non-lucid

3/10/2014 – 3:45 am: Dream 1 I am in a school. I am in a classroom with a group of people. I know 2 of the people: one is Kevin Bacon (the actor) the other is a Jim G. guy I went to high school with but he actually looks like Matthew Lillard (the actor). At one point the teacher (an attractive older woman) asks me to come up to the board to solve a math problem. On the board is a rectangle, there are 3 numbers on the left side and 3 on the right. I have no idea how to solve the problem and I state this to the teacher. I feel angry and embarrassed. At this point I remember that Kevin Bacon and the teacher are having an affair. I recall seeing them sneaking out of a warehouse together. Kevin walks up to me and asks me if I have a gun. I reply, “Yes. A 38 caliber hand gun.” He then tells me to “Have the principal run my phone.” I wake up.

Dream 2 Fragment: I am outside, standing on the side of a road. There are natural stone steps near me. There are memorial flowers and candles on the steps. I am with some old men who I know are war veterans, some have been wounded. An old fashion car pulls up and more older guys get out. I don’t remember any more.

Dream 3 Fragment: I am in a school with a pretty Indian girl. We are trying to get to class. Her 4 brothers walk up to us. The oldest, and largest of the 3, is yelling at her because she is walking with me. The brothers leave and we walk to a classroom which is full of large stuffed chairs. I don’t remember any more.

I’m having the same issue I’ve always had with recording my dreams. I have issues falling back to sleep after taking notes. This leaves me feeling very tired during the day. Plus, last night I woke my wife up by scribbling in my notebook. I’m going to do my best to record my normal dreams, but just don’t know if I can lose too much sleep.

I'm back to keeping a dream journal, after not keeping one for years.

3/5/2014
Dream 1: I remember being in my house and Jen was scared because there was a spider on the ceiling of the kitchen. I looked at the spider and it was very large, white and furry. I didn’t want to touch it so I grabbed a plastic container, reached up and trapped the spider in it. I tried to put a lid on the container and the spider turned into a large white mouse that was trying to bite me. Then I woke up briefly. I didn’t make a note in my note pad.
Dream 2: I’m in a strange place, surrounded by wooded hills. There are run down little shacks everywhere. I know that my parents own this property, and I am disgusted that my father has let it get so run down. I know that I have to fix everything. I am driving a little tractor around and I know I have to mow acres and acres of land, plus I have to fix up all the run down shacks. At one point I find a larger old building and notice my father has put a bunch of furniture and other stuff outside. There is water everywhere and I am angry because I need to clean up the mess he made. At some point in the dream I remember speaking to my brother, but I don’t remember what I said. Throughout this dream I am feeling very angry.

3/6/2014: (I only remember 1 dream) I am in some kind of mall, it reminds me a bit of the Woburn Mall mixed with some elements of older buildings you might find near the ocean (on the Cape or at Wells ME). I remember looking at a court yard in the mall, which was very large and had a fountain. I was walking with other people, who I knew, but I don’t remember who they were. At one point we are walking past a store with glass display windows and there is a pretty black woman standing inside the display. I make a comment to the people I’m with that she looks just like “the other woman we just saw”, although I don’t remember seeing another woman previously. I stop in front of her for a moment and look at her face. Then I tell her that she is very beautiful. She smiles at me. I’m feeling very confident in myself. We go into a store. Immediately to my right is a display with large (3 ft. tall) decorative whisky bottles. I comment to the people I’m with “These are just like the bottles my father used to own.” However, in RL he never owned bottles like these. I move to my right and there is a large fish tank, inside are some fish swimming around. Then, inside the tank, a very impressive hologram of an oversized red human skull appears. I know that this is meant to do this. I comment about how cool it was. The next thing I remember, I’m in a large open room with many windows and several doors. The room reminds me of the 200 year old house I lived in when I was 10 years old, but it is much larger than any room in that house. I know I need to take a shower. I am shirtless. I don’t want to completely undress because the windows have no shades, curtains or blinds, and the room is on the first floor so anyone walking by could see right in. I am a bit frustrated by this situation. My alarm goes off and startles me awake. I laid in bed for a few minutes struggling to recall what I could about this dream

3/7/2014: Dream 1: I remember being at a skating arena. I was skating with Jen and a group of people (I don’t skate in real life). Then I remember sitting down on a wooden bench. Jessica (my ex-wife’s sister) comes over and sits next to me. I know that we are supposed to go to lunch to catch up on things. I feel nervous, like this is a date. I ask her if Ken (her husband) knows we are going to lunch. She says he is fine with it. I look across the arena and there is Ken. He has a snow shovel and is doing some kind of work. I wave to him. He smiles and waves back. Then I pick up one of my winter gloves and carefully fold the fingers back until on the middle finger is sticking up and hold it up so he can see it. He laughs, but I notice my old boss Gail to my left with a bunch of kids. She looks offended by my gesture. I wake up. I didn’t check the time.

Dream 2: It is night and I am in the parking lot of White City Plaza (at least it reminded me of this place). I’m with my friend Joe (friend from high school who I haven’t seen since 1987). We are going to my grandparent’s house. I know that they are dead, and have been for a very long time, but I have a key to the house and we are going to get something to eat. We walk across the wet pavement (it looks like it rained earlier) and up to the front door. We go inside. It is a very small house. The first room is the kitchen, with a little white stove to my left and a small table to the right. We go to a room on the left that has shelves with cans and boxes of food. I my head I know that this is not my grandparent’s house, but my aunt Jane’s house. I vaguely remember eating something sweet (it may have been frosting). We stuffed some stuff in our pockets and go back to the kitchen. I remember looking at a small counter which had an old white rotary phone, and some papers on it. I also remember looking into a small room which looked like an office. Joe and I left the house through the same door we came in. We start walking back to his car when two police officers approach us. They tell us to take them back into the house so they can check to see if we stole anything. I’m feeling scared. We go back into the house. Suddenly I realize I’m part of a comedy TV show. Joe is now Ashton Kutcher.. We are standing in the kitchen as the police are looking around. Suddenly I notice that my Aunt is stuffed in the stove. I can see the back of her head and neck pressed against the glass window. She is wearing a blue and white flowered dress with a white lace collar. Her weight is pushed against the stove door and it is starting to open. I sit down on the floor in front of the stove and try to hold it closed by pressing my back against it, but her weight is too much and it keeps opening. I can hear the laugh track play at the comical situation. I turn around and push against the door but it keeps opening and I keep pushing it closed, hoping the cops don’t notice. I put my nose near the crack of the door and inhale expecting to smell rotting corpse, but I don’t smell anything because this is just a TV show. Then next thing I remember I am in a heated pool with Jen. We are swimming in the deep end. The water feels amazing. She swims up to me and starts kissing me and rubbing against me. We continue to kiss as we swim to the shallow end with the intention of having sex. I wake up. It is 4:20 am.

It took me a while to fall back to sleep. I believe I was dreaming, but my alarm startled me awake. I lay there for a few minutes but couldn’t recall anything.

3/8/2014: I woke up early in the morning and lay still trying to remember my dream. It was very frustrating because I know I was dreaming just before I awoke, but I just couldn’t recall a single detail which would have led me to recall more. I managed to fall back to sleep.

Dream 1: I vaguely remember walking in a mall and knowing I was skipping school…. The next thing I remember I was back at my parent’s house. There is some kind of event going on (maybe a cookout). I am outside near a rail fence. There is a computer screen there and I am accessing my email account. I have my email account with the Disney channel, so the web page has all kinds of pictures of Disney characters (Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Mickey Mouse, etc). Suddenly some childhood friends come up behind me; Jim & Eric. I am happy to see they came to the event, but then I realize that I haven’t showered and I am wearing my mother’s old pink sweatshirt which is very dirty and way too tight for me. I need to shower and change so I go into the house. I walk to the bathroom and close the door. I look in the mirror and notice that the entire left side of my face is covered in a horrible rash. When I look away from the mirror I am now clean and dressed in blue jeans and a t-shirt. I walk out of the bathroom and into my parent’s kitchen. Eric and Jim are there along with another tall guy who is sitting at the table with his back to me. He is wearing a long black coat and a black winter cap. I expect it to be another childhood friend named Jeff. The man turns around and he has a graying goatee. I don’t recognize him. I hold my hand out to shake his hand….the dream fades and I wake up.

3/9/14 – 6:30 am: I remember that I was walking through a town on the Cape (in real life my wife was at the Cape with her friends yesterday). I am walking on a street that is high above the town, so I have a nice view of the town. There is snow everywhere and my childhood friend Dave is with us. The next thing I remember is I am at some kind of outdoor mall with my wife and some other people. There is an outdoor restaurant area with lots of 4 person tables set up in a grid formation. My wife has the design plans and has to find the best place to put 4 telephone booths. I am looking at the plans with her. There is already 1 public telephone at the upper right corner of the layout and I tell her that she should put the 3 more right with the already existing booth because it will save the cost of having to purchase the 4th booth. She ignores me and adds all 4 booths to another place on the plans. I am very annoyed with her. The next thing I remember I am sitting cross legged on the floor of the restaurant near the entrance. Several old ladies enter and are annoyed with me because I am sitting too close to the door and they are having trouble getting by me. I try to move out of there way, but there is nowhere to go. Across from me is sitting the wife of Mark B (a guy who went to my high school who is now a P90X instructor). She is dressed in workout cloths and sitting cross legged. I ask her how she got into health and fitness. She tells me that she is diabetic. For some reason I know I asked her to hold my wedding ring. I ask for it back and she gives me 2 smaller rings and 2 pennies. I am annoyed that she hasn’t given me back my ring. Then a woman walks in the room and shouts “Who wants some chicken granderra!?!” The dream fades and I wake up.