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This morning I woke up and went to sleep tons of times, my head was full of part memories of dreams. I have forgotten most of them now. This is one that I just remembered there.

I woke up in my dream (FA), I turned on my laptop as usual, Just as I was about to open Google Chrome, I noticed my Desktop Background had changed. I noticed it had went back to my old background. I just accepted that it had changed, I knew that my old OS used to change my background to black all the time, because it was messed up back then.

But, that isn't the worst part of it. My Desktop background is this:

Spoiler for My Desktop:

I knew that was the desktop I should have had, I actually remembered the words "Reality Check" from that picture. I had those very words in my head, wondering why they weren't there.
And in real life I would usually do a RC when I see or think about that background. But I never did one.



This was probably my biggest FA fail I have had.

But, I have been having a lot of FAs recently, and all of them have included me going on my computer, and usually onto DV, and usually into chat.

So, I will now prepare myself for that.

Colour Key: Non-Lucid, Lucid, Commentary/Notes
Dream Sign Key: Inner Awareness( i ), Action ( a ), Form ( f ), Context ( c )

Dream 1 - Running

I was running down a spiral staircase in a circular tower. I was being chased by a giant fantasy tiger like creature and several smaller, identical ones ( a,f ). Then the scene changed to an out of body view of the tower from the outside ( i,c ). The sky was purple, the tower was made of stone with a blue roof ( c ). It had small windows, but my perspective was to far away to see inside. I was then back in my body briefly before I awoke.

Two aspects of this dream came from video games. The tiger like creatures from one, and the scenario of being chased down a spiral staircase in a tower from another. I wont bore you with any more details.

Dream 2 - Singing

I don't really have good recall of this one, so I'll just copy directly what I noted down on paper in the middle of the night.

"Singing person as though good or famous. Pity?"

Dream 3 - School

This was my final, longest, and most detailed of the night, occurring right before finally waking up and ending my sleep for the night. The order of events is very muddled.

I was back at secondary school ( c ). I was in a lesson of some kind, but instead of a classroom we were in the main hall -- I was near the door ( c ). We were sat with the tables joined together in rows spanning the room. I was sitting next to an old friend, C, on my right and a girl I went to school with, H, on my left.

Recently I passed C in the street in reality and we had a conversation. I hadn't seen him for 7 years since leaving school. H I also hadn't seen for as long. She was the cutest girl in class and it turned out she liked me and asked me out. But this was in the first year of secondary school when I was 11/12 years old and I messed it up so it never really went anywhere. The configuration of the seating arrangement is significant to me because in one class she sat on my left and always wanted to swap seats.

The former prime minister of the UK, Gordon Brown, was my father ( c ). He wasn't there but I was aware of the fact. I get the sense that people in the class were discussing the fact, but it's not clear. Anyway, I hated him with a passion. There had just been an election, which he lost, and I was wondering if one day I would be the prime minister myself.

There recently was an election in the UK which he lost, of course. I did and do hate him. Weird that he was my father though.

John Locke, the character from Lost, was in my class ( c ). He was across the other side of the room. For some reason the tables were being re-arranged to make larger rectangular tables where people would sit facing inwards. I was excited at the prospect of it causing arguments for some reason ( i ). I wanted Locke to sit facing my friend C so that they would be more likely to argue with each other. I was very keen to stay sat next to H but she decided to sit next to her friend, M. Instead I ended up next to a girl, J, I knew from way back in primary school when I was about 10 years old -- her name was different from what it really is though ( c,f ).

I don't really know what's going on with the Lost stuff other than that my friend, C, reminds me of Jack from Lost in that he was kind of the leader figure in my circle of friends back then. The seating thing seems to be mixing two really weird school memories about girls.

There was a guy who's a journalist online in the class, S ( c ). The teacher, who was my Biology teacher, Mrs. H, from back in secondary school, comments about how it would be strange if he were to meet himself in different timelines or through time travel ( c ). S responded that he had actually met himself twice over and been in a room with three of himself ( c ). I made the joke that it was really "deep" because he has a notoriously deep voice ( a ). Everyone laughed at my amazing joke.

There was a scene in a courtyard -- but I think maybe it was earlier than previous scene -- in which there were TV cameras ( c ). I seemed to know what was going on and was explaining it to someone.

Back at school we left the main hall / class. There was a black and white hand drawn map across from the boys toilets on the wall, but I was somehow aware that it was out of date and wrong ( f,c ). An old acquaintance (I wouldn't say friend), G, said it was my fault because I had forgotten to update the map. But I said I wasn't going to re-draw it by hand when I could just go and print it out from the computer. We headed up stairs to English class and were stopped by a teacher who wanted to know why we were out of class. For some reason I couldn't stop thinking about how I was going to pin the map to the wall later. Next another old friend walked past us also heading upstairs, R. R was carrying a full colour map that was larger than the one on the wall ( c ). Then I woke up.

I'm at a loss for much of the later half of the dream.

Dream Sign Inventory

Black = AwakeBlue = LucidRed = Dream

Location: NYC (future?)

(I preform in our local jazz band. I play trumpet and our conductor is named Mr. DemauroMe and our jazz band were playing in what i believe must be future New York City. (I say future because there were waterfalls around the statue of liberty, which were held back by dams, and were apparently cause by some global flooding) We start out by playing a song and there is only me, another trombone player, and 2 sax players. Where the others were, i had no idea.

We finished playing a song and like 5 people that were listening started clapping. We then appeared on top of a dam for some reason with water flowing underneath it. Mr. D (Short for demauro) asked me that, when i go back in time, to throw him a birthday party. (turns out his birthday is actually in 3 days ) A Door behind us then flies open and we try to put some of those little rubber stoppers in it so it wouldn't close. It was once we did this that I woke up.

This dream was non-lucid the whole way, I had it this morning just before I woke up.
I was in a strange place which seemed to me to be a lot like the map "Castle" from Call of Duty World at War, except a lot bigger. I had an awesome red suit on with a sort of cape on it. There were other people too with their own suit, their suits were similar to mine except different colours and decorations.

I was at the highest point of this strange place, I looked down and I jumped down trying to glide down with my cape. It didn't turn out the way I had wanted it too. I didn't glide too well down, I just kind of jumped to the bottom, very "un-gracefully". But, when I landed at the bottom, you will never guess who was there; Slayer. And he had a red suit on too, but his suit was darker red than mine.

Slayer told me that if I press "G" I could glide with my cape.
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Confused yet? I wouldn't be surprised if you were. The thing is that I felt as if I was in a computer game, when he told me to press "G", I didn't actually even press anything, I just sort of had it in my mind and I felt as if I had used that control. It has happened in a few dreams before.
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So, I did what Slayer told me to, I got to the top and I glided down perfectly. And, CanceledCzech Followed me down. His suit was green. I gradually learned to be able to fly, rather than just glide.

After a while of messing about flying around with Slayer and CanceledCzech, I went behind this hut looking building, next to a gate. And what do you know, Lulian was there. I can't remember properly, I never wrote this down when I woke up, but I think his suit was in fact this sort of colour.

Then while we were there, This other guy came in, with a strange name, something like "Gonatron" or something of that sort that started with "G". He had a black suit on with a red, lava pattered, dragon head mask on. He seemed like a bad guy, But I think we all ended up good friends, then something bad happened to Lulian, I wasn't sure what, but he ended up needing to share a body with that "Gonatron" guy. They were then deciding upon a name to call themselves, They came to something like "Golulion" or something.


This dream was full of DreamViews members related stuff. There was Slayer, CanceledCzech and Lulian. And they all (as I remember) had the colour of suit that their colour of text is in chat. (including me, I had my red suit which is what I would use a lot in chat, when I'm not using black)
Also, That thing that happened to Lulian, I think that was to represent the fact that Lulian was banned yesterday. And the thing with him sharing a body with someone else, I don't know why, but that just makes me think that would represent that I think he probably made an Alt, or hacked into someone elses account. (In no way am I accusing him of doing that, but it just seems like the kind of thing he would do for a laugh)
And of course I am sure the reason Slayer was the one that helped me with the "game's controls" was because he is a gamer.

Black = AwakeBlue = LucidRed = Dream

Location: My kitchen

I was sitting in my kitchen and my mom told me something that made me call 911. Right as the operator answered, "Hello, 911, what is your emergency?" I hung up. My cell phone then vibrated and when i looked at it, it said "1 new txt message." When i read the message it said something like, "Police and ambulance on the way. Hung up on 911" I then redialed 911 but hung up after 2 rings, and then woke up.

The reason this is important to me is because when i was little (like 5 or 6) my dad told me to call the next door neighbors to see if my sister would come home. When i finished dialing the number a woman with the same voice in my dream answered, "Hello, 911, what is your emergency?" I said nothing, I just stood there scared (Granted i was 5) and she kept saying, "Hello?" I then hung up and they sent a police car to my house . The police officer asked me if i called 911 by mistake and i nodded my head. He then had a long talk to me about abusing 911, which i remember nothing of. (My parents told me that part)

My first entry to my dream journal is a dream I found rather interesting. It happened this morning just before I woke up.


I was in the canteen of my school, when the devil (just looked like a normal person though) appeared and sent me to some sort of other world, and told me I had to figure out within 10 years how to get out.

The other world started with a small brown room with no windows or doors, is slowly expanded into the canteen in my school again. My friends were there as they usually would be. It felt strange though, I knew it was some other world, and that they weren't real, so instead of using money to get stuff out of the vending machine I grabbed a guitar that was conveniently next to me and I went to smash the window of the vending machine, but a teacher stopped me and said "what do you think you are doing". So I said back to him, "err, this is just a fake universe, so I assumed it would be ok", and he just looked at me weirdly and said plainly "eh, no" and walked away.

I was sitting there, without anything form the vending machine, trying to figure out how to get out of this fake world with no freedom.


Then, "wait a minute, this is kinda like what a dream would be like... wait a minute, this is a dream... wait a minute, the devil was trying to tell me that lucidity is how to get out!!!"

So, I became lucid, I realised it was a dream. But I was still stuck in that canteen, but I just wanted to settle a little un-finished business between me and the vending machine. There was no chocolate, which is what I wanted. So before I smashed the window, I tried to make some chocolate appear in it, but it didn't work. So I just smashed the window with the guitar and grabbed a bottle of chocolate milk, and I tried to turn that into a chocolate bar, but that didn't work, so I smashed the window of the canteen and flew out, it felt like I didn't have much power in there.

Once I got out I made a big tin of chocolate appear, it didn't taste of much, that I can remember anyway. So I gave it to these kids nearby, and then they said, "awww no white chocolate", so I gave then some.

My friend followed me outside, and the devil appeared again, but I didn't see him as the devil any more, just a normal person that looked like the devil looked earlier. And as I was walking up the street talking to them, telling them how I was in a dream, I was telling them to do a reality check too, just to prove to them it was a dream. I tried to get them to do the nose pinch RC, but they were confused how to do it. So I said, "look at my hand", and my friend was like "Woa", and the other guy was like "HOLY SHIT!!!", he seemed pretty freaked out, and sort of took a step back in shock.

I was about to go and do my own thing, but it was too late...

I woke up.

Black = AwakeBlue = LucidRed = Dream

Location: Some building

It was my first LD

I was walking around in a building of some sort and i suddenly realized with no reason whatsoever, that I was dreaming! I tried not to get to excited since I remember I might wake up, but I didn't stabilize it at all. Instead I immediately tried to fly and floated a few feet above the ground until falling back down. (The rest is pretty fuzzy and I'm pretty sure i lost lucidity. I didn't write the rest down (stupid me!) but i still remember that first part)

Black = AwakeBlue = LucidRed = Dream

Location: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (map Bailout)/Living room
I was a butler of some sort for an extremely selfish rich person on the Modern Warfare 2 map Bailout. He somehow got the idea of selling sodas to people for 500% what it normally should have been. Then, he suddenly fell off the roof above my while sitting in the feeble position in a small black box. Luckily, another butler ran over and put a pillow beneath him so we wouldn't get hurt. Of course, we all rushed to his side to make sure he was O.K. Then, as i walked around the corner, there were a bunch of girls on a roller derby team getting ready for a game, and they all looked really tired. Knowing it would please my "master" I tried to sell then sodas for $1.50 each.

I then appeared in my living room with the rich guy sitting in the recliner. He said to me, "I said 500%" (referring to the price of sodas) and i replied, "I thought you said 100%" but he just sat back and went to sleep. I then walked into the kitchen and right as i walked around the corner I woke up

Black = AwakeBlue = LucidRed = Dream

Location: A ski mountain
I was driving with my dad on a road to my old ski mountain in Central NY. When we arrive at the lodge, our stuff is automatically on the rack and we have all our gear on, so we go right ahead and sit in line for a few minutes. We notice that they added 2 new lifts and it's about 10 times as busy as it normally is. We sit on the chairlift for a minute and we reach the top where i strap in and ride down with my dad to this small lodge that was never thee before, and is only like 20 feet down the hill form the end of the lift.

We stop inside and say hi to another father and son as we drank some hot cocoa. We then walked back outside and I noticed 2 new lifts which both went in the same direction and never turned around. There somebody got off and i started walking toward the exit of the chair. I suddenly fell into a lare hole filled with snow and only my arm popped up. My dad ran over and puled me out, and then he started to go down the mountain. I waited back and got some more hot cocoa, then went back outside. I then once again fell in the hole (stupid i know) and i climbed back out only to notice my dad was nowhere in sight and i almost got hit by another skier coming off the lift. I decided to strap in and go down the mountain. I suddenly turned right which ended up making me go left (?) and it was a very steep part of the hill. This part was complete ice and while other people could go down it as if there was no ice, i tried to stop but went out of control and almost hit a pole holding up one of the chairlifts. It was really crowded and, trying to avoid the people, turned sharp to the left (which was finally left ) I went over a large bump that was more of a jump than bump, and flew off the side of the trail. I then awoke right before I hit a tree

Something about me making a sound like a trombone with my mouth while walking around, attempting to impress people.

Fragment of a documentary. something about the gum ball plant, and it's effect on Dutch forests.

My mind is so weird...

I'm in a grocery store with my grandmother. She yells at me, "YOUR SHOES ARE UNACCEPTABLE!".
I go outside, to a car and find that it is raining.I use a Frisbee as an umbrella.

I wake up here.

I download a browser from a link on a forum. It was IE 94 or something. I placed the laptop on something in my closet. I then realized it was a virus.
--Later--
I complain on a bus until I wake up.

I find myself at some sort of resort with a group of people that I have never seen before.
--Later--
I jump off of a tower-like thing into a small pond, which leads into a cave filled with sunlight. Weird. I see a friend floating in front of me with his scuba mask drifting beside him.
--Later again--
I'm back with the group. Apparently they're fighting over Gameboy games. I punch the games and wake up.

That was just freaky.

Dream starts off with Gandalf the White and Legolas from the Lord of the Rings trilogy making their way along a wooded boardwalk through a swampy forest. They are looking for a mystical talking animal which will help them on their quest but thy do not know what the animal looks like. Gandalf and Legolas occassionally come to clearings where they find very short people working the open bogland like they were tilling soil on a farm. One woman they meet asks them if they ever come across a girl child with orange hair. Gandalf and Legolas reply in the negative and the woman laments that she will never find her lost daughter.

Gandalf and Legolas continue deeper into the boglands and after passing through a particularily thick forest they come to a clearing were a large house sits upon a hill that overlooks the whole area. The door is locked and no one seems to be home so the two continue on their way. The boardwalks beyound the hill split into many directions and some loop back and rejoin the original path, leading absolutely nowhere and making finding one's way very confusing. Gandalf uses his magic to help find the right path and they eventually come to a barrow with a large stone entranceway.

Out of cave comes a mighty African elephant who greets them and says that he has been expecting them. Gandalf and Legolas are happy to have found the mystical creature which they travelled so far to find, and the elephant agrees to return with them to Gondor, but only on the condition that they do something for them when they get there. Despite it's large size the wooden boardwalk magically supports the elephant's weight and they travel out of the boglands with no problem.

Once in Gondor the elephant insists on travelling to an isolated village in the wild Northlands before he will lend his magic and wisdom to King Aragorn. Gandalf and Legolas take him to where he wants to go and the elephant leads them to a small home outside of a village called Wallakeya (or something like that) where they find a young woman with orange hair living by herself. The elephant says that this is the girl child that the bog farmer woman is looking for and that she should be returned home to her mother.

Gandalf explains to the young woman (who looks like my dream incarnate Kalima) the situation and then entrusts Legolas with the task of returning to girl home before reutning to Gondor with the elephant. Legolas and the young woman leave immediately and head towards the boglands, with Kalima riding on Legolas's white horse and him walking beside. They travel to where Gandalf and Legolas first met the bog farmer, but she is nowhere in sight. As they continue to travel they come across a man walking along the boardwalk who tells them that the farming season is over and that most of the residence of the bog have gone home and they can probably be found at the big house on the hill.

Legolas and Kalima continue on their way and somewhere along the way get another travelling companion, an unnamed woman dressed like a peasant, but somehow knows Kalima. The three travellers come to the big house on the hill and they are directed to the Chief's house deep in the forest, for it is his wife who was lamanting losing a child. Before they even get there Kalima starts questioning the claim that she is they child because everyone living in the boglands is short and stocky like dwarves while she herself is normal size. Legolas says that the magical elephant could not be wrong so they continue on their way.

They arrive at the Chief's house in the dead of night and Legolas is asked by Kalima to sleep outside because somehow she knows that the Chief is an extremely jealous man and will not permit another man to sleep in his home while women are there. In the morning the Chief greets Legolas but he is a gruff unfriendly man and offers no reward to the Elf Prince and demands that he leave right away. Legolas is uneasy but heads home anyway after say his goodbyes to Kalima and the other woman.

While the Chief's wife is happy to have her daughter back she is not allowed to show it because the Chief forbids displays of affection in his presence. There is a meeting happening at the big house on the hill and Kalima follows the Chief there and sees that he is a meanspirited cruel man as he threatens and bullies the bogland people into obediance, who visibly resent the Chief's treatment of them but cower in fear and say nothing.

The dream ends with Kalima storming out of the meeting house and contemplating running away.


(I just realized that the title probably sounds hilarious if you're British)