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November 11, 2011

I had a pretty memorable dream for 11/11/11. I even became a smidgen lucid! It was a bit scary, but not really a nightmare, more action-y. Here it goes...

I was in some sort of fort in a forest. Some Asian people came in and said that they were moving in. This part was blurry, so I can't exactly remember everything.

Next, I had left the fort, because I had to practice for cross-country. It was at Holmdel, where I had my meet this morning (which was next morning last night). My team was running, and we came to a lake. My friend Rob explained that it was called Medusa Lake, because anyone who fell into it was turned to stone. Needless to say, we went around it.

We came across a large mansion. We could hear noises inside, and it sounded like a party. Knocking on the door, an older man appeared, dressed in a red velvet bathrobe. "Come in, come in!" He said. "There's always room for more at my parties!" He seemed nice enough, so we stepped inside. There was a huge chandelier, and the whole place was decorated lavishly. "My name is Jaggers," the man explained. "Why don't you come into the dining hall? I was just about to make a speech!" We followed him on, and found ourselves in a large room with guests dressed in suits and gowns. I felt a bit underdressed for the occasion in my running clothes.

"Attention! Attention everyone! Are you enjoying the party?" Jaguars asked. A murmur of yes's came from the crowd. "Good," he said. "Because you are never going to leave!" Suddenly, he shot out beams of magic from his hands, which hit a lady in a long blue dress. Instantly, she began to transform into a tiger. Everyone screamed, and Jaggers began to transform more people. "We need to get out of here!" I yelled. "Oh no you don't!" he cackled. Flying towards us, we made a dash for the door. When we got outside, he yelled, "Curses!" and didn't follow us.

There were only a couple of us left; everyone else had been transformed. "What will we do now?" asked Brian. "We should probably move," I suggested. "Jaggers might come back." We began to run, and suddenly I thought, Gee, this is usually the part of a dream where a bear comes out and begins to chase me! Sure enough, one was right there. Wait a sec... This is a dream! I'm dreaming! I made the bear disappear, but I lost lucidity right away.

I came up to Medusa Lake, and began to shimmy along a fence in order not to fall in. I climbed under the fence, and my dream slowly started to fade away...

Analysis: I had my cross-country meet earlier today, which was tomorrow last night, so I was really looking forward to it. Medusa Lake, I don't really know where it came from. Jaggers is the name of a character in a book I'm reading in school, Great Expectations, but he's a lawyer, not an evil wizard. The woman who transformed into a tiger might have to do with the fact that there was a tiger in one part of a movie I had watched. Some Asian guys too. But the fort, I don't have a clue about.

Category: Barely-Lucid

Lucidity: 4/10
Clarity: 6/10
Length: 7/10
Enjoyment: 6/10
Overall: 5.75/10

I was riding in a car with my dad, brother, and a friend. I was staring out the window when suddenly I became lucid. I tried to open the car door and jump out but just as I reached for the handle I could feel myself waking up. I tried to stabilize the dream but seeing as I have no idea how to do that I failed. Lucid for 4 seconds, yay

I had a couple nonlucids last night. I'm getting really, really close to having a DILD, I'm starting to notice strange things in my dreams.

The first dream was the cool one. You ever play Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2? You know the level where Starkiller rides the tram thing and has to fight the big ship before it destroys the tram so he can get to the arena? Well I dreamt I was riding that tram (normally, not on top), and that it was going through outer space from one planet to another. Suddenly, an absolutely massive ship comes up to the side of the tram and starts shooting at it. It turned out that I was a Force Sensitive person (not a Jedi or Sith, just a normal person who could use the Force) and that I was supposed to be like a novice at using the Force or something. Well, me being absolutely awesome (=3), I was able to use my Force abilities to make a bubble of air around me (which was apparently a really high level Force ability) so that I could jump from the tram to the ship. So I climb out onto the side of the tram, and just as the ship shoots a laser at the tram, I leap across through space onto the ship. I use the Force to break a hole into the side of the ship and get inside. Turns out it's a CIS ship, and droids start coming after me. I use the Force to kill droids as I run through the ship to the bridge. Just before I get to the bridge, these big spider-droid things come out and attack me. The spider-droids are each about 5 feet tall and 6 feet wide and long, with 8 legs and these big pincers that shoot lasers. I use the Force to rip them apart and the dream switches.

Now I'm outside of my house with my cousin. We enter, but it turns out that my house is now my grandparents' house. We say our hellos and watch TV for a bit, and then I go to take a shower to go to bed. I go upstairs, but instead of going into my room, I go into my mom's (or in the case of this dream, my grandparent's) room. I'm carrying my clothes from before I took the shower, and I reach into my pants pocket and pull out a pipe and a little bag of weed (which is odd that I had these as I quit a while ago to keep my recall up for lucid dreaming. This is what I'm talking about; I noticed that I was doing something that I wouldn't normally be doing [1. smoking pot, and 2. smoking pot in my mom's room] irl, but I didn't do an RC). I pack the pipe and take a hit, and immediately I'm high (and very high, at that). My grandpa yells,
"What's that damn smell?!?!?"
So I go into a closet and pull out a can of Old Spice body spray and pretty much fill the room with it. I go into my room and get dressed, then I go back into my mom's room and make sure the smell is gone. I go back to my room, but my cousin is in the hallway. The hallway is arranged like this:

-----------------------------------------------I
------------------------------------------W-I ]
I I
The - and I are walls, and the ] is my doorway, with the opposite end being my mom's room.
On the wall right in front of my door (marked with the W) is a hole in the wall. I've been known to mess up a bit when I'm high and knock things down and whatnot, so my cousin asks me,
"Dude, did you make that hole? And why did you smoke in the house?"
The dream ends.

I'm looking at a map with little landmarks. A female voice behind me tells me to sketch a river on the map with ny finger. I move my finger from the bottom of the map to the top.
"Why?" I ask.
"Because," she says, "it is going to be the river I throw you in if you continue to bother me."

Awake - Dream - Lucid
"..." shows where time in the dream is missing.

Time: Night of 11/11/11 or Afternoon of 11/12/11

I can only remember bits and pieces of this dream. I was woken up by my dad, but I fell back asleep and I think that's when I had it, but I'm not sure.

I go to bed way too late, like almost 3 AM. I go to bed listening to a lucid dream induction video on my iPod. (The one I listen to currently can be found here.) I try to think about how easy lucid dreaming is, and what I'm going to do in the dream, (as prescribed in Silverbullet's Key to Lucid Dreaming). Eventually I fall asleep.

I wake up, but still lie in bed. My dad comes in to wake me up because it's like 1:15 PM. He leaves and I lie there for a bit. I drift back to sleep and I think that's when I have this dream:

... I was overlooking some massive, beautiful city from a hill. The city looked kind of futuristic, and had glistening tall buildings. It was near the sea, and the sun was setting...
With a group of some of my classmates from school, we were being told about some upcoming train ride. I don't remember what the train ride was for, exactly. I was asked if I wanted to be some sort of handout person on the train, handing out information to other people about something which I can't remember...
We are on the train now, but the room we are in certainly doesn't feel like a train car. It is a large cafeteria type room, with tables set up with free food. Although this obviously didn't look like a train, my mind still told me I was on the train. There were windows. I looked out and saw that we were on an elevated track on some sort of bridge thing extending over some beautiful, misty river valley. It looked like a very cool environment...
In the cafeteria car thing I'm eating donuts, I can't remember if I actually tasted them...
I'm looking out a window in a different car, which is still too big to really be on a train. I look out a window at the scenery below, which is similar to the aforementioned river valley. I walk away from the window towards some hallway-thing, and hear a girl from school laugh. I turn around and imitate the sound. I walk into the hallway thing, which I can now tell is an actual train car inside, as in how one should normally look. It's very narrow, with some seats facing forward, on the inner side (I don't know how there can be an inner side of a train, but it didn't have windows), and seats facing inward below some long windows. There are a ton of people from my class in this row, standing up. They were told to begin doing the handouts. I saw one of my friends was wearing a vest that said "Baptist Church" on the back, which confused me because I know he isn't Baptist. My mind tells me the train is now headed back to the city, though I didn't remember stopping anywhere in the dream. I felt happy that I didn't decide to be a handout giver, but I don't know why now...
The scene is now a flyby of the train from the outside. It is on an elevated rail still, over a massive ocean. The sun is either rising or setting, and the train was shaped like a normal train! There were no bulges from big cafeteria cars or anything! Inside the windows I could see people sitting in their seats, riding home.

I wake up, but don't remember that I had been dreaming for a few minutes. I finally do remember after feeling sad that I didn't have any dreams. That's when I got up to write this.


This is the first dream I can remember having since I joined DV. I want to make good use of this journal. This is a good way of keeping track of dreams since my computer's in my room and I hate writing by hand. I want to maintain a constant format for my dream recordings so that it becomes easier to recognize dream signs and such.

NOTES

• I don't know for sure if I had the dream during the night or after I woke up and fell back to sleep, it just seems like it happened after I fell back asleep.
• The fact that I was confused by my friend wearing the "Baptist Church" vest is interesting because it shows that I was able to remember real-world facts even while dreaming. This could help on my path to LDing.

In the village from before, a peaceful afternoon turns into hell. The main gate to the village is blasted down and an army dressed in red pours in. They set fire to some of the buildings and do not stop until they are met with our own resistance army. As the two forces are in battle I and someone else help put out the fires and rebuild the buildings. Then we head off to fight the battle.

Im on a hill overlooking a village. There is a waterfall behind us, the water roaring lound. Drawn down the hill is a dirt path to the village. With me is a sorceress and a creature I beleive I captured in my space dream. Our job is to transport it to the the designated spot in the village with no harm coming to the villagers. We begin our way down the path and as I learn the creature sometimes leaves lava in its footsteps. I go to clean them up and how I do so, I do not know. As we make our way further down a caravan parked to the side is attacked by the creature. I summon a lightning spell that hits the creature and causes him to back off. We make our way down with no further issues.

I'm on a spaceship in space, of course, and we are searching planets for any signs of life.

It is midnight, the full moon is shining bright overhead. I'm in a parking lot with eight or more cars in it. I'm walking backwards and searching cautiously so i'm obviously expecting something. Suddenly i'm grabbed by my neck and lifted up off the ground. My attacker appears on my left side and is facing away from me. As he turns his head towards me the second I see his black eyes I lash out with my right hand and knock his face away from me. He becomes furious and just as he is about to kill me someone new appears. I convince the demon holding me that he needs me to fight this new enemy. He beleives me and sets me down. The battle takes place on the field to the left of the parking lot and to the right of a shining magical lake. We were the winners.

I have a red turtle that is able to understand and speak english and the main thing it talked about is being able to go outside. I head into my parent's bedroom and place him onto the bed. I head into the restroom and shut the door. I come back out and he dissapeared. I search for him thinking he has gone outside but instead he was on the floor. I put him back on the bed and reenter the restroom. I come back out and everything repeats itself. I once again go back into the restroom and come back out and the turtle is once again gone but this time a man with a french a ccent has appeared. I think he talks to me about buying the turtle.

I'm at my nana's house fot thanksgiving, it is dimly lit. As i am travelling through the house, I open up a door and find my parents in a corner of the room looking at a book. Thet do not notice me and I am able to overhear their conversation. They are looking at a book and apparently something in the told my father he was going to die.

As I'm watching the pep rally, my friend named Dayza comes up to me and asks me for a charger. I tell her that I do not have one on me so instead I go to help her find one... in the women's restroom. We enter a huge stall that was like a seating room which housed a gray bench and two gray seats on the left wall. Dayza sits down on one and a sickening squish is heard. She had sat in a lady urinal that was soaked with piss. As we are exiting the restroom, we run into boys and girls who are familliar to me entering together. When we start heading back to the viewing window there are two security guards staring at us. When we look through the windo we see a huge plastic bird with its limbs outstreched like it is flying and it is attached to the roof by a thin line of string. The final words of a song was sung. "I don't mean to break your heart." As these words were sung the string attached to the bird snaps and the bird falls to earth.

The dream opens with me looking through a window like hole in the wall on the second floor of the school. I'm watching a pep rally and the band is playing right now. The drum majors are conducting on atleast a hundred foot tall platform. The drum majors are one of the normal ones a man but the other is unrecognized, some random lady. On the ladder heading to the top of the platform, I spot Brittany. Once she gets to the top she asks the lady if she can conduct. The lady allows her to and she clims off of the platform. Now Brittany is conducting and you can see her smiling wide. After a few moments Brittany starts to close the distance between her and the edge of the platform. Finally with a shock... she falls off. The dream fasts forwards and Brittany is back at the pep rally and she looks horrible! Her whole body is mangled and disgusting.

Hey DV. Had two lucids last nice, but sorry, they were too vivid. My recall is a little shot.

I was with my friend Kharl and we were at his house. Outside there was a blueish twilight color. We were in his house and eventually went to an amphitheater to hang out. We saw my strange tweaker friend Basil there and if I remember right we had to run for some reason. We were running up in the mountains and it was day time at this point. It was just grass and a few roads and humongous hills, and it was pretty bright out. I remember jumping from about 100 feat into a large body of water and floating to where I needed to be, even though I didn't know it would lead me there. The dream had an interesting vibe to it that I can't quite pinpoint, very melancholy. Depressing and happy, cold but comforting. It was nice.