Latrodectus
Lurker

It's been a long time since I've been here, but I had a couple of dreams last night that reminded me how great it is to dream, so I'm starting up again. The dreams aren't necessarily good reads, but they were fun while they happened. None of them are lucid though. From this point on red is titles, black is dream events, and blue is periods of being awake.

Stats class
My statistics teacher is yelling at me for some reason, while we and the rest of my class are walking along a street for some reason. I start to drink a bottle of water while we walk. We "teleport" to his classroom. Now everyone has bottled water. The teacher opens his bottle of water, and then sticks the entire bottle into his mouth, starting with the bottom. The dream ends.

Sledding
I'm at a house I lived in a few years ago, where my dreams often are, and the ground is covered in snow. A kid named Nick whom I know in real life sleds with me while we drink some sort of soda. Some old teachers from our school are there as well, and we really wished they'd leave because they're boring and won't shut up.

Grand Theft Auto
I'm on a large, steep hill behind a billboard. I have an M4 with high powered optics. I am facing a road that makes an L shape from my perspective. The dream feels like I'm playing GTA 5 but with full control over my movements. The police are after me, and they're heading down the road towards me. I look through the optics on my M4 and see 2 police officers getting out of their cars as well as what appears to be a civilian with a pistol about 50 meters down the road. I shoot them and start running down the hill, fixated on a motorcycle that would be the Double-T in GTA 5 that appears to have crashed into the back of some sort of sedan. As I get on the bike and turn around, more police show up and shoot me in the back several times. I barely make it away and quickly find a jet that is on fire on the side of the road. I get a fire extinguisher from nowhere and attempt to put out the flames. Once I run out of whatever is in the extinguisher, the flames come back, the jet explodes, and I am dead. The dream ends.

I wake up briefly. I don't open my eyes right away, trying to go back to sleep. I can tell it is early because there isn't much light going through my eyelids. I check the time, around 6:45, then go back to bed

Offroad Motorcycle
I'm on a supersport motorcycle of some sort, not the one from the previous dream, and I'm offroad for some reason. I come across a large concrete ramp that leads to another trail. My bike wouldn't be able to handle the jump, and I think to myself that a supermoto would be nice. A girl on a supermoto then comes down a path that leads to where I am at. She's going too fast for the turn and falls off the bike but her bike is still going. She gets up right away and is fine so I catch up to her bike to stop it. I get the kickstand down and wait for her to catch up. I ask if I can borrow her supermoto to do the jump, and she said no because she didn't want to risk it breaking. The dream ends.

Bicycling, thievery, and vandalism
I'm riding a bicycle in a place that starts off as being in England but after a while I forget about that part and it becomes America because I am American. I know it's England because of the strange road markings and because the disembodied voice of Dan Hardcastle (Nerd³ on YouTube) tells me it is. I'm wanted by the police, probably because of what happened in the GTA dream, so I hide in a building that I found. I sneak through a water system that leads under a bank, get into the bank and steal gold coins, and then return to the building. I dry myself, get back on my bike, and start riding down a street. I see a weird small vehicle with a small trailer full of food items pass me. The trailer is moving in odd ways, as if it were glitching like in a video game. I inform the driver that there appear to be issues, but he ignores me. Somehow a friend of mine named Tommy is there with me now, and we follow the vehicle to a grocery store. We enter the store and see the man leaned up against the wall near the doors. As we go down an aisle, we joke about the man, and as soon as we go around a corner we start running. The man follows us, and eventually gets tomatoes and starts throwing them at as. I also found tomatoes and start throwing them back. Figuring I could really get this guy into trouble I start eating meats in the store. I try to vault over some aisles, but I'm not physically fit, not even in my dreams, so I end up taking them down as I jump over them. The man and we decide to stop fighting, and the dream ends.

If this is too long and you want a good read, I'd recommend skipping to dream 2. That's where the fun starts. Titles of dreams are in red so they're easier to spot

Dream 1, non-lucid
"Yearly school dream"

Every year when the school year is about to start (this year it will start September 3rd) I have at least one dream with a wildly different school but the same people, yet somehow I never notice the differences and become lucid.

As the dream starts I am in a class that is suddenly ending. I know that it was second block and leave to go to third block. As I enter the hallway and notice that the school has a hexagonal center with a hall going around it and a hall extending from each side of the hexagon. The building has 3 floors, which I can tell because the inside wall of the hexagonal hallway is made of glass. In real life, the school is more of a + shape, with two of the wings of the building being the gym and the auditorium, the other two are hallways full of classrooms.

After I leave the classroom, I realize I left my books and my schedule inside the room so I retrieve them. A student who never gets in trouble (in real life) is fighting with an unknown teacher for some reason. As I check the schedule the room number doesn't make sense. In real life you can tell the location of the room easily because of the way room numbers are set up. Even though it doesn't make sense I feel for some reason that the room is in the middle school maybe half a mile away. As I leave the school, I realize that it's night time and very dark outside. Once I get around 100 yards away, I realize how stupid that idea is and turn around. 50 yards back I see two police officers leading a large crowd of kids in the same direction I'm heading. As I get closer I ask one of the police officers (who is a gym teacher in real life) what happened. He shows me fragments of metal and says something about flash bangs and bombs. I notice some good friends of mine are right at the front of the group of kids and talk to them. They notice I left before anything happened, and I make a hipster joke saying that I ditched school before it was cool.

The dream ends and I awaken. I try to fall back asleep quick enough to resume the dream. While I'm awake but my eyes are closed I hear the police officer tell someone to get back, and they reply saying that they will. However, once I fall asleep I don't enter that dream with lucidity. Instead, a dream that I liked quite a bit starts.



Dream 2, non-lucid
"Adventures in the Dead Lands, Part 1"

I'm calling this dream Adventures in the Dead Lands because I'm hoping that giving it a name will make it more likely for me to think about it at night and resume it. I've had a few dreams of similar vividness, with an awesome atmosphere and a consistent plot, and I remember them at least to an extent despite years passing without thinking about them often. I'm hoping by naming this and writing it, it will be easier to remember and have again.

The dream takes place in a land I'm going to call the dead lands. I might map the dead lands and link to the map here while I remember the area well. When the dream starts, I don't know I'm in the dead lands yet, and I'm extremely groggy and tired. It's dark enough that I could barely see. I'm in front of a building that's like a giant weird concession stand. It's about 150 yards long, about 10 feet wide, and about 25 feet tall. A woman tries to take my order, but I'm extremely tired so while I hear everything she says, I don't have the energy to understand and remember what she's saying long enough to make an order. She gives me a paper menu to look at so she doesn't have to repeat what foods I can get. Everything is blurry and I'm disoriented, but I can make out part of the menu which lists prices and sizes of bowls of tuna, like you would get in a can but in larger quantities. I decide to order a small bowl of tuna for $5.00 and walk away.

For some reason, my dad flips out on me but after a while he goes away. I find a Glock 17 on the ground and check the magazine and see that it is empty. I rack the slide to make sure and see that nothing is in the chamber or magazine. After releasing the slide, I put it up to my head and dry fire before dropping the gun and examining my environment. From this point on I'm no longer tired or groggy. I then notice that about 20 feet from the long side of the concession stand that I was ordering food from in a direction I will assume was south, there is a very thick and creepy forest where the trees are dark brown, almost black, and the edge of the forest is where the edge of the grass is as well. Inside the forest there is grass which is almost black, and outside of the forest where I am standing the ground is light brown dirt. There are about 50 other kids my age that are here with me, and I ignore them. I decide to explore the area by going around the concession stand. Once I reach the other side, I notice there are ruins of a small town, and I instantly know I'm in an area called the dead lands, and that all the people that are trapped here with me are going to need to scavenge the ruins to survive.

I start along the western edge of the town and make my way north before going over the small walls (maybe 4 feet) of what were left of the building on the northwestern corner of the town. Inside the building, I see a large oven. The oven's window is completely broken out, and I can see a snack cake in a wrapper inside of it, so I put my upper body into the oven so I can reach it. As I go to grab for it a kid who goes to my school whom I will call T tries to take it from me, so I lean into the oven so I can kick him back with both of my legs. He reacts violently and punches my head multiple times and takes the snack cake. At this time I notice that the dead lands isn't just a location. It's a sentient environment. The wild animals, plants, etc. as well as the buildings, the land, and the creepy atmosphere all share the same sadistic sentient mind. Perhaps it is what is making him so violent?

I continue scavenging heading east and find a grappling hook that works just like the one from the game Just Cause 2. However, I can't use it the same way because I don't have a parachute like the main character in the game does. Additionally, being in the ruins it was severely damaged and works some of the time, so when I'd try to grapple I'd have to try 2 or 3 times. While I was scavenging by myself, T was forming a tribe or gang of sorts so they could pool resources and survive. He got everyone but me into the gang, and they made it a mission of theirs to kill me. To avoid being spotted I grappled onto a small wooden tower north of a small encampment they were working on. They happened to have sent a scout to this tower to look for me as I was grappling, and I notice it is another kid from school whom I will call B. B is a skinny kid, and I know he wouldn't attack me and couldn't beat me in a fight if he wanted to. For this reason I let him live, but regret it as he calls the attention of his forces to me.

I notice that the northern area of the forest is different from the other areas that are extremely thick. The forest just north of the ruins starts with a thin semi-circle of trees, with two large trees just behind, equally spaced from the edges of the semi-circle and somewhat distant from each other. The western tree is grey and dead, and the eastern tree is brown and living. The northern side (the flat side) of the semi-circle forms the boundary to where the forest really begins, where it is thick and creepy like the other areas. The large trees are probably 6 feet thick but no more than 30 feet tall. I grapple to the top of the western dead one, and while I'm spotted doing so they only know that I'm on the tree somewhere.

They gather around and a kid who's a little younger than the rest of us has a can of gasoline and some matches that they scavenged. I crawl down the back of the tree and go along the semi-circle where I'm able to blend in to watch the kid attempt to torch the tree. I see the kid end up slopping gasoline on his hands in the process and decide to head east towards a small group of wooden cabins. Before I make it that far I look over in the direction of the trees and see the tree go up in flames, as well as hearing the kid's horrific screams as he dies from the fire engulfing him. The cabins are incredibly creepy. They are colored naturally using the local wood which is dark brown, almost black. The windows are clear but the inside of the cabins are so dark that I can't see anything inside of them. I see a tall figure, maybe 7 foot tall, wearing a grey-black cloak where you'd only be able to see his face, except it was shadowed so I only was able to see black where his face would be. Maybe there was only a void, and no face even in the light? It observes me for a moment before heading southwest towards the ruins. It didn't kill me when it had the chance so I figure that the Dead Lands did not mind me, but didn't like the people torching it's trees.

I wake up to my alarm clock at 6:00 and decide to turn it off so I can continue dreaming...



Dream 3, partially lucid
"Adventures in the Dead Lands, Part 2"

I successfully continue the same dream, right where I left off, except now it's in the morning rather than late at night, so I can see easily now. I don't look back at the cabins and instead head towards what is closer to a log mansion than cabin with two smaller cabins near it. The mansion is around 50 feet tall and long and about 30 feet wide. The other two cabins are normal sized. They are slightly lighter in color than the other woods in that they don't look close to black, but they're still a really dark brown. The cabins are on the northern coast of the Dead Lands, and to the south of the mansion there's a field of grass that's about knee high, and south of the field is the thick woods. The grass is OD green at the bottom and as you get closer to the tip of the grass it gets grayer/less saturated, but the top inch is a yellow-brown color like dead grass and the tip of each blade is pitch black. One of the smaller cabins is parallel to the mansion and across the path, the other is on the same side of the path and perpendicular a few feet west of the cabin. Near the perpendicular cabin, there's a truck that's similar to a dune buggy. Some men with guns are in the back, and some of the survivors from the ruins (the kids that tried to kill me) make their way to where I'm at while I'm looking around.

The kids make it known that they won't be a problem anymore, and that they just want to get out of there. One of them is a kid from school who hates me but talks to me because he doesn't have anyone else to talk to. I'll call him S. The guys on the back of the truck might be part of the Dead Lands, because they decide that they'll let me take the truck but won't let anyone that I won't allow. I tell S that if he'll help scavenge the area I'll take him with me, as the truck has enough room for two. Our plan is to scavenge what we can fit on the truck, and then head back past the cabins, along the path which leads west across the northern end of the ruins, and then out to an area that we haven't been to yet.

The others try digging for resources on the northern coast behind the mansion, I tell S to dig around the front of the mansion where there is some wood embedded in the ground, and I decide to explore the mansion. At this point I became lucid because I remembered that I woke up and wanted to continue the dream, but wasn't able to control my dream in any way at all, so I ended up forgetting about it and losing lucidity very quickly. I didn't want to see anything terrifying so I went straight to the top of the mansion to act as a lookout there instead of scavenging it. The attic was used as a bedroom, it simply had a bed, a table, a dresser, and two windows. It was very clean, but I figured the cabin probably wasn't used in at least a hundred years. I looked out the window facing south into the field. In the field I saw my mother's cousin's son who I think turned 3 recently sitting in some sort of swing on a wooden П shaped post where he was elevated about 10 feet in the air. He was about 250 yards away. There were also two absolutely massive deer that were very dark black. I'd estimate they were 12-14 feet tall excluding the antlers on the buck. The other deer obviously was a doe.

The buck's antlers weren't shaped normally. There were two spike like pieces with relatively smaller thorn like pieces coming off of it. They looked like they were designed specifically as weapons used for impaling and tearing through what they're impaling. The buck approached the child, but then ran straight backwards almost comically, but I didn't think it was funny given that I knew what was coming next. The deer tilted it's head down and charged as fast as it could impaling the child. I could barely see the tip of the horn go through his back, if it would have gone any farther it would have cut him in half. The child got stuck on the antler so the swing didn't move back at all from the force. For some reason I didn't mind seeing that happen. The two deer then disappeared into the woods. As I turned around I noticed something outside of the other window, which faced east. I saw a swarm of something moving towards the mansion but I wasn't sure what it was. Before I would have had a chance to run, it surrounded the mansion in it's swarm and presumably killed everyone outside. I then woke up at 7:00 and decided not to go back to sleep because school is starting soon and I'll need to be able to go to bed earlier.