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So during my second attempt to become lucid I kept waking up and it would fail, so then I gave up since I have an early work day during the week, and went to sleep.
I remember small segments of my dream, and I'm not sure if they were all separate dreams or just continuations of the same dream. I woke up in between each segment, but at one point I THOUGHT I was in a dream and tried blasting rainbows from my hands....then I found out I was actually awake >_____> Anyways here's what I recorded in my actual Dream Journal:

First Segment: I was with a group of friends on a cable car ride to the top of a very steep and grassy hill. There were many Evergreen trees scattered throughout the hill, but I remember one of my friends saying "this snowboarding trip is gonna be great!" I remember thinking to myself 'snowboarding? here? Madness!!' Once we reached the top of the hill I was already geared up in winter attire, and on my board. The moment my board touched the green grass SNOW APPEARED, and it covered the entire hillside as I was making my way down. It's as if I was actually creating the snow to ride on, but then I woke up!

Second Segment: I remember being outside of my ex-girlfriend's home (though it was totally different, and the location was WAAAAYYYY off) talking to her mother and father. Her mother was acting kind of goofy, and laughing a lot, and her father was going on about buying everyone expensive bicycles...including me! I went over to a bike and started examining it when I woke up!

Third Segment (this I think was either two dreams connected to each other, or just continuing the same one: I was still outside at my ex's house while her parents were goofing off and riding tricycles when I felt a weird sensation in my left hand. I looked at my hand only to find the palm completely covered in pins (the kind you would stick in a pin-cushion) and the bulbs at the very tips were powder blue. I remember saying to myself "this is so weird. why is this happening?" and trying to pull them out. I think I got two or three pulled out, but each one I touched afterwards would sting the crap out of my right hand! What?? So I decided I'd go inside their house and play with their cat (they actually don't own a cat in real life). The cat I found was dark gray, and your standard fat house cat. It would hiss and growl high pitch noises and claw me if I tried to pet it. But for some reason I decided to keep trying to pet him. The cat ran away underneath an end table, and the routine repeated itself...until the cat yelled "**** YOU!!!!" and bit my hand. The bite hurt so much that I got mad, grabbed the hind legs, and punched him in the stomach, and then woke up! At the end of this segment I opened my actual eyes, still feeling like I was in a dream, held out my left hand and said in my head "I WILL blast rainbows from my hand!!!" I think I did this twice before I realized...."crap....I failed the WILD again!"

Jedi Tricks (6:00) (LUCID)

I'm sitting in a room with my mentor and my fellow apprentice when a messenger comes running through the door. Someone is gravely injured, and they need our help in order to save her. Immediately, our mentor gets up to leave, and he beckons us to follow.

A stretch of floor in the hallway is unsafe--it collapses underneath you if you're not careful. Our mentor runs up to it and jumps across. It's a very long stretch of floor, so he has to use the force to propel himself horizontally. It's an impressive trick, and he calls it the "Seven-Meter Jump." I'm not sure I'm skilled enough yet to pull it off, but I jump anyway. It looks like I'm not quite going to make it, so I add an extra burst of horizontal motion at the end. Then I turn around to watch my fellow apprentice cross. He jumps up, grabs some handles on the ceiling, and swings across that way. Clever.

We reach the room with the patient. There are dozens of people already there--participants and helpers in the energy sharing ritual which our mentor will moderate. He starts giving orders, and everyone gets into position. There's even a big, shaggy dog involved. Then the ritual starts, and it's a bizarre sensation. It feels like it's over in moments. Afterwards, the other participants start enthusiastically talking about it and checking the time. We're all wondering how long it actually took. I overhear that it's a quarter after the hour now, but we came in there at around ten till. Wow, that ritual really messes with time perception.

I go back down the hallway with my fellow apprentice. We enter a stairwell with a railing, and I take this opportunity to practice some acrobatics--doing flips over the bar and bouncing off of the walls; that kind of thing. My friend does some, too. Then I realize that I must be dreaming--unrealistic acrobatics seem to be a theme, recently.

Without pausing to plan, I just start doing stuff. Nothing in particular, just whatever comes to mind--always making sure to observe what's going on and try to work creatively within the existing dream framework. For instance, I look at my hands to find I'm holding some Oreos. I squeeze my hands into fists and open them again to reveal handfuls of nuts. I decide I want to float around, so I start hopping up and down on the floor of my bedroom. Gravity's not behaving as leniently as I'd like, but I just keep trying. Somehow, some cubes get stuck to my feet, and bouncing on top of other loose cubes joins them all into two big cubes. Then gravity is a lot less strong, and I can float into the air at will. I'm approaching the ceiling, and I decide to try to go straight through it. After a moment of darkness, it works! I'm worried about waking my parents, though. A couple of times [I think], I return to the stairwell to do more acrobatics. They're really quite fun. At some point, I wake up.

Nonchalant (8:06)

Spoiler for vaguely sexual content:

I'm in the living room of the house, masturbating. One of my parents passes in a nearby hallway. I try to nonchalantly hide my penis behind my neck. [?? Obviously, this is not anatomically possible.] I suppose it works, because no one freaks out.

This is trippy. This is seriously something else. I've wanted to do this for a while, but man! lucid dreams are NUTS!! I'm posting this more for me than for anyone else, but how am i gonna stop you? read on.

I live in hawaii (aka hell). But my old house from the mainland was stuck on the foudations. I tried to switch it, but that was just too much for me. I was somehow aware that there were two rival factions of cats around the yard. I alligned myself with one side and went for the other. I stole a kitten and put it in the passenger seat of my car, which had been turned into a bucket. That was when I realized I was dreaming. A popsci artical on lucidity (lucidness?) came to my mind. I was so startled that woke up. That was my first one.

Trouble in Space
Recall: 8/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Unknown

I'm either on the moon or Mars with a couple of friends, all of us in our space suits. The wind begins to blow really hard, practically blowing us over, and we need to get back to our ship. Only problem is the ship is pretty far away. Someone pulls out a globe of this planet, checks our location and the location of the ship, and tries to figure out the scale of how far we are. It's far.

I take off my gloves to get a better grip on the rocks to stop myself from being blown away. Then I wonder if that's a good idea. "Can I take of my gloves here?" I ask my friends, but get no reply. Nothing bad seems to be happening because of it, and the driving winds take most of my attention.

After a grueling haul, we make it to the ship. But this isn't my ship. My ship and crew are gone, and I'm hitching a ride on this one. That creates a problem because of the extra weight I add to their ship, which causes us to run out of fuel as we lift off. Our ship gets destroyed by meteors, and we're left drifting in space.

The gravity of some nearby planets pulls us in, and I watch in awe as we drift by them. There are a couple of colorful gas giants with the most amazing mix of colors, brilliant splotches of purples and green and orange. It's truly spectacular. We get pulled past the planets towards a vortex defined by lines converging into a whirlpool in the center. I tell Gary "This is our ticket home", expecting to be pulled through several fantastic universes. Instead, we get sucked in and the next thing I know I'm standing in a mall back on earth.

I tell everyone we meet we're astronauts, but most don't believe me since I'm wearing my stained work clothes.

We walk down the street to this bar I always dream about. The place is a dive full of low lifes, but it's always so much fun. We're surprised to run into people we know there, like Tristan and Schreoder. I'm still trying to impress all the women by telling them I'm an astronaut.

The vortex made of lines is no doubt because I started to learn how to use Blender 3D last night

Wood Dragons
Recall: 7/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Unknown

-I see a guy collapsed on the ground on a trail in the woods. I help him up and drag him towards a stream so he can get a drink. The stream leads to a lake, and I want to get him some fish to eat, but have nothing to fish with. So I build up a little pen in the water with rocks, cut up a frog and toss it in, then wait for a fish to swim into it.

-There are two survivalist gangs in the woods. The only reason we're against each other is because we're both desperate. Our side has a kid who controls a fully grown dragon, while the other side has a younger dragon. They other group gets the jump on us, and has their guns pointed at us. But their dragon seems respond to our dragon kid.

From a third person view, I have the dragon in my sights, but instead shoot their leader in the head. Then I give a little speech convincing them to join us, ending it with "Do you want to be afraid of dragons for the rest of your life?"

Thoughts | Non-Lucid | Lucid | Techniques/Aids

Bedtime 9:30P-5:00A
400MG B6 SSILD at begining

Love Story 2:40AM
A green environmental hippie woman falls in love with a business man conservative. They almost part ways but they make up. She moves in with him to New York. It was a real chick flick.

Toilet Parts Time?
I am at the store looking at toilet parts. I see all sorts of strange looking pieces and I feel really confused about what I need to buy. My mom shows up and looks with me. I find a faucet that looks like a woodland scene for the base and deer antlers for the handles.

WBTB 400MG B6 - Total time about 5 min

#92 Grocery Store SSILD DILD

There maybe be a beginning to this dream that I forgot.

I find myself already lucid in a grocery store with a woman that is familiar to me. My wife? We are waiting for something. I watch people come and go with shopping carts. I get bored and yell, "THIS IS ALMOST AS REAL AS REAL LIFE!" Meaning real life can be so boring. My wife is a blonde and looks a little different but I think of her as my wife. Being lucidly bored and move in close to her and point to a back room door. While I push her in that direction I say, "How about you and me go back there and have a little fun? Don't worry no one will care because this is a dream."

We are now in the back. I make out with her a little. There is a bath tub and I want to get in with her. Suddenly she resists and pulls away from me. I let her go. There is a strange scene were I was floating away and she is running after me. She looks like the blonde sheriff woman from Once Upon A Time TV show. (Strange. My wife is watching it as I type this)

I think my lucidity must have slipped here a bit Suddenly, I am back at the bat tub. I point to it and ask, "Will you tell if I use this?"
She says, "I haven't told anyone anything yet."

I wake up.

I get up and go pee then lay back down.

#93 Work Scene SSILD to Active WILD

I do a few rounds of SSILD but I toss and turn a lot now. I think the B6 is keeping me awake. I remember the last time I just forced myself to not move and I quickly had a WILD. So I did that again.I started getting really strong HI/HH and eventually turns into a very long dream.

I find that I am able to manipulate the imagery much like in a lucid. I practice nose plug RCs. I even get the idea to try to get precognitive information (a side project of mine) but that will not form. I gradually find myself in a dream scene. It is a place similar to my job but different in a lot of ways. I find elements from when I worked at another place called F.A.G. (Yeah I know but that's the real name). The entire dream scene and imagery takes place in a massive room in with no walls.

At one point I am with B at the mold shop. The mold machine has a strange cage on it and a conveyor belt. Something is stuck and I crawl in to get it. I realize this is more than HI/HH and I say, "I am dreaming." But at that point the dream fades and I feel my body in bed again and now it feels like HI/HH instead of the dream. At that point I feel a very faint SP vibration. I pause and relax and let it take me only dimly aware of what it was.

There is darkness and then more imagery. I play around staying active and interacting with things. I don't realize that the SP was probably a good sign that I am already in the dream but things just don't see real and vivid enough anyway. My memory is vague here but I wonder around some and just mess around with things.

Now I am sitting in front of some lockers putting shoes on. I see J and K from elementary school. They are older now. In real life I have not seen them since we were kids. J alway had a crush on K. They are sitting at a picnic style table. J is flirting with K as K talks on the phone with who I assume is her husband. I see J whisper in her ear and kiss her cheek. She brushes him playfully away. Then J hugs her from behind and grabs a boob. That was too much she gets up and leaves. I am lucid the whole time but was so amused by what I was seeing that I waited until now to take action. I notice how solid and real the dream is as I walk up to J. I say, "Hey, do you want to go to my house and eat lunch? Or did were you planning on not eating anything?"
He looks at me, "Oh I wanted to eat."

I smile at him and we walk. The giant room fades away and we are outside now. The outside area looks like my old elementary school. Our friendship feels as familiar as when we were kids. We walk up to my car and I see that it is smashed and dented so bad on the driver side that I think the car much be totaled and not drive-able. But I know this is just a dream and laugh. I get in away knowing that it doesn't matter what the car looks like.

Suddenly I am driving down the familiar street and J is next to me. I come to a stop sign and never slow down. I think, "Why should I obey traffic laws in a dream?" This orange truck with a yellow and red flame jobs cuts me off. I try to steer the car into him at the last second but I am too late. He passes and I only side swipe him. If feel the dream fade. So I stop to rub my hands a bit until things feel more stable.

Ah now I am going to have some fun! I make a right turn. The G forces of the turn feels realistic and I smile at this. I say to J, "Haha! AH LOOK OUT!" in a joking tone. In my mind I tell the dream that I want a straight open road. The street stretches out into a rural area. I punch the gas and get as much speed as the dream will let me. I keep focusing on the road. I am thinking, "I want a car to appear." Nothing comes. My vision get blurry for a bit. Then I remember to use expectation. I see a myself coming up to a top of a hill. Now I fully expect to see a car. As a top the hill. BAM there it is. I steer and hit the car head on. I tell J, "Oh no here it comes, ahhhhh." and I laugh. The car just flips out of the way and I feel no impact. Then my subC surprises me.

The car goes over a cliff and he are doing a nose dive into a construction zone. We plung into a vat of black oil. Then we are falling down a shiny, sparkling, glowing blue water fall. I get the feeling of being in a mouthwash commercial and being immersed in cool minty flavor. As cheesy as that sounds it was actually beautiful and breathtaking. I let out a "oooohhhhh!" the dream fades into a black void and I an still falling.

I wake up in my bed. I sit up and look around. I see my wife to my left and the room looks normal. I notice the low light and the dresser and the random stuff we still need to put away. Then, as usual, I think, "What was I dreaming? OH YEA! I could still be dreaming." I look around more closely. I see the bathroom door on the left when I know it should be on the right. "Wait a minute! I am dreaming!"

At that moment my wife comes to life. She puts her hands up in a monster pose and screams like a banshee. The sound is not loud but high pitched. Then I see brilliantly colored rainbow crystalline spikes grow out from every part of her body. I am beyond scared as this was not expected at all. I pass out in my dream and I fall on top of her. I have no control.

Now I am falling in the black void. Then I wake up. I am in the same situation that I was in my false awakening. I see the bathroom on the wrong side. I say, "Oh God no, I can't do that again." close my eyes and I throw myself backward. I get to skip the part where my wife was a screaming banshee.

Now I am falling again in the darkness. I open my eyes and see the room again. I close them and now I feel myself spinning with my stomach being the center point. I can fee the centripetal force on my head, arms, and feet. I relax and enjoy the feeling.

I begin to see that I am in another dream scene when something external and real wakes me up.

It was my son making hungry noises and the time was almost 5am. Time to get up.

So I have been keeping a log of my dreams for a while now on my phone and I figured I would put the interesting/very vivid ones on here.
6/27/2012
1st
Riding in a car with my friends when thousands of white birds begin circling the car. It suddenly takes a turn for the worst and they all smash through the car's windshield. Killing everyone else but me.

2nd
Flying a plane. For some reason I'm teaching kids to fly. I have to use a lighter to start the plane for some reason. Also when I am flying I have to keep a mickey mouse mousepad over a hole in the plane to keep flames from burning up my legs. Kids are screaming. I do an emergency landing and everyone is alright/

3rd.
I have some lucid dreams where I am gliding across the ground. Not exactly flying but more like floating. Gonna keep working on that.

I keep doing this thing where it's not really a WILD but not really a DILD, rather some kind of hybrid. I'll WBTB and then drift off while thinking about something, in the case of yesterday morning, I was thinking about work. Then I'm suddenly dreaming that I'm at work, but I'm not lucid. But in just a few seconds I think, "Oh dang, I was JUST lying in bed thinking about work not 3 seconds ago." So technically it IS a DILD, but damn it's super quick. So I ain't complaining, I'm just used to labeling induction techniques for years, but it doesn't matter. It's just one of my personal ways of getting there. OphILD - Ophelia Induced Lucid Dream haha.

Anyway, so yeah I became lucid when I realized that I was just thinking about work and found myself in the frozen aisle again. I tried to summon Scott, which worked, but I could only ever see the back of his head. No matter how hard I tried to get around him, or get in front of him, or turn him around, I was always looking at the back of his head. Weird and annoying.

This dream was yesterday morning, so I remember very little, plus it wasn't a lucid with any exceptional control or length, and not really noteworthy enough for me to remember the details after a long late shift last night. But I remember these 2 lucid fragments in addition to the one about Scott:

- I tried to fly but I shot up way too high too fast and got vertigo again. I was able to stop, and just kinda bobbed up and down high up in the atmosphere once I reached a thin veil of clouds.

-While still high up, I wanted to land but I was waiting for the ground to stop morphing through different wild scenes, and become something I wanted to go to. I think I woke up just before it looked like something from Willy Wonka.

- Growing boy parts and playing with them for a bit, noticing that I must be right handed.

So I'm getting these texts from some girl who want's me to have sex with her. I want this to happen....in fact, I think I need this to happen. I consider it an act of God. Then I start questioning things. She says she's 17 and asks would I still be interested. I give in and say yes. She calls me, and I pick up right when she hung up. Fuck....I tried calling back. No answer. Now I'm wondering if this is some sort of set up. Then I'm thinking 'well i didn't go over there and initiate anything...so I'm good right?'. Anyways, class starts.

We're a dimly lit room (I've seen it before in dreams...in fact I've WILDed into it once.) and some professor is talking about different concepts of dreams. He's talking about mapping out things in a lucid vs. reality. He brings up the possibility of when we travel backwards...and uses a theory. I told him of a dream where I was "skating backwards" (actual dream I was running, and then flying) and even though the scene kept creating things, I was never going to be interrupted by a wall, because the brain never generates one.

He quickly interrupted me and said some mumbo jumbo and before I could get my two cents in, he turned on this music and everyone started dancing. WTF. Oh well. So I walked around the room a little bit....looking for someone to dance with. Noticed the Professor was totally gay....for Old guys.....WOW....time to move to a different area. I saw Mandy, and She looked totally different. From her hair, I was assuming this was the past, and I completely rationalized that I was in a different time in life.

We started talking and she said she was planning on visiting some foreign country. I told her about how she was going to do different things in her life, and she was smiling. And then this girl tapped me on the shoulder. She had light brown hair, with a look of slight disappointment on her face. She wore a skin tight white blouse, with a brownish skirt. She said "hey....weren't we supposed to meet up". I said I know...but the dream is going to end.

Nov 2nd ' 12
Bedtime 11:00 PM

3 mentionable dreams last night.

02:00 AM

1) Beer drama:
I'm out shopping with an old colleague from my previous job in my hometown.
We stop for a moment to have a drink outside at a cafe terrace. After I've order two beers we already start to move on and I'm just about to enter a shop.
As I enter the building it turns out to be some kind of clinical sample processing department which reminds me of where I work. (I work for a pharmaceutical research company)
On of my current colleague's already there, greats me and walks away. Then a small/bit overweight/balding unknown man comes up to me and gives me two bottles of beer (Hertog Jan google it).
He explains there is a reason to celebrate but I don't remember what it was about.
I drink my beer alone when fatman returns, this time he's stressed and tells me some high placed gentleman are coming over today to have a look around the workplace.
He tells me to hide my last beer but there are no trashcans in the room. I turn around for the first time in this room and see a staircase.
Running up the staircase I take a right, it look like this floor is some kind of childrens department in a hospital only the beds are genuine childrens beds and not your typical hospitalbeds.
I see a girl sitting upright in her bed looking at me shocked and baffled, I now realize I'm making a wild or bewilderd impression on her.
After I apologize to the girl for scaring her like that I dash to the leftwing of the floor.
In the hallway a boy in wearing a black hoody is playing XBOX360, I jump over his controlercables and march into the leftwing.
This floor is open to look downstairs and I see the clicical room I started in, I also see some fancy looking men walking through the hallway.
Someone calls my name to come down so I quickly hide the beer between some pillows and walk back as the dream fades.

5:43 AM
2) Jimi Hendrix' Water Festival
I'm in a picture, I can't move and everything is in a sepia tint.
I see some kind of wooden contruction like a rollercoaster but it isn't a rollercoaster.
In front of this construction is a small river, out of which 3 firehoses emerge to a length of about 10m (or about 33 ft).
Now there is something interesting about these hoses, because men are riding them in a real elaborate way.
They cling the firehose between two barrels and keep a hold on these barrels by pushing one with their legs two the second barrel which they hold on to with their hands and arms.
Now the scenery starts moving, I can here the man laugh, the water, and for some reason Jimi Hendrix' Voodoo Chile is playing in the background.
I look around to see a man that greats me, it startles me and thats when the 3rd dream starts.

3) Riots and paintings
I'm downtown where all the bars are and see my father entering one.
I keep out as I hear a loud; bang!
Looking throug an alleyway I see people fleeing from something or someone, but I soon find out it's the cops and that there are riots.
I try to escape but all streets are blocked or to full with rioting people, which makes me angry, I encouter two girls I know who also seem scared and confused.
The look for an escape continues for a while untill I calm down.
It's at this moment the riots stop, the sky indicates daytime (it was nighttime before).
Down the street I see market stalls.
Joined by one of my female friends (can't remember who) I walk towards a stall with paintings.
The one selling the paintings is an old woman who reminds me of a Dutch actress.
She looks at me like we've met before and I realize we have. I remember meeting her before in a dream.
The lady then explains how we've met before, I was with another friend and we made paintings, paintings that she is now selling.
She shows me 4 paintings, two depict a rat and the other two are kind of abstract and are made using only blue and yellow.
I look closer at the last painting, the lady tells me it's the one I made last time.
Now I can see that there are four words written on the painting but I can only read two.
It's in dutch and says, dromen and verdwijning. This translates to dreams and disappearance or vanishing

I put an alarm 4 hours i went to bed to do a WILD technique, I have just started attempting to have a normal sleep schedule again so all my dreams are hazy and only seem only a few seconds long. I have one dream where i just see a text of my friend caitlyn that i haven't talked to in years and she just texted hey, whatsup? I was kind of dissapointed to wake up and check my phone that I had no such text message lol. I had a few other dreams where I was with my cousins in this weird building with bright colors and the walls inside the building were made of glass and we were playing some sort of bowling game on the first floor. I also had another dream where My family and I were staying in this very large haunted house with old furniture. The rooms were very big. I should take notice as a recurring element in all my dreams is the weird architecture.

Desolate Land spreads as far as we can see, but we've sustained somehow, and have a little group of survivors. In fact, Somewhat famous for dealing with other Survivors that do harm or threaten others. Average day out, when something we've never seen before comes from the sky. A space station of some sort, Metal, Grey, With Giant Glass Windows all over it. It has Giant Rocket Like things on joints on the bottoms that enable it to lift and fly. It comes down landing right in front of where we are. People come out blasting, I'm thrown off guard that such a thing is controlled and used by humans. I get blasted by a blue bolt of Electric Like stuff that paralysis me and brings me down. I black out...

I wake up strapped down to a chair. Everyone from the campsite is chained up and being hung, from the torso twenty yard in front of me. Their then being blasted by gunshots and I start to break from my chains. They all die. I go into a rage. Snapping the guards neck to my right and then using the others gun to shoot himself. The Two Guards guarding the door run through it. Leaving it locked behind them. I look to the wall to the right of the door, left of the way the chair was facing, and see guns placed in a holder. I walk up and grab some SubMachine Guns throwing the straps over my shoulders, grabbing a double pistol hip holster, and some sort of grenade launcher. Alarms start going off. I turn to the door and send a grenade from the launcher that way. The blast blows the door off, killing and/or knocking down a gathering of soldiers on the other side, I come through Shooting the guards trying to get up with a pistol. As I pass the last one I grab a replacement pistol from the guy, put it in my holster and then I grab a shotgun. I have no destination but I'm walking determinedly in a rage, blasting anyone that gets in my way with the shotgun. Eventually a door slides open in front of me. and I see all the windows that were in the front of the ship. There is one guy, standing in front of a control panel. I raise the shotgun and fire, but its empty. the guy then turns to see me... He doesn't look like a normal guy, more robotic, then I realise that he is hooked up by long wires from his finger tips... I pull up a pistol and blast him in the face... He smiles like its nothing and some soldiers come running in through doors on the left and right. I pull the other pistol out and start blasting them as they run in... Eventually I notice that their are too many and I'm being over run. I then pull out my smgs and start blasting the windows. I see clouds outside, so its not really a space ship so much as a moveable station in the sky. The glass shatters sucking us all back. As I come by the man hooked to the panel I see he is still hanging by the cords coming out of his finger tips. I grab his shoulders as I fall past. I look around, all the henchmen are gone, but I see the ship is still flying fine. I look up at the cords. I climb a lil bit up the guy and start to rip the cords from his finger tips. once I get to the last two we rip free. we get sucked out the windows. as were flying I see the ship going down with us, flipping end over end. As I'm rushing toward the ground and my death I'm happy, knowing I avenged my loved ones, with self sacrifice.

[Friday, November 2nd, 2012]
Me and a group of friends are traveling through a sandy desert.
Strewn across the desert floor are half-buried corpses of snakes...
And what looks like BIG bodies of snakes, only partially showing through the beige-colored sand.
Some of them, I'm unable to determine if they're alive or not.
We stop and look at them for awhile.
As everyone starts walking ahead of me, I find a snake that seems to be still alive.
I toss a rock in its direction, and I think I see it move.
I throw a larger rock to mark its location. As the big rock lands next to it, it recoils slightly.
I skip in the direction of the group.

+

I'm at my Mom's house alone.
I'm singing and dancing around waiting for someone to show up.
Just then, I walk up to the door and see that its half open.
Someone knocks just then.
I open it up and start singing Santaria, almost perfectly.
I let a friend of mine and his kid (who is on his shoulders in the door) inside.
We all continue singing Santaria.

In which I live in a tiny, impractical house in a beautiful village and watch a horrible Tom Waits concert...

I’m living in a small A-frame house deep in the woods in another country. I have neighbors nearby, but we are all isolated in a valley like a small Swiss village. The floor of my A-frame is a small kitchen, sitting area and a loft-style bedroom. There is also a ladder leading up to a tiny wooden door from the sitting area. It's a little messy because I’m not expecting guests. The floors are dusty and there are dishes in the sink.

From the front door, a cobblestone path curves through a wooden picket fence to my neighbor’s garden. She has a cute black bob and wears punk chic clothes. We both have lush green gardens with bright flowers and many trees. She is waiting for me near her fence with a blonde girl with 50s style curls wearing a pink cashmere sweater. The neighbor and I joke that her friend is going as Ed Wood for Halloween.

We three walk through the village to the local outdoor pub. Picnic tables are arranged in a semicircle around a raised deck that acts as an events stage. Behind the stage is a Swiss style brown house with white shutters and trim. Its front door opens on to a moving walkway that carries entertainers out to the stage and then back again as if they were birds in a coo-coo clock.

We’re here to see Tom Waits. I tell the girls that I’ve seen Tom Waits in concert twice before in large urban venues. We’re excited to see him in such an intimate setting, and we move close to the stage.

Waits comes out coo-coo style and then steps over to the microphone. He tells a story, but I can’t listen to it because the Ed Wood girl and my neighbor keep talking to people through a chain-link fence that now encircles the concert area. The acoustics are poor, and I can’t understand what he's saying. A crowd gathers just outside the fence, and people inside the beer garden play horseshoes and washers. I can’t pay attention to the show admist the noise and distraction.

Tom Waits is annoyed as well because no one can hear his story. Instead, he starts singing a song from an unreleased album. He’s obviously not into the performance, and he starts to look nervous. The song isn’t going over well, and no one is paying attention. He stops singing and instead starts walking around the beer garden, jumping from picnic table to picnic table. When he comes to my table, I hold up my hand to shake his. He shakes my hand and smiles. The Ed Wood girl tells me that it was stupid to hold up my hand as if he were Bruce Springsteen. I decide I don't like her.

Then Waits disappears backstage. He returns with sunglasses and bleached hair like his mid-80s self. He asks us all to stay put while he runs out into our village for a quick bit of exercise. I’m confused about what is going on. My two companions explain that sometimes he gets stage fright and has to try things like this to get himself into the zone. This seems weird to me, and I tell them that the last two times I saw him, he was an energetic performer. But no one else seems to think it’s weird. Everyone just sits down patiently and waits for him.

Before Tom Waits returns, I notice my Aunt C and her family through the chain link fence. They explain that they’ve come to the village as tourists and would like to see my home. I’ve bragged a lot about what a beautiful place it is. I’m nervous now about showing it to them because I remember that I’ve left it messy, and besides, they are wealthy people who live in a large house in the suburbs. They won’t understand what a beautiful place I live in because they are accustomed to sitting around indoors with modern furniture and electronics.

On the walk to my house, I try to explain that people here have small houses because they spend most of their time outdoors. My house is tiny but it’s cute, and besides, I’m usually sitting in my garden or hiking in the surrounding mountains. I point at the majestic landscape surrounding us, but they don't appreciate it. They give it a glance and say she understands, but I can tell they're looking down on me.

We step into my house, but the sitting room doesn’t have enough chairs for my aunt, two cousins and their partners. They look around confused about where to sit. I suggest we sit in the garden, as I explained, but they want to be indoors. I tell them that when it is cold or raining, we usually sit on the floor in front of the fire place. They try to act like they are comfortable, but I can tell they are not.

One of my cousins sees my loft bed and says it is really quaint that I have a guest area. I feel too embarrassed to tell her that this is actually my bed and that we have no room for guests. So instead I just smile and nod. Then she asks me if she can see my bedroom. She points to the ladder, and I realize that they think the ladder leads to a master suite. Actually, it just leads to a bit of storage in the attic, but I figure they are too fat and unhealthy to climb up it, so I lie and say the bedroom is upstairs.

Later I climb up the ladder and it leads to a small window. I open the window and then have to crawl through a tunnel to another smaller door. The door is so small that I can barely squeeze my way through it. Then I’m straddling the ledge of the doorway looking into a small room below. I have to jump down to get in, but instead I just look at the room. I remember that in a previous dream, I’d jumped into this room and then found it very difficult to get back out. It’s hard to crawl back up the wall to the doorway ledge. Once you get there, you have to go back through the tunnel backwards. Plus the room has a window that doesn’t open so it gets hot in there. Instead of continuing, I just return back the way I came and sit down in my sitting room. I’m feeling disappointed now and I wonder why anyone ever built that room in the first place. It’s just a waste of space.

Non Dream
Dream
Lucid

I found myself walking on a path I typically walk down. I spotted a couple of DC's. "Dude, am I dreaming", I asked the man. "Yeah dude," he says. He looks at his watch, "You have 33 minutes". I thought of a lucid goal which was to summon an attractive girl I know. I know where she lives IRL so I jumped up to try to fly to her house. I failed at flying to her house but I flew around with excellent control and ease. I could even fly faster just by thinking "faster". Because of this, I thought about flying to space but thought otherwise. I decided to land. I found myself near the shore of a large body of water. I didn't see if it was an ocean or a lake. Nearby, at a dock, I spotted an attractive girl. I wanted to flirt with her but she was bottle feeding a baby and there were a couple of muscular looking DC's nearby that were probably related to her. I tried to figure out how to get around this situation when I woke up.

Dream - Lucid

I was sitting in a white booth at a restaurant with my family and a girl around my age. The girl was sitting next to me. I think she was supposed to be my girlfriend. We were all supposed to be on vacation.

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We were again on vacation, and had been there for a week and a half. It was almost time for us to go home, I think because the weather was getting bad (it may have been Sandy, the hurricane that just pummeled the East Coast). I was temporarily working at a restaurant while we were there.

I was sitting in the restaurant with my family, and we were talking about going home I think. I then remember having to reach my hand into a dirty fish tank to get something out. I rolled up my brown jacket sleeve and stuck my hand in. The top of the tank was a little above my head, so I had to reach pretty far. So far, in fact, that despite rolling the jacket sleeve up, I got it a little wet anyway.

I took my arm out, looked at my now wet jacket sleeve, and felt like I needed a shower. Luckily, they had shower stalls in the restaurant. They were, however, right by the entrance, so they were pretty exposed. I went into one and put my stuff down to where it wouldn't get wet.

For some reason, I left the stall soon after that, and when I came back to finish the shower, a couple of girls had taken my stall, and I had to find a new one. I saw lots of closed, seafoam-colored stall doors. Finally, I saw an open one, and went on in. I put my stuff down in a corner by the door so it wouldn't get wet.

I then noticed that I could see a fat white guy showering next to me. It's like part of the wall was knocked out or was never built. Apparently, some of the stalls were like that. I then remember being naked, and seeing that I was exposed to part of the restaurant, which now looked like a department store. I sat on the floor and curled up in a fetal position because I felt so embarrassed and exposed. I told the fat guy showering close by that I felt that way. He told me somewhere I could stand and not have to worry about people seeing me.