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    1. Cat and Dog and Ferret mix (Nov 20, 2011)

      by , 11-21-2011 at 04:22 PM (Realm of Insanity)
      I'm watching a commercial and it is talking about a new pet that is a mix of a Cat, Dog, and Ferret. I then look on my floor and there it is looking up at me. I pick it up and I can feel its smooth hair. It is also very bony. I walk upstairs to where my mom is and show her my new pet. She tells me to throw it away. I tell her I was not going to do that as visions of me breaking its neck and throwing it into the trash was visualized. We then get into an argument about whether or not to keep it. I win the argument.
      Tags: animals, dream, pet, wierd
      Categories
      non-lucid
    2. Black Widow

      by , 11-09-2011 at 03:59 PM
      I remember having this little dream as I was waking up. I was looking in this plastic container for something. It was mostly opaque, but the sun was shining on the side of it and making the inside light up some. There was a little dirt in the bottom. I leaned closer so I could see what else was in it. Suddenly I saw a big black widow right there. It startled me and I woke up.
      Categories
      non-lucid
    3. Aquarium and Fish

      by , 11-02-2011 at 06:39 PM
      Dream:

      I had just bought a fish tank. I had wanted to get a big tank and have lots of smaller fish in it this time. Last time I ended up with one really giant fish, so I wanted a change. But the tank I got had fish already in it. And as I looked I saw that two were actually pretty big. Then I recognised the kind of fish they were. These each had the potential of growing 18+ inches. They would eat the rest of the little fish and I would be stuck with only two huge fish.


      This dream reflects some real life events, like buying a big tank for a variety of small fish because I don't want another huge fish.
      Tags: animals, fish
      Categories
      non-lucid
    4. Lucid Dream: Flying, Kissing, Eating Chocolate, Mirrors

      by , 10-31-2011 at 05:43 PM
      Lucid Dream:

      This seemed like a long dream. But at this time it's fairly mixed up in my mind. I remember parts, but I am unsure how they fit together. So there will be some guessing.

      I remember walking down the street with a group of people. I could see little alligators coming out to the sidewalk. I thought it was amazing and cool. I had never seen alligators on the streets like this. I pulled out my camera. But my camera was having problems and wasn't taking pictures. I felt frustrated at first. Then I thought, "But this is just a dream--why do I even care about getting pictures of alligators at all. Well, because alligators are cool. I have to keep trying to get my camera to work."

      But then, of course, I suddenly realized that if this was just a dream then I should do something else. So I flew up in the air.

      But this is where I get mixed up. I think I was suddenly with Jeff. I flew away from him. Then I flew back knowing he would appreicate it if I stayed and made out with him. I think I kissed him a little, but for some reason it seemed he didn't want to do anything. I took off my shirt and looked at myself in the mirror and saw that I looked sexy. And I flew off again.

      I wanted to fly to the ocean. I flew over the countryside with rolling hills and pastures. I thought I saw the ocean, but it ended up being a lake. Then I looked beside me and saw a mountain. On the side were ledges that had animals like elk and deer. I thought it was so cool. I flew very close to a huge elk.

      I can't remember what happened next. I'm pretty sure I was with these kids for a while. I think my lucidity was slipping away.

      I do remember that I thought someone from real life telling me it was time to wake up. But I told them that I wasn't ready to wake up. And to be a rebel I opened a cabinet door and pulled out some chocolate bars. "I still need to eat chocolate." I took a bite. I wanted there to be carmel inside the bar and was happy to see that there was. I took many big bites, being a complete pig. I looked in the mirror and saw chocolate all over my face. There was a little girl with me also eating chocolate. She was making a mess too and we laughed at eat other.


      When I awoke from my dream I noticed my alarm hadn't gone off like it should. I thought it was interesting that I had that voice telling me it was time to get up, probably about the time my alarm should have gone off.

      I also know that there was more to this dream, and I have forgotten it.
    5. Hiking mountains and bad bathrooms

      by , 10-19-2011 at 04:00 PM
      Yesterday's dreams:

      I had climbed to the top of this huge cliff/mountain. I was alone and I got tired so I fell asleep on this little ledge next to the highest steepest part of the cliff. I "woke up" and saw where I was and freaked out. I was so scared that I couldn't move. I noticed my cat was now with me sleeping by my head (as she was in real life). I noticed she was right my the edge. I was a little worried for her. I didn't want her to fall. But I knew cats were pretty sure footed, so I started worrying about me again. I had no idea how I was going to get off this cliff when I was so terrified I couldn't move. So I just laid there.

      Finally this man comes to me. He looked about 45 or 50 years old and Mexican, but spoke with an American accent. He told me his name was Journel. He was very calm and confindent. He convinced me to take his hand and stand up. Once I was up I started getting my confidence back, and I knew I would be able to make it down the montain.

      Dream 2:

      I was excited to start this long hike. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time. I had gotten all this stuff ready for it. It seems like there were things distracting me from getting started, but finally I was off. But when I looked at my watch it was 4:00 in the afternoon. I had wanted to leave by 6:00 in the morning because this was going to take about 12 hours. But I decided that I was just going to go anyway. I was with Susan at this point, and Carl, I think.

      Dream 3:

      Another bad bathroom dream.

      I was in a large group of people. I think it was by a mall of sorts. I needed to go to the bathroom. I wanted to go in the mall to my sister's Salon. I had to wait in a line to get into the mall. And then I found that I had to have some kind of pass to get in. But I convinced the lady that I knew the person in the Salon.

      When I got to the restrooms I was that they were really just four toilets sitting out at the side of the store. There was a curtain that was supposed to pull across all four. I watied until there was a spot open and sat on the toilet. I couldn't get the curtain to pull across. I looked out and saw that the store was full of guys. I felt really embarrassed. But no one was paying too much attention to those of us on the toilets, so I finally just went.
    6. Long LD (Trick-or-Treating, World of Warcraft, Asking DCs questions, Kissing)

      by , 10-17-2011 at 05:12 PM
      Long LD from two nights ago:

      Ed called me and told me to look at the Moon outside. I went out onto my oorch. I was at my old home in LA. I saw the full moon. It was very large. I then was what looked like a satelite passing the moon. It then sped up and brightened up until it looked like a fireball. I thanked Ed for hainvg me go out to see that.

      Then I was in my kitchen. Several family members were there. There was a hole on the floor and water was leaking in. Ed was there. Marie asked him about the army.

      We then went back out to the porch and my telescope was there. We pointed it at the moon and looked at it. I was amazed by all the detail I could see. I could even see red streaks on the rock which made the moon look like it was made from sandstone.

      Something about this seemed odd. I wondered if this was a dream. But I knew that this was real. This was way too real to be a dream. But at the same time I decided to jump up in the air like I would in a dream because it seemed like a funny thing to do.

      Well, I jumped and hovered a sec. It wasn't much, but I thought about it. I knew that in real life I wouldn't hover for even a second.

      Suddenly I knew without a doubt that I was dreaming. I flew up in the air over my old neighborhood. It felt amazing. I noticed that I could feel the wind and the coolness of the night air and the feeling in my stomach of going up and down.

      I wanted to go even faster, but strugged, like I usually do. I focused on rockets coming out of my feet, and I felt like I was going faster, but nothing around me moved much faster.

      I then remembered that I needed to do a Task of the Month. One Task was to go Trick-or Treating. I landed back down in my neighborhood where I Trick or Treated as a child. I seemed really big, like my neighborhood was made out of dollhouses. But I leaned close to a house and rang the doorbell. Someone opened the door and I said "Trick-or-Treat!" They put something in a bag I was holding. I didn't see it, but I knew it was a tootsie roll. I went to another house. This time the person saw me and ran away screaming. I went to another house, and they gave me another toosie roll. The person in the fourth house ran away again. I laughed and knew that they were programmed to do that.


      I then looked around. Things around me looked like a World of Warcraft setting. I saw these kittens all around me in various places. I thought, "Oh, that's for the new quest. If I had accepted the quest the kittens would be all sparkley." I wished I was on the quest so I could collect the kittens.

      I floated up in the air again and came to a boardwalk. I landed. I saw a good looking guy and decided to kiss him. I didn't even bother to say anything to him first. I just pulled him to me and kissed him. After the kiss, he looked at me with a surprised, but not unhappy look. Then as if to get in the spirit of things, he then pulled an older lady to him and kissed her. After that kiss he looked at me to make a face, like "that wasn't really a good idea. I should have just kissed you again." So I asked him to kiss me again. but for some reason he started talking about "okra" and we never did kiss again.

      I then decided to talk to some dream characters. I saw a bar next to me. I went up to the counter and saw the bartender. He was about 55 with graying hair and he was very tall and had a beer belly and stubble on his face.

      I leaned toward him across the counter and asked him the first thing that came to mind, "Am I dreaming?"

      "Yes." He answered.

      "How do you know?" I asked.

      I can't remember what he said, but he started going off on all this scientific stuff. It really surprised me to get this from a bartender. I then asked him something else that I no longer remember. This time he said, "Ask Nurse May." And he pointed to a lady standing next to him.

      I leaned to her and said, "Hey, Nurse-- I mean, hi May..." And then I asked her if I was dreaming.

      "Yes." she answered, and I am pretty sure she went off on a complicated explanation why she knew that.

      I then asked, "What do you see when you look at me?"

      She said some word that I didn't understand, "Ethano..."----something.

      I then turned to someone else by me and asked then to look up that word for me since I was unfamiliar with it. They read me the definition...."one who is ruled by the hourglass."


      Hmmm...that was odd.

      Then the dream started to fade. I looked over to the bartender again and also at my hands and willed the dream to come back to full clarity. It seemed to do so.

      Then I was back in the World of Warcraft setting. Around me were frogs. I knew the quest was to chase the frogs. But I remember somehow my sister Susan was there. I didn't want to do the quest anymore. I wanted to talk to my sister, who was dead. But then I knew that I could do both. So I said, "Self, go chase the frogs while I talk to Susan." And I saw myself go running after the frogs. And I started talking to Susan.


      And that is all I remember. I am pretty sure that there were a couple of other parts of the dream that I don't remember.

      Updated 10-19-2011 at 04:05 PM by 5578

      Categories
      lucid , task of the month
    7. Lizards, Ants, and Ducklings

      by , 10-11-2011 at 09:54 PM
      Dream Fragment:

      I was in what was supposed to be my kitchen. I saw these lizards. I thought that I needed to get them out of the house. But them I saw that they ran over to a place under the sink where there was an anthill. They started eating the ants. Then I saw some ducklings there also eating the ants. I then realized that it was a good thing to have them in the house. I heard a funny rhythmic sound and saw that the ducklings were stamping their feet in unison to get the ants to come out of the anthill so they could eat them.


      Very odd.
      Tags: animals
      Categories
      non-lucid
    8. Traveling

      by , 10-11-2011 at 09:52 PM
      From yesterday:

      Dream 2:

      Very long and too many different parts. The theme was traveling. I was always on the go trying to get somewhere. I was traveling with different people at different times or sometimes along. I don't even remember the order of the scenes that I remember.

      I was driving a car that had these strange handlebars (like a bike) they were very wiggly and I felt I had terrible control of the car. I felt like I was in Southern Arizona somewhere between Tucson and Phoenix and I was heading North. I kept going down the wrong roads and having to turn around.

      Later I was in a gas station with Tanya and Marie. I was holding a bowl and a spoon. I took it in the little store, but worried that they would think that I stole it. At some point I was crying. The lady behind the register tried to make me feel better.

      I was in a restaurant with several friends. We ordered this big meals.

      I was in another little store with my mom. We needed transportation. A lady gave us these tricycles. We started to ride them. I saw how slow we were going. I knew that we would never get to our destination in time. I knew that my mom couldn't make it at all. Her handlebars were cracking off. And then both of mine broke.

      I looked at the side ofthe road and was fascinated by these strange animals. At first I thought they were a kind of pig. But then saw that they we more rat-like. But they had wooly hair like a sheep. One was trangled up in some string. I tried to help it, but it tried to bite me.

      I was walking through this town. I was alone and walked up this hill and saw a Mine. I walked closer and saw a man at the entrance. He started to talk to me, but I had this creepy feeling and wasn't sure if I could trust him. So I jumped down the hill. I remember thinking, "I'll bet this will surprise him. I'll bet he has never seen anyone jump down this big hill in just one jump before." I enjoyed the feeling of floating down the bottom. I knew there was something significant about being able to do that.
    9. Animal Garden

      by , 09-12-2011 at 10:52 AM
      This dream was set in what I think was supposed to be my grandparent's old garden of their old house. The lay-out was generally the same. I entered from the backdoor on the far right of the garden. In front of the door I saw the path leading left around a mounted flower bed. The path lead to stairs which, in turn, lead to the rest of the garden.

      In the dream it was the middle of the night. The only other person there was my friend Fred. He was over by the stairs whereas I didn't move much from the backdoor. There were no other people. There were only animals. A lot of animals. The garden was literally packed with them. On the mounted flower bed before me were what could only be described as giant rabbits.

      The rabbits were by far the biggest of the animals. There were also lots of flying creatures such as bats and a lot of insects. Nearer Fred, along with the giant rabbits, were a lot rat-sized creatures which I don't think exist in the real world. They reminded me of scorpions but without the stinger or pincers. They looked to be mammals by the looks of them.

      Fred and I spoke about how it was weird that in the day, this garden is completely void of animals but at night it's literally packed! Fred reached out and stroked a giant rabbit, which to my surprise, started growling at him like a dog.
    10. Drawing, driving, cats, etc.

      by , 09-01-2011 at 08:43 PM
      - I was driving a car and lost control of it; I jumped out and it drove itself into this convenience store parking lot a short distance away, and I saw it was a red truck. I ran over there but a man (who I knew was bad somehow) had gotten in and was about to drive away. I jumped in next to him. I don't remember what happened then but it switched to me telling some people about it. I was saying like "yeah so then I got in with him - great idea, right? hahah..."


      - I was at K's house, and went into her living room. It was all dark, and her cat was laying on the rocking chair. I started patting her, and was thinking she had a new name, though I don't remember what it was.

      Then suddenly it was bright again and K's family was in there with me. We were all sitting on the floor, and I was cross-legged with the cat in my lap. She also had these two tiny light orange tabby kittens; you could hold them comfortably in one hand. The cat I had already then climbed up on my chest and was sort of standing and giving me a hug. Someone gave me one of the kittens to hold, and I held it in my left hand, then reached out with my right hand for the other one. Apparently it was really funny that I was covered with cats and everyone was laughing. Someone took a picture then showed it to me.


      - I was going to meet up with N. [lol I always dream about this] I was sitting outside somewhere that seemed like a parking lot, then he texted me to say he was there. I stood up and started walking to where he was, which was just up some stairs and a few meters away. It was this weird, almost cave-like building that was basically like a really big, square, stone entrance, sort of attached to the side of a building. The area looked a lot like a street in my city that I used to walk down on my way to school.

      There were a bunch of people along the sides of the cave thing, and I walked in nervously, not sure if I would recognize him. Then he waved at me and I went over. I was really surprised because he looked exactly like this guy I follow on twitter except with black hair, which I don't think he does really. xD He was also shorter than me. He was holding a bag from KFC and eating from it.

      We left and started walking down the street, and he said something really quietly to me. I was like "what?" and then he started singing really quietly, sometimes adding in spoken words as well. I had to try really hard and lean down slightly to hear him, and soon realized he spoke only in song and confusing metaphors, lol. There was a group of 3 girls behind us, and one of them started repeating everything he sang. I was like "dude this girl is copying you" and he was like "yeah I think she heard that". Then the girls left.

      At some point he asked "so was this what you expected?" I was like "well you look quite a bit more like my old math teacher than I expected..." xD


      - I was with my cousin, I was laying on the top bunk of a bunk bed and he was laying on the floor, and we were both drawing. He had this book for figure drawing he was using. He asked if he could look at my sketchbook. I looked through it a bit to see if I wanted anyone to see. The last few pages had some nice colourful people and stuff, so I gave it to him and said he could start at the back and flip through a couple pages. Instead of a back cover, the book had a couple layers of a colourful neon plastic mini bead curtain.

      He ended up looking at it with his parents there, and the drawings in it were completely different from what I'd just seen. Some were just these crazy psychedelic patterns, but most were variations of this one disco kinda scene, with a bright tiled floor, black background, a disco ball and some lights, but made with different mediums (coloured pencil and watercolour) and with different figures in the middle. He was looking through a lot more pages than I thought he would, and I didn't remember drawing any of them, and I was afraid something bad would come up.

      They ended up being mostly okay, I only remember one that was like a weird naked dog person (nothing was showing), and one that was just a giant weird flabby bald head sitting on the floor. Everyone thought both were really funny.


      Note: Right before bed I ate a large apple and took 200mg of B6. I'd only ever taken 100mg at one time before because I read 200mg was the absolute maximum you should have, but several people here seem to take that much for dreaming, and it seems as long as you don't do it regularly it's okay. I think it did make a difference though, so I'll try it again sometime. I had more vivid dreams than this, but I didn't write them down every time I woke up (which was often) so I forgot a lot. Could be placebo, but it seemed like every time I closed my eyes I seeeee your face thereee for more than a couple minutes, I'd go right into another vivid dream, which isn't normal for me, especially lately.

      Updated 10-30-2011 at 06:14 PM by 13525

      Categories
      non-lucid
    11. Craft store

      by , 08-30-2011 at 07:36 PM
      I was in this really cool craft store with my cousins. It looked like a Micheal's and was all white inside. Most of the shelves were empty, but it was so huge that there was still a lot of cool stuff. I really wanted to shop, but my aunt made me carry their pet pig around the whole time (no they don't have one irl lol). It was black and probably 2 feet long, quite fat and really heavy. I was having a hard time picking it up, and my aunt was showing me how to hold it. I ended up carrying it like a cat, and then it was happy and started purring.

      I was finally able to put it down when they were done, and started looking at things. Some of the lights started shutting off, I looked outside and it was dark. Everyone was looking at me, and I finally asked, "..is the store closed?" I was informed that yes, it was closing, and the owners were waiting for us to leave. I was kind of mad because I hadn't been able to shop, so I said I'd just go really quickly.

      I found these bags of 700 mixed matte pony beads in red, yellow, green and blue for really cheap, so I grabbed one. Next to them there was a bucket of animal shape beads in different colours, another bucket of these bright and glittery plastic rings, and a few other buckets like that as well. You could fill a bag with that stuff and pay by weight, like at a candy store. I decided I'd go back a bit later and get some.

      I kept going and found these giant plastic moustache shapes hanging up, they were probably 1.5 feet long and came in a bunch of colours. I remember seeing brown, neon orange, and glittery green. I was half considering putting one on a necklace, but whoever was there with me saw me looking at them and smiling and was like "no, those are not cool lol". I decided to move on.

      Next I came across a rack that had hanging furry tails that were labelled "Unicorn Tails". They were probably about a meter long, had a clip at the top, were white until the last couple inches, then had rainbow stripes at the end. I grabbed one and clipped it to the back of my pants to see what it was like, then turned around to look at it. Turns out when you clipped it on, it curved back upwards about halfway. The end of the tail was at around the level of where it as clipped on, and there was a white plastic unicorn head on it. It looked really weird, but me and whoever I was with thought it was cool and started laughing.
      Categories
      non-lucid
    12. 20th Shared Dreaming Attempt - Randoman's Dream

      by , 08-21-2011 at 03:50 AM (International Oneironaut Shared Dreaming Journal)
      Randoman's Dream

      im like this tiny animal like a mercat and im trying to protect my yongr the envierment keep changing and it makes it hard to stay away from this panther; it has gold fur then there this minkey that a boxer.He has really toned mucles and the panther turns in to a monky to it just gold and they all jump in this small shelter thats has no roof it small as a out house.They jump in threw the roof;then this mana ray spoops in from the scy and go in.It shakes a lot then i see the gold mokry get puch and he it the saide of the shelter and the wall brakes a little then it brakes all the way and the monky comes out and grabs the gold one around the neck and thows him into the water so he drownds then he throws the mata ray at him so he will get electracuted. then he just sit on a ledge next to a walk way. A lady comes around the corner on the walkway and he like look at that ass in my head so only i could hear, im humand now, i go with the girl

      Updated 08-21-2011 at 10:00 PM by 47208 (Titled Incorrectly)

      Tags: animals, fighting
      Categories
      non-lucid , dream fragment
    13. Kitten

      by , 08-20-2011 at 10:06 PM
      - I was bringing home a kitten I'd adopted from somewhere. Her name was 'Franny Fran' or something and she was tiny, fluffy and light grey. I had to carry her home in my hands because we were walking and had no carrier. At one part of the journey it was really loud with lots of cars around and I had to hold onto her tightly so she wouldn't run away. I got "home" to my old house and put her down outside, and she ran into the backyard for a minute. When she came back she was bigger, like a large adult cat, and was acting like a hyperactive dog.

      - I was talking to G and he invited me to go to lunch with everyone like we used to. I then realized the only one who didn't want me there was K, so I went. I sat down and started eating when I heard someone to my left whisper very quietly to me, "the weed!". I turned and saw this girl JT was there. I was like "what?" and she whispered, "the weeeed!" again. This happened a couple more times before she just whispered, "never mind".

      - Also something really weird about talking on MSN on my phone. The text was really big. ('Aoi'?)

      Updated 09-02-2011 at 04:43 AM by 13525

      Categories
      non-lucid
    14. Ultimate fighting animals

      by , 08-20-2011 at 07:40 PM
      im like this tiny animal like a mercat and im trying to protect my yongr the envierment keep changing and it makes it hard to stay away from this panther; it has gold fur then there this minkey that a boxer.He has really toned mucles and the panther turns in to a monky to it just gold and they all jump in this small shelter thats has no roof it small as a out house.They jump in threw the roof;then this mana ray spoops in from the scy and go in.It shakes a lot then i see the gold mokry get puch and he it the saide of the shelter and the wall brakes a little then it brakes all the way and the monky comes out and grabs the gold one around the neck and thows him into the water so he drownds then he throws the mata ray at him so he will get electracuted. then he just sit on a ledge next to a walk way. A lady comes around the corner on the walkway and he like look at that ass in my head so only i could hear, im humand now, i go with the girl
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      Uncategorized
    15. My brother, the whale

      by , 08-12-2011 at 07:53 PM
      - It starts with me being in some kind of legal trouble, and then it's a flashback to what happened as I'm telling it to someone else, so I see everything but I'm narrating on top.

      I wanted to build extra rooms in the attic of my house so I could have my room up there and stuff, but my mom would only let me have half of the space, so somehow, I made up a brother...who was a small beluga whale.

      I built a few sections in the house that were weird and uneven. I saw myself drawing a diagram in pencil that looked kind of like this.
      There was a VHS tape that was evidence somehow that my 'brother' was 'fake', and I couldn't just move it or get rid of it for some reason, so I also built a chair that sat right on top of it and hid it.

      One day I was eating dinner with my mom and she told me that he had died. I already knew this, and wasn't really sad since he never even existed [??? I have no idea if he actually didn't exist at all or was just a whale or what...makes no sense], so I had to try REALLY hard not to smile or laugh, and managed to. I looked really shocked and put down my forkful of pasta for a moment, then kept eating shortly after lol. I saw a scene of him being checked at a hospital for "colon blockages". There was a progress bar stating this, but it was hovering around 8-9%, then said it failed and he died.

      My mom was talking about how he was such a good student at university and always got As and Bs. I was looking at a collection of his possessions gathered on a table that were going to be used by the police to do an investigation of his death. [even though he died of colon blockages?] It was mostly some photos and random stuff, but one of the things was a pendant I have. I thought that it was 'the most spiritual item he owned'. I also thought they might be able to connect it to me, and contemplated taking it, but didn't.

      The next thing I knew, my mom had found out and was angry that I'd made him up, and apparently this was illegal or something because I got in trouble with the police. She was also telling me these stories like how once she called him from the other room, and it upset her when he didn't answer or call back.. which was because he didn't exist.. and was a whale.


      - Another short dream where I was patting my cat, and then she froze up and got all weird and started licking the blanket she was laying on. I thought this was funny and brought her face up to my face. She was just licking automatically and would lick the air and started licking my face when I put her there. (That was the worst explanation ever lol) Then she stopped licking and started breathing really weirdly. I realized there was something wrong and got really worried.

      It switched to me at a movie theatre with my cousins. The movie screen was maybe half the size of a normal one and we were controlling it. We were trying to figure out how we could get it to show my cat at the vet. I was on MSN on my phone except it looked like MSN on the computer, showing custom fonts and everything. N was like "dude why aren't you talking" and I said "sorry, I'm at a movie theatre, and my cat is really sick =(".

      Updated 08-27-2011 at 02:26 AM by 13525

      Categories
      non-lucid
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