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So while napping I did stuff as a dream guide that was wrong. I don't remember what I did wrong but it was a few things and all of them involved gab somehow. At least one of them involved gab deleting a message I wrote. And then gab sent me a long PM about my "unhelpful behavior", and I woke up thinking that this was something I needed to fix in waking life because I like gab so much, and don't want her to think poorly of me. It almost felt like I had woken myself up on purpose because I wanted to fix these issues in waking life. But I do not remember for sure whether I really did do that - that would imply a tiny bit of awareness waking myself up like that after all.

Not long after waking up, I realized that all those issues with gab happened in my dream, that there is nothing to fix in waking life, at least nothing I know of. I tried to go back to sleep but could not, so I went into DV. I must admit that when I saw that I had a notification, I got a bit nervous. I opened it almost expecting it to be a PM from gab about my "unhelpful behavior". It was a notification about a Like.

Edit: I thought about why I had this dream. I think part of it is because in the forum where I belonged to before DreamViews I would get into trouble with moderators and part of my subconscious still expects that. However, more importantly I like to half-joke that gab is my muse - I had my first successful WILD due to gab when I first joined DV, and I still associate gab with WILD success. Today during the nap I was trying to WILD but I think I was too tired and just fell asleep unaware. But I dreamed of gab as a result.

One dream and three fragments... first, the dream.

I was at a mall and there was this guy hitting on me. I was not me, though, I was even wearing a dress. Anyway, I still knew that there was something off about me hooking up with a guy, so I thought it'd be better to leave. I was nice to him, but then I kinda freaked out when I noticed my dress was open (the zipper was on the right side and it wasn't exactly visible that it was open, but I could see it and I was really worried everyone else could too).

I was finally ready to leave and I had to pay for the parking. It was R$7, I got to the place where I had pay and the guy working there took my money, then he said it wasn't fair that I had to pay. So he gave me R$200. It was a very weird, illogical logic, but I was pretty happy with having more money, so I thanked him and left.

I went to this small, but pretty apartment. I started telling the people who were there about the guy hitting on me and about the money. At this point, I was definitely me. The people there were my friends (I think some of them were Glee cast members), but they didn't give a shit about my story, so I remember that I started making gestures with my hands while telling the story, so that I could get their attention. It worked a little.

We left the apartment and then my new dream theme started... zombies. We were on the street and we suddenly found ourselves surrounded by zombies. We got inside a red, kinda old car and one of the guys started driving. He was a bit slow and he kept turning where we told him NOT to, until he stopped the car in a very steep street. He opened the door and started freaking out because there were zombies in front of us. I pushed him back to the car and started driving myself.

I decided that moving forward wouldn't be good, so I went back. They freaked out and said that I shouldn't do that, but I ignored them. I was driving as fast as possible until I got to a park. I stopped the car and realised I had no idea where my parents were. I took my phone and tried to call them, but I couldn't get a signal.

Then, the zombies were there too. My friends started freaking out (it's pretty much all they did), and then I thought "I can do this, I've seen it a thousand times on The Walking Dead", so I managed to kill two zombies. It wasn't easy, but I did it. I told everybody to get back in the car and I started driving fast again. We finally found a place that looked like a bunker. We got inside and the person who was living there was considering whether or not she'd let us stay. One of my friends, who was suddenly Paris Hilton, took her clothes off and offered them to the woman... and the woman was actually very interested in Paris Hilton's clothes, so it worked.

That's right, a naked Paris Hilton helped me stay alive in my zombie dream.

Two of the fragments are similar.

First one, I was in a room, it was pretty much empty and a bit dark. I knew we were underground and a girl I know (we went to the same uni, but we never studied together... she lived with one of my classmates) was also there. Then, people started entering the room and everybody was happy about killing some zombies. I hugged the girl and she was hesitant. She said she knew I'd break her heart and I said I'd never do that. She said she would think about giving me a chance.

The second fragment, I was in a café, it was a very cheap place. The same girl was there, but this time she was the one hitting on me and saying she wanted to be with me. I said that sure, we could date, so we held hands.

Third fragment, I got my parents the first season of The Walking Dead (in real life), but some of the subtitles go wrong halfway through the episode. In the fragment, I was helping them get the subtitles fixed for an episode.

Napping on the couch during the night: A nightmare of the vague, unseen, menacing, I'd-call-it-demonic-except-the-demons-in-this-dream-are-on-my-side variety starts to take hold. Since I think of this as associated with darkness, I summon 'the golden light of Apollo' which lights me up from inside for a moment and this does the trick, but Amon and the other demons around me look rather hurt/betrayed that I would do such a thing, calling on some light god instead of relying on them.

Fragments from 8 and 10:19 wakeups, having gone to bed at 7 am:

A man with a phobia of the upper class he's trying to join; the name Benjamin.

An immortal man offering another a light for his cigarette and saying "Here. Rachel's mother couldn't stand (this brand), could she? Now it's the scent of (a three-syllable name of a town in China, a place associated with another woman)."

My new wife, Julia, has drawn me away from my potion-brewing for the night, and as I carry her up the tower steps to her bedroom, she quotes, "And it was better that the beloved behold the tainted cities of Mephisto dreaming."

(Woke up at 10:19, and shortly afterward my neighbor started to play the drums. After half an hour I called him. Back to bed at 11, though I didn't get back to sleep for at least another 20 minutes.)

I'm riding in a car with my IRL sisters, and I notice that I can see the grand houses we're driving past even though my eyes are closed. I keep them closed for a while to be sure of it. I suspect I'm dreaming. I take out my sketchpad and start drawing what I see with my eyes closed - the inside of the car, I considered drawing the scenery but better to go with something that isn't passing so fast - but I find that although I can see both car interior and sketchpad, my drawing isn't enough to prove anything. We stop at a hotel and I've run out of drawing paper, and I go through an old sketchbook and find it's full of paintings from Shadow Hearts.

Dream briefly switches to Shadow Hearts scenes featuring two Alices, one 'real', the other either dead or the result of time travel shenanigans or a figment of Yuri's mind or some combination of the above. It's this potentially imaginary Alice who more closely resembles the version from the game.

Back to the hotel - my father's current IRL girlfriend comes to the hotel room to tell me to hurry up, Dad's in the car and waiting. I'm surprised since I thought I was the one waiting, all I have to do is stick my sketchpad back in my backpack and I'm good to go - but no, I see my sisters are already at the door too. My bad. I grab my things and go after them -

After I walk through that door there's a memory gap, but I wind up lucid, floating up and down through the levels of the hotel through a convenient octagonal hole in the floors leading up to a skylight. I stop floating around and look for a door to go through to change to a more interesting scene, but as I pass through the door I get a sense of danger, and immediately look for another door. I pass through a series of rooms this way, most of them halls filled with marble statues and skylights or balconies opening onto clear blue skies, but still with that sense of something wrong, until finally I open a door to a public bath filled with attractive people making out with each other. I have no particular desire to join in but it makes for pleasant scenery and the sense of danger is gone, so I strip and get into the water.

I seem to have gotten my timing wrong, most people are getting out of the water and getting dressed, but I'm not bothered by this. The doors on the far side of the baths are so large the view is almost entirely brilliant blue sky. Someone offers me a tab of acid, and I take one and offer one to another before handing the rest back to him, which he's surprised by. I wonder if it'll have any effect in a dream, and as I wonder this I decide to find a robe to put on. I remember the summoning-by-putting-your-hand-behind-you trick and decide to try summoning a robe - which doesn't work, but I walk past a stack of towels, and then a stack of clothes, and this seems to be the dream's response to my request. The clothes are slightly too large for me but I put them on anyway, listening to the conversations around me.

(Woke up just before 12:30. Resigned myself to a bit of sleep deprivation.)

08/24/13 This is a non-lucid, but I am recording it because it has an obvious source IRL. My poor elderly rat is sick. I was giving her a bath and ran my finger over a cancerous tumor, which must have hurt her very badly. For the first time ever she bit me. Not hard, but hard enough to tell me it hurt so bad. I will have to put her to sleep soon. Poor girl.
In a non-lucid that night there were cute little bats and one was stuck in my blanket. I tried to get it out, but my finger was bitten in the process. Then I finally became semi-ludid and saw 2 bats hanging from a door frame. The visuals were kind of cool so I just watched these bats flex their wings and such. I never became truely lucid although I basically knew it was a dream at the end.

Dream:
I was at a carnival and some girl (who liked girls) was trying to hit on another girl and her friends didn’t like it. Her friends decided they were going to shoot at the girl when she went to her car at the parking lot. They started shooting and bullets were flying all over the place. People started running to their cars screaming. The girl was dunking and dodging bullets all the way to her car and out of the hundreds of bullets shot, they all missed her.

Fragments:
1. Kelly Roland singing “Kisses Down Low.”
2. Cleaning and cooking fried chicken with Andre Zimmerman from, “Bizarre Foods.” (BTW, I'm frying chicken today)
3. Man and a Little girl and I think the man was my husband. (BTW, I don't have a daughter, I have all boys. I wonder if I'm pregnant )

I remember sitting in a room, I heard some man getting angry at his wife. Trying to leave them undisturbed, I silently walk out of the room but retain a link to the room through a kettle. I can hear and see whats happening through the kettle. The man talks about a princess so I figure I should go look for her.
The room was strangely connected to a large hall similar to a place I know in real life, a girl stood in the middle surrounded by 20 other people I know. She had drawn a 3d portrait of new york completely by hand and no one thought it was good except me. Seeing the artwork triggered lucidity, I knew that she couldn't have drawn it. I stabilized the dream by concentrating and decided I would see what was at the end of the hall. Upon meeting some legionaries I lose lucidity again and start to follow them
Multiple minutes later, after having battled to the center of the castle in which the princess resides I come in contact with someone who seemed to be my arch-enemy. I noted how his armor was much cooler than mine despite me being the main character. I turned lucid again but it felt much more stable this time. I immediately turned into this silver werewolf thing I heard about in a book I'm currently reading. I shot this white fire from my hands and I could feel the smoke rising out of the metal grill where my nose should be. Everyone around me was really frightened so I decided I would have some fun and let out a furious roar which ruptured the walls. I kinda turned lost the plot and just crashed through the castle wall outside. I did a cool trick where my soul exploded from out my chest, and reformed a body somewhere else, but I never actually bothered to go somewhere because I was too excited.

Fragment 1
[2:00 A.M.]

I just remember asking “am I dreaming?” or something of the like and getting excited, then trying not to let the adrenaline get to me, but I was already waking up and forgetting the dream.

May have involved Inazuma Eleven?

Inspiration: I finished The Power of Creative Dreaming last night before bed, and it got me excited reading about becoming lucid and such even though I wasn’t planning on going for that yet. XP

Fragment 2
[6:41 A.M.]

All I remember is the old man from the ‘drowning will’ dream playing soccer.

Possible inspiration: Probably from thinking that the 2am dream involved Inazuma Eleven.

Couldn’t get back to sleep after that.

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Notes:

Not the best night of sleep ever. ;^; It was hot, and my thoughts were going a little too crazy from all the stuff I’ve been reading on DV. I’m focusing on getting my recall back up and getting to bed at a decent time, but I can’t stop thinking of all these other things I want to learn. I figure it’ll settle down as long as I keep refocusing on what I need to work on now. And I need to remember that I can go down and turn the AC up when it’s that hot…

There was a bit about the apple seeds I'm (As of this time) growing on the porch; I have a few types and some are smaller than others. The dream talked about them.

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I was Niko Bellic and I went into a police station where some people were executed and got money then thought something like "Should I be doing this?"

I was in my 80s Chevy Caprice Sedan and I parked it in a parking lot. I later drove it into a flooded area and then got out and pulled it from the tail end, Out while swimming backwards and up a ramp but it turned into a 50s car by this time.

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A guy in an 80s Chevy Caprice 2-Door which was Red drove it fast and above the speed limit in roads similar to those around Pittsburgh; I don't recall the police much. He sometimes slammed into other cars with enough force to make it look like they were made out of styrofoam impregnated with helium and I was surprised that with all the damage the car sustained, it was still going. The car flipped and twirled around like a top some times and it was once in the wrong lane going backwards slamming into at least one car. Eventually the driver went into a garage and drove into a restroom and closed the door, Saying something like "Hello, What's this?"...

After that, He walked out of a Walmart restroom as a blond woman, Now being a transexual. There was a magazine about that sort of thing on display and as she now walked toward the exit another woman asked her if she was one to which she said yes and answered other questions, Then another woman asked more questions and apparently the trensexual was me because there was a question asked about one of my uncles to which I said yes but then said "I don't know if he's still alive".

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I think there are other bits about a Walmart and they're not all clear now.

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At another point I saw a bedroom and a man who I know managed to fit a (Small kid's toy version of a) 80s Chevy Caprice Station Wagon in to it and it was driven around until it got stuck in a corner. I'm wondering now why there was a wall between one section of the bedroom and a table.

Dream 1

I go to my local shop and I relaize that I have 3 paper rounds to do. I am not happy that I have to do 3, but I accept and say 'Yeah, I'll do it." The person who owns the shop pulls me to the side and says "You are a very hard worker, I heard your looking for a job at the moment is this true?"
"Yes" I say, expecting she was going to offer me the job.
"Where did you work before?"
"Wilkinsons." The conversation ended and I went to do the first set of papers. I literally remember delivering like 10 in the dream and getting thirsty so I decide to go home to get a drink. When I'm at home I look at the sheet of paper and the next place I'm delivering to is 'G.O.O.D Kid M.A.A.D City'

Dream 2

I'm am outside in like a pub or something. There are lots of tables everywhere and its night time. I notice on the table in front of me someone is drinking a drink called 'Lucid Dreaming'. Confused by this I pull the drink closer to me examining this drink and looking at the ingredients etc. I don't know what I was trying to find I was just curious. Then I decide its best to reality check now, it really did feel like real life. I do the nose plug and to my surprise I was dreaming. I think no messing about I want to go to space! I decide to fly straight up there, I go to take off get in the air a bit and feel the dream is unstable, so I land and decide to stabilize it.

I look closely at my hand, I look sat the palms, they seem much more wrinkly than usual and I examine them closely. I flip them other and my hands are looking weird. I look up from that and find something I can touch. Flowers it was, I done this in a previous lucid dream and it worked well. I chose this particular blue flower and started looking at it closely, it was only small, I felt the petals and it felt as you would a flower to expect. I finished stabilizing and decided I was ready.

I try to fly to space again, I jump in the air and fly as I usually would I get a few meters off the ground and I fall. I try a couple more times. Goddamn! Why isn't this working again! It happens every time I want to go space, I think. I imagined that space wasn't really that far in the sky and if I get speed I can reach it in a under a minute. I try hard to imagine it as I seem to be failing getting to space a lot! I notice there is a cliff edge a small run away from where I am standing. I think to myself, what I will do is run as fast as I can to it, gain a lot of speed jump off and fly to space from there. I begin to run as fast as I can, I am going very fast. I start getting closer to the edge and when I'm there I jump, I reach out like superman and I seem to fall again. This is the last I recall.

Dream 3

All my friends are coming on like some sort of road trip with me, we are going to like Cornwall in England but stopping at random places on the way. We are on the motorway and we decide it will be funny for me to get the skis out and hold onto the back of the car going down the motorway. I agree. So I get into the skis and I am holding on by a rope. We start driving down the straight going really fast, it must be about 80mph. This was quick, I just hoped I didn't fall off I was getting a rush from it. Then we come to a corner, still going quick we turn this corner, the car turns first then I go flying wide and hit the railings and crash. It doesn't hurt but I am lost. They have to carry on driving and they can't turn round and pick me up. I take off the skis. There was a small river next to these railings and round the edge was cocaine. I ignore it and jump over it. I decide to call my sister. I call her she was with my mum who was driving the car. I tell her to come back and pick me up I can't remember what she says. I am in some sort of abandoned town, I start walking and there is everyone. They were coming to stop the night here anyway.

The next thing I know, everyone is trying to jump from this one building to another because people are supposedly chasing after us. We put a log down to walk across but as I begin to walk across it falls down. Instead as the jump was only small I jump out and fall on belly as snow is there. I roll onto my side but keep rolling and fall off and have to start again.

This series of dreams were a little disappointing. I am embarrassed at how sloppy I've become. I made a number of mistakes and really didn't get anywhere with my goal. At least I got multiple lucids!

I took a longer WBTB than usual (longer than 5 min) with this one and got on Playstation Home Doctor Who pack and explored the TARDIS a bit trying to take in all the visuals of the inside. I think it would have been helpful if I had actually summoned one up or just materialized myself straight inside versus making the blue box first. I was worried about insomnia when I went to bed as I was super wakeful. I had to use my technique for falling asleep and abandon any lucid induction. I was surprised to DILD but with Galantamine it's almost effortless the first few hours. I really need to concentrate on my techniques after my mini awakenings instead of just falling back to mantra. It works... sort of, but I think the experience would be much better with a little more focus. A lot of times I just want to get back to sleep as fast as possible but still try for lucid. Mantras seems to be my fall back method during these times.

Coffee:

#216 - 3:25AM - DILD

I have an FA and find my self getting some coffee. The set up looks like work but its a checkout line at Wal-Mart. I try to grab a Styrofoam cup but they are dirty with holes in them. I move the to other side and see some clean new cups. I get coffee from the dispenser. Mary, the janitor is standing next to the coffee machine. I nod at her and walk away sipping my coffee. (No physical sensation or taste)

My cousin starts texting me while I am walking and though I cant read the words I seem to think that I know what we are saying to each other.

Suddenly, I am in my living room on the floor next to the couch. I still have my coffee in my hand but I am not really drinking it. I am in contemplation and I feel something is off. I am drinking more caffeine? This isn't a good idea if I am going to go back to bed and try to get lucid. SHIT! I should always RC after any awakening I do a nose plug but don't really put thought into it. I don't even know if I blew threw or not. Then, I hear someone going out the front door. It's my wife. She tells me that she is going outside to get something and I can hear the keys jingle in her hand. No. She should be asleep. That's not like her at this hour. I AM dreaming! I walk to the front door and remember to pause and take in the detail. I look at the door and notice it is very different than waking reality. There is a large window in the middle of it. It's wooden and the paint is weathered and peeling off. Then I forget this and rush outside because all I want to do is get in the TARDIS.

Outside the air is cold. Always the air is cold in lucids. Why is this? I enjoy the feeling of it, but I begin to notice that I feel really odd like I have a head cold and there is cloth wrapped around my head, chin to top. It feels heavy and I try to ignore it. I wonder if something is happening to my body in bed. I suddenly feel myself lying on my back and there is nothing on my head now. No don't want to do that. I focus and continue to walking with no other distraction. There is a street lamp to the right and void to the left. I let control slip a bit and just allow myself to wander in a random direction believing I will go straight to the TARDIS. I realize that I am walking barefoot but this time I feel like I am wearing shorts with a hoodie instead of the usual underwear only. Suddenly, I feel a sharp and realistic pain in my left foot and assume I stepped on a peddle on the sidewalk. I let out a whispered, "Ouch!" And grab my foot for a moment. I am shocked at the vividness of the pain but quickly put it out of my mind. I come around to the driveway side of the house and stop. I think it should be appearing now and can faintly hear that unique sound of it's engines. I get several brief and dim images of the TARDIS spinning in flight and appearing in various positions in my driveway. Suddenly, I hear the explosion of a gunshot from somewhere behind me. My physical body jerks in reaction to the sound and the dream breaks apart waking me up.

Mirror:

#217 - DILD - 4:29AM

I hear my son crying and my wife gets up. The light is on but I have a blanket over my face and lying on my left side. I try not to move because I think I am trying to WILD and I am still in the same position that I laid down. Something feels odd. I can feel the air of the ceiling fan on my face and my breath is not obstructed in the least bit. Then, I hear an electronic robotic buzzing sound from behind me and the blankets vibrate like a strong wind is blowing. I immediately know that I am dreaming and do not feel frightened. The sound stops.

I get up and am in the kitchen. I see my wife standing there in the doorway looking very sexy. I grab her and we passionately kiss like its the first time. After a moment, I remember my task and let her go. We can do this later. There is a coffee pot full of coffee on the edge of the sink. I laugh. What is it with coffee in my dreams? I spend several minutes aimlessly searching the house for the TARDIS but don't have any real focus.

Then, I see the front door, but it's not a door at all. It's a large mirror. I run to it intending to dive head first. I pass a DC. Was it my daughter? She says something but I am focused on the mirror. I can see my reflection as I get closer. There are two of me but for some reason I think it's normal. Then, as I dive there is no reflection and I focus on reaching beyond. I get stuck at the waist for a second and wiggle through. I stand up and realize that I went from a very clean and tidy version of my house to a very dirty and messy version of my house. I look around still trying to find a TARDIS but suddenly, the dream collapses.

I try to DEILD but find myself stuck in bed. I realize my head is floating and not touching the pillow. I roll into the floor and stop. I am in another bed with my head floating. I roll again, fall once more and stop on the floor. I suddenly wake up.

Fridge:

#218 - DEILD? - 4:47AM

I either wake up or have a FA. I berate myself for letting awareness slip again. I mantra, "I am dreaming." but suddenly realize that I either I never really woke up or I went straight into a DEILD. I say, "I am still dreaming." (from the times maybe there was not so much a gap after all.)

I am in the kitchen again. No... a different kitchen. I see a very large fridge and decide to turn it into a TARDIS . There only seems to be one light source in the middle of the room and the area the around fridge is cast in deep shadow. Feeling the fridge, I circle around it into the void phasing past cabinets and walls. I am blind now but my physical sensation is vivid. I imaging how the outside of the TARDIS should feel and it quickly takes shape. When I think I have it, I open my eyes. The sensation of my eyelids feels startlingly real. I pause a moment but realize I am hugging a huge blue box.

I excitedly step back but it just looks like some wardrobe with solid wood doors painted TARDIS blue. I become annoyed and obsessed with getting it at least somewhat right. I spin the front around and try again. I just want to see "Police Call Box" on the front before I go in. When I spin it back around there is some cheap ass black label with white random letters on it. Something catches my eyes and I look left. There is the damned Police Call Box sign handing from the ceiling above the kitchen sink.

I decide to let that go and turn my attention back to this half formed TARDIS. To my dismay, the blue box has turned to a type of plastic cardboard. I try to straighten it out and shape it back into a box but not matter what I do, the entire process is clumsy and the material becomes increasingly floppy and weak. I stop and realize the humor it in all. I take a moment and just laugh at it. Then I let out a mocking "WHOOOOHOOO!" I enjoy the sound of my dream voice and shout out again. Laughing I say something Doctor Who-ish, "Dumbily-Wumbily." I just laugh at myself and suddenly wake up.


The next time I wake is around 7:50AM with no other recall. For some reason I thought I had 4 lucids. The feeling of forgetting something is maddening!

Dream recall from today's naps.

Dream 1(fragments):

There was something about girl with psionic powers or something and some people tried to catch her, then there was fight on rooftops.

Dream 2(fragments):

I was at home and i had claw-like attachments on the foot that were apparently made from lego( ), and then i was playing a video game with SilentEternity. It was kinda sandbox game and unique thing about it was that it was controlled using... a pencil and a piece of paper, drawing something materialized it in game and removing something with eraser dealt damage to it. We were building some weird forts with weird physics applied to parts and then were fighting using eraser powers.

Dream 3:

At this point i wake up briefly and go for DEILD, i don't feel transition so i decide to risk and open my eyes, i immediately notice that placement of everything in room is apparently mirrored along the axis from door to balcony, it's also nighttime, but it's not as dark as for usually and also there are no lights outside.
I get up and go to balcony, dream destabilizes for a bit and i rub hands to stabilize. On balcony, i notice full moon straight ahead in the distance, pretty big and unusual, no wonder why it's less dark. And in the light, i notice something else in the distance, something flying. As i look more carefully i notice that it's a dragon. I immediately take off and fly, feeling my wings. Roughly halfway during the flight i strangely find myself back in my room, i fly through balcony doorway and in same direction, i see that dragon is still here. I find myself flying unusually quick this time, so i reach him pretty quickly. He appears to be black scaled. As i slow down and try to change trajectory to fly along... suddenly i find myself back in my room again, this time there's some kind of dark energy sphere which shortly transforms into a DC. He says something about time, which i can't hear well so i ask to repeat it but dream shortly fades out.

Dream 4(fragments):

I was chatting on skype with somebody(Probably SilentEternity).

I had been flying around in a lucid dream for a while. I was really just exploring the world I found myself in. It was bizarrely fantastic. The proportions of things were all over the place. Mostly things were much larger than they had any business being. It was also packed with people. I remember thinking to myself "this is quite the interesting lucid dream I'm having" and that's when I remembered the task of the month.

I turned around on this busy street and asked the first person I saw, a young woman with short curly red hair, "This might seem a little strange, but I'm having sort of an existential crisis. What would you say is the meaning of life?"

At first I couldn't understand her one-word answer, so I asked her to repeat herself. She leaned forward and said "Drive. The only thing that gives life meaning is finding at least one thing which really drives you. Something which so consumes you that you are compelled to do it. Something you cannot deny."

A passerby heard our conversation, a little brunette with dwarfism, "I couldn't help but overhear what you two were talking about and I totally agree. Even Zombies seem to behave with purpose. They have a hunger they cannot deny which causes them to pass on their traits, in this case zombism. Now, they didn't choose that purpose, that purpose chose them, but now we, we have that choice don't we?"

At this point the two girls started talking to one another about things I couldn't understand. I think they were mentioning groups of people they were having trouble with and rattling off names. I sort of realized that I must be in the faery world for all of this stuff to be so fantastic.

The brunette then said something to the effect of "you know, you're right. I've got something I've got to take care of." She then blew a small clear whistle, but no sound came out. I then heard what sounded like rattling, tapping, and scraping all in impossible rapid fire and so fast that the doppler effect was warping their tone. She rose one leg under which several corgi's carying various supplies ran under until the largest one came winding through the crowd with blinding speed to stop just under her. She plopped down, grabbed hold of the harness it was wearing, and was gone in an instant.

I thought to myself, "I have to tell Sherrina" (my roommate) and woke up.

Date: 25th Aug

Pre bed: Gingko, Q10, peppermint oil capsule

Total sleep time: 7 1/2 hrs

Dream quality and recall: Vivid, bright colors, some positive moments, some annoying ones, evading recall

Fragment: Some kind of reddish cliffs (similar to AF, but no water)

Fragment: We are in school and there is some activity all of us are participating in. There are mostly sweaters on the desks with numbers on each pile. Each student is assigned a number and we are supposed to take the pile with our number somewhere.

Dream: I meet my special friend and he is very friendly. We sit somewhere and he tells me all kinds of details about his life. Later on, I am at our old home and I can see him in the building in front of ours as he calls me on the phone. I pick up and my voice is barely coming out, I excuse myself but I know the reason is that I am feeling this strange way again...We arrange to meet.

I wake up super happy, but sleepy and decide I will just review in head instead of taking notes.

Dream: I am with my friend again. He is involved with an organization that brings poachers to the top of a hill, but the activity stops after they are discovered. There are no consequences for him. Later we are somewhere talking and he tells me he is working for some sort of zoo. I can't believe it! I actually think this must be fate that he is working for a zoo and I like animals so much. As he tells me about the zoo, I begin seeing images of animals, he says they have over a hundred pandas there and I reply that's impossible, then contemplate on the structure of the place.

We go in this place which has a classical history exhibition. There are huge statues of Greek gods and special effects in each hall. The two I remember are different type of rain that is falling down in the rooms, one next to a statue of Zeus. I worry about my hairstyle due to the rain. We continue our tour and my bf appears to my left. My friend is holding my hand and I wonder about this, he has a gf and we are very good friends in dreams. Three of us stop in a corridor and my friend makes some remarks about us that seem to make my bf jealous. He also comments on his temper. I didn't expect my friend to behave like this and move closer to my bf, each guy is separated by his own window frame.

Fragment: I am in front of grandma and bf's mom who looks like a mix of a teacher of mine and unknown people is recommending some dates for me to travel. I don't want to do this. There was something else as well, I can't remember. My classmate appears and makes a few jokes that improve my mood. Then we are all supposed to listen to the anthem but I couldn't care less. People disapprove of my behavior.

Dream: FA, I am journalling about the previous dream, trying to put the dates from the previous dream down, but the calendar is missing the dates. In the meantime, bf is behind me reading the journal and I feel a bit embarrassed.

Dream: Grandma is sleeping and I am sleeping on her, she changes positions, and I am careful not to wake her up. I have a look at her legs and think about how well she always looked. Then see some veins and other stuff and wonder about age. There is some sort transparent plastic bra/shirt that is filling with blood and I tell grandma who is now awake to take it off. My dad comes to help drain the blood off the device. It looks more like passata and we get into a discussion about what exactly is going on. We have to smell the stuff, now in a cup to confirm what it is, it smells like chicken broth.

LD: I am in my other grandma's kitchen and become lucid. There's a smart looking DC, blond hair, bright clothes, and I say a few words to him. My mind is kind of foggy as I can't remember any tasks I am supposed to be doing. I ask him for help with advanced TOTM and he looks pretty confident and starts walking around supposedly to show me what I should do. I can't remember the advanced task at all! I rely on him to tell me and he says something like "fire". Hmmm, I know there was something related to fire, but still can't remember, was it burn someone's house down or what? I am not sure I want to do this.

Anyways, I move to the next room, which exists only in dreams, it's full of brightly colored objects and number of DCs but I don't take a closer look. I finally remember I have to do the three step task for the competition. Phase. No, interact with DC, ok, already did that. Next one is phase, keep your eyes open. There is a wall but I don't want to go through it as I may end up in the void, so I decide to go through the glass door just next to it. The patterns on the door are such that one only vaguely sees the room and stuff behind it. Keep the eyes open, I remind myself and push forward. As I do, the blurred shapes behind the glass door become sharper in front of my eyes as I get in the room. Absolutely cool effect, I am thinking! I recall CL's enhancing dream vividness tech too, but am not sure how to proceed about it. The dream is quite vivid and stable anyways.

Now in the room, I see two Korean women reading a newspaper. I have a look at what's written there and think about how I am going to describe it. It looks like Korean, yet it isn't as the letters as different. I am beginning to feel exhausted, some sort of weakness plus heaviness in the head, so decide to move on. What was I supposed to do next? Advanced summon, I am thinking about summoning something extraordinary. I am looking out the window while I do this, see the skyline of some unknown city. The idea was to summon Angel Falls, but I feel like dream control is very hard in this place. Yet, the moment I think about the waterfall, right in front of my eyes and in the distance of the city appears a large structure of falling water. I concentrate on it and start manipulating it to make it Angel Falls but get something like a long protruding towards me half of a bridge and the water turns to shredded material that is waving in the wind in my direction.

I am still not sure whether that counts as advanced summon, so look in the other direction where there are yellow trees and see if I can make some special effects appear there. I almost zoom out of the room as I do that, but the dream seems to be fading away so I go back the way I entered and head to the living room. This place still has the layout of my grandma's place. As I go down the corridor, I hear a roar-like sound and think to self "Nooo", anticipating an unpleasant surprise. I cautiously approach the living room only to see an old slightly overweight Thai man trying to fall asleep on the couch. His wife is also there talking to him. He tells me something about me having eat to the fish he cooked and being offended. There's a small piece of fish next to a piece of carrot on the chair and I taste it, tastes like poached salmon. I then go into the kitchen thinking what to do now, having the impression this dream is generally very stable and control might be hard. I compare this to sivanson's cities in the astral and wonder if this is something similar where they might have imposed restrictions on gravity. The dream slowly fades.

I wake and rush to take notes.

8/24/2013

Dream 1:

I was in a village; a tribal village. I walked around it's huts and stuff. It had a big fountain in the center of it that sort of looked like this:
I also remember being in third person and watching as 22 of the tribesmen from the village have spears thrown at them from out of nowhere. They all die right there, next to the fountain, with the spears coming out of their chests. That's the dream.

Dream 2:

I remember a prison complex.