non-lucid

01/12/2011

The Quest for... Ice-cream? (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This one was interesting. I don't remember most of the beginning, but I do recall that my family and all were watching some really long movie. At some point we decided to take a break so I could get some ice cream. I find myself in this large, somewhat confusing building. Right near the entrance is your standard, industry-chain ice cream place, but I decide to look a bit more.

Towards the other end of the building I find a smaller setup, promising homemade, organic ice cream, or something like that. There's a bunch of little kids in line, it being the "healthier" option, but I decide to stick around anyway. When it gets to my turn, I get stuck a bit trying to find a word, and saying, "What I want is like a shake, but thicker..." (I was trying to think of the word "flurry". A la McFlurry, etc.) The man making the ice cream responds by saying, "Well... get a thick shake then!" I figure that's close enough, and go along with it. I get to be surprisingly specific with ice cream (one scoop of chocolate, one scoop of cookie dough, with vanilla as the "base"). While I'm in the line, I take a cup and fill it with some milk, to drink as I wait. But once I get through the line I realize I only have the milk! My shake is nowhere to be found. I figure one of the kids in line must have taken it.

I find my way upstairs, where the ice cream man had gone. It looks like he's doing something pretty important, giving a speech or something. I wave and such at somebody, since I know them. (I forget who though. My high school band teacher, perhaps?) Then, I go up to the ice cream guy and kinda sheepishly interrupt him, explaining my predicament. He generously offers to make me a new one, but I'm extremely embarrassed by now that I interrupted what looked like an important ceremony for my own needs. I quietly go, "No, it's okay, really, go back to what you were doing..." and wander off. I begin to wonder about going back to the other ice cream place I saw, but I wake up.

(I feel like this dream COULD be symbolic, but like Sylvia (author of Project Sanctuary) says, I think I'd get the meaning wrong if I try to analyze things in isolation. It's not too important anyways, I don't think...)

(Also, a bit of synchronicity, though I'm sure it's meaningless, it is kinda funny. Once I rolled myself out of bed and came out to the living room, my dad had the TV turned to CBS. And they were doing some kind of cook-off... with ice cream. Weird.)

01/09/2011

Kindergartener Quiz (Non-lucid)

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In this short dream, me and my family were visiting my elementary school for some local event going on. (A reasonably common occurence, given our small town) For some reason there's a circular pattern of bleachers, like a bullseye, set into the middle of the gym. They go down and form a sort of pit. I'm on one of the upper bleachers with my family for a while, just taking things in. There was something going on here, but I don't remember was it is.

At some point I scoot down towards the center where all the elementary kids are. There's one smart little girl in particular there. She must be in kindergarten or something. One guy keeps quizzing her on standard basic knowledge for kids that age, like the colors of the rainbow, what's 2 + 2, and such. Then he asks a slightly tougher sort of riddle, that went something like this:

Him: Okay. "A" only likes straight lines, "B" only likes measurements, and "C" only likes ones. Who are they?

Girl: Well, A is a square, B is a successful measuring ruler, and C is a one!

(This riddle made perfect sense in the dream, but I realize how silly it is now. And yet, you can't argue that those would be "correct" answers.) After that exchange, I woke up.

01/08/2011

Highschool student profiling (Non-lucid)

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Okay, first two fragments: I remember something about running around playing a game as Diddy Kong (we've been playing Donkey Kong lately).

I remember another fragment where I was browsing some forums, though I don't remember why or what I was browsing for.

Now the dream I do remember. I was back in high school again, in what I think was Performance Arts class. The teacher asked us to come up with settings that had some consistency, but were still flexible. We were practicing adlibs or something. I came up with the idea of a weather forecast. (This idea came from a bit of comedy I saw yesterday, IRL) I went and put up the idea on the board. Then the teacher handed us something else to fill out, which I asked if it was related to our current assignment. She said no, just that "It's June now so you all have to fill one of these out before you leave". (She was being kind of annoying, really) This thing was kind of a questionnaire that the school, or the state or something used to profile students. (I did some of these back in high school, though they were basically getting numbers for drug or alcohol use, anonymously) I remember that the first question was something like, "I absolutely can't stand people who _________". I ask why I should have to fill one out, since I and a few others there are Seniors (implanted memory!) and wouldn't be coming back. She admitted she wasn't sure. About this time the dream ended.

01/06/2011

Two more Fragments (Non-lucid)

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Two dreams that I kinda remember from today... The first was about either Morrowind or Oblivion. I loaded up a character that had a bunch of mods and tried to play it without those mods, but I got frustrated so I put them back.

The other one was dealing with some sort of schoolwork. There was this assignment that was due today, and I hadn't done several of the questions yet because I didn't know the answers. I worried about how I'd get them done in time to turn it in.

01/05/2011

Demonic Markings (Non-lucid)

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This dream was earlier in the night, so I don't remember most of it. I do remember being outside, talking with some other guy about these intricate patterns on the ground in front of us. They seemed to be part of some video game / mini game, though I don't remember the details. I remember being paranoid and worried because the patterns would change instantly when I "changed the difficulty setting" (Don't ask, I don't know. xD), but I was the only one who noticed the change. I could change them around other people and they would be completely oblivious to the fact there was any change at all! One other thing I don't know where to put: At one point the patterns looked like they were laid out with garden hose, and at another point they looked burned into the ground.

There's some dream content I can't remember, then I remember hopping in the shower. This was a big shower like we have up on campus. I feel my head and realize that I have a headache, and I'm bleeding from somwhere on my head. My stomach was already feeling uneasy, but seeing my head bleeding caused bile to creep up my throat. It was at this point that I woke up.

Two interesting things of note. The first is that though my head felt perfectly fine when I woke up, my stomach was grumbling somewhat. I'd eaten too much before going to bed. So I sat up for a few minutes, sipped some water, and went back to sleep. The other thing is that some details were surprisingly vivid compared to others. The pain and acidic bile were very realistic, and my thought patterns within the dream at that point seemed reasonably clear. But I can't remember whether the shower was even running, whether I was still wearing clothes, etc. Nevermind the first part of the dream, all of that is hazy.

01/03/2011

Day in the Life of Homer Simpson (Non-lucid)

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Now this one was just bizarre for me. I was in the world of The Simpsons (and I NEVER watch that show! EVER!), walking around with Homer himself. We end up at the doctor's for some reason or another, who knows. I immediately see the doctor Homer would want: His name was "Dr. Feelgood" and he basically put a ton of tasty food-type stuff in an IV bag for his patient to scarf down. Who of course, walked out of there feeling better. Homer and I got sent over to another doctor, whose name I can't remember. He took me aside though.

He probably did a couple things I don't remember, but what I remember was him taking my right hand, and wrapping some string around the base, as if for a tourniquet. He started talking about all sorts of things, mentioning hypnosis and such. He also said how he wasn't as fun, but his method of treatment worked BEST. Stuff like that. He was taking his sweet time wrapping my finger with string, and at some point I had a memory skip to when he was done. He said something like, "Well if that [the hypnosis] worked on you, then see, that's what I REALLY want to do!" (As opposed to being a doctor) Homer said something like, "Oh, that'd never work on me!" to which I replied, "Well I'm sorry to say, but it worked on me."

At this point he took my middle finger and jammed three shots into it, one after another. I did feel some pain from this, enough to make me jump, at least. The doctor said, "Oh quit it, you're done already!" And he sent us away. (Homer didn't end up seeing any doctor. Can't say I blame him after watching what happened to me.) At this point I seem to have a touch of awareness because I start wondering what effect the shots will have, considering "we have different worlds." At this point Homer decided to talk about how donuts were one of the periodic elements here, or some crap. I dunno. This is where the dream ended.

01/03/2011

G-Mod Idiot... Theatre? (Non-lucid)

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So in this dream, I was in some theatre with a bunch of other college-age kids. I don't remember if I knew any of them or not, though. What I remember is that we were watching some preview of the next episode of a silly Youtube video series. I'm not exactly sure which one, but I'll go with GMod Idiot Box. Only, this one was actually more of a game than a video. We had a Wii set up for it, but before it would run they had to insert 32(!) separate DVDs. The contents of them didn't matter except for one. One had to be a specific movie so they could "get the right color for _______'s panties." Bizarre and slightly perverted, I know. I don't get it either! Anyways, I don't remember much of the actual game/video. It wasn't quite as funny as the normal videos, but it was indeed an interactive game. Weird. All of the actual content is a blur, though. Who knows what it was about. (I don't remember any panties, though. ) And... that's all I remember, I guess.

01/03/2011

Mythic Dawn Hostage (Non-lucid)

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So, this is the first of three dreams I remembered this morning. From what I recall, I was a Mythic Dawn member, a la Oblivion. I wasn't one by choice, though. My "memories" told me that they had found me almost dead, for one reason or another, and brought me back to health. So of course, I "owed" them. I never would have made it away alive if I had tried to flee them, anyway. So of course I grudgingly go along on their missions, looking for my chance.

I also know I'm in some contact with the Imperial Guard, and I have some way of demonstrating that I'm actually on their side. I'm not sure exactly how, but I think I'd made a special rip in my robes, on purpose. (Not that that makes sense, but there ya go.) I'd somehow informed the Guard that we were here in this... wait for it... pizzeria. Yup. A bunch of us are in a central room with half-height walls when a commotion breaks out at the entrance. We all drop down to the floor and lay there. One guard comes into the room and starts to drag the nearest person (me) toward the door. Then he realizes through whatever means that I'm on their side, and he invents some reason to leave us be. (He couldn't just single me out, or the other Mythic Dawn members would turn on me. I dunno why they didn't pursue him, though. I mean, didn't it seem weird for them to let us go? Ah well...)

So they leave, and my next mission is to gather 5 things from around the pizzeria, whatever they were. I don't remember. A couple times I come around and sit at a crowded, messy table, then apologize when I notice someone else is sitting there. Both times they give me some of their pizza. Whether out of generosity or fear, who knows. I can't remember anything else.

09/11/2010

Mars-Base ... Space Soap Opera? ... Nuke the MOON (Non-lucid)

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Right, so, this dream is long and crazy. I'll piece it together as best I can. The first part involved some unnamed guy having developed, or discovered, a teleporter to and from Mars. It worked very cheaply and harmlessly. This guy and a bunch of his friends are going to and from Mars trying to set up an infrastructure and base there. I tag along at some point to see how it's going, and it looks very much like a town on Earth (with a vaguely Western-movie-style decor, might I add). They already have buildings up, nobody seems to need spacesuits, and they have electricity and computers, and cellphones. And they somehow have a wireless network up for those. That one still confuses me... At some point during all of this, I talk with one of them and they're almost giddy. "The best part of this is," he said, "NASA doesn't know about this yet. Wait till you see the looks on their faces!" Also at some point, they were discussing trying to get some grass planted, and I mused aloud whether it would be cooler to have a lush yard on Mars, or to have that alien-looking red dirt in front of your house. Towards the end, I was telling my friends lightheartedly that they were great and all, but if I could sleep on Mars tonight, I WOULD.

This second part is fuzzy, and I think I'm only an observer. I see short bits of a lot of people's daily lives, nothing too exciting going on. I assume this is on the same Mars-base, but I'm not sure. Somewhere in the middle of all this, there's a military guy that has that "only the audience can hear you" power. He motions to the guy next to him and rattles off a name and designation that I can't remember. Then he says something like, "He seems pretty normal, right? Well, one time I went out with him, and...." He fades out as I see more people going about their daily lives. This was pretty short and disjointed, but I swear it sounds like an ad for a soap opera, looking back.

Finally, at the end, I'm telling my little brother Jared about how you might get some oxygen on the moon... only I use the WORST possible option imaginable! My faulty logic went something like, "Well, if you set off a nuke somewhere on the moon, with all those elements colliding and bouncing around you're bound to get SOME oxygen out of it! Then you just need to place a roof over it..." Yeah, completely worth the total destruction, right? I confuse myself sometimes... anyways, that's all I can remember.

09/09/2010

ATS -- All-Terrain Submersible (Non-lucid)

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This is just a short fragment, but I remember being in some sort of school setting. My friends Andy and Ganey are there, as well as some sort of other guy... either a professor, or venture capitalist, or something. Anyways, Ganey is showing off to us, as basically he has a submarine. We're all in the classroom watching him remote control a submarine. Not only that, his submarine can not only submerge, of course, but FLY. Yes, it can rise right out of the water and hover in the air. I remember being simultaneously confused and amazed by this. It's hilarious in retrospect, really. Anyway, that's all I can remember.

09/08/2010

That's not how reincarnation works... (Non-lucid)

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This dream is pretty fragmented, but from what I do remember, it takes place right before heading back to college, and I'm contemplating whether to "reincarnate" (those of you who play the Disgaea series, think reincarnation or transmigration from that). Basically, I would become a newborn again, but have all the knowledge I currently have now. I don't know HOW that would work, or how a newborn would ever survive college anyways. The other part of the dream that I remember is when I actually get to college. I'm good old me, so I guess I decided not to "reincarnate". The interesting thing is, apparently my school is now on one of JUPITER'S MOONS (I wanna say Triton). Of course, this doesn't seem out of the ordinary for me. I remember having landed on Triton and being next to some sort of volcano. I pull up a sort of map on the "HUD" (apparently I'm in a video game now) and realize that I'm on the far west side of the map, and the campus is on the far eastern side. Since the map wraps around, though, I should be right next to it if I just turn around. That is all I remember of this crazy dream.

09/07/2010

I'd flood the world, for a good plank (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I've not been able to sleep well lately, being woken up with dreams in my head and all, so I guess it's time to start recording dreams again! From what I can remember, I'm back home with my family, in a house that isn't our RL house. The outdoors looks kinda like the house we had before we moved a couple years back, but the deck is in the back yard instead of the front yard, and attached to the second floor of the house (our house was only one floor high). Anyways, from what little I do rememebr, my little brother Jared wanted to do something with the wood the deck was made of. Instead of taking it normally, or of course, getting some other wood, he was repeatedly flooding our yard up to the level of the deck (this would have submerged the entire first floor of the house, but my dream ignores this). Each cycle the wood deck would get more and more warped and rotten, and it would be easier to remove the wood he wanted. Then the water would drain and he would do it again. I'm not sure why he needed the wood, but I remember thinking how ridiculous that way of getting it was. What a waste! At some point the dream cuts to nighttime. A family -- mother and daughter, if my memory isn't failing me -- comes to the door to ask if we had found their kitten that had gone missing that day. We had in fact found a lonely kitten that morning and had been taking care of it. However, I was only wearing a t-shirt, so I left them at the door and ran off trying to find something to wear! It ended up waking up my mom and Jared, and my mom took care of it before yelling at Jared for what he was doing earlier, flooding the deck. That's all I remember.