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19.10.2010

Distant Castle(Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I'm floating down a desert river in an inner-tube. The never changing sky is bronze and gold on the horizon, panning into star speckled black skies. I float through and around tall, rust colored rocky crags. I feel the light autumn wind hit my face with a slight chill that signals the first of this season's cold fronts is on it's way. I'm accompanied by an unknown person, a dream character. They float along with me down the river, fearing the possibility of waterfalls. I assure this person that we will survive regardless and suddenly begin to recall flashes of a past memory: I'm jumping off a tall cliff top and diving head first into the icy water below, I feel the water sting my face with force of impact and low temperatures. (Note: This is a memory of a past lucid dream. I was not aware of this fact until after I awoke.)

I explain the experience to the fearful person, I tell them of the pure exhilaration I felt from free-falling from such a height and they start to calm down. Just then the crags start to decline and level out and we see a waterfall ahead. We topple over the edge and though my companion lands upright with little fuss, I fall on my side and out of the inner-tube. We float on for a little while more until we float into the ocean and the waves wash us ashore. The moon shines brightly and soft wisps of clouds pierce it like ghostly spears. It hangs just over a tall castle that sits on a mushroom shaped island that is raised high above the water. I take in the sight and it send chills down the back of my spine, leaving me breathless. A crooked and skinny path of rock and dirt that is extended from the shore reaches out to the front entrance of the eerie castle. We make out way towards it and once inside we are greeted by the band, MUSE. They are holding a rehearsal concert on the main floor of the castle and allow me to stand and watch the performance from the windowed control room opposite the stage on the back wall.

Didn't sleep much and had to rush off to work after getting up.

Some of my family was at my house and I was watching the football game. It was the packers verses some random team. There were some pretty good hits, and the score ended up being 10 to zero. My brother stopped by and said "are you guys ready"? My sister said yes, and I threw on some last minute clothes.

We headed to a house that was apparently owned by some relatives I didn't know about, and my sister and I were outside. They had about four dogs, all of them were huge, and they were nice to us. I remember one slobbered on my hand, and I let it drip down on his face and told him "you see, this is how it feels".

All of a sudden all the dogs left at once, and I heard some noise coming from around the corner. I looked, and there was a bear in the yard. The dogs were barking at him, and the bear was growling. I wanted to help out, but not without some sort of weapon. I looked around and saw some lighter fluid and a shot gun, but the gun had no bullets. My sister told her kids to get back, and I kept looking around for something I could use.

The neighbors were shooting pellet guns, and I knew that was out of the question. I headed towards my cousins house, and asked them if they had any guns. The lady is taking her sweet time to find it, and she comes up empty handed. I hear the kids and my sister screaming, so I rush back over there, and I see the bear has one of the dogs wrapped up, and it's pounding away at it's head. Each swipe the bear makes, flings blood tens of feet in the air. I'm so mad, but I can't do anything.

I was giving some speech to a guy and a girl about how we're going to make it out alive. I told them to do the best they could do, and that should carry on into our performance. Other than that I initiate the action, and they follow.

I got into my old school delta 88, and charged in. Some guy fired a RPG at me, and I turned the corned just good enough to make it skip off the side of my car and blow up behind me.

I also remember a frag involving chatting someone I thought had left for good.

I was on the cellphone talking A, and she wanted me to go to the military grocery store with her. I was asking her which one and she said, "all the way up in Canada". I remember having some kind of cellphone problems. It either had to do with dialing the number or my phone itself, but I was also supposed to meet D there.

All of a sudden I'm at the parking lot, and I see one of the house keepers from the hospital. She's telling me some short story about how her husband didn't notice that she did something with her hair, and I gave her a hug, and kissed her on the cheek and said "don't worry...he's probably just a little stressed right now or something". I went inside, and I saw A, and greeted her with a hug. She was ready to go, and I asked her what did she need to get. She told me she was going to go down every isle, and I got kinda worried. D also showed up, and I was like "oh you know A" right? He said yeah, but he wasn't sure...like he saw a pic of her of my FB but thats about it.

I walked around and saw my bother there, they were already in line, and needed someone to do something, but their keys were missing, and one of them was talking about how the breaks were bad on the car. Everything sounded like a series of mishaps. D tapped me on the shoulder and ask me if I wanted to come with him. I didn't hesitate, and we walked up to this archery game. It used Styrofoam targets and blunt tipped wooden arrows. My first shot was directly at the bulls eye, and my last one was was so awkward because the arrow itself was too short for the bow. Several arrows broke as we shot them, and we needed to pull out and keep the good ones. Some guy who worked at the store came up and said "good rack". After double checking that only broken arrows were left.

While we waited on him to return with more targets and arrows, I looked outside and saw Dr. K. She was trying to talk to some soldier who was ignoring her. It was really windy outside, and I noticed there was desert everywhere. Things weren't adding up....I looked back outside expecting to see more desert, but it was green. I saw mandy walking around and I stopped her and asked "where the hell am I"? She told me the location, as she conveniently had a map with her. I understood that, but what I didn't get was why I was on a military base with civilians from back home. Also supposedly this base was back home. I rc'd....it didn't fail, but I failed to notice the lack of pressure with the nose pinch. I did it again...same thing. I started thinking about all the people I've seen since I got here, and knew non of it was adding up. Then the dream ended.

Method: WILD
Recall: average
Lucid Ability:4
Vividness: Average
Dream Length:short

I get out of my bed, and head to the living room. I immediately think about plan B, but interestingly enough two versions of my mother is in the living room. Scratch that, lets get out of here. As a matter of fact, lets look for Walms. I jumped up on the roof and yelled "I'm coming for you". Charged up a black hole portal, and threw it on the ground, but something wasn't happening right. It looked like cooking oil when it hit the ground. I stood on it anyway, and nothing happened.

NOTES

Dream Battle Tournament

I battle Walms.

We go to the Dream Warrior Planet.

Thunderdome.

20.10.2010

The British Are Coming!(Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was a "look-out" for my grandmother's house. At first I merely stood in a look-out tower in her yard and watched for people dressed as the queens royal guard. Later in the dream I held onto a single poll which I had to balance on a square platform that was several feet above the ground. The dogs would frolic and play below me and make me nervous, so I jumped off the platform and hopped towards them on the poll, scaring them off. But I regretted it because I almost chased them into oncoming traffic. Later in the dream I'm taking a break and hanging out with my mother and brother in my grandmother's garage. I find some lined paper and pretend that they are piano keys. When I play, they make music and so I begin to play flawlessly.

I also remember a fragment of watching my 5 year old self in third-person, she was lost on an abandoned brick docking area in Italy. Right in the canals. I'm found by a young guy, most likely in his teens holding a camcorder. He takes me to a day group for children where I'm for unknown reasons unable to drink the fruit juice and so I get extra bananas even though they are under ration. Everyone is jealous of me.

I remember the tale end of a dream from this morning. I was following this young guy walking down the street. He was holding an open box and drinking those little bottles of alcohol. He was obviously really drunk. He projectile vomits into someone's yard. I then convince him to go with me back to his girlfriend, who is arguing with an older man about wanting to drive home drunk (I think). I have the impression that the older man was an associate of mine but I can't remember how we knew each other from the rest of the dream. +1

So, 0. Yea, back to square one. (square zero?)

Fragment: Ruler of Poland
There are elections, and anyone from Canada or Portugal can apply to run for President of Poland. I apply for a laugh, but actually get a lot of votes.

The people of Poland need to be evacuated, and I send them to an old radioactive bomb site. One of my advisers warns me about the radiation, but the bomb there went off so long ago most of the radiation is gone. Plus there really isn't anywhere else to put them.

Looting
Clarity: 6/10
Importance:8/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Unknown

There's been some sort of nuclear catastrophe, and there are hard times ahead. Being the keen survivalist I am, I determine we're going to need supplies to make it through this disaster. There is a Bi-Way down the street, and when I look out the window, there are already people breaking into it.

I lead my small group inside the store, and instruct them to grab non perishable foods and supplies. I tell them to think long term and to stock up on everything we need now, since other people are going to raid this store. We fill several shopping carts and go back to our house.

I go to bed and wake up in my underwear. I need clothes! I ask if the men's clothing store is still there, but end up back at the Bi-Way for some reason. Other people are catching on and raiding the place en masse. Still in my underwear, I pull some blankets around me and crawl through the smashed glass door, stepping on broken glass in the process.

Once inside, I see employees restocking the shelves and cleaning up. They all stop to give me a dirty look and I run out. Seems like things are getting back to normal, and the power is back on.

Had a shit sleep last night. My dad's noticed so he bought me a lavander air freshner plug-in for my room. I hope it works! I should just run more to tire myself out.

Awake Non-Lucid Semi-Lucid

I'm in a lakehouse. It smells damp, everything seems to have lost colour. I walk around slowly, listening to the creak of wood. I'm on a second or third floor.

Lauren is behind me. I snarl at her, she's such a bitch. She laughs and grabs a bag from my shoulder, which I didn't even know was there. She turns to Amy, and laughs again. She's pissing me off, but alos upsetting me. I glare at her and storm towards another room. There's a man selling cookies. I grab one, and leave without paying. I ignore him when he shouts after me.

I feel like ripping Laurens fake, bleach blonde extensions out at the roots. Ugh, everything about her screams artificial.

Instead, I run down the stairs. I ball my hands up into fists and hold back tears. She upsets me just by being here. Now I notice the lake. It's the one I go to for my jogs. I smile because the sun is setting and it's so pretty. I walk along the edge, careful not to fall in.

I notice a figure, standing watching me on top of the water. I think I recognise him... Wait! I do! He's Paul (My almost boyfriend *winks*). I smile and shout to him to catch me. He grins and holds his arms out. I take a running jump off of the edge and land in them. He quickly sweeps my legs up so I don't get my feet wet. I close my eyes and he pulls me close. I can kind of still see though. *Sigh* It's so nice. But soon, he says he needs to go. So he carries me over to the edge, and I watch him leave.

[These dreams, all of which were non-lucid, are actually from the night before last. The ones from last night are private.]

I'm at a supermarket. I attempt to get money out of an ATM, but my card doesn't work. While I'm there, I run into Jenny A. [She's a real-life friend of mine.]

I'm with a group of people my own age, and we're all studying for either the A+ or CCNA exams. We're discussing whether or not you should broadcast SSIDs. [That question has come up as I've been studying for the A+ in real life. The sample questions say you shouldn't broadcast them, but they're apparently operating under the assumption that the wireless network is only there for the benefit of company employees. If it's there for the benefit of customers, then of course you should broadcast the SSID, so your customers will know which network is yours.]

I'm outside a tall office building with P. We need to get into a conference room, where lunch is being served. The way we're going to get there is by riding up to the outside window of the conference room on a porch swing being lifted by a helicopter. P. goes up first. She tilts the swing so it's not at a right angle to the chains [by flipping it over? I guess so, but I didn't see her do it] and stands on top of it, holding on to the chain to her left. [I think] I tell her that that's dangerous, but she ignores me and rides up. She has no problem stepping off the swing and into the conference room.

I don't get to enter the conference room by riding up on the swing. I have to get there by climbing up this net of ropes that has appeared on the side of the building. My mom is there cheering me on. On my way up, I can smell the coffee in the conference room. When I get to where I can see into the room, some of the monsters from Sesame Street are there. Also, Mr. Saito is one of the people at the lunch meeting. [Why is he the only one from the Dream Team who's actually shown up in any of my dreams so far? I think it's because of my long-abiding love for Japan and everything about it.]

Lately, I haven't been hanging out at my friend Mitch's apartment because I'm a rather shy person and they haven't been specifically inviting me, even though I have an perpetual invitation to their place.
Last night I went out with them and hung out with them and he was wondering why I haven't been over there in forever.

I dreamed that I did go over there, but of course everything was different. I think I remember going from outside into it, and it wasn't like an apartment, it was like a real house, and there were steps to go up to get in the front door. I'm pretty sure JC was there and Laura might have been too.
We went inside, the layout was pretty much completely different. The kitchen was too the left from the door and the fridge and stuff were further in the same direction and the hallway was to the right from there.
We were sitting at the kitchen table that was in front of the fridge, and eventually I had had 4 beers.
I had to go to the bathroom, which happens a lot when I drink soda or beer, and has happened IRL at their apartment.
I went in there, and it was very strange, there were two showers that were like public showers, with shower curtains that wrap around three sides. I remember there being something strange about the urinal(?), but I don't remember what it was.
I think someone came in there at some point, but this is about where I can't remember anything from the dream.

Not really sure what any of this means.

Haha I just can't stop laughing when I remember that dream from yesterday. It was a bit weird xD

Hours of sleep: 7h
Vividness: 3/5
Recall: 2/5 --> There are surely more dreams but I can't remember them.

I'm standing in a great hall. I'm singing very loud and with full motivation. There are a lot of people around me. They are listening to what I'm saying.I'm surprised how good I sing this song. But I don't think about for a second (my friends say that I've really got no talent xD) and keep on singing. I'm very happy and end my song.
The people give me applause, but I just see it but don't hear it. I know that after me comes someone other to sing a further song. I look to my right and see that a woman in a beautiful white dress is looking for something in a suitcase. She is really nervous and drops things out of the suitcase.
I look to my left. There is a man in a suit. There also is a priest. They are talking to eachother:
DC: I hope everything is fine.
Priest: She's nervous, that's all.
DC: I hope so... I hope that she doesn't make the same thing as her bridesmaid.
(Apparently I'm on a wedding.)
Priest: What did she do?
DC: She ran away while the ceremony.
Priest: What???? And you allowed here to be her bridesmaid? That scandalous!!!

Now something really, I mean really odd happens.

I see that in this hall or church (whatever) is a lake. There are swans. One of them listens to that conversation. As reaction of that bullshit-talk he simply starts vomiting at the DC, at the priest; than the swan swims to all the other swans and vomit at them. Finally it commits suicide by simply drowning itself in the lake.

Now seriously. WTF? My subconscious is really weird lately.

Real life Dream Lucid Dream Sign
For me to remember, dreams are 067300, lucid dreams are the color below blue, #4169e1, and dream signs are the light purple, which is up one and left one from blue, #483d8b.

First or second dream...
After I had it, I woke up. (Sigh, didn't remember to RC.) I told myself what happened in it over and over because I didn't want to go and type it, and look at me now, completely forgotten it...

Don't hurt the mermaid dream!
This dream was the most vivid I've had yet. I could clearly see all the textures on everything, the shining sun on the slime of the water creatures, my hand wasn't even blurry.
My family is buying a little beach condo. Other people are also buying this beach condo, though no one (including me) notice that this doesn't make sense. Somehow it'll just work, and the other family will be like our neighbors. The beach condo we're buying isn't even a beach condo– it's a bunch of porches of varying height connected by stairs with only a few walls, and no ceilings. By the way, the wood of the porch seemed very dark and old. It was a rich dark brown. Our family looked around, and looked at the beach, and we're all thinking and saying, "Wow!". Suddenly people in viking armor jumped out, but we weren't alarmed; the whole thing was a skit to show the heritage of the place. They had brown tall upside-down cpu-shaped helmets on and green armor that had a bump every three inches or so. They chased us around and we laughed.

Later, I walked down to the beach and saw all sorts of critters, large and small. Looking back, this whole place I was at looked like an alien world. There were crabs of many colors and other beach creatures scattered along the coast. The coast a had a very, very shallow slope– 50 feet in and only a foot deep. I sat down and looked around. There was a river to the right. Among other creatures, there was a mermaid. The mermaid was the only thing in the whole I couldn't see very well. I could see her lower fish-like part, but the rest was blurry. I got up. I noticed a weird sensation in my hand. A crab was on my hand! I could see it all clearly– the crab was green and flat, many times wider than it was thick. It was squeezing on to my hand with all of it's legs, not just holding on with one claw. I pulled him of and looked around.

There was a guy, pointing a wooden crossbow on a wooden mount (the wood was the same as the beach house) at the sea. He had olive skin and black straight hair down to an inch below his ears. I asked him what he was doing and he replied that he was hunting mermaids. I asked him to stop but he wouldn't. We kept fighting until I said, "Wait a second... That's not a mermaid," pointing at the creature he was aiming at. "That's one of those things." It was a giant, 4 and a half foot tall fat slithering thing which was about 10 feet long. It was like color 3850 in this color chart (it's in the first column, a third of the way down) with black triangular spots every few feet. It was slimy like a slug and had little stubs for limbs. It had a very big mouth and beady black eyes. It could have easily eaten a person if it wanted to. Anyway, what the crossbow was pointing at was 2 of them, about 70 feet away. The mermaid hunter left the crossbow and stood just a little bit away from where the sand met water.

He started singing the learning tape of the Barbershop song "Bicycle Built for Two" in a weird mix of tenor and lead. I listened, and noted this. He had the same weird computer-y voice as the learning tape. Suddenly he started singing lower notes, which surprised me. I had a sudden thought in my head that something was wrong. The notes grew lower and dissonant and I realized nothing in this world made sense, and I wasn't sure why. I collapsed to the ground, and woke up in fear.

That was very weird. It wasn't meant to be a nightmare but I panicked when I realized something was wrong. The thing was it wasn't as scary as a real nightmare, as if my fear wasn't amplified by the dream.

Anyway, I'm glad I actually realized something was off in a dream, even if I didn't figure out it was because I was dreaming.

PS: Gosh, I spent over an hour writing this! If I remember multiple dreams each night this will take forever!