Tsen's Dream Journal

[Tsen]

Well, I figured I'd start one. I never write in the one by my bed, so I guess having an online one might encourage me to write more. Well here goes; My first dream in this journal: Not lucid, around 20 minutes in the dream: I started in an old mansion-type place, and I don't remember too much about this part, other than I didn't stay there long. It had tall wood-sided walls, and looked just like the typical "Haunted mansion" that everybody sees around Halloween. Anyway, I left and entered a field in autumn, with tons of hedges and shrubberies outlining maze-like paths through. I remember finding a color-shifting floating bubble creature thing that followed me around, explaining what I was supposed to do. Well, I had a sword, though I was in normal street clothes (Odd, since in most dreams, when I have a sword I usually have cool armor to go with it...) Anyway, I started jogging down this trail, when I found a few brown, raindrop-shaped creatures that attacked me. Basically, the whole dream was a .hack type environment (A really realistic RPG game that's featured in an Anime). I beat the creatures pretty quickly (they weren't much of a challenge, and hey, I had a REALLY big sword!) Anyway, I again set off down the trail, ran into some friends, and hid in a shrubbery. I have no clue if I spelled that right...Anyway, while I was hiding, I saw this big buldozer working in a dump way off in front of me. It didn't really affect the dream in anyway, but it was a detail that I remembered, so I wrote it down. Well, I went on and found a Bobomb chained to a stake that apparently was the boss. I started pulling bombs from a pack on my back Link-style and tossing them at it while it shot fireballs at me and summoned bombs that fell around me (which I would, in return, throw back at him). Well, that's the only dream I remember. Conclusion: I need to back off the anime, video games and high explosives.

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Not Lucid, Very long, but I don't know how long for sure. I had lots of really long, really detailed dreams, but I had to go and make the STUPID mistake of not writing them down until now (7 hours or so after I woke up). Well, here's what I remember, I'll try and meditate on it and plot in some details soon: I remember at one point I had a bunch of rimfire cartridges in my pocket and I found an old M1 Garand bolt-action single shot rifle. I tried to shoot some 'terrorists' (need to back off the Rainbow Six....) but I kept missing. That's the freaky part, normally I'm a really good shot, and I'm always confident that I'll hit what I aim at, so you'd think that I'd hit things in my dreams...meh, can't change that now. Anyway, another dream. Reminded me of a cross between a mall and the atlantean-type architecture in Age of Mythology. I talked to Randy at some point, and a girl with black hair, but that's all I remember...

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Erm...I had some 'Family Issues' with computers lately, so I hadn't been able to sign on. Now I get here, and I'm missing 50 posts or so...Did I tick somebody off that I shouldn't have? If I did, I'm sorry! Anyway, on to the dream: Took a nap to get rid of a headache earlier, 1 dream, non-lucid, around an hour: I was a mechwarrior piloting a light mech (A Hellspawn I think, for those who play MW, but recall's not great and I only saw it once as I got out since the rest of the time I was in the cockpit) and I was taking out several attacking light mech's near an extraction zone for some stranded officials. I got out of the mech and went into a building, and I kind of switched characters. Like, I never changed point of view, but my character suddenly had a different history. I then became a worker for some company in old England, and a debtor of sorts. I owed somebody around 200 pounds or whatever the currency was, but on the other hand one of the other characters in the dream (A bit Sherlock Holmes-like) owed me some 2,000,000. However, since I was of a lower class, my debt was punished more severely and I was due to be executed if I couldn't pay within the next two weeks. I knew that I couldn't come up with the money, and my friend, the Sherlock Holmes one, couldn't come up with enough money to pay my debt either, so I knew that I was kind of screwed. Well, the dream was a bit jumpy, and suddenly I was in an antique fighter plane (WWII era) shooting down another. After a long dogfight I wound up destroying the other plane, but having to bail out of my own plane because of extensive damage to the engine. After I landed, I found myself in a room with the Sherlock-Holmes guy and a porky-rich guy type. I told the porky guy that I'd have as much of the money as I could by the next day (apparently he was the one I owed money) but he said the punishment would still have to stand. Sherlock said something about paying his debt to my children since I wouldn't be around, and he said that he'd figured he'd have it all payed within 238 years and some odd days. Er...a bit late. Anyway, then the fat guy and Sherlock started laughing and Porky said that Sherlock had posted the shortest ad in the history of his newspaper, something to the effect of " Worker needed to work for a worker, 25 cents an hour". A bit screwy, but whatever. They laughed for a while, then I woke up.

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Well, I realized I hadn't written in my online DJ in a while, so I went and dug this out. Took a nap earlier, the dream was non lucid, about 20 minutes I started in a metallic room, kind of like a holding cell, trying to gather some equipment to break out. There were bins of all shapes and sizes all around the room, and all were made of thick steel, which was polished, except one that was black wire. I started to grab an assault rifle (the human one from Killzone, for those who have played it) and some clips, but a bunch of 12-year olds from my neighborhood ran in and started grabbing the other rifles (there were about nine) and chattering excitedly. I was worried that they'd hurt themselves (or more importantly, me), so I told them to put the guns down and sit still. One of them, named Tyler, said "Why should we!", so I grabbed a shotgun shell and loaded it into the single-action barrel under the submachine gun barrel (Slightly odd, but not enough for me to notice--in the game, the secondary barrel on the human rifle is a high-caliber explosive-round rifle) and pointed it at Tyler and said, "Because I'll shoot you if you don't put it down." (None of the kids, including him, had enough time to load the rifles) He started to run, and I pulled the trigger, but it misfired. I then loaded a 30-round clip into the submachinegun and shot him, and he dropped over a small ledge (~.5 m) The rest of the kids (about 6) set down their guns and left the room. Now that I had as much time as I needed, I grabbed as many clips for the rifle as I could fit into my belt and found a large collection of secondary munitions for the lower barrel. Afterwards I left the room and found myself in my backyard, which is currently undergoing construction for a new addition on my house. Randy and Tyler were there, and they told me to go to a barn to get some experience (The dream kind of switched from a shooting theme here, and my guns dissapeared). I went into the barn, which had an interior similar to my garage's, but with some machinery across the top, with lots of spinning wheels and conveyor belts. There were also two large wooden boxes. Four men approached me, all of which were very uneducated-looking and shirtless. The tallest one, who was wearing a blue and brown beanie, pushed me and said, "So you accepted our challenge!", and all four started to chase me around the barn/garage thing and threw cement trowels and C-clamps at me. Eventually I climbed up onto one of the boxes and grabbed a metal barrel that had been sawed in half and used it to block whatever they threw at me. After a while, they ran out of things to throw and sat down on a couch that materialized sometime while we were fighting. I started picking up all the things they threw at me and throwing them back at them, with little effect. They didn't try to throw them back, though... Anyway, I decided that wasn't working, so I grabbed my trusty barrel-thing and jumped down and tried bashing their heads with it. At first one just laughed, and none of them tried fighting back, but after a while they were pretty much beat to a pulp. Messy. Anyway, I woke up a little afterwards.

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Man...Most violent dream to date. I mean, REALLY bad. There's probably worse floating around, but it was still kinda gruesome. ~1 hr, but I only remember 5 minutes or so of it accurately Lucid, but little control Background I was at a campsite, grassy, looked like a Pacific-Coast enviro. Lots of trees, and no dirt to be seen, all grassy. I was camping with three guys my age who live within two blocks of me. There were three camps near ours, two were full of boys our age, but I hardly got a look at them. On the other side of our camp was a small hill, leading about 10 feet down into another camp, this one full of college-aged girls. The Dream I remember arriving, but only vaguely. I was riding shotgun in my family's old Dodge Caravan, and there was a wooden crate, about 1 3/4 m long and .5 m wide propped against my legs. We arrived, and the camp was already set up and the three other boys (Cody, Blake and Jake) were already there. <Poor memory, vital plot components missing!> The next part I remember was somebody I didn't know running from the trees surrounding the other camps (the trees were fairly thick, so I couldn't see into them.) and they yelled something about "They're really attacking!" The next thing I knew, Blake, who's really fit and very fast, came running out of the woods, but he fell down not far outside of the stand of trees as an arrow went through his lower back and out his stomach. A shirtless guy, with a red streak accross his face (war-paint) jumped on his back, placed a foot between his shoulder blades and pulled his arms backwards, towards him. Another came out of the trees with similar paint and a crude axe. He then hacked off Blake's arms with it ... Ugh. A bit bloody. Cody started running out of the woods too, but he got felled by a thrown tomahawk in the head. And I thought the thing with Blake was bloody. Jake was standing next to me, and he mentioned that we should make a break for it through the stand of trees that devided us from the van (A little to the left of the stand where Blake and Cody got attacked, where the other group of guys was camped). I replied, "Screw that! I'm just going to cut through the girl's camp, where they can't see us." And started walking down the hill into the girls camp. I saw a cute looking one that was walking towards me, and suddenly I realized that I was wearing a WWII-style helmet O_o. Anyway, I took it off, and kind of flirted with her in passing, but didn't stop walking. Eventually I had to cut very close to the stand of trees as I came up the hill towards the van, so I broke into a sprint with Jake right behind me. A few seconds later, Blake sprinted a little ways in front of me, all in one piece, and I said something to him about how much that must have hurt and asked where he got hit. He pointed to his lower back, right above his pants, and said, "See where the blood is?" There was a faint trace of blood on his white shirt, but nothing on his skin. Cody was nowhere to be seen, though. I got to the van, and my dad, who was standing just behind it, got into the driver's seat and told us to get in. Then he ordered me to get open the crates and get out a 7-mm (At least I think it was 7-mm...that or a .30-06, I didn't really pay attention) with a 12x scope, and mentioned that I'd need it soon. I got in the front seat, and Jake and Blake dissapeared. I think they had another car down the road a bit, but I never really saw them again in the dream, and they never got in the van with me. We drove about a mile, and the terrain changed from grassy to muddy, with lots of trenches and barbwire-shrouded plywood buildings. He said that I'd have to get out and take out some resistance before he could drive further. I ran down the trail to where one of my friends (don't remember a specific face to this one) had just been shot and shouldered the weapon (I should have taken cover and got hidden) and looked for the shooter. A young boy (12-13 yrs old) with full military gear jogged out 500 m down the trail, near a plywood building. I took aim, and noticed he was aimed near me, but hadn't seen me. I didn't really care why, I just took the shot. Just above the left eye, messiest death so far this dream. Messiest ever, maybe. Anyway. I remember taking aim at a soldier manning a machine gun position, this one about 38-42 years old. I don't remember firing though... <More memory gaps!> After that, the next thing I remember was getting home, and my dad congratulating me and giving me a new rifle, same as the old, but with a better scope, equiped with light amplification and a better zoom. That was about it. Freaky. Really should cut back on the video games. I think I'll try a week without, and see if it alters my dreams at all...

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Okay, haven't updated in a while, but that's okay. Not lucid, half an hour dream time. I was in my old school's gym for some ceremony for my brother, and I ran into some girls I know and started talking to them. After a while I got tired of the ceremony, so I left with the girls and started driving away. Things started getting a little screwy, and I was in a bus, the car, and the parking lot all at once. I got really confused, then the scene switched again and I was on a raft going down the coast of South America. I got lost, and decided to stop at the next village to stay the night and get my bearings. Well, after staying the night, I decided to stay for good and married a local woman. We built a house, and I remember spending a night in it, but then the dream shifted again and I was the son of the previous character, exploring a ruin where the village used to be. I dug up the old me's house, and while exploring it, I found my skeleton. The head was severed from the neck, apparently by an axe, but we couldn't find anything else in the house. I woke up soon afterwards....

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Two dreams, both non-LD First one started in a hospital. There was some sort of half-insect half-human little kid that I was supposed to be sneaking into one of the upper rooms so that he could be treated. The hospital didn't want him there or something. I was sneaking him upstairs, but I had to hide under a table while a guard went past. One of our friends who was helping us was sitting at the table eating, and holding a innocent-looking bag with an automatic pistol inside it. The guard wandered over to the table and asked who he was, and then started getting more curious, so the man at the table shot him. Turns out the gun was a paintball gun or something, 'cuz it left multicolor marks on the guy's shirt, but didn't pierce. Either way, it knocked him unconscious. After that, I guess I got kind of distracted, 'cuz I was telling one of the other people there about what kind of gun it was, and which kinds were better, etc, and somehow got WAY off track. I talked about heartbeat detectors from Rainbow 6, and then I was one of the characters, about to perform a raid on a supply depot. Woke up soon afterwards. Next one was in some odd world--lots of mountains, but it was a lot like a big amusement park. I was climbing up some waterfall ride, trying to sneak into one of the rooms, when I found a bunch of my friends going into another ride. I went in, and found out it was a catapult-like thing. They strapped you into one of two spherical metal cages, then shot the cages all around this room. They were about to launch mine when I saw a friend of mine that I wanted to talk to and got out of the cage (mid-launch). I taked to him for a bit, then left the room to try and catch up to my friends. After I left, I couldn't find them, so I started wandering around the building I was in. I ran into my cousin, so we left in her car, which was green and yellow instead of white, like normal. Anyway, we stopped at a Wendy's on the way, and I got a milkshake w/Oreo cookies, but I woke up before I could eat it

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One dream, kinda two...anyway, both lucid. At first I was camping or something, I don't remember much. Then I went to sleep, in the dream, and began to have a recurring dream within the dream...yeah, kinda weird. Anyway, I was a submarine commander defending some naval base, and we were under attack, but every time I ran for my sub, I'd wake up in the dream. Yeah, it's confusing me, too. Anyway, I finally realized that it was a dream, and I was then dreaming that I was lucid dreaming (not actually lucid), and I was repairing the sub with dream-type powers or whatever. I grew a new propeller out of my hand like a flower, it was pretty cool. Anyway, I began to wonder why the heck I was repairing a sub if I was lucid dreaming, and then, after a moment of thought, I truly went lucid. I left for an island (forgot the Task for April though, but oh well) and spent a while there just relaxing. After a while I had a FA and found myself back at the camp from the beggining of the dream, and went lucid again pretty much instantly. Anyway, after that it was just messing around and such, but the whole recurring dream within a dream was pretty cool.

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Used some B6 last night (100 mg) and got some pretty cool dreams (3), but I'm only going to post one here. It was really vivid, and I was in some city. I don't remember too much, just that I was with a friend, and we were trying to blow up some building. He had this really big gun, complete with nuclear projectiles or something. He was in a building adjacent to the one he was blowing up, and I was in the streets near the base of the building. I ran to an unlocked van and shifted it to neutral and turned the wheel, letting it roll downhill untill it was facing away from the building, then braced myself. The building exploded, and the shockwave hit, throwing the van down the road, but since I moved it away from the building, it didn't roll. This part was very vivid, there were glass shards everywhere, and I could feel the vibrations in the road. Anyway, I woke up after that, so that's about it. I'll be back on later today to post the others if I feel like it, but I don't think so.

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Heh...haven't been on in quite a while. AP tests bogged me down, no time for messing around online. Anyway, I have been having some pretty good dreams despite being soo busy. In the last week I've had 4 LDs, and it's only Wedensday First one, I was running down my block, and somebody dared me to jump over a car, and I did, but then I started floating upwards, over their basketball hoop and their house, and halfway through I realized I was dreaming. Flew around a bit, but my alarm clock woke me up. Next one, I was in a restaraunt eating, and realized I was dreaming when some guy pulled a gun, (heh, woulda been interesting if I wasn't dreaming) so I disarmed him and left, changing the surrounding to an island (my latest LD hangout) and swam a little (breathin' underwater's awesome). I lost lucidity at some point, and all of a sudden I was on a submarine (Heh...too much Tom Clancy.) and I was going back to the restaraunt. Things got kinda weird (People on the ceilings and such), and all of a sudden this subway flooded and the submarine got sucked in. Heh...woke up afterwards. After that, I had one really short one where I was running in this tunnel and a bat started attacking somebody, realized I was dreaming and started flying again, but when I tried to go back to my island, I lost lucidity really quickly, everything faded to black, and then I saw somebody trying untangle this black tape that was shooting out of a piano (It was really weird) and he said something about having technical difficulties and I'd have to wait to LD again later, and then I woke up. It was really trippy, I actually laughed at it for a while after I woke up. Heh, just realized I didn't post the last one, and on second thought, I don't think I will. It was a bit...er...odd, 'specially the part before I went lucid. A little too odd for this forum. Anyway, I don't think I'm emotionally scarred TOO bad, but ya' never know.

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A pretty odd dream, but not lucid. I started in my school, getting something to eat for lunch out of the vending machines. After getting a Twix and a Coke, I left the school and walked to my house, which had somehow relocated itself to the football field behind the school, to eat lunch before class started. I walked upstairs, but before I could go into my room the door burst into flames, and the wall caught fire as well. I started to beat out the flames with a blanket, and I threw some dirt on it (which appeared out of midair I guess...I don't remember there being any dirt in the house other than in that half a second...) Anyway, I spent several minutes trying to put out the fire, and eventually I did, but half the wall had been burned away. I left to go back to school, but I was about twenty minutes late for my next class. On the way I was listening to my MP3 player, and some song I'd never heard before was playing. It was really wierd, but cool at the same time. I thought about the song for a long time after I woke up, and I've never heard anything vaguely familiar to the music, though I may have heard the lyrics somewhere. Something like: "And so I'm still searching, for something I may not have lost...." Heh. I had most of the song memorized before I got up, but I can't seem to remember more than that for the moment...Anyway. I went into class, and I was like, "You guys are SO not going to believe why I'm late." And then I woke up...

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Really odd dream, the environment would slowly morph into something new but not totally different. Started out in a space-craft (Curse you Star Wars! You're warping my mind!) flying to some doctor's office to check out some disease I had. Me and the driver, somebody that looked vaguely like my grandmother, but about 14 years old, got out onto a steel platform, about 100m by 40m, with 6 or 7 other spacecraft of various vibrant and bright colors scattered about on various landing pads similar to ours. The entire platform was situated about 10 to 40m over the ocean, depending on the tide, which changed rapidly and in large amounts, with one end connected by a ramp to a stainless-steel bulding projecting out of a hilly and rocky costline. I'll get a scan of a sketch put up later. Anyway, it was raining fairly bad, and we walked into the building. I don't remember anything from the doctor's office, or where I went immediately after that, but I do remember eventually appearing at a pharmacy deeper into the cliff-building. The pharmacy was a simple room, square with all white walls and a bland, rectangular, white desk in the middle of it. The whole room was very messy with envelopes, crooked pictures hanging from the walls, and shelves of tubes of pills and boxes. One overworked woman sat at the desk, with brown hair pulled up in a bun and thick-rimmed glasses, and despite being obviously exhausted from her job, she seemed cheerful enough, and very agreeable. We talked for a few minutes, and she eventually sifted through a large pile of envelopes until she found the proper perscription and gave it to me. Again, I remember leaving, but not where I went. The memory gap ends with me in some kind of school. It's an archeological school, with wooden walls and many bookshelves and glass cases with various skeletons within, from raptors to bird-like dinosaurs. The professor that led us in went upstairs, and he remarked something about not touching things--they'd had problems with theft recently, so everything was set up to alarms. The school eventually kind of twisted itself into a museum, though the appearance didn't change. I remember specifically looking at the bookshelves and wondering why they didn't have cases over them to prevent further theft...Anyway, a few minutes later I noticed my friend's father sitting at a computer nearby, which had been secluded from view by a pile of books and paperwork until I moved a few feet back. I talked to him, and he mentioned that one of my other friends was angry about being caught truant from the school next door, and he'd been brought here temporarily while they decided what to do with him. My friend's father seemed worried that he'd vandalize the place on his way in or out. Soon afterwards, the friend who'd been caught came out from a door to my right and walked into a hallway to my left, seeming downcast and yet vengeful at the same time. I glanced into the hallway after he left to make sure he didn't do anything, and told the other friend's father that he hadn't done anything. A few minutes of conversation ensued, and afterwards I left into the hall that my friend had left into. I immediately noticed that the walls were drenched and the carpet as well, and more water was seeping down from above. My friend's father panicked and started cursing because he'd vandalized them after all. I went upstairs into what had now become my friend's father's house, only more open and less cluttered, and saw that the sink was on with the drain plugged, and after further inspection, the bathtub and bathroom sink were in the same state. I helped clean out the house and repair some of the damage, and helped remove the sheetrock, which was completely destroyed by the seeping water. The carpet had to be pulled up too, to prevent mold growth. After it was all cleaned up, I went back upstairs and found my other friend (not the one who'd vandalized it--it was the one who's father I'd met earlier) and talked to him for a bit, that teased his cat a bit with a nerf gun and left out their front door into my neighborhood. All in all, the dream was nothing truly special--I was shocked mildly by my friend's vandalism, but not deeply, and while the environment and environment changes were definitely unique, they weren't amazing. Cool all the same though.

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Just one dream, pretty trippy though: During a nap today, about 5 minutes total in the dream. I was a rocket fighter pilot of some sort (not jet, the plane was definitely rocket-propelled) Anyway, I was in a military base in a dense shopping location somewhere in New York (I think) Well, at first not much was happening, me and the other pilots were just cleaning our gear and talking about nothing in particular, and all of a sudden something hits the building we're in a few floors below us. We're freaked out for a bit, but we decide it was nothing important because nobody calls on the radios. Well, a few seconds later we get called and the CO of the base asks us to look up information on the structural integrity of the subway network's ceilings, so we do it. We ask why, and he says there's cars raining down outside...So we go out of the building to see what the heck he was talking about, and a Ford Taurus nearly clips our nose off as it falls out of the sky and breaks a huge hole in the ground in front of us, leading into the subways. Some way or another, I found out they were coming from space in some sort of Twighlight-Zone time warp. Well, anyway, I run across the street, which was HUGE, like 16 lanes across, dodging falling vehicles, and get to the other side, where I take cover under the edge of a mall's entrance. I get another call on my radio, and the CO's telling me that they don't know WTF is going on and they're getting calls from all over, and then he starts listing all these people, like: Someone named Melanie just called, her cousin, visiting from Europe, just got hit by a flying semi, The governer's daughter was last seen running from an incoming Volkswagen, And holy shit, we just got a call, Captain Kirk just got hit by a Geo Metro from space. Damn. Anyway, the dream was pretty random, and I got a good laugh out of the Captain Kirk thing, but it was way short and kind of dissapointing. Well, whatever. Back to bed for me.

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So, I haven't been on in a while, but whatev... Several dreams last night, one lucid, The lucid one started in my neighborhood, and I was hanging out with some of my old friends (haven't really talked to them in a while) anyway, we were messing with the sprinklers in their yard just for fun, and we flooded the garage on accident. They all started to run before we got caught, and I ran too. I passed a huge hole in the ground at their neighbor's house, and it looked pretty cool. I think there was a bulldozer a the bottom, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I was running down the street, and I started jumping for some reason, and I was like, 'Wow, I can jump pretty high!' And then I was like, 'I'm not dreaming, am I?' and then I was like, 'I am!' and stuff. So anyways, I tried to teleport to my LD gettaway location, but I woke up. Blah.

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Well, like I posted somewhere else on the board, I've been having pretty trippy dreams since I started on some anti-biotics and pain killers earlier this week, so here's the highlights: Well, first night I had some dream that I was reading a book. I picked up the book and looked at the title (The title was some oxymoron, but I don't remember it) and went in my room to read it. After that I took the place of the main character of the book and kind of lived the story... Anyway, I was a little 9-year old kid with really big, funky dragon wings that changed color. The whole story was something about me trying to be accepted with some weird sub-plot about me finding why my wings changed color...anyway, the dream sucked, but it was really vivid and the flying was pretty dang awesome. Well, next dream: I don't remember most of this one, but I was hanging out on some bed shaped like a really, really big multi-layered cake. Yeah. Trippy. Well, I was like running around and then this cat made of yarn popped up. And it was, like, WAY scary. It just stood there...and waved...and blinked....ugh. *shudders* This one was really odd. I was in this Wal-Mart with three friends and some middle-aged guy, and we were all dressed up like Batman. Yeah. So were sitting in the toy aisle trying to steal Batman toys, and this Wal-Mart employee came up, and we like, started to run and stuff...And then I remember one grabbed a shopping cart, and I jumped in, thinking they'd push me out of the store, but they turn around and throw me at the employees and run. Psh. I know when I'm not wanted. Anyway, don't remember much more than that... Well, last dream was really long, but kinda private. Lots of starfighting and swords and stuff though.

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Okay, pretty cool dreams. First one, I was playing some kind of tournament game with my friend Randy. Halo came to mind, but the weapons were modern-day, not all futuristic...Anyway, it wasn't a video game, it was really shooting eachother, complete with killing and stuff. No blood though. Blood is nasty. Well, so we're playing, me and four allies vs. Randy and four allies. I've set up a well-hidden sniper hide on a rail-car type vehicle that travels around the map. I know roughly where Randy is, and I've seen one of his allies twice, but I know she's still moving around more. One of his other allies has been killed, and the other two are probably in the buildings to either side on the map. Since I'm the commander, I've sent three of my allies into the buildings on the right at different times and inserted at different locations to prevent them from all getting fragged at once. Meanwhile, me and my other ally are set up to snipe Randy and anyone else stupid enough to get caught in the open. Like I said, I'd already located Randy, but I can't get a clean shot. He's behind a piece of thin plywood and cloth in a slum-like area of the town we're battling in. I can get a clear view of his hiding spot from my location when the railcar goes by his part of the map. A reflection off of his scope is visible in the window, but it appears that he's simply set up the sniper rifle and moved back away from it. His ally is currently out of my range, behind a staircase that I cannot get an angle to shoot around. After I've passed his hide a few times, I decide to just take a shot anyways. I line up my sights on his scope's reflection and shoot two rounds in quick succession, but the rifle just tips over. Well, if he's been watching he'll know where I am, but as it turns out, he'd been dozing off in the back corner of the makeshift hut. Well, he comes running out looking for me, but I can't get a clear shot worth giving my position away (again) for, so I just bide my time. Eventually he sees me, and comes running forward to get a clear shot (he's stuck with a close-quarters weapon since I blasted the scope off his sniper), but I get the shot first and take him down and he's teleported out of the game. The dream kind of ended there. Well, next dream: I'm with a whole bunch of people from my neighborhood on some sort of vacation, but we've gotten lost at some point or another, and have absolutely no clue where we are now. Since it's not very fun being lost in the middle of nowhere when you're stuck with adult supervision, me and a few friends have planned a whole gettaway scheme involving hitch hiking on an ice cream truck. Well, as we're hitch hiking out of the middle of nowhere, several of our friends try to come with, but it's hard to get people on board a ice cream truck moving at 45. Well, at some point I fall off and get hit by another car, but wind up being okay. So, it's time to formulate another plan. Well, I don't remember the second plan, just that we got away from the rest of the group with about 11 of my friends. We find Randy and Tyler, who managed to get out on the ice cream truck, and we all head off to wherever we feel like going. Well, Randy's old car somehow appears and we all get in (Somehow we all fit into his MX-6) and we drive off, but don't make it far before we run out of food. Well, all of a sudden ANOTHER ice cream truck drives by! Well, this one's not so much an ice cream truck as a vending machine filled with ice cream rolling around by itself on bicycle wheels. Well, I put some money into it, but it doesn't give me my friggin' ice cream sandwich! The NERVE. Well, I give up and start walking away, but Randy, ever the criminal, decides "The hell with it" and bashes in the glass display cover and grabs all he can carry. Josh, Tyler and everybody else follow suit, and soon the ice cream machine is reduced to an empty shell. Well, I of course do not condone such action (Well, at least not so long as we're likely to get caught), so I don't grab any. Meanwhile, a bunch of old geezers from the retirement home have broken down by the side of the road, and are watching open-mouthed at Randy's blatant actions. I hear them mutter something about "Them wouldn't get aways with dat back in MY day!" and such, and they all look rather appalled at Randy. Well, Randy all of a sudden decides he doesn't have the kind of ice cream that he wants, so he goes back to the vending machine and starts grabbing what's left. Now, I'm yelling at Randy to knock it off, and the other guys are wandering around pointlessly. Out of the corner of my eye, I see the old guys getting into Randy's car, and I turn to stop them, but it's too late, and they're driving off with his car! I jump onto the back and grab the spoiler fin, pulling myself onto the roof of the car, and I yell into the windows at them, but they just swerve to throw me off. I did a remarkable job at staying on, but eventually I fall off and get run over AGAIN. So I walk back to Randy and the rest of them, who are all rather appalled that the old geezers would steal our car, and yell at them, "Give me some of that damn ice cream!" Well, I'm munching on a lime popsickle and walking into the nearest Wal-Mart, and I see one of my friends from school working there, so I go over to talk to her. We talk for a bit, and there was some random bit about drinking three pints of something that tasted like strawberry smoothie...Well, the dream ended about there. There was another, but I'm gunna get offline now, I'll be back later to post it.

[Tsen]

Okay, I'm back to finish up my daily dream journal entry. Here's the last of the three dreams I remembered: I was sitting in the second row for some sort of small meeting in my local church building, when a girl I haven't seen in a while walks in. I say hi, and she says hi too, and then some girl next to me says "Oh! CUTE!," and I'm like, huh? And she's like, "You didn't notice?" And I'm totally clueless. Well, I sit and try and figure out what's different about her, and I come up with nothin'. Well, I kind of black out for a while, and I don't remember exactly what happened, but the next thing I recall is being shut into a jail cell that had appeared in the same church building. The cell's pretty high-security, thick steel walls, no windows, a vault-like door several inches thick with three one-inch-thick bars holding it closed. Well, the guards leave after a while, except for the lead officer, who I talk to for a while. Apparently I was a highly elusive criminal who'd managed several escapes in the past, and he'd barely caught me again. Well, he leaves after a while too, and I wait until it's nightfall to escape again. I figure that the guards are asleep, and they aren't making their rounds near my cell anyway, so it'd be pretty easy to escape if I could make it out of the cell. Well, they didn't seal the door right, so the beams can still move back and forth in and out of the door frame, so I shake it until they come out of the door frame and the door swings open. I quietly shut it again and slip out a nearby door. I realized that if any of my friends who'd been at the meeting saw me they'd realize I was a criminal, so to avoid that I made sure to stick to the hedges and flower patches until I was on the opposite side of the building as the cells before I made my break for it. I took off running after scanning the perimeter, and made it two blocks walking casually before being caught by an off-duty police officer. Well, I go back in, but don't tell them how I got out. They're freaking out 'cuz the cells supposed to be inescapable. Well, they lock me in another high-security cell of slightly different design. I managed to jimmy the lock on this one too, but using a more complex method involving a bone from my chicken (the meal for the night) and a rope I managed to snatch on my way in. Well, on my way out a different door, I realize that the lead guard's asleep next to the door, and I give up and go back to my cell. Well, a few weeks later (It just kind of skipped ahead a while) I break out again after they've slacked the security and sneak out, this time making it successfully out of town. Well, not much else happened, and I woke up soon afterwards. Yeah. So there ya' go.

[Tsen]

This dream was pretty weird. I started watching some odd TV program (kinda like Ripley's or something) where some guy was lowering a snake down his mouth, which would bite a pager he'd swallowed earlier. Yeah, it was pretty freaky...Anyway, I got all grossed out and left the room, walking into my living room. I sat down on one of the chairs, and all of a sudden this tree frog appears on my lap, and says something like, "Don't worry, you're always welcome among us tree frogs" and then gave me a high-five (really odd, since the tree frog was a whole whopping 4 inches tall) and hopped off. I followed it around the corner, but when I saw it next it'd grown rabbit ears and it's legs were all a few inches longer. Well, then my alarm clock woke me up and I had to go mow the neighbor's lawn... (The sprinklers turned on halfway through. Lucky friggin' me.)

[Tsen]

This was REALLY long, several days in dream-time: This one was kind of disjointed, I get the feeling I forgot about the first half hour of it. At the point I first remember, I was evacuating with my family from our home in the deep forest of some new planet. We all lived in the trees on enormous platforms, but some sort of creatures living down on the surface of the planet had been climbing up into the villages, so we were all leaving the area to start a new colony somewhere safer. There were five monorail platforms in the area, so all of my family got tickets for the next trip out of the area, but since the monorails were so crowded from the evacuation, we were all split up into different trains, my mom and sister in one, and my two brothers, my dad, two of our neighbors and I in the other. So we all got into the monorail, and since the trip was expected to take a few days, we also had beds booked. Unfortunately, my father, younger brother, and the neighbors were all in the first car, while me and my older brother were in the 27th car, which was the back of the train. My dad and the rest of them set up their stuff in the first car, while I followed my brother to the back of the train. When we got there, I set up my stuff and took a restroom break, then began to walk back up to the front of the train. I was about halfway there when the train stopped. The power went out shortly afterwards, so I wandered the nearest bench and sat down next to two girls and a guy who'd already been sitting there. The intercom came on and told us not to worry and such, but everybody, including the people next to me, where panicking anyway. Now, I guess I should explain the creatures on the surface in depth, since the train had at this point been completely brought to a halt down there. When somebody died, it was the ritual on the planet to toss their bodies off the sides of the platforms, to let them fall to the ground far below. However, the person's soul, though seperate from their body, would wander around on the ground, searching for their body. More greedy souls, or souls no longer sane because of their prolonged time out of a body, often attempted to steal other's bodies, entering them and re-animating them. The reanimation process was very draining, however, so much of their conscious mind was destroyed, leaving them far below the intelligence of even the lowest of animals. According to the planet's folklore, once they were in this state, they became easily corrupted by the devil, and grew an urge to maim, kill, or leave their body for one in better condition, forcing a living person's soul out of their body and taking it's place. I don't know the exact name from the dream, but it was some variant on the term 'Ronin', so I will mention them as such from now on. These weren't the only things to be feared on the surface, though. The souls of the dead, deprived of bodies or unable to possess one, sometimes forced themselves to join together with other souls until they became powerful enough to affect the physical world without the need of a body. Having that many souls present in a small area makes them almost impossible to predict, since they often are trying to carry out the goals of 50 some odd spirits at once. Because of this, they often merely wander around, and rarely ever show the presence of mind to attempt to help or hurt another being. This meant that they were not truly hostile, nor helpful, but simply lost. However, being lost didn't make them incapable of harming people, they simply lacked the presence of mind to consciously work for or against the common good. As mentioned earlier, they were creations of pure spirit, so dense they could actually affect the physical world without need of a body. Being so concentrated caused the souls to actually vibrate the surrounding matter, heating it to temperatures high enough to burn anything near it. Another side effect of their rather cramped proximity to eachother is a definite effect on nearby creatures (sentient and not)--they simply cannot think, nor function. The souls, being connected as they are, can no longer operate alone, but that doesn't stop them from trying. Whenever such a soul-monster comes near a creature or person, many of it's compromising souls may try to reach out and possess the body of said creature/person, but being connected to the other souls, cannot actually enter said body. When they attempt to possess the body, they do force the souls inhabiting it partially out, depriving them of control of their body. Some of said soul-creatures do eventually sort out their priorities, and after many years of living with the other souls, can actually learn to work together with eachother, and develop, once again, a conscious mind. These can be benevolent or destructive, just as a person can be. They are, however, very rare, though they tend to group together with other conscious soul-beings the way people group together in villages and cities, so if you find one, you will probably find more. Now, back to the story: The train is stopped, and we're on the surface. The Ronins can feel the presence of many souls, and assume that this means that more bodies are nearby, so they immediately begin to close in on the train. I'm sitting on a bench, looking out through the windows at the darkened surrounding woods and trying, to no avail, to comfort one of the girls next to me, who's completely broken down under the stress of the situation. Occasionally, through the windows I see a glimpse of something orange and white drifting through the trees, presumably soul-creatures. Before long, the Ronins find the train, and about twelve close in on the car I'm sitting in, bashing the doors and windows, trying to find a way in. Luckily, the doors automatically locked when the train's power died, a precaution invented because of the Ronins. The windows were made of plexiglass as well, an added safety feature/vandalism reducer. However, before long, the Ronins seemed to be finding a way to pry open the windows from the outside, and despite the efforts of the passengers and me, we couldn't close the windows as fast as they could open them, and soon they'd be inside. Before long, I began to panic, and, no longer able to help the small group of level-headed people closing the windows, I went back to my seat and once again tried to comfort the girl. Through the windows I watch the progress of the Ronins, who seemed to, for the moment, be fighting amongst themselves. Before I knew what was happening, I suddenly stopped thinking entirely and my attention was completely focused out the window as my soul was half-way forced out of my body. Fiery, bright white soul-creatures burst out of the forest around us and rapidly closed in on the Ronins, who were also paralyzed as their soul's grip on the corpses they'd stolen was forcibly weakened by the soul-creatures. The soul creatures seemed to be pulling the Ronins off the train's sides and roof, and soon they dragged them back off a ways from the train. The Ronins, though their skin was charring and blackening under the grip of the soul-creatures, couldn't do anything to fight them off, seeing as how they no longer had any power over their bodies. The soul creatures stopped about thirty feet away from the train, and once again the passengers again had control of their bodies. The girl next to me now seemed to be in a state of shock, now far beyond crying and panic. I hugged her and told her everything would be okay, and she seemed to just collapse. Before long she was asleep with her head in my lap. I resumed watching out the window. The soul-creatures seemed to be merely standing, waiting for something, and before long I saw what it was. A short figure in what appeared to be a dark brown trenchcoat was hunched over and hobbling towards our train car with a battered and dirty flashlight held in one hand. He fumbled for a minute with the door, but without overly much difficulty, managed to override the lock and pulled it open, stumbling inside. Now that I could see him properly, I immediately noticed it wasn't human. It was about four feet tall, but he was hunched over so much that it's difficult to say exactly how tall it'd be if it just stood up. It had blue skin, similar in texture and thickness to an elephant's. It had two large eyes, set slightly crooked on its face, with one higher than the other. A tiny nose and mouth seemed crammed into the bottom inch of it's face, and a hood covered it's hair, which stuck out from under it's hood, grimy and wet. He proceeded down the aisle between the benches to the nearest one with anybody sitting in it, which happened to be mine. He squinted at the boy and girl on the opposite site of the bench, shining his grimy flashlight in each of their faces and shaking his head as he looked at each one. The flashlight beam then trailed down to the girl's face, asleep on my lap, and he shook his head once more, but as the beam hit my face his features lit up and he nodded and mumbled something incoherent, but excitement seemed evident in his voice. He hobbled forward and grabbed my arm with his free hand, stuffing the hand with the flashlight into a pocket on his coat, which emerged after a few seconds of fumbling holding something small clasped in his palm. He forced a small trinket with a spherical, blue crystal seemingly glowing on the inside into my hand, and promptly turned around and hobbled back out of the train. As I watched out the window, he walked up to the soul-creatures, seemingly unphased by them, and began to talk to the largest of them, who merely nodded, then turned around and walked off, followed by the rest of the soul-creatures (still dragging the stunned Ronins, whose bodies now threatened to fall apart as the soul-creatures hands burned through their skin and into their arms and legs). The blue creature turned and nodded at me, then followed the soul-creatures into the forest, leaving the train, once again, in darkness. I pocketed the trinket he gave me, and continued to gaze out the window, though nothing reappeared through the trees. The passengers around me began to mutter and talk amongst themselves, though none, including the people next to me, had noticed that they blue creature had given me anything. I sat staring off into space for a long time, but eventually drifted off to sleep, sitting up with the girl's head still in my lap. I awoke the next morning before anybody else on my bench. Most of the rest of the car were still asleep as well, though a few had awoken and were silently looking out the windows or around the car. I considered getting up and trying to open the doors between cars to go back to my seat in the 27th car, but the girl's head was still in my lap, and I didn't want to wake her up, or, upon reflection, did I want to just leave--after all, she WAS cute, and I might not see her again if I left the rail car. Instead, I settled for looking around the car. I noticed that the emergency lights in the aisle were on now, though the train still didn't seem to be moving. They didn't seem to do much to the surrounding darkness, however--the railcar was still incredibly dark, though my eyes were now fully adjusted to the darkness. After a few hours, everybody else in the car awoke as well, including the girl next to me, who, rather than talking, just leaned her head on my shoulder and sat in silence. Eventually, a man stood up and announced that he was going to go find out what the holdup was, and promptly walked up to the door leading to the next railcar and began to jimmy the lock. Another person stood up and helped him to open the lock, then another got up and joined them, and the three walked off into the next car. The door shut automatically behind them. The rest of the car just sat, mostly in silence, though occasionally a whisper would be exchanged, for a few hours, until the three men returned with another person, a tall man in a blue uniform with short, dark hair. He walked over to the nearest bench and stood on it, then turned on a flashlight and focused it on himself so everybody could see him, and announced that the train wouldn't be moving for at least a day or two, but food was available a few cars away from here, and it didn't appear that we were in any more danger from the Ronins. He then began to walk down the aisle to the door opposite the one he emerged from, still followed by the three men, and opened it with a key card from his pocket, then entered. We could hear a similar speech through the door to the next car, but after that, it was quiet. Eventually people started to get up and wander around, muttering conversations to eachother as though they were afraid to break the silence. After an hour or so, I told the girl next to me that I was going to go back to find my brother in the cars behind us, and she asked to come along. I stood up and walked to the door the man had dissapeared through an hour or so earlier, and began to make my way back to the 27th car, the girl following me and grasping my hand as though it was her life line. Before I could make it to the 27th car, the dream ended, but I'm hoping I'll be able to continue it in another dream... If not, I'm also considering turning it into a short story, and if I do I'll post it in Artist's Corner here on DV.

[Tsen]

Just one dream Some celebrity was moving into a house into my neighborhood, so I was helping her get her stuff into the house, and she wound up getting a crush on me at some point. She kept trying to get me to go on a date with her, but I didn't really want to (Imagine somebody with the IQ of Paris Hilton, only stupider. We're talking stupider than the bottle of ketchup in my refrigerator.), so I'd make up excuses to avoid her. Well, my sister winds up becoming friends with her, and they start hanging out everywhere together, so I basically start living at my friends house so I don't have to be around them anymore. Well, somehow she gets a job in the city parade, and I'm stuck on the same parade float as her, and I can't talk the city into letting me skip out of the parade now, so I'm stuck with her. The next thing I remember is half way through the parade, I saw my friends sitting on the curb, so I jump off the float and take off with them away from the parade, but she follows me back to our house. Yipee. Well, I woke up after that.

[Tsen]

Odd dream, but fun. I was at a water park with lots of HUGE slides and pool areas. The whole park was laid out on four mounds of pools built upwards in a sort of pyramid, with a maze to get to the top layers. At the top and at varying places on the way down, there are slides that wrap around the pools. Technically, I wasn't allowed in them for some reason or another, but I went in anyways. They were amazingly fast, almost like the one I tried in Wisconsin at the Kalahari. Very fun. Anyway, I wandered around the park for a while with my friend, finding a zoo built into the park at one of the higher layers of the third mound. After a while we left, and entered a sort of locker room/souvenir store to change back into our clothes. We didn't really want to leave, but we were being kicked out so we did so anyways. While in there we found pressurized slides in an employee-only area that shot you back into the park, up the mounds and onto the top-most layers (where the biggest slides were). Being who I am, I climbed in at once and was mid-transport when I woke up. This dream kind of requires some illustration to fully be understood, so eventually I'll post a sketch of what the park looked like! If I get around to it...

[Tsen]

Was pretty long, not lucid (Only my second non-LD in four days now) I was at my house, but it was significantly larger. There was a third floor and the backyard was somewhat larger and inside a cave. Well, there was a girl there that I liked and we were trying to hang out, despite everybody's attempts to drive us apart. Eventually we found a way into a basement room with no access from inside the house, and we hung out there for a while, but the next day her father came to take her over seas somewhere. She managed to leave a note for me that said "If you really want to see me, you know where to find me". Admittedly I didn't know where to find her at first (the dream was pretty long, these are just the highlights) but eventually I guessed she must be in our hiding place. I went there to try and find her, and she was there but I woke up just after getting there.

[Tsen]

Okay, this has gotta be the coolest odd dream I've ever had. I was getting out of bed, and there was something outside my door making scurrying noises, so I snuck up to the door. As I got closer I could tell the sounds were coming from inside the floor...but they were moving towards a vent. The vent began to rattle, and I snuck up on the side, ready to pounce...the sounds got louder...the vent was shaking now, and about to come off the wall...I crouched even further, ready to strike...the vent popped off and I lept, coming down with both feet on a ... ... ... ... You ready for this? ... ... corndog. Which made a really nice mushing sound as it was ground to pulp by my feet. But that wasn't it...there were more. And I absolutely HAD to get rid of this corndog infestation in my house, so I proceded to jump on more and more corndogs, occasionally eating chunks spared the mercy of my foot. TOTALLY FREAKIN' RANDOM.

[Tsen]

Dreamt I was infiltrating the ROTC academy. I had my snazzy wetsuit on, and I was just purposely walking through the headquarters of the ROTC area towards their locker rooms and pool, being sure not to look anywhere but forwards. Felt really purposeful and such. A few people were yelling questions at me, like "I thought you left the ROTC academy?" or "What're you doing here?". I ignored them too and kept walking. Well, at this point I went semi-lucid. I didn't have a clue why I was going into the ROTC swimming pool area, and I had no clue why I had a nice change of clothes under my arm, but I knew I was supposed to be on some sort of a sabotage mission. Either way, I was at the pool, and I knew a bunch of people there (very hot female-type people), so I threw away the change of clothes and jumped in. Swam around a bit, tried to fly off the diving board semi-successfully (made it all the way across the pool, but couldn't stay up much longer). Well, had another dream later, I don't remember much, but I was running down my street to catch up to some one in a car, and I wasn't running fast enough, so I started running on all fours, and it was faster, which gave away the fact that I was dreaming. I tried to go lucid, but the dream was fading fast and I couldn't save it. Meh, one lucid per night seems good enough for me anyways. Hopefully I'll be able to do more later...

[Tsen]

Kind of bounced in and out of consciousness for a while, so I'll just hit the main topics without going into the actual dreams, since there were a LOT. THE COLLECTIVE HAIR / FRO-TASTIC Really weird one. Lots of people around me had these huge fros, and I was like, their hair would look cooler if they all had the same fro. It'd look kind of like this. (Amazing graphics provided by yours truly along with the amazing 3-D technology available today) NINJA-LIGER-RANDY-BONDAGE-THING So I was a tiger thing, but...part lion. Y'know...a Liger. But I walked on two legs and all. And I had two axes. And I was like, trying to kill this really big lion thing. And Randy was there. And he was a ninja. But he only wore this really disgusting-looking black leather bondage outfit that, with appearance alone, quite possibly has scarred me for the rest of my life. Anyway. He had a big shuriken. And he looked f****** gross. The lion ate me. I didn't have to look at the disturbing Randy anymore. ...REALLY FAST CAR. 'BOUT SUMS IT UP. Yeah. It was fast. Me and my cousin were driving it. It slowed down time or something, but it was also fast. Like, way fast. Anyway, the dream was really realistic and stuff, and I could feel all the turns and g-forces, and everything felt...alive. WAY awesome. I want one. SAVE THE FREAKIN' WHALES YOU BASTARD Well...somebody thought so. Some terrorist to be specific. He was all waving this bomb in everybody's face and threatening to blow it up if he didn't get $2000 bucks to save the whales in the next ten minutes. I was out of money. Then I was fragmented. EAT PLASMA, DORKWAD! Okay, so this one wasn't really a dream. More of a hallucination as I got in the shower right after. But then, I wasn't totally awake at the moment, so I'm classifying it as a dream. And if you don't like it, deal with it. But don't call the mods. Please? Anyway, I was paintballing in the dream-thingie, but the guns shot plasma, and everybody was dying. Then respawning, killing, and dying again. And again. And then I got out of the shower.