The Cusp

Constructed, Bombarded, Commemorated
Clarity: 6/10
Importance:4/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Unknown

I'm helping a friend work on his new house. A lot of the guys are there. I end up leaving with Steele, and we drive towards Petawawa. Up ahead on the road, the military is has the road blocked off with tanks. Military people are scurrying about, and I hope it's not a search checkpoint. Not that we have anything to hide, I just don't like that sort of thing.

Somebody begins to shoot, large caliber rounds I can see fly through the air like tracer rounds. The military squares off against this shooter, and we take cover between two tanks. The shots get really close to us at one point, but eventually I see all the army guys cluster together pointing their guns at the ground. I figure they caught the offender.

Sean and I walk towards the school, and see a short asian guy we recognize do the same. It was a guy we ran into on the way to a Tragically Hip concert. One of our friends had spray painted the school to commemorate our trip, and had done a few portraits of them asian man. The guy begins to see paintings of himself on the school and is a little freaked out as to why he would be painted there several times.

Old Friends
Clarity: 8/10
Importance:4/10
Sleep: Nap
Sleep Position: Unknown

I'm at Donald's, and we decide to go out into the bush out back. I pick up my jacket, but it's full of candy, which I stuff back into my pockets. Then my leather jacket seems really heavy, so much that I can barely walk with it. Next I spot another leather jacket of mine, and wonder how I'll bet them both home, since they're so heave.

I notice it's warm out, and take of my jacket. Donald is in the back of the lot amongst the trees on a horse. I hope there's a horse for me as well. Before I can go look, I hear some electric guitar and a female voice singing from next door. They're playing AC/DC. Andrew wanders out, and the AC/DC becomes a Jefferson Airplane song. He shows me the chords he's playing, and I see this awesome chord structure with an awesome sound in my mind. different than the song he's playing, but it fits.

Dive bombing zombies
Clarity: 5/10
Importance:3/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Right Side (Left Brain)

I'm in a bar in my home town, hanging out with various people I know. I leave with Jason and Rosein, and Jason buys various sweets at the bar on the way out. Once outside, we're attacked by zombies and various other undead, vampires included.

That's enough to tip me off that I'm dreaming. I try to fly, levitate off the ground, begin to pick up a little speed, then lose it and slump back to the ground. I try again, this time with a running start, and I leap into the air like superman. Again I pick up a bit of speed, then begin to slump to the ground. So I arc my body so that I curve upwards, gaining height and speed. My flying finally sticks.

I don't do much with my lucidity other than dive bombing zombies. I fly at them and punch them in the head, fly off gaining height, and zoom in on the next zombie.



Fragments: Allin
I'm hanging out with Allin, even though we've sworn to fight each other. The weather is hot, and I spot a nice little curl in the rapids below us and want to go for a swim. I think it's awesome getting to swim this late in the fall. As we leave to go get changed into shorts, Allin asks me about the fight. I tell him it probably won't happen now that we're getting along. But he really wants to fight, in a friendly way. I think of the damage I could do to him, and think a friendly fight is a bad idea, but eventually agree to it anyways.



Fragments: Sherman
I'm riding in a yellow sports car with Sherman at the wheel when we spot a police cruiser up ahead getting ready to pull us over. We pull into a gas station with some horrible nonsensical plan to avoid them.

Fragments: Dream Share
In the dream, I've just had a shared dream with my brother and William Shatner. I compare notes with my brother, and he tells me the details of his version. My recall of that dream is somewhat poor, but all the main elements are there.

Tidal Waves on the Island Shrine
Clarity: 7/10
Importance:4/10
Sleep: OK
Sleep Position: Right Side (Left Brain)

I'm on a small island when I notice it's inhabitants begin to panic. I look to see what's upset them, and see a giant tidal wave headed straight towards us! Oh shit! There's noting I can do but watch as it washes over the island. Luckily the water that covers the land is only knee deep, and I'm able to keep my footing as the water pummels my legs.

But it's not over yet, after the first wave there is another, this one bringing water up to my waist that tumbles me back before the waters recede once again. A third wave washes over us, this time the water is shoulder high, and everyone is forced to swim. Then the fourth and final wave hits us and drowns out the island completely. Everyone is swimming and treading water, and the current carries me and only me away, out to sea. I swim as hard as I can, but am carried away despite my best efforts.

I end up between two more islands, one with hills and one with more people and a school, and end up on the shores of the populated one. This island's inhabitants are fleeing into the school. That strikes me as a bad idea, but then I figure maybe not if we can get to the roof, so I follow them in.

Inside the school, there is a bank of televisions and computer monitors, like a small Imax wall. This bank of terminals becomes some sort of shrine under the care of Klinger from MASH. The center piece of the shrine is an immobilized woman, unmoving and unaging. Her eyes shine with magic, and there is a smoky ball darkness next to her, the evil force that keeps her trapped.

Klinger keeps this shrine clean, and is able to travel OBE style by staring into the woman's mesmerizing eyes.

Shadow Demons
Clarity: 3/10
Importance:3/10
Sleep: Poor
Sleep Position: Unknown

I forget how, but I come into possession of a comic book that details the lore of a certain race of demons that call themselves the Shadow People. The comic lists their abilities, what they want, how to fight them. Oneironaut is there as I'm reading it, and I tell him he has to check his out.

And then the demons attack. They are invisible, and begin to smack and knock us around. But all of a sudden, the demon attacking us becomes visible. It has yellow dehydrated looking skin. According to the comic, these demons draw their strength from humidity or water, and we're in the middle of drought, which is why he lost his invisibility. (Was very thirsty and dehydrated when I woke up) I stab it through the chest with a piece of wood, but the demon frees it's self and flees into the nearest public washroom.

I kill a couple of other demons with blue skin, then chase after the one with the yellow skin in the washroom. It picks up a chair from the ground, and I pick up a lifeguard chair as my weapon. I manage to force my bigger chair through the hole in his chest I had made earlier, then twist it around, widening the hole until I tear the demon apart. I wonder why his skin was yellow when all the other ones had blue skin.

The Bridge
Clarity: 7/10
Importance:3/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Unknown

My brother is supposed to get some tanks or something, and asks some military guys he knows. Next thing I know, we're riding in the back of an armored personel carrier, with two army guys in the front. The incongruity throws me off for a moment, but I eventually just go with it.

We pass a checkpoint, and I duck down in the back. The people at the gate hardly even look at the army guys in the front, and we barely slow down for the checkpoint.

Next we come to a bridge, and as we begin to cross it. we notice too late that both sides of the bridge are angled downwards. Instead of meeting in the middle, the slope down towards the water. And our vehicle is sliding down towards the gap in the middle! I'm getting ready to jump out and swim for it, but instead we fall into a metal cage on the surface of the water. From there it carries us to land, to a secret military installation.

Our armored vehicle is full of civilians now, like a bus, and my brother and I get off with our parents. There are things for sale on the park benches, and my mother buys a cylinder of gum which I put in my pocket. The building here are supposed to be museums and schools, but they are all just stores. We enter a convenience store, and they guy working sees the gum in my pocket and thinks I'm stealing. A customer offers to buy it for me, but I explain to him that we bought it outside.

Recall lots of other dreams from last night, but they were either boring, or repetitive video game inspired dreams.

Trick of Perception
Clarity: 7/10
Importance:7/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Unknown

I'm playing Vindictus, or rather I'm in the game, running around slashing monsters. On the floor above me, I spot two cartons of indian cigarettes where a pot containing healing crystals should be. I climb to the second floor wondering if I'll acquire them in the real world if I get them in this game world when the floor suddenly collapses beneath me. I pick myself up and begin climbing back up when the boss of the level appears and begins to talk about the cigarettes.

The level Boss says the cigarettes can be twice as strong, showing me a chart with the normal cigarettes and the twice as strong ones. The difference between the two, he tells me, is a matter of perception. He then launches into a long lecture on perception, and how to use it. It's a fascinating speech that has me completely captivated.

Suddenly, the level boss stops his speech in mid sentence, and snatches a necklace from around my neck. I realize what just happened here. He used his speech on perception to dmanipulate my perception so that he could swipe my necklace. While I appreciate the Irony of his maneuver, I don't like being tricked, and I hack him up with my sword until there is nothing left of him but a pile of bones.

Fragments: Alien Chase
A large group of people, myself included, are chasing an alien. We chase it across a parking lot, through some back yards, and into the woods.


Fragments: River Rescue
I'm crossing the river with some people, including my mother. The rocks become slippers and the current strong, and someone falls and can't make it across, even though it's really shallow. Next thing I know there is a rescue team getting us to jump from bed to bed to cross the river. I'm last to go, since I wanted to make sure everyone else made it ok.

They want me to jump onto a bed in a panic because it's beginning to float away. I get pissed of over how stupid this is, because I clearly don't need any help in my river, and they are all over reacting.

Meghan
Clarity: 6/10
Importance:6/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Unknown

I'm walking along downtown, only instead of using the sidewalk, I'm cutting through apartment buildings and walking through their halls, then into the next building, and so on and so forth. In one building, I come across Meghan knocking on a door. She's just moved to Ottawa, and I ask her if she wants to do something. She says sure, and brings of of her girlfriends accompanied by Jay from Jay and Silent Bob fame. Jay keeps spouting hilarious bits of stoner wisdom.

We're going to watch a movie somewhere, but take Jay's black truck since mine is at home. We drive out and sit in the grass by the river. I see something that looks like a hammer in the water and pull it out. It's a lock for a bicycle, a stolen bicycle that is also in the water. Jay puts the lock in his backpack with the rest of his tools.

Suddenly we're in a house and the movie we just watched has ended. Only I don't recall having seen a movie. I ask the others if they remember the movie, but they don't recall having seen it either. We joke that it must have been a really interesting movie.

Gray Hulk: Origins
Clarity: 6/10
Importance:3/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Unknown

I see some framed comic books on the wall, and grab one to look at. It's the origin story of the gray Hulk. I see a lab where they are doing experiments on a cellular level. Recombinant DNA experiments that only have a 0.01% chance of producing something useful. Then I see two glowing green cells, from the original Hulk, and then the gray Hulk's face slowly fade into the scene.

Pulling back from the cellular level to the macroscopic world, the scientists who were working on this experiment are nothing but smears of blood. A military guy say that whatever they saw scared them so much, they committed suicide. To me it looks like something squished them after they were dead. In fact everyone in the project is nothing but a smear of blood, and there is no sign of whatever did that to them.

I pop out of the story, back to holding the comic book, and decide I like this dark re-imagining of the story.

Doctor Who: Universal Implosion
Clarity: 6/10
Importance: 5/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Unknown

Doctor who is standing there, and things around him are fading out of existence. First it's various people that disappear right in front of him, then more important characters. Davros is one of them, which would normally be a good thing, but his existence is essential , otherwise the universe would unravel, which is exactly what seems to be happening.

Soon The Doctor is the only thing left in the entire universe, which is imploding around him, crushing him into a singularity of golden light. Everything is gone but him, and just as he's about to wink out of existence too, he vows to remember everything. Apparently this was all it took to restore the universe, because after the golden flash of the implosion, everything is restored, and the Doctor is standing there with everything normal.

Injected Again
Clarity: 7/10
Importance:8/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Unknown

I'm in high school, but enter a kindergarden class where they give us all injections to make us smarter. The shots work and then some. I notice the kids are moving things around the classroom with their minds. We all have telekinetic abilities!

I lead the children through various exercises, making them use their telekinesis as a group. But our powers don't stop there. We can view and control things remotely, and do telepathic communication. I tell the kids next we're going to help someone with a test. I tell them to find someone taking a test, and they collectively choose a target. We begin to see the questions our target is facing on the test, and send him the answers. Unfortunately, all the questions are super easy, and I say to the class "Maybe we should have picked a harder test."

A teacher enters, and I begin to explain to him our powers. I tell him it's like remote viewing, only so much better. I then leave with the teacher and we go to his house, where he demonstrates his abilities to his wife. He causes a pile of match sticks to form into shapes, but this freaks her out and she runs out of the house saying she can't handle this. The pile of matchsticks continues to grow and morph, making a recreation of the house we're in. Then I becomes animated, with little characters moving through it and building while the house continues to grow. Finally the house is complete, and the teacher's wife comes back in and loves the little match stick recreation.

Mushroom Forest
Clarity: 7/10
Importance:7/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Unknown

Sean, Jay and I enter the woods from the train trestle, coming from the army base side of the river. As soon as we arrive on the other side of the river, I notice huge mushroom trees. They are basicaly giant mushrooms, or trees with caps instead of leaves. Since it's pretty late in the fall, these giant mushrooms are all black and rotted, but they are still pretty impressive for their sheer size.

We come to a crossroads on the path we are following, and there are a bunch of green garbage dumpsters and electrical transformer casings. Inside the the dumpsters are huge crabs that feed of the the rotten vegetables thrown in there, and flourish all year long. I find it odd to have crabs in the middle of the forest in the winter, and wonder if they are good to eat. I get Sean to pull one out so we can look at it. I remember my uncle telling me he used to grow pot here, but there are too many people walking by to do that these days.

Chipped
Clarity: 7/10
Importance:8/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Unknown

I have some family visiting, and I accompany them to the airport when they leave. I consider just dropping them off, but instead accompany them right through the gates right up unit they board the plane. Thinking there might be a faster way out of here, I go a little ways past the the boarding corridor and see a door that says "Pilots Only". Not wanting to intrude I turn around right away, but an airport employee spots me and tells me to freeze and calls security. He makes me show him my I.D. and tells me to wait until security arrives.

I think he was very full of himself for someone who talked tough then turned and ran. But I don't want to stick around to be treated like a criminal, and get out of there as quickly as possible. I regret having shown my ID, because now they know who I am. I exit the airport, and run across the parking lot into the street.

Somehow I end up in the middle of a large section of undeveloped land owned by the airport. It's all muddy as I make my way across it. Military men surround me and drag me into a little shack of a house where two airport security begin to interrogate me. One of them sticks me with a needle and injects me with something. I scream out that he has no right to do that, and he stammers something about it being a preventative vitamin shot. He doesn't sound like he knows what he's talking about, and I say "You don't sound very convinced of that". He partner tells me it was an RFID chip.

I'm livid about being chipped and storm out of there. Now that I'm tagged, they don't seem to concerned about letting me leave.

Oh that dream makes me mad just thinking about it. If it wasn't for all the army guys with guns around, I would have killed those two airport jerk offs. I do not want to be chipped ever!

I had two shamanic themed lucids last night, but lost the first one to taking dream notes during a false awakening. Lost a lot of detail on the second one to that as well.

Shamanic Lucid
Clarity: 5/10
Importance: 8/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Unknown

I'm in TV's M.A.S.H., when Honeycutt, Radar and I get word from our shaman trainer to report to Japan. Since this is extremely short notice, I only have enough money to pay for my flight there, and nothing left over to live off of once I arrive. But I know I have to trust that these things will work themselves out somehow. Poor Radar doesn't even have enough money for the flight, but Colonel Potter hands him a wad of bill collected from everyone at the MASH unit and tells him they've got his back.

The three of us begin to paddle across a lake, each in our own separate boats. I think there were some lucid moments here, possibly some underwater scenes, but my recall of this part is poor. We arrive on the other side, and some guy meets us on the beach and gets us in an airplane to Japan.

We arrive in Japan and disembark in a mall. I enter a store, but inside is the most breath taking landscape I've ever seen. It's pristine nature with no sign of man at all. This place is so beautiful, it makes me lucid. This place is so spectacular, I don't even have to worry about losing lucidity, it's sheer beauty is a constant reminder. I forget what I did in this place, but I eventually leave and enter into another store containing a mountain landscape. This one is equally breath taking, with gentle mist hanging in the air and the sky a bright sunrise red. I don't recall what I did in this one either.

I leave the second landscape, and enter into a third store containing a forest landscape. I remember flying until my powers of flight give out and I land in the edge of the woods at a pool of water. I figure I'll try walking on the water, but looking as I put my foot on the water isn't working. So I look straight ahead and slightly up so I can't see the water, then try it and it works. I'm walking on water! Beneath my feet it feels like I'm walking on thin ice, and my heel keeps breaking through the ice. I look back down and see the thinnest possible layer of ice beneath my feet. I reach down and pick up a chunk which isn't even a millimeter thick.

I begin to eat the ice, then reach down for another piece. I turn this next piece into red candy and eat that. Then I see a cake in front of me on the hill and I begin to chow down on that too. I worry momentarily that I'm eating too much junk food, then realize that's silly because this is only a dream.

This was probably my longest lucid ever, but I don't recall most of my lucid time.

-We return to the MASH unit, and upon seeing Radar, Colonel Potter picks up the phone and says they need to adjust Radar's pay again.

I haven't bothered taking notes of my dreams when I wake, relying instead on memory. I recall my dreams until I fall back asleep. Unfortunately, that causes me to have the same dream over, only with knowledge of the first time around at my disposal. Then when I wake up for good, having two versions of the same dream makes it very difficult to properly recall either of them. But they were all pretty dull anyways.

The only dream of note I can recall was a fragment from 3 days ago.


Fragment: Chuck Norris Cult
A guy walks up to me and asks in a tone of voice that implies a joke "What does it take to join the Chuck Norris cult?"

"I don't know, what?" I reply, waiting for the punch line.

"If you knew, you'd already be a member." he tells me.

This somehow seems profound and makes an odd kind of sense. "Well them maybe I'm already a member", I say to him.

Somehow it seemed funnier in the dream than it did upon waking.

Fragment: Ruler of Poland
There are elections, and anyone from Canada or Portugal can apply to run for President of Poland. I apply for a laugh, but actually get a lot of votes.

The people of Poland need to be evacuated, and I send them to an old radioactive bomb site. One of my advisers warns me about the radiation, but the bomb there went off so long ago most of the radiation is gone. Plus there really isn't anywhere else to put them.

Looting
Clarity: 6/10
Importance:8/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Unknown

There's been some sort of nuclear catastrophe, and there are hard times ahead. Being the keen survivalist I am, I determine we're going to need supplies to make it through this disaster. There is a Bi-Way down the street, and when I look out the window, there are already people breaking into it.

I lead my small group inside the store, and instruct them to grab non perishable foods and supplies. I tell them to think long term and to stock up on everything we need now, since other people are going to raid this store. We fill several shopping carts and go back to our house.

I go to bed and wake up in my underwear. I need clothes! I ask if the men's clothing store is still there, but end up back at the Bi-Way for some reason. Other people are catching on and raiding the place en masse. Still in my underwear, I pull some blankets around me and crawl through the smashed glass door, stepping on broken glass in the process.

Once inside, I see employees restocking the shelves and cleaning up. They all stop to give me a dirty look and I run out. Seems like things are getting back to normal, and the power is back on.