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I was grocery shopping with my roommate, looking for a specific cut of beef to use with a gravy and noodle recipe. For some reason, I was secretive about it, not wanting her to know. Later on though, a few of our friends happen to show up with us, and we discuss our plans for the day. I end up hitching a ride with one of my friends rather than riding with my roommate. As we loaded up the car, she told me to be careful with the eggs - and like a scene out of a sitcom, I quip back with, "I know what I'm doing," and roughly dropped them into the trunk. With a loud cracking noise, I look down and see the eggs broke all over my clean laundry. Feeling defeated, I just rush inside the car and we get going.

For some reason, we decided to visit my grandparents house on our way back. It was a quaint neighborhood, completely different than what my grandparents actually live in. There were chain link fences holding back barking dogs, and the backyards of the modular houses were unkempt and messy with weeds and grass. Once we arrived, I was greeted by a man who told me I needed to take some sort of test on the computer. Before I could take it, however, someone I work with showed up and was taking it with me. Strangely enough, the modular home shifted to an old, dark Victorian styled house, and the test became a logic puzzle on a child who had died on the property. We needed to know how, and when the child died. If we failed, we would die. I knew the answer before the test started, but I wanted to show my work and set myself to solve it properly. I promptly woke up before the dream proceeded, though.

Non-lucid to lucid nightmare of sorts. It's hard to describe the place I'm in but I'll do my best. Okay, say you were in a warehouse type of place but with no roof & there are these kind of balconies but industrial like. That's as good as I can describe it. The world is basically ending & these guys are telling me the only way out is to come with them. So we climb up to the surrounding balcony & it leads to a door & through the door there is this tunnel.... The threat that will end us all is this constant water rising & people are trying to get to higher ground but it's obvious that even that will not save us. They tell me we need to get into this tube which is like 2 feet in diameter & it will take us into the earth somewhere where we will be safe. So, I was like okay, I'm claustrophobic but it's to save my life right? Then they tell me we will be sliding in said small fucking tunnel tube for a fucking hour but we will be fine. I become lucid as I'm thinking I have to be dreaming because this is all scary but nonetheless stupid. And then I start to panic & I just need to get away from this dream & right on cue before I could change anything my husband calls to wake me up.

I know why I had this dream. I was reading this book on meditation & it has you pay attention to your breathing. Breathe like you are breathing blue fluid which simulates the eather & yes in this book it's spelled that way on purpose.... And the tube came from when Mike & I had to go to one of the other pools recently due to our pool has the swim meet going on & he gashed his head in one of their tube slides that were made for kids... And I "am" claustrophobic & hate said tubes in general but I can deal with them if they are really fast or short rides.... Not to mention I'm overwhelmed with shit going on in my life right now so it all makes perfect sense. I would have liked to change the scene though because I had a dreamscape planned out. Oh well.



Non-Lucid-Green
Lucid-Red
Side Notes-Purple
Astral Projection/AP-Brown

I was outside an ancient structure/temple at night. I had played Tomb Raider Anniversary before I went to bed. There was a square pit, and someone tossed a match in it. The pit caught fire immediately, as if it was filled with gasoline. I saw a strange round shape over a dune (the environment looked barren, desert-like, dunes and all), and told the other guy I would go and investigate. When I got to see the whole thing (it looked like... something I forgot), I knew it was part of the "set". Then, the round shape became a giant clock face on the side of a large clock tower. I went inside. The lobby looked really modern, more a hotel/company HQ than anything else. A woman at reception spoke to me. She spoke of a conspiracy involving many corporations and governments.

I was in a tunnel, which was completely submerged with water. I had to swim, of course, but don't recall having to breathe. It all felt like I was playing a game rather than experiencing it myself. I took a detour to avoid a certain section of tunnel in which I knew monster was lurking. I had to go "AFK", and decided to park my character on the other side of the tunnel. It felt creepy to be so close to where I knew the monster was, but I knew that in a game, NPC's don't move unless provoked. Later, I found myself in a school environment. I think I was in the wrong classroom or something? I don't remember much of this segment. It's possible there was another reference to the "conspiracy".

In the last one, I was was Samuel L. Jackson, who was a police captain from the Midtown Precinct of Manhattan - and, might I say, a total badass. We were in a very poor and dilapidated (not to mention dangerous) area further north on the peninsula. We busted through a gate, and Sam blasted several confused bad guys with his shotgun. We had the element of surprise. We fought across a courtyard, through a passage between low-rise buildings. We busted into one of the structures, shooting (I think) a scientist in a lab coat. He wasn't dead, and sat up against a wall, scared and/or wounded. The guy was an evil henchman, that much I knew. I wanted to interrogate him. Knowing we had him (and he had nothing to lose), he played ball. He spoke of a terrifying conspiracy that would shake the very foundations of the world if it ever came out.

07.07.2016
9:30

Pokemon, Pants, and the Speed of Light (SSILD)

NON-LUCID LUCID OTHER

Pokemon go came out last night! My roommate, girlfriend, and I walked around the college campus untill 11pm and found a lot of pokemon. I was really close to level 5 and was about to take over an unclaimed gym but then the servers went down and we had to go home. I had so much fun that I decided to give the pokemon TOTM a try.

I had to get up early to move my car for the street sweeper and then stayed up a bit to read about updates about Pokemon Go. That made me WBTB. I did some SSILD and some quick mantras and tried to WILD.

I don't remember if I succeeded at WILD or had a false awakening but I am in my living room and I am lucid. I had put my matress in the living room for the night because the air conditioning is better. I remember that I am trying to do the Advanced Task i which is to catch something with a Pokeball. I put my hand behind me and point it towards the door to my room. I pull with telekinesis on a pokeball that I imagine to be in my room. I feel a ball fly into my hand. I pull it forward and look at it. It look much cooler than I expected. It's so polished that it's reflective. I remember to telegrab another just in-case I miss. Now all I need is something to catch. I fly out though the window. I don't bother opening it. I just phase through. I fly down the street and find a woman walking her child in a stroller. I throw the pokeball at them but it goes to short. I throw the other and it goes to far. I keep telegrabing them and trying again. "This is to realistic to pokemon go", I think so I use telekinesis to push it into the woman. It makes a dink noise and doesn't work. I really should catch a pokemon and not a person I think as I start to wake up.

I DEILD and end up back in my living room. My girlfriend is there and talking to my roommate. I do a nose plug and confirm I am still dreaming. I look ou the window and see Shadow the Hedghog in the apartment complex? Wait, no, thats a Zoroark, an actual pokemon! I am summon a pokeball and fly out the window but wake up. Another false awakening. My gf is stil there. I just try the pokeball on her. No luck. I see my dog and think to try it on her too. Wait, don't they have to be weakened first? I consider beating up my dog until I realize how crazy that is. I take another look at my pokeball. For some reason I think to run it under the sink. It turns into a blue dive ball. If I see a water pokemon I will use this one. I fly out the window and explore. I hear some rumbling in a bush and find a Lapras. Cool that's a pretty strong one for my first wild pokemon. I throw the dive ball and it breaks open and sucks in the Lapras just in time before I have another false awakening.

It is very dark now. The tv is on with netflix still playing. I am trying and find the remote to turn it off when a middle aged man comes in through the front door. He looks confused as to why I am sleeping in here. He asks if we have met. Oh yeah, this is my roommate's dad, I have met him once. I haven't. I don't even know what he looks like. I find the remote and mess with it until I remember turning it off last night. I do a RC and become lucid again. I might as well do the basic task. I pull down my roommate's dad's pants and underwear. I fly out the window before catching his reaction. I need that to complete the task so I look through the window. He stands there blankly and then says something I can't hear. Probably "damn it." I fly back inside and find my gf is still there. I pants her too and we have some fun for a little while.

I have another FA or two. They are very realistic. It is still dark and I am with my dad and sister now. There is a bright green shooting star and some other strange lights. Suddenly, the moon flys over the horizon. I do a RC and become lucid again. I decide to try the task that I suggested which is to fly faster than the speed of light and investigate where the moon went. I fly into the sky. I remember in my last lucid I covered the center of my vision. It is easier to see how fast I am going in my peripheral vision. I fly as fast as I can and all the stars at my peripheral vision streaks for a second like in star wars. I stop and turn around. I am outside the entire galaxy. I feel like I am really big now and can easily fly back. I go back to where I think our sun is. I find the earth but it looks super tiny. I look for the moon but start to wake up. I decide against DEILD because the dream is getting so long I can hardly remember the begging. As soon as I wake up I remember that I was suppose to summon the pokemon so it doesn't count but I still completed a basci and an advanced task!

I was driving under a bride, or parking garage or something similar. The surface was wood, and I had to brake suddenly when I saw a group of children. Predictably, I started sliding on the slippery surface. I honked the horn to warn the group I was coming. The adult leading the group, William Fichtner (last saw a few days ago in Independence Day: Resurgence) got them out of the way, and I safely came to a stop. I apologized, and got out. The kids started singing and dancing, and for literally no reason I joined in. I thought to myself that this was a good way of "blending in", and not being noticed (by who?).

In the last dream, I somehow ended up in another universe. That is, a world parallel to ours but with different rules. I recognized this one as a world of "pure evil", one of "reverse entropy" (makes no sense, I know). This world was one of torment, where no drink would satisfy your thirst, no food kill your hunger, and things you wanted vanished when you reached out to them. I was in a street of a big city. Everything had this worn, cold and dilapidated appearance. There were posters on a building, torn off except the bottom quarter. Possibly some construction work on the road. I knew the people in this universe were all mad. I saw some guy, a rather tall and buff one, and spoke to him. I asked him if he was like me, the only sane person in this universe. He took offense, being as mad as the rest of them, and walked towards me in a threatening way. I got mad, really mad at his insolence. I was not lucid, but somehow knew he was my creation, as was the world around me, and I hated him for his audacity to question my authority. I got him wrestled to the ground somehow, and was on top of him. I went off on an evil rant about how I owned him and could make him do whatever I wanted.

There was a previous scene, but suddenly I was in Japan. I thought this was odd, as I didn't travel there, it just happened. I "knew" this was a scene change, as if my dream life was a movie. I was on a bus, I think, and a girl I know, Xiaoxi was there too (she is actually Chinese). Something odd happened. There was a very strange atmosphere. It rained, and I think I saw some kind of lights outside?

I was back at my previous-previous job, and my colleagues (Patrick in particular, Mark too) were suspiciously friendly. They hated me in real life.

I have flashes of a car pulled over on the sidewalk, in a big city. There were kids in the back. I felt a certain someone's presence.

I was in the headquarters of a company I dreamt up in a dream months ago. I could see the name above a door, and it was the same: Gen-Sys. We were in a lab, conducting a levitation experiment . The device looked like a small flying saucer (but more angular), or hi-tech drone. The device was very cold, supercooled even. We turned up the power, expecting the thing to start levitating. There was nothing immediately visible, so I put my cheek to the ground and tried looking if it was at least a *little* above the ground or not. I was frustrated that we didn't have better equipment, implying the company wasn't exactly drowning in money.

In the next section I was still at Gen-Sys, but on one of the top floors, in a classical-looking office. I think I knew it belonged to a higher-up at the company, sadly appearing to imply I wasn't running it. We were running another experiment, using special chairs in two different rooms, the office and somewhere else (a lab, presumably). There were a ton of wires that I was supposed to attach to my head, as well as a VR headset that was someone another component of the experiment. I don't remember what we were trying to do. Perhaps telepathy? Teleportation? Anyway, I pulled the wire a bit and accidentally unplugged the machine. I quickly plugged it back in, but it cut the internet connecting temporarily, making the whole experiment fail. I later asked the scientist I was working with how it turned out. He said it failed when the plug was pulled, and that "Trident shut it down" after that. From context, I guess Trident was an AI managing the building.

I'm again in Istanbul, this time at the airport. It's a huge place. We are walking around with other people, all in line. Going through buildings, courtyards, maze like rooms, backyards... Feels like Middle East, or Southern Italy, or indeed Turkey.

Sometimes there are guides guiding us, but most of the time we are just hoping we are going the right way. At least once I lose my way and I feel like I'm going in circles. Red brick older style building with walkway around it, some greenery and a wall fence.

I finally get to a hall with lots of soldiers and security. Some are dressed in military uniform, white helmet, boots and boot guards, like the honor guard is wearing in front of historic sites in Istanbul. I breathe a sigh of relief, finally I'm in more familiar place with some security.

( I thought this maybe because I thought about my time in Istanbul and had a dream yesterday also. But now that I'm hearing what I'm typing, this could reflect my waking life. I felt like going nowhere in my job, because management is not listening to any good ideas. But just yesterday they did what I have been asking for for such a long time. Very happy about that. I will have lot more work, but will be more rewarding. And hopefully I'll get more hours to actually do it, haha.)

My step-father was driving me to some new apartment I was moving into. They were called the ‘Stardust Apartments,’ or ‘Star[something] Apartments.’ I asked where mom was and he said she had left. He said it in a nonchalant way, like maybe she had moved out a while ago, or that she was just living somewhere else temporarily. The sun was setting and it felt like we were in a desert town.

I was with my mother and her grandmother. My mother had used the cord specifically that went to my flat iron. It seems I had some kind of hair iron that had a detachable cord. I asked her where is was and we couldn’t find it. I was irritated with her. I said something sassy and my grandmother told me not to talk to my mother that way.

Thoughts:
Wondering more: Why do I always seem to dream about my mother? Why do I often seem to be moving, or returning to an apartment?

Bedtime: 10:30 pm
WBTB: 4:00 am (awake about 20 mins)
Technique: DILD
Notes: This dream occurred before my WBTB alarm. This is the second time in the last couple weeks where I used an induction technique WITHIN a dream to become lucid. Very strange.

I am at my dad's house. I am with my family in the living room. I decide to see if I can fall asleep on the floor (in the dream) and have a lucid dream. I use an LD technique to enter a lucid dream. As I enter the new dream, I become fully lucid.

I am in an unfamiliar city. I remember I still want to cause an earthquake for the bonus task, so I ask the dream directly for an earthquake. Nothing happens, so I tell myself to give it time and explore the dream. I wander around a junk yard full of old cars. I see an attractive man in one of the cars. He has a large dog, possibly a pit bull, in the back seat. I climb in the car to pet the dog and talk to the man. I feel attracted to the man, so decide to kiss him. The erotic feelings cause the dream to begin collapsing so I get out of the car quickly before I wake myself up.

I ask the dream again for an earthquake. Again, nothing happens so I continue to explore. I enter a large office building. I go up several levels and look out the windows, hoping to see some sign of an earthquake. Nothing. I try to remember the other July tasks. I recall the task to prank a DC. I don't feel comfortable pranking my DC's, but decide to give it a try anyway since I can't figure out the earthquake situation. I see a man dressed in a suit standing by a drinking fountain. I walk up behind him and pull down his pants. He turns to me surprised and perplexed. I apologize, and explain that I am working on my LD tasks. I then offer to let him pull my pants down so we are even. He agrees and pulls my pants down. We laugh, then I experience an awkward moment of erotic feelings. I immediately leave, again afraid of the dream collapsing.

I go downstairs to what appears to be the company cafeteria. I see several familiar faces. I decide to approach another male DC and ask his opinion about monthly LD tasks. He seems interested, and goes on to explain how interesting it would be to explore religions symbols for the TOTM. I am intrigued, but wonder if that is too philosophical for some people. I ask another DC what he thinks would be a fun TOTM. He says he would really like to see people picking raspberries. I consider this, amused. I then continue approaching people. I ask the next DC if she has heard anything about an earthquake. She shows me a newspaper with a headline saying scientists expect an earthquake to occur sometime that day. This encourages me. I then see my ex-boyfriend in the crowd. I tell him we are dreaming and we can do anything. He is amused and agrees to go exploring with me. I show him how to jump and fly over the tables to exit the building. The DCs get agitated by our flight and begin a food fight among themselves. I am then woken up by my alarm.

07.07.2016

(Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This dream might have been right after the FA from the past dream, because the WILD grogginess is there at the beginning.

I am walking through my high school. It's been years since I last came here. I feel really tired and just wanna make it to my car. Someone stops me on the hallway and asks if I have permission to be here. A distinctive, familiar voice from behind me says "Emilio is fine, I invited him as a guest speaker", it is Mr. Dawood, god that man doesn't age. He grins at me and it makes me feel like I am Harry Potter and Dumbledore is getting me out of trouble. I speak with him shortly, then continue on to the parking lot. I get to my car, and a van in front of me is backing up and hits a girl (lightly). The girl starts crying, out of fear, I guess. Her and her friends go ape-shit-crazy on the van tearing anything and everything they can get their hands on. The driver, a 40 something y/o mom gets out crying and apologises. I drive off.

I am at the club, for some reason my mom is there. I think it was a restaurant during the day and she was just paying her bill. I want to order an smirnoff (wtf, shoulda been my cue that it's a dream. I'm more of a Scotch and beer kinda guy) but can't recall the name. The bartender, a gay asian guy, helps me remember the drink's name, Smirnoff, and hands me one. I see Ariana walking around so I go and talk to her. I am telling her about the San Diego trip and how much she missed, as she was originally gonna come too. We are catching up, then Frani (her ex-best friend, with whom I had a summer fling 4 summers back) comes and says hi to me with a hug and a kiss on the cheek, but completely ignores Ariana, then leaves. Ariana rolls her eyes and we keep talking. Dani is also here and we get into a competition of 1-legged squats.

We hear screams and explosions everywhere and suddenly I am in a Zombie Apocalypse/game. There are Tanks everywhere and they are just ripping people apart. I am outside and there's a lot of buildings nearby, but it will be hard to go into one as I am surrounded. One of the Tanks stomps the ground and people fall out of the apartments and they are no longer safe. I see a Tank grabbing a person, tossing them towards a Witch, and the Witch slicing them in half with a Scythe, spilling blood everywhere.

I decide to make a run for it and head to a building. I dodge a Tank by sliding between his legs, and then dodge 3 regular zombies. I get to the gates and the security guard opens it for me, then slams it shut behind me. I run up the stairs and find an open apartment. I go in, there's a guy about my age. We talk about how it seems this is it, this is the end. The Tanks start stomping and everything starts shaking. I see people through the window falling to the street, but we're safe.

We hear alarms and a voice saying it is over, we have defeated the horde. I ask the guy what his name is, it's Andres too. I grab a notebook that he has on his table and start going through it. It's a Dream Journal; he prints out his dreams and sometimes draws them. I think it's neat. I ask him how long he's been into lucid dreaming and he says he gave up a while ago. I explain to him I had quit but I was getting back into it and had 3 in week and a half. He seems amazed. I grab his number and we plan to go clubbing the next day.

I am getting ready to go clubbing, my hair is super long, I can't believe it's grown so much since I shaved it a month ago. I am with Diego and Jesus. We take a cab and then wait for the Party Bus. Andres (whom I met yesterday) arrives and I introduce him to my friends, then Andres Nuñez arrives and says hi to everyone. We get in the Party Bus and realize there's 3 Andres's, and the other two look a lot alike. Andres N. as per usualy makes everyone laugh with silly jokes.

07.07.2016

(SSILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I woke up about 5 hours after going to sleep. I was too sleepy to get out of bed so I just went on fb on my phone, I browsed for 25 minutes and then laid on my back to attempt SSILD. I did the short cycles in about minute and a half, and then started the long cycles. I had drifting thoughts but made it to about cycle 4 before losing consciousness. Next thing I know I'm feeling SP set in so I lay still, wait a minute or two, then plug my nose.

Even though I was 100% sure that I had RC'd too early and woken myself up, air went through. I decided to check again, just in case, as I didn't want to end up in the news "crazy guy jumps out the window in the middle of the night". RC'd confirmed again it was a dream. I get out of bed and feel the usual WILD grogginess; it is early dawn and my room is still dark. I rub my hands together and look at them, there's always something odd about them in lucid dreams. I grab my phone, feel its texture, its weight, and the dream feels more stable now. I sit on the floor, for a moment it felt like I was gonna go straight through it but the floor stops me. I shout "MORE CLARITY" and wonder whether that even makes sense, but it seems to work. My room is lighter by now. My dog Fiona comes in and starts wagging her tail at me and resting her face on my leg as she usually does. I wonder why it is that my dogs always show at my lucid dreams, and think there is a slight possibility that maybe we are shared dreaming.

I think "I have no idea what I want to do right now" and then laugh at how silly that is to think in a lucid dream. I run towards the window and jump out, going through it as I used to do back in the day (or back when I used to lucid dream, really). I start flying and get a rush of adrenaline. Everything goes white but I am still 100% conscious in the lucid dream. It feels like it's something with my eyes, so I just remain calm. By the time I regain my sight I am in my backyard. The sky is amazing, a mixture of Vanilla, orange, and purple. I run off and start flying again, I fly towards the soccer field and enjoy the feeling of it. I missed this. I think of my goal; since my gf is away for 3 months I thought might as well pay her a visit and have some sexy time.

I walk along the street and go into the first car I see, expecting to find her inside. Conveniently, the first car I see is a van (spacious). I go in, and sure enough she's in there. We undress eachother and have sexy time. For some reason I lost my sight yet again, and it took about 20 seconds to get it back.

I have a FA in which my mom comes into my room to check on me and I pretend to be asleep.

Nothin

Dreamt invot drafted to iraq. Was in a huge stadium with obama giving a speech. Was at a funral. Hit on a girl at peetes coffe

The dream started when I rode in a car to the house of my late grandmother (mom's side) who passed away six months ago. From there the telephone rang as I was told that I had a dentist's appointment soon. A week later in the living room of my dad's house, I sit in the recliner in the living room asking my dad if he had any money to pay for a plane ticket, as it was all the way on the West Coast in Los Angeles. Dad had his TV tray with his big laptop on the table and his female friend who visits was sitting on the couch.

A few weeks later in the dream, I find myself in Los Angeles...but unfortunately, it looks like downtown Raleigh. I hear a rendition of Ain't It Fun by the band Paramore that is the work of British pianist Sam Yung (it's also on YouTube), and just as soon as the first verse ends (when he stops playing for a few seconds), the actual song's chorus plays with band frontwoman Hayley Williams' vocals just like it sounded on the band's 2013 self-titled album (which I enjoy, by the way), bass, electric guitar, percussion and all. I remember saying something about copyright. I also remember being on a bus near the back when I heard it. I suddenly have this feeling where there really wasn't a dentist's appointment in LA and that I may have been tricked. As soon as I heard Williams' vocals, I jumped and felt a funny feeling in my right leg and stomach. (I think this may have been my first lucid in a while.)

I remember dreams I've had from 2013-15 where towns and cities in southern California (Los Angeles (twice), Hemet High School, but one scene later) look like places in North Carolina that I may have been before (dentist's office in 2013, downtown Raleigh in 2014 and a random section in Wal-Mart in 2015 that looks like none of the stores I've visited in the state), leading me to think the two states are fighting over me and/or my writing works. I've also had Paramore dreams before, but Williams' hair has been different colors than the trademark red or orange.

(I credit the Carmen Sandiego series of computer games (I saw the game show on PBS first when I was younger) for inspiring me to do research on the two states in 1998-99 in the 7th grade.)

I am at work talking to someone I am I do not know at my manager office. He leaves and I go check at the beo to see what needs to be done for tommorow. As I am doing so, I am interrupted by my mother who then walks pass me. I'm wondering why she is here intill the person who runs the human resources showed up and ask me how is my head doing. Before I can respond entirely I see she is trying to lift one of the 6ft classroom tables. So I offer to help lift it to her office. It felt way lighter than it should be I thought, but I decided to just go with it. I then enter her office to see my brother and father both sitting down. I attempt to place the table down but the table legs that are meant to hold it were bent for some odd reason. I told the captain human resources that I will come back with a better table. I walk out and notice all the tables were distorted or just plain broken. I lose track of my thoughts and just left the building walking outside on the side walk for a minute or two. Thinking about nothing at all in till it hit me. I felt like I should be doing something but didn't knew what it was. I stood there for a long good second and it hit me. I was suppose to be getting tables , the urge to get a table was too strong to the point where I woke up. But it was truly a false awakening. I look around and got out of my bed. I enter in my bathroom and notice my mirror is reflecting differently then it normally would. I look at my hands and did a nose RC. I knew I am dreaming but lost lucidity fairly quickly .

Something like 5 hours of insomnia starting at bed time. Irritated by the tiniest of sounds, usual sounds like cars driving by. Get up to read at about 4 hours for about an hour. Back to bed, still slow to sleep manage to sleep.

+ PTL former home digging in garage for Suzuki motorcycle, I see it, think about riding it again, will it start the gas will be super old inside it, pull things out of the way, then I can't find it, my wife told some guy to take it away, I'm infuriated and pin the guy up against the house with my right hand fiercely pinching his cheeks. I'm (lying on top of?) looking down into some garbage pit where soil is churning and gas bubbles are rising up through the dirt and escaping. I pull out some socks from the pit which have fallen inside.

Go inside, I see then a huge black Range Rover pull aggressively right in front of the window smack dab in the center of our front lawn. This also infuriates me and I plan to go out and confront the driver. Then I think better of it and go to tell my wife. She says "it's probably just the gardener." I go out through the side exit to the front [FALSE] and approach our front lawn from the neighbor's side and I notice an extremely bright light across the street. I don't remember this light being here before. My wife says she "put in a 75 watt bulb" (on the porch), but I know that doesn't explain this new light. It's like they put in a super bright street light right across from our house. This has be off balance and wondering for several moments.

+ practicing tennis serves on a court with some people. I'm using a short/mangy racquet? Im thinking about how to do good tennis serves. I toss the ball very high but it moves too far forwards. I get a really good one in that just barely does not clear the net, smacking loudly into the stiff tape at the top of the net. The guys I'm with mutter their approval, that was almost an awesome serve.

+ exiting the (parking?/food?) area by the open aired restaurant I have the check in my hand for a falafel plate for which I paid $5.29, I'm going up to the Asian chef who's busy, wait until he's available and show him the check, he looks at it, and I say that I don't see the two milkshakes mentioned on here.

+ there are people sitting in the tall cab of a truck. We're planning to go with them, but something is not right. Out front of the truck there is a slanted desk and (my wife? and) I are plugging in some electronic sound equipment, we're preparing to sing a song with the people sitting in the truck? (They mention they don't want us coming with them after all?)

+ in some hotel/office suite room, #1, which I've checkd in to, I hear the staff for the hotel talking asking about people who are going to move in to #1, I think no, I"m here. I notice some pieces of equipment on a table, and I know that they're old/outdated and not very useful, one of them is a black & white palm pilot sitting in an elevated cradle, I know it's not useful because it has no networking abilities, there is another piece of equipment, and I catch the sight of an old computer terminal screen (like an ADM3A)


I leave the room and head through hallways. My sister (unseen) mentions she saw an open restaurant/counter, I see it right in front of me. There is a Chinese woman in there straightening up. There are some flowers in vases in there? After some confusion with my sister talking to her (over a phone?) trying to place a food order I say something that she understands and she says "No restaurant, flower shop".
As I continue to look into the shop I see plates of food: there are 3 slots in a wall, one each for Italian, French, and Mexican, ranging from least spicy to spiciest. Then there area row of platters laid out about 5 dishes also in increasing order of spiciness. I can see farther now and I notice that the food counter is open all the way through to another side directly connected with another food counter with two young white people, a guy (and a girl) working there it's a different restaurant entirely (coffee counter?).

Along my right side stacked on the wall are sushi supplies. They are a special form of rice, pink in color, and the dish is for something called a "black snake"?, a curved mount of rice (with shrimp? Day residue), I see piles of pinkish long tubes/strands of the sushi equipment. I take something in my hands and take a bit bit of it and am chewing it. It seems to be a roll of toilet paper in plastic wrapping. I see ArGi [former colleague from "3"] there dressed in full surgical dress including face masks. I hear his voice clearly and it sounds like him and he says something.