Hacktrix
Just a Dreamer...

Non-Dream Dream Lucid

I've been taking PercyLucid's class on MILD dreaming, and one of the points he's taught us is to focus on what we want to dream just before we go to sleep. Well, I sidetracked a little and ended up falling asleep while thinking about a music summer camp I went on last year.

I arrive at the orchestra rehearsal with my cello. I sit on the third desk back with another cellist and play some of the piece that is on the stand in front of me. On second desk is my cello teacher, and on first desk is a girl I met on the summer camp the previous year. After the piece ends I pick up my cello and move to sit next to her. She smiles at me and the conductor brings us in again for another run through the piece. Something happens though - some younger violins have arrived and take my friend's seat. I look where she was sitting and there are now three short violinists playing there. I find this a little odd as violins usually sit opposite the cellos, not with them.

I look to the left and my friend is putting her cello away; I notice that her hair is a whiter blond than I remember it from last year, and also a different style. I then remember that it's January, and wonder why we are having the summer camp now. I then remember that this summer camp and this girl are one of my dreamsigns, so I hold on to my cello with my right hand and pinch my nose with my left. I can still breathe - I become lucid. I don't feel any great rushes of emotion like I used to with my first few lucids, but nevertheless the deram begins to fade. As my vision is turning white, I realise I should rub my hands together, but I am holding my cello and don't have time to put it down. The dream fades completely and I wake up.

Non-Dream Dream Lucid


I don't really remember how the dream started, but the setting is a summer camp. I'm in a group of teens my age, and we've managed to meet one of the leaders inside. We corner him halfway up a staircase. He is fairly obviously drunk; we ask him where we can find some alcohol. After we promise not to tell anyone he told us, the leader points us toward the staff accomadation. We run down the stairs and out into the open.

We sneak through the gardens and a few of us stop to distract more leaders as we come across them. Eventually I manage to run up a grassy slope and toward a large building. Between me and the building is a gravel car park. I run over to it and am confronted by a Latin teacher from my school. There is a bit of tension while I wonder if he's going to punish me, but then he relaxes and we start laughing about it. He asks me how I'm doing, etc. I turn around and a couple of my friends from a summer camp IRL are standing there as well; I greet them and say hi.

I turn back to the teacher and then around again to see an old childhood friend standing there. We chat for a bit and the subject of girls comes up. I turn back to the Latin teacher and during the ensuing conversation he makes reference to a large wooded ark, then gestures toward the slope I ran up. I look, and sure enough there is a big wooden ark on the slope I ran up; children are playing on it like it's a giant playground toy.

The scene changes, but it is still the same dream.

I am inside, in a building. The setting is almost like a swimming pool, but where the pool is there is no water; there is in fact a large pit. The walls of the pit are lined with small green tiles, about an inch square. I remember a teacher walking past me - I am in a flying school.

I hop off the edge and begin to float down slowly, watching students having flying lessons to my right. I am falling a little too fast for my liking, though, so I fly sideways against one of the walls and land on a little ledge. I walk along the ledge and turn a corner to the left. I see a cube. It is a hollow cube about 10 tall and 15 deep (yes I know that's not a cube but it is in the dream). The face nearest to me is gone, revealing the inside; both inside and out it is lined with the green tiles. I climb into the cube and look around me. It becomes apparent that each of these cubse is actually a little screen that can change between green and white. One of the teachers has written the number "126" on the ceiling in white against the green background. I remember touching bits of the 6 and watching them turn green again. In the corner is a black vibrating stick; touching this on the walls changes the green tiles to white. I put it back down in the corner and leave the cube.

I walk out of the pit into a normal looking corriodor with yellow painted walls; there is a door at the end that leads back outside to the summer camp. I walk to a table and meet an attractive girl who I know from school. I can't quite remember what we said or even what the talking was about, but we gestured to some kind of book lying on the table. I remember coming out of the conversation feeling pleased - she had seemed genuinely glad to see me. I head back toward the cube quickly, intending to retrieve the stick and continute the conversation; the dream fades and ends.

Non Dream Dream Lucid

Ok, I remembered two dreams and a fragment from last night; here goes:

Dream 1: The School Riot
I am standing by the two Astro-Turf pitches at my school. A shooting range is behind them. In my school we have a CCF where we train in either Army, RAF or Navy. I am in RAF (same IRL) and we are having a competition: three other schools have come to us to compete.

A friend from school comes running toward a group of people while being chased by a much larger boy from a different school. He is carrying a rifle from the shooting range. He reaches a group of schoolfriends, puts down the rifle, before jumping over the low fence and continuing to run away from his pursuer. I start to walk towards the range. As I do so I notice a group of boys holding rifles running in the same direction, very angrily. They are opening and closing the bolts of the rifles so I assume they are loaded.

As I walk toward the range, I encounter a teacher who tought me a few years ago, walking in the same direction as the rest. I warn her not to go that way because some kids are there with guns and I think that they're gonna shoot someone. She is rather concerned, saying that they could cause a lot of damage with shotguns; I inform her that they are only rifles so at least they can only shoot one person at once. She thanks me for the warning and goes a different way.

I reach the range, and enter just as the shooting coach returns. I tell him and the other member of staff there that the kids have taken all the rifles. There's not much we can do, so we stay put. I look out the window and see another school in uniform, standing in lines smartly waiting for an inspection.
I cross the room and look out the window in the direction I came from: I see a third school riding into the chaos in blue chariots, all holding blue and yellow rifles pointed ahead of them. I turn back to the teachers and wake up.

Dream 2: Harry Potter
I am lying in my bed at home reading the last harry potter novel for the second time. I hear my parents coming up the stairs so I switch my bedside light off, casting the room into darkness. When the noise of my parents fades, I switch the light back on, but it is not working - it comes on very dim and not light enough to read. I switch it on and off a few times, but it stays the same. Thankfully, my iPod starts playing the audiobook so I lie on my front at listen to it.

The story goes off on a tangent. The voice reading the story mentions three animals; I suddenly have the sense that they are going to appear in the room, so I leap off my bed and stand on guard facing it from the corner of my room. "The first animal is the tiger." I notice a lump under the duvet on my bed, so I whip the covers off. Underneath, sure enough, is a little tiger cub. I don't think it out of the ordinary that the animals are appearing, but I am cautious of the tiger cub.

"The second animal is a pig" I look down and see a little piglet on the floor to my right. I climb back onto my bed. "and the third animal is... the JELLY!" I look down at the floor and see a small, purple jelly-like creature the size of my fist. It has small tentacles on the top of it. It moves toward me slowly.
"This jelly is unique in that eats anything it touches, be it living or not". The jelly launches itself at me; I bat it away with my hand. It tries again but I bat it away again. I pick it up and put it on an inflated baloon on the table next to me. It sticks there and starts eating its way into the baloon, which doesn't pop.

I realize that this is not harry potter. I recall that I was quite near the end of the book and remember a scene where the main characters are adults with children. Sure enough, the voice starts talking about the scene I thought of. Elements of the story continue to be realized when the adult Hermione enters with her infant daughter in a cot/crib and kneels at the end of my bed. She is surrounded by a kind of white halo. I observe her but only treat her as a part of the story, not as a real person.
Suddenly, my dad walks opens the door to my room and walks in, saying he needs to set up a camp bed for my sister. I wake up.

Dreamsigns:

• RAF competition
• Shooting range in wrong place
• Friend running with rifle
• Rifle outside the range
• Kids with loaded rifles
• Chaotic Riot
• Blue Chariots
• Blue and Yellow Rifles
• At home not school
• Reading Harry Potter
• Lights not working
• I don't own an iPod IRL
• Animals appearing
• Mutant Jelly
• Balloon not popping
• Hermione appearing
• Dad setting up camp bed in the middle of the night

Non-Dream Dream Lucid

1. The Fragment
I was standing on the stairs of my friend's house. The walls are blue and the stairs were grey carpet? In reality I have never been to this friend's house, but he and his girlfriend are there with me so I assume it is his. His girlfriend is just saying goodbye and leaving; she is a little embarrassed about being intimate with my friend because I am there, so she offers him a handshake. I turn away as he kisses her and says goodbye. She walks away.

2. The Dream
Ever played the game Wii Play? There is a minigame on that called Tanks, where you control a tank, and shoot at others while avoiding being hit yourself. The game is essentially in 2D, as you have an aerial view of the battlefield each time. My dream was like this game but it was more real. There was the same 2D aerial view, but I was looking down upon myself, the main character. I was also not a tank, but a human carrying an RPG and a machine gun; I think elements of a flash game called Gunmaster Onslaught worked their way in as well.
Anyway, the game started and waves of enemies started appearing; I hopped in and out of a little safe zone to shoot them. The whole dream was like a computer game - there were even red letters in the top left telling me how many lives I had left and what level I was on. The map was the side of a house, with a roof at the top and a street at the bottom. It was in 2D, though, as I mentioned earlier. Enemies that I remember consisted of snipers on the roof, then tanks and footmen coming out of the windows and walking toward my character. It didn't hurt when my character got hit, just the same as a real flash game. I got to level 13 before there were too many of them and I jumped out of cover completely. I started spraying bullets around me but started taking a lot more fire - eventually I lost all my lives.

At that point the scene transforms. I (the real 3D me) am standing in a fairly empty room that upon awakening I recognise as the basement of the church I used to go to. There are two colections of electronics, one ahead of me and one to the right. There are some people that I know standing by the one ahead of me, a PlayStation 2. It is making a noise that is slowly fading. I walk to the right and there is an amplifier, also with a fading noise. I recognise the noise as the fans of whatever was running the Tank Game I just played. I want my amplifier to be the last noise to die completely, so I rather rudely walk over to the PS2 and rip out the power cable, cutting its noise dead. My amplifier finished making its noise and I wake up.

DREAMSIGNS:

• My friend and his Gf - I had talked to him on fb that very night
• Being in the Tank Game
• The whole electrical scene

Non Dream Dream Lucid

Ok, I actually remembered bits of quite a few dreams this morning, so I'll enter them all in sections.

Dream 1: False Awakening
Not much to tell really. I woke up and sat down at my desk. I opened my dream journal to write something in it, but it was full, so I went back to bed. This should have called a RC but it didn't. When I actually woke up and opened my DJ it wasn't full, and i realised that before was a False Awakening.

Dream 2: Tenacious D
I am listening to the studio version of "The Metal" by Tenacious D on my music player. I remember that I have the live video version of this song as well, so I find it and play the video over the top of of the studio version. Obviously some of the lip syncing isn't perfect. I remember Jack and Kyle (the band members) having some rather comical expressions on their faces in the high bits, kinda like in a cartoon.

The scene changes; it is still the same dream, though. I am envisioning a pair of siamese twins, joined down their sides. They are wearing a double guitar - one guitar with two necks and two sets of strings. They are playing one each. (I think "The Metal" is still in my head but I can't remember) Suddenly I realise it would be cooler if one of the necks was a bass guitar; the top one changes to a bass neck, longer and with four strings. Then I realise it would be even better if the twins were joined back to back, and each was playing their part of the guitar - this happens as well. That's all I remember of that dream.

Dream 3: Hustle
That evening I had watched the lastest episode of Hustle, a TV drama about a group of 5 con-artists.
I am the young man from Hustle. We've just pulled off a successful con with and we're choosing where to go and celebrate. We're looking at a map; the woman we pulled the con with suggests a chateau in France that she knows, but I decide on Turkey.

Scene change - we are on a bridge in Turkey. The view is fantastic and we are leaning against the side, sipping champagne. The three other men look the same as in the TV show, but the woman is different - the one in my dream is a brunette and has freckles. We are arranged in a line looking over the road and out into the water beyond. The three men are on the left, then the brunette woman, then me, then the woman we pulled the con with. One by one, the three men make their excuses and leave, exiting to my right hand side. The woman to my left crouches down to have a look at the map in my hand. The other woman makes her excuse and leaves; the woman to my left starts to suck my fingers slowly. I look down and realise she is actually fairly attractive. I am contemplating what is probably about to happen when the dream ends

Dream 4: The (Short) Lucid!
I remembered this happening as I woke up. I really don't remember very much at all, but I do remember being Lucid and being in a classroom full of schoolfriends; a recurring feature in my Lucids so far.

Dreamsigns

• Dream Journal being Full
• Playing video over music on my player
• Tenacious D's comical expressions
• Siamese Twins
• The Double Guitar (recurring)
• Characters from Hustle
• Being in a Classroom

Being in a Classroom has been the subject of four of my lucids; the other was walking to a class. Unfortunately this is a very inconvenient dreamsign as I am a student and spend over half my waking life in a classroom.