marnie

Yesterday I decided to learn how to lucid dream, so here's my first attempt at simply remembering my dreams. I'm actually surprised about how much I remembered, but I suppose it was because i was writing on a notepad through the night. I'm obviously no where near lucid dreaming, but here we go.

Falling asleep was really weird for me last night. I'd get very vivid images in my head before I was entirely asleep and I'd write some of them down, but others I'd just keep falling deeper into sleep, then a couple times I got those jerks that feel like you're falling. I know that has a name, but I can't think of what it is.

Here's a few dreams and fragments:
A drawn face that looked like the mad tv kid, on the front of an oregon trail style wagon.
Walking down a sidewalk on a very bright day, grass on both sides, that seemed to stretch forward forever.
I was on a boat, for some reason I think it was the titanic, with two people from when I was younger. One boy I was friends with when I was 15, and a girl that I went to kindergarten with and see on the bus, but never talk to. It was dark, except for a strong yellow light, almost like a light on a set.
My sixteen year old sister announced that she is legally able to drink alcohol. We had a lot of beer in the my parent's kitchen, and they were asleep. I thought, "ew, lager." she was chugging and i grabbed a bright yellow beer with the word lemon on it. I spilled it by the kitchen door, which was open.
I saw cartoon mice very briefly, reminiscent of old school disney.

This was the doozy for the night-
I dreamed I was visiting my aunt in Tacoma (who actually lives in Puyallup). My two sisters kept shifting- one minute I was with my 10 year old sister, next she was my 16 year old sister. We were trying to find something to do to pass time. We decided to go to a place called Tacoma Land, which was apparently a bunch of roller coasters over a swamp. Shift to my best friend's apt. It doesn't look anything like her actual place- it is carpeted and decorated with lots of mirrors, and is very clean. We're throwing a party, but I don't see anyone except my two best friends. The skunk that is always outside her place was wandering through the halls- it looked more like a black persian cat than a skunk but it was spraying like crazy. I'm at the table with my mom and a boy I went to high school with who made fun of me. My mom is drunk and he is being nice to me. Everyone except for him and myself went to another party downstairs. He says he thinks I'm cool, but that my mom is a profanity that i don't remember. i think he said bitch, maybe? I went behind a bunk bed to a random toilet to go to the bathroom. There's pee on the floor, and a girl tries to walk over, I tell her to leave, I'm using the bathroom. She was wearing navy blue clothes of a canvas-y material and either has short hair or it is in a ponytail. She is completely silent, and I think that she is a mime. I dodge the skunk and go to my own apartment upstairs. It's furnished similar to a hotel and I think that it was nice of the apartment manager to furnish it for me. I walk to my bedroom and there is a sliding door with a patio. I see tibetan prayer flags and walk outside. The grass is dead, and my yard has a perimeter of flags. These are triangular, not prayer flags, but they are the same color. There are a lot of neighbors outside the perimeter and they look, for lack of a better word, like hicks. I stand near them and stare but don't say anything and they don't say anything back. I try to pet one of their many dogs, but it walks away. I try to walk inside, but suddenly the neighbors are angry and chase me inside, the leader looked like annette benning. They trash my place, and open my mini fridge, which has lots of food, but the only thing i recognize is hummus. She is yelling at me for not introducing myself, she wraps her hand around my neck and puts me into a trance- i remember seeing a piece of paper explaining exactly what was happening to me, but I don't remember what it said except there was a pencil drawing of someone being choked. She jammed her leg between my legs and i fell to the ground and woke up.