7/4/09 Sister was driving and I was in the back seat. We entered an area that had recently had a lot of break ins and decided it must be easy to rob people here. Stopping the car, my sister stayed on the street with the engine running while I snook in the front door of some house. It was getting dark and I was getting more and more nervous about being caught. I quickly found a big white silky table spread in a glass box. I grabbed the quite large glass container and unlogically fit it into the back of the car. Continuing driving quickly and soon arrived at camp. We hid the giant fish tank in my cabin room and went through it in more detail only to discover that it was essentially all useless and not worth the risk at all. On the TV the news continued to report increased break in numbers and police were searching through finger prints found at the scenes. I had touched numerous door handles and was really scared about getting caught. My sister and I decided to bin the broken glass in the tank and then leave everything else under the bed and when we left camp, no one could connect it to us. Driving by the camp again my sister asked what all these wooden posts outside were for. I explained they could be turned into showers, cookers or seats interchangeably. That was a really uneventful and distressing dream. Twas not fun.
1/3 In a bank I was just randomly walking around and ended up in the women's bathroom. There were some women in there talking and I stop and left, not because I was in the wrong place but because I just didn't want to listen to their conversation. Back in the bank lobby a guy came up to one of the tellers and pulled out a pistol. All very casual, a number of other guys pulled out weapons and started to round people up. I quickly ducked back into a bathroom as people began screaming and trying to run around. The women ran passed be all hysterical even though they couldn't possibly know whats going on yet. I let them go and hid behind the bathroom door. One of the gun men came in looking for people and sure took his sweet time checking around, like he knew someone was hiding in there. Eventually the gruff man left and off the floor I picked up a couple of pieces of broken plastic/glass because they were very sharp and I figured I might be able to use it as a weapon. Hiding the pieces in my pocket I decided to just leave the bathroom and go back out into the lobby. The fact that I came out on my own didn't phase anyone and I just sort of joined a group of people that were down on the floor being watched by some of the gun men. I was too close to the front counter to see what was really going on. Sitting there I kept looking for opportunities to jump the gunmen; only once were they all looking away but just as I was about to go for his neck the leader came by and got everyone's attention again. Not sure why but someone on the floor with me who I felt was a very good friend said something at the leader. Turning, I saw he was David Hicks, he pulled out his pistol again, pointed it straight at my friend and shot him. Again and again he shot him a good half a dozen times. With each shot I felt worse and worse for my friend but he didn't die straight away. Soon after, the gunmen made their exit and I quickly piggybacked my friend to my car which was a convertible. I drove him to hospital and just at the front doors I saw (3rd person) him all curled up on my front seat. I told the doctor as I brought him in that he had taken a 'pocket full' of shots and some body shots but by still being conscious he I knew he would be OK. At this point I (my former body) became JD from scrubs and my friend was Turk, both of us in our blue and green scrubs. JD was with Carla and they were both sadly leaning on each other but everyone knew Turk would be OK despite the numerous gunshot wounds he had received. 2/3 In a car, someone was driving a bunch of us through town, along the side of the road I saw a car reach the top of a ramp in a rundown, grungy building and driving through an automatic door into the second story of the building. Thinking that was way too well setup for such a dingy looking place I resolved to return later. Later I returned to the building just as I planned. It was night now and inside was dim orange/red lights. Inside was a car and a series of chain-link cages that had matts and other dusty looking equipment in them. Two guys were in the dark room, one was this short, built black guy and the other a generic Caucasian. The both had pretty heavy looking weights and we really aggressive toward me entering so suddenly. I explained that I just wanted to see what was going on and they sort of calmed down. They were obviously working out but the black guy told me they would show me how "Its really done" and proceeded with the white guy to spin the weights one handed around one at a time in front of them, like pen-spinning, just as fast as the pros but with full 40+ kg hand weights. I was really impressed at how they could move that well, and they continued to spin them while circling each other around a tight circle. When it was my turn to try, I was given a weight sphere (pretty much a shotput) and the other white guy and I began tossing one between us. Then more people were watching and someone was between us. He threw the ball to me and moved away around the person, forming a new circle. I followed while through the ball up and around my body, it turned into a style of capoeira by the end which looked really cool. The idea of our game was to force the ball onto the other person and then escape them returning it to us by staying out of sight around the circle. The ball couldn't stay still and it had to be in constant, fluid motion. Lots of high and low spins were incorporated as well as wide sweeps of the feet and body angling to through the ball high, move along under it at speed and catch it smoothly again, in order to catch the other player.
29/3/09 Had numerous different dreams after waking up at least 3 times this morning. This is the one I remember most. Rating - 3/5 Demolition Man I was following (3rd person) a crime villain as he made his way across a building's rooftop. We were underground and Pheonix from Demolition Man. Just like in the movie he had come out of suspended animation and gotten loaded up with a bunch of futuristic weapons. He had his rail-gun (supercharged metal fired like a laser), which was small, white and rather long, with him on the building and began sniping off people down in the dark slums below. Then Spartan (the good-cop) from the movie came around the other side of the rooftop to stop him. He pulls out some good-old traditional assault rifle and opens up on Phoenix who takes cover and fires back through walls and pillars with his rail-gun. Someone from down on the street called out to us (I became Spartan here) that some sort of officials were gonna catch us so we decided to put our differences away and legged it together. Being two of few people who both had guns and knew how to use them we felt pretty powerful and in control if anyone tried to stop us. Eventually though we were driven to the surface (like in the movie) and surrounded by the future cops. ----Dream shift---- I was now in an airport with people moving about everywhere to get transportation preparations done. Having been captured, I was to be flown somewhere away from Phoenix because we were assumed to be partners in crime. Standing in the terminal's clean, business suit filled departure zone, I tested out the restrictions on me. I wasn't cuffed in any way, but the moment I tried to walk away a suit behind me held my arms in a police hold behind my back. Resigned to the fact I couldn't move I stop resisting and so the suit eased off and just stood back. After having stood around watching people hurry around together or on mobile phones, it became obvious that more people were needed to speed things up. More and more people stopped standing around and started going back and forth around the room. Soon the quite large room was just teeming with suits and the one guarding me was too far back to grab me quickly, so I stepped casually between people and moved through the crushing masses. Along the way I found Phoenix who was now practically my partner in crime because we had both been used by the police. I identified him as the same character but now he looked/was M from school. He was still being restrained and frog-march onto a plane. I followed him casually and entered the plane's security door just behind another suit so that I didn't need to ID myself. Once on the wide, plush plane no one questioned me because no one should have been there that wasn't supposed to be. I saw M sat down in one of the first class seats and some minor restraint was placed on him then left alone because no one thought he would get away without people noticing. I casually moved along the plane's far seating aisle to the front, then crossed to the next aisle and caught M's eye. He quickly caught on that I was trying to escape with him and as I walked passed him I unclipped his seat harness restraint and he spun to his feet, following me like I was supposed to be taking him somewhere. I must have looked like a suit myself now. Everyone had boarded so when we got back through the security door the loading corridor was empty. Keeping up the facade, I got M out through the looser crowd and into the main public airport section. ----Dream Shift---- We ended up back in another suit crushing terminal together but no one here was searching for us because this area was getting a plane ready for B (from school) who had apparently been convicted of helping us as well (maybe the person who tipped us off in the slums). She was doing the whole, "I don't know anything" routine and trying to break free from two suit's holds onto her. Upon seeing us in the crowd she stopped fighting and let herself be frogmarched onto her plane. M and I followed. The captain was at the door and asked if we were the last people to board, we obviously were and had to simply say yes so that he would open the door and we could follow closely behind him to gain access. B was seated near the rear of the plane close to where we entered so we had to walk passed her up toward the front of the aisle. M was ahead of me and sat at the far window seat (there were about six seats in each of the three sections, left-right-middle) and S sat down after him. Why she was there too, I didn't question but we knew we could trust her. I sat two seats in from the aisle for some privacy since there were lots of empty seats. S had a large mountain hiking backpack on the seat I wanted which I pushed over to the next seat. She asked if she could sit next to me for the flight and having no quams with that she pushed the bag over further. All three of us, M, S and I, settled in for a long flight where we would save B at the other end.
28/3/09 This dream was a oddly fun mix of the game Flatout and The Jade Empire. I know I'm missing a large section at the start but the end I remember well. I was at the beginning of the next level and a panda was there. I was with my ninja/warrior partner and I told the rolly-polly panda that it would all be OK, we would investigate and fix his rice field. With the panda reassured the level began. We (partner and I) ran down a narrow canyon with a ramp at the end. She jumped off first and landed down on the ground below but I used a special chi style power to boost my jump and landed on the top of a large oriental tiled cross beamed structure. I knew that you had to do the jump right to get there, there was no other way to get that high. I landed perfectly and then start channeling the my chi power again in a different form. I was using it to detect any hidden powerups or items on this roof top. Being such a hard place to get to, there was a full life powerup which I didn't need at all, but was good to find incase I needed it later. Then I swung down a level on the second beam where my partner had climbed up and I channeled again finding yet another health powerup. I had been hoping for a new fighting style or weapon because the location was really obscure and out of sight but nothing more was found. Knowing the mission was a time based thing where we had to race through the area in order to find out whatever was wrong with the panda's field the two of use jumped off the ridiculously high beams and continued down the narrow canyon. I felt the time spent searching for hidden goodies was wasted time but worthwhile to know for later on in the game. When I woke up I had 'Love Like Winter' - AFI playing in my head.
25/3/09 - Rating 3/5 Hybrid House I was outside my house in the front yard with a small group of about 3 others. We heard a booming coming from the back of my house and into view marched a huge hydra (multiheaded) dragon thing, all bright blue and vicious. We knew though that it wasn't actually a creature but a giant machine/house. How a whole house could fit into it didn't seem to matter at the time. We saw it, it saw us and we knew from there that whoever was controlling the 'house' would be looking to stop us from getting inside it. It became my team's goal at this point to infiltrate and find a way to gain control/steal the whole complex. We knew that if we could, we would have it all to ourselves to do whatever we wanted with this highly valuable construct. (Being somewhat like a game now) I took into the mission a couple of special bouncy-ball looking things. They were quite large as bouncy-balls go, all happy yellow and rubbery with a smiley face on one side. As I approached my house (which was now the inside/contents of the hydra. By entering my house I was entering the construct) I ate one of these balls. It was what you would expect just less chewy and rather tasteless. The purpose in eating the ball was it contained some special ingredient that allowed me to become invisible if I wished and pass through walls/objects at will. I flowed smoothly through my parent's bedroom window and began looking for codes and passwords that 'users' of the house used for access. I soon found a piece of paper hidden in the top of the closet with a number of usernames and passwords written down. I also needed a way to enter these codes and find out who had the highest level of control to their account. Before I could proceed any further however, two people came down toward the room suspecting something was going on. I wall passed through to my sister's room and hid in plain sight in the centre of the room. They had some incling to my whereabouts and followed me in there too. Then they knew I was close and the female of the pair through our some 'magic' dust that covered everything really fast rending me visible. Before they could catch me I passed through the floor and lay down under the wooden floorboards (which we don't actually have), looking up at as they moved around above me. It was really dusty and only room enough for me to pull my head up slightly. Having gotten the codes I decided to pull out and try again from the outside, so I returned to my original starting point to get more equipment. Lying on the grass were the rest of my team (all wearing black-ops style outfits) dead and slightly bloodied. I was disheartened by the fact that I was the only member left but knew I should just keep on with the mission to gain control. After waiting some time, it became darker outside and I munched down another yellow ball for its temporary effects. I moved into the house in the same way as before but quickly continued through to the bathroom. In there someone was doing something inappropriate (not that I remember what) and I became suddenly intrigued to watch and learn more about the people living in the house. Aware of my ability to observe any and everything people did in their private spaces I wondered around the bottom floor of my house looking for more people, just ignoring walls completely. Soon after I was found out again and jumped by the house's security, ending my part of the mission. I wasn't to sad about losing because I knew I had survived much longer than the rest of my team.
20/03/09 Heaps of really erratic dream progressions involving me studying and having to get to exams (which are today for real). I remember at least 3 false awakenings where I would calm down slightly upon 'waking' and then discover I had to do a test I hadn't studied for, one in particular was biology which I don't even do. Very stressful
19/3/09 - 4/5 (because of the flip) At school (which was actually like the facility I worked at in my work experience dream) playing team-tag with S and some other random people. I was running away from everyone (my team was out), full sprinting down a hill and around the base of the building we were focusing the game around. On the other side a guy caught up to me from behind as I ran back up the hill so I did a back flip and as he ran under me. Mid air I grabbed his shoulders and pushed off super high into the air (throwing him away). I landed facing the other way and sprinted back toward the slope once more but S was at the bottom now running toward me. Using my speed I jumped and wall ran along the wall to maintain my hieght as the slope dropped away below. I spun two full revolutions as I moved, almost horizontal, and pulled out keeping really close to the wall. I was brushing the rough surface with my finger tips to keep balance and position in the air and found I still had over a story of the building to fall and not wanting to land with all that force on my legs I spun out twice more along the wall, landing perfectly on the grass at the building's corner. As I rounded the corner for the second time a bell/signal went off and everyone had to return to class. I got my bag from in an open air area under that building where other people had been sitting in the shade. SM was there with N and they were waiting for me so we could go together. I asked something about whether or not we had assembly and they told me I didn't although at the time I was pretty sure there was somewhere else I was supposed to be.
18/3/09 Had gone to the ski fields with a group for a week. It was like a package deal where the accomedation etc were all run through the same people. J from school was there but the rest of the people were randoms. A lot of them were European tourists who were very excited about skiing. We arrived first at a large cabin/dorm which was where we were all staying and unloaded our bags. The group instructor/guide told us to put on good sturdy shoes because we would be trail walking/hiking as the activity for the rest of the day. There was an anticlimax here from everyone because we had all been really pumped to go skiing but realized that we didn't have enough time to get any good time on the slopes in before it got dark. The instructor told us today was a setup day and we would get our skiing gear on the way back that night. Brief memory of being out in the snow. It was perfectly powder white, icy but with plenty of grip under the feet. I looked back over a hill we had covered and it was a picture perfect white hill with a few scattered alpine trees, nicely topped with snow coatings. _________ Upon writing this dream down I suddenly got recall of a dream scene I had a fairly long time ago. It was on a big farm and the hill side was all spinifexy. An old ute drove down the dirt road passed me. The forest line across the hill top was really dense. A gate was further down the road. I don't know why but it has left an impression and just suddenly surfaced.
17/3/09 Really rapidly changing dream. At one point I vividly remember piloting a helicopter alone next to a big jumbo style plane in the middle of the night. We (co-pilot and I) were trying to get a close look when someone crashed into the other aircraft. The plane was much better off and peeled away from us into the night but our rotors were screwed and sparks were flying everywhere. The chopper started spiraling toward a brightly light city below and I stood up in the cockpit and yelled something at the copilot like, "That was your doing!" Then my perspective went third-person and I saw the chopper smash into a street, narrowly missing two high rise buildings on either side. Neon lights were all over the street side and people were just yelling and running everywhere. All bright lights and noise!
9/3/09 Had gone to Sydney via train with a large group of friends from my new and old school. Our reasoning was that you could get crispy cream donuts there and thus, we had to go. Once there though, we sort of dispersed in an underground mall that was sort of a part of the train station. I found a food court area and got some lunch from some random store rather than simply living off donuts. Once I was done eating (more vivid here), I went over to a chicken specialty store and leaned on the counter waiting to get one of the store girl's attention. Some joke was made by the further one away to, "Go and serve the little year 7" Which I laughed at since I wasn't even in uniform and I'm in year 11. I pulled up into a full standing position and felt/was really big; both tall and commanding a large presence. I began with some trivial banter about the joke and why she really thought of me. Then moved on to explain that I didn't actually want to buy anything but I wanted to get an email address to which I could send my resume to apply for a job there because I hadn't thought to bring it with me. The girl was quite nice and gave me a pen, paper and told me address, twice, because I was too slow the first time. - For the life of me I can't remember what it was... - And S & M walked passed together laughing toward me jokingly making some crack at how intimidating I was being to the poor girl (who was older than me). As this was all going on, the once small store had changed into a more open and multisided counter where more and more people began to come to place orders. The two store assistants were soon swamped and I left to let them get back to work. R and a friend of her's had been there creating this massive salad by picking and choosing from a huge variety of ingredients all along the counter. Moving away I ended up in a quieter section of the mall with C who I followed over to a stand outside a shop. "Cool! Flash glasses!" C exclaimed and grabbed a pair of quite dark sunglasses. I asked what they were and he replied by making the whole glass plating in them light up electric blue/white, quite blinding to look at from the outside let alone with them on. C explained that they completely blinded you and gave you an artificial high type of thing like wearing beer-vision goggles and the like. He then stumbled off with the glasses still on into a music store that was dimly lit and had some sort of rave music crankin'. Inside there were a whole lot of people dancing in a corner and these crazy lights where flashing around up that end. I joined in for a bit but didn't really know any of them very well and decided to go somewhere else. As I left the main entrance of the store, M was there acting & dressed quite gay. Another guy came up to him and he tried to jump/hug him but the second guy kind of pushed him away and calmed him down. I drifted off into the mall shopping area again but didn't end up finding anyone else.
8/6/09 A good half a dozen frags last night/this morning. Being the weekend the increased sleep has made an obvious difference to the number of dreams, however poor my recall is. Lucid Frag Was in my brother's room just chillin' with some friends. It was all really clean, clear and spacious despite how many people were present. K was lying on the bed and I was having a discussion about something with her. It ended up taking about dreams and then some bizarre paradox of logic made me realize that our discussion didn't make plausible sense. "According to that logic, this is a dream right now!" I declared and instantly knew I was right. Pleased and my realization I said something like, "See ya" and ran out of the room to the stairs. I jumped to the bottom and then flew insanely fast up and out of the house. Then I half woke up and cursed myself for not stabilizing. Other Memories/Deja Vu My mother asking if I was going for a swim. Going to get breakfast and their being my favorite crisp n crunchy cereal all read for me. I got up for real this morning and was most disappointed when I worked out that there really wasn't any of that cereal . Flying across my school grounds out toward a side street where there were lots of parked cars. I planned on stealing one and going for a drive/race - Part of current goal - but mustn't have made it or gotten distracted.
7/3/09 I was in some weird competition where the first part I remember is running into an office buildings reception room, looking around for where I was supposed to go next and frantically jumped into a back room closing the door behind me. On the messy desk was a laptop that I worked out had the next clue in it. Attached was this really cheap and nasty looking iPod which I ripped out and threw into my backpack. Here I pondered whether I was actually supposed to take the little device or leave it for whoever was coming after me but I figured it was such a shoddy/cheap/plastic contraption that they didn't expect to get them back any time soon. With this in mind I realized I was still completely alone in the room and started grabbing all the little bits of electronic equipment I could put into my bag inconspicuously. There were really expensive looking USB flashdrives, a little camera and about 5 other objects I stole. I remember trying to shove them to the bottom of my bag so that on a brief inspection no one would see the stolen goodies. Feeling pleased at my ingenuity I left the office room and continued through the building. Not having gone very far, I stopped and suddenly wondered if there had been cameras watching me in the back room. Competition or not I didn't wanna get busted for theft but since no one had stopped me yet I figured I was in the clear so far. I really wanted to keep the rather expensive equipment and thought afterwards that I should have gotten more stuff like the whole laptop since everyone after me would probably pillage anything valuable too.
6/3/09 I had gone on a short road trip with a whole group of people in this massive motor home. There was no way it would have fit into a standard road's lane as it was so wide and we could walk through its numerous rooms on the road. I remember being in the very back seat which was like a really long back bus seat, easy fitting 6 people, although it was only me and another person. It was really hot there where we stopped because the sun was in full blast through the window and I forced myself to get up and out. Before I did, someone opened the boot (yes it even had that) from the outside and the entire back of this huge van pulled up behind me. Outside it was my (new) school accept slightly rearranged. We had parked in the middle area and lots of other random people were sitting around eating in some giant picnic. We joined in late however and I don't remember getting any food. Instead I left all my stuff (bags) on the ground and moved up the hill toward where the 'main' event was supposed to be. It was a wedding and everyone was supposed to be in this huge hall; since we had come on the couple's invitation. From afar I could see it was almost over and decided to go back to the picnic and tell the others. We were all pretty proud of the fact that we had bludged the wedding and I told them that since the ceremony was almost over, we could eat desert soon. It had appeared however, everyone had already eaten the desert which we were supposed to have waited for. Nicely enough, the group had left me a bowl with some sort of chocolate pudding in it and a whole carton of custard; which I caked on and thoroughly enjoyed. I felt pleased that someone had thought to save me some food since I didn't get any before
3/3/09 I don't remember much/any of my dream last night however lots of really mundane things today like driving and something I asked my sister this morning gave me a huge sense of deja vu. Each time it happened I would get a half flash of some dream memory but lose it straight away. - With school being back now my dream recall has indeed suffered from having less sleep. I'm planning on actively doing WBTB's on the weekends as a sort of make up.
26/2/09 Vague as notes: Was at school. Day was called Black Saturday. Was playing jailbreak with friends. I climbed up to the top of a stair way to escape. When tagged I went to hell. In the transition I could choose two 'party members' to take with me. I chose two but found out my original ones were excellent and switched back. Everyone/thing was fiery and shaking; SK was there. Was with A's family at night. My brother just left wearing a shiny, silk stripped suit. We drank martinis and had boiled rice. Something about A's parents making-out. Got in a gladiator/arena fight with another pro fighter. I got to choose the weapon and ended up getting towels. I was super confident I could beat this guy if the only weapons were towels. I spun it out and started whipping him with it. The first hit sounded really bad and I started circling him, getting all cocky. Then the weapons suddenly changed to his specialty, metal studded quarterstaves. He also pulled out a collection of other metal weaponry. He started getting cocky and taking swings at me with his staff but to my surprise I found I blocked each hit really well. I wasn't game to attack yet in fear he would find some opening to get me. He pulled back and from his extra collection rolled out a perfectly spherical metal ball, about the size of your palm. He rolled it out and I knew it was a bomb. I quickly knocked it back at him, again and again this routine continued. I knew if it blew up near me I would die but he would be seriously injured too; I couldn't understand his logic in using it in the small room we were fighting in.