Second Reality Experiences

The dream starts out in which I am playing a video game, but I am seeing everything in the perspective of the game itself (I don't see my hands on a controller). The game is an interesting one. The main playable character is a girl with flowing black hair. It reminds me of Assassin's Creed, but a female version. The setting takes place during the renaissance and I am walking through cobblestone streets and alleys. As I level up my character her appearance changes, her hair becomes longer, and the design of the clothing she wears changes patterns and becomes more intricate. There is a quick cut scene and some unrecognizable pop music plays, although I would say it was dark gothic in style...like this



The character gets in what i can only describe as a big metal trench that water flows through and that people use for washing their laundry in. She hides by swimming through it into a sewer system where the water empties out. As the character gets out and starts walking I realize I am dreaming.

Suddenly my field of vision shifts from 3rd person to 1st. I am the character, except I am in my own body now. I'm walking walking in this dark passage in the sewer and my sister suddenly appears behind me. Before I can say anything I hear shuffling ahead and get a stab of fear. The sound moves closer and suddenly I see them. The sound is coming from these huge ferocious rat-like rodents.
I know it's a dream but this took me by surprise and I don't have anything to defend myself with. All I can think of to do is pull my hands out and point my fingers into the shape of a gun.

"Bang!" I yell, pretending to shoot them.

Surprisingly one falls over dead, and the others scamper away in fear. That was surprisingly easy. I turn the corner and kill a few more in the same manner.
I see light up ahead and as we push forward the sewer opens up into a hidden spanish terrace with a pool. There is a lot of debris and the buildings surrounding the pool seem to be crumbling away as if they had been abandoned. Dark clouds loom overhead. My sister Ashley dives into the pool and begins swimming. Three white belugas appear in the water and greet me as i come to sit at the edge of the pool. I pet one of them on the head.

"We should get going," I say aloud. "We only have so much time before I wake up."

Then I look at the scenery and change my mind. Usually in lucid dreams I feel like it's a race. I feel rushed to experience as much as possible which in turn actually causes me to wake up sooner. Everything is so relaxing and peaceful right now. Ashley surfaces next to my dangling legs.

I look at my sister, "Don't you wish we could stay in a dream like this forever?"

"Yeah!" she says happily.

I notice a couple of random DCs show up at the pool, and as I try to figure out who they are everything is gone. I'm awake in my bed.

I am at my mother's house in my sister's old bedroom. I look in her wardrobe mirror and I start dying my hair a darker brown color with hair dye that was sitting on the dresser. As I do this I reach for the hair dye again but accidentally scoop up blonde instead of the brown I was using and coat my hair with it. My hair starts falling out and dissolving, leaving me with a huge bald spot on my head. I start crying because I have to shave my head now. I've been trying to grow my hair out long and this ruined all that hard work.
Out of the corner of my eye I see my sister through the mirror.

"Ashley!" I yell out. "I lost all my hair....I'm so upset!"

I get a sudden burst of lucidity

"Wait a minute...Is this real?" I ask her.

"Yes this is real," she says.

"Are you sure?"

"Of course!"

I don't trust her so I attempt to fly. As soon as the thought hits me I burst from the dream scene into the night sky like a rocket. As I fly I hear this song playing perfectly in the background...

It's been a long time since I have been lucid and I'm ecstatic. I'm flying over a very futuristic looking city. It reminds me of Tokyo - except better. I zip through the skyscrapers and then decide I should descend. I want to focus more on an intellectual pursuit than games.

I land in what appears to be a a courtyard park square. It is very well lit by street lamps and clean. There are benches in the center of the square sidewalk, surrounded by grass, fountains, and cobblestone roads. I look around and notice a young lady walking with a notepad in her arm. She has long, sandy-brown hair tied loosely to one side of her head. It looks like silk. She's also wearing a collared white shirt cuffed at the elbows with tight denim jeans. I find her to be very intelligent-looking and pretty at the same time.

I call out to her, "Jessica!"

She stops as I walk up to her. That was weird....I've never seen her before. I have no clue why I called to her like I knew her. She looks at me.

"Wait," I say,"What is your name?"

"Jessica," she responds.

"How did I know that though?"

"I don't know. You tell me. How did you know?"

"Maybe it's because I'm the dreamer?"

She smiles and nods as if the answer helped her realize something.

"Well...you becoming lucid was not part of what was planned," she tells me. "I'm sorry though I have to get going."

I am about to ask her why but she answers before I can spit it out.

"I'm trying to decipher a word from the book you are reading that you didn't understand," she says with a smile.

Then everything vanishes right before I have the chance to ask her what word it was. I've just started reading a new book series. It's funny how dreams can surprise you.


UPDATE 1/14/13: I recently visited downtown and came across a square courtyard that looked just like the one in this dream. I had never been here before and thought it was pretty cool that I found a place that so closely resembled the dreamscape I had. Of course Im sure there are thousands of places that look similar to this - it still made me do a double take.

I'm in my hometown. I'm here for my best friend Summer's wedding. For some reason I visit the local high school. There is a job fair event going on and they are providing lunches. I grab my food and begin eating. It's a plate of spaghetti with pieces of sausage and bread rolls with butter spread. It's very filling and I feel guilty about eating everything because I don't want to gain weight. I notice a lady arguing with a clerk behind an office table.

"My daughter should be getting an hour lunch break! You are telling me she works here and only gets thirty minutes?! That's ridiculous," she yells. "Think about it. It'll take her ten minutes to get to the nearest fast food place to eat. She barely has time to eat, nevermind how eating will probably mess with her makeup! That takes time to fix before she can come back to work. She needs at least an hour!"

I finish my food and leave. I start driving in my car but before I get on the highway a huge thundercloud rolls past heading in the direction of Summer's house. It moves at an impossible speed and is gone within a matter of seconds. I pull out my cell phone and call Summer. I tell her that there is a storm headed her way and to call me when it passes so I can come over. Then I drive the opposite direction toward the beach.

Once I get to the bridge that goes over the bay I notice several police cars ahead, and a military helicopter flying overhead. I park my car and get out. There is a crowd of bystanders looking at something. All of the sudden a motorcycle flies past them - only there is no one riding it. It heads straight for a concrete barrier but instead of crashing, it passes straight through as if it were a hologram. Then it comes back, but this time an older man (probably late fifties) is riding it. He stops in front of the group. He's wearing a purple futuristic looking suit, and another woman (I can only assume is his spouse) shows up next to him dressed in similar attire. All of the sudden she falls through the road up to her shoulders - like it's water or something. She motions everyone to come forward and touch her so she can show us it is not an illusion. It's weird feeling my hand run down her neck to be stopped abruptly by the cement ground. I assume they are demonstrating some kind of top secret technology and that it is very illegal - hence the police cars and military personnel closing in.

"We have to leave now," a man in the crowd yells, "The military is recording the names of all of the people witnessing this!"

"The government should not be allowed to suppress technology like this," I say out loud.

It doesn't matter though. Everyone starts scattering. I walk back to my car to drive away in a hurry.

[UPDATE: This dream setting took place when I was to be in my hometown to attend my best friend Summer's wedding. That has come and gone now in real life. Oddly enough, during the wedding ceremony on the beach (i.e. the same beach I was driving to in the dream) the exact same military helicopter did a flyover. I had never seen one fly over the beach in all my years growing up there. I just found it an odd coincidence that one just happened to do so after I just dreamed about it happening within the same time frame.]

I am in a large multi-story apartment complex. It's the middle of the day and I look out the window in the streets. There are all of these protestors who are angry about gay marriage and homosexuality that are causing a lot of chaos in the streets. I see a few of them breaking into houses and buildings - being very violent and harming people they thought were gay. There were lots of people trying to protect their property and I was there trying to help them. Strangely enough as I am gazing down onto the street I spot my ex-girlfriend from high school, Chelsie. She is wearing a white hoodie and is with the rallyers. I'm surprised and disappointed. A group of people start invading our building - including her. She climbs into a window and the moment she gets inside I walk up and confront her.

"Chelsie! What the hell?! Why are you with these people? You are one of the most liberal people I know!"

She looks away avoiding eye contact.

"I'm just trying to make sure people don't get hurt," she says.

That didn't make any sense as she was clearly walking with them and not doing anything to stop them. Our old friend Danielle is with her - also avoiding eye contact. There's a whole group of people in the hallway with us now.

"Look, regardless of whether or not you agree with gay marriage or homosexuality, people have a right to be safe and they have the right to privacy. No one should be breaking and entering into people's homes!"

I sigh and go outside to try to help people evacuate the area. I see a helicopter flying overhead - going toward a launch pad to pick up escapees. I run in that direction trying to guide a couple of parents and their children toward it so they can get in and leave safely.

I am with Ray at a mall. We go into a nice restaurant and as we walk we pass by my old art teacher Ms. Greene. She's sitting at a table with a glass of wine.

"If you want some wine it's free over there at the bar," she says pointing toward it.

Ray starts heading in that direction, but he goes a weird alternate route that doesn't make any sense and took much longer than needed.

....I start exploring on my own and find an opening to a secret unused part of the mall. It looks like several kid rides were constructed in this area. It kind of looks like a carnival in the mall- but abandoned...

...Ray and I are back walking through the mall again....

I start to question my reality. Am I dreaming? Everything looks so real though! I try to do a reality check. I look at a Starbucks coffee shop and study the logo. I look away and look back. Everything is still the same and perfect. So much for looking at text! I look at shoppers and study their faces trying to find flaws. They all look normal and vivid. The racks of clothes in the shops look perfect. I even widen my eyes in an attempt to wake up. Nothing happens. Everything is so realistic - more real than I've ever experienced in a dream before and I've had some pretty good ones! Unsure of myself I walk up to a man who looked to be in his 50s. He was slightly overweight with long graying hair.

"What do you represent?"

He gives me a strange look, "Uh...What? What a weird question!"

I start doubting myself. This might not be a dream after all...I turn around and see Ray.

"Ray, I know this is going to sound crazy but I can't tell if I am dreaming or if this is real life!"

He rolls his eyes,"You're losing it Nick. Of COURSE this is real! I'm real! You're not sleeping!"

"But that's what a Dream Character would say!!!" I yell, clearly frustrated. I feel like I am going mad. Everything then fades away - confirming that I was in fact dreaming.

I have a false awakening. I am on the floor in a sleeping bag and I hear my sister Ashley getting up. The clock reads 7:00. Apparently I am at her place and we are getting up early to go to the beach. I look around for my dream journal....

Then I wake up for real.

I am at my mom's house. For some reason Summer's Bengal cats Mako and Myra are in a pen in the backyard. My mom told me Myra was hurt and bleeding - a result of Mako being too aggressive while breeding. I go to the back sliding door and look out at them. It's raining pretty hard - so much so that the entire yard starts flooding. The water level continues to rise and the cats and one of our dogs are forced to swim in the yard. The wind starts getting stronger and suddenly I see the swirling formation of a tornado directly above our house. The walls start creaking, and are soon ripped away sucking me out. My feet are dangling up in the air and I have a grip at the base of the house. My mother wasn't taken away - apparently she was immune to the wind's effects, but she was screaming trying to help me climb back inside. The dream gets too intense and causes me to wake up.

Couldn't really title this dream because it didn't make sense and there wasn't any one prevailing theme I could think of..

I was watching a movie that was similar to the 80s movie "Ghost". Except I think the female character was the one who becomes a ghost or something.

The dream scene changes and I am in the future working for a big corporation. I think the corporation dealt with time travel, and as part of an experiment I walk through a tunnel that was built to facilitate the time traveling. There are workers behind a control panel guiding the process. As I come out onto the other side of this tunnel I know I am in the past. The building I was working at is now a different company I couldn't recognize. There is a man working there that I recognize in the dream as being Kiefer Sutherland - a more attractive version. When I meet him he asks me for my phone number. I specifically remember giving him a wrong area code at first and then going back over and correcting it. There is a brief scene where an attractive edgy-looking girl shows up and I basically throw her at him and they start making out in a stairwell.
While this is happening I leave and go back into the main company room because I was afraid of being caught with those two. It turns out in this dream reality Kiefer Sutherland builds miniature models of monsters and houses for old 80s movies. He shows up again shortly and starts showing me around. I tell him if I had the money I would invest in this business because apparently in the 'dream future' miniature models are a big deal. He asks me a few questions about that (specifically how physically large the props might get?) , and seems to clue in that I might be from the future.

He asks me,"What is the formula for going through the tunnel of time?"

I don't tell him. Instinctively I know it's time to leave and return to the future. I head back to the area where "the tunnel" is. I see a vision of a girl working in the future who says I am about to get trapped in an separate dimension.

Somehow my gender changes and I am now female. I think I have successfully entered the future because I see the corporation I work at and all the people I work with. However, as I walk toward the building everyone disappears. I walk up a ramp that leads to a roof. There are three identical women standing on different corners. They are small, a little overweight and have long black hair, and a little too much makeup caked on. They are each holding onto a chain connected to some kind of pulley system. Somehow I "know" that these three women are the same person and she is being punished somehow. There is another female entity who states she is the "master of this realm". She also makes it known somehow that I will be punished in a similar way to the girl holding the chains. Then I wake up

......SO MUCH WEIRDNESS o.O

I don't know what happened before I became lucid. I'm in an airport shopping center. I look around for DCs in the area to interact with. I find speaking and interacting with them to be the most interesting part of lucid dreams. There is a man walking in front of me. I ask him for his name. I don't remember his response but I know it was completely unintelligent jargon....So I look around some more and find a young guy looking through a shelf of DVDs. He has a baseball cap on and long blonde hair tied up in a ponytail in the back. He's wearing a dark gray shirt and I notice his left arm has tattoos running down it in a sleeve. He tells me his name is David Pendragon. His last name I'm a little unsure of. "Pendragon" is what it sounds like though....or Bandwagon..something like that. He is unusually attractive and I tell him that. I also let him know that his looks would probably intimidate me in real life. The dream stability is horrible - continually fading in and out. We pass a speaker display with colorful strobe lights placed decoratively around. It's playing music with heavy bass and I can distinctly feel the vibrations from it. Everything become crystal clear for a brief second before the dream ends.

It's been awhile since I have posted on here. This is mostly to do with me having horrible recall lately. It's crazy how weeks of experience can be lost in only a matter of days due to bad recall! -_-' Anyway I thought I would at least show a little activity by posting a compilation of several dreams I've had since the last post. None of them are that profound but they are interesting enough for me to keep a record of.

1. I was driving to work and I get a call on my cell phone. The person on the other line asks for Anthony. In the dream I recall Anthony as being the employee who was the hiring manager for our store, so I assume the call is in reference to that. He tells me that he was available to come in for an interview at 2:20 and I tell him that's perfectly fine. When I show up to work I walk over the the DC Anthony and tell him about the call. I walk back to my desk to answer phone calls so they aren't forwarded to my manager. A male coworker is sitting next to me who is also answering calls for the store. He has the same brand cell phone I do but it's a different model. We began to discuss the differences between the two of them. As we are talking the phones completely vanish into thin air. I'm really confused and a little creeped out. The guy sitting next to me has a worried look on his face.
"Don't act scared, but look out the window behind me," he says.
I can see through the window beside us - it pretty much scales the entire wall. Up in the sky behind him I see a flying saucer. My heart starts pounding. I can only assume that our phones disappearing happened because of whatever was in the UFO. I don't know what to think other than they were attempting to break off our communications. The dream ends.

2. It was the evening of Halloween. I was at my old high school and I see a bonfire burning from across the street. I'm texting my sister Ashley - something about how I owe her some money. She meets me up and tells me the that the fire was some kind of religious protest against Halloween.

Somehow I become lucid. The dream scene changes a little bit and I am watching a man trying to escape a building near the bonfire. He's running around with a knife, stabbing and killing people in his effort to break out. Somehow I feel like I'm on his side. My sister and I follow him outside. I remember texting my sister about money and ask her if she still wants me fake dream money. She laughs and says no. Four benches in the courtyard outside catch fire. There are lots of people around celebrating the man's escape. Medieval gypsy music starts playing and we go to a bar and start drinking. The man who escaped stands on the bar and starts toasting to a few things. The only thing I can recall that he drinks to is "the end of celebacy" - which gives me the impression that it was against some sort of religious practice. I start dancing to the gypsy music because it sounds awesome - and it's the last thing I can hear after the dream fades off.

3. (This was the most recent I've had) I was at work at Best Buy and I saw these cars shaped like the best buy logo. In the dream they were "store pickup/delivery vehicles". I run up to my boss Shannon and tell her about them because I think they are very innovative. She tells me a girl named Jenni already told her about them. The dream starts fading and it triggers my lucidity.

I concentrate on pulling myself back into the dream. I get my footing and I'm back in the store - and in the back of the store which is particularly annoying since the last place i want to be in my dream is in my workplace. I begin walking toward the front. I keep trying to imagine going into a more interesting place. As I walk toward the front doors vines and plant life starts growing over the store walls and electronics. Strings of lights are hung around the place. Everything is much more pleasing and gets even better once I step outside. I see a vast grassy plain before me dotted with round tangled trees. The sky is a deep purple color and contrasts perfectly with the bright green trees and long blades of grass. It's drizzling a little but the sun is shining through the clouds causing everything to have a yellow glow around it. I feel extremely happy but the dream fades away again.

I have a FA and I am back in Best Buy lying on the floor. Two coworkers are staring down at me. One of them says "Woah, I want to do what you just did!"
Then I wake up for real...

This dream immediately followed the dream I last posted. After I woke up from that one I immediately laid back down to bed and was able to do a WBTB.

I am in a large unfamiliar house. Nothing is inside. I walk onto a tiled patio out into the backyard. It is overcast and there are random objects and junk in the yard - I remember one of the things out there was a yellow hummer. I also notice that there are no plants in the area at all. The ground is made entirely of sand and dirt. It kind of reminds me of a Fallout landscape. A large white tent stands before me. It's one of those tents that only has a roof and no walls. I think they call them frame tents. When I reach it I see a woman sitting behind a desk inside with her back turned to me. On the floor laying in a sleeping bag is another girl. She wakes up and stretches, looking at me. She's so beautiful looking - in a natural, simple way. Her hair is deep red, wavy, and tied in a loose bun in the back. Her cheeks have a few cute looking freckles. I remember how in my dream "1920s Train Station" I asked a dream character if she knew who I was and got a very interesting response. I decide I want to try that with this girl. She walks up to me just outside of the tent.

"How do you know me?" I ask.

"From...a lost place," she says quietly.

She's so pretty and elegant looking. I lose my train of thought and we start kissing. As this happens thousands of green sparks shower down from the clouds like rain. It makes the whole scene look like a dramatic romance. I don't want the dream to end but it does and I wake up... back in reality.

I "wake up" in my mom's house. Immediately I know I am dreaming but I am not completely lucid because I feel like I still live there and fell asleep in my room there (even though I have already moved out). Everything is so realistic that I think I am actually there. I walk to my bedroom and can see the shape of my body beneath the sheets of the bed. I consider the possibility that I might actually be in my "spirit body" looking at my physical self. (After waking up I now know that wasn't the case.) So..Just in case I actually am, I protect my body by casting a white light to surround it. I feel like I did a good job so I walk downstairs into the kitchen. I think about this being a good opportunity to make an experiment. I grab some red oven mittens out of a drawer and put them in the oven. I take a dish towel laying on the counter, and put it on the exercise bike in the living room. I wonder if I am actually doing this and tell myself that when I actually wake up I am going to see if the items really were moved to these locations. Suddenly I hear someone walk into the kitchen behind me. I turn around and see it's my mother. She looks a little scared.

"I've been seeing you do this kind of stuff a lot at night lately Nick," she starts crying, "You never remember it. I feel like it's dangerous and I'm afraid of what might be happening to you. What if you have a mental disorder? I think we need to take you to therapy."

She hugs me for a moment. I feel shocked. What if she's right? I don't know what's going on. I am an inch away from completely believing her - because the dream felt so life-like. But I look at her closely. Her hair and makeup are completely unusual compared to how she normally does it. Then I look back at the exercise bike I had placed the towel on. It completely disappeared.

"Ha! This IS a dream!" I say. My mom looks infuriated. I couldn't believe my brain almost succeeded in tricking me.

"Leave me alone," I tell my mom," or I'll..."

"Or you'll what?" She snaps back.

"Or I'll summon a fiery demon to come after you!" I couldn't think of anything better to say. I put my hands out like I am casting a spell, and think about summoning one. Nothing happens. (-.-)'

My mom laughs hysterically. "You want to see a fiery demon?" she says as her eyes begin to glow red.

She starts casting fire all around her. I don't want to feel the pain of being burned in my dream so I leave and try to focus my mind on something else. Somehow that works to get rid of her. I am back in the kitchen. A decorative tree on the counter starts shedding it's leaves. A bright white light - similar to a search light - shines on the house. Then everything turns black and I wake up.

Sometimes I hate living with 2 people. They always get up early. My partner either moves or shifts position or an alarm goes off. It's really disruptive to my dreaming. Thankfully both of them had to leave early today and I was by myself for most of the morning and I was still tired enough to go back to sleep.

I am with Ashley and a group of random friends I don't know. We are going out to a club. When we get there it reminds me of one of the "open-minded" clubs that I go to where I live, where all sexual orientations and a wide range of flavors of people go - Everyone from goths to punk-kids. We go to the second floor. My sister hands me a beer. I down it pretty quickly, and then someone else gives me a cocktail (rum and coke) that I also suck down.Surprisingly I actually feel quite drunk in the dream after that - so much so that I feel like I need to sit down. I stupidly end up sitting at the edge of the stairs with my legs sticking out. A girl comes around the corner and then trips over my feet. She lands on a group of people who are also heading downstairs and they all tumble over. The girl I tripped gets up and comes over to me quickly.

"Don't worry it's not your fault. It's really theirs for not knowing how to prevent themselves from falling," she says.

(Wow, my subconscious really does try to shift the blame!) Another girl who fell that was with the group of people also walks up to me.

"Nice job," she looks angry, "Idiot!"

I don't say anything to her, I just walk over to a fire-pole, and slide down to the first floor. I hear her call my name as she throws something down at me. It hits me in the head. Before I can look to see what it is the dream ends and I am awake.

I turn over....annoyed that I didn't become lucid. I figure this is a good time to try WBTB. I close my eyes and concentrate.

Suddenly I am back in the club. I hear this really cool music. It sounds like a punk girl band. I am pretty impressed that my mind can make this stuff up. Then the dream fades again.

I am back in my bed and I decide I have to do it again.
This time it's harder though. I close my eyes and I can feel my head coming out of my body. Everything is black but I can feel the process. First my head, then my arms. I basically feel like I climb out of my real body. I try to concentrate on going back to the cave where I met that mysterious DC who knew about lucid dreaming. It doesn't quite work. The dream scene appears and I am in a nice village with lots of small streams and ponds. I start flying. For some reason I feel like the cave would be located next to the ocean. But there is no ocean around..and I wake up again.

Even though the dream was kind of boring. It was my first WBTB so I note it as a big achievement and had to post it on here.

A couple of friends and I are in a haunted house.We are on a balcony area when one of my friends is grabbed by something invisible, and thrown into a small closet that's up there. I open the closet and she is bound by shackles and chains. We are told that the only way we can free her is if we go into the house, find a chainsaw, and saw her feet off. I look closely at what are supposed to be her feet and realize they are made of plastic. So I feel better knowing they are "fake" feet. The other girl and I enter the house. Immediately we are terrorized by spirits. I am dragged down a hallway by a woman who has sharp pointed teeth, and my friend is dragged another direction. I am able to break free and I run into a room and find my friend there as well. Apparently she escaped too. The room resembles the master bedroom at my parents' house. That's when we hear this terrible growling screaming noise that consumes the entire room. A window is open and wind blows into the room tossing papers and anything light up into the air. I grab a small rock I find on the ground and throw it at the window.

"Leave us the f**** alone!" I yell.

Nothing happens. In fact that only angers it even more. Now I am being shoved and tossed around like a rag doll by this invisible entity. I start screaming. It was actually very frightening.

At this point I realize I am dreaming. I call out to anything to help me get rid of this thing. I attempt to summon an angel to combat the evil ghost in my dream, but my attempt fails. Strangely enough though, everything stops for a moment and is calm. This is my chance. I run into the bathroom connected with the bedroom. There is an attic hatch on the ceiling. I try to envision it being a portal to another more friendly realm. I open it, and all I can see is water, hovering in place. I jump up inside and start swimming. Everything is dark and murky at first but gets lighter toward the top. When I surface, I am relieved to find I am in a much more welcoming dream. The landscape looks like a tropical fantasy island. Lots of green, with pieces of pink and purple foliage and plant life. Some areas are a bit pixelated like a video game would be. I try to stabilize it to make them more clear but that doesn't remove the pixelation. I decide to let that slide for now. I see a couple of tiny people swimming in the water near the shoreline. They remind me of realistic versions of anime chibi people - kind of like Kingdom Hearts.


Kind of like this except with bathing suits.

I swim to the shore and when i stand up I see a little black chibi boy with a small sun tattoo in the shape of a heart on his left cheek. Right before I start to introduce myself to him my roommate wakes me up from the hallway with a huge belch. I am thoroughly pissed.

I had a dream similar to this with the same creepy invisible ghost who bellows that god-awful unearthly scream in my room at night - a couple nights ago. It was short so I never actually bothered to record it on here. In that dream I could not escape, even though I had become lucid. I was paralyzed and physically incapable of moving out of my bed (or waking up for that matter). Eventually I did...but I have to wonder where this ghost is coming from in my subconscious. The next time it happens I think it would be interesting to confront it to ask what it represents.

Ashley, my dad and I were heading downtown in a huge populated city. It was in the middle of the night. We were heading to a club or some large party place. Several times while we were walking, my teeth kept falling out (I should use this as a dream sign...). I recognized a teenage guy on the street who was from the tv show I was watching before I went to bed. I thought he was particularly annoying so I ignored him. The wind started picking up. Everyone outside began to look worried. It began to rain so my family and I ran into a parking garage to take cover. The weather became an awful thunderstorm - except it only lasted a few minutes before it began to die down. It kind of reminded me of the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly everyone began running. I heard someone yell that we had to escape and that once it started to hail we were as good as dead. Before Ashley and Dad could figure out what to do next we saw Rupert Grint from Harry Potter. I ran up to him and called him "Ron" on accident, forgetting what his real name was. I asked him for help. He seemed to think we should stay and take cover inside. That's when my dad bolted. My sister and I ran outside after him. It was drizzling sleet and it was pretty cold. A breeze began to blow. My dad was sprinting and it was really hard to keep up with him. Then it started hailing a little...Shit! The breeze turned into a blasting wind. I followed my dad through a grassy pasture as the dream ended.

I am with two people in a movie production. We are the actors. I don't know what the plot is but I know it has something to do with video games (I think I was supposed to be Donkey Kong). We're in an abandoned place that looks a lot like a hospital. I open the door to a hallway and there is what looks like a Silent Hill mannequin nurse at the end.

"Silent Hill!" The actor next to me yells, "That's not original at all!"

We run away from it pretending to be scared for the cameras. Out of the corner of my eye I spot the beautiful Mena Suvari working behind the scenes. We head down some steps towards what appears to be a cave. At this point I realize I am in a dream.

This guy comes out of nowhere and introduces himself and tells us that this cave is his place. He is taller than I am, and has medium length black hair. He seems really nice, and I feel like I know who he is, and that he is another dreamer.

"I want to show you something," he tells me, leading me further inside.

We come to a piece of art painted on the cave floor. It's an animal, comprised of different animal parts. Mostly bird but part lion, similar to a griffin except not quite the same.

"Do you change into this form in your lucid dreams?" I ask him

He nods yes, "Look at this other one I've been working on. I'm trying to perfect it's abilities."

We walk to the right and look at a second painting on the ground. This one is of a raven with huge outstretched wings and flowing feathers. In the image the bird is actually breathing frost like an ice dragon. It looks awesome.

He walks away for a moment and one of the other DCs I was with earlier comes up to me.

"Your friend has a present for you."

He hands me what looks like a candy bar. I pull open the wrapper and see that it's actually some kind of jerky meat. I start chewing on it. It tastes funny, I don't think my mind was quite settled on what it wanted it to be like. But it does the job. It helps me to stay grounded in the dream. I realize he gave me the present to do just that - keep me in the lucid dream. It makes me smile. I run up to him and give him a big hug.

"Thank you," I say.

He grins, "No problem."

At that moment I think about my body lying asleep in bed. Everything starts fading out. Crap! I'm not supposed to think about that! But it's too late. The dream dissipates and I wake up.

During this dream I was told the name of the guy who was helping me a few times. I can't for the life of me remember what it was. All I remember was that it sounded like a screen name. Like he came from the forums. And I felt like I knew him well. When I woke up however, I realized that I in fact have never met him before in waking life. I do not know who that was. It's a weird deja vu kind of feeling.