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    1. Foggy Recall

      by , 03-17-2011 at 09:48 PM
      I was at school just walking with some friends. We came to a futuristic building and went inside, but sadly everything after that gets foggy. Although I do remember being in a Gothic style balcony with magnificent arches and it being night time outside. Then I did something with my parents. Hmm... that's pretty much all I remember, could be worse though. :/
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      non-lucid , dream fragment
    2. The gorilla and the dinosaurs. Why am I hiding (Non lucids, bits & pieces)

      by , 03-17-2011 at 09:21 PM
      I'm in this dream, when suddenly this gorilla comes out, I believe my objective is to pass him alive. Suddenly a T rex comes out, and then an even bigger (about 5 times bigger) T rex comes out and starts eating the smaller T rex. I see it's my chance to run, I book it past them when the dream ends.

      (New dream)
      I'm in the dream and for some reason I need to hide from these soldiers (They look to be cambodians or some other south asian group)
      Me and the people I am with put on these lab coats of sorts and pretend to work, this soldier runs into the room I am in and asks me some question in a language I can't understand. I say something like "Me speak english", somehow with me speaking in english I have blown my cover, when suddenly the dream restarts to where I am supposed to hide again.
      This time I put on a lab coat and again enter the same room, this time the soldiers enter my room and leave through another door paying no attention to me. Everything after that is forgotten.

      I feel as though this was a really epic dream for some reason, I guess I'll never know though.
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    3. Transforming into a Horse, and My Brother on TV

      by , 03-17-2011 at 08:51 PM (Krista's Dream Journal)
      Dream - Lucid - AP

      I was at work, and we were closing. I was working with like 3 or 4 other people. All the lights were off, and I had already counted down my drawer, when a bunch of customers walked in, and my coworkers started to serve them, even though we were about to leave. This went on until about 11:30pm, when we close at 9pm. There were still people in there at that time.

      Then, I was in the back, and I felt like I looked different. My stomach looked distorted and muscular, and my face felt a little off. I think I even looked in the mirror at some point, and thinking it looked different. I knew that I was turning into a horse. I also knew that this was something that happened to me once a month, and it lasted for a few days. It was really bizarre. I know Ryan was there, and I had to explain it all to him. I "remembered" myself as a magenta horse, walking around in the coffee shop. I had a purple and red striped sweater on. I remember debating on whether or not I should wear a shirt during the transformation, or just going around as a "naked" horse.

      I was then in a bedroom, and Ryan was there with me. He was laying on the bed. I thought he'd be really put off by my transformation. I kept thinking he was, but I don't think he really cared that much. Then, I felt myself transforming. I felt my back muscles and bones enlongating. I kept feeling it come in waves. It was a really strange sensation. I also remember looking at my hands, and imagining them turning into hooves.

      Then, I was wading in a creek. There was a little boy there with me. He got swept off in a deeper, more rough park of the creek. He went underwater, and I pulled him out and saved him so he wouldn't drown.

      Then, I remember fighting some huge, 3-headed flower beast. I "remembered" fighting other ones similar to it beforehand. My mom was with me.


      ~

      I was about 14 or 15, and my brother was 12 or 13. I remember being at some weird computer with a white screen. We were outside. The computer was at a kiosk-type thing. I think it was outside of a school. My mom was with us. Throughout this whole dream, I knew I was experiencing my past, and that what was happening had already happened.

      Then, I saw my brother as a host on Nickelodeon with another guy his age, who, in the dream, was called Ricky Lake. They were hosting some party, and were on live television. They both had microphones and were talking about the party, and about what was going to come on next. I feel like I saw something like this more than once in the dream.

      Then, I remember seeing my brother on TV answering calls from viewers. Again, it was live TV. I called in and started cussing and telling off Ricky Lake. I called him an asshole. Then, I told my brother he'd probably get fired for my actions, and he did lose his job as a host. That was apparently one of the reasons why they stopped doing things live, and started prerecording them instead.


      ~

      I had a false awakening that I was getting up to get in the shower. I opened my contact case, which looked like my jewelery box in waking life, and my brother's contacts were in there too. I said something to him about it, and he apologized. I took his contacts out and put them in his retainer case.

      Updated 03-17-2011 at 08:56 PM by 32059

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      non-lucid , false awakening , memorable
    4. a [non-lucid] dream I had the other day

      by , 03-17-2011 at 07:58 PM
      I hadn't had a somewhat interesting dream in awhile. This one began with me seemingly running through a cramped, dimly-lit corridor with the fluorescent lights flickering above me as I was running for my dear life from what appeared to be an 8 foot long Xenomorph from James Cameron's 'Aliens' film. As I passed through the corridor , I made a turn and descended into the sub-level, thinking I had temporarily eluded the beast, I found to my horror that there was a large slimy egg sac hanging from a corner, writhing and covered in a mucus-like substance. I could tell it was about to hatch, so I caught my breath, then bolted for the large glass double-doors . I stumbled outside to find only a pair of elevators were my way out of the complex . So I then endeavored to take the stairs to the second floor and then the elevators from there. unfortunately, it seemed I wasn't the only one with that idea. All the remaining survivors from the complex, mainly civilians and a scientist here or there, were crammed into the glass box elevator , pushing and shoving their way in to fit inside . I could no longer here the screech of the Xenomorph, but I knew it would not be long before it found us. So I had to act fast. I Somehow convinced everyone that the aliens were in fact vulnerable to human pheromones secreted only during sexual reproduction, and that in order to save us all , we would have to all partake in a massive orgy. And so everyone promptly de-robed and fun was had by all ;]. For whatever reason, the Aliens seemed perplexed by human copulation and did infact run away at the scent of our rampant and vigorous love-making session .
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      non-lucid , dream fragment
    5. March 17 2011

      by , 03-17-2011 at 07:35 PM (Mah Journal)
      At first I was at school. I was outside of my locker. IR and some others were there. It was the day before march break. For some reason I had some extremely large locker; it was like a room inside. I could step inside of it and there's still be so much excess space.

      We could hear the people in the music room. They were studying music. There was something about LM's music in there. I mentioned to the people around me that she was my favorite artist.

      Eventually I ended up running around the school, and that's when I became lucid. The school kept switching between my old and new school. The familiar north staircase was there, and I was running up its ugly green and yellow stairs. Eventually I reached the top and I was with KA and KR.

      Me and KR started playfully fighting. We exchanging kicks and blows. Even though I knew I was dreaming, I was scared of feeling a blow from her.

      Eventually I ran away. I think I tried to fly at first, but it wasn't working. I went up some stairs and launched myself horizontally, parallel (and very close to) the floor. I sped like a rocket. I then moved my arms and legs as if I were galloping like an animal, and I sped along the hallway. The hallway turned into the second floor where the office was. I also tried to throw fireballs at KR, but my attempts failed.


      I ended up at some random grassy area afterwards. I was inside a giant bubble. I was playing some sort of game, and it had to do with eating the most. There was two other competitors. There were little jelly balls everywhere, almost like tapioca, and some random large gummies. I could see a scoreboard.

      I started pulling in the giant gummies. I remember distinctly a giant red gummy horse. It was strange; its anatomy was perfect. I started gnawing on its shoulder till I ate it completely. I then finished off with the little tapioca balls. In the end I somehow won this "competition".

      ---

      Some fragment of me playing some video game... it was really old and pixelly, RTS style. It was a desert setting; I was fighting against pterodactyls and giant bugs or something.
      Categories
      dream fragment , lucid , non-lucid
    6. Nightmare: Old Best Friends & A Dark Cloud

      by , 03-17-2011 at 07:20 PM
      This was early in the first sleep cycle. The dream didn't start instantly, that I'm aware of, but about 20-30 minutes later.

      It was night time. I was living in my backyard neighbors house. In my mind, both of these houses were home. (They are very similar to each other in real life.) Everything was epic looking. Larger than life. The house was roughly double sized and decadent like no expense was spared making it. A bright moonlight night was outside my windows. I got a loving phone call from my girlfriend who needed a ride. I felt fantastic. I was wondering which house to take my GF too.

      I went out the front door, but it exited onto my backyard patio. Standing there in near pitch blackness were my two lost best friends, in the old version of backyard (it was redesigned a few years ago). They were laughing and talking together, both harshly and intoxicated.

      I don't recall exactly what was said (it may have been abstract) but it was very rude. I remember them physically surrounding me on both sides. Slapping me on the back. I felt offended and overwhelmed. They acted like crude, spiteful, burnout versions of themselves.

      Just then, the backdoor opened. Out came an arm with a rather long thin, gray telephone receiver. I heard a voice say from inside the house: "Telephone for you!"

      I thought, "Which of my old friends will be rude to me next?" I became very distressed and cornered feeling.
      --Then I woke up.

      Waking Hallucination (?): When I opened my eyes. I was laying on my back. Above me, slightly off to the left and down a couple of feet was a large dark spot on my ceiling. I kept blinking hard. I'm sure I was awake. I looked around the room, all else looked normal.

      The black spot was about a 2-foot radius. I started to focus on it carefully and could see that the edges of it were swirling. As if it was a flat-ish mist disc, or a rotating projection. It was slowly drifting away from over my bed, to the left corner near the foot.

      I was watching it closely. The mist started to thin a little, and as it did: two faintly glowing eyes appeared in the middle, blankly looking back at me. They were about 10-inches apart, beady, and slightly smaller than dimes. After several seconds more, the "thing" gradually faded.

      To my awareness, I've never experienced visual hallucinations upon waking up before. I was not paralyzed or having a false awakening. At no point was I afraid. I wasn't sure what I was looking at exactly. I felt more relieved to have left the dream, than afraid of the cloud. I got out of bed. I didn't go back to sleep for hours.

      Fell asleep a little after 2AM and woke up at 2:38AM. Generally speaking, this is a weird time for vivid dreaming. I usually don't recall dreams in the first 3-REM stages. When I do, it typically ends a 90-minute cycle. However, I've noted a few nightmares in the first REM cycle after viewing shocking material.

      Note: I have an unpublished dream journal of strong, bewildering nightmares that took place heavily in 2007, lingered into 2008. In June 2009, I had one terrible nightmare. Some of the recent trickster elements in my dreams reminded me of those days.

      Updated 04-15-2011 at 04:49 AM by 32174 (Typo correction)

      Categories
      non-lucid , nightmare , memorable , side notes
    7. A date with Aeris

      by , 03-17-2011 at 07:07 PM
      I don't remember all of the dream, but I remember most of it:

      Early in the dream, I was looking through a window at cars. The thing about them was, they were very oddly shaped. Most of them were only built for one occupant, and one was built for four occupants who had to stand in a row while the car was moving.

      Later, I was in a crowded room, very large. Lots of tables and possibly couches all around, of various shapes. There was some kind of show going on, but it was behind me and I didn't really know what it was. It involved animals, though. There was a girl, Aeris (not the FF7 character, but cute and with the same name) who I was talking to. We had talked a bit before, and the possibility of going out to eat came up. She mentioned something about breakfast, and asked where I wanted to go, but I couldn't think of any place. I think we were on a trip of some kind, in a hotel. She was familiar with the area, but I wasn't. We moved to one of the couches, I was still facing away from the show, but she was facing it. Eventually we settled on a plan for the following day..we hugged, and she left.

      For a little while I sat on the couch, relaxing. A friend of mine walked by with my dog, whom he had borrowed for the show. I gave her a gentle tug as she walked by, as if to say hi. They stopped briefly, but had to continue on their way. Resting on the couch, a man at a nearby table started talking to me. He asked me about my power (because suddenly we were in the fictional land of Xanth, where every person has a power of some sort). I took on the role of the main character from that series, who is immune to all harmful magic. Early in the series, he believes himself to have no power at all, and I tell this to the man. After I leave, I pass by a tree and reflect on my decision to be this character.

      Suddenly the dream jumps, and I am again in the hotel, on an upper level, preparing for my date. However, I am also Lieutenant Commander Data from Star Trek, and I've just damaged my arm. Somehow the damage is such that it would interfere with my date (there was an important circuit in there that affected my perceptual abilities, or something like that). I initiate a self-repair sequence, and then I'm sent on an away mission to another dimension with an unnamed officer.

      We are transported to the surface of this world, and it is very..sectioned. Like the set of a film, all layed out side by side...one section contains a hallway and a waiting room, where Data remains to heal himself. Suddenly I am the unnamed officer, and through some sort of natural spatial/dimensional weirdness of the area, there end up being two of me. I climb through the ladders and tubes of one section, and find my duplicate has been talking to the natives, and has somehow managed to offend them deeply. It becomes a dangerous environment where we aren't quite at all-out combat, but we know that any further interaction with these people would be gambling with our lives.

      We go back to Data, and try to snap him out of the loop that he's in. He's imagining some sort of scenario, and not processing output from the real world. Somehow, we manage to overlay text onto the images that he is imagining, and we get a message to him that way. He snaps out of his dream-coma, and we are able to leave.
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    8. Not much of a nightmare...

      by , 03-17-2011 at 07:00 PM
      Im at school about to go to the hall, but T is trying to keep me away from there. I go inside and try to close the 2 doors, but its difficult.
      I play some CD and suddenly the lights start to go off one by one. The soundtrack sounds pretty creepy and the lights flash.
      I go to the other hall and there are some young children sitting on the floor being frightened because of whats happening.
      The teacher of the kids needs help to find the control panel where I could turn the lights on and the music out. I see it immediately and wonder why the teacher doesnt see it. I put the music out. I start to browse some CD's and try to find something playable, but I cant find.


      I try to go to sleep next to my mom but I see that my dog is there and I wont


      Im skipping an hour off from school, and we are at some forest with P and J. I try to make up a good excuse for why I was skipping a lesson and I come up with the idea that my stomach was hurting
      The clock is 11.30 and I start to walk back to school. I hear some weird drumming and I make conclusions that its coming from the elementary school and they are having some show there.
    9. The fifty samurai

      by , 03-17-2011 at 06:20 PM (The Nomad Chronicles)
      NOTES

      Raven and I meet on the Moon. We are so somber, we don't speak.

      She slowly walks to me, and gives me a hug. I start crying.

      "I am so worried about Sachi and her family. All of Japan... the whole world is going to shit..." I tell her.

      "Let's do the only thing we can, Nomad." I nod.

      She opens a portal to Fukushima. Q, Washu, Janet, Q10, and Xaphor follow.

      We stand in the middle of the fifty men on a suicide mission, and connect them to the higher entities.

      These men look like demon samurai.

      They are leaping into a strange glowing hellish orb.

      "May these true heroes find the best possible solution, I pray to the sentient entities."

      I feel strange knowledge being channeled through my arms like power.

      I scream in frustration.

      "We've done everything we can," says Xaphor. Time to go.

      NO NO WE HAVE TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THE SURVIVORS, WE HAVE TO HELP FIND THE BODIES. THEY ARE GOING TO ROT AND MAKE PEOPLE SICK.

      Raven vomits at this thought.

      "You okay."

      "Yeah... let's go."

      I open a portal into the dreams of the rescue workers trying to dig people out, and search for survivors in broken buildings...

      I am in thousand of nightmares at once. I feel like my soul is on fire. I feel like I am dying. I feel like I am in hell, and I will be in hell forever.

      I SCREAM IN SHEER TERROR.

      I know nothing. No thought or emotion. Only pure terror is left.

      I feel someone tackle me into a portal....

      I end up in the Healing Glen.... Raven is next to me....

      We are puking dark energy...

      I feel Xaphor and the presence of others healing us.

      I cry myself to sleep in the Healing Glen. I fee the Frost Giant pick me up as if I am a small child, and set me down in his cave.
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    10. Pound coins

      by , 03-17-2011 at 05:44 PM (Tomas's DJ - "Exploration of the inner Self")
      I am running to catch a bus. Suddenly, one pound coins fall out of my pocket. I can see them clearly on the ground. Its raining and the ground is wet and dirty. There are 3-4 coins. I pick them up and catch the bus. I run in and throw the money on drivers desk. I don't count them because I don't want to hold the whole bus behind any more. It is the old fashion bus from my country. I go down the alley... then I wake up
      Categories
      non-lucid , dream fragment
    11. I hate Justin Bieber

      by , 03-17-2011 at 05:34 PM (Trial and Error)
      The dream started off with me and my roommates (dream roommates) having a clean house.
      For no reason Justin Bieber shows up (I got a strong urge to tell him that I could kill 28 Biebers if a swarm of them attacked me according to a quiz online ). He has his whole team of security making sure that everything goes smoothly while he stays with us, but nobody knows why he is there, and none of us like him.

      As the dream progresses our dogs (some I have had irl some that I haven't) begin to mess up the house. They were jumping on things and breaking things, until the house was a wreck.
      The Bieber security showed up and got us basically arrested.

      There was somewhat of a dream skip but it kept going.

      We were outside of this facility where we had been taken and the same guys that had dragged us out of the house were behind this strange wall (we could see through it , but it was a wall) aiming firearms at us. There were four of us standing in a square. We seemed to know what is happening, but I was still confused.

      They shot one of the people in front with some kind of dart, causing them to collapse on the ground, and proceeded until all of us were shot and paralyzed. My body was so heavy that I could only move my neck a little. I watched as they, starting with the same person, shot a different dart. The first person shot was still for a moment, but then began seizing violently. My heart started going as I realized that my turn was coming up. They shot the second person, the same pause, then seizing. I began to hyperventilate, but was still unable to move as they laid their sights on me, and fired. I knew what was coming, but and began seizing.

      A majority of the dream was many more darts in the same fashion, each one aching as it stuck into my body, each one with a strange side effect.

      After a while they took us into a room, some kind of rest room to keep us until it started again. I tried to walk around, but was unable to keep myself erect, all my limbs seeming heaving, and my vision failing me. I could not keep my balance so I sat down, continuously complaining about our treatment and how it was to severe. No one was listening.

      Some kind of dream skip, but it continued. I think there was an inferred few more cycles of the shootings and the rest room.

      I don't know if we escaped, but I want to say we were released. We exited the strange room through some kind of tube into a system of tubes and chambers unknown to us. (They were somewhat of a mix between the tube transports from the show "futurama" and play places at Mcdonalds, only made out of several different materials) The two of us (don't know what happened to the other two) began climbing randomly through, still feeling horrible, and being extremely disoriented.

      We finally find an exit and find ourselves in a world we do not recognize. A futuristic world, were we seem out of place. We suspect we have actually been held for several years and that the world has changed during our captivity.

      I then have a false awakening in my bed at home and begin seizing again. I freak out thinking my dream was trying to wake me up before it happened. I calm myself down enough to sit up, by body still pulsating. I see my laptop siting in my bed showing research of the strange technology that I had seen in the dream.

      I think to myself "Oh my God, the technology is real." and then I wake up for real.
    12. 5 second lucid

      by , 03-17-2011 at 05:21 PM (My Second Life)
      Today when i woke up I was Staring at a wall in my room. I noticed my door was wide open So i pushed it closed with my mind. I then thought to plug my nose to see if i Was dreaming.

      I Was !!

      I then thought of something to do so i floated out of my window and noticed it was really bright outside.I could literally feel the warmth on my face. Slowly i walk around to the front of the house. I see a silver and black Car parked in the middle of the street and my two pine tree's are missing from the yard. My fathers car is now Silver. i slowly started to Drift from the dream and awake. It was quite exhilarating to be inside a dream world with such clarity.
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      lucid
    13. 3/17/11

      by , 03-17-2011 at 02:49 PM
      no real succes with SP last night, i must have been to tired and just fell asleep.

      dream of my grandmother's old apartment, but it was across the street from a LA night club that 80's rockers use to hang out in

      dreamed that i was driving to miami for a job, stopped at a rest area for lunch. rich was in the dream
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    14. FA, night festival, coast

      by , 03-17-2011 at 02:34 PM (Sehnsucht)
      I had a lucid dream again, I can't believe it.
      My mother wakes me up by shifting the curtains, it is very bright outside. It is so bright I cannot keep my eyes closed. My brother has started his computer and is playing loud music now, I stand up and get angry. The house has features of my current and old home. I talk to my mother about something. Next thing I know is that we are at a night festival. There are men performing on a stage, they are naked but colored in paint. They do something like free dance. It is very interesting. After the show is over, three giants appear, and dance. Two of them are dancing together, the other one seems lonely, and dances alone. He soon leaves again. It is time for the final part now. Somehow I know what it is: A golden ring will appear on the field, and the crowd will look for it. The one who finds it is then chased by the others in a cheerful manner. Suddenly, a big frog is speaking: "It is the 25th of the month, full moon, and a meteor will appear at the sky tonight. Could it be...?" I see the full moon, there are no clouds at the sky. And then the meteor, crashes down before me, the golden ring lands before my feet. I know now that I am dreaming. I pick up the ring, and start to walk in the direction of the moon. OR is with me now, he notices that I have the ring, and asks me how I found it. I say "because it is a dream" I throw the ring to him, he fails to catch it, but reflects it back to me with some stupid movement. I kick the ring upwards so it won't reach the ground, and then catch it, thinking "things like this are possible in a dream, huh". Now the crowd approaches me, we sit on the ground. I explain to various people that we are in a dream, and demonstrate it by stretching the ring like a rubber strap. The ring has a weird consistence now, something like very viscuos liquid. I ask a person who looks like a politician what he would do if this would be a dream and he could do what he wants. He walks away, saying that he doesn't believe in things like that.

      I am at a beach with my brother and a man. We are disguised as apes( or are apes), and my brother is carrying a big piece of meat, or adead animal. As we wander across the beach, we see other apes in our way, they are far more. I am concerned about our meat, so I advice my brother and the man to be careful. We try to avoid the other apes, and soon decide to travel along the dike on the right. It is more a wall than a dike. I look at the other side, there are men with their pets, apparently only big cats like tigers, pumas, and so on. Later on, there is a way connecting the beach and the field, and we get scared of the big cats. I wonder what to do (meanwhile, we aren't apes anymore). After a while thinking how to aproach a curious tiger, I see that my brother wlked ahead carelessly, but I think that this is the right way, so I follow him.
      I am alone now, on my way to town. I get to an area left to the way, and wonder what is here. I look back and get a grasp of how I got here, and then think I should get away fast. Too late, in the trees above me appears a woman in a weird device, she looks (or feels) asian, and says: "run away". I do so, but men notice me and run after me. I get to town, and think that they won't get me here because I know the shortcuts. I run to my house (not IRL), go to my room, and settle on my loft bed. Soon the men with their boss arrive in my room, and try to intimidate me. The boss asks me where the codes are. I suddenly get angry and shout that I don't have any codes. I go further and acuse them of breaking in my house, nad ask them to leave immediately, and on top of that, they have to buy me corn flakes for apology. The boss seems surprised by my ability to grasp the situation, and leaves grinding his teeth "Cornflakes...". Our house seems like a kindergarden, I join a few kids playing a boardgame with characters from sesam street. Later, I go around town, and notice the boss having a conversation with some nobelman. They make a plan to lure in my mother (not IRL, she looks like my old polish teacher). The boss leaves, the nobleman starts an evil laugh. I pack his throat with my left arm interrupting him, and threathen him to never again even think about something like that. I run back to my house, and see how the boss is leaving with my mother. I grasp the situation, it looks like he told her that I am in danger and she has to come with him. I run to them and push him away, saying to my mother that I am okay. She is reluctant, but I tell her she should consider how I would feel if she offers herself to save me.


      I have nice recall lately, maybe it is because I started the practice of natural light.
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      lucid , false awakening
    15. The Cave

      by , 03-17-2011 at 01:36 PM
      The following occurred last night as I was attempting a visual MILD. The fact that the dream world reacted to my commands and thoughts, at least partially, is an encouraging sign for me; it is the first time I have exercised any measure of control in my dreams. Additionally, the fact that my logic center kicked in in this dream to recognize a DS is another encouraging fact. I found the visions that permeated the transition from the dream to the waking world, and then stayed with me in the waking world for a short time, to be disconcerting but not frightening in any way. Maybe a false awakening?

      Wednesday, March 16, 2011

      I enter a cave that is lit by the daylight pouring through the gaping opening. The walls appear reddish, as if maybe made partially of clay. I have entered the cave with a group of children; feels like I am leading a field trip. On the walls of the cave is writing that appears to have been smeared on with some sort of green substance, maybe paint?

      Directly ahead, the path in the cave splits in two; one path, the one to the right, continues on straight ahead and the one to the left continues downward. My “class” stays to the right, on the straight path and I can hear their playful yells back and forth as they all appear to be having a good time. I begin to walk down the downward sloping path to the left. A few feet down the grade I kneel down for some reason, as if to tie my shoe. I suddenly think to myself “thank God for that sunlight. This cave would be pretty damn spooky if it were nighttime outside.” As I think that, the light from the cave’s mouth vanishes and I am cast in darkness and overcome with a feeling of dread.

      I tilt my head up and suddenly realize “I am dreaming. There is no way the light would just vanish at the very thought of it in the middle of the day were I awake.” I stand up and run my hand along the wall to my left (I am facing back the way I came, up the path towards the cave’s mouth). I can feel the moisture of the cave’s wall on my fingertips. I still hear my “class” yelling and playing on the path above me and to me left. I no longer feel any fear whatsoever, though I must admit that the echoing sound of children playing in a damp cave completely bathed in darkness is a bit creepy.

      I say aloud “I have no class and those children do not exist.” The sounds of the children fade away into a background humming that won’t seem to stop. I then state, forcefully “illuminate!” Nothing happens. This time I yell “Light damnit!” The cave is not illuminated, but I can now somehow see only the wall to my left and just make out the green markings.

      The humming noise has grown increasingly louder and I realize that it is coming from the humidifier in my bedroom in the waking world. I am once again bathed in complete blackness and I yell aloud “No! Keep it together! Stay in this dream!” But the world has gone completely black and the sound of the humidifier has grown louder. I no longer feel like I am standing anywhere, let alone a cave. I only see complete blackness. Before my eyes I do see visions of luminescent skeletons dancing about and then strange faces that I cannot identify.

      My eyes shoot open and I am lying in my bed. The visions of the faces and skeletons are still in my line of sight. I shut my eyes quickly, the visions are still there, and re-open them, they are gone. I roll over on my back and perform my RC, confirming that I am now awake.