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    1. The Tree College

      by , 08-30-2013 at 11:05 AM (My Humble Collection of Somnigraphies)
      August 30 2013 - Dream Fragment #1 I remember my parents driving me into this small mall/plaza area where there were quite a few stores. A bunch of things happened that I can't seem to remember and then I remember being in a very shallow sea, maybe 2 ft deep and stretching out for as long as I could see, with some black-brown trees far, far in the horizon. I was struggling to run through this water and I eventually just swam. It was barely deep enough, but I bent my arms enough to do it. I remember getting to a waterfall and then realizing I have powers and flying up it.
    2. But songs should *change* darnit!

      by , 08-30-2013 at 08:49 AM (SilverWolf's Sleep Sessions)
      Thursday, August 29 8:00 am WBTB Induction attempt *fell asleep too soon *


      Interesting dream fragment where my mother is driving us somewhere, and the song 'lights' starts to play on the radio. (The song by Journey, not the one by Ellie Goulding). When the song is finished, I start to complain about how there is no difference between that song when it first came out, and now. I complain that there needs to be a new rendition that is different because the song is so boring (which I don't REALLY feel, so why I would say that in my dreams, I have no freaking clue, LOL). All I can remember really, is my mother and I arguing about this, as she tells me that the song is a good song and should stay the way it is, not be changed. Wish I could remember more, as this was a rather funny conversation
    3. This is why I incubate dreams. ★★★★★

      by , 08-30-2013 at 07:40 AM (Zödra)
      Starts out as a normal dream, I am sitting in a restaurant with my wife and eating. As with most dreams, things are a little off, but when you start noticing that things are off, that is when dreams get interesting, whether or not you become lucid. Green confetti starts flying out of the air vents when you pass by it. I start taking notice of it. I stare at it and realize that there isn't a way to explain it. I have a pretty good idea of physics, mechanics, electronics, and all work, so not even being able to come up with an idea of what it could be, I get a great idea! "This is a dream!" JK. That isn't what I thought. I actually thought "It has to come from a different dimension!"

      I run across all the vents and cause all of the vents to go across the dimensions. I try to think about how it works and I come across a hypothesis of crossing the dimensions and decide to try it. I jump to a different dimension and look around. Everything is just a little bit different. The styles, the ideas, the restaurant has different colors and a different menu. different people working there.

      Rules for dimensions somehow pop in my head at this point
      1- each person exists in each different dimension
      2- each person shares DNA with their "doppelganger"
      3- each person shares a soul with their "doppelganger"
      4- each person has the same relatives and will make similar life decisions (marriage, amount of kids, jobs will be similar)
      5- each person is different from the other because of the experience, but will likely pick the same choices in most situations
      6- death in each dimension is different than the other (could live to 60 in one 100 in another) unless it is by genetic diseases
      7- people understand the dimensions really easy when presented with someone from a different dimension. Don't know why.
      8- all time flows equally
      9- A killers soul is a killer soul. This can only change if they die earlier than the killing. Same for the soul of an adulterer, liar, or any others. Just one cannot turn from it since they share souls. If you kill someone in one area you will kill them in the previous
      10- each soul has a choice, but it is translated in different ways through different bodies through different dimensions.

      I jump back to my dimension and immediately decide a way to best utilize this. I take my sister and a kid to his deceased grandmother from a different dimension to say goodbye. It is in a foundry and she is living in a tent near it. In this dimension it seems like everyone lives in a tent. I tell him and my sister that I will be back in a bit. I walk around the back of the tent. What I see next freaks me out. Different dimension me! With a twist, same DNA, same soul, but it is a girl.
      "Hey!" I say, she doesn't respond but she grabs my arm and tears me to a different dimension.

      "I had to take you somewhere where only we can talk together." She says as she looks around points.
      "This is 'our dimension' isn't it?" I say as I look at the dream scene that can change at only our whim.
      "Our dream realm, we can meet here with no one else seeing, and since you have learned to jump dimensions, we can jump here without missing a beat.”
      “I've been doing it the hard way!” I say smiling, we are in a small cottage. She seems more solemn than me. Maybe something happened to her in the past. She grabs my hand and pulls me through a wall to the outside. After about 15 feet it turns into dream mush, which is weird for my normal vivid dreams.
      “What is your name?” She says.
      “Brandon ******* you know that already though. Different dimensions share names, male or female and you are obviously me, I can feel your soul better than anyone's.”
      “That isn't my name!” She says, exasperated “Every dimensions that I have found has had a dead 'Brandon ******* and I know it is me, but not my name. They have all been killed by their adopted family except me. In only my dimension I was able to live with my parents because their death switched around to some others. You have only one real sister and the two that you know are going to kill you soon.”
      “This is crazy, I grew up in a great household, they loved me, but I can't doubt myself. Can I run from them, or is it inevitable?”
      “They died early in my realm, if you can stage that in your realm without dying it could break that, or cause them to be caught and taken away, or just leave them and never see them.”

      “This is hard, what should I do?” The dream fades and she jumps from dimensions before my sister walks around the tent. I shudder.

      Awake, asleep

      I am at the zoo with my family. A zoo I saw in a movie. My sister's go ahead to a different place and I am talking to someone about taking them to see their child in a different dimension. I take them away and show them to the jungle with their child. She is still there, DD me. We jump into dream dimension and are back at the cabin.
      The same dream cabin, same weird messed up colors. This is a very stable place though.
      “I am going to run, find my younger sister. They can't find out the dimension jumping calculations without me, and I am the only one in my dimension that can do it.” I say “They won't go after you from a different dimension will they?”
      “I am the only one as well in the multiverse, what makes us different?”
      “If I knew, you would as well.” I look at her one last time and the dream fades.

      I wake up.

      Updated 10-22-2016 at 12:23 PM by 58222

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    4. Baseball Lucid Dream

      by , 08-30-2013 at 05:00 AM
      This is my first DJ post. I'm hoping people enjoy my DJ's and continue to read them ^_^

      Red - Non Lucid
      Green - Semi Lucid
      Blue - Full Lucidity

      When I appeared in the dream, I found out our school was having a game of rounders with another school. (A game similar to baseball) I was on the pitch watching my Captain Alex give us strong speeches to help us win the game. As he was playing I saw some of my friends from my other schools who I have not seen for many years. I didn't really speak to them but I just went to the toilet because I needed to wash my face.

      The toilets were incredibly clean, I had no problem walking about and there was no liquid on the floor. I went to wash my face when boom. I became lucid.


      I was so excited. I was shouting in the bathroom that I was lucid. My second lucid dream? Well, I'm going to have some fun with this one. I said to myself you are going to transform right now. But I guess there was a lot of doubt on my mind which I have to correct for my next dream. But anyways, instead of leaving the pitch I decided to head back to the pitch, speaking to my old friends for a while and getting to know them more. Then after speaking them I decided I wanted to try a tutorial on using a phone to help control your dream.
      I made a phone appear in my pocket and I was playing around with it. I was just about to download a God App when I woke up in my bed doing a weird position with my legs.
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      lucid , memorable
    5. 8/29/13 It Begins

      by , 08-30-2013 at 03:42 AM (Illuminating the Dream Realm)
      Lucid in this color.

      This is my first entry on the site. I hope this will help me succeed at least with dream recall.
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      side notes
    6. Lnd 30/8/13

      by , 08-30-2013 at 02:52 AM
      In an unknown gym, open garage front with elevated ring in centre. Sparring Carlos Condit, am a big fan and am super wrapped to be able to spar with the dude. I say im pretty novice but he says im a good novice. Both tagging eachother having fun, using the ropes to my advantage, slipping and throwing punches. (We are just boxing) He's wearing red shorts, im wearing red head gear, a track jackets and shorts. Dad jumps in and films it. We discus various aspects of martial arts, standing striking and jiu jitsu.

      Fragments: Dont get to spar Condit, both drive off.
    7. Lots of fragments

      by , 08-30-2013 at 02:50 AM (Keitorin's Dream Log)
      Fragment:

      -I zoom into a scene and see a flying character, and am able to make out that she’s carrying another female character. Apparently it’s a scene in ‘the new episode’. After watching it, I feel like I had already seen it before.

      -Someone asking me if I’ve ‘seen the new episode (yet)’
      - Someone calling the flying girls ‘old people’
      -Think I remember seeing Greek columns in the scenery.

      Possible inspiration: Me telling Pillywiggin that I need to watch the new episode of Free!.

      Fragments:

      -A community living off limited resources

      -Image in my head of three Inazuma Eleven characters standing next to each other, maybe performing a hissatsu technique together.
      - The phrase ‘Running away from the ball’.

      Fragments:

      1) Like three people transform into one thing into another and back? ‘I’ was talking on the phone to a man, but when I went to see him in person, it was a small black woman, and I called her out on it.

      2) Me, Rane and her ex chilling in a bed, it was kind of awkward.

      3) Looking at books in a library with a boy, there are some manga as well. I casually steal one so he can’t see, because I know he won’t like me doing it. In another section, I notice that someone didn’t sort a few manga right, one of them is a Bleach volume.


      Notes:

      I had four dreams yesterday but they were mostly fragments/confusing.

      Immorality is definitely going back on my list as a dream sign. n_n

      I think deja vu is making a comeback in my dreams again as well.

      Updated 08-30-2013 at 04:18 AM by 20026

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      side notes , non-lucid , dream fragment
    8. Recall, Forgot and Remember

      by , 08-30-2013 at 02:06 AM
      Last night was weird. Went to bed early and stop using my lap two hours before. Had three dreams, all in different time sections. But it seems that all three were about traveling. After waking up I recall two of them, but then I forgot. I was completely blind, the more I try to recall them I couldn't. Then I put my mind on getting ready for work and just like that I remembered the two dreams.... plus another one I had but didn't remember when i recall the first time.
    9. 29th Aug 2013 Fragments

      by , 08-30-2013 at 12:37 AM (Scionox's Journal of Dreams)
      Dream 1(fragments):

      I was playing some video game and there was something about dragons, then i talked to MC and game turned to be more like spiral knights.

      Dream 2(fragments):

      I was at some place with trenches and wooden barricades.
    10. 29/08/2013

      by , 08-29-2013 at 11:13 PM (LucasPotter's DJ)
      A few weird dreams/fragments...

      First, aliens were invading the planet. They came through this weird, purple tornado-ish tube thing. Nobody cared all that much, really. In fact, I was more worried about sending a friend a message on FB because we agreed to see each other on Friday (in real life), and I wanted to make sure she hadn't forgotten.

      Then, a dream. We were having a family dinner at what looked like the apartment we used to live before we moved to our current house. It's not really that apartment, it's the dream version of it (it always looks somewhat the same). Anyway, it was a birthday dinner for my mother. She had gone to the kitchen to get the cake when my grandmother (my dad's mother) spilled coffee on the table and on the floor. My dad was all "I can handle this!" and he did... by throwing his wine glass all over it.

      My mum came back from the kitchen (...without the cake), looked at the mess and was like "what happened here!?" We all laughed cause she was obviously fake-mad. Except that she wasn't. She lost it and started shouting "THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A GOOD NIGHT FOR ME AND YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!!! LOOK AT THIS!!! LOOK AT THE TOWELS!!! THEY'RE STAINED AND THEY'RE EXPENSIVE AND NOW I LOST THEM ALL!!!" I looked at what she was talking about and my dad had found some tiny towels that people leave in the bathroom to dry your hands and he put them all over the coffee/wine stains.

      My mum kicked everyone out.

      Then another fragment... I was living in a weird world where people made experiments to other people. I don't remember much, but I remember that two professors of mine were trapped on the floor and they had their feet burnt. It was all very sick.
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    11. Spiritual warnings

      by , 08-29-2013 at 10:28 PM
      I was looking for a spot to build kinda like in mc and when my fried bryan and i finally found a spot we took it and started to clear off the trees. as soon as we where almost done with that my friend grant comes over and says (he does not like you here" i knew he was talking about a spirit because he is always trying to astral project and i figued he had just been communicated with the spirits near by so my friend grant told me to leave and i did so asap to avoid the wrath of a spirit. I remember just of feeling of shear terror. so my friend bryan and i moved on as quickly as possible.
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      non-lucid
    12. Unknown ET who became my friend and protector

      by , 08-29-2013 at 10:27 PM
      It started off with me and a few other people (some of them I think I knew) investigating a secluded woodland area that seemed to be way at the back of the woods. They were all standing around something, either talking about or to it. I came forward to see. I was shocked to discover that it was a small, green-skinned alien (or at least I think it was an alien) with large, childishly curious yellow/green eyes. His attention was fixed solely on me. This scared me more than anything. I turned and began to run. It didn't seemed to matter how fast I ran, every time I turned around it was there, staring at me with that same curious expression. I continued to run but as I did I heard someone say that it didn't matter how much I ran it would always find me. He seemed friendly enough but I was still deathly afraid. Despite what I was told, I still kept running. I had to climb over a stack of chopped down trees. I remember that despite my fear I was impressed at how flawlessly I ran along this large tree trunk. I felt as though my lack of clumsiness came from how desperate I was to get away from this thing. I don't remember in detail, exactly what happened after that, but I knew what happened. There was a brief period where he seemed to have left me alone. Then one day I was walking out of a small building with a white roof that was next to a large wooded area with tall trees. I was walking along a path that led from the building towards a wired fence. When I was far enough away from the building, he showed up at my side. By this point I had the vague sensation that he had been pursuing me for a while and that I had deemed him not a threat, but was still wary-until now. This time when I saw him he had changed form completely. Now he was tall, lean and muscular with fair skin and even fairer blonde/white hair. He was wearing army pants and a white vest. This was the first time I'd seen him this way and I liked it. I certainly felt a lot more comfortable around him, in fact I think I was beginning to return his affection. He wanted to show me his spaceship, which was nearby. On the way he picked me up and put me on his shoulder (which I enjoyed). He and I started talking about me going with him to his home planet. After that things became a bit of a blur again. The next bit I remember was the second most frightening. It was late in the afternoon and I was outside my house when a mob descended towards my house. When I say a mob I think it may have been the entire town. I think they may have been carrying lit torches. For a moment I felt completely alone and then suddenly I was on top of my neighbors house and he was with me. It was at this point I realized not only could he turn invisible but he could also fly. I was scared for my family and convinced him we should lead the mob away, so he picked me up in his arms and away we went. Once again things became a bit blurry except I knew we were on the run. Then we were at this shopping mall that me and my family have been going to for years. We were sneaking through. I was tucked under his arm as he jumped from shelf to shelf, keeping us both invisible. In the parking lot I saw my parents next to a moving truck. I was overjoyed to see them. I think we had just run into them by accident. It was a bright and sunny day. We sat in the back of the truck, me and him. I remember the texture of the wood. It was old and faded with lot's of lines in it. I also noticed that there weren't that many boxes. I learnt from my family that they had had to leave in a hurry. After some complaints from my sister, I managed to convince him to go back to my house to collect the rest of our things. He agreed. I figured it would be the last place people would think to look. He flew us back there under the cloak of invisibility. Once there I grabbed as many things as I could. I felt bad for him, not only would he be having to carry me and keep me invisible, but also the stuff I would be carrying. I'd managed to grab quite a few things when once again a mob showed up, only this time as it was the daylight hours there were no lit torches. We managed to get out of there with the stuff but it was tough. Once we were at my families new house, I was taken back by how idyllic it was. It was made entirely out of wood, though several interior rooms and the garden looked just like our old ones. It was after seeing how my family had managed to rebuild their lives in my abscence that I realized I no longer had a place in their lives. It was when a visiting maid nearly saw me that I decided to go back with my alien friend to his home planet. The last part of the dream was us flying towards the sky, passing some trees on the way. As we got higher, a giant cloud in the shape of the titanic (or a ship like that) came into view, making me wonder if we were heading towards an alternate or parallel universe. That was when the dream ended. When I woke up, my throat was dry, my temples were pounding, my chest hurt, every muscle in my body was sore and I was sweating. I have seen him again in my dreams, four times. The first three times he was in human form, the forth time he was in reptilian form. These were only fleeting moments though, but I know it was him. I never found out his name.
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      nightmare
    13. The (al)most of it

      by , 08-29-2013 at 10:02 PM
      Pre bed: 200mg valerian

      Total sleep time: 5 1/2hrs, external factors, very tired

      Early fragment: many iPhones

      Early fragment: I am talking to someone about how I'm about to ld

      Woken up, WBTB, insomnia

      Fragment: some sort of toy head that is spinning in the water

      LD fragment: I am in our old place and see lots of people on the stairs, including an older lady who passed away years ago. After seeing her, it dawns on me that it's a dream. I make a sound to acknowledge the fact that I recognize her as a dream sign (also for the first time!). Not sure if I said something or not to her or others there, but I head down the stairs and exit the building. I think about visiting my friend but this time decide to go to his work since it's really close.

      I am on the street now, but feel that the dream is starting to destabilize, so take a moment to fix that. I remember the behave as if real life, but can't figure out how to apply this at the moment. Instead, I turn back to where the fence is and start touching the stone, feeling the surface. It doesn't do the trick and I feel I have very little time left so I just observe whatever is in front of me as I see and feel the dream as if made of liquid energy (same image but like underwater) being gently sucked in an unknown direction until it turns to a light feeling in my head and I find myself in bed.
      .

      DEILD: I remain still and fall asleep more from being tired than from trying to DEILD. Yet, I end up in an ld that I unfortunately no longer can recall. Not very nice but it happens.

      LD: After the previous dream fades, I find myself in darkness, but it's actually a room. It takes a while but then I can see just a bit better to orientate myself, confirm by the feel of it that this is a dream and that I am in our place. I am slightly amazed since I don't get many lds here. I go to the living room and decide I will phase out the window and press myself against it. However, it feels way too solid, I know I can do it and refuse to believe it's not working so push myself forward. Nothing. I become confused, thinking I may actually be sleepwalking around the house. I decide to go out the good old fashioned way - through the door. I am thinking about doing a quick review of the dreams so that I don't forget. A guy appears in front of me, sitting on the couch. He is quite a good mirror of my thoughts and emotions. Initially, he looks menacing, but as I contemplate what to do here and have a moment of sexy thoughts, he immediately becomes more appealing, making gestures with his hands "come here". Then I tell myself to calm down, inhale exhale metaphorically, sit and relax and he stares at me neutrally.

      I am thinking something about the previous dream and wonder if I have performed some tricks to enhance this dream's stability. I wonder if I tried to go to bed in the dream as a way to change the scene and since I feel kind of stuck here, I decide that I will try to do that now. As I go to sleep, the guy lies behind me, pretending he is falling asleep too. I fidget way too much, also get a few moments of are my eyes open or closed, and don't try to open them, until I finally succeed to move my physical leg and wake up.


      I woke up but couldn't takes notes on time as I involuntarily fell asleep again.

      Updated 08-29-2013 at 10:09 PM by 61764

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      lucid , non-lucid , dream fragment
    14. Adventure date vs the linear guild

      by , 08-29-2013 at 08:33 PM
      I was walking around in a city with a girl (that I know IRL), we were friends and had decided to go exploring. But it eventually became more of an adventure date.

      I remember us walking across this huge dark concrete bridge, seeing skyscrapers in the distance.

      We passed by a small trapdoor that read "XS (as in extra small) storage". The girl shuddered and explained she once had to hide in one of these that was on a train. She had done that since she didn't had a ticket, she said it was horribly crammed and one of her worst experiences ever.

      We walked across the bridge and ended up walking past an old abandoned mining complex. We decided to explore it, even though we knew it was illegal, and climbed across the fence that surrounded it. The place were painter mostly in grey, and with large 2-3 storage buildings. I remember the terrain was that of a desert.

      But when I entered there I ran into Nale, from the linear guild! It is a fictional character from a online comic called "order of the stick". We talked about something, and it ended with him attacking and killing me while I was trying to protect the girl.

      But then I loaded a previous save and returned to the point when I just met Nale! For some reason I saw the world with an UI like Dragon age 2! (probably because I was playing the game the entire other day :p) Like in DA 2 I got several choices of what to do, and I managed to choose the one that allowed me to talk my way through the situation. I don't remember what I said, but he replied "well played!" and summoned me to follow him into the building. He then called for Thog, another member of the linear guild, and he came. He was grumpy and complaining and pushed past all of us.
    15. School, Dale, and the Political Convention (minor lucid)

      by , 08-29-2013 at 08:01 PM
      08-29-2013 -- [Short dream with not too much to it, that turned out to be quite detailed and long.] Something about cats, other animals, and possibly digging holes in the back yard at the Hickory house. Something else about BC being around. Then I find myself in a classroom setting. It feels very like a high school class, though the teacher is Julie Davey. No idea what the subject is. I've just finished a test of some sort, and it seemed somewhat quick and simple. I seem to be spending the time afterward brainstorming some fiction writing or something, perhaps a Victor story, when Julie comes by for my test, surprised I am done so quickly.

      I explain I think I did quite well, and she agrees, knowing how I always seem to test pretty well, and I start rummaging through my things until I come across the newspaper clipping we were supposed to be reviewing after the test. Glancing at the picture, wondering what it is about, I see almost a full-size model of a rocket, made out of huge balloons, and am thinking how I've made a similar ship out of a 160 and a bee body many times.

      Julie looks at the clock, and it is just a couple of minutes before 5:30, so she tells us to start gathering our things, and get back to a more usual seating arrangement than the random groupings we'd been in. I end up sitting next to a cute blonde, waiting for the last couple of minutes to end, and we somehow seem to be talking about how about half the class had left at 1:30. Perhaps it was an optional class or something.

      Class is soon over, and I find myself approaching Dale's house. I almost seem to be floating over the Nabisco plant to reach his driveway. (Considering later in the dream I am lucid and do some flying, perhaps I was flying here, as well.) I am driving a car, but as I approach their driveway, I remember something about them repaving it, and I walk up carrying my motorcycle, trying to get it on the strip of grass next to the paved driveway, where all their cars are parked, right now. (In real life, that strip of grass is at most a foot and a half wide.)

      I find myself passing three animals that seem to look a lot like wolves, and I am a little worried, but not much. Then they shift and sit up, then start to hop off, and I realize they aren't wolves, but kangaroos, and wonder what the heck they are doing in Buena Park? Somehow I seem to be soaked, so I am taking off my pants and shirt and dropping them on the cycle, and wrapping myself in a big gray towel. About that time, Kevin wanders out of the house, says a couple of sentences of what seems to be gibberish, and then climbs in a car and drives off, which worries me. (He's not allowed to drive.)

      I open the door to the house and walk in, only thinking about what I might walk into to barging into somebody else's house without knocking after I get inside, so I kind of bashfully knock on the wall. Fred and Betty are in the living room, and they don't seem to have minded my walking right in. I spot odd movement on the floor, and find myself looking at an odd white and pink puppy that seems to be a cross between a bijon and a poodle, though the coloring looks like some of the white and pink snakes I saw pictures of on the internet a few months ago. Soon I see two more wiggling out from under the blank. I ask Betty "You got new dogs?", kind of surprised. She tells me they don't know if they will keep them.

      I have brought a cheap pizza with me, and open the refrigerator to put it in there, and see they have maybe 3/4 of a huge 26 inch party pizza from Ciro's sitting in there, pepperoni and sausage. Wish I'd known ... I wouldn't have bothered with the lousy one I got. I'm thinking I have to see if I can snag a couple of slices. Meanwhile, I am trying to find Dale, so I walk a few feet down the corridor to his room, but when I glance inside, he has a couple of girls in there, with him. [Not doing anything wrong ... this isn't that kind of dream.] I'm thinking about razzing him about it, until I realize I am still walking around wrapped in a towel, and decide I had better get some clothes on. It seems today is a big ball game of some sort, and they have a lot of people over to see it.

      I walk outside, wanting to get my clothes, but somehow the area has changed a little, and I have to climb a fence (like we were going to visit Bertha) to get back to where my motorcycle is parked, I finally find it, and grab my blue shirt and start putting it on, just to discover I am putting it on over the top of another one. Somehow a shirt and pants just appeared on my body, and I realize I am dreaming. I try to hop the fence back to Dale's, but somehow I seem to be being pulled in the opposite direction. So I leap up and try to fly, and manage the flying, but am getting sucked at high speed toward what was the Nabisco plant. I go crashing through a wall, and find myself standing in a room surrounded by people.

      It seems I have somehow been kind of summoned, as I am now surrounded by lots of people, and they have called me to be a candidate, as they try to figure who they want as their candidate for president. There are a bunch of other candidates as well, and they are talking to people, making speeches, and all of them are holding on to their wives. Every one. I look around and see an attractive blonde (she kind of looks like Reese Witherspoon) watching everything, and I grab her and pull her to me, just kind of joking around. She turns to tell me off, and our eyes meet, and wow! It's like we suddenly know everything about each other. Her head kind of tilts to the side as she studies me, and a small grin starts to form on her face before I lean in and give her a gentle kiss, then wrap my arm around her shoulder. We're now a couple, and very happy to have found each other.

      But she is working here, and has things to do, so I have to let her go for a time. The others and I are writing speeches and songs or something, and I am singing a little ditty I've been working on. It's not fabulous, but it's not too bad, either. But one of the others makes a really nasty comment about it. I turn to him, ready to rip into his song, but I don't really want to run that kind of a campaign, so I have to settle for simply telling him his needs some work, too. Besides, I don't really have all that much interest in singing some kind of political song. Instead, I decide I want to sing to my new love, and am trying to remember the words to a song I wrote about 18 years ago called Love with Me. In waking life I can remember it fine, but in the dream, it was a struggle. Meanwhile, I have no voice, so I am not going to be able to sing well, but I hope the words (and the fact that I wrote it) will still have meaning to her.

      Dale is here, as well, and we are wandering around the convention, and for some reason I am carrying a fire hose with me, though it isn't spraying. We're just approaching a stadium, and preparing to look for seats, and I am wondering just how much length this hose has, as I've dragged it a pretty far distance by this time. My new girlfriend shows up, and I drape my arm around her shoulder, lean my head against her, and just relax in the wonderful feeling of having her there next to me.