Thread: Queen Zukin's Dream Journal

Seeing the dead

I was outside when I noticed something amazing....yet terrifying. I had gained the ability to see onto the other side. Around me stood so many dead people.



In other areas there was just swirls of energy, but I quickly noticed someone staring intently at me, some kind of strange, terrifying woman.


I suddenly wanted to get away, now.

I was with the backpacking club and we were hiking up an icy mountain that was right next to a desert. The ice was melting and coming off in sheets, leading to fast flowing rivers.


Along the way up the mountain, our group got seperated and I was stranded with one other person.
As we were hiking, I noticed that there was a cave going into the mountain. I curiously climbed inside of it, and it lead to the otherside. I came back out to let my partner know how cool this was, when I saw her vomitting and getting really sick. She had drinken contaminated water and was dying.

I tried to drag her along and help us get back with our group, but by the time we found them, it was too late and she had passed.

We kept hiking when another member of our group slipped and fell off a cliff and died. At this point, we decided it was time to find our way back down the mountain and go home. When we were near the base of the mountain, we realized that we were kind of lost.

In the distance we heard drums coming towards us. They got closer and closer but it turns out they were serial killers. So we started running through the forest while these serial killers were shooting at us. I got separated from the group again and found myself lost in the desert.

It was now the middle of the night and I was lost in the desert. I had no clue where my group was. It felt like I had been out here forever.



I kept walking, though I could barely see, when I tripped over something. I looked down. It was the dead bodies of the rest of my group. One of them had been shot, and the rest of them had frozen to death.

not feeling right

I was in my room, when my friend joined me and started a tickle war! Suddenly though, everything started changing. Someone with a different face was tickling me and there were different people in my room. I was super confused, and thought that I was probably dreaming, but I felt really weird too.

I've accidentally become a polyphasic sleeper...sleeping for no more than 4 hours at a time...three times a day (usually 4 hrs at night, 1.5 in the afternoon, and 1.5 in the evening).

I dreamed that i got 94th percentile on my PCAT, but still got rejected from pharmacy school.

Like a boss I remembered the Task of the Month wrong haha

u mad bro?

I discovered that I had magical abilities and could fly! I flew around a lot until my father saw me, and he thought this was really strange, and got pissed off and tried to report me to the police. I flew away. Problem solved.

Later, I was in the woods when I started thinking that it was a little strange that I could fly and that perhaps I was dreaming. I did a reality check and confirmed it. I had nothing better to do, so I thought that I would do the Task of the Month. I had briefly looked over it at the beginning of May and then didn't pay much attention to it, so I remembered it as: "Perform your talent in front of a large audience" (instead of sing in front of a large audience). Well, my talent in this dream was definitely doing flying gymnastics. I summoned my equipment and my audience and began performing. I really wish I could do backflips like I can in my dream. I've only done a backflip once in real life, and it was accidental. I performed my flying backflips, front flips, and everything else absolutely extraordinary for my audience.

The beginning

I was at home, walking around, when I noticed that there were a lot of ants congregated in a corner. Strange. I walked outside and headed for the backyard when my phone started ringing.

"Hello?" I asked, the number was unfamiliar.

"It's James," a man answered.

"James who?"

There was a sigh on the other end. "Just James. I thought I'd call to let you know that we'll be seeing each other soon."

"Um, okay. Sounds good," I responded. He hung up. I shrugged it off, he probably had the wrong number. I dived in a nice cold pool.

My alarm woke me up. I hit snooze.

The Middle

I was at a house meeting, and a new guy who wanted to move in was introducing himself. He was really whacky, and started passing out dollar bills in order to "show us something." I couldn't believe that he was doing that. Some people were holding upwards 50 or 60 dollars in their hands. I looked back at mine again and the amount I was holding had changed, what?

"This isn't right," I whispered. He caught my confusion with his eyes and smiled.

"I think...I'm dreaming," I whispered, and looked at my hands for a reality check. Indeed, I was dreaming.

"This, this was the purpose of this experiment," he announces to the room. Everyone else looks around in confusion. People start leaving. I look outside and notice that we are in a very mountainous area on the coast. The mountains are red. It's really beautiful. All the DCs are leaving, presumably fed up for being tricked. I stay behind, because I can feel that something is different here.

The man walks up to me and smiles, "There is a lot I need to explain to you before we begin. But finally, you are ready." He leads me over to the other side of the room. I notice that there is a monk guarding the entrance to the room. His robes are light brown.

The man points to a dark silver pendant. He begins explaining the pendant, and how energy flows through it. It's really hard for me to pay attention, because I'm so enlightened by everything else that is going on in this room. I can feel, deeply, that this room is a part of me. Hidden somewhere in my mind. I pay attention again, while he finishes up explaining the importance of this pendant.

A song comes on overhead, and it gives me the shivers because it's creepy. The man laughs and switches the song. We start talking to his associate.

My alarm goes off...I hit the snooze button.

The End

The man and I are traveling in a car.

"There you are!" He greets me as I find myself in the dream. I watch as the sunlight flickers and dances through the green trees as we travel down a semi rural road. I hear a phone ringing. Is that my phone, in real life? The ring tone doesn't sound familiar. The man pulls his phone out of his pocket.

"Can I answer it?" I ask.

"Of course," he says with a smile. I flip open the phone.

"Hello? Zukin speaking!"

Silence.

"Oh, it's you." A female voice responds, hostile.

"Excuse me?"

"I just want to let you know that you shouldn't get too far ahead of yourself. There's things going on here that are beyond your control. You better watch your back. It may seem straightforward now, but it isn't. There are tests that you will need to pass."

She hung up.

"Who was it?" The man asked.

"Some chick," I responded. The man rolled his eyes, knowing exactly who I was talking about. Our journey was abruptly stopped short ahead. There was a fight going on on the road. Four or five dreamers had teamed together to fight some kind of beast. They were flying around him and smashing the beast into the concrete. Every time they did so, the concrete would form a rippling shockwave. I got the impression that the man knew them.

He pulled into a parking lot and lead me down a cellar into a rundown dormitory type area.

"This is where we live," he said, casually. The living conditions didn't look good.

"Why are we here?" I asked.

"Because, like the woman told you, there will be tests. But we don't have time to start a new one today; There's been enough introductions for one day," he explained, resting himself into a red couch, "now, close your eyes and wake up."

"What's your name?" I asked, protesting that I would have to leave now. He didn't answer. Fine. I sat down on the couch next to him and closed my eyes and woke up. I felt so refreshed for once that there was no possible way I could fall back asleep.

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WOOOOAHHHH. Awesome!
Well, he didn't tell me a name so it's gonna be James.

All i remember is running around barefoot on dirty wet sidewalks

up, up, and away

I was super drunk and laying in bed. There were people coming in and out of my room, and it was getting extremely annoying. They started going through my stuff and that's when I decided that I had had it and it was time to get up. I went into the bathroom and washed my face thinking to myself, some people are so annoying! Might as well do a reality check....Oh...I'm dreaming! Wtf? I don't even remember falling asleep! I knew that James was waiting on me somewhere, but I wasn't entirely sure how to go about finding him. I've never ever been good at finding people in dreams.

"James!!" I called out. Nothing. I went downstairs and called his name again.

"Who are you calling out?" A girl from my house asked, giggling, aware that no James lived here. I ignored her question. "Well, whatever you're up to....nice dress!" She added and I noticed that she was wearing the same dress that I was today, except her colors were inverted. Of course. I didn't want to spend this whole dream looking for him, but I still wanted company, and saw my friend John sitting on the couch.

"Hey, wanna go outside and fly with me?" I asked.

"Yeah of course!" He replied with his classic 'let's do this!' smile. We went outside. Perfect day! He took my hand in his and he took off into the sky. I've never flown with anyone else before, so it was an interesting new feeling of our momentums pulling on one another. Everything was in perfect clarity.

"Oooohhh look! It's our house!" I pointed down. Our house had turned into a temple with a red roof. I didn't mention this is the last few dreams that I posted cause it didn't feel important at the time, but very recently when my dream pans out to view my house, it's been represented as a red temple.

"Let's stop there!" I flew down and landed roughly on the roof of the temple (it was actually very high up in the clouds, yet the trees were even taller!). There were other people on the roof too and it was impressive. John shared my enthusiam.

"Okay...I picked where to stop this time...it's your turn now to pick where we go!" I exclaimed. John's face lit up with excitement and we flew away.

"Okay...This might be terrifying," he added, "but stop flying, and just grab my hand." I did so and he immediately stopped flying upward and then raced downward! Ahhhh accelerated free fall!! Booo woke me up!

My computer broke...again. I sent it in for repair about a week and a half ago for repairs, but they are waiting for parts to ship. I can't wait to have it back!! Typing up an entire dream on a tablet letter by letter is painstaking. I've had a lot of cool dreams, I just CBA to type them up very slowly using a tablet.

dark clouds

I was up north biking around between towns when it became very dark. Tornados were forming everywhere. They were black and had faces and were terrifying.

Akira

I dreamed that I was on some kind of lucid dreaming site, called Astral Shine. There I came across Akira posting about his life and talking with other members. I wanted to join the site so that I could ask him how he was doing, since I was not sure if he was even still alive.

that turkish place

I was in a weird blue land with hills. I decided to stop by a turkish joint for lunch.

James, Again (2)

I was standing alongside a river. There was a bridge with a bunch of holes in it. Somewhere beneath the bridge, Scylla was lurking, ready to snatch me up if I wasn't quick enough. I was terrified. How was I going to cross the bridge?



The dream momentarily destabilized and I felt myself in my bed. Woah, weird! Oh wait, this is a dream!

"Well, if this is a dream, fuck this stupid bridge. I'm out of here!"

I flew up into the air. Holy shit this dream was so vivid. I could feel the warmth in the air, the wind brushing up against my face as I rose upwards, and the mist against the water. A slight fog hung over the river and I could feel all of the molecules of water brushing against me! I flew alongside the river, giving myself time to adjust to the dream.

James had given me hints on his whereabouts last time. Was my first mission simply to find him? Even if it wasn't, I had a lot of questions for him. His presence in my dreams had stumped me. The dream was destabilizing, dammit. I needed something to hold, to touch. I was starting to feel both the dream world and the outside world at the same time.

I landed briefly at my house and grabbed a branch. I felt its leaves and flowers. Once again, I had a sure footing in the dream. I flew off again and aerily picked a house that could look like James' house.

I landed outside the property. It was a small blue house surrounded by a black gate. The front lawn was green with life and trees and flowers. I opened the black gate and stepped on the sidewalk leading up to the house. Without knocking, I opened the front door and the screen door. I wasn't sure what I was going to find inside the house.

I walked into a living room, and saw James sitting on the couch, reading a newspaper.

"James!" I called out. He lifted his eyes from the newspaper and gave me a confused look before recognizing me. His appearances had changed shape but I could definitely feel that it was still him.

"Well! Hello, Zukin. I wasn't expecting your arrival at this time," he greeted.

"Yeah, well, I decided to come and see you. I have some questions," I admitted.

"Excellent. What are they?" He inquired.

"Well, first, why do you come in my dreams? Are you a part of me? My dream guide? Usually I can feel when something is part of me or if it's foreign...but you completely stump me," I said.

James hesitated, "I am not a part of you, no. My intentions? Well, Zukin, you need urgently to learn to sense the intentions of others in your dreams. I could very well be insecting."

"...insecting?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.

"It's a term I invented...I could be in your dream, solely to take your life force; your energy."

"...Are you?" I asked suspiciously. He chuckled, without answering. I started looking around at his livingroom. Situated right next to us was a bookcase. The bookcase was filled with books about dreaming and...books with other people's names on them, like diaries or something.

"What are all these?" I asked.

"Some of them are books I've written. Others are logs of other dreamers whom I've come into contact with, like yourself." Some of the logs were really thick, as if the two dreamers had had a lifetime of contact with each other.

"I wish I could remember all of this better," I admitted, realizing that the titles and names on the books would fade when I woke up.

"It's probably better that you don't. Zukin, I have a question for you," he looked at me, studying my reaction, "do you notice a change in me, a change in my energy?"

"Yes, you seem...anxious," I responded, searching his energy for a reason. He nodded.

"....Were you expecting someone else today? Another dreamer?"

He nodded. I wasn't sure if I should feel dejected, or worried that someone a lot more powerful was about to walk through the door.

Suddenly, James ran fast. What the...?? I paused for a moment, not sure if I was supposed to chase after him. Well, why not? The dream was still going strong. I flew out the window, flying fast, eager to catch up. It didn't take that long, seconds perhaps. He had lead me to where a group of two or three other men were standing. He seemed surprised that I had not only found him again, but gotten here so fast. He shouldn't be so surprised, I thought to myself. Flying is my forte.

He greeted the men with names that I didn't recognize nor can remember, "this is Zukin, our unexpected guest."

One of the men raised his eyebrows, testing. "Well? Does she have any ability?" The man materialized a tennis ball and threw it at me. I caught it. Gees, I'm not a dog, I thought to myself!

I threw it back. This time, he threw it several hundred feet into the air, and with such force it became a blur. I raced up into the sky...caught it and threw it back.

"Hmpf," one of the other men materialized a weird ball, reminiscent of the snitch from Harry Potter. He threw it up into the air, but it had a mind of its own. It was swift, flying haphazardly evading my catch. I raced up into the air, swift as the snitch itself, lightning fast, and caught it. Hah, like I said, flying is my forte.

I returned to earth, revealing to the men that I had caught the snitch-ball.

One of the other men flung himself into the air, and initiated a race. It only took a race down the street for me to catch him.

"Well, she definitely isn't new at this," one of the men added.

"She definitely has potential," the other said. James looked over, proud, and I woke up.

Test Anxiety

I was about to take a test that I felt really well prepared for. The test was administered on the computer, and I realized that I didn´t know what any of the questions were asking me! Later on in the dream I was at the computer lab playing a game, when I started smelling fire. A computer next to me had burst into flames and burned down. I couldn´t help but laugh.

Nap Dream

I took a twenty minute nap in the library and had this dream. I was at a gas station but I was really drunk and or sedated. I payed for the gas, got back in my car when I realized I was way too drunk to drive home. Since my car was still at the tank, I tried pulling it over to the parking lot. It started rolling and pressing the brakes wasnˋt helping. I crashed into the gas station wall.

Like a boss I failed my routine DEILD three times...

watch over eachother

I was at a hospital, hanging out with a small child. She had curly blonde hair. The director told me that she needed someone to watch over her, and said "she will watch over you, and you will watch over her." I was also with my friend, leaving the hospital, when we saw the toy donation center. They had a rule that to take a toy, you would either have to give a toy, or pay a dollar. They had some pretty unique things in there.

sexy party

I was at a house party, with a mixture of people that I used to know and people that I don´t know. A cute guz and I started kissing, but things cooled down down and we went back to the living room and I fell asleep on the couch next to his friend. Poor thing. I realized then that I had a guest coming over and had to get rid of the alcohol for now. We had been drinking absinthe, and had even drinken most of it, but my composure was perfectly fine. I hid the absinthe in a really weird place- outside under a tree. I almost fell into a lake trying to get out there in the fields.

puddles

My entire house got utterly and unsavingly addicted to The Twilight Zone. Everybody in the house was watching it, on every television. Not that Iḿ complaining, but it was funny. A friend of mine from the house, KestrelKat, and I decided to momentarily leave to pick up some things. As soon as we had got on the sidewalk, I had lost both of them. Kestrelkat was sitting on the bench and my other friend was nowhere to be seen. All there were was pudles, puddles everywhere.

KestrelKat was at my apartment (IRL) typing up her dreams and I had loud music on. I got annoyed with it, so I turned it off, and playing on KestrelKat's laptop was this song:


Awkward silence.

"Wtf are you listening to Kestrel?"

spiderwebs

I woke up (in the dream). It was the middle of the night, and I was in an unknown bed. Right next to me was a HUGE spiderweb. It went from the bed all the way up to the ceiling! This made me do a reality check...and I confirmed that I was dreaming.

I looked around, and sighed. I have this uncanny ability, when I'm lucid at least, to know exactly what time it is in waking life. I recognized immediately that this was my first or second dream of the night. It also doesn't help that the surroundings in my first couple dreams always look like this:



So yeah, I wasn't really that tempted to walk around. Everything is always dark like in the video above. There is nothing fun about staying in one of these dreams. So, I was pretty much just like...f' that, I'm going back to sleep.

pretty eyes

I was at a seminar about optics. There was a really cute guy leading the discussion! I stayed behind to talk to him, and he showed me these contact lenses that his company was developing. When you put the contacts on, the color of your eyes will change depending on the flux of entering light. He let me try them on, and I was immediately impressed. My eyes went to silver to red to pink to plaid, etc. We kept talking until his boss came in and told me that I had to go home. He gave me his business card and I left.

The next day, I had to go back to this optics class, but getting there was rough. I had to start out at a university building where they were holding a festival, but the festival just started so everything was still mostly closed. Once I made my way through that, I had to take a golf cart down a long sidewalk, but there wasn't enough space in the golf cart so I had to sit almost falling out of it. I'm pretty sure I almost died - multiple times. Plus, it was raining.

turkeys

I saw some turkeys making a nest and brooding.

The Family Feast

I was at a dinner table with my family. I must have been little, because I was sitting on a dictionary as a booster seat. I looked around and my grandpa was there. He passed away about 5 months ago, so I knew that I was dreaming. I did a reality check to confirm. I decided not to stay here, so I walked out the door and flew away. I decided to go and find James, using my house method as before. Well, suddenly I was interrupted.

"Zuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuukin!!!" A girl screamed out from below.

"Huhh??" I thought. That was unexpected. I flew down from the sky to investigate.

Suddenly, I was being attacked by a woman with a HUGE knife. The surprise caused the dream to destabilize and I woke up, dammit.

Task of the Month

I was at home, when I noticed an alarm going off in the dining room. I looked at the time - 5:50pm already? No...it couldn't be. I did a reality check - dreaming. After being attacked, I wasn't in the mood to find James anymore, so I decided to do the Task of the Month. I couldn't remember exactly what it was, but I did remember reading someone's entry about repeating what their DC said, so I decided to try that one.

I walked to the living room, and found my target: my friend's girlfriend.

Me: "Hey"

Her: "Hey"

Me: "Hey"

Her: "...Sup?"

Me: "Sup"

Her: "...HEY SUP WHATEVER"

Me: "HEY SUP WHATEVER"

Her: "SKLJSLKSD" *speaking in tongues*

Me: "SKLJSLKSD" *speaking in tongues*

She caught on to what I was doing and twisted it, the little bitch.

Her: "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh YYEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS," she moaned.

God dammit

Me: "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh YYEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!"

Her: "Oh my god! You're SO INAPPROPRIATE, Zukin!!" She yelled and stormed off.

insects from hell

My sister and I were in the basement, when I noticed the carcass of a huge tarantula.

"WTF!" I shouted, "we don't even have these this far north!" I took the carcass to the toilet to flush it. And it was then that I noticed that there was insects EVERYWHERE. Worst of all, there was this HUGE insect on the carpet. It would attack other insects, suck their innards out, and then move to the next one. There was (for some reason) a baby bird on the floor and it killed it too!! I wanted to get rid of it immediately, but it was too big to squash. And when I got closer, it had a weird peacock reaction in that it had blue feathers that would come up along its back, like 5 inch long feathers. How is that even possible.

perfect vacation

KestrelKat, the backpacking group, and I were hiking along some mountain range. It was so spectacular!



We then went through a dense forest, and came to this:



I couldn't believe how beautiful all of this was. In my dream, the island wasn't even that big. It was basically just a big sand bar, and we could see the tropical fish swimming in the water next to us. Kestrel turns to me and says, "we should just continue on, just keep vacationing for a few more days."

"Hmm but I have class," I reply.

"It will only be 3 more days," She suggests. I agreed to keep exploring for a while longer, the beauty was worth it.

Originally Posted by Queen Zukin

Spoiler for to make this big chunk of text more manageable:

KestrelKat, the backpacking group, and I were hiking along some mountain range. It was so spectacular!



We then went through a dense forest, and came to this:



I couldn't believe how beautiful all of this was. In my dream, the island wasn't even that big. It was basically just a big sand bar, and we could see the tropical fish swimming in the water next to us. Kestrel turns to me and says, "we should just continue on, just keep vacationing for a few more days."

"Hmm but I have class," I reply.

"It will only be 3 more days," She suggests. I agreed to keep exploring for a while longer, the beauty was worth it.

That's awesome.
I like that dream.

I went partying last night, spent the night at my friends house, and then got a really shitty second nap, so there isn't much in the way of dreams to recall.

almost

I was in the club, right about time when they were closing. I was talking to a guy who worked there. He had lead me outside to talk when he started attacking me. I tried to run back into the club but the other employees were blocking my escape routes. I jumped over a fence and met up with my friends again. When I got home, I was telling my friend about what happened, and she recognized the guy I was talking about. She said that he had a criminal history.

I slept so good last night. Like a rock, but better. Usually I sleep in chunks of 3 or 4 hours twice a day...but I passed out early and slept for 9 hours straight. I slept so deep that I only remembered one dream.

coffee cups

I was at the piercing studio, about to get my industrial bar changed for a new one, since apparently my current one was irritating me (maybe I was sleeping on it wrong). My piercer started looking through his inventory and presented me with a barbell that he thought would be less irritating. In the middle of the bar was a giant ass coffee cup. Wtf?

"I'm like 97% sure that that's not going to fit on my ear," I remarked.

"Yeah...but it's worth a shot..." he replied.

the boat bus

Kestrel and I were on a bus in Germany, except it was a bus that also went through water. So I guess it was more like a boat. Anyways, we got off the boat and then forgot that we had to take a "transfer boat." Kestrel fell asleep on the dock and it started raining hard and I decided to go look around. I was happy to be back here. I was walking along the dock, which had become really narrow and at water level. Water was flowing over it and I could only imagine how dangerous this was in winter.

Sleeping monophasic is WEIRRRDDD!!! D:

a little bit paranoid

I had moved back into the house that I lived as a child, which was very haunted (irl). I felt really disturbed being here, and wondered if the ghost would 'recognize' me. I was trying to avoid all contact with any thing that was reflective...In fact I was trying not to look around at all. I've always wondered what it would be like to go back, and now I know - disturbing.

Finally back to bi/triphasic. Finally.

Step inside the movie

I was at the movie theater with Kestrel. We were watching Frozen, which I've actually never seen, so it was my brain's attempt at making a story out of random bits of the story line that I had heard of. I was watching the movie, when suddenly, I was inside the movie. I had actually stepped inside the film and I was like a random bystander watching the events unfold. It film was animated, so I felt like I was in avatar or something. I stepped back out of the "virtual reality movie" and told Kestrel what happened, and she said in disbelief that she had the same experience.

We were watching other people get sucked into the movie, but when people started walking around in the movie they started walking around in real life too. They all looked like they were sleep walking or interacting with imaginary things. This really freaked Kestrel out, and she said that something paranormal was definitely happening because this wasn't normal.

We went to investigate the movie theater and found a small closet with blood stains on the floor. Kestrel said that this was definitely the work of vampires. Some people came in the closet with us and brought a box of donuts. We started discussing the vampire situation and then everyone started getting the suspicion that I was actually the vampire causing all of this. That was, at least, until I ate two donuts, because apparently vampires really hate donuts.

So apparently my house was also connected to the movie theater, but you would have to climb a sketchy black escape ladder to get up to the second story. We climbed the ladder and there was a man and woman kissing. The woman turned to Kestrel and started kissing her. Kestrel looked terrified and then whispered to her, "does this mean you want to have an orgy??"