LucidSkyline
Flying to a city near you

Lots of random details

-I'm on break for rehearsal, so I walk around the campus. For some reason, the campus is more like a mall. I, for some reason, think there's a red light, so I stop walking and wait for green. My high school history teacher comes out of a nearby shop with her husband and child and asks why I'm not moving. I realize there's no red light, because nobody's driving any cars, and I keep walking.

-Different part of the campus. My sister's here. She leaves to go shopping on the second floor.

-I'm in bed. A disembodied voice tells me he doesn't think it works correctly, but it can take me to any place I want. A cellphone appears in my hand. I realize I'm dreaming. A picture of a city (one of my old computer wallpapers) appears on the phone's screen and I focus on it. It starts to blur and stretch, I feel myself being pulled out of my body. I'm almost gone, and suddenly I'm back in bed, frustrated. The TV is on. I try again, but the TV is too distracting now.

I have to fight to get out of bed and I feel sluggish. I turn off the TV and try again, but the cellphone's gone and I can't get it back. I realize this is all a dream. I know I'm dreaming and I can control my own movements, but I can't do anything with my surroundings. I keep trying then suddenly-

I wake up for real. The TV is still on.

this entire dream has me depressed or scared the entire time, and depressed when i wake up.

my parents and my brother have moved away and i live alone. i have no job and no friends. i live in a half destroyed, abandoned hotel. I've run out of light bulbs. there's lots before this, but i can't remember it.

at some point there was a dream inside my dream about giant cockroaches.

i make a plan to go to the apartment my family used to live in and get a plastic bag, then go through the entire apartment taking lightbulbs. that apartment is also deserted.

suddenly my brother is there and we're driving to the apartment. its strange because he's driving except me. he takes us to the wrong apartment and i tell him to go to the right one.

on his way over there, he hits something with the car. i ignore it. then i get a vision of him in court and crying and the sister of the person he hit crying. i dont think i was crying. then i go back to "reality"

i say we need to see what we hit and i get out and there's a wounded dog in the bed of the truck (which was a minivan a little while ago).

he wants to leave it and i try to get it out. i go slowly in case the dog is hurt. he gets impatient and yanks the dog out. it doesn't yelp, but when he puts it down, its back leg is wounded.

i see that we're holding up traffic, so i tell him to leave and go grab the lightbulbs while i find this dog's family.

he leaves and i'm alone with the dog. it's night time and we're in a residential neighborhood. i start to walk around and i hear a woman screaming. for a long time, i don't go anywhere. when i finally start to move, the screaming still hasn't stopped. i see a street that i think the dog lives on and as i get closer to it, the screaming gets more intense.

as i reach the opening of the street, there are two run down houses on either corner. i'm afraid of both of them.
the one on the opposite side of the street is where the screaming is coming from. i'm worried that there's a murder or a rape going on there. i decide not to go down this street.

i carefully cross the street, going past the house where the street is coming from. when i get to the point where i can see into the window, i don't see anything, but i hear a man yelling. i get scared, drop the dog, and run as fast as i can.

i get into an alleyway behind a house a little ways away and stop, and i see the man has followed me. he stares at me for a second, says something like "they were going to get us, they're still after us, i had to do it" and runs away. i'm still afraid and i don't know what to do. i try to hide from him in case he comes back and-

-i wake up.

Hey, good news! I'm starting to get to the point where I actually experience these dreams, instead of just waking up and remembering them!

Anyway, here we go.

I joined the NROTC and I'm back in high school, dressed in my navy clothes. I see Kayla, and she looks much older, and I go say hi. We walk together and then separate, and I see Trent. We walk together and hang out. He leaves the parking lot we're in and we go to a group of friends. Two that I remember are Matt and Jeff. When I arrive, I see Mr. Werner walking past us toward the school.

I'm at a gym or roller rink or something along those lines with a friend. On our way out I see a car that looks exactly like my sister's. I think she's come to pick me up. I go to my friends car. It's someone else. They drive behind us. A girl in the passenger seat asks her dad if he can grab her homework books from my friend. He gets out of the car and asks my friend, who agrees. While he's waiting, he sits in the driver's seat of my friend's car. I'm sitting in the seat behind him. He's acting very suspiciously and I think he might try to steal it. I'm prepared to punch him repeatedly in the face if he does.

My friend gets him the books and he leaves.

Next thing I know, I'm sitting in my car alone, parked in a parking lot during the daytime. I'm just sitting and thinking. I have a big heavy blanket and a skateboard. I swing out behind me and start driving across the parking lot toward a Golden Spoon, because I decide I really want frozen yogurt.

At some point during the drive, I'm no longer driving, but walking or riding the skateboard. I get to golden spoon and the curb is two feet high. I try to hang the skateboard off the side of the curb so I can see if it gets stolen, but it falls off. I put the skateboard on the sidewalk and wrap in in the blanket (which, for some reason, is now on a stick). There's something about it, either a sign or something I wrote, that says "this blanket is very heavy."

When I get in, it looks like an average Golden Spoon. I see the drinks menu when I enter (Apple juice in a can, Apple juice, some other juice, Strawberry juice, Kiwi juice, green tea, and some other juice), and decide I want to mix apple juice and green tea. I'm waiting in line when the manager comes and asks me if everything is "splendid." I look at him and he looks extremely familiar. I ask if I know him and he starts acting suspicious and hiding his nametag so I push him in order to see it better and find out its Mike. I say hi and we both laugh and smile and hug and a co-worker of his gets angry.

At some point, the Golden Spoon turns into a donut/gum shop. There are female friends of mine there, who I can't remember. It's finally my turn. I can't decide on what to get. I remember there aren't many choices of gum. All the gum is just inside toys; I ended up going with to gum flashlights, but there were gum barbie dolls, gum lightsabers, and gum super soakers. A very fat female employee tried to sell me the "Waistblaster," a gigantic donut.

When I go pay, I notice the Golden Spoon drink menu I saw on the way in. As I slowly start to wake up, I start to realize that this was a Golden Spoon a minute ago, but instead of becoming lucid, I just think "Goddamnit, I came here for Golden Spoon!"

And I wake up.

I live on a mountain. It has houses on it. I don't remember mine, but it's there. There's a steep road down and at the bottom, there's a Wal-Mart. It's me, Dad, and my brother. We go in. There are huge walls like a castle. The "watchtowers" are Wal-Mart brand hospitals, tax return places, etc. The actual store is a building in the middle. We're birthday shopping for one of my baby cousins.

DAD: "Is Phil [my brother] coming [to the party]?"
ME: "That depends. He's coming if Timmy is there, if it's at our house, or if you force him to."

I catch a glimpse of Phil before I start over to the store. Dad stops me.
"You want me to go with you?"
"No I'm fine." He gives me some money. It's not very much.

I think of going to the ATM and pulling some money out of my real life account, but just like in real life, I'm not eighteen yet, so I can't use the ATM.

I go to the store. Outside, I see Allie. She's gained weight (Something she needs to do because she's so skinny) I comment on how good she looks. In the dream, I thought she was drop-dead gorgeous, but looking back, the dream version of her was hideous.

I hug her, say goodbye, and tell her to get on facebook and IM me (haha wtf?) then I go into the store.

Next thing I remember is sleeping at a house and waking up. My brother (not Phil) is sleeping still. Somebody tells me to meet them at Great Plains (Red Dead Redemption, anyone?). I sneak out and go there and there's a map marker to get on a train to Blackwater (RED DEAD REDEMPTON, ANYONE!?!?)

When I get there, it's daytime. I climb on and the caboose is two stories high. I go to the second story and there's a man with a rifle watching a window, and a second man removing money from a safe and hiding it under the floorboards. I lean against the wall, not trying to hide at all. They don't seem to notice me. When they leave, I'm about to get to work when Katherine shows up. We start talking and I forget about the safe.

More friends show up, like Kevin and Sara and Josh and we just talk and have fun.

And then I wake up.

I fell asleep in the middle of the day. That might be why I can't really bring up a total recall, just (as the title implies), bits and bobs.

-In somebody's house, watching gay porn on HBO. It's not a porn program, more of a drama program (one that shows intense gay sex, at least).

-Writing music at an old folks home. There was someone else doing the same thing. I wanted to work with him, but didn't go after it. I see a beautiful woman in a stagecoach.

-Driving with an Asian friend. Kind of like a Crime movie (I'd been watching a buttload of shitty Asian crime movies earlier today). He drove. I didn't do much. Lots of car chases though. He turned into Joseph (a Mexican) and we had one more car chase. Then we were talking about fire and noticed a song about fire on the radio, an animated billboard featuring fire, and two houses on fire. We laughed about that, then we got to the beach. To get there, you had to go down a road on a huge beautiful hill. I remember the image perfectly. Beautiful sunset.

Me: "You know my favorite thing about going to the beach?"
Joseph: "What?"
Me: "Getting there. It's beautiful."

-Can't remember what happened next, but I did lots of killing in like a GTA environment. I was avoiding some jerkoff who kept killing me (or trying to, I can't remember). I was at a beach (one of those shitty ones that nobody uses because there's trash and boats and a highway overpass) and I spawn a plane. I try and take off but he shoots at me and as I fly away, I lose control and crash land on a dock between a ship and a crashed 747. For some reason, it sets on fire so I climb onto the ship and fire rockets at the 747 until it explodes.

And then I wake up.