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Here's how it began. I walked into my grandparents house. (This was a WILD.) So I already new I was dreaming. I took a box from the kitchen and tried to read the information. It was blurry. A hooded man tried to help me. I said, "I can't read anything in a dream though." The next scene was me outside of a high school. (I'm a freshman starting this fall.) I went up to this group of people. They all crowded over me. I could see their faces so clearly. They were all people I know.

After I left that scene, I was in the high school. There was a class room with disordered rows of seats. A teacher was talking. When I sat down, I knew what I wanted to do. I said something like, "Time freeze." Everything froze, except the teacher. I tried it again like three times, but he kept talking. I wanted to escape, and I knew he wouldn't mind, so I jumped up and out of the window behind me, breaking it on impact. I was running through an open field. I then said, "Super sonic!" And I was running at the speed of sound. After running around for a while, I went back into the class room.

During the next scene, the class was moving to gym. The student in the front opened the doors, but before they opened, I said to myself, "A field will be on the other side." But to no avail. It was just a gym. I ran up to the glass news board and jumped against it. That's the last thing I remember. I guess I need to brush up on my dream control.

08/04/2011 Thursday morning



***I remember dreaming in a dream, maybe lucid dreaming in a dream…

Dream 1 – (early in the night I think) I was in “my grandmother’s room” (IWL never seen before). A bed was to my right. Something about having a blanket that I was holding all four corners of, and the “ghost” (was like an unseen force) had filled the blanket and was pulling me up, over the bed. I was fighting it to bring it back down and not get pulled away. I managed to do that, and was back on the bed…something about a small stack of books on the bed.

I moved around maybe, and discovered that D was under the covers trying to sleep. I apologized or felt bad, that I had all that going on over him while he was in bed. There was more, that’s all I remember.

Dream 2 – I was sitting on what I thought was a bus, seemed like Seattle, with rows of people in front, behind and to my right. A couple of guys were on my right, and I watched one of them pull a didgeridoo out of a cover, while inserting a cardboard tube (like a wrapping paper tube) into the center of it. I was wondering why he was doing that, and he cut and spread the bottom of the tube in the bottom of the didj. I thought that he was doing that so someone else could play and not get their spit all in his didj.

One of them began playing, and a window like a puppet theater opened in front of us. “They” were putting on an “art” show for us on the bus. I wondered if we were moving, and if everyone was okay with just waiting on the bus and if anyone was concerned about being on time.

I noticed at some point that the seats were now more like chairs, like the sort of egg-shaped melamine chairs with metal legs.

The show was a couple of guys showing various things. At first I saw them show a couple of big mushrooms, that looked like paper mache. Then some crazy visuals, I remember in particular a big copier spinning around behind the guy, as some kind of filler until the rest of the show was ready.

Someone said something like, “You don’t have your line ready yet?” and a woman scrambled to get her part of the show ready. Then I was behind the scenes, and whatever got plugged in, and there was something like a doctor’s examine table in front of me, and three women who were maybe not real, made of plastic-like stuff, somersaulted from and over the examine table and skipped off to my right. I think one was hot pink, one was cyan, and one was yellow.

8/4/11

DILD

For most of the dream, part of me knew I was dreaming. I knew I was invincible and that if I got in a pinch, I could abort all the stealth activity. But it seemed like only a last-ditch option. Despite this, I did not fully understand that I was LDing.

non lucid

semi lucid

lucid

The dream starts out in a 3rd person view. I am aware that I'm watching a movie, but there is no screen. It is the Goblet of Fire. Harry and 2 other wizards had to compete for something. They were in a giant room that looked like the backstage area of some theater. I remember thinking that the movie was really good, and that I should watch the movies more often. Soon after that I become Harry.

We head outside into this field area. A group of thugs come up with a leader and take everyone captive. Me and Neville (and a pug dog...not sure what was up with that) lay on the grass to avoid detection. They are standing right over us and corral all of the wizards. He looks right at me, but it is night and apparently we avoid detection. They take the prisoners inside a large rectangular building.

It is just me and Neville left to rescue them. We walk along the outside of the building. There are no entry points as we circle the perimeter. Neville asks, "what are we going to do?" I already had a plan.

I look up to the roof. It is like 20 stories high. I need to bring Neville so I point to him before I lift off. I then look up and launch. Neville lands on the roof soon after me with some remark.

I kick in a ventilation grate, and we have our way in. We jump down the shaft and there is another grate. I kick through that and we land on the ground. There are 2 guards and I use some sort of magic to subdue them. I don't have a wand, but I point at them and they fall down, incapacitated. I don't know where they prisoners are and don't know the lay out of the building. I know we had to hurry or else we would lose the dream. I could just run around blasting, but I feel like I wouldn't find them like that.

Neville knows what to do. He points to this small red board on the wall. He writes the name of one of the captives on the board and this green indicator appears on the floor. It shows the location of the person you wrote on the wall. The wizard appears to be a few floors down. Neville and I decide to split up; he takes the first person and heads out. I go to the board and try to write "Ron Weasley" but I run out of room. I try again and the handwriting is so bad, the board can't read it. I then decide to try Hermione, but then I remember she wasn't with the group that got captured. I looked out the window behind me and she was walking around the outside of the building trying to save everyone too. When I see her, I jump into 3rd person view and then return to me. I then lose the dream.

Last night I couldn't get to sleep until after 3:00 AM. It was frustrating . Then I couldn't recall any dreams in the morning because of my lack of sleep all I could remember was a literally inexplicable scene. gonna try again tonight.

8/3/11

DILD

I have noticed recently one way that I have been able to become lucid as I am losing non-lucid dreams. Sometimes I will be talking to someone, and they ask me to repeat something I said (usually by saying "what?"). Right before I say my line again, I realize if I speak, I will lose the dream. If I say my previous line verbatim, the dream will fade out. I can't describe this feeling, but my environment feels like it is on the brink of fading to black. This time, I realized this and altered my line just enough to maintain the dream with some stabilization techniques.

I was able to get my previous portal method to work again. It is now 2/2, and I am excited about it.


The dream started with Jack, and we were barbecuing something outside. The setting looked kind of like my cousins house. He asked my a question and I said my answer. He said, "what?" I became lucid and knew I couldn't resay what I just said. I say something similar and I everything starts to go fuzzy. I rub my hands together and wander off. I quickly lose lucidity as I find a tree stump out in a field. It is a passageway into an underground area. The inside is pretty strange. I can't remember most of the details. Both the entrance and freaky underground room reminded my of Alice in Wonderland. There were goofy mushrooms and plants everywhere. I feel bad for leaving Jack hanging after not really answering his question. I write my answer on a little slip of paper and put it by the entrance of this underground wonderland. I turn around and see Kevin in there too.

Seeing him makes me lucid again. I ask if he knows where he is. He says no. I say hes in a dream and lead him to the entrance. There is a shaft that is about 20 ft. high to the entrance. At the bottom there is some sort of bubble to jump off of to make it out. I tell Kevin how to leave or that because it is a dream, he can just fly. I attempt the jump but it only gets my half way. The bubble threw off my take off when trying to fly. I extend my arms and legs to the side to hold myself on the wall. I ninja warrior myself up and out of the stump, and Kevin soon follows.

We end up outside of this garage area. I super jump onto the wall and talk to him for a bit about being in a dream. I show him that he can fly by taking off. I launch like 100 ft. into the air and then fall back to the ground. I want to show him that I can float, so I try to hover off of the garage to the ground. I am not able to hover as successfully as I planned. I ended up gliding to the ground slowly instead of being suspended in the air. I think it still gets my point across.

I decide to try and make a portal with the same method that worked earlier. I point my hand to the side of the building across the way. I look away so it is just in my peripheral vision. I draw an oval, and out of the corner of my eye, I see a red outline. I look over, and there is a perfect glowing red oval. It looks like a red version of the Portal (game) portals. I now try and decide where it should go. For some reason I want to show Kevin where I used to hang out during high school. I imagine Brendan's attic, and walk through.

It works and I am pretty excited. Kevin walks in and turns the TV on and off multiple times. I ask him what he is doing. He says it will freak out Brendan in waking life to see his TV turn on and off randomly. I think that is genius. Screw shared dreaming; I am going to affect waking life. We also mute another TV, and brendan wakes up. He cannot see us because we are in the dream world (and I think he isn't). We quietly back away down the stairs. He follows us and as I am about to turn and leave, I look back. We meet eyes and he says, "I can smell you." I assume he smells weed. Me and Kevin leave.

There is a party back at our place. I still think I am invisible walking around the real world. I eventually see Mallory (old crush) and I start talking. I ask her if she can see me and she says yes.Once I know she can see me, I lose lucidity. We start talking and sit at a table. I mention that we just found a roommate, and she was upset. She said she was going to take the room. I felt so stupid that if we waited a few more days, Mallory could live with us. I say we could try and squeeze in another roommate. I say our rent is like 320 with utilities for 4 people. So with 5, it would be under 200. (Those estimates and math are completely off.) She is shocked at how cheap it is. I start talking with this other girl and we leave the group. I meant to leave alone, but she left at the same time so we ended up walking together. As we enter the house, I lose the dream.

8/2/11

DILD

I was not able to record this dream for a few days so it is only a few snippets. I was able to try a new portal technique that worked, hopefully it will do so permanently....

I dont remember any of the pre-lucid dream. I walk out onto my back porch, and try to decide what to do. I want to work on teleporting, but don't really have a destination in mind. I point my finger to the garage across the way. Whenever I look straight at it, it is too much active control and usually fails. So I decide to look away but keep my target in the edge of my periphery. I make an oval with my finger, and I start to see a red outline appear. I look back, and it is a perfect red, glowing oval in the shape of a Portal (game) portal. I walk up to it, but dont know where to go.

For some reason I decide to go to Bens house. I imagine the look of his kitchen. I try really hard to get a concrete picture in my head, and I steo through. Success! It looked perfect. I walk over to his front room and his mom (semi MILF) is with some guy. She sees me and is excited. She stands up to give me a hug, and I return the hug with a little butt grab. I walk away and lose the dream soon after.

8/1/11

DILD (semi DEILD)

The detail is fuzzy because I was not able to write it down for a few days.

I was looking at a VCR. I had to say something, and I could feel that the dream was about to fade if I responded. I became lucid right as my environment faded to black. I focused really hard on the last image. It was the front of a VCR with a lighted circle on it. Suddenly, the image came back to me. I dont think I ever really left the dream. I walk outside of my house intro the street. It is night time and I see a car speeding towards me. I want to jump and kick through the windshield as the car tried to hit me, like in Sin City. However, as I readied my stance, the car stopped. I jump into a minivan that is to my right and prepare for a car battle.

The enemy car is after Biggie Smalls too. I let Biggie in my car and we try to ram the other car without getting hit ourselves. Something happened and it looked like we were going to lose. Biggie asks me what we should do. I said I know what Im going to do. I get out of the car and fly up to the sky; screw that whole situation. I end up on some platform with Biggie, out of danger. I lose the dream soon after.

I was with my mom and sisters and my son. We were all going to the pool, but it was an indoor pool, it might've been the YMCA. Me and my mom realize we didn't bring the little swimmers diapers, so she went to go get them. I took my son in the pool anyway and he was laughing and having a good time. I was trying to get to the other side of the pool and there were these strange bars, some kind of toy thing I assumed, but for some reason I thought I could walk across it. There was a little kid watching me like I was an idiot. I had a kid in my arms and was trying to steady myself, but realized it wasn't going to work. My mom came back and asked me if he knew he was just wearing a diaper? I just shrugged.

I start walking around the pool, trying to figure out where everything is. It was a strange pool. I noticed there was an outdoor pool too, with slides and I went up to the windows to look out. I was in an area that I was apparently not supposed to be. A dc lifeguard came up to me and asked me if I read the sign about "trolling" lol. I laughed and walked back to my mom and told her I got in trouble for trolling around. I started walking around again and walked up into an area where there was this tunnel thing going down, it took me a few times to figure out that it was a slide that ended somewhere below me. I almost went down with my son on accident.

After the pool scene, I ended up on a street in some busy town. My brain keeps thinking Chicago. It's nighttime and I have my son still and we're laying on a bench like homeless people. I have a blanket wrapped around me and I was wearing underwear, no pants. Across the street I could see three neon lights, I think one was a theatre and another one was decorated in red white and blue and it was some popular store. I just remember it starting with an H. Hilfiger also comes to mind. So I'm laying on this bench and I notice a bunch of mexican gangsters walking down the street. A few eyed me and one big guy started coming towards me. I was a little scared, but more so pissed off. He thought I was asleep and when he got closer I looked up at him and flipped him off. He got mad and started chasing me, still have my kid in my arms. I think I'm heading back to the "ymca" because I'm taking familiar turns, like I knew how I'd gotten there. I went up some stairs and in a door which led to more stairs and another door at the top. I stopped at the top to see how close he was. He was standing at the bottom but he wasn't looking at me, he looked like he decided to stop chasing me.

(what sucks is, the dream started to fade and I became lucid, but I woke up briefly.)

I can't remember much after this, except, a hot tub and some lady laughing at me telling me not to wear her panties... >.<

Okay so I had a lot of dreams and they were crazy.


- It was N's birthday so I drew him a picture and printed it on a bright blue t-shirt. The picture was weird and had like a hamburger and a dress on it and a bunch of other stuff. I took a picture of the shirt and sent it to him, then I realized I hadn't shown him the picture that was on the shirt yet, so I was like "oh I'll upload that now". He was collecting pictures of people's b-day presents for him and posting them on some forum, there were a lot. Later I was at the mall and thinking I should get a better shirt for the picture, and there was someone else there telling me I should.


- I was talking to N on facebook and he had posted a slightly annoyed status, and I posted a comment and added '<33' at the end even though it didn't fit at all. I was hoping it wouldn't annoy him but I was the 4th comment and all the others had hearts at the end too. When it posted though, facebook changed the <33 to a symbol of a heart with another half-heart attached lol, like this:

- Some evil guy had kidnapped N and me and a bunch of people and was trying to kill us. We were in this huge dark room and there was this big screen at the end that was like a portal we had to get to in order to escape. There were lots of obstacles and dangerous/painful things on the way to the portal.

At one point we were crawling on our hands and knees across chunks of metal on a slight hill, and a girl who was also there said a word I didn't understand. I asked her what it meant and she told me it meant crawling, and was like "it hurts if you do it too long". There were other words like that too, like the other people we were with were using a bunch of slang terms I'd never heard and they'd have to explain.

Then I was able to pause the whole scenario and draw new outfits for N and myself and then we would get them when we went back in. So I drew us these weird kinda futuristic outfits, and then decided we needed flying bikes, so I gave myself a lime green one and him a hot pink one.

Then it went back and we were in the room again with our new outfits and bikes. N was flying way up at the very top of the room which was really tall. I was really close to the portal, so I leapt for it, and right as I was about to touch it, it suddenly went all white, then had white bars across it, then shut off, and a booming voice declared, "PORTAL DISABLED".

The screen was on the side of a rocky cliff, and everyone looked up to the top of the cliff to see this horrible blueish sea creature/demon thing with a human face and head. The evil guy, who we couldn't see, was telling us that this monster was going to send us all through 8 challenges to be able to escape. I looked right into its eyes, and its eyes bulged way out and it shrieked loudly, and I saw this vision of how we all might die. I snapped back and realized it hadn't been real, then told N, who was beside me again, that I'd just had a dream about what was going to happen to us.

I don't know if we did the challenges or not, because the next thing I knew, it was all over and I was talking with N [again?] in a very peaceful nice field next to a pond. It was like watching a movie at this point; I saw both of us from a third person POV, though not very clearly, and I knew everything had finished somewhat happily and it was like a nice ending scene. My hair was in a bun with a weird round clip/tie and he had some sort of nickname for me.

Also sometime after it was over, I told him I had added the bikes at the last minute, and he said something along the lines of "hmm yeah I could tell, you should really stick to a theme" lol.


- Then I had a false awakening and "woke up" on the couch in my cousins' house, where I was actually sleeping. I thought 'wow that dream was really intense, I should ask if he had the same one'. [I did ask later, he didn't remember his dreams.] But then there was this thing where I thought maybe he was actually one of my cousins and that freaked me out lol.

Then my aunt was talking about how she could lucid dream, and I was like "me too!" I started trying to WILD, still in the dream, and managed to get partly into another dream a couple times, but kept getting 'woken up' by my cousins (not sure if I was actually waking up irl but I don't think I was). Finally I made it into a dream within the dream and was lucid in the new one.

I was at a shopping centre in my city near a movie theatre, and my aunt was there as well in her pyjamas, and it was just sort of accepted that we could and were sharing dreams. She ran off, and I walked around the corner, touching walls and stuff and inspecting them and doing RCs.

Then I thought of what I read in the School of Out of Body Travel book, about how it was guaranteed that whenever you stared at something very closely for a long time in a dream, it would start to warp and change. I stared at my finger closely for a while but nothing happened, so I started to wonder if I was really dreaming for a moment, but another nose RC confirmed that I was. Then I saw N was there [again :| get out of my head dude lol] so I gave him a hug.


- I then "woke up" back into the FA at my cousins' house, and they asked about the dream I'd just had, so I told them what happened. My mom then said she was making pancakes [she actually kinda woke me up irl to say we were having waffles lol so it got incorporated] and asked if I wanted strawberry, blueberry or both. There was a plastic cup on the table with a few halved strawberries and three fresh blueberries. I ate a large blueberry and it was really good.

First online entry.

I had a very long dream, probably in the 30-45 minutes before I woke up, about a zombie-like illness that originated from Antarctic chickens. (Well, a facility that was doing lab testing on chickens in the Antarctic). I remember being bunkered down at my post. If memory serves - it may not - I was at the base of a frozen, craggy mountain to my Southeast. Across the frozen expanse to my North was another mountain, much farther away. I may have felt responsible for the tragedy. Directly or indirectly. I don't really remember that for certain, but I do remember a feeling of dread, incompleteness, moral or emotional sickness. Quiet personal turmoil. Not that the idea of zombie apocalypse wouldn't haunt me, but it was more than that. Very psychological and very dark.

Towards the closing moments of the dream, there was a fragment involving my mother and I trying to contain the infestation/sickness. Mom was putting a disease-ridden chicken back into a coop after it had escaped. Wherever we were wasn't frozen, it was grassy, but sparsely and still cold - like a tundra. Mom was trying to maintain that trademark care-free zest of hers', and seeing her trying to maintain composure at the brink, or the midst of an apocalypse only troubled me further.

I was happy to wake up from this one. And happy that I was able to shrug it off, but oh shit did I have a sour taste in my mouth that morning. Figuratively.

Circumstance:
5.5 hours of sleep
Krill oil, 1 capsule
Chamomile tea (strong)
Watched Conspiracy Theory with Jessie Ventura right before bed, the Plum Island Animal Disease Research Facility episode - was the source of inspiration for the dream, beyond a doubt.

I had 3 WILDs after doing assort of WBTB when I had to get up to use the restroom in the middle of the night. Before going back to bed I remember thinking about the task I wanted to complete and I wanted to have a LD after a long dry spell.

Every time I woke up between these dreams I remember saying “And I am back” and wiggling my finger a little (as a sort of RC without too much movement) before falling into the next WILD


FIRST DREAM: Forgotten Tasks Mean Wanting Some Fun :
I could not remember what task I wanted to get done so since hubby was in bed next to me I tried to get him to have sex.

I stabilized the dream by rubbing my hands together and I also looked at my hands and arms. My I was surprised to find my scars were there and so was my tattoo with an added one on my left shoulder, but in the dream for some reason I thought it was completely normal to have and look for this second one. The black ink was faded blue color, however I remember thinking it looked cool like that.

SECOND DREAM: Putty Skin:
I was in bed with hubs again and he wanted to watch something with me but I thought about sex again. I could not do a proper nose pinch so I deiced to try the finger through hand thing, but I ended up twisting the skin between the thumb and first finger. My skin was like putty and I thought it was awesome and wanted to play with it a little more, but deiced not to get side tracked. I soon woke.

THIRD DREAM: Thinking Of A Way To Complete My Task:
I feel the wild come on get a little scared, but tell myself it is ok and not to try to force it. I try thinking about random stuff until I feel myself start to roll off the bed. At first I fight it, but then say I am moving into the dream so it is ok and if not this is going to hurt.

I roll off the bed and find myself in the dream floating a few inches off the ground. Once I realize I am in the dream however I make contact with the ground. I rub my hands together to try to stabilize and think to look at my arms again only to be wearing my pink hooded sweat shirt. I think about taking it off but I do not want to lose the dream so I settle for pulling up the sleeves as much as I can. This seems to work and I head for the front door. It is an all glass door with condensation on it (nothing like RL of course, but I like to document when and how things are different.) I also see lilD (my cat) in the living room where it looks like he is splitting into another cat.

When I open the door I hear mom cough, but I do not get side tracked and I leave the house. Once outside I see it has been raining and it feels like it is a mid fall night. I remember there was something I wanted to do but I forgot then it hit me and I said oh yah out loud. I take a moment to figure out how I will complete my task, I first think about walking and then think about flying, but I did not want to get side tracked with either of these ideas as I wanted to get to where I wanted as fast as I could without having to search it out. I come up with the idea to just announce to the dream world what I would like to do. So I cup my hands to my mouth and yell out I would like to visit the dreamworld dreamviews dream academy.

My dream responds to show me a castle across the lake and I instantly know this is it. Again I think about how to get there. I think I could swim, but felt once more I could get sidetracked and then think about walking there only to say it is too far and I might wake before I get there. I then think since it is a lake why not a boat. After this thought, I see a rather run down dock with a boat sitting next to it. I get the dream knowledge this boat is waiting for me. While making my way to the boat I see another one coming in to dock. In this boat I see an owl and only think it was weird for a second then say well it is normal in a dream. I get to my boat to see another owl there (it looks like the owl in Mancon’s profile picture). I bow my head and say good sir or good mam owl will you please take me to the castle as I would like to see it. The owl bows its head and says yes in a kind of metallic whine. I move to get into the boat only to wake.

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Had this dream the night of August 4, 2011

I am in a warehouse. I am trying to get a job here. It is very large and under construction and there are plastic sheets over all of the machinery. I am afraid but realize I am here for a reason. I then see some scary looking men arrive in a vehicle. I try to hide and end up running outside where there are more machine parts. It is dusty and dry. I am hiding behind a grove of trees and they get out and are yelling at each other. M is there and he says we should just walk out. Why should we be afraid? But I am. I then hear a voice. I know this voice. Its my grandmother. She is HERE. I don't care about the men anymore, I creep back into the warehouse and see a woman that looks like my grandmother. I want to go talk to her, but she is talking to other people. I sit behind a cold machine and stare at her. I am sad. She is younger and youthful and I am happy. But at some point I realize that while it sounds like her, it isn't her. And I am sad.

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I am in a house. It is kind of like a house of horrors with many rooms and a long hallway. There are bodies around me. I know I must keep going- that I might get to the end. There are people chasing us and I am afraid. My family is there with me. We get to a dark room that has a couch (with blood and bodies) and a television on against the wall. It is small and fuzzy. I see my grandmother there. She is herself, as she was before the cancer. I am sad to see her face on the screen. I then realize my grandpa is there and I try to get his attention so he doesn't see her. I then realize its not my grandma at all but an actress and I am even more sad. I keep trying to get my grandpa to look at me so he won't look at the screen.

I then realize I need to keep going. There is a map and a plan. We need to get to the roundpen. There is a large circe on a map (drawn in red). We must get there! We all start scrambling and we break into a light area (no longer dark and full of death) and we are stampeding toward this round pen. I realize it is high off the ground, like a tower. It is white and there is grass below and trees. We are scurrying to get there. There is a large group now. We are all panicked and running to this round pen for safety. As we get up onto the round pen, I realize it is nothing more than a platform with two feeble, metal rails. We are at least a few hundred feet off the ground and I am nervous.

Suddenly everyone turns their attention to a 'bright red sparkle' in the sky. Everyone is saying how beautiful these 'sparkles' are. I realize they're balls of fire, exploding only a few feet from where we are cramped. I am panicking and I grab M. He doesn't understand, no one does. They think these balls of fire are beautiful but don't realize they're bombs going off.

I am panicking and everyone talks about a 'red ball' they have to push back. I am unsure what they're talking about and I'm trying to focus and trying to figure a way to get off of this platform. Suddenly, what appears to be a dodgeball drops down. The people on the platform (who now resemble human sized birds) push the ball around and I watch as it explodes when they throw it off the platform. I am gripping onto M and I feel my heart sink. Another ball drops onto the platform and the bird-people are tossing it around. But someone drops it and I immediately start screaming and turn to run. I am moving in slow motion as I see flames crawling toward me(slow motion) and the blast gushes out across the platform. I am running, panicking and knowing I am going to die. I feel the flames overwhelm my body as I try to leap over the platform bars, but I don't make it and I am engulfed. My charred remains fall down off the platform on those walking by.