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1/16/2017

Just your average dream tonight.

I was taking a walk with my mother and we got to this part of the trail where we had to switch shoes or something like that but my mom decided that she would swtich her shoes in a way that made no sense. Like there was mud or something and she was weraing flip-slops so she had to actually put real shoes on, but the way that she did it made no sense to me. Anyway, that weirded me out a little bit and then we continued to walk, we never talked during our walk.
Then suddenly, but seamlessly it transitions to a special place for me, and we are walking towards the beach of this special place where I would always come as a child and throw rocks into the lake. I did not want to go down there as I had too many good memories there and I did not want to ruin those memories with my current ones and I would not go down there until I was a happier person. I then looked ahead of my life and I thought that I should go down there and then the next time that I was there I would be able to go down there and be happy about my life, but for the time being I did not want to go down there and I remembered what I did the past summer of 2016 and it made me sad that I was not happy like I once was.
We are back where we started and we are walking through the woods and we get to this open field and we just start walking through it. It's a sunny day and it's a nice day to be walking. Then not too long after I see a plane go by in the sky and it's a smaller plane, it was moving really fast, and then I see I larger place farther up in the sky moving at a more resonable speed. I then contemplate my vision and how depth affects these things and I wonder why the smaller plane is smaller than the larger one. Odd thoughts. After that we are turned around and we are starting to walk back to where we started, but we started just walking, so we weren't going anywhere really.
There are houses to our left, as if this is a gold course or something like that, but when w get close to this one house, there are 4 massive dogs guarding this house I would assume, they are outside and tied up to the house, they go crazy and it makes me a little scared as I do not want this 4 massive dogs chasing me down. I start running and then we go by this one house with this one massive dog. Just unworldly large. It's chanied up to a trailer with a car on it, and when it gets mad, it actually moves the car and trailer without too much effort. At this point, I am like "this is not okay," and I really start running to somwhere, and I could sense that it got free, I didn't see it, but I knew it was on my ass. I lost my mom during all of that, she is no longer in the dream with me. I run into this random house and I lock myself in this weird playroom sort of with glass doors, there is not furniture in this room, but there are things on the floor and I assume it's for the dog. Of course the dog follows me into this house and I am really scared now. Then the owners come home and now I am going to get caught, I go and hide in a corner of the room and I can see the owners out of the corner of my eye and they look like a normal family. The wife comes into the room and does not see me at first but then she looks at me and she could see that I was scared, and she gave me this weird look and then just walked out of the room. They have many dogs and now the dogs are playing with each other and now trying to kill me. Then I see my dad in this house, by brother is in the house too, but I could not see him. I look at my dad out of the corner or my eye and he's just talking to the homeowners. I am hiding and wondering when I would get caught for home invasion. My dad sees me and gives me this warm sort of look and then I come out of hiding. I am surprised that they do not want to kill me for entering their house and it's all too weird for me. It ends.

I guess the dream was more vivid than I thought. Bit odd, but I do not feel as though there is too much happening with this dream and it is what it is I guess. It is not like the other dream I had two night ago, little better emotionally. Oh well, until next time.

I was an eagle perched at the very top of a tree about 200 feet from the tree with the nest that had my mate with two eaglets. I was enjoying the feel of the wind in my face watching the nest from the distance. One of the eaglets was standing close to the edge standing with his back straight and shoulders with wings back when it saw me. I saw its eyes focusing on me and it seemed excited. Its wings were moving but not as if to fly, it was still tiny, it was trying to catch its balance. I watched in horror as it stepped onto a stick that gave way and saw my eaglet fall to the ground. Immediately not giving any thought I leaped from the tree thinking I was flying to the ground and this has never been an issue for me. I somehow was shifting back to me in the fall and lost consciousness in the dream. I woke up very groggy laying on the ground naked at the base of a tree and it took me a few moments until I saw the vision of the eaglet falling and realized what happened. I tried to move over to the tree but it felt as if I was in mud up to my neck and every movement was such a struggle. I was shocked because this was so unusual and I was trying to figure out what happened to my flight down from the tree. I managed to get myself over to the eaglet and saw it laying flat spread eagle (poor choice of words) and it was the size of a frisbee. I started to create my energy ball in hopes of healing the bird I the place one hand on its back and the other on its head and hold it there with every intention on healing it. Then I feel it move. I was so happy. I knew I had to get it back up to the top of the nest so I cradled him in my hands gently and started to float to the top when I could feel myself being sucked out of the dream. I woke up to my neighbors two dogs barking in my backyard. Soooo disappointed I wanted to go back to see the eaglet back to the tree but couldn't fall back asleep. My pillow was wet with tears. I rarely have nightmares but this gave me such a sinking feeling of helplessness. Just goes to show even when you think you have control in your dream you don't always have it when you need it.

i think this one was a WILD but i am not 100 % sure because i didnt initiated a WILD so maybe it was a DEILD from a nonlucid.

i lay in my bed and imagine how i run down a street. at the beginning my movement is way off and i cant see anything but after some time it feels more and more like real running and i start to have visuals. i find myself in a street that where on my way back from school in those days i went to school. while running i rub my hands too. i smash against something that gives a boost in stability. after turning right i have the feeling that the dream is stable enough. i have good visuals and bodycontrol.
i approach a flower and look in detail. it moves a bit and it looks pretty nice. i turn around and i see a cherry tree that seem to be in the phase it normally is in springtime. i see small pink flowers. i fly up and look at it. then i land again and think about what to do.
"okay Three step task no 1: phasing."
i move to a garage and think to just phase thru but i decide different and draw a portal on it. the drawing is white like made of dust. hm so how to open it. i push but i already know it wont work.
"it would be to small anyways."
i draw a bigger one and this time i pull at a little edge. it moves and i see pure blackness behind. i say out loud: "to pandora". i even turn around and repeat it another time but again my expectation is not too high plus i didnt imagine anything while saying pandora so fair enough i jump into the void of pure blackness.
i find it funny and start making somersaults by flapping my arms in circles. i can feel the movement distinct. visuals come back and i find myself in a apartment.
"okay three step task now."
i phase thru the kitchen wall forth and back. then i move into a room that looks like a workroom with a lot of books stapled everywhere. "Mass TK."
in my foggy lucid head i think for Mass TK i need more then 10 things simultaneously in the air. i wave my hands around and some books start to levitate. i manage to make 2 times 4-5 books in small groups fly around but its difficult to count if its actually 10 items so i decide to do it differently.
i jump phase out of the window and accelerate down to the ground. i dont mind slowing down and smash feet first on the ground.
"so Mass TK is also things bigger than human. a car should do."
i choose which one i want to lift. not too big but not a small one neither. i start to concentrate on it and at the beginning nothing happens. "ah right i need to imagine how it starts float and not just stare strained on it." and the car starts floating. first the front then the whole car. i cant control it too good where it floats. it turns and crashes into the ground. i lift it again and again it smashes.
"good enough now step three. element manipulation."
without thinking to much i start throwing my arms around like throwing fireballs on the car. the car btw changed and is now a way smaller car of the size of a child. it is on the ground and instead of throwing fireballs it seems like i throw very small pieces of i dont know Bolognese? i concentrate a little more pull my hand back wait and focus some energy in it until i see it starts burning and i throw a big fireball into a passing car. nothing happens even tho i thought maybe it explodes?
suddenly a coworker and friend approaches me with some stuff in his hands. we start talking but there is the voice of our boss thru some speakers out of a building. he says something like "K are you coming? how long do i have to wait, this is working time" we stop our convo and he pushes me the things he carry into my hands and hurrys away.
i walk back into the apartment with the stuff in my hands. i reconsider to not drift away:
"i dont need that stuff its random and i have better things to do."
i get the idea that i want to throw this stuff into the wall. i throw the first pieces but they just smash against the wall and fall down. okay i want it to stack in the wall like darts in cork. i throw again and they go half thru and into the wall and stuck there. i am satisfied and push myself thru the wall and out of the house again. i float a small round thinking what to do.
"ah next to the three step tasks there are personal tasks. i could summon my cat."
i kneel down next to a pickup truck and move my fingers like i would have something in it and call my cat like i would in WL. not a second and i see a cat approaching me from under the truck. "thats not my cat!"
i keep looking around and 2 more cats from the left side are coming. not my cat neither. i call him again and look up front where he just appears and approaches me. he looks slightly different but it is him. i pet him shortly. i really wanted to do this longer and soak in some details but suddenly my mother appears telling me something like
"you guys are old enough so that i can leave for half a year and work in swizerland for a catering company. i need to talk to the guy whos doing this blabla."
for some reason it makes me feel not good and i loose lucidty and visuals like when i cant be sure if i still dream or am awake and hear my mum talking. i decide to just stand up and walk around. i also rub my hands and it works. the dream gets more clearly again and i can assure myself that i am still in control.
"okay what else can i do? it dont make sense to do another personal goal... what would give some more points? ah i could try to get invisible."
i cant to this so far so i tell my girlfriend that seem to morphed out of my mum that i want to get invisible but i want to put on a ring that helps. i start looking in my pockets and ask her to look into hers. i find something that feels like a ring in my right backpocket. i get it out and it looks different then it felt in my pocket. it is black and looks similar to a knucks. i try to put it on but i need to find out the right orientation. after putting it on i ask her if i am invisible but i can see myself still clearly and she shakes her head. shortly after i feel like waking up and decide it is time to write all that down.

D1 - i'm wandering around somewhere and decide to take a short cut through a mown grass area with a bank in the middle. The bank its circular and for some reason I can't go round.
Inside the cashiers office is also circular in the middle.
A man there is dressed in a grey tench coat and trilby hat and gloves.
He askes me the way to a rl street.I think about it. I have a vague idea of where it should be in relation to the bank but realise that this is a dream and so am not sure if it will actually be there.
I tell him where it should be hoping im right.

WBTB
D2 - I have acquired to mannequins one small and one large, both male. They come alive and start playing.
The bigger one has darker hair and features and accompanying personality. They are playing shadow puppets on my bed. It is a small child's room with white furniture and light by a couple of lamps.
They both get skewer type blades of grey steel. The dark one looks at me close up deciding whether to skewer me but decides not too.

WBTB
I go back to same area
D3 - The puppet toys have come with me to a garden (looks like end of my my parents garden)
There is a large weeping willow tree. Children are dancing around in a circle. I think it is me and my brother and sister when we were little.
The long haired blonde girl now looks like someone else I know and is upset as her bf is being taken away at knife point. He is dragged with a knife to his throat by a gang of boys.
She has her bf replaced by one of the boys from the gang.
I am now watching through the puppets eyes and nearer ground level and can see the skewer in my hand.
Feeling the intent to stab someone, but I resist it and turn the dream back a bit so it doesnt happen.

Morning of January 16, 2017. Monday.



There is some sort of conspiracy related to a hospital serving as an “airport” for certain flights, this being unknown to the passengers. Apparently, they experiment on the passengers or harvest their organs.

There is a scene where I seem to be on an airplane, though I also see an unrealistic degree of additional details outside the airplane. The airplane lands on a boulevard near the hospital (in an unknown location), seemingly without any traffic mishaps. It even taxis into a special hangar inside the hospital.

I somehow phase through the airplane even though I am aware that everyone else on it has gone into some sort of suspended animation (obvious autosymbolism for being asleep and dreaming). I am in the hangar and see several other people who work at the hospital approaching the airplane. They seem happy that a lot of passengers are in it. They do not even notice me at first and by the time they do, I am almost out into the hall. They start to chase me but I close the door and lock it behind me, the act of which immediately makes my dream much more vivid. (This is called “doorway reinduction”, as doors are usually autosymbolic of the implied exit point of a dream, though I have used this knowledge all my life to sustain and reinduce my dream state awareness.) The lock is a rectangular part that extends only a short way out from the face of the doorknob (by almost its full diameter), which I rotate to the left as I close the door (dream state reinduction orientation as I sleep on my left side). They cannot continue to follow me.

Later, I notice unfamiliar patients in beds in the halls. Some of them join me as I then decide to leave the hospital rather than create any confrontations. I see doctors talking in the hall. I see at least one police officer, but I am not sure if he is corrupt and working with the hospital. Rather than going down one hall where we could get caught, I take one on the left of two choices, where there are no people who would question us or follow us. It seems to be a very simple evasion. We all get to the end of the hall and are able to escape.

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This is a very basic “return flight” type dream with the same overall patterns as always; the subliminal anticipation of the waking shift (which sometimes includes a falling sensation and which creates precursors that include a number of different flight symbols, though which also include elevators and staircases), the liminal space of the hall, liminal awareness of being asleep (a bed as a dream state indicator), and a doorway at the end of the hall to exit my dream though after having sustained its length a little bit by locking the first door. There is no direct preconscious factor here though it is a rather sustained unusual dream just for being based on vestibular system correlation. The organ harvesting was related to a movie we saw recently (“Inhale” from 2010). Still, it seems to imply that the collective unconscious is “experimenting” on the collective conscious, the logic being that the sleeping passengers would represent conscious selves sleeping and the hospital staff being minds active within the dream state, though I suppose it could also just be a simple metaphor for lucidity and how I am often lucid in dreams while many others are not (though I myself am not viably lucid at any point in this dream other than having a degree of the typical liminal dream control, that is, control of the dream state without in-dream awareness that I am dreaming, though my second attempt to reinduce and sustain my dream instead results in slowly waking by way of doorway waking autosymbolism, which has happened in childhood even when choosing the left door).

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I'm actually about to go to bed now, but I didn't get the chance to write here this morning. So here goes!

Dream 1 (Fragment): Hypnagogic imagery, but I wasn't quite lucid. I was in a malfunctioning spaceship, and someone kept yelling something.

Dream 2 (Fragment): I was exiting a restaurant. A nice lady (waitress?) asked if I wanted any cars. Like, you know, cars that you drive. Weird, right? And then I fell through a random hole that was in the ground outside of the restaurant. I felt the sensation of falling very strongly, and woke up with the feeling of landing on my bed.

Dream 3 (Full Non-Lucid): There was a dog in the yard who analyzed my danger level as low (hence, I was not perceived as a threat). But it hadn't done the second part of its evaluation, and it fell asleep. I was afraid to walk past it, thinking that it might awake and change its mind and start attacking me. It had some pretty sharp teeth that it bore as it was snoring there.

I believe that my dad was there, as well as the dog's owner, and some other creature.

Dream 4 (Full Non-Lucid): My family and I were going on a tour of a tropical island that was kind of like the one on Moana. Our tour guide was really pretty. Now, this is where it gets mildly explicit, so any kids had better stop reading now. It wasn't lucid, okay! XD The tour guide wore a 2-piece outfit, but it still exposed her, um, chest and her rear if she bent over. All ladies on the island wore this or a similar outfit. We walked throughout the island. I believe that my family thought it was weird, whereas I was like LOL EVERYONE IS SO PRETTY OKAY. I was the only one who kept up with the main tour guide, who was walking really fast, so my family was walking much farther behind with some other guides. I remember feeling like I was falling in love with her -- the main guide, I mean. And certainly a large amount of infatuation as well. She was really sweet.

An entire life spent without any semblance of a romantic relationship will do this to you, guys. All hail the mighty subconscious mind. :p

We went through this cool outdoor corridor, and then up a hill to a giant temple/factory hybrid.

It was extremely cool, because its entire ceiling was made up of rice. It wasn't attached very well, because grains of rice would occasionally fall down on us as we viewed it. And you actually had to climb through the ceiling of rice in order to get to the attic, or upper floor, or roof, or something. I'm not really sure. Asian power? ? xD

Sadly, I awoke just as I was climbing up a carpeted ramp to get through the ceiling of rice. That would have been so cool to walk through. D:

And there was fog, I believe, in the background, and rainforest trees!

Dream 5 (Fragment): My sister didn't want to go to a new place for vacation.

Dream 6 (Fragment): Okay, this barely even counts. My dream journal reads "Express add-on." I believe this had to do with FedEx. Like I was watching the truck, and some new service had been added to their repertoire.

EDIT: I'm going back to the rice temple in a future LD. This is definitely happening.
EDIT 2: I also only slept 6.5 hours last night because I had to wake up early but stayed up late writing one of my novels.

Non-Lucid Dreams, Sunday, January 15, 2017:

Sitting in a parlor of sorts trying to get a game for making real money working on my phone. The chair I'm in is comfortable, like a couch. I notice a single shoe lying on the floor to my left and pick it up. Of similar build to Converse, it has a sky blue background material, covered with a zoo-full of animals (which may have been moving (?) ). Looking inside, I find it is stuffed with packets of electronic resistors and diodes and such.

I am in a a walled city in a desert, protected on one side by a deep canyon. Across that gorge, an army has assembled to invade. As I watch from atop the wall, the infantry begin charging straight over the cliff, a captivating, almost horrific spectacle. Suddenly, an alarm is sounded from the other side of the city; the real invasion force is attacking there. Batman, some other assorted heroes, and myself charge that way on horses. Picking up rifles dropped by downed soldiers, I proceed to annihilate the enemy force, all the while making "gun noises" as I fire.

Am in lucid dream (from an earlier segment, so only remember a fragment). Am in a room of a friend/relative's house with lots of other people. I think I also used some new ability, though don't remember what. (which makes it sad to have forgotten : ( )

Had false awakening. Started writing down my lucid dream that just ended. Get most of it down, when a young woman comes into my room, saying I should knew her from forums online. She said she liked what I'd written so far of my book. I think back in memory, remember someone named "Ally0387439" (or some-such numbers), and mention so (not sure if real memory from earlier in dream, or false). She's happy, then goes out my room downstairs. I follow, and hear noise downstairs as I approach the stairs. Just as I'm looking downstairs at what sounds like a party, it fades and I snap back jnto bed.

I know I'm still dreaming now, and try to get out of bed. Gently turning onto my side, and standing up, I succeed, and keep myself calm. I decide to go downstairs to see what happened of the party earlier. Walk to the stairway, and look down to see it quieted down, but my dad and brother near the tv. I jump over the railing, grab onto the bottom edge, and swing my way around the corner, float-flying to the family room at the back of the house (this was mostly just for fun because I've done it before and it feels great). Do another floating turn there, and my dad asks me to come back and help with something. I start saying, "Okay, be there in a minute" (I wanted to finish my flying route), but as I respond my dream fades.

Have another false awakening, but this time I know I'm still in-dream (or close to edge, anyway). Try to do phantom rocking and wiggling, but those don't work. Try "squeezing the brain", and despite not knowing exactly what it means (it's mentioned in Raduga's book), it starts working! (I remember the sensation as feeling like your brain is compressing and being pulled slightly inward toward your chest--there were inward/downward sensations in the rest of the body as well) However, I get anxious for a moment from not having done this form of entry before, so hesitate--and in doing so give up the moments still possible to return (I tried it again but I could feel then that it was too late).

-1-Captain Archer (Star Trek: Enterprise) was visiting an alien planet. On this planet, he was invited to a meal by a resident. That alien's house was actually my previous house from waking life, and I didn't notice. [Switch to first person] I took Archer's place. After a meal in the living room, I walked over to the entertainment center and found an unimportant paper in the right cabinet where the SNES belongs. (keep in mind all this was supposed to be alien) Suddenly, Picard was involved, and time travel happened. I forgot the rest.
[New Scene]
Still inside my old house, I noticed a very large explosion cloud moving very slowly, almost imperceptible on the top of Mount Ellinor. In an instant, I was there, from the POV of the survivor, hanging on to the edge of a cliff. I dug at several places in the loose dirt to try and secure a hold. After a few minutes, I succeeded and climbed to the top and to the other side of a dirt mound.

Fragment: I traveled back to the 1980s. Somehow, I connected Siri to a car and let her ramble on about recent (2010s) video games.

Fragment about electric shocks to a guy.

I haven't put any focus on WILDs in quite some time but was motivated to mix attempts back in the last 2 nights, but only after doing my MILD to increase chances of my fairly trusty DILDs if the WILD fails. At BTB I do location-aha-MILD first, followed by face to face, clear view release and some REM eye movement simulation (4 eye sweeps behind closed eyelids). The face to face and REM simulation are found to be the most efficient method of losing the feel of my waking body. I get a good number of color and pattern HH's, followed by some that resemble objects and people, followed by dreamlets. At those first two stages I was able to use a technique of "reaching" for additional senses related to the items more than just the visual: primarily tactile and temperature, but sometimes sounds and smells that match with the visual. I didn't remember to try taste. For the third stage where I was getting dreamlets I found that I had to become more passive it seemed because I was finding my senses return to my waking body or perhaps within an FA. I didn't test it, assuming FA's and decided I did need to be more passive during these dreamlets, perhaps wrongly. I know passive is generally recommended but since I have a fair bit of experience with WILDs I feel more inclined toward the active side of the scale. Anyway, I end up in an FA and then an actual waking or FA where I go for a WILD.

I am naked in bed with my wife and for some reason my mother in law is there and I seem to be semi-lucid at this stage but as more people arrive I seem to drop below semi-lucid and get caught up in the dream. I see this commercial anti-bacterial spray I have looked for in the past and ask the guy where he got it without a good answer. I either wake or have another FA in my normal bed/scenario and go for a DEILD but feels more like a WILD with HH's and back to reaching for additional senses tied to the HH visuals. After some fading in and out of HHs I get a more steady one that looks most like a cave opening at first and imagine some cooler air emanating from it. It develops into a a vague looking canyon and then to a canyon formation like you might see in Arches National Park with a double arch entrance to a canyon opening where both "arches" were relatively flat on their top sides but the bottom "arch" had an arch shape to it whereas the top "arch" was also relatively flat across the bottom as well. This was all in a brightly lit daylight scene once the arches formed. This morphed from more of a natural formation to something purposely built like you might see in a sci-fi set on a canyon-like planet. I want to go there but it seems my dream body is still forming so I use intent with my eyes to start moving in that direction and I reach for the sensation of the wind on my face and body and it feels like a slightly cool breeze and I am now flying in my dream body. As I get to the canyon "entrance" I land due to the low clearance and find my self alternating between walking and crawling in a very cool scene that seems a lot like a dry cave but tons of light coming in on the far side that I want to get to and also light coming from the side I came in on. It was a very cool place to explore, but I love caves and canyons. It also reminded me of some of my favorite lucid dreams like the wall and childhood "treasures" found on the beach of the grassy sea (posted in my DJ on DV somewhere a good ways back). As I get to the end of the low clearance I fly up and out to the next bend in the canyon and think of one of the TOTM's and decide that an alien spaceship will be the right around the bend but nothing is there. I then decide it will be at the top of this canyon wall to my left and I fly up to the top of it and there it is a huge mega spaceship with an outer shell that is made up of many circular metal panels with lattice work in between, perhaps 100 circular panels on the side of the ship that I can see. I fly into the lattice work and I feel myself being pulled further into the craft with a fade to darkness at first but soon after a bright long and fairly wide hall appears that looks like a mall with humans walking around and a food place to my right. Perhaps the scenario is that the dream aliens created an environment where I would feel comfortable but I proceeded to treat it just like any dream scene. I tried to slow down one lady passing by, but she seemed in a hurry and I look ahead down the hallway/walkway of the "mall" and see a tall beautiful lady that looks slightly not of this world with her unusually big and stunningly attractive eyes.
(eyes were wider and bigger but this is close)
After the experience with the previous lady I made sure I would be able to stop her in her tracks by creating the back story of: "Finally we are reunited! It has been so long!" grasping both of her hands face to face and giving her a big wet kiss. I feel myself getting rather excited but I remember to calm down. I think of another TOTM, the pencil one and tell her I have something to show her and reach in my back pocket but coming up empty handed. I then ask her if she has a pencil and she pulls one out of her purse and I try to float it in the air in front of me and it disappears. I then walk over to the food place and ask the guy behind the counter for a pencil and he gives me one. I see an order stub on the counter and float the pencil with the tip touching the paper and tell it to draw something and it starts doodling. It looks like nothing more than a toddler's drawing but as I look closer, it looks like it morphs into words on the order stub. I wake and quickly use the bathroom in order to get back to dreaming, this time RCing to make sure I'm actually awake. I jot down a few keywords from the dream and a few quick drawings of the canyon arches and the alien craft lattice work and go back to bed, forgetting to write down the words that I remembered.

After playing with HH's for a while and deciding to doze off, I get a dream where the wife asks me where one of the bills is and if it has been paid. I said that I think I filed it already but I can check on the computer if I paid it. At the computer, the keyboard is missing and I ask my wife if she's seen it but then I find the keyboard unplugged and sitting on top of the computer desktop tower. I feel someone tugging on me in darkness and I realize I must have fallen asleep, maybe in front of the computer. Either way I treat the tugging as HHs not waking life and a scene forms where I am at an office elevator and a woman is asking me for directions. Already aware that I am dreaming I decide to see where the elevator takes me just like in last night's lucid, with a little excited anticipation. I don't remember anything but going up in the elevator before waking up needing to pee again and I decide to get up for the day.

15/1/17
Dream 1: I was doing an IT or health exam from home, either because I was injured, sick or home schooled, not sure. I hadn't studied very much and was struggling. I got stuck on a question, so I looked in newspaper and there is an article about it so i start copying. Mum comes in and says we need to go somewhere in the city so we drive there. We then take the train back and she says she will pick up the car halfway. We are know in the car and are driving back after being pulled over by police for breathalyser. I ask her about the exam question but she doesn't know, says something about adductors and abductors.

I am in a warm shower, and I dry myself quickly as I remember I have to go to the top. The tower is glass and see through, and I wind round for ages until I reach the top. The top is immensely crowded, and I push my way towards a platform. A few other people, and a guide woman are on it. I get on it just in time, as it suddenly is released from the top of the tower. It floats down, but I cannot tell how high or low it is because of bizarre perspective. I touch down on the grass and...

WBTB

I wander around the beautiful city I described in the previous dream for a very long time. It is godlike and the yellow sun enhances its beauty. Eventually, I see a cafe, and a man walks in and orders an orange juice. I walk in with a friend. However, the only money I can find is stamps. However, I eventually find a dollar note. Suddenly, as I wake up, the scene shifts to a picture of sweet peas flowering, and I wake up.

01-15-17 DILD I was in the midst of a long somewhat confusing dream that involved trying to sort personal possessions and move them. I was young and in what represented my bedroom. It was a mess and I heard my family talking from another room. I go to the door and realize I am naked. I think to cover myself with something. I look around and the scene does not look correct. I become lucid. I am now in the midst of a battle with Team Moon. I do not know any details but team members are running around blowing up buildings with weapons and I can tell tanks and such are involved. I run into one building to find enemies to fight, but only find allies. I know they are team members, but do not see them as specific DV members. This building is like a gym. I go through various scenes until I am in a warehouse and people are gathering supplies. I get in an argument because someone is grabbing things I want. I transform uncool items into cool ones and trade with the guy. I go out the door into the street and Team Moon member "He" is manning a rocket artillery battery. He looks like a big Russian trooper in winter gear and heavy boots. I see this with a mind's eye overview, as he is not actually close to me. Death from above rains down all around me. Buildings and troops are wiped off the map. I teleport to the top of a building near by and check out the battle. We are getting destroyed by "He" and his rockets. I see my team still has some tanks and helicopters that are about to be destroyed. I pick them all up with mass TK and float them over the water to an aircraft carrier. I get a telepathic thought in my head that this counted as a forfeit on my part. I walk into the destruction to try and make friends with 'He'. I find him (still huge Russian guy) inside a destroyed building. He moves to attack and I yell out that I have been defeated. He says, "No, you pulled your big equipment back before I could destroy it. That is not very brave." I tell He that we forfeited and that we should go destroy things together. We go walking through the city and it is so destroyed that I find little to destroy, other than some windows here and there. I use bolts of compressed air and blast it out of the palm of my hands to destroy windows. I take out the whole front of a store this way. I notice that I am barefoot for some reason. I shout out, "boots" and stomp my foot and instantly am wearing boots. He looks impressed and says, "very nice." The boots are not sturdy enough for my tastes so I stomp my feet and they become big rigid army boots. He suggests we go up to the corner where his rockets did not reach. We go there and walk inside a convenience store that has happy people shopping. We actually decide that we have destroyed enough and let the people be. I suggest we go to where the rest of his team are. We start walking... My recall fails at this point. The lucid part of this goes on in another scene that involves a totally different theme. I go into an apartment building and talk with a women, but details are few.

15 Jan

WBTB, reviewed goals, recall prior to that quite poor. Late dinner is not a good idea.

I'm at a non-existent apartment with bf. We are getting ready to go to bed on time when his friends come and stay for a while, making it impossible to do so. I am upset, smash a potato on the floor and then decide to leave - go to my old place to sleep.

As I go out on the streets my awareness increases and I realize that I'm dreaming. My thinking is still clouded. I recall I forgot the keys in the previous place, but conclude there is no need to worry about that because I can just summon them. I try to take off flying with some initial difficulty launching. I briefly contemplate that I have been using this sort of flying in my dreams lately - slightly pushing towards the ground, something like a jump launch and then superman style.

I am quickly gaining altitude, trying to orient myself above what I consider to be my home town. The scenery changes with lots of unknown streets and gets extremely cold. I feel the cold is hampering me from flying properly, the snow and people on the ground become a distraction. I decide to land in a snow-covered yard.

My awareness diminishes as I go to inspect what's ahead. In the building ahead is an administrative refugee help center. Looks like it was founded a long time ago, there are 4 traditional Chinese characters on the wall. The place has gotten a lot of attention from the locals with journalists and a few unknown celebrities waiting to go inside. I excuse myself, remembering that I was originally headed home and leave.

As I walk down the streets I see the stadium and know I should be near. I choose a shortcut by climbing a few buildings. As I climb this weirdly looking structure, with lots of metal shaped in strange forms, my awareness increases again. Finally I reach the top of the structure, which faces a well supervised office. I don't think passing through should be a big issue as I can technically go as I please. I sneak in and look for the door out. There are several doors, one of them has a female security guard talking to another DC. No matter which door I chose, she is going to notice me. Oh, well that doesn't really matter, does it? I decide to ignore all that and just exit the building. I know the DC has seen me. I know she finds this weird and would probably want to go after me. But I intend that she does not. She just looks at me and ignores me. At the same time, a feeling of regret overtakes me. I feel I have ruined this scenario by meddling with the natural course of events and now the story feels incomplete.

Memory gap. I find myself at my old place. There's a minor leftover of awareness upon looking at the weird balcony and room being merged. The dream takes over my consciousness. I hear squeaks and other noises coming from the neighbours and see the neighbour kid playing on the balcony. He hasn't grown up at all, I think. Couple of minutes later, as if it's a game, he jumps off the balcony and hits the ground. I am terrified as I see his imminent death but even though he seems injured, he gets up and hurries into the building. I call his grandma (DS) to make sure he gets an examination as soon as possible.

A bunch of short dreams
My son wants me to read him the next chapter in a book. He says that my wife told him that he could only read the first twelve pages. I realize I must have heard him wrong and that my wife (who's currently downstairs) wants to hear me read too. Now I'm downstairs, and I see her taking out her knitting needles.

I'm walking around in an airport. Off to my right, I see a guard in the process of closing a HUGE door. It's about five feet wide, but it's probably fifty feet tall. He gets it closed and I see that it looks like a bank vault door, with lots of stainless steel pistons and wheels. I don't understand why such a door would be in an airport, but whatever. As I think more about it, I realize that the airport must be on lockdown and I won't be able to leave. I hope it doesn't last long; I just want to get home. Now I'm walking around in the parking deck.

I'm in a room with my son. Both of us are getting dressed to go to the beach. Now we're ready and with some other people, and I see that we have a bag of stuff that needs to go with us. Someone suggests putting the straps of the bag through my swim shorts' belt loops, but that sounds like a really bad idea: I'm not wearing a belt, and I don't want the weight of the bag pulling my shorts down.

I'm at my computer looking at the current Steam sale. I'm amused that there's another one, since the Christmas sale only just ended. I'd been hoping that some of my friends would pick up a copy of Portal for their family, but they missed out. I search for Portal, to see if it's back down to Christmas-sale levels, and am surprised that the search comes back with no hits. That's really weird. I try searching for Trine, and this time I get only a single hit on some Trine-related DLC but not on any of the Trines themselves. Weird ... Anyway, the DLC is cheap, so I decide to get it. Looking over its reviews, people are doing the usual rant about how much they hate paid DLC. I hesitate, hoping that I'm not wasting my money getting DLC for a game I don't actually own.


Fragments:
I recommend that someone use the IBM Single-Sign-On ID everywhere he can so that it's easier for him to download things and to "muddle his profile"?

My wife asks me for advice for something about which I know nothing.