Vault of the Inner Bibliophile

November 12, 2010

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am at a sleepover, and Mr. Steeper is the parent supervising. I am in a room with a large bed and comforters all over the floor. Emily, Nicole, and someone else are on the floor with blank stares, unmoving. A little girl with black hair is on the bed, laughing. Sam is there as well, and she is being her usual Sam self, yelling and getting excited over nothing. Mr. Steeper comes and checks on us, and with no surprise, he is wearing his usual HTS faculty golf shirt and the track suit pants with the shirt tucked in. We eat something of some significance, I have a feeling it was to do with pirates for some reason. I have to go to the bathroom, so I walk outside the room. I am in Megan Sherifovski’s house. The tiles on the lower floor are still white marble, and the staircase is the same, curved and not carpeted. I walk down the staircase and look around for the bathroom. Then I remember, this is Megan’s house. The bathroom is to the right of the staircase. I look up and see movement. There is Megan in a short white flowy dress, gracefully pacing back and forth. She must know that I am here in her house at a sleepover that is not hers. I walk over to the bathroom. Wait. Why would Mr. Steeper be in Megan’s house? I must be dreaming! Everything goes white, then flashes to colour. I am excited, but then I calm myself down. I can feel my dream body and I move around. I am in no particular place, just surrounded by flashing light. I think this must be a very unstable dream. I can feel the dream fading, so I decide to spin. I try to spin, but my surroundings are so strange that I can’t tell if I am spinning or not. I wake up.

My first lucid dream!

August 30, 2010

I had at least 3 dreams last night, but only two of which I can remember clearly enough to write about. Unfortunately, none of them were lucid because by the time I realized I was dreaming, I was already out of the dream and nearly fully conscious. 

This dream is very hard to remember. It is dark out, and there are either 3 DCs, in which case I am present in the dream, or 4 DCs, in which case I am not present in the dream. The 3 DCs and I are fighting in kind of a circle each using a different element. The one fire bending is wearing black samurai clothes with red trim, the one water bending is wearing black samurai clothes with blue trim, the one air bending is wearing black samurai clothes with brown trim, and the one earth bending is wearing black samurai clothes with green trim. I don’t know which one I am, or who won the fight. The dream fades

I am in a cave structure similar/the same as in previous dream. The walls are reddish brown and very rough and not manmade. The ground is a canal filled with water and in some places caves were hollowed out in the walls, their floors high enough not to be touched with the water. I am there with multiple DCs, some my family. I go outside with DCs of my friends (I think) and my brothers. The outside is through a huge opening in the side of the rock. The canal inside connects straight to the river outside. It’s very weedy on the banks of the outside river and we are in the tall river grass. I see a car and a minivan floating in the water, kept in one place by balloons. I think, well I do need a car for when I turn 16, so I wade into the water and pop the balloons on both cars. I don’t want the minivan so it floats away down the river. I drag the car through the water and somehow lift/drag it onto shore. It is yellow and upon further inspection with my DC friends is just a nearly life sized plastic toy car missing its wheels and steering wheel. I am disappointed. I take it back inside the canal cave and realize that it floats. A lot of DCs are congregated near the exit of the caves in the biggest hollowed out place. I remember that I need to leave to go to the Olympics where I am a professional water-skier. I find oval glass objects that are hollow inside and have glass stripes of colour inside them. I know they are of some importance so I hold onto them and rush to the back of the caves, using the car to float (I now remember that these were also in a past dream). An adult DC frowns at me, knowing that we are near late for the Olympics. The DC of my brother Owen chases after me, probably wanting the glass objects (they were very pretty). I paddle away faster and reach the back of the caves where there is a hollowed out room of hidden things. I pull my car into the room and look for a place to put my glass things. In one corner there is a pail and shovel and other beach toys. I see a shelf above my head and put the glass things there knowing hardly anyone can reach. Owen catches up with me and I grin at him because I beat him here and he didn’t get here fast enough to see where I put the glass things. I think we fought over them in a past dream. It is time to go and as I leave I see that the wall at the very back of the caves is the same wall in my basement at home, cement and bare wall structure with insulation peeking out in various places. I am now in a car with black leather seats driving down the highway into the rain. It’s very dark out. I am on my way to the Olympics to water ski. Then I realize, I can’t be a professional water skier… and as I come back to consciousness I do a reality check.
Grr… it was too late by then.