24.10.2009 Full Moon Drum Circle (Non-lucid)
NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID
Dive Bar
I am in a dive karaoke bar: 8 Fat Fat 8.
I am getting drunk because I find the company pretentious and boring. They are a bunch of pretentious theater people, and the women think they are way hotter than they are. I find this mildly annoying. I decide to amuse my friends by singing "Peaches" by PUSA.
In the middle of a instrumental solo, I go,"SATAN! SATAN! SATAN!" The "hot" girls look mortified. At the end of the song I go, "Hail Satan!" and some people laugh. Others look annoyed.
MoSh is sitting at a table across the way. He is wearing jeans, a green faded T-shirt with a superhero team on it, blue jeans, and worn shoes. He has a scruffy face, glasses, and his hair is grown out. Some of the women look at him curiously, but he doesn't seem to notice. He is looking around the bar. He doesn't seem like he came with the people he is sitting with. They seem like a bunch of boring DC's. For some reason, I just expect to see him, so I don't become lucid. "Let's go out for a smoke," I say. He nods.
We walk around the corner outside. "Fuckin A!" he says in a slight Canadian accent. "Hawai'i is hot compared to Canada."
"It shore is!" I laugh. I roll a cigarette and drop some weed in it. He got distracted by some hot mixed race chicks in tight dresses walking in.
I ask him for a light. He pulls a generic yellow Bic lighter out of his pocket. I light up. I take a puff and hand it to him. "Hey is this a spliff?" he asks.
"Yes," I say. "Dude," I say, exhaling smoke, "sorry about the whole cat attack thing in the dream the other night. I didn't even realize you would perceive it as an attack. I was like, in this crazy trance that I go to in dreams sometimes. I have had those dreams since childhood, but anyways..."
He hands it back to me. "Hey, don't worry about it," he coughed. "I don't really smoke that much."
"Heh, I know." I take a puff. "Dude, this place sucks." I feel like he wants to go inside and check out those hot snobby chicks, so I say, "Well, hey, let's finish our drinks, and then see if we want to dig out."
I offer him the spliff. "You good?"
"Oh, yeah, Hawaii man. What do you guys call it here?"
"Pakalolo."
"Pakalolo," he said. "Sounds funny."
"It makes you feel like it sounds. Well, I will save this for later," I say, placing the spliff in my pocket.
We laugh and go back inside. The hot girls are each flirting with two or three guys at once. I don't like the vibe of this place. I can tell MoSh doesn't care for it. We finish our drinks standing, and I carry the empties to the bar. I say goodbye to my friend, Troy, saying, "Hey dude, we are going to get up early and go to the beach."
He asks me if I want to smoke. "No thanks, bro."
Dream Conversation about Dreaming
MoSh and I get in this 88 Olds Cutlass Supreme I used to have. We drive down the road. "So, how about going up on a mountain? I know a cool place. We could just look at the full moon, and chill."
"Sounds like a plan. Too bad those chicks were lame, though," he says.
"I know," I sigh.
We drive to a liquor store. "Man, think about this, this is really weird, right, I mean, we met each other in dreams before waking life. How the hell can we tell people that? It sounds either gay or insane."
He laughs, "It's because you're a fag."
"You are gay. Just kidding. We sound like 12-year-olds."
I pull into the liquor store. It's a liquor store on Cape Cod, but it's in Hawai'i. I get out and turn on the alarm.
MoSh steps out, and turns on the alarm. I turn it off. "Oh shit, sorry!" he says.
"No it was my dumbass fault!" I say. I grab a six pack of Bodddington's. "You want something?"
"Uh," he hesitates.
"Listen," I say, "I know you dished out a lot of cash to come to Hawai'i, so don't worry about it, bro!"
"I like IPA," he smiles.
"Really, I don't care for that bitter stuff. It's all yours!" I grab a six pack of a local IPA microbrew, pay for it, and pick up a pack of yellow pack American Spirits. We get back in the car.
We drive to this mountain. "So where are we going?"
"Aw this cool mountain dude, it's called ____ ____ . We have secret drum circles there on the full moon. It's badass."
"Nice," he grinned. "Hey, mind if I light up a cigarette?"
"I don't give a shit. Just throw the butt in the trash when you're done."
"Yeah man."
We drive up the mountain. "You know," I say. "Dreaming, it's so amazing. Some dreams are so realistic. I don't get it, it's like this long involved very realistic story, and it's almost impossible to become lucid."
We park the car and get out, taking stuff out of the trunk, beers, backpacks, didjeridoo.
"I know," he says, "like when I was on the beach with the Nagual. That totally blew my mind."
"It still blows my mind. Like, I mean, we could be having a dream right now, but it's so realistic, we wouldn't know."
"Hey let's do a reality check right now," he smiles.
"Okay," I laugh. We look at our hands. "Normal," I say.
"Me too," he says.
"Nose pinch!" I say.
We do the nose pinch RC. "I can breathe through my nose," I say. "Weird, me too," he says.
"I guess we're not doing it right," I say. "Hey Raven's reality check is to levitate a couple inches off of the ground. Let's try it."
Drum Circle
We both levitate a couple inches off the ground, but it's too dark to notice. "Didn't work!" I laugh. I stuff beers into my backpack. He carries the IPA, and I carry my didjeridoo. We walk along a dark moonlit hiking trail, hovering two inches from the ground
We hear drums in the distance. "Dude, it's the full moon, the drum circle is here. HUH HUH HUH."
"Alright, crazy cat. Are these people cool?"
"Yeah really cool. Dude we should trip sometime."
"Hmm, maybe," he says. We walk through the tropical mountain forest silently.
We come upon the drum circle. "Hey, didj man!" someone says. A cute buxom blond girl pops up and says, "hey Nate," and gives me a hug. She looks at MoSh and beams at him. "Who's your friend?"
"Oh, sorry, this is MoSh from dreamviews, I pulled him into this dream to hang out with me."
"Oh cool. Hi MoSh." He smiles shyly and puts his hand out. "And you are...?"
"Jessica, but, just call me Jessie." She throws her arms around him, and gives him a hug that is uncomfortably long for a Canadian. I giggle. "Want some strawberry beer? We have raspberry beer, pear beer... Want one?"
"Uh sure. Raspberry."
"Nomad?"
"Hmm. Strawberry please, dear. Want a Boddington's?"
"No, but have you got any weed?" she says handing us the beers. "Nope," I joke taking a piece out of my pocket, and loading it.
We crack our beers and toast. "To the Moon!" I say. "To the Moon!" say MoSh and Jessica.
I howl at the Moon like a wolf. Everyone starts howling. It sounds completely wild and primal. I yip like a pack of mad coyotes. MoSh starts howling. His wolf howl sounds badass. "I hear them in the mountains when we go camping," he grins.
I hand my piece to Jessica. "Here," I say. "I am good." I walk away leaving Jessica and MoSh to talk. I start playing my didjeridoo and wander around the fire. Other people are playing drums, chanting and some side percussion, singing bowls, guitar and ukulele, even a washtub thingy and a mouth harp.
I blast my didjeridoo at the Moon. I see Selene's face appear in it, smiling at me, and then a rabbit. The devil's face appears, and I stop playing, and chuckle to myself. I lay down on my back in the dirt and look at the stars. I watch a meteor shower.
MoSh comes over and squats next to me. He is eating a tropical fruit that Jessica gave him.
"Dude," he says, "this is way better than the last place."
"I know, right? Sweet serendipity." I place my hands behind my head.
"Dude, is that girl single?"
"Man, I don't even know! Girls in Hawai'i are really friendly." Another guy sat down by her at the fire. She didn't pay much attention to him. She caught us looking at her and smiled.
"Hey, play didjidoo man!"
"Didjeridoo?"
"Yeah, sorry." I started playing. Jessica came over and sat next to MoSh.
I stop playing. "So where's that guy you were with when I met you at-?"
"Oh, he's not my boyfriend," she says hurriedly. "He thinks he is, but no." She rolls her eyes. "I have to go back to Florida for school. I live here, though."
She turns to MoSh. "Kiss me," she whispers, "before this dream is over. Kiss me now in the darkness, _____ ."
Everything turns black, and all I can see is MoSh and the girl kissing. I feel uncomfortable seeing this, and the dream fades.
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