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Got a bunch of fragments today. Some amusing stuff, but not anything I can use for the competition (womp-womp!). I feel much better rested. Think I'll make intentional sleep interruptions in the next few days.

Scrap Group 1
In a series of industrial boiler and pipework facilities. There were a bunch of filled garbage bags strewn around. I was frustrated at the sight of them.

Highway ride during dusk.

Work stuff.

Rocko's Modern Life dream. O-Town had been razed to the ground from an apocalyptic event. Survivors were fighting over supplies. They were particularly frantic over desk ornaments and other useless luxuries, which caused a major rumble. Flashback to what started this. In a series of factories, robot arms were going haywire. They expanded out for miles out of the facilities to capture people, smashing through buildings as they did. In short time, O-Town was in a panic. Almost all of the destruction wasn't caused by the robots themselves, but instead the frenzied residents.

I'm a clerk in some lower state office. A board meeting was taking place. As the chair was making statements, some obnoxious fat guy seated across from me started throwing pencils at me for some reason. He demanded I return them, but I refused; if he didn't want me to have them, he wouldn't have thrown them in the first place. He fumed loudly enough to interrupt the meeting. Some other fat dude made some joke about the other guy's appearance, prompting a burst of laughter. The embarrassed obnoxious guy glared at me for the rest of the event. Later, a bunch of kids started running around the place, causing a commotion. For some reason, I felt they were somehow related to the obnoxious clerk.

In a college classroom, a small windowless space. A grey haired woman in black was the professor. After class, I rushed off, only to "remember" I'd left behind a small grey bag. I hurried back to rummage among a bunch of other belongings others had forgotten. There were a few items fitting the descritpion, but they lacked the items I was sure was inside (whatever that may have been). There were also two pink fanny packs around, and a green bag I think. The professor at this point stopped me from perusing further.

Simpsons episode. There was a big clipshow of all of Homer's D'ohs throughout the years. This gag lasted far beyond the point where it remained humorous. The major plot involved yet another of Bart's pranks going way out of hand.

In the parking lot of a flat, wide building during a clear late afternoon. I was in the passenger seat in an unknown black stout SUV. My brother was around. Soon, I noticed a bunch of ants crawling nearby. Some were small black ants. Others were carpenter ants. They soon began biting my hand. I instinctively brush off and smash any that are in the way with my hands. My brother observes I should've used a magazine paper nearby instead to do the deed. I get out and hurry to the building. There were tons of peanuts strewn about. For some reason, I felt I'd responsibility to pick these up and place them in barrels. Figured this was why there were so many ants in the vehicle. Anyway, as I shoved the peanuts with my hands, I notice I was putting them in garbage bins, not barrels. Whoops.

In a park during night time. The wide pathway winding before me was paved with light colored bricks. Around me were deciduous trees, maples and oaks from what I could tell. I soon heard the cries of seagulls, and saw such birds fluttering around under antique cast-iron street lamps. Quite peculiar for such creatures to be in a place like this, and at this time of night. I looked around to see if there were owls stalking around as well. I was at the point of making a reality test, but woke up within seconds of thinking that.

Smaller part of a long dream that I can barely remember.
I'm sitting on the couch scrolling on my phone, when I see a notification appear at the top of the screen. It's from a girl whom I'd had an upsetting falling out with a couple years back - most of my dreams seem to be about her. I click on it, and text back "hey", for lack of words to describe my shock. She starts by apologising, which I return, and we continue chatting for a bit as if not a day had gone by. We then agree to meet up in person.
We meet, maybe in a park or outside her house I can't really remember. And then we just talk some more, and laugh and gossip and share our lives. It's the happiest I've felt in years, I feel closer to her than I ever had been. And then I woke up.
still miss you mads

For some reason I was able to sleep today only 3h (even less) but I got one dream. It was very short because it was first REM phase.

NLD #1
I was in my room. As usually it was night and my vision was limited due to lack of light. I was preparing myself for WILD session and I created big pile of pillows on my bed. Next I lied on them and the dream ended.
Entire dream had circa 3 minutes so nothing more happened.


EDIT
I made "nap", next 3h of sleeping.

WILD Attempt
I was lying in my favorite position. I don't know how long, maybe 20-30 minutes when I started to feel hipnagogs. I was able to feel someones presence. I heard that someone come to me and it was uncovering my head. I felt gentle moving blanket. Next the person catch me just above my hips and started saying something to my ear. I don't know what because the voice was deformed. Anyway that grip near my hips was unpleasant, it was painfull so I decided to abort that attempt. I opened eyes but still I was unable to move. After few seconds I woke up.

I changed position and again I tried WILD but this time I fell very quickly.

LD
I don't remember the beginning of that dream, also I don't remember when I started to be lucid. But I was near home of my friend. Ofc it was dark. I started to summon items but with no progress so I decided to change location. I was trying to create portal but it didn't work... for the moment! I told to myself "One more try. There is portal behind my back, I will quick rotate and just jump into" and this is what I done. The portal appeared and I fell into but on other side I was surrounded by infinity darkness. Yep - I was in void probably because I didn't define my teleportation destination.
After few moment I saw person in front of me. I was surprised because it was anime-styled woman. It was first time when I was dreaming about anime I Inspected her appearance - she looked unfamiliar for me. I was shocked because I didn't expect that my subconscious have it's own OC. She had light brown hair and green eyes. "Usually I preffer girls with blue eyes, but in this case she look better with green ones" I thought. She smilled at me and she gave me her both hands. I gantle grab them and I felt her warm skin.
At this moment I lost my awareness. In next part of dream I was unaware but I memorised what happened before.
I woke up on floor in my home. I was a child or teenager. My father took me to his car but I dont remember where we were going.

DF #1
I was in some kind of village with my friend on a hill. It was daytime. I was disscus with my friend about electronics and radio stuff. He aproach with me to egde of the hill and he showed me his satelite. I saw big levitating stalite far away. He started rotating that satelite with pilot and he hit road. "Hey, be carefully! You can damage your satelite!"

NLD #2
I was in forest in night time. I was walking with my backpack on snow when I saw nice spot for camp so I put my backpack on the ground and I went check surroundings. I saw weird rabbit paw prints in snow. I gentle put my finger inside and the prints was fresh - the snow was loose and fragile. I went back to my backpack and I sterted to preparing sleeping bag. During that activity I was attacked by yellow bear. I run away.

[COLOR="#EE82EE"]I had woke up from some other dream I forgot, I was trying to get back to sleep for what felt like 30 minutes. I eventually found a comfortable position on my back. I was relaxed until I felt nervous for some reason.[/COLOR] I didn't try very hard to move, but I new I couldn't. For some reason I thought it must be an alien's fault. I then felt a prick in my breast, like there was a needle in it. I tried best to make my breathing look like I was asleep but I was probably failing miserably. I then remembered that sometimes people move in their sleep, so I rolled on the side it hadn't pricked yet. It managed to get the needle in my other breast, so I decided to open my eyes just a crack to see what it was doing, a black hand moved the syringe to my 4th breast and the needle went in. It filled up with a white liquid I assumed was milk. I shut my eyes for a few seconds, and I no longer felt the presence. I opened my eyes and sat up. There was a dishwasher like door in my wall, so I opened it. There was a plate with my milk, and a cow made of milk foam, morbid curiosity got the better of me, and I dipped my finger in the milk and licked it. It was like cow milk but creamier with more chunks. I puled the plate out and took a mouthful of foam. It tasted like when you an armpit, but somehow good.

[COLOR="#EE82EE"]I'm sorry if you read that,
anyways, I did a medium meditation before bed -1
It's a bit early in the day so ill write my rc score later - 2
remembered a full nld - 1
total- 4
comp total- 8 [/COLOR]

Dream 1

I’m in a FPS video game. The map is huge and it feels like a world-war scenario, sort of past mixed with modern. The dream rapidly goes from feeling like a video game to feeling like real life.

I have some sort of old school assault rifle, a sniper rifle and various grenades attached to my belt.

I work on my positioning carefully and pick off enemy soldiers at range. I switch between the short range and long range rifles often. Eventually I reach 15 kills.

My assault rifle is out of ammo and the sniper rifle takes a long time to load each bullet. My position is known and I’m inside of a small structure now, there are three viking-cannibal enemies coming for me with hatchets.


I frantically search myself for a sort of tank pipe bomb that I saw on my belt earlier as I run towards the corner they will be coming around from. I figure I could at least reach 18 kills if I take them out when they come around the corner, the building would be too small for me to survive the explosion no matter where I set it off.

The enemies pour around the corner right as I reach it, I hurl the explosive down at our feet and it goes off.

Dream 2 (Fragment)

I'm dismantling a video card to see why it's temperatures have been so high. It has two very tiny fans inside and a button between them to adjust how much power they use for faster speeds. It's very dusty in there too.

Dream 3 (Fragment)

I'm talking to someone when I realize I'm wearing a pink hat.

January 8th, 2024

Fragment 1: Kids Games

Some kids are playing. This involves some toys and some screaming. Someone is concerned about one of the toys being lost somehow. Later, there is a corpse and a severed head. The severed head is discarded in some kind of tunnel system below where the kids were playing. There is a close-up of the head, which eventually shrivels and/or explodes. I speculate that perhaps that was why the kids were screaming.

Dream 1: Kid Gets Arrested

We are standing around outside. The police show up, and there are blue lights (sort of like the lights on a police car, but also kind of like Christmas lights). I walk around something, and come back to where I started. By this time, the police have arrested someone. It appears to be an adolescent. I worry at first that there might be some violence when they arrest him, but he goes quietly. They toss him next to a corpse. This was his friend, I think. But he had murdered his friend. Anyway, he lays there with the corpse, and it seems like he doesn’t care that his friend is dead. In other words, he acts like the corpse is still alive.

Fragment 2: Games

Egg toss game. I missed it this year and last year, but I watch video clips to see if I missed anything that was actually fun. The game appears to involve people tossing eggs into a black plastic bag, after which my advisor shows up and counts the eggs that made it in. There is some other stuff about trying to find out who a girl is, or something. She had broken an egg on her head. She and another girl have made cookbooks, apparently. They have a show online, or a bunch of videos on youtube or something.

Fragment 3: Distracted

Reading(?) at my grandparent’s house. My friend M-- keeps wanting to talk online...

Fragment 4: Circus

A woman wants to get a job with the circus. Someone is showing off their elephant and trying to think of something the woman could do. The guy with the elephant shows how the elephant can lift its foot so that the woman could put her head under it if she wanted to, as though the elephant were going to pretend to crush her head...



Fragment 5: Guard Dog

...A dog. He is supposed to guard some sort of a small structure that people climb over a wall inside of. Someone and I climb over the wall inside, but this is OK and the dog doesn’t attack. Instead, we go out and see the dog. It pretends to attack, or something...

I was watching third person a horror movie. There are invisible worm/centipede type things that fly around and steal peoples memories. Like all of them. The dream shows a divorced mother and father and their young child in the backseat of a car, they are driving through a wooded area down a two lane road. The child is maybe 8 years old with long brown hair and a chubby face. The child starts babbling incoherently instead of talking as all their memories are stolen. Then the child forgets how to breathe and the mother has to lean over behind the seat and do CPR on her son.

The dream scene changes to a strange semi lucid (but not really lucid enough to count for the competition) scene. This scene is related to the previous scene.

I (Hade) am in a dark detective office with bluish-purple lighting. One of the first scenes shows I am in third person wearing a black trenchcoat with violet and silver embroidery. Something moves in the shadows. A monster is lurking around, it sort of looks like Venom from the Raimi spiderman movies, but with a small emaciated body. When the monster lunges out at me I take out a gun and begin shooting it in the torso over and over. This makes the monster recoil and does some amount of damage. After the first clip it is thrashing around on the floor blasted full of holes and leaking caustic blood. I load another magazine, knowing the last bullet in the clip is a rare silver/holy bullet capable of killing the monster. I count my shots, the gun holds 24 and I shoot the last bullet in the head, killing the monster.

...

I FA. I am in my childhood bedroom. The alarm clock (seemingly an ergonomic modern silver one I had as a kid) screen is broken into two sections, with the hour section on the side and the minutes section on the front. I see the time reads as 7:99. It then clicks over to 10:00.

I run to my computer and the dream scene shifts to modern day.

Meditation 2pt
NLD 2pt
going to do a drawing later, presently deciding which dream had the best imagery that would be most interesting to draw.

Fragment:

I woke up groggy with a vague impression of World of Warcraft with friends, and a betrayal theme.

Today I had series of dream fragments

DF#1:
In this dream I was talking with someone about Lucid Dreaming

DF#2:
I was a vessel officer, probably 3rd mate. I was preparing the vessel for departure near main gangway. It was daytime, nice weather.

DF#3:
I was discuss with somebody about rivers in Poland. My brain created thing called "Transport potential factory" and it is property of river how much cargo can be transferred via vessels and barge. The TPF include not only main river but also tributary.

I had 3 more DF today, but I forgot them. I will edit this entry if my memories come back

I dreamt that I was sleeping in my room, but the room was several times the size, had multiple doors and an emergency exit, and it had museum artifacts inside. Meanwhile, people kept putting their stuff into my room, it started with two people whom I overheard speaking Dutch before jokingly asking if they were speaking German before revealing that I could speak Dutch too. I then notice more and more hipsters and diverse types of people (in style, they were all still white) move into my room. I get on top of the stage, but having a dry mouth from just waking up I can't reach the rest of the group. My flatmate then offers me water whilst dressed as a water bottle like one of the people moving in is, I wake up before starting my speech

January 7th, 2024

Fragment 1:

Riding in the truck with Grandad. He’s 90 now, but still seems to be decent at driving. We are going somewhere, and then come back. By this time, Grandad is Uncle D--. He is driving pretty fast, and as we come into a garage, the man who is waiting there dives out of the way as though we were about to run into him.



Fragment 2:

Talking to M--.

I remembered the following after entering my competition score for 12/7. I will add these to 12/8 score:

Fragment 3:

There is a swimming pool. The water is fairly clean. But there seems to be something scattered on the bottom. It kind of looks like bubbles. I decide to go for a swim. Instead of entering through the shallow end, I decide to jump into the deep end. I jump in, and resurface. I mess around a bit. My beige coat seems to be in the pool with me...

Fragment 4:

In a basement. I need a hammer. I find two hatchets, with hammer-like backs to them...

Fragment 5:

Playing lurkers. They have made an update where there are sort of 3D bricks now. If you place some of the blocks, it makes it look like a 2.5D game. They are kind of golden. I find an enemy team member in the lower left-hand corner of the screen, and block him in. Then, I think I try to get him back out, or something.

I took a nap and had more ludis.

Winter Competition 2024 One - Nap One (DILD) 01.07.2024

I think I wake up but it is a false awakening. Normally my false awakenings are at my childhood home at night but this one is my current bedroom during the day. I was planning on starting dating in a few months but in the dream I feel like making a Bumble account right away for some reason. I find myself staggering because gravity is all sorts of off. I do a reality check and confirm it's lucid. I am really suprised and remember my goal is simply to take off the VR headset. I reach up to my head and try but I can't feel one or force one to be there. I think it's because I didn't bother willing there to be one before trying. I wake up.

It is super hard to get out of bed. I sit up and do another nose pinch RC and it is still a dream. I am always in awe of how really flase awakenings feel. I sit up in bed and try swiping up the VR hud from my left wrist but nothing happens. I say, "Clara", the name of my AI assistant and she doesn't respond. These things never seem to work as well in FAs as they do in other lucid dreams.

I wake up into two more FAs before my real life eyes open and I am awake.


Winter Competition 2024 One - Nap Two (DILD) 01.07.2024

I am in a Dungeons and Dragons lucid dream. I don't remember the beginning of it. We defeat some hard enemies but one of our people gets cursed and becomes a powerful Oath Breaker Paladin or something he kills everyone, me last and I respawn inside my childhood home. It is dark. Familiar teritory. I know he is outside ready to chop me in half again. I have a bunch of D&D minis that I turn into full size fighters that I send outside. I hear them all get defeated and then the paladin comes inside and kills me for me to go back in time and start over. I send more and more minitures at him each time. The last time I send 8 powerful constructs after him and notice the house is getting surrounded by drow and vampires. "Even more trouble!", I think when I wake up.

I was doing laundry when I heard something coming from down the hall, I tried to pull the door shut, but it was too late, whatever was on the other side pushed it open. I stared at the doorway, terrified as the door slowly swung open. In the hall was a bucket, colored in Lowe's signature blue. I was pretty relived at first, but I remembered some old guy telling me that if I ever come across a bucket like that, it can't kill me unless I can't see it. I then set the bucket down so it'd always be in my peripherals. I pulled some dirty laundry out of the basket and put it in the machine. Not even one load and I was already sick of the anxiety of having to keep the bucket in my sight, so I started thinking that maybe I could make the bucket go after someone else. I grabbed it, and took it into the back yard where my father sat in his truck. He was the closest person but I really didn't want him to die, and then I realize that even if the bucket kills him it's just going to go after me again. I walked back to the door, and started absentmindedly ripping the bucket apart as if it was made of paper. I sat on the porch and my spirits fell as the pieces tumbled back and used to the piece I was still holding onto. I then walked to the tool shed, it has a few flights of stairs going into a basement, so I got an idea. I threw the bucket, and while it rolled down the stairs I slammed the door shut and locked it. I was going to begin celebrating.

[COLOR="#EE82EE"]I rolled over and went back to sleep.[/COLOR],

I was in a room which was best described as the inside of lord Jabu Jabu. I walked past a counter with a few hand sized beetles, and I walked up a slope, and I saw a button. I walked on it, and I suddenly turned purple and saw a HP bar rapidly draining, so I ran to the beetles. I talked to some beetles who were useless, until I saw some golden beetle who said he could cure me. I then get a view of myself in a dentist like chair with deep scratches down my face, and a second later I'm back on my feet with only a few scars. I start walking away.

[COLOR="#EE82EE"]Did a couple good rcs today - 1
remember 2 full nlds - 2
3 dj comments- 1
total- 4 [/COLOR]

I've been having trouble falling asleep lately, and it took forty minutes to drift off at 11:51 last night. (Before, I could fall asleep in 5 minutes flat! ) I meditated a bit before bed though.

Dream #1 (Non-Lucid):
My Fitbit had powers. I got them from some deity guy, and I had the option of choosing between time control, energy manipulation, luck, et cetera. I chose energy manipulation but later was able to use all three.

My mom and I were wandering around at night when we stumbled upon a dead body. Two men, presumably the killers, leapt out of the darkness to eliminate us. A ninja kid we'd met earlier was about to save us, but before he could I slapped a hand on the first man's chest, killing him instantly, and shot the other with an energy bullet. I complained to my mom about something and then we went home.

Outside my neighborhood was a little girl, pointing out her drug-addict, club-junky dad. But she said that the one she considered her real dad was her grandpa, who was standing in front of a distant house looking respectable.

Later I made a friend and went to her house. We made a whole dance and talked about our upcoming birthdays, and played a game on her Playstation that was somehow related to dogs. You would receive a "happy code" on your phone, memorize it, and get 20 seconds to select the corresponding amount of planks on the screen. I offered to show her my Fitbit powers, and when I lost I rewound time by stepping backwards and watching the game play itself backwards. (Good practice even if it was non-lucid dream control.)

"I just rewound time because I lost the game!" I told her when I was done. "Now watch me destroy this thing!"

In the end the happy code was different and I lost again. Her mom came home soon after, and for some reason I was afraid she would hit me. But she was friendly and apologized that we had to sit on the floor, her husband chiming in that using a Playstation on the ground was no better than an iPad. I awkwardly assured them that it was fine and I was used to it.

Suddenly my Fitbit powered off from overuse and I woke up, checking it in real life. Of course it was fine, and the time was 5:53. I wrote down my dream and went back to sleep.


Dream #2 (Non-Lucid):
In this dream I was a 20-something year old guy and had to watch an 8th grade kid because he was addicted to swimming in rivers. He had been born in a car in his neighborhood during a flood, and ended up falling into the water. If it weren't for the umbilical cord he would've drowned, but for some reason he was very stubborn about being retrieved. Ever since then, he'd taken every chance possible to run out of the house and swim in a river. His mother was incredibly worried and overprotective of him.

We took a walk around the neighborhood and he complained that his mom didn't even recognize his progress. He could control his impulses now, to an extent, and he was able to make it through the entire winter without swimming outside! But his mom never congratulated him, instead going on and on about his relapses. I acknowledged him and gave him some good advice that I can't remember.

Later we were in his basement when a man named Karui broke in and started fighting me. He feigned giving up and hugging me but in reality he had smeared poison on the back of my neck. My vision went blurry but almost immediately my brain forgot about it and I was fine.

It was revealed that Karui (who was also in his twenties) wanted to get with the 8th grader and had taken thousands of pictures of him and others kids. A lot of them were surprisingly aesthetic, one catching a moment where the light shone in such a way that it looked like the kid was surrounded by butterflies. A lot of them featured accessories, and Karui himself had an earring and hat on. I woke up without warning around 8:00 and wrote down the dream.


Dream #3 (Non-Lucid):
This dream continued right where the last left off. For some reason I decided that Karui wasn't much of a threat and left them alone in the basement. But when I checked on them a few minutes later, he was pressuring the kid to be his boyfriend. I immediately threw him to the ground and asked my friend (A) if I should kill him. She said no, so I slashed him up with a katana instead. A cut on his neck, leg, arm, et cetera.

Suddenly there was a flashback to Karui at 16 in high school, but he was named Jason back then. He'd murdered eight people but was allowed to stay enrolled because his parents were filthy rich. A girl in his grade had seen him commit the crime but decided not to tell.

They were in Art class and had to draw self-portraits. Jason was sitting in the front row in the leftmost seat, and next to him was a mirror. On the mirror was a drawing of himself, which for some reason deeply disturbed him. The girl took a picture of him and sent it to him, saying he looked afraid. He traced it for his self-portrait. Everyone else had to use their phone cameras to draw themselves.

A few minutes later his seat turned into a rocking chair and his teacher quizzed him on plant names, which he was able to answer perfectly. Everyone applauded, seeming to forget the rumor that he was a mass murderer. He surrounded his drawing by plants, and the teacher commented on the fact that almost everybody drew themselves with accessories instead of exactly how they were at this very moment.

A woman found out about his crime, but the school and the girl taped her butthole so she couldn't tell. (Idk man...) But she managed to escape through the chimney and remove it, plotting her revenge.


Dream #4 (Non-Lucid):
Not sure when this dream happened, but I was skipping through a neighborhood similar to my own. Gravity wasn't working properly, and I was having a lot of fun gliding with each step I took. I even thought, "Wow, this is like a lucid dream." I ended up bumping into someone and suddenly turned into a Chinese American girl, apologizing quickly before running away. The girl's mom wanted her to always speak in Chinese, but she didn't listen because obviously few people would understand her.


Dream #5 (Fragment, Non-Lucid):
I was showing someone my dream journal and found a dream recorded in comic format. I was confused because that would take a lot more effort than simply writing it down, but I went along with it as if I remembered making the entry.


Pretty disappointed I didn't get lucid, since I had two LDs the night before TvT Welp, here're some drawings:


Points:
Meditation (Brief) - ½ point
WBTB - 2 points
Remember a Non-Lucid Fragment - ½ point
Remember a Full Non-Lucid Dream (x4) - 4 points
Hand-drawn artwork: 2 points
Comp total: 9 points

I was planning on a WBTB tonight but ended up cancelling when I got to sleep too late.

Dream 1

I'm in my childhood home in Pennsylvania. I look out the bedroom window to see that Zoë just parked in the driveway and some other dark Honda or Hyundai parks there as well.

The interior of the house doesn’t resemble the house I know at all. Zoë enters the room and is explaining to Tami and me about how her car has been weird recently. She says all the doors can open fine but if she opens the trunk while she's dreaming it wakes her up.

A sort of cutscene shows me testing out opening the trunk and it sends me to France. Then I'm at the car again and I close the trunk and re-open it again. Now I see these magnetic balls repelling each other repeatedly.


Now I'm back in the room with Zoë and Tami, I tell Zoe that when I open the trunk of her car it doesn't wake me up from my dreams, rather it causes weird things to happen. We’re perplexed by this. (How didn’t I get lucid here!)

Dream 2 (Fragment)

I'm playing with this putty-like-material. I learn that if I drag it repeatedly across the same spot on a fabric that it cuts through it. I think it's strongly acidic. I cut some different fabrics with it. The lines from the cuts are very clean.