Short Stories with Tragic Endings

I am in my high school's band room. It is a night-time practice during marching
season but we are inside working on music. For some reason I do not have my
saxophone. Instead of just sitting there doing nothing, I am helping the pit. Jill
is having trouble so I go over to help her and I look at the keys on the marimba.
From a distance, it looks completely joined and glassy. At a closer view, however,
the keys are obviously separated, as they should be, but there is no progression
in size. The size of the keys are all random and non-sequential. They should
gradually become smaller, the closer to the right side of the instrument they
come. This is not the case. The marimba should not even play correctly. Somehow,
it does. I go and check the other marimbas across the room and notice that the
letter names for the notes are etched into the keys. I find octave C's, play them,
and show Jill. She gets the orientation and begins working on the music. All the
while, the rest of the band is playing the show. Then my crush comes over to help
Jill with the music. I hug her and the dream ends.

I was in a town with a bunch of ghosts. I was fighting them with a sword or something
and a couple hits would kill them. But if they hit me once, they go this red word over
their head, I forget what the term was, but basically it meant if I killed them they would
just come back and keep attacking me until I died. There was a sort of revolutionary war
general who was explaining everything to me. So I was walking through the town
and fighting a ghost. After the first couple, I did die and re-spawned. This went on for
a while then snapped to my house and then back to the town again. I think there was
a time it had come to my old house in New Jersey briefly. So I was in the town again and
for no reason, the ghosts stopped. The general told me to follow him so we went down
into a stony kind of short tunnel, and up the stairs was a massive courtyard.The general
pulled me back and said wait, we can't go up there. I had seen why. There were these
18th century police men patrolling the area. The general told me we need to get to the
fortress and through that courtyard is the only way. For some reason I had the 13 brush
powers from Okami, so I told the general, "I can use the veil of mist". He seemed to just
light up. he said "That's brilliant!". So I went up to the courtyard and drew two horizontal
lines in the air. Everything slowed down and there was a purple mist everywhere with the
little timer thing that shows up in Okami to count down how long the mist will last. Every
time it got down to 1, I drew the lines again. All the while running across the courtyard.
I noticed there was a woman running as fast as me when I was almost there and I was
confused. Maybe I was doing it wrong, but she didn't notice me so I continued on. I came
to a stone reservoir and turned down the steps into a small entryway. I met some of the
other resistance leaders who welcomed me and I went in. It was a small room with a
little wooden desk by a barred window on the right. Then the dream ended.

I was playing BZFlag and I was on a server where hacking is not only permitted but
encouraged. So it was like bzflag hack wars. I remembered I'd done that before. I
had hacked an admin password once and locked out every admin from the server
and set once of the graphics settings ridiculously high so that whenever someone
entered the server it would freeze their computer. So I did so. This one kid thought
he was the shit and was being quite obnoxious about it. He tried to ban me from the
server but he was I had anti-ban, something he would have known if he knew anything
about this. So, I deleveled him down to nothing and put a perminant ban on his id.
Thats about where the dream ended and I woke up.

I then went back to sleep - 2011-01-18.2 | NONLUCID

No Recall

I remembered the dream for about 5 minutes after I woke up then lost it

I was visiting my high school, but the setting was not at my high school. In the
dream however, it was. It was night-time and I only recognize the campus from
a similar dream I had in the past. It would be quite difficult to describe. I met up
with a couple friends and we exchanged greetings and I walked down onto this
dock and the dream ended. The dream I had had previously was much more
in-depth.

I am getting home from hanging out with my best friend. I am not sure what we were doing
but he is still with me. I go to open the back door but it's locked, we rarely ever use the front
door. I don't remember pulling out my key or anything but I somehow managed to get it open.
I was slightly angry because it was not nighttime so my parents were awake and the door should
have been unlocked. I open the door but there is resistance. I push against it and overpower
it, prying it open to find my mom trying to push it closed. I manage to get inside and she is
laughing as if it is a joke. I become very angry and start spewing obscenities and storm up
to my room. I close the door and go over to my clock which is in the correct corner of my room
but the dresser it is sitting on is on the wrong wall. Also, the clock light is yellow as opposed to red
and it is huge, like an old piece of technology that requires a lot of mechanics. The housing is
about the dimension of a large book and the top is open so you can see a bunch of electronics.
I pull the clock closer so I can see the time better and it shuts off. I look at the connections inside
and push on a couple of the connectors until I find one that was slightly out. I push it back in and
the clock turns on again. I look. 8:58. It is in the morning. This was actually roughly close to the time
it was in real life, probably around 7:30. I remember doing something else then lying down in my bed.
I sort of went to sleep. Didn't have a "dream within a dream" or anything, but when I woke up, the layout
was normal. Everything reflected how it really is in my room. Then a thought popped into my mind. A
thought that crosses my mind in waking life quite frequently by my own intent. "Am I dreaming?". I
looked at the red digits on my alarm clock and it was a little fuzzy but I could make out 9:04. As soon
as I read and understood what time it was however. The clock sort of glitched. At first the digits just
flickered a little. Then they changed to Japanese characters. I became quite excited. "I am dreaming"
but I did not feel lucid. I thought to myself how I knew I was dreaming but it did not feel vivid at all. I
tried to make it that way but it did not work. I became disappointed and woke up.

I feel like I was so close to becoming lucid Damnit!

I went back to sleep and had a fragment of a dream I have had before:
2011-01-15.3F | NONLUCID

I can't remember anything about the dream. I remember having a dream,
I just can't come up with anything about it. May be because I was late getting
to bed. Anyway, I decided to go back to sleep and see if I could have another
dream and remember it or jog my memory of this one.

I had 2011-01-15.2 | NONLUCID

It is January 3rd in my dream and I am supposed to go back to college today. I have no idea why its the 3rd because
it was the 14th in real life and I go back to school on the 17th. Anyway, I am at home, but it is not my house. It is
more like an arcade in the city. I walk into a large room to the left of the entrance and there are two full cockpit
simulator things, one on each wall. Both have a personal tv screen and there is one massive screen on the far
wall. I get in the cockpit on the doorway side wall and begin watching a movie through my laptop. The movie starts
playing but then I stop it and remove the disc because I need to do something with it. I do not recall what that was
but it took a while. After it finished, I popped the disc back in and watched the movie until I realized I had to go to
Millersville. I got up and left, taking no bags or anything. I am suddenly in my dorm room and campus looks very
unfamiliar. Travel time was instantaneous. it is now 8:30 am and I am trying to think of what class I have at 9:00.
I go home, again instantaneous travel time, to check my schedule. I don't know why I had to go home to do that.
Before I can check my shedule, I get sidetracked. I sit down in the cockpit thing again and start playing a PlayStation
game. I'm not sure if it was Okami or Red Faction II. I had made a good bit of progress then my brother came in
and decided he wanted to play Dynasty Warriors 5 on the other machine in the room. Only the controller he used was
somehow connected to my machine and he somehow had reset my machine so I lost everything I had done. I got
really pissed and he argued that I could just do it again but I said "No, I can't. I have a lot of school work to do". I went
up to my room which was just as strange as the rest of the house, logged on to my laptop and check MAX
( Millersville University's student information system ) and I go to my class schedule. Instead of seeing my classes
however, there is a festive snow theme background ( usually the background is just white on MAX ) and the schedule
just shows school information. It was something like this:

January 10 - School closed
January 11 - School closed
January 12 - School closed
January 13 - *Something about a normal schedule*
January 14 - School closed due to inclement weather
january 15 - Normal Schedule

So I wouldn't be going back for a while and I decided to watch my movie again. I went downstairs to the "game room"
and my brother was no longer there. Suddenly I was talking to my best friend and he started a bet with me, the details
of which are kind of fuzzy but had something to do with how many women you can fit on one jet ski and race. The dream
then snapped to me riding a jet ski across the ocean then I woke up.

I am on a Gran Turismo track from either GT4 or 5, I'm not sure. I am in a 1st person view
of a car from the PSX game "Twisted Metal II" and there are other cars similar to TM2 cars
but they are not any of the actually cars in the game. Suddenly, the final boss of TM2 comes
out of the pit-stop and starts attacking me. I thought, wait, he shouldn't be on this level! But it
didn't clue me in to it being a dream. I somehow convince him to attack my opponents,
the other cars, and after he attacked the first car, the dream ended.

I have asked my mom to take me to the mall, as I currently have no car. The dream
begins when we get there. We are in the parking lot looking for a spot. It is a strange
parking lot. It is normal now, but as soon as we cross in front of the building, which
happens to not be a mall but like a Walmart or something, and get into the back part
of the lot, It becomes a relatively simple maze. It is also an impossible setup, a cheat
of architecture which I did not pick up on in the dream. We drove around, looking for a
place to park and eventually, after actually passing up several perfect good spots without
notice as the lot was pretty much empty, stopped directly in front of the building and my
mom just dropped me off.
I go inside and meet up with some friends from my dorm at college. The Walmart is huge.
My friends and I meet up with some older students from the same college, whom I have
never seen, and we go up to a dorm hall in a small building in the middle of the Walmart.
The guy who comes to meet us and take us there is a slightly heavyset, stubble haired kid
who looks to be a senior. Kind of like Buz from "Home Alone" but not quite as ugly. He
takes us up to the top floor where we all talk and socialize, not doing much really. Its hot
so I take off my jacket and put it on a table in a small room. Eventually my friends and I
decide to leave and we go back out to the Walmart. Everyone is buying Halloween
costumes which is extremely strange as it is January and there is snow on the ground
outside. But it seemed perfectly normal so I started looking for something. Before I found
anything, however, I remembered I left my jacket up in the room in the dorm. So I went
looking for the building and couldn't find it. I searched for the building and for the kid for
what felt like about ten or twenty minutes then forgot about it when I ran into my best
friend. He asked me if I wanted to play a game of airsoft; that a bunch of people were
setting one up and it would be a really massive game. Of course, I agreed. He gave me a
full plastic airsoft.... AR-15 I think, and I went on toward the exit of the store. Noticing
everyone's costumes. One in particular I noticed was a guy who had bought two rubber
monster hands and was wearing them. The dream actually snapped to his 1st person view
for just a few seconds while he played with them standing in the checkout line. Then it
switched back to me as I walked out the door. I still had the rifle. I walked out into a
much different parking lot. All the back, winding, intricate, and impossible stuff was
gone. The median between the path in front of the store and the parking area was gone,
and in its stead was a couple tour buses and what looked like some sort of scissor lift.
I went over to the lift and a bunch of my friends from high school were sitting on it. There
were about four sitting under the extended scissor beams and another six sitting on a
metal platform about half way up the lift but behind me. Kevin complemented the AR from
the extended part of the metal platform, and I started talking to some of my friends under
the beams. My friend, Crystal, was in the center and Elizabeth to her right and back a little,
and a few other people, I don't quite remember. The dream ended after about five minutes
of talking, the subject of which I have no recollection.

I am in a similar building but this time the walls and floor are a shiny smooth
tan color. I am dressed up for something ( white button down shirt and black
dress-pants, no tie ) I leave the building from an exit in the room and come to
a parking lot. It is midday and sunny and everything has that golden sunbathed
color. I go over to the lot across the street. I am sweating profusely so I take off
my shirt. For some reason unknown to me I threw it in the back of 90's looking
dark green car. I went into a building at the other end of the lot and found it to
be some sort of changing room. I put on a cooler shirt and splashed water on my
face from the sink. I then exited the building intending to go get my white shirt.
I find the car, it is still there but there is a person in it. He has the appearance of
a person I know in real life but this is not that person. I come to the window and
explain that I left my shirt in the back of his car and ask if I could please have it.
He says "sure". He reaches over but instead of pulling out a shirt, he pulls a out
an assault rifle and holds the barrel to my chest. I then notice the car is filled with
a myriad of different firearms that I swear were not there before. I tell him that
I don't want any trouble and he tells me to leave. I, naturally, complied. I go back
into the first building and I remember thinking what I'm going to do without a
formal shirt. After this thought, the dream ended.

I am in some building. I walk around going up and down the steps and
it appears to be some sort of school. the walls are "carpeted" as some places
have and the floor is shiny and hard, maybe a dark green or black. the wall
is a light blue/denim color. I go up the stairs and find myself in a room that
looks like its for concert band rehearsals. This room has a light pale-blue
carpet and the same walls as the hallway. My brother is there standing in the
center of the room. We start talking and it somehow comes to a solo I had in
'08. He says something about my friend PJ possibly being better suited for it
which is understandable as I had only been playing saxophone for a few months.
I argued the point but woke soon after.
I then fall back asleep attempting to go into the same dream ( DEILD )
but I fail to go lucid and go into 2011-01-12.2...

I am in a store in a shopping mall. The store is run by my best friend's dad.
There are many isles of pegs and merchandise. I am with my friend and we
are talking about something of which I do not recall. Eventually, it gets to
midnight and my friend's dad tells me to go home. Instead, I stay in the store
with my friend and his dad leaves. I fall asleep hanging with my friend and
wake up at about 8:00 in the morning. At 8:30 my friends dad comes back
to "Open up" even though the store was never locked. And, to avoid him
knowing I had been there the entire night, I had to hide being shelves and
slowly sneak past to get out of the store. I reach the end and round the corner
unnoticed. I am walking through the mall and I get a call from one of my
friends from college. We meet up in the mall and decide to get something to
eat from one of the shops. We get some of those glazed nuts and continue
walking. We sit down for a minute and start talking. The next thing I know,
we're still sitting but not in the mall anymore. We are on the side of road
where my best friend and I live. We get up and start walking in the direction
of my house but the dream ends a few seconds later.