memorable

This was a long night of dreaming with many many details and many experiences, a lot of which have faded. I did "sit on a bench in the park" mindfulness meditation for 20 minutes yesterday, then about 10 minutes more walking meditation, focusing on being present in the moment. It was wonderful.

+ LD#203 music lesson, wake next to mouthpiece, wrong clef, practicing taps mentally, FA in CH, tell wife about music lesson, see strange lighting shining on city buildings far away, see colorful dot flying through air that becomes UFO, comes right down outside my window, nose pinch, get lucid, walk to dining room, open door, grab UFO/alien in my arms and make a wish: GIVE ME LUCID DREAMS ALL NIGHT EVERY NIGHT, ALL NIGHT EVERY NIGHT, ALL NIGHT EVERY NIGHT! GIVE ME LUCID DREAMS ALL NIGHT EVERY NIGHT, ALL NIGHT EVERY NIGHT, ALL NIGHT EVERY NIGHT! Then I remember my goal of summoning Chloe Grace Moretz. I walk out to the deck and around the corner to the left I do a left-handed behind the back summon and bring forwards a DC, looks about the right height, hair is blonde but I can't see her face. I continue holding her hand in mine, up over my head, and we're sort of dancing around each other in circles, I'm trying to see her face. I finally stop and say "show me your face!" It stops and looks at me and resolves into a 60-70 year old short bald white man with bags under his eyes. In disgust I dismiss it/him and summon JG (SG): I get a girl of about the right age/height but her hair and face is wrong. I then corner her against the deck railing and demand from her "Are you SG?! Who are you?! Who!?" I lean in for a kiss despite her face still being wrong and
wake up, only imagining the lip contact

+ energy/magic battle

+ enemy gang room, "what's happening here?" "All is OK"

+ coming in to house out of the rain getting my backpack in the living room? Go to garage clown in right corner, punch it but it's just a dummy, my master <a Mr. Miyagi type> is there and is performing a ritual with object at an altar and his hands start glowing with rainbow colored power, I go to the altar and do the same and see the same on my hands, and I take a deep sniff of the burned-woods, then Master takes an awesome balancing crouching one-foot on ground Kung Fu position which I know I can not duplicate. Then a huge truck starts coming down the garage and Master says "Oh so they've decided to come here," I look out and there are very odd looking people/being in the cab of the truck, they back up then head down another way, and the truck transform in size while it moves down the path to become much smaller, because it has the ability to fit into any space it drives. The truck is carrying my opponent whom I must battle.

+ laptop NSFW screen in CH bedroom with wife and another, close screen but some picture shows up on the laptop outer cover (not NSFW) and I think that's a really bad design

+ In some concert, wife and I are doing to a Michael Jackson concert? Some interaction with usher man? I need to return to car parked a few blocks away a van is blocking the path after stepping stones walk around it enter park through fence by drinking fountain and take blob of gum out of my mouth in pieces, trying to put each piece in the garbage can there but don't want to touch all the other gum pieces around the tiny opening. My waist bag is missing [DREAM SIGN] and I need to get it, there is alto the bottle of valueable liquor/wine my wife mentioned, I think I left them in a tall garbage can in the park, I start heading that way but a large rowdy gang of thugs appears too and at first I wait or them to leave, but they're going for the garbage can with my stuff so I gather my courage and go there, too. They find my bottle of liquor and eventually give it to me but I refuse, saying "you probably peed in it" they say they didn't.

Then I'm sitting in a sport in a small cafe with my wife, my arms are full of things I'm carrying and placed on nearby tables. More people come in and I'm getting self-conscious about all the space I'm taking, but I don't want to move it. Some people ask me to move things and I do a little bit. Then they make what I think is a disparaging remark and I scream out "WHAT!? WHAT DID YOU SAY!?" They answer "thank you for moving your stuff", I say sheepishly "you're welcome" then someone on the other side of the room snickers, I think at my out of place anger.

+(f) DO: man and woman on bed

+ [first dream forgotten for now] [REMEMBERED!: the tomato sidewalk gardener guy!]
Outdoors, daylight. Several times throughout this dream, I walk past a guy with no arms (and no legs?) who's sitting on the sidewalk where I'm walking near the curb, "gardening" in the cracks and little holes/open dirt square areas along the sidewalk. I notice him several times and get a sense of deja vu each time. I look at what he's gardening a few times and it's small bulbs of little vegetation growing in clumps. The final time I stop and look at what he's doing, he's growing odd-looking tomatoes. He slices open(?) some tomatoes and is describing some (magical?) properties that they have as I peer down at them.

+ driving up S street avoiding man in van that handles poorly driving too fast for turning ability of van turn R on to GPB into oncoming lane concerned about oncoming traffic one appears coming around corner but I make it back to my lane. Going too fast this van does not handle well like my other van, I can't make the bend in the road to the left and the van drives right off the road which heads down a hillside. I have a brief thought "oh boy now I've done it." The van is sailing through the air I'm anticipating impact, thinking "man I hope my van isn't ruined." The van lands (backwards?) and the impact is barely noticed. I'm on some side road with no way back to the main road, not for a long, long way. I come up to a memorial plaque that I "recognize" [FALSE] and think "Oh, I'm here at that place" in some public park, I wonder if the gate is still open, I head out to the gate and see a map and try to understand it to find where I'm going but can't. I try each of several different swiveling gates leading to different levels of road.

Then I'm in some convenience store, some younger guys are there talking about "rack and pinion steering" and I think maybe my van is missing a "pinion" or something.

+ epic: seattle: stamp, selling house (maybe sell and re-rent?), girl pops out from under armchair to answer question (this surprises me a little, didn't know she was under there), ask about best thai place in city now, answer: "Panda." I describe the [correct] dates of my graduation and point out I haven't been in town in a long time. Ask if "Panda" is downtown or in the U-district. Girl writes me my copy of the birthday party rules (includes rules preventing people from leaving early even if they want to go to bed on time in order to dream, I wonder if I should tell them I'm a lucid dreamer), handwritten in red/orange/yellow script. I'm amazed she hand-writes these rules for everybody in the house.

I'm lying stomach down on the floor with the birthday rules girl next to me on my right also lying stomach down our bodies aligned, I snuggle up to her and we get close, I press my head against her and nuzzle her head with mine, she reaches down under me

Spoiler for sexual moment:

and tickles my (ahem) a bit it feels really good and I moan a bit in her ear.

I'm sitting on something up high, like on top of a bunk bed, in the living room. I glance out the window and I see a view extending into the distance of a busy freeway with cars with red tail lights and I assume I'm seeing I-5 heading towards downtown.

Girls in costume appear in the living room, I'm still sitting up high. There are two, one is petite and pretty and grabs my attention and our gazes meet and hold for a few seconds. She's wearing black? The other one, white? They walk past me and brush my legs dangling down from the bunk beds.

Our group is now outside, it's night, we're on an open square near a trap door, our group is down there, I think "what if they (group of enemies?) arrive at the same time (or are already down there?). Then an enemy group is there and we're struggling [this part details forgotten], I'm pushing them around.

Then I'm standing in some sort of artificial tunnel/cave trapped inside a long cylindrical cage made of metal bars, I'm going back and forth trying to find the way out of this cage but the openings are all too small. My friend hands me a metal folding chair through a hole and tells me to use it as leverage. Now I can get out. But I think it's ridiculous: the hole is large enough to get out without leverage from the chair, the chair is pointless and I try to show this to my friend.

Another great, long dreaming night with 1-2 epics. And a first! Probably my earliest LD ever, somewhere around 2.5 hours in the first (noticed) waking of the night. And not just a weak, low-awareness LD, but a TOTM success LD that included a successful teleport out of the void! I set very strong intention to get lucid tonight. I also prepared 4mg galantamine + 300mg alpha gpc by my bedside for WBTB (but never took it, keeping it in reserve for tonight perhaps).

@ ~ 2.5-3 hrs

+ lucid 202: I'm hugging my old dog L. He's facing me and hugging me back (in retrospect a bit too tightly and compulsively but in the dream it seemed fine), my face is buried in his chest and my hands are holding him tightly to me, I'm telling him "I love you, I love you!". Then I'm in my CH living room and I'm lucid. Lighting is subdued, like it's dark outside. As soon as I'm lucid I think "woohoo, #202". I'm pacing around between the living room and the entry hallway. I remember TOTM and I remember grow a tail. I'm standing on the corner of the big buffet which has a mirror and I will a tail to grow. I move it around over my right shoulder then I see it and touch it with my right hand and inspect it. It is a flat dark brown color, slightly fuzzy, and feels like the tail of a stuffed animal. I will the tail to move around some more and see its shadow on the floor in front of me, moving, I say "swish! swish!" I now want to do a basic task as well and I know I know the tasks and I feel positive that they will come to me at any instant but I just can't remember them. Next thing I know I'm pacing in total blackness. I decide I don't want to be here and I want to try a portal teleport. I lift my right hand and start to draw a portal in the air in front of me, expecting to see a shining outline appear, but nothing appears. I start over again, still unable to see any portal trail, but now I finish drawing a large oval in the air in front of me. I imagine it leads to <forgotten!>, as I start to step through I think perhaps I should have specified instead that it leads to Amber [Zelazny's fantasy realm] but I decide to keep my original destination.

I find myself in a brightly lit city scape full of people, sort of medieval looking, the city is on a hill. I take off flying and I'm immediately surrounded by thousands of little flies or tiny drones, the faster and farther I try to go to evade them, the more that surround me. Lost all lucidity now, I'm talking with someone about what the cost is to (teleport me?) get to somewhere else. The guy says that he does not accept military contracts and there is something about the cost he offers.

wake up and review dream, check time, about 2.5 hours after bed. I decided it was too early to take the galantamine, and went back to sleep. Very happy with what is probably my first successful intentional teleport.

(@5-6 hours)

+ CH thief:
I'm standing on the street looking down the driveway at my CH and I sense something is wrong. The doors of the house are open and the lights are on. I'm looking and noticing open doors. I decide to jump down and surprise the thief if one's there. I "jump/fly" down in one swoop from the street down to the back porch of the house and I detect an intruder in the house who runs away. He runs down the back garden stairs and jumps off the lawn down to neighbor's back yards. I do another big jump/fly down to him and there's a branch on the ground and a pair of long-handled pruning shears which he picks up and faces me to fight, <rest forgotten>.

+ slop:
I'm sitting/lying on the ground outdoors. A small girl comes up to me and lays across me diagonally and hugs me and I hug her back, I feel love coming from her, she tells me, "Thank you for holding me!". Then I'm lying in some sort of trough and my wife and some other women throw in buckets of what I think is "pig slop", grey and thick and muddy, which I had been expecting but they threw it before I expected it and it splashed on my face. "Great!" I say with sarcasm, "you got it on my face!" and they react with concern.

+ scoot:
I'm on a bicycle on mixed suburban/urban roads, I approach a busy intersection and use the hand brakes on the handlebars to slow down, I notice that the "turn left" arrow is lit and I'm following a dotted line painted on the ground that leads on to a sidewalk, and I follow it there. There are some cars coming down the sidewalk the other way and I'm surprised/annoyed by this. I continue on the sidewalk, now scooting? Now on inline-skates, I'm coming up on some people who are slow moving so I speed up to overtake them right as a guy is trying to pass me. My new speed prevents him from passing me and we're now running/skating side by side. "I'm sorry, I didn't know you were there," I explain to him. Now I'm pushing myself with cross-country ski poles, still on inline skates, and getting some good speed from this. He's running. I wonder now many miles we can go like this, probably all the way up into the hills.

+ epic: ski
I begin with thoughts and light visuals about a job where I worked at one former job while I worked still at another former job -- this is a (somewhat) reoccuring dream pattern about work. Then (I? someone?) says one of the benefits of the job is the big ski jump hill they build outside, and I imagine a large, wide, slide with alternating steep and level sections. Then someone else talks about the downhill skiing park that was built, then I'm standing at the top of the hill with skiis on and start skiing down. The guy had been saying about how fast you could do. The hill was quite steep but fairly flat. I'm hopping between left ski downslope and right ski downslope skillfully and wondering about just how much time it takes to perform one of these hops once you decide to do it. Then I run off a series of jumps off the left side of the trail, and finally I'm falling about 100 feet or more and think "oops now I've done it" and I'm trying to plan my landing place. I'm anticipating a bad impact really hurting my legs. But then I realize that as long as I land on a steep part of the slope below me there won't be much impact. I land and feel no problem with my legs. I jump again and this time I'm jumping over a river and I need to plan my landing, this time the snow runs out and my skies are clattering along bare rocks but on a smoothed pathway. I thought my skiis would get ripped to shreds but the stones are very smooth and I just slowly glide to a halt.

Now what am I going to do? I have probably skied somewhere around 20 (kms? miles?) and trudging back up that massive hill that long with ski boots and my skis in hand is just not going to happen, so I resolve to go forwards to see where I am. I quickly come across a building, sort of a cabin, with a sign on it, amidst pine trees, it's a large building like a camp building. But sort of run down, like it's not popular any more. I come across the main camp building which is similar (sort of run-down, out of date architecture), with people milling about. The camp is not in session, it's called "sundowner <something>" or "summer <something>". I talk to a staff member about getting back to where I came from and she mentioned that they had a taxi that I could take. "Taxi! Perfect!" I say and go to it. I'm then standing on a mini-bus holding a pole and I'm thinking about how I'm going to pay the taxi since I don't have any money with me. I then realize that I don't have my skiis with me, and that I don't remember taking them off, or my boots, or putting them anywhere. I just remember that my final skiing portion was near a river/creek and ask the driver to take me by there so I can look for them.

While standing on the taxi I "remember" that I came here with some friends and they're not all here, we have to find them, I'm confused about where they are. I'm going to have to call my dad to come get us(?) and figure out how to meet him. "Where's Lawrence Y? [boy scout]" I see a double ski holder thing (that you carry skis in on the roof of your car) in the bus and I open it and look at the skis and they're covered with colorful shiny glitter stickers.

I walking then go through a door and inside CE (my movie buddy when I interned at lab) is teaching a piano harmony lesson. She is going to play improvised scales in D-flat (major?) She begins and starts with something like 6th and 4th chords, then normal ones, I keep listening for a Maj7 chord but never hear one, and feel like I should sneak to the keyboard and hit the Bb key to make her do it, but I never do, I'm listening to her scales for about a minute.

wake:
I'm thinking now that it's too late to take the G. Review dreams, toss and turn a bit, work on BTS and get BTS. Tell myself "the next thing I see will be a dream" and performing the dream-hand nose-pinch RC on exhales once in a while. Tell myself "I will fall asleep and get lucid." BTS

(9-10 hours?)

+ elevator: there's a problem with the work elevator, I'm talking with the CEO (female) about it. It has to do with the old power board. I walk down the stairs with my son and realize it's a long way down and I head back up to fix the power board. I continue talking and say that the issue is due to the software's access pattern of the various power terminals. We could fix it by making sure the software doesn't use too many of them at the same time. But couldn't we just buy a new power station, "it would only cost, what, $20,000?".

+ cables/work/girl: <a bunch forgotten> also at work and there's a presentation being prepared in some large audience or dining hall. I have cables that are part of the projection system in my hand. We're (taking a break?) and everyone's putting their components of the projection system down on a table in front of a techie guy, and I put two short orange cables as well and say these are important. I'm moving through the crowd and a lot of people are in my say. There's are some young people on the stage and I notice in particular a cute girl with lipstick on, briefly. Then I'm moving back stage and a girl is there and I encourage her to follow me. I see a tent set up and open it and motion for her to go inside. We go inside and make out a bit?

+ (semi)epic: park / basketball:

... I'm looking at the newly refurbished basketball level of my CH neighborhood park. They've replaced the concrete/asphalt with a slightly bouncy black material like on modern playgrounds, it is very black. I'm just standing there on the far side facing the main entry side, noting all the changes they've made. They've adjusted the positions of the basketball hoops somewhat, moving the one by the back road fence even more to the left, and the main basket has been raised very high, and there's a secondary basket twice as high as well. I notice that they've also built very tall fences between this level and the middle level (guess so that balls thrown won't go between levels or get lost in the foliage). I continue looking at the tall netting and notice then that there is also a ceiling netting high over the entire basketball level, 50 or more feet up. I hope that it's strong so that if anybody climbs up there, it doesn't rip or they'd fall. I see briefly a circular section of the netting that looks like a 10-foot diameter spider web.

I take a running leap off the raised pathway and fly/glide low over the courts to the opposite corner (by the bike rack). The entire court is covered in what looks like scrunched up brown paper napkins/towels. They're light and I can easily brush them aside to see the shiny new flooring/ground-cover they've installed. There is some "new plastic" odor. I see shiny markings on the ground, bumpy and extending up from the surface like the stuff crosswalks are painted with, but colorful. I start to run across the ground and pump my legs really fast and wonder about running really fast. Then a brilliant emerald green object on the ground catches my attention, I'm wondering what this beautiful thing could be. As I can see more of it I "remember" [FALSE] that I've seen this before, it's a sort of walkway made from modular pieces that you can put together to make a path, and parts of it are black rubber and parts are that emerald gemstone material, but I think it doesn't look quite as good as I thought at first.

I notice on the main basketball court on the lower (but still high) hoop there is a sign: "females only". Well that's ridiculous, they've taken two of the courts and made them girls only, hardly any girls play basketball here, what's the point?

A man/coach is there now and he's getting some guys together to play some basketball. I say I can't play because <I have to do something, forgot>. He's got only 3 guys together to play, that's not enough.

Another big night! Semi-lucid moment, but otherwise, tons and tons of vivid dreams.

+ At the shoreline looking [emerging DREAM SIGN] looking into the water: it's fairly shallow and the water is full of reefs covered in rough white circular things like barnacles or clam shells (insides facing up). I'm looking for a spot where it is deep enough to snorkel and I'm not finding a lot of places.

I'm standing on the shoreline looking down in sand and the wave pulls back to the ocean and a little sand hole starts bubbling I stick a tupperware food container down on top of it in order to see it more clearly and like a screen I'm watching the bubbling hole through the semi-transparent tupperware: bub bub bub. Then I see other circular flat sea creatures like the cross-section of an anemone though the tupperware and I'm sliding the container around on the sand towards the water to observe more sea creatures

+ DO [disembodied observer], high (50ish feet) over a river, the river flows from right to left, I look along the length of the river to the left and I see that there are rapids areas, and large shelves of boulders emerging from the water. I'm looking for a path through the boulders and I see such a path. It leads to a very narrow, steep rapid chute. I see canoers heading for and entering the chute: each canoe is very narrow and long has 2 people: one in front, and one in back. As they enter the chute I feel a bit afraid for them because it's looks quite treacherous, but they dig in and paddle through it and emerge out the bottom. The force of their speed puts their canoe entirely under water by several feet, the heads of the people also underwater, and I see that they are continuing to paddle while completely submerged.

+(f) on a stairway leading up to a building, there are several buildings in the complex. There is some narrator or advertisement running about the company that operates these buildings

+ In some kind of structure, bare concrete walls and floors, someone is flipping quarters along the floor and they're bouncing off the floor and walls and this has something to do with some plan? Then I'm on the upper floor of this structure, it is an attraction run by my family. My mother [FALSE, not really her] is running the ride (which seems to be a slide?), I'm right in front of her. There is a container of squishy meat like some pate? There is a tube up from which come real coins which are the payment that the customers use, and also plastic coins which my mother takes and gives to the customers after receiving payment so that they don't use real coins for the payment. My grandfather [TRUE] is sitting on her right (my left) ahead of me, he's in line with my niece(?). I notice him briefly and think about talking to him and/or taking his hand which is close to mine, I get a warm feeling of love coming from him. I'm hugging my niece, she's as a small girl here, and rubbing my hand through her hair.

+(f) spiky/chainy/bicycle/motorcycle. Outdoors but under a cover like in a carport. Leaning against fence is a tall bicycle but it's full of sharp protrusions and has chains running all over spokes. I was going to ride it by GB from grad school jumps on it instead and rides it towards a table.

+(f) with group of people, we're talking about thin strong plates made from vegetable fibers, broccoli, celery, etc.?

+ I'm at my house and inexplicably my mother starts really nagging me severely (unusual) about getting ready for school?, and I have a thought that if you're going to do that it's better that (terrible thought). I'm outside and thinking about how I need to go to high school to take Spanish. I realize that I'm late and that registration is finished already, I'll probably be assigned a random schedule with all of the worst teachers. I think that if I have to go back to high school full-time, that would not be so bad after all. I'm thinking because I've lost a lot of weight that I'll probably get some attention from girls. Then I have a view of myself, slender, dressed in an orange shirt and a brown sweater vest, the shirt is coming out of my pants so I tuck it in. I think this is an odd combination but the more I look at the the more I think it's actually a nice combination. Then it seems like I'm looking not at me but at my best high school friend wearing this outfit.

+ I'm with my dad and I just learned that my mother died. I get incredibly sad that I'll never see her again, and turn away from my dad so he won't see my crying while I'm trying to write something on a piece of paper. I can't believe this news, she was just alive the other day I think. I think how sad my dad must have been on the day that she died, knowing that he had to take her to (the hospital?) and knowing he'd return without her. Strong sadness/grief.

+ I'm standing outside my CH on the street and face the house and get the idea to fly/jump up to the roof. I take a few steps down the rough/ruffled driveway and make a leap towards the roof over the garage, I know I'll take it but I'm not sure how, is my jump enough? I get a funny feeling like I may be able to fly? I seem to glide a bit in getting there. I'm standing on the roof over the garage and looking at the roof of the house, it's making some noise as I walk around a bit and I decide not to walk to the central part of the roof because my parents who are inside (the kitchen?) will hear me and I don't want that. There are metal angles set on top of the peak of the roof that I don't want to walk on. I turn around back towards the street and glide back over the street I decide not to land on the street but to keep going down the M's driveway that also desencds down giving me more room to keep gliding. I'm using my feet and hands to adjust my glide flight, and pull myself vertical to slow myself down. I land at the bottom of the M's driveway even though I could continue going as the land slopes down away from me. I see a fence about 20 feet ahead of me.

wake
Long BTS. Big struggle to get BTS. Try many things, visualizations, eventually, just "let go" more and more on every exhale.

+(f) there is a school bus parked in front of me, instead of windows all along both sides it has squares of wood paneling. Someone is talking about the white schoolbus. I'm watching it as it rides down a street. I correct the narrator, it's not white, it has wood paneling.

+ I "wake" to find myself lying in the gutter near the curb of a street in my boy scout sleeping bag. Standing over me are several girls, the girl in front of me is bottomless and I get a very clear view of her (ahem), I'm pretty amazed by this. I also notice the girl to my left is bottomless and I get even a better view of her's. I'm lying there then with my eyes closed and I feel her leg pressed up against my body. I stay like this for a while. Then I open my eyes and the girl in front of me is gone, I'm a bit surprised by this. Then I look to the girl on my left and she's lying uncomfortably and uncovered on the concrete sidewalk. I unzip my green down sleeping bag and spread it out and offer her to climb in with me (just as friends). I think that it's still really uncomfortable lying directly on top of the asphalt like that.

+ [vivid, beautiful] I'm entering a walled garden. I'm met by a beautiful girl dressed in light colored lavender. There are round bouquets of green plants with purples flowers on them hanging all over, I think this is lavender and pick up a bunch in my hand and bring it to my face to smell. There is a sarcastic girl there, too, who criticizes the lavender-wearing garden attendant/fairy girl. I walk through the garden, seeing round bouquets of handing purple flowers, these are pure purple with no green stems in them. I think they're amazingly beautiful. I say to the sarcastic girl, "Even if you're sad, you still can find beautiful things in life to make you happy."

+ indoors, I'm with a famous martial arts practitioner (Bruce Lee?). He's telling me that he's going to train a girl to fight. We're standing at a weapons locker and he's choosing two weapons that he's going to teach her with. The first one is like a quarterstaff with large (4x normal size) whisks at each end. The quarterstaff goes back and forth between being stiff and a flexible cord. I'm holding this thing and trying to figure out how you're supposed to fight with it. The best I can come up with is that you use the whisk end to trap your opponent's fingers in the metal loops. I hold the whisk end in my left hand and hit it and rotate it against my right hand, trying to trap my fingers in the loops. If doesn't work very well. There's some other weapon, small and (white?) made from a short cord and one or two things at the end that you're supposed to spin around in a circle really fast, he/I am spinning that thing around quickly.

I move back to the original room and someone enters suddenly and I leap up quickly into the air and float at the top of the ceiling (pretty high, 20+ feet?) and am looking down to see if I succeeded in avoiding being noticed.

+ (f) outside, bunches of people walking along the top of a concrete barrier. There are some girls there with whom I'm getting a bit "hands-y?"

+ Arriving at some garden terrace restaurant outdoors, tables there. My son S2 arrives walking with what looks like 3+ bottles of beer and something else and sees me and my wife and turns away quickly so we won't chastise him about having alcohol. I see son S1 sitting at a table drinking from some large container, and each time he takes a drink he shudders and shakes his head quickly like it's really strong alcohol. After he does this several times I ask him jokingly, "What are you drinking there, airplane fuel?"

Then my son S2 tells me how these two big black guys are running a blackjack ring where they take cash and turn it into chips and play and turn the chips back into cash, and I ask him, "Have you invested in this venture?", I wonder if it did but then where did he get the money to do so? Then a narrator is telling about blackjack. Standing at some metal door there is slot in the middle through which I see a section of a blackjack table. The narrator is saying that it is much better to play solo at a blackjack table, and en example is given where one guy (on the right) was playing with other people and "they took his good cards" and he lost. It's also better to play multiple hands at the table at the same time, you can get a lot more money that way. Then the view is of a full table as in a casino, several people are playing, and on the left towards 3rd base two dads and their kids are playing at the table standing on the dealer's side.

+ In some rich mansion, a woman has come to inspect? There is another woman there (who's work is being inspected?) There are also two ghosts/spirits/witches? there, every time the inspecting woman looks one way, the two spirits *POOF* into existence (with an animation like Harry Potter death eater translocation with smoke) and start doing things (cleaning?), and when the inspecting woman turns around they *POOF* vanish before she can see them. The problem is that the room is very cold, and the cleaning woman exhales and I clearly see her breathe vapor in the air, a big whooosh of it. Then when the spirits *POOF* back into existence they are covered with flames: they're burning so that they can warm up the room. They *POOF* in and out several times as the inspecting woman moves about the room.

hard time falling asleep initially, lots of thoughts, very stressful day, took 2mg melatonin after about 45mins of trying to fall asleep

+(f) entering (saloon?) with lots of people, entering auditorium with sloping curved seating area [DREAMSIGN] walking along top, playing some sport/game with girls / balloons running/flying up and down over the seats

about 4 hrs:

+ LD#199 in room doing math homework with BF MR, equation, trying to find pencil with eraser, erase extra zero, easy equation, is this only the 4th math assignment all year? Turn page over to front to look. Problems are of medium difficulty stay up late to finish, MR talks of dreaming! (head that pops up, fall into arms of dream girl), I get up and move to curtains all along windows to the right and around the corner of walls blinds vary, some venetian and pointed wrong way, pull-down polarized shade, outside it is night but there's a parking lot with tons of lighting so lots of artificial street-lamp light is shining in, I want to close the blinds so we won't be seen [DREAMSIGN] and move from window to window, some close OK, some won't, as I go the blinds and the polarizing pull-down sheets get rattier and full of holes. I return to my place at the table across from MR and as I sit down I'm surprised to see that there is half of a broken plate on the table at my place. Why is it here/where did it come from? Did MR break the plate? I'm confused/shocked by this and do a nose pinch, feeling a bit embarrassed about doing so since I'm so clearly awake, but I can breathe and I'm now lucid. I get up and go around the table behind MR and say "Hey, M, I'm dreaming! What do you want to do? <something>, <something else>, Get some girls?" MR doesn't answer so I decide for girls . I decide there will be some girls behind the front door. I turn towards the front door and now I'm outside in daylight in a wide open parking-lot like space and the white front door is about 50 yards away on the far edge of the lot. I gesture towards the door and two women come through. A bit old, but I approach them and hug one and while I do I'm noticing that there are people entering a shop to the left, including a cute girl. I move to go into the shop but the crowd interferes so I fly/jump up over the people and the stuff in the way and enter the door to the shop. I look around and see the girl to the right sitting down, I go to her and sexy time ensues (meo 2016-09-01#1)

Very excited by this early LD, very very bright and clear and vivid, takes me some time to fall back asleep.

+ I'm standing on a beach facing an ocean. There are large (1-meter) waves crashing on the shore every few seconds. I'm peering into the water, I'm trying to determine how clear the water is. It is mostly clear but has a little bit of the "Caribbean blue" tint to it. I see that visibility would be very good. I think about going in to the water with goggles or mask and enjoying the clear water. I think I see something in the waves submerged (a walrus head?).

+ billiards get a table only 9-ball rack, will ask for 8-ball rack, look at balls, many of them (the non-9-ball ones?) are not spherical! How can one play with this? Two guys next to me, talking about smoking, I think isn't that illegal indoors now here?, one lights up and stands in area open to the sky not covered by ceiling and I see a cloud of his smoke quickly dispersing up into the sky, he stood there because it's more efficient to get rid of smoke that way

+ basketball, can't make a shot (airballs, even from up close), pull-down temporary basket in addition to main basket, my basketball keeps becoming a pumpkin, sometimes so large it clearly won't go through the hoop, make a great bank shot into a sideways pointed basket, proud of myself, then another guy after me makes the same shot

+(f) ST #1

Spoiler for sexy encounter:

grab the boobs of a woman, perhaps lucid?

+ ST #2 Zombie/discolored Paul McCartney being interviewed, tray of 4 small round tribbles/girl heads/faces

Spoiler for sexy encounter:

pick the cutest of the head/animals in the tray and, uh, make use of it

Go outside and look up at the sign on the storefront, narrator says that your abilities that you use become part of the traits that are passed down to your descendants (talking about game characters?), I'm wondering what my traits are, and on the sign I see different kinds of tea advertised (green, black).

+ ST #3 I'm sitting on the side of a tub next to the toilet in a bathroom (in my house [false]), there are guests over and naked girls keep appearing and getting into the tub. The crowd in the room grows. One (naked too) is kneeling down in front of me leaning her torso against my legs and her arm is draped across my knees. I'm liking this attention and contact but I'm wondering what my wife will think of it so I'm trying to stay cool and not react. I'm trying to peek around obstructions to see the "good stuff" on the various girls but not much is clearly visible.

+ LD#200 walking in crowd, notice cute girls, think wouldn't it be great to be dreaming now? Ah well, might as well check, <nose pinch> HEY! I AM dreaming...sidle up to one but don't engage, keep going, in the distance I see a woman and I'm thinking of Carmela Soprano, get with her and a nice ST ensues (meo 2016-09-01#2)


+ overhead view, it seems to be some sort of video game. There is an above-grond space and there is a (manhole?) leading down to a lower subterranean level, I decide to (click?) to go down to the lower level, inside there is a wild castle with moving parts, and I go closer, I have a view down into a palace of some sort with no roof. There are chests in a room and what seem like some treasures on tables. Aha, if I could get in there I'd get those. As I watch some character picks up a treasure and walks with it down a hallway, I want to keep watching so that I can see which chest he places it in.

+ LD#201 walking down stairs with some short/boy DC and I suspect a dream do a nose plug and get lucid. The moment I'm lucid but still finishing the nose plug we reach the bottom of the stairs and the boy turn his head to me looking over his left shoulder and his head is distorted and strangely shaped (too short, overly wide/round) and has an odd looking face. His expression is not friendly. Decide to get a girl for both of us. Go to a girl and things get very abstract and weird, but continue anyway, I go first and then indicate he should take a turn, then I take over again and wake up.

+ in scene in restaurant people seated at round tables, I'm standing and my [deceased] father in law is sitting at a table, I'm standing behind him he turns towards me away from the table. He's talking about his home town I'm having trouble understanding his foreign language, he says "Sevastopol" [FALSE]. My attention is not on him fully. He chastises me for not paying attention, "looking over there, looking at the hair on the back of the head of that woman there,". Then I'm in a bedroom my wife says her mother [deceased] is outside in the car and thirsty and needs water, I'm sitting on something and hear the crinkling of plastic containers. I reach under the blanket and pull them out. They're filled with water. One of them is the old milk bottle I've been using as a water bottle but recently lost [TRUE!] and think "Oh, there it is." I show them to my wife and get up to take them to her mother out in the car, but I notice that there is some debris/little pieces of junk [dental floss, a flosser?, small white plastic thing] in the water and I go to a toilet/sink there in the room to pour it out and clean it but I think the plastic think may clog the sink.

+ girls/class, paper, registration, the girls are filling out some forms on pads of paper. I'm annoyed that nobody gave me a piece of paper to fill out. I notice that they've drawn their names by filling in square boxes (like graph paper) on the paper. I see the paper is normal lined paper so they had to draw in the vertical lines themselves. They say they filled in one for me so it's OK? I see that there are sections on the form to indicate which side you (use as a computer mouse?) so these forms will be used to customize the keyboard given to you?

+ there's a group outside standing in circle down a hill a bit away from me, someone says "they're into Big Boob" [meaning some large women go topless, don't see it], then I'm with group playing catch with a volleyball and I'm lying down girl intercepts throw to me I get back at her by holding out my hand and "force pulling" the ball back to me

Inside a room/building with a door to the outside, there's a man there he opens a drawer it's filled with individually cellophane-wrapped treats, I open one and eat it it's a small ice-cream sandwich with white ice cream and plain brown cookie "buns", it's creamy and good and I'm taking bites from it for a while

I'm in a large open outdoor area in sunlight, I see a path on hills to the side, then I see a hillside next to me up close: it's remarkable, it's a natural display of multiple levels of earth and rock formed over the aeons. There are fields with tall weeds/grass nearby. My dad is in an adjoining field, far away to the side. He's saying something about trying to climb up the dirt cliffs on the other side and how hard this may be, it might collapse. I turn in his direction and head his way, I see that his position is under a cliff with tall trees growing on top. I jokingly call out to the tune of "George of the Jungle": "WATCH...OUT...FOR THAT...TREE!".

+ (vivid, present) I'm standing alone the side of my former CA home [location details don't really match though at this point], walking along the fence, and I stop and notice a break in the fence. This has me really confused, I can't remember a break in the fence. I'm standing for some while here trying to sort out what's going on. I don't remember this break, you can see right through to the neighbor's yard. I have a vague recollection that this part of the fence was previously broken [FALSE]. Then I see that it's not open at all, there is a chain link fence in the gap in the solid fence [this just appeared now], now I'm satisfied and stop thinking about it. But now I see that the fence top curls over our property and that someone could climb this fence and get into our house through a window.

I'm in the back yard of former CA home [this time accurate], playing tennis ball catch with my old dog L along the long open width of the property over the grass, some people are watching standing in the middle of this length around the start of the grass. I'm holding out my left hand with thumb separated from fingers widely in a "grabbing/grasping" gesture in order for L to run up to me and shove his face with the ball right into my hand so I can grab it, just the way I did with L when we would play this game. I grab the fall firmly, L lets go and starts running away from me in anticipation of the throw, and I bowl the ball quickly/strongly so that it overtakes L and L puts on a burst of speed and adjusts to the path of the ball. I throw it for L several times then I get concerned that L is old an this may be too taxing for him so I decide to throw more slowly and stop the game, and on the last throw L slows down and lies down for a rest. I think the observers are impressed with L's chasing ability and speed.

+ walking outdoors daylight I'm walking along the top of a dike's concrete spillway. Some European country? There are large bodies of water both on my left (at the level of the top of the spillway) and my right (10-20 feet below the level on the left). I reach a place where there is a valley/chasm, a bridge and a security/guard station is right there. The chasm is deep and the way to the bridge requires jumping/scrambling down rocks and leaping out into a platform. I'm quite hesitant because the drop is very far, a deadly fall. I end up making a "leap of faith" and grabbing quickly to the surrounding rock outcroppings to stop from falling, and turn around. Some people (backpacking/hiking?) are coming up, a family group, I speak briefly to the man?

+ indoors I'm sitting with a group of young people in a room, we're all sitting along a bench/couch along the long wall of the room. I'm leaning out and describing the rules of a game to everyone, I'm the game director. The rules are that each person gets a turn at first to take some action. Then the person they act upon gets to respond to that action, then (and this is the original part of the game I mention), the original actor gets to respond to the response. After each person gets a turn at an initial action and all the follow-up actions/responses are complete, that constitutes one turn. I say it can easily take 20-30 minutes for one turn. I'm wondering if I'm prepared enough to lead the story of this game.

+(f) arriving outdoors to some house at night, a deserted area nothing is around but open fields.

+(f) inside a house on a second floor room, I see a disheveled big dirty man, at first concerned but he introduces him self as [some single syllable name] and holds out his hand and I shake it and he says he's signed up for 2 days of work, then he'll leave.

+ in group of people at some party/barbeque, SerAru is on the other side of a glass wall (he's cooking at the barbeque?), and I open the door and lean out and first sing a little bit, I think people will think I have a nice voice, but my voice to me actually sounds fairly out of tune. I say to SA I'm going to the game, does he want to join me? He shakes his head.

Later, I'm shopping for clothing (for others, uniforms?) and taking off a sticky label from the clothing. [It's a purple and white horizontally stiped golf shirt?], I'm wondering if I should get matching shirts for everybody?

+ camping on cliff, talk to scoutmaster DG, ask about his sons J and G, see my mom sitting there and I think I should be talking to her but I started talking to DG first.

+(f) in a group, on the outside table there are a few pieces of slightly stale pepperoni left over from a pizza and I eat one

+ swirling fast descent on an icy road including loop-de-loops, end by crasing through a fence

+ LD#194 in some sort of month-long retreat location, sitting with two middle aged but attractive women, I think I"ll probably sleep with both of them by the end of the retreat. I have to leave, and return to another place, I'm getting a ride there. I walk up a hill and turn to the left and BOOM, there's an amazing vista opening up over a huuuuge valley far below stretching for maybe 20 miles out before me, including a road down blow me wandering through the hills that is the one I was going to travel on to my destination. "OH!" I say in shock at the vista. And I think "I can just fly there ". I'm pretty sure I can fly, and that I'm dreaming I lean out over space and take off flying and do a nose pinch and confirm I"m dreaming. <more flight detail later>
At the top of the mountain I lose lucidity among the tourist groups. ending with "give us a kiss, love" girl (tweak nipple with lips then light kiss, the tweak is required with her I recall, I feel like I'm quite a playa) and the child racer who was #2 but now is #1 because the former #1 it turns out has just a vagina so he had to quit and his friends are telling him to open it up and look inside and see if he has a penis in there.

+ flying into a strip-mall building feet-first through a narrow trellace (showing off?), I walk through a wall and follow two male voices which are talking about (pork sandwiches?) I open my eyes and I"m following them and their moving away from me, one looks like and comes into focus as my best friend DD from Jr. High. Super high res visualization, and it is him, perfect in face, hair, etc. I go to give him a hug it's been so long he's a bit hesitant at first but them comes into the hug. I say "What's been up with you?" He says "2015 was a hard year, <some more>"


+ motorcycle in house in CH, I need to pack it up and take it somewhere, which car should I put it in? My old clunky FF or my newer one, they're both small though. Out on the street with my motorcycle I heft it up to see how heavy it is and to see if I can lift it into the car at all. I think it'll be heavy but I get it off the ground without much trouble. I ride it down my steep CH driveway into the garage there riding the breaks so I don't go too fast.

+ LD#195 leaving area with family and kids, their slow, people behind are getting mad at the delay, I signal out the back of my car and say "you'll just WAIT for my family!" on main road the guy is following us and I'm looking out the back of our car window (sitting in back seat) at him, he looses control, crashes into a fence on the side of the road, and is rolling himself on the road. HAH, I thnk, that's what you get! Our car takes off flying. The guy on the road himself takes off flying and follows us into the air. I think "WTF!? How can he do that, unless......<nose pinch>, I'm dreaming..
I start trying to shoot laser/energy bolts at the guy, but I see nothing come out. I shout to my friends in the car, "come on, shoot lasers at this guy!" but they don't. I feel confined inside this car, and I jump up through the roof and out into the air. I land on the ground and there are some girls around and I decide it's time for a bit of sexy fun. Pull one girl's pants down, stay in the dream by looking around every few seconds, pull another one, and while I'm trying to push myself up to look around

I actually move my waking body in bed and am awake.

family stress at bedtime. 2mg melatonin, but it turns out I probably didn't need it as I fell asleep quickly anyway

early:
+ I'm DO at first hovering over a view of a high snowy ridge and collapsing snowy stone bridges between peaks. A character jumps and lands on the other side and the bridge collapses. My view shifts to a bridge leading the other way behind me, and someone says "Nobody has ever made it going this way! S*&T! We're F^&*ED!". I'm on the ground now. We're climbing up a very snowy mound, it's steep and the snow is soft and fluffy. In front of us a small brown shape is in the snow. Someone says "just move that poop out of the way and let's go forwards!" The guy in front doesn't want to touch it. He then picks it up and tosses it down on to steep icy hill leading down to a waterfall on our left. It turns out it was not poop, but a long caramel pop on a stick. The caramel pop slides down and lodges under a rock overhang just above the icy river/waterfall. Some (kid?) in our group jumps down after it, and I say "Oh, great!" and jump and slide down after him. The caramel pop falls behind the overhang in a dangerous position. My feet are getting wet and I feel the cold. I carefully reach around the rock outcropping and pick up the pop and toss it back up the hill a bit. Then all of our group is taking turns on the caramel pop. I grab it and push it in and out of my mouth, tasting the sweet flavor.

+ I'm standing with someone (wife?) inside, looking outside to large open area including one side of large stadium seating far to my right, pointing to an open field in front of me. The stands are empty. But I "know" that (cadet students?) sit there to watch sporting events on the field. On the ground level in between the stadium seating and the field, is a covered terrace. I know that I have participated in a ceremony on that terrace. I accompanied a young lovely girl there, and sat with her in the stands.

mid:

+ grief on the rainy hillside
I'm standing about 6 feet below the ridgeline on a long steep hill, mostly dirt but there is a small clump of trees to my right and a larger clumb about 15 feet in front of me. Down at the bottom of the hill is a line of trees, and I know that beyond the line of trees is a river. I'm imagining a system of buckets on lines dipping down into the river, and being raise up to the top of the hill I'm standing on, where they can be used/poured out. It starts to rain. I look around me and my/our belongings are strewn around the immediate area and are starting to get wet. I'll have to pack up, now. The rain gets harder, and I'm hurrying to pick my stuff up. I look down and see our cat L about 10 feet away sitting on the hillside looking at me. I take several big steps down the hill to get her and the dirt starts a small landslide, pushing my cat away, but I lunch for her and grab her by the collar and the scruff of her neck and place her on my shoulder, right among that lower clump of trees.
Just below the trees a man plops down face down on the dirt, and a large splat of blood is under his face. I think his eyes are bleeding. I call out to my wife, "I see your dad here!" My wife is with me, and her father plops down again in between us, sort of splurts/coughs and a huge splat of blood covers the area under him. My wife tells me in a heavy voice "our son S2 is gone! Gone forever! Overdose of Kool-Aid "Zip" (which I know to be a candy flavored drug). I'm stunned. I say "Our S2? Gone forever?" I try to think when I last spoke to him, and think we'll never again see him. I am overcome with unimaginable pain.

I wake up and it takes me a long time to calm down, with a pain in my heart. I think dream practice would suck if dreams were all like that.

get up and work for a few hours, make & eat breakfast. Then BTB and BTS pretty easily since I'm feeling quite drowsy/tired again.

+ turkey jerky
I'm standing in some large open office area with a square counter set in the middle, stairs lead down to the left, sort of like a large public library. The woman at the counter asks me if I've received my complimentary replacement shipment of 2 packages of turkey jerky. I have not received it and say so. She calls a man over to help me with the order? Don't recall anything after that.

+ nudist colony
A young woman is leading me through a series of doors and rooms. This is a nudist colony, and she's directing me to the swimming pool. I think (say?) that a nude swim would be wonderful and refreshing. I'm noticing that there are nude women sitting to the sides of the rooms, I see just their backs, a couple are in a hot tub on the left. As I walk past them I think there's probably a lot of free and open sex here. I walk up to one sitting girl and get bold and

Spoiler for sexy encounter:

whip it out and it dangles in front of her face, she opens her mouth and follows the swinging with her head in order to finally lead it in and starts a BJ

and I wake up. Probably lucid at the very end.

+ long non-lucid sex
... walking along somewhere in a group, a window at eye level appears on the right in a wall, I look in and catch a glimpse of a pretty girl. I stop, enter through the raised door in the wall, step up and go in, turn to the left and there's the girl.

Spoiler for sexy encounter,:

Long BJ, dominant/rough at times. At one point I lean down over her back, reach down her back in between her cheeks and insert a finger inside her (ahem). It's so tight it barely goes in, it's amazingly tight. I think I need to try that so left her up and initiate intercourse. It sort of fits but it's so right that it just doesn't quite go in. I'm moving her up and down to work it in, and finally it does go in a bit deeper. I reach around and hunt for the back alley entrance and stick a finger up there and feel it there for a bit.

+(f) weird dark witch scene
Dark building, freaky faced witch to the side.

+ pickpocket
I'm walking in a crowded outdoor area with lots of people and I feel a tugging at my left hand. I look down and see a guy running off from me, I'm holding my wife's bag/backpack in my hand and he just obviously tried to pick it. I look at him he seems vaguely Asian. Then I keep looking and I see two more guys, one a white guy who is looking back at me while he runs away and I "recognize" him [FALSE] as a pickpocket I've encountered before. I'm starting to run after them then I call out to the crowd in a foreign language "STop, thieves!" I think a better word to use is 'catch' so I call out "Catch them, thieves! thieves! They tried to steal my wallet!" and I see ahead of me some people are coming out of a (restaurant) and surrounding the guys and catching them. I run up to the group, where about 4-5 beefy young men have surrounded and bound the thieves (in what looks like large doggy circular no-scratch head shields). All the guys, thieves and catchers, have strange, slightly deformed faces, like droopy eyes or very bad uneven teeth. The catcher to my right indicates that the are an (undercover squad?) trained in capture, he's proud they caught them. I say in a foregin language, "thank you! they would have stolen my wife's ..." and I wonder what they would have stolen. I open up her bad and look inside and see several small things, including a portion of her broken gold watch bracelet/chain. I say if they had gotten that it would have been a real blow!

+ swarms of snakes in (hotel) room on bed, leave room, re-enter, look for them, find them in bundles in the corners of the room and under desks, one bites me

+ submerged in the "murky", small pool, get out, open up the cover. Doesn't seem all that murky to me.

+ S2 with super weird eyes, go down stairs, kids (S1) in bed with (my parents?), I hide under sheet beyond foot of bed and someone (wife?) walks by me and stumbles over me

+ girl in bathroom short haired blonde says something (in German?) to me, I say "what!?" but she leaves I'm lying horizontally across multiple sinks and shampooing my very long hair. Get up, dry my privates beneath towel, to go to sauna and girl gets in front of me into sauna area but it's under construction, I'm confused about where I am and where things are that should be here

7-8 hrs waking
BTS


+ S2 can't find lego, in the room with the super loud A/C, it must be here, there are large brick-sized pieces of colorful lego and I tell him he should use those to build with, he wants to find the "swamp-colored" sheet/poncho where there were big boxes of legos find the switch in the wall to turn off A/C, it's a rough hole in the drywall. I tell someone else about the swamp/camo-colored poncho later.

+ outside with French teens near bus, run to building, fly to 2nd floor balcony I'm racing against an opponent to the 2nd floor I'll surely win, but aim low and have trouble pulling up to the balcony he wins, I'm inside and invent a flying game with ball fly towards floor really see it and play around. Later I see a hand puppet with adult writing on it and coloring on it and try to read it and the mother who wrote it comes by

Outside on the street, a large truck comes by and all the kids race towards it, I try to scream "get back!" but can't speak, I motion with my arms not to get too close but they swarm the back of the truck as it approaches the sidewalk from the yard backwards.

Someone runs for an athletic move up over the back of someone else out on the street. Inside the room, I say to others, "can you imagine what would happen if you tried going over the back on the president of the US?" I imagine you'd be swarmed by secret service agents. Then Obama is there doing something goofy, climbing on someone's back, he gets down and straightens his golf shirt and walks away from me, heading outside. I think he's a goofy scrawny pencil-necked geek.

+ wife almost steps on "the baby" lying in between sharp coral rocks, I pick it up and wonder what to do with it

+ the (detective?) called on his phone for a drink by buddy, but he's been drinking already (cheap bourbon, some vodka, something else). I'm bodily there but just observe, then tell the story to a fairly attractive young asian woman who's sitting with a different group to the side of the same room

+(f) I see an outdoor covered pathway. It is either covered from the rain, or is covered by a sheet of running water. I try to make out the faces of the people beneath the water.

+ outdoors the board of the company is killed by explosives, the large board table with the board members fly hundreds of feet up into the sky and turn upside down and fall to the ground. Those sitting in the gallery to the side move forwards and are unharmed. Later there is a reception for the dead, lots of people, they notice me (a relative?) and I feel a bit like crying.

+ sitting down to eat in a fancy restaurant booth table very crowded with people, some of which have overly skinny/narrow heads, I sit on the corner edge of the right bench. Look under the table bumping feet with people, you're supposed to take off your shoes and put them in a container at the end of the table (room side), we're eating stuff. But the food it turns out was supposed to be individually boxed portions, each one about $3000 fixed menu, but I wonder why the boxes were opened up and we were served on common platters instead.

+ kids who play my instrument, just learning, visiting my house, candle light, want to play duet, get music, put together music stand, recorder stand, see two playing mine, one holding it like a flute. I hear the duet [accurately] in my mind and perfectly in my head, I hope my music is still there in my case, I find it and head down but wake up

Nice & early bed time. Set strong intention to have interesting and meaningful dreams, and to remember my dreams.

+ (D1) I'm flying / floating high in the air above a bridge, and I'm falling down towards it. I can somewhat control my direction and I'm aiming to land on the walkway of the bridge. I hope I don't miss it! I end up scooting down a long hill and at the bottom I see my ex-GF SB [DREAM SIGN] and her former BF, S(K?). Being all magnanimous, even though I want to go hug SB, I first go up to SK and hold out my hand for a handshake. At this time I hear SB say something like, "Oh, hi, <my name>". Hm, I was expecting a more enthusiastic greeting after not having seen each other all these years. (I get a long hug from her?) She's way shorter than I remember [she was short to begin with]. [Day residue: I saw a very short girl in the evening and thought of SB, trying to remember who was shorter].

+ (D2) ... some stuff going on, then... I find myself in a beautiful isolated spot on the open road. I think I'm on a bicycle: something open to the air. A straight black-top, two-lane highway with a dotted yellow line down the middle extends in front of me, hidden by the rising curve of a hill just up ahead of me. What gets my attention is the beauty of the situation: I feel the wind on my face, and smell the scent of the earth. It is bright daylight with a blue sky and I sense greenery around me, rising hills of grass perhaps, in my peripheral vision. This is what it's all about, right here -- the freedom of the open road. And I don't even have to experience it on a motorcycle, here I am on a bicycle! But, to return to this place from where I live [FALSE], it's a very long ride on a bike. What if I were on a motorcycle? I'd have a helmet on. I could reach up and flip down the visor. I do so and a transparent visor comes down in front of my vision. I can see through it fairly well, but I also see the visor material. I can still feel the wind and the scent of the earth coming to me up inside the helmet I'm now wearing.

I'm now on a motorcycle [DREAM SIGN], a new one . It doesn't seem to be running, but I'm approaching a long, steep hill leading down in front of me [DREAM SIGN]. I remember my training, and first apply the rear brake with my right foot. It doesn't do too much. So I squeeze the right hand brake, making sure not to apply too much too fast to prevent the front wheel from locking up. I then apply some more rear brake pressure, and the motorcycle eventually comes to a stop.

Up ahead of me are some buildings. I'm now holding a newspaper, there are articles in here from old-timers, something to do about the (dangers? benefits?) of alcohol. Someone wants to suppress their opinions. As I go, [for some reason!?], I start tearing out chunks of the newspaper and eating it[!!]. I do this several times.

I'm now in some sort of office, young women are bustling about, it's a newspaper office? There is a story about a black man who died (was killed?), who had a white wife and kid, he was a well-known chocolatier.

+ (F1) Walking along a road, suburban neighborhood, one old man walking his dog meets another old man standing with his dog at the end of his driveway. They greet, they know each other, the dogs get tangled, then they kiss each other on the cheek and then give a quick peck right on the lips. The walking man moves on.

+ (D3) I'm at a gas station, getting gas for my motorcycle. It has a detachable large gas tank, like a large long oxygen tank or the tanks used to hold helium at balloon stores. I'm pumping the gas into the tank and it stops and I want to start it again but I can't figure out how, I wasn't paying attention before. There are levers to push and dials to twist. I eventually figure out that the gas dispensing works from the knob with a kitchen-timer-like control: you twist the knob, choosing an amount of gas that you want, the numbers of the amounts are set on the dial with little marks, like the marks showing the numbers on the dial of a combination lock. I keep twisting it, it starts running and dispensing gas, it reaches zero, and I twist it again to get more. I shake the tank a few times to see how full it is, it's heavy but definitely only about half full.

There is now a line of people behind me and they're getting annoyed that I'm taking so long. I pull the tank back to my motorcycle and (put it back? think about how to put it back?). There's a control interface on the tank, a small black circle with a doohickey that falls off and down inside?

+ (LD #181) ... some stuff, then I'm in a small office with glass walls [DREAM SIGN] to the outside, like in a stip-mall. It's a police office. A young short blonde woman comes in, she's completely drenched soaking wet like she's been out in a downpour for a long time without an umbrella. She wants to tell the police woman something but the police woman is busy on the phone. So she turns to me and tells me to pass on the message that she found her wallet after all and so to cancel the missing wallet report. I have a vague recollection that I remember her from earlier in the dream and that I remember that she had lost her wallet [false?]. She says she is from Alabama, and writes down the message with her address (I see "Alabama"?), I listen to her speech but don't detect a southern accent. She leaves. The police woman eventually gets off the phone and I give her the message about the wallet and she says "good."

Then I'm riding in a car with the police woman. She's driving, and I'm for some reason down sitting almost under the steering wheel (a little bit to the passenger side of it. I have my knees on the floor and I'm leaning up against the woman with my head against her chest. (Her shirt is open? No breasts visible though). I look up into her face and see her eyes and eye brows, she has a bit of a Latina look to her.

Then I start telling her about my motorcycle dream. About how vivid and clear it was, about the beauty of the open road. I ask her, "Have you ever had a dream where you knew you were dreaming while in the dream?" She nods indicating yes. All the while that we've been talking, I've worked my hand up her skirt, and hold it up against her privates there for a long time, feeling the shape of her body. I wonder if she'll object but she doesn't, but I don't make many movements. "Awesome!" I say. "I think that I heard that they call this 'lucid dreaming'". I of course know what it is, but for some reason am trying to hide my intimate knowledge of the subject from her. "I also have lucid dreams. When you are lucid in a dream, what do you do?" .

She stops the car studdenly and gets out, with a horrified expression on her face like I've done something glastly. "Does your family know you lucid dream?" she asks? "No," I answer..."Uh, yeah, my kids do..."

We've stopped in front of a (school? some building with people inside). The woman goes off to another building across the street and I hear her making a verbal report on me, like she's putting on a APB on me she says my last name (I don't remember telling her my name?), and that I'm on a red motorcycle. Hah, good luck finding me, I think, I haven't had that motorcycle in years.

I'm riding down the road, it dips down and there's some stuff on the right. Then it crests in a hill and there's a sudden very steep down hill stretch of road right in front of me [DREAM SIGN] I drive down it and I pick up a lot of speed. At the bottom there are intersections crossing the road, there's no way I can stop, I don't even reach for the brakes, but there's no cross traffic, thankfully.

Up ahead I hear the sound of children playing. The road becomes an intersection which becomes a play room, a common play room for like an apartment building. There are lots of small children playing there, with mothers and older sisters watching them. All the kids are playing with wooden toy trains on little wooden train tracks [like I had]. They're moving the trains about in figure 8's and I think they're learning about traffic safety when the trains reach the intersections on the tracks. I move back and forth between two rooms, watching the children. I wonder that the mothers haven't complained or noticed me, an unknown person, being here. A little girl comes up and sort of falls into me, and I give her a hug. As I let her go she sort of adorably plops down falling on her butt then moves away.

There are some hot moms here...I tell myself "If I were lucid and dreaming right now....HEY! I'm pretty sure I'm dreaming, and I take a big breath preparing to do a nose pinch. Yup, I can breathe. I stand up, forgetting my surroundings, and walk forwards into the next
room. I immediately think "OK, time for ToTM." But nothing comes to mind. Well, if there are no ToTMs to do right now...

Spoiler for sexy time:

I pull down my pants, feeling a bit strange about doing so, but recalling that I'm dreaming so It's OK. I head back to the rooms looking for those hot women, but nobody's here now. I hear the sound of people from the other room, but again when I go there, nobody's there. I think "OK, in the next room, there will be a hot woman," and I go there and there is one. So I get her to give me some oral attention, and I give her some directions. She's wearing a blindfold. I reach down to take it off and right after I do,

I wake up.

LD 5/10 remainder of Feb. goals. 5 to go, and one night left! Need a marathon tonight!

+ I'm in some living room with friends. There are all kinds of electronic devices plugged in to a socket in the wall. The socket catches fire, Oh Crap! What if the fire spreads in the wall, we'd be screwed! We pull out all all the plugs in a hurry. Should I blow on the fire to try to put it out or will that just intensify it? I realize the wall has no back, I can walk around the edge of the wall and there is an empty area there and I could get at the fire there.

+ walking through home under repair, my way is blocked by construction materials. The walls are being spackled, and I move to the left and touch the table (or wall?) and get some of the wet white spackle on my hand and try to wipe it off. Suddenly the world seems to be moving! EARTHQUAKE! I yell out "EVERYBODY OUT OF THE HOUSE!". I make a run for a door but I find just a small half-width door I can't get out through that. I run back to the front of the house and there are people standing in the doorways, I stand in the doorway with a work colleague (MWP).

+ JT and DT are having a domestic conflict because JT struck one of their sons, she hits him over the head with something and knocks him out, DT goes and hugs a son

+ FA in parent's bed in childhood home, dark, view of the opposite wall, I realize I'm in their bed, I think I'm sleeping in the spot where my mom used to sleep [false, it was dad's side].

+ LD#179 ToTM bonus: fire and ice
I realize that I'm lucid suddenly (no prior dream memories, maybe a start of dream DILD). (Nosepinch confirms?). I'm standing in some townhouse complex with 2-3 story buildings of some dark tan color, there are windows on the buildings. Across the way from me is a store with a sign that reads "Lflierwir". I stare at it a while to see if it changes, and while it seems static I get the impression that I can look at a letter and read it clearly, but when I look at the word as a whole it's somewhat fluid. I think of March TOTM and start to review the tasks, and the fire/ice bonus jumps out at me [as it did in the voting]. I hold up my hands so I can see them and cup them before me and will fire to appear. An approx. 6" globe of fire flickers in and out a few times then solidifies. I feel heat, but it doesn't burn me. I walk a bit more around the complex, looking up at the buidings at one point and noting the color and the windows, like a modern generic townhouse complex, the buildings look like this:



I decide to do ice as well. I raise my hands up again and start feeling for a block of ice. At first there is nothing, then I feel a lump of something in my hands and an running my hands over it, feeling for temperature sensation. I get a few bursts of an impression of cold. Satisfied, I let it go and continue on.

I'm now in my childhood home. This dream is *extremely* vivid and clear. I'm in the living room looking at the fireplace mantle, and it looks very accurate. I see my and my sister's Christmas stockings hung at either corner. The stocking on the left is a very pale lime color, almost white. Above it on the mantle is the word "choce", I know this is the word "choice" just missing an "i".

With no other goals in mind, I decide to look for some girls .
I head up the stairs to my sisters room and expect some to be there. I expect TZ will be on the bed, and she is.

Spoiler for sexy time, explicit:

Stating out with some BJ action, I decide I want to switch to intercourse. I have trouble getting it in from the front, then try from the back. Things are getting abstract. There are people around me suddenly making comments. I say "does there have to be an audience?" they say something amounting to "yes,"

and I wake up

goal LD 3/10 for remainder of Feb. 7 to go!

+ bowling: lots of shots making 1-pin-left spares. I have oil on my fingers and the ball drops down several times when I lift it behind me, I try to wipe it off. A girl is bowling on the same lane at the same time. I run down to the end of the lane and there is a giant ball there with some object that I take as a prize and run off.

+ monsters, bar
Big Evil Bos is chastising a minion, the minion manages to talk his way out of it, placing blame on some other schmuck, convincing the evil boss that he's the right minion to help the boss do things. BEB agrees, and tells the minion to assign the other minion to "our most difficult rescue job."

In a large open area with a bar, we're captive, I go to the bar and eat some of the little pickled martini white onions [always loved those!]. There are some vouchers with cash there that I use to buy our way out of the captivity, the captor is amazed I'm willing to spend all that cash, but I say our mission is critical and we must leave immediately.

+ hunt, bikers

Looking top-down at a map, the lead guy changes the course, it's a zig-zagging pattern. I start running with another guy along the course. I'm holding (or conjuring) a diagram/map and using gestures to stretch it and rotate it as we move along.

Some (enemies?) rough bikers were captured by another gang and being interrogated, they captives are standing at attention outside, one captive is sassy and answers a question something like "pull it outta yer ASS!" The captor leader is impressed by his courage and praises him.

We're on the hunt and reach a barrier. Some (fairies?) guards are blocking the way, they demand two severed fingertips from our group. Two guys slice off their fingertips and give them to the guard, who then heals them (re-attaching the fingertips) and lets us go on our way.

+ LD #177 room w/friends, historical origins of horror literature, phone call, sexy time(s), gollum attacks

The LD part was very notably extremely vivid with clear and bright visuals, and very stable with lots of successful control. Too bad I didn't remember loftier goals :/.

... early part forgotten. Some friends and I enter a large (hotel?) free-standing room. My ex-gf SB is there, some (guy?), and me. We're talking about how we're going to arrange to lie on the large bed. Bed-left is nearest the window and that's where I want to be, there is a row of high windows along the right side of the room as facing the room with back to the door. At the bed, SB is saying she wants to be next to me so she can touch me (woohoo I think!). But the guy doesn't want to be on the left side, and I don't want to be in the middle.

SB and the guy are talking about ordering a few hundred hamburgers to have them delivered. The thing is though that it's late, and they don't want to take large orders this late because the delivery guy has to deliver and return to the store before he can go home and they don't like doing that. Then SB and the guy are tossing giant greasy hamburgers around the room and they land on the bed, I say that's gross as they're leaving grease marks on the bed and I'm tossing them off of the bed.

There is some interlude in a different place where the history of horror literature is discussed. It is a "scary" portrait of a hand against some odd background. Then it's revealed that what happens is that a light comes on behind you, and a shadowy outline of the devil appears on the portrait, you can see the horns on his head. Then there's a brief thing about how the devil is just really some typical dumpy looking guy, and you could even call him "Bob" or "Ralph" and say "hey, how's it going, Bob?".

Back in the room I'm noticing the colors of sunrise already in the sky through the windows. Oh man it's late, the sun is already coming up! I get a phone call, it seems like my waking life ringtone. I answer the call and go outdoors outside the room to talk. A girl's voice answers, and she immediately goes off on a diatribe like "OMG! I can't believe you made me listen to that [my ringtone which she somehow heard?]! That's the most terrible thing that's happened to me in a long time! [Blah blah blah for a while]." Then I ask who is calling and whom are you trying to reach, a man's voice comes on briefly, and it's clear that it's a wrong number and I hang up. That sure was a weird phone call, I think. Wait! Weird!? <nose pinch> .

I'm dreaming! As always, I'm astounded at the convincing feeling of being awake. The dream is bright, clear, and stable. I immediately decide that since I've always wanted to have sex with SB in a lucid and "she's right there back in the room" that I'll walk back. It takes about 5-10 seconds to get back to the room/building, but there's no door there. I do not let that stop me, and I just phase through knowing I'll end up at the entrance to the room. I do. SB is there on the left side of the large room, and I go to here.

Spoiler for sexy time:

I move her to a small cushioned seat, (she's a bit uncooperative at first), and I start with giving her a kiss. Her face is very clear, it's a reasonable approximation of her looks when we were going out. She's fully dressed and so am I, and I try out something I've wanted to do for years and make a "ripping apart" two-handed gesture with my hands and command, "BE NAKED!" and instantly she is naked! I do the same to me, looking down at my fully clothed body, my pants/underwear vanish but my long-sleeved shirt remains! Oh well, that's good enough, I start in on getting a BJ from SB. In order to prevent my typical fast wake, I look to the left, and I look to the right in the room, while still feeling the BJ action. I then get the idea of doing a walking BJ, we'll go for a walk outside and SB will continue the BJ.

We get up and go outside and there's some confusion about the number of which "door" we must go through. I think oh let's just get on the pavement and do it right here, but SB's gone now. I think OK, I'll go back into the room.
I walk at the brick wall again at the place where the door should have been and pass through with no issues like it's an illusion. But instead of being in the room, I'm now in a hallway with girls standing around outside the ladie's room. There are some really nice looking girls there and I move to bring a bunch of them into the ladie's room with me.

Inside the ladies' room, it's like a big fancy restaurant, sumtuous wood and cushioned seating, very posh, I think briefly yeah those ladies know how to do it. There is a girl standing at a podium and I know she is the maitre d' (!). I go over to her, she's not attractive, but va-va-VOOM her assistant is HOT. Yes, you'll do nicely I think.

Spoiler for sexy time #2:

I maneuver her to a couch and just like #1, she's fully clothed and so am I, so again I do "BE NAKED!" and she's fully naked, and again I command myself "BE NAKED" and again my shirt remains, haha! I pull the shirt out of the way and scootch her hips forwards to the edge of the couch and I lean down and take a whiff of her lightly-pubed (ahem), and catch a very nice distinct female scent. Just about to dive in when ...

BOOM! Pain! Something bony and sharp has jumped onto my back in between my shoulder blades! It's like a 1/2-sized gollum very bony, I think he's the security system of the bathroom and has been sicc'ed on me. At first I pry one of his hands off of me, take out my "lightsaber dagger" and motion to cut off his hand. He's off of my back then but still targetting me. The unattractive maitre d' is standing nearby and I command her "you have to f^&* him." She responds saying "What!? NO!" I then tell gollum "you can f^&* her!" and that distracts him away from me (he says "Yeah!" and seems excited at the prospect) and I turn back to my girl #2.

Spoiler for sexy time #2, contd, mild dominance:

I tell her to put her arms up over her head and she lifts her forearms up to her shoulders. No, not good enough, I tell her again to put her arms up over her head, she slightly lifts her elbows but it's not what I wanted. I grab her arms then and push them fully up over her head. She then gets it and exclaims, "You mean THIS shit!?" And I answer "Yes, THAT shit."

and I wake up...

I was really excited by the quality of the last dream and LD so I never made it back to sleep for 2 hours until my alarm went off.

+ tennis with the (tennis) stars: I want to play them too but I end up collecting the balls for them, good deal for them they get to play and I end up chasing the balls. At first just a few, then a torrent of balls from out of their pockets.

We go to the corner (of TV park? by the bike rack) and eat: I rise off a bowl of tortilla chips and pour out the water and put it down for everyone to eat

The tennis is happening also in a room of a small house/cabin. A guy comes pounding on the door and gets upset when I don't answer it right away.

+ (maybe follow up scene of above dream) my son is talking to people outside of his bedroom window, he opens it widely and leans out. I want to see who he's talking to, so I climb up and lean out, too. There is a HUGE crowd of English-speaking tourists walking by, most college student age. They're sort of mulling around outside the window on the sidewalk and the street, about 100 people at least. I'm thinking I should offer them tourist suggestions, but I can't think of anything to say. My son is saying that the sports here is not worth watching but I say no that's crap, they should definitely go to a (tennis?) sports event.

+ I find myself (waking up?) lying with my head right on the edge of an extremely tall structure of some kind. My gaze looks out over the edge and down to sparkling water very far below. That fall would definitely kill you. I check back a few times and every time I get a very strong feeling of vertigo, I notice that where I am is far above even the mountains that surround the large body of water. I think I need to get down. I start sliding down, it's like a massive inflated kids' jumping palace. On the second slide down the structure begin deflating. I'm getting closer to the ground, but the maintenance guys who are deflating the structure say "too late, you should have gotten off earlier, now you'll have to wait until 4:30am in order to get off." I think I won't have to wait since I'm so close to the ground (water?).

We're getting on a train ride with little cars filled with wool on the bottom (live sheep?), we're heading to the ghost town.

+ in the airport, in a hurry, choosing which goggles to use. Outdoors watch the launch of an air-ship (it looks like an old-time ocean schooner). sabotage/line, ships plummets out of the sky and hits the ground in a second, all the people on board bounce up from the shock in to the air and back down onto the ship, many are killed.

The guy (young blonde boy?) who did the sabotage is then opening some (small plane?) with two young people lying down lengthwise in the tube, a guy and a girl? The bad guy (shoots a poison dart?) and one of the young people dies, looks very dead.

I'm in a house, I walk by a hallway table where I see a bunch of packages/papers addressed to me. I clearly recognize my mother's handwriting (in pink). They're frantically searching for me. They've left their phone number as "130", which I "recognize" as the local emergency number. Why would they do that and not be here? I have a sense of dread that I need to get out of here as soon as possible, this is not my house, maybe it's the poisoning boy. My work laptop is here and I want to get it, I'm not even fully dressed but I sense that I must get out right now.

Then the little blonde boy comes in and I'm dodging tiny little poison darts (that look like dental GUM sticks). I run for the front door, I go through one door then reach the front door, it's locked. The front wall of the house is a glass wall [DREAM SIGN]. There is a large force outside, many cars, here to take down the evil boy. I'm running along the glass wall to the right, trying to think of some way to break out. I think the people outside can easily break through with one of their cars. I see some people outside and I'm trying to sign/gesture communicate to them to break the glass. I write out the letters to "Break the glass" with my finger on the glass using backwards lettering so they can "read" it.

They do bring a car and break the glass but it's in an area that already had a few doors to the outside, I say "well I feel stupid" for not noticing them. Then I and my rescuers are in a little floral garden (with posters of watermelons?), they're critiquing the esthetics of the garden, saying it's typical of that boy.

later:

+ running to car in parking lot with laptop, convertible the top is down I'm evading some (bad guys?), throw the laptop in the back and think I'll raise the roof automatically. Can't get out of the parking lot because I must pay the attendant $41.50, trying to get change right with the attendant and the machine.

+ Some kind of intervention meeting. The subject is some wild hippy old guy who's approaching and singing some kind of nonsense song. girl with swirly pink birthmark skin all over. people slowly file out. I lie down next to the girl, my head next to hers, and I massage her scalp with my fingers, she says she likes that. There is a bed there and the girl is on it now, I check out to the hallway there is an older man there who heads down the stairs, leaving us along. I decide to have some fun with the girl who is still on the bed

Spoiler for kind of sexy-time:

She's wearing a skirt and sitting on the bed, I pick up her legs and spread them far apart, her skirt is out of the way and I have an awesome view of her panty-covered (ahem). I look away and back, she's still in that position, I look closer trying to see underneath the panties, see a little bit under the side, and think about going in for oral.

+ outside with a dark-skinned girl. She's swinging something around like a whip and I (help?) her. I'm walking with her and I'm feeling attracted to her. I'm standing close, should I move to kiss her? She tells me something and touches my arm with her hand while doing so. I should definitely kiss her! But she moves to return to where we came from and the moment is lost, and I follow her there.

to bed late (not by choice), ~1am

+ team-based conflict. Sabotage: one guy used an incendiary clicking device to attempt to ignite the underground gas lines via the electrical outlets and blow up several city blocks. "You can't escape" he called out. I ran anyway. Through a door, a guy far stronger than me was pursuing, but I had prepared a small pitch-fork just outside the door and picked it up and stabbed him putting him on the ground, and I called for reinforcements and they beat him up on the ground.

+ (f) returning to the cages, a tiny (female?) dog had been rewarded and entered the cage of my old dog "L". L came along later?

alarm @ 5.5 hrs, very tired, got family member up, back to bed. Alarms are terrible for recall. I had to reach to remember the above.

eventually summoned the will to stop following random thought chains and implement my Back To Sleep Mojo (tm) with the intent of lucid dreams. It worked again

BTS mojo: start with deep breathing. Totally relax and let go of everything: tension, thoughts, all trying and effort. There is a very special "sinking" feeling for a moment at the end of a long exhale when you successfully let go of tension and start to sink deeper. What I do then is try to hold on to that "deep sinking" feeling, including during inhales and exhales. While breathing, I sometimes imagine I'm breathing through my "3rd eye" in the middle of my forehead. Breathing in dream energy and breathing out tension and thoughts. HI may begin during this time. Try not to focus on them, but simply remain lightly aware of them.

+ I'm walking outside in an apartment complex (small, 2 story) in between buildings. It is dark (early morning I think). I hear a sound to the left and look up and see a man through a large sliding glass door [DREAM SIGN], he's doing remodeling in his apartment. He's using a scraper on the glass door, and it's really squeaky and noisy, I think it's rude to be doing that at this early hour, it could bother the neighbors.

The building on the right of me also has a glass wall on the 2nd floor apartment, I know there's a woman in there I'd like to sneak a peek at. I'm staying below the window and trying to remain unseen. (The light comes on?) I sense she's walking around in her robe. I hide under the overhang, and her legs in the reflection of the glass via a building to the left. I think that means she may be able to see me, too.

At one point my wife comes out and I try to hide but she sees me, she's in her bathing suit I guess she's going for a swim/sauna, but she doesn't suspect me.

LD#176 (2/10 goal for LDs for remainder of Feb)
I felt sure I was waking lucid in "my room" in the dark. The room seemed right. I sit up on the side of my bed, and notice vague bits of furniture about, including an alarm clock? [false]. I have a small bit of trouble maneuvering out of bed, but made it OK. Decided to head outside and fly into the night sky and explore the city at night and have fun. Pretty high awareness, and very clear. I get outside and look up at the sky. I think the stars were "beautiful" but in retrospect they were pixelated like computer graphics, and the sky was rather gray not black. The stars were swirling around the sky a bit, interesting. I went to take off flying into the sky and I hear suddenly and unexpectedly a very creepy male voice behind me that startled me and freaked me out a bit, he barked out some statement that I didn't understand. I took off and looked behind me and very very clear and vividly saw two guys on top of the roof of a building. I circled around to go fight them. summoned my lightsaber in to my hand, at first it was the size of a pen with tiny little bumps on each end like a miniature dumbbell from the gym. I reached over with my right hand and "pulled" it which extended it, at first too large, then pushed back a bit and got it to be the perfect size. landed, hit the "on" button expecting awesome sound and visuals (but they were kind of weak like usual), and started fighting. There were several opponents and more coming it seems. Tried force lightning on a 3rd guy who came on me from the right: extended my right arm straight and made a "claw" with my fingers, but managed only a few sparks at best. impaled several guys with the blade at close distance with lunges, one in the chest, one in the face. several good swipes, but just not the vivid blade and effects that I want. There was a bit of resistance to swinging the blade, like swinging a sword in water.
I'm losing the fight, they're getting their attacks in close to me. The main opponent almost got a swing (he had a lightsaber too I think) to land on me, I had to sacrifice my saber to block it and then jumped backwards off of a pier to escape. In the distance in the water some people are standing on a platform.
I climb back up on to the pier a bit away from the fight and look at who's here. It's sort of an open area, looks like a party is going on. Right in front of me, my attention is grabbed right away by a lovely blonde woman in a sexy, revealing, white evening dress. Her hair is in a medium-length braid down her back, and her right side is facing me.

Spoiler for sexy time, explicit:

I approach her and notice as I'm approaching that she's naked underneath her dress, and see that she has a nice patch of blonde public hair. This gives me a "zing" because true blonde pubes are really rare. As I approach her she is now sitting on a bench with her legs slightly open, and I'm kneeling down in front of her. She is looking at me and giving me a playful smirking smile. She is naked now from the waist down and I get a great view of her very substantial bush which is a large triangle of thick, but short-cropped blonde curlies. I tell her "Excuse me, but you have the most beautiful hairy p***y I've ever seen!" She shifts down a bit making her (ahem) fully available to me, and I dive in for oral. It is an exquisite moment: I feel the moist, warm, flesh of her cleft for a few seconds before

the dream fades.

+ [EPIC!] "Sand Castle" farm

standing in fields, looking in to the main building, I choose 2nd floor office with great view of the fields as my office.

officers come by, they run off to catch a deer, they identify its breed

walk into office, odd lock on door, ceiling falling in sharp heavy glass everywhere, very dangerous almost trapped and cut to shreds. Boy this place needs work, extremely shabby. We spent over $300,000 on this place.

wake up in bed, my body is covered with red spots like mosquito bites. This place is infested obviously.

The place is called Sand Castle by the locals in a derogatory way, because the soil is poor and sandy. If it was put on the market, it would get no offers for months. We won't get our money back.

we become a couple's destination retreat for gay black men speed-walking marathoners. There's a competition held, it involves a huge slide on the course and someone must judge, I jump down this slide and end up by the pool. see couples walking, tents all around the place. This is how we're going to save the farm, and I tell somebody about this.

pool: I see fish in the clear water [DREAM SIGN!], an owl dives in to pick up and eat a dead pigeon lying on the right side of the pool. There's a salt-water flatfish (like a sole) on the bottom, who put that there? There are other fish around. My work manager set up a low sun-blocking shade on the left back corner of the pool area.

go investigate the land, craggy and rocky, tall excavated almost-cave. Inside smaller cave, there is an ancient line marking the passage of the sun. pick up the fence, looks better now. I find the spoon from my boy scout fork/spoon/knife kit, but a small boy wants it and takes it.

the passport inspectors come and my sister and brother in law watch how the immigration officers in this country check out my passport and residency document
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wake, amazed at this long vivid epic dream. recall it for a while. eventually gather the will to apply my "fall asleep fast" approach. more dreams follow

+ mini-car
There is a small red sports car, a man is driving it. He is a jerk, he's knocking people out of his way on the path, he's zipping around twisting mountainous paths. On the back of the car are the words written "range; 10 minutes on a charge." I think that's a pretty useless electric range and say so, have a discussion about how this could be used: maybe it'll help you reach the gas station if you're out of gas, or maybe if you take this little car with you on a road trip on a tailer (it's really small, so that's quite possible), it's enough of a charge to get you to a store and back. It's practically the size of a child's push-pedal car.

+ garden bees
Down on the steps leading to my childhood home's back yard, I see that there are about 6 large circular planters arranged on the left side of the garden by the fish pond. I'm looking at them and I see that they're messing up the grass. I'm walking among them, and I think that they've been put over the place where I had planted mint [false] last year, I can't find the mind, there are some leafy plants growing, though. I should have put stakes where I planted the mint so I'd know where to look. I'm lying now on the grass with my head towards the right end of the yard, looking at the various flowering bushes growing on the left edge. One bush has a few grapes growing on it, "good, I could eat those before they're gone" I think. There are bees buzzing all around the flowery bush with the grapes. Some of them are on my shirt, a few on my stomach and a few on my chest. I brush them away but am concerned that they'll get aggressive. One of them flies into my ear and starts buzzing like crazy and I start shaking my head like crazy to get it out and I wake up.

+ waffle wrap
I'm with my wife outside on a sidewalk doing something. I "remember" [false] inside there are tasty marzipan cakes available at a counter. I go inside and ask the girl at the counter but there are no more left. There is a man at the counter perpendicular to hers who starts offering me things. I have trouble understanding him perfectly, he's speaking a foreign language. He switches to English, and this surprises me [missed it!]. My wife is offended at his speaking English and leaves me on my own. I wonder how I'll get the order right myself. One of the things he offers is a waffle wrap with syrup, and sun-dried tomatoes on the inside. I decide I might as well get this.

+ boy with the hair, deja vu
I'm in some public place and spot a boy I recognize. He has blonde and multi-colored dyed hair. He tells me about the situation he witnessed with me and some friends before, where one guy behaved very badly. I "remember" the scenario [false, probably]. Something with my wife correcting my pronunciation.

+ LD#174 Tsunami / call another planet ToTM Feb 2016 Advanced (i)
In my childhood home, looking out at the view of the bay below. The water is in very close. All of a sudden, the water pulls far back very quickly. I recognize this as the sign of an approaching tsunami. I go running around the house screaming for my family to all get out immediately, stop what you're doing and run out and let's drive away! I'm running around and go up to the 2nd floor, into my old bedroom and look out the window. The scene is quiet and tranquil, the city lights are flickering in the distance and everything looks normal. Hmm. Is everything OK now, or is the tsunami still coming? I decide to fly out to sea and check if I can see a tsunami coming.

I wonder if I'll be able to fly. I'll try to fly out the window to make sure. Maybe I'll just fall flat on my face. But if I can fly, I'll be dreaming. I feel entirely awake but am open to the possibility that I can fly [DREAM SIGN]. I take a few steps back and do a quick running take-off. Am I going to fall on my face? No, I'm floating towards the window now, slowly. I pull myself through the blinds and continue flying, slowly, I do a "superman with a go-pro" first-thrust to gain speed.

I realize I'm dreaming, and I can do anything. There are people floating in the sky with me. I do a quick "B.E. S.T.R.O.N.G." just-got-lucid ritual, really rushing and missing most, remembering goals. Remember ToTM and call another planet, I decide to do this one.

I decide I will summon my phone by doing by feel-only all the same gestures I perform in waking life: I reach down with my hands and lift up the flap of the pocket in my waist bag where I keep my phone. I pull the zipper open. I reach in with my thumb and forefinger expecting to feel the side of my phone, and I do! It feels completely like how it feels when I take out my phone when awake. I bring it up before my face and tap/push the button on it. Beforehand I decided I'd use an imaginary "voice activated calling" feature to avoid troubles with dream-dialing. "Call to another planet!" Just a ring or two and then an answer. I say "Hello! Please tell me your name and the name of your planet!". I hear the guy's voice clearly. Sounds like a young man, early 20's, with a wise-ass sarcastic tone. I understand him perfectly, he's speaking clear English. The planet was named (memory not perfect here) "Abbu Wabbe" or "Arab World", and his name was "Defeated Terrorist." He apparently really hated Arabs. At this point I was flying over the bridge and looked down and said "well, I bet there were Arabs on the bridge when the tsunami hit it, you're probably happy about that?" I then saw a replay of the tsunami hitting the bridge, it was just tall enough to hit the roadway, I thought it would be taller. It really smacked in hard and knocked everything/everybody off. I wanted to confirm the planet name and the guy's name, so I called back again using voice activation. I say "Hey, it's me again. Did you say your name was Defeated Terrorist of Defeater of Terrorists?" Another guy says "Oh, sorry, he went to lunch."
At this point I'm probably losing lucidity, and see the remains of a nice-looking lunch of some acquaintences seated at the table next to me, some young boys who say "I hope he calls again." I pick up a single small bit of bacon from his plate and eat it, it's delicious...and wake up