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Battle with Raven on the Moon
I win. We bow.

2 out of three. She wins the next two.

Then, we battle infinitely. lulz.

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In Angel's room. Astral demons. She morphs into a jaugar.
We battle.

We are on the moon with Selene.
Two dreams.

We go to the Pyramids.

I morph into the lion man KRSNA.

I shoot my astral tentacles into many dimensions.

I call dreamers to the Pyramids of Urth.

I vibrate my tentacles into the pyramids, and spin and juggle them.

There are entrances to Hollow Earth under the pyramids.

There is colorful light shining from below.

The dream diverges.

1.
Hollow Earth.

We fly on Hollow Earth dragons with swirling suns on their foreheads into Hollow Earth.

2.
Moon

We fly on Moon dragons to the Moon. We enter the Biodome. I give them a tour of the Tower.

I introduce the SD class to Selene, the moon goddess. I roar, and morph into Tezcatlipoca. I slam my fists into the ground, and shoot energy into the sole chakras of all present. They morph into their beast forms.

We dance to some dubstep. Most of them say they don't like it. I tell them to alter their musicFish. I hand them little blue fish like Babelfish.

We ride the dragons back down to the Pyramids.

I tell them to wake up and write their dreams down. Most of them don't want to wake up. I scare them, and for some it works.

AndresLD yawns at me. I tell him to write it down. He writes it down in a DJ. I tell him he is dreaming. He smacks his head and wakes up.

I had a few vivid dreams last night but I don't completely remember them.

I remember being in a neighborhood/house and I kept seeing/making eye contact with Justen.

I remember being in a grocery store, picking up a bag of twinkies (yes, a bag..) and some spanish little girl kept asking me something and i couldn't understand what the fuck she was talking about so I walked away from her and found Greg and some other people and hugged everybody bu Greg, we just made eye contact.

I know I had a few others but I can't seem to recall them now...

Non-lucid, Lucid, Dream within a dream, [Commentary made while awake]

[This is a catch-up post. These dreams are from the night of December 13-14, 2010.]

[Note: I'm writing this entry well after the fact, working from handwritten notes, and even when I made the handwritten notes, I wasn't sure in what order the dream scenes had occurred. When writing this entry, I just arbitrarily put them in an order that made some kind of sense to me.]

I wake up in my bed in my room at House #1. A big, strong man is invading my bed and trying to attack me. I'm scared, and I try to get P.'s attention by yelling for her, but no one comes. I manage to evade him and escape. I know that once I'm standing up, I'm safe. I feel upset after this experience, so, to cheer myself up, I decide to go off and have a lucid flying dream.

The flying dream begins, and now I'm definitely lucid. [Yeah, that's right. In the aftermath of a regular nightmare, my non-lucid dream self decided she wanted to have a particular kind of lucid dream to cheer herself up, and my mind obliged. Weirdest DILD technique ever, but it's a pretty cool story.] At first, the dream is in third person, and I see myself flying over a beautiful town that fills a beautiful valley [now that I think of it, it looked a lot like the one in Kiki's Delivery Service]. I see another girl also flying over the town, unaided, the same way I'm flying. I consciously, deliberately shift to first-person perspective [That's a pretty neat trick. I wish I understood how I did it.] and approach closer to the other girl. I recognize her as Chihiro from Spirited Away. I come right up beside her and ask her, “This is a good way to fly, isn't it?”

“Mm-hmm!” she answers cheerfully.

I decide to ask the same question again, in Japanese this time, just for fun and because I can. “Fly no shikata wa sui ne?” [trans: “(This) way of flying is good, isn't it?” Again, dream!Japanese is weird – the word for “good” is ii in reality, not sui.]

"Un!" [trans: “Yeah!”] Chihiro answers. She continues talking in a language that I take to be Japanese at first, because the sounds of it are characteristic of Japanese, but after listening for a few seconds, I realize that the words are actually Spanish.

[Dreamskip.] I'm on foot, exploring some old, pretty brick buildings.

I wake up in my bedroom in House #1 again. P. is sitting at a table in the room, writing an essay.

I'm telling my family about the DreamViews website, but lying about its nature and telling them that it's strictly fandom-related. I tell them that my username there is “Stupid Top.” When P. finds out that I've been writing about the dreams that I've had about her, she gets sad and angry, and cries.

I wake up again in a variant of my bedroom in House #1. P. and I are in the bottom bunk together. Elsewhere in the house, there is a larger room that resembles the patio of our grandparents' house. A bunch of people from church come into the bedroom, and I explain that this is our old bedroom, and we used to share the full bed (we had just pushed our full mattress off the top bunk and onto the floor), not this twin bed. A woman in the group corrects me, calling the full bed a [something I can't remember] twin. I go along with it. The youngest S. girl is put into the full bed by her parents, but she doesn't want to take a nap.

I'm in a parking garage, and I randomly find some panties.

I'm reading a book that introduces the reader to a code of spiritual laws and rules that I realize are of Mormon origin when I see a citation that says something like “Uses 21:7” [e.g., a citation from a book whose name I don't recognize]. One of the rules in the book specifically forbids entering holes populated by worms for long dreaming. It surprises me to find that the people who wrote this book both knew about lucid dreaming and made a rule about it. [Yes, I did read the thread about why it's hard to get to the moon, and I think that's what inspired this dream.]

I'm exploring a building somewhere, and my friend Mary T. is there. [Day residue; I'd seen her the day before I had this dream.]

I'm driving over the bridge on W. Road that crosses over I-15, heading toward a buffet-style cafe, where I routinely go for breakfast [only in this dream, not in real life].

Oh my gosh yay!! Super happy!

Here are my 3 dreams!
I was at my friend's step grandmas house. She had cancer. My mom was there too, she has scoliosis and my grandma with cancer was there. I suddly thought, "Howd i get here?" and i did a reality check and I became lucid. I cured all the people there and I was so happy! I don't remember the rest, I woke up pretty soon after that.

The next one, I was at my boyfriends house. His best friend was there too. I suddenly wondered, again, how id gotten there. So i did another reality check and became lucid. I ran up to my "boyfriend" and hugged him. Then I kissed him, having never done that before I had really wanted to. Then I sat on his couch and leaned against him. Since i knew it was a dream I didn't find it intimidating. So I kissed him again. Then the dream ended and I woke up.

I was at a beach and i saw that ben k. was there. I AGAIN asked myself how i had gotten there and did a RC. Then I became lucid and ran up to ben. I said hi to him and he said hi. He looked bored. i asked him what was wrong and he told me that he just got dumped. so I tried to control the setting to make him happier. I spun around and the background changed. I was in my backyard, ben still there. I hugged him and said "its okay. We've all gotten dumped at one point in our lives. And anyway, this is a dream. So dont worry 'bout it. lets have fun! So he smiled and kissed my cheek (which made me happy cuz it was just awesome) and said "What's a dream anyways?" So i just shrugged "dont worry bout it. it dosnt matter" and he said "ok". Then I sat on the picnic table and he sat next to me and I hugged him and put my head on his shoulder. I loved this dream. Ben leaned his head on mine then and i grinned to myself. Then I woke up.

Then here's the nonlucid dream I had last night:
I was at my grandmas house. I seemed really tired and i layed on something, i dont remember what though. Then it felt soft (this was right before i woke up so i think it was my bed...) then I smiled and woke up.

I feel like ive accomplished something now. (oh and sorry about my bad grammar today. I didnt wanna take too long to type so yeah)

8 recalled in one night . From 2 days ago

12/24-25. 1140. 240. Driving Murcielago. Pass ladder truck. Drive into pizza store and then car is gone. Buy pizza. Girl and I argue about something. I cut pizza into smaller circle by cutting what would be the crust off. Eating only the bread, there's no toppings or anything on it

Theresa and I driving a truck, Ranger. Road kind of like going toward the river taking Corona St. Go off road. Forest. Come across horses with messed up faces. Some are cyclopses. Look similar to "Look at My Horse", lol

Dad and I driving. On 6th east at Main. Trying to look up some German words. "teufel" and "teufelfrau" were some of them. Then on 91E to 15N. 15S is closed. Looking up some more German words. Started with "OE-"? Pretty long word

550. Theresa getting fingerprints from Bruce Willis, Die Hard. Letters written on his hands and fingers

Kyle and I out on dunes. Had rained. Sandslides happening. Some "sing"

Academy group in a house, white on inside, and getting ready for something. Mason xxxxxx, other. Qxxxx and Rxxxxx there. Then in an off road shop, huge. Looking at fiberglass parts, hood, fenders. Also some ladder truck there

Visiting Dave. Area looks kind of like the dorms at Cal Poly SLO. Kind of limited access, narrow. Only water fountain available to him is locked. Go with him and mom to find a way to unlock it. FInd a door, but security guard was on other side so couldn't go that direction

930. Paintball like, but no paint. Academy guys?. Weapons are toys David had, 2 wooden rifels (I had longer one), some black looking one, stormtrooper blaster. Started in our areas, ours was like a old concrete area like one at academy for LARRO, other team like a Jap fort/ playground, lol. Adam xxxxx and I are last left so raid other team's fort, they had about 10+. We win

Have had a few people mention that they'd like to read some of my dreams. I have 11mos writting down on paper because I like to draw pics of things I see as I'm a visual person. Haven't written anytihng down on paper since Sep, so all on Word and no pics. Oh well

Anyway, I'll put up a few good ones that I've written down before starting on recent stuff. I'm only going to put interesting ones up. (Also, I use lots of abbreviations [spelling mistakes because I'm trying to be quick in typing and don't care to correct it]. I also write down one word things that may sound weird to you, but I know what it means. Last names will be written as "XXXXX" as I use last names sometimes as clarification. Any other discrepencies, eh, just comment and I'll sort it out). Hope you like it

Format- Date(night of going to sleep- morning of waking up). Time(going to sleep). 2nd time(woke up from dream). (Sometimes I forget time I went to sleep, or time I woke up)

5/18-19. 12. On some sort of fam trip. Hiking from somewhere on a ridgeline. Some steep parts. Get to a flatter area. Chopper comes by us. I have to them and one guy waves back with a hand signal. See a plane and dad says it’s an A10, but I say No. Get to a dirt road. Desert like. (have been in this place before in another dream). Turns into a little gift store. Looking at displays on the geology of the area. Play with a fault moving thing. Mess it up and try to fix it but the instructions are in Russian. Then I’m on a quad. Then I’m with some lady driving down the dirt road and she’s asking if I ride anything and asks me about them

5/24-25. 2. Vin Diesel there. Group of us climbing a rock dome thing. Group starts to slide off. Vin starts to slide off opposite side. Use our climbing rope to get the guys back up to safety. All back up on rock when planes and A10’s start attacking us and strafing . I get to the end of the rock we’re on and take cover. Best spot because they can’t line up for it. Go back up on rock, but get back down. Then I’m fighting baddies in a town. Shooting at the, both sides have horrible aim. I stay at a section of a hall and outside and hold it. Some lady likes my help and grabs my hand. Then I’m at the rock again. Run around it. Start to get strafed so dodge into a large crack which leads back to the city fighting

6/15-18. 12. Somehow lost in SD. Try to get directions for a guy that looked like the guy that took Ferris Bueller’s red car. Find a way, but ends up being the wrong way. Map I’m using is lame. Tell dad to pull off when he can to read map better. He says the area’s not a good one, and tell him to find a good area, but he pulls off anyway! I tell him to not stop and keep going to a safe spot. I’m then alone and then get picked up by a big huge black guy and he threatens me. Then talks about home taxes. I manage to escape. I hide behind a small garden fence and he shoots at me. I’m wearing kind of a big poofy jacket. Then escape to a rival gang of engineers. Then meet up with dad

6/25-26. In a school? German girl from Mesa Verde tough. Talking with her. Something happens and I get in trouble with a lot of women. They corner me in a small store. I try to talk sense into them, but they don’t listen. I punch a few and push a few coz they have me cornered. Get away. Walking back to class. Some black guy is mad at me for some racist thing. Back at class and I approach the German girl, but she’s apprehensive. I explain I’m not sxist and the other stuff of the rumors. She cries, but believes me. She asks for my name and I tell her, but she keeps writing it down wrong. Baerin, or something. I correct her. We’re in a computer lab, so I get on a comp and go onto FaceBook and see German girl’s status that’s about trusting me? Her name is Baeron or something similar

LD! 6/23-24. 11. Driving around in Norco? Jump into the air and fly. Become lucid! Fly more. “stabilize” “clarity”. Land. Fly more. Go onto a pipe. Fly to another. Lucid for maybe a minute. Go to xxxxx’s house. Different. Cindy there. Then go to Kyle’s house. It’s like there’s an extra line of houses next to the 15. He has these broken pale green Things. I eat one but it tastes bad. State to clean them up because they’re in a few places

LDx2! 7/6-7. 12. At Ashley xxxxx’s house. Checking out her room, small, yellows. See a calendar and flip through it. People’s pictures on their birthday. Some look like Mai xxxxxx, Josh, and Chingy. Then I’m at some business place. Star Trek like. I’ve just come through a transporter and my fingers get messed up so try to transport only my hand to fix them. Count my fingers by sight but miscount, so move them as I count and count 7(2 completely extra) and become lucid! Doesn’t hold and I lose lucidity but keep dreaming. Try to fix my hand again, but doesn’t work. Count fingers (same as before) and I have 6(coming out the middle of a finger, but seems to be like it was a pin and not actually attached), become lucid again! Start to lose lucidity again. Dream fades into a poor video quality look and darkening. I’m looking at a girl. Then back into dream and my fingers are fixed. Hit on girl working at the computer bank

10/10-11. In neighborhood. Normal house. Sweed flag. Old lady lives there. House worth 1.6M. Shows me around. Wine cellar and crazy huge in back. Restaurant. Look around. Similar to another dream. Rocky/ faux look. Then in a field/ lawn. Then riding in a parking lot on a moped, but really a small motorcycle with some friends

11/14-15. 930pm. I’m a zombie. Guy tries to run over some other zombie and me. I hide. Now foggy. Some camp? Now Theresa and I in car. Kids hit car so I try to run them over. Then Theresa and I go hike. Find Bri’s house. Some animals

LD! 12/20-21. Classroom stuff. Go get pencil. Put away chairs for academy. Xxxxx mad. Then looking in mirror in bathroom. Long hair, LD! Got short(loose LD). Then a little long. Then home, sleep. Get up to go to bed. Was on living room floor. Xxxxxx home. Then dad wake up. Turnouts on floor, a set not mine

Edit: Sorry so long

So I was able to have my 3rd WILD, this sunday DEC 26th. I had had my first two WILD's the prior week, one on tue the 21st and the second on wed the 22nd. I tried the next couple of days but with so much on my mind with the holidays it seemed that I would try but would end up just laying there thinking about random stuff for about an hour and I would just give up and fall asleep normally. I still have not been able to become lucid during regular dreams either, only the WILD method seems to work for me becoming lucid. So sunday around 6pm I decide to give it another try and this time it works. LUCID #3; I wake up looking at the ceiling in my room and I notice that the scenery is not stable so I realize that I am dreaming right away, I roll off the side of my bed and land on my knees, at this point I crawl over to the first thing I find in my room which happens to be my shoe on the floor. I grab it and try to perform stabalizing techniques by putting the shoe about six inches from my face and examining the texture but not too carefully, also by feeling the shoe all the way around. This helps the dream to become clearer but not by much. I then stand up and rub my hands together and this works abit better, I continue by feeling my legs and stomach which I can feel but still does not stabalize the dream to where I want it, so I walk to my room door and open it to go to the living room. When I open my room door I see my dad come around the corner and he asks me if I can go with him to see my mom in the bedroom, he says "we are going to wake her up and surprise her for her birthday". At this point I make a weird face at him and think to myself (I know its december and it cannot be my mothers birthday, also my dad is trying to lead me to the backroom of my house and I know there is no way my mom would be sleeping over at my place) I am kind of scared of the fact that it could be my sub-concious trying to mess with me since I really dont know what the hell is stored up there, and so I totally ignore him and continue with my "goal" I had planned out. I had wrote down what my goal would be for my next dream (stabalizing my dream by engaging all five sences) I had planned to do this by going to my kitchen, grabbing my roomates coffee can and opening it, smelling the coffee, grabbing a small amount in my hand and then tasting the coffee ,and finally throwing the can as hard as possible against the wall so I could hear it (even though I had heard my dad talk to me and had knocked sound out already). So I go to the kitchen and open the pantry but the coffee can that is always there is missing, I get paranoid that my dream will fade out so I keep rubbing my hands over and over, I look in the pantry again and grab what looks to be a bottle of vinegar or oil which is filled to the top. I open the lid to smell it but once I put it up to my nose and breathe in, I accidently breathe in the fluid which feels like water (similar to being in a pool and breathing in water) I immediatly have to cough as it messes with my "dream breathing", however I was not able to smell anything. I forget to throw the bottle or to try to taste it due to me having coughed and trying to get my nomal breathing back, I just lay it down and decide to walk outside. I yell to my roomate on my way out because I can hear what seems to be the tv or music in the living room, I say " hey im taking off" to which he replies " sounds good man". I am happy that I could hear him and that i took care of hearing in my dream (even though I had heard my dad talk just a minute earlier but not payed attention to it). So I walk outside and the view is similar to the street I live on but different in a way as well. There seem to be more buildings than houses on my street and I know very well there is no business buildings anywhere around my neighborhood. The weather is also strange, it seems like it is about to rain by how cloudy it is outside, the clouds also seem to be very low to the ground for some reason ( about as low as a two or three story building). As soon as I decide to run out on the street and see exactly how far I can walk away from my house, it starts to sprinkle and I can feel every single drop hitting my body which was very cool. I get about a block from my house and decide to try to fly since I didnt have much luck in my last two lucids to do this, I get a good run going and then dive outward but I do not go up or down, I just glide at about waist high for about 10 or 15 yards then slowly start dropping and land on my stomach. From here on out I seem to either lose lucidity or I simply start thinking of something else, but before I know it I am in what seems to be an old dorm room at my old highschool. I do not recognize the room or the kid in it but I am still somewhat lucid. I look around and rub my hands to stabalize the dream again since it seems very hazy, it works but not that well. I look around the room and I spot out a bag of sunflower seeds, I instantly grab it and stick about four or five in my mouth, the taste is very real, they are extremely salty ranch flavored seeds and I get very stoked at the fact that I have knocked out "taste" as well. At this point for some reason my eyes just open and I am wide awake.
I was unhappy that I woke up but yet very excited that I had another WILD since I was getting frustrated from my prior attempts that week and weekend.

I would appreciate tips as to how I can prolong the dream state and also how I can make it as lucid and clear as possible. I have tried the common methods of stabalizing (rubbing hands, engaging sences, trying to look at the texture of something) but they do not seem to work that well or atleast they didnt this time. For some reason my dream still seems to want to fade out pretty often. Thanks guys!

i have not been dreaming at all recently, but lastnite i actuall dreamed, for the first tim in a while i had one, it was a left for dead zombie dream taking place in a post appoctolipticworld, i cant really describe it in more detail beside i was shootin zombies

I'm sitting on a sofa. There is my mum, my brother and I. We are going through a catalog with some electronic equipment. As I focus on the pages I can see that those are vibrators for women. Well, I have pretty grown up relationship with my mum. However, I feel a bit uncomfortable. So as we are going through the pages and looking at different types I see that there is a computer in front of us with the same stuff on the screen. There are some presentation videos running. I can see strange pink vibrator, with some sort of blunt barbs. (I remember seeing similar barbs in one the documentary about steroids I watched the day before. Those barbs were there on liver as a kind of cancer. Probably projection into my dream). I am touching the barbs (its there now) and thinking how come it doesn't hurt woman. My mum agrees with me. The top of the vibrator has a flat, rectangular, vibrating "thing". I have a feeling that it is for clitoris stimulation. (At the top of the vibrator??). Then I can see some simple vibrators. My brother says that he has had enough. My mum says that she has had enough too, that she is fine with a simple one you spit on! (what??) I wonder what does she mean by that.

Now I am sitting by a table with my mum and my brother waiting for dinner. My brother is wearing simple gray gym top. From the way it looks, I have a feeling that my mum bought it for him. It could be a Christmas present. My brother says that our step mum is coming. (Not surprisingly I don't find it strange despite I don't have a stepmother). Suddenly, I hear a thick, deep sound similar to an airplane. It does surprise me a bit, but before I am able to think about it further, my grandmother appears. She says hi to me, to my brother. My mum is waiting if she says hi to her too. Suddenly, I can see some sort of floating icons above my grannies head. My mum starts touching them, as if she was adjusting some setting. Apparently, she pressed some wrong buttons as the operating language is different. At least I have the feeling. The icons are orange and round-ish. My mum changes the setting back to english. I think I was there, sitting and thinking how does it work.

(in following part, there are just segments as I have lost the order of them)

I go with George up the road to the chestnut trees. His mom finds a notebook. I wonder what is written in it. I can see pictures of our primary school classmate (Chlupacova).

Georges older sister is calling me that George's father committed suicide. Somehow I know that George did so as well not that long time ago. I am in my room, trying to calm her down. I try to reason to her why it may happened. He may have done it because of George committing suicide or also because he was stressed from work. I have the feeling that he was very stressed at work. Now I find myself sitting in their kitchen by the table. I can see George's mother cooking, and his sister is there too. I'm asking how they are dealing with it also in terms of money. Mother says that she already claimed death insurance. I look above her, there are phone-books at the top of the selves. That reminded me that she is as an insurance agent. I mention that her husband was recently promoted (meaning that she may get some more money because of that... this is very strange as I am not money oriented.) I am worrying whether they will cope financially. G mother is wondering how do I know about his promotion. So she stands there thinking how much she can get. I have a strange feeling about the two suicides and the death insurance)

There was also a dream about George and I jumping from a cliff to the lake, and when we got on the shore, we realised that we had our mobile phones in our pockets. I knew that it was has happened before, just the same. My phone was Siemens m35 just like I had when I was younger.

(Sorry for the length)

I am in a valley that is damp and fog-laden. It looks to me like the highlands of Scotland or something. I appear in this dream as my dream incarnate Kalima (image), but wearing a plain grey Victorian dress and white apron. The hills surrounding the valley are covered in ancient, crumbling castles and decaying ramparts while the valley floor is a huge never ending hedge-maze.

I am desperately lost in the maze and I am in a panic because I can feel not one, but two, dark presences nearby and I can sense that they are hunting me. I run through the maze as fast as I can but because of its enormity and the fact that it never ends I don't really get much farther ahead of the pursuers. I am not try to memorize or mentally map out the hedge maze and just run hoping I will get lucky and either find my way out or find the middle (where I instictively know I will be safe).

No matter how far I run I can still hear the creepy snuffling of my dark pursuers, like they have giant nostils and are sniffing me out. I find myself in a dead end and can hear the sniffing sound of one of the pursuers just on the otherside of the hedge. I know it can smell me because it stops to hover around the other side of the hedge where I am leaning in fright to sniff, before it lets out a terrible high pictched shriek to inform the other dark presence that it has found me and start running through the maze to find the fastest way to get to me.

I am so terrified that I fall to my knees and forward onto my stomach, because my legs have gone numb with fear. This allows me to see the smallest of spaces between one hedge and the ground. It looks as if a small pit was dug by a fox or ground hog or something to get under the hedge. I scramble to deepen the hole as quickly as I can and am able to squeeze through and start running again, long before the two dark pursuers find the dead end I was trapped in. They are much to large to fit through the hole (I'm not sure they even noticed it actually) and have to turn around and find their way back through the maze.

I suddenly feel two things simutaneously. First, a heavy object in the front pocket of my apron, which turns out to be a large cast iron key. The blade of the key is plain but the bow part of it is intricate in detail and had a peice of dark red glass set in the middle of it. Secondly, I feel someone close by who is watching me, but their presence is not threatening, though I cannot see them because they are invisible. The being feels warm and radiates love and kindness and for some reason I believe it is a guardian angel, even though I don't believe in angels in waking life.

The being starts to move through the maze and I am able to follow it by moving in the direction of where I feel the warmest air. After a long while I am led to what looks like another dead end somewhere near the middle of the valley and the warm presence suddenly disappears. I know there is something about this part of the hedge maze that I am supposed to discover but I can only pace back and forth in frustration for a long while because I cannot figure it out and I can hear the snuffling of the two dark pursuers getting closer again.

I pull out the key that appeared in my apron pocket a while ago and assume that I am supposed to find a door, but none can be seen with the naked eye. I feel around inside some of hedge wall where there are little openings in the heavy brush, but all I encounter is thorny branches and after several times I have sore and bleeding fingers. I feel like I have been misled by the thing I thought was a guardian angel, as well as abandoned, and I am angry and frustrated and I remember thinking to myself "this is why I don't believe in angels!"

The blood on my hands makes me think about the dark red glass set into the bow of the key and I look through it like one would a spyglass, mostly out of bordem rather than thinking anything would happen, but as it turned out I could see a glowing red outline of a door at the very end of the dead end, where the hedge appears the thickest. Upon investigation the thick hedge is even thornier and more difficult to get my hand through than the ones before, but I can feel a metal door on the other side.

I fumble around with the key, trying to find the lock, all the while the two dark presences are getting closer. So close in fact that I can here them on the other side of the hedge and I start to panic because I cannot find the hole for the key. Almost at the last second the key finally slips into a hole in the door and the door opens, but I have to force by entire body through the thick wall of thorns and it is terribly painful and unpleasant.

I get through and am able to slam the door shut and lock out the pursuers just in time because they were so close that one was able make a swipe at me and catch the end of my grey dress and rip a peice off. The creatures looked like tank sized crosses of a pot-bellied pig and a bulldog. They had rough black skin, large snouts and glowing red eyes. There bodies were covered in scars like they had been badly beaten and tortured. I had been terrified of them the whole time I could not see them but as soon as I caught that short glimpse of their battered and beaten bodies, as I slammed the door shut, I felt kind of sorry for them because they made me think of domestic dogs that become ferocious and violent after being mistreated and abused. I wanted to open the door again and have another look at them, even try to pet them and be nice to them, but I realize just then that when I slammed the door shut I left the key in the lock and since the door has no handle on this side, I was essentially locked in (and unless the pig/dog creatures suddenly grew fingers, they were esentially locked out).

I take a moment to catch my breath and have a look at my surroundings. I am in a large open area that has rows and rows of plots for planting, but the whole garden is dead. The small trees and bushes around the perimeter are barren of leaves and many have broken branches. The few plants, and what looks like stalks, that can be found in the plots are whithered and dried. The grass is brown, the air smells of earthy decay, the few marble staues around the garden are weather worn or crumbling to peices and it looks as if the garden has not been tended to for hundreds of years.

In the center of the dead garden is a a small stone fountain at the base of a huge oak tree. The fountain only contains some dried and decaying leaves from the oak tree that has mighty, thick branches that reach eagerly upwards, but it looks pretty pathetic without its leaves. I feel sad and wish there was something I could do to revive the garden but all I can do is sit on edge of the fountain and sulk.

My eye catches something white sticking out of the ground in a growing plot not far away. At first I though it was just like one of the many dead and dried out flower stalks found throughout the garden but when I get closer I can see that it is actually human finger bones sticking out of the ground, which sends a chill down my spine. Now that I am aware of it, an awful lot of the stalks sticking out of the ground look like skeletal fingers, and I even notice the old sun bleached bone hidden under the bushes and trees.

I suddenly want to leave very badly but don't know how because I've locked myself in the garden when I left the key in the otherside of the door. I briefly think that I will became another skeleton in the garden when I suddenly feel the warm angelic presence nearby again. I follow it to the locked door which suddenly unlocks and swings open. The pigdogs are gone but I am able to retrieve the key. The warm presence complels me to return to the fountain where I suddenly notice a keyhole in the bottom of it. I stick the key in and when I turn it, fresh clean water starts to flow out of the key hole and fill the fountain.

I am all excited and happy and stuff, because I think that the garden will now suddenly recover, but the dream ends there because I wake up.

NOTES

I am walking around with a tiny gun you can hide in your palm. It looks like a .22 cal or a 9 mil.

I have a holster on my hip that is too big for the gun. I put a book in the holster to take up space.

I look at the gun, take it out, and make sure the safety is on.

I didn't remember anything this morning. Grrr!

I was at a gas station. It was a bright and sunny day. I was in an industrial area; lots of grey buildings, and a busy highway to one side.

I was looking off at the highway and thinking something about Stone. Then I saw a truck that said "i eat moar nao". I somehow knew that the eating had to do with something weird that you wouldn't eat, something electronic. Then I called Stone and told him that I saw his truck.

Then I was just standing there, thinking. I was contemplating shared dreaming. There must be a way, I thought, there's no way that it could be coincidence between so many people on the forums. What if we could really ascend to one plane while dreaming? There must be some way.

Then it suddenly occurred to me that I was dreaming. I did a quick nose pinch RC. I decided I should try to fly away and do something else. I think I jumped from something, but just fell down. I looked up and tried to imagine shooting myself up towards the sky. Then, (stupidly,) I closed my eyes, almost like a blink. And then I was awake (!@$%*&^!).

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There was some fragment of being in a building... some kind of game or something, with lots of people.

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A vague memory of something having to do with food.

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Notes:
- first lucid in quite a while... I kind of lost it. Been having trouble sleeping lately, and the only reason I even have a chance at this now is because it's the holidays... I'm really hoping I can maintain this once the holidays are over. And I'm hoping it won't take me another year to get regular LDs again.

12/27/10 - 8

1) I'm at a reunification with C-3, but most of the guys aren't there; there's just one counselor. We all toast to TP. GL is one of the guys I recognize as one of my friends, so I stand near him.

2) My French teacher is giving a speech in my kitchen. I'm eating, then I go into the next room. I come back to eat more yodels, pop tarts, etc. Mom gets mad - it seems disrespectful that I'm eating all this while he's talking. He stops talking while mom yells at me for eating too much.

3) I'm at some sort of baseball event, where I see DM walking around. I hang around with W, and we go out onto the field. He starts playing some toss game where everyone's tossing the baseball around, kind of in a circle. I think it's kiddy because it's all little kids playing, but I participate anyways because W's doing it. Then I see MG playing so I feel alright (see JG too??).

4) I'm walking around a Califoria suburb checking houses for something when a couple answers the door. I tell my partner, "No, they're not one of them." However, my partner thinks this couple is. We walk around more. There's a big field in the middle of the suburb with all the trophy wives running around. Suddenly, they all get mad at some guy on the other side of the field and angrily start running towards him. transition to 3????

5) I'm with dad driving through downtown (Boston?). The streets are winding. There's one clearly dominant structure: a big city hall/churchlike 17th century structure. Dad says "Hey, didn't I show you these streets?" Yes, he showed me these streets the day before, I think.

6) I'm playing Minecraft (classic multiplayer), shooting through the underground, griefing, tunneling my way through. I finally reach a passageway; there's a middle-aged African-American lady is sitting at the end of the tunnel and the rest of it is sporadically populated with people along the sides. I'm explaining to someone that "This is the thing about minecraft, you have to fix everything you destoyed, but you have to destroy just to get around." I walk to the end of hall, ready to restore the passageway, but now I'm on a bus. One middle-aged lady has two pet crocodiles with her (they're really small, maybe a foot long each). The guy sitting a few rows behind her who is middle aged and wears glasses "finds her out." Apparently, it's really bad that she has those crocodiles on the bus (they seem harmless to me, they're rather tame and docile). The guy says, "I got my hair cut with you on the other side of the mountain." He knows that she brought the crocodiles from the other side of the mountain. She starts sobbing, acknowledges that he's right, and admits to it. She explains her story, something along the lines of "I just saw them there and I saw something else that influenced me to bring them and iI couldn't just leave them there." No one's mad at her; everyone understands. I'm peeling away somethign from the side of the bus as I hear Mr. C saying that you have to read every chapter twice.

7) I'm playing with my laptop, frantically trying to turn it off, when I eventually press the power button in desperation.

8) Celtics? Shaq? It's time to get on a boat, and everyone gets a turn. I get to row. K's at the head of the boat; we go around the small enclosed room. I control turning the boat. On the second time around, we're with the Queen of Norway? Mom is mean to K. Edwarda is the King of Norway? Historically, he finally got to reign over his homeland in 81 but got the whole thing in 84. He died in 84. At least he finally got to rule over his homeland. As we go around, I see a sign that says "A Charlie Brown Christmas Carol." I've been saying it wrong all along! I always pronounced it "A Charlie Brown Christmas." At least I'll say it right from now on.

Total dreams: 737
Total days: 368
Total lucids: 12
Dreams per day: 2.002
Lucids per day: 0.03260
Days recorded: 221
Dreams per recorded day: 3.3348
Lucids per recorded day: 0.0542
Lucid dream percentage: 1.628%

I start off being in what I assume is a hospital, though it smells sort of like chlorine and looks more like a cell block. I'm somewhere in a lobby when my sister, the mother of my late nephew, walks up to me and gives me a set of instructions. I am to put on scrubs as if I'm about to participate in a surgery, and to meet her in a room that she gave me the number of. After I do what she has told me, I walk into the room. The entire room is very large and separated by a white curtain. On my half of the curtain there is absolutely nothing except for the walls and the door. However, when I walk past the curtain I see several hospital instruments, my sister, and a metal gurney with my nephew laying on it.

My sister tells me that the whole time my nephew was alive, he just needed a special sort of pacemaker to make sure he stayed that way. Even 3 months after his death, she told nobody because they had already had the funeral and burial and that she did not want to frighten anybody. He then looks at me and smiles and tells me how much he's missed me. Just as I start to cry in my dream, I wake up.