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    1. 22/09/11- Intense Nightly Adventure

      by , 09-22-2011 at 04:36 PM (Nom nom nom, Mmmattelicious...)
      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID NIGHTLY ADVENTURE

      Good morning! Didn't recall much when I woke up. Except having sex with Monica five or six times in a row. Anyways I had some serious hallucinations going on last night which I found to be amusing enough to write down.

      22.15: Sleep

      23.50: Nightly Adventure
      *I wake up and a small RC helicopter is in my room. It's aiming some kind of gun at me and I jump out of bed onto the floor. I bring my blanket and lie flat -half of my body under the bed- with the blanket covering me. I make sure it's stretched tight and there are no cracks. This takes alot of effort but I don't feel like getting killed. After thirty seconds or so, I start thinking. How did it get in here? All windows and doors are closed. I peek out and can't see much. I decide to get up and there's no helicopter there. I let out a huge sigh. With my heart racing I go take a piss.

      05.10: Wake up

      Amount of sleep: 7 hours

      Supplements: None


      That's it!

      Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!
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    2. Longest Lucid yet and good Dream Control!

      by , 09-22-2011 at 04:34 PM (Lucid Series-Adventures Within The Mind: Izanagi's Dream Journal)
      I don't remember much about the prelucid i do remember fragments of friends and a tower and a sunset as i was in a house of a DC who was supposed to be a friend i looked at my hand a reality check i have only done while in the dream state once or twice i preceded to think in my head "I am dreaming" a smile appeared on my face as I immediately left the house saying bye to the three DC sisters that lived within it. The first thing i did when walking out onto the sidewalk was look at my hands once again and thought about my previous lucids and how i achieved dream control even though Validae(My Dreamguide who is crazy and Bi-Polar) can control the dream I was able to put on a ring that condensed all my power into a useable form. As i searched my pocket for the ring which i knew would be there i pulled it out and put it on and thought why not incorporate JEM a story that a friend once told me when i was very young one that he created that seemed almost real to me He was the first Jem master and through training I became the second inheriting two powerful swords one being the sword of light the silvic blade. Also as Jem master i had control over all the rings and the Jem ring. Each ring has an a spirit that dwells within it giving the wearer that ability so Fire ring = control and dominance over fire etc. and the Jem ring has the abilities of every ring but slightly less powerful then the actual rings combined. So after thinking about my Ring dream control and JEM i thought i could use my abilities as a Jem master to take back my dream from Validae. So I stabilized my dream by looking at my hands and yelling "FOCUS LUCIDITY" and one by one i slotted rings onto my left hand i put on the Fire ring the Water ring The Earth ring and The Flight/Wind ring was the ring i normally put on but it assumed its true form as the wind ring by reacting with the others. I grew wings and took to the skies I called for my Dreamguide and looked all around for her ( by the way wings rock being able to feel the bones and muscles move as you flap and turn them and feel every individual feather and how the air passes through them is sick) she didn't respond or appear so i continued to fly around do what ever shooting Fire balls and creating waves of destruction making sure to keep the dream stable then after about 40 minutes of doing those things i noticed feathers floating around and that my wings were disappearing I turned to find my dreamguide staring at me saying that she is the stronger will within our body(my body) and then she put her hand out in a pushing motion causing a gust of wind that smacked me to the ground she told me the pain i felt was because she wanted there to be pain and she laughed a bit then she disappeared i was left on the ground powerless the rings no longer glowing. I looked up at the moon as i walked through the forest for about a half hour when i came to ruins bathed in sunlight my eyes widened at the sheer beauty of the ruins it was amazing i sat on a pillar and watched the sun rise as it came up to the top of the sky a hand touched my shoulder i turned to find Validae floating behind me she said "Wake up" and my eyes opened to find myself in my room. My dream felt like it was hours long about 3 or so all together and was one of the coolest yet.
    3. 09/21/2011 Water, fish, sex

      by , 09-22-2011 at 04:17 PM
      I am a fish in a cave with all the other fish outside, me staying warm over a vent that they cant get to

      We go into the waters to feed, I am one type of fish I feed somehow but I can't remember what I needed to do to eat.

      I change forms I am now a fish that swims in deeper waters, there are sharks around; when I come across one I instinctively know not to move at all or it will notices me, I bump nose to nose with a shark and make no movement the shark leaves.

      I swim to the surface and come out as a human again. I'm beside a higher rocky wall with big square type rocks. Other humans are there, we are cliff-jumping to scare fish up from the deep and catch them. I jump in not too deep a fish comes up, don't know what happens to it. This time I climb higher, I say "this is my kind of activity" or something along those lines as I enjoy pulling myself up the rocks. I get very high and someone tells me to jump, I look back and into the dark waters to see what rocks I can ensuring I jump far enough out. I jump down the water goes from light blue to near black. I swim back to the surface and am congratulated for all the fish that came up.

      Now I notice my surroundings; I'm in a big lake type area with rushing currents and square but jagged rocks. It looks as if I fell in I would be torn to pieces by the direction. I am in the middle barely making my way out to the edge.

      Someone else is there, they tell me the waters are set up like this intentionally, a one-way direction; like a waterslide. I am encouraged to jump in. There are hundreds of people doing this, and so I do. I am pulled instantly downstream, around rocks that never hit me or hurt me. In square-type circles I am pulled until finally ejected at the end into a cave like area.

      I step out, no longer wet; I am asked by Erin if I would like something to eat, there is lots of great food. I look over and now only see a couple people on the rock water slide going the opposite direction. I tell her I want to go while there are so few people and head towards the waters again. I jump in...

      The water is deep, too deep; I am disoriented. I feel lost and running short on breath. I make it to the surface but things are different. I feel not far from where I am only a bit over, I climb the square jagged rocks onto a platform. I don't want to go in the water again now. This platform is grey and there are a few people. There is a man beside me. I know I don't want to be here anymore, I ask him how parrallel universes work, he said look at this and brings a slab or piece of paper close to my face, it is so close now that it blocks out everything else around me. I focus on it for a moment and it is pulled away...

      I am still on this platform, but now there are hundreds of people and huge square tubes going up in the air and around, they remind me of some kind of rollercoaster. I notice a girl, Frida...

      Everyone is gone and it is just her, as she comes closer to me I pull her into me and we begin to kiss passionately. I slip my hand down the back of her pants and grab her ass. For a moment I hesistated thinking she may leave. She backs away and unzips her pants; I remove mine. She comes to me, we kiss again and then I am laying on my back. She slowly sits on my rock hard cock and rides it, it's not right, she lifts herself and takes the condom off. Again she lowers herself onto me, her warm pussy surrounds my dick as she rides it reverse cowgirl. We move around I am licking her pussy uncontrollably it tastes so good, I go down further and lick her ass too, she moans loudly. I pull out and bring my hard dick to her face which she gladly puts her mouth around, I push into her mouth, saliva dripping down. There is someone still there, maybe the man that I asked about parallel universes, I don't look, he says fuck her ass. I have her on her side and fuck her until she moans for more in her pussy. I take out and lick her again and again, so good. She rides me again facing me this time. I need to cum soon. I take myself out of her and bring my cock towards her mouth. I thrust one time and have the image of saliva dripping down her chin and suddenly...with an electric type feel and look she is in a desert, there are telephone poles and a road; I can see her there, I am not there; I feel me touching myself knowing it is now over I wake up to finish myself...
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    4. Stalking Dr. Jeckyll?

      by , 09-22-2011 at 03:37 PM
      I'm following a young man that I know to be in possession of a very valuable and dangerous potion that he will inevitably consume. I'm trying to keep him from drinking it. I follow him through a shopping mall sort of thing and follow him to a ... shoe department? He seems suspicious of me, and he has a friend with him. To throw off the suspicion, when we get to the food court, I don't sit facing him. Eventually, before I can apprehend him, he drinks the potion and turns into a huge Mr. Hyde-like monster. I know this monster will probably kill me, but I try to fight him. I also remember trying to evacuate the mall and save as many people as I can. I remember the monster being on a balcony type thing a few floors above me, and I know that I'm going to have to fight him right now.

      Wow. That was a pretty epic dream I guess. Definitely unusual. Just fragments, though. Nothing that can really be used to derive a dream sign.
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    5. tires (fragment)

      by , 09-22-2011 at 02:01 PM
      i was in some shop with a ton of other people. there were tires on the ground. this guys starts talking about how to air them up and set them to the right pressure. i already knew how to do this so i went ahead and aired up and all that to a couple tires. then the teacher came over and told me to go help this one chick from my school. so i went over and started to talk to her then my mom woke me up.
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      non-lucid , dream fragment
    6. lego land

      by , 09-22-2011 at 01:47 PM
      i drempt that i was in lego land againa and when you walked in there were like these things of water u dip ur hands in to clean them. I also drempt i thought i had a relapse earlier on and ifreaked the f out. OO no i got it i was like back at triumph but instead we all slept upstairs in an attic nad people would throw shit at the other side of the street i left the room of darkness nd asked if anyone else wanted to come , no takers. i remember being with like maggie or someone nd then later some mom was yelling at me bout shit haha
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    7. building a broken wall

      by , 09-22-2011 at 01:19 PM
      in my dream last night i was in another country, i was standing next to a wall and there was a section of the wall that was falling apart, just as i touched the wall the broken section started to crumble, i looked up and the was a police woman walking by. she did not speak english and just looked at me as if to say "fix it" i started putting it back together bit by bit and when it was just about done the police woman turned to look at it and it crumbled. i looked behind her and there were alot of solid bricks lying so i was making had jestures to say the wall i was using was weak and would fall apart and the bricks i was using was strong. next thing i knew i was up the stairs from where the wall was shaving, i had not started shaving yet and thought to myself "i cant be bothered, as i was walking back to the stairs i started scraping the shaving foam off my face with my hands and putting it in my mouth. i was at the top of the stair and the policewoman looked up at me and said "what are you doing" (in english) i looked at her and said i couldnt be bothered shaving then woke up.

      other parts to my dream:-
      there was a big metal bridge with machines on it i was looking up at.
      there were other people in my dream but i cant remember who.
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    8. electric train; friend doing my boss' job

      by , 09-22-2011 at 12:17 PM
      Good morning, everybody.

      Dream #1

      I may have started out on a subway train. Eventually I was hanging on to the outside of a train as it rode above ground. It was daytime, and the sky was clear blue. The train eventually ran through a weird sort of tunnel, which was nothing more than iron beams creating a frame where a tunnel would have been. The tunnel seemed to run through and over a body of water, which seemed to stretch off to the left forever.

      The train became a series of black, chain-link, metal fence cages. The cages were each big enough to hold one person comfortably, although I think I saw a few of my "friends" (random dream characters?) in one cage-car. A lot of the cage-cars may actually have been empty.

      I found out somehow that the train was powered completely by electricity. This was supposed to be really great and innovative. I was really excited about this innovation -- electric trains. But these cage-cars (I was still "riding" by hanging on to the outside of one) looked really shoddy and worn-down. I was afraid that the electricity powering the train would travel along the outside of the walls and electrocute me.

      I saw the train speeding away, apparently with me still on it, as if my view had left my body.

      Dream #2

      I was in an office. The office space was kind of small, drab, and grey. I sat in some corner of a wider space like a common area for three or four private offices. Across from my was a receptionist's desk. The receptionist's desk was big and made out of wood. Whatever I was sitting in felt very small -- almost like a plastic chair and desk for a little kid. I saw from a very low angle.

      A female co-worker of mine from two jobs ago, AC, walked into one of the offices. My female friend H was in the office. AC gave H some work to do. It had to do with the companies Research in Motion and Red Hat, as well as a couple other mobile communications companies. H was now going to be working on getting information about these companies.

      AC walked out of the office with a female co-worker. She told her co-worker, "I always thought ----- (some name that may have had the word "Bubble" in it) was one of my favorite companies. But it doesn't look like it's going to be a success, at least not for a while."

      AC and her co-worker left. I wondered how it was that H had managed to get a job doing my old job. (It must actually have been my old boss' job, since she was sitting in an office, not a cubicle.)

      I was now outside with H. We were standing outside "her car," all the doors of which were open. The car was full of junk, all kinds of paper stuffed in the front and back seat. H was panicked and complaining bitterly about how she thought she wasn't going to make it in school, and how she wasn't going to get her Ph.D.

      I told her that she had nothing to worry about. She was doing a lot of great stuff with her studies. And she had a steady job. So even if she didn't make it in school, she'd have a steady income. I couldn't figure out why H was complaining so intensely all the time.
    9. Winn-Dixie

      by , 09-22-2011 at 11:51 AM
      I was in Winn-Dixie, I'm not sure who with, but all I remember is that I wanted to get something. I convinced a lady to let her pay for it and me walk out to the car with her and pay for it. When she was leaving I saw 3 bags of groceries that she left. One was under the scanner, one behind the cashier, and one on the table. I said nothing. As we were walking to her car it was awkward, nothing was said. I helped her load her groceries in and did not see my item and realized it was inside with the other 3 bags. I brought them out and got my item, still not sure what it was.

      Next, still at Winn-Dixie, my friend pulls up and I hop in. I think it is Dan, not sure what car or who he was with. We drove around trying to find a parking space and ended up on the other side of the lot. I was frustrated because we were behind an idiotic driver. We passed him, and the next thing I know we were walking past a cop car parked in the middle of the lot. We passed a cop on the way in.
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      dream fragment , non-lucid
    10. Freeloaders

      by , 09-22-2011 at 10:23 AM (Dream Space, The Final Frontier)
      I'm at the old farmhouse. It's a boarding house now. There is a young woman working as the cook to help pay for her stay. She owes some money for the food she's eaten during her visit. She has short, curly black hair and is fairly pretty. She works at the stove, wearing a dress and an apron. I get the feeling that she has no money and won't be able to pay her tab, but she insists that she will pay it.

      There is a man staying at the house and I don't think he can pay for anything either. He eats at the kitchen table. He leaves to go do chores outside to help pay for his stay.

      When more visitors arrive and there is some distraction, the young woman leaves quietly. She leaves a loaf of wonder bread to pay for her stay. I think to myself, "That is better than nothing I guess. It's not as good as homemade bread though."
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    11. Death Joints and Goblin Attraper!

      by , 09-22-2011 at 10:21 AM
      non-lucid - Notes - lucid

      22-09-11 Shitty recall, went to bed with the intention of meeting the Ayahuasca guy and chilling in the event of lucidity, maybe play around with my Blasting Rod, which is not a euphemism for a sexual organ.

      Went to bed around 1:45 GMT+1 and was up about 10.

      Remember having quite the number of dreams, but only one really stuck and even this is with fairly poopish recollection.

      Here goes


      Death Joints and Goblin Attraper!

      I am in a hospital setting, though the surroundings seem more like the room is located in a sewer. There is a patient on the table and there is a female doctor working on him. She is using a plant or the extract of a plant and manage to cure him of whatever ailment it was that he had.

      It turns out to be a brain disease (I later discover it to be caused by the same plant that cured him). Either the dream shifts or we move rapidly from the sewer setting out in to a natural setting. We are in a park there is a woman with me, a researcher, maybe Kaomea, not sure, but I don't think it is the same doctor who treated the other guy.

      There is another patient and I look at him from a distance. His head is swollen (BADLY!) and there are discolourings that are somehow luminous, but also look like blood poisoning at the same time.

      The guy is in a bad shape and he is rambling. Not sure if the rambling is caused by the disease or a love craze for the researcher accompanying me. He wants a picture taken of his head and he wants to show her that finally he has a big brain. He thinks she will find it attractive.

      The PoV shifts from the side of the bloke to up above him. As his brain continues to expand at a rate his skull cannot follow he just dies. Nothing fancy, all of a sudden he is just still. A bit creepy.

      Skip

      We have the plant and we are running towards the spot where it is to be planted. I find it a tad weird that it is in the middle of the park accessible to everyone, but she insist. We find the spot and all of a sudden a guy comes running towards me and past me with helicopter gun ships on his tail. Shots are fired and I see splinters from trees right in front of me.

      I take my posse and dive towards the right and we run to a little hole in the ground that has obviously been prepared for just the plant. The researcher runs and starts putting the plant to ground (Seeing her now she reminds me an awful lot of my partner from the shootout from a couple of nights ago, so in retrospect it is probably Kaomea).

      Note: Next time lucid find her and pay attention to how she freaking looks/feels!

      However there is little time and we have to abandon the plan, I am not sure because of the feline/troll faery or he comes immediately after, but when I see him I turn lucid.

      The fae is interested in the plant, for hidden probably malicious reasons. He is in a shelter by the side of the gravel road, it looks normal except the doors to the place is more like gates that can be pulled down or up.

      He is sat in the house and his body is weird. Overall it is mainly feline but his arms are extremely long and you can see the power in both upper and lower arms. Besides that he has hands, opposable thumbs and all. He is partially or fully naked, though I think he has a cloth covering his groin. His skin looks rough and a bit tanned and his hair is completely black and looks a bit like a mane.


      Lets step out for a bit: I am aware that this doesn't sound like a faery to you guys, but if you have read the Dresden Files you will remember that many a creature are of the fae ^^

      He shifts his gaze around and spots us. I immediately get the feeling that he only perceives me as a disturbance and he charges me. He could easily rip me in half, and due to his odd looks I am a bit anxious when I, based on my intuition alone, drop to one knee and compliment his home. Had he not been faery this would have been the end of me. Instead he stops mid charge and looks at me somewhat confused.

      The researcher and another guy (maybe the one who came running) are a bit ahead of me, not in danger of the fae as he wants something from them. In all fairness it might be better to call the bastard a goblin, which he looks like more, which essentially still makes him a fae, though of the Wild Court. and are pretty much already in the little shed.

      The goblin shifts his eyes to the prize and I am left outside. I look at the goblin intently and eventually, because I complimented his house, he waves an arm around in a common cross cultural gesture “come inside”.

      “I thank thee humbly for thine hospitality and your graciousness as a host accepting me into your house as a guest”. It actually comes out rather well though my voice is a bit muddy at times, I think to myself that this little speech is rather good compared to my normal lucid speaking. The speech serves a function though it, it serves to establish a traditional and sacred bond between host and guest the faeries MUST adhere to. It serves to ensure my safety, as the goblin must protect me as he would himself as long as I am his guest.

      The runner looks at me and his face is now that of Daniel (my upstairs neighbour) and he gives me a mischievous smile of recognition. He might as well just have said “Nice one!”, he is also aware of the rules of the fae. The reason it works I think is a combination of the compliment, and timing of my little speech. The goblin is a freaking junkie and only really wants the plant, so with that as a distraction he doesn't really know what he is agreeing to.

      The goblin gets the plant and the runner and the researcher is huddled down in the back of the building. There might be a small stream of water in the house. I stop to wonder at this point if I should start exerting direct control, but the plot of the story is just too damned good to start ruining it like that ^^.

      We have to get out of here and I start looking for ways to achieve this. I have a slight (rather, a MASSIVE!) advantage over my friends, being a guest, whereas they are prisoners. The goblin has taken the plant and is now up in the corner under the roof of the shed. His body has turned redish and blue in some areas, and I discover why, he is smoking the freaking plant.

      Right next to him a smoke detector, appears. Difficult to explain. There is an incipient smoke detector that manifest when I look at it. I come up with a plan. I am going to burn the building down and utilise my status as a guest to ensure that the goblin will have to focus on me and my safety while my friends escape.

      I ask the runner if he has a smoke, he hasn't. For some reason I know there is no reason in asking the researcher. So I turn to the goblin and ask if I can bum a cigarette. He looks at me a little while before he throws me the “death joint” he is smoking.

      I catch it in my shirt, by the elbow. It is one of my favourite shirts and now I have a different problem, I had hoped to acquire a lighter so I had a more direct means of starting the fire. However I still have my shirt and I contemplate if I should just set fire to myself or take it off and start a fire in the building.

      I feel the dream fade and wake up before I can see it to completion.
    12. 6 Dreams Equals 2.. :)

      by , 09-22-2011 at 09:07 AM (Choi's Journey of the Conscious Mind)
      [COLOR="red"]Lucid[/COLOR]
      [COLOR="blue"]Dream[/COLOR]
      [COLOR="silver"]Thoughts[/COLOR]
      [COLOR="lightblue"]Hypnagogic[/COLOR]

      [COLOR="silver"]Ok I fell asleep unconsciously on my WILD attempt. Score!
      But I woke up frequentely during this night, and every awakening was after a dream, so I have started to notice my micro awakenings. I told myself to not write down any dream, and I ended up only remember two, but these were the most vivid and cool dreams anway.I will also starrt to give each dream a sepcial Headline, so I know what every dream was.[/COLOR]

      [COLOR="blue"]
      [B]Surviving The Train:[/B]

      Me and my friend David was walking in an brittish neighborhood. Then a wind blow me up on a window, it was very high up in a building and I looked in through the window. Two men looked at me, they had a scary appeal and they pushed me of the window. I fell and under me was a trainrail and I was going to land on it. I heard a train approaching and I knew I was going to die. I fell on a fence and accidently pushed a fat man on the rail, his weight stopped slowed the train down and I miraculasly grabbed landed on the fence and saw the train pass by.[/COLOR]

      [COLOR="silver"]I woke up and I had some more dreams, but I don't remember them anymore. But after one of the awakenings I had this dream.[/COLOR]

      [COLOR="blue"][B]The Dragons Egg Quest:[/B]

      I were in a van with 5 other guys. We were some sort of team and had just robbed a bank. Every member had a really cool appearance and I felt like just a regular guy among the cool guys. The police started to chase us, but then one guy in the driver of our van who seemed to be the leader said "Ah to hell with this, and he stopped the car and went out" He yelled to the policeman "Let's solve this man to man" And then he approached the policeman and did the coolest kick I have ever seen.
      In this dream I somehow rewinded this kick and saw it all happen again in slowmotion. The policeman was knocked out.
      It looked something like this but in a jump: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy6rG-jTVRs&feature=related[/url]
      Then another police stepped out from the policecar, it was a midget police, but a musucular one.
      He ran and dived into our car window and start hit us, the our leader grabbed the midget in the neck and throw him away haha. Then we walked into an old town and I picked up some rocks from the ground and saw that they had a layer of gold.
      Some guy said "It's nothing compared to where we are headed. Infront of us were now the most epic castle or building I have ever seen. It was built of something red material, but I couldn't figure out what it was.
      "Inside there are dragons who are gurading eggs, and these eggs are made of gold!" I hear someone saying.[/COLOR]

      [COLOR="silver"]Cool dream, but here I woke up...[/COLOR]
    13. 3 short LDs

      by , 09-22-2011 at 01:48 AM (Tales from the sun chaser.)
      Didn't get much done in them. I had a WILD where was trying to get Thor's hammer again for the TOTM, but I woke up, and then tried for a DEILD, and woke up, and did another one. Key highlights were flying, and being pinned to the bed and not able to do anything =/
      Tags: deild, fild, flying, sp*, totm, wild
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      lucid , task of the month
    14. Grandma falls through balcony window :O

      by , 09-22-2011 at 01:03 AM (Yuppie's Dream Journal)
      I'm outside on the balcony, sitting on one of the chairs, and mum decides to move Grandma off her wheel chair onto a chair. Suddenly she starts walking all by herself (she hasn't walked for years) but then she falls, and goes straight through the glass in the outdoor sunroom. Everyone stares at each other in shock for a while, and then we all run up to the window. There's only a small hole where she fell through, so I kick the glass out of the window next to it, and jump down, making sure I land on the soft soil of the garden. Liz, mum, and dad run down the stairs to get to grandma, and we're trying to see if she's alive. She's breathing incredibly softly, and it takes about half a minute to determine that she's alive. I shout to liz "Call the ambulance!" She says something incredibly stupid as you'd expect, and after I yell some rude stuff to her, she walks back to get the phone, as if she has all the time in the world. Mum's freaking out and saying "she's going to die, she's going to die"
      For some reason I keep looking at her lungs or heart, not sure, and holding my hand down softly to see if I can feel pounding. I'm pretty sure she eventually passes away, and we all sit there sadly for a few minutes. I wake up.
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    15. Dirty Windshield (fragment)

      by , 09-21-2011 at 11:48 PM (...from the dark corners of my mind...)
      DJ Log: September 21, 2011 – 7:45AM (USA Eastern)
      · NON-DREAM · NOTES · DREAM · LUCID ·

      I am standing outside my truck with the driver's side door open, looking at the dirty windshield. I reach under the seat and pull out a garden hose, and then spray down the inside of the windshield. After rolling the hose back under the seat, I wipe the windshield dry with a towel.