Sprocketon

I was walking up my street on what looked like a particularly bright and sunny day when a group of people i used to hang out with invited me to chill. I agreed, went home and washed up. When I returned outside they were partying in my driveway, making noise and quite a mess which I, of course, got into trouble for.

My dream was set in a city street that was likely very old. Like those old buildings in Spain.
I owned a store that was just a ways down from a palace in which the queen resided. ~I wasn't getting any customers and soon a pair of city guards, dressed in gold armour with Spartan helmets and blue capes, approached my store and said "You are unable to keep up with the costs of this land and so by order of the queen you have 1 day to vacate the premises"

After they trashed the store and left I had an idea. "I'll rob the nobles to get the money I need for my store! After all it's not like they need it!" On my way to the palace I saw a television playing a news broadcast of a few students meeting with the 'queen'one of whom was holding an Ipad. It had ended early as the queen had "better things to do" and "wanted to be left alone" I thought now would be a good time to strike" I was then that i was stopped by an old man in sunglasses and he said "Hey. I can tell your thinking of breaking into the palace. If you do somehow make it inside there's an Ipad I remotely hacked to record one of the queens meetings. We suspect there's something going on up there" I remained silent and continued on my mission. I entered the first floor which was open to tourists and had a set of metal detectors in it. Since I didn't have anything incriminating, yet, I decided to enter this way. After wandering around for a while I spotted a fire escape and used it to scale the building to hallway that lead to multiple bedrooms. I looked out the window on the opposite end and saw the man with the sunglasses waving and pointing to his right at a scaffolding out the window. Remembering the original reason why I was there (but not realising I was dreaming ) I grabbed a silver vase, put it in my backpack and continued out the window.

The scaffolding lead to a crescent shaped balcony that devided into three sections and was very heavily guarded by more of the men from earlier. They spotted me and began chasing so dodged the first set of guards and jumped to the next platform. Then the next group. Suddenly however when I'd made it to the third balcony section they'd all stopped trying to chase me and just stood and stared. I found it extremely strange but continued onward anyway.
The door opened to a balcony just like the previous one except this was one large balcony in an L shape. I noticed there was no one around and that there were many holes in the floor. I took the silver vase out of my backpack and rolled it along the floor. It triggered something that made a loud click and suddenly large metal spears shot out of some of the holes in the floor and walls. I avoided the paths of the spikes using the silver vase to show me where they would pop up next and made my way to the end of the platform. Before me was A huge hallway with more spear holes in the floor. This time I ran and made it to the large door at the end of the hallway. I opened it and there was the queens bedroom. I took some jewellery the Ipad that belonged to the student from earlier and used the many ropes used to hold the curtains in place to repel down to the street.

The last thing I remember seeing was the video on the Ipad of the queen speaking with a group of shady looking characters and then I awoke.

I was in a hotel lobby of sorts. The walls were shiny, black face brick. Like onyx. There were also chandeliers (gold) hanging from the ceiling. There was also a reception with a few faceless individuals standing around it going about their business. (I didn't actually take the time to pay attention to these people) I looked on the floor near my foot and there was a board. It was shaped like a ripstick except without the wheels. I stood on top of it and it began to move slightly. I wanted to move forward but had no idea how. It was then that I realised that I was dreaming.
I 'willed' the board to move forward by imagining what that would feel like. The shift in gravity, the adjustments to my balance and the subtle breeze that accompanies a fast acceleration. I sped about around the corridors of the lobby until I hopped off and changed my surroundings. I made the walls join with the floors to form a ramp so that I could carve along the walls and down again. The last thing I remember doing was forming a deep tunnel, like pit and free falling with the board into it.

(4 fragments with slight memory failure in the 3rd)

-In the top office of a large office building
-late evening
-Zombies creeping they're way up to the top floor
-I used an outer staircase to make it to the bottom
-Found some a co-worker trapped in her car surrounded by zombies
-sneaked into my car, and rammed the zombies out of her way
-instead of a steering wheel playstation controller (Like men in black 2 )
-picked up another straggler being chased by zombies: balding fellow.

-More zombies deeper in a large city
-Most inner city people hadn't heard about zombies yet
-Big fireworks display viewed from the roof of a shorter building
-"they're on their way here now!!"
-gridlocked streets
-Took refuge inside adjacent building: Tall With big bright red advertising (damn coke's subliminal adds )
-Many estranged children in the building
-A splinter group attempted to escape on the roof
-"Can't leave those kids behind"
- Went back to try to help them
-could hear moans of zombies inside stairwell
- led kids to the top floor and tossed anything large I could find down stairs to block the stairs
-pre-awakening stillness.

-exiting prep assembly reunion
- kids stand gasping at exit
-"what more zombies?"
-"No just sports team here on an away game"
- wanted to leave but couldn't because a fleet of buses were blocking the exit
- wandered around the 'rearranged' halls of the prep
-chilled in the courtyard with my old english classmates and jammed to some dubstep
-teacher said that buses had right of way but I snuck out regardless.

-Spanish salsa parade
-watched from inside car as the floats drove passed
-detached 3rd person view of each float. (or as i like to call it "Ghost cam")
-Women in long red flowing dress dancing atop one of the floats.

- Getting dressed for assembly
- Only piece of paper in my bag was a DnD character sheet
- people leaving the hall, each with a character sheet of their own
- little sky light
- grey decor

- Teamwork
- Adventure
- Hanging out with friends
- Comic book/Fictional characters
- False Awakenings

I dreamt that I was batman I was in Gotham general hospital trying to rescue Vicki Vale and some nurses who were kidnapped by some of Two Faces goons, with Nightwing. There were two of them at the back entrance so I tackled one through a window while Nightwing handled the other one. He vanished while I sneaked into the building to see a bunch of dudes with flame throwers torching the place. The building was mostly dark with a couple of light still on. I used my thermal vision to see if there were any people in immediate danger. It turned out that they were burning medical supplies. I got into the vents directly above them and used a batarang to severe the pipes on their flame throwers so I could drop down and take them out. One with an electric boot high kick, the second with a judo flip and the last one with a knee to the jewels. I got a comm from nightwing saying that he'd gotten the hostages out so I made my way to the exit. This was when two-face popped out from behind the secretary's desk with a machine gun and started shooting at me. I ran, rolled and slid away from some of his shots but I got clipped by a couple. It felt like getting shot with high PSI paintballs. The last thing I remember was making it out to the alley I'd came in through.

I got out of bed got dressed and hopped on my scooter. I was riding down the street and pulled over to answer my phone. Something about an audition that started at 12:00pm

I found an old, concrete skate park and called over some people for a session. It turned into a huge party but these tools tried to steal my guitar. It was set in a big 1 story high bowl/tranny with metal fencing and bushes that surrounded the park.

I took a nap earlier and I had a dream that was kinda like a continuation of my zombie apocalypse dream. The cast of True blood and I were in a jail cell drinking some beer when when some zombies found us and were reaching in to the cell to try to grab one of us. The old guy from earlier was taunting them and one of them grabbed him, pulled him close and took a bite out of his neck. The guy that shapeshifts into a dog (I forget his name) grabbed a metal strut and stabbed him in the head so he wouldn't become a zombie as we'd be trapped in the cell with him. all the commotion attracted more zombies but we just carried on chilling on the far side of the cell so we didn't share the old man's fate.

It was a zombie apocalypse situation and the entire dream took place mostly either in the early morning are afternoon. Either way It was extremely cloudy and gloomy. I don't remember many details except for that our survivor's hideout was a big, square building with metal 'pull' doors. I remember laughing at the simple genius of it as the zombies were to dumb to stop and pull on a door. Instead they just pressed up against it and banged on it. Although there was talk of more survivors the only people I actually saw were my older brother and an old guy with a white beard. He was a pretty grumpy guy and he would shout commands even when I'd told him repeatedly to be quite as his noise would attract more of the zombombos. One thing that was strange that I probably should have picked up on was how much like a video game it was. I fired a shotgun but experienced no recoil, and every time I ran towards an entrance everything would freeze for a moment then I'd appear inside the building without actually having to walk through a door. Having attracted the mass undead hordes with his shouting the old guy and my brother began to prepare to pack and leave the hideout while I gathered supplies. The last thing I remember was being told that there was not enough room on board for my computer. This saddened me so I uploaded all of my music to an Ipod I'd found in the hideout but as I stepped outside there were zombies running towards us in all directions so I abandoned the Ipod and my computer and hopped on the back of one of the trucks.

This is a recurring dream that I haven't had in some time.

I was being chased through a graveyard by hooded mages and some vicious dogs. It was late evening. The dogs looked like the hell hounds from Nazi Zombies or the Dawngaurd DLC for Skyrim. All black, big, bulky, insanely fast and glowing red eyes. Usually I get cornered by my perusers at a tall black, metal gate, but this time I manadged to hop over it. I ran towards a Mausoleum with a tower on top and took refuge inside. It was dark and I could still hear the barking of the dogs and someone shouting for someone to get the gate open. I climbed a ladder that led to the top of the tower. As I ascended I realised that it was now earlier in the day (Sunset) and the hooded mages and demon dogs were gone. From the top of the tower I could see a family paying respects at one of the grave stones. I climbed down the outside of the tower, excited to tell them about this strange and magical crypt that I'd discovered. I opened the tall black gate and tried to greet them but the further away from the tower I was the darker it became. The hooded mages and the beasts reappeared and were now chasing me again except they were able to continue as I'd opened the gate. The Demon dogs cornered me so I was unable to make it back into the crypt. They didn't attack however they just circled me for a while as I had my back to the fencing Then the stillness that falls on my dreams when I can either remember no more or begin to wake up came.

The first involved me getting out of bed to go make myself breakfast. I made myself three slices of toast and made my way back to bed. I then awoke for real and noticed that it was still dark outside so that must have been a dream so I relaxed and tried to stay as aware as possible in case this happened again.

In the next one I woke up and went to the optometrist with mi madre. I was trying on glasses when I realised that my sight was fine as I'd recently passed my eye exam. I raised my hands and looked at them to try to stabilise before I tried to do anything else but then I moved my hand in bed in reality. I did more checks just in case it was another false awakening but this one was real.

I was walking around outside what I think was my old history class. It looked like my old high school accept the parking lot extended out of the top floor and instead of stairs there were escalators... So it was like my high school swallowed a shopping mall. Me and this girl I used to study Biology with (lets call her Anne) were waiting for the class to come out as we were escorting them somewhere... to their Matric dance I think. As we mad our way to the parking lot my fellow graduate was told where it was exactly we'd be going and what we were gonna do. this made her let out an excited shriek as she often did except in the dream it was so loud and high pitched I had to "block" my ears which of course didn't help. It was kinda like Batman had one of his crippling frequency gadgets on cus everyone on that floor couldn't seem to handle it. At the time there were more of my class mates from high school on the floor with their 12th graders. The shrieking made my old history teacher burst through the door of her classroom
and demand that we all go back to class. A friend of mine (who shall be known as... Jayce) snapped his fingers in front of her face and it took me waving a set of keys around for her to recognise us and realise that we weren't actually students. After a quick hello we continued to make our way to our cars when a small group of us decided that a couple of teenagers shrieking at the top of their lungs was not how we wanted to spend the evening so we decided to meet elsewhere. I sat in the back-seat of another friend of mines car (Who we'll call Jerry) in complete silence. We didn't move or speak but after a while we got out again and were somewhere else entirely... Instead of my high school crossed with a mall it was now just a mall and instead of the brown paint and bricks it became white with bright neon accenting.

The rest of the details are fuzzy like we hung out outside for a bit then awkwardly ran into the group that we were supposed to be escorting that had been taken on by someone else...

Tonight I'm going to see if changing my immediate surroundings has any effect on my ability to lucid dream. I'll be sleeping in the guest room with heavier blankets and a thinner pillow. also since I'll be closer to my computer instead of lying in bed and trying to recall the events of my dream I'll just wake up and come straight here.


So the results were rather odd. I WBTB'd by setting myself an alarm for about five hours after I fell asleep. I had some trouble falling asleep though due to the thin pillow but the heavy blankets were very helpful because I didn't really have to make my bed again after I woke up the 1st time because I shift around a lot so there was no carnage. I remembered the 1st dream in great detail and posted it in mah DJ then went back to bed. I had two false awakenings in a row which was strange as this hadn't happened to me before so I wasn't aware of the fact that I was still technically dreaming. I'm gonna tweak the method a bit and run this again at a later stage.

Last night I dreamt that I was in an apartment that belonged to me. I had a couple of friends over and we were all playing video games in my room on a flatscreen. Everyone was huddled around my bed which took up a lot of space. The walls and carpets were brown and light brown but there was no art anywhere in the apartment. I was quite large though. After hanging around in my room for a while a friend of mine's (who wasn't present)
ex girlfriend showed up and sat next to me after we had migrated to the living room. She was very handsy and so I joined in by 'dancing my fingers on her thigh'. This was when I remembered that it might be pretty uncool of me if I flirted with my homies ex... What was she doing here anyway? And where did everybody go? I Must be dreaming! I looked her in the eyes for a few seconds, gave her a kiss on the cheek then went back to my "room". I laughed to myself because now there was art on the wall. A simple painting of a countryside and the sky. I levitated above my bed for a little while but then I dropped slowly into it and woke up.