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[First three paragraphs were one continuous dream, last paragraph was a separate one.]

I'm in the car with my parents, and we pull into the parking lot of the shopping center in our old town where our original family dentist's office is. As we're getting out of the car, a woman with brilliant copper hair gets out of the car. She says “Ma'am” several times to get my mom's attention. When she finally does, my mom recognizes her as Tamara A., a colleague of hers from the high school. [Tamara A. is a real person, but she doesn't have hair like that in real life.] For some reason, I leave my normal clothes in the back of the car and start walking toward the shops wearing only panties and a green blanket wrapped around myself.

We go into the large building to the right (south) of the dentist's office. It's still beautifully decorated and set up as a furniture showroom, even though the furniture store has closed. The back part of it has been converted into a restaurant of some kind, but it's also closed. There's another lady there (not Tamara) who comments on all this.

When I actually go into the dentist's office, someone there compliments me on my cute panties. I get all embarrassed and try to re-wrap the blanket so it's closed in the back. I go further into the building to go to the restroom. In a back area just behind the waiting room, there's a small, dark library filled with lots of shelves of children's books, a couch, and even a bed. The restroom is in a semi-enclosed space separated from the library by swinging doors, really just a closet with a big plastic jug thing that you're supposed to pee in. I decide to just wait until I can find a real one.

I'm looking up at a bright blue sky filled with little puffy clouds. One of them is shaped like California. I seem to have some degree of control over the shape of the clouds. [But I don't remember ever going, “hey, I'm dreaming!” :-( ]

Yay! Two lucid dreams in one week thus far...looks like my VERY long dry spell might actually be ending? I hope so.

Anyway, I'm not exactly sure what I was doing when the dream began, but eventually I noticed that as I walked through the dreamworld, the faster I went, the higher I'd lift off the ground. Well, that was a dead giveaway and I instantly recognized myself to be in a dream.

First thing I did was just see how high I could go with this weird walking/levitating thing. It was very different than flying, because my forward motion was the same speed and orientation as walking...I just vertically would move up or down based on how fast I moved my feet.

And of course, in my delight over succeeding to lucid dream again, it was extremely enjoyable to go super high, let myself fall, and shout: "I'm lucid dreaming!" on my way down, just because I was doing something impossible that proved such a statement to be true. I do that a lot in my LDs

After a couple such landings, however, I found myself to have teleported to the middle of some sort of gathering. It was rather dark inside, but not so much that it was hard to see details. I found a couple familiar faces who greeted me and I would reply with something that hid the truth (i.e. that it was all just a dream) from my friends (who may or may not have really been present there).

But then I got stopped by someone different. I didn't recognize this man, but he certainly recognized me.

"Care for a drink?" He asked, handing me one of two glasses filled with glowing green liquid, which he had carried with him.

"Sure." I replied, taking the glass as if I weren't suspicious.

Of course, in reality, I was highly suspicious. This was a DC, after all...a creation of my mind. I could know him better than he knew himself. And I knew something was up with him.

At first he talked nice, telling me how impressed he had been with my work in the film and gaming industries, but eventually he got around to his real purpose for being there, and it was not just to compliment me on my achievements.

"What I have here," he said, pulling out a small stack of papers from a shoulder bag, "is some material my boys picked up from various sources."

"Materials?" I asked. "Like what?"

"Scripts, mostly. We have the chance to produce the most popular media before the authors ever get the chance. Oh, but fame is not all that there is to it. There's always money involved, eh? Let's say...two million in earnest now for your help producing these films and games, and more by the hour you work with us. How does that sound?"

"Sounds to me like you're crazy!" I shouted.

All heads turned to look at this man and me. The attention scared him, since he was still holding the stolen scripts, so he turned and ran for the nearest exit. I ran after him, but lost track of where he was for a short while, giving him just enough of an advantage to jump in one of his gang's two cars and drive off, the other criminal car shortly behind him.

Me, I just kept running, staying close behind the two criminal cars, and slowly gaining on them. I didn't think about the speed at the time; it was as easy for me to run at 100mph as 10. Unfortunately, it was only a two-lane road (and reversed from real life), so while the criminals advanced on the left side, I had to run against oncoming traffic on the right, jumping over each car that drove towards me.

Eventually the oncoming traffic grew more heavy, and I slowly began to fall back from the criminals. That was NOT going to happen. All in one moment, I completely stopped running, stepped to the side, and grabbed hold of the next car that drove towards me. I spun around from the momentum of the car and then released it into the air. It flew right into the criminal cars and caused all three to explode. Of course the force of the explosion threw other cars into the air, even in my direction, but they bounced off of me like toys, leaving me completely unharmed.

Mission accomplished, I flew off as I had before, descended, and when I landed...woke up.

If that car scene hasn't been done in a movie...it should be

Method: DILD
Recall: great
Lucid Ability:6
Vividness: Average
Dream Length:Long

I find myself walking the halls of some unknown building. Everything is dark, bland, mundane. There's a fat lady who's super pale. I can see the blueish green veins all throughout her face. "Maybe everyone works the night shift here", I think to myself. I head to a bathroom. Two people are talking about me, and one guy is suspicious of what I'm doing there. One lady says "he's not going to do anything to you, he's a miracle christ child". I don't want to start any trouble so I let it slide. She says it again though, and heads into the bathroom stall. Some guy goes in after her....does whatever he has to do, and then another guy heads in. The guy sitting asks if I'm going next. Disgusted at the whole ordeal, I tell him no.

I stood up, and headed to this huge black sink. The bathroom attendant was there watching me wash my hands. Theres another guy handing out free Gillette razors for the people that are in there. The attendant looks at me and says "is there something wrong?". I'm fighting gum thats stuck to the upper right section of my molars. My hands are clean so I dig in there. Finally I get it out and toss the gum into the black sink and tell him "Nah, I'm good". I head outside, not knowing that troubles would ensue.

My teeth feel funny. As I brushed my tongue across my molars, I noticed several were loose. I noticed the wisdom tooth was about to come out. In fact, it was split in half. I wiggled them, and tried to evenly get both loose. Then I finally spit it out. I felt other teeth become loose. I started spitting them out. I spit out some sort of white flat square that had a sand dollar pattern on it. I picked it up, and some of my teeth. WTF....maybe I can get a doc to fix this. My cousin shows up.

He's dressed nicely, and is with some random DC. He starts saying he hasn't seen me in forever, and wants me to get back into music. We're walking and talking, and a girl catches my eye. I continue on, and apparently he turned around and started talking to her. Theres two of them, so I'm thinking wingman mode. I actually recognize one girl, and she's trying to set him up with the original girl I saw. I could hear her saying something about "black guys".

Something happened.....either something in the conversation, or the way we saw those people twice, but I'm not really sure. I just know I knew I was dreaming.

I walked up to girl, grabbed her and flew up in the air with her, and landed. (I was really thinking about doing an inverted spinning suplex on her her at first, but she seemed cool) I tried it again, and noticed when we reached a certain height it felt like we were just standing because I had pressure on my feet. Some random DC flew up to where we were, and tried to take her, and I flew back down with her. Never saw that DC again. I tried something different. I laid down on my back, and asked her to get on top of me. She straddled me and smiled. We flew up and down several times, and I noticed I didn't feel the pressure anywhere. Then she started getting freaky. I guess plan B we on her mind, and just when I started to give into what she was doing, I woke up.

Didn't remember any lucids last night and my dreams are a bit foggy. Nothing worth writing down.

So since I've come back from my vacation everything has been a disaster. After we got the pony taken care of I started getting harassed by some ass. @.@ I got the police involved the other day and so far everything has stopped, but all this crazy has ruined all my dream progress. I will need to start all over again as now i'm only remembering one dream a night. If that. ;-; ARG!!!!!! I really do hope the ass call my phone again, let me tell you what! I'll show him for killing my dreams...

Hello I had two very long dreams where some crazy and confusing stuff happened. The surroundings were constantly changing, but I remember them in detail

Hours of sleep: 7.5h
Vividness: 4/5
Recall: 3/5

1. I'm near a lake. The sun is shining, there are a lot of people, mainly hot girls and a few who I know personally. We start some kind of weird game: everyone has to run through the water to escape some-one or something. I don't know exactly how the game went, but I had really fun (mostly because of the girls ). During the game, a group of students show up. They come from the states to study here in Luxembourg. They get also involved in the game and the game makes even more fun. I chat with some of them and I'm able to speak in an excellent English. This surprises me a bit, but I don't pay attention on it. We run now towards a group of birds. We want to attack them so we run as far as I can.
I awake and look at my clock. It's 4:15. I look away to RC on the watch.

I awake a second time. I look at the clock: it's 2:05. I plug my nose. It's reality.

I'm in my grand-ma's house. I'm sitting near the table. My father is also present. My grand-ma comes in and shows me an aquarium. There are a lot of fish in it. She tells me, that a few fish are missing. I say that I don't know where they are. She keeps on repeating her question but than goes in the kitchen. She comes back and has a few glasses. She makes cocktails and shots. I drink them but they taste like water. My father is a bit shocked that I drink that much (4shots and 2 cocktails lol). I watch out the window and see the same lake as before. This doesn't surprise me at all. I get up and go outsides.
It is dark and I keep on walking. I see some lights and I'm in front of a supermarket. I'm looking for my little brother. I enter and there are a lot of plants. It's a kind of jungle or forest. I keep on walking and I see everywhere shelves, busy people some cashiers. My brother comes towards me and we both go outsides through another door.
Outsides it's still dark but I see that there is a restaurant. It's brand-new so we decide to take a look on it.
We are now on a terrace, my whole family is there. Someone says to me that I have to help to get the dishes on the table. So I go insides and I'm now in the kitchen of my grand-ma's house I take a huge cup with strawberries with milk and go back. The terrace has gone and everything looks like the house of my grand-ma.I keep on walking but I nearly let fall the cup. I don't know how but all the milk ends up in my mouth I don't know what to do so I spit everything out in the cup (yuck!) and hope no-one sees it. I put the cup on a table. Next to table two guys are talking. They have a conversation about the noises a wooden bar makes. I find this conversation so interesting that I'm talking with them and explaining what noises such a wooden bar makes when it falls off a building (by making sounds like "klong-klong, boum krack and tong!"). They are impressed about my knowledge After some time, I leave them and I'm suddenly ousides on this terrace! There is a huge screen. I look at it.
I'm now in the movie! It's Rain Man. I'm in the casino and play blackjack lol. And I win. Raymond (Dustin Hoffman) get's angry and kicks me in the ass. WTF is my thought. Suddenly we are outsides and there is a woman, who doesn't even act in this movie. She's quite beautiful. But I'm disturbed by the fact that Dustin Hoffman has kicked me out!
I'm back at the terrace and I'm sitting next to a table. Someone next to me says, that my uncle who I've never met in real life, was here to see me. An old man comes towards me and we shake hands. He says that he's impressed that I have a good handshake and that I surely got it from my father.

I awake and it's morning. My alarm-clock is ringing.
The End

P.S.: I don't know why all these things happened

Not really any dreams lately because I've been so crazily busy that I haven't even had time to lay in bed for a minute to attempt to recall any dreams. Today while taking the PSAT I did remember a little bit of my dream from last night. I also had a very vivid daydream yesterday in which I made a fireball.

Dream 1: Tongues
Well I have this thing called Tongue Thrust where when I swallow my tongue pushes on my teeth and it is pushing one of my teeth up into my gums. In the dream I was standing at my locker at school and my friend Anna walked up to me and asked why some of her teeth were growing up into her gums (all of the effected teeth were on her left side). I asked her to show me how she swallowed so I could see if it was the same problem. She swallowed kind of like a horse does if I'm remembering correctly (I can picture her swallowing and it just feels like I've seen a horse do that). Her tongue was pushing on that entire side. I told her that was the problem and she was denying it. I told her the correct way to swallow and she kept insisting that she was doing that and then swallowing in the same horse-like manner.

Fireball Daydream
I was at one of my extracurricular programs where I teach science to 6th and 7th graders after school on Wednesdays. We had forgotten to plan something for that day so I decided to make a fireball even though it wasn't really science. I threw it across the room and one of the other student teachers caught it and "put out the fire".

October 13, 2010

Synopsis: A very symbolic dream of a storm destroying my home. Futile. Surrender.

Surrender to the Storm
A hurricane ravages my home town. Already, all the homes around are deep under water. My home, made of cardboard, has been spared from the flood from the little hill its sitting on. I run home, passing by bursting gullies. I think, "I still have time to save my belongings!". But when I got home, my little cardboard home was flopped over and all soggy.

There was nothing left inside because the winds blew it away. The water is still rising and now I'm in threat of drowning. I leave my home and escape out of the city, treading waist deep.

My dream fades away, and now I'm in a city. I guess this is my new home now. My family went to some lame movie I didn't want to go see. And my friends went to a death metal rock concert, which wasn't my thing. So I just went for a stroll in the city by myself. Not that it was lonely, it was like the crowded streets of New York.

Suddenly a burst of lightning erupts and a group of innocent people vaporize! I look up to see one nasty storm over head! If ever a storm could be pissed, well, this is one pissed off looking storm.

The clouds condense over the tallest building, engulfing the highest floors of the building. There are thousands of people now watching the spectacle. Im worried now because this is the building my friends concert is in! I try to get closer, pushing through the crowd.

All the windows from the building have been bursted, as if the weight of the dark clouds are crushing the building! Scared now, I scream my friends name! But then I logically decide that the building was evacuated and my friends are safe some where in this massive crowd.

Nearby I see another building making a mass exodus. Its where my family were watching a movie. I find them, but their confused why they were kicked out. They have no idea how nasty this storm is, vaporizing people with its lightning strikes.

The dream fades away into a new one. I'm in an apartment complex, I guess this must be my new home. Me and my sister change our shoes, and go for a walk in the light drizzling rain. Which felt nice when you aren't so worried about getting wet.

For a brief moment I became lucid, but went along with the dream. I was just happy to see that the apartment I'm living in this dream was a new one. Even if the old folks were still around, any change felt good. After having a weird bathroom-dream moment, I woke up.


Edit: After reviewing my night time notes, there was something I forgot. At some point I'm told that this dream is about the Story of One

10/10/10
This dream was residue from me watching the movie "Back to the Future"

present day: I remember standing in the street with four other people i didn't know In reality, but in the dream i know i had known them forever. I looked at my hands and i was holding some sort of string that had a time line on it.This was my "time machine".

The year 2000: I appeared in front of a television set were a commertial shoot was taking place. I dont remember what the commertial was for, but i do remember it had alot of women...lots and lots of women..and me and my friends did some sweet parkour moves.

The not-so-near future: I appeared with my friends in a purple futuristic subway station with a giant fish tank in the middle. I looked back and my friends had an evil laugh and in the blink of an eye they went back to the past and left me in the future. At that time i began to panic and asked a guy in the lobby who was reading a news paper if there were any time machines there and he looked at me like i was crazy.
moments later one of my friends who wan't evil poofed in front of me on i bike. He gave me the bike and he told my it was a time machine.
I hopped on and realised that i was really tiny compared to my almost 6 foot tall body. It felt like a big wheeler bike to me, but i rode it anyways. I saw myself in a tunnel of time going at a very fast speed and all the sudden...
i woke up.

I had a total blackout during most of my sleep. But the morning proved rather interesting.

Scott WTF.

Starts out... I'm in Calgary at an outdoor bus depot waiting for scott. I'm with some dude chatting but then he has to hop on a bus. All the buses leave at once and they like, swerve to try to hit me. I somehow manage to doge them. Then I meet Up with scott. But he isn't his new and improved self. He looks like a crack addict. He tried to promise me the world, but obviously he's in no condition to promise me anything.

I get in some vehicle with scott, but I'm in the back that is like... As big as a house, I swear to god. I get all hot and sweaty because the heat controls are in the front cab, and I can't get a message through to the driver because in between me and the driver is a wall. So I open the back door (dumb idea) the let some breeze in. Then all the stuff in the car house starts blowing out the door. I'm freaking at this point and thinking, "Scott is gonna kill me now that all his stuff is blown out the back door." I see that the floor is a large mattress and is also almost on it's way out the door. I go to close it but spot about five dollars worth of coins on the ground. i pocket them and then close the door, and I save the mattress floor!

Missing time

I'm at where scott lives now with a family: Yves, Alaina, and their almost 2 year old son. I'm in my room listening to some music. It's my guitar rendition of vivaldi's 4 seasons: Spring. i'm liking it.
We all have to go somewhere. so as I leave I hear Yves is is in his bathroom grooming himself up while listening to my 4 guitar concerto by vivaldi. I can tell it isn't his type of music, but for some reason he's really diggin it. Then i go into the living room and hear Enter Sandman by metallica playing from the TV.




I walk towards the stairs and when I can get there, i can hear the two different songs playing simultaneously and they appear to be harmonizing together. Alaina walks up behind me and makes a comment basically in agreement with what I was perceiving . Yves and scott join us going out the door. and we all go into a van to send me off. We drive and then when we get to the bus depot, the van gets his by another vehicle but some how we are managed to be saved. I am left at the bus depot again. Then the dream repeats in exactly the same manner a few more times.

Kamea WTF.

This was a pure auditory dream. I woke up and fell back asleep into the same dreams a couple of times. Each time she was saying something to herself. It went Kind of like, "I want to where lingerie while opening a chain of stores... I want to open a store called 'Heaven's Gate.'(or something like that.)... I love mosh today, but tomorrow i may love (some other name I can't remember). But thankfully tomorrow never comes."

I Thought I put in a good effort this night, but no lucids.

Spooky
0328: C. Typically weird first cycle dream. Trying to become an actor? Playing DDR-like game with the arrow keys of a keyboard with my left hand. Images of playing cards. The game is hard and I can't keep up. As I miss the notes, the screen gets distorted and starts playing really spooky wailing noises. I feel frightened, like I've offended some evil spirits. Just a dream... Just a dream...

Fighting the Soviets
0652: C. Small troop in the army. It's me, childhood friend Ashwin, a random third guy, and our commander is my apartment building manager. There's a military stand-off with the Soviet Union. Something about railroads. We sneak into Russia on mini-trains. We are wearing USC hats instead of helmets and that seems to fool the Soviet army guards. We fight and win two small skirmishes. A woman thief has been stalking us. She can turn invisible. She steals all the coins out of Ashwin's pocket. I see her and ask to stay and help us. She is familiar but I can't place her. Long black hair and tan. We settle down in an abandoned train station to sleep.

WBTB+MILD 10 minutes

Random School Scenes
0800: C. Not sure of the order of events here. It was probably the reverse of my notes. Going to junior high during the summer. My PE coach is Gordon Ramsey. I'm in third person. Looking at myself I'm wearing blue jeans and a white polo shirt, the same as Gordon. I look really buff. Then in math class. A friend, Chris, is sitting behind me and gets called out of class to the office. He asks me to watch his backpack. When class ends, I leave the backpack with the teacher. But I forget the teacher's name and am embarrassed. Then in a giant bathroom with many trough urinals like a sports stadium. Most of the boys in the bathroom are much younger than me.

WBTB+MILD 60 minutes, read DV, B-Complex vitamin, water and piece of bread

Ice Cream and Being Locked Out
1000: C. This might have been two or three dreams connected with hallucinations or short waking day dreams. At a strip mall looking for something to eat. Pass through a Weinersnitzel. Find an ice cream stand. Get a medium cup of strawberry (residue from a few days ago).

Now at home. I live with Lance? I'm in my room and hungry again. I leave to get some ice cream across the street. Forgot my keys and locked out. Find an open gate in the parking lot which leads to a bunch of maintenance access tunnels and ladders. I follow these and they lead to a trap door in the floor of Lance's room. He is watching TV. I apologize for intruding and explain what happened.

Now I am back outside, maybe the next morning. I sense I am well dressed. I lay down on a mattress that is lying at the curb of the street. The street is dirty and the area is a bit sketchy. I am near an intersection. A man walks out into the intersection to block traffic and starts taunting a guy in a van. Another man in a pizza delivery car gets out of his car and yells at the guy in the street to move out of the way. The guy apologizes and says the man in the van he is taunting is his friend. The pizza man returns to his car but he has locked himself out. He pushes his car out of the way.

Still laying in the street on a mattress, I notice the building next to me is one of those payday loans places. A few really hot women step out of it and walk near me. One steps over me in a skirt. It seems like they are trying to get my attention.

Thief with Powers
1127: C. I'm in a sketchy part of a city. I climb along rooftops and I can slip through water drains and air vents. I use these powers to sneak into a donut shop and steal all the money from the cash register. For a while, I continue to stake out this shop. I am watching for the reaction of the people and waiting for another opportunity to steal more.

12/10/10 had a dream of being back at old house in manchester with my housemate and trying to get him (and thus me) to realise its a dream by showing him to himself. all i remember was him looking at this other version of himself as if it was anybody really, then it fades

1. Being at a beach with three Asian women. They kept diving under the water periodically. One of them liked me, but the other one didn't approve of it.

2. General internet browsing.

I wrote down "birthday cake". I don't know what that means.

I dreamed of the day ahead of me in the early morning. And getting coffee...

...

Awake, Non-lucid, Halfway-dream thingy, [Commentary made while awake]

I'm in Phoenix for another regular get-together with a group of friends. Jack M. has an extra ticket to this themed dinner themed around the Goosebumps books by R.L. Stine, so he invites me to go with him, and I do. The dinner is served at a really long banquet table in a long, elaborately-designed banquet hall. Every year, they make a quilt to commemorate this themed dinner; the walls of the banquet hall are decorated with quilts from past years.

I'm with my mom in a kitchen, and she declares her intentions to make the oddest variation on “Mexican” food ever. It involves mashed sweet potatoes. We make this strange dinner and serve it to some dinner guests.

WBTB at 2:43 A.M. Took notes on the above two dreams.

I'm in a science classroom in the A building at my old high school, and science class is in session. I'm a student, and all the other student seats are filled with other students, except for the two which are occupied by my parents. I explain to one of the other students who they are, including explaining that my mom was an English teacher at that school until she retired. [True in reality.]

I'm eating a piece of pizza from BJ's, and discover that the restaurant has slipped an advertising flier into the pizza between the crust and the cheese. There's a little piece of paper towel resting directly on the crust, and on top of that is the flier, which is folded up and printed on glossy paper. It is printed in English and Japanese, and the largest, most noticeable text reads “Oe!” (Japanese for “Hey!”) in hiragana. [Awesome, I can read hiragana in dreams just as easily as I can in real life. That's pretty cool.] There's also a little cloth bag, similarly hidden in the pizza. I don't know where it comes from, but I also find a little gummy candy shaped like a Charmander; it looks a lot like the little plastic Charmander figurine that I have in real life, except more elongated.

WBTB at 4:32 A.M. Took notes on the above two dreams. I also have two notes from this one that say “afternoon nap with P.” and “breakfast with Dad – oatmeal later on,” but I really don't remember those dreams at all now.

I'm back in the A building from the aforementioned high school, in an open meeting area off of a main hallway. There are some tables set up in a rectangle, and a bunch of people my own age are sitting around them. One of them is my friend Kevina from Florida. We're doing some kind of activity that requires us to get up and move around the area. While we're doing this, I accidentally bump into another girl who's a little taller than I am, and her chin sort of gets caught on my shoulder for several moments. A third girl gets out some drawings that we all did at a previous meeting of this group. Impressed, I remark about how organized she is. I take my drawing from the stack. I tell everyone that I have to leave the meeting now, because it's 10:00 and I'm late. [For what, I'm not sure.]

I'm in an airport that I've been to several times before. [...in dreams. I still don't clue in that I'm dreaming when I find myself in these recurring dream environments.] There are separate security lines for men and women. I point this out to my dad and tell him that he can stay in the line I'm in, but he'll get some weird looks. There are freestanding, light-up advertising signs in the airport, kind of like there are in real airports and malls, except that this one has an LCD screen. The text on it is saying something about how clear and sharp the text that particular brand of screen can produce is, but I don't find it all that impressive. [LOL, I think this might have been my mind trying to tell me that I was dreaming...]

[This next part doesn't really count as a dream, lucid or otherwise, because I wasn't fully asleep. I knew the entire time that I wasn't fully asleep, I was fully aware of my real body, and I'm pretty sure I was deliberately imagining at least some of this rather than dreaming it, hence the different color and the past tense.] I was on a street somewhere, and I wanted to go into a particular shop. It was closed, so I decided to get in by climbing through the closed window. It actually worked. [For some stupid reason, dream!me is absolutely bound and determined to master the skill of walking through solid objects, even though waking!me would prefer to work on having longer-lasting lucid dreams and accomplishing the Task of the Month.] The interior of the shop was kind of dark; all the walls and furniture were made of dark wood. I went to one table and started experimenting with turning over a pair of miniature hourglasses, one with sand in it, the other with gold dust in it. I noticed that the gold-dust one was running out faster, even though they were the same size. Then I realized that I could feel something grainy blowing onto my hand. Then I looked more closely at the gold-dust hourglass and found the little hole near the top of the upper chamber, where some of the gold dust was coming out and getting all over the table and my hand. When I saw this, I went, “Oh, crap.”