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October 3, 2012

Synopsis: me and sis visit uncle alex, the whole family joins us. Later, I try doing dishes. After, I join a group students learning to control monsters with chi, then we party hard.

Uncle Alex's Place
Sis gets the idea to visit uncle Alex unannounced at 11pm. His house is huge, tucked away on a large forested plot. Our uncle has a guest over, a lady is interviewing him for a job. Sis worries were not properly dressed and that we'll embarres him. Still, we open the front door and go in. I stay by the front door while sis goes looking for uncle.

But he's back outside saying goodbye to the lady. He turns around and he's suprised to see us. Suddenly the whole extended family shows up and were just having a big old spontanious party. We decide we should let our poor uncle so we go home.

That's when I try to do the dishes. But I have dream-foggy-brain-syndrome and I try to wash the dishes by turning on a spicket near the floor. Now the whole kitchen is flooding, the water rolls down away. Holding the dirty dish in my hand at 12am "I dont think this is how you wash dishes". After that I woke up.

Power Party
Standing in a field with other students, our teacher instructs us on how to attract and manipulate the monsters. They looked like pokemon or digimon. I waited for a monster to notice me. It wasn't hard, they love attacking people.

An adorable pokemon thing comes charging at me. I charge up my chii and attack it as my instructor showed me. The monster was subdued. So long as I kept pouring my own energy into it, it was like my pet.

I watched the other students. One of the students starts to freak out and mutats into a monster. "Thats what he gets for using too much chii"

"Wait, so if you do it wrong you turn into the monster?"

"Didn't you listen to anything teacher said?"

Suddenly I had a new goal. I must be the worst student and turn into a monster!!

It gets dark so they shoo us back inside. I dont know what dorm room to stay in, its kinda finders keepers. I end up in a room with five other people. But in moments we realized we were looking for each other, our whole lives.

It was the best dorm party ever and it all felt so real. This tiny little crammed room of best friends forever. They joke about exams tomorrow. The hallways are filled, the kitchen, every where you step is a student.

I start to realize I'm dreaming and I could careless about being a good student. I drag my new friends outside. "But its against the rules" "I dont care, were dreaming". I grab my friends hand and drag him as I walk right through the glass plane. The rest follow us.

Outside we run along the campus. The monsters in the night were freaky instead of cute pokemon. Again my friends warn me how dangerous it is to try to control them at night, they tell me its impossible. I give it a try anyways. The monsters are a lot more powerful and I needed my friends to help me subdue just one.

An instructor spots us and questions us. My friends whine again I got them in trouble, but instead I start flying to show them that it doesnt matter to me because its just a dream.

I have had a dream which I had the mansion I dream of having but I doubt I will have get it. It had a nursery with several play rooms and one of the play rooms were divided up into "store", "home", and "school" sections. I also have a movie theatre, bowling alley, exercise room and two pools-both above ground, one indoors, one outdoors and a lot more. Well in the dream I had this super big backyard which happen to include a forest. Well closer to home I made a toy play castle large enough for both kids and adults to enter and in the forest I also had a play cottage (but both were home-made play stuff). In the play castle there was a home-made spinning wheel in a tower right next to a bed which was large enough for both a child and an adult to sleep on.

In the dream there were two kids. But neither of them were mine (or I don't think they were). One was a boy, the other was a girl. I told them after I made the castle and cottage to go and play. The kids send a couple of minutes in the play castle and then went to the cottage. They seemed to have had so much fun my dream-self got worried they hadn't came back to forest. She went out into the forest but she didn't get too far before she got a gun behind her back. The invisible person pushed me to go out of the forest. Once we got out of the forest the gun forced me to go into the play-castle. Once there the gun forced me to go up the stairs to the spinning-wheel tower. I refused to touch the spinning wheel (even though I have no idea how a play spinning I personally made could be cursed) and that's when the gun pushed me hard and as I was trying to save myself falling my arm touched the spindle of the spindle wheel and I got SB syndrome. The kids arrive back at the castle and I was already on the bed. At first the kids thought I was just having a nap but when they had tried to do everything kids do to wake up parents and nothing worked. They looked at each other and I guess said (I don't see anything from the time my arm gets poke by the spindle..that's the last thing I saw) "Magic you think?" girl said. The boy said "Yeah. Our parents said X (me) is a light sleeper and since we tried everything" They tried to convince a dark-hair man (a boy I know who I will call P) to kiss me. But P said "What would my girlfriend think? and What about my kid?" The kids said "I don't think she would be a evil step-mother type to us. I mean look she made this play castle for us herself. What kind of evil-step mother do that?" P said "Good point"

I woke up at around 5:00. I had become lucid and immediately woke up. I gasped for breath and my eyes were open immediately. (I always wake up like this, this makes DEILDs impossible for me.)

I decided to try a WILD, though I'm not entirely familiarized with the procedure. I can remember trying three times. The first two times, I snapped out of it because I was drifting to sleep non-lucid. The third time, I drifted off into a non-lucid dream.

The dream was about my technical campus. (I am dual enrolled, at high school and a tech school visual imaging campus.)
Anyways, our instructor was explaining a new assignment that we were getting on Photoshop. We had to draw a planet.
Then he showed us this stunning visual demo of a planet somebody drew. It was a planet made out of technology (think death star surface) but it had an atmosphere glowing bluish-green. The visual zoomed in and we went inside the planet. there were multiple layers of this city-technology, separated by empty space.
I stated that I thought the planet looked a little like Dovia. (This was a planet from a science fiction novel that started writing last year.)
Then, I began drawing my own planet. I decided that I wanted mine to look like Jupiter began drawing this orange planet with a green spot.

I made a host of mistakes here, and I know what they are:

1-Not incubating my dream to the planned beach setting.

2-Not knowing the WILD procedure very well.

3-Not waking myself up enough.

With that in mind, I can try again tonight.

Reading William Buhlman's 'Adventures Beyond The Body' and followed his technique of waking up early, reading and going back to sleep.

So at 5:30am the first alarm went off, knowing myself well I set another for 6am. Right enough the first one I switched off without remembering. At 6am I sat up for a minute, got up and got a glass of water, went to the bathroom and read for 10 mins or so. Lay down to rest.

Went straight into a lucid dream where I was in my friends Golf Shop using the computer, where you can drive against the screen and it shows where your ball went. Dipped in and out of lucidity but it ended with me using a driver, that was shaped like an iron, had a black head and I hit it from a weird angle and the ball ricochet off the wall and through the ceiling panel. He looked a bit concerned but not overly fussed.

Then I woke up and felt the vibrations come over me, so I relaxed and said my affirmations. They didn't get as intense as they have done so I was concerned I wouldn't be able to get out. I tried the rope technique which didn't work as my astral mid/torso seemed to detatch but I was stuck at my head.

Next vibrations I visualised myself flying and I felt my 2nd body float out and rotate 180 degress so that I was face down hovering over the side of the bed (same position I was in flying visually). But I couldn't get control and get my feet down or move properly nor did I have any vision. This happened a couple of times, maybe 3 max.

Finally, the vibrations came over and mentally I asked for help, I asked for someone to help me get out of the body properly and at that point, I felt a tug from my feet and I was whisked out of my body and standing at the side of the bed. I still had no vision but walked a few steps from my body to where the door to the living room would be. I said, "Clarity now" and vision came. The living room looked a little different. Logistaically the same shape, but different furnishings, or seemingly different, emptier. My vision was still vague. I walked towards the front door and pressed my hand through. I got so excited that found myself awake in my physical body a few seconds later.

Very minor AP experience but my most memoreble to date.

I am looking for a job back home, for some reason, bump into an old manager in an underground subway type walkway (JH) and discuss it with him and tell him about the role I am doing now. Afterwards I meet my current reporting line (PM) who talks at first but is visibly upset, he has either just had to, or will be attending his daughters funeral (he has a young son IRL). He is wheeling a small cylindrical bin like object on a wooden platform on wheels. When we get to the road I carry the bin across for him and he carries the wheels. The dream ends there.

NB: Coincidentally weird, but on the tram today I was sitting reading on Facebook about my friend who's daughter passed a year ago. He had just updated his status saying he was at her grave. When I look up, PM is on the tram next to me on an adjacent seat.

Next dream and I'm at the top of the stairs of some sort of temple and people are attacking me, but it's not that threatening. I think one of them may have been my girlfriends brother, but I was able to just push them down. I remeber going into the temple and there is a square stone on either side with what I perceived to be a spirit in it, it was saying who could and could not come into the temple. It had something to do with a school (I think) and you had to have had an association with it to be allowed to pass.

Then I'm in a car with B who has notorious dealings and a girl who I can't remember or place. We are driving to what I perceive is a pub in fife when we are stopped by police, he is calm but we are worried. He puts it in his jacket pocket and in the glove box and the police put him in the car for questioning. We are allowed to leave so I drive his car away. To the pub where I park it and am told I cant park there, it's for either players or workers. Anyway, I can't recall going inside the pub. Just that later on B arrives in a car, which is supposedly his but it's a newer version of the one we were just driving.

Finally, I'm in what seems an Irish or Scottish style pub, a lot of wood on the walls. At a table with 3 people I don't know. In the dream I knew them. I see 2 men, one who I currently work with and another who I worked with back home, sitting together having a drink. They see me and come across and mention that it was nice to have met my parents/family. This seems to have been a reference to something earlier in the dream that I can't place.

Yet again small fragments, but I am certain writing them is a good idea.

Dreamed: 3.10.2012, Written: 3.10.2012.

I remember this very vaguely, but I'm pretty sure I was standing in front of the mirror in my bathroom.
I don't remember seeing myself in the mirror, or remember anything the would've caught my attention happening there.
I have a feeling that I was lucid, I don't know why.
I remember standing in front of the mirror and whispering a lot of things that sounded like insane gibberish.
I'm not sure if this was from the same dream, but I remember later not being lucid, I think, and going out of the toilet and towards my computer desk, I remember being very angry and frustrated, I felt I wanted to destroy something. although this wasn't lucid, thinking about it, it just seems like that actually happened, though it didn't.
I was near my computer desk and looked for something to destroy, something like a match box or a toilet paper roll.
I remember not finding anything, then I saw a knife under my headphones, the handle was bright blue.
I then almost grabbed the knife still angry, maybe with the intent to hurt myself, but then I snapped and thought to myself "I need to relax, I could seriously hurt myself this way".
I think I calmed down after that, and sat in my chair, calm.
That's all I remember here, I really am not sure why I thought I was lucid in the first scene, just a feeling.

Also, the night before I was thinking about how fascinating I find mirrors in dreams, that my brain actually has to imagine every little detail, twice, and that I think mirrors have quite a potential for something, I came up with an idea of a "Change your look" stations using mirrors, you could touch you face and hair and so on as if the mirror was a touch screen, and change things.
That's why I think I dreamed of this, and maybe this made me semi-aware for a very short time.

The second dream I remember, which I think I might have returned to after waking up once, wasn't lucid though.
Was quite a long dream I think, I tried to recall it better after waking up, but I couldn't remember much, and it has been hours ago so I forgot even more of it.

The dream occurred in a place which was a hybrid of my old school, my current school and some things that were different but not from either of them.
Almost all of the dreams I remember for about half a year already occur there, and I think it changes a bit every time.

While writing this I'm starting to recall more, so here's what I currently remember.

I was sitting in my new classroom, which looked a bit different, with a friend of mine, from my old class.
In the seats in front of me were sitting two girls also from my old class, they were mocking me and my friend for not believing in god, I remember me and him telling them things but I really don't remember what me or he said.
I then talked with him about things, but again, I don't remember the conversation.
Then I was coming back to my seat holding something which was either a bunch of seeds or coins, or something else completely.
I heard the girls talking about how they are in need of the things I was holding, I think I might have brought it just because of it, I don't remember.
I then dropped one off on their desk without saying a word and went back, they said something along the lines of "Huh, helping now, after bribery?" and laughed condescendingly, I don't know what that meant in context of the dream plot.

Later I was outside of the school, It was my old school's outside environment, but different.
I don't remember some parts of what I was doing outside, but then I remembered a certain girl sitting near another girl on a big stone near me, I know exactly who she was based upon.
It wasn't really near me, but not far away.
I remember that I have met her in this dream before this, inside.
I remember there was a conversation, but I can't remember it, I only remember that it was a friendly conversation.
She saw my outside after sitting down on that stone, she waved at me and yelled something, I think she just said "Hi there!" or something along those lines, again her appearance made me feel comfortable, and a bit in love actually.
I think I greeted her back, I'm pretty sure I did.
The girl next to her then asked her something along the lines of, "Does he ever talk at all?" kind of in an intent of offending me, she answered "Yeah, all the time! I like talking to him".
I think what she said was a bit different, but this seems close enough.
Again I felt good hearing her.

I think there was more to the dream, but I can't recall any further.
Oh wow, I started writing this with
"Yet again small fragments, but I am certain writing them is a good idea."
And ended up with a decently detailed entry, I guess writing this up really was a good idea.

I also think my dream recall is improving, a bit slowly, but improving.

Edit:
Huh, minutes after finishing this I remembered another dream.
I was in my bathroom, which I am beginning to think might be a dream sign, third time I'm there in a dream.
Instead of my toilet seat there was a tall yellow contraption there, with about five rows of buttons, every row had a different amount of buttons, now that I think about it, there might have been two rows,
The first row had more than five of them, I think.
The second one I didn't really pay attention to, but there were less there.
The first row was about different flushing functions, so this thing was a toilet after all!
I pressed a button and then a stretchable leather like fabric went up and stretched blocking the toilet seat.

Huh, I wonder how many dreams I forgot like this.

last night i had this dream that i was George Harrison of the Beatles, and i could fly. I was dressed in the blue jean suit that he's wearing on the cover of Abbey Road, and flying around above my parents' house. A Beatles tune was playing in the background... I think it was Glass Onion.

I looked down and saw my parents' labrador looking up at me while running down the lawn and trying to take off. He did that a couple of times but could only fly a very short distance before falling back to the ground. In the dream i found this quite hilarious. I looked over and saw Paul McCartney, also flying, and he said "dogs just do that sometimes, man."

The following was typed up as soon as I woke so I'd remember the details. Before I paste it in here, I should point out that I am a female with no desire for a sex change lol. I also don't have any kids and I'm no longer married.

I lived in the future at a time when robotics were used to control almost everything. I was physically enhanced by them myself with extra strength, speed, hearing, and something which made it impossible for me to drown which will be significant in a moment. Everyone was connected to an internet type thing via an implant in their head as well.

In this dream I was a man, and my wife and 3 daughters were at this beach place. It was a river with a fake beach added, like what actually exists near me. However at the end of the river there was this tunnel where all the water was drained. I don't know where to.

I cant remember what but I had to do something so I told the kids to stay in the beach area and walked away. Somewhere during this, two of the kids, the youngest and the oldest, got swept away. I dove in after them. They were getting beaten up by the rocks and things on the path. I caught the youngest, but she was already beaten to near death. I tried to get to the oldest too but she was pulled into the drain.

I jumped out of the river up onto the high banks. The child was screaming in pain and I could feel her vertebrae in the wrong positions. Some were sticking out and her bones all were badly placed but not protruding through the skin. I shut off the pain center of her brain somehow using the implants, and she immediately fell into a coma-like sleep.

After I got her to shore I left her with her mother and returned. I was going to hunt for the other child, but she was gone. I was also sure the one I saved would die because she had a previous illness that had only been recently gotten over. I do not know what it was, but it was something she was born with that had been expected to be fatal.

I don't know what made me go looking for clues about what happened to her previously. I honestly have no idea why I went searching for this. But I then decided to find out more about her past. I went looking in this old trailer park we had once lived in. I think in the very early beginning I might have been here as myself. Anyway I found out she spent a lot of time with this neighbor named Jamal, so I went to see him.

Through a sort of memory sharing process I learned that he had been abusing the girl. He was laughing while he shared this. I don't recall the actual fight but I remember I left his body essentially crumpled into a ball on the floor. Then I left and suddenly I was a girl again. I was riding a bike in my nightgown when I passed this factory where implants were added to people. I pulled in and I was a guy again as I walked in.

Around me were in the tens of students getting implants. I was looking into some extras to add to the ones I had. Somewhere in here I became aware or remembered that I had served 2 weeks of time in a freezing jail, like they froze you solid for however long your sentence was. I was still worried about police catching me for killing Jamal so I don't know what for or really when.

I expected my daughters illness to make recovery impossible too so I was looking for something to help me to help her. I remember passing doors with labels on them each one telling what sort of implant you got in each room. I went in to get one, but I cant remember what they were. I ended up in the back of the place in almost a wilderness type area.

At this point my memory of the dream starts falling apart. I remember there was fruit growing on bushes, and I remember being terrified she was going to die before I got back. Then I was talking to my wife and I told her I was going to search for the body of our other daughter who had died. I was heading for the river when I woke up.

The third daughter was there only for a small bit at the beginning. After that she wasn't really mentioned anymore.

Someone Else's Dream (6:29)

There's something strange and kind of scary going on. One at a time, a couple of my friends and I have been drawn into this dream scenario. The rule is that the last person to arrive is in control of the dream, even if they don't know that they're dreaming or don't have good dream control. It's scary, because that person could unknowingly force you to do very dangerous things. I'm discussing the situation with my friends when suddenly a new person enters the dream, a stranger to all of us. It looks like a small four-footed creature with wings. We're worried, but then someone points out that the new entity seems very attuned to their mental state--they've already realized they're dreaming, and they're trying to escape. Indeed, the creature is energetically bouncing up and down. After a few moments, it disappears, leaving the previous dreamer in control of the scenario.

Spider Cleaning (8:06)

I'm in the basement of my house when a brusque girl comes walking up to me. She's been sent to clean out the spiders. I hadn't realized there were any spiders, and I say so. In response, she points at the ceiling of the bathroom. There's a sort of shelf made of cobwebs, with a couple big spiders on top and another clinging to the bottom. Oh. Wow, that's actually kind of scary. Then the girl starts swatting at the web with a broom, and the spiders fall to the ground and start crawling everywhere. Naturally, this makes me jump around a lot, and I'm impressed by how the girl seems totally unfazed.

Conference (8:06)

My partner and I are sitting down to have a civil conversation with the villains we've been tracking down. We accomplished this civility by trading parts of the skin from our face. So one guy has darkly tanned skin above his upper lip, and paler skin on his jaw and chin. The other guy has mostly dark skin, except that his lips and a patch of skin around them are lighter. (There are no scar lines at all, so it's not grotesque; it's just weird seeing such stark contrast in skin tone.)

Out With a Bang (8:06)

It's been a long story, and it's drawing to a close with the sole performer remaining on stage dancing to an upbeat musical number. With the final note of the music, she strikes a pose, and at that same instant, my alarm goes off and wakes me up.

I went to sleep,
again wishing hard for lucidity.
Also frustrated with emotional issues..
So:
I was at my dads house,
which should be taken as a dream queue..
But no.
My cousin brought over a new kitten
And it was beautiful
And i played with it fro a long time..
And my old cat
(who I loved but I havnt seen in years..)
was just sitting in mud.
I thought
What extreme juxtaposition..

And then

i was hanging out with my old friend
(whom I dreamt of yesterday, her names Cassidy.
perhaps she is also a dream queue as I dont see often..)
and my cousin Halle (whom I know is a dream queue,
I dream of my cousins VERY often)
Halle was having a birthday party
First we looked around the house
and Cassidy told me the house is 300 years old
(its not.. its maybe 20 years old..)
I thought..
how ancient..
Halle was having a birthday party.
Then, because I thought it would be funny,
we lined up holding hands on the driveway,
greeting each guest who came
by saying in unison
"Welcome [their name], join hands with us"
We proceeded until everyone was there..
I was in the middle, as I ususally was with them two
However I thought..
Shouldnt Halle be in the middle? Its her birthday..
Her dad came and joined hands between Cassidy and I
I told him..
"You have to join hands at the sides of the line... Thats how we're doing it"
He was kind of dissapointed, but did so.

And then

My mom and cousins and little sister
were headed to a beach
It was storming
and the people of the beach and their children
were all leaving
i figured..
perhaps they just dont like to be out in the storm..
We proceeded onwards.
Once we got there,
a huuge wave was forming..
I ran back
(my family seemed unphased..)
The wave crashed and came all the way to my waist..
I figured we had to leave.
i went back to them,
and we all left..

And then

i was at a college maybe?
I was buying a toothbrush..
It was tiny
and electric..
As I was waiting to check it out of the store
There was a dancer
with very short shorts..
Talking to the lady at the check-out desk.
I was admiring her firm and shapely butt o.o
(also envious)
I finished checking out the toothbrush,
brushed my teeth
and worked out my butt muscles o.0 lol.

S's mom is in the living room, and she's telling me that I have to take her younger sister to some place. I can't help but notice how her mom looks like a future S....instead of what she looks like. I think I'm already ready, and C is in the back room, changing. She calls me back and asks me to button her up. I head back there and she doesn't even have the dress all the way on. The medical part in me doesn't care, but I still look away. Other people are in there and she tells them to leave. I locked the door, and saw that she actually had it on. I got behind her and started lacing these complex hooks. It took me a while to figure it out but I finally did. We started talking for a while, and I couldn't help but mention S. We were just talking about how things seemed on her end, versus what happened to me. I think she she was saying she knew it wasn't going to work out due to the fact that there was a lot of distance between her.

This one is incredibly awesome and strange. I’m in some kind of video game sort of world. Things are reminiscent of World of Warcraft, but I’m in the game, I’m not exactly playing a game, though at some points there seem to be HUD elements and stuff. To be clear, it’s not ‘cartoon’ graphics, this all looks ‘real’. I’m with someone, some girl or woman, and we’re friends. We’re exploring this area, I’m not sure what we were after, I think we were just exploring. We go down this steep ramp into this huge like excavation site that is like a vast deep canyon, with the impression given that this was all filled and excavated. It seems to be uncovered ruins, some kind of demonic architecture type stuff. We go down this ramp and out onto the ground floor of this canyon. There’s this big pedestal platform thing far off to our right so we go to check it out. On the way over there we can see some monsters on the platform but they don’t look too tough so we keep going. I guess the girl I am with is some kinda tanking class because she goes in first, and I come in second. We aggro some of these weak monsters and start fighting them, when suddenly something strange happens. We didn’t notice but there’s a much bigger monster on the pedestal, a big elite type guy who looks kinda like the Ogres from the 3E D&D Monster Manual, except much bigger and decked out in crazy armor. He’s HUGE, like thirty feet tall, and the moment he aggros us I suspect we’re fucked, but then things get ten times more fucked.

One of the weird things about these games is that NPCs can be really really big, but you won’t be able to see them until they get close enough that a small character would render at the same distance. That is to say, you can be walking and suddenly WHAM a giant enemy just APPEARS. That’s what happens here. It turns out when we get closer that this giant platform is being stood upon by a COLOSSAL STATUE, and that statue is MOVING. The ogre was intimidating, but this huge statue is something else altogether. I can’t effectively communicate how big this thing is. The thing aggros on us and immediately as it does it... this HUGE red demon thing comes out of the statue, and starts making these LOUD noises that sound a lot like the weird distorted voice of the Icon of Sin, the final boss of Doom 2. I immediately start running, just trying to get the fuck away and break aggro. Everything starts sort of warping and distorting, like reality itself can't handle the things presence. The sky twists and changes colors. If it weren’t for the video game schema running here, this probably would have terrified me awake because it was so nuts. This demon thing was so tall I practically had to look straight up to see any of it’s body. If you ever played WoW, this thing is significantly taller than Ragnaros from Molten Core. It looked like some horrible cross between Klesk from Quake 3 Arena and a huge huge Alien Queen (from the movie Aliens), except it was red and much more menacing, if that’s possible. As I’m running I try to target it and at first its name appears as “THE ENIGMA”, and the second time it’s “THE PARADOX”.

Now the thing running through my ‘mind’ is that I’m definitely going to die here, and just have to Spirit Resurrect, which in WoW refers to taking a penalty to come back to life instead of having to run back to your corpse as a ghost, since I don’t ever want to come anywhere near here again. My friend is a goner, I don’t even see her anywhere, and I’m just running, expecting her to spirit rez too. She gets the brunt of the demon’s attacks, but likely doesn’t last long. I’m almost back at the ramp, and there’s this little mound of dirt I run up and over to avoid going around it, and as I’m going up the mound I get hit with some kind of debuff. A little icon appears on my HUD and it’s got this screaming red face, and when I hover over it the tooltip says the debuff is called something like, “WHHYYY???!!” with the description text just a bunch of gibberish. Each second this debuff ticks down something weird happens, I take a bunch of damage one moment, I actually get healed for some the next, I get frozen in place for a moment, I ‘blink’ a few feet away from where I was, just random chaotic effects. The debuff fades and I’m rushing up the ramp not even wanting to see this thing, when halfway up it abruptly BURSTS OUT OF THE GROUND and just totally ruins my shit, so bad that my ‘corpse’ falls through the ground and into the void.

Now things transition sort of strangely. I ‘wake up’ in an infirmary, but I’m in my own room. There’s these little screens on the wall and in one I talk to someone, maybe a superior or just another part of my group? And I ask how our friend is, where she is, and insist that I have to talk to her at once, the one who REALLY faced the demon. He points behind me and on the other wall is a screen through which I can see a very simplified image of a girl in sprawled out in a bed in a different room. I insist that I have to see her, but the guy tells me to let her sleep, and then I end up waking up. Most of this is extremely vivid in my memory, but the specific parts with the demon are just the right amount of fuzziness to amplify just how trippy it all was.

10-03-2012 -- [In both dreams tonight I have had the odd situation of a single scene that connects to nothing in the middle of my dream, interrupting the flow of the main dream. I have decided to start making note of these little bits, though I have no idea why they are there. They are like an incredibly short micro dream just plopped in the middle of another dream, willy nilly.]

I've stepped outside at the Hickory house about mid-evening (perhaps 9:30 PM or so) and am walking toward Crescent, though I only get as far as David's house. Somehow there are flashes in the corner of my eye, almost like little gnats buzzing around me, except every once in a while I catch a glimpse of one, and they are tiny, hail-sized, pale little meteors dropping to Earth.

I turn around to head back to my house, but right in front of my house there is a small, short road divider that has never been there before, and is half-invisible that won't allow me to turn into my drive way. (I was walking, but suddenly I am in a vehicle.) When I reach the house next door, I find I can turn here, but it is a rough, home-made turn lane that Conrad has made because he doesn't like the divider in the road. [These are tiny residential streets where there has never been a divider, and one wouldn't fit.]

As I turn in, I glance over at the Goodwin's house, and they are standing on the lawn with a bunch of people. They seem to be having a Christmas party or something. Suddenly my car is gone, and I am in their garage, where I am talking to their flying demon maid. She is slim, slightly attractive, and constantly hovering about a foot off the ground. She wants to give me something, and is trying to find it, but there is a bicycle that is moving along side her and keeping her from reaching the part of the garage she wants to look at. She is starting to get mad at it.

Soon she moves far enough forward that she can see everybody in the front yard and they can see her, so she has to give up on finding whatever it is, and go help with the party. I just walk back to my house and head inside. I am soon sitting at the kitchen table and trying to get something to eat. It is difficult though, as mom is screaming at me. I have no idea why, or what about, but she is going on and on. I've had enough, and walk back outside, hoping to get away from her, but she follows me into the front yard.

I have had enough, and tell her so. I tell her I have enough to deal with right now, including dodging meteorites that seem to be trying to hit me (as I shift to avoid a three inch one that burns a hole in the screen door). She doesn't believe me at first, but several more stones drop around me, including one that is three feet thick, which after I dodge it, it hits the house twice before landing in the flower bed.

I run off next door to the Conrad yard, and I see that the Goodwins' guests are leaving. The first to leave looks exactly like George Jefferson, though I somehow know he is the Reverend Philadelphia Thrower [a decidedly white character from the Orson Scott Card Alvin Maker series]. He's been thrown out, and is very mad about it. Unfortunately, he starts to bubble and dissolve before me. All of the other guests that I can see slowly start to do the same thing. Some of them, about the time they start to smell the fumes from the other dissolving people. Something is wrong here! I hold my breath and run toward the Goodwins'.

Somewhere around here is where I have the brief non-connected scene. I am in a gas station that I am pretty sure I have done a few dream mystery shops in, it the past few months. It is late at night, there is almost no business, and I am trying to find a box of chewy Lemonheads candy, but they seem to be temporarily sold out.

I make my way into the Goodwin's kitchen, where Marv & Barbara are standing around talking about how successful the party was, and snacking on plates of leftover food. I rush in and explain how their guests are all dying and melting away, and I don't think they believe me at first. Marv adds a dollop of sour cream to his plate, and it starts to bubble and hiss, and his face starts going pale and blotchy. I scream out a warning for him to hold his breath, and thankfully he listens to me as he throws away the plate.

I have no idea why this has happened or just what is going on, but they are now telling me I have saved them, and they want to reward me. Somehow I have just taken a pee in a very open, un-private restroom in the front hall, but I really need to take a poop, and for that I need more privacy. I tell them I need no reward, but I could really use a bathroom. They point me to the guest bathroom, and I comment that in the old days when I was here all the time, I would have remembered where it was.

[Don't know why it was a problem remembering ... except for my second bedroom being a pantry in their house, the layout was the exact same as mine. At least until they added on the den.]

I walk to the bathroom, and Jeff has just exited it with the demon maid. She is putting him to bed, but tells me she'll be right back to give me what she wanted to give me. I walk into the bathroom, and oddly enough, the door is a pair of swinging saloon doors that leave the top and bottom open. Still not very private.

The toilet is kind of odd, too. It looks very futuristic, and it turns out there is a pile of feces already in the toilet. It seems to be firing jets of water at it to try and break it up and dissolve it, but it isn't working very well. The entire seat is wet, and soon it splashes a bit and the front of my pants are wet, and I just give up. I'll have to take a dump later!

As I exit the bathroom again, the maid meets up with me and hands me a cupcake cake. I don't know if this is a real life thing or a dream thing, but it is a tray of cupcakes with this odd sort of printed sheet of frosting on top, at least kind of like the frosting on a real cake. Printed on the frosting sheet is the cover of an Irma Bombeck book. [Bombeck is a housewife who wrote a slightly humorous newspaper column about kids and family. She occasionally combined columns together and published books of them.] As I am walking out of the house to walk home, the cake is turning into the actual book.

The last two nights a girl has come into my dreams, I think her name is Kat, or something that starts with a K or a C. She is short, maybe 5 ft. She has long brown hair in a pony tail and is completely and utterly gorgeous. It might sound a little pathetic but me and this girl have developed some sort of a romantic relationship, it sucks waking up in the morning. I feel like I am falling in love with a figment of my own subconscious. Or is she real? Out in the world somewhere, having similar dreams? I think I actually had a dream of her several years ago as well. I will have to wait and see if I can contact her again tonight. But I cant help but worry that this will make the waking life feel dull and depressing without her. Maybe it's best not to leave your heart in your dreams, but I can't help but wonder if she really is out there somewhere.

10-03-2012 -- [Two dreams tonight, and no idea why when last few days have been so bad ... especially since 1st one was clear, detailed, and made internal sense, even though I dreamed it in first 2 hours of sleep, which is usually short, choppy, and impossible to make sense of. Can't fathom why unless imitation apple soda is as good as apple juice before bed, even though no real apple in it. Don't know.]

I'm in my 1st bedroom in the Hickory House. Kevin B and I are sitting around writing stuff, except very unusually, Kevin is not trying to write stories, but is trying to write a love song. Suddenly he bursts into two lines of song, and they flow, they sound quite musical ... he may well be on to something. The lines are something along the lines of 'thinking about you, thinking about you' and I think he may be on his way to a great song. [Didn't note it in the dream, but the fact I woke with the words "I can't live with or without you" running through my mind tells me my mind probably stole the tune.]

It does sound amazingly familiar, and I don't want to encourage him on trying to rewrite an already published song, so I am really trying to think of where I might know the words from, and I find myself thinking of a New York public service thing that was supposed to make New Yorkers think about making a good impression on the tourists or something. I even find myself remembering a red and blue circular sign with the wording on it from a New York trip ... and no reason why that shouldn't work, is there?

In trying to remember this and research it, I have somehow stepped into an office somewhere, and started looking at some books. One of the books I have somehow come across is a digest-sized book of Spider-Man comics, except it is about 6" thick and claims to contain all the cross-over stories or some such thing. I am flipping through it and seeing sections labeled Spider-Man and Superman and others, while the person whose office I am in is talking some sort of business deal on the phone.

When he finishes up, he turns his attention to me, and I am talking about the book, and wondering where he got it. Though nothing is said about how I got there or why I am in his office, he is very friendly and helpful. Somehow as we're talking, I reveal I am out of work and need a job. He is asking about my skills and encouraging me to talk about what I am good at, and I mention my computer skills and on the computer nearly every waking hour, but then admit I don't have a computer science degree because of the math requirements, and he doesn't seem to think that is a bar, though it will require a different angle of attack.

Then he is on the phone again, this time with a woman from Minnesota. Somehow she knows me, and he is wondering if I sent her an application sometime. I am trying to figure out where I know the person from, whether it be something Disney or some sort of balloon gig, or a research letter for a story or song or something connected with church. Whatever the reason, he has come across another person who thinks highly of me, even though I don't know them, which only increases his interest in helping me regarding job.

But suddenly there is a huge snake (about 4" around and perhaps 10-15 feet long) that slithers out of a bag on the floor by his desk and heads in my direction. It seems to pause, lifts itself off the ground like a king cobra preparing to strike and sort of sniffs the air, then drops to the ground and slithers at me remarkably fast. I kind of scream, bolt out of my chair as fast as I can move, and start running out of the office. The snake is right behind me, and I keep screaming and running, but oddly I almost seem to be composing an incident report or something in my mind, calmly, at the same time, noting that if I am running at top speed, the snake falls behind.

I run past an elevator and down a hallway, into a reception area, and the person sitting there is Joy (in charge of hiring for Mears, hired me for my original job there, and will not rehire me now). I am still screaming about the snake, and she is instantly on the phone to animal control or something. She knows it is the guy's pet, and harmless, but she's been wanting a reason to get rid of it, and she is jumping on the opportunity. The guy might have every reason to now hate me, but he understands that I was scared and surprised and doesn't hold it against me. Instead he just gathers up his snake and his stuff and takes it to his car to go home before they can come for the snake. I go with him to the parking lot to continue our conversation.

As we are talking in the parking lot and he opens the door to his car, it turns out he has a lot of other pets, mostly much smaller snakes, and one tiny little dog (was it a dog? It might have been a prairie dog or something odder like that, instead), all running around the area. I am sitting on the ground, and a small snake (perhaps a centimeter around and about 10 inches long) seems to be cuddling against the bottom of my bare foot. While I am slightly uncomfortable with this, it is nothing to being chased around by the huge snake, so I can manage to ignore it. Thing is slightly cute, after all.

We walk past some ladies in the parking lot, and seem to be heading for another building, when for a for seconds the scene changes completely, and it's almost like an entire different dream. I am in an apartment or hotel with Bonnie C., and somehow the key for the door lock is in the door kind of like a locker key. I take the key and somehow make a duplicate of it so I have one to keep. Bonnie is asking me about it, and says I have taken three keys, when I think I have only taken two. I feel in my pockets, and do find three keys, but one is from earlier, and has nothing to do with here. Weird and out of place.

So now we're in a parking lot on the other side of the building, and there is a landscaping guy blowing leaves with a blower. The guy I am with (looks like a thinner version of Christopher Bean) is determined to know if it is a gas blower or an electric blower, because in the dream an electric blower would be much better for the environment. So he unplugs a cord for an instant, and the blower starts to die. He plugs it back in, it starts to blow again, and he has his answer. Meanwhile, I seem to be glancing at a book by Rush Limbaugh about buying wholesale to save money or something odd like that (business, rather than politics.)

As we start to walk to the building again, I oddly find myself humming 'Jolly Holiday' from Mary Poppins, and the guy instantly starts to sing along with me. So we're both walking down the sidewalk singing "Ain't it a glorious day, bright as a morning in May; I feel like I could fly ...." But as we reach the point where the penguins start calling out ladies names, the names he is calling out are completely wrong, and don't fit at all. I am correcting him with names that are still wrong, but much closer in sound and cadence to the correct names. We're laughing, as others are just staring at us.