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This is just a regular dream.

I had a dream that people have many lives. They seem like a very long time -- our lives -- but when we die here we wake up in the real world where we've been asleep for five minutes. (There was some sort of process we had to go through to have the five minute dream, but I can't remember that part). Everyone gets 14 lives to live (so one hour and ten minutes) We do this so that we can feel emotion, so we can fall in love, feel sadness, pain, loss, happiness, joy, peace, etc. We know that one day we'll be able to have these feelings on our own, but we don't know when that will be. The common consensus is that when everyone has lived all 14 of their lives we'll gain feelings of our own.

-such a strange dream

My mother, father, sister and I were going on some sort of trip. To my cousin's wedding I believe? Even though in reality, it happened in July. Anyways, I don't remember much, but I'll write down what I do remember, since I obviously have no other choice.

Part one:
We were walking. It felt like we were gliding a few feet off the ground, well me anyway. It was like Wal-Mart--but it was all open. Normal isles and shelves filled with electronics, which were open for anyone to use. I was slightly worried because what if it rained? All of these electronics would get ruined. As I was gliding or power-walking or some shit, I started walking on the shelves, and they were about three feet off the ground. They felt like ramps to me. After passing a table of laptops--one had a screensaver of an aurora and had two rows of icons on the left side--mom sounded irritated and wanted to leave. Even though I didn't want to and was left stroking a laptop I really wanted goodbye, I left.

Part two:
We were in another store, but thankfully it was closed. There were atleast five clothing racks right near the area where cold food is kept. I was looking down a different isle with these really cute (but really small) vest things. A nice grayish-plaid one caught my eye and I asked mom to come over and look. But she didn't listen to me and instead, called me over to the pants rack where she held up these really cute teal colored capris up with a pink and silver belt. Shockingly irritated, I started crying for some reason.
Calming me down, Dad was behind another rack, in between another cooling-area-thing with milk and yogurt. I must have been pretty upset to cry in front of both of them?
Still trying to calm me down, she asked me something about stressing over my cousin's wedding.
After a few minutes of sniffling back up the tears, she walked with me over to the vests. IT WAS FOR BABIES. And then I looked over to these really small-ass strapless bras, and by really small, the whole things wouldn't even wrap around ONE boob if you tried it. There was this really small one, one cup was blue, the other pink that I picked up and opened since the cups were sort of inside out. I noticed it had a small brownish blackish stain on the left bottom cup (the pink one).

AND THEN I WOKE UP.
I don't even know. But seriously I feel really bad for going all bratty on my dream-mom, I mean, after thinking about it, the vest was REALLY ugly and the capris she found were so cute. UGH.

Okay, here's what I remember from last night...

The first one I remember was at my house. In my room, in front of my TV, there was a box full of VHS tapes and DVDs. These were in the "library", so they would come and go as people "checked out" and "returned" them (people didn't actually come into my room; they would go to the library, where checking out a video would cause it to disappear from my room, while returning one would cause it to reappear).

One of the videos was The Minish Cap (a movie based off of the Zelda game, I'm guessing); I decided I'd come back for it later so I could watch it with my friend Lizz. It was on a VHS tape, by the way.

When I came back later (I can't remember any parts of the dream in between), it had been checked out already. However, it was available on DVD, but I didn't want that one because I wanted to watch it in my room (which doesn't really make sense, since I have a DVD player AND a VCR in my room, so either would work).

After waking up from that, I decided to attempt DEILD again. I was barely awake when I woke up, which I figured was good for DEILD. I decided I wanted to enter a Zelda-related dream, so I pictured the first Zelda-related thing I could think of: the Spirit Train. I probably could've come up with something better, like a specific location, but keep in mind that my mind was far from fully awake at the time.

Anyway, I quickly slipped into a dream, but, instead of a lucid dream, I entered a false lucid dream instead (i.e., I had control but didn't know I was dreaming). When I woke up from it, it actually took me a moment to actually figure out if that had been a dream or if I'd just imagined it while still partially awake (like in hypnagogia), but I concluded that it was definitely a dream because, although the actual memory of it was really fuzzy (making it harder to tell), I could definitely remember being able to see everything (as opposed to just knowing it's there without actually seeing it, like in daydreaming or visualization).

Anyway, shortly after entering the dream, the Spirit Train disappeared. I quickly concluded that it had disappeared because there were no tracks, so I made the Spirit Tracks appear and summoned the Spirit Train again. I did this by just wanting it to appear, which caused it to appear right before my eyes (I'm assuming this worked because I knew it was supposed to be there and had been there just moments before). The rest of the dream consisted of me making the Spirit Train reappear a few more times (since it kept disappearing) before waking up.

I had another dream last night, in which a bunch of girls were using my laptop to look at pictures of Martin Luther King, Jr. for some reason. I went outside to the backyard (my backyard). I could the local elementary school next door, which, for some reason, seemed perfectly normal. Anyway, there were these guys outside, and they used some weird handheld device to fire an electromagnetic pulse into the air, which caused a pulsating ball of light to appear in the sky.

I had one final dream, in which I was watching Doctor Who. The episode started with a dream that Amy Pond was having. It was rather surreal and... not like a dream. It would show an image of her against a white background, then switch to a quick scene from her dream (the background never changed, though), then back to the first image, then onto another dream, and so on. One of the scenes was the Doctor kissing her...

Anyway, shortly after she woke up, I woke up.

i started thinking about what it would be like to travel on a boat on a river with lakes. first i visualized docking the boat and driving it out and at first icould not crontol wether my boat hit another persons but i realized that it was my boat and i could steer with out the wheel. i then tried to drive the boat with my mind accross this lake while standing on the front of the bow like the titanic. i started cruising very fast and then all the sudden the dream got vivid like i was actualy there adn i was like ohh shit hella excited. i could see the greenery of plants. It was awesome and i tried rubbing my hands to regain control but to no avail i woke up. Before hand i used SILID method where u tap into sense but i fortgot about it eventually . awesome experiences hella jus motivated me

Departing coworkers
I'm at work, though the room I'm in actually looks like the kitchen at church. My fellow employee, Scott, is leaving. I'm talking to megan about it, that I'll be the only build engineer left, and that I can probably ask for whatever I want and they'll give it to me. She wants to know why I'm staying at all, and I reply that I'm not condfident enough to set out somewhere else and that I enjoy my wowrk even if some of the requiremetns of my company are frustrating.

Chris is also leaving and we're talking to him. It's a Friday and he says that he was originally scheduled to have his exit interview on Monday but that they moved it up to today because he no longer has his keycard and they had to take a couple interns off of their regular duties just to follow him around and open doors, that that's just a huge waste of money, and that they originally only planned for them to do that through the weekend.

Somehow related to that, i'm looking at a control panel for the building. I can see my floor almost like one of the Sim games. I see doctors and patients arriving via various entrances. I see the conversations of the doctors in little text bubbeles next to their icons.


The strategy/space game
I'm looking at the overword map of some kind of strategy game. I think I'm looking at the surface of a planet as seen from space, but it looks pretty blasted. I'm on the rebel side; we're still small, but we're gradually starting to take more area back from whoever we're fighting against. The map I'm seeing is showing the currently contested areas of the planet.

Now I'm in a space fighter learning how to fly it. It uses standard WASD controls, so I already feel fairly familiar with it.

Now I'm on a space station.

Repaving
I'm driving. The edge of the road is newly repaved. It looks like they're still applying the finishing touches. One machine with big balloon tires is driving along it; another machine that looks like a big reel mower is coming along behind it. Even after they pass, I can see the marks from the treads on the balloon tires.

Now I'm out of my car. I touch the newly paved section, and it feels sticky and warm.

The side-scroller
I'm playing a side scrolling game with stick figures. Oddly enough, it goes right to left. All the characters are represented as small black stick figures. It's incredibly hard past a certain point. Eventually, a boss type character shows up; she doesn't look any different from any of the other figures, but she's a lot harder to defeat. The first time through, I have trouble controlling my character and she quickly kills me. The next time through, I do better. This time, I get to a downhill section where she kills me. The next time through I get to a part where she gets into a large walker vehicle and starts chasing me. I'm supposed to shoot her out of the pilot's seat, but it's hard to aim. Somehow I get behind the walker and end up fighting Roy and the other characters from The Order of the Stick. They're much bigger and actually look something like who they're suposed to represent. I die fairly quickly. Somehow I realize that there was a way for me to hover in the air directly above the boss's cockpit to shoot at her more easily.

Now I'm looking at the level editor for the game. I'm not actually making a level myself; I'm just seeing a beta level the developer is working on. Near the top, I see a ladder going off the screen. Something isn't right - I see the top of the level in the editor, but there's a flashing bar where the top of the screen would actually appear, and it's lower than the top in the editor. I don't know why this is.


Driving from the back seat
I'm driving. It's very difficult to drive - I seem to be sitting in the very back of a bus, but somehow I'm still driving it. I have to duck down and squint to see out the front, and my view is still terrible. I'm constantly worried about hitting something or someone. Thankfully there aren't too many cars on the road. At one point I find myself coming up on an older woman on a bicycle; she's right in the middle of the lane. Somehow I'm having a really hard time seeing her. I accidentally turn the bus a bit to the right, and I end up with half the bus off the road. It works out ok, though - I just barely pass the women on the right. I'm glad i didn't hit her. Shortly after this, I come to a T intersection with traffic coming in from the left. There's a traffic light here, but I don't know if it's still green for me (I haven't been able to see it for a while). The other cars don't move, so I keep on going. I hope I didn't cut them off.

Now i'm passing some buildings on my left. I've had trees to my right the whole time. I start veering a little to the left, across the wrong lane (no one is coming) and towards the buildings. I can't seem to get straight. I wake up and have the weirdest sense of moving to the left even as I'm still laying in bed.

My ex step mother was planning to move to the country. I didn't agree with this at all.

Some old asian lady invited me to some meditation teaching. I got up and went so fast that I left her and didn't have the directions to get there. I looked at the ad to give me the address. I started to get upset because I couldn't remember it long enough to put it in my gps. I ran into jerrette at a coffee shop. He said he was going to a teaching as well. We thought we were going to the same place until we realized we both had different addresses. I thought do I really need to receive another empowerment from a teacher I dont know and a lineage I know nothing about.

5-12-12

I wake up and stand still. I feel the vibes. I wait for them to calm down and I then 'roll' out of my bed. Now I am in my dream room. It is bright and light shining from my windows. I jump out of my dream bed and say "Lets do this!" My goal was to practice manipulating energy or find a way to talk to my subconscious but I lose sight of my goal because as I look around everything looked....bland. Like I am inside some crappy pc game. Everything looked like it was on low resolution. I look outside my room. I don't see trees that should be there. Everything is just bad looking.

I find a portal. It looks like the ones from Spyro 3 for the psx. I go inside and I am in a void. I remind myself I am dreaming while I am in this void. I walk forward for a bit and all of a sudden I am in this tiny little building with no door leading outside into this dark forest. I see a sign written in blood. I get the feeling this would go nightmare but I just became brave and went through with it. At this point I lost lucidity. Soon everything becomes video game like. I have a health bar at the lower right of the 'screen' I encounter strange wolf like creatures which I assume are werewolves. On my first encounter I 'die' but I respawn. The second time I turn my hands into claws and kill them. My health bar didn't matter, even when it went all the way down nothing would happen.

I go deeper into this forest of darkness. i climb up this wall very fast. Another wolf was waiting for me. I slash it to bits. This 'game' also seemed to have a crafting system. A screen comes up. But then it went away. A dream shift occurs and now I am back in my crappy low resolution house. I get up from my bed. I see a woman across the hall way. I put my hand on the wall and I say "Oh I feel that". I then run towards her and punch her away. I wake up.

08.20.2012

School Bus and English Class (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

There's a girl who's trying to find her father because he took something that she needed to get to somewhere I think.

I forget if this girl is a blonde, since I think I slept again instead of typing it on my laptop because I was too lazy to turn it on.

All I remember from this is that the girl used a bicycle, and her father had a faster model of another bicycle or motorcycle. I thought the girl wouldn't catch up, but she managed get to the same speed as her father. When he realized she really wants to talk to him, he finally stops.

He gets off the bike and gives the girl a plastic bag with some random items in it, but most importantly, he also gave her the item she was looking for, a very transparent bead.

The dream shifts, and now I'm inside of a yellow school bus. I couldn't see the outside, but based on how the seats were arranged, it definitely had to be a school bus. There were quite a few people inside, but there were two people I had most of my focus on.

Before doing so, I think I looked at myself at the mirror, but I'm not sure if it's me, it looks like a female.....am I in a female's body?

Whoever it is that I'm looking at in the mirror, she has some white cream on her face, so I take some object, probably a paper towel or something, and slowly wiped it off her face. It doesn't take long for me to finish this, and then I listen to the two girl's to the right a few seats in front of me. One girl was talking about how her Adviser told her she had to take some other course because of some condition I can't remember.

The girl had to leave, and then her friend called her to declare that in short, her Adviser doesn't know what she's trying to tell her at all. She starts telling her that she can do whatever it is she thought she couldn't, and after they talk for a while, maybe a minute or two, I see the same girl who left walking around on the cell listening to her friend to respond,

"Okay."

The girl was wearing a black leather jacket, white shirt, and some dark colored jeans. I don't do this often, but her visage wasn't very appealing to me, in fact, she reminds me of a girl in High School when I was a senior. She was on the cheerleader team, but I knew that someone like her would be the one talked about behind everyone's back as not looking good enough or something like that.

She hangs up and after that, everything is quiet. Then another random girl, who is a redhead, wearing a light gray shirt and the usual blue jeans is talking about people's weight. As the bus is taking a very deep curve to the left, while I'm on the right side of the bus looking at the window of the arrows signaling vehicles to take a deep left turn, the girl talks about how that if she sees someone obese in her neighbor, she takes that as a compliment.

It took me a few seconds to process how that can be a compliment, but for some weird reason, I found some logic in her twisted and cruel declaration. It makes sense, when you apply it as petting her ego and making herself feel better. She was a little pale in skin tone, and pretty skinny, but not too skinny, she had a little substance in a few regions.

The dream shifts again (everything seems to be following the same theme for me)....now I'm inside of a school building, and I'm on the top floor. There's a classroom I have to go to that's "Room 113," something like that. The overall setting are shades of brown, very dull and boring.

However, the room is closed, so we have to wait for a while, so I decided to walk around the hallway a bit and look around for any other classes that have started already. I get a hunch that someone is coming near Room 113, but it ends up being a student instead.

It's one of my short-term friends, Marissa, and she's wearing a think black cotton type of jacket with some kind of brown or dirty colored shirt and dark pants. Her face looks just the same, but she has a brown beard showing.

I can see why I didn't find this weird because she actually did a play where she had to paint a beard to act as a man....

The teacher eventually comes, and everyone is already trying to find their new seats. There's probably 10-15 people inside, excluding the teacher. Most of these people are familiar faces. There's one guy who looks like Gere wearing a black shirt and dark pants. Then there's this skater dude that I sat near a lunch table with in middle school, though he was a douchebag in waking life.

He's still skinny as ever, and is wearing a white shirt, though I can't remember the color of his pants. Then there's Marissa, who I already mentioned, and then there's another guy that I'll nickname "Hay" for the sake of being anonymous as well. I'm not too sure on that, but whenever I try to recall the details of the classroom, he always pops up.

I also think another girl from middle school who had a family history of sickle cell anemia there as well wearing a thin black jacket like Marissa, except she was shorter than her. The teacher was also wearing a thin black jacket and probably a white shirt underneath.

I think she had an inverted bowl shape hairstyle, which reminds me a lot like my first English AP teacher before I switched classes. While everyone is quickly finding their seats, I end up being the last one trying to pick a seat, and the teacher isn't really patient herself, in fact she told me,

"It shouldn't take long to find a seat..." (paraphrasing here).

I awkwardly acknowledge it, but I forget where I decided to sit down. I think she hands out some sheets, and while I'm scavenging through them, I find there's one worksheet that asked two questions. One was related to something about having a specific type of camera. I think it was a Yes or No question. I was confused about this because I thought this was an English class.

But I think the reason why I assumed that is because I saw Marissa, who I only met my English AP and U.S. history dual credit class.

It seems this is some type of photography class, and I think other people start getting confused as if they're in the wrong class.

I can't remember anything else.

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08.20.2012

House (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

In a house with father and mother probably, there was some talk about ants and how they don't go onto certain animals because of their stench....house feels incomplete.

Not a lot I can remember here.

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08.20.2012

Tennis in the pool (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I wake up, making grunting sounds, and I felt really tired as well. I see one person to the left of me who looks like Jerry in waking life. He's wearing dark clothes. In front of me is a pool, but I can't remember if it's full or not.

It had a sky blue glow to it, and apparent, there was supposed to be a tennis match near the pool. I think I ask Jerry if I can join in, but I don't hear anything from him.

I see three fluorescent green tennis balls on the grass. I pick them up and formed them into a triangle. A random lady comes out of nowhere and looks at me. It seems she's going to pick up the tennis ball, but I can't remember what she does. She's a little overweight, and based on the cap, she looked like she could be the umpire.

This area seems to be the backyard of someone's house.

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08.20.2012

3D Thong and Rear Display (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Spoiler for 18+:

Random butt of a lady is displayed wearing a full bikini suit. The front area was barely covering her vagina, and the back side....it's basically a string. It's not even covering her asshole at all, and it just looks weird only seeing the butt and not the whole lady.

this is the first flying LD i had in a while. ( one that i can actually fly with out being hindered, ex falling, crashing or not even being able to take off at all) this dream took place shortly after i woke up from my last LD. i was on a vast landscape covered in grass hills and mountains. i was told if i want to fly and having trouble with it to perform large leaps first, but as soon as i took the first leap i took fly and a blistering speed. it was an intense rush that cant be found anywhere else, i was flying next to clouds and reaching my hand out and feeling the slight moisture of cutting into them and it was just astonishing. i noticed a castly occupied by many mideval folk. i figured i wanted to bust straight through the castle and continue flying. i built up even more speen crossed my arms over my head and crashed through 4 brick walls before stopping in a medium sized room. some one was in there and freaked out and called for the guards. i thought "shit!" then i lost concentration on the dream and it just kinda took over. it paused itself right before the guards where going to attack ( similar to skyrim haha ) and that where i lost the dream completely.

i was walking through an underground cave with a few people i knew, my girlfriend and some friends. i was having a mindless conversation with them didnt recall much. After some walking i came to a hole in the cave wall leading to a house party, which i then looked back to say " hey check it out" to my friends and gf and they were gone. then someone handed me a blunt and i knew i couldnt smoke cuase i have to piss clean, but at that moment i became lucid i took the blunt and ripped it hard and felt completely blasted. i was surprised to see that i could feel high in a dream lol ( i had also been shitfaced drunk too) and after that all i remember was being out side. i was still lucid so i decided to climb a huge building side like spiderman did in the first spider man. i got really high up and all of a sudden i got incredibly fatigued, once agian realizing how a dream can portray things in such minor detail like that. i got to the top after some stuggle and looked around noticing an amazing environment. it was somewhat tropical, i noticed an island a couple hundred feet away so i decided to jump to it and landed incredibly hard cracking the ground. i took notice of some DCs around the area one was holding a longshot sniper rifle from gears of war, so i decided to take it and try it out. It didnt do anything so i looked left and noticed a huge storm so i tried to take flight ( which im not entirely good at yet in LDs ) so i got a few feet and fell into the dark water below me and felt the feeling of water flooding into my ears which woke me up into SP. im fairly new to the feeling of SP even though i woke being in a few times when i was a kid. i let it dissipate and woke up completely, then drank some water and went back to bed in hope of performing a WBTB.

5-11-12
(Another old DJ entry I never posted)

I am outside sitting down on a table. On the other side of the table there is a girl there. She is on her phone. It is a nice looking day. I seem to be in a community because there are a lot of houses around. All of a sudden a storm hits. It begins to rain hard. In front of me is a house. I see a random recycle bin laying around. I get up and run around the house when I get around it I see a tornado is not to far from where I am. I get lifted up by the tornado but luckily I somehow make it back to the ground. I run towards the door of the house and I get inside. There is a group of people trying to get inside the house as well so I let them in. Because of the force of the tornado I had to try and pull them in but all of a sudden the storm and tornado vanishes and everything seems normal.

There is some deviousness going on in here. The house is very dark and there are traps. As I explore the house I see shadow figures quickly move across my field of vision. I find a room full of money. I have telekinesis, with just the right movement of my fingers the money just comes to me. The money is in coin form, not paper. It is reddish orange in color. I stumble next to a boulder trap that comes from another floor of this house. I wait for the boulder to drop before I make my way up there.

I don't think have any pants on because I feel 'free' down there. I notice the floor is made of glass. I make my way down by smashing my way through the broken glass. I go through multiple floors. I go outside. It is nice and sunny now. I am now running away from some fat dude that is very fast. He is just right behind me. A dream shift occurs. I am in my house observing my cousin in the kitchen. I then decide to do a reality check, the nose plug one to be exact. It didn't work the first time but then I try again but try to breathe through my nose harder this time and it worked. It is usually effortless. I become lucid but then I wake up.

08/19/12 This was my second WILD WBTB of the night. I was able to enter an LD failrly quickly after about ten minutes of trying to fall asleep. It was not very intersting however. I was able to observe three dream sequences in 3rd person. One was based on a Fred Astair movie clip Debrajane posted, one was of my kitchen and me and my wife making a pizza, and one was just me watching some men talking about random stuff. I had been waiting for the vividness to increase and finally attempted to transition it into a 1st person LD, but somehow thee effort to find my own hand woke me up. I had already slept 10 hours, so maybe my sleep was just too light. Dur~3 minutes.

08/19/12 WILD. I issued a friendly challenge on a thread to show what kind of skill may help people develop shared dreaming, 1st) find or create a pyramid and go to it. 2nd) state out loud "I am looking for someone" and combined) stand on top of the pyramid and say the phrase out loud.
This was my first attempt to complete my own challenge. I got to bed early enough that I would have almost 8 hours sleep when my wife went to work, I got up just before her and stayed up for 20 minutes. I started the WILD attempt and it took about 20 minutes to be honestly fully asleep, but aware. The HIs were not special this time, but I played with trying to shape a pyramid out of the swirling mists. I entered into full REM dream state after about 10 minutes.

I was in HIs when a very bright spot appeared and was unusually stable, so I looked directly into it. I appeared in a full REM LD. I was at a house we used to live at. A kid from my childhood was there and he wanted to talk to me. I had plans so I made sure not to let the dream side track me. I ignored him and walk around out the back door to the front of the house. I reminded myself of what my task was. I decided to test out my voice as a way of stabilizing and getting ready for the combined challenge. I should have said the phrase right then, but was being arrogant and assumed I would be able to do the full challenge, so instead I just said something random, like "hello! one, two, three."

I decided to teleport to the top of a pyramid, but did not take time to really picture one. I instead teleported to the inside of a large building supply store. I think my brain was playing a few jokes on me during this dream! I was in the isle that had large bricks and mortar! I guess because I called this a challenge my brain decided to make it truly a challenge. I saw the joke and found it a little funny (build one!) but, no, I did not feel like spending my dream building a pyramid. I used TK to flip a bunch of mortar sacks around just in response. I started to walk out of the store to see what would be outside.

I could have fallen prey to a false awakening here. I dreamt that I could also feel my cat walk on top of my body and thought he was going to cost me the dream. I realized that the door had been shut and that I had trained the cat not to mess with me when sleeping. At that realization the partial FA stopped and the dream continued.

I went outside and it was a pleasant day on a random city street. I thought that finding a pyramid may show more shared dream kind of skill than to just create one or teleport to one. So I started my adventure. There were some people in the street. One of them was a pretty woman jogging in lycra shorts and basic jogging attire. I reached out and gently stopped her and pulled her close. I thought maybe I would fool around a bit, but realized that is just a classic distraction. Instead I used her as another chance to stabilize the dream and enhance the visuals. I was just very tender and sweet to her, like she was a girlfriend. I ran my fingers across her hair and looked into her eyes. Her eyes were amazing! All the detail was there, including very colorful green/brown irises with detailed lines and dark pupils. The Dc was very animated and we actually seemed to share true fondness for each other. I told (thought at her) about my plan to find a pyramid and she wanted to come along.

We walked down this pleasant city street with my arm around her waist. Very vivid and pleasant! I decided to get back to actually trying to find a pyramid. I decided that the building at the end of the block would have a pyramid roof. I levitated us up there and it was a very cool ornate building like a museum or conservatory. Sure enough there was a pyramid up there. It was part of the ornamentation. I walked up onto it with the woman still in my arms. I thought "OK here you are on a pyramid, so say the phrase." But then I thought about why I was doing this. The whole point was to show skills that would be useful in shared dreaming. I looked down at the pyramid and examined it. It was a perfect lovely LITTLE pyramid about 5 feet across. I then thought, "Don't sell yourself short. The idea was a landmark others could find. This seems like cheating to just get it done with, you owe yourself a real challenge, and you can do better than this."

I looked back up and the woman was gone, and I was now inside the building. It was very nice inside, like an atrium with ornate walls, plants and a pond. Some woman came in and said they had reserved the room and that I should leave. I had other things to do, so I left the building. I walked out into a parking lot full of equipment and scaled a wall using spider climb. I seemed unable to get to a good vantage point, so I started to fly. I got up a ways and saw hills in the distance. I decided that if I looked around a pyramid would be over in the hills. I did see at least two hills that looked a lot like pyramids, so I started to fly that way.

I noticed that I was flying over large buildings and one had a glass roof that was a pyramid. I stopped flying to the hills and landed on it. No, my brain was going to toy with me some more. It was pyramid like and very large and shiny, but it was clearly not a pyramid. It had its sides at weird angles, so I tried to imagine it becoming a pyramid. No luck. I flew around some more and ran into (not hard) a giant glass building that seemed to go up for hundreds of stories and get bigger a ways above me. This looked like a wonderful challenge for my spider climb skill, and I decided the top would either be a pyramid or I could see one from up there, so I screwed around for a couple minutes playing spider man. The glass sides were very vivid and pretty. I finally climbed onto a large balcony. I was still nowhere near the top, so I decided to look down. The city was only about 30 stories below me and the buildings all had cool roofs. I decided to go down again and find a large pyramid roof.

I wanted to have some fun so I travelled the rest of this dream using Spiderman webs. I would reach out and send a tiny filament out that would hit a point ahead of me and swing like Spiderman. The filament was stretchy like a bunji cord and could yank me forward if I wanted to go really fast. When I got to ground level, I found myself in a hotel lobby. I decided to head out side. On the way a woman and a man were sitting on a couch. I took the woman's hand and brought her outside with me. Somehow I had become confused and now thought my goal was to stand on top of a pyramid with a pretty woman (likely because I had just done that earlier in the dream).

We went outside and I had my arms around her and decided to levitate us up higher. The added weight seemed to weigh me down, but I realized that was crazy and then I levitated us both up higher. I saw a nice glass pyramid roof and took us there, but my mind was still playing with me. We were up high on a tall buildings roof with our arms around each other. I looked down and the roof was a 5 sided star shape! Oh come on! It also refused to reshape into a pyramid. I was impressed with how vivid the interaction with the pretty girl was. It felt sweet and sexy, and very real. I allowed myself the pleasure of a nice hug and a few sweet little kisses, but did not intend on letting myself loose lucidity. I only kissed and touched for about a minute.

I then looked around and could see a real pyramid off across the city. Now, that is the kind of land mark I had in mind. I used the Spiderman webs to travel and it was awesome! Before long I was on top of the pyramid. It was not huge, like the great pyramids. It was more like the roof on a large building, but it was large and a true perfect pyramid. I had unfortunately kind of forgotten my goal. I thought the phrase "I am looking for someone." I did not however say it audibly and actually forgot the point. My brain just came back with "OH? Well who are you looking for?" I was not sure. "Oh! That's right. I was supposed to stand up here with a pretty girl!" No, in fact that was not right, but oh well.

I looked down off the pyramid and saw a pretty woman (each of the 3 women looked entirely different) so I used TK and brought her up on the pyramid. We stood on the point and arms around each other we had a big sexy kiss. I actually had thought that was the goal of the dream, so I felt like I had completed the task. Opps, so close. I also decided it had been a marathon LD so far, so why not reward myself with some vivid dream sex on top of a pyramid! That scene went very nicely and oh so vivid! The dream orgasm caused me to loose lucidity, and the dream went on as a vivid semi-lucid. Dur~ 30 minutes

Fitness with Laci

Just when I think Laci's video is over, a bonus clip starts, showing her trying out a cardio fitness class. For example, one of the exercises is something like the following: Start from a standing position with your legs fairly wide apart. Then crouch into a lunge position facing your right side while bringing your right elbow across your body to touch the ground on the left side of your right foot. Then on the next beat, straighten up again. The tempo is quite fast, so I discover to my surprise that it's actually quite a difficult workout. I also discover upon closer examination of my form that I'm not quite doing the step right. Oops. Meanwhile, Laci is laughing about how exhausting the workout is, and after a few short clips showcasing different steps, the video ends on a joking note as she accidentally drops one of the weights that the class is using to work out.

3-D Go

My parents and I run into two girls about my age and their mothers. They're all new to Go so we decide to try a team game. For one of the girls, this will be her very first game, or thereabouts. One of the mothers, an Asian one, shows us the board she brought. It looks to me like it has more than 19 rows, so I try to count them. The count comes up fine, so I guess my visual estimation skills are just a bit off. Anyway, we start playing the game using colored Legos on one of those green base plates. My team is white, and the adults are playing red. The newbie girl keeps trying to play in the upper left, but it becomes clear after a few moves that Red is setting up a very strong framework in that area.

"Stop that!" I say, the next time she tries to play in that area. I feel a bad about snapping, so I try to recover by turning it into a teaching moment. I explain about frameworks. I'm not sure she entirely gets it, but she doesn't argue, or anything.

Once, she moves one of her previously placed pieces before putting down a new one. At first I assume she's just tacitly taking back her previous move, and I don't say anything, though it makes me uncomfortable. But later I wonder if she just didn't know that in Go you can't move pieces once they've been placed on the board.

At times during the course of the game, I turn back to the board to find that a more or less intricate Lego construction has appeared in the middle of it. For example, once, a rectangular green tower of about twenty (Lego) stories appears. Someone tries to take it by removing the last liberty at its base, but I point out that they should have to remove all the liberties for every story and the top, since really it's all just one big group. But then the second girl, the more experienced one, points out that that's not usually what you need to do for one-story groups. For those, you just need to take the liberties on the sides. I realize she's right.

At other times, cutesie farmhouses or tessellated color patterns appear. These are clearly the work of the newbie, and they're interfering with the game. I don't think she understands the point of Go at all. Eventually I get fed up and declare, "I give up on this game." I sweep my pieces into a bag and stalk upstairs. Maybe they'll try to continue without me, but in any case it's good riddance.

Upstairs, I dump out my pieces and try to sort them by color. It's going to take a while, because there are several biggish structures that use a lot of different colors in alternation.

At one point, I notice that I can make some cool percussion sounds with the Legos, so I do some one-man-band improv using the Legos, my voice, and any other noisemakers I can find. I think it turns out to be pretty neat. It's not exploring any new territory, musically, but it's got a pretty nice groove. The only person watching is my Mom, doing something in the kitchen, but she doesn't say anything.