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February 8, 2011
Lucid Dream 177: Dark Streets
Series: Meiseki na Yume, Episode 1
around 10:00am
DILD

Category - Exploration


I was in a room planning strategy with several people from the anime, Blood+. We were discussing ways to kill Diva (a queen chiropteran from the anime). Saya was in the room with us, as well as Haji, David, Kai, and Lewis. Suddenly, the door burst open and James "Ironsides" walked in. He stated that he wasn't there for blood, but there to give a warning. He said, "If you pursue Diva, you will all die. However, if you turn Saya over now...your names will be forgotten." I laughed and began making fun of James. I was trying to provoke the evil within him. He also wanted to acquire a large dresser that was in the room with us. It was a vanishing cabinet (like the ones from Harry Potter). He walked up and knocked on it to see if it was hollow. I laughed again and started talking shit. His eyes glowed red with fury, and he stormed out claiming we made a fatal decision. We got back to strategy talks. I was getting bored so I started molding balloons. I was slowly forming faces out of the balloon with my hands. I made a few and then started making a Mega Man face. I looked away at one point and when I looked back, the Mega Man face had changed into a Washington Redskins helmet. I performed a RC and became lucid.

I stood up, turned, and dove headfirst out of the window, taking flight in the process. I was flying over a city. It was dark outside and I heard voices from behind telling me to wait. Saya and a few of the others had apparently became lucid as well. I landed and we all began free-running (parkour). The city was dark and there weren't many street lights. I noticed there were many owls flying around in the city and a lot of homeless people. Several times I performed tricks/stunts over sleeping homeless people. After running around the city for a while, I spotted a chiropteran (human/bat monster hyrid). Me and Saya began battling chiropterans in throughout the city. I cut several of their heads off and Saya finished them off with her blood (her blood is lethal to them). We entered a building and began exploring a crawl space/ventilation duct. I came upon an alternate vent and entered it. The others told me I was going the wrong way, but I ignored them. There was sunlight coming through the vent up ahead. I came to the end of the vent and it opened up onto a beach. I stood on the sand and felt the wind blowing across my face. I could smell the saltwater and even heard/saw several seagulls flying above me. It was a beautiful site indeed. I felt myself waking up, so I immediately prepared to DEILD...

Series Details
"Meiseki na Yume" is Japanese for, "Lucid Dream." In this series, I take my passion for anime and combine it with my passion for lucid dreaming. Join me as I explore the world of anime the best way I know how, in my dreams! Stay tuned for more entries to the series!

I had this dream 3 times in the past. Recently, my dreams have gotten a bit boring so I figured I'd mention this dream that happened 3 times in the past few years. The last one is even more memorable.

My husband is driving the car with me and he takes a wrong turn. He turns into a tunnel of some sort, very dark. It is only at the last few seconds that I realize he has turned into a train tunnel and the train is headed full speed for us! The first two dreams, I woke when the train hit. This time, I screamed "BACK UP!"

I see it coming. It has a light. It is black. There is no way that my husband can back out and I know I'm going to die. I don't look away and then... BAM! it hits! Everything went dark but not my awareness. Everything was gone and all was quiet. In the darkness I woke myself asking, "Am I dead?"

Dream Type- Normal

This dream took place in a sort of hybrid location- what appeared to the hinterlands surrounding my home town but containing architecture similar to what you would find in the poorer districts of Rio De Janeiro. I wandered the streets of this location for awhile before spotting a gift shop. Somehow I managed to shoot the owner of the store when he came out to tell me that I couldn't come in. I instantly felt terrible about murdering the man from a mixture of fear of being caught and also the fact that I had committed murder. And some point in the dream I did feel like turning myself in (this guilty feeling followed me throughout the dream from this point). I entered the gift shop and began to look around at it. I remember vividly that it contained multiple shelves holding t shirts. Each wall bar one had a window, at several points I would run to the window and look out, perhaps fearful of approaching police. I began to obsess over a particular pile of t shirts on one of the shelves. The shirts were all pertaining to my home state of Tasmania. None of them grabbed my interest. By this point a large crowd had gathered over the body of the owner, but once I approached them I realized all they wanted was to come in and shop. I allowed a few people in, three girls I believe. One of them had a tape player. She sat in the corner and started to play it some Ryan Adams. I instantly recognized the song and pointed this out to her. We discussed the good points of Ryan Adams music for awhile. I even made a quip about how people confused him for the horrifyingly more incompetent Bryan Adams. At this point I decided to exit the shop, past the growing crowd of people.

I made my way through the slum like areas of the town with the intention of finding a bus and making my way home. Still the guilt of my murder followed me. I progressed upwards through the streets, eventually making my way up to a mountainous pass. I realized at this point that I had gone the wrong way. When I looked out I could see city of the gold coast in the distance, with its distinctive skyline. I turned around and began to run back through the slum areas. At this point I awoke.

Interesting points: The immense feeling of guilt is something that I can still recall now as I write this. Makes me kind of pleased to know I don't enjoy murdering folk. However there was a slight foggy notion of everything being okay as I was in the dream- like somehow I was slowly becoming aware that I hadn't actually commited a murder. At some points I even remember thinking 'It will be alright, you wont get caught, I am certain'. I now believe that this sort of immune feeling to what I had done was a semi-attempt at my brain realizing the falseness of my scenario. I have notice that recently I have become more logical in my dreams, even when not lucid.

I have only had 3-4 dreams with my (possible) dream sign. I keep seeing a girl(of various age) in my dreams. I first saw her in a non-lucid dream. she was just standing in my back yard looking at me. as soon as I saw her i stopped and began to feel vivid. I just ran away from her and continued nonlucid dreaming.
the second time I saw her, she was trapped inside a complex safe located in the middle of my back yard and I was frantically trying to save her before she ran out of air. I failed to save her and dream ends with me sobbing over the safe.
the next time a saw her was the first time I became lucid. I walked into my room and found her sitting at my computer desk, and she just looked at me. I imediately turned around to look at the other rooms and realized everything seemed off and I became lucid. she disappeared after I went lucid.
the next time I saw her I was already lucid. she was older than before(around 16-18). she was soaking wet(because it was raining in my dream), sitting on the floor in the center of an open hut, at night time. I walked up to her and as focused on engaging her, I wake up.
im unsure why I have trouble talking to her, I don't think she resembles any person I know in reality.

When it started out, I was with my friends Abby and Heidi (plus a bunch others, but I don't remember who). We were on a school field trip, and I don't even remember what happened but Abby did something to deeply betray me. Heidi took her side of the argument, and I was angry at the both of them throughout the duration of the dream.
On our field trip, we went to this dojo/nursing home thing, and we went to the pool area. Suddenly, a bunch of old guys wearing bathrobes shot up from the water and started doing synchronized swimming. Really ninja synchronized swimming. If it weren't synchronized swimming, it would have been really cool. In the dream I was really impressed, but when I woke up I was laughing at myself for having such a strange dream.

people in dream: me, josh, heather, formen from House(dont know why he was there at all. he didnt do much), and swarms of zombies(or locust)
in the dream the zombies weren't really zombies, they were more like the locust from gears of war but with skinnier bodies and no guns(but still smarter than a zombie).



dream starts with me in a small circle of my friends(josh, heather, and the formen from House) talking about what we are going to do to survive a zombie outbreak. there are about 20 other random people we are trying to lead to safety. we find a large dump truck and fill the back with the 20 random people and we get into the cab of the truck. we drive into a city and every building is a skyscraper(in third person view above the truck). ALL of the buildings have flames spewing out of the windows and zombies are jumping out of the windows trying to attack us. there were millions of zombies jumping out and on the streets. we turned left and then made a right(trying to avoid the swarms of zombies on the street). as soon as we turned right a building collapses onto the road. we turn left as a last option and see more zombies running down the road. another building had already collapsed to our right and there was a giant crater filled with debris and flames. we drove off the road into the crater. we smashed threw all the debris to a lower floor. the 20 people we were trying to save were stuck in the truck and the swarm of zombies got them. so we 4 were left. everything was covered in debris and flames except for an apartment hallway. we ran down the hallway and the hallway started to look like the hallway in my house. i opened the door to my room and we all hid inside. i held the door shut while the zombies tried to break in. the others were trying to find another way out of the room. there was a window but it lead to my front yard and the zombies were still out there. the other 3 covered the window and i held the door shut. this lasted for several hours, until the next morning(dream fast forwarded). after waiting out so long, the zombies broke up and most all of them left. I could still sense that one of them was outside the door waiting for me. so i grabbed a pencil, opened the door, and stabbed it in the eye. we tried to be quiet to not get any of the zombies' attention. we sneaked into the back room of my house to exit threw the window leading to my backyard. formen(from House) decided to jump threw the window in my living room leading to the front yard(he probably got caught). we walked up to the window in the back of my house and we could hear zombies in the front of the house coming towards us. we knew we would be safe if we ran out to my back yard because there is an open field and no zombies. we all climbed out the window and the dream ended as soon as my feet touched the ground.


side notes:
actually survived a nightmare(can't remember any other times this has happened), and I did so with my friends still alive and with me.
after waking up I felt amazed that I actually survived a nightmare. every other time I deal with swarms of scary things I always die and wake up.

Vague dream

I had a dream where I saw both of my dead grandmothers at my house.... Remember talking with them a bit, also my grandpa was there. Something about going to the cheapest store to buy the right thing.... IDK


Apocalyptic dream

I was at another dream house that seemed to mine. But it was somewhere in LA California. I was with some people and I looked out the window and saw several Suns in the daytime sky. They were oval shaped suns... It looked amazing. Also there were several different moons in the sky. Many of them looked the same so I was wondering if there was some weird reflection phenomena in the sky that was causing this look. I was talking to people about it in the room and also noticed how bright everything seemed to be. I also remember thinking that I'd seen stuff like this in dreams before... but never clued in that it was actually a dream.

Next I looked over some houses and saw a miniature mushroom cloud that seemed to be spinning toward me. Then I saw another mushroom cloud which was much bigger behind it. I knew that the city would get nuked soon so i just sat against a wall waiting for the end.

elevator

I was with Scott and kept trying to enter this elevator. When I got inside it kept bouncing between the floors and never actually stayed at one floor for me to leave. It was fun at first but then it turned frustrating.

Sam's soul

I was floating in space carrying Sam's soul. I saw a haze of the Andromeda galaxy up ahead and decided to fly towards it. (today I saw a youtube video with a spiral galaxy that looked exactly like what I saw in the dream)

I was flying and flying and suddenly I was in that galaxy on a planet and talking to aliens. They anylised Sam's soul and said that she had downloaded the wrong software program into her soul.

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Previous to this where various other unimportant dreams.

Nonlucid
I was seated at a table, a man was on the other side and I the other. I was being asked by him selling some kind of insurance what kinds I wanted. This scenario reminded me of something just like it [I did have this same "kind of" dream the other night but the guy was hiring me for something]. Then he said, "well with this you could have double indemnity and life insurance too." I thought that life insurance isn't health insurance and who is this guy anyways. This realization caused me to pull out of the dream and woke me up. I didn't move at all and pictured the same thing happening but this time I was going to find out what was behind the veil that covers us from the knowledge of dreaming.
Soon I was back at the table and he was still rattling off insurance terms and questions. When he took a breath I asked him "where were you before you came here?" He looked like he was thinking but couldn't remember and he was a bit disturb by this. "How did you get here?" He turned his head thinking on this new puzzle yet still not knowing. "Where did you park your car?" He sat back in the chair a little worried and dumbfounded that he couldn't remember such simple questions.
These are the sorts of RC questions that I should have been asking myself to see if I was in a dream.

Went to my friends house (S) with another friend (J) I checked out his house, it was pretty small, the kitchen was connected to the lounge and to the right was the backyard. To the right of the sliding door to the backyard was another door to a bedroom, to the right of that was a tv. Opposite was a couch, (J) was sitting there I sat next to him and saw he was on his iPhone. I pulled out an iPad it was just a white screen though :/

We go outside and see his dad, they go into a garbage truck and drive off, I try to keep up but no luck it turns left - I see an alleyway I could use to catch up to it but two ladies with dogs were blocking my path.

My brother bought a small tablet?

We are in a mechanical room that has metal walls, gears pistons, steam and large chunks of wall moving around.

I was shooting a guy on top of a roof he had body armor I almost killed him when it changed to another scene, something about stealing blood from a 60 year old? Random :/

My dreams are getting more vivid and i'm remembering more and more each time. Still no lucidity but I'll get there soon enough.

I had taken a nap earlier in the night and I had a short dream where I was in the lounge with the loungeables. I remember the room being much bigger and having huge windows but I dont recognize the strangeness of it in the dream. I'm talking to them and B (i think) has to leave so he stands on his chair and suddenly shoots up through the roof like a rocket. He has the power to fly. I wonder if I can do the same. I stand on my chair and suddenly feel lighter as if I'm moving up. I turn around and its just sean tipping the chair and messing with me.

Then D brings a bag of strawberry ice cream into the room. Not a box, a bag. Its pink and white, has the consistency of cotton candy, and is absolutely delicious. I remember the ice cream more vividly than anything. Everyone claws away at it and S criticizes me for having too much.

Later last night when I actually went to sleep, I had some other interesting dreams.

One involved getting a ticket from a cop with my dad in the car while driving around rt 130. Apparantly it is even worse than my reckless driving ticket and we have to walk with the cop through some mythical forest to get to the police station. I most specifically remember a big wooden door in what felt like a treehouse with plant life growing all over it.

Later on I believe we are in some sort of video game. It seems to be me and the lounge people in what looks like a shooter. We keep replaying this one level where some tall mafia guy who we call don (and act like he's don pfirman even though he looks nothing like him) comes down in an elevator with a bunch of thugs and shoots everyone up with a machine gun. After failing a couple times I realize a giant tank up against the wall can be used. I get in the tank (which apparantly has flame throwers mounted on it) and when the elevator comes down I run the tank INTO the elevator (its very roomy in there) and more or less crush everyone. We win, everyone's happy. That's all I can remember.

Non-dream Non-lucid Lucid

I am sitting next to a girl, and I'm looking down at the floor. She says:

"I hear you're a really passionate kisser?"

So I think, hey why not? I move in to kiss her, but for some reason I'm really nervous. Although she is extremely beautiful, although I don't recognise her. We kiss, but she backs away.

"No, not like that"

It's pretty obvious that it wasn't what she was hoping for, and she looks down at the ground. I lift her chin up, and move in again, all nerves gone. But then I wake up.

My dream recall's getting worse and worse these days, getting up at 4:30 in the morning doesn't help.

Dream 1:
I'm at my friend's house(who apparently in the dream is rich). His den is very shiny and white. On a table in the den are around a hundred copies of "Game Informer." Each of them says that there are 66 free games inside.

"Wow, your dad has all these games?" I ask my friend.

"Yeah." He tells me. We go into his room and start to play some xbox. Then everything fades out and I wake up, and go right back to bed.

Dream 2:
I meet my friend (for some reason in the dream his name is Apilde) in the hospital. I ask him what happened to him.

He starts to have a flashback, which is strangely enough all in anime.

What happened to him was, some punk or something, shot a grenade launcher at his feet (he said it was a hollow point grenade). It blew off his clothes and everyone else's clothes too. Everyone had to run across the street to get underwear from the underwear shop (wow I can't believe I'm actually saying this). When everyone got their underwear Apilde went over to get some too. He found a hate message about him in there. Everyone in the class blamed poor Apilde for the attack. Then he went to the hospital.

(I almost became lucid here because I contemplated that hollow point grenades don't exist, but I brushed it off quickly after).

Afterward I left him to go do other things.

I'm in the hallway of my apartment building now. Apparently most of my friends live here now. We all chill out at one place for a bit, but then quickly transition to another apartment. But the person who owned the other apartment only allowed a certain amount of people and didn't let me in.

There's a scene change. I'm at some sort of friendly sports game, the kind that you play if you ever go to summer camp. But these people are of all different ages and I barely know any of them. The only game I can remember (actually I think it was the only game there) was a bicycle race.

At first I see some other people do it. One girl fell off her bike.

"You know what you need to do." One of the student coaches call out to her, apparently there's a penalty game.

The coach walks up to the girl and they both start making out (my kind of sports games!).

I decide I want to go on the next race. What I find out quickly is that if you anger one of the coaches (and sometimes they just get angry for no reason) they'll downgrade your tricycle to a unicycle. I was downgraded to unicycle very quickly.

The race begins and I'm kicking ass (apparently a unicycle is my thing) and beating everyone else. I see the finish line, then my vision gets dark, like I've closed my eyes, I cant see a thing! I try opening them and see the inside of my apartment building. I'm waking up! I shut my eyes. I can still feel and hear everything going on in the dream I just lost my sight. I try to concentrate and it comes back to me. I fall of my unicycle, theres no way I can get back on. I pick it up and run (screw the rules I'm dreaming!).

I slide down onto the finish line. I think I was third or fourth. I see my friend, Kevin. I go up to him (oh yeah, it's winter now for some reason). While we talk about stuff I see a sign with Apilde's name on it. It says he came in 10th place (he never even participated but okay!). It brings a smile to my face. Then I remember something. I was waking up a second ago! I'm dreaming! I tell Kevin.

"Hey Kevin, you know this is a dream right?" I ask him.

"What?"

"Yeah this is dream."

"That's not possible."

"Why not?" I ask.

"If this is a dream, then why am I dreaming too?" (I think he means why are we in the same dream together).

I don't have the heart to tell him he's just a projection of my subconscious so I give him the benefit of the doubt and say, "I don't know." (I'm very polite to my DCs ).

We walk into his house which happens to be on the grounds. I decide to do something cool. I call to Kevin.

"Hey Kevin watch this."

I use telekinesis to close the door. I've never done it before and it feels really cool. I try to open it too but I can't get a good grip on the handle, so I just open it up and play with the door some more. (By the way, it seems that when I walked through the door I teleported to a different location. Now I'm on the first floor of my apartment building, where my friend Mansoor now lives).

One of Mansoor's relatives (relatives he doesn't have) come up to me. He pushes the door and pretends to close the door with telekinesis, trying to mock me (I should of telekinetically bitch slapped him in the face DX). I start losing lucidity at this moment. I look in the living room. There's a HORRENDOUS song playing on the tv. It was one of the worst things I've ever seen my subconscious put together. I rather not talk about it. Afterward we sit down to eat at the table. Then my cousin shows up, and I wake up.

Well telekinesis, that's new. Gotta test that out for Operation: Ghost. I tried to think about Operation: Ghost before bed, and I watched a crap ton of freddiew vids, to no avail. It seems when I become lucid I just focus on one small thing instead of the bigger picture. Oh well, it'll just take practice. But telekinesis is cool !

1st dream:
I am in some bar, celebrating a friend's birthday. I am not sure which friend because the mixture of people was so bizarre, that I can't figure out which one of my friends would know all those people. The drink menu was very strange, and I end up ordering some weird cocktail made of gin and beer. I guess I figured that since it sounded so weird, it must be decent, otherwise they wouldn't put it on the menu. Wrong. A woman who doesn't seem to like me at all in waking life was there and was being very nice to me, making all sorts of pleasant conversation. She first recognized me in the bathroom by seeing my boots from under the stall. I do wear those boots everywhere i guess.

2. I was on the front porch of my parent's old house, playing the banjo. I was getting pretty good at it and was having a lot of fun. Then a group of people I went to high school with walked up my driveway. "Hey, we heard you were sick, and we thought we'd come see how you were doing." one of them said. (I am sick with bronchitis right now in waking life, but in the dream I had no idea what they were talking about). I told them I was fine. One of them asked if I had a towel they could borrow, so I ran upstairs to get one.

3. I wandered through the park by my high school where that 15 year old girl was recently beaten to death by an unknown attacker. I felt a bit weird. I had spent my whole childhood playing in this park, but now it felt sinister, even though it was a sunny day. I heard a small laugh, and turned around to see a small baby all bundled up in the grass. No one else was in sight. I picked up the baby and carried it out to the street. There were police everywhere, many of them trying to calm down a hysterical woman. Somehow I knew she was the child's mother. I put the baby in her arms and she cried with happiness. With one hand, she unhooked a chain from around her neck and put it in my hand. There was a small gold key attached to the chain.

4. False awakening:
I could hear my roommate calling for me and I woke up (or so I thought). She stood in my doorway and asked me which tube of toothpaste was hers. I was confused because she always uses that all natural hippie toothpaste with no chemicals or whatnot. I tried to sit up to answer her, but I couldn't move. I couldn't even move my lips to speak. She kept standing in the doorway, obviously thinking i was pretending to sleep or ignoring her. I was completely paralyzed, unable to make the slightest movement or sound.

When I actually woke up I had to ask her about it, because it seemed so real.

I'm sitting on the couch in my family room and there's a few people there, I think family. I go into the kitchen and there is food all over the floor. The counter to the right is gone, or moved out of the way, and smashed food in its place. I remember distinctly two pies smashed in pie boxes. There's someone sitting at the kitchen table, and I start to clean up. No one is helping, but I think to myself, someone's gotta do it!

From now on my dreams are going to be numbered. Ignoring that first DJ post. Last nights dream wasn't lucid but it was my first nugget of good dream recall in a while so here goes:

First thing I can remember was being in a shower and trying to use some shampoo but I couldn't get any out (okaaaay random). Scene dissolves and part 2 begins. This part is all mixed up but I will try to make sense of it. I rmember trying to play xbox but my TV was lying sideways on the floor fo some reason. Then there were other people in the room and they wanted to play some maths game. Scene dissolves. Part 3 begins. This was the bulk of my dream. The main part I remember. I think I was on a computer on YouTube and I found a video of a final destination scene involving a revolving door. It was in a hotel lobby that looked similar to a place we went on holiday. Anyway what happened was if you imagine looking down at the door from above it would look like an X and there was a girl who I think I know in the bottom part of the X and two guys on the 2 side parts. As the door was spinning they were pushing the door in opposite directions towards the girl so here part of the X was getting smaller. As this was happening I kind of teleported to the scene. I was getting scared for the girl as the walls were closing in on her and the guys were laughing about it because in my dream it was all a joke. Anyway the door broke down and stopped with the girl trapped inside and the 2 guys escaping. For a moment I was looking at it through her eyes (pretty damn scary for me) looking up at how close the walls were and stuff. From my view she looked like she was crying. I remember hearing somebody say that there was no hope now. I was getting worried here because whenever I'm certain something gory is about to happen I can't stop it and it's always reallly gory. The revolving door started spinning at about 120 RPM which is like 1 turn every half second and it started filling with water. The girl was lost from sight but I could still hear her screaming (horrible) and there was blood. After a while the spinning stopped and... well... to be frank she was missing a head. Lovely. What a nice dream I'm having here. Anyway I look around myself and there are people looking at it in shock. In particular one old lady who keeps looking at me then the reloving door and back to me saying things like "well I never". What happens after that I don't really understand but it was sort of like there was a computer sort of to the right of the door and the video on YouTube was open and by having that open I was causing this to happen. Anyway in my thought process it was like being in a public place and watching some sick gory movie. Sort of embaressed I close down the window and that's all I remember.

This morning I had to go to college and guess what the entrance is. REVOLVING DOORS YAAAY! I walked into it, remembered my dream and just thought "ooooh crap" lol. Nothing happened though thankfully.

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