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February 2, 2012

Synopsis: I witness a strange tribal rite of passage that left a child unloved by her parents. Lucid, I jump into a golden swamp with swimming deer and trash.

Tribal Rites and Swamp Swimming Deers
Inside a hotel room, me and a reporter get a first look at an ancient tribal rite of passage from Africa. A young female teenager, naked, sits supported on top of a boys back. She slowly dances using only her upper torso while the boy crawls around with his head tucked into his chest. It was a wierd visual effect, making it look like she had six legs. The dim lights helped with the eerieness.

The dance is over and now the rest of the female teenagers line up to have their bodies inspected by an elder in the tribe. To do so, they strip off their bathing suits. I was talking to the reporter and we both agreed that technically none of the girls were afraid to be naked because this was a nudist tribe, they were only wearing bathing suits because we were in a hotel.

A mother is so proud of her daughter, its like the kids just graduated. Just when I thought the ritual was over I noticed two girls quickly squat down on command, in front of the elder. They were completed folded over, with their foreheads to their knees and their hands tucked in.

But somethings wrong, their backs are completely flat, and so is the back of their heads. Its like something squashed them. They were squished into table shaped people. What could do this? Then I realized their backs were being used as the ground for the ritual, and after so many years, their backs flattened. The elder rearranges them like boxes and yells at one of the girls to stand up.

The reporter was recording the entire event.

The box-girl wanted to perform the rite of passage herself. But before she can even try she's insulted by her own parents for being too fat and ugly. She frowns and chokes back her tears. At this point the reporter says 'Im sorry, I have to stop, her expression is too sour" and walks out the room. The parents insult the girls hideousness some more, then summons everyone to dinner.

I was horrified and pissed off! Magically at this point the family went from black to white.

The family was eating dinner in a private restuarant they rented out. I remember the father screaming at the hungry reporter "Family only!" I had something to say to that man that could make him choke.

"What are you standing there for, youre family too, come on eat J"

I didn't say anything and just left myself. I waited for what felt like hours for the family to finish their over priced meal. I snuck in, into the hotel room of the sleeping girls. I found the "ugly" girl, her hair was curly like mine but softer and lighter in color (like mom). She had a frown even while dreaming. I whispered softly to her

"Not matter what your parents say or think, you will grow up to be the most beautiful"

Then her frown changed into a smile and she continued to dream sweetly. I felt like my dream mission was done, which made me realize - hey Im dreaming.

Excited to be lucid I run around looking for something to do. A whole laundry lists of dream tasks pops into mind. Maybe I should do that, maybe this. I found a library. Maybe that can offer me intriguing information about the subconscious, nah that sounds like it'll take forever. So I continue running. Then I find an air hockey table. But playing made my dream abstract. Afraid it'll make my dream unstable, I stopped playing and looked for something more useful.

Thats when I finally find a door out of the hotel.

Outside was a swampy marshland, with golden grass growing in the water, and golden water shimmering with the morning sun.

"THAT!" I was so excited I couldn't even finish my sentance, but I found what my lucid dream was about.

I noticed deer were swimming in the swamp, with only their heads above the water. So its deeper than it looks. I dive on in! The water feels so real it makes me think for a moment that maybe ive lost my mind and im really awake. Its cold. Its slimy. It smells like a swamp smells, and theres a dead frog floating next to me.

Im grossed out but I remind myself its just a dream and im not going to get any diseases. I swim with the swamp deer for a few minutes. The waves grow and grow. The height of the waves covered my view, hiding the human boats on the other side creating them. We were almost run over. Its so hard to swim fast! Giant boxes and random items float our way atop the waves. It felt like the humans were trying to corner the deer. It was working. Scared, the deer swim away to the other end of the swamp where the water was shallow. Theres a fence and more boxes preventing them from fleeing.

I look at the humans on their boats and im pretty mad at them for ruining my swamp. Then I wake up.

I remember dreaming about D....he was using an Iphone......then I'm in my bed. I can't move. I try fighting it by moving one arm....it's moving. I focus on the next arm...it's moving as well. Then all of a sudden, both arms are where they started. In reality, they haven't moved an inch. In fact, the only thing that has moved are my eyes. They're open, and I've stopped hallucinating about weird stuff....I can see my actual room at this point. I try it again, and wake up. And yes...my room and the position looks exactly the same.

On that note, I need to start relaxing again whenever iI get SP...I feel like a noob again almost. I've missed a ton of LD's because of it.

I remember dreaming about D....he was using an Iphone......then I'm in my bed. I can't move. I try fighting it by moving one arm....it's moving. I focus on the next arm...it's moving as well. Then all of a sudden, both arms are where they started. In reality, they haven't moved an inch. In fact, the only thing that has moved are my eyes. They're open, and I've stopped hallucinating about weird stuff....I can see my actual room at this point. I try it again, and wake up. And yes...my room and the position looks exactly the same.

On that note, I need to start relaxing again whenever iI get SP...I feel like a noob again almost. I've missed a ton of LD's because of it.

DJ Log: February 2, 2012 – 11:15PM (USA Eastern)
• NON-DREAM • NOTES • DREAM • LUCID •

I am clicking around the 'net and almost fall asleep in my chair. I decide that I should hop in bed and take a quick nap. The time is ~9:45pm. I lay down and fall asleep very quickly.

I awaken from a minimalistic dream, standing in darkness. I realize that I had just awakened, but I must still have my eyes closed because I cannot see anything at all. Knowing this, I decide to make an attempt at DEILD. I concentrate on keeping my eyes closed and then I try to remember where I was just a moment ago. I remember that I was laying in my bed, trying to remember what the dream was about. I cannot recall even the smallest detail, other than I was just dreaming.

Suddenly, I make the realization that I am not laying in my bed, but I am standing. Before I can gather myself together and stabilize, I wake up.

I try hard to immediately settle down, but my eyes are wide open and I am too alert and excited to re-enter the dream state, much less return to sleep right away.

I woke up this morning, feeling groggy and my eyes didn't want to open. I brought my fingers up to my nose and pinched my nostrils shut, then took a deep breath. I felt the air fill my lungs. I was instantly aware. Alright! FalseAwakening! I jumped out of bed with eagerness and opened the curtains, it was dark out. I rubbed my hands together and examined the room. "Well, time to visit my dream harem" I thought to myself. I walked down the hall and out the front door. Instinctively blocking the cat from bolting out of the house.

I stepped out on the front porch and looked around. It was quiet, a few leaves rolled across the ground with the help of the wind. I looked into the sky. To the east it was dark and the stars shimmered. To the west, it was bright and blue, with big white fluffly clouds that slowly moved across the clear blue sky. "No time to waste" I thought to myself. I strolled across the street where my dream harem was so conveniently located.

I opened the door, and walked in. I looked around. Nothing... No one to be seen. I checked the backrooms. They were all empty. I walked back through the house toward the front door. No point in sticking around here. I opened the front door to walk out. What is this?

I stepped out of the front door into a mall. Now I know I'm dreaming... I hate the mall. "Really!?!?" I said. I looked over the glass barrier. I was looking down at the food court. It was full of people sitting around and eating. Maybe I'll go get something to eat, I'm feeling hungry. I changed my mind, I knew what I could do. I glanced around at the store fronts. Clothing... Shoes... Pets... Hmmm, this looks intresting...

I walk into the store. The smell of burning incense filled the air. Blacklight posters covered the walls. The shelves are full of miscellaneous items. I walk by the register with a DC staring at me. I gave him the finger and then walked down the aisle. Mugs... Computers... Hand sanitizer... Here we are, fireworks. I look over the selection, I picked up some blackcats. "Lady fingers there has to be something better than this" I thought. I looked back down at the shelf then smiled. I dropped the blackcats and picked up something that should have been illegal even in my own mind. A long string of firecrackers, each cracker seemed to be about the size of a stick of dynamite. This will do...

I walked back towards the front of the store, knocking a few things off the shelves on my way. I stopped at the register, and grabbed a lighter from the display. I gave the DC clerk the finger once more. I strolled back to the mezzanine and looked over the side. Still full of people mindlessly chattering and eating. I went to light the Dynacrackers, the fuse was already lit. "Hmmm, that's not safe". I smiled, and then threw them over the side to the center of the food court. I looked down and waited.

They started going off, there was no sound, but the sight was spectacular. DCs were being blown across the food court. French Fries, hamburgers, and pizza flying along side the DCs. Broken chairs and tables now littered the food court. The floors were charred with large gray and black burn marks. I could smell gun powder in the air. Chaos and destruction, my job here was done. All this mayhem really stimulated my appetite. I decided to go down, and see if there was any food left. I woke up on my way to the escalator.

I am lying on the couch in the outside room, reading, when I hear my dad say something along the lines of "come eat, little rabbit." I become angry, as my pet dwarf rabbit passed away a few weeks ago and I assume my dad to be purposely trying to upset me. As I get up though, I see through the glass door a rabbit that resembles my deceased pet. I walk outside and see there are at least six tiny dwarf rabbits scurrying about the backyard. Half of them are white with brown spots, while the others have the grey fur that my pet had. I am overcome with joy as I realise that she must have bred with another rabbit and given birth before she died. I look around to see the rabbits nibbling on the grass, one is trying to dig a hole in the soil, and another one comes up to me. This one is a lot furrier than the rest, and I think to myself that it looks as though it has a fluffy hair-do.

I am not a lucid dreamer. Just a regular dreamer.

Last night I dreamt that something had given me the capacity to experience everything as perfect. So if I saw a book, the next time I opened it, every paragraph would be 100% perfect. Every moment could either be what it was, or perfect, which apparently wasn't that different to what it was before. However, there could only be one perfect. Only one way in which things could manifest as perfection. The passage of time meant that things still changed continuously, in a relative sense, in response to my curiosity. At first I was quite satisfied with this perfect version, finding it in every way superior to the old. After a while though, I sensed that perfection took ''me'' right out of the equation. It was perfect, but impersonal, and in that sense limiting. I woke up with the weird understanding that perfection somehow impeded creativity. It couldn't be both. It couldn't be both creative, and perfect.

There was a lot more to it, but I can't remember.

My friend comes and hands me a cupcake aswell as my friends. I look at it for a second and then it hits me like a bus. I feel dizzy and then like I was held upside down then swung around. The source of the feeling was coming from the burning candle on the cupcake which was getting me high. Someone noticed us her away aswell as the cupcakes .
finn

at high school
i was signed up for psyche/history(same subject here)
christian shows me where to go0
"you know my dad"
"no?"
"the clown-"
"yes everyone knows him"
"hes the teacher, my dads the teacher
he's an easy teacher, he doesn't make you do anything"

in the classroom, a collage i did (not in waking life) is taped to the whiteboard.
it is a canyon with a white square with a title on it taped onto the canyon.
i think of how badly they put it together, (as if it came in pieces)
i did not know how they got it though.

he says take your seat. i go to one
well, its the wrong one so i move all my stuff to the only other seat
between emma and rae (its current time though, not past)
it is awkward. adam is sitting in front of me.

emma talking to person in front of her (female): 25 dollars for a mullet is outrageous
me: its only 15 in waterville. (i say this very hesitantly. i only want to respond, not to form any kind of relationship or further conversation.)
her: still a rip off.
i agree.

adam is taking a ring out of an elaborate box.
its for trans prom.
rae: adam, no one even likes you.

these too are also not very clear (one of them because i didn't want to think about it too much) and i forgot one entirely. was really bad at keeping track of the times in which these happened.

?am: my boyfriend and i go to some bar (i can't stand bars in real life). its small, quiet and dimly-lit, and not busy. one of the rooms here is special, it has a large couch, and there is a camera mounted to the ceiling to give a good view of the room. this is a room where people can go to have sleazy sex on camera because i suppose that kind of thing is thrilling. my boyfriend and i are in the main area talking to some people, and are seated next to a small b&w TV displaying the camera feed. two people we know go in, and as they begin to do it, we get kind of disgusted (they aren't very attractive and we don't really like them that much), so i turn a dial on the TV until the scene dissolves into indecipherable static, and we do something else for a while.

the girl, who is the sister of a friend of mine, comes out alone to join us. she is acting strangely, and my boyfriend asks her if everything is ok. she says that it isn't, and starts crying, and tells us that the guy she was with somehow threatened her and scared her into handing over a song that she had written, so that his band could play it and take credit for it. Phoenix was angry and went into the room to confront the guy and his band, which consisted of two other girls. but, due to Dream Logic, there wasn't anything he could do.

i realize that this isn't very nightmarish, but at the time when i woke up i was feeling very uncomfortable. looking back on it now though, it sounds silly.

?am: i'm walking along a heavily wooded path at night. its well-lit, but i can't tell from what. its fairly uneventful, until i hit a patch of complete blackness. for some reason this doesn't unnerve me and i keep going like its nothing. eventually i come into a lit clearing, the edges of which are pixelated. i realize now that i'm looking at a session of Furcadia when i see the dream portals uploaded by other users.

There was a cutscene with an elf getting a phone call about some stone that a monster found. He was to go fight him for it. I followed and watched their epic battle. *It was long and the elf turned out to be a wizard as well. Eventually the wizard died And I had to fight the monster.**I wasn't very powerful and kept running away from his attacks. Eventually I cast a killing curse that was considered cheating. It went to some weird cutscene where there was someone telling me I could do better. The battle reset.*

dreams were not as clear as the previous day's. also what is it with cartoon characters in my dreams??

6:50am: something to do with My Little Pony. the planet that the ponies lives on is shaped like a donut?? Twilight Sparkle travels to the hole in the world and jumps through in order to explore the other side of the planet. Princess Celestia flies after her in an attempt to stop her.

?am: i appeared at the very top floor of a skyscraper, which housed a high-end restaurant/bar. i was almost paralyzed with fear from the extreme height. Æon Flux (cartoon version) rode the elevator to meet me because i guess we were going on a date or something? she was wearing normal clothes and seemed to have planned this date to be here knowing that it would make me uncomfortable. i was getting dizzy from looking out the massive windows, which took up almost the entire wall, so i asked Æon to switch seats with me. after this i ordered absinthe and proceeded to get so drunk i fell asleep mid-date. when i awoke and remembered that i needed to pay, i realized that my wallet wasn't in my purse. Æon ended up paying for my drink before we left.

I was walking down a sidewalk at an unknown location. It was fairly sunny, but I did not pay much attention to the sky. While walking, I looked at a fence and other nearby objects that had graffiti on them. On the fence was a long line of strange letters that gradually got smaller and went towards the ground. Eventually it was written in marker or something on the ground and went into a nearby alley I believe. While continuing my walk, I could faintly hear what sounded like someone yelling my name out. I did not pay much attention at first, but being curious, I took a peak through a fence with a missing section. On the other side, was a fenced off area with barb wire and guards. Within that area was a cage with someone in it. Apparently I knew him or he knew me, but as I got close, guards were walking closer, so I took off. Hearing the yells for help again, I returned to try to help, but could not do much. It was here the dream scene changed and next thing I remember is that I was playing a video game of the dream I had. Needing help, I attempted to get Travis to download through the Steam client, without much results. The scene now was at my Grandmothers house. Not too much happened until the dream took another direction.

It was a family dinner. Everyone plus a few other people I did not know was there. I recall I was playing with some sort of sleeping mask/headband thing that I had over my eyes for some reason. And in the guest room there were these 4 or 5 old ladies talking amongst themselves. Looking through the headband at them, the looked like horrible bloodied zombie/vampire/witch beings. Taking off the headband, they looked like normal people. They took noticed of my horrified face, and recall them saying, "He knows." Not good. I bolt out of the hallway and into the kitchen where my grandmother was helping make dinner. Noticing I was not being chased, I attempted to get my grandmother to see who they really were. Resisting of course, as typical of dream characters, I finally managed to get her to see who they were. Things were not looking good as I now see this guy approaching me. He was not at all tall, but seeing what he looked like, made up for that easily. This one had green, puss infected skin that almost seemed to glow, and worst of all fast. Thinking quick, I managed to strike him in the face before he could bite me and get me infected. ( I had not previously known this, but somehow made sense as more people were turning into them.) Escaping to the kitchen, I found to my horror that everyone there was one of them. Even my own younger brother who leaped at me attempting to sink his fangs into me. Fortunately, I was the main character with awesome reflexes, and managed to know him out before damage was done. Though, this just seemed to stir up the hornets nest in a way. one after another they ran towards me, armed with nothing more than a large kitchen knife. I managed to kill a few before finding out that some sort of insect had caused all of this. With the dream loosing clarity and sense of reason, I somehow managed to free all of the important family members, and everything returned to normal.

The last dream I had was one of those stupid nude dreams. I think it took place some time after the events of the last dream. I was at a very large apartment complex with a pool that seemed to run through the entire place. Lazy river style. And I was nude for some reason with a generic pool floaty. Floating around, I took notice of several women around. Dang, and a lot of them were ugly looking and could see them whisper between themselves. Seeing some kids swim by, I noticed one of them had my stolen swimming shorts. Stealing it back, I reacquired my glorious leggings and continued to seek out my family. It was here my ordeals finally ended as I wake around 10 am.

Hmm, interesting. Well at least my recall is increasing again...

So, I've just taken up ToTY, but since I joined late, I had to move faster than ever. That's why I love WILD, which will allow me to LD more than 1 time a day...
...now, let's begin with the dream.
As I enter the dream, even if I WILDed, I didn't realise it was a dream. I was just floating around in a void... until the dream started to form around me, causing lucidity. While I was gazing at the colors and shapes, there it is. My dream, formed.
The shapes around me seem futuristic, and my immediate thought is just to to fly. As I was looking around, I see a nuclear power plant, which makes me remember ToTY...
That means one thing. PORTAL TIME! While in the portal, I can see the dream reforming, and finally, I reach my destination. The nuclear test zone. I immediately thought to ask them to drop the bomb so I could get under it, but they've got ahead of me. The nuclear device was falling, and I couldn't be happier about it...
The next second, the atomic bomb hit me.. I felt a slight tingle, then a force, a kind of air pressure, pushing me down.. I was able to stand up, but hardly. Fortunately, in 5 seconds it stopped, and everywhere was just white. After 10 second, some gray entered the white, extending, expanding...
The gray surrounded me, then floated away, making me realize it was just smoke!
All of the DCs there looked amazed at me as I was walking to them, but while I was waiting to be greeted as a hero, they started to shoot me... which resulted in some old, good, fireballs kicking their asses... after some fighting, my dream started to blur a little, and they actually throwed another bomb on top of me, confusing me even more... I began to hear a faint BEEEP which got louder and louder until I woke up, because of my alarm... Sadly, this wasn't a WILD, but at least I did one of the ToTY taks...
I'll try in my next posts the Titanic one, so take care!

#1 - Fan Mail?

I don't really remember much about this dream, I just have what I wrote down. Unfortunately, I can remember the exact things that made me write this down, but nothing else about them. :T Oh well. What I wrote: "Taking a picture or video with a camera decides its fate. With K, Futurama game, we have fan mail?"

#2 - Jealous And Horny

My cousin A comes over and starts acting like she's a teen or at least around my age (she's at least like ten years older than me, don't remember the exact age) and looks like it too, and she starts complaining about some problem she's having to my parents. She starts talking like she's super close to them, which makes me kind of jealous for some reason. She even jumps on to the couch where they are and curls up in a ball next to them (in an overly comical way). They end up trying to talk her through it, and at this point my memory of the dream gets kind of hazy.... It picks up again later with my other cousins P and G and some guy who I can't remember now but I recall thinking I knew him at the time all leaving through the back door, with rain pouring really hard outside. At this point I just remember walking around my house feeling really horny.

Then the dream switched to a third-person perspective of watching Marshall and Lily (again from How I Met Your Mother, and this isn't even the first time I've had this third-person thing with the two of them, I watch this show too much lol) and they're about to have sex for the first time. (Good old horny subconscious. ) It doesn't actually match their first time from the show, though. They're in a truck doing it and just after they've started it switched to a view from outside the truck with a guy sitting not too far from it. The truck starts to move and then quickly starts bouncing extremely violently. Basically, imagine if the force behind it was like a gigantic fist repeatedly came out of the sky and smashed into in the ground. The guy that was sitting near the truck is startled and looks like he's afraid it's not going to hold. Marshall and Lily sound pretty happy inside, the whole world is practically shaking along with them.



I also had a false awakening that almost prevented me from remembering any of this, luckily I managed to get it back after focusing for a few minutes when I actually woke up.

#3 - Strange Crossover

All I remember about this one is that I was playing a game that was some kind of crossover between Mario and Pacman. Like, you were in some kind of tunnel with the dots and ghosts but also Mario enemies walking around, and you could actually switch between being Mario or Pacman at any given time. It was bizarre, but I remember it being fun. I kind of wish I actually had that game now.