non-lucid

I'm in a school or store. It is me and someone who is a student. There is an adult friend of mine who is there too. The adult says to the student "Hey, I found something interesting! A bench made by your grandfather." The student was surprised. The adult continued "We can order it online." So we all went to a store/coffee shop and we were going to order the bench.

[UGH! There was more to this, but my voice recorder glitched and didn't record the rest of it, and I can't recall it now. Boo!]

Another dream from August 23 rd.

I was driving down a freeway, going a little faster than the speed limit. There were cops all around, and so I was trying to slow down. But the car wouldn't slow down. I had the brake pushed, but nothing happened. Fortunately, no cop cars stopped me. One of the cop cars was was dragging a car door behind it from a rope.

I got off the freeway, and pulled into a sea world or watermark type place. A friend of mine, J, was there. I saw her, and tried to avoid her to avoid awkwardness (long story IRL), but she saw me. I went to go give her a hg or something, bust she maneuvered away slightly to avoid it. She started to introduce a guy she was there with, but he had just walked off. But there was another guy that J knew who was there ( though she didn't know he was there at first). He came up and said hi to both of us. END

Short NLD from August 23rd.

I'm the instructor or an advanced student at a school where people are trying to learn to draw. There's a student who is drawing on a backboard, drawing a horse's tail. And I'm helping him by smudging the colors of the chalk on the tail.

That's it. It's odd, because is can't draw at all. I'm horrible. The last person who should be teaching drawing.

Somebody, it might have been Steve or Ben (two friends of mine), was making presents available to people that he liked. I think girls mostly. He had hand-drawn pictures of the presents. Not fancy drawings. I was explaining to him that presents are not a way to go about getting someone to hang out with you. It basically involved compromising your self and pretending to be someone you aren't. Especially if you are giving your own stuff. (I now have no recollection of anything from this dream. I dictated it into my iPhone when I woke up in the middle of the night. But now I have nothing. It is like I am reading some other person's schematic journal entry.)

In another dream I'm going somewhere with somebody outside on some roads. I think we were in a vehicle. We are camping or something near an intersection of major roads out in the middle of nowhere. A large group of people come by. They are high school or college kids. About six of them. There is a bridge nearby, and for some reason I have to go to the bathroom and there is a toilet on the bridge. I am trying to go to the bathroom but I can't get any privacy because the group of people is all around. I think this is a recurring thing in my dreams. Restrooms that are either out in the open, or not private enough. Seems like it could be a DS, so I'm now trying to RC every time I go to the bathroom.

There were two dreams that I recall parts of. Both non-lucid.

1. There was a self storage place with a concrete ramp and I was keeping stuff in there. It was pretty full. There were some bicycles that I needed to move inside. But there wasn't really enough space. As I was loading it someone nearby had an international scout. She couldn't get it started and wanted me to help. I went to help but when I got there she managed to get it started. She drove it away down to the bottom of the muddy hill.

2. In another scene I was watching a movie and there was an alien who was wearing a leather jacket with funky wooden armor on it. Kind of like a number of small wooden scales with symbols on them, in a random patchwork that only covered about half the coat. It wasn't clear whether a) in the dream I was watching a movie, or b) I wasn't really physically *in* this part of the dream, but the scene was just being presented to me in a movie-likeway. It's a subtle distinction, but quite real. The alien was presented in a scene which first showed the jacket, and then slowly panned up to the head to reveal a non-human head, kind of a cross between fish and lizard looking. And there were some Japanese people, but I'm not sure of their role, not sure if they were in the movie or were watching the moviewith me.

That's it.