redisreddish's mess of dreams is still messy

~I was at camp again. Everything was just like normal, except the counselor of our cabin was Nomad. (That would've been the most interesting week that camp's ever seen ) He was making all of our cardboard robots (something we made at the actual camp) come to life. They were flying and rolling and running around all over the place. After a while they ran out the door. I'm pretty sure I was lucid, although I never really RCd or anything. Nomad showed me how to make it rain in little areas, like when sad people in cartoons have rainclouds just over their heads. It took me a few tries, but I suceeded in getting the space in front of me to rain. I tried to move it around the room and it disappeared. I made another attempt, though, and it worked.

Then our regular counselor came in, in a wheelchair for some reason. Nomad left, singing a song whose words I can't remember. The guy who had pushed the other counselor in started singing "Rhythm of Love" by the Plain White T's.

~A guy was walking down a street in a big city in the middle of the night. He headed over towards some kind of cake dispenser to get a birthday cake. There was a lever on the side like a slot machine, which he pulled. In a little window on the front, a picture of an octopus came up, and a giant octopus appeared. It kept turning invisible. (Poor man. Came for a cake, got a big octopus instead. )

~I was standing on the front porch of my grandma's house. Out of nowhere, my friends Wesley and Austin tear up in this tiny little car. It's like a VW bug, only the right size for a five-year-old. Somehow they get me to squeeze in with them. I'm more than a bit concerned as they speed off again. The steering wheel is on the right, manned by Austin, and the pedals are on the left, controlled by Wesley. The only thing I can do is freak out as they fly around random turns and keep almost tipping us over. I wake up when they try to drive across a rope bridge and it falls apart.

~This one was from my perspective, but I wasn't me. I'm pretty sure I was a vampire. There were empty, hilly fields in every direction, and the sun was beating down on everything without a single cloud in the sky. I think there was one dead tree a little ways ahead of me. I was walking down a dirt road towards one of several small, shed-sized buildings that looked like individual prison cells. Apparently I was the death sentence at whatever place this was, and I was heading out to kill someone. Only two people passed me as went along, and they both ducked their heads and walked faster until they were a ways away. I wore a long, red, hooded cloak. I was irritated that I had been called out there, but somewhat amused by the terrified screams coming from the cell I was headed towards.

I kind of don't like that dream; it was creepy.

~And then I just remember something about watching Shrek.

The fragments I can remember from camp were about a centaur and almost getting killed by something in the middle of the night. It's so hard to sleep there...

Anyways, last night's dream was really weird. A bunch of people were all tied up and lying on the ground. A guy kept trying to tie me up, too. One of the people on the ground was covered with a sheet. When the guy uncovered the person, it was just a stick figure. During the dream, there was some elaborate storyline that I can't even begin to remember now. It was kind of creepy, though.

Just got back from camp yesterday. Had one nightmare and a few regular dreams that I can remember. I'll write them tomorrow; now I'm heading to bed.

~Hehehe, I like that title. I think I might have been lucid at the very beginning of this one. There was a big lake in the distance, and a slimy kraken-like thingy kept rising up out of it and screeching. I ran into one of several tall, empty orange buildings scatterd around me and found a window that looked out at the lake, then gave myself feathery white wings. I moved them up and down a few times to make sure they actually worked. Satisfied, I took a running start and jumped through the window. I could fly perfectly. The kraken tried to catch me when I went over it. It grabbed one of my wings, which disappeared in a flash of gold light. Then it reappeared a few seconds later the same way.

(Wonderful picture, isn't it?) Things got odd after that; the location kept changing and people came and I was trying to run away from something. One of the kraken's tentacles grabbed my arm at one point and I had to bite it to make it let go.

~Going to a Pokemon arcade with my friend Justin; someone tried to sell us a bunch of tokens.

~Walking around a mall with a group of friends, but we're really our characters from a book. As we go past a shoe store, a girl runs out at us with a gun. Casket (strongest character) pushes her down and the gun flies out of her hand, skids across the floor, and is picked up by a shady looking fellow. He aims it at my head, but Jin (most evil out of the group) takes out his own gun and blasts the guy's hand. He runs away. The girl is screaming and flailing around on the floor. She pulls a big knife out of nowhere and tells us she stabbed her boss (who was apparently controlling her) with it. It's covered in blood. I take it and she dies.
"What's up with her boss, Rayne?" Jin asks me. (My character is a vampire.) I lick some of the blood off the knife and conclude that her boss is definitely not human. We go back to the shoe store to investigate. There's a back room, seemingly empty except for a bed, closed closet door, and vent near the ceiling. I'm standing in front of the closet door when someone starts trying to open it from the inside.
"Guys, he's in here! Get your guns ready!" I yell. Everyone draws their weapons and I let the boss out. He gets shot numerous times but it doesn't seem to phase him. Casket shoves him onto the bed and shoots him point-blank in the head. Nothing. I notice that the boss is reaching for something hidden under the mattress and stab his arm with the knife in an attempt to stop him. He pulls out a gun and aims it at my face. I wake up.

~Something about carrying a little white fox around in my pocket.

~I'm walking through someone's yard when Wesley (friend... erm... boyfriend) comes up and tells me to follow him. He leads me to a small, white, brick building with no windows. Inside is a very strange but cool place. There's no identifiable walls or floor or ceiling or anything, it's just one black space. All around, spreading farther than I can see, are small cube-shaped pedestals. But only the edges are visible, like a 3-D neon sign. They're all different colors, and an object is resting on every one. We step up to a pedestal with an egg on it. Wesley picks it up and cracks a small piece off, then gives it to me.

Inside the shell, there's a whole universe. Stars and galaxies and nebulae and everything. It's beautiful. I look around and feel very small, despite the fact that I'm holding a universe in my hand.


~EDIT: Almost forgot. I started to have a lucid, I was on a beach somewhere, but a huge clap of thunder woke me up and then I couldn't fall back asleep.

~Kind of weird dream, it was like solid music and color. Really chaotic. But also pretty cool.

~On some kind of small rocky island in the middle of a stormy ocean. There's a dark cave and I want to see what's inside, but the flashlight I have doesn't seem to be able to shine very far. It's like the darkness is too thick.

~On a field trip somewhere in a big city. A giant panda starts rampaging, and everyone just laughs, because it's a panda, you know? And who could be afraid of such a cute animal? Then it smashes a few buildings, throws some cars, and crushes several people, and the message gets across that it may be cute but it won't hesitate to squish you. Later in the same dream, school has moved to inside a tree. A really, really, really big tree. Owls keep popping up out of nowhere and telling me to be quiet when I ask where I'm supposed to be going.

~Last night: I'm using a cool see-through laptop and someone asks me to go to town and pick something up for them. I leave the building I'm in and grab a pale orange bike that's lying on the ground outside. As I pedal down the road, I see some kind of party at a house. A woman is playing what looks like metal panpipes. The sound is very pretty, and I stop to listen for a minute or two. I notice that some of the guests have pointed ears when I ride away.

I get into town and have no idea where I'm going. Everything looks unfamiliar, so I just cruise around for a while. The brakes on my bike don't seem to work very well, because I keep rolling into the middle of the street when I try to stop, and eventually I run into a parked car and decide to walk. I find a large warehouse-type building filled with more bikes and other things like kayaks and hiking equipment. I play around with the stuff in there until I wake up.

Ahhhhh, getting lazy again. Can't let that happen.

~Parallax, the villain from Green Lantern, was in my school. I went in to get rid of him... But he was destroying the gym, so I left him alone. Later, he had left the school and I was blasting him with Green-Lantern-ring-power-blast thingies. He informed me that he had changed his name to Elmo.

~Lucid; out in a big, hilly, grassy area with two friends. We're in some kind of real-life video game. There's a radar that constantly floats in the corner of my vision, showing where my friends--or enemies, in this case, I guess--are located. We each have different guns that don't actually shoot, but just send out some kind of laser signal or something. The game starts, and instantly we're spread out across the map. I'm at the top of a hill and can see someone at the bottom. Before I can get them, they 'shoot' me and I respawn somewhere else. It goes on like this for a while until I suddenly get transported to a training course because apparently I really suck. "This is my dream, why do I keep dying!?" I shout. Three masked people jump out and start shooting at me, and I blast them away in a fury with a machine gun.

~More I'll put tomorrow, don't have time now.

~Had a ton of FAs last night, and only one made me lucid. That's also the only one I can remember. I "woke up" and could hear a loud ticking noise. Over in the corner of my room there was a big, rusty, red and green clock sitting on the floor. I did a reality check and WHEE I was lucid. There was a typewriter right next to the clock, which I immediately started playing with. (I want a typewriter so much!) Then I stood in the center of my room and tried to think of what to do. How about jump out the window? Yes, wonderful idea. For some reason I was afraid to just smash the glass out, so I carefully took apart the whole window. And then... blank. I don't know what happened next, but I'm sure there was more.

~I was walking down a trail with my two little sisters. All of a sudden, this big animal that looked like a sabertooth jaguar came up through the trees. There was a fence all along the trail, but the animal had a kind of human stature, and it started to climb over. My dad ran up behind us and saw it. He pulled out a knife and tried to keep the thing back while my sisters and I ran, but he couldn't stop it. It got over the fence and came after us, with my dad following, and I couldn't run very fast because I was carrying the smaller of my two sisters. Then we came to a dead end, a brick wall that must've been the back of a building. I stood in front of my sisters and turned so my back was to the jaguar thing, which was almost to us. I closed my eyes and felt the tips of its teeth on my back... and then it fell to the ground, dead. My dad had caught up and stabbed it. (That should've made me lucid. My dad couldn't run that fast in a million years. )

Yay, lucidity!!!!

I was sitting in my mom's van, apparently while she was getting something at the bank. The radio was on. I can't remember what song was playing, but I suddenly realized that the words were wrong. Then I felt something on my ear and noticed I had earrings in. (My ears aren't pierced.) I did a reality check, the one where you plug your nose and try to breathe through it. HOLY COW, I WAS DREAMING!

I got out of the car just as my mom was walking up. "Hey! This is a dream!" I told her.

"No it's not, get back in the car."

"Yes, it is! See?" I held up my hand, hoping something would be wrong with it like people say there usually is. Sure enough, my fingers were all semi-transparent. My mom was... surprised. I kept staring at my hand. A breeze kicked up and my fingers started to blow away like they were made of sand. Then my hand, then my arm, then all the rest of me was blown away, too. What I could see looked like a sandstorm. It felt like I was rolling down a steep hill, but it was a relaxing feeling. It probably would've made me fall asleep if I hadn't been sleeping already.

After a few seconds, everything cleared up and I was standing outside my school. I ran in and shouted, "THIS IS A DREAM!", but everybody just gave me a 'wow, you're a total freak' look and kept walking around. Well, their loss. I kept running, looking for my friends. They were in the gym.

"You guys, guess what? This is a dream," I said when I reached them.

"Really?" they all asked. I said yes, and they didn't question it any futher than that. We took off through the halls, ignoring the teachers when they cried, "Why are you running around!?!? Get back to class!!!" I think a girl joined us along the way, but I didn't recognize her. We jumped through a window and landed outside. I tried to remember some of the things I wanted to do, but the guys were already running off in every direction. I shouted, "Let's make a dragon!" in an attempt to get their attention. It worked.

We all tried to imagine a good dragon. A huge green one appeared in front of us, with reddish yellow spikes down its back and a mace looking thing on the end of its tail. Then it kind of... exploded into several smaller dragons, which all flew away. So much for that idea.

Something must have happened next, but I can't remember. Either way, all of us and a bunch more people were all still outside, but now it was like some kind of swamp. There was at least three feet of water everywhere, deeper in some places and shallower in others. Ms. Rossow (band teacher) was there, laughing and taking pictures of everyone on her phone.

"I have an idea," she said. She must have been informed that it was a dream at some point, because she continued, "You guys should turn into some cool animals and take a picture with me." Everybody thought that was a great idea. People started morphing into different animals immediately. I saw a falcon, a giraffe, a monkey, a zebra, some big fish, and a few others. I tried to turn into a wolf... Yeah. I felt bones start to shift around and change, enough that I had to drop to all fours, but then I couldn't get any farther. I was stuck in an awkward position on the ground while people ran past, going to wherever Ms. Rossow was taking the picture. A few of my friends stayed behind and helped me up. I got myself back to normal, although there was now a wolf tattoo on my hand for some reason.

We started to follow the other people, and the location switched. Now it was nighttime, and we were behind the school. There were RVs and trailers all over. People were happily destroying them. A few teachers rushed out and started shouting, but they couldn't stop anyone. Still lucid, I heard a snippit of someone's conversation as we walked by: "...and the faster you go, the slower your arm will break." Interesting theory.

I woke up as we were heading back into the school.

It was the last day of school again, only school was in some kind of big hotel. I ran out to deliver a letter to someone. They lived in a little white house just across the road, and when I knocked on the door a woman invited me in and gave me some chocolate chip cookies. I think I ended up forgetting to give her the letter.

Something later about walking through a huge, dirty building that looked like it was about ready to fall apart. In one room, someone was watching Pirates of the Caribbean.

I lost at least one entry and a few comments and can't seem to find them again... Oh well. Isn't one of the tasks getting treasure from a sunken ship? If so, I am a total moron.

~I was walking down the side of a road, looking at some odd lights in the distance. They were shaped like UFOs. Out of nowhere, Captain Jack Sparrow came up next to me and started talking. I don't remember a word of what he said. A few minutes after joining me, he handed me a bottle of something (probably rum). It had red and gold palm trees on the front. I took a little sip; it tasted kind of like lemonade and iced tea, but it was really sweet. I dropped it behind me when he wasn't looking.

Eventually we came to a ship, maybe his ship, I don't know. We climbed up the side and that girl from the movies (Elizabeth?) ran up and started yelling at Jack. It was something along the lines of, "All you ever to is drink! *pushes him* And steal! *pushes him again* And wave around that sword!!" She was about to push him again, but I stepped in front of him and interrupted, "I like him." She looked a bit surprised, but Jack just laughed: "And I do believe that's all that matters."

HOW WAS I NOT LUCID!?!?!?

~In the dream after that, I was in a mall of some sort and saw a store with pictures of dragons all over the front. Upon going in, however, there was just some grumpy woman who reminded me of Professor Umbridge from Harry Potter, and a bunch of clothes and toy monkeys. She kicked me out after I accidentally knocked some monkeys off a shelf.

So I managed to become lucid somehow a few days ago. I wanted to ride a dragon, so I tried to make Toothless from How To Train Your Dragon (love that movie so much ) appear, but I couldn't. Fail # 1. I thought maybe Wes, who was walking around nearby, could help. When he tried to make a dragon appear, he had about as much luck as me. Fail # 2. I think later on in the dream, though, after I had lost lucidity, I rode a dragon.

Last night, I was wearing some crazy kind of robot suit. It was like I was piloting a Transformer. There were huge guns in the arms and all sorts of stuff. A bunch of other people were walking around in costumes. I climbed a tree and found a pink toy bear.

Dream after that, me and the rest of the school band were walking around a store. I found a giant cookie and bought it.

Not very good recall. I remember my friend Sam was with me, and I picked up a rotary phone, intending to call someone. But then the phone started shouting at me with a New York accent...

"Why are you bothering me!? Honestly, a guy can't get any rest around here! Fall asleep, and someone wants to have a conversation!" It was quiet for a second, then yelled at Sam. "You know, you're real stupid. I just don't like you."

I hung up and then looked at Sam. "...The phone doesn't like you."

Geez, I haven't posted a DJ entry in over a month. WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME??? Anyways, I had at least two lucids in one night a few weeks ago. Although I couldn't manage to do much, the number alone is an achievement for me.

~I think the first one started out in a big room, like an auditorium or something, filled with people. I was lucid, and tried to dramatically make all the doors slam shut at once... Yeah. I ended up taking a while at each of the three sets of doors, struggling to close them while people ran around screaming. A bit frustrated, I hopped up onto a stage at the front of the room and walked backstage. There was a winding passageway leading somewhere unknown, which I started wandering down.

"Hello? Anybody here...?" I wanted to find someone, even a random DC, just to see if they could help me do anything. To my intense surprise, TG appeared.

"Don't get frustrated," he said. "As long as you keep trying, you'll get better. I promise." Then he was gone again. I can't remember if the dream continued or ended there.


~Second dream. I was in a house, although I'm not sure that's where it started. Still lucid, but a little less so than before, I wanted to explore the place. The carpet was white, the walls were white, all the trim and everything was a light colored wood. In some places the ceiling was very low. As I walked around, a person followed me. She threw pushpins at the walls and floor.

I turned a corner and saw what I think was a vacuum... A really creepy vacuum. It was like a bright green cube with wheels, and a tube/hose thing coming out of one side. But it had a human face on the front. Its eyes were the same bright green as the rest of the thing, and it was staring intently at a small pile of screws. I didn't mess with it.

Suddenly, the girl with the pins threw one at the floor right next to my foot. Then another, and that one hit me. It hurt. I turned to run away, and she peppered my back with several more. By that point I had lost lucidity and was just trying to run away.

~I'm almost sure there was another dream, but I can't remember. There was also a false awakening somewhere.

Last night, I vowed to have an epic dream. There would be dragons, atom bombs, and New Zealand. This dream... did not happen. Which makes me epically sad. I'm going to make it one of my main goals to have this epic dream now. There will be a million and five people from DV there, with dragons and explosions and every other epic thing in existance. Hopefully.

The first dream I did have was mainly me riding a bus with a whole bunch of people I didn't know. Two of my friends were there, and we were all playing some game on a laptop. But it was like we were actually inside the game. I was a big robot and my arms were giant guns. I just blew up evil little robots and tried to meet up with my friends.

Second dream was pretty cool, I guess. But I don't remember much of it. The only part I can recall is hiding behind a rusty orange car while explosions destroyed a building in the background. All of a sudden, the car started transforming... A big rotating blade on a tail type thing came right at my face and I had to run away.