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DILD#1-I was outside in the backyard of my grandmas house. A man was analyzing my golf swing for me. I took a nice swing with a 3 iron. I turn back and see the man has disappeared. I look around for him and find he went into the house to have a massage! I realize I'm dreaming. I jump into the void under the dreamscape and imagine flying over the ocean. A bay by a city appears and I dive in. The water is deep and realistic this time. I try to transform into a dolphin but can't. I see a plane ahead of me crashing into ocean. The plane heads for me but I fly up and dodge it. Just when I thought the plane had missed me, it started coming for me again. This happened a couple times until I found the plane was literally chasing me. I noticed on the wing there was a big angry face. It couldn't catch me. I taunted it, yelling "Nyah, Nyah, Nyah!!!". I woke up.

DILD#2-I woke up and noticed I was in my old house. I went outside and noticed my family was moving. I don't know if they were moving in or out. I greeted my dad and he smiled at me. I tried to walk around but my balance was very poor. I jumped into the void under the dreamscape. I tried to imagine myself ice skating. I couldn't see anything but I could feel the ice under my skates. I woke up.

Spoiler for tags from tonight:

Dolphin, anotherdreamer, dreamer, lucid short.

Haunted house. 1st time. Throat. Creepy monsters that are hard to catch.

Again. This time remembering and havin control. Dude scarily turns into monkey.

lucid, friends. Side flip.

Vacation with laura playing zelda.

Dad and friends playing slow version of wow.

dream 1 was lucid
dream 2 I should have noticed the obvious taking from books I know and the way to catch things was to be able to know where it was without looking at it. :/ IT was difficult
dream 3 same as last, but I should have remembered that I had just done it. also scary monkey should have alerted me.
dream 4 lucid
dream 5 Wife was playing the same Zelda game on two different screens with two Links on the screen. It made me slow down and think, but not enough.
dream 6 I slowed down a lot and tried to remember the rules, but not about LDing.

Lucid
I remember only a few things from this dream as it was my first dream of the night. Me, Dolphin, anotherdreamer, and dreamer were all flying right next to each other and we landed and I remember thinking about how awesome we all looked standing there shoulder to shoulder. :/ it was weird. Also third person, but definitely lucid as well.

Lucid
I was at a wedding that I had already been to and the bride started hitting on me. I realized that it was a dream and banished her and she 'exploded' in a puff of smoke. Her sister appeared in her place after the smoke cleared... meh I can ignore. I decide to try a side flip. I do the steps and almost wreck. I stop myself in midair and raise myself to finish it. I try it again with flying just to get the feel of it. The third time I can feel it and feel like I could do it in waking. Time to impress DCs. I yell
"Check this out!" I run and do a side flip. Slowing down time halfway through to make it look way more cool. I land and everyone is very confused, but they thought it was awesome. I might have slowed it down too much.

That stupid carpet. We're at a new house (again!) and we're talking about pulling up the carpet because it's in rooms that it really shouldn't be in.

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Wanting to give a talk for authors at the library. My dream mixes up two people that I know in real life.

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I'm walking through an American university campus. Apparently there's a new trend where entrepreneurs rent out chairs for five bucks. The chairs come with cherries, and there's something to do with cheese? You might be sitting on it, though.

The cherries look pretty meh, and a lot of the people around think it's silly because the whole point is to go for a walk with your chair and then find a good space to hang out. Who wants to walk? And they only take cash.

I go to walk away from the chairs, but the lady manning the chair-pile clears her throat and I realize that I'm hanging onto one of the chairs. I put it back in the chair pile, but she keeps glaring at me and I realize that I'm also carrying a chair in my other hand. I put it back.

On the edge of the chair booth, there's a short plastic fence blocking a steep, steep hill. I decide to hop over the fence, but I have a little bit of trouble with it. The chair-lady moves her chair a bit to let me pass. I get over the fence and I'm falling, bounce partway down the hill and land at the bottom, going into a roll. I have enough momentum that I keep running out of the roll, onto the sidewalk and—

Near miss. A bus almost hits me as it goes around the corner. I laugh, exhilarated, and keep running. If I run through the park, it will be cool enough despite the hot day.

I keep running, and eventually find myself at a library. I go into the building, heading towards the climbing wall (because there's always a climbing wall in libraries.) I'm going to climb it without ropes.

At this point, I stop and say "I'm dreaming. I know I'm dreaming," mostly so that when I do my challenges, my waking self will know that I'm allowed to claim the points.

I jump onto the wall and take the first few holds, moving upwards and then along a "ceiling" that juts out from the wall.

Up and around, and I'm counting as I go "six moves, seven moves, eight moves."

I'm two-thirds of the way up the wall.

I change gears, moving over to the "hard" side on the left. The final moves require you to move out from the wall and hang, unsupported by your legs. They look scary—the theme involves jutting teeth and wild colours.

I reach for the final moves: "fourteen, fifteen—"

And with a wild swing, I push out from the wall and barely keep my grip—

"Sixteen!" I shout, and let myself drop.

At the bottom of the wall, a man working for the library/climbing wall wants to know whether I thought it was too easy (but I tell him that I'm kind of playing on cheat mode, and it's fine). He asks about the first few moves on the "basic" side, and I tell him that they're perfect.

Next on my list: teleporting. I focus on the neighbouring house that I want to use for my Week 1 Comp task, and fwoosh—

Find myself pushed back into the waking world.

it was kind of a semilong dream but long enough so i forget the beginning how i got lucid... strange/a shame

I do an RC and i am lucid, i am in a room, maby in the university i think in the room next to this is a big cooling chamber. i first go in there but i return to the room because i first need a skirt for some reason and someone... i see two fridges and i want to let the skirt apear in there. i sit infront of both and open the left one. one pair of socks appears. i close and open it again. now there are two pairs of socks... again close - open aaand two dishtowels complement the socks *g* damn it i think and try the other fridge. and voila a green short pants. close enough i think take it out and stand up and think about what to do. i switch the room again but then remember my 3 step task starts with flying so i want to do this first. i go to a window jump out and start flying. at the beginning not to fast and with no aim but then i head straight to the stars (it is night with a lot of stars in the sky). i accelerate and the stars blur a little bit. then i turn around and head to the ground and after some time flying smash hands first into the ground. it didnt hurt or anything. i stand up and begin to fly again but this time slow and chilled. there are 2 other DC´s one of them was flying to i think and the other one is walking outside. it is a meadow and there are some rly cheap plattenbau near by. i land next to the friend walking and tell him i will teleport into the next tree. i try with a stupid gesture but it dont work... nevermind i think and i walk a little bit with him. i stop and there is a little platform with pole as a target. i want to make a beam of ice and it kind of works but is not that impressive the DC stands next to me and we evaluate my powers then i tell him wait fireballs are more easy and i throw some fireballs. then i start throwing with my right hand fireballs and with my left hand iceballs i kind of loose myself in it because it is kind of a lot of fun but i do ita lot longer then necessary. after some time some of the balls change into shining juggling balls and left of the podest is a kid and the balls fly against the head of the kid.
my vision gets black and i try to reenter the dream. i start hearing a female friend of mine saying something but get to exited about and wake up for good.

Terrible night for sleep, my daughter is getting a cold D:
Had so many sleep sessions, some were lucid but of course I don't recall those anymore because I was far too exhausted to record anything.. ugh.

I remember 2 NLDs:

-Hearing/Seeing a story about an eel who was adopted by a school of fish. The fish like to live at the surface of the water while the eel wants to live deep down in the dark. The fish always tell him it's not right and that he shouldn't, but one day he's just like, "Screw this, I'm going down there because that's the way it's supposed to be." As he goes, all the fish follow him deep deep down. And apparently later on this enables them to evolve in high-tech ways and they become a humanoid race (looking NOTHING like fish, all like human). I see a black ship rising to the surface of the water and the Asian/American looking guy piloting it is talking to another pilot on some kind of radio thing.

-FA (I think?) that ends up with me inviting some DV people to my house. Two guys show up, one is CanisLucidus and the other might be Sensei?? The maybeSensei one is darker and skinnier while Canis is very normal looking. C comes home and is surprised and maybe a little put-off by the unexpected guests. I sit there talking (mainly with Canis) about how I just had a lucid dream about being a wolf and doing something odd. Canis and I share dreams of beings wolves. (I've never actually been a wolf in-dream.. that I know of)

So that was cool! First time hanging out with a DV person in-dream.

Fragment 1: a new cafeteria at work opened and had weird arrangements where one would be assigned a seat next to someone specific and told a bit about them. One time I was going to this cafeteria with a man who in my dream was my father but in reality a stranger, and I wanted to know if we could sit next to eachother. Luckily their system had provisions for such requests.

Fragment 2: a new government resulted in lots of job offers, and I was offered a job in my dream which I accepted without even an interview or meeting with them. I was telling my client about this, and he recognized the name of the government person I would be working for, her first name was Elizabeth, but he said she is informal, so you may call her Liz.

Black: non-dream
Blue: non-lucid
Red: lucid

Dream - beach with turtles
I think I flew into town on a plane, but it became a train at some point.. I'm on the beach now and I hop off of the train. The sand is wet and stretches far with the suns orange sunset glow giving it a nice sheen at the right angle. I see the train turning to leave but I'm not ready to go with it, it disappears and I continue on with walking around. There's a little pond of water in the sand and I spot a couple turtles in it, they're just chilling out. I think I circle round and find another hole that has turtle eggs. They're pretty big and look so delicate, they have this lime green spider web pattern over them which looked cool. I continue walking again and come to another hole, this time I realize that it's not habitable for turtles due to the giant centipedes in there, I decide to kill them via cutting them in half with something(?).

DILD #1:

I was having some argument with an old man in my class and he started to try to beat me up. I ignored his punches, feeling like he couldn’t harm me, then calmly walked to the lecturer to dibby dob on this naughty fella. The guy kept kicking and punching me in the back of my head as I casually strolled to the lecturer, but it didn’t hurt at all, and I refused to hurt him back. I told the lecturer, this extra muscular, bleach blonde guy in his 40’s. He said to the guy that was still punching me, “Aw, don’t worry about it, I won’t kick you out of the class!”
The angry DC smiled and said, “REEEALLY?”, and then proceeded to skip off into the distance merrily.
I started to realize it was a dream but I didn’t remember that I was in a competition, so I just messed around with the DC’s for awhile.
I stuck my foot into a fish bowl and pretended that gravity was like it is in water. I was taking huge leaps all around and slowly floating back to the ground. My classmates’ jaws dropped to the floor.
I said to them, “You think that’s cool, well watch this!”
I then started to fly/float in the air. I grabbed another classmate by the hand and lifted him into the air as though he was light as a feather, then I made him float right beside me. I think I got distracted by some school stress themes at this point and lost lucidity. I remember looking at one of my old friends’ grades from undergrad and being very jealous and impressed at the same time.

DILD #2:

I was at a park with Dreamer and some of her family. It was a bright sunny day and I was standing on a dirt path, talking with her Dad. Dreamer had gone into a wooden building alone to talk with a relative. I think that the intended discussion had a very sad undertone. I suddenly noticed that her Dad had turned into her Uncle. I was confused and I said to him, “I’m sorry, are you Dreamer’s dad or her uncle?”
He silently stared at me.
I spoke again, “I really do apologize if this seems strange, I have trouble telling the difference between being in dreams and being awake sometimes.”
He continued to silently stare.
I did a nose plug reality check and air went through, but I still wasn’t convinced that this was a dream. I made a rock fly into my hand. I watched it levitate there for a good 10 seconds, admiring its details and the contrast between the beautiful, soft lighting and the deep shadows. I dropped the rock and flew up to the second floor of the wooden building that Dreamer was in. I broke through the wall by gently brushing my hand against it. Heavy, wooden logs fell all over Dreamer, but I made her invincible so that she couldn’t be harmed. I smiled at her as we locked eyes. I noticed that her green eyes were even more vivid, outlined by teary redness. She had been crying. I gave her a hug and then picked her up. I carried her in my arms while we took off flying to find a concert hall. I saw a couple dream characters that looked similar to Percy and Sensei, so I pointed at each of them and gave them a flick of my finger to let them know that they would do. They both started flying with us. I looked back and there were several clones walking where Percy and Sensei had been. I felt like the dream was in a strange loop back there, like in old cartoons where the background scene will keep repeating itself.

I saw a concert hall up ahead that looked kind of like the Sydney Opera House, but I felt unsure about the duration of this dream. So instead of going to see a concert first, I said to everybody, “Hold up, we’re going to take of some unfinished business first.”

We all landed in a grassy field outside of the concert and then huddled in a circle. I summoned a pillow for each person, but they were tiny, SUPER tiny. They actually looked like pincushions. I thought that would be fine. I made mine and Dreamer’s get a little bit bigger and let Sensei and Percy keep the pincushion pillows.
My pillow ended up being like a couch cushion and Dreamer ended up wielding a giant memory foam pillow.
The battle began! But it was much less exciting than I anticipated. We all looked like a bunch of 12 year old nerds gently beating each other over the head with pillows. Dolphin appeared, he was a skinny Nigerian guy. He started fervently bashing Sensei with his pillow, yet he was being very gentle at the same time. I said to him, “Hey man, you’re hitting the wrong person.”
He immediately started to hit Dreamer instead.
I noticed that Percy was standing off in the distance, watching us battle it out. Typical Percy, playing the tactician and letting us weaken each other so that he could come in at the end and be the victor! I think that I actually noticed him standing to the side because some random DC lady was hitting him with a purse. I held my pillow at eye level and made lightning come out of it, but only a very faint, transparent bolt came out. Percy was unfazed, so I made him catch on fire instead. He stood there with a smug, cocky look on his face that said, “Doesn’t even hurt, I don’t care if I’m on fire, doesn’t even hurt!”

I then said to everybody else that we needed to work together to take out Percy. We all joined forces and started charging at him, pillows billowing in the wind. I woke up.

The endless task

It was an interesting world I awoke in. Very mountainous and caves were waiting to be explored and mined. With me were a few strangers but I didn't care about that fact as they had at least an idea what to do in contrast to me who was just in an unknown place.

The task was easy, yet it would take a lot of time. Search for resources, make something useful from them and gain even more resources. No end, except you give up. It actually sounds pretty boring but on the other hand I was very motivated to max out the resource gain. So I followed the other people and we entered one of the caves inside of a mountain. You could clearly see that someone was already working here due to the lanterns spending a dim, yellow light and the unnatural holes exposing tons of ore. Everyone got a pickaxe and we started to carve it out of the wall.

Strange car ride

I turned left with my car entering a small, silent street that was more or less unspectacular. Pretty suprising instead was the traffic light which was on the middle of the street and turned red. There was plenty of way between me and it and I wasn't very fast either but still I failed to break strong enough and crossed the line. So I had do drive a bit backwards and then forwards again. Suddenly my car started to do weird snake lines for no good reason and I started to question the whole situation. Finally I got the last kick when I looked into my rearview mirror and saw a different person than myself. An African looking boy looked at me and I said "Hey, I am driving this car and my name is *ensert name here* and I am not you, OK?"
The boy just looked down as he was disappointed of me recognizing this.

I was lucid now of course and directly walked out of my car. Actually I was happy to not have to deal with it anymore and prepared myself by rubbing my hands a bit and keeping the dream stable. It felt a bit like my hands had too few blood in them. For the fun of it I took a look at it and didn't even bother to count them as they were clearly more than five. First I wanted to get an overview and flew a bit up and landed safely again. Then I wanted to get a few competition points by doing my OWN tasks but ended up thinking at the telekinetic rampage someone wrote about in his dream journal and tried the same. Pitfully I was not lucid enough to make the cars fly and crash into each other but it was worth a try.

Morning of August 21, 2015. Friday.



I was trying to feasibly do two things at once last night; that is, doing a bit of extra research and writing and doing dream-making preparation exercises (involving image projection and affirmations) during the same time period, which of course, lacks the fluidity of natural dream construction and does not result in extended apex lucidity. Granted, it creates lucidity and in-dream full awareness on one level, but via an unusual perspective and while lacking the otherwise automatic settings and scenes. This particular type of dream is very different than other types, where the dream-making self and the sleeping conscious self are not fully linked as in apex lucidity, yet still as if awake at some levels (and seems to be one of the only types where critical thinking skills are vaguely present at times). Of all the different levels of consciousness, this is probably one of the most annoying. Although surreal events can and do happen, there is no telekinetic ability or abilities involving reshaping of energies.

Before going into a fully rendered in-body dream, my focus was a bit unusual. I was in an atypical form of very light sleep paralysis, the type where you can hear audio pulses and see half-rendered dream settings (and even feel light phantom touches), but rather sparse in attention. A young girl’s voice says “hear me…hear me…heal me…” very clearly (actual sound rather than just the felt waveform), which seems almost like “real” contact of some kind. This brings me awake and I ask Zsuzsanna if it was her and she says no, she had not been sending, intentionally or not (and even so, there is often a minor blue flame event when that happens).

Eventually, in-dream, I am back at my computer and I know I am dreaming, yet for some reason, I am strictly limited to my physical form in the chair. Of course, being in my dream, the computer is not behaving as it should. I am trying to get to a particular tab in Firefox, but the mouse is not responding very well.

So what I do, is peal the tab I am trying to get to off of the actual glass of the monitor. Eventually, I notice about four layers, each related to a particular tab in the browser. The computer monitor starts to separate into several layers of very thin and pliable glass (though more reminiscent of plastic in pliability), and it looks like I may have damaged something. I try to push the thin layers of screen back together and my fingers go a few inches into the screen as the thin sheets of glass are a bit out of alignment.

From here, a small white furball with an emoticon-like face, about the size of a white Furby, but with no ears, falls off my desk. It seems somehow alive, as it does hop around a few times, though a bit chaotically. I try to get it to act aggressively or to make a hostile face, but there is no response. It grins at one point and I try to get it to sprout fangs, but nothing happens. This annoys me. Intense emotion is having no effect on my intent to alter dream nuances. I cannot even create a proper “monster”, not even a little one.

I get up and go outside where there are three tyrannosauruses sleeping in our backyard on their stomachs (the biggest facing north and along the east fence opposite the public footpath, the other two facing east and west). It seems just prior to sunrise, but there is enough light to see their overall shape and certain other details. Maybe I can get a dinosaur to chase me. That might be fun. I did it often enough when much younger. I try to mentally will the dinosaurs awake, but that does not work. I kick them. Nothing happens. I jump around and kick them several times (even in the eyes) but they do not stir. Finally, I use my last scrap of mental energy and wake one up. It rises up on two legs but soon is “pulled” back into its sleeping form - like an accelerated series of movie frames, with the residual impression that the sleeping form had not moved and its waking form was only a fleeting ghost image, being pulled back into itself by sparse wispy tendrils.

Instead of relaxing and staying in my dream or trying to step into a preset scenario, I deliberately “walk out of it” through the fence and make a rude gesture to the three sleeping giants behind me.

1. I had just walked into my room. I looked around out of boredom and noticed that something didn't feel quite right. "Yooo, no way. I'm Lucid bro!". I walk over to the window on the left side of my bed and look out of it. I can see my backyard and the patio and it all looks the same as it would in waking life. "So if this really is a dream, I can bust out this window" I said out loud to myself jokingly. I knew for sure I was dreaming though. I run at the window, jump, and smash into it with my back. I somehow get halfway through the window, get stuck, and then get flung back inside of my room as though my window was made of some sort of jelly substance. "What the hell" I say out loud.
"Yeah that's right boy, I hope you learned your lesson!" I hear an old guy outside yell. "How nice of my neighbor" I think to myself. I then walk around my room again, just looking at how similar to waking life everything seems. Suddenly I hear my mom yell, "Cory, come downstairs!". I immediately get distracted and lose my lucidity.

2. I was inside some sort of hallway. Everything was made of wood. The walls were made of wooden planks, as well as the floor. Everything is dead silent and this makes me highly aware. I walk to the end of this wooden hallway and make a left through a doorway. As I do so, I immediately become lucid. I look around and realize that I am inside of a huge ship by recognizing the interior. The floor was now white, but I'm not sure of its material. I saw dark green doors everywhere along the walls, each one placed a few feet apart from the other. It came to me that these doors must lead to the sailors rooms aboard this ship.
Suddenly my girlfriend appears from around the corner. "Babe what are you doing here?" I ask her. "I came to surprise you hehe" she giggles. I draw her close to me and kiss her on the lips. I hear music start to play all around the ship, but its at a low volume to the point where it sounds like elevator music. "Wow, this is so chill" I think to myself. I take my girls hand and walk around another corner of the ship and I encounter my friend David. "Dude no way, whats up?" he asks me. "Not much David, just Lucid Dreaming you know" I reply. "Nice man, I'm still working on getting my first lucid, and by the way I'm actually 100% gay now" he tells me(In waking life he's not). At this point I'm wondering why he'd tell me that he's now 100% gay, but no big deal.
Me and Kourtney continue walking down the ships hallway until we come to a special bigger door. I open it and we both walk outside and are now on the deck of the ship. Right as we make it out onto the deck I see a plane take off from our ship, into the sky. In front of me I see a group of what look to be special ops soldiers. I walk over to them. "How's it going guys" I say. "Things are getting serious" one of them tells me, "Look at the city". I look over to my left and across the huge ocean that separates the ship from land, I see the city. It is enormous and looks extremely futuristic. The bad thing is though, is that its on fire. I look at the ocean water all around us the ocean is roaring with huge waves. It seems as though we have been caught in the middle of a thunderstorm. I see lightening in the sky, and it is raining pretty hard to say the lease.

Two nights ago:

afternoon nap:

+ With my wife, we crash a private backyard swimming pool. I hear a gasp of surprise, and see a woman and young girl, supposedly the owners of this house, so my wife and I make a quick getaway. We ride on top of one of those propeller beanie hats, but it doesn't have the power to fly us up and away, it only cushions our decent down to the bottom of the hill. We run to hide in a large store there that I later see is a Safeway. We're moving through this large store going up and down elevators trying to evade detection from the swimming pool owners who are chasing us. I say "we have to move from the (front/left?) corner of the store to the (back/right?) corner." By a back door of the store, we go out but there is a guard there at a gate. Back in the store I see a car (toy?) that I figure I can carry out taking a few trips (seats, etc). I mention something like this to my wife and the guard overhears and says "What?! What's that?!" I make up something like "oh I was asking about his chess teacher." At the gate the son of the swimming pool owner man I think recognizes me and signals his father, who is a swarthy short man leaning against a wall.

night: sick, fever:

+(f) the grad school colleagues recognize me

+(f) walking through family where the women have really strange breasts, don't stop to look because the mother is holding a revolver

last night: dreams galore, probably a lot forgotten (mental journaling, no recording until morning)

+ ex-gf SB, phone, "she wants to marry me!", but I discover only because it's advantageous on her applications

+ adventure with biker gang: Tribes I raid: destroy enemy generator, package up their energy into canvas sack, must finish this in under a minute

+ with dad in backyard, asking him about how all the systems work (in case he passes away)

+ In some sort of scientific building, my son S1 declares himself a dedicated chemist, a DC says in an exasperated voice: "Chemists! Once they realize the power of the molecular model, they think it can solve any problem!" I'm performing an experiment which proves some fundamental axiom of chemistry. I form three small bubbles, and on each one extract a colored bump: one is blue, one is red, one is orange. Then I combine two of the spheres into a larger blob, and after they merge they cannot be separated again, which demonstrates/proves the theorem.

+ trying to open the door to let girl teammate in, finally open it, she comes, and our group gives each other an emotional hugging farewell and write in each other's yearbooks

+ I'm in a grocery store buying things for lunch, I put my items at the checkout and then go looking for frozen desert. I'm at a freezer floor container, looking through packages, I think about finding some key lime pie, and find a back but there are too many slices in it, it's heavy, at least 12 slices or more. Around on the other side of the freezer container I see an open topped large milkshake with green ice cream (is it pistachio?), it is labelled s.l. "Milk-I". I see that there are people waiting at the cashier (giving me frustrated looks?), I get back to the cashier and she wants to add a surcharge because the transaction had already been closed. I get outraged, and say "so if I'd bought toothpicks for $1 and a fork for $2, you'd want to charge me more than $3?!"

+ I "come to my senses" and find my self vigorously rubbing the stockinged leg of a female friend (not my wife or GF, just an acquaintance) during a party sitting next to me on the couch, I'm running my hand up and down and up and down her leg. I stop and sit there frozen in embarrassed shock, the other women are sitting far from me because they know I tend to do this.

+ Arriving home in car, go to house, wonder why my niece E is not coming with me, realize I'm naked, and understand that she's waiting for me to enter the house first

+(f) (DO?) woman phases through glass wall, approaches group, there's a surprise there

+(f) I see that my portable chess set has been put in the bag, I open it up to make sure all the pieces are there, the housekeeper must have put it away

Inspired by Samael's return and a slight nudge from Dreamer, I bring you something totally lame! No color coding, no fanciness, no pictures! It's everything you could want from the first...

BARE-BONES ENTRY OF MEDIOCRITY

Escape

I catch wind through the Internet that a bald, psycho, murderface, nut-job is coming to kill me in awful and terrible ways. Acting immediately, I move through my parents' house checking all doors and windows are properly locked. Fortunately, I manage to lock the one unlocked door--leading into the garage--right as I hear the tell-tale grinding of the garage door opening. As the killer on the other side begins grinding away at the handle with some sort of angle grinder, my parents calmly remark "That must be him," and continue watching television. Deciding I'll have none of that, I hurry my fiance downstairs, out the back entrance and into the snow--bare feet and all. I propel us over the fence, and we're off.

Running for our lives.

In the police station, one of the officers goes over my name and remarks I've been making the rounds on the news lately. I tell him, "Yeah, I've noticed." There's a line to get help, but that seems boring, so I leave with my fiance, deciding I'll come back later.

I check my phone and find a subreddit created by the guy trying to kill me. As you'd expect, it's creepy as all fuck, and I'm horrified by some of his past "work" and detailed designs for what he planned for me. As it turns out, my death wasn't part of those designs. Just horrible body "upgrade" procedures straight out of a proper nightmare. Stuff like mechanical tetrachromatic eyes, replaceable intestines, metal plating in place of skin--all installed while I'm conscious mind you.

I decide to go back into the police station.

As I'm rounding the corner, a bunch of bald guys who look just the killer begin walking towards me. Shit. I call out, "Help! Officer!" But no one comes as they swarm around me and...just pass me by?

Con

Watching some mid-level players duke it out in a Super Smash Bros Melee mod I'm unfamiliar with. Lacking my glasses and a controller, I step into the convention-room's hallway. I outstretch my hand, and pull my glasses to me. They shoot from my hotel room and are in my hand in less than a second. Then I do the same for my Gamecube Controller. A few rounds of play later I head out into the convention. Wandering around the hotel, I find myself in a totally separate convention--this one dedicated to board games. Oddly, both conventions are sorely lacking in attendance.

Bored.

Time to explore Vegas...

I fly (hover, really) around Vegas for a bit. There's some gross celebrities getting doted on by hotel staff. Unrelated to that mess is some nonsense about avoiding the pool because I don't actually have a bathing suit because reasons.

Alternate Dimensions

One moment I'm at my parent's place, the next I'm still at my parent's house...but it's moved to the end of the cul-de-sac . I had felt the shift as reality folded in on itself, maybe that's why I'm the only one who seems to know anything is amiss...

Outside now, I check the garage, and there's a canoe in it. We never had a canoe before. A neighbor walks up and nods to the boat, "Perks of alternate dimensions," he says with an approving tone.

I shrug; I don't even like boating that much.

guy is doing sales into medical packaging technology, I'm looking him up on the computer to see if he's interested. my boss is kind of poopooing him. He doesn't have a ton of available information or success into what we are trying to do.

false awakening. in my bed at home, sleeping with the baby, she climbs out of bed, grabs my phone and calls my wife crying. April comes home and says that carmelite told her that i let her watch mad max fury road. i'm amazed that she could dial the phone, surprised that I let her watch fury road, wondering if fury road was out on video yet.

false awakening made me very happy. It came froma failed wild attempt and i know that i'm so close. I was totally questioning my reality and all sorts of aspects of it but not quite putting it together. so close.!!!

I was a student in what appeared to be a class on business. I was selected as an internship candidate for being a successful entrepreneur (for a curry restaurant(?)). The dream itself was in fragments. One minute I'm in the classroom, dark as usual, and surrounded by DCs. I was called on to read a passage from the course textbook. Only the first few words seemed to be legible; the rest made no sense. Columns of writing were completely blurred. The teacher became angry at me. One of the most peculiar images I can recall was that I was clad in a 3 piece suit.

Next, I'm in an open area which seems to be a pit stop. On the highway, the teacher is chasing some student. Details of the dream get really disjointed at this point.

The last fragment: I'm in a "classroom" which is doubles as a bowling alley. In one scenario I view a DC rolling a ball and somehow hitting the pins adjacent to her. Another dream character does the same thing but his ball goes to the gutter right before hitting the leftmost pin.