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Morning of December 12, 2015. Saturday.



In this dream, we have a pet penguin. The setting is our present home on W Street mostly as it is in real life. We are in our bed which seemingly has correct orientation regarding the overall layout.

Nothing much happens over time other than the penguin rolling around and standing up near me a few times, mostly on my right (my wife Zsuzsanna being in bed at one point though on my left). It is not really that annoying. The detail seems fairly realistic. There seems to be no stronger concern regarding the idea of being nibbled or pecked even though that potential is vaguely in the back of my mind.

A penguin has wings but cannot fly, so on one level, it is a “failed flight” feature relating to the waking transition, especially when not in its natural environment or swimming. This is validated by my “Penguin in a Jar” dream (1975) where the penguin takes on the symbolism of a fish and swims in a downward spiral deeper within the aquarium and my dream becomes more vivid, because on another level it relates to the dream state itself. The penguin being in our bed and not swimming (and lacking the ability to fly even though it has wings), it is metaphorical for my final stage of waking.

One of my last dreams relating to a penguin was a distortion of the waking mechanism as well, when the alarm clock’s radio came on and I remained in my dream for a time and the announcer appeared in my dream as a chattering (and cartoon-like) penguin, wandering crazily through a random maze seemingly on the surface on a pinball playfield.

Edited for clarity on Friday, 8 April 2016.

Yesterday:

1. A horror story type dream with a group of people. Some of them have to be sacrificed. When ‘I’ realize that one of them is going to be next, I say ‘I’m sorry’ to her. She bleeds down her body and the blood goes to someone else. There was a skeleton? And a man in poor condition ends up being healed. Then he goes in a room with someone?

2. Something about a group of people, one of them named Caerwyn

DST and waking up an hour early messed me up.

Today:

Anime-style dream with anthropomorphism. The style was kind of moe.

Two girls are on an ‘island’, but it’s like a desert area. They’re talking about how people throw the wrong kind of chocolate out for the girl on the right because they don’t realize she can only eat the softer kind that has ‘LOVE’ written on the colorful little wrappings.

A third girl lands/appears and walks close enough to hear them. She hears mention of the word ‘penguin’ and thinks they’re talking about her. She seems like a tsundere type in the way she acts. She angrily dives into the conversation asking why they’re talking about her, until she realizes (is told?) that the girl on the right is a penguin too.

Inspirations: Been reading a webtoon about anthropomorphic animals. It doesn’t have any penguins in it though!

I was overeating at an all you can eat buffet. My dad was there, and I knew somehow that he was reprimanding me about eating with serving utensils, but what he actually said was something about penguins (?)

What I think this dream is about is that at times I am so hard on myself that I interpret comments of others (such as my dad in this dream) as being critical of me because I am critical of me whereas in reality I may be reading something into their comments that was not there after all. He commented about penguins, and I interpretted it as a criticism of my table manners. I got to watch out for that.

My dream mad little sense but Hey they almost never do. So I found a penguin and am keeping it as a pet somehow. I Get in a Limo and the driver takes me and the penguin to a mansion that sells old VHS tapes. I happen to be looking for a specific tape. I don't remember what its called but i do remember that the cover is these two guys in white hoods with black feather wings and that the movie was released in 1992. (This is not a real tape only one in my dream) Anyway the setting of my dream is night time and rainy, quite gloomy in fact. While in the Limo on the way a look over and there's Batman sitting beside me. I'm like " DUDE! YOUR BATMAN" He just nods. I Say, "So What brings you here?" He explains he is searching for Robin who may be around the Mansion we are headed to. When we get there he hops out and goes off into the darkness. I start to go around the back where the movie entry is but some big thugs come out of no where and grab me and pull me inside to what looks like kitchen. They are talking all long the lines of using me to get to Batman. They take my Penguin. I start freaking out and say that it's going to die if they don't put him somewhere cold (this wasn't a problem until now) The big guy with my penguin gets all concerned and puts him in the freezer part of the fridge. That's when Robin busted in and started pounding on all the bad guys like the bad ass he is then grabbed me wrist and said "COME ON!" I follow him and the penguin is pretty much forgotten after that. (Poor penguin, still in the fridge ) We run in the next room which looks like a dungeon and see The Joker hanging upside down by rope behind bars in what looks like a jail. He Is bleeding and very badly beaten up. When he sees us he says. "Hows it hanging" The cracks up laughing. Robin explains to me those bad guys kidnapped him and that he has to save him. I'm not happy about it and ask "Why would you SAVE The Joker?!" Robin reply's "Have too, we can't just leave him here, that wouldn't be the heroic thing to do." So he start for the cage. Then Bigger then before and way stronger bad guys bust in. They throw me aside like nothing and i hit the wall with a thud and fall to the ground. Then they start wailing on Robin. At first he fairs well but they over power him and he ends up on the floor but they don't stop. They kick and punch him over and over. I tried to get up to help him but find i can't move(Don't you hate when that happens in dreams?) So I'm forced to watch as they beat Robin until he passes out and very nearly until he dies. They tie him up and hang him, close to death, upside down next too the Joker. I'm not going to lie, I'm crying at this point. I'm just like "ROBIN NOOOOO!" The guys throw me in the cell but down tie me up and leave. I run to Robin get him down. (Joker too has seemed to be forgotten for the time being) After I get him down Batman Swings in from a window and carries Robin out the window on to the roof. I Can't reach so i go out the way i came. Strangely there is no guards or anything to stop me. Then the Building starts to fall apart. I somehow know it's because of Joker, like his revenge or something. I look up in time to see Robin fall (He was apparently not being carried by Batman at that time) He is about to fall to his death but Batman grabs his wrist last second and clings to the building with his other hand. Robin is hanging there when he says the most heart breaking thing ever. Still bleeding and bruised he looks up at Batman and says "Just let me fall." Batman shocked asks"Why?!?!" Robin just slowly shakes him head and replies "I'm ready. I'm ready to be with my family now, so just let go..." (In case you were wondering, this is indeed the FIRST Robin) Batman is like "NO!!!!" Robin shoves off the building with his feet making it impossible for Batman to keep hold and starts to fall. I Shut my eyes and practically yell "NO NO NOOO!!!! THIS IS ALL WONG!!!!! ROBIN CANT DIE!!!!! He has to join the teen titans and later become Night Wing!!! THIS...DOES....NOT...HAPPEN!!!" I stay quite for a few moments and the setting has completely changed. I'm standing in the middle of a movie store and i'm right in front of the movie i had wanted in the beginning of dream. "Oh there it is." I say now completely calm. I get it and take it to the front. Standing in line is many of the same thugs from before and Robin chatting with Batman although nether are in there super hero outfits. The guy behind the counter is Joker and on his shoulder is my pet penguin. I don't find any of the strange in any way.

I never check out though because my grandpa wakes me up for breakfast...OK lunch...I slept in.
I will say this dream was probably influenced by all the Batman and teen titan stuff I've been watching lately. It was a pretty awesome dream nonetheless.

I can remember a small segment of one of the dreams I had last night. It took place at my dads old house. I had a penguin balloon that I was showing off to everybody some people I knew others I did not. I told someone I was calling it pengin and i said its spelled the same just without the u. Their reply was that penguin was spelled pengeine and i was wrong for using the u. I didn't question the persons spelling and assumed I was wrong. Eventually I handed it off to someone else who just let it go. I was worried I was going to lose it but it got stuck in a tree. Someone else got it down from the tree for me. That's all I remember from that dream.

These dreams are a couple days old

Under Water

I was in someone elses apartment. I tried to leave through the garage, but when I opened the door that led from the house to the garage, I heard an evil moan. I turned and ran the other way.

I ended up in a room with an angled floor. (I wonder what that represents). Somehow, I was supposed to be underwater, but I wasn't...though all around me were huge aquariums. The only one I really saw was for penguins.

I was concerned about being underwater even though I could breathe. Eventually, someone who worked at the aquarium opened a door from between two of the aquariums. Seeing my chance to escape, someone else yelled, "Fire!" and I ran out.

I was then in Florida in a neighborhood where every house had a boat on a lift, and every street looked the same, with sandy, shell-littered road. That's all I remember.

A Nothing Lucid

I entered a dream lucid, but I was thinking I was awake, or maybe lucid. I tried to manifest a woman, but I couldn't because I thought I was too awake. In hindsight, I realized I was lucid.

I have concluded in waking life that by the time you do an RC, you already know you are lucid. In contrast, I realize that THIS is why you should do an RC. Oh well.

Later, not lucid, I saw a lady standing a couple feet away in a silk neglige. She scratched herself with her pinky. I thought it must have been very soft.

maybe false awakening, I am in my room sitting on a bed. my brother and I are making little pictures for some kind of poem I wrote. it's in Korean, so I have to write all the pronounciation in English. there are 2 hispanic female friends to help me out for pronouncing the poem. we have to do this infront of kindergarten kids.(they are in my room)

my recall is foggy. I think I went outside my room. I watch a TV; the announcer says that there's gonna be a snow blizzard tonight due to electrical-thunder-snow-blizzard in Antarctica. I see penguins suffering in extreme windy weather. (kinda sad...) so I tell my mom this news in the living room. suddenly there is another 'new' mom. I recognized that we had new mom before...(in dream) so terrible. my real mom is kinda sulky about this situation.

anyway I return to my room, and the pictures and poem writings are disarranged. I ask my brother, whats going on? and he says, the DVD player is broken(I dont see the connection b/w DVD player and this poem stuff)... so I'm like, okay.
a kindergarten boy is sleeping on the floor with pillow and blanket. I wake him up, saying "do you wanna sleep in my brother's room?" and he nods, slowly walking out of my room.

here my dad knocked my room and I woke up.

back to back nights with biz-baseball dreams. fuck me though. i waited awhile to type this up and a lot of it is gone. didn't take notes or anything.

Its All In The Bat (non-lucid)

My team is on the field and they've got a guy on first. The shortstop made an error and threw it to me at third base for some stupid reason and I was real made. The same guy made another bad decision. (My teammates always make errors when I dream of playing). I made a leaping catch for the final out.

My first at bat I struck out because my bat felt extraordinarily heavy.

Next time I was on deck a team mate gave me a choice between two bats and I chose the lighter one.

I got up with bases loaded. I hit I high fly ball and thought for sure it'd be caught, but it dropped in the gap in between first and right field. That won us the game 3-2.

Frags:

1. I was playing a video game with BroY. We were controlling a penguin and had to navigate and jump on platforms. I found a trick to make the penguin fly higher and therefore complete the course faster. "Congratulations" was displayed on the screen.