with a small bridge across it, I pause to look at the stream, then I continue. The stream is flowing off to my left, parallel to the trail, and soon I reach a lake. I walk around the lake, still enjoying the day immensely. I come around some large rocks to find myself face-to-face with a large golden dragon, who is glaring at me as if my mere arrival represents a serious inconvenience to him… oh, crap…

Well, the dragon is glaring at me, I am certain he is going to incinerate me with a blast of fire on sight, but instead he speaks. He asks what is the meaning of this intrusion, and it had better be good, because he doesn't like being disturbed. I search my mind for a reason I might have come to disturb this dragon, damn… if only this was a dream I would be able to take care of myself even if it just involved opening a portal and bugging on out of there. (I thought about it being a dream and still no RC? ) So I search my mind a bit more until I finally remember a couple cases where someone was face to face with a dragon and walked away. Those cases are in Shrek where Donkey was right in front of the dragon guarding Princess Fiona, and The Hobbit where Bilbo was face-to-face with Smaug… they bought themselves some time, and in Donkey's case a girlfriend, by appealing to the dragon's ego… by complimenting him/her. So instead of trying to convince the dragon that I'd come upon him by pure accident, I say I had heard there was a magnificent dragon in these parts, so I had come to see for myself. And, indeed, the word magnificent falls short of the reality of the dragon, for mere words could never describe the awesomeness I am now witnessing. The dragon glared down at me and asked if it was worth my life to lay eyes upon him… I respond that there are few things in the worlds that are worth risking my life to witness, but a dragon such as him is surely one of those. And if I am to die, which everyone does eventually, better it be by one such as himself rather than some stupid accident or illness or to waste away in old age. And while I don't especially want to die now, I actually mean it about it being much more interesting and unique to be killed by a dragon than by more mundane means… and he is definitely an awesome looking dragon… so I'm not lying. He can tell I am being truthful. So he seems to calm down a bit, and finally says then I will have the honor that very few before me have had… the honor of gazing upon him… and of dying by his claw.

I say just because gazing upon him is worth dying for, that doesn't mean I'll willingly die… so I jump into the lake and swim underwater to find a portal to get out of there, I am certain there is a portal near the bottom. I take shallow breaths of water so I can breathe it for a short time and I find the portal. I swim through it, the interior looks like a wormhole, and I exit in another lake and swim for the surface. When I reach the surface I look around and see the golden dragon is still there, still looking in my direction… um… I'm in the same place? The dragon looks a bit puzzled, probably wondering why I came back to the same place as if I want to die… I say I took a wrong turn in the portal, and head back to the bottom of the lake. I swim through the portal again and this time I wake.

Note: My dreaming has been non-existent lately, or at least my recall has been. I'm not sure why I've been having so much trouble remembering dreams, but there are many nights where I don't remember a single dream. Due to my lack of recall, I am taking a bit of a break from trying to dream share with Dakotahnok, since meeting someone for the first time is often a difficulty in itself, and I just want to remember dreams. I do have minor plans, of meeting Nomad and giving him a healing back massage, of hanging out with him for a bit in his serial RPG world as one of the vendors… but nothing major except to remember something.

Body and Mind
I am on the moon, in the area near the koi pond, though I am not lucid and I don't realize where I am. I look around and see Nomad there, I know that his presence should be telling me something, but for some reason my mind can't make the connection between Nomad and dreaming. So I continue to be non-lucid, and Nomad mentions something about me promising him a massage. I don't remember making that promise, but I have no problem with doing that, so I say sure, but let's go somewhere that he can lie down comfortably. We go over to the grassy area of the healing glen, he lies down, and I give him a back massage, focusing healing energy into it. We are talking about nothing in particular, he mentions that his dreams are fusing with his waking life, he says for example this seems like a dream right now. I agree that this is dreamlike, but I still don't do a RC. After the massage, Nomad says it's my turn, I tell him it's not necessary, but he says he agreed to it, so lie down. I lie down, and he rubs my back, and the place really does feel like a dream. The massage is so relaxing that I fall asleep in the dream and wake IWL.

100% Off Sale: It's All Free!
I am with Nomad again, this time we are at a market stall like one might find at the swap meet, it is one of the larger ones, though, and there are people all around. There is a display of fruit that seem to be sparkling slightly, I look at the fruits and wonder what they are. The price tag on them says "100% Off, Today Only!" I pick up a fruit and take a bite of it, it is sweet and juicy… I like it a lot. I think if I can take a bunch of these home, I won't have any problems making myself eat fruits more often. Now to find a vegetable I like just as well… I look at the vegetable display, these are also free. I try a couple of them, and while they aren't as good as the fruit, there are definitely some I could get used to eating. Nomad comes over to me and tells me to not eat all the inventory, I look at the fruits and vegetables in my hands, but I can tell he's just joking around. There are other displays there, with a variety of chocolate treats on them, I wonder how many Weight Watchers points those would cost me… though I should be able to afford to eat something since I have eaten mostly fruits and vegetables. So I start eating other things. Yummy things. Chocolates, cakes, tortilla chips dipped in spicy cheese sauce… washing it down with soda… there goes my diet… While I am eating, a young man asks where he can find some magical fruit. I point to the beans with a giggle, he says not that, the real magical fruit. Since it's the closest thing to magical I have seen, I direct him to the sparkling fruit. He goes over to take one, I eat for a bit longer, then I wake.

The Sound of Music
I am in the mall, though it isn't a mall I am familiar with at all, and I am walking around past the stores looking for anything that might be interesting. Most of the places are just clothing, which while some women might be really into, I'm not… I spot a couple of computer stores, but oddly enough, they're closed. I see a music shop that specializes in keyboards… organs, pianos, synthesizers… I go inside and start playing around on some of them. An employee comes over and asks if I realize I am playing around on a $10,000 piece of equipment that is extremely fine tuned and any disturbance could put it out of tune, any disturbance such as me pounding on the keys. I am not actually pounding on the keys, so I say any instrument that goes out of tune that easily is certainly not worth $10,000. He says only a musical ignoramus would say something like that. Another man comes over and asks the first man how many times he has warned him not to point out and make fun of the ignorance of customers… The rude man tries to answer, but the second man, who I get the idea is the owner, says the run man should go set himself on fire for 5 seconds as punishment. The rude man slinks from the room, I wonder if he really will set himself on fire. The owner asks what I am looking for, I tell him I am looking for a synthesizer that looks and sounds enough like a real piano to convince anyone that I am playing a real piano. The owner looks at me oddly, even I don't know why I asked for what I asked for, then he says to follow him and leads me to a room filled with pianos before I wake.

The Aftermath of Doom
I am on my way to school, though things aren't exactly as I expect them to be. There are much fewer people there at the school when I arrive, though I don't notice that it isn't ITT Tech… and then there's the fact I have graduated from ITT Tech already. While there aren't many people around, there are lots of things lying around, discarded for some reason. I look at the objects on the ground. Many of them are along the side of the sidewalk, I see discarded iPods, discarded Nintendo DS systems, discarded PSPs… I pick up a couple of those things and look at them, no one is around, so I start collecting stuff that has been carelessly discarded. If they didn't care enough to keep their stuff with them… I also see purses lying around with no owner. I know I am being nosy, but I open the purses and look in the wallets for identification. Many of them have ID, many don't, so I hang on to a couple with ID and I leave the ones without ID, except I take any cash out of the wallet before leaving those purses behind. Money… iPods… game systems… this is my lucky day! But why is all this stuff lying out there? I wonder if maybe these people are coming back soon, and will be upset when their stuff is gone. The problem is I can't remember where I got what well enough to put it back, so I keep it. I go into the school and find a couple other people there, they look terrified of something. They are discussing the disappearances. I hear them pondering theories including the biblical rapture, alien abduction, a flesh eating virus, demonic attack… A third person says he saw it all, they were all just torn apart by an unseen force. The others don't believe him, saying if that was true, he would also be dead…

Plans: I have been feeling pretty shitty today, it has been going on all day. There have been a couple times when I perked up a bit, but not much, so I don't know what effect this could have on my dreaming. Plans include meeting Dakotahnok to confirm a shared dream at the Halo 3 Warthog Run mission, completing tasks of the year, meeting MoSh for a Harry Potter dream, and to meet up with Tigress to kill stuff… probably monsters from DDO.

I am in a strange room, it looks like a doctor's office, though I'm not sure what I am there for. Or rather I don't want to think about what I am there for, because I am there for my gynecological exam, which is something I really dread, since it usually hurts. I am here because my guardian, Hetfield, bullied me into it, and now I am silently cursing at him for my being there even though he continues to say I have done the right thing. So I sit there for a while longer, now I am annoyed at the doctor for taking her time in getting to me, the last thing I want to do is sit there waiting for something I dread. Finally the doctor comes into the room and greets me with a smile on her face, I don't feel like returning the smile. She pulls out a syringe and says she will have to give me a little shot… a shot? I thought she was here to look at my nether regions, not give me a shot… I ask her what it is, she says it's nothing harmful, she just wants to give me the shot, then I can tell her what I feel. I don't like this, and I don't understand it, either. She comes over to me and gives me the shot, and I immediately wish I had protested more… because now I am feeling dizzy. I tell her that, and I see she is taking notes on a tablet computer. Things look strange for a bit, then my vision clears, and I feel ok again. I tell her that, and she sits down in a chair and said she will wait.

I wonder what she is waiting for… then I notice the wall is moving??? There is a huge bubble forming in the wall, not just one of them, there are several of them. It looks like the wall is rapidly developing a bad case of acne, though the "pimples" aren't red, they are rainbow colored, concentric rings of color starting at the center of each "zit" and then fading into the white of the wall at the base of the zit. They keep growing until they have a yellow head on each one that looks tightly strained and ready to pop… and then they all pop at once. I cringe back, expecting a wave of grossness in the form of pus, but that doesn't come. Instead, each "zit" spews forth waves of colorful confetti, colorful and sparkling. So now I am sitting in a doctor's office in the middle of a colorful and sparkling confetti storm… what kind of a hospital is this? I am about to do a RC when the doctor distracts me and asks what I see, so I tell her. She says that is good, the shot was a hallucinogen, so the effects would wear off shortly. She said if things get creepy, just remember, it is a hallucination. Now that I have an explanation for this, I forget about doing a RC. (D'Oh!) Also due to this, I just watch with mild interest as all of the pieces of confetti turn into bugs that crawl all over me, though the itching is rather annoying. I see my reflection in a mirror, and now my entire body is covered with colorful and sparkling confetti… rather interesting, actually.

Soon the confetti illusions fade out and I am in the normal doctor's office again, though I feel slightly dizzy again now that the hallucination is over. The doctor comes back into the room, with two large men. She says they're nurses, but they look more like hired goons. She takes out another syringe, but I have had it with the shots. I tell her no more shots for me, I'm leaving here. She said she thought I might say something like that… and the goons block the door. She comes over to give me the shot, but I knock her hand away, knocking the syringe out of her hand and onto the table. A drop leaks out and eats its way into the counter, leaving a small smoking hole. I ask her what the fuck that was, some kind of acid? She says she needs to see what it would do to the inside of my body. I point at the smoking hole on the counter and ask what she thinks it will do… it burns through the counter, so she can draw some pretty good conclusions about what it would do inside my body! I get up now, determined to leave this crazy place. She reaches for the syringe, I push it onto the floor. She leans over to get it, and I kick her in the face hard, knocking her across the room, I think she was unconscious.

Time to get out of here… I pick up the syringe and hold it threateningly, telling the goons to stand aside unless one of them wants to get stuck with it. One of them dares me to try it. So I move towards the two goons, I twist aside when the one on the right grabs at me, and I come up behind him and stick the needle of the syringe in his neck. There is a small amount of burning there, but not much, and the thug tenses as if expecting me to inject the contents into him. Instead I just keep my thumb on the plunger, and tell them no one has to die here, just get out of my way so I can leave. The one I am threatening sounds terrified, he tells the other one in a quivering voice to do what I say… he calls me an 'it' when he speaks. The second goon seems hesitant to comply, then the one I am threatening gives out the most pathetic "Please…" I have ever heard, only made more pathetic considering it is coming from a big guy who is about to cry. The second thug finally moves aside, I move with the thug I am threatening to the door, then I pull the needle out and shove the door closed. I really wish I could lock it… but no such luck.

I head down the hall quickly, and of course I haven't gotten far before the thugs come to the door and shout that the creature is loose. Creature? Why is he calling me a creature? Never mind that, I have to get out of the hospital. I run down a hall and I hear footsteps behind me. I look back to see more of the hired goon style nurses following after me, so I turn into an examination room and shut the door. This time I am able to block it, I wedge a chair under the knob, which will at least slow them down a bit. So now to find another way out of there, I go to the window and look out, but I am on at least the third or fourth floor, so that isn't promising. I search, but I find no other exit, so I end up back at the window again. Someone is pounding hard on the door. The chair gives way and a large goon enters, though it looks like he is alone. I figure they didn't see which room I went in. I try to get the window open to climb out, but the goon grabs me by the neck. He says he has a test… let's see how long the thing can go without oxygen, and if it doesn't need to breathe, let's see how it responds to a broken neck. He squeezes my neck hard, I stick the syringe needle in his arm. He ignores that and squeezes harder. No choice, I inject the contents of the syringe into his arm. He gets a strange look on his face, releases me immediately, and grabs his arm… which is rapidly being eaten away by the acid. He is screaming in pain now, I don't feel like watching that, so I run out the open door and away from the hall while the goons are searching other rooms. They will surly come soon to the man's screams.

I use the stairs and reach the bottom floor before I meet any more opposition. I am heading down the hallway towards the emergency exit, almost there, when a uniformed guard steps in front of me and aims his gun at me, ordering me to stop. He knows that guns will still hurt me, so don't try anything. I am not lucid, so I believe guns will hurt me. He asks if I'm going to come peacefully or does he have to shoot me in the kneecaps to ensure cooperation. I back away from him, now feigning a fear that for some reason I don't actually feel, I crouch down in the corner, pretending to be crying, I tell him he can't let those doctors take me back, they're trying to kill me. He comes over to me, he looks pretty proud of himself, he says their goal isn't to kill me, it's to run their tests on me. He says if it kills me, that's no big loss… no one will mourn the loss of one of my kind. Since I am cowering, he is being careless. He reaches for the neck of my shirt and tries to lift me by it, saying it's time to go back to the doctor. I grab him by his family jewels and give a hard and fast twist and pull to them. He gets a shocked look on his face, then doubles over in pain. I grab the gun and point it at his head, but then I see he is no more of a threat right now than a small kitten… actually the kitten with its claws would be more of a threat.

I grab the keys from the guard just in case I need them, then I run out the emergency exit onto the hospital grounds, out into the night. There are no locked doors or gates, but there is a fence topped with razor wire. I don't even think of electric fencing… when I grab it, the fence sparks… but I am not hurt. Must be a weak voltage? I climb the fence, slip through the razor wire while getting only minimal cuts, then I drop on the other side. The guard I kicked, or one just like him, is right behind me and jumps for the fence. He is instantly caught by the electrical flow, the smell of cooking flesh wafts over to me, then he drops dead. So much for not much voltage… No time to consider that for long, I head away from the facility into the forest beyond, intent on putting as much distance between me and the hospital as possible.

Plans: For tonight, my main focus is to continue remembering things, so I don't get stuck in another dry spell. I also still have a goal to meet with Dakotahnok at the beginning of the Halo task to have a confirmed shared dream. I also would like to get started on the Tasks of the Year from DV, the one I want to get over with first is a task taken from the Jaws movie, but the task is to kill the shark… which I don't want to do. I have plans on getting around it, but I figure I want to take care of it as soon as possible.

I am on a boat out in the ocean, I look around to see where I am, but I don't recognize any of it. I am lucid, though I don't remember how I became lucid. I look at the ocean around the boat and think this is most likely the place where I am supposed to complete the task of the year from DV that has to do with the Jaws movie. Ok, well this is definitely doable, so I'll get it out of the way. I look around the boat for a bit, and it is clearly a fishing type boat, there are three men out on the deck, I see there is a lot of beer being passed around, and it looks more like they're out here to party than fish or hunt sharks. I am thinking if one of those two were to fire a harpoon gun they would be more apt to skewer each other than any shark in the water. I am standing there watching them when one of them turns towards me and sees me. He stands there staring as if I was some kind of alien, or maybe a mermaid who had climbed out of the ocean and onto the boat… He finally comes over to me, holding his beer out in front of him, but he isn't handing it to me…

"Who the FUCK are you?" he says loudly, "Hey, guys! We gots ourselves a stowaway…" He is slurring his words, he is clearly more than a bit drunk.

"Maybe she can be put to good use here," another of the men says, "As shark bait!" The two men, the drunk one and the one who suggested I could be shark bait, come towards me, attempting to look menacing. Epic fail. The drunk one looks more like he might throw up than attack. The third one is over near the edge of the boat and he calls out that they have something, too big for a fish, it's definitely a shark… I think he sounds like a retard saying sharks aren't actually fish… He calls to the other two to come help anchor the line so it won't get away! Get the harpoon so they can kill it and claim the reward. I ask them if they're really just killing a shark for money? The one man who seems to be the least drunk says no, of course not… I shouldn't forget about the excitement of the hunt… and the fame… the drunk one throws his beer up in the air and adds that he does it for the women. I tell them to let the shark go, it's not the one attacking swimmers at the beach. If it was that one, half their boat would now be missing. The one anchoring the line down says I am probably right about that, he has heard descriptions of that shark, descriptions that say it is nearly the size of a whale. Everyone agrees that this is not the shark everyone is after, but maybe there is still a reward. One of them says if I help bring the shark in, I can share in the fame. Not in the reward, but in the fame, sure. Two are anchoring the line, the third is aiming a harpoon gun at the ocean, I agree that I will help.

I don't like these people killing for thrills, fortune, and fame, that is not a good enough reason to kill. I go over towards the three, like I am going to help anchor the line, but then I form Witchblade into a dagger and knife the guy with the harpoon gun, then lift him up a bit and shove him overboard into the water before he can react. The drunk one seems to sober up really fast, he asks what the fuck I'm doing, I'd said I would help… I say I didn't say who I would help, and I choose the shark. The guy in the water is calling for help, he says the blood will attract sharks. One of the men is trying to hold on to me, holding my arms behind my back, while the other goes to pull his friend from the water. So I stab the man holding me in the leg and flip him overboard into the water, then stab the last man in the shoulder and go to shove him overboard. He grabs me as he falls, and we both fall into the water. The man I fell overboard with laughs at me, saying I have killed myself, too, as the sharks will kill me when they come I dive under the water, following the thick line down to a tiger shark that is swimming around in circles, trying to get loose, but only tangling himself up more than ever.

I use my Witchblade blade to cut through the line, which is thicker than any fishing line I have ever seen before, and the shark is free. I telepathically tell the shark I need to get the hook out, it is a large hook, which is hooked in the shark's mouth… probably placed there when it tried to eat a fish with the hook inside it. I go over to the shark and pull the hook out, then heal the injury. The tiger shark responds to the blood in the water from the bleeding shark hunters and heads for them. I also see some more sharks attracted to the scene. I surface to see the three men climbing back into the boat, one of them is safely aboard and pulling a second in when the sharks arrive. The sharks grab the man who is dangling over the edge of the boat, tearing him in half… the second man disappears under the water… then a massive shark practically bites the boat in half, and that is the last to be seen of the three shark hunters.

Another boat arrives, and I realize it is the Orca, the ship from the movie Jaws, a man pulls me onto the ship, and there is a woman looking out over the water at the huge shark that bit the smaller boat in half. I search my mind for the identities of the people… one is Quint, a shark hunter, the man who pulled me out is Brody, the main character, so the woman is Hooper, the marine biologist? I was trying to think if that was a woman in the movie, but I figure it doesn't matter. Small detail. I am thinking of how to arrange Quint's death when I remember the task is to actually kill the shark, damn, I almost forgot that detail… so I go to one of the large harpoon guns and shoot the shark, right through the brain for a painless death… ok… task done… I jump in the water, though it's clear that the others think I fell, and I swim over to the shark. I remove the harpoon, then I summon up a healing item in the form of a mushroom that I have designed for use in my own video games, the mushroom heals and restores life to the recently deceased. I put the mushroom in the shark's mouth where it is instantly absorbed, the shark is revived and healed. Yay! I use the harpoon rope to pull myself back onto the boat, this time both Brody and Hooper help me up. I slice the rope a bit as I get on, weakening it. Quint sees the shark is still moving down there, so he reels the harpoon back in for another shot. He fires, and gets the shark only through its dorsal fin… the shark pulls at the harpoon cable. Quint says to pull the rope in a specific way so the harpoon gets set in place. I arrange so that he is in front, then the weak spot in the line, then Brody and Hooper. The line snapes, Quint gets pulled into the water and swallowed whole by the angry shark.

I do a quick scan of Brody and Hooper… Hooper has been against killing the shark from the beginning, but no one would listen to her idea of using some kind of sonic waves to deter sharks from entering areas populated by people. Brody had been going along with killing the shark, but it looked like there was still hope he could learn… maybe Hooper would teach him? The shark is tearing the boat in half, I tell the two of them to take hold of my hands, then I use TK to fly all three of us towards the shore, which shocks both of them. The big shark is following us after I telepathically tell the shark I know where there's food, so I lead him on to a boat that looks to have about seven shark hunters aboard. He bites that boat in half and feeds on the people aboard, Brody and Hooper both think that is horrible, but they don't know I had anything to do with it. I take them to shore and set them on the beach. I see other shark hunter boats out in the water getting attacked by the shark, excellent. Hooper says that's the consequence of people having no respect for the forces of nature, none of those people would have to die if they hadn't tried to kill the big shark in the first place. Brody asks why I can't go out there and help some of them… I say why should I help them, so they can do more thrill killing later? Brody stares at me as if I am completely mad, he says those are human beings out there, I ask what his point is. He seems to be without response to that, or maybe he just doesn't have a chance to respond before I wake up.

Plans: This is the last night for Halo task for full credit on the Lucidity Power Trials Club, and it is my aim to do it with Dakota. Other than that, I will focus on just remembering something. I remembered a dream last night, I want to do it more! More!

I am in a place I don't recognize, and I am not lucid at the time. I look around to see where I am, and I see that it is winter, the ground is covered in snow, and I am a bit chilly. I think I'm doing quite well to be out in that weather and only be slightly chilly, but that might not last. I wish I had a jacket of some kind, and I am surprised when one seems to appear from nowhere. I put it on and look around more, I have absolutely no memory of how I came to be here, or even of where here is. I decide to do a nose-pinch RC, and I discover that I am dreaming.

I look around the place a bit more now that I am aware I am dreaming. I am in a cold and snowy place at the base of a mountain, there are paths or roads of some kind leading up the mountain, so I head for one of those roads. While I am walking in that direction I am thinking about my goals, about what it is that I want to accomplish in dreams this night. I remember the Halo Warthog mission, so I will try for that. I walk along the base of the mountain looking for a possible place for the Halo mission to start. I see a tunnel leading into the mountain that looks like a place for the mission to start, so I head in that direction. I am thinking another part of the goal is to look for Dakotahnok to see if we can confirm a shared dream. So I am also looking for him as I head to the cave entrance.

As soon as I get to the cave I see there is a man in there, he looks like he is waiting for something. I wonder if it could be Dakotahnok… then I realize I have no idea what Dakotahnok looks like! I approach the man and observe his appearance, he has short dark hair, is relatively tall with an average build, but then my attention gets drawn to his shirt… his t-shirt has Dakotahnok's spider avatar on it! He sees me and asks if I am Raven Knight, so I say yes, I ask if he is Dakotahnok… he doesn't answer me, but he looks very happy with the situation and says, "We did it! We did it!" He is very excited at the prospect, I think it is awesome that we made it work. Now if both of us can just remember this…

Dakotahnok and I aren't together for long, however, before we head in our own separate ways, as both of us are looking to complete the Halo task for the LPTC and this can't be done in a shared dream due to some people not accepting shared dreams at all, and for the ones that do, it would seem unfair to do a task as a team when everyone else has to do it individually. I tell Dakotahnok to make sure and remember the dream. He comments that I'm the one that has been having recall problems lately, touché… we go our separate ways.

I go into the cave, which cuts through an area of the mountain. It looks like the cave was carved through the rock by an intelligent race rather than a natural passage, it also winds around inside the mountain. There seem to be passages heading off to the side of the main passage, but I don't feel there was a need to explore them. There are strange mutant bug like things attacking me, I take a shotgun like weapon from my side and blast them, the blast takes out large groups of them at once.

I exit from the passage and find there is a vehicle parked on the other side, there is a voice speaking from somewhere… wtf? It is a female voice, it says to get in the Warthog and go, go, go! Wow… it's like I just stepped into the video game… I jump into the Warthog, and someone else gets in the back… I'm not sure who… or what… he is, he clearly isn't human, but it is just as obvious that he is on my side, so as he takes control of the mounted turret on the back of the Warthog, I floor it and head for the path leading up the side of the mountain.

As we are going up the mountain, the path winds around the outside of the mountain, but there are numerous wide places in it where there are structures off to the side. Mutant freaks are coming out of the structures and attacking us, they are swarming all around us, the guy in the back of the Warthog is blasting away at them, taking them down in waves. Some of them are in front of us, the Warthog is able to drive right over them, squish, squish, squish… I drive the Warthog farther up the mountain, it feels like the mountain must be a volcano about to erupt… the whole thing is shaking violently, large boulders are falling from above and crashing down towards the ground. I am driving the Warthog to the left and right to avoid the falling debris… An area of the path collapsed from in front of us, I am barely able to make the Warthog jump over the crevice to the other side… and I see the mountain is definitely a volcano, as there is lava flowing down through the crevice below. Things continue in this manner until we are near the top, where I see there is a space craft hovering a short distance off the mountain. The voice I heard earlier is saying to go for it, jump into the ship, before the entire place blows. I floor the Warthog and make the jump into the waiting landing bay of the ship.

It is briefly dark in the landing bay before the interior lights come on, revealing that the Warthog has wrecked at the far end, the big guy from the back has been thrown off to the other side of the landing bay, and I am on my ass near a pile of cargo crates. I go to check on the big guy, and I find he appears to be alive, just unconscious. Well, that's good. I figure the dream task is over, so I am ready to wake up… when there is an attack!

One of those mutant freaks is attacking, throwing off those strange bug things, it is really quite gross. It looks like one of the enemies off of the Silent Hill games. I remember I have to use Halo weapons, so I don't activate my Witchblade, instead look around and spot a plasma sword that the big guy seems to have dropped when the Warthog wrecked.

That is a pretty cool weapon, though, it cuts through and toasts the bug things on contact. I fight against the creature, climbing up on some of the cargo crates to get away from its attacks, then I jump down from the crates and attack the thing from above, slicing it nearly in half from top to bottom. The thing was UGLY! I'm not sure what it is… just that it is dead. More of the bug things crawl out of it, so I kill those, and once that is done I wake up.

Note: For the past several nights I haven't been able to remember a single dream, and until the last section of last night, I thought I was going to have yet another night where I couldn't remember anything. It was during the last hour or so of my sleep that I started having a dream, and my alarm woke me during the dream, so I was able to remember it. Then it got a bit strange, I will explain it as I post the dream here.

My mother and I are at a train station, looking around to see what is happening. I see one of the trains waiting at the station, though there aren't very many people around, so it is virtually empty. I think it would be fun to take a train ride, but I figure the trains probably cost too much to ride. But when I look, the trains are running for free, so there is no reason why we can't take one and see the sights for a bit. So my mom and I climb onto one of the trains and we wait there, it is a two level train, so we choose seats on the top. More people get on board, and finally it pulls out of the station. From Tucson, the train heads south. The desert looks greener than I have seen it for a long time since there has been a drought going on in the desert for a while. It is really pretty out there. So we just ride along and enjoy the ride until we reach another train station. My mother says it's time to head back to Tucson, so we get off of the train and board a train that is leaving in the opposite direction. Shortly after departure, however, this train turns off to the right, heading east. So we ride the train for a while longer, over a couple bridges, and finally to another station. So once again, we get off the train, but this time we check a couple of maps and find the train that is heading back to Tucson. To be honest, I'm getting a bit bored riding on trains, so I'm ready to head back.

This is also a double level train, but the lower level is actually enclosed. There is a celebration there, I look over and see it is a wedding… or it looks sort of like one. There is a woman in a wedding dress, and another woman in a skimpy bikini, but the two of them are standing in front of an official looking man, saying wedding vows to each other. I take a piece of the cake and eat it, it is delicious, though it isn't chocolate… I then go upstairs onto the open air deck to take a look around. I go to one end of the train where I can see the engineer down below me, or I can see where the engineer is supposed to be… there's no one there now. I look ahead and see smoke and fire, so much fire… and we're heading right for it! I go back downstairs and find the engineer is at the party, so I tell him what is going on, and he goes straight back to his place and sees what I saw. The fire is spreading towards us, so the engineer stops the train and starts backing up. We are backing up into water, which seems strange to me. Everyone goes to the top level of the train to keep from getting drowned inside, but we are still sinking. The engineer says the train will make it, but if not, jump in and swim for it. I am standing on one of the seats, my HP Palmtop computer is in one pocket, my cell phone in my other pocket… I know they would not be happy to get wet. The fact I haven't used my HP palmtop for several years since it became seriously outdated doesn't occur to me, that now I use an iPod Touch… but it does occur to me that the desert is so flooded, and it's not even the monsoon season. So I do a RC and find I'm dreaming.

Now that I'm lucid, I fly into the air to go check out the fire a bit closer. I am checking to see if there is any easy way to go around it so my mom and I can get home. It's not a brush fire like I'd first thought… well, actually much of it is a brush fire, but a large portion of the south side of Tucson is also on fire. There is a track that goes around Tucson to the east, it circumvents the burning areas. Then I ask myself why I need to get the train home, it is a dream, after all. But I decide to follow the story a bit farther, I have the feeling I don't have much longer left to sleep, so trying to complete one of my goals would be pointless. So I fly back to the train and tell the engineer what I saw, as well as telling the other people in the train. The engineer switches tracks at one of the track switches, and we get on a track heading east. I am looking at the fire off to my left when my alarm wakes me up.

So I wake up, and as is my habit, I reach up and hit the snooze button… then I drift off back into the dream again. I do this fast enough that I don't lose lucidity, I'm not sure if this counts as a DEILD, but it was definitely a continuation of the previous dream. The train is being attacked now, it is stopped. Some of the people are trying to escape, running away from the train even though the rest of them are telling those who are running to stay with the train. I see some other people out there waiting for the runners with guns, are they going to shoot them? The guns turn out to be hand held flame throwers, the people waiting for the runners set the first ones on fire. The burning ones run around in circles screaming, the others try to return to the train, but it is too late. The people with flamethrowers seem to find it very entertaining to watch their victims burn alive. They continue approaching the train, and I finally remind myself that I am dreaming and can stop them. They like fire so much, let's let them have some! I use Damage Inc. to send fireballs at them, the fireballs blast some of them and set others on fire, and the remaining ones retreat. I go into the train, and I see my mother staring at me, she asks where I learned to do that, I tell her I can always do that in a dream… and then my alarm goes off because the snooze period is done.

I hit the snooze button again, and slip right back into the dream. Everyone is saying that stopping those attackers now won't help as long as there are more of them out there, they will just try again, and this time with more of them… or they will try a sneakier approach. I tell them I'll just have to follow those who retreated back to their base of operations and take them out there. The people tell me not to leave, they will be defenseless in the train. I tell them I have to go stop the attackers, they're burning everything! So we compromise, we start working on the train, reinforcing the walls to keep attacks out, sealing parts of it off to keep fire out… and then someone got in contact with several large rock golems, these golems stand about twice the height of the train, and they are marching alongside it. Well they should be immune to burning… The work on the train is taking too long, I know my ten minutes might be almost up, and sure enough, my alarm goes off and wakes me.

Ok, so again with the snooze button… the dream was quite interesting, and I wanted to go back. I am back on the train, but I leave right away, heading in the directions the enemies had retreated. I haven't gone far when I see there is an island in the sky, and on that island is a city. I fly up to the island and I see more of the people who tried to set the train on fire, and they were surely the ones who set Tucson on fire. The island is flying low, and there are people with some kind of long range flamethrowers on the front of it… or maybe they're lasers that are starting fires. Looking down in front of the island I see everyone running… quite a few people, dogs, cats, deer, coyotes, rabbits, bobcats, and other assorted animals, all of them mixed together as if they weren't aware they were supposed to be afraid of each other. There are people there shooting the fire, they are setting the stragglers on fire and laughing as their targets burn to death. I go down and use a blast of icy air to extinguish their latest targets which included a woman, a kid looking to be about seven years old, a pair of javalinas, and a coyote. I heal them and then head back to the island, where the people there are staring at me. I am pissed off at their sadistic behavior, I tell them if they like burning so much, they would be the ones to burn. I use Damage, Inc. to start a fire that encircles the entire city, preventing escape. The fire spreads rapidly inwards, I get the feeling there are some in there that can be saved… so I fly into the city and use telekinesis to lift them out of the path of the fire. There aren't many of them… I check, but these people don't seem to believe in pets… so all that is left in the city are a bunch of assholes. I set the people I have pulled out onto the ground, using a healing spell on them just before I wake up again. This time I get up.

Notes: Plans for this night included meeting up with MoSh, Asuka, and their kids, and the girl who seems to have adopted me about three months ago, her name is Dala, and we were going to go on a pirate treasure hunt. Other plans included the Dreamviews tasks of the year. There have been a few problems with my recall, due to a rather heated incident on one of the Dreamviews forums that involved some arguing, deleted posts, and me getting really pissed off… which unfortunately that has caused some difficulty with my recall, but I am going to post what I do remember here. I have threatened not to post here any more, but if you're here reading this, you are more important than some childish tantrum I might be having.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Treasure of the Lost Island
I am on a beach with MoSh, Asuka, their kids, and Dela, the girl who adopted me about three months ago after I found her about to be burned alive. So now the group of us is on the beach, I see there is a pirate ship out in the water, as well as a couple of row boats pulled up on the beach. All of us pile onto the boats and head out to the ship, which I soon recognize as the Black Pearl from the Pirates of the Caribbean series. We reach the ship shortly, and want to board. I see Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Caribbean series, and he lets us all on in exchange for a quantity of rum which I summon, much to his amazement. The kids are all playing about on the ship, running here and there, Jack says if they want to be on the ship, they will have to be proper pirates… though he isn't saying it in a mean way or anything, he is getting the kids into the roles of being pirates, which they take to right away. We have a map showing a possible location of an island where there is treasure, but the islands have not even been confirmed… perfect to check it out. So all of us assume the roles of pirates and head for the island, I make efforts to stay really close to Jack Sparrow. We navigate through a series of strangely placed whirlpools, and find some islands hidden in the center. The map shows the location of the treasure on the island, we go ashore and follow the map, digging up the treasure at the end.

Flying a Chopper
I am running through a building, I am being chased, but I am not lucid. I am going up the stairs in an attempt to get away. I know if they even get a direct line of sight on me they will shot me, and I will be killed… so I have to go faster. I keep trying the doors that lead out of the stairwell into the different levels, but they are all locked. I keep going until I finally find one that opens, it leads out onto the roof. I climb a ladder to the right of the door and keep going up, though I don't know where I'm supposed to go now, I just want to be sure they won't see me too soon. I find there is a helicopter sitting on the roof, there is a helicopter landing pad, I think the helicopter must be a hospital helicopter. I think it is fitting since I had just come out of a hospital, though this is the first time I have thought of the place as a hospital. Where do I go now? I get to the helicopter and open the door, climbing in. I look at the controls, close the door, and I see the controls look like a video game controller. Due to the familiarity of the controls I am able to start the chopper and lift off into the air just as the people after me climb onto the helipad. They shoot at me, but they miss on all counts… I fly away from the hospital wondering if I will be in trouble for stealing the helicopter, and then I wonder if I will even be able to land it safely…

I am in a forest with a lot of other people, we are all on our way to a specific location. I don't remember where that place is, or what we are going there to do, but I figure I will find out in time. I don't have to admit I have completely forgotten everything I am supposed to remember for this mission. I think of it as a mission, but nothing about the situation triggers me to make a RC. Instead I continue following the rest of the group, doing my best to pretend I know exactly what I am doing there. We finally reach our destination, which is the top of a cliff at the edge of the forest. There are small plateaus that can be reached from the main land mass, they are a bit too far to jump to, but some fallen logs form bridges. We are attacked! I look around at the enemies, there are a variety of enemies, some of them are human, others look like orcs or goblins. Everyone is fighting, fighting with swords and shields mostly… but I have neither! So what am I supposed to do? I am watching the fight, not sure what to do, when someone approaches me on a horse… I look at the man, he looks familiar, he looks like Lucius Malfoy from Harry Potter?! He hands me a sword, commenting I seem to have lost my own, but this one would more than suffice. He adds to ride the horse if I choose, he's going in on foot from here. But make sure the horse doesn't get hurt, that's one of his best horses! With that, he charges into the battle, pulling out a sword of his own, and attacking the enemies. He is fighting on our side, but the entire situation seems odd. Before that can lead to a RC, however, I am attacked. So I act to defend myself. The details of the fight are amazingly vivid. I can't help but notice the feel of the sword as it meets resistance, as it cuts into the flesh of a man attacking me, but there is not much resistance… the sword is clearly razor sharp. I cut open one enemy attacking me, then I turn around in time to run the sword through a second enemy. I'm being attacked from behind, the sword cuts the enemy I just ran through almost in half before cutting into the next. I notice someone pushing the log bridges off of the ledge, taking enemies with them. The battle continues, the fight is still vivid, the feel of the sword cutting through my enemies… until we are victorious.

The dream seems to shift here, and now I find myself in front of a video game system playing a video game. I see I am playing the game with my ex-boyfriend, James, was all of that just a game? It didn't feel like a game, there's no way a game can be that vivid… James wants to play the game some more, he is moving his character around, looking for fights so he can level up. I am bored with that, and I hear someone in the carport, so I head out there. I am not in the house I live in right now, but instead I am in the house where I used to live somewhere around 10 years ago. I enter the carport and find my mother, and my late grandmother out there. They are arguing a bit, it seems my grandmother is angry that she is unable to drive right now. It seems she has lost her license due to poor eyesight… although being dead certainly doesn't help. They argue a bit more, so I go out into the back yard and look at the pool we have there. I am thinking I want to take a swim. It isn't especially hot, but it is far from cold, too. I put my hand in the water and find it feels nice, so I think I will go swimming. I go back into the house, I tell James I want to go for a swim. He can either keep playing games, or join me, either way. He says he will keep playing. I say ok, then I go to get my swimsuit. In another room, though it isn't my bedroom, I find the swimsuit in a closet. I take it out, and I hear a meow behind me. I look and see no sign of a cat, however. I hear more meows, I still see no cat… and then I wake up and find out the cat is not a dream cat, but rather it is a cat in my waking life… cute little Midna! I pet her and give her reason to purr, which she does. =^_^=

I am in bed, it's not my waterbed, so I know I'm dreaming. I open my eyes and see the curtains around my bed, so I even know which Hogwarts I'm at. I find my trunk at the foot of my bed, so I'm able to dress before I get out of bed. Things are going according to schedule, just like most of the other days I have spent at the Hogwarts where I am a student… I go down to the great hall, eat breakfast, then I head for classes. It is during the lunch break that things get a bit odd, the first thing I notice is Harry and Hermione huddled together talking about something urgent. I get closer and I hear they are talking about Ron, Harry is holding a piece of parchment in his one hand and is repeatedly referencing it. I figure it won't look odd for a Slytherin to be rude, so I go over and snatch the paper right out of Harry's hand, he turns around with a surprised, "Hey!" I scan the parchment quickly, it says Harry is to come alone to the old Riddle house and trade himself for Ron or they will send Ron back to Hogwarts… piece by piece. It says Harry has 24 hours to show up at the Riddle house, or he would be receiving an owl soon, and that owl would be carrying one of Ron's fingers. "These people are sure sick fucks, aren't they?" I comment. I hand the parchment back to Harry and walk away, leaving both of them confused. As I am leaving, however, I tell Harry not to do anything, Ron will be back before the end of class today. Harry is still trying to ask questions, but I hurry through the halls to get somewhere no one will see me.

I get out of the castle, then I am thinking of the best way to get into the Riddle house and come back with Ron. Well, why not give them what they want? And then make them sorry they did… I transform into Harry Potter and summon a Firebolt broom, then I take to the sky and head for where I feel the Riddle house is. I get bored flying like that, so I open a portal to get much closer. I fly over to the house on my broom, coming in for a landing in front of the house, right out in the open, so they would think they had gotten their way. A couple death eaters come out the front, so I demand they release Ron immediately. They say not so fast, they say they will take me to him. We enter a room that looks like a cellar, though the way they have it set up, it is more of a dungeon or a torture chamber. Ron is chained to a table, none other than Bellatrix Lestrange is standing over him… I blurt out that she's supposed to be in Azkaban, she sneers at me and said she obviously escaped, Lucius isn't the only one with powerful friends to help him escape Azkaban… she then mutters a couple of expletives regarding the little bitch who left her in Azkaban… I tell them to release Ron immediately, Bellatrix says she doesn't think so, she'd love to see his parents' faces when they start receiving pieces of their precious son. Ron says I shouldn't have come, but of course he thinks I am Harry. I tell Bellatrix I will give her one more chance to release Ron before I take her and leave her someplace that makes Azkaban look like a relaxing vacation getaway. She looks at me as most people look down at a small child boasting of abilities they don't have. I tell her I am being completely serious. She says I should fuck off, she'd kill me herself, but the Dark Lord wants that pleasure. I ask her if Voldemort has her check his colon while she has her face up his ass. She says I just cost Ron one of his fingers and moves towards Ron.

I figure it's time for a nice show, I focus on the song Prayer by Disturbed, like I did when giving a nightmare previously, but instead of transporting Bellatrix to another location, I blend it with Master of Puppets to make it entirely a mental nightmare… "You don't believe I can send you to your own personal hell?" I ask, "Another nightmare about to come true will manifest right now, bring to life everything that you fear…" She doesn't seem to be paying any attention to me anymore, she is beside Ron, who I think might have soiled himself, she moves to carry out her threat, to cut him, but then she stops short. She stars at Ron with a look of shocked amazement, asks how he is doing that… how is he doing what? She takes a couple steps back, and then screams, I wonder what nightmare she is now witnessing? Whatever it is, I know it is her worst fear… She backs away frantically, trips over something on the floor, and falls on her ass. One of the other death eaters asks if she is ok, she looks at him and tells him to stay away from her, stay back! The two death eaters are looking at each other, clearly perplexed. Bellatrix is still holding the knife she was going to cut Ron with, now she threatens the other two death eaters with it… she pulls out her wand and threatens them with that, too. She is babbling incoherently… While the death eaters are occupied with her, I go over and free Ron. Ron is asking me what is going on with Bellatrix, I tell him she is having a really nasty nightmare, Ron says she is awake, I say that doesn't matter with a nightmare this intense… now let's get out of here. One of the death eaters looks like he is going to try to stop us, but Bellatrix cries out as he approaches us… "NOOOOO!!! I won't let you betray me!!!" then she runs up behind him and stabs him in the back with her large knife. He falls over, she continues to stab him over and over and over again, laughing like a maniac. The other death eater tries to use a stun spell on her, she sluffs it off and charges him with the knife, covered in blood, he ends up using a death curse on her, at which point she drops dead.

I am already at the exit with Ron, the death eater is still in shock from Bellatrix's behavior, and so is Ron… he keeps repeating, "Bloody hell… bloody hell…" over and over again, I tell him we have to go now and I lead him to the exit, up and out of the Riddle house. I hand Ron the Firebolt I used to get there on, he asks what I will use, so I summon a second Firebolt, I'll use this one, of course! We take to the sky before the one remaining death eater down there even becomes visible at the door to the Riddle house. Ok, well now I am in the air and away from the Riddle house, and I don't really care if Ron sees what I can do, so I change form back into Raven Knight. Bad choice, Ron almost falls off of his broom, I reach out and steady him, I remark I thought he knew how to fly a broom. He responds with yet another repetition of, "Bloody hell!" I say that is getting rather redundant. You have made it abundantly clear that Hell is, indeed, a bloody place. Ron finally stops repeating himself, but that doesn't mean there is much of an improvement in his speech… "Why did you… how did you… why would you… but you're from… that means…" I tell him if he manages a complete sentence I might actually understand him. He finally settles on asking how I did that, I tell him it's a simple shape shifting spell I learned elsewhere. He asks why I helped him… I ask why not? If he thinks what house we're in at Hogwarts makes a difference, then he has a lot to learn. I stun him back into silence by opening a portal back to the Hogwarts area. I find Harry and Hermione, out in the grounds now, still debating what they should do about Ron when we land there, I indicate Ron, and announce not only did I get him back by the end of class, he is back by the end of lunch! Now top that! I leave the three of them there, heading off back into the castle.

Plans: No plans, but to remember something, unlike last night. The idea of dictating my dream notes, and maybe even whole dreams, is an epic fail as of now. Back to the iPod notes, if no success, back to pencil and paper to switch things up.

I wake up in bed at Hogwarts. I notice this right away since I'm not my waterbed. I roll over lazily, I really don't want to get up yet, but I feel I'm going to have to do just that. I let out a sigh and sit up in bed, I think I already know where I am, so I look for the trunk at the foot of the bed which usually contains my clothes. The trunk isn't there, and neither is the curtain around my bed. I am also alone in the room, there aren't any other beds, it is clear I have this room to myself. It takes me a couple minutes, but then I realize I'm not a student at this Hogwarts... I'm a teacher. I get out of bed and dress before heading out of my bedroom and into an office. I go from the office into a classroom, this is where I have to wait for students. I look at a book on my desk, a book entitled "Out of the Darkness" by Raven Knight. I'm sure I never actually wrote that book, but it is there. I look in the book and I see the next spell to be taught is Whiplash, which can reflect any spell back at its caster. A very useful spell. Usually I start with this one, but somehow I got distracted onto other spells this time. I haven't waited long before students start coming inside, I watch them enter and take their seats, some of them are acting particularly immature, those someones are Draco, Crabb, Goyle, Harry, and Ron. They finally take their seats so class can begin. I show them the spell Whiplash, we practice it, but nothing unusual happens. I finish teaching the other classes without incident, too.

Plans: My goals for this night included completing the Dreamviews task of the year that involves opening the Ark of the Covenant from the first Indiana Jones movie, I planned on doing this with Nomad. It seems Nomad remembered me doing that with him, but unfortunately, I don't remember the dream. I vaguely remember seeing Nomad in a fragment, which leads me to believe it was a true shared dream which I don't recall, but since I don't remember it I can't count it towards the task of the year. I also have the plan of completing the tree task for the Lucidity Powers Trials Club, since I have only four more nights to complete that and have it count. Again, epic fail. MoSh asked me to use a healing spell on a friend of his, Saim, who is a woman he has both spoken with online and dreamed with. This task I completed. Hmmm… one out of three goals completed… better than none, but not great.

I use my light / sound machine as I fall asleep and I slip directly into a WILD…

I am inside MoSh's inner world, inside his house. I look around and see that he is right there with Asuka, and both of them are looking at me as if they had been expecting me. I have to pause and think for a bit before I remember the reason why I might be there, and soon I remember that MoSh wants me to use a healing spell on Saim, someone he has been sharing dreams with recently. So I tell MoSh that if he can get me to Saim's dream, and it is ok with her for me to be there, I am ready to try a healing spell on her. MoSh says Saim could really use some positive energy, I say I will be glad to help with that. MoSh says he has to find Saim in a dream first, and the last place he saw her was in Hogwarts, so maybe we should look for her there. So I follow MoSh through the house and out a door into the grounds around Hogwarts school. We are heading up towards Hogwarts when I hear Hagrid say hi to us from off to the left, we stop and look over there. Hagrid seems to want to talk… he says we are doing great in the tournament, we're giving Hogwarts something to be proud of. He says Harry usually does that, too, except that Malfoy kid screwed things up for him in the second challenge. I tell Hagrid I don't think the blame goes entirely on either of them, when I saw them, they were both acting about as mature as a five year old. Hagrid doesn't seem to agree with that possibility, he says he knows the Malfoys better than I do, and… I tell him I know the Malfoys better than he may think. MoSh says we have something we need to do, so we had better head up to the castle.


MoSh and I go up to the castle, and we go inside, intending to look around for Saim. I wonder if there is really any reason to believe she will be here, or if we are just playing a hunch. I try to focus on finding her, though I'm not really sure what I am looking for, so it doesn't seem to be working very well. We look around for a while longer, then it turns out MoSh definitely knows where he is going, he finds her in one of the halls, it seems she is looking for him. She takes his arm and tries to lead him off somewhere. MoSh says I am there to help her get some extra positive energy going. So I use the song spell "You Are Loved" by Josh Groban, which transfers positive energy to Saim in the form of golden and blue energy. Once that is done, MoSh and Saim are over there talking to each other, so I just kind of slip out. I head out of the castle and start wandering around the grounds, feeling very much alone. So I find a spot behind the castle where there aren't any people, a place where I can just sit down and be alone. I spend a bit of time wallowing in self-pity, feeling sorry for myself for the fact there is no one out there for me in my waking life… I am just sitting there by myself and letting out some negative energy by crying when I hear someone behind me, there is someone else here?! That is not good… I hear Draco behind me saying it took forever to find me, what was I doing back… at this point I turn around to look at who is there, at which point Draco stops in the middle of his sentence, he asks if I am crying. I get up quickly and say of course I'm not, then I head quickly around a corner before waking myself up.

Plans: For tonight the main plan was to go to Hogwarts and complete the second challenge in the Tri-School Tournament. There is still another challenge for the Lucidity Powers Trials Club, and I am deciding if I am going to take on the Tasks of the Year from the DV forums or not. Some of them sound like interesting situations, though nothing really sounds like a serious challenge. And there are the two Hogwarts schools I have been visiting, not just the one. I used my light/sound machine to successfully slip into a WILD.

I am in the dorm room at Hogwarts, and I immediately realize I am dreaming because I am at the beginning of a WILD. I see the others in my room are already heading downstairs to the common room. Andie says she was just going to check to see if I was still alive in there. I said yeah, and I'll be right down, so I get dressed really quickly and hurry down to the great hall where breakfast is being served. Draco is in a singularly bad mood, he says having to be partners with Potter is really annoying, great… Draco is bitching again. I tell him it is only one challenge, we can both get through one challenge. I have implied I don't like the situation that well, but I am really glad to be working with MoSh on this one. Draco says he will show Potter who the real wizard is. I tell him neither of them will look good if they fight amongst themselves… Draco doesn't respond to that, he gets up and leaves the great hall, leaving part of his breakfast still on his plate. I finish mine and then go over to say hi to MoSh before going to class. Harry and Hermione are both there, Hermione asks if I have seen Ron anywhere. I say no, I don't think Ron would want to be hanging around with me anyway. Harry tells Hermione she worries too much, Ron has no doubt run off somewhere to hide and sulk for a while. He'll be back soon.

Other than the fact Ron is consistently missing throughout the day, all of my classes go normally. Snape sees fit to announce that Ron's absence is merely an example of how unreliable the Gryffindor students really are, which makes a lot of people mad. Hermione asks McGonagall if she has seen any sign of Ron, McGonagall says she hasn't seen Ron since the previous day. Hermione seems more worried than ever, and while Harry says he is sure Ron is just being immature, he seems a bit worried, too. The classes are cut short for the day due to the challenge being in the afternoon, and we all meet outside at the Quiddich field. The exact challenge is revealed, there are dragons out there, the dragons are guarding their eggs. Of course the eggs they are guarding right now are fake, so no real eggs are at risk of being damaged, and there is also one golden egg amongst the other fake eggs. The goal of the task is to get in past the dragon and retrieve the golden egg. I meet up with MoSh and Hermione, since we are designated to be partners in this one. I see Draco and Harry a short distance away, it looks like they are already arguing about something… great… But they aren't my concern right now.

MoSh, Hermione, and I make our way through the short course to find the dragon is in a cave at the end of a narrow canyon. I notice that Hermione seems a bit distracted, apparently she is still concerned about Ron… MoSh suggests we get this done with quickly, he and I will distract the dragon, and she can just hurry in and grab the egg. Hermione says that is too dangerous, both MoSh and I dismissed that, saying we would be fine… Hermione just wants to get done and see if Ron is around anywhere, so she goes with the plan. I go to one side of the canyon, MoSh goes to the other side. We climb up the steep canyon walls and reach the top soon. I look back down towards the entrance of the cave and see the dragon standing there, looking around, vigilant for any possible intruders. I want to get his attention, so I summon up a broom to fly on, I don't want to announce too loudly that I'm from another world, and I fly down right in the dragon's face, the dragon responds by sending a blast of fire at me. I dodge out of the way of the fire and pull out away from the dragon. A blast of fire follows me from the cave as I fly up and past MoSh, who does something that sends the blast of fire right back at the dragon. That didn't actually hurt the dragon, but it definitely pissed it off, so the dragon comes out from the cave and heads up towards MoSh. I call down a bolt of lightning that hits the dragon, I know it won't actually hurt the dragon either… but it did piss it off some more. The dragon takes to flight and comes after me now, I fly into the sky with the dragon right behind me. I look back and see Hermione going into the cave, and she comes out with a golden egg. Ok, all done. We all go through a tunnel we used to get into the canyon, barely outrunning one more blast of fire as the dragon follows us to the tunnel and tries to toast us from behind.

There are a few more people disqualified from the tournament, though it looks like most everyone finished. In fact, if it wasn't for the fact one of the teams from one of the other schools didn't finish at all, Harry and Draco would have both been disqualified since they came in last place. Both of them are yelling at each other, blaming each other, calling each other idiots among other even less flattering names… to be honest, both of them looked about as mature as a little kid having a temper tantrum because they didn't get what they want. Hermione rolls her eyes when she sees them, she makes a comment about boys being immature. MoSh pretends to take offense at that, she says she present company excluded. She heads over to Harry and Draco, who are yelling at each other and even pointing wands at each other… I go over there, too, so I can get Draco to leave without actually getting into a magic fight with Harry… Hermione is doing the same thing with Harry… and we are successful in doing that. Although I end up getting quite an earful about how Harry tried using some hairbrained plan instead of listening to his plan, which would have definitely worked… I am figuring Hermione is getting the same story with Draco being in the role of moron…