Smudgefish

1) Sitting in the lounge at my childhood house. I was snoozing in the chair and my children were on the floor, I woke up and realised it was nearly 2am and told the girls it was bedtime. My wife became insanely angry at me for some reason, it was visceral rage at me for telling them they had to go to bed and I couldn't understand it at all. They were going to go to bed in the dining room on the floor, I went to get the room ready with my youngest daughter, I was mumbling that we had to just ignore mummy for now and she would calm down. I saw my youngset daughters sleeping bag lying in one corner. Then I had to pump up a latex cat bed, I told my daughter that it was rubbish but she inssited I had to pump it up. I did and it became the most bizarre looking thing ever and I said there you are it's rubbish!! Then I looked for my eldest daughters bed and couldn't find it. The floor was covered in junk so I cleared a path for her. As I moved a chair I saw our old cat Smudge sitting under a table and he was attacking the chair leg. Then I was outside at night and I could see my eldest daughter high up climbing along something and hitting a power line, I stuck my head out and shouted for her to stop it as it was 1am in the morning. I woke and the clock said exactly 1am.
After this dream I tried to DEILD but really needed the loo so it didn't work, as I drifted in and out of sleep I kept hearing a girl singing, I thought it was my daughter to start with, it sounded really nice but I knew it was a hypnagogic hallucination.

2) On some sort of school trip. I went to bed but got told I had to move. I looked oout over a multi-zstorey car park and knew that was were we were going to have to put our beds, and I was explaining to someone that the cat would find us there and still walk all over us and wake us up. Next I was asleep in bed again and I got pulled out, it was the younger brother of someone who used to bully me badly at school, I thought oh no not again! Next I was in the town, still part of a school trip, I was talking to a woman, can't remember what about. I saw a man on a flying board coming past and he was doing exercises on it, I told her how annoyed I was at people with too much money doing silly exercises on flying boards. Then I was in the main town and there was a big party going on. I was at a street corner and told everyone that i really needed to get to bed now as it was so late, I remember having to cross the road and seeing buses coming towards me. The I was outside the hotel we were staying at on a street corner, I saw a path to the side of me that everyone was using to get into town and felt silly becasue I had taken the long route down the main road.

3) Fragments of another dream: I was watchign a very small car in a carriageway below me. It was full of monsters, they burst out of the car and went towards some high rise biuildings. Next 2 people were going to be executed. They had to put their heads in huge crushers and it would squash them, I watched them being killed without any emotion. I was in a house, again full of monsters that I never saw. I was in someones room he was a giant and he could defned himself against the monsters, I asked if I could escape through a hole in his roof just behind him and set off.

Some relationship issues yesterday so I didn't sleep well last night and poor recall

1) I arrived in Norwich, I think my parents took me there. There were lot of people running, we walked through crowds of runners, I had a bag over my shoulder looked in it and relaised I had forgotten my kit. I was devastated because I had laready run half the marathon and was going to change so I could run the second half. I was was very upset and woke up.

Wrote this up rather late in the day so lost a lot of the memory:

1)Walking along rows of patients in beds. I was trying to arrange some small candles in tubes attached to wires across a patient and trying to get it to sit up and not set fire to the bed. A memory of a psychotic patient that was sent to get me, not in any frightening way, but I can't remember much more about it.

2)A parking spot outside a nightclub and something about children - that's it!

3)A dream about one of my old girlfriends. I remember missing her awfully and knowing she won't come back.

1) On a motorbike, I think I wanted a car so was a bit disappointed, then realised how good it was, fitted a GPS to the handlebar and drove relly fast and it was great.

2) I was performing biliary surgery (not something I do in real life) a nurse was suctionning out loads of fluids and I joked with her about how much there was.

3) I was on call in a hospital and was called out to a patient. Can't remember much about treating the patient. I was walking along a path talking to a nurse and saying it was actually quiet today and we always get called that time of day. Then I was in a canteen sitting at a table. I decided to try to WILD so closed my eyes but it was too noisy I decided it wasn't going to work. I looked at the wall and realised it was a poster about lucid dreaming. The character on the psoter was moving like a film of a lucid dream and I thought 'No! That's not how you lucid dream, he's got it all wrong'. I didn't question whether I was dreaming .

1) Some sort of very long dirve with my children to get some lunch. We had lunch then started driving back. A waitress came up to the side of the car as we were driving with another portion of food. there was a lot more to this dream I wish I could remember it.

2) In some sort of concrete underground structure with our dog. He wandered over to an elevator in the corner and there was a woman there who sent him back to us. Then a very large muscled man came over and was stroking the dog. He suddenly slapped my wife very hard across the arms. I knew I couldn't do anything phyically so shouted 'Do you mind?' and e looked shocked and walked away, my wife didn't seem too bothered.

3) Talking on the phone in a corridor in some sort of college. 4 students raced up and grabbed the phone. I recognised them and knew I had just seen them on TV they were going to take part in some amazing magic event (I read about Paul Daniels dying today). I was excited to see them and was going to ask if I could join in, it was so exciting.

4) An old work colleague had moved to a flat in London opposite the Royal London Hospital. In the background I could see the HEMS helipad. He was building his own helipad to fly his light aircraft from. He was telling me how his wife had messed up his tunnel to the pad and it was downstairs, he really wanted to come out in the bright sunlight. I looked around his helipad, it looked good I could see all the detail of the metalwork holding the safety netting around the edge. He was talking to me and I decided I needed some cups of tea, I poured the first 2 into cups then the next one into a cat basket, and the next into something else soft - they soaked up all the tea so I decided it wasn't the best idea.

1) Sitting with a group of parents, I think it's parent's evening at school, and I'm asked to talk about my career. I think it's a bit silly and irrelevant but start talking. I explain that I decided to repair hernias during the time I was doing my research project (I have never done a surgical hernia repair in my life, or a research project), I explain how it did it in my free time and how important it was for me, I think I was being a bit big headed.

2) Looking at a map deciding what route I was going to walk, it's a circular route, and I will be walking half the distance on the road, half off-road. This dream s a bit 'misty'. I'm stood by a car in the road at the start of the walk, I can't remember much else.

3) In a large low roofed wooden building. I could see lots of men having showers through openings in the building. The there was no-one there and it became strangely empty.

4) I was walking down a corridor at my very first place of work carrying lots of folders and bits of paper. Someone is moving office and I wait while a team of men carry a desk and lots of cardboard boxes down the corridor, I see people start to unpack the boxes and hear someone explain why it's so important to pack small items in cardboard boxes. Then I meet my bext friend sitting in front of a computer screen and I am starting to explain to him that you can use his computer system to do every thing mycomputer system does to enter patient consultations. He goes off to get something but I just can't work out how to access his computer. He comes back and I explain how much I would enjoy a hot chocolate right now. He points out the correct box to click on the computer and everything works.

1) I was onboard a ship and it was going down, water swiiling around the floor. I was in a stairwell with a man who was lying on the ceiling and he told me that he was going to go down with the ship, I told him that I didn't want to drown and was going to find an escape. Then I was with my wife walking through a sliding door into the boat and past a check in desk, we walked a bit further and were told that there was no door or check in desk where we were. We retraced our steps into an old lounge and we found an old sealed up door and realised that we had travelled through time. We were in this big lounge looking at people sitting on sofas, then saw that there was a lot of workmen doing things and realised that it was a re-fit between voyages. I watched a man repairing telephones, then he drilled hole through a book for some reason, and I watched him clean out his drill bit. There was a large fire and my wife had laid it up, for some reason I was a bit irritated at how she had used the wood, becasue I knew there was none left. I lit the fire. For some reason I then saw a magazine in the fire that I wanted and pulled it out. My father was watching and he asked me what I was doing so I explained to him.

2) This part of the dream feels as if it occurred at some point during the previous dream as a side story. I had won a competition to fly to the moon. I was with an Apollo mission, every one was very nice and matter of fact. They suited me up, which I loved, and handed me the oxygen supply unit, then we were on the moon and I walked around in my spacesuit. When I was back in the dream above I was thinking that no-one there knew that I was one of the few people to have ever walked on the moon, I was so proud.

3) I had to get straight out of bed when I woke in the morning and totally forgot all of a another big dream, it won't come back to me now.

1) Disjointed memories of this dream. I'm on holiday, it's time to go home. Looking over some water at the airport, I explain that I have to go there to pick up a metal goalpost that I stored there so I can take it home, and I won't be long. Then I'm in an airport. We are standing in a queue waiting to get through security, there are 2 women security officers frisking everyone as they come through. It's my turn and some people push past, they are dealt with swiftly by the security officers and go to the back of the queue. I'm inside the airport. I look at some car keys and realise I have to return the hire car, and realise we only used it once. I'm looking around for the hire car desk. There is 3 people palying guitar on some of the airport seats. I get told where to go to hand in the keys I go out through sliding doors. Then I'm in a hangar to pick up he goalposts, but now it's actually a hanglider - I see it hanging up and look at it, it is very cheap and flimsy but it was just something I bought on holiday, I look at the suitcase it fits in and think about folding it up as I want to take it home but decide it's too big. Next I'm wandering though more airport lounges, someone I know sees me and comes over to talk to me, then I see another couple of people I know. I think the dream ended here.

2) I'm in a GP surgery. I'm walking towards the stairs for some reason feeling like a failure, then I think about a nursing home that actually asked for me to become their GP and convince myself that I'm not that bad after all. I'm walking up the stairs adn another doctor passes me. next I'm in a meeting and someone is goign to give a talk, he is using a projector and is going to start. A female GP leans over towards me and says that he alwys runs over and asks if I'm in a hurry, I say that I am so she promises she will interrupt him when time is up so I can leave on time.

Little fragments:

- Being made to feel very insignificant by my wife, then yelling at her and feeling bad.
- In a queue of people going into a shop, I tried to help my wife up some steps but she just brushed me off and told me to leave alone, I felt awful.
- Running up a steep path with a friend from many years ago, I playfully raced him, he seemed very angry with me and walked off.

- Somthing to do with skiing, looking a brochure

Only one dream recalled last night.

Standing in a field with my family. it's a clear day with blue sky.

There's something flying around in the sky. It's like a form on a computer with boxes for entering information. I think it's very strange and comment on it but everyone else seems to think it's normal. I ask if it could be aliens. We watch it flying around and I get more worried but no-one else is concerned. Then it changes and becomes black clouds of what looks like insects coming down towards the ground, it sweeps over us. People are panicking and running away. I realise that these are not insects but little rectangular things that are attaching themselves to our skin and forming channels and realise that it was aliens and they are going to take us over.

Absolutely no dream recall last night!!

I was trying CAN-WILD. No dream recall on any of my wakenings.

Trying CAN-WILD last night but the alarm was too loud and long so woke me up too much. I was actually in a dream each time it went off so it has promise.
I think I had a false awakening before this but can't remember enough to be sure.

1) It's night time. I'm outside next to some sort of communal building of a tribe of people. I pick up half a carcass and move it around, it's going to be used to trap something. I'm stood outside the building again at the back, there's a slope up the hill and we seem to be looking for something, I get the feeling that someone else tried before and failed. Then we are inside the building and it's light, I see a man riding a horse with a child on his shoulders and the child bumps into the rafters. I think there mightbe an elephant around as well. Now it's bright daylight and I look outside, we are by the side of a large dock, there's a hotel on the other side of it, suddenly a large crane swings across, I notice a woman is hung from it doing acrobatics. My canwild alarm went off.

2) I was in another dream when the next canwild went off, tried to remember it but went straight back to sleep.

3) In a sports hall type space with a round roof. There's a man cycling around it upside down. I explain to my daughter that he is generating his own gravity by cycling around the roof as if we are on a space station, then I think that we should be floating but realise that a system is generating gravity for us. The man starts climbing down a pole (or up from his point of view) to the point of zero gravity as if we were on a space station but it still actually looks like a sports hall. I explain this to my daughter. Everyone claps as he floats in the air then lands on the ground.

4) Another dream in a house with friends, I don't have time to try to remember the details, got to get to work!

5) In an office chair. Something to do with being on holoiday with scouts. I have to get back to my house. The chairs sets off taking me there, it's exciting as it's travelling really fast through crowds of people and up onto a pavement. I'm outsdie a house and I wonder if it can fly, then I'm up above the trees in the chair. An exciting dream.

Weird dreams....

1) I can't remember the storyline. I was on a bus. I was talking to 2 people sitting on chairs hanging out of the bus as it went down the street. There was a big garage with 2 doors, I was trying to zip a cover across one of them. Then I ran back to the us, it drove around again and for some reason I lost my socks outside. The dream moved to me standing in the middle of a shopping area - this was just liek a scene from Second Life - I was desperately trying to put my clothes on (I think I was naked) and 2 Japanes tourists came up to me to ask where the toilets were so I told them. Then I walked into a bookshop. There were posters up about a book with pictures of astronauts inside holes made by meteors on the moon, with different sized holes right down to ones that were only a few cm across. Then i was an astronaut on the moon and I was measuring the depth of the holes using a gadget that lowered a rope into the hole, I was examining the gadget in detail - it went all the way in and I was asking my colleague how I made it pull the rope back up. My alarm went off for my WBTB at that moment.

2) This dream took place on the road leading back from the hospital I trained at to my flat in London. I was at the tube station and walked down the road I was looking for a toilet then I realised that there wasn't one there and started walking home. I was crawling along the pavement walking on my arms and legs with a friend who mentionned something about someone being stabbed and I thought 'another one'. My friend then asked me if I knew what a werewolf sounded like and made a stupid noise that I ignored. Then I was leaving a big dark side room and walking in the street agian, it was wet and I saw that I only had white socks on, I thought ok it's nice walking just in socks but my feet got wet and I returned to the room but the door was locked, I opened up a shutter on the door it was dark inside and shouted for my shoes and somehow turned the light on. People were doing something inside and they looked very angry at me for disturbing them and threw my shoes to me, I could feel the anger in the room. I walked further up the road. I saw a delivery van with a fridge I had ordered sitting high up, in fact it was hundreds of feet up in the air on the edge with a long rope dangling down from it, I had a memory of putting it there myself and tried adjusting the rope but it fell and I saw it falling and saw it go down a few streets away and started thinking how likely it was to have killed someone and how it would be my fault. I spoke to the delivery men pretending that my fridge was still on the lorry and told them where I lived and they said they would see me soon. I got back to my flat but was panicking and went into the wrong address it was a chinese takeaway, then I went next door to my own block of flats. I tried to unlock the door and fumbled with my keys. I saw a poster on the wall about a gig and heard people discussing how good it was, and thought about the pub in the basement (that never existed) and was upset thinking that they had stated doing gigs and I was never going to get any sleep with the noise.

1) I'm in a different part of the country and I want to go home, but I can't. Then I'm in a house. There's a staircase with an iron bannister leading up to a bedroom with a nice view. I know it's a holiday house but think it's a bit bare, I remember walking up the stairs thinking the bedroom must be nice. Then someone knocks at the door. It's my dad with a friend, a much younger version of my dad, he has a Tshirt on but nothing below the waist, I'm quite shocked and don't look but sort of push past him. Then I'm outside and it's very sunny. I poor a vodka into a glass but pour far too much and think about putting it back in the bottle but decide to leave it in the glass for later. I don't drink any of it.

2) On a boat standing at the bow watching as we push through the water. Then I go back into the boat and it's some sort of sex lesson. I'm with a woman lying on the bed, fully clothed, talking about what we have to do and she isn't keen and I tell her that I will be gentle although I'm feeling very awkward myself. Nothing actually happens.

Again not much...

1) I became one of the characters from the film 'Chronicle'. I had superpowers and could fly as well as move objects by willpower. I walked past a car and tried to move it. I picked up a man and threw him around in the air. I was stood on a flat roof and with a friend willed all the dogs to come out of a block of flats, can't remember exactly why, hundreds came out and walked past us. I was sitting high up and thinking about where I wanted to fly to, thinking about flying to a planet.

This was obviously as a result of me thinking yesterday about all the things I wanted to do when I become lucid.