non-lucid

Well this morning I woke up and could actually recall a couple of pretty vivid dream but unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to record anything until now so I can only recall this one dream. Guess what? It deals with yet another fire. Man, these natural disaster things and fires... IDK.

I was walking down this dirt road out in the country. I was all by myself and it was night. Then I suddenly remember seeing this house burst into flames because of lightning. I began running over to this house and I heard music. Then I suddenly remembered that I must of been listening to my mp3 player as I was walking. Sure enough, I had my earbuds in. As I was running I took them out wrapped 'em up. The wierd thing was... i could still hear the same exact music as if I hadn't taken my earbuds out! I thought this was very strange and considered doing a reality check. Guess what though??? Of course silly old me rememberd that this house was burning to the ground and decided I had already wasted enough time so ya... didn't do the reality check!!! I started running again, as fast as I could go. So remember how i have that wierd thing in dreams where whenever I run I seem to 'max out' my speed really fast? Well, the same thing happened here. I remember conciously thinking that I must be dreaming because this wierd running thing was happening. Instead of simply stopping and doing a reality check though I was just so focused on getting to this house I continued on with my wierd slippery feet slow-mo running thing.

ANYWAYS.... I finally made it to this house. By now the surrounding sheds and outbuildings were also ablaze. I remember running over and grabbing this little treebranch full of leaves. Apparently this was the perfect thing to put fires out with. I run back over to the fire and start beating the flames with it. Turns out... it actually put fires out like magic. Wierd... So as I was putting out the flames some other people came over to help out. I told them to go grab some tree branches. Eventually we got all the fires put out and it started raining, extinguishing any remaining smolders.

Soon after, everyone left and I was all alone again. Now, remember that music I mentioned eralier? Well, it had been going this WHOLE TIME! Anyways, still being perplexed by this mystery, I reached into my pocket for my mp3 player. I took it out and examined it. It was displaying all the stuff for the song correctly at first. I looked away for a second and then it was all gibberish. Since I had already considered that i might of been dreaming earlier, this should of been the final tip off. But my brain, being as clever as it is, reminded me that my mp3 player had just undergone a software update and might still have some bugs. I, being the wasy going guy that I am, took this as a good enough explaination and decided against a reality check YET AGAIN!!! Grrrrrr....... rageface......facaepalm....grrrr!!(

*clears throat after akward outburst* So um... ya... anyways.... Then the music turned into this upbeat song that I know really well and I started singing along. I woke up sometime during this and whaddaya know? I found the source of the music mystery in the dream. Somehow my mp3 player had got bumped to another playlist and was playing music instead of the binaural beats. It had just worked its way right into my dream. I guess that is pretty cool now that i think about it. Hehe, gives me lots of ideas once I become proficient at lucid dreaming...

Ok this is one of those dreams that seemed so life-like and normal in the dream, and then when you look at it the next morning you go "What the heck???"

So I remember I was at this lake on a little teeny boat. It seemed more like a surfboard. Anyways, I was on this little surfboard and then out of no where this cop comes running on the water. That isn't what surprised me though. I was surprised that I got pulled over by this cop because I was on a private lake and he wasn't supposed to be there. So I remember asking him, "Hey, why are you even here exactly? This is a private lake and you have no jurisdiction over it." I thought about doing a reality check just to make sure but then the cop replied that even though it was private property, it wasn't MY lake so he could pull me over. Apparently I was satisfied with this because I decided against the reality check YET AGAIN!!! *slams head into desk* So I started off again just paddling around this lake. Then I spotted this racoon in the water. I was like "Oh my gosh, there is the little sucker that keeps eating all my chickens!" (I used to own some chickens) I paddled over and grabbed him. The wierd thing is that it was mounted on some sort of tracks like a little robot. I grabbed it by the tracks so it wouldn't move and bite me. Now I didn't know what to do though cause I wanted to kill the thing but didn't have a good way of doing it. I went over to the shore and jus tstarted slamming it into the ground. Then the same cop that stopped me earlier came over and started killing it by beating it over the head with his shoe! It finally died and then a bunch of people showed up and there was this huge celebration. I was the guest of honor and I remember all I got was a plate of veggies. YUCK! I remember some dude gave me a bunch of cokked carrots and I just slammed them on the ground.

So ya that was one of the most random dreams I have had in quite some time. Wierd huh?

Well, the first thing I remember is that the setting was from the Civil War. I remember I was with this group of general guys on a hill in the forest somewhere. Then out of nowhere this huge wall of water came rushing at us. We all went tumbling around in the water and were washed away. Then the dreamscape changed but still in the same dream. (maybe some involuntary dream spinning? ) Anyways, the flood was still going on but I was now at my house and no one else was there. Then the water seemed to subside slightly and I was able to craw into the house. It was now raining heavily and the flood was soon to return. For some reason though, I felt the urge to run upstairs and shut down my computer first. So I go upstairs and begin closing programs and such. As I am doing this, I look out the window and see half of my house go floating by. The whole first story now was completely submerged as well. In the dream I remember thinking, "Wow this is wierd. The house just split in half and the whole basement is under water, yet my computer still has power. Hmm... oh well, guess I'll just finish what I am doing." *facepalm of epic proportions* Yet ANOTHER opportunity that would of been perfect for a reality check. Anyways, that is about all i remember from this dream.

Well the first thing I remember about this dream is that i was in this kind of abstract white area that was really bright. Suddenly, over a speaker or something it was stated that i needed to find shelter because a tornado wa approacing. Turns out that there was a side room type area that went down about 20 feet in this huge white space. I went over to it and jumped down to hide from the tornado. So I was down there. The room was probably about 10 X 15 feet with the window thing I jumped down from up near the top. I could hear the tornado approaching... I sat down next to the wall in a little ball and waited for it to pass. Then some reallt strange stuff started to happen. The wind died down and it started snowing. For a couple of minutes I just sat there wondering what the heck was going on. (RC anyone?) Anyways, then the wind picked back up. The snow was coming down really heavily now and was making a pile under the window where I had jumped down. Then the engine from a train went wizzing by the window, blowing in more snow as it went along.

Then... well... I don't really want to explain. It was really personal to me but I'll just say this. Someone very dear to me appeared and asked me why I wasn't on the train. I told them I was down here because of the tornado. They replied that it was safer on the train. Well, I had wanted to meet them in a dream for a really long time so I decided to join them. The bad part is that my encounter with them was kind of wasted because I wasn't lucid and really aware that I was actually meeting them. Guess there is always next time.

Anyways, while we were on the train the snow kept coming down. We started piling it up so we could get to the roof of the train because we needed to get up there for some reason. Once we had finally accomplished this and made it to the roof, we went back in the train. We decided we needed to get to the next car but it was too dangerous to walk from car to car. After reaching this conclusion, we decided to just stay in the car we were in. Although I had no idea where the train was going or what we were really doing, apparently it was going to be a long trip so we decided it was time to get some sleep. As we drifted off to sleep, I decided to do a reality check. (always do one right before bed and when I wake up) I tried to push my hand through the floor of the train and... IT WORKED! Now lucid I became super excited. I was fully aware in the dream and realized I was actually with who I had wanted to meet for so long! I went over to wake them up but my excitement got the better of me and I woke up!

Skunked on lucidity two dreams in a row! There needs to be a little angry smiley face to insert.
Just another example to do reality checks as soon as the thought enters your mind.

As you all probably know, Colorado has been having a wildfire issue lately. Well, this worked its way into my dream last night.

So, I was at home and decided to go for a walk. I put on my running shoes and took off. As I went by the lake near the house it got really cloudy and dark. It looked really beautiful though and I stopped to take a picture of the lake. As I did however, it got really stormy with a lot of rain and lightning. Since the ground is so dry, I remember hoping in the dream that the lightining didn't start any fires. Well, apparently in my dreams when I wish for one thing, the opposite happens. Suddenly, the lighting struck the ground on some dry grass, instantly setting it ablaze. The other bad thing about it... my tractor was RIGHT NEXT TO THE FIRE! (yes, I do own a tractor. Bought one at an auction to fix up for some $$$) Anyways, before I knew it the fire had jumped to the engine of the tractor. I was pretty distraught and decided if I could get there in time I might be able to put out the fire and drive the tractor to safety. I took off running. As I was running some really bizarre stuff happened. I was THIS close to becoming lucid. *holds up fingers with appropriate spacing* In my dreams, whenever I run, I feel like I have some max speed. No matter how fast I move my legs or attempt to run, some supernatural force inhibits my running ability. Well, this started happening. In the dream I began to think that I might be dreaming. I considered doing a reality check but was so focused on saving my tractor that I decided against it. *MAJOR FACEPALM* I have learned this one the hard way many times now. WHEN IN DOUBT, DO A REALITY CHECK!! Well, I was nearing the tractor. Apparently though, there was this big ditch in my path. There was a house though right next to the ditch. For some reason, it seemed like it would be faster to go in the house, go to the second floor, bust out the window, and jump to the other side from there rather than just going through the ditch. So, I went in the house and did just that. Then I got to the busting the window part. I tried kicking the window a few times but it was really tough! I found some automatic window opener button thing and pressed it. As I was waiting I thought I might as well do an RC. I plugged my nose and inhaled. Well whaddaya know. I could breathe just fine! I went and stuck my hand through the wall just to be sure. Yep I was dreaming. i became pretty angry with myself that I had been wasting all this time when I could of become lucid a while ago. But, stil glad I was finally lucid I began to formulate what I was going to do. Just when I started brainstorming though... I woke up. My whole 3 seconds of lucidity ended right then and there. But I learned a very valuable lesson... As soon as the thought of doing an RC even enters your mind... DO ONE!

The first thing I remember about this dream is that I was at this huge shopping center, kind of like a Super Walmart I guess. Anyways, it was really late at night and almost no one was in the store. I remember going to the freezer section and then spotting a group of peopole running really fast down the aisile. It was really wierd because they were carrying this box of doughnuts and had one of them out of the box. Seeing as how they hadn't paid for it yet I decided I would go and talk to them and make sure they paid for the one they took out of the box. As I approached them they took off. Suddenly, I was wearing a police uniform and was in hot pursuit. I'm not really sure how I suddenly became the law enforcement, or even why I was really chasing them but this is what happened. Anyways, we went all throughout the store. Turns out the store hadd actually closed while we were all in there and these people were up to something big. We neared the cash registers and suddenly they pulled a pistol on me! I stopped in my tracks as they told me to put my hands up. I had to think fast. I did have on a bullet proof vest but what if they didn't hit me in the chest? Well, somehow I knew that what they were up to was worth taking the chance. I dove to the side and they pulled the trigger. Thankfully, all I heard was a 'click'. (they must of forgot to pull the hammer back) I pulled my Kimber .45 from its holster and hit the guy with the pistol in the shoulder. Then the other two layed on the ground. I called the rest of the force to the store and the FBI showed up as well. As we were examining all the stuff they had with them it turns out they had this tripod thing with a tube for launching rockets on it. It had 6 rockets on it and we looked at the little GPS thing on the tripod. They were going to try and launch these rockets at Washington DC! It was a good thing we stopped them. Also upon examination, the one doughnut they had out of the box actualy contained the launch keys... very cleverly hidden. Then, as is stereotypical of cops, we cracked open the box of dougnuts and went to get some coffee. (they were those really good powdered sugar ones with cherry filling too)

Well, there are almost two dreams here but the setting was so similar I'm not sure if one dream just changed a little bit or if they were two separate ones. Regardless, I'm just going to write it down as one. Ok so the first thing I remember is that I was on this giant ship / submarine. I was downstairs in some type of dining area I believe. It was wierd though because it was all dark and there were no chairs or anything set up. It was just a big, empty area in the bottom of this ship that seemed like it should be the dining area. Suddenly, over the loudspeakers I herd the captain say something, I'm not entirely sure what, but it meant the ship was taking on water and we all had to get past the airlocks if we wanted to live. Well, I made it and then the door shur behind me trapping a bunch of other people. Then MY room started to fill with water. Thankfully, I had spotted a little elevator / escape pod thing so I climbed in there. Then I just stayed in there as the ship turned into a submarine and went to dive. Then it flipped over and we all tumbled around. That is about all I remember from that part of the dream.
Before I knew it I was in this little shark cage thing that was spherical. I was rolling all around the ship and there were these HUGE sharks everywhere. Not just big for a shark, like really huge monsters. I remember thinking to myself that this was all the captains doing as pretty much every guest was in the same predicament as me. I also thought however, "Well, I am a main character in my dream, so I will be fine". (OK, I told myself that I was the main character in my DREAM and I didn't become lucid??) *bows head in shame* So anyways, it seemed that the submarine was divided into sections and the sharks were in cages. The captain would let a bunch of us into one of the cages and you can guess what happened. Then he would open the cage just enough for the survivors to float through to safety. I remember one of these events specifically where one person had lost thier cage due to the shark but was OK. My own cage had been damaged quite a bit, but being the *cough*nice*cough* guy I am, I asked if they wanted to shar my cage. Really though, I was planning for the shark to get them and not me. Well, the next time we entered the shark cage that's what happened. I KNEW I was dreaming and really could care less what happened to them but for some reason I didn't feel lucid. It was really wierd. There needs to be a category for semi-lucid. Anyways, that's about all I remember.
Should I classify it as a non lucid nightmare? IDK what to categorize it as so I guess I will do that. Wasn't really that scary though. Ok, nvm. Just a non lucid memorable.

Well, the first thing I remember is that I was on this mountain. I was with a couple of my friends and we had all brought our rifles for a fun day of shooting. I personally remember bringing my .204, .243, and an M16. (yes the fully auto one, not just the semi AR-15) Anyways, at first we were at the base of the mountain at a shooting range. There were plenty of targets and we were all blasting away sighting in our guns. Then, it started snowing or something and we decided to hike on up the mountain. As we progressed, we saw snowboarders going down the mountain. Eventually, we made it to the top and it was warm again. Although there wasn't a shooting range, we decided to make our own. I want and found some empty Coke cans and some pieces of rebar. I stuck the rebar in the ground and put the cans on top of them to make targets. We all started shooting again. Then this helicopter flew over and suddenly started to go down. I looked at my gun and realized I was shooting the .243 instead of the .204, and that it had made shrapnel out of the can and hit the helicpoter. (.243 is pretty small so idk why that happened) When it crashed we immediately went to help everyone out. They were all OK and we went back to our shooting. Finally, I got out the M16 and emptied two 30 round clips. That's about all i remember.

Ok well, here are the two dreams I remember from my hotel visit last night...

#1
The first thing I remember is that I was in a city and it was night. I then remember knid of randomly just being able to walk up the side of this skyscraper. maybe I had a repel line or something? IDK. Anyways, as I was going up this building, two fighter jets wizzed by and almost blew me off the building. I jumped onto one of them and asked the pilot if I could come along. He said that would be fine. (how I didn't do a reality check by this point is beyond me) So then we were off. We went around for a while and then climbed up really high and there was this space station / floating fortress thing up in the sky. Each pilot pretty much unloaded a couple of missles into the thing and it was toast. That's all I rememer from that one.

#2
I was at my house in the kitchen. I walked outside onto the porch and found this little snake. i think it was one of those little brown and yellow corn snakes. Anyways, it was really wierd cause it could talk. We became friends and I said I would find it some food. I then went around looking for another little garter snake or something for it to eat. I found one and brought it back and it ate it. As we were going along we found one of his friends. He asked to come along as well and we said that would be cool. Then we found this big python type snake. The two corn snakes told me that we should kill it. I asked why and they said because it was eating all the prairie dogs. Well, being a fan of shooting the little things, was more than happy to help so my little God-given targets wouldn't all be gone. They told me I needed to pin it down. This I did and then as it was distracted with me the other two killed it somehow. I'm not really sure how but they did. After we had finished this task we started off again although I don't really know where to. I must of woken up then because that is all I remember.

If you read the Snowin' in June dream this might of been an extension of that because... well... it was snowing again. So I was walking down the street with some of my friends. Then we passed this big tree and went over a bridge. My friends kept on walking but then I spotted some doves in a tree. For some reason this was wierd in the dream because apparently doves were never in trees (even though they ALWAYS are). Anyways, a couple of doves flew over and then I randomly saw some little colored eggs laying on the ground. I went and picked one up and then another one fell out of the sky and cracked on my head. I remember thinking to myself that I should collect all the eggs that were laying around and I could have my own little Chao garden (despite the fact that these were dove eggs). So I resumed walking and then I saw some other people all cheering for something. Then I saw this little mini t-rex thing running down the road. (it was like 2 feet tall. kind of cute ) Then I realized I wasn't the only one who had found the eggs. So you know how the easiest way to open one of those chao eggs in SA was throwing it at the wall? Well, I chucked one of my eggs at the ground and my own little dino popped out of it. Then they had a race thing and a bunch of gold coins popped out of the winner. I really wanted these for some reason and picked them all up. Then i got the rest of the eggs I had collected and continued on. I don't remember what I did with the little t-rex that already hatched I just left and thats all I remember.

For anyone that has ever raised wheat or corn you know that wheat is 99% of the time harvested in July and corn is in late October - November. Well, obviously in a dream that isn't the case. I remember that my grandma called me and said my uncle needed me to go cut a little wheat with the combine and take it to the elevator to see if it was ready. I went and did just that. When I was driving the combine it was almost like pushing around a toy one. I don't remember actually getting in and driving it, more pushing it from the outside. Anyways, then I went and did the exact same thing for the corn. I went back to the field and then my uncle showed up. He had a fracture in his thimb and was wearing a brace. I asked him if he wanted me to finish the rest of harvest for him and he said that would be great. That's as far as I can remember.

So I was in my kitchen and went outside. I remember that I went somewhere (idk where) and then was coming back to the house. As I got back it started snowing with really freaking huge snowflakes. At first I wondered if it was hail but then I got out of the car, stuck my hand out, and it was like snowballs were falling out of the sky. Anyways, while it was snowing, I heard that there was this farm auction going on. I decided to go despite the snow. When I got there the only thing I remember looking at were 3 weed trimmers. 1 gas and 2 elelctric. There were also a bunch of other people there. That is as far as I can remember.

I entered the dream standing at the railyards. I was with some people from school. Anyways, there is an overpass that goes over the train tracks. We climbed up to the top and jumped onto a speeding freight train as it passed under. We were then told that we all had to make it to the engine from the middle where we had jumped on. We all started advancing and eventually made it to the engine. I asked one of my friends why we had to get here and he said I would see in a second. Literally a second later we passed under a low tunnel and one of the guys who didn't quite make it to the engine (which was lower than the coal cars) was... evaporated... you might say. Just went poof. None of us seemed concerned for some reason though and then we recieved a radio transmission through the train's radio. We were told we had to get the train off the tracks and keep it going faster then 56 mph or else, although I'm still not really sure what "or else" was. (kind of like the movie "Speed" if you have seen it I guess) Suddenly all the freight cars derailed and the train was on its own. We went really fast around a corner and the engine derailed as well. Then it kind of converted into a semi. As we careened helplessly through the streets concerned our speed would go below 56 mph we came up with a plan. There were 3 of us. *Don't laugh at this next part, it was just one of those completely random things in a dream. Apparently it is a bad idea to play too much of one game right before bed because our plan involved collecting rings and killing little animal shaped robots. Ya my Steam profile says I played Sonic 4 Ep II from 8:30 - 10:00 last night. I went to bed right after lol. * OK so anyways one guy was responsible for killing the robots before they hit the train and slowed it down. The next guy was responsible for radio communication w/ HQ or whoever the heck told us we needed to stay going that fast anyways. The last guy, me, was responsible for collecting any passing rings and getting at least 50. So we did this for a few minutes and eventually had collected the required amount. "Well, what now?" I said. My firend said we should go ask someone who would know about these things and so we went to the college track. Don't ask me how we got off the train and stuff but we were just there all of a sudden. Anyways, we walked around for a bit to find this professor who supposedly knew what to do. We finally found him and he was wearing some type of Haloween costume. Before we could go ask him though we were back on the train/semi thing. We were now all hopelessly lost because our speed was now 60 mph and we were almost too slow. Then I suddenly remembered what to use the 50 rings for. I said we would just use them to have SuperSonic push the train for us. *thank God I grinded out that last Steam achivement huh?* For some reason this didn't really seem to say "DUDE, YOU ARE DREAMING." Well I guess none of the rest made sense either but ya, should of become lucid right then. Then the dream randomly changed before anything happened.

I was with a bunch of random people and we were all dressed up as Power Rangers. IDK why because I never even watched that show as a kid. Anyways, we were all outside standing in this garden type area discussing the best way to be a 'team leader' (no clue what that was supposed to mean but thats what it was). We tried to wrap up the discussion quickly because at 6:30 all our suits would turn off and that would be catostrophic for some reason. Well, 6:30 came and all the suits turned off. To protest, we all layed on the ground and would not move. Then some very flexible people decided to chop themselves in half to make the protest more dramatic. Good time to become lucid anyone?? People being fine after chopping themselves in half?? After a few minutes of laying on the ground this big vortex thing sucked us all up and the dream changed. After exiting the vortex I was on my front lawn in a conga line with all the people form school. In a firm tone of voice I asked one of the people there if I was dreaming because some things just seemed so wierd. He said no way and any awareness I had vanished as I resumed doing the conga!

I can't recall when this dream occurred but it was pretty vivid. Anyways, the first thing I remember was that I was riding in a car with this old guy from the nursing home who I was supposedly to take care of because he couldn't walk or something. Then I remember we went to a lake and launched a boat and began fishing. The boat had an outboard but he insisted we paddle. For an old guy who couldn't walk he sure could paddle the boat fast! I couldn't keep up! As we were going along we beached on a sandbar and he told me to get out and push. I got out and then he jumped out and swam to the shore. (so much for not being able to use his legs) As I went to go see what he was doing I just barely dodged a rocket car / boat thing. And who was driving it?? THE OLD GUY! After I finally made it to shore a carload of girls drove up to ask for the old guy's autograph because apparently he was some famous rocket car driver. I, being stuck having to take care of this crazy old man, had to go and get lemonade and coca-cola for him and his 'friends' to drink. Then I had a bit of deja-vu as he launched another rocket but this time it was actually a rocket. Then it went up a ways, came back down, and I narrowly avoided death again. Then I ended up serving drinks again. Soon after the dream quickly changed to the old guy finally going home. Turns out he was also a boss at driving rocket propelled excavators too and thats what he drove home in.