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Walking along the shore of the gulf, I looked for a particular spot out in the water. I thought that I found it, so I swam out there. As I was swimming, the water suddenly became land. There was a brilliant green grass all around and there were trees, palmettos, cactus, and some other plants that grew taller than my head. I heard Noelle calling my name, but she couldn't see me because of all the plants in the way. Finally we found each other and we went on a bike ride. We rode very fast down a big grassy hill. There were tire tracks on the ground and when I rode my bike over the tracks, I went even faster. It was as if the tracks were a speed boost in a racing video game.
When I pressed the breaks on the handlebars, they made a noise like a car horn.

I was sitting on the steps of a pyramid like a Mayan temple that was decorated with pictures of humpback whales.

I was with Jeff and Ryne and we were at the drive-through of a fast food restaurant. I ordered a basket of fish with fried pickle chips and a coke. There was free refills on the coke but we had to drive around the building and go up to the window a second time if we wanted refills. Carrie and my parents were in a different car behind us. After we got our food, we parked the cars and ate out in the parking lot. The parking lot was on a hill with a steep incline. There was a bunch of water flowing down the hill like a flood. Tiffany from work was there. She was working at the drive-through window and she made some joke about all the water. Not sure what the joke was.

After waking up in the middle of the morning, I decided to try the WILD technique (Wake Initiated Lucid Dream). I have never done it successfully. I did not ever become lucid this time either, but something pretty cool did happen. As I was drifting off into sleep, I was trying to focus on a forest scene where I wanted my dream to take place. I was thinking of a particular spot that I liked in the woods of Torreya State Park. Lo and behold, the setting of my dream was some woods very similar to that. It was very hilly just like the place I was thinking of. So even though I didn't WILD, the power of just thinking about those woods was enough to influence my mind once I was in a dream. I think that's awesome and it probably was not a coincidence because as much as I love hiking out in the woods, I have not had many dreams of being in the woods that I can recall.

I don't remember much about the dream besides the fact that I was in those woods. I did not record it right away like I usually do and I wish I would have. I was just being lazy and wanted to go back to sleep for a little while before I had to go to work. I do remember that I had a big scab on my left shoulder from falling down somehow and my dad was asking me about the scab. It's weird that he knew about it because I didn't tell him and I was wearing a shirt. I told him that it happened during a game of Capture the Flag.

I was living at the Summer Drive house and our dog Stevie was sleeping in Jeff's room. She had a toy owl and I ask my mom if it's really necessary to have that owl around. "Does Stevie really need it?" And she says, "yes."

I was in a class where I had given a presentation on the night sky. It wasn't like astronomy or astrology. I was just simply talking about the night sky. There was a beautiful woman with red hair and big breasts. She was impressed by my presentation and she was commenting on it, relating an anecdote that it reminded her of. I think she wanted me.

I was watching a baseball game on TV. To watch the game, I had to use a hand- held antenna that was part of the remote control. It was the New York Mets versus a team from New Orleans. An old handicapped man who had just woken up asked me what game it was and I told him. He then went off walking around a track. I lost interest in the game and walked off in a different direction. I found myself in a field where giant wild strawberries were growing. They were bright and juicy. Each one was the size of my head. It was raining and I was running around and jumping from one spot to another. There was a lady picking strawberries. She said, "Look, as old as I am, I'm still out here picking them. I'm out here so that everybody can see. If I can do it, then anybody can."

I'm playing a game that's like hide and seek in a big open meadow, but there are clumps of old oak trees with spanish moss that seem out of place like they don't belong in the meadow. There are two girls there who are twins. Then one of them says she wants to dye my hair darker and I say no, bad idea.

I'm with someone talking about a new CD by The Beastie Boys. In the dream, the Beastie Boys were from Turkey instead of from New York and we're looking at a globe to see where Turkey is. But instead of a sphere, the globe is a cube. To get to the next hemisphere, you would have to go around a corner. We find Turkey and it is the country furthest north, at the north pole.

I was explaining to Deanna that I spent thirty days out in the woods. I'm showing her a map of where I was and I have a set of dominoes that I'm spreading out across the map. The dominoes represent different people that I saw in the woods or that came out there to hang out with me for different durations of time. Then I'm telling her about rapids at the mouth of a river. Crashing waves are meeting the rapids, and I find stuff in the waves washing up to shore. Glenn walks up and asks me to find him a good sponge if I can and save it for him. What does he want, a sea sponge?

I was in the backyard of a house where a party is being held. It is night time. Somebody shows up saying he has some weed and wants to know if he should bring it over. I'm like, "No, that's okay." Then he goes, "Oh, really? Cause I could just bring some kind bud over." Somebody else there hears him and gets excited, "Okay, yeah." So the plan is to go to this place where he has it hidden and be really sneaky so we don't get seen. We had to climb up and then lower ourselves onto the glass roof of a greenhouse. We get the weed and we get in an elevator to make an escape. The next day, I still have my share of it that I broke off in my pocket. I'm at high school and my manager Debra is a teacher or a dean there. She asks, "So, what was it that yall did last night? And who was in that group of students with you?" I say, "I don't know what you're talking about." I see a couple of guys who are hurt and on the ground. There are cops with them making sure they don't get up and run away. Then I see a cage and inside is a German Shepherd and I realize it's a drug dog. I'm like, "Oh, crap." As I walk past the dog starts barking. I'm scared that I'm about to get busted and then I wake up.

The number one psychotherapist has her job because she can tell who is addicted to or obsessed with sex. (?) (I don't even remember recording that at all.)

I was in a busy promenade. People were all around me. There were these two girls who I was friends with. They did some trick where they made their faces distort like funhouse mirrors. They thought it was funny. And it was. (Again I am amazed that I did not realize I was dreaming. People can't do stuff like that!)

I was on a baseball team, but we didn't play that much. We were the backup team. The only time we could play is when this other team didn't have enough players. In the dream we were actually about to play and we were hoping that it would be a home game.

I walked from one school to a different school. The school I walked to was Scenic Heights. I walked across the field and the playground area, walking towards the front of the school.

I'm with Grayson and somebody else. We're at a restaurant and everything they have has meat in it and Grayson and the other person don't eat meat. So we have to go somewhere else and we're trying to think of where we could go.

There is a Chinese woman who accidentally recorded herself having sex. Somebody told her that they heard the recording. At first she's embarassed, but then she's glad that they liked it.

I'm with my family and we're in an unfamiliar city downtown. There is a river in front of us and a railing between us and the river. There's a bridge that goes over the river. From across the water we can hear a bunch of people laughing on a boat. I want to know what's so funny. I go across the bridge, then across traffic over to where the boat is docked. I'm going to get on the boat and then Jefferson and my Dad show up with a jeep. My dad and I walk onto the boat and he asks Jeff to drive the jeep up the ramp onto the boat. He does and now we're on the boat. We're taking the ferry back to the other side where we were before. I never found out what everyone was laughing at.

I'm with a group of beautiful girls and we're swimming in a natural spring. The water is really clear and clean. One of the girls says to me, "So I heard that you only like blond girls," and I'm like, "No, that's not true, I like brunettes too." They're all making jokes and trying to get each other jealous. I'm kind of a mack in this dream cause all the girls are really hot and they all seem to want me. One of the girls is Larry Bird's niece. That's just kind of funny.

Jeff and I are on a boat and we're talking about people remembering stuff. He is making fun of people who have bad memories. He's using his t-shirt to remind himself of this. (?) Some of these streets are below ground (??) and he's talking about how cool that is.

Jeff and I are eating taco bell and he has cabbage in his burrito instead of lettuce. I said, "Jeff, that's cabbage you got there and I know the difference between cabbage and lettuce." Then we're hanging out with the Ziembas at their place. It's the family get-together at Christmas. We're listening to The Who and Jeff says he doesn't like The Who. I tell my dad about this and he says, "I hope he knows who he was almost named after." After a while we leave the Ziembas' house. In the dream we live close to them and we're walking home. As we're leaving, all the Ziembas are lined up outside of their house. With them is this black dude I recognize from work. We walk home and we see Christmas lights and a statue of the virgin Mary.

There's a hurricane coming, so we're going to evacuate. It's morning and we are to leave later on in the day. My parents are still living in the Summer Drive house. Jeff and Carrie both live in Pensacola, but not with them. I go over to the house and my mom says she needs my help getting something down that's up high because I'm taller. We get in her car to drive to wherever it is. As we're going down Summer Drive, Thoryn's out in the street with two dogs. We pass a yard where Jeff, Rhys, and Ryne are doing yard work. The person whose yard they're in is telling them how they want the yard done. We keep on driving and in a different yard we see just Jeff by himself doing yard work. I'm like, "Wait, how is Jeff in that yard back there and in this yard here at the same time?" (I should have definitely known right then that I was dreaming, but I still didn't make the connection which is ridiculous.)

Jeff and I are walking down the street in the old neighborhood and we go into a place that's both a bar and an arcade. We sit down at a table. We're going to order drinks, but then Jeff and some other guy sitting at the table both tell me that I touched this drink that was sitting there. It was a tropical punch Icee in a plastic cup with a plastic lid on it. They say that I touched it and I say, "I didn't touch it. If I did, I may have just pushed it across the table away from me. I didn't drink it." The guy was saying he didn't want the drink because I touched it and he had to get another one. Then, I'm like, "Okay, I'm going to go see what games this place has." So I'm walking around and I see pool tables and ski ball and some games with people shooting guns at each other instead of at a screen. It's like laser tag. There's an adventure game that I want to play and I somehow jump right into the game. Right into the screen. I can't remember what the game was like, but I know I only had a little bit of life left. I kept looking at that bar, the life meter. I'm running around and trying to be careful. There's a witch who seemingly kills me, but then I don't die just yet. There's this old Chinese sorcerer who tricks the witch into letting me come back to life. He does this with water and a large soup ladle made of gold.

(I think this must be the most I've ever remembered in one night.)

I'm on a college campus, in a classroom. I'm talking to two girls in the class. One of them is voluptuous and has curly blond hair. She is wearing a black dress with a white floral design on it. When class is over, she is walking ahead of me out the door. I'm right behind her and I put my hands on her hips. She goes outside with the other girl. I walk down the hall looking for my next class and I open a door leading to a small room. It's too small to be a classroom. There is a third girl inside. She is tall, with brown hair, pale skin, and freckles. I ask her, "What class is this?" She replies, "This is inception."

(I woke up right after she said "This is inception." It seems like she was trying to tell me that I was dreaming. I feel like I'm getting closer to becoming lucid since I had a dream character tell me something like that, referencing the movie, Inception, which revolves around lucid dreaming in the plot. It should have been obvious to me. Maybe it was and that's why I woke up right then, but I don't remember being lucid at all.)

I'm with a girl at a giant amusement park. There are rides and games. One of the rides is a water ride and I have on a yellow life jacket. There's a bunch of life jackets lined up at the start of the ride. There's a row of yellow ones and a row of orange ones. They say different sizes on them, like "large" and "youth". There's one that says, "family jacket."

I go into a house that I'm not familiar with. I see a certain bedroom and I'm like, "Oh yeah, that's the bedroom that I'm staying in." I walk in the room and there are two beds. There is a girl sitting on one bed. I sit on the other bed. She says, "So did you sleep comfortably?" I'm like, "Yeah." She says, "That mattress is too hard for me." Then a different girl comes in, her roommate. It's the girl I was with at the amusement park. Me and her start making out on the bed, right in front of the other girl. I remember brushing my hand on her cheek and kissing her with my eyes open. I look into her eyes. Her eyes really stick out in my memory. It was nice to kiss her. It made me feel really aroused. I remember being excited. Then she told me that she had had sex thirty times in the past month. I'm like, "What the heck? Thirty times? With how many guys?" She tells me fifteen. Then she's like, "So are we still game?" I'm disgusted and I just say, "Uh...I'll see you later." Then some other people come into the bedroom along with a bunch of dogs, maybe five or six puppy dogs.

There are two fish flopping around on the ground. A big crowd of people is gathered around them. I throw money down on the ground to bet on which fish would die first.

A bunch of people are being loaded up on buses, me being among them. Then I get off the bus and there's an army walking across a park looking for anybody who might have been left behind; anybody who didn't get on the buses. Their plan is to shoot them. I'm walking around looking for a place to go to the bathroom that's not out in the open.

I'm walking around the outside of the Summer Drive house. I walk in between the azalea bushes and the front of the house. There are a bunch of dead ducks and other water fowls in the bushes.

I'm with Noelle and we're walking along somewhere outdoors. There are two women with a small boy maybe kindergarten-age. They're taking pictures of him with a camera. Then there is a man with them too and he's holding the boy beside a tree, then hoisting him up on a tree branch, having him sit up in the tree for a photograph. After that, they want a picture of all of them together so they ask if one of us will take a picture for them. Noelle takes the camera and is about to take a picture when I make a joke by jumping into the picture with them. It's funny because none of them know me.
Suddenly, we're at the CSU and I'm saying hello to all the people I knew from when I was there. I'm giving high fives and shaking their hands and I'm like, "So you're still hanging around this old dump, are you?" This one lady introduces herself to me. She's about to go walking around a track. They're all on their "physical fitness break". Then Noelle and I are leaving and I'm saying good bye to everybody. Then somebody gives us a ride in their car and we're driving away. Now it seems kinda like summer camp, but it's not camp because it's not out in the woods. It's a downtown city type of area with a bunch of streets. Some people are following us on bicycles. They're laughing and making jokes. They yell at us from their bikes.

Me and somebody else, I don't know who, are cooking pizza in an oven. Then Ryan from work is there and he's heating up his pizza on the hot surface of a coffee pot. Somebody there is talking about how they went to get their bicycle and it was gone.

Spread out in front of me on a table are a bunch of copies of the GZA album, "Liquid Swords," except they're divided up in two halves. One of them is side A CDs with tracks 1-6 and they other one is side B with tracks 6-12.

I was at the Schneiders' house and I walk in the front door along with the triplets. I'm the last one inside and I leave the door open. Their mom starts to yell at them about the door being left open and I say, "Sorry. That was my fault." Someone hands me a can of beer. We start talking about how cool it is that the USA made it to the World Cup and how it's even cooler that the Ninja Turtles are on the team. I didn't even know they played soccer.

I'm walking on a dirt road, on the way to mass with a group of people. The only one I can remember among them is my mom. Then my cousin catches up with us. She is cheerful and she picks me up to carry me to the church. (this is absurd because she is much smaller than me. I guess it was symbolic.) Along the way, my mom scrapes her arm on the branch of a tree. She will feel better once we get to the church.

All I remember is a woman with green and purple hair. I was mysteriously afraid of her.

I'm kind of in a lull regarding my dream recall as of late. It's a bit frustrating.

Carrie was talking to me about a song that I had made. She said it was good because it sounds like it's old and it's new at the same time. It sounded old, but not too old;and it sounded new, but not too new.

It was a dark and cloudy day. There was a storm brewing. I remember seeing a spigot or a fire hydrant bursting and spraying water out all over the street. There was a bunch of people including my family and a bunch of old friends of mine all gathered together. It was my birthday, but for some reason I could not join in their celebrations. I was not welcome. I think it's because I had a nervous breakdown. But all these people were like, "Well, we're all here together. We may as well have a party." Across a pond or a bayou there was a tower, like a lighthouse. I had to go around this body of water to get to it. I climb up the stairs of the lighthouse and as I get to the top, Noelle is there and she's coming down the stairs in my direction. She's not happy to see me. Everybody there is there for my birthday, but none of them are glad to see me. I tell Noelle that I love her and she's just nodding her head like, "Yeah , I know." Now everybody there is at the top of the lighthouse too and they all turn to look at me. They all stare at me. It's almost as if they enjoy how uncomfortable and awkward the situation is and they're just staring.

I was with my mom and we were watching a basketball tournament. I think we're at Jonathan's house. There are rows and rows of televisions and there's different basketball games on all of them. We're focusing on one game in particular. One of the teams is called Gainesville (instead of Florida) and the other team is some farmer team that grows tomatoes. The farmers are losing, but they're still playing really hard. They are the underdogs and they have this theme song. It's old music from the fifties, like doo-wop. They lose, but it's like Rocky or The Pistol. They're going to lose, but they're not going to stop trying. The game becomes water basketball and they're playing in a swimming pool. The game is now in black and white on the TV alongside all the other games.

I'm outside of a huge library, near the entrance. I'm standing in a breezeway and on the wall near the end of it there is a painting of a building. I'm studying the painting, then looking around and I see pine trees and blue and grey apartment buildings nearby to the right. Then I look back at the painting and see the same trees and apartments in the background of the painting. I suddenly realize that the building in the painting is the library. I take a few steps back to get a better perspective and I'm looking back and forth between the big building and the painting of that same building on its wall. I'm amazed by this and there is somebody else there with whom I'm sharing my amazement.

I find twenty dollars on the ground.

I was with Jay, my friend from when I lived in Jacksonville, and I made some rap beat. It was a really good beat. He was saying that he knew somebody who wanted to buy that beat. I said, "Ok," and Jay went to talk to Mark M., one of the managers from work, in the shift office. They were talking about the "paperwork." I am then given a printout, a page telling me I'm going to get paid $345 up front. But it turns out that the whole thing was a setup and the people are using it as an excuse to sabotage Jay. The people who supposedly wanted to buy the beat lived next door to Jay and we went over there. It's night time and as we get there, they are shooting guns at Jay. He keeps yelling, "Snitches! Snitches!" and he is shooting back at them. Tracer bullets are flashing. As they are all shooting the guns, I jump up on top of a wooden picnic table. There is glass on it in a wood frame and as I jump onto the table, the glass breaks.
I somehow find out that that was just a scene in some weird movie being made about me. It was like candid camera in that whoever was filming didn't let me know when they were filming it. After that, I go home and I'm talking to Jefferson and my Dad about getting the money for the beat.
(I guess I forgot that I was not actually getting paid and that it was a setup.)
Then I run into the backyard of the Summer Drive house and I run back to where the dirt hole is and I jump on this platform which is a catapult. It hurls me over the dirt hole flying through the air. And I land.