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[ModestMouse]

Two men wanted to sell me a boat. I was at my mom's house and they demonstrated the motor by clamping it to the back of a tailgate on my Dad's dakota truck. One of them was white then i looked back and he was the black guy from NPR that is now on fox news - jaun williams. He said that a boat was a good investment, i remember questioning that logic, then he said well not really but at least you only have to buy one. He was trying to impress me about how responsive the motor was.

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I was in a strange sort of quarry type thing there was a railroad track going through, the cops were chasing this car, it stopped just after the tracks, leaving the cop car stuck on the tracks. 4 or 5 guys got out and fled around some buildings that were suddenly there. A train car ended up getting overturned and they had to use a mule to overturn it, my dog somehow turned into a reddish brown horse and also helped overturn the railroad car by having a roap tied around his neck.

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I am watching a 'music video' from a song about a woman on broadway who sings a song. After the song is over with we gho back stage and give her a bouquet, I am there with my brother and we remark how all the perfromers had a busy backstage but this performer had no one at all. My wife and I are in an elaborate baraqoue style mansion, we are playing an acrobatic cat burgler like game where she sneaks around and I sneak around just behind her and rob the sleeping inhabitants of their pearls and jewels, it is very acrobatic and sneaky. I steal her a golden necklace.

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I went back to elementry school, I think I had to finish up a class or two. I had problems finding my locker,I found it but I wasn't sure what time it was or where my next class was. My old best friend Nick was there. I ended up in the library, I was looking at books. I found a Fantasy book I had already read. I ended up in a class that my old High School teacher taught , he was surprised that I was there -- but I sat down anyway. Dream 2 My brother was at my grandma's house and there was a storm coming we drove back and forth between my house and my grandma's...

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We were at work, and I walked down to the basement, there was a kid there with a huge free newspaper and I told him that no one would ever buy it, but if he wanted i'd put one upstairs in the shitter for someone to read. everyone got a good laugh. Well I finally went back to work -- I remember being gone a while. When I got up there there were tons of people up there, some people I had previously worked with and/or gone to school with. Things weren't quite right. We all went to lunch and couldn't decide where to go. We ended up going to the same place we always go to. We were there and B asked about the golf league and what special gloves he needed. There were cows in a pen, the owner of the restaurant asked everyone to be quiet and he turned the lights down. The pen was circular and the cows were attached to the side like a carnival ride. The pen started spinning and one cow had a baby. Then the cow was released into the restaurant and it walked around. The next thing I know I'm in a car being kidnapped by two people I think are africans. I'm with another person and the africans give us a some beers which were Red Stripes with Carona caps fashioned on. I asked my companion where we are, I said it looked like florida but I think we're in africa. For some reason I drank the strange beer anyway and we were going down the freeway there were people on either side of the freeway that would throw frisbees at our driver/passenger, the people in the front seat would catch them and send them back ask if they were inspecting and deciding they didn't want to buy. A few hundered yards further another set of people would be throwing balls or something similar. We would alternate between being kidnapped and driving ourselves because I remember speeding up past the people throwing crap because I thought no way I can catch something moving at 60mph. *START LUCIDITY* At this point I remembered that I was supposed to still be at the restaurant at or work or something and I must be dreaming because this doesn't make any sense. *END LUCIDITY* I know wake up (FA) and am with my wife in town, I explain I had been dreaming and it was strange. We are in our car in town and we grab some stuff from the car and start to walk home, I grab a keyboard and i'm in some crazy bath robe. I start to walk up the driveway of a guy (it's early morning) and he accuses me of robbing the neighborhood. Well I explain I just woke up and I'm just going back to my house, this is my keyboard so leave me alone. He finally agrees. We walk down the street and a bunch of celebrities live there -- like that red headed chick (Kathy Griffin) who pokes her head out and some other people. Some celebs have their houses in tents because they are working on them. We get back to out 'house' which is actually the building I work in and there are tons of strippers in the lobby like there is a stripper convention. Well my wife and I walk up the stairs anyway and we get to the 3rd floor and go to room '302' but she opens the door and it's not her room it's someone else's dorm room. I think this is strange again and wake up for real!

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I remember being at my friend N's house. Not his house from when we were kids, but he had a new house that was huge and on a lake or river and there was a cool deck that was high up in the air where a party was taking place. There were lots of tables with candles on each table. Other friends from highschool were there like A. Also Howard Stern was there and maybe some other people from his show. There was some sort of scam going in the parking lot where I ended up losing my car (because my talking car misinterpreted something I said) and I was left with my old crap car from highschool.

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[Warning Graphic] I was in a room with a few people from when I was in school long ago. One of the people was B a sports star. He was bragging about penis size and a girl from school C wanted to see how big it was, so he showed her. What followed was a graphic rape of C by B. B later went back to his house. A group of us went to confront him. He was upstairs in a quiet room in a dark house with his trophy from Coca-Cola that said all time best rusher. He explained he didn't go to accept the trophy but had it mailed to him. Then some sort of mob came down the street to confront B and the dream ended.

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I dreamt my oldest brother J was with me. We were on campus we had to go pick up my wife A. I was supposed to pick her up at a restaraunt that I go to often for lunch at work. I overshot the restaurant and had to turn around. I chose something that looked like a laundromat / self serve car wash. As we were pulling around and through the building we somehow ended up being outside the car. At thistime I noticed $$ was missing and my brother said his cell phone was missing and $100. There was a man and his son there.WE knew they stole our $$, they said they were from Oklahamo and 'Okies' a fight ensued. The litle kid ran away , my brother took my car to chase him. I ended up fighting with the Okie man punching him in his stomach until I woke up.

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After a few false awakenings that I was unaware of (duh). I found myself up the stairs from my basement where I was sleeping. I looked out the window and saw a truck pull in, I didn't recognize the person. I couldn't get a good look at their face. A bald man walked out and tried the side door. I still couldn't get a good look at the face. I thought it might be my father in law, but I wasn't sure. I thoguht it was really strange since he lives far away and shouldn't be at our house unannounced in the middle of the day.I tried a nose check RC at this point. I passed, though i'm not sure I did it completely whole heartedly. I walked to the living room now, and I saw there were more people in the truck and it had changed colors and they were going to rob the house. (they were backing it up to the front door) At this point , I go this has to be a dream. And I did another RC check with a pinched nose. I could breath right through it! Well first thing I do is say, i'm going to get out of here. So I just leap into the air and try to get the surroundings to change. I start to fly, Everything goes white and I hear an incredible wooshing in my ears (like running with a football helmet on ). I know i'm a bit in trouble at this point, because I have no detail at all. I try to get to a snowy scene in which I was in earlier in my dreams, but fail. I couldn't figure out how to spin since I don't seem to have any body, so i try to rub my hands together. At this point I notice I can't move my arms and they are in a coffin like position that I fell asleep in. Once I recognize this it brings me out of lucidity and I'm now in just blackness and I can feel my sleep paralyzed body and hear the wooshing sound -- the furnace had just kicked in right next to me.

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Stealing a shirt, cut 4 shirts into one, stitched it together. Urban clothing store. Pink uzi, cops call it ruby. Streets shut down -- ran through an ally, hopped in a taxi. Laid my head on the virgin mary. -- Golfing through town. Guy misses a shot near the bridge, throws his ball into the river, yells, "They should trim these damn trees."

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Was outside in my front yard with my dog, I got real close to his face and could feel his breath , and realized I was dreaming and became lucid. START LUCID (I did nose pinch RC's after every FA) --- I immediatly rubbed my hands together for at least 10 seconds, but it was too dark out, so then I tried to spin, that didn't do much either. I decided to try to get him to grow and I was going to ride on his back in the air like the dog in neverending story. But he dissappeared and I had a FA, this time I was back in the front yard and a large pit bull was running after me. I didn't know what to do, so I took out a gun from my pocket and put a bullet in it's head. I walked around a bit more, but it was still night and there was nothing going on. I had another FA. I was back in the front yard and this time a little beagle wandered up to me, I held it in my arms and put it down. I decided to try to find a DC or something to do. So I walked to my next door neighbor's house and flew up the front stairs and through both doors of the house, I glided up to the second floor and opened a door to a room and finally woke up for good. ----

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I was at some sort of summer camp type thing. There was a girl there that liked me. I think we somehow ended up near Vancouver, B.C. Where we were filming a show, we all got out and got into these rafts to paddle out to an ice burg, well people started falling in and it was a big mess we had to uncapsize our little row boat and get everyone back in, it took a while and we had to paddle back with our hands. In a 'cabin' with this girl, we make out for a bit -- I decide I love her! lol. I wake up, it's the future. I had been frozen for 70 years. We are in the lobby of a hotel. First thing I wonder is if that girl was also frozen, I know she has been too. I also wake up with this asian kid. I kind of worry about him a bit, but I know I have a job with my old company even though it's been 70 years. I think that everyone from back then is dead now and that's kind of weird. First thing first we have to get a hotel room. The hotel guy is taking a long time to get us a room...he walks away out of the hotel I go to get him, he comes back to give us a room. At first I want a double for me and my girl and the asian kid to sleep on a cot. The asian kid decides a triple would be good so my girl and I can have some privacy. So I ask the hotel guy (who I think looks like Dan from deadwood) for a triple, he looks at me funny then I say well no wait a large double, he likes this idea better and ends up giving us that sort of a room instead.

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I suddenly became concerned that I had time traveled. I had a memory of being in 6th grade and hiding under the canoe in the backyard with my brothers, we were struck by lightning and then when we got out of the canoe we were in third grade. I am older now but I was at a family gathering and I wanted to ask my Dad about it. I was certain it happened, it all came up because my old dog Al who was hit by a car was there, and I said wait you were hit by a car that aint right. So i figured that must have been before I time traveled and the place I time traveled to that didn't happen. So I am really excited because I want to find out if there is empirical evidence for time travel. So I ask my dad and he says my breath smells to cheesy so I go and brush my teeth and come back. He says it never happened, but I am sure. So i find my mom and brothers in the kitchen looking at old doctor reciepts for a time when I was struck by lightning, but they cant' find any. I think that's just because I was struck by lightning in the parallel universe. I ask my brother Luke if he remembers, he says he does. So I know i'm on the right track. I also some how believe that 3rd grade was very easy for me because I had done it all before and had all those memories. I take look to some sort of psychic to find out about time travel, they put up lots of psychic barriers, he had an assistant who was like a teenage girl. Turns out they just suck look up and put him through some sort of weird rube goldburg device and steal our money. I am kind of mad, because I really wanted to know about the time travel. I go in the other room and see all of this (the device) then they are taking it down for the night. I corner the girl and explain to her I'm serious. I think we make out or something and get walked in on by people who run the place, they don't' mind. I'm back at my house from when I was a kid, sleeping in the bunk bed. I begin to get a sinking feeling that I never did time travel. I awaken Luke and ask him if he thinks it's possible the memories were just implanted during a dream or something. He's not really sure, I go through a kind of scary series of false awakenings before finally awakening for real. *REAL LIFE* This is very interesting, I think my brain was refiring the neurons to remember what I learned the previous day. I have been reading a book on Dreaming that says at night while we sleep we do the same things we did the previous day to help reinforce, reorganize memories. So that aspect was there, also I listened to a story on NPR about a scientist who created a time machine that he hoped to teleport a neutron with, but the real reason he did it was because he wanted to see his dead father, In the dream if I did time travel and could prove it, I was excited to tell this guy.