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I recall that I awoke from an earlier dream. Probably about 5 hours of sleep. I tried to commit some detail to memory but I can't remember now.

Mother, Sister, Basketball
I'm in a house with my mother and sister. It's like the SAV house but not totally. I walk into my sisters bathroom and see points out the new sink. It's strange. The knob for the water is very high at eye level but the faucet and basin are at my knees. My sister is happy with it.

Then there's a delivery man at the door and my mother lets him in. I meet them in the living room. The delivery man is really tall, burly, and has a scraggly beard. I think to myself something like "wow, he's a big guy." There are a few boxes opened and scattered on the floor. There's also a huge basketball the size of a beach ball. I pick it up and dribble it. It's a little flat but it bounces. My mother turns over some of the other boxes. There's another basketball, this one normal size. I take that one in my other hand and dribble both. As I dribble them, they quickly become flat.

There's a song playing that has the name Jack in the lyrics. My mother and the deliver many sing along. Then delivery man exits through the front door. On this way out, he says to my mother "goodbye Jack". She corrects him, "no, I'm Josh". After he's gone, my sister says to my mother "if thought I was Josh." I reflect that they are both pretend to be men as some kind of cover to hide their identity.

I was at a beach, in the water. The sky turned gray and the waves got violent. I tried to leave but the waves kept pulling me in. I finally managed to escape and went back to a hotel room/rental apartment I was staying at with my family. I took a look around, walking outside too. There were two buildings, separated by a metal staircase that let you see into the windows of the houses. I saw a blonde lady in the top floor window. I walked back down and into our room. My phone rang, but I didn't remember giving my number to this person, so I didn't answer.*

non-dream dream semi-lucid lucid false awakening

I'm with 2 girl friends at some otherworldly scenario, of giant white sand dunes and an eerie grey sky. There is no one and no sound and we feel like floating on clouds. It's hard to describe the feeling.
We climb to a dune trying to get a view of what's around but there's even higher dunes surrounding us. They give up and decide to stay in a valley but I feel energized enough to climb to the highest dune around. They look tired and do not follow me. After I reach the top, I still only see more dunes across the horizon, but in the distance, the sky has some weird clouds coming in our direction. When they are closer, lightning starts and 5 or 6 tornados form and I'm like "not again!!!" I scream to my friends to take cover because we're gonna be hit, but when I look at it again, I realize the tornados are the least of our problems. A giant tsunami just appeared out of nowhere and is covering even the highest dunes. It's so fast I only have time to say "f*ck!". I am engulfed by the gigantic mass of water and I say goodbye to life. After a few tumbles on the giant waves, I realize I'm not dead. I don't get fully lucid, but I'm a bit aware of the nature of the experience.
I lay down on the sand, my friends are gone and then I'm surrounded by 10 persons who start throwing ninja knives at me. I only have something like a piece of wood I found on the floor, to defend myself and I throw back the knives at them. I still get some bad cuts, but I keep on fighting until they eventually stop attacking me and retreat. I'm tired, injured and with my clother torn apart. Then my sensei appears and says "Well done, but can you do that in sexy?". I think to myself "What???" Then he hands me a box with what appears to be blue fabric. I pick it up and it's some kind of long tunic. He disappears again, I dress it up and start walking around. I find a rudimentar house and he is sitting on a chair outside. I pull up a chair, sit down, cross my legs and say "Yes, I can do it sexy. And I'm not wearing any underwear." His concentration flicks for a moment and I throw a ninja knife at him. He escapes it, but barely and looks at me like saying "You got it!".

I met my sister in the forest, it can't be, so i made RC and flew from that place. I flew with problems, a bit crash in buildings and then i landed i lost awareness. After that i went somewhere with a groop of people, remembered again that its a dream, and ask girl near me that i thought about the number from 1 to 100. What was it? My number was 22 - its the number of my school. The girl was thinking 5 -7 seconds and said - 22))i tried to remember other tasks but couldn't. a bit later complittely lost awareness.

When I woke up this morning I was convinced that I had had two dreams about Gamzee, but since I don't remember them, I'm skeptical about it.

But it actually did remind me that I had a dream about Dave and Dirk yesterday, but they were just mundane DCs in it I guess.

Also had a dream about being mind-controlled or something by an older witch woman?

Uh … OOPS it’s been months since I last wrote an entry in this thing. That would explain why lately I’ve been having so much trouble remembering my dreams. I really need to get back into the habit of doing this so that I can have cool dreams again. Yeah.

Well, I recently had a pretty cool/weird dream. It went something like this:

It starts off as kind of a third-person thing, where I’m not really a part of the action, I’m just observing the story.

There are a bunch of lions and zebras living together in a giant palace. There’s one lion who’s the king of them all. And he decides that he and the other lions and the zebras are going to destroy humanity. He sends one of the zebras to warn the humans of their oncoming doom.

So, the zebra walks up to a house. It’s night-time. The back door opens and Will Smith walks out. The zebra is like, “We’re going to destroy humanity, bwahaha.” And if I recall correctly, he has some gruesome thing with him like a head on a stick or something which I guess is part of the warning sign or whatever. Will Smith is like, “Oh no!” And that’s the only part he plays in the dream and I’m not sure why he was there at all. Oh well.

This is where I finally become a part of the dream, although I’m a random character and not really myself. I’m riding on a white horse to the palace along with some other people––I don’t know who they are. I think I’m leading everyone there. I have a sword and I start swinging it around and thinking about how I’m going to cut off the king lion’s head.

We’re galloping over this beautiful landscape with rolling green hills and everything. I think we go over a bridge at some point. Then in the distance, I finally see the palace. It’s huge and gleaming and white, and there’s a rainbow coming out of the top of it and stretching up into the sky. I’m like, “Whoaaa … that’s pretty.”

At this point I have a somewhat lucid moment, in which I’m suddenly aware that I’m in the dream and that I’m simultaneously asleep in my bed. I know I’m about to wake up, but I try not to because I really want to get to the palace and kill the lion. Alas, I wake up before we get there. Oh well.

As for dreams I had last night (or maybe it was this morning):

I vaguely remember a dream in which I was at a beach, and I acquired a pair of fancy sunglasses. Somehow, I know that I stole these sunglasses, although I don’t remember exactly how that happened. I feel guilty about stealing them, but I keep trying to justify it to myself, like, “Oh, everyone steals sometimes!”

Anyway, I can’t remember much about what the sunglasses look like besides that they have a brown tint to them, and I also realize that I can see through the lenses (and I’m super near-sighted, so this is weird). So, they basically function like regular glasses except they’re tinted. But for some reason I think this is like, the best thing since sliced bread.

Not sure if it was part of the same dream, but I recall a brief fragment of a dream in which I am standing in front of a mirror and I take out my nose piercing. My nose instantly begins gushing blood everywhere and I panic … but I think I manage to get it back in again.

… So yeah. Now I should start remembering to write these lovely gems down. I want to keep having cool/lucid dreams.

Ooops, just realised how long this is. Sorry to anybody who attempts to wade through my dreams; I doubt it's worth it. x

This is my first entry in the Dream Journal It wasn't a LD or anything, just a plain, normal dream. But I'm writing it up anyway. Mostly, because I'm trying to get into dream recall and just using this site more, but also because it was an unusual dream for me, in that at first, it was very ordinary, it made a lot of sense, and I was completely myself.

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I was at school, doing speaking exams with my students. It was pretty much the same, except instead of marking each category out of 25, I was marking it out of 20. The weird thing was that the first student I had was saying, "Why are you only giving me 19 on intonation? What did I do wrong?" (weird because few of our students are that advanced yet) And I was thinking, "Well, I need to mark you down on something, because there's a limit to how many points I can give you." I recognised a couple of my students, but some of them I didn't know. Then another girl came over and she was being really rude and obnoxious and I started to get frustrated with her, but I calmed down. The questions were a bit odd, like, "How much do you like sweets?" "What sweets do you like?" "What do you think about swimming?" (But in a way they are of a similar structure/content to the questions we ask anyway. For example, just last week, I asked, "What is your opinion about money?" Then I got up and it was getting really dark and the school was preparing for some kind of sale. I was slumped on a desk and one of my colleagues started poking me and pushing me. She said, "You don't have to stay for this and you will have next Thursday and Friday off." And my friend said, "Leave her alone, can't you see she's upset?" And then I realised that I was crying, like really sobbing and I wanted to see my family. And I stood up again and I walked over to my computer. Then I was back at the office door and this little old lady, who is my grandfather's cousin's sister-in-law or something (but now she's dead; I realised this when I woke up) was holding my computer. She said, "Ohh, Lula, it's so lovely to see you. I haven't seen you in so long." And I bent down to kiss her on the cheek (she was always really tiny), but she backed away and then I thought, 'oh maybe it's because she doesn't want to break the computer.' And then I started thinking of the computer as so fragile and paper-thin and I started to see it chipping. Then my students were shouting, "Lula, Lula!" and running up to me and so ran off down the corridor with them to play with them. And June, the old lady, was worried, almost like there was some menace in their actions, and then I started to think there was something menacing about it, but I just kept on play-fighting with them and they laughed and started crowding around and me and cuddling me and it was fine.

Then, I was getting into a car and my mum was there and June closed the door, but she didn't close it properly and I could see light coming through, which didn't make sense, because it was pitch black outside. There was so much stuff in the car and no room and I couldn't close the door and my mum looked sad. It was left-hand drive, which is odd, but I'm in China now, so it didn't confuse me at the time. When the headmaster drives us home from school or wherever, we have this little minibus, but a lot of the teachers live together and there's so many of us, that we're all squashed up and sat on each other's knees. It felt like a combination of that, and the time when my mum drove me home from university with all my stuff. Anyway, we were driving around this huge car park, which I swear I've been to in my dreams so many times and I said, "No, we left something in the oven." And I remembered that hours ago (but I couldn't remember how long ago it was), me and my friend had put something in the oven to cook. I'd mentioned it to her earlier in the dream, I'm sure, but we forgot. So we drove round to this little oven in the wall and I got out and pulled out the tray and there was something else in there that looked like pastry, but it looked alive. And then my mum said, "No, I took your stuff out a while back. It's waiting for us at the bar." Instantly we were at the bar, but everyone else started eating all my food. I saw it really close up and then it went a bit hazy.

I was swimming in the sea. I was a shark. I looked up and saw someone in a wetsuit swimming about. Then I was that person in the wetsuit and I put my hand down and grazed my finger on something sharp and thought, "Uh-oh. It must be a shark." So I swam towards the beach and got out. The sky was so grey and dark and as I walked along the beach, with the car following, I could hear something like a news report. It was saying how everybody was coming out to the beach, regardless of the weather, typical Brits. And it was just like a typical northern UK beach. And I looked and just saw empty towels and those flimsy huts you see. I knew there were people inside them, but they couldn't do anything. And they were all blue and green and it was just so dark and grey and cloudy. And then I walked on and it got sunnier and there were people lying there and I walked past a man who was just sat there very still, staring and he was wearing blue and he had a blue-ish tinge and he was covered in sun cream, and he had on blue sunglasses and he was perfectly still. And then the news said something about how there was a weird age disparity and all the old people were coming out instead and it said, "The senior citizens are out in force." It got very sunny and bright and children were playing in the sea. I saw a guy's bulge close up and I was like, "Woah."

I saw some steps going up off the beach. It was next to a kind of over-pass. It was like there were two options to get off the beach, up these steps or to go under this dark over-pass. I went for the steps. There were some thistles and I wondered what I was wearing and if I'd be ok. I was walking up the steps and I realised there was a guy behind me, so I thought, "I'm so slow, but I don't want to get in his way; I'll walk faster." So I did. He was wearing a red raincoat. We got up the top and at the end of the path, there was like a run-way and huge aeroplane was running towards us and then it took off and disappeared. We didn't hear it. And so I took out my phone to take pictures, and it was my phone. And a couple of them didn't get as far as us and then one did. Then suddenly the guy pushed me out of the way, but I was moving out of the way as well, just as this huge, white train went speeding past us. I don't know where it went, because it had nowhere to go and it disappeared. I still couldn't see him very well, but in my imagination (not the dream, but my dream self's imagination, if that makes sense), I kept saying, "Feel my heart, feel my heart." And putting his hand on me. My skin was very bare and his hand was very warm and I could feel my heart beating so hard. And then he was gone and cars were driving towards me. Again, I thought, "Where are they going to go?" They stopped just before the steps and parked there. Some turned a corner and drove towards what I knew would be houses.

I kept on walking and there was the huge run-way and then a field with the trains to my right. I climbed into the field and I could see where I needed to be and knew it well. I was walking down the field and I suddenly thought, "I'm on a train-track!" So I ran over some wire-fences and back to the field entrance. All I could see was high grass, but I knew there were train tracks in it, all over the field. I could see a forest at the other side of the field, but it was like it had been painted. I still knew it was real though. There was an old woman standing behind me. She was toothless and a little decrepit and I was scared of her. I kept my back to her and ignored her. I took out my phone again and called my Grandad, because I thought, 'He knows these fields and forests.' I put my glasses on so I could see better. They were my glasses, and it's funny because I haven't worn them for a while, but just recently, I've realised I really need them, so I've started wearing them again. I was talking to him on the phone and I saw some police in hi-vis jackets walking out of the forest. I could see them well, because of my glasses. I said, "There are some police." I can't actually remember what I said here. At first I typed out, "There's police." but looking over this, I thought that it isn't grammatically correct, but I'm sure that's what I said. Either way, I said something about there being police officers walking around. Three of them. Then I saw what they were looking at. It was like 100 feet away, but I could see it. I couldn't see it clearly, but I knew it was a dead body. I remember thinking, 'People always ask if you've seen a dead body. I can't really see this one though.' The police were taking pictures. It was very large and swollen. Part of the body started swelling up and stuff oozed out of the it. I said, "There's a dead body." I bent over to breathe and I could feel and see (a little) that woman standing near me and then I woke up and my heart was pounding.

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Everything seemed to be of a similar colour, I remember that. It was all greens, browns, greys, blues and all so dark and gloomy. I said it seemed ordinary, but only because certain things seem similar to things that happen. You know, when we bring food in for tea, everyone digs in and starts eating and we just share what's there, except I rarely do, because they eat meat and I rarely bring stuff in I was wearing my clothes and my glasses and I had my phone and for the most part, I was just me, whereas usually, I'm everybody and nobody.

Anyway, this is the first dream I've had for a few days, that's been really really vivid, so I'm writing it up.

Lula x

24.01.2013

Covert Video Camera (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was going to perform some sort of covert work. I needed to go to a builder with a covert wire and record the entire sales presentation. I had a black shirt with a hidden button camera and a tiny DVR.







I needed to visit a resale home in my own neighborhood. I met with a saleswoman and went inside a house. I expected the house to be empty, but it was not. I could see the furniture (old and damaged) and some dirt on the floor and the table.

I went upstairs and I saw that the bedrooms had the TVs one, some of them with a video game going on. The beds were not dressed and the rooms were very messy. I went to the room that was apparently from the older daughter. This room was tidy and I saw a computer with a map of the muscular system in the human body. I wondered if she was some sort of student to become a doctor. I tried my best to film the agent during the sales presentation.

At the end of the presentation, I asked her if she had new homes from scratch. She got a bit upset about it and posted something on youtube related to this.

We drove through a road that was going through the mountains. The landscaping was amazing, with a lot of trees. I wondered if I was doing the right thing making the saleswoman drive so much.

We drove into a small retreat. The sky was blue, but I saw a few lighting bolts hitting the ground. One guy who lived there was somehow using them for energy. I felt it was a big dangerous, but the saleswoman told me I would fine,

We went inside the house and a family came with us as well (I know we wanted too see a home site, but my mind decided to make a whole house again) I felt unhappy that the family came with us, since I was supposed to go on my own. One of the girls at the house hugged me and pulled the dvr out of my pocked and started to say I had a wire. The dream faded.

I woke up and my wife was next to me, it was morning and I still had the camera on. I got upset and wondered how that happened. The camera's battery was dead and I figured the DVR was full. I fixed that and charged the camera. While I was doing so, the same saleswoman spawned and told me she had more to show. I was afraid she would bust my camera, so I had to hide it someone. While I was doing so, Narayan (the store owner where I offer my readings) saw me hidden the camera. In the dream, even it was Narayan, he was a random dream character and I worried he would say something

Getting back into lucid dreaming. Luckily it wasn't to hard to get back into my old habits. In this dream I don't remember anything except for me becoming lucid. I felt the dream slipping away, so i tried to do something fun before waking up. I blew someone up(the explosion was cartoon-like), then woke up. As I awoke I tried letting myself fall back into the dream that wasn't completely gone yet. But I guess I still didn't have control over my rationality because I feared my brain blowing up from the explosion I made in the dream. Not bad for only a few days back in I guess.

Date: January 24, 2013 ||| Time Block: 3:00 AM to 11:00 AM ||| Length: 10 minutes. ||| Lucidity: level 3/2/1. ||| Entry Type: DILD ||| Major Methods: SSILD, BAT

Methods: lay in bed for the night; repeated the alphabet mentally; starting having strong HI, shockingly strong, so I used techniques of calming my shock and eventually fell asleep.

Summary: I don't remember what happened, because I was so dead tired I continued to sleep for many hours. I used to remember some clips, but not anymore, just the fact that I know there were some.

So this is the 3rd time I've had a nonlucid about this big black wolf. The last 2 dreams he saved me from trouble. This time, I thought he was going to attack me but he just wanted to play. I tried to think up a name for him in the dream, all I could come up with was Shadow. He's really a super dark charcoal gray, not really black.

Anyway, I may add more later but, meh..

Dreamed: 23.1.13, Written: 24.1.13

I am in my room, I don't remember if I just woke up (In the dream "plot") or if I just got up from sitting infront of my computer. What happened next isn't very clear to me, it might just not have made sense or I might not remember it well. There are two lights in my room, a main light stuck to my ceiling, and a dimmer light above my bed. The light that was currently on in my room was the dimmer light, I'm pretty sure. I got up and went to the light switches to turn the main light on. Once I did that a weird flow of thoughts rushed into me and I for some reason realized I was dreaming. I think I remember one of the switches not working, thought I remember both of them working too, but I won't dwell too much into that because I really don't remember what exactly had happened. So I became aware that I am dreaming, somehow. And I remember feeling that things were quite vivid, and I remember looking at my hands.
I think this was the most vivid a dream of mine that I can recall had ever been, and that's a good step I suppose. I also drank green tea before going to sleep, I don't know if it could have made and kind of difference there, but I think it might have. I'll try to drink green tea before going to sleep now, and post results tomorrow.

I'm also going to stop colour tagging my posts with blue meaning lucid and red meaning otherwise. It feels to me that the line between lucidity and "regular" dreaming is far too blurred, and I think the color coding isn't really a good idea. I'll try to describe my dreams as much and as well as I can, as for me, and for other people reading to understand quite clearly what state of mind I was in in the dreams I write about.

Happy dreaming.

I was playing some game, the first level was happening from first person perspective, the location was some cave and there was lava and some sort of castle, it ended on some sort of elevator(barely remember anything).
The second level was 2D platformer and it was dependant on how fast 1st level was completed as well as a few other conditions related to stealth. Location was some sort of underground base area. I was replaying level a few times and the enemies in the first few areas were either some guards in black uniform or some small deformed mutants of two types, ones didn't had legs and were rolling around others had foot almost as big as their bodies and were jumping around. Either way there was cutscene in the middle of the level, again dependant on how 1st level was completed. If first part of level had guards then the cutscene was about some scientist going insane and turning everyone excluding player character and including himself into mutants, otherwise the cutscene was about collecting some data from computer and then being interrupted by mutated scientist. In both cases mutant scientist ran away into the second half of the level. It was filled with same mutants as the variant of first half, except there were also some triangle shaped mutants that could merge with the foot mutants creating something that looked like very distorted/mutated version of kirby. The level ended with the elevator similar to the first one.
The third level and the levels later on were shmup levels, with the third level being dependant on the something from second level. The gameplay and player character looked like ones in shmup called Akashicverse, while background was similar to Dodonpachi Daioujou and most of enemies looked like built from virtual shapes similar to Warning Forever, except they were different colors. One of variations of the level had player weapon buffed with some additional yellow shots, that i in dream thought were dodonpachi-like. Dream was skipping levels beyond level 3.
After completion of the game i was looking through resources and code of it for a while, and then i managed to do some edits. So next time i reached level 2 i was playing as the insane scientist! After the cutscene of mutation i moved him to the right and combined him with the triangle shaped mutant. Then i was having fun with that new thing. Dream ended shortly afterwards.

01-24-2013 -- [Was sick yesterday, and dozed a lot, which means a very bad night of sleeping last night. Seems like I was waking up every 10 to 15 minutes. Because of this, though I had some great dreams or dream fragments, I couldn't take the time to write them down, or I'd have never gotten back to sleep. So, all I could do was memorize a general setting, so we'll have to see just how much of these I can manage to recall.]

Playing some sort of computer game, hints of maybe Runescape or Roller Coaster Tycoon, but its a live version, not playing on the computer. Anyway, I am running around and planting some seeds or placing some flowerbeds or things like that, and I soon find myself running through some odd rooms that kind of make me think of the flash powder factory.

Buried deep in this factory, something is going on, and people's lives are being threatened, and suddenly there is a super hero there to help save the day. I am thinking it might be Aquaman. Darn it. This was the earliest fragment of the night, and also one of the most interesting, but more and more of it is gone.

Anyway, we're now doing things in this area (not that I spend enough time in the flash powder factory to be sure that is where this is, but it is a place with odd rooms, obstacles and traps to make your way through) and there are a soon two or three heroes to help us. But if there are super-powered beings to help us, surely that'll mean there are super-powered beings against us, as well.

Sure enough, as we continue to fight through the area, we start being attacked by other super-powered beings. For our protection, the heroes are loading us into a sort of shuttle craft and launching it, hoping to get us away to safety ... if it can withstand the attack of the bad guys. I think there was some throwaway comment about Doctor McCoy not having a chance to test it because of the timing.

So there are super villains surrounding the shuttle as it takes off, and almost immediately the floor is buckling from multiple hits as I *think* Doctor Octopus is under there pounding on it with all his mechanical arms, and as the floor breaks in, the entire shuttle shakes apart. Suddenly we having flying or powered heroes (Superman, Iron Man, the likes) grabbing us and trying to fly after us, while similar heroes and villains are trying to stop them and catch us, all as shuttle bits rain down on the Earth. It was a rather cool scene.

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I was down at the corner house at Hickory and Greenleaf, and we were in the process of putting up some Christmas decorations without the owner's approval, when the owner came bursting out with the cops. Somebody had been doing something bad around the place. I was afraid I would be in trouble, but the owner of the house says he isn't worried about the people that add to his Christmas decorations, even if he doesn't understand why they do, and I explain that we just like the two houses on the ends of the block to be really well decorated as they help to represent the neighborhood and draw people in to look at the decorations. Weird.

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Half watching, half living a James Bond movie, that may have a small bit at a super market (I can remember just a hint) before a chase started. James was chasing the villain through a long tunnel in a mountain, while we're kind of watching the chase on some kind of monitor. We can see they are about to exit the tunnel, and we're right about the timing. But suddenly things shift to a meeting room where M and a couple of her people are meeting with another high government official, and it turns out to be the guy that James was chasing. He's within the government, itself, and they don't yet have the evidence to bring him down.

Soon I find myself standing in what half feels like a class room, and half seems to be a store in a mall. I have just finished watching the James Bond movie, and in a discussion about it, I end up winking at a sort of cute girl. Unfortunately, just about that time I start to recognize some things, and realize that I have been through this before, and some crooks are just about to attack this place.

Sure enough, four or five thugs burst into the room and start shooting. I act like I've been hit and collapse to the ground, while everybody else is running around screaming and getting shot. I start grabbing other people's legs and telling them "Get down, you fools!" and some listen and some don't. Eventually the bad guys quit shooting, and start to check on who they have and what shape they are in, and begin making threats for the information they want.

I've bided my time, and when they aren't expecting it, I strike back, knock some of them out, and me and some of the others make a break for it. As we make it out of the building we were in, but are still crossing the lawn to the parking lot, we see an attractive young woman still pushing her grandmother's wheelchair away from the scene, and we'd hoped they would have already gotten out of here, but I remember from the past time that they don't have anything the bad guys want, so I urge for us to keep on running, and tell them to continue fleeing as I can.

As we reach our cars and start driving off, I'm shown to have known what I was talking about, as the crooks run right past them, to reach their cars and continue chasing us. Soon we're driving through the streets, being pursued. I think eventually we have a confrontation in a mall parking lot, along with the cute lady, her grandmother, and her kids, who have been dragged back into things, but most the details are gone. Still a fun dream, though.

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I'm not sure which came first, the game or the diner, so I'm just going to put the game first. I am sitting at a small card table somewhere, with a game of Risk before me. I am considering playing a game with myself, but find each color only seems to have 15 or 20 army pieces which aren't going to be enough to play with. So I am looking for the box, hoping it will contain more army pieces.

As I am looking, a couple of other people decide they are going to play, also, and sit down. But if we are going to play, there are things we need to do, including deal out the cards to claim the territories and roll dice to decide who is going to go first. So one guy, who might be Dave D., rolls his die, and I roll mine, and since I only rolled a one, it looks like he'll be going first. So I am in the middle of dealing the cards out into two piles, and two more people decide to join, so Dave grabs another stack of cards, and starts dealing them out for the other two people, and we have to redo the rolling to see who goes first.

Soon I find myself sitting in a diner, right as my food is being brought to me. I think I have a burger and some nice, crispy french fries. There is a guy sitting next to me, clean cut, seems friendly, very unoffensive. Seems like a cross between a Jimmy Stewart character and the 'Happiest Man in Springfield', just a really sweet, easy going guy.

Who doesn't seem to be from around here. He has ordered a meal and is waiting for it, but he doesn't seem to know what it is he is getting. He points at my fries and asks what they are, and I tell him they are french fries. The waitress comes up and asks him if she misunderstood him. Maybe he wants a baked potato instead? No, he says, some of these 'fries' should be just fine.

It's an old-style diner, which may make some sort of sense, because soon the buildings are shaking and bombs are falling from the sky, and it turns out to be in the middle of a battlefield somewhere in World War Two. I'm running out of the diner and looking for places I am needed, and I guess 'Jimmy' does as well.

Soon I see him standing near a soldier crouched with a radio (looks much like one of those little green army men from when I was a kid). It seems he can kind of read minds, even if he doesn't have nearly any clue of what it is he is hearing. So he is just babbling random thoughts and sentences in this guy's ear, of the various thoughts he is picking up, most of which are worthless, until suddenly he starts reading the orders that the enemy troops are being given, as they are being given, which is some very helpful information.

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Probably at least one or two more fragments from the night, but I simply can't remember them at this time.

Reality/Non-Lucid/Semi-Lucid/Lucid

Hrs slept: 5, then 2 more

I have been recently trying to incorporate WBTB with my MILD, but last night I was lax - didn't do any mantras. However I was woken up by the cat at the right time, so I stayed up a little and did a visualization. No lucids but the dreams I had were pretty vivid.

Went to NYC with Becca for Jessica’s 21st birthday. We were in her house with her 3 roommates, one of them was Carrissa. Becca and I seemed to be as excited as Jessica, and no one else was. So we started getting ready. I was hanging at a small square table near a kitchen area with her roomies and Bec had gone into Jessica’s bedroom with her. The kitchen I was sitting in was yellow, and it was by a railing that seperated it from the living room/entry to the house. Beyond the kitchen through one door was Jess's room. This seemed to be the entire house. So we start talking about nails and are comparing nail beds. Then I go into Jessica's room and see she has music videos playing on a big screen tv on the wall and the a smaller tv on the opposite wall playing the same thing.
Confustion>>> Next Becca and I are trying to leave the city? And our moms are around somewhere, I think. So we run and catch this tiny ferry, thinking it’s going somewhere and it happens to be full of these younger guys all in uniforms, like they were boy scouts or navy or something. It’s nighttime at this point.
More confusion>>> I’m still trying to get home but I have Smokey (my real life cat) with me!! Still night. I’m walking and clutching her for dear life and she wants to get down. We pass numerous dogs and she’s shaking in my arms. Then I get to a subway station and am pretty positive I can’t take pets on board. I look and see a “No Pets” sign, it was blue with white letters. So I’m thinking wow, I should have NEVER taken a cat into the city, and thought of Mindy who knew I did it (even though I took her without asking) and she was probably thinking I made a mistake. So this subway is somehow in Queens, and at that point I realize I can’t board a plane with her, and can’t really take a taxi anywhere. What I needed was someone to drive me home! (I think I may have been semi-lucid for this dream, cause once I realized there was no way to get home, I woke up).
Fragment- Somewhere in those dreams I was at home hanging out with L and we got a feeling a ghost was near. It was dark in my room, and I was looking down at the stairs and we saw a shadow figure, to me it was some old lady, creepishly crawling up to us! I distinctly saw a hand figure and her move up the stairs. Then she was upstairs, we could sense it, and so I said kind of aggressively (only cause I was freaked out
) “Leave! You can get out!” and I don’t think she did because then the attic door kept opening by itself.