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    1. DF

      by , 10-22-2013 at 10:41 PM (Casting Shadows)
      Note: I have to sit with a young brat on the bus. Last Friday she literally crawled on me, screaming, "I WAN'T PEPPERMINT! I WANT PEPPERMINT! GIVE ME PEPPERMINT!" the entire bus ride. Even after we told her that she could have not just one, but two if she would just settle down--nothing. Glah.

      Dream: The girl is sitting beside me. She keeps saying, "Please give me [...]. Please give me [...]." I don't know what she wants.
      Tags: school
      Categories
      dream fragment , non-lucid
    2. Dreams are becoming really long lol

      by , 10-20-2013 at 05:05 PM
      lol wow, I had so many dreams last night I don't even remember much at all about the first dream except the little notes I wrote down in my physical dream journal. I got a smaller dream journal to get me to write only notes about the dreams instead of the whole dream, but still its hard to not write down so many details.

      Dream 1: Most of what I can say is just what I have written down in the dream journal, can only remember the last part. Apparently it was some video game where I was fighting on expensive boats and there were jet skis, except I have no recollection of this part whatsoever. I do remember there was this one part of the dream I had to get an elevator and it was some scrapyard on the roof of a skyscraper, and I had this one girl helping me get across. And on the other end of the building was this temple and Eggman was inside the temple somwhere. We were about to go inside the temple and fight these creatures but the dream ended there.

      Dream 2: All I wrote down was something about fighting dbz style, I would really like to remember more of this dream but all I remember is I was controlling a character that was hovering over the ground really fast and moving to the right around a big rock. Did not feel like I was flying personally at all though.

      Dream 3: This dream I remember more clearly. In real life I am starting Spanish 102 on monday, but I had a dream where I was in the first class of Spanish 102. I sat in a seat right in front of this scrawny kid I used to work with and he said sit your mangy ass down. I said shut the fuck up you scrawny little piece of shit and I sat down and I stared at him cause I knew he was gonna try to hit me. The entire class was like "ooooh!" then he tried to hit me, but me being bigger than him I picked him up and threw him halfway across the room. I think after that I woke up. I don't act that ghetto in real life lol.

      Dream 4: This dream was the longest and I remember it the clearest. I was at my friend Mike's house and we were all playing xbox or something and I was just chilling there with some other people. Everyone else besides me and mike went to go do something and me and mike talked for a bit, i forgot most of it but we just talked about jobs or something. Then I saw his xbox homescreen was some lady with her breasts showing for like breastfeeding or some reason other than porn and then the other people came in. There were two girls and they were commenting negatively on it, then I realized they had their shirts off and I was asking them why they hate it so much when they are showing their own breasts (lmao). I realized I had to go to school or something so I grabbed my controller and headset, but they wanted to use the headset so I let them and just took the controller, for some reason I was in my boxers so I grabbed my pants and was telling Mike how I needed bigger pants cause they're all a bit too small for me now (not gaining weight irl), he says yea i hear ya then I grab my backpack and leave. Next thing I know I'm in some school, no idea what grade or age group the people are.

      I realize I lost my backpack so I go down this hallway looking for it. The hallway has white tiles and roofing and red lockers going down on the halls. On my way down some girl I know named Shannon is talking about how she doesn't take Spanish and is saying "psh, thats German politics", or something like that. While im walking by (I liked shannon in high school) im secretly wishing i took german instead of spanish lol. I walk up to this group of people and they are standing by a bunch of backpacks, they look to me as I walk up to them and I just say I'm looking for my backpack. I remember they are standing right near the entrance to a bathroom. I see a backpack that looks similar to the one I am looking for, not lucid so my dream self knows and im just kind of watching. I say I think thats my backpack and then say no that just looks a lot like it. Then one of the girls there says I think this is it, and hands me my backpack. I say thats the one and take it and walk out the door.

      Once I got outside the school I noticed one guy starting to run. He said he missed his bus and I think I missed it too. He said he went to some elementary school I went to and some college like James Madison or something. He said this all as he was sprinting down the street. I was sprinting right after him and we went down the street and through some neighborhoods. Looked like the area around the middle school I went to except it was very similar to this one small town I remember from another dream. I kept following him and told him its like chasing someone in GTA 5, and he laughed and kept sprinting, we were going somewhere in a big hurry but I had no idea where. He got into this open car and opened the door for me. Then as I was about to get in he drove forward a bit to prank me or something and he accidentally fell off the side of this 20-30 foot cliff. I was thinking "oh shit" and he started slamming on all sides of the car then when I looked over the car was spinning in the air like crazy then rolled about 7 or 8 times once it hit the ground.

      He was on the ground near the car and I asked if he was ok and if he needed an ambulance and he said he was fine. I kept asking him if he was sure and then I saw this girl with torn clothes get out, all she had left was her short shorts on. She was looking the other way and I was like oh crap she was in the car too. Then shes just standing near the car looking the other way. I was with the guy I was chasing and the girl was looking towards her father who was on a nearby street. Then her father came up to us and apparently he was in the car too? (dream doesn't make sense at this point) He walks up to us and his lip is sliced so that the bottom part near the left part is sliced off and the little triangle of his mouth is pointing away from his face. We kept telling him that it was bad and he needs to go to the hospital and he kept asking us wow are you sure, how bad is it? and we were explaining it to him lol. He kept touching it and we kept telling him not to. That was the end of the dream.

      Updated 10-20-2013 at 05:11 PM by 60885

      Categories
      non-lucid , memorable , dream fragment
    3. Class trip

      by , 10-16-2013 at 05:51 PM
      02.08.13

      The dream fragment, and thoughts:
      I was on some kind of class trip (i don't go to school anymore), out in a fjord somewhere.
      In the nights, i was sleepwalking and supposedly did all sort of strange stuff. Like tearing up milk-packs and putting them inside of each other.
      I was very scared of what i did when i was sleeping, because i did all these advanced activities, that made no sense at all. Afraid that i would do, or had done something bad.
    4. Ugly

      by , 10-13-2013 at 05:07 PM (Casting Shadows)
      First I'm in my English III class. The desks aren't placed where they normally are, but that's okay. We're taking a test/just got through with one.

      Later I look into a mirror and see that my eyes keep going cock-eyed on their own. I'm devastated and go to my mom and say, "I need to go to the dentist and an eye doctor," but she tells me that we don't have enough money for any appointments.
    5. 10/13/13

      by , 10-13-2013 at 02:52 PM
      I had a school-related dream.
      Tags: school
      Categories
      non-lucid , dream fragment
    6. Angry bigfoot, dirty bathrooms, and a fuzzy lucid dream

      by , 10-12-2013 at 05:45 PM (Mouka's Mind Palace)
      A lucid dream where at first everything was fuzzy and I thought I was laying in bed imagining things, but then the dream became more vivid and I realized I was actually in a dream. I rubbed my hands together in an attempt to stabilize it better, which worked. I was standing in a hallway leading to a big library, with checkered floors. There were many levels to the library, and an inclined hallway attached each story to the last one. I tried summoning Afiel, using expectation instead of intent, since just having intentions never worked so well, and called out for him. I tried telling myself that he would be around a corner and then I would round the corner, but nothing happened. As I continued climbing up hallways calling out Afiel's name like a crazy person, I began to notice random dream characters shambling about the library, and I got self-conscious because I didn't want to make a fool of myself in front of them. I realized I couldn't control my surroundings because I was too focused on the other people in the library, and thus couldn't summon Afiel, my social anxiety was bothering me even in the dream! I told myself "Okay, you know, these people aren't real, just go around and say hello to all of them..." so I wandered through the bookshelves saying hello to everyone I saw, and everyone smiled and said hello back. I passed by one woman with black hair, crouched down looking at books on the bottom shelf, who gave me a strange look when I said hello. I bent down next to her and asked what was wrong, and she said "Are you wearing perfume?", and I was confused for a moment until I realized I was wearing my plumeria body lotion. I told her I had that on, and she replied "I smell vanilla on you, not plumeria." and I told her that maybe vanilla was an ingredient in the lotion or something, and she got all huffy and said she was allergic, so I just walked away confused. More happened, but this dream happened near the beginning of my sleep so most of it is fuzzy.

      I was undercover (or maybe a new transfer student or something?) at a school, and the lunchroom was outdoors. All the lunch tables were set up outside the school next to a giant old wooden deck. The deck was roped off because it was rotting and dangerous, and just touching it could cause it to collapse, but for some reason I really wanted to go stand on it. I remember thinking something weird was going on with the lunchroom food, so I would give the students a survey to take asking about their food and I got my own and analyzed it. I was starting to uncover some kind of secret but then they kicked me out. I also remember at some point going into the school bathroom, but it was gigantic and had dozens of rooms with hundreds of bathroom stalls, and also lots of bathtubs in-between some of the stalls. I wandered around the rooms trying to find a clean stall but they were all dirty, and I wondered what kind of person would take a bath in one of these tubs in such a dirty bathroom.

      Cory and I were at a grocery store in the produce aisle looking at potatoes and yams. It was a very high-end store because there were personal concierges in the aisles that told customers all about different foods and recommended things. Our concierge was showing us these exotic potatoes that looked like onions that had been cut into slices. She showed us green ones and red ones, and we didn't really want any of them, but I felt guilty having listened to her talk about them for so long only to not buy one, so I asked which one I should get. She said "Get whichever you think is healthiest." and for some reason I decided the green one was the healthiest so I put that in our cart. Then I noticed a poster on the wall talking about a gun auction and forest scavenger hunt, and she said that the owner of the store was auctioning off all his historical guns, but when I asked where in the store it was happening she informed us it would only take place online. Then I asked about the scavenger hunt, thinking I do geocaching so it might be fun to go, and she said it was taking place outside in the woods right now. Cory didn't want to go because he wanted to keep shopping, so I went into the woods alone. As soon as I went in, the dream shifted from first-person mode to a third-person perspective about six feet above my head. I found the group, and they paired me with another guy, saying nobody could go into the woods alone due to bigfoot sightings. My teammate and I searched through the woods together, but he had a rifle which made me nervous. I asked him why he needed a gun, and he said it was for protection against the bigfoot. I was bothered by that because I didn't want to kill a bigfoot, but he insisted they were dangerous. As we kept walking, suddenly I heard a gunshot and then we turned around and saw a big white bigfoot running right by us. I screamed, and he shot it, causing it to stop running and turn its attention to us. I was pissed that my teammate had shot it for no reason, plus the bullets didn't seem to do anything, and now we had an angry bigfoot coming at us. I freaked out and fainted. When I came to, the bigfoot was chained to a tree with some kind of heavy leash, and my teammate was throwing rocks at it. I told him to stop hurting it, and he turned around to look at me, causing him to drop his guard and the chained bigfoot grabbed him. It threw him against the ground over and over and then ripped a big strip of flesh off of his leg and ate it. I ran away screaming and flailing my arms about everywhere.
    7. 10/11/13

      by , 10-11-2013 at 12:48 PM
      I got to sleep in today because I don't have school. I woke up and went back to sleep a few time, so my recall isn't all that great. The at least two of the following dream fragments may have been from the same dream.

      1.) I woke up in bed. I checked my phone; it said it was about 2:30 p.m. I remembered I had the day off (but somehow didn't remember that I hadn't left my phone on the bed).

      2.) I was taking some sort of magic or occult class.

      3.) I was in class and my crush said my name (to get my attention) and said some random, weird, funny phrase to me. I suspected she was hitting on or flirting with me.

      Updated 10-11-2013 at 12:52 PM by 63938

      Tags: class, crush, school
      Categories
      non-lucid , dream fragment
    8. A bear hug, worms, and a detailed dream I can't really describe

      by , 10-11-2013 at 12:26 PM (Mouka's Mind Palace)
      I had sleep paralysis that led to a lucid dream. As I entered paralysis, an image in my mind began to take shape of an angry giant man with black cornrow hair sitting on a throne. When I landed in the dream, I was in his throne room, and he stood up and started walking towards me menacingly, and I knew he was going to try to kill me. The dream was very unstable, but I was more concerned about the scary dude than about increasing my lucidity, so I said out loud "This man is my uncle, and he's coming over to give me a hug!" and I held out my arms. His demeanor instantly changed, and he was smiling. He ran over and grabbed me in a big bear hug, and then the dream faded and I woke up.

      I went to the local indoor pool club to go swimming. When I entered the building, the pool was surrounded on all sides by red plush seats on balconies, like some kind of fancy concert hall. One of the other swimmers pointed up towards Grace balcony (each balcony was named after a girl's name) and told me that Misha Collins and Adam West were sitting up there chatting. I got all excited and went up to see them, and sat down all nonchalantly next to Misha (he sat on my left, and Adam sat on his left), but I noticed Adam West was actually the cartoon character from Family Guy and was babbling about his crazy stuff. My dog came over and laid down on the chair to my right, looking all depressed, so I gave her a hug. As I hugged her, I looked over at the actors all embarrassed-like and said hello. Misha smiled and said hello back, and then said he was going to shoot himself out of a canon above us into the pool, and he wanted me to take a photo with my phone. He put on a weird white helmet that covered his eyes and got in the canon, and then flew out into the pool from super high up, but I was unable to get a photo because he moved too fast. Then I remember feeling annoyed because I was paying 30 bucks a month to use this pool and all its facilities, and they never told me that they had a pool canon to use. Before Misha could return, a voice on the intercom said "General Mills! General Mills!" and I knew they were calling for me and a few other people in the pool area, because we were carrying boxes of General Mills brand cereal. So I headed up a hallway out of the Grace balcony and as I was walking, a random girl started to walk next to me, and we were both carrying backpacks and the hall was now in a school and surrounded by lockers. I looked down at the ground and saw a virtual pet key-chain laying there. I picked it up, and the girl suggested I keep it for myself, but I knew it wasn't mine and that would be wrong, so I told her I was going to take it to the lost and found office and we went our separate ways. On the way there, I saw another virtual pet key-chain laying on a bench, the exact same model, but before I could pick it up, a girl in gym clothes with a towel over her shoulders walked by and picked it up. So I went to the lost and found office, and there was a glass window with a little drop box, and a bored woman with curly brown hair in a police uniform reading the paper. I couldn't put the key-chain in the drop box because someone had stuffed it with shoes, so I opened the door to where the woman was and handed her the key-chain, which was now no longer a virtual pet but a plastic figurine of a grey cat. The woman looked surprised and said "You found my key-chain! My daughter lost it, I thought I'd never see it again!", and with that I left the office and walked towards the front of the school. At the front of the school were 32 registers and sliding glass doors, like the front of a big department store. I noticed I was now a four-legged animal, and everyone in line at the registers were also animals, but I could only move two legs at a time so I walked very awkwardly. In front of the sliding doors was a display with General Mills cereals hanging from it. As I made my way from register one to register 32, I kept tripping over books that were laying all over the floors in front of the registers, which caused the books to go flying. The cashiers would cheer when a book landed near their register because the cashier with the most books near their line at the end of the day got some pills that made you a genius. I remember one of the books I tripped over was red and pink, and called "The Book of Lists of Books that Say They Are True, But Are Actually False". As I passed one of the registers, I heard a guy calling at me, a friend of mine but who was now a llama, and he said "Hey! Check it out, I've got a turtle now!". Sure enough, he had a wicker basket on his back with a turtle peeking out of it. I marveled at it because I remember he used to have something else in the basket.

      I was in a house, I think it was my old home in Arab, and there were leaks in the ceiling that were dripping down onto the carpet making it all squishy. I also saw bits of soil and lots of thin long white worms. I was kind of afraid of the worms because they looked strange to me. There was also a structure made out of pine wood set up in the room, it looked like a pool table that was unfinished or something. There isn't much I remember about this dream except snippets, but I remember going into my room where I had a big wooden clubhouse set up, and then going into the clubhouse and locking it, and laying on the little bed in there and crying. The worms were also on the floor there, too. Someone was banging on the door to my clubhouse while I was crying, trying to get in. I also remember a weird alien bobble-head toy that felt very soft and warm when I touched it, like it was alive.
      Categories
      lucid , non-lucid
    9. Dreams Do Come True . . . In My Head Anyway!

      by , 10-08-2013 at 11:59 PM
      Dream One

      My crush’s mobile. A job was calling him but he went to the loo and said “If that’s the job, don’t press the red phone button or the call will die. Just say I can’t come to the phone etc”
      He was really angry when I lost it
      Time reversed and then I got the call in time, he was really happy
      School setting
      Costas or Neros Brownies, found some coins on the floor
      My crush went to sit by my cat in the garden at home

      Dream Two

      Chatted to my crush on FB, sent me pic of his messy room and then we talked for a while
      My crush had just come back from a skiing trip
      Met them in the hallway couldn’t say anything but a mumble
      Posh hotel ran upstairs to room
      I was in a dress like Cinderella!
      He saw me
      Assembly, sneaked in at the back
      Lost my debit card and passport took someone else’s debit card

      Dream Three

      School fields, football
      Changing rooms, didn’t have the right things to wear
      Teachers
      My crush with other friends, posing for a photograph didn’t communicate
      Secondary school lot
      My thoughts of “I’m going to be so sad when this year is finished, still, another six months to go!”
      Running around and getting in the way of the matches

      Dream Four

      Glee was on. When it finished I shouted “Wahee!” and my crush looked at me laughing but with a kind smile. Was walking talking about Cory to someone, little paths in a wood setting
      Theatre school? Dancers
      There were lots of cakes, really good cakes
      Arty projects on the table
      School again

      Dream Five

      School, my friend and her daughter wanted me to see her presentation?

      Dream Six

      My school friend bought a bright blue skirt 180 pounds
      I lost my History book
      She hired guards so the dress wouldn’t be stolen

      Dream Seven

      Harry Potter staircases (the difference between them)
      I’d just started the Harry Potter job
      My school friend was there and there were yellow flowers but she didn’t do the presentation with someone.
      I was at school AGAIN – Old friend was there cheering me on about me explaining about the Gryffindor Sword and Page to Screen.
      Another friend was coming to pick me up from a school

      Dream Eight

      My crush accidentally deleted me off fb and then requested me but then explained he would be on another account called Mums.
      I nearly got run over while thinking about him

      Dream Nine

      Jk rowling was at the library
      Teaching us writing
      Dad
      Me
      My friend
      Stepping stone shadows?
      Jaqueline Wilson had written a letter to JK Rowling about her next venture
      I said how the latest book had had ‘notes’ of Potter
      I said “I’ve met you before” and whispered studios and winked at her lol

      Dream Ten

      My crush sent me another message
      Dad and his partner and I went down to the beach
      Cakes, Victoria sponge
      My baby don’t care singer older woman
      Tshirts on
      One tshirt had dad from guitars on the beach on lol
      One back to the future tshirt flashed other designs car
      School was back in the dream, homework? Classes
      Futuristic
      Dad's partner had changed the kitchen tables, she was getting stressed
      I said “Why not make it like a restaurant?”

      Dream Eleven

      Old school crush, we’re all on the bus
      Bus picked me up from old bus stop
      My friend in the road didn't get run over
      David Copperfield
      Michael J Fox reminder about his show in the US

      Dream Twelve

      I was in my room, didn’t know if I was awake or not so I was going to jump out the window, then I thought, ‘If I’m not dreaming, I will die’ so I checked another way by doing my usual ‘treading air’ thing to get into flying mode. It worked, so I flew out the window! How come I use more logic when I’m dreaming than when I’m awake?

      There were waterfalls, palaces, rivers, fields, people rushing about, everything was so detailed.

      4 of my cat Emi
      Floated down the stairs
      Met mum who was angry with me 
      Voice over actors
      “Guys, I’ve just had an epiphany in a dream! I can contact animators about voice overs, because they’ll have contacts.”
      Hotel and I flew up the floors

      Dream Thirteen

      GIANT slowworms in the garden!
      My old friends in a shopping centre, one a crush of mine but not the one I keep dreaming about
      There were bathrooms
      That's all I remember
      My cat was white for a second

      I'll start wrting the dates for them in the future! I obviously didn't dream all these in one night

      Updated 10-09-2013 at 12:05 AM by 65921

      Categories
      lucid , non-lucid , memorable
    10. Shopping at a bookstore, and Cas in the lunchroom

      by , 10-06-2013 at 10:28 AM (Mouka's Mind Palace)
      I was in the lunchroom with some friends, and Cas from Supernatural joined us. We were all trying to play it cool, but silently freaked out among ourselves and fawned over his adorableness as he sat down and tried to figure out how lunchrooms work. I got up to get a drink, and when I came back to the table, he was gone. One of my friends, Sarah I think, got his phone number, and we kept calling it to hear his weird voice-mail greeting. But when I tried to enter his number into my contacts, my phone's auto-correct kept changing his name and wouldn't let me fix it, so I wasn't able to save his number. We left the lunchroom and went to class, and I sat down at a desk near the back. The teacher gave us some kind of math quiz, that had word questions about how long it took to travel from one place to another place. The questions were worded like "A plane leaves Las Vegas at 5pm and arrives in New York at 9pm, how long did it take to get there?" which is obviously easy to answer, but the teacher demanded we answer the questions a certain way that involved looking up the distance between the two cities and the average speed of the airplane and using that to find the answer instead of just counting the hours between 5 and 9. I was upset and I thought I failed the quiz because I didn't understand his confusing way to answer.

      Cory and I went shopping at a bookstore. He was off in the sci-fi section, and I wandered into the new age aisle and was looking at the tarot decks they had for sale. I don't remember what happened after that, but later we were both out on a porch that was covered in vines, and we were watching episodes of King of the Hill. The TV we were watching was interactive, and it would occasionally pause and show a black screen with white text. It would ask what we would like to see happen in the episode next, and give us multiple choices.
    11. Drug Smuggler

      by , 10-04-2013 at 12:46 AM (CHiLLEN's Dream Journal)
      I love messed up dreams like this.

      I remember seeing a scene where there was people doing psychedelics in a rest room. All they had to do was stand in a puddle outside of a cubical and that would give them the tripping sensation.

      I was trying to smuggle drugs into a school for a group of people. I made my way through my home town, remembering walking up to at least the paint shop.

      I reached the school and made my way to the toilets. I went inside the cubical and a guy was in there with me. He was explaining to me what was going to happen when it came to the drugs. He explained that we needed to have certain coloured poo in the toilet bowl, all from light to dark poo. I think I had already had a poo in the toilet earlier. I don't remember seeing other people have a poo in the toilet, but there was now 5 poo's. The guy was explaining to me about how we got the different coloured poo. He said something about being active in sports? I looked into the bowl and noticed that the 5 poo's mostly looked different, some not so different.

      I think the door was open the whole time, and I bought out the drugs that were in my pocket, and placed it on top of the toilet, near the flush buttons. A guy that was involved with us, was standing outside the cubical, gave me a look of disbelief. He couldn't believe I would pull drugs out, so anyone who walked passed could see what we were doing (I think I recognised him, Ash R's mate?).
      Someone must have alerted authorities about the drug use, and we were tipped off. I was told that we were probably going to be patted down as we left the building, so I put the drugs down near my ass. I could feel it there, and thought it may have been sticking out a bit.

      As I was leaving with someone, we were confronted with doors. As I went through the door, it was a similar area to where I had just come from. It was as if we were in a maze and had to choose correctly to leave the area.
      I remember a Chinese guy, he was quite tall and had the look of a mob boss. I think he may have been after the drugs?

      I reached stairs, that were very steep. As I worked my way down them, I noticed police man on both sides. There was 3 police man on my side and I had a problem passing them. I think they were willing to let me passed.

      Dream fragment:
      I saw an Echidna laying on it's back. I could see it's stomach, as it was trying to get upright.
      Bet NONE of YOU have ever done this!!!!  =P-echidna.jpg
      Echidna - I don't think I ever remember seeing an Echidna on it's back, but it was very similar to the second picture.
    12. Physics Class iPod

      by , 09-29-2013 at 12:29 AM (The Redeeming Dreamer)
      9/28/2013

      Dream 1:

      I was in Physics class (which I took last year). I was sitting next to a blond, Caribbean girl. I was trying to make small talk with her. I also brought my iPod to class, along with the dock. I played it in Physics class. The whole time it was there, I was afraid someone would steal it. That is all.
      Categories
      non-lucid
    13. The Hickory Sniper and the Spy Job

      by , 09-26-2013 at 01:42 PM
      09-24-2013 -- I'm walking down Hickory toward Greenleaf, just passing the Goodwin house when somebody comes running, screaming, out of the house and into the street, which causes somebody who was driving down the street to swerve onto the lawn, causing me to have to dive out of the way to avoid being hit.

      This causes me to roll out of the way, and into the Goodwins' back yard, where I find the police are looking around, and I start to learn what is going on. A mad gunman has fired on some people, perhaps even killed some people, and they have him trapped here in the Goodwins' house, but he's hiding inside, and they don't know exactly where he is, and he could pop out at any time and shoot somebody, so they are being really cautious.

      I slowly make my way around the back yard and then the side yard, feeling like I am being watched the entire time, and like he has a gun trained on me ... very nerve-wracking. I eventually make it to the front yard, then start heading down the street toward Greenleaf again, but now I am going for help, though I don't really know where or what kind of help. A sports car pulls up and offers me a ride wherever I am going, and it is the guy who almost ran me over, and turns out to be a friend of mine.

      The guy is sort of a cross of Dave D, Sean S, and Phil L, a nice guy, but a little bit of a trouble-maker, and I am ribbing him about almost running me over, and he explains that the gunman shot at him and he was trying to avoid hitting the woman that ran into the street, and it is not his fault ... and I am never going to let him live this down, am I? And I tell him no, I'm not, but I am starting to climb into the car with him.

      That's when his older sister shows up. She is rather pushy and unfriendly (reminds me of Tina, the older sister of another of my childhood friends) and explains that he had no permission to borrow the car, and was already going to be in big trouble with his parents, but now that he's crashed it into the tree in the Goodwins' yard .... He goes off with her in the car, and I am forced back on my feet to try and find help. I am now right by the corner of Hickory and Greenleaf, and may be renting a bike to ride while looking for help.

      I am considering a particular model because it is being advertised by a Brian Keith-like curmudgeony sales person who is pushing that model, and I am soon walking it by the house with the hedges. I notice that a dog who has always been loud and unfriendly and kind of scary now seems to want to be friendly, and the neighbors are talking about the killer down the street, and I now find myself going home.

      Soon I am at the Hickory house, collecting mail at the front door, and as I walk inside, I find somebody who is an odd cross between my cousin Lyle, Horatio from CSI:Miami and James Spader, and he is proposing theories about the killer while running a long strip of film negatives through his hands. He seems to be developing the film, and drying the various chemicals off the strip.

      Mom doesn't buy his theories, and doesn't seem to trust him at all. She says he can't claim to have had knowledge about this months ago when it only happened in the last day or two. (Strangely, I haven't heard him say a word about knowing about this months ago, and it has only happened in the last few minutes, so I have no idea what she is talking about.)

      Soon the area is turning into a cross between a school (large school, high school or college, not a small grade school), and they are trying to recruit mom to do some kind of undercover investigation where she would be posing as a returning student, but she doesn't want to do it. I think she is afraid she'll find she likes it too much, and will really go back to school, and she doesn't want to do that.

      She finally agrees, and steps into the hospital / college / whatever it is, and starts having to dodge several young men with very Weasley-red hair and bearing, who are running around trying to find food that they can reheat for more and larger meals. Meanwhile, mom is dodging around doing her investigation, and I find the place is turning into more of a cross between the TAMS facility and Hewitt, and I am on the second floor in the offices trying to find an attractive young lady who I may have a thing for, and trying to stay out of trouble.
    14. Variations on the Death of Sanity

      by , 09-26-2013 at 12:57 PM
      09-26-2013 -- [Very long, detailed, funny dream, that like usual, I can not remember well enough to really do justice to it. I literally woke chuckling to all the insanity I'd just been through.] I am at a hotel or something, almost certainly at or near Walt Disney World, and I am with Dale. He's on the last full day of his vacation, and is stressing out about going home the next day. He's worried about packing everything and getting the rental car returned and all.

      So I am walking him through it all step-by-step, and telling him it will all go smoothly and be easy to get everything done, and he is starting to calm down. Meanwhile, we seem to be eating in a little restaurant or cafeteria that seems more like it is in a school than a hotel (hints of FCM at IWU), and Dale is mentioning how he ended up writing some sort of sarcastic bit for a small humor newsletter, but what was supposed to be one little bit has grown into three, and he's handed them to me to read, and as I am doing so (and nothing ever reads well in dreams) the publication is growing from a Teens Today-size 11x17 folded-into-four-page handout to a Hornet-sized newspaper to a multi-page, multi-section full-size newspaper like the Orange County Register, which I am having trouble folding to carry under my arm.

      Meanwhile, Dale has just taken out his trombone and has walked into the back of a classroom and sat down with his instrument as a very no-nonsense teacher and a bunch of students start to walk into the room. It seems Dale is sitting in on a rehearsal. The teacher is very tough and demanding, but all Dale ever receives from him is the occasional brief nod, so he must be a very good musician. [In real life I am almost certain Dale doesn't play anything.]

      As the teacher starts and continues to lead the group, I am very surprised to notice all the brass players are segregated behind a 'sound-proof' barrier that can't block the sound entirely, but lessens it, so the teacher isn't having to constantly warn the brass not to blare, and urge the woodwinds and strings to be louder, to be heard, and I am thinking to myself what a brilliant idea it is, and wishing we had it back when I was in band. But Dale is not behind it, so I guess the trombone is a woodwind in this dream.

      Anyway, they play for a bit, and then they seem to take a little break, and while the professor is giving his students small bits of individual instruction, I am making a few comments (about the vacation, not the music) to Dale, and though I am afraid the music teacher will snap at me, he doesn't. The teacher is a sort of a mixture between Mr. Eubanks (one of my teachers, though not a band teacher), Pat Moran, and Lisa Simpson's music teacher.

      Soon the whole class is moving, and it seems like we move about a corridor over. It is like we are moving from a practice room to a performance hall, and starting to prepare for an actual concert or something. But there are more and more people walking in and getting involved, and lots of 'guest stars,' both from TV and from my past. Tony Shalhoub seems to be puttering around, and Ron Howard seems to be playing an instrument, and wondering how things are going to play out, but they are both very young. (Ron is Happy Days age, and Tony resembles his character in Galaxy Quest.)

      There is a young lady who is top of her class, and very proper, but kind of stuck up (a sort of cross between Sharon Newkirk's brilliance and Cordelia Chase's attitude) who is supposed to be one of the star performers, but she has managed to do something to anger the professor, and he just points her to an out-of-the-way corner and orders her to sit down and shut up, which has her pouting and angry.

      Meanwhile, there is a very flashy and flamboyant piano player, a kind of a cross between Liberace and Elton John, very forward, demanding, and visual, who is just passing through, but sees a piano, and can't help but sit down and start to play, and the professor tolerates it, but makes it plain he expects him to behave, and amazingly enough, manages enough presence that the flamboyant player meekly agrees.

      So they are all starting to tune up and prepare, and Dale is still hanging in the background, out of the way, but ready to play. Since he is not one of the students, he doesn't want to put himself forward at all, but he is still going to sit in and play along. Meanwhile, Shawn Spencer is also here, and is his usual insane self, and is coming up with all sorts of ideas on how to make the concert or opera or whatever it is supposed to be, and somehow the strict, demanding, controlling professor finds almost all of his insane ideas to be interesting, and is largely giving him free reign, and thereby allowing chaos to spread incredibly.

      So the people are wandering in and out, music is played, Shawn is rewriting both the show and bits of music on the fly (at one point he walks by the piano player, throws in a hand, and adds a small riff mid-song before walking off) and though I expect both the flamboyant pianist and the controlling director to be furious, they seem much more bemused, almost sort of "Yes, that does work nicely."

      The girl is complaining that she isn't being allowed to do anything, and it's just not right! Ron Howard is having fun, but confused as can be about what is happening, and Shawn is getting more and more wild in his ideas, which doesn't bother the controlling professor at all, though it certainly ought to! Things are getting more and more surreal, and the audience is just laughing hysterically and taking it all in. It is chaos ... brilliantly orchestrated chaos!

      Finally things end and we all start filing out. I want to tell the professor how much I liked the concert, and also I still want to comment on that brass behind the barrier thing, but there is no way to get near him at the moment, and the press of the crowd more or less forces me into the practice room that we'd visited earlier. It seems that other students, not part of the group performing, but inspired by the concert's madness, have run rampant in here, and trashed the place.

      The college staff have been working at cleaning the place up, and are somehow deciding to blame me for all this, but I am not having any part of it. I tell them they want the prestige of having this big name person in charge, and to keep him from walking off in a huff they give him complete and absolute control ... if he goes mad and his students destroy the place, the blame is completely theirs. They can't blame it on a random passing stranger! They don't like hearing this, and are swarming at me, trying to pull me down, but all they manage to do is to pull down all the materials blocking the door, and create an exit for me. I climb out of the room, and back into the main hall, where I find the crowds thinning.

      I run into Dale, who I haven't seen in a while, and he is now late for his plane, but he feels the concert was well-worth it, and he isn't worried about it anymore. I start helping him grab all his luggage, and am sort of shrinking it to a small size, and causing it to all float around us (ala Harry Potter) while Kevin is complaining about everything, and saying he doesn't know what is going on.

      We hurry toward the car, but as the crowds continue to thin, I practically run right in to the professor, and decide I have to speak to him for a moment. But now he is tired, and winding down, and has been talking to people for quite a while, and may be starting to second guess himself a little, and he seems really iffy about talking to me.

      I tell him something like "That was crazy, and insane, and hilarious, and absolutely brilliant, but I have to tell you two things. The first is a quote from one of the Superman movies: 'You can't ...' I mean, 'You don't ...' 'If you think you can ....' Never mind. It's not important." Now he is starting to smirk, and seems to be getting to be in a better mood.

      "The second thing is this. I used to be a music student ... never again!" I insist, worried that he'll think I want to ask him for lessons or something. Then I start to mention the constant warnings to the brass not to blare, and everybody else to be louder, but after the first couple of words, he is repeating back what I am saying, just a split second after me, then saying it with me, then saying is just an instant before me, like that odd monster out of the Doctor Who episode Midnight. Before I can get too frightened and freak too much, he breaks it off to make a comment about how the strange thing is, they don't have that segregated bit here in the performance hall, only in the practice room.

      About this point, I woke up chuckling to myself about the madness of the dream.
    15. School Daze

      by , 09-26-2013 at 03:07 AM
      Date: September 25, 2013
      Technique: MILD & WBTB (attempt to DILD...nothing happened)
      Total sleep time: 8.5 hours


      Dream 1

      Me and my sis in law was working at an elementary school. We had cafeteria duty (were teachers just stand there and watch the kids eat). While standing up against a wall, a student looked at me and said, "Come sit with me, I saved you a seat and I got you an extra salad." I have no idea why the student was talking to me like I was a kid, but that should have been enough to get me lucid...it didn't.

      Dream 2

      Not sure if this was a continuation of the first dream, but I back with my sis in law again and this time she is working for the elementary school as a school nurse. She has to travel using her own car and I was holding a piece of blank paper. She took the paper from my hand and told me she was going to use it to hide how she gets extra money for driving her own car from the school system. Don't know what she was going to do, but she gave me a 'wink' like whatever she was going to do, it was going to be illegal.

      Fraggle

      Cats, cats, and more cats were everywhere inside my house.

      Note: I'm so happy that I had such great recall that I haven't had in a long time .
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