Short Stories with Tragic Endings

I haven't been getting to bed as early as I should so my
dream recall is really suffering

I am in a dorm room but it is much different from mine. The dream tells me it is mine.
I am doing something on my computer and check the clock "12:08". I realize I was supposed
to meet some friends for lunch at 12 ( In waking life ). So I went to leave in a hurry so I could
get to the universities dining hall when my roommate comes in and says he wants to show me
something. I tell him to make it quick and he comes around to my computer. I go around with him
and attempt to hide it because, for some reason, my desktop background is switching through
some very explicit images. They are all pink backdrops. My roommate doesn't seem to care so
I blow it off like "yeah, that's my desktop". He pulls out his computer and starts pulling up some
web-page while I played with a clear plastic sphere filled with metal balls. Then I woke up.

I woke up and could only remember a very slight bit of the
dream but not enough to even write down keywords

I hit the transition to Sleep Paralysis!!!!!!
But the experience was so intense and I accidentally moved!
Damnit!

Anyway so here's the story:
I laid down for yet another WILD attempt I had stretched, cleared
my mind, and gotten all ready. So I laid down and started focusing
on my breathing and the canvas that was the back of my eyelids.
I couldn't seem to get anything as far as visual goes for the
hypnagogics. But eventually I started getting my auditory. At first
it was just the usually tones and shit. Then I got a really freaky one.
It was a female voice, middle-aged. She said "Lay down, you need to
sleep" over and over. It was creepy. But I was patient. I then got
a really bright light in my right peripheral as if there was some light on
my night stand. It looked like an external light. That lasted for a while and
finally. I then got a hypnagogic smell. I smelled rotten eggs in the room
and thought "god what is that?" but every time I try to smell to get a better
whiff of it, it went away. A short while later, I felt my entire body go tense.
It was indescribable. My heart started pounding very loudly and fast. It
resonated through my entire body. Every muscle in my body was as tense
as could be. Then I accidentally moved from the intensity so my body said
"hey, you're not asleep. Fuck you" and feeling rushed back to every limb, although the
"vibrations"( I assume were what I was describing as my massive heartbeat ),
were still going. I tried for a while then realized that I had failed and got up.
I did a RC which passed I had indeed failed.

my first lucid dream!
I am at home in the upstairs bathroom. I am just standing there and suddenly I think, "Wait
shouldn't I be at college?". The term "Reality Check" pops into my mind. I decide to try the
finger/palm reality check. I push my right index finger into the center of my left palm. At first,
I think the reality check is passing because my finger is buckling under the force that I'm pushing
at my palm. but then I look at the back of my left hand and notice the tip of my finger coming
through. I push more, there is a lot of resistance but I manage to get my finger through my
palm. I become excited. "I am dreaming." I think to myself. Immediately, everything becomes
quite vivid. I take notice of this then say to myself with a smile on my face. "I am having a lucid dream...
I am finally having a lucid dream!". I think "What should I do?". I realize it is night-time in my dream
so some of the things I remember speculating about to myself during waking life will not work. In the
end, I decide to call my crush. I go downstairs, pushing my finger through my palm every now and then
just for the hell of it. I get to the dining room. The light is on and my parents are there but it is around
10:00 at night so I am confused as to why they would be awake. It is a dream though, after all. I push my
finger through my palm one more time and this time move it around a bit. I am so fascinated! I feel my
Dad may attempt to stop me from leaving the house though so I try to leave discretely. I grab my pumas
and go into the game room which is always dark when the light is off and kind of out of the way. So I start
putting my shoes on and my Dad goes out the door. I start tieing my shoes and realize that they are huge.
The tongue is massive and the laces are those thin round laces that never stay tied. They look somewhat
similar to Osiris's which I am not really a fan of. I continue tieing them but before I can finish the dream ends.
I wake up and think... "Did I just have a lucid dream?"

Yes... yes I did. But it was somewhat disappointing. Oh Well, next time

I was visiting Millersville University with my parents ( Before I started going there ), and my dad had to pay this
security guard for parking. So He parks and the guard comes over and my dad takes out a wad of cash and starts
flipping through hundreds. He hands the guard something like $300 and we get out. It wasn't any parking lot at
MU though. It looked more like the parking lot at the Philadelphia Art Museum. Anyway, we go to some Computer
Science demonstration, as I am a Computer Science major, and it is a little fuzzy after that but my dad was asking
the professors a bunch of questions ( as he did when I actually was visiting college campuses ), then we go back
to the car and get in. The security guard comes over and my Dad starts talking to him like a well known friend. He
hands him another $300 or so and the dream ends.
I wake up and look at the clock. It is 3:30 AM so I go back to sleep.

Another night with no recall :'(

I am with a representative of Puma who seems to resemble a cross between
Bear Grylls and Mike Rowe. There is also an old lady there. They are doing an
experiment with Puma's newest shoe, the Cabana Racer, and the representative
gives the old lady a red and orange pair of Puma Cabana Racer shoes. I point
out that I am also wearing my white-black-grey pair and the representative gets
a smile on his face and says "aahh". The old lady puts on the red Pumas and
the test is going to be a race with a race car. The car is yellow and looks quite
fast. The old lady starts running and I run as well. The car is definitely not going
its full speed but it is not going slow either. Somehow we are keeping up with it
but we are not going faster than a normal running pace. We run through a city
for a while, the car had lost us a long time ago, and after a bit we stop, look at
each other, and the dream ends.

I am in an unfamiliar place. It is difficult to describe but there is a tall metal structure
with a ladder running up through it and clues to the next place to go. It's like a race only
the course unknown and this tower shows the path. I remember several of my friends
being in this race with me. We had to run around a building and I began running. I was
able to run normally and I started pacing myself so that I would be able to make it. The
person next to me went all out. I resisted the urge to match their speed, that they would
run out of breath and become tired. Sure enough, they did and I came around the building
first. but then one of my old high school teachers was there with a bunch of my friends
and she said something like "You have to wait". I forget what the reason was but making
it there so soon was for nothing. After that she let everyone go and I went back to the tower
climbed up and looked for the next "clue". I then suddenly found myself in some sort of lift
car sitting next to a couple of my friends. I was thinking of my crush and my one friend who
was sitting next to me said "Why do you like her and not me?". I think about this comment
but say nothing. We ride on the lift for a while longer and the dream ends.

I woke up and had pieces of the dream for a few seconds then lost it
No Recall

I am in my room and I intuitively know the backstory of this extremely strange
dream. At a certain interval of time, a different room, at random, in my house
will begin glowing bright blue. Furthermore, any person in the room at the time
would become a zombie of some sort. I seem to be the only person who knew this.
I looked out of my door and saw my parents' room light up. Moments later my dad
walks out and I slipped back in my room for fear of him seeing me. He went down
the stairs and into our dining room, as did my mother. I go down the steps after
them, making sure not to be seen. I as I come to the dining room, which is past
our computer room, I see the dining room light is on and my dad is sitting at his
spot at the table doing something, I can't tell what. My mother is cutting coupons
out of a magazine. I hear my brother coming and hide because I don't know if he is
infected or not. He walks by wearing a blue cape and drooling blue foam, somewhat
like rabies. He then leaves through the front door of the house. I hear a growl.
It is Chelsea, one of my two dogs and she is infected as well. I run and she chases
me. AFter a while, she runs out of breathe and turns back to normal. I think...
maybe outrunning them cures them. So I got my other dog to chase me and the same
thing happened. I realized that they were also a bit sluggish. Their stamina was
greatly reduced by whatever this was. So I went to the door and walked out. My
parents followed and I tried to run but it was like trying to run on the moon. I
managed to get away from my parents but then I encountered my brother at the bottom
of my driveway. He began chasing me and the dream ended.

I am in a forest but it is quite busy. This forest has many building and structures, the
most prominent of which is a shopping mall. I am in a building a good distance away from
this mall. It has a similar architecture but the purpose is much different. I am looking
for my friends from Indoor Percussion Ensemble at my high school. I think I came to this
building looking for them but they are not here so I decided to go check Somewhere else.
It takes a substancial amount of time to get anywhere because the buildings are all so far
appart. I go to the mall first. I go in and start looking. The mall is very interesting
architecturally. The oustide is, for the most part, cubic and there are ramps jutting out
from the bottom at every entrance. The ramps go to the ground and in the forest landscape
it looks extremely out of place, yet somehow, it fits. I go up one of the ramps into the
complex. I go up a set of steps. Everything is very professional looking. The marble floors,
modern stairs, and glass doors and partitions are quite well constructed and beautiful from
an architectural point of view. I cannot find my friends here so I leave and go to several
other buildings. After a long time of searching, I find someone I know and ask them if they
have seen the people from indoor. They say no, so I decide to check the mall again. I get
there after an even longer walk and go in. I go through the glass door and up the professional
looking stairs again. This time, I come up to a landing where I find several of my friends.
My friend, Peter, goes up to Canada to get some sort of high quality syrup. Two hours later,
he gets back with the syrup, and two speeding tickets. This is in Pennsylvania... We all
laugh about it and the dream ends.

As a segway from the previous dream, the cop who had come to his senses
bought plane tickets for me and some other people. I am not certain as to where
we were going. The next thing I remember, we were in seats taking off, but this
wasn't an ordinary plane. It looked like a fancy building on the inside and our group
were the only passengers. There was a fountain in the center and all the seats were
along the side on a balcony. I knew we were still on the plane because each side was
lined with windows and I could clearly see clouds. The people on the plane consisted
of my family, my best friend, my crush, and a friend from college who has never met
either of them. She seemed to be best friends with my crush. I did absolutely nothing
for a while, just joining in the conversation and such, then finally, it was time to land.
we all got in our seats and fastened the belts. Then there was a countdown of some
sort and we were almost landed when I woke up.

I am at my house, in my front yard, and it is mid-day. I am, in some way,
disfigured ( like a zombie or something ), and the only one who sees me
for the normal person that I am is my best friend. We are down on my
driveway talking when a police car goes by. We know that for some reason
the police are looking for me, and I'm like America's most wanted. So I run
as fast as I can into the woods but it's too late. The cop already saw me and
called in for backup. Seconds later, a cop comes with a backhoe and starts
trying to kill me with the arm. I manage to grab on to it hang on. I forget what
happened next but somehow the cop realized that I never actually did
anything and decides to help me. It gets a little fuzzy after that.

I remembered the dream for a while but had to go to my university's
computer science building to do my homework for programming II. Now
I can't remember enough of the dream to really write anything. All I know
is it wasn't lucid .