SCPantera's Dream Journal

Had two sequences I could recall, except that the latter was generic and barely memorable except that it was basically just a game of HoN.

In the former Laura and I were driving down 25th street north of main avenue at night in the rain. As we reached main avenue I somehow didn't notice the light was red until it was too late. I swerved left to avoid another vehicle but then drifted straight ahead (presumably due to the rain). As we were drifting we were hit by a very large vehicle that looked like a train heading east along main avenue and it pushed us several blocks before stopping. Laura and I got out of the car (unharmed) and called the police to report an accident. Afterwards several people got out of the train car and then proceeded to verbally abuse us at length for quite some time. I recall being frustrated that it was taking the police so long to get there, especially since I'd noticed a police car shortly before the accident.

Had a handful of sequences tonight, but I can only recall one:

I was on House's team; we had a patient with some condition that had us stumped. We were all off working various tests and I was discussing the case with Chase when I suggested the patient's problems may be the result of a genetic condition that's caused by an extra X or Y chromosome. We took this idea to House and for some reason testing this idea required us all to go down to an elaborate cave system below the hospital. We explore the cave a short ways in and talk about stuff, and at some point I went back up to the hospital to retrieve something and as I was about to go back down to the cave I noticed several suspicious looking people with guns enter the hospital through a back entrance. As I got back down to the cave I heard a PA announcement that the hospital was being taken over by terrorists. We discussed how we might hide from them in the cave, but House was convinced they'd search every inch of the cave and find us.

Short sequence this morning. I was playing some sort of (seemingly aged) RTS game that felt like a combination of Total Annihilation and Frozen Synapse. I seemed to think I was playing against my brother or someone I knew well, and I massed up a giant attack but it was crushed by my opponents entrenched defensive position. This was followed up by what seemed like a video montage of several WoW-esque dungeon/raid sequences, except that it seemed as though there was some competitive component to what was going on; I recall it would have occasional text overlay narration explaining things such as "EVO prefers encounters that involve unusual mechanics like canons" as though WoW instances were something that would be at EVO or some other gaming convention.

Ultrashort fragment this morning wherein I was at a party or social gathering of some sort and we were trying to get some girl to freak out by making it look as though we were snorting cocaine, but it was really just crushed graham crackers and powdered sugar.

Two fragments retained tonight. First was a sequence that I could only identify as some sort of combination of an RTS and Terraria.

In the next sequence I was an exiled prince of some nation. I was evidently staying with some island nation, however I knew they were evil or had bad intentions and had to escape the island to the main continent, which I managed to do with the help of some other characters. After there, I traveled a ways inland until I came upon some ruins in a forest. There I found a small army unit of some other kingdom. They asked if I would join them, but after thinking for a short while I declined and headed back the way I came. After a short while I met Aragorn and some of the people who had helped me escape the island country on the trail. I remember thinking that I was glad Aragorn was my ally and that he was the sort of king I hoped to be someday. The group of us started back the way I was heading originally and got back to the ruins. We headed further into the ruins to find that it was actually the site of a now-destroyed (night?) elf settlement. They told us that they had been attacked and ravaged by the army I had met earlier that asked me to come with them and I remember thinking I dodged a bullet by not going with them. The last memory I had of the dream was exploring a tower in the back of the ruins.

Looking at the last entry, you'll notice I'd long since abandoned my dreamwalking efforts. This was due to a combination of my (then) frustrating lack of success and the arduous business of last year's school work which made the preparation for sleep and dreams and the upkeep of a dream journal seem somewhat chorelike at a time when I didn't have the mental focus to spare. Now, having graduated and finished my PharmD, I find myself in a limbo between having graduated, obtaining licensure, and finding a job which leaves me with a lot of free time. I've been enjoying several fun, adventurous, and pleasant dreams the past few nights (the four quadrant pillars, the middle settlement, and being alarmed that the middle people do not actively defend themselves from the dangerous creatures from the pillars!), which remind me of my old lucid dreaming efforts. Being that my mental obligations are quite sparing and free time abound nowadays, I feel that it is my duty to return to pursuing mastery of my nocturnal subconscious, so starting tonight (or this morning I guess, I've been rolling into a 4AM-noonish sleep pattern) I'll be once more laying the groundwork starting with good-old simple dream recall.

I don't know if I'll get around to finishing my last summary post or if I'll continue that practice going forward, but I'm going to take it easy and play things by ear for now.