Serenity's Silver Millennium

September 11, 2010

The trick
I was involved with a group of people trying to play a trick on a group of bad people. This was really more than a trick, it was a whole set-up, I guess. Involved on the good team with me is Elijah (from work), Eddy, possibly my dad (according to my notes) and Jesse from All My Children. On the evil side is David from All My Children, and a bunch of dream characters.

We were trying to make David and his team believe that something had happened that didn't really happen. I was alone, and kicked off the plan. The details of what I said or did are very fuzzy. Eddy then got involved. Once it was rolling, Jesse came into the room I was in and was upset about the current pace and inactivity of our plan. He didn't know I had kicked it off. I filled him in on what happened so far, and he was pleased.

Missed dream signs
- Interacting with co-workers outside of work situations
- Interacting with TV show characters

Had I realized them
- Would've done some reality tests to see if any work for me (nose pinch, mouth roof, and tongue bite)
- Would've left the plot to summon Danny for help with conjuring my brother

Puppy fragment
Jack and I were renting a basement suite from Hannah, who lived upstairs. She was opening the door of our suite for us and this dog ran outside to greet us. He was typically brown-furred, but had this patch of fiery-coloured red fur on his nose. He wasn't the world's cutest dog, but he was super-friendly, which rather made up for it

Missed dream signs
- Jack and I living in an apartment other than here (this is a new sign creeping up a lot lately)
- Seeing people who I don't see anymore (Hannah)

Had I realized them
- Would've done some reality tests to see if any work for me (nose pinch, mouth roof, and tongue bite)
- Would've left the plot to summon Danny for help with conjuring my brother

September 10, 2010

New stores
Spent most of the dream hanging out with Julia. There was a new small strip mall down the hill from my house. It was still mostly being constructed, but there were a couple of shops open early. I ask Julia if she wants to go into the British clothing shop (I guess like an H&M, but not with that name Tongue), and she's keen, even though I bet the clothes will only be Canada's interpretation of British style...

We go inside and we pass by an arcade, first. We both think it's cool and say we'll come back to it. Then, we pass by a restaurant that specializes in hot dogs. Julia now wants a cheese dog.

I'm now at work - old job at 7-11. Some cleaners come in to work on the store. A guy and a girl. I don't pay much attention to them. Then some more cleaners (from my current job) come in. I tell Stuart that there were two before him. He asks me to describe the girl and her face, in my memory, is smudged and blurred. I consider the possibility of it being a dream, but it doesn't carry over. Stuart and I talk about halloween, and how I won't allow people to wear masks inside the store. He thinks I'm being silly.

Missed dream signs
- Hanging out with Julia (she lives in the UK)
- New strip mall being built near me when there isn't
- Working at an old job
- Problems with remembering facial details

Plan of action
- Tested some RC's (tongue tickle, bite tongue and nose pinch). See if any work for me.
- Ask Danny for his help in conjuring my brother.

Finally, a Darren dream
I'm standing with some people on some steps outside a building. I look towards the doors, and I see Darren come out. I'm staring at him and he's looking right at me as he comes over. We smile at each other.

"Hey you!" I say.

"Hey!" he says.

We talk privately for a second. I can't recall exactly what, but I recall asking him how he knows how to find me. He says he just knows. I recall hearing some rumour that he's going to marry this chick he's been seeing in waking life. He shrugs it off and says he hadn't planned to, that he's done the married thing, but he says he could change his mind. He asks me about Jack and I tell him things are well.

Scene change and I'm with Jack and his parents. His mum is playing with her phone, trying to change the ring tone. She changes it to a jazz song and I daydream about my dance class (we had to dance to that same song). I tell Jack I wished he was in dance with me, cos it would've been really fun to do a jazz dance to that song. He isn't really fussed about it.

I don't know the song name I can't find it. But it's definitely a Charleston-flavoured jazz piece.

Missed dream signs
- Darren

Plan of action
- Talk to him more, see if I can learn something unique about dreaming, finding people in dreams.

September 6, 2010

At a camp - 4/5
I'm staying in some group cabins at a camp. Another lady comes into my room. She helps me clean up the garbages and some clothes-folding as we chat. She has a light British accent.

"I think the camp might be haunted," she says to me.

"Well, I heard that it was built over a native burial ground," I say. "That usually guarantees a haunting."

We leave the room and there's a party happening in the common area. It's now night time. I chat with my new friend some more, and I could've done all night, but we realized we should socialize with the other people too, so we promised to chat more later.

I saw a girl go outside to the deck, so I followed her out there. We both lounged on these deck chairs that could be manipulated like lazy-boy chairs. Another girl came out, and the three of us chatted. Then the other two brought out nail clippers and started working on their toenails huh I was a little put off by this, so I went back inside.

The next morning, I'm standing outside with a group. I'm looking at the gravel and I think, "What if this was a dream right now?" I immediately recognize the dreamy feeling and had a quiet "Oh!" moment. I stare at my hands (which looked normal) to ensure that the dream remained around me. I thought about finding Darren (I miss him), so when someone asked me my attention, I replied, "No, I'm going to stick around for a bit."

I walk back towards the cabins, and momentarily gazed out over the lake, mountains and trees. "I really want to fly out over that," I thought. "I want to find Darren though." Suddenly the dream faded out.

False awakening. I chained back in to the sounds of a stream. I then saw the stream and thought, "Oh cool, that worked out well!" Then it faded out again. I could still hear the stream, crickets and fishing lines in my head, but I couldn't get an image. I let it go, and chained into a new scene.

I was standing in a house. "Great, now let's try to find Darren," I thought. I realize I'm still wearing my pajamas, so I snap my fingers and change my clothes. I'm about to walk out through the front door when I see a guy just loitering, waiting. "That's unnerving," I thought. So I went through the house, out the back, and pushed off the ground to fly.

"Take me to Darren's house please!" I shouted and intentionally spun. The spinning kept going and went black and I wondered if I ruined the dream this way. When it stopped, I was still in the air, over a new community. Hmm.

Once again, sensing this was wasting my lucidity, I decided to find my old school and conjure up my brother. Unfortunately, my dream wouldn't let me come down (it was like I kept catching air pockets) and I woke for real.

Decided, upon awakening, that perhaps I should be asking Danny for his help in finding people. He's the only one I can ask for that appears.

Another false awakening
Can't remember what the real time was, but the FA time was 6:20am. Happy it was still so early in the morning, I fell back to sleep. I possibly had another LD here, but I can't recall it. During this FA, I remember wanting to try WILDing again. I remember feeling like someone (probably Danny) was pulling on my arm and rubbing it, trying to get my dream body working. And me thinking I was just imagining this feeling . I also recall there being a point where I had some paralysis bleedthrough into a dream, but I'm having troubles remembering more.

September 5, 2010 - 1/5

Very short scene that I DEILD'ed into during my snooze alarm. I was sitting at a picnic table outside. A very cute kitten approached me. It was mostly a typical shade of brown with flecks of light brown and white mixed in. I decided to call her Twixie, after a Twix chocolate bar and rubbed her head, which she was loving.

September 4, 2010 - 1/5

Most of the plot of this dream is lost on me now. But my notes say there were zombies. I remember Jack, Julia and I being at a store. And there was something to do with food. As in, we were trying to order some. We decided to go to a new location, and Jack left ahead of us. Julia and I got into the truck, and she drove.

The next point I remember is Julia had vanished. I was adamant that we needed to wait at this point for her, because she was a dreamer. She vanished because she woke up, and when she chains back in, she'll reappear in this spot. I said it was like the guy in the Time Traveler's Wife... whenever he time-shifted, he generally shifted back to the spot he left.

August 30, 2010 - Lucid - 3/5

I actually don't remember too much about this part.... other than I was in a group with 5 other people. This one bleach blond dude was threatening to kill us. But someone suggests, "Why don't we just kill you, by crushing you?"

We all gather round him and back him into a corner. The idea was to use body weight, but he kept getting smaller. And we were having troubles getting us all in there. Eventually, people backed off. I said something like, "Guys, you don't exactly crush kidnappers to death by giving them room..."

There's a guy in the corner that looks like Darren, but I don't "see" him as Darren in the dream, he points out, "Look at how small your kidnapper is now?"

I look down. He's about 2 feet tall and still going. I'm not worried about him anymore. I look back over at "not-Darren" And said something about, "Well, at least this has nothing to do with lucidity... or wait.... it does..." Darren smiles and everyone vanishes. "Darren?!" I turned around. No one. "Darren, can I see you?" Nothing. Ughhh. There was a door in the corner of the room. Lets go see what's inside it. Maybe it'll take me to Darren.

I opened the door and it was a closet... with shelves full of grungy urinals and assorted white small appliances. "Ugh!" I exclaimed. I shut the door again, and opened it. Now it was just white appliances with this interesting looking one in the middle... what is tha - Door shut again. I opened it again with an, "Oh," as the appliances had all changed again.

"Okay enough with this, it's wasting the dream," I thought. "What was my goal?" Problems with memory. I racked my mind. "I need to get Danny's help in meeting my brother. Well, we already know I'm having troubles summoning people... maybe I'll have better luck on the moon." Why the moon?! I dunno. I thought about the prayer room at the Silver Millennium castle. That room holds a lot of power, perhaps it will grant me what I need. I noticed a small version of the pillar of the prayer room, now in this room. "Please grant me the power to make it to the moon," I asked it. It vanished.

I looked over at this window. It wasn't large and a bit high up the wall. I pulled myself to thought, "This will be easy," and pushed my head through the glass. The rest of me followed suit very quickly, and I pushed off the side of the building to fly! I angled myself a bit, trying to find the right positioning to make this a fast flight.

I was entering the clouds when I hear a, "Hey!!" call from behind me. I look around and I see this black tiled roof. "Why is there a row of townhouses in the middle of the ocean?" I thought. No matter. I pulled myself onto the ledge and turned around. The distraction caught up to me and it was Julia! (Julia is my best friend who also wants to dream share with me. She lives 7 hours ahead of me in time zones, so I'm really looking forward to if this will work... it may well prove that dream plane time and physical time slept need not apply... as she and I will rarely be asleep at the same time)

"Julia! It's a good thing you caught up to me here! Once we were past this cloud covering (I played with the clouds that we were standing in, on this rooftop) we'd be in space!" I told her.

"Or would we?" She asked.

"What do you mean?" I asked her.

"Well, you can tell how far up you are by a simple test," she says. She took off her backpack and tossed it in the air. It floated back down to her. She then hovered off the roof and threw her backpack into the ocean, below. It took a moment but the water came funneling back up and splashed her.

"I hope you didn't need anything in there," I said, laughing at her.

"Meh," she shrugged.

"Let's move on," I said. But as soon as I jumped back into the air, the dream faded away. I laid perfectly still on my bed, trying to daydream and reenter the scene, but it was gone

August 29, 2010

I was having an AMC dream. JR discovered Annie was sleeping with some politician dude. They were getting it on in a car. JR discovered them and had got upset, but this part of the dream faded.

False awakening. I "woke up" in bed. I spent a moment lying there and recalling the dream. I was also quite surprised I had fallen asleep again. I didn't even feel it coming.

Edited for TMI content...

I wondered about the possibility of this being a false awakening. I then noticed that, consciously, I did feel different. Fairly positive now that I'm dreaming, I thought to myself, "Only one way to check, and that's to get out of bed!"

As I slowly rolled over and got out of bed, I marveled about the fact that this really did feel like I was moving my real body. I began to question whether I was truly dreaming or not. I rather felt that getting out of bed would feel floaty, especially since in lucids, I don't normally feel gravity and weighty. This felt exactly like real life. Future note, WILDs may feel exactly like this. Especially when I think I'm awake...

Anyways, I was thinking a lot about this whole "Am I moving a dream body or my real body?" thing, and I heard a voice in the back of my mind, "Don't over think it, or you WILL wake up too much and move your real body." This voice sounded female, to my surprise (I usually expect Danny to tell me these things). It was probably myself; but in the past, Janine (my first DG, before Danny) often sounded like me... I wonder if this was her, again?

I didn't spend too much time looking around the room. But I did notice that the bedroom door, positioning of the bed and my endtable were all as they should be. This made me question, again, whether I was lucid or awake. I looked at the clock on my endtable. The numbers should have been a dead give-away. I could barely read the clock... it looked tired-eye bleary and I couldn't really make out any numbers. I concentrated harder. Does that say 4:41 or 4:48? I rubbed my eyes and looked again. It says 4:48. "I don't have to get up until 5:30," I reminded myself. "This is perfect, I can sleep longer!"

Completely forgetting about the false awakening, I crawl back in bed beside Jack. I noticed he was awake and reading something on his phone. We had a short discussion about him not staying up this late and my alarm rang.

Alright, so even if I hadn't gotten distracted, it's not like I could've done much with the lucidity, anyways. My guess is, this all happened just before 5:30, waking time. Maybe about 5:25, but this whole scene felt a bit shorter than 5 minutes. Still, this is a great note for future WILDs... I guess this is considered an INRALD (I'm Not Really Awake Lucid Dream)... I thought I was pretty good at determining lucidity by how it feels alone... and normal DILDs, I think that still holds true. But this whole new foray into INRALDing and WILDing... when I honestly think I'm awake, it really, really does feel like I'm awake! Further proof that I REALLY need to RC upon waking up...

Lucidity - 1/5
I'm hanging out with Jack and his cousins. Sara's a in a youth group (otherwise known as a Christian-related gathering of teens), and they are holding a karaoke of songs, but the songs should be religious-based, or hymns. Sara reaaaaaally wants me to sing something.

I don't remember how I got in this physical position, but I'm bent over backwards, and I try to whisper, "But I'm an athiest!" This old co-worker of mine, Abby (from McDonalds) is standing there and is giving me this look like, "Oh good one, they all heard that!"

"Did I say that too loud?" I ask.

"Uh, yeah, the group leader heard it," she says. The pastor (a greying, 60-something man) is giving me the awkward eye. Fack!

Anyways, I consider doing something typical like Amazing Grace, but I don't know the words to it (true story). I hear someone else practicing it and thought, "Oh well, I don't want to repeat what someone else is doing, anyways." Then, a beautiful idea strikes me! I'll sing Let It Be, by The Beatles!! Normally I balk at that song being considered religious (because of the whole "Mother Mary" bit. Paul was referring to his own mum, not the religious one), but it's perfect! It's like a double entendre. I'm so happy at my clever idea. So, I submit that song for my piece (I never did get around to actually singing it though).

There's a skip, and Jack and I are going through some hallways, investigating something. We enter a room that is walled with bookshelves. The pastor is sitting in there, reading a book. I suddenly notice that I'm also topless. I start to feel slightly embarrassed about this, until it clicks in my head that if I ever start hanging around in public places without clothing on, there's a good chance I'm dreaming. I look down at Jack, who is laid out on the floor, investigating something under the desk. And he's stark naked. And the pastor is looking at us, like "What the fuck is this?!" I couldn't help laughing at the whole scene, and then my alarm woke me up.

The Assassination of Miranda Lake - Partial lucid - 1/5
Setting is Victorian period, and we're in this big mansion (possibly a political building).
Miranda Lake was a very well-to-do figure in the political scene. She is also something of a sorcerer, and she's evil. My "sister" (we are part of an underground movement, this DC was not my related sister) and I are to kill the sorcerer.

"The problem is," my sister was saying, "Whenever I get near her, I can't kill her. She has this magical spell protecting her that makes us adore her and unable to kill her."

"I'll back you, sister!" I said. "Be brave, we'll get through this together."

"It will probably feel like I'm killing my one true love," she warned. "I really need you in on this," she maintained.

"You have my word," I said.

We went into the room. Miranda knew what was up, and immediately put her spell to work. However, she chose the wrong person. She approached me and placed her arms on my shoulders. I immediately started to forget why we were here. I struggled to remain aware and wondered what was taking my accomplice so long.

"Do it now!!" I commanded.

A shot rang through the air, and Miranda's body crumpled before me. "We need to get out of here, and fast!" my sister warned me. We left the room. Someone else in our group was casting a spell of their own. The guards of the mansion would know what we'd done, but the spell cast would make them either unable to care, or unable to comprehend, it was something along those lines.

We left through the front of the building, and the guards were giving us the awkward eye, but they didn't move from their post. We decided to split up at this point and rendezvous at our headquarters.

I was jogging along this pathway... I was the last person in the group, on the path. There was another guy up in front of me (walking a dog), and more people along the way, ahead of him. I felt I really needed to catch up with my companions, especially since Miranda's spell would not have worn off my sister, yet.

I started catching up to the guy in front of me and jogged to the side to go around him. He moved with me. I moved to the other side, and he moved with me again.

I caught up and saw that it was Danny! And the dog he was with was Buttons (my former dog - she was put down 4 years ago). "How are you moving with me from all the way back there?" I asked him.

"I was intentionally trying to block you," he said.

"Oh... well, I really need to be catching up with the rest of the group," I said.

"How are you going to do that?" he asked... it seemed like he was leaning towards something, and I'm not catching on...

"I was going to jog..." I replied.

"Oh right, cos you're a great jogger!" he giggled... not maliciously, but he was taunting me, nonetheless.

I sped up and felt my legs go all slow and get that water legged feeling... "I suppose I could fly," I said, sort of cluing in.

Suddenly, my dog bared her teeth and attacked me! She bit onto my hand. It didn't hurt me. Danny knew this. "Why doesn't it hurt?!" he yelled. I fought off my dog.

I also misunderstood his question (stupid dream-logic) and answered, "She's attacking me because she's a spirit and knows I just helped kill someone!" (I think Danny actually facepalmed me here, but my dog was attacking me again, so I didn't see. But I bet he did). My dog was being even more aggravating now, so I literally pushed her off me and she fell onto the ground, on her back. She was stunned. I lost any lucidity too.

"What did you do?" Danny asked.

"Nothing... when I knock her out, she forgets why she was being aggressive," I answer. I knelt down and took her by her forepaws and started rubbing them.

"I think you've killed her again," Danny said (Oh thanks ).

Her eyes started fluttering though! I picked her up in my arms and carried her (vertically). She was completely pacified too. Danny, however, was pretty aggravated now, lol. "So NOW what are you going to do?! Carry her for the rest of the dream?!"

"Yep," I answered. Dream dissolved.

Triple Rainbow!
I was watching a storm from my window. It actually was sunny outside, from this side of the house, but the front half of the house was experiencing a rainstorm. It was like the break in clouds was right over the house.

The sunshower was producing a triple rainbow effect. All three rainbows were very brightly coloured, too, and quite vivid. I took pictures and recorded some video on my cellphone, so I could upload them to the net, later. I wanted to send it to the "double rainbow" guy, on youtube.

More rainbows - Lucid - 1/5
I chained back into a dream, lucid. I was on a very long stretch of straight highway and the end of the rainbow was beaming down right onto the road. It was extremely bright and vivid. I walked through the rainbow. It had two sensations. It was all misty, like water droplets, but it had a certain viscosity to it, too. I was slowed down as I walked through the rainbow. I woke up again.

Finally WILDed... I just barely managed to hold onto awareness as I got sucked into the dream, AND barraged by false memories so the dream could set the plot up. But, I did it!

The Store Coupons - Lucid - 1/5
We had somehow acquired a large stack of store coupons for this place... it was much like one of them Walmart Superstores. Anyways, some dream character lost our coupons somewhere in the store. I was passing through an aisle of brightly coloured fuzzy socks, there were almost every colour of the rainbow... bright reds, yellows, oranges, greens, blues, and blacks. I remember thinking to myself, "Sometimes, all you have to do is turn the corner and what you seek will be there." I was about to do just that, when the dream started dissolving. I went back to the socks and started rubbing them against my face. It started to bring the dream back in.... until I stopped. Then it faded out again

August 13, 2010

No recall from before the WILD attempt.

WILD attempt unsuccessful... got a little too relaxed Fell asleep listening to ninja's subliminal mp3

Back to bed by 6am, and mantra'd to myself: How does my body feel? <- Noting this because it seemed to have worked That or the mp3... not sure.

The mirror - Lucid - 4/5
It's night time. I find myself walking up to a line up of cars in a drive thru. I randomly get inside a car at the pick up window. In the driver seat, there is a chick highly reminiscent of Mimi from Drew Carey, except she was as large as Peter Griffin from family guy (and also lacked a neck).





The other girl in the passenger seat was fairly nondescript. So anyways, the order is somehow wrong, and we go inside the restaurant. The restaurant is a bit shaky, and it starts melding into a school. And now, we were in the girls' classroom. My friends started talking absolute nonsense. It sounded like their tongues got all swollen. During this bit, I gradually started getting lucid, and by the time they started talking in tongues ( ) I was fully lucid.

I leave the room and I pass by the guys' classroom. I see Darren in there, but I'm not quite ready to do anything about that yet. I have two goals to complete first. A mirror and a unicorn. I walk to the end of the hall, where I tell myself there will be a washroom. "When I open the door, there will be a person-sized mirror for me to step through in there," I tell myself. Believing it, I opened the door. The bathroom was deplorable (as they often are in my dreams), lacked toilets... and mirrors. Ugh... Alright... let's just snap my fingers and summon one. I tried snapping my fingers, but for some reason, it wouldn't work. My fingers felt all swollen and floppy, and they just wouldn't snap. I looked at my hands in frustration and found my middle fingers looked like carrots (skin coloured carrots, mind). "You're fucking joking!" I said, out loud.

The forcing of control caused the dream to deteriorate. I remembered Mosh telling me about using senses and I remembered my own experience about interacting with the dream environment, so I immediately touched the door to the washroom and started rubbing it. It brought the dream back. I continued to do that until it felt solid again.

I turned around, and there was a small mirror on the wall, now. It'll have to do. I took it off the wall and flopped it on my head. It didn't quite thunk, it had some give. "Perfect!" I thought. I closed my eyes and started bringing the mirror down over me. Past my head, my shoulders. Around my waist, I told myself when this is done, I'll be in an enchanted forest, for the unicorn. I brought the mirror down through my feet, and stepped out of the back side. Still in the washroom. I sighed. This dream is being ridiculous. I also had to rub the walls again, because it was being shaky again. I remembered Mosh saying something about using all his senses. I smelled the washroom. It smelled like cleaner. I licked the door ( :sick: ). It tasted like nothing, but had the same texture as it did for my hands.

I need to find some other way to reach the unicorn, but I got slightly distracted. I realized I was wearing my nightgown (same as WL), but my flannel pants and undies were missing. I thought, "Oh fantastic, let's summon Darren now, then!" I stared at a wall. "Darren? Can I see you?" I asked, using the same trick I used to summon Danny, my DG. I turned around. He's not there. This is some of the worst control I've had in a really long time...

Alright, well, I remember seeing him earlier... I left the washroom and poked my head into the guys' classroom. A bunch of faces stared at me. No Darren, though.

I went out to the common area... scan, scan... no Darren. I began to think any of one of these guys will do... But no! I firmed my resolve. It's Darren or nothing! I realized he wasn't going to be in this dream, so, lets go find the unicorn.

I left the building, and found it's still nighttime (hooray for dream continuity! Sort of). I started jogging and remembered, "Well, I'm dreaming... let's just fly." At my side, was my purse, from WL. Good, cos I was using it for stabilization. Oh right, at some point here, I was playing around with throwing an object in the air, cos it kept coming down slowly (which amused me, apparently ). Also, I remember seeing the supervisor vehicle from work, and a bunch of guys were piling into it like a clown car... Let's just ignore that. Anyways, I kicked off the ground, flew a bit and sank. I kinda figured this would happen, though, cos I'd been having control problems all dream. I rubbed my purse and remembered to set a point on the horizon to focus on while I fly. I kicked off again, and fixed my "point" on the stars. I felt it connect with my third eye, and flying was now no longer an issue. I shouted into the night, "I summon a unicorn!" My voice sounded like laryngitis. The dream also started destabilizing again, too. I do remember seeing a unicorn come at me, but it kept fading I rubbed my purse again. Nothing. I rubbed my hands. Nothing.

When I woke up and looked at my clock, I realized I probably wouldn't have been able to save it anyways... I'd been asleep about 90 minutes, so the REM period was probably up.

I tried my mantra again, but I seemed to lack focus this go-around...

Hugh Laurie
A dream hanging out with Hugh Laurie. Not much else going on here.

August 12, 2010

Getting shot - Lucid - 1/5
Not entirely sure what prompted me to have this kind of a dream... but I was Eva Braun... Hitler asked me to do something for him, but I betrayed him instead. He pointed a gun at me and I vaguely knew that I was dreaming. I thought to myself, "Let myself get shot, I want to know what this feels like, in dreams." Nothing happened, so I screamed, "Go ahead and shoot me!" at him. I heard the sound (like a silencer) and it just felt like a headache, but very pinpointed... like the surface area of a laser point or a needle. Nothing horrible. I woke up.

August 11, 2010

Beatles in prison!
I was a security guard for my current building, but the building itself held a much different purpose. In the basement, we were holding the Hamburg-age Beatles prisoner. Not entirely sure why... I concocted a plan to get them out so they wouldn't miss their gigs.

By the time I started the dream, I had already done my part to get them out. Nobody had noticed they were even gone. I was patrolling the basement and came to the north stairwell, where I encountered their instruments. Ohhh shit! Susanna (RL friend of mine) fell through!! Getting the instruments to them was her responsibility!

I started trying to make phone calls, contacting people who could help me get them their instruments, but no luck. I tried to phone Paul, to let him know what happened, and the owner of the building answered. My employer. I sincerely hope he doesn't have me on call ID.

"I'm sorry, who's this?" I say, trying to disguise my voice.

"Marissa Hampton," the voice says, impatiently. She either doesn't know, or she isn't letting it on...

"I'm trying to reach Paul, I thought this was his phone number!" I continued.

"Well, he's indisposed of at the moment," she said and hung up on me. I think I'm in the clear!

There's this odd little bit where I hear someone coming into the basement. I hear a woman's voice, so I hide under the sinks in the men's washroom. She comes into the men's room though, to use the toilet She sees me when she's done, and I made some stupid comment about fancying hiding underneath washroom sinks. She says she won't tell anyone.

Paul and the lads finally returned, and I greeted them remorsefully about their instruments. Paul assured me it was okay, they actually didn't need them today.

Woke up here to WILD, but it failed because I'm a wuss. No, seriously, I kept breaking SP because it was making me all achy and itchy. I need to man up for my next attempt

The Dream WILD - Lucid - 3/5
I'm in a dorm with a bunch of people. Nola, from my radio job is acting VERY kooky. Slightly insane. Can't recall what she was saying, but she was keeping everyone awake. I remember guiding her back to her bed and saying, "It's time to sleep now, Nola!"

"Okay, Serenity!"

I crawled back into my bed. I was silent for a few seconds, then asked, "Everyone has their dream partners for tonight?"

"Yesssss," a grumbling mumble answers me.

"Good," I say.

I close my eyes and I picture the hallway of a house. Almost immediately, the image surrounds me in 3D. "Holy crap!" I thought. "That surprised me! Wow, it's all 3D and pretty solid already. I know I'm dreaming. I don't remember a gap in consciousness. I think I finally WILD'ed!" I was overjoyed, but I kept my cool. I started carefully exploring the house, by walking down the stairs. I saw Darren approach me and I thought, "I should stabilize before anything starts to happen." I rubbed my hands together, and the dream dissolved.

When I woke up, I realized I just had a WILD within a ND. That was a very cool experience! I wonder... is that what a visual transition should look like, when I get there? You think of something, and it kind of just whooshes around you into 3D? Anyways, I tried to fall back to sleep and chained back into the house from my dream WILD.

It wasn't as solid this time. I was standing in the living room, that overlooked another level to the house. It was like this second-level living room was my and Darren's personal space of the house. However, the room next to me was an open-plan kitchen (no separating walls to distinguish the rooms) and my parents were making breakfast. Dream dissolved.

August 10, 2010

Dream dinner - Lucid - 2/5
I joined this line up for some food. It wasn't very easy to tell where the line up started.

Then, we saw some other people jumping the queue, and starting their line up in what was admittedly a better position. But it pissed us off and we started shouting "Hey, there's a queue!" and they began taunting us.

We somehow managed to take our spots back by cutting in front of them when there was a gap in the line. I told everyone to run for it.

We get inside and we're greeted by this lady looking like she could be working for Oktoberfest. She had a tray of veggie things and potatoes and the like. I got some dumplings and rice from her.

Behind her, there was an array of plates full of breaded fish and chicken, but for some reason, we weren't allowed to eat them. She kept blocking my path and saying they were for dinner. I said they'd be cold by dinner.

I got a burger and joined some strangers to eat. Not much here, other than one girl didn't know where i got the dumplings from. Oh, and she told me this was a dream dinner. We could order anything we could have wanted in a dream.

[Woke up and chained]
I'm on the roof of the same restaurant. Its flying down to join a main building. I had to crouch in to avoid getting knocked off. The guy controlling the building's flight was impressed and said I should be a sorcerer's apprentice. I was game for that.

[The deer. Scene jump, possibly another chain, can't remember]
I saw a very aggressive deer attacking a fence. "This is a dream!" I thought to myself. "About fucking time I recognized one!" ("This is a dream" is my MILD mantra).

The deer saw me and started to charge at me. I jumped up to fly. However, gravity pulled me back down. "WTF?" I thought. I tried jumping again. This time was more successful, but the deer started floating with me I decided to blast it with some fire, but... nothing came out.

Frustrated now with my lack of control, I tried just blasting it away with energy shocks. It kind of worked, but it turned into a dog. And the dog was still quite pissed off and bitey.

I tried blasting the dog with fire and nothing So, in a last ditch effort to change the attack, I threw a shield around myself, closed my eyes and fell to the ground.

To my surprise, the dog started licking me! I opened my eyes and started petting the dog. He rolled over to his side for a belly-rub. I propped myself up on one arm and kept petting him. "So, why did you stop attacking me?" I asked him. "Is it because I gave in, into a submissive stance?"

The dog nodded.

"I guess I shouldn't really do that next time though," I pondered.

The dog nodded in agreement. "The attacks may not always stop," it said, wisely.