non-lucid

Plans: This is my first night of the new year, though I don't have any special plans going on for tonight. This may or may not have contributed to the fact I have only a couple fragments of non-lucid dreams to post, which while these dreams are insignificant and dumb, I am journaling them to stay in the habit of remembering and journaling.

Free the Holiday
I am in an office, this is where I work, and there is an office meeting going on right now. I look around the room and see the other people I work with, and also the boss is in there addressing all of us. I am sitting at a computer, working on finishing up a system backup of one of the many servers I am responsible for. I am in the data center of a hospital working as a computer operator, which means I am also responsible for answering phones and responding to issues that users throughout the hospital may have… and this is the part I hate. And it is because of this that I am completely miserable right now, sitting there at the computer, looking at the phone, actually afraid that it could ring at any moment. And while the whole team is present in the office, I am the one currently on duty, so if the phone rings I will have to answer it. While I am afraid of the phone ringing, the boss is talking about an upcoming holiday, saying an operator will have to be on duty for the holiday, and we are taking turns covering holidays so no one person is forced to work on all of the weekends. He is now announcing the person who will have to work on the upcoming holiday, and he indicates a black man who I know works the same shift I have… so at least I won't have to work that holiday. He is getting mad, however, saying that since I just started work here I should have to work for the holiday instead of him. The boss isn't pleased with the other man's attitude, he says the holiday schedule is based on taking turns, it's not based on seniority, and it is his turn now, so he will work on the holiday. I feel some degree of relief that at least I won't have to work on the holiday.

Poison Desert
I am out in the desert around my house, it is sunny out, though it isn't especially hot. I decide to take a shortcut through some open desert so that I can get home a bit quicker, so I follow a trail I know off into the desert. It is a fairly long trail, and I haven't really explored the entire area, so this will be a first for me. I come to a place where there is a large sewer tunnel entrance, and there is a small warehouse type building next to that with some equipment and stuff in it that is used in the sewer system. I think it is odd that there aren't any roads leading to the warehouse, so I decide to investigate. I go over and look into a window, where I see many barrels of toxic waste… or I am assuming they are toxic due to the radiation symbols all over them as well as the skulls and crossbones. One of them is being emptied into the sewer system, and that seems like a really bad thing, so I think I need to get some evidence and turn these idiots in. I am considering breaking into the place when I see there are people in there, so I had better wait until there aren't any people there. I move a bit away from the building and then I notice there is someone coming out… shit… I do a couple stretches on my legs and then I take off down the trail jogging as if nothing is wrong at all, as if I haven't seen anything out of the ordinary. The man is yelling to get my attention, I don't want to stop because he might be suspicious, so I keep going, pretending I haven't heard him. As I get out of sight, I put my earphones in figuring if he catches up and says something I can say I had my music turned up too loud. Would that work? No clue. I continue, moving at a good speed, until I finally reach a main road. I head down the street towards my house, which isn't the house I currently live it, it is the house I lived in previously, and I haven't lived there for about 10 years…

12/29/10 Happy Birthday MoSh!
Plans: MoSh wants to have a party tonight, I don't really feel up to it, but I will attend because it is for MoSh's birthday and I don't want to miss that. So now I am trying to think of a gift to get MoSh... Q has found some interesting information for Asuka if she will trust in it to work... basically it's a symbiant, it maintains a steady energy flow, in exchange it feeds off of a small portion of that energy to live. The purpose of the symbiant is to keep the host from losing control of their energy. And before that happens, Q is going to remove Walms' AoH since Asuka seems so paranoid about it…

Happy Birthday, MoSh! The Cake Has an Asuka Filling!
I am at a party, I look around and see quite a few different people around, though I don't immediately recognize any of them. I am lucid, though I don't remember how I became lucid. I remember the purpose of the party… it's to celebrate MoSh's birthday, so now I am looking for the birthday boy. I make my way through the party, there is music playing but I don't recognize the band, so I keep looking after I grab a Coke off of a table with various refreshments. I take a drink and discover it's a Coke and rum, but that's not a bad thing for me. I finally find MoSh, he is talking to a couple of people, I think one of them might be Nomad, though I don't actually get a chance to look really closely at him before he disappears. I get MoSh's attention, and I tell him I have brought him a big 'ol cake! I don't actually have the cake yet, but I figure that isn't a problem since it is a dream. I summon up a massive cake… what a cake…

there are multiple tiers and cupcakes around it and candles and it's brightly colored… and it wishes MoSh a "Happy Birthday" in big letters. It is like the cake here, but there aren't the gifts on top, instead it has a third tier. I summon that cake up and say "Happy Birthday" to MoSh as I present him with the cake. He looks at it, but before he even has a chance to respond, Asuka comes jumping out of the cake and lands right in front of him, completely covered with cake and laughing like a school girl. My cake… I look at the ruins of my cake all over the ground now, or at least part of it is on the ground… the rest of it is on Asuka… Asuka suggests MoSh eat the cake off of her, and adds that she is not wearing anything underneath… ok, that is definitely TMI. I form the mess back into the original cake, except for the part on Asuka… I would prefer to have a piece of cake that has NOT been in contact with Asuka's ass… With that thought in mind, I am finding I have lost my appetite… so I just go back to the beverage table and grab another Coke and rum.

Puff the Magic Dragon
I am at school, I am running late for class. The problem is that I am also hungry, and I don't really have time to stop to get something to eat. So I run into the cafeteria and grab the quickest thing I can, which turns out to be a glazed donut and a raspberry Danish, and then I run straight to class without even stopping to pay… though I also notice that no one seems to care if I walk off with the food. Run off is more accurate, however, as I am late for class and I run down the hall so fast I run right past my classroom door. I have to skid to a stop and go back to the door, then I enter and take one of the few empty seats left in the room. I set my backpack down beside my desk and reach inside to get out my book. I also find I have a couple stuffed animals in there, one of them is a dragon. I set the dragon up under my desk, at my feet, so I can look down and see it looking back up at me. It's cute, and that distracts me from the rude comments that seem to be coming from all around me. Comments about why did I even bother coming, comments about those who are close to me not wanting to be that close to me, comments about me being disgusting…

The instructor continues droning on, not paying any attention to the fact I came in late, and I am trying to catch up with what is being said. I take a bite of my donut, but when I lift it up to take a bite, everyone stares at me as if they are angry that I would even consider eating something in there. So I hide the donut back under my desk again and just take covert little bites. I notice that the donut isn't getting eaten up… it seems to be getting bigger somehow, and soon the donut is approximately the size of a pool life preserver ring… I can't eat all that! I pull off a piece and eat it, then I pull off another piece and feed it to the stuffed dragon under my desk. I hear a couple people behind me, a couple of guys, laughing loudly that I am feeding donuts to a stuffed animal, how retarded is that? I ignore them as best as I can, and I continue eating the donut and feeding the dragon. Strangely enough, the pieces of donut I am giving the dragon are disappearing, actually being eaten! The idiots behind me continue laughing until the dragon actually comes to life, flies out from under my desk, and bathes both of them in a blast of fire. The fire doesn't prove lethal, but it does leave them with soot blackened faces and no hair remaining on their heads…

A Friend for Asuka
Note: MoSh suggested that, to help Asuka learn to be more confident in controlling her own powers so that she will be willing to actually defend herself, maybe we should seek out a trainer or trainers that can help her with her specific issue - which seems to be a fear of losing control. Q took this task on, and he discovered there is a group of people living in a world, they live a lot like monks tend to live… they are called the Teshnons, and their focus in life is training, learning, and achieving balance with all things. There was once a major obstacle to the peace they seek, however. They have a considerable power level which they focus into their fighting style, which they will use when necessary to defend themselves and maintain peace. The problem was that many of them found it difficult to keep control of that power, they found when in a fighting situation, even just training, they could lose control, so they were considering banning one of their most valued traditions due to the fact that many of them would lose control of the powers they were trying to use only for protection, only when absolutely necessary.

Then disaster struck, or they thought it was disaster at the time… an alien race, called the Nes'tulk, came to their world. The Nes'tulk are a parasitic race that latch onto another species, implant themselves in their host much like a Goa'uld, and they drain the host's energy to replenish their own. When they drain all of the host's energy, they break out and seek another host. So the Teshnons and the Nes'tulks were at war for a while until it was discovered that many of the Nes-Tulks didn't really want to harm their hosts, they just wanted to survive… but they were forced to drain as much energy as possible from the host, as quickly as possible, or the host would fight them off and kill them. Once it was discovered that many Nes'tulks would prefer peace, the Teshnons and the peaceful Nes'tulks defeated the war loving Nes'tulks and then a truce was called. Each Teshnon would accept one Nes'tulk as a symbiant, the Nes'tulk could implant itself in its Teshnon host, and take what energy it needs to survive… which the average Teshnon can easily afford to provide without any harm to themselves. In return, the Nes'tulk will regulate the flow of the Teshnon's energy so that it is no longer a problem for any of the Teshnons to keep control of their power. This has remained a mutually beneficial arrangement for the past 150 years in their world. Enough of the background info… on with the dream.

The Teshnons and the Nes'tulks
I am in MoSh's inner world, and I am there with Asuka and MoSh, and I am once again lucid even though I am not sure when or how I became lucid. It looks like the party is over, I remember there being a party there earlier for MoSh's birthday… and now MoSh and Asuka are looking at me expectantly as if I am supposed to do something… but I am not sure what they are looking for me to do. Finally, Q appears next to me and says he will take all of us to see the Teshnon masters, to see if they will be willing to accept Asuka as a pupil. If they accept Asuka as a pupil, she will be given a Nes'tulk symbiant, and the Teshnon masters will train Asuka to fight while keeping full control over her power with the assistance of the Nes'tulk symbiant. He says before anything is to be done, of course, Asuka, the Teshnon master who is to train Asuka, and the Nes'tulk who is to be her symbiant will all have to be in agreement that this is the course they want to take. I notice that Asuka looks a bit skeptical, but Q adds that he thinks everyone should meet each other before anyone makes any final decisions, just meet and talk things over, then if anyone is uncomfortable with the arrangement in any way, we look for another potential trainer. He says that while he feels the Teshnon masters would be ideal to train Asuka and the Nes'tulk is just what she needs to keep control, there are many other trainers and techniques out there to explore. He asks Asuka if she will agree to meet with the Teshnon masters, she pauses, then says she will meet with them, as long as MoSh comes along.

Asuka says that before we go to meet anyone, she still wants to get rid of Walms' AoH that is inside her, and those damned strings that could be used to control her power… the last thing she wants is for Walms to have access to control her powers whenever he decided he was especially annoyed at her. Q says he looked at the control strings carefully, and there is no sign of any foul play associated with them… they do what Walms said they do, nothing more, nothing less. Additionally, no one could take those control strings without Asuka's permission… so unless she gave Walms permission to take them back, it wasn't going to happen. And as for the AoH itself, there is no harm in that, either… So Asuka and Q spend a brief time arguing about whether the AoH and control strings are meant to cause harm to her, she says after all, Walms had already tried to kill her once. Q gets sarcastic at this point and says sure, whenever he really wants to kill someone he poisons them and then contacts friends of that person and tells them how to cure it. Q rolls his eyes and has a look on his face similar to the look I've seen on Q in the Star Trek series when he is trying to get a particularly obvious piece of information to become obvious to a particularly dense and cranky Piccard.

Asuka looks impatient, and apparently Q decides it's not worth arguing about. He says he will remove the control strings and the AoH, he adds that to be honest, he's not sure how the AoH would interact with the Nes'tulk symbiant. He says that the removal of the AoH isn't the most pleasant procedure, so a very intricate system would have to be set up to do it… first he will need a ????? (I didn't understand the word, so I can't type it.) and a ????? so they could alter Asuka's energy flow to match the frequency of the ????? at which point they could… by now Asuka is just staring at Q with a blank look on her face… Q continues, he says they can invert the ????? of the control strings themselves in order to ????? a ????? to the AoH and then… RIP! While Q had been talking, he had been fiddling with some energy strings of some kind… apparently the control strings… and now he gives a sharp pull on them, which pulls something out of Asuka, leaving a wound just above her solar plexus. Q contains the thing he pulled out in an energy sphere and puts it away. MoSh is mad, he asks why Q had to do that, Q says sometimes it is just easier to pull a Band-Aid off in one quick tug rather than try to take it off gently. He heals the wound and asks if everyone is ready to go. MoSh says Q could have at least warned Asuka, but Asuka says it's ok, she prefers that it is taken out quickly… now it's gone.

So Q now takes all of us to the Teshnon masters' temple, which is where the masters live and train the various Teshnon pupils once the pupil is of age to receive a Nes'tulk symbiant. We go to meet one of the Teshnon masters, he is a very old man indeed, though he also looks very strong. He says they are a peaceful people, they are focused on martial arts, energy control, and seek to achieve both inner and outer peace with all things. We all talk for a while, the talking and information seems to put Asuka a bit more at ease. The Teshnon finally says he thinks Asuka would be an excellent candidate for their training, and even now they have a couple young Nes'tulks that are reaching the age that they will need a host. MoSh questions that if they are young, will they know how to keep Asuka's powers under control… The Teshnon master says of course, that is actually a natural instinct of theirs, and by the time a young Nes'tulk is ready for a host they are more than capable of keeping any energy flow stable and under control. So at this point I think things are settled… until the Teshnon master says something about setting up Asuka's quarters there at the temple. Asuka says she won't be living there, but the Teshnon master says she must stay with them if she wants to get the most from her training. MoSh also doesn't like the idea of Asuka being away from him. I think that might be a deal breaker, but then I remember the connection between MoSh's inner world and Hogwarts… and I suggest setting up a similar connection to the Teshnon masters' temple. Everyone is quiet for a bit, and I wonder if maybe I said something wrong… but finally the Teshnon master says that would be acceptable for their part, as long as Asuka can focus on her training and the gateway is kept secure. Q says it would have to be secure. So finally everyone is in agreement on a plan, all I can do is hope they will be able to make this one work.

12/27/10 The Dark Half
Plans: Once again there are no real plans, thought I hope I might remember some stuff at Hogwarts, in either the one where I'm a student or the one where I'm an instructor. There are also new tasks from a group in DV, Lucidity
Power Trials Club... those challenges include finding a world where a huge evil tree is draining the life energy of the planet, kick the ass of the person who planted it, then stop the tree... and the other is task to beat Sonic the Hedgehog in a race. That's not really a goal yet, though, since I posted a question regarding that and I am waiting for an answer. With no specific plans, I didn't do my WILD tonight, but I do have recall of a non-lucid dream…

I am on vacation in somewhere in California, I think it was somewhere around Disney Land, which is where I have been spending my time. I want to go back and spend some more time there, but I think I had better check to make sure my plane flight is going to be on schedule before I go off having fun on my last day here. I have one more night available to me in the hotel I have been staying at, so I want to be sure I have my flight lined up to leave the next day. I have some things with me, I have a digital camera, my iPod Touch, and there is an assortment of crap in my purse that I don't bother looking at nor do I remember what I crammed in there. So I drive to my hotel room first, I go inside and look around before grabbing some money I have stashed in one of the drawers. I leave the hotel room, then I take a cab to the airport, after all, who wants to fight the traffic and find parking at an airport when it isn't necessary? So I pay the cab driver and go into the airport to find some information on my flight, which is flight 1218 heading to Tucson, leaving the next day. I check at an information stand, but they don't know anything… I look at a couple of the schedule boards, there is no mention of my flight. Could it be too early to get information on my flight? No, it's not, I can tell that because there are flights listed from the day after tomorrow, just not mine. This is a bit annoying, and it gets me a bit concerned that my flight may have been canceled, so I had better check around some more. First I need to use the bathroom, though, so I head to a restroom. I enter the room and see there are many stalls along the left side, and mirrors and sinks along the right side. A woman comes in and says hi before going into one of the stalls. I feel a bit dizzy, so I sit down in a seat in what looks like a small waiting area. I close my eyes and wait for my head to clear…

Missing time…

I feel like I have lost consciousness briefly, but now I am awake again, so I get up. I look at the clock on my iPod, and I see that the time is 4:52 pm, but that doesn't tell me a lot since I don't remember what time it was when I got to the restroom in the first place. I walk over to the sinks, I no longer feel like I need to use the bathroom, but I do need to wash up a bit. When I look in the mirror, however, I see that I am not myself. I am a young girl, more of a teenager, I estimate my age to be about 15 or so… This does seem a bit strange, but then it doesn't seem strange enough for me to do a RC. The other thing I notice takes my attention away from the fact I am not myself. I am covered in blood! I have long dark brown hair coming down to about the middle of my back, and it is curly and shiny, I have a pretty face… and my face is almost completely covered in blood! There is also blood on my clothes, blood on my hands, blood everywhere, and I don't know where it came from. I wash it off of me as well as I can, then I look around the bathroom to see if there's anyone else in there. I don't see anyone… I have discovered the blood is not my own, as I am not injured in any way… so I look in my purse and somehow find I have some extra clothes with me… I don't remember packing extra clothes… but I go into one of the stalls to put the clothes on. In the stall I find the woman from earlier, she is dead, she has been badly beaten… it looks like she has been clawed a lot, her face has been scratched and clawed at, her eyes have been clawed right out of her head… YUCK! I hear someone else come into the room. He looks at the body, then at me, then asks what I have done… I try to say I didn't do anything, but he isn't ready to listen, so I run from the room and around a few corners, then into an elevator, I want to put distance between myself and the body. When I get into the elevator, the first thing I do is change my clothes, and wait until I am several floors away from the restroom with the dead body.

I am now heading down a hall on a different floor, I wonder if I am safe, I think the man down there has no way of knowing who I am, so I there is no way they can track the event to me. I go into a bathroom, I am looking to relax a bit, I splash some water in my face, dry it off, then I head back out into the airport. I am having trouble focusing on what I need to do, which is find out what is happening with my flight, right now I just want to find someplace to rest. I leave the bathroom and see there are quite a few people in the hall outside, there is a black woman out there who seems to think I should know her, I am not aware of who she is… then a name comes to mind, the name of someone I knew in high school named Jamilia, she pretended to be my friend but then turned her back because I didn't want to go to her church… so she is not really someone I want to talk to, so I continue pretending I have no idea who she is. I say I have never met her, and then I walk away. But she doesn't want to let it go that easily… she follows me, keeps going at it, then she finally tells me her name and expects a certain reaction, I am not interested, she is just giving me a headache… I want to get away from her now…

Missing Time…

I am in a closet, or a storage room is more likely since it is too big for a closet… and Jamilia is there, or her body is. She is lying up against one of the walls, her face and body have been clawed, her face is frozen in a perpetual look of pain and fear, and her eyes are missing. I then realize I am holding the eyes in my hand… yuck again! I drop the eyes and hurry out of the store room, then I realize I am once again covered in blood, so I duck back into the store room. I look around for supplies, I clean myself up a bit, snag some clothes from a laundry bag… they don't fit very well, but it looks a lot less out of place than the blood. I leave the bathroom, though I am hearing a voice as if it is speaking into my ear, the voice sounds desperate, the voice sounds scared, it is the voice of a young girl… the voice says she doesn't know how to make it stop, please help her make it stop… but how can I make it stop? I think it will have to be done in a dream, in the girl's dream… I am about to leave the airport, but I find I am being ushered onto a small plane. I tell them I need to leave, but the guard pushing me onto the plane says it isn't safe, there is a vicious killer on the loose, another body was just discovered on this floor… so I let them push me onto the plane. I am expecting the plane to take off, but instead it just taxies across the runway to a place where there are a lot of beds set up in a big tent, the beds are there for the stranded passengers to sleep until their flights leave. I say I'm not staying there since I have a hotel room for another night, so I hail a cab and head straight back to the hotel. I can still hear the girl speaking to me, she is telling me she hasn't been able to sleep at all or the "other one" comes out… I tell the girl I think I can help, but we need to get into a dream state to do that. The hotel room is a good place to do this. I go into the room, over to the bed, where I lie down and focus on slipping into a WILD…

Dream Within a Dream
As I enter the dream within a dream, I am lucid now, fully aware that I am in a dream, what I still fail to realize is that it was a dream before I lied down to get into this WILD. I am in a very pretty place, there is green grass, it looks like a beautiful meadow, and there are flowers around the outside edge… the trees are so green, and the sky is so blue, the tall grass is blowing gently in the breeze. There is a girl there, about 15, she has long curly dark brown hair, a pretty girl, and she is flying a kite, the kite is all the colors of a rainbow. She looks over at me, looks briefly alarmed, then relaxes. She says she thought I was "the other" coming back again. She said "the other" would surely be here soon, and then she would have to leave and wake up, or "the other" would wake up and do something horrible… usually ends up killing someone… The girl turns her attention back to the kite.

Someone else is entering the meadow, but this one is coming in what looks like a cloud of death, the grass is dying where she walks, there is a cloud of darkness surrounding her… but when she gets closer I can see it is an exact twin of the girl with the kite. She looks to be about 15, long curly dark brown hair, but instead of a bright smile she has a dark glare on her face. She seems to be ignoring me completely, she goes over to the light girl and says she isn't going anywhere, so the light girl will just have to accept it. The light girl says no, she says she hates the dark girl, and will find a way to get rid of her darker half. I tell the girl that I know how to solve her problem, the dark girl tells me to stay out of it, she'd had enough of those stupid adults interfering with things. The light girl says she knows what the dark girl is, she is a demon, a monster from hell, go away! The dark girl says she isn't going anywhere, never!

I somehow know the two of them have to be one to be stable, they aren't two separate people, but two halves of the same girl. I tell the light girl this is really very easy to fix… they need to be at peace, though. She says she will never make peace with a demon, I tell her it's the only way to be free of it. The light girl looks at me doubtingly, then at the dark girl… I get them standing, facing each other, their energies are the same frequency since they are the same person… I tell them to take each others' hands and look into each others' eyes, and with that acceptance, the conflict would be over. The dark girl seems very willing to do this, though the light girl still seems doubtful. The dark girl says something that surprises me… she tells the light girl to stop rejecting her, they're supposed to be sisters… I tell the light girl she just needs to do this one thing, and her trouble will pass… just please trust in that. I am hoping my energy is showing that this can be trusted. Finally the light girl complies… and when they do, the two girls become one… the girl says the other one is gone! But no… she says she still feels the presence inside her… but maybe that's ok…

I wake up in the hotel room bed, now I notice that there is a young girl lying on the bed next to me, the girl is waking up at the same time as I am. She looks over at me with a strange look on her face, and she says she had the strangest dream… and I was in it. I tell her I visited her dream, but she says that's crazy talk… but she does know I am here to help her with "the other" that keeps coming to take over. She says she thinks she will be ok, though, she feels different now. She says she can still feel the presence of "the other," but it didn't feel like a bad thing now… in fact, that presence was rather comforting. I tell her that is because there may come a time when she needs "the other" as she calls it to come partly forward to protect her, but there would be no more of having "the other" taking complete control and then going out of control. She looks at me for a bit and then smiles, she says she isn't sure why, but she believes that now… she looks sad then… she says she doesn't know how she will make up for those who "the other" killed… I tell her that is over now, no one is in danger. She says she wants to go home… wait… what time is it? She has a plane to catch! If she isn't on the plane when her mom comes to pick her up, there's no way she will get to go on another weekend on her own until she's 40! She hurries out of the hotel room, then she pauses, returns and gives me a big hug. She says she doesn't know what I did, but thank you… she runs from the hotel room again, and I wake up.

12/26/10 Healing Dreams
Plans: I didn't really have any major plans when I fell asleep last night, Christmas was over, and I'd spent some time playing games on my new Xbox 360 Kinect, which actually does involve some exercise… and my body is sooooo not used to any kind of exercise that I went and tired myself after about an hour and a half of active gameplay… is that pathetic or what? So my main thought was to get some sleep, which I accomplished, but not much in the way of dream recall... a couple of fragments.

Holding My Last Breath
I am in a hospital, I am walking down the halls even though I am not sure why I am in the hospital. It's like I have forgotten so much, am I there to visit someone? Am I there as a patient? Damn, I wish I could remember something, I am wondering what is wrong with me when the idea I might be dreaming occurs to me… and I do a RC by pinching my nose. When I am still able to breathe, I realize that I am dreaming.

I look around the hospital hallway, trying to figure out where I am and what I should be doing there. I remember that I didn't have any specific goals for the night, so I am thinking that I must be there for some kind of purpose, since that is usually the case when I appear somewhere randomly. There are doctors everywhere, even what appear to be a couple of patients walking in the halls, but no clue as to why I am there. I look into one of the rooms and I see someone in there with severe burns, he doesn't look good at all. I glance around, then I go into the room and focus on a healing spell for him, the result is his burns quickly heal over. The man looks at me and says it's a miracle and I must be an angel of some kind, sent down to mend his wounds. His ranting and thanking me gets more attention than I want, and soon there are several doctors and nurses in there. One of the doctors seems very happy to see me, he asks if I have come to heal the Longbottoms some more, because there has been no further improvement since I had been there last time, so if it was supposed to continue on its own, something went wrong. I now know where I am, at least… I am obviously at St. Mungo's hospital in a Harry Potter world. And maybe I was there to help with healing Neville's parents, so I follow the doctor from the room and onto an elevator that goes to another location and then opens. The doctor leads me quickly down the hall to a room numbered 657.

Inside I see that Frank and Alice Longbottom are sitting in a pair of chairs right next to each other, though each one of them seems completely oblivious to the presence of the other one. They are both staring off into some version of infinity that only they can see. So I focus on using the song My Last Breath by Evanescence to heal the two of them, and it seems to be having an effect… it looks like they are actually focused on me instead of on some parallel world that might exist only in their minds… but then as soon as the song is over, they both slip away again. It seems like my attempt was an epic failure, though the doctor says that was a very good sign, as they have had absolutely no response to any external stimuli except for my song and Neville's visits… I wonder if maybe Neville could help with the healing, since they are already showing some reaction when Neville visits, the song would give them some more stimulation… and I have the idea that once they get free of the catatonic state, there is very little chance of sliding back into it. The hard part would be getting them to that state. So I tell the doctors that I will come back to do more later, and they thank me for trying again, and then I leave the room. I am walking down the hallway, fortunately there is no one around me when I wake.

Dear Diary
Or at least I think I wake up… I roll over in bed and give off a couple yawns, I am remembering a Harry Potter dream, I really should sit up and take a few notes. Or just grab my iPod touch and take a couple notes… or grab the notebook by my bed and jot a few notes. I know I need to take notes or I might end up forgetting the dream, but it is still a difficult task to talk myself into doing it when I just want to fall back to sleep. So I grab my iPod and type in a few notes to remind me of the trip to St. Mungo's to do more healing on Neville's parents. Then I hit save, and set it back on my waterbed bookcase before rolling over and falling back asleep.

Note: I didn't realize the second part of this dream was actually a dream and not me really waking up and journaling until I checked my iPod and found there were not any notes files saved… >.<

12/24/10 You're in Hogwarts, Dummy! Do a RC!
This dream starts with a FA, as I wake up in a bed that's not my own. I roll over and lie there for a couple of minutes, then I realize I am hearing people outside of the curtains surrounding my bed. I sit up in bed and put on some clothes right there in bed before pulling the curtains aside and getting up. My roommates are in the room, they say hello to me, but it seems I have slept in a bit, and it is already time to get moving. The four of us go down into the common room where there are a lot of people talking to each other, there is a photo on the front page of Umbridge. The focus on the story is the substandard teaching going on at Hogwarts and how the students are completely disrespectful and there needs to be more discipline going on in there. That isn't what everyone is talking about, however. In spite of Umbridge's intent, her arguments were weak and had easily been rebutted by an annoyed Albus Dumbledore. To further detract from the impact of the story is the fact that there are large colored letters on Umbridge's forehead that spell out LOSER. I wonder if she has found any reprieve from having the announcement on her face… And of course since the photo is a moving one, the word on her forehead is flashing animatedly from red to blue to green to yellow… So her story is having minimal to no impact with any of the readers.

I go with everyone else down to the great hall where breakfast is being served, I look around when I get there and I spot MoSh over near the Gryffindor table talking to Harry and Hermione, Ron is there as well, and he also appears to be talking to everyone. On a whim, I go over to the group of them and give MoSh a big hug. MoSh hugs me back, and says he's glad to see me, too… what's up. Ron seems to have wanted to say something since I first put my arms around MoSh, and now he lets his big mouth run off… "Come on, now," Ron says, "That is just too disgusting, not only are you talking to a Slytherin, now you're hugging one? What's next, are you going to start snogging right here in the middle of the great hall?! Because if you do, I think I'm going to puke." MoSh says he has had just about enough of Ron's talking shit about his friends, Ron says MoSh should choose better friends then. MoSh says that does it, and he punches Ron in the face. Ron goes down pathetically easily, and he is holding his nose, which is bleeding. Ron asks if MoSh has gone mad, MoSh says he is just sick of Ron's attitude problem. MoSh says Ron keeps saying the Slytherins are a bunch of rude assholes, but the only one around here he sees acting like an asshole is Ron himself! Ron is mad, and he is looking to Harry and Hermione to back him up, but neither of them seem willing to do it. He asks what their problem is, or are they siding with the Slytherin lover? Hermione seems really hesitant, and she is trying to word what she says as gently as possible, she says that maybe Ron could at least give me a chance before assuming he knows me. Ron says he can see what was going on here, we're all tournament contestants, so anything he says is automatically wrong because he's not in the tournament, he adds that he doesn't need anyone, and storms off in a serious huff. Hermione starts to follow Ron, calling after him to wait, Ron calls back to leave him alone.

It is silent between all of us for a couple minutes, everyone is looking in the direction Ron stormed off in, I say I didn't mean to cause any problems, it's just that MoSh and I are friends regardless of which house we were each put in, and that's not about to change just because he's in Gryffindor and I'm in Slytherin. Hermione says it's not my fault, she says Ron is going to have to grow up eventually… although she really didn't see the need for punching Ron in the face… MoSh says it just pisses him off when Ron starts badmouthing me. Draco comes over behind me and asks me what I am doing over here with these… I look at him, hoping he won't say something incredibly rude, I think he is about to do just that, but he sees me looking at him and stops. He asks what I am doing over here, he says he has been waiting to talk to me. I say ok, and I say goodbye to MoSh, Harry, and Hermione to head over towards the Slytherin table with Draco. He doesn't stop at the table, however, he continues to a corner of the room where there aren't any other people. When we get there he speaks quietly, he asks how his parents are doing. I tell him they are fine, perfectly safe. I say if he wants to visit them, that can definitely be arranged. He says he would like to. I tell him we can do it after classes, or definitely sometime over the weekend. He seems satisfied with that, and we head back to the Slytherin table. Draco asks what I was doing hanging out with the Gryffindor tournament contestants anyway. I tell him MoSh is my friend, so I will be talking to him sometimes. But don't worry about anything, my friendship with MoSh has no bearing on the tournament. We finish our breakfast and then leave the great hall to our first class.

Classes go on without any problems, although I do notice that Ron is continuing to have a major league chip on his shoulder. He is not sitting with Hermione and Harry, he sits several rows away from them next to Neville Longbottom. I wonder how long Ron is going to stay pissed off this time. Ron is apparently so annoyed, however, that he screws up his potion in Potions class. There is a small explosion and a lot of foul smelling smoke coming from the vicinity of Neville Longbottom, but for once it wasn't Neville's doing… the foul odor and smoke clearly are coming from Ron's cauldron. So while Snape immediately starts yelling at Neville, when he got there he seems all too pleased to be yelling at Ron instead. Ron glares over at Hermione as if it is somehow her fault that he isn't sitting beside her to get help with his potion. Ron is doing a lot of talking to Neville, who seems a bit uncomfortable with whatever Ron is saying, but he is doing his best to hide that.

After Potions class is over, we are met at the door by McGonagall, who tells us that it is recommended for us to meet with Vegeta after we finish with lunch, Vegeta is going to tell us a few strategies that might help us in the next challenge. So after getting a quick lunch, Draco and I head out to the area where Vegeta does his training. Harry, Hermione, and MoSh are also heading there, I even spot Ron at a distance, watching the group of us as we go over to Vegeta. Vegeta is already out there waiting for us to come, he says the next challenge will allow us to take in only our wands, but obviously we will be taking our skills with us. He intends to make sure we have the skills that will help us with completing the tournament. He says contestants who have trained with him will have a distinct advantage over those who have not. Hermione asks if that is really fair to the other schools' contestants. Vegeta says of course it is, his training has been offered to all contestants, if the contestants from the other schools don't take advantage of it, that's their own fault. Draco makes some dumb comment about Ron being a dumb ugly git, and considering how Ron has been behaving here, I don't really have anything to say to deny it.

So we spend a good length of time training with Vegeta, the tournament participants have been excused from the class after lunch, so we have longer than the other students. Much of what Vegeta is teaching right now is focused on speed and agility, and then he adds in a few techniques for boosting energy levels, which in turn, will boost the power of spells cast with a normal wand. I do some of the training with MoSh, which Draco doesn't seem to like, but this time he keeps his mouth shut, not saying a single word about it. Vegeta's evasion training consists of avoiding large jets of fire that Vegeta is sending at us, this seems odd to several of the participants, others seem to understand, of course, MoSh and I know what is going to happen. Draco pulls me to the side just a bit and says Lucius had told him what the challenges would be before he got thrown in Azkaban… and this one involved stealing a golden egg from a mother dragon, so that must be why Vegeta is using fire jets for training… it's just like a dragon's fire.

There are still a couple of classes after the training is done, but those are also uneventful. In the class where Slytherin and Gryffindor are together, Ron continues to be extremely anti-social, shooting looks of anger at anyone who got too close to him except for Neville, and Neville looks like he is becoming rather uncomfortable around Ron, too… Right now Ron isn't doing too good in the friends department, since all of his friends are pretty much fed up with his attitude for now, though Hermione looks like she is really upset about the situation.

After the last class is over, I am thinking this day has been a very long day. Even though I think I have known all day, somewhere in the back of my mind, that this is a dream, I haven't been consciously thinking about or aware of the fact that I was dreaming. I have a sense of urgency, though, a sense that if I don't get Draco to see his parents soon, the chance will be missed. I tell Draco it has to be right away, or his chance to see his parents would be missed. He asks what about getting something to eat, and I say it has to be now, he can eat something with his parents, but we have to go. I lead Draco back to the Slytherin common room, which is completely empty now since most everyone else is in the great hall eating. So now what? I have to get Draco to see his parents… who are currently residing in my inner world so they won't be targeted by Voldemort… so I would open a portal… That doesn't seem like an easy task right now, considering I am not fully aware it is a dream, but I decide I can use a mirror. I end up rationalizing that I can't open just any portal while I'm awake, but I can use a mirror even if it is a dream. I open the portal using a full height mirror in the common room, then I lead Draco through it into my inner world. Q is there waiting for us, I think he knows I am about to wake up, and he says he will take Draco to see Lucius and Narcissa, and he will also take care of getting Draco back to Hogwarts, I could wake up if I need to. Wake up? Wake up from what? I'm not sleeping… I wake up, and kick myself for having that long a dream and not becoming lucid!

12/15/10 A Tale of Two Hogwartses
Plans: Go to Hogwarts, take the train to the pyramids... Nomad says he'll be there if he can. Yay! No other plans.

Field Trip
I am at Hogwarts where I teach. The students there have been many new things lately, need I think it would be a good idea to practice it all. I think maybe a simulation where they can practice without any danger, and I think of the Outer Realms training area. Do I need to ask Dumbledore before taking these kinds of trips? I think maybe I need to find out for sure before taking the students off to all corners of the reality. So I head to Dumbledore's office, looking for Dumbledore to check and make sure field trips beyond Hogwarts grounds will be ok. As I am almost to the hidden entrace to Dumbledore's office, I see a pissed Umbridge passing on her way out of Dumbledore's office. She pauses long enough to glare at me intensely, then she storms off in a huff without saying a single word. I wonder what has gotten her in such a bad mood, but then she is usually in a shitty mood, so I don't pay much attention to her. I go into the hidden office so I can ask Dumbledore about field trip. Dumbledore asks if I saw Umbridge leaving, he said she is still trying to find a way to get me kicked out of Hogwarts, and she is still failing to do so. We have a bit of a chuckly at Umbridge's expense, and then I proceed to ask Dumbledore about the field trip. At first he seems a bit hesitant, says he isn't sure if it's a good idea to be taking the students into actual danger. I tell him that there is no real danger, the place I know of is 100% safe, no one can get hurt for real there. I tell him it's more of a simulation or an illusion than anything, or more like a waking dream, something that can't really hurt anyone. I give my word that all of the students will be completely safe. After a bit more of a pause, Dumbledore says he needs to check a thing or two out first, not due to not trusting me, but he doesn't want to give certain people any valid reason to have me kicked out.

Moon Express… All Aboard!
I am outside of Hogwarts, somewhere on the grounds, but I am not certain which Hogwarts I am at... I have been there only for a couple minutes when Nomad shows up, he says he wants to go to the pyramids to meet up with other dreamers there. I say I had thought he was going to wait at the pyramids for dream class dreamers, and we would meet there when I bring the Hogwarts Express to be part of the transportation. Nomad looks at me for a bit, then he says he was going to do that, wasn't he? Then Nomad says we will take the Hogwarts Express back to the moon and meet up with the dream class dreamers anyway. Nomad and I go to the station where the Hogwarts Express drops off the students, where we find there aren't many people. There is one there who seems to be a sort of guard, so we approach him. He says that no one is allowed access to the train without Hogwarts clearance, but he quickly changes his mind when I use MoP (Master of Puppets) to make sure he agrees to let Nomad and me take the train out for a while. Both of us get into the engine of the train, and head out on the tracks. There is a tunnel that the train passes through, which makes a perfect hidden location to go through a wormhole to get to the correct dimension. When we come out of the tunnel, the tracks lead right up to the pyramids, the Giza pyramids in Egypt. I see some people there, but I have no idea who they are. I don't recognize anyone there. After the train stops, Nomad gets off and starts talking to some of the people there, and soon I see there are dragons around us, and some of the people are getting onto the train. I notice the tracks don't continue on for very far, so how are we supposed to get to the moon? Does the train fly? Well, I figure it's going to have to start flying. I pull the train away from the pyramids after everyone is on board, and the problem of the tracks is solved right away. Two beams of moonlight seem to solidify and form tracks heading up to the moon, and that is what the train rides on to get to the moon. So I drive train onto the tracks of moonlight and moonbeam tracks all of the way to the moon. The surface of the moon has been terraformed, and the station there looks like a station in a theme park I might see in Disney Land or some other place like that. I pull the train up to station where I see people getting off, but it looks like there are quite a fewer than got on… I figure that some of them woke up. I tell Nomad that I had better return train, Nomad gives me a strange look. I tell him everyone here can wake up as they would normally. So now I follow a loop in the moon tracks and now the tracks head back down to the surface of Earth. I pass by the pyramids, go through the wormhole tunnel, and I return the train to Hogwarts without anyone other than the guard I used MoP on noticing the train had ever been gone.

The Second Challenge
I am a student at Hogwarts, I am there with MoSh, I am not lucid. MoSh says we are going to be finding out about the second task of the tri-school challenge. I think that sounds pretty cool, so I follow MoSh to the room where we will be meeting. I see Draco there, though he doesn't seem to like the fact I'm hanging around with MoSh, I wonder why he should have a problem with that. MoSh says I had better go over there and get with my partner, he looks a bit jealous. Partner? Who is my partner? MoSh says Draco is, of course, maybe I should do a RC as well. I do a RC and I realize that I am definitely dreaming.

McGonagall enters the room and announces that there is going to be a meeting of tournament contestants, so since we are all together in the meeting room the room where we first gathered, it is time to give out the first clue on how the task will be done. It seems this room is to be used as a common meeting place. McGonagall tells us the standings, how everyone did in the first task. I hear someone bitching that MoSh is still there when he didn't finish, McGonagall repeats in a somewhat impatient voice that not MoSh finishing due to foul play so it doesn't count. I hear someone else say to kick Draco out for cheating. McGonagall says Draco is not responsible for his father's actions, and was not the one who cheated, now before we run out of time, let's get to business, which is the next challenge... We are getting to talking about the task when Umbridge bursts in, she immediately points at MoSh and then at me, she says MoSh and I should be disqualified. McGonagall asks on what grounds? Umbridge then indicates her own forehead, which now has large red letters on it that spell out EPIC FAILURE. Several of the people laugh briefly, causing Umbridge to scan the room to see who it is, but she is unable to determine who laughed. I use MoP on her, then I telepathically say that little problem certainly is not worth interfering with the tournament. She pauses, then she agrees out loud to something no one else even heard, and finally she says she overreacted to the writing on her face. After another brief pause, she turns and leaves. Everyone is looking in the direction she went with strange looks on their faces, including McGonagall. After a bit of silence goes by, McGonagall finally gets the attention back to the tournament challenge. The second tournament challenge will be using magic this time… Draco comments that it was stupid to have a challenge where magic wasn't allowed… McGonagall ignores the interruption and continues to tell us that only our wands will be allowed at the beginning of the challenge, though anything else obtainable in the course is fair game. Like the previous challenge, only a small amount of information would be revealed at different times before the challenge, so they aren't telling us much... What they do tell us is that we will be taking a valuable treasure from its powerful protector, so we will want to work on spells that could help us deal with an opponent that is considerably more powerful than we are. These clues make me if this is the golden egg and the dragons challenge that she is talking about. I think it sounds very possible that this is the dragon challenge, or at least that it will be something similar. I figured Draco won't be able to cheat this time, but I wonder if the others will cheat. If they're going to be cheating, there's plenty of ways I could cheat, too… though I don't really see the point. Even if they don't cheat, I will still be able to handle the challenge.

Plans: I didn't have any specific plans tonight, MoSh said he had plans to challenge Draco Malfoy to a duel, so I had thought I might be there to see what happened. It turned out that I wasn't focused enough to get my usual WILD, and my recall for the night seriously sucked… all I remember are these fragments.

Wizard Duel
I am at Hogwarts, though I am not actually lucid, it is seeming completely normal to me. I am walking across the grounds, not thinking of anything in particular, when I hear there is something going on not far away. I follow the sound to see what is going on over there. I come around a corner of the castle so I can now see the source of the noise, and there are people standing around, two of them look like they're getting ready to attack each other. I get a little closer and then I see that the two people threatening each other are MoSh and Draco! WTF?! Dammit, Draco, I am thinking as I go over to the group of people, I guess maybe I was just retarded to think there was any chance of Draco keeping his word not to try to get back at MoSh in some way, well, now I will just have to put a stop to it before the idiot finds out that I'm not the only one currently at Hogwarts with abilities never before seen in their world… (Note: Even though I was thinking about having special dream powers, and about MoSh having dream powers, and even remembering some events of previous dreams, I never once considered doing a RC! >.< Damn, I can be sooooo thick headed when I'm not lucid!) So I go over to the group of people standing around Draco and MoSh, I am wondering why no one does anything, it is just like a fight in school… everyone just watches a couple people beat the shit out of each other, well not me. I step out in between them, successfully getting hit by some random curse thrown out by Draco… which has absolutely no effect on me at all… and I tell them to cut it out. Draco and MoSh are both staring at me as if I am nuts, but I don't really notice. I am annoyed at Draco, who obviously didn't keep his word not to do something stupid by trying to get back at MoSh, I tell him I should have known better than to believe a single word he says, he promises one thing, and as soon as I turn my back, there he is doing what he had promised not to do. Everyone around us is staring at me now, Draco is trying to say something about MoSh, he's saying MoSh started it? Yeah, right, like I am going to believe that… MoSh is talking to me now, he is asking me what I'm doing, he says he challenged Draco to a match… they're having a duel, nothing more. I look over at Draco, then at MoSh, I think my face was turning bright red… A duel? Yup, Draco and MoSh both confirm that, as do several of the people who had come to watch… I look at the group around, mostly made up of Gryffindor and Slytherin students, probably came to cheer on the participant from their own house… um… right… a duel… now I feel really stupid…

Dream in a Dream: More Fish in the Sea
I am outside in a forest area, I am in an area of soft dirt and I am drawing in it, I am trying to figure out some symbols that might serve to help me make magic work on this plane. I have started by drawing a circle around myself, I continue drawing symbols around the circle, though I'm not even sure what I am trying to accomplish. I see there is someone else there, I look up and I see there is a man there watching me… is that what I am trying to do? Attract someone who will love me and treat me right? He's kinda cute, but that's not my main concern, I am looking at his energy, which looks good, it looks welcoming, caring. I stand up and smile at him, he smiles back… really? I have to get the nerve to say hi to him… but then that falls apart… a woman comes over and they start kissing, a thin woman, one chin, a pretty face, younger than me… great… There are men out there, good ones, but that is no benefit to me. Are there more "fish in the sea" after breaking up with my ex boyfriend? Sure… too bad I don't have any bait! ,u_u, The scene fades out to reveal I have been dreaming, and now I find I am in bed… leading to the next dream…

Don't Look at Me
I am now at Hogwarts, in bed, I am in the hospital wing… but why am I in the hospital wing? How did I get here, and what do they think is wrong with me that they brought me here? I open my eyes, and I see Madam Palmphrey standing beside my bed, she says she sees I have finally woken up. I ask her what happened, she says I had a fit of some kind down on the dueling field, accused Draco of lying about something and attacking MoSh, accused MoSh of provoking Draco to attack… then passed out… I say I don't remember doing any of that, and I really don't remember any of that, so I have no idea what she is talking about. I sit up in bed, I feel fine now, and I look around the room… MoSh is there! He is sitting off to my right, just a bit beyond Madam Palmphrey… my mind is still a bit fuzzy, I want to go hug MoSh, I see Asuka there beside him… a woman, perfect face, perfect body… I am remembering the previous dream… no bait, I'd almost let myself forget. I turn my face away from MoSh, I really don't want my face to be showing. When I look in the other direction, I find I am looking at Draco Malfoy?! What is he doing in here? I pull the covers over my head, telling them to not look at me… I'm ugly…

Ghost Cats
I am at school, though it is not my normal school, it reminds me more of the local community college. I am outside the school, right at the edge of the school grounds, where there is an entrance to a hiking trail that is used for exercise for students and also as a relaxing place to walk for anyone who decides to. It is late afternoon right now, and I start walking down the trail following a cat I saw disappear down there. I see the cat disappear around the next turn in the trail, and I keep following. I come to the end of the trail where there is a small trailer home, a very small one. The cat is sitting in front of the trailer, licking its paw. I move towards the cat, the cat becomes transparent and moves off into the trees like a ghost. It is suddenly night time, the door to the trailer is open and I see movement inside, something is drawing me inside. I go to the door and I see some strange things in there, a lot of semi-transparent cats, and a strange feeling that makes my hair stand on end… without even realizing it, I have taken a couple steps into the trailer. The door closes behind me, and the trailer goes completely dark except for the fact the cats, the semi-transparent cats, are glowing faintly in the darkness. In spite of being surrounded by ghosts, I do not feel afraid, I feel a sense of sadness from the cats, as if they are trapped there. I go over to one of the ghost cats and pet it, though there is no substance to the cat, it arches its back as if it is being stroked, purrs loudly… then turns into a mist and flows out the window. I hear a fading purr from outside the trailer. Now the other cats are surrounding me, meowing eagerly… and each cat I stroke purrs, then turns to mist and floats out the window. After I pet the last cat, the trailer door opens and I look outside… I see glowing cats playing in the sky.

Plans: Challenge one of the tournament tonight at the Hogwarts where I am a student with MoSh. It looks like I'll be working with Draco, though, since we're in the same house. MoSh will be working with Harry and Hermione since they're all in Gryffindor. This sucks.

Tour of the Castle
I am in a bedroom at Hogwarts and I'm not lucid. I really need to RC every time I'm in a bedroom that isn't my own... So I leave the bedroom and enter an office of some kind, there is a big ornate wooden desk, there isn't much in the room, it looks like it isn't in use right now. I look around for a bit, not sure what I'm supposed to be doing in there. I was still pondering that when there was a knock at the door, I open the door to reveal Professor McGonagall waiting at the door. I let her inside, she says she has come to help me get acquainted with the castle. So now I follow McGonagall down the hall. I notice there are two exits from the living area / office, one of them leads to the main hallway while the other leads directly to a classroom, it's the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. I follow McGonagall to the main hallway and then we go around the school, meeting an assortment of people. Filched greeted me with a grunt and a glare until I say he has an adorable kitty, after which I pick up a surprised Mrs. Norris and then give her cause to purr, and she purrs very loud indeed! I comment to Filch that I love anything feline, I am a hopeless cat lover. Mrs. Norris clearly likes me, so Filch soon calms down. He had been a bit upset when I had first scooped Mrs. Norris into my arms. McGonagall says we need to keep going, so I set Mrs. Norris down and follow McGonagall. We are seeing where all of the classrooms are, meeting all of the teachers and others that work there, for the most part I get a friendly welcome.

There are a couple people there who seem less than thrilled to see me. And those are actually people I have already met, I am sure of that. Somewhere along this tour I have become lucid, so I am now aware I am dreaming. Snape greets me with a grunt and a dirty look, I know he wanted to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. I am figuring he voted me in only because, when choosing between Umbridge and me, I am the obvious choice. Lucius is in the halls, I wonder how much time Lucius is at Hogwarts. As McGonagall is introducing me to people, she is saying the role they play at Hogwarts. It turns out the heads of the houses aren't the same as in the book. In fact, McGonagall introduces Arthur Weasley as the head of Gryffindor, I say I thought that was McGonagall. McGonagall says no, seems surprised, then says there would be far too much room for bias if the heads of the houses were also teachers. She says Snape would never flunk anyone in his house. She says Arthur Weasley is head of Gryffindor, Xenophilius Lovegood is head of Ravenclaw, I have never heard the name of the person who is head of Hufflepuff, and Lucius Malfoy is the head of Slytherin.

Speaking of Lucius Malfoy, McGonagall meet up with him in one of the halls. He doesn't seem too happy to see me, but at least he is making an effort to hide that. He McGonagall has something she needs to attend to, and she needs me to wait. Right there with Lucius? Don't take too long... So there I am in the hallway with Lucius, and it seems a bit awkward, so I just wait there silently while Lucius is giving me a strange look. While I am standing there thinking the situation rather sucks, someone even worse comes along. Dolores Umbridge comes along down the hall. She is still not pleased to see me, but it seems she is currently more angry a Lucius for some reason. She walks right over to Lucius and says she should curse him into next week for that trick. She says it took her hours to find the proper counter-curse to get rid of that obscenity from her forehead. I remember the word BITCH being tattooed on her face, I look to see if it is really gone. Lucius is also looking, he says it's good she cleared up that label... the word BITCH didn't properly describe Umbridge. I look and now the words UGLY BITCH are displayed on her forehead, glowing and changing color constantly. I say Lucius is right on this one, Umbridge's forehead looks much better now, then I turn away quickly because I think I might start laughing. McGonagall comes out of the room where she had gone, she looks at Umbridge and gasps. She is staring, all she can say is, "Dolores! Your face! It's..." I interrupt McGonagall and say her face sure does look a lot better. McGonagall is about to say something else when Umbridge takes a look at me, gives a huff, then says I shouldn't get too comfortable since I won't be at the school for long. She leaves in a huff. McGonagall makes no further attempt to stop her, but she does want to know who put it there. I say I didn't do it, but I think it was Q. Q has a sense of humor and would no doubt find that amusing. From the closed door of a women's restroom a bit farther up the hall comes, "Lucius Malfoy!!!" There are a few other sounds, then Umbridge comes out of the bathroom and storms over to Lucius. I notice that, unfortunately, her forehead is now clear of writing. Damn. She got rid of it. She points at her forehead and tells Lucius that she has countered how curse. As I am watching, however, the words DUMB UGLY BITCH appear on her forehead in neon pink. I snort a bit of laughter, turning it into a cough, though it still gets Umbridge's attention. She heads off in a huff again.

I follow McGonagall through the rest of the tour of the castle, though nothing more worth noting takes place. I am thinking it would be sooooo easy to get lost in there that it isn't even funny. I wonder how the students manage to find their classes at all. I guess it is something they get used to, but it seems the setup would lead to a lot of tardy first years, at least for a while. The tour ends back where we started, back in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. McGonagall says again that everyone, or most everyone, is glad to have me aboard. So don't pay any attention to Umbridge, she is all talk and there really is nothing she can do now that I have been voted in by a majority of the board members at Hogwarts. Speaking of Umbridge, she storms into the room and demands to know where Lucius Malfoy is, I see her forehead now sports only one word, and that is FUCKTARD. Q must have heard Tigress use that word. McGonagall says that is really immature, but she seems to be snickering a bit, too. I wonder what it will say next... I was fortunately able to wait until McGonagall left the room before I woke up.

Concert Shirt Swap
I am in a large room, it is an auditorium, and there are people coming into the room and taking seats, it looks like there is going to be a concert going on soon. I am thinking I somehow got in without a ticket, and I am hoping I don't get caught... because the ticket price is outrageously expensive, there's no way I could afford one. I am trying to remember who is playing, is it even worth that kind of money? Well, no matter, I got in free, so I'm happy. It turns out that they are even giving out free t-shirts, one of the employees gives me one, so I look at the shirt, and it displays the names of the bands to be playing. There are a couple opening acts I don't recognize, but the headlining groups are Metallica and Disturbed, awesome! I take my shirt off right there in front of everyone, not really being concerned about the people who are around me to see. I put on my shirt but then I realize I have a big hole in it! That really pissed me off, so I switched back to my own shirt. I look around and I see that some people have laid their shirts around, I figure I will make a swap. Bit when I try, someone calls me on it, I say I thought it was mine... Sorry. The music starts, it's Metallica playing, I am hoping I haven't missed Disturbed. Of course now the place is darker, so I am able to swap my shirt with another. Then I make my way towards the front of the crowd to get closer to the band. It's Metallica, but I don't recognize the songs.

A River Runs Through It
There is a river running through our yard, across the driveway, blocks the driveway. The water is rancid. Oil in it. Can't get out, worried about dogs... what if they drink this crap??? They can't reach. Not an issue. What if it erodes and grows wider? We need a bridge. Mom talking to my brother, John about the bridge. I follow the river to see where it comes from, can it be diverted? Somehow I become lucid... that's John! I don't want to lose him again... I hug him, I don't want to let him go, he wants to know what brought that on...

I am in my own bedroom, I get up off the bed and go out into the living room. I haven't been sleeping, I have been lying in there relaxing, but now I think it is time to get doing something. I go outside to get a bit of fresh air, but there is something weird about the yard. It takes me a bit to recognize what is wrong with the yard, but I finally see that there is a river running through it! I see my mother out there talking to someone, I go over to see what is going on, because I know there isn't supposed to be a river in the yard. The river flows across the driveway, so it is impossible to get our cars out of the driveway. I find it is my brother John that my mom is talking to, I also get a closer look at the water. The water is disgusting. There is a lot of oil and crap in the water, and it also smells bad. My mother is talking to John about leaving the river there and building a bridge... but why would she want to keep the river stench going through the yard?! I follow the river to the west to see if I can find out where the river is coming from and maybe it can be diverted. Somewhere as I'm following the river I become lucid, though I can't identify exactly where.

Now that I'm lucid I head back to where my mom is talking to John still, but now I realize it's a dream and that as soon as I wake up John will be gone again. This realization makes me sad, I miss my brother. I decide to take advantage of the time I have with him. I run over to John and I throw my arms around him in a great big bear hug. He seems a bit surprised, but he returns the hug. I keep hugging him, I really don't want to let go. It seems almost as if, by holding on to him tightly enough, I can pull him from the dream into waking life. Of course that isn't possible, but I hold on to him tightly just the same. I am still holding him when I wake up, and of course he isn't there.

Note: There were several more dreams, but I don't remember them in extreme detail, so I am posting my fragmented memories here as one posting.

The Path Less Taken
I am at Hogwarts, but I am not lucid. I am with Draco in the same room where we were planning out ideas for getting through the first challenge, I see the map laid out on the table with the figures Draco placed still on it, they are pacing around a bit as if rather bored. Draco himself is pacing a bit, he seems agitated about something, so I ask him what is bothering him. He says he doesn't see the point of having a challenge where we can't use magic, it is supposed to be, after all, a wizard tournament… not a muggle tournament… I tell him I don't really know the reason for this challenge, but it is part of the tournament, so we have to get passed it before we can continue to the other challenges. I look at the map again, looking at the different routes through the obstacles. One obstacle is to cross over a deep ravine, or the contestants can use a nice bridge over the ravine and meet up with flying enemies there… Another obstacle takes the form of a sheer wall, there are two ways to get past, but they are both hidden… one is a way up and over, the other is a way down and under, the locations are marked on the map with a couple of Draco's markers. There is a dense forest that is specifically designed to get people lost inside it. There is once again an easy way to navigate the forest, but there are enemies set up along it. One obstacle is a rushing river that empties into a wide lake, there is a bridge, which is blocked by enemies. Parts of the course would require crossing the rapids, or crossing the lake, or there is a shortcut to be taken by riding the rapids, then taking the right fork that comes just before the lake. I am looking at the map like I would a video game layout, deciding what would be the best choice of routes to take.

While I am looking at the map and Draco seems to be talking to himself, the door to the room creaks open… both Draco and I stop to look over at it. A cute little fox comes into the room, then actually leans up against the door to push it closed behind it. The fox comes over to me and rubs around my legs until I pick him up and start petting him. Draco is staring at this, he asks me what that is all about, why is that thing in here? I tell him he had better be nice to the fox, he responds by saying he doesn't care about any dumb old fox, I can keep it as a pet for all he cares. Draco keeps talking about ways to make sure we win, but I am more distracted by the fox now, who is definitely pushy for attention. He wants to be petted, scratched, hugged, cuddled… so I am doing all of that to make the fox happy, and I am rewarded with a purr. I finally tell Draco to calm down, we will make it through the obstacle course, the first challenge will hardly prove to be a challenge at all. He asks if I have any experience without using magic, I say actually, I do, and none of the routes on the map look like something we can't handle. My suggested path is to go the hard way over the ravine, all we would need is a couple lengths of rope, then through the forest, I have an excellent sense of direction, and over the wall, he already had the locations of the hidden ways through… so face the obstacles instead of the enemies, since enemies are much easier to handle with magic. I wonder if an item such as Witchblade would count as magic… well, I'm sure they couldn’t trace the Witchblade like they could spells in use… I would have to find that out.

A Job Search
I am in a strange room, it is rather dark and a bit on the creepy side, I am sitting in a chair facing a long table at one end of the room. There are quite a few people sitting at the table, all of them have their attention focused on me, and I am finding that to be a bit awkward, I wonder why they are all looking at me. As my eyes adjust to the dim light, however, I see that I recognize several of them. Right in the middle of the group is Albus Dumbledore from the Harry Potter series. To his right is Professor McGonagall, beside her is Professor Sprout, then a couple people I don't recognize. To Dumbledore's left I see Professor Snape, next to him is Professor Flitwick, whom I can barely see over the table. Beside Flitwick is someone who makes my stomach churn, I feel like I might puke right in front of everyone, it's Professor Umbridge… and Flitwick does not look pleased with the seating arrangements, he is scooted as close to Snape as he can get without being overly obvious. On the other side of Flitwick is Lucius Malfoy, who has a look on his face that suggests he is smelling something foul… and he is also sitting as far from Umbridge as the table will allow, and he doesn't seem to care about being overly obvious. There is a good three feet between Umbridge and Lucius, and Lucius is crammed into the last foot of space available at the end of the table. Umbridge appears completely oblivious as to the reactions of those around her, either not noticing, or choosing not to notice.

Dumbledore is the first to speak, he says we all know why we are here, but I haven't got a clue why I'm here… He says he has found a candidate for Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, referred to him by an old acquaintance. From behind Dumbledore, Q steps forward to be seen. Q pinches his nose and points at Umbridge, miming that she stinks like something rancid. Then he mimes to me that I should pinch my nose… but I can't smell Umbridge from this far away, so I'm not sure why I would do that. Dumbledore says all of them have had a chance to review my credentials, which Q has so kindly supplied, so if there are no further questions, they would have their vote now. If the majority agree, then I am their new Defense Against the Dark Arts instructor. Umbridge jumps to her feet and says absolutely not, she has never heard of such a thing, Dumbledore should know very well that the ministry would assign a new instructor. Dumbledore stopped her and corrected her, that if he was unable to find a qualified candidate in the allotted time the ministry would assign a teacher, but since he had found someone in the allotted time… Umbridge huffs a few times, paces back and forth behind her chair, huffs a couple more times, then Dumbledore asks her, in a polite but firm manner, to sit down. A couple of them, Snape and McGonagall actually agree here, want to see that I can do defensive spells, the choice is finally made that I should summon a patronus since that will defend against evil energies such as dementors. So I summon my patronus after finding a wand in my pocket, and it is a beautiful white panther. Lucius wants to know why he has never heard of the 'Knight' family before, Dumbledore says I come from a distant land, but Q has given assurances that there has never been a relative of Raven Knight who was not a powerful witch or wizard, including a daughter who is being home taught. I am thinking I don't know of any relatives of Raven Knight…

They finally have a vote, everyone raises their hand to vote me in except Lucius and Umbridge. Perhapes not wanting to be siding with the likes of Umbridge, Lucius finally raises his hand to vote yes. Umbridge sternly refuses to do so, instead she sits in her seat and huffs a few more times. Dumbledore said that the decision is made, he welcomes me to the staff of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. More loud huffs come from Umbridge. I see Q do something, and when I see Umbridge's face next time, the word BITCH is tattooed on her forehead. I have a hard time not laughing in her face, as she says she won't stand for this, and will have me removed immediately, all the while the word BITCH is changing colors on her forehead, it is actually glowing. Lucius has spotted that now, he is openly staring at Umbridge, who finally asks him what he is looking at. Lucius says he sees nothing unusual, but he sees that the truth has come to light in a surprisingly obvious way. The word BITCH flashes blue, then green, then red… Lucius gives me a strange look, welcomes me but doesn't sound like he entirely means it, then leaves. McGonagall sees the word on Umbridge's forehead and steps back in shock… "Delores!" she says, "What is that on your forehead?!" Umbridge looks at McGonagall strangely, then summons up a mirror and sees the word for herself. She curses under her breath at Lucius, apparently thinking he had done it, then storms off, huffing all the way out. The others all give me a warm welcome, saying to come back any time in the next week, and they will set me up with a room in the castle. I realize one of the people I hadn't recognized at first is Arthur Weasley… I am surprised I didn't spot him right away…

Note: I had lots of dreams last night, so many that my memories of them have gotten a bit fragmented and hard to separate out. So here are the fragments I remember. My plans included more Harry Potter dreams with both MoSh and Tigress, the wizard tournament with MoSh, Tigress was looking for something that happens beyond the scope of the books. I was able to get into my WILD, my memories are just a bit fragmented…

Search for Lucius
I am at Hogwarts, and I am looking to find out what Lucius might know about the spell that was placed on Asuka that made her lose her memory. I don't really know where to find Lucius, but I remember Draco saying Lucius is on the governing board of Hogwarts, so does that mean he is at Hogwarts? I hope that maybe he is. I am wandering around in the halls, I really don't know where to start looking. I spot Draco in the halls, and I follow Draco for a short time until he notices I am behind him. He stops and turns around, he asks why I am following him. He says maybe I had been looking to find him, well I have now. He says that Snape told him the contestants in the tournament need to make a plan on how to handle the first challenge. He says that generally, at least at the beginning, the contestants from each house would most likely help each other out so their house contestants can both make it. He says we should decide what we're going to do, to make sure the great Harry Potter comes out of the competition looking like the loser he is.

Training to Win
I am on the top of the hill near Hogwarts, it is the same place I was at when we all summoned patronuses. Vegeta is there, as are the other contestants in the tournament, though I don't see Tigress. I wonder if she is sure going to continue this series, I start thinking things may have diverged when Cho Chang shows up, and I remember she is from Ravenclaw, so maybe the divergence has already happened. Vegeta pairs everyone up, switching the pairs around, so everyone will have a chance to train with different partners. In addition to tournament contestants, there are also quite a few other students there who are just interested in what Vegeta has to teach them. I notice Neville Longbottom sitting off to the side, watching everyone training from a distance. Vegeta tries to get him to join in, but instead he turns around and runs away. Vegeta watches him go and then returns to our training.

Inside Information
I am in a small room with Draco, we are sitting at a table discussing ways to proceed through the challenge that will soon be happening. I am really not sure what preparation is possible, since we don't know any of the specifics of what obstacles might be in the way. On the table is an assortment of snacks and a map of the area the challenge will take place in. The course has been laid out for us, so everyone will know where to go, but that is it, no other details are included. There are several possible paths to take through the course, so not everyone will take the same path or meet the same challenges. So now Draco starts placing different things on the map of the course, he places small animated figurines that represent obstacles we will encounter, or maybe just obstacles we might encounter. I think this is strange since I had thought the specific obstacles were secret. I ask Draco about that, and he says his dad knows people… so in other words this is cheating? I comment that if anyone finds out, he will be disqualified, or maybe we would both be disqualified, which would eliminate any chance of Slytherin having the tournament winner. He says no one will find out, unless I am planning on telling someone… I tell him I'm not planning on telling anyone, but that doesn't mean no one will figure it out… well, he already has the information now, so we spend the time figuring out what the best path through the challenge course is.

Congradulations! It's Twins!
I am in my bedroom at home, but there is one main difference, and that is the fact there is a cradle there. It is a single unit, but there is a separator in the middle of it and it is larger than the normal cradle, it is specifically made for two babies at once. On top of that, there is a baby in each side of the cradle, one is a boy, one is a girl, and I know for a fact they are twins… and they are mine! I have no children IWL, so this should be a giveaway that it is a dream, but I do not do a reality check. I have to go to class now, and I know I have to take my babies with me, as there is nowhere else to leave them for the day. I get everything ready to go, then I walk out without them, heading off to school. I get to class before I realize I completely forgot about the babies, I hadn't even checked on them before leaving the house, wow… I am a shitty mother… I am heading to the library at the school, suddenly ITT has a really nice library, and my mother meets me there with the babies. I take the babies, one in each arm, they are sleeping peacefully in my arms, I hope they stay that way. When I get inside the library, they tell us we'll have to move to a new building while the library is being remodeled, so I have to try to pick up both my stuff and the babies to go next door. Tigress meets me there, and she takes one of the babies, and we go next door. There is a large pillow next to the table we set up on, so we lie both babies on the pillow where they play quietly, looking up at us and smiling. I am thinking both of the babies were born on Christmas day, and the strangest thing is I don't remember even having sex, so was I raped? Was it some kind of immaculate conception? Abducted by aliens? My babies don't look like aliens…

Note: This was a three level dream… I was having a dream in a dream in a dream… these can get a bit confusing, but I will do my best to keep things straight.

I am lying in my bed, I am not sure how I got there, just that I am really tired. I feel a soft furry animal curled up beside me, so I reach down to pet the animal I assume to be a cat. Instead, the animal pikas when I touch it. Pika? I sit up and turn on my iPod Touch for the light from the screen, and there is a real live pikachu sitting beside me, looking at me. He is looking at me, and he pikas again, then he curls up right by my chest, where it is really easy to scratch his ears. For some reason, even though I know that means I am dreaming, I am still sleepy and I lie down, soon falling asleep with the pikachu beside me… I slip into a dream.

I am in the Hogwarts castle, I am lucid, and I am playing games with Bellatrix Lestrange. The kind of games that end up with her shitting her pants either with fear or with frustration or anger or something… I am having a hard time remembering the details, but I do remember a couple of fragments… I am in one of the classrooms at Hogwarts, facing Bellatrix Lestrange across several desks, she is acting in her usual insane manner, brandishing her wand around like a complete madwoman and yelling incomprehensible things in between her insane cackling. I telekinetically take her wand right out of her hand, pulling it straight to me. I tell her she needs to stop waving that thing around before she puts out an eye or something. She actually pauses, looking at her empty hand and then at me holding her wand. She demands I give it back to her immediately, I tell her to take it back if she wants it so badly. She does nothing, so I ask her if that's a problem, can't she do a simple summoning charm to take her wand back? Or can she not do magic without a wand? Because if she can't do magic without the aid of a stupid little stick, then she is way more pathetic than I had ever thought possible. She demands her wand back now, I ask her if I really look dumb enough to give it back to her, then I leave the room, yelling at her to come get it if she dares…

I am in the dungeons of Hogwarts, the passages down there are like an endless maze, and I am lucid. I am teleporting all over the place, I am playing games with someone, and I soon find the person I am playing with, it is Bellatrix Lestrange. She is apparently pissed off at me about something, because she fires a curse at me, but I teleport before it can hit me. Instead it makes a hole in the wall. I teleport to a spot right behind Bellatrix and whisper quickly into her left ear, "You missed! Tag, you're dead!" and then I teleport away as she is turning around. She spins around and fires another curse, but I am gone before she even fires the curse this time. I am a disembodied voice before I re-materialize somewhere else, and I let out a hollow sounding laugh that echos through the dungeons, all around Bellatrix, making her look frantically around for the source. She is yelling at me to come out, she is calling me a coward, calling me a whole slew of names I don't recognize but I am sure they are nasty and insulting names. I teleport to a position right in front of her and give her a shove backwards, she fires several quick curses at me, I teleport and reveal the mirror behind me, her curses bounce back and almost hit her except she ducks out of the way quickly. Some more hollow laughter for her benefit. She is yelling again, apparently loud enough that it got Snape's attention. Snape comes down the hall, clearly pissed off, and barely avoids Bellatrix's franticly thrown curse. "Watch what you're doing, woman!" Snape snarls as he comes over closer to Bellatrix and plucks her wand from her hand as she is looking frantically around. I appear behind Snape, in front of Bellatrix, and she starts pointing and yelling, "There she is! There she is!" at Snape. As Snape turns around, I teleport away so there is no one for Snape to see. Snape looks back at Bellatrix with a strange look that is somewhere between disgust and pity.

I wake up from the Bellatrix dream and now I am in my living room with Tigress, it seems I fell asleep while I had been hanging out with Tigress. So now I am not lucid. Now that I am awake, I tell Tigress about the dream I just had, about the fact it seemed so vivid at the time, I tell her I could feel every sensation, every bit of energy, I really need to write down some notes to be sure I don't forget this. I pull out some paper and start writing down some notes, writing them as quickly as I can, trying like crazy not to forget about it. While I am doing this I wake from this dream.

Now I wake up in bed, I roll over and think I had better jot down notes from the dream, the Bellatrix dream and the dream where I was telling Tigress about it, but I hear something out in the other room that makes me stop and listen. My mother is talking to a man, the man's voice sounds sooooo familiar right now… I can't really believe what I am hearing. It's my brother, John, but it can't be… he's been dead for four years now… there is no way he could be back, is there? I listen to them out there, my mom is clearly thrilled that John is back, I hear John ask if mom thinks it is ok for him to wake me up to say 'hi' to me. My mother says that she is certain I won't mind considering the situation. I decide to pretend to be asleep, to not let them know I had been spying on them, so I close my eyes as I hear my bedroom door open. I peek out through one squinted eye, an eye barely open enough to see, certainly not enough for someone else to notice, and I see my brother come into the room. He is speaking to me, he says good morning, it's time to wake up. And I wake up, but unfortunately I wake to my waking life.

Note: Tonight I had plans to meet up with MoSh to place a connection between his inner world to the Hogwarts we have been visiting, but then he told me that someone has been screwing with Asuka's memory and she doesn't even remember him. So the first plan became to restore Asuka's memory. I also had plans to meet up with Kaomea to raise a bit of chaos in a different Hogwarts, specifically one where Professor Umbridge (5th year Defense Against the Dark Arts Instructor) deserves to be the object of some amusement. More specifically, never can these two dreams meet! Unfortunately, I once again have only fragmented memories.

The Memory Remains
I am with MoSh in a strange town, I have no idea where we are, and I am not lucid. MoSh and I are looking for a new age store where he says he will be able to find Asuka, he says I will have to help her remember him. I am wondering how I am supposed to help Asuka remember him if he can't do that himself. We are heading toward the store, MoSh seems to know where he is going, but we reach a spot where there is a barricade and a cop is not letting anyone down the street we need to take. And they are clearly taking this very seriously, there is a large barrier that is about ten feet tall at least and it is topped with razor wire… um… they are taking this way too seriously. MoSh and I take a different street to go around the barricaded area and get to the new age store that way. Now there don't seem to be any streets heading in our direction at all, and the street we are on is curving in the wrong direction. MoSh points out an alley and we go down that, determined to reach the store. There are dogs there now, about seven big dogs that look like Rottweilers, and they are all blocking the alley and snarling menacingly. I go over to a fire escape and jump to reach the ladder, pulling it down. Now MoSh and I are able to use the fire escapes to get past the dogs. We continue using the fire escapes until we finally reach a store called New Life, MoSh says that is where Asuka is working. The fire escape ends on the roof of the place, which seems a bit odd, but we are able to get inside through a trap door. Inside, Asuka doesn't seem to think this is strange at all, and she greets us by asking what she can help with. I tell her I think MoSh is looking for a bit of quality time with her, adding a wink. She looks at me strangely, as if she has no idea what I am talking about… MoSh says I had said I have a song to restore memories, maybe I should try that. I look in my pocket and find I have my iPod, so I take it out and play the song "The Memory Remains" by Metallica while focusing on restoring her memories. The song plays through, and it looks like there is a flicker of recognition in Asuka's eyes.

Haunted Dungeons
I am at Hogwarts, and this time I am spontaneously lucid, or maybe I just don't recall the time when I became lucid. But at the point where my memories start I am with Kaomea, Fred, and George in some dark corner of the dungeons at Hogwarts. We are all talking about making fools out of Umbridge, Snape, Ubridge, some of the Slytherins, Umbridge… oh, and Umbridge! It is unanimous that every there hates Umbridge beyond all others. Something comes into my mind, I am thinking Kaomea and I can use form shifting to make Umbridge look really retarded, and the effect will last even after we are gone. The situation will be set then for Fred and George to have whatever fun they can get out of it, make a plan? They say they will improvise, that is what they do best. So we start off by sending a fake message from Snape that says he needs to meet with Umbridge immediately. Kaomea and I turn into cats… she turns into Hermione's cat, Crookshanks, I turn into Mrs. Norris. Umbridge comes down into the dungeon shortly later. I, as Mrs. Norris, go over and wind around her legs, which results in her kicking me. I hiss at her. That doesn't fit with all her plates and pictures of cats in her office… but it is also not unexpected. I flip back to my feet, arch my back, and I hiss loudly. Umbridge tells me to shut up, so I start mutating. From the form of a cute little kitty cat I start growing, there are bony spines protruding from my back, and my hissing becomes more malevolent… Before long Umbridge is staring, stunned and terrified, at a face that looks something like this.

She stumbles backwards a couple of feet, then trips and falls on her ass before letting out a horrible sounding scream of pure terror. I hear someone behind me, so I quickly transform back to Mrs. Norris and jump on Umbridge's chest and start purring. Snape enters the hall and sees Umbridge on the floor, cowering, pointing at me and saying to get it away from her, please get it away from her, it's a monster… Snape picks me up by the scruff of the neck and looks at me, he states the obvious, "It's… a… kitty… cat…" in his usual mocking tone. He puts me down and looks at Umbridge with disgust. Umbridge is going on about how I had been a monster just second ago, I respond with a questioning, "Meow?" Snape says, "That's Mrs. Norris, Filch's cat… she may be filthy and have fleas, but she is no monster." Umbridge wants to know what Snape wanted to see her for, he says he doesn't and then walks away. Umbridge is visibly shaken, but then she walks down the hall she came from. I see Crookshanks waiting near the end of the hall, Kaomea is going to have some fun with Umbridge. I head down the hall towards them, to see what is going to happen, but this is the last part I remember.

House of the About To Be Dead
I am in a castle, I look around the room I am in. In spite of having had recent dreams of Hogwarts, that is not what comes to mind first here. I am thinking I am in the process of designing a video game. I am designing one of the levels, this castle will be a great setting. So right now I am looking around the level, trying to see where I want to put enemies and items and stuff like that. I place the enemies all over the place, and then I decide to do a run through to see how my AI on the enemies is working. So as the level starts, the enemies attack me, so I grab a weapon and fight back. There are weapons lying around, so I am able to use the in-game weapons to fight. Most of them are melee weapons, but I also find a gun or two. Ammo is rare so I have to conserve it. As I explore the castle I see there are enemies where I don't remember putting them. I think that is great, that means the AI of the game is making the enemies track me down to attack. I kill some more of the enemies and then I see someone else is in there with me, not one of the enemies. I look closer and see Walms killing enemies. Wait a minute…. Walms? Time for a RC! I am dreaming!

Now I am lucid and watching Walms kill enemies, making quite a gory scene of it as well, it looks like he might be eating some of them… I resume killing enemies, just because I am dreaming doesn't mean they don't need to die, and I finally make my way over to where Walms is. It looks like he is going to attack me, but then he stops, apparently seeing that I'm not one of the enemies. He makes some kind of comment to me, I say I was going to see if he could use a song spell… say gravity maybe, since I don't remember seeing him use that in a dream, and I am wanting to know more about DT… Walms just looks impatient, he says ok, but he'll only show me once, there are too many people to kill to waste much time. If I need more help, it will have to be another time. He goes through these steps relatively slowly, it looks like part of him briefly teleports and then reappears, and an enemy on the other side of the room is suddenly in two pieces… it looks like the enemy got cut open by some sharp claws, which I see Walms has formed. Ok, so I will try duplicating that… I select an enemy and try to do the same thing… epic fail. The result is my arm on the other side of the room, still holding an in game sword I had found, and flopping on the ground erratically while the enemy watches it in a totally confused state. For some reason this strikes me as particularly hilarious, and I crack up laughing. Walms is looking at me like I have completely lost it, and then he goes back to killing things. I grow a new arm. I want to try that DT again, but it didn't work so well last time. I have an idea. I look at the enemy who is watching my severed arm flop about. I pick up a sword on the ground near me, then I open a portal… just big enough for the sword to fit through… and I make the destination of the portal right behind the enemy. I shove my sword into the tiny portal, it emerges from the other end and impales the enemy. I pull the sword back and the portals close.

I am pleased with that, so I do it some more. One of the enemies looks like my ex boyfriend, James. He is trying to say he still loves me, which I don't believe. Walms enters the room and is killing stuff. James says some insulting stuff about Walms, I don't remember what, and Walms gives him a dirty look. I tell Walms that this one is mine, I'll take care of him. Walms continues on his way, killing another enemy. James says he wants me to call him IWL, I say it's not going to happen. He says he really wants me to call, he misses talking to me and wants to… *glurg* Now he looks like he's about to be sick. I follow his path of vision and see Walms eating an enemy, James seems pretty grossed out by that. I find this to be hilarious, too, and I start laughing again. I tell James to be gone before Walms decides he looks like a tasty snack. James scoffs at that, saying I know perfectly well that he can… I slip my hidden blade through a tiny portal that opens behind James' neck… and thus stab him. I wake up here.

Designing the Moon
I am designing some more of my game. I am on the moon, with Nomad, and he is helping me design the game. I am working with a strange sort of biological machine, I am thinking this is normal, it is merely one of the utilities in the game design program I am using now. Nomad and I are discussing what we want to do on the moon, how we want to set things up, Nomad wants to start by terraforming the moon. Ok, that works, so we need to decide what areas we will have. I suggest different areas based on different elements, like a fire area, an earth area, an air area, etc. Nomad says that sounds awesome, and says we can start with the forest area. I am thinking of how the game can flow, and I am coming up with a vicious circle where each element needs one of the other elements and there isn't really any place to start. I am taking to Nomad about setting up the game so it will work smoothly, he seems a bit confused by the fact I am talking about video games, but he seems to play along for now. Upon finally coming to the conclusion that the earth level would be first, Nomad asks why I am talking about making a video game… I tell him this video game will be epic, with all these territories, it will make an excellent MMORPG. Nomad smiles and says that is awesome, we would make an MMORPG area for dreamers. I am a bit confused at first, then I think of something and tell him it is a great idea to use dreams to design parts of the game, maybe even most of it. Nomad says yeah, we should use dreams… dreams like this one! I look at him in a puzzled manner, he tells me this is a dream. That isn't making sense, I tell him we are designing a video game, not a dream…

Space Ark
I am with MoSh in the landing bay of the tower on the moon, we are going to go somewhere Q has told us about. I am lucid for the first time, and thinking I can't wait to see what kind of place Q has found this time. We get in our ships, MoSh gets in his ship with Asuka, I get in mine with Basara, and we launch from the tower. Before we have gone far we find a wormhole that Q has created, and we fly through the wormhole to a distant area of space. There is now a fleet of ships near us, ships flying through space going to somewhere I don't know. We fly over towards the fleet, and I see fighter ships around that look like the ships on Starfox… There is also one huge ship that looks like a section of a planet under a dome, the other ships are all flying around that one, which seems to be the one to be protected above all others. We make contact with them, and they give us permission to land, making me wonder if Q has been here before us to tell them we are coming… We land in the landing area, and there are some people there, they are talking about what the ship is for. Apparently they were able to get warning of their star going supernova, so they constructed this space ark, with a section of every kind of habitat from their home world and also a selection of all the different animals, so they would be able to start over on a new world. He says most of the space ark is wilderness, and they have to take care of everything to make sure no life is lost on the way to their new home.

Back to the Drawing Board
I am in a strange room, I know I am there to continue designing a video game, no doubt the one I was working on earlier. I am working on a puzzle part of the game now, testing it out to make sure it is working properly. The way to solve the puzzle is to step only on certain tiles and in the right order and use those tiles to reach the other side of the room. I do the jumps necessary to get across the room, I am wondering if it is the proper difficulty. Does it need to be harder? Easier? Have a difficulty setting? I'll have to give that some thought. When I am almost to the other side, I notice something wrong with one of the animated parts… there is a fan in a vent that is wobbling instead of spinning properly. So I get out of the game and enter a modeling mode, moving over to the fan and adjusting the size and shape of it to make it fit better. While I'm in the modeling mode, I adjust some walls and start adding a new room. In the new room there are two bodies that appear to be dead but will come to life and attack. This fact is actually betrayed by a slight twitch in the bodies that gives away the fact they aren't really dead. Now I just have to test to make sure they come to life at the right place to make the game challenging without making it impossible.

I am in a place I don't recognize, it looks like the interior of a castle, which I think is pretty damn awesome. I am wishing I had my camera with me so I could take some photos of the place, but since I don't, I just focus on taking in as many details of the place as I can. The arches over the ceiling of the room are very high and ornate, the ground is stone, there are many tapestries hanging on the stone walls. Each of the tapestries shows a scene with some epic quest underway, but they mean nothing to me since I have never seen any of the people in them before. There is a large wooden door on one side of the room, which is closed. I can hear a lot of talking from the other side, it sounds like there might be some kind of party going on over there. I wonder if we are invited to that party, or if we are going elsewhere in this castle. Part of me wants to go in to see the party, but another part of me wants to sneak away from the group and explore the castle some more. I really wanted to see as much of the place as I could. In addition to the large door, there were several smaller doors around the outside wall of the room, which was round. I wonder where those doors might lead, but I have not yet had a chance to make my way over to one… there are also quite a few people in the room with me… before a woman enters the room and silences everyone with a firm voice. I look over to where the voice is coming from, and the woman is standing beside the large door. She is dressed in black robes with a symbol on them, it is a symbol that looks like a red griffin… then I recognize where I think I have seen her before… Professor McGonagall from the Harry Potter series?! Nah… it must just be a resemblance.

Well, now everyone is listening to Professor McGonagall, which is what I am calling her in my mind since I don't know what her name really is… She welcomes us to the castle… awesome! It really is a castle, now I just need to get away so I can explore… I really don't want to miss my chance to explore this place… I am looking for a way to get to a door that isn't being watches when the woman actually introduces herself as Professor McGonagall. At this point I stop looking for ways to leave the room and I look back over at the woman, she continues talking to us. For the first time it registers that everyone in the room with me is rather young, looking like they're barely out of high school, and everyone there is paying very close attention to McGonagall. Wow… I must be the oldest one in there short of McGonagall herself… Great, now I feel out of place. I move over to the side of the room to stay as invisible as possible. I catch a glimpse of my reflection in a mirror hanging on one of the doors… and wow… I look like I am barely out of high school! Wow, I don't look nearly as old as I thought I did… there were clearly no unsightly bags under my eyes there! I wander back into the group, trying to hear McGonagall speaking.

"There you are!" comes a voice from off to my right. I look over to see Tigress coming over to meet me, she says she had started to wonder if I was going to make it tonight. I say of course I made it, how could I ever miss being in a place like this? She gives me a puzzled look, but before she can say anything else, McGonagall says it is time to enter the great hall and be sorted into our houses. We all file into the large room beyond the large wooden doors and down an aisle through some large tables with people sitting at them. Some of the people there look older than those of entering, some look about the same age, I see a few faces that look rather familiar. We all reach the front of the room and line up, Tigress is beside me, and I see more people I recognize, all of them from the Harry Potter series. Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco, Crabb, Goyle, Neville, and several others I recognized. This all seems strange… Tigress is whispering to me from my right side, but I can't really hear what she's saying. I try to tell her that, but she can't seem to hear what I am saying, either. Soon McGonagall is getting everyone's attention again, and it is soon silent in the room.

I recognize what is happening in the room, we are all being sorted into different houses of Hogwarts. Somehow this doesn't trigger a reality check… um… sometimes I can be really thick headed in dreams… Everything is going as I remember it going in the books, everyone is getting assigned where they are in the books. Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, are all in Gryffindor… Draco, Crabb, and Goyle are in Slytherin… Tigress is right in front of me, she gets assigned to Gryffindor, then it is my turn. So where would I be assigned? I sit in the seat, with a rather old and slightly smelly pointed hat on my head, wondering where I could get something done. Well, since I am a healer before other things, I need to be where I can get the most healing done the most easily. Most of the people at Hogwarts that need to have their harts healed are in Slytherin… yuck… I don't really like the idea of being in there, but then if someone wants to be a doctor, they have to go to where the sick people are… such as in a hospital. So if I want to heal someone's heart, I need to be in Slytherin. I'm not sure if the hat hears what I am thinking or maybe it sees the dark energy I have in me, but it complies and assigns me to Slytherin.

So while I would rather go over to sit with Tigress, I am directed to go sit at a different table with a bunch of people I don't know, with a bunch of Slytherins. This is not where I want to be going, so I go over to the table and look for an empty seat. I sit down without looking at anyone around me. There are people around me welcoming me there, just like happens at the other tables when someone is welcomed, but something seems off, and I realize it's the energy I feel coming off of some of them. It's more unstable than elsewhere in the room, it's more negative. There are still some more people being sorted, but I'm not paying any attention to that now, I look over across the room at Tigress, I would rather be over there… did I make a big mistake? I am wondering that when I hear a voice next to me. I look over and I see Draco is sitting right next to me… was he there when I sat down? I don't remember even looking to see who I was sitting beside, I don't really care who I'm sitting beside. So now I am thinking I might have made a dumb choice, by the time I finished being in Slytherin for a while, the place would be a blood bath… I would go on a psychotic killing spree.

Draco is making some kind of comment, he says something about not needing that loser since I am where I belong now… I ask what loser he is talking about, he indicates Tigress, which pisses me off. I am not in a good mood right now, and it definitely shows, it doesn't take much to set me off then. I grab Draco's collar and pull his face down right next to mine, practically hissing the threats I am making… I tell him if I ever hear him saying nasty things about Tigress again that I'll kick him in the nuts so hard they get lodged in his fucking nostrils, and don't make the mistake of thinking I can't do it, because I can. Draco is looking at me strangely, I think he can see that I am completely serious about that, Crabb and Goyle don't seem to know what to do, thus they look stupider than ever. Draco finally says he didn't mean anything by it, he was just trying to make me feel better about being apart from my old friends, I'd make new ones. I am not in the mood for making friends right now, though, so I just let go of Draco and return my attention to watching Tigress on the other side of the room… but now I don't see her there. Where did she go? How did she disappear? It flashes through my mind that Tigress probably woke up, but that makes no sense since I am not dreaming… am I? I never get a chance to check that out, however, I wake up.

Note: More fragments today…

Raider vs. Raider
I am in a forest, I look around to see where I am. The forest looks normal, and I am not aware I am dreaming right now. I walk along one of the paths to see where I might be, thinking things seem a bit strange for reality. I don't actually do a reality check, but I slowly become a bit more lucid at a time. I reach a village and see there are quite a few people wandering around, most of them seem worried about something. One of them acts briefly like I was an enemy, then calms down. She says there are raiders on both sides of them, they didn't know what to do. Raiders… that could be interesting, so I ask where these raiders are. She says they are to the north of the village, but I will want to avoid that place. I don't pay any attention to her, instead I take to flying, which shocks the people in the village, and I head north. There are raiders to the north of the village, but they don't seem to be interested in the village, they are busy fighting each other. There are quite a few of them, they seem to be broken up in smaller groups, battling amongst themselves. The ones I see seem to be blindly cutting down anything that moves, whether it be an enemy raider, a plant, or an animal trying to escape… What a bunch of assholes. I land and form Witchblade into a sword and kill the first group of assholes with little difficulty. They seem to have had the idea a woman wouldn't be a threat… There are quite a few of these groups, so I am going from group to group and doing the same thing in each place. There is an injured lion type cat near one of the fights, I heal the cat, and then the cat decides the raiders look pretty tasty. I come to another group of raiders who are killing themselves… and no, they weren't killing each other, they were killing themselves… One of them struck his sword out in front of him, then somehow the blade was behind him and he ran himself through… what a strange flux of space-time… I see that happening in a few places, and then I spot someone near one of the groups. He isn't there for long, but I would have sworn it was Walms… I catch another glimpse of him near another of the battles where raiders are killing themselves… One of them injures himself and then the lion I healed, or one just like it, pounces and finishes the job. There will be a lot of meat for scavengers to feast on here…

I'm Going to Disney Land!
I am in a large theme park, in the dream I believe it to be Disney Land. I am not lucid, so I think I am there on vacation or something. I wander around a bit, I realize I have a camera on my sun glasses. I can get footage of places Disney Land doesn't want me to get footage! I also will have fun. I go over to Space Mountain and take a ride through there on the front car, it is a lot of fun. It was faster than I remembered, but the tunnels are so dark I don't know how well my footage came out. I go to Star Tours, the virtual reality simulator, and it is not as fun as I remember it. The simulated motion sucks. I get the footage anyway. I am thinking I came here with my mom, and she will be waiting up front for me to leave, but there has to be time for one more stop. The Matterhorn! I will get footage on that! I head to the Matterhorn and am waiting in a line that doesn't seem to move when I wake up.

Smokin!
I am at school, but it is a much larger school than my normal school. I am walking around the halls trying to find my next class. I have no idea where to go, I need my schedule. That is in my locker, so where is my locker? Shit, I don't know that, either. Damn first day of classes. Tigress is there with me and she says she's off to her class, she'll see me when class is over. I think that's no help, since I don't have class with her for this one. I wander around more, everyone else is now out of the halls and in their classes. I wander to the edge of campus and stand there with a couple other girls talking and clearly ditching class. One of them offers me a smoke. Without even thinking about it, I never smoke IWL, I accept the cigarette and the light. I am standing there smoking with the girls. One of them says her mother checks her purse, so she hands me her pack of cigarettes. She said the only condition is that I share with her. I say sure and put the pack in my purse. Somehow here time is missing, because the next instant I am getting home in my car. I go inside the house and say hi to my mom. She says hi, but then sees my open purse and the pack of cigarettes. She looks so disappointed. I say they're not really mine, I am holding them for a friend… then I realize how lame that sounds. I tell her ok, they're mine, but I only smoke about one cigarette every month or so… if I smoked more, she would smell it on me, right? Right? I don't think she believes me.