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Last night I had a normal dream, it was fuzzy and I was talking to my young cousin, though he was taller than he should have been. Obviously nothing important, except I realized that I tend to see my dreams in a third person view of myself, not first person like normal. So I think this might be a dream sign.

Normal Dream Lucid Dream Side-Notes
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(I'm not sure if these dreams, are all connected or if they are separate. I'm just guessing.)
Fragment: I'm in my house and my cousin is living with us again. (He use to live with us, but then he moved out.) We're actually getting along.
Dream 1: I'm a superhero fighting a monster. I know it's my responsibility but I keep leaving to watch Avatar. (I don't know why I left because in the dream it was recording on our DVR. Also, I went back and forth lots and lots of times so this part of the dream was pretty long.) Then the scene changed and my mom, sister and I are driving in a car. We go down a one-way road that is blocked and continue through the detour. The workers say the detour isn't finished being built and we have to go back through the one-way road. Going back up is uphill and since I'm the guy I have to push our car up the hill. We make it home and watch a movie.(Not Avatar)
Dream 2: My mom wants a locker, like the ones in my school. I take her to school and as I'm showing her my locker my Spanish teacher comes up says stuff.(I forget what she says.) Then some other teacher comes up and says more stuff. The scene changes to a play. My family and I are in the back. We start talking about dreams.
Dream 3: I was a library trying to meet a guy that is a master at lucid dreaming. I decide to reality check and realize I am dreaming. The dream gets blurry. I Lick the bookshelf to stabilize the dream, it gets really clear. The guy told me to make it brighter. I tried using verbal commands but it only worked a little bit. My alarm woke me up.

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Side-Notes:
*This was my first real lucid, I'm so happy.
*It probably would of lasted longer if it wasn't for my alarm.
*Next time hopefully my lucid comes earlier in the night.

I realized I was dreaming and decided the first thing to do was stabilize the dream since I had never tried it before. I rubbed my hands together and started feeling the texture of things. I was in my old high school with a lot of people around, since I knew I was dreaming I decided to run around naked and gauge people's reactions (sounded like a good idea, idk) People were laughing and were really shocked, then we all started heading towards this room and on the way I kept reminding myself to touch the walls and carpet to keep myself aware. Eventually I faded out of the dream and I had a false awakening into a normal dream.

In this dream, this girl I used to go to school with was telling me some story that happened to her. We were standing in an elevator with a couple other people from school. I was listening to her talk and got bored and told her that she had already told me this story and in fact that we were standing exactly where we were the last time she told me. After I said that she changed into a former co-worker of mine, and the other people changed to two of my friends from where I live now. I started telling them about the lucid dream I had, although I think I left the taking my clothes off thing out, since I figured they might find that strange. Which it probably is strange, but I was thinking along the lines of I'm free lol. After I told them, they started to get out of the elevator except for me and my former co-worker, and after a minute of standing there wondering what happens next she asked me if I was going to get out. I said, oh yea... why stand in an elevator?

I only remember vague feelings of the dreams I had after these.
(The lucid dream lasted much longer than my usual lucid dreams. This is progress, thanks to remembering to rub my hands together. It really works!)

i had this whole entire dream about crystals mainly me buying them or moving them around my room. BUT there was this particular moment where there was a clear quartz crystal i could put both hand on it. When i put my hands on i felt a very powerful vibrations and blue energy almost like lightning went into my hands. i let go and my hands felt so poweful when i put both hands close together i could see the energy passing through my finger tips and palm of my hand it was like i was given a power to take back into reality. This has strongly lead me to Believe i should start Doing Reiki. Iv always had a feeling to do healing.

next part of dream i was washing pots and putting them on the drainage board and then they dissapeard and i was like ghosts theres a ghost!! and it was putting my stuff away for me haha quite funny but then i heard a cockatiel and i made these funny noises and it mimicked me then it came in the room and it was my Cockatiel called gizmo that died a few years ago was nice to see again hehe even though it wasnt real.

Next part of dream i created a tree i made the shape and i was now put the leafs on indivually was awsome and thats it for todays dream recall

11.01.2011

SP and dance partner (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Preparation:
I had two glasses of water once again but this time it didn't work so well as I shall explain. I had my forearm upright on the bed for the WILD awareness training. I lose consciousness very quickly as I was very tired but then my forearm dropped a little and woke me up slightly. Now I started to feel tingling in my foot and paralysis soon set in and came up to my chest then it became harder to breath and I became a excited and started focusing too much on my chest. I realized that it is not helping the SP develop any further therefore I switched my focus to the imagery being created at a more rapid pace than usual but were much like normal day dreaming. Focusing too much on them didn't help either. Once there was a balance the SP would develop. Then my brother started singing in the next room and by this time (I've been in bed for about an hour) I needed to pee so I decided to break from the SP.

I went back to bed once I had done my business and told my brother to keep it down and went to bed as normal.

I am about to have my photo taken by a professional photographer with an Asian girl (hopefully it's a girl. I have a feeling that she maybe the person I met at the meditation center who is much older) in a blue dress like that of Alice from Alice in Wonderland.
(Earlier) We are dancing with other dancers in a small room but I don't don't know the steps at all and feel awkward. I ask the girl to teach me the steps. I don't remember hearing her doing any talking.
(Even earlier) I see myself sitting on the floor on a cushion.

Ok, so this one is kind of unclear, but I got the gist of it. It was pretty awesome.

Awake Non-Lucid

I'm in an underway train station. It's grey and very dirty. There are people all around me, mostly my own age. Some people I recognise, some I don't. They hang around in small groups, looking particularly savage like.

I hear a loud noise and turn around. I see a train and begin to morph in a wolf. This is a pack! I realise. The savage people also transform. Before I can stop them, they growl and attack the train. I run to catch up. There are people inside the train who are screaming. The train screeches to a stop and the people run out. I manage to get ahead of the train and call the pack to follow.

Once out of the dark tunnel, there are rolling green hills. We run as fast as we can, until we meet with another wolf pack. They have some sort of problem they want us to help them fix. We agree, although we are all wary.

Unfortunatley I have a feeling that I've forgotten stuff and that it's hanging on the edge of my mind. I hope I remember!

Non-LucidLucid Awake

so i remember having a lot of dreams but only bits and pieces of each one.

theres this kid chasing me around a villa. [B](some really annoying kid i had recently talked about being psycho and going to a mental hospital)[/B] anywho, that kid is gone when i look around.............[fades out]

im at a farm somewhere when suddenly i have the urge to go home, me and my friend zack turn into bats. we fly iver things, the view goes into 3rd person as i fly-jump over water falls and stone walls and rivers............[fades out]

im at a local convience store. and i have the urge to steal something. i steal a long pack of hersheys cookies and cream bite sized chocolates. and start eating them... i see some girl, she askes where i got them. i tell her and she leaves in a car with some kid i know..then im not sure but i think i get a pepsi or something............[fades out]


im at the entrance to an old school.(im not sure but i think it is a reoccurring dream-scape =D) i have a drink, and im going back to school. my friend tells me that i will get suspended if they catch me with it. i say i dont care and then make a joke that it would be fucked up if i slipped and fell into my drink and still got in trouble for it............[fades out]

i remember my aunt sitting down grabbing chicken, like cooked kfc chicked and taking the bones out,(i think it was because i was hungry), there was two giant plates of chicken. and i just zoned out............[fades out]

and then i awoke!
i wish i could remember more details

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID FALSE AWAKENING PRECOG SHARED

23.45

Fragments

I’m at home with my new BF/fiancée, who I don’t recognize. I hear a kitten meowing and I look for him. Instead of a kitten, I find a dead bird drowned on something with water. I try to revive him with no success so I put him down on a shelf.

I decide to organize the bookshelf which is full of diaries and albums. Zilla is with me and steals one of my most recent diaries and runs away to go read it. I try to get it back. She opens on a random page and finds an episode in which I confess (it even has pictures) of having had a crush for some teacher back in 2000.

Somewhere on a road, buses are passing by and I should get into one, but have no idea which one would take me home. I make a sign to stop a random bus. One stops but not for me, only because one of its passengers was questioning the driver about the directions they were heading to and they are discussing it. I keep walking.

2:30

Ghosts
Walking along train tracks with friends and mothers of friends. We see an airplane free falling and coming to hit the ground exactly where we are. I run and escape, but they don’t. I then pass by a stand selling second hand clothes. I want to buy something because later I might have to wait for my mother standing outside in the cold and my clothes are really not warm enough. But I only have coins in my pockets and no wallet. I also realise I have no docs or keys to go back home. I keep going. Someone tells me I’m being escorted by ghosts and I find it is the ghosts of my friends. I decide to go meet their families to let them know. The first family I visit I encounter Carlos (a guy who had a crush for me in school) and I am happy to know that he is now an actor and performs for the benefit of several causes. But while the rest of the family accepts the news peacefully, he is the one over dramatizing.

4:30

Temples and farming tips
On a Japanese temple in the middle of a lake. I become lucid when I hear birds singing and I can distinguish clearly the songs of each one individually. The sound of the water, the roughness of the rock and the colours of the wood, are all intense and detailed. I look around and I see this is a complex of temples. I float through the air in half-lotus position until I reach the main temple where I want to meditate. I offer prostrations to the Buddha with dozens of other persons from several distinct Buddhist schools. Then I’m invited to join a group meditation on a room to my right side, which I accept. The room is inclined, making it extremely uncomfortable to sit on the floor, but I manage to get a pillow to make it better. We are then interrupted by some lady who warns everybody that the last bus to go back to hotel is about to leave in 15 mins. I lose lucidity for a while and I think I’m with them, so when they leave I follow them. But along the way I recover lucidity and ignore them. I cross a bridge and find an agricultural field. I’m surprised to recognize the farmer who is growing maize there - it's Lucas. He is demonstrating a new irrigation system he created. Because I’m about to become a farmer to, I show interest in his technique. I prepare to memorize the design and materials when he turns it on and I get all wet.
Later on I ask him some questions and write them down on a notebook.

6:00

Family secrets and man in black attack again
With dad and rest of the family at my late granny’s home. Dad is about to leave to go somewhere but I go after him ‘cause I forgot to ask him something. My cousin Cris comes with a yogurt maker she wants him to take in the car. He agrees to take it later, but hands it over to me for now.
Then back inside the house, I went to store the machine on some storage room and found a secret entrance to a whole secret section of the house nobody ever told me about. Not just a room, but a long corridor full of rooms. My cousin knew about it and I ask why she didn’t tell me. She says our parents found out after our granny died, but out of respect for her, they decided not to ever go there. I found that stupid. My dad finds out about my interest and offers to grant me access to an office which is right at the entrance under his supervision. He tells me he himself used to go there secretly with permission from my grandma and none of his brothers knew.
But I’m not satisfied with the offer. I later ask my friend Zilla to come help me explore the whole thing. We sneak in through the secret passage. I find a room with a closet full of nice dresses and I immediately pick a dark blue one I think it’s awesome. I believe my grandma would want me to use them instead of having them rotting. I then find another room where apparently she used to rest. By the side of a bed, I find a notebook with some cryptic annotations that look religious or of some kind of cult. I think I found something important. I then hear footsteps. I tell ZIlla to close the door and duck behind the bed. She locked the door and someone tries to open it. I’m getting nervous. Then from a wall of this room, a secret passage opens and two people in dark suits come out of it. I laugh nervously and ask in a playful manner who they are and how they knew about that passage. They don’t respond and simply grab me. The one that grabs me is a strong black lady and she sticks a needle in my arm. Zilla is trying to open the door to run away, but she can’t. I fight back and take the needle off my arm and stick it on my aggressor. She laughs at me, saying it’s useless, ‘cause the drug was a very effective tiny portion and is all on my blood right now. I suck my arm, trying to get it out and delay the effects, but to no point. I black out. Then I wake up.

8:00

Jan 10th-11th
Had two very complicated dreams that faded when I woke up this morning. I layed in bed too long. The dreams I do remember where complex and worth remembering, but what dreams aren't worth remembering. I do remember an apartment and dull colors. I have decided to voice record my dreams to make I easier to remember and right them down. *

Dream - Lucid

So excited that I was lucid again, even if it for a very short amount of time. I used the WBTB and MILD methods, though the WBTB was not intentional. I must say I'll have to try MILD again, because it definitely seemed to work. I repeated to myself in my head "I will become lucid." I paired that with my breathing ("I will" on the inhale and "become lucid" on the exhale). Even if it wasn't instant lucidity, it still seemed to work.

My mom kept coming into my room to turn my TV and the closet light off, and I'd wake up every time and turn them back on. I said something to her about it and she told me she'd stop as long as I turned the volume on the TV down. Ziggy, my old cat from waking life (we had to put him down when I was 14) was there, looking young and healthy. I thought to myself "He's not dead at all, why do I keep thinking he is?"

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There was a city in the future, but it was medieval-looking. I wasn't really "there", it was kinda like I was watching a movie, but not. I was passively watching events go by. Anyway, they had cellphones, and lots of futuristic technology. They lived in castles built on top of bare ground. There was no grass or trees to be seen anywhere. These two people, a guy and a girl, I think they were teens or young adults, were very adventurous. The boy took the girl to explore an abandoned city. It looked a lot like New York, only it was very run down and deserted. It was from the distant past. Their medieval city was on the outskirts of this run-down New York. They were in an old skyscraper, when everyone started to evacuate and run for their lives. I thought it was because the building was going to topple over, but it looked steady to me. I couldn't figure out why everyone was evacuating so quickly.

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There was a little boy and his mother. We were all sitting at a kitchen table, I think it was in my family's kitchen. We were all supposed to go to some high school football game or something, and I didn't really want to, but I knew I had to. The little boy did an impression of Snuffy from Sesame Street (the big brown, hairy elephant). He pulled his ears with his hands, and wiggled them. I laughed and said
"Wow! He can really wiggle his ears!"

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After that last dream, I woke up and wrote in my dream journal. This is when I decided to try to MILD.

I was in a restaurant, a bar I think, and I was tending. There was a very quiet, soft-spoken lady there ordering. There was also this model town, kind of like in the game Epic Mickey (I just picked this up in waking life and I can't stop playing it, haha). I jumped into it, and ended up in this giant grocery store. It looked like Kroger, but much bigger with very high ceilings. I was walking down the aisles and encountering many people. I tried to talk to them all, but they were all mean and wouldn't have anything to do with me. I didn't know why. I finally came up to this Mexican man and tried to talk to him. I was very nice and polite. He started telling me that it was too late, and I should have been nicer to him when I had the chance. He called his wife over, and they walked away. I then "remembered" that I had been to that store before, and was very mean to all of those people, and they hadn't forgotten. I was extremely sad and ashamed.

Then, I somehow realized I was dreaming. I examined my hands, and saw that a lot of my fingers were growing together and were kind of distorted. I felt the dream fading, so I did it again. I started to float up to the ceiling, and did it even though I felt like weights were trying to push me back down. I couldn't figure out what to do. I saw a man go towards this door in the middle of the customer service area. It wasn't attached to a wall or anything. As he turned the knob, he turned around and smiled at me. Instead of following him, which I felt I should have, I had the idea of trying to share a dream. I created a portal like I had in the past, by sticking out my hand and saying "Portal, APPEAR!", but it didn't look the same as my other portals. Instead, it was a small circle with white and rainbow light radiating from the center. I tried to jump in before it had fully manifested, and ended up tumbling through the air in the store. I ended up next to a projector screen, like in Epic Mickey. It wasn't operational though.



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Austin had cut his hair (which he really needs to do in waking life, haha), and had gotten a couple of strands dyed light purple and light pink. We laid down in my bed to watch a movie, and I knew he wanted to have sex, but I was on my period. Then, I remember having a big "Elizabethean collar" on, which is a cone-shaped collar that you put on animals after surgery so they don't pull their stitches out. I had to wear it as some sort of brace, but I only wore it in private. I remember looking in the mirror at my reflection. I looked ridiculous with that thing on.

Then, I was at some apartment, and there was a giant bucket of LSD-laced brownies. I started eating them, when my friends Leigh and Andrea came over. They ate them with me, and we couldn't get enough. We started watching a really trippy movie. Everything was very vivid. At some point, the lady that lived next door to the apartment we were in came over and I had somehow pissed her off. She had to use our microwave, so when her stuff in the microwave was done, I left to hide, afraid that the lady would call the police when she found out we were doing all this acid. I found all these secret nooks and spaces in the apartment, it was pretty awesome. I explored for awhile, then came back, and the lady was standing in the doorway with her friend, and they were watching the movie.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Good morning! I haven't posted in a while since I didn't have anything worth posting. Got only a few hours of sleep last night, but it was enough for me to have a few fragments. REM Rebound when it's at its best.

01.00: Sleep

04.50: Fragments
*I'm watching a porno. A girl's riding a guy and her entire backside's got tribal tattoo's.

*I get on the subway with my bike. A girl has to move over to give me room and we start talking. It feels great! We never talk to strangers in Sweden, but this felt all natural and nice.

*I'm in a school and an old friend is there. He's very happy to see me. My mom is in the school and she tells me something.

04.50: Wake up

Amount of sleep: 4 hours

Supplements before bed: 2 x Omega-3

That's it!

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

Dream 1-- Lucid #7!

This dream was rather long in the beginning, but I don't remember it because it was unimportant compared to what happens when I become lucid. So I am going down this escalator, as I had done earlier in the same dream and have this thought that I am going to go sit in one of the lounge chairs. I am in this hotel or something, I see other people, but the scene is familiar and when I have this thought I recognize instantly that I have been here before and that it was in a dream. I think to myself, if I were in a dream and I could change what I do then I would be lucid right now, and BAM I become lucid.

As I reach the bottom of the escalator, I see a bunch of my SM friends sitting down. I high five Scott then Andrew N. then this older white guy. I feel really happy about achieving lucidity and I just want to high five the people in celebration.

Once I high five the older guy, I think about doing the task of the month. I try to teleport outside and make a storm appear, but that causes me to be unable to move, makes the dream unstable, and turns things dark. I immediately abandon that approach and decide walking outside is better. When I get to the glass door, I decide to jump through it instead of opening it. I go right through! I am now outside and it is bright daylight.

I turn to my left, and there is my spanish teacher who I had talked to earlier today and resolved a conflict about my grade. She comes up to me smiling and rubs my shoulder in greeting. She says "Hi Jay" as per usual. I say "Hola senora" and I am trying to think of how you say "are you happy?" in spanish because I know she is a dream character and I am hoping that she is satisfied now. In trying to figure out how to translate, I wake up.

Note to self: Don't speak other languages while lucid! Also, stabilize when first lucid! This should be the first thing!

Dream 2-- TJ escapades

This dream occured early in the morning after I had been tossing and turning most of the night. I false awaken in my dorm room bed to see the door slightly cracked open. I hear my sister saying "Jay come outside."

She sounds sick and in need of help, so I walk outside. As I look to my left, TJ is there and he talks to me about how he visited SM and saw this gym teacher who was basically sexually assaulting the kids. He told me "He lines them up against the wall and gets them to bend over." I get disgusted at the thought, and when I look over to the right I see all these kids lined up against the wall bending over! It looks like we are in a hotel room hallway. It is dark and the kids are wearing these short blue shorts. One pale blonde kid is standing up away from the wall with his arms crossed. The teacher is pacing back and forth just looking at the kids.

When he sees me and TJ, he walks over and starts talking to us. He tells the children to line up and comes over to me. He asks me what am I doing, and I reply well I have a sister and I was on the baseball team at SM (I was actually thinking about how not to lie to that question in the dream). When he hears I was on the baseball team (since TJ told me he was the baseball coach) he perks up and begins to laugh. He walks away with his line of children. It's really awkward and then I look over and there is this random guy who just jumps over a table and then crashes to the ground. This scene makes me fall to the floor laughing and TJ says "dude its not that funny."

Suddenly we are transported in a video game. Me and some teammates are running away from TJ who is this giant "heavy" as he would be called in Team Fortress 2. Most of my team runs up on a roof, but I don't get there soon enough so I try to jump over a ledge only to be caught hanging by my hands. TJ walks in closer with his huge figure and tries to step on one hand at a time. With my sweet computer keyboard skills, I know how to move one hand at a time and skillfully dodge until eventually I have to let go.

I am randomly spiderman and can shoot webs out of my palms. I shoot a statue to my left and this building to my right, but I am caught in the middle in this blank chasm of blue nothingness (like sky) with what feels like my balls caught in a vice due to the webs somehow getting wrapped around my nuts and getting pulled taut. TJ appears on the statue laughing in a deep voice. I saw in almost a whisper "ow, my balls."

Dream 3-- Poker and Shame

I am in a dark room playing heads up Texas Hold 'em against Trejo I think. He is a kid who went to my school. The community cards are all laid up on the table, and it seems like everyone is standing around watching us, including my father. The cards are 3 aces, 3 tens, 2 7s, an 8 and a 9. That's a lot of cards. At first I see the aces and tens and figure I will bluff the pot no matter what because of the full house on the board, which is the best hand unless he has an ace or ten. I look at my hole cards... Pocket 7s, I have quads.

Before I bet, I say I need to leave to go to the bathroom. I am almost instantly teleported once I get up from my chair. I am in this white bathroom with toilets on the walls that you can only access by opening up these cabinets. They swing open from the handles on the left side. There is a person on the cabinet urinal two down from me, so I relax and start to let it flow. I know in my mind I won the hand, so when I exit the bathroom I am somehow walking down a completely new place that I know is still leading me to the poker game though.

It's a train station and I am walking on the median. As I look to my left, I see my reflection in the mirror. I am wearing blue shorts, a blue shirt, some socks, black shoes, and my hair looks like it's Goku's without it appearing anything cool. I start having self-criticism about it. As I continue to walk, I pass bleachers on my right filled with people. They start booing and throwing food and random objects at me, but I don't pay attention, I just keep looking forward and walking straight. Eventually I decide to pick up the pace gradually and start doing ground rolls (like a ninja).

I get to this one train after I see myself briefly in the mirror again, and I walk in. It was the same people and it looks like we are going to continue our texas hold em game. When we get dealt, I realize that we are playing some new game with a card on it that has nuclear reactor symbols and I have two cards that appear to let me win. I don't know how to play the game or what the cards in my hand do, but the longer I look back and forth between what I have and this five column green and yellow game board on my lap the more sure I am that I have a winning hand. We don't ever get around to playing though.

Dream 4-- Driving with Family

This dream was rather lengthy, but it happened close to the beginning of the night. I was driving my big chevrolet car. It's and 8-seater, and I was with my oldest sister who was silent in the passenger seat. I don't remember where we were going, but it seemed like we had a purpose. We are driving in this back alley way with shoddy roads. As I drive, my left wheel goes almost half way off the side of the road into some ditch, but luckily its not a full half way so that the car remains stable. This reminds me of how I was longboarding earlier in the day and the same thing basically happened to me.

I am in some telekinetic communication with my parents. They are talking to me without me seeing their bodies or being on the phone or anything. Suddenly, I am driving again but on a totally separate road heading for some trees. It looks like a familiar path that I had taken earlier in the dream but my parents are also driving next to me and I feel like I am in a race somehow. I want to find the best path possible. This competition wakes me up.

Dream 5-- Basketball Suck

Me and a bunch of random people and Blake are playing basketball in what looks like the nice gym at my school. We horribly suck. The ball is flat, the passing is horrendous, no one is confident in their abilities and so will get passed the ball and instantly look to pass it again. The other kids look like timid freshmen without a clue of what to do or what's going on at all.

This one kid gets passed the ball at half court and freezes. I try to predict where he will pass the ball and start sprinting toward this one open kid on his team. I don't get there soon enough despite my best effort but the kid can't score anyway. I make shitty passes, Blake makes shitty passes, everyone sucks. No one can pass the ball right or shoot or dribble (because of the flat ball).

The game is just straight horrible but there is also silence externally. No one is complaining or yelling anything or saying anything in general. But I have this massive script that continues throughout the dream that just rattles on in my mind about what is happening and what I need to do next.

Basketball is another dreamsign. This has shown up a lot in my dreams!

In which I go house hunting...

The realtor and I walk down the sidewalk in my neighborhood past many of the old Southern style houses with large wrap around porches and mature pecan trees shading the wide lawns. Then we get to a small gravel driveway that leads between two houses to a small house built in more modern-style architecture set back off the road behind the other houses. I told the realtor that I'd never noticed that this house was there!

The house was mostly rectangular, and the front was built in the modern architectural style of flat and raised exterior walls with geometric windows, and it was painted bright green and yellow. It was lovely, but did not fit well into this neighborhood of 19th century plantation style homes.

We stepped inside the living room. The interior was deliberately unfinished. It had the look of a trendy urban loft with brass colored piping on the outside of the walls and the metal beams of the ceiling exposed. It was stylishly decorated with minimalist furniture. The floor was the most interesting. It was a wide industrial metal grate through which you could see the piers and beams of the foundation as well as the ground below which had been cultivated with lemon grass. From inside the living room, I noticed that three of the four sides of the house had walls, but the fourth was open to a garden. It was very beautiful, but completely impractical.

"This house is a work of art," I told the realtor, "but how would you stay warm in the winter? How would you stop it from flooding during the rains? How would you keep out snakes and fire ants and mosquitos and possums and racoons and deer and armadillos?"

The realtor sighed. "Yes, well that IS the problem. That's why the owner is selling it and why it is so cheap."

"But why in the world would he have built it like this in the first place?"

"Well, you see, the owner is one of those Californians who is trying to escape to cheaper real estate markets. He purchased the land cheap here, sight unseen, then had these plans drawn up for his dream home. He was so excited about how cheap the construction here is that he gave the project the green light before even visiting! And like a lot of Californians, he assumed that all of Texas was just hot, dry, flat desert. He had no idea that we had a winter here or thunderstorms. He's lived in a concrete city his entire life, you know."

The realtor and I laugh at the Californian's misfortune.

I was at an odd skating rink, I remember Kyla was given a whole bunch of movies on her new xbox 360 that Adam and Liz had given her, I see 2 babies (maybe dressed in pageant dresses like on tv before I went to bed) Adam is choking up because he had to leave us and so I gave him a hug, eventually we left, I grabbed my shoes from a pile and went out the door to dad's van, he complained how everyone was too friendly, I realize I have someone else's shoe along with my own, I ask dad "are we coming back?" No reply... So I simply toss the shoe out the back window...

-Green Shoe
-Adam
-Skating

I was running through a forest track with a dozen other people, heading towards the African city Mombasa, even though the forest was more like South American. It was almost like we were refugees. We all came up to a massive cliff with the city in the distance, so we took a lower path through thicker bush. We started across the boardwalk, when there were picture frames floating on the side of the path, as if they were on invisible walls. They had random stuff on them.

Wow I need to get better recall.