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Lucid Dream

Night 44

I had a short LD that ended that I chained into a longer LD, it was too bad that it was one of my early dreams because I do not remember most of the conversations even though I remember them being interesting.

I. I was in my kitchen with a friend of mine, I remember the phone ringing and I went to go answer it, and I still can't believe it but I looked at the ID and it said "You are lucid.". I was like "what?" and I was like "this is a dream?" and I did a RC and it worked. I turned around and my friend was gone and there were like 2 women there now. I remember I was trying to stabilize the dream because I was more excited than usual, and I could feel the dream fading. As I was trying to stabilize, one of the women walked next to me and started talking to me, she said "So you want to stay here?". She then said something else to me, it was only one word but it was really meaningful at the time, I think it started with a P but I can't remember. As soon as she said it the dream ended.

II. So, I woke up when I really wanted to stay, so I was thinking about everything about the dream and the next thing you know I was back. I was standing in the same exact spot and the woman was talking to me again, but I was just stabilizing the dream so I wouldn't wake up again. I was more calm and relaxed so the dream didn't start to fade. I was just curious as to who this woman was, so I was just listening to what she were saying, and I cannot remember the conversation, but I started walking with her to my living room. We sat down and I still can not remember what we were talking about, grr. We then walked up to my parents room to their sink, there was someone there and he started shaving me face lol. She was still behind me talking to me, I wish I could remember just a fraction of what she was saying but I do not remember any of it. I remember looking in the mirror, it looked like I was dizzy and like I was about to collapse, but I was standing still, then I noticed the woman reflection and she had real distinct features. I do not recognize her from my real life, but she had dark brown hair just like mine, small like 5'4, brown eyes, and a large smile. We were laughing during our conversation, and when I was done with the shaving we walked to the door towards some other people and started talking with them. The dream ends around here. When I woke up I was debating getting up and writing down the dream so I would remember what she was telling me, but I decided to try to keep on chaining, which I regret now lol .

Autism school, prom is next morning. Matt go to prom. I want to voluneer. Moved to cali, missed the prom. Forgot about it, went to mt. Shasta. Couple having sex in bathroom stall next to me, I stopped in bathroom by cabins in the woods. Walk out see girl, smile at her nice warm brown eyes. Walk down see a ton of food trucks. Chinese music about to start playing on stage. Hat design business call I skipped out on. Talked to smiley, (with nick and liam), everything dieng I say. But also (or is it..) everything living. Smiley says, "but are you doing it?" "Whose living". I say im talking about human experience, drama. Scott, we are holy body. Just like a muscle on the organism. Talking to steven about fruit plants , all life dying. Free association with salt. Loved cali. Strings in hair, look like dredlocks in mirror. Kratom got flagged coming in. Heard helicopter. Had to compete in games to see if they would make it inside.

Saturday 4/21/12 bed 11:30
WBTB 3:24 - 3:50

DR 1 - Dragons
I'm in a huge courtyard of a huge mall, rather futuristic looking. There is more people with me, I'm part of a group. I look at the skies and see a huge bird. Skinny, long tail, I know he has no feathers. I'm thinking it's pterodactyl. There is more of them following the first one and I can see these better. They are dragons. As if they just noticed us, they start swooping down lower and over the courtyard. I think they are grabbing people, but I don't see it. I decide to go someplace else and walk to the elevator. It has no walls and I'm worried it offers no protection from the dragons. But it has a roof, so we'll be ok.

DR 2 - execution area
I'm in an area behind some low apartment building. There is a white wall separating backyards of this building with this area. I'm told it's an execution place. It's in Poland. Political prisoners used to be executed by firing squad there. The ground is mostly just dusty soil made hard by heavy use. I find some piece of uniform, like knee guard of modern soldiers. I show it to somebody and confirms to me it's Polish because of the polish eagle on it. We find some more stuff, one is Hungarian with hungarian language inscription - magyar... and one is Swiss with inscription Helvetic... Totally surprised to find the swiss emblem. There are few soldiers there. We see a rocket in the air and I think someone is shooting at us. But no, soldiers on the ground are firing rockets into the air. I look at the ground and move some dried weeds around to find the lid for the equipment they are shooting from. I don't want to be standing on one of those when they decide to shoot a rocket up. Then I see a mortar that has been fired from. I hear a countdown and I walk by another mortar, not realizing that's the one they are getting ready to fire from. My head is just an inch from the business end of the mortar and I can hear the sound of the projectile and feel the air being pushed by it in the barrel. People scream no!, ouch!, not there! I wake up.

DR 3 - yard
I'm walking in a backyard behind my house in NZ. There is a bunch of trees with bear branches, like in winter, that I feel were like miniatures, but they were normally bearing fruit. The branches were suppose to be nice and thin, but someone pointed out to me, that these are as thick as the trunk and they should be trimmed. I'm like, OK.

Woke up this morning and stupidly didn't write down my dream before falling asleep again, causing me to forget most of it. It was a really interesting one as well! Unfortunately I only remember the less-interesting parts, but fortunately I remembered a second when I woke up again.

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22/4/12

All I remember is exploring a deep cave with three others, where we become trapped almost like the Chilean miners. When we finally find a way out, we learn that the whole thing was a test.

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I'm in a smart suit and arrive at a big London building in search of a job. There are hordes of businessmen going in and out just like horrible swarms of ants and as I walk through the front door, my dad does too, which I had not expected.

We both walk through the ground floor room, which is busy and dirty like a cheap market. My dad enters a meeting on the first floor, and I continue alone up the stairs to find a job. The stairs seem endless, like a tower, and I check every room for potential work. However, all the rooms are empty and I figure I must be at least an hour early.

Briefly and faintly, I hear someone having sex, and almost check the bedrooms near the top of the tower, before suppressing my perverted curiosity. At the very top of the stairs, I find a blacksmith's forge. I begin to hammer the anvil a few times, but am swiftly told that this isn't my job, and shooed out of the room.

On the way back down I discover a shop that was definitely not there before, and I talk to the various people inside, Oblivion style. An old man gives me a phoenix feather, and I immediately realise its value and rarity. He tells me now that I have one, I will be able to find many more in my travels.

After this completely irrelevant digression, I find the shop owner: a stout, short-haired woman who seems to be in a rush. She notices that I'm wearing an employee uniform and a 'my name is ...' sticker [which I hadn't had before] and tells me to continue with my work while she goes on holiday for a few weeks.

Sweating from climbing the hundreds of stairs, I open some window, before noticing some friends. One has an unusually large bifro, making him look like a member of The Mars Volta. Their song 'The Widow' then blasts through the overhead speakers, and we rock the fuck out to it.

If the first sign of craziness is going crazy in dreams then I'm screwed.

Cut Cut Slash Slash

I was in Dread's room. Dread, Jin, and I were watching TV.

I start hearing voices.

They are voices of demons talking to me telling me that they are going to kill my friends.

What the serious fuck?

The voices of the demons tell me that they are coming. They tell me that there are three of them and there isn't any escaping my fate. They will kill my friends and then me.

I want to leave.

Dread and Jin ask me what's going on, but I'm too ashamed to tell them.

I look around the room. I'm seeing faces everywhere. They don't exist but my mind is picking up on patterns and translating them into faces.

I see the face of a burnt doll in Dread's closet.



I want to leave now.

The doll smiles wickedly and tells me that it is the first demon and the more powerful of the other two.

Dread and Jin take me back to my parent's house, sensing that something wasn't right with me.

When I come home, I find that we are celebrating someone's birthday. I look out the window of the front porch and see two little kids playing together. They are probably three or four years old.

When my mom sees them, she invites them inside. I instantly sense that there is something malignant about these children. The little girl is playing with a lighter and the little boy is just standing there strangely.

My mom puts the cake on the table. The little girl takes out her lighter and tries to light the candles.

I'm freaking out. I'm convinced that the little girl is one of the demons that the voices had talked about, and that she is a pyromaniac and wants to light the house on fire so that people die.

Everyone is telling me to calm down but I can't. I want the two little children to leave. I want everyone to leave. I want to leave.

I feel like there's something wrong with my brain. I can't tell if I am so delusional that my reality is completely warped or if what I am experiencing is true intuition telling me to leave. Nothing makes sense anymore.

After the birthday party, the little girl kills Dread and Jin. At least that's what I perceived to happen.

I run down the stairs and tell my mother that I am leaving now. I can't take this anymore! I don't know where I am going but it at least won't be here!

She gives me a strange look.

I try to explain what just happened but she looks completely perplexed.

I'm not even sure of what just happened, but I'm in a total state of disarray.

I get in the car.

But not before checking it twice.

I'm completely paranoid that the little demon boy is following me. I'm still seeing faces everywhere so I can't tell what's real or not. I catch a glimpse of a face in the trunk. The little boy was trying to come along with me.

I removed him from the trunk. He then killed my mother.

If I wasn't experiencing a psychotic break before, I was now.

I couldn't take it anymore. I didn't know what was real or not. Voices were screaming at me and luring me into places. Everything wanted to kill me. I wanted to kill myself before the last demon could kill me.

I took a bottle of sleeping pills and laid down on my bed hoping it would all be over soon. I just wanted to die.

I watch as the last demon comes up to me. She has grown from her original doll size to the size of a large child. Her face still looks burnt and contorted.

I can't tell if I am hallucinating or not.

With a small burst of energy, I shove the remaining sleeping pills down her throat.

Fuck this. I don't feel like dying tonight.

I don't have any weapons except safety scissors. That'll do.

With all of my force, I stab the safety scissors into her skin. I can barely rip her skin. The safety scissors aren't sharp enough.

She laughs wickedly.

I shove her to the ground and start stabbing her with the scissors. I want to cut her heart out. I don't want this to be the way I die.

She just keeps laughing maniacally.

She tells me that even if I manage to kill her she will just come back for me again. And again. And again. And again.

She has been partially disfigured by the safety scissors but it's not enough. I'm feeling the effects of the pills. Shit. The pain began to build up and I was going in and out of consciousness while she continued to laugh.

Fuck you.

With the only energy I had remaining, I shoved the scissors through her heart. She was silenced.

And so was I.

Black means non lucid
Orange means semi lucid
Blue means lucid
Red means dream characters talking
Purple means possible shared dreaming person
Green means notes

Got it? Great! You know what to do.

Dream #1 Little Red Riding hood.


Im in my 2nd home fixing me something to eat, when i notice that im in my kitchen and it looks a bit odd. 1st of all i don't live here anymore..so why am i here in the 1st place? My doorbell rings before i even have time to question how i got here. I go answer the door, and what do ya know..ITS LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD!?
"Excuse me but can you please help me escape from these men who have accused me of murder?"
Uh..your wanted for murder..and...you want me to help you?
"Mmhm."
She nods her head so innocently, as if what she is saying is ok. Hmm...ok, i'll help you.
"YAY!"
Mkay, follow me. I lead her downstairs to my basement and tell her to go in the back and put on some fresh attire and i'll take care of the rest. I look in the mirror rubbing my multiplying hawk coin totem.
"What are you doing?"
Im goin to project as you and lead them on a chase.
"Wow really?" You can do that???
I can do anything in this world.

Getting prepared.

Im now putting on little Red Riding Hood's robe, And looking at myself in the mirror. Fully transformed into her now, I head to my back room in the utility closet and strap myself with guns and knives. Ok you stay down here in this basement ok? If anything happens to me, and i don't return back here in a hour, i want you to take this celphone and push the number 6 you got it?
"Why number 6?"
Because that stands for N, and N stands for Natalia.
"Ooh ok."

Dream #2 The chase.



Im walking thru this village, holding little Red Riding Hood's basket. and there are wanted posters of little Red Riding Hood all over the place. I walk into a nearby store to buy some stuff. This heavy set woman who looks russian or german looked at me, then looked up at the wanted poster on her wall. I smile innocently and ask her, "how much does this candy cost?" Lol The woman looks at me folding her arms and looks at her telephone and begin dialing. Not wanting to stick around any further to see whats goin to happen, i run out of the store. There are a bunch of men staring at me and talking to eachother whispering. I yell at everybody.. "COME AND GET ME!" And stick my tongue out and give everyone the middle finger. I begin running, I lead the men on a little foot chase and run thru this entire village, jumping over fruitstands, running under vegetable stands, and hopping over cars. I begin shooting at everyone who was chasing me then continue running.

I now lead the almost entire village thru a dark foggy forest, where you can hear frogs, owls, crickets, and other little sounds. I hide behind a tree and shapeshift into a rabbit and hide somewhere in a bush. I can hear the people chattering to eachother, saying things like.. "Where did she go? She was just here a minute ago?" Im hidden in the bushes as the rabbit and now flee thru another exit of the forest and shapeshift back into myself. I get to a payphone and tell little Red Riding Hood im on my way. I walk thru a door and mentally tell myself that i will be back at my 2nd home when i walk thru this door. I walk thru it and see little Red Riding Hood eating a bowl of cereal. Watching cartoons. I laugh and say.."Well i see you made yourself comfortable. She giggles and runs up to me and gives me a hug. "So do you mind telling me why you killed those men?" She looks down, "im sure you have a reason?"

"I don't want to talk about it."
"Alright." But just remember who saved your butt, and gave you a place to stay. "You up here eating my Cap'n Crunch cereal and watching cartoons." Just remembered who helped you. I walk over to my files and records and sit down at a table sorting thru stuff.
She starts explaining to me about how she is really a agent, and not really little Red Riding Hood. She mentions her real name to me (I forget what it was) and tells me that she is actually 18 years old. I tell her that me and Natalia can give her a place to lay low for awhile til things cool down. She thanks me, and i call Natalia on my celphone to let her know that im gonna need her assistance. The dream ends and i wake up.

Notes: Im fairly happy with my recall from last night. (Even though i went to bed at 3:30 am) Im surprised i was able to remember so much...though i only wish i could've remember Little Red Riding Hoods real name. But overall im fairly happy with what i got.

This week went by fast, quick and mundane. As did the dreams.
About halfway through the week my recall went downhill, I could still recall some dreams but they came to me later on during my first waking hours of the day.
A lot of them were like last weeks, not really exciting which is why I didn't post any dreams yet.
At the end of the week I got the recall back under controle. I really prefer waking up during the night for recall.

And I think I've had some first hints of attaining lucidity!
I was offered a drink by someone. And in my head I started thinking to myself; I have to remember to buy her a drink later this evening.
My guess is that the thought about remembering triggered something in my head.
So as I had this thought in my dream, it slowly began to dawn on me.
Unfortunatly the realisation came in whilst I was beginning to wake up. So when I figured out I was dreaming I woke up.
I've embraced this as a good step forward and motivation to maintain a good awareness of my reality in my waking life.

So the objective of this week was to keep up the recall, and I think I did succeed in the end.
My objective for next week is to maintain/improve the recall and I'm now adding awareness to my AL agenda.
I learned focus and discipline are very important these first weeks, cause before you know it, it all slips away.
Second thing I learned, routine.
The weekends really aren't any good for my sleep patern and the alcohol doens't help recall either.

But that's ok. My vision is to explore and enjoy the waking life as much as I can, without it the dreamworld is useless.
You must really experience the waking world to get the best out of your LDs right?

Well that's what I think at least.

Also, as a side note in a side note.
I created a new thread in the General Lucid Discussion.
It's about the experience and perception of time during lucid dreams.
The thread is still on the first page so I'm not gonna bump it yet.
But I'm very interested in the experiences and opinions of you, the forum community, about the subject.
So check it out if you've got the time and are interested in discussing it.

Goodnight,
Booney

04.22.2012

Where's Your Shampoo? (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I took a nap around 10AM and woke up maybe around 1PM. Had some weird dream, not sure if it's one, or many...

I remember walking down a street somewhere, and seeing a girl mention something about images of a creature with a mix of angels and demons combined.

Then I have a dream shift where I'm with a group of DCs, things are kind of in a 3D Cartoon environment...not cell shaded though.

We're running away from some other group trying to catch us, and we all hide in a room (I think I'm of the group, but I'm seeing this in third person or spectating them).

We get out when the other guys go in the bathroom to shower, and we all come out.

Then one of the guys asked something along the lines of,

"Hey! How can you shower if you don't have your shampoo??"

He thought we were a part of them, goes back into the bathroom showers, and we run before he realizes we're the ones that he and the group he's with need to catch.


Typical for a nap to be random like that...

Uhh... hi, reader! This is my first post to dream journal, so I guess I really should write out all of my previous dreams here, all at once. Just to distinguish then I will write at the end of each one of them "The end." Hope you enjoy them (even through most of them will be like 1-2 lines long) !
Sorry for wrong date format, I am from Europe.


(Sunday 22.08.2010)
I was in 9th D class of my elementary school. Outdoor was cloudy and there was everywhere outside snow. There were people from 9th A and 9th B. We were going on school trip. I was talking with my classmates Jose and Mathew. Even through the mood overall was bad, I tried to lift it up. Then my classmate, Diana, has shown up with a bowling ball in her bag, because she was going to participate in Bowling World Cup (IDK how it is really named).

(23.08.2010 - Monday)
I was watching TV (I don't know where I was watching it). There was Martin, person, I know, in some kind of news report. He wanted to buy snake, and when he brought it, it has bitten off Martin's head. While he was talking about it, he has got big scar around all his neck as evidence. He was quite normal, nothing unusual about him.

(Tuesday 18.01.2011)
Title: Shortest dream ever
The rocket was starting to fly. Countdown was echoing everywhere "10, 9, 8... 3, 2, 1!" and rocket flew into the sky. The end.

(Wednesday 2.2.2011)
Title: My wedding
I was getting married. I don't remember anything at all with exception for some details: When we (Me and my future wife) were standing before altar, I asked her "Will you marry me?" and she said "No, but you can marry my sister Irene." And so I married her sister (). Then there was some kind of party in weird place, where there were stone circles on floor (between them there was water, but really shallow, like 5 centimetres), with round roofs above them, connected with 3 stone pillars (if I will get once good in drawing things, I will draw it). There was a little lucid realisation, which was like "Is this for real? Am I really getting married? Let's test something..." and I proceeded to Irene and kissed her. She kissed me back, just as I tought she will. Then I woke up.
Note: I didn't knew any of characters, and don't know of any Irene at all. But this name is stuck in my mind forever.

(Thursday, 3.2.2011)
Title: My First False Awakening
I just dreamed that I woke up and went to school, just like usual, however on PE teacher started competition - first one, who will arrive home, will win. I runned home (just as everybody else) and didn't knew if I won. But I was happy the school ended so soon (there were other lessons after it). It lasted 20 minutes, and I was tired after it.

(Piatok, 4.2.2011)
Title: Solution of every problem
I haven't remembered back then any details from before, but at the end I recieved a letter with title "Solution for all problems". When I opened it up, there was some text written in triangle (pointing upwards) and I have woke up at that moment. I wasn't able to read anything in that while, it was like second or two. The paper, on which it was written, was folded like top half over bottom one with text inside it.

(Thursday 10.03.2011)
Title: My awesomest dream ever
This was all about race in some kind of videogame and real life inventing of things running parallel one next to other, with me switching between them. Here is all from timeline (R - reality, G - game):
R - high chairs (high as large)
G - start of race
G - first invention - "Switcher", which can reverse some property of item. It has form of laser pointer.
R - testing of Switcher. I have aimed it on floor tiles (which are usually almost as mirror - you can see your sillouethe in them) and I have reverted this property, so it was suddenly opaque (correct me, if I am wrong, I am bad at English)
G - second invention - this has got form of welding mask with 3D googles on it. Sadly I don't remember what was it used for (probably something like forseeing future, but this is my guess after 1 year)
G - Third invention - "Centre of attention". This invention is my personal favourite. It took form of laser pointer and it's unique property was, that wherever I have pointed laser, everybody (except me) in room was looking on this red dot.
R - Fun with computer (I dunno what I meant with this, lol)
RG (neither I do know, how, but it really is on both timelines at the same time) - "I think I have four eyes." (No idea what was going on here)
And then I woke up.


I'd wish my dream recall would return for more awesome dreams...
Also, if there is anybody interested in interpreting at least one of them, PM me, I'd be really thankful, most of them sound confusing (namely Shortest Dream Ever, that one with rocket).

I suddenly realized I had been dreaming and looked around. A woman was sitting near by me and was teaching something. I tried to pay attention now that I am lucid. She is teaching mesome fine details about lucid dream reality. It all makes sense as she is teaching it, but upon waking the details have become vague. I ooften feel like things said tome in a dream make good sense, but can nott remember any details later.

I have had 0 luck these last few days so until I make some sort of progress I'm just going to make these little updates because I don't want to litter my DJ with 'no dream' updates.

A very short DILD. I was staanding around in a dream and looked into my hands. I was holding a bead string. I saw that it broke and beads started falling. However, they were falling into darkness. Nothing was around other than me. I did my gravity RC and started levitating. I became lucid annd levitated around in the dark for a minute, but at that point I lost my recall. My job has been a big stress and is affecting my dreams.

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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]The dream shifts and I am in north Austin, outside somestrip of office buildings. Two associates of mine (best word I have for them)had been waiting on my arrival. I had been delayed by driving the van throughrain and ice. They didn’t understand why I had such a big van and initiallymade fun of me, but I told them it was to help me move the drier and otherlarge pieces of furniture and appliances. [/FONT][/SIZE]
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[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]After I loaded up some big objects into the van I turnedback towards the two men, who remained near the building. I walked across theparking lot to the table they were sitting at. Their stares were bent on an oldtelevision, perhaps 30 years old with a 14” screen. The News was on, and thereporter was saying that Jack Black was dead, apparently from falling andslipping down an ice/water fall on Barton springs Road. I put my fingers to myface and remembered what had happened. I said, “I was there, and I think I wasthe last person to see Jack Black alive.” I shifted into a memory of standingon the bridge and watching Jack black approach me, happy and loud as he usuallyis. As he approached me he slipped and fell down the outflow, landing on asmall island of rock and ice in the creek below. I even watched him fall, freaking out as hewent over the edge, but I seemed to skip over the impact and he was just deadand lying on the ice.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]At this point I was aware of the dream because I honestlywasn’t worried about Jack Black dying. I realized I never even bothered toreport it to anyone, and still wasn’t upset that it had happened. My memory shifted back to the table and thetwo men, and I told them what I remembered. No one ever seemed shocked.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I still did not report the death and left in the van. I wasdriving along a road in western Arkansas, a place I have never been in reallife. The trees are abundant on one side of the road, a fenced field on theother. My view is like a movie camera in a helicopter, an interestingperspective.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I traveled to a high school that looked nothing like the oneI went to. I’m in front of the school and many students were passing me. Iwalked to get onto a school bus, and for some reason my feet were not workingproperly, like I was partially crippled. Some kids asked me if I was O.K. and Ireplied I was, feeling happy that they were showing concern for me instead ofbullying me as I had feared they would. As I climbed up the same kids followedme onto the bus. I walked back a couple seats and found a place to sit. Iclimbed up onto the merry-go-round horse that I was supposed to sit on, usingthe back of another kid to boost me up. I had to get around a nearby baby toget to the animal-seat. Mounting the seat I began taking off my shoes, handingthem to a nearby boy who was reaching out his hand to help me. I thought, “Howpolite people are at this school, “and then I handed him my other shoe just asthe bus began to move.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I went to Amazon.com , a large building with slopinghillsides outside the entrance covered with a plant that had been carefully cutto a height of about 8 inches. I was standing outside the building on thesidewalk that ran along the perimeter drive of the parking lot usually reservedfor dropping off people at the entrance. I had a large plastic shopping bagwhich I was furiously stuffing small paperback copies of Isaac Asimov books intowith the intent of having them stored at Amazon. I stopped and debated with myselfabout putting all of them into storage, or whether I might want to keep someout for my own use.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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This was during a nap this morning, I came close to lucidity, just missed it!

My family and I are kayaking in a canal type of thing in Florida. It is the last leg of the journey of going to Florida, and symbolically, a necessary step in getting to Florida. I see lightning out in the distance, it is kind of cloudy out there. I'm kind of anxious about being attacked by an alligator. I see my dad bouncing his kayak up and down making loud splashes. I worry that he is going to attract an alligator.

We make it to shore and I am walking up the beach thinking, "I am going to get SO tan, I am going to be outside the whole time texting my friends and listening to music." Then I realize my phone isn't in my pocket, I figure I left it at home and I am disappointed. Then I realize I don't have my iPod either, I wonder how I made it through the plane ride without it, then realize, I don't remember even being on a plane. So then I realize that I didn't even pack a bag! I am very nervous now and I know my family is going to get angry at me. I wonder HOW I could forget to pack a bag, and how I even got to where I was. Then I was like, "Ohhh, it was just a dream, that's good." I think about doing a nose plug, but it was all black and I figured I had woken up, which I didn't. The end.