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Note: There were several more dreams, but I don't remember them in extreme detail, so I am posting my fragmented memories here as one posting.

The Path Less Taken
I am at Hogwarts, but I am not lucid. I am with Draco in the same room where we were planning out ideas for getting through the first challenge, I see the map laid out on the table with the figures Draco placed still on it, they are pacing around a bit as if rather bored. Draco himself is pacing a bit, he seems agitated about something, so I ask him what is bothering him. He says he doesn't see the point of having a challenge where we can't use magic, it is supposed to be, after all, a wizard tournament… not a muggle tournament… I tell him I don't really know the reason for this challenge, but it is part of the tournament, so we have to get passed it before we can continue to the other challenges. I look at the map again, looking at the different routes through the obstacles. One obstacle is to cross over a deep ravine, or the contestants can use a nice bridge over the ravine and meet up with flying enemies there… Another obstacle takes the form of a sheer wall, there are two ways to get past, but they are both hidden… one is a way up and over, the other is a way down and under, the locations are marked on the map with a couple of Draco's markers. There is a dense forest that is specifically designed to get people lost inside it. There is once again an easy way to navigate the forest, but there are enemies set up along it. One obstacle is a rushing river that empties into a wide lake, there is a bridge, which is blocked by enemies. Parts of the course would require crossing the rapids, or crossing the lake, or there is a shortcut to be taken by riding the rapids, then taking the right fork that comes just before the lake. I am looking at the map like I would a video game layout, deciding what would be the best choice of routes to take.

While I am looking at the map and Draco seems to be talking to himself, the door to the room creaks open… both Draco and I stop to look over at it. A cute little fox comes into the room, then actually leans up against the door to push it closed behind it. The fox comes over to me and rubs around my legs until I pick him up and start petting him. Draco is staring at this, he asks me what that is all about, why is that thing in here? I tell him he had better be nice to the fox, he responds by saying he doesn't care about any dumb old fox, I can keep it as a pet for all he cares. Draco keeps talking about ways to make sure we win, but I am more distracted by the fox now, who is definitely pushy for attention. He wants to be petted, scratched, hugged, cuddled… so I am doing all of that to make the fox happy, and I am rewarded with a purr. I finally tell Draco to calm down, we will make it through the obstacle course, the first challenge will hardly prove to be a challenge at all. He asks if I have any experience without using magic, I say actually, I do, and none of the routes on the map look like something we can't handle. My suggested path is to go the hard way over the ravine, all we would need is a couple lengths of rope, then through the forest, I have an excellent sense of direction, and over the wall, he already had the locations of the hidden ways through… so face the obstacles instead of the enemies, since enemies are much easier to handle with magic. I wonder if an item such as Witchblade would count as magic… well, I'm sure they couldn’t trace the Witchblade like they could spells in use… I would have to find that out.

A Job Search
I am in a strange room, it is rather dark and a bit on the creepy side, I am sitting in a chair facing a long table at one end of the room. There are quite a few people sitting at the table, all of them have their attention focused on me, and I am finding that to be a bit awkward, I wonder why they are all looking at me. As my eyes adjust to the dim light, however, I see that I recognize several of them. Right in the middle of the group is Albus Dumbledore from the Harry Potter series. To his right is Professor McGonagall, beside her is Professor Sprout, then a couple people I don't recognize. To Dumbledore's left I see Professor Snape, next to him is Professor Flitwick, whom I can barely see over the table. Beside Flitwick is someone who makes my stomach churn, I feel like I might puke right in front of everyone, it's Professor Umbridge… and Flitwick does not look pleased with the seating arrangements, he is scooted as close to Snape as he can get without being overly obvious. On the other side of Flitwick is Lucius Malfoy, who has a look on his face that suggests he is smelling something foul… and he is also sitting as far from Umbridge as the table will allow, and he doesn't seem to care about being overly obvious. There is a good three feet between Umbridge and Lucius, and Lucius is crammed into the last foot of space available at the end of the table. Umbridge appears completely oblivious as to the reactions of those around her, either not noticing, or choosing not to notice.

Dumbledore is the first to speak, he says we all know why we are here, but I haven't got a clue why I'm here… He says he has found a candidate for Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, referred to him by an old acquaintance. From behind Dumbledore, Q steps forward to be seen. Q pinches his nose and points at Umbridge, miming that she stinks like something rancid. Then he mimes to me that I should pinch my nose… but I can't smell Umbridge from this far away, so I'm not sure why I would do that. Dumbledore says all of them have had a chance to review my credentials, which Q has so kindly supplied, so if there are no further questions, they would have their vote now. If the majority agree, then I am their new Defense Against the Dark Arts instructor. Umbridge jumps to her feet and says absolutely not, she has never heard of such a thing, Dumbledore should know very well that the ministry would assign a new instructor. Dumbledore stopped her and corrected her, that if he was unable to find a qualified candidate in the allotted time the ministry would assign a teacher, but since he had found someone in the allotted time… Umbridge huffs a few times, paces back and forth behind her chair, huffs a couple more times, then Dumbledore asks her, in a polite but firm manner, to sit down. A couple of them, Snape and McGonagall actually agree here, want to see that I can do defensive spells, the choice is finally made that I should summon a patronus since that will defend against evil energies such as dementors. So I summon my patronus after finding a wand in my pocket, and it is a beautiful white panther. Lucius wants to know why he has never heard of the 'Knight' family before, Dumbledore says I come from a distant land, but Q has given assurances that there has never been a relative of Raven Knight who was not a powerful witch or wizard, including a daughter who is being home taught. I am thinking I don't know of any relatives of Raven Knight…

They finally have a vote, everyone raises their hand to vote me in except Lucius and Umbridge. Perhapes not wanting to be siding with the likes of Umbridge, Lucius finally raises his hand to vote yes. Umbridge sternly refuses to do so, instead she sits in her seat and huffs a few more times. Dumbledore said that the decision is made, he welcomes me to the staff of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. More loud huffs come from Umbridge. I see Q do something, and when I see Umbridge's face next time, the word BITCH is tattooed on her forehead. I have a hard time not laughing in her face, as she says she won't stand for this, and will have me removed immediately, all the while the word BITCH is changing colors on her forehead, it is actually glowing. Lucius has spotted that now, he is openly staring at Umbridge, who finally asks him what he is looking at. Lucius says he sees nothing unusual, but he sees that the truth has come to light in a surprisingly obvious way. The word BITCH flashes blue, then green, then red… Lucius gives me a strange look, welcomes me but doesn't sound like he entirely means it, then leaves. McGonagall sees the word on Umbridge's forehead and steps back in shock… "Delores!" she says, "What is that on your forehead?!" Umbridge looks at McGonagall strangely, then summons up a mirror and sees the word for herself. She curses under her breath at Lucius, apparently thinking he had done it, then storms off, huffing all the way out. The others all give me a warm welcome, saying to come back any time in the next week, and they will set me up with a room in the castle. I realize one of the people I hadn't recognized at first is Arthur Weasley… I am surprised I didn't spot him right away…

I am together with my friend and this one guy. The guy is criticizing our way of playing music together or something. Because we aren’t. (ACTION) I remember him going like “who plays drums on this track?!” and I say it isn’t me and he’s all like “this is absurd!” And I argue that I am not very good at drums and there never was a project to begin with, so why Is it so important that its me. But he manages to make us think that we had a project between us to record a track (ACTION), and we end up taking on that duty. So we climb this hill and suddenly my cousin is there too. My friend goes down on the otherside while me and my cousin stands at the top for a while. There are frogs everywhere. We use these frogs for something, we throw with them or something (ACTION). This sort of melts into a game of standing still, that I could recognize in the dream (INNER AWARENESS), where men pretended to be insects and animals and had territories chalked up on the ground. If you entered a territory, they would jump around and do something, dazing you. In this daze, you would often wander into a different territory, and get that ball rolling. (ACTION)

When I get down to my friend at the other side afterwards, we promptly agree about something with the way that people treat music that is illinformed and destructive for us “professionals”. (INNER AWARENESS)

Note: My plans for today are much the same as on the previous days, and my new light / sound machine is working out great. So with Hogwarts plans in mind, I fell asleep and slipped into a WILD…

I am in bed, but it is not my waking life bed, it is my bed at Hogwarts, in the Slytherin dorms. This time it doesn't seem so odd to me, since I am lucid, so I get up and I am acting like everything is completely normal. The other girls in my dorm room are dragging themselves around the room, it seems they are no more morning people than I am, though Andie looks pretty much awake and happy. In fact, she greets me with a bit too cheerful an attitude, and gets a grunt in return, she says maybe we'll all feel better after some breakfast. So we dress, then we head down in the common room where everyone is hanging out and talking until it is time to go to the great hall to eat. Andie is smiling at me in a strange way, I give her a questioning look back. She had been over near the window, but now she comes back over to me and sits down next to me on the couch, she still has an odd smile on her face. I ask her what's going on in her head, and she says she has seen I have found a boyfriend. My first thought is MoSh, so I tell her he already has a girlfriend, in fact, they're… going to be married. I almost say they're married, but I don't know how old people normally get married there, so I didn't say that. She says not MoSh, silly, and points over at Draco, who is looking at me at the time, but he looks away quickly. I tell her that's Draco Malfoy, she says 'duh' to my statement, and then says any fool can see he likes me… She said she had heard in Potions how I had told him that name calling is immature… and the fact that he not only didn't get mad about that, but he was actually doing as I had asked, must mean he really likes me. She said I'd be crazy to let that one get away, he's kinda cute… and he's a Malfoy, so I know what that means. My first thought is to say that means he is an asshole, but I don't say that, and before I can say anything, we are heading down to breakfast.

It is breakfast time, and I want to see if I can find out where I can find Lucius, because I still need to check Lucius' mind for any information on the spell that was used on Asuka. To do this, I take a seat next to Draco, who gives me a strange look. I see Crabb and Goyle are on his other side, Crabb starts saying, "Draco has a girlfriend, Draco has a girlfriend…" over and over until Draco asks if there isn't a tray full of muffins Crabb should be raiding right now. Draco is pointing at a tray full of assorted muffins a bit farther down the table, Crabb goes over and starts eating them, Goyle says, "Save some for me!" and goes over there as well. I look back to Draco and I see he is actually looking a bit red, though that doesn't last long before he is talking about the tournament again, which he seems obsessed about lately. I am listening to what he is saying in a half-assed manner, and checking his mind for where I can find Lucius Malfoy. It looks like Lucius is most likely at Malfoy Manor, which is a huge mansion in Wiltshire, England. When he is not out on business or doing something else, he is there with his wife, and his son when school is not in session. It seems like an awfully big place for three people, the type of place that the people living there need maps to find their way even after living there for years. Well, I decide I had better go to scan Lucius' mind to see about the spell on Asuka, and from what Draco is thinking, Lucius is home most evenings unless he and Narcissa are going out together. So it would be best to wait until evening.

Classes the rest of the day are uneventful, Snape seems to be giving MoSh and Asuka the evil eye for some strange reason, or maybe it's just because they're from Gryffindor. We pass Snape in the halls a couple times, and he is giving them the evil eye there, too. The only person getting more of the evil eye than MoSh and Asuka is Harry Potter. After dinner, I tell Draco I have to go out for a while, but I will be back later, he wants to know where I am going, but I am not sure what to answer… I am not sure why I mentioned that to Draco in the first place… I tell him I don't have time to explain now, but I will tell him when I get back, I figure that way I have some time to think about it. He says ok, he'll cover for me if I'm not back by dorm check… cool. I thank him, then I head out of the great hall and into a hidden corner of the women's bathroom, the one where Moaning Myrtle hangs out, and I teleport before I even see any sign of Myrtle.

I am now standing outside Malfoy Manor, right in plain sight, and I know I am not supposed to be there, so what is Lucius going to think if he finds me there? Better safe than sorry, so I transform into a swallow and fly up towards the mansion as the light is fading from the western sky. The place is huge, and I have no idea where to start looking for Lucius, so I scan the place for any sign of people inside, I figure there aren't going to be hoards of people there, so Lucius should be easy to find. Sure enough, Lucius and another person, no doubt Narcissa, are in the dining room, most likely having a dinner of their own. I fly in through an open window, staying near the ceiling where I won't be noticed, and the two Malfoys don't look up to see me. They seem to be thoroughly absorbed in a conversation they are having between the two of them. I am thinking maybe a bird wasn't the best choice of disguises, as having a swallow flying around Malfoy Manor might be almost as weird as having a student from Hogwarts showing up randomly there… well, maybe nowhere near as weird, but still far from normal. Now I am perched on a book case behind Lucius, sitting at the end of a large dining table, Narcissa is sitting on the side of the table right beside him, they are whispering. I try to listen in on what they are saying, but Lucius suddenly holds up one hand to silence Narcissa, now they are both silent. Narcissa wants to know what the problem is, Lucius says they are not alone. Oh, shit… this could be a problem…

Narcissa looks up and spots me… I should have transformed to something smaller when I had been thinking of it, damn it… but she doesn't look upset, she looks very pleased. She points me out to Lucius, then says there is a swallow in the house, Lucius asks why that would be in here, Narcissa says I must have gotten in on accident… but swallows are symbols of good luck. She gets up and comes closer to the bookcase, moving slowly as if trying to avoid scaring me, and she holds out her finger towards me, calling me to come down so she can show me the way out, talking in a very soothing voice. I don't sense a threat, so I fly down and actually land on her finger, which very pleasantly surprises her. She says to Lucius, in a hushed voice, that this must foretell some very good luck, indeed, since the bird has actually approached her. Lucius is looking at me strangely, I chirp, he tells Narcissa to put me outside before I shit all over everything. I scan his mind telepathically, and I get what I need, he isn't guarding his thoughts since the only person around is Narcissa. He is the one who cast the memory charm on Asuka, he did it on direct orders from Voldemort, unfortunately Voldemort hadn't bothered explaining himself very well. So Lucius knows Voldemort wanted Asuka's memory wiped, but he does not know why, since the one Voldemort is usually after is Harry potter. As if Narcissa is afraid I might fly off to somewhere else in the house, Narcissa places her other hand gently over me to keep me from flying, then carries me to the window I snuck in through where she tosses me up into the air so I can fly away safely.

I am heading back to Hogwarts, flying as a swallow now, even though I am not entirely sure where Hogwarts is relative to Wiltshire… I am not in a hurry to get back, Draco will still have questions, and I don't have answers. It turns out I never have to deal with that, at least not now, because I wake up.

Snapelicous

Me and Asuka get called into Snape's office at hogwarts. He starts giving us a lecture about innapropriate display of affection in the hallways. (all we were doing was holding hands... pfft). I wasn't listening though.. I wastoo busy fantasising a scenario that would just pisss Snape off. That me and Asuka should do the dirty deeds in the hallway right by his office... and for everyone to see. The only bigger pleasure than doing the deed itself is what Snapes face will look like if he sees us!

In the middle of his lecture, his office door opens by itself. Snape says loudly "Harry potter," in his typical dry tone. I look behind me and see harry running behind a shelf while he fumbles with his invisibility cloak which I see him dissapear behind. I then notice a small head statue of JS bach on one of the shelves... Oh well at least me and snape have something in common.

Fox

I remember a small fox that jumped into my arms. I was petting it... no other memory... It was Pablo no doubt.

Music

I remember hearing a piece of music and playing it on the guitar. I remembered one melody line clearly upon awakening... unfortunately I was too drowsy to get up and forgot it when I ell back asleep.

Slughorn's house.

Dumble dore sends me to Slughorn's house for something I can't remember (Dumbledore is helping me cheat like the other participants?!?!?).

I enter the house and each door leads to a different room. I backtrack when not finding slughorn and notice that the rooms change around on the house. Walms enters the house but I ignore him. He goes through one door. and I go through the other... but we both wind up in the same room a moment later??? WTF. Walm's does something to the wall and a matters and pillow appears leaning against the wall. We knock the mattress over and it reveals a hidden room where Prof Slughorn is sleeping in a bed, He awakens and is all like "huh wha? hmm? Who are you?" but my memory fades here.

Note: I had lots of dreams last night, so many that my memories of them have gotten a bit fragmented and hard to separate out. So here are the fragments I remember. My plans included more Harry Potter dreams with both MoSh and Tigress, the wizard tournament with MoSh, Tigress was looking for something that happens beyond the scope of the books. I was able to get into my WILD, my memories are just a bit fragmented…

Search for Lucius
I am at Hogwarts, and I am looking to find out what Lucius might know about the spell that was placed on Asuka that made her lose her memory. I don't really know where to find Lucius, but I remember Draco saying Lucius is on the governing board of Hogwarts, so does that mean he is at Hogwarts? I hope that maybe he is. I am wandering around in the halls, I really don't know where to start looking. I spot Draco in the halls, and I follow Draco for a short time until he notices I am behind him. He stops and turns around, he asks why I am following him. He says maybe I had been looking to find him, well I have now. He says that Snape told him the contestants in the tournament need to make a plan on how to handle the first challenge. He says that generally, at least at the beginning, the contestants from each house would most likely help each other out so their house contestants can both make it. He says we should decide what we're going to do, to make sure the great Harry Potter comes out of the competition looking like the loser he is.

Training to Win
I am on the top of the hill near Hogwarts, it is the same place I was at when we all summoned patronuses. Vegeta is there, as are the other contestants in the tournament, though I don't see Tigress. I wonder if she is sure going to continue this series, I start thinking things may have diverged when Cho Chang shows up, and I remember she is from Ravenclaw, so maybe the divergence has already happened. Vegeta pairs everyone up, switching the pairs around, so everyone will have a chance to train with different partners. In addition to tournament contestants, there are also quite a few other students there who are just interested in what Vegeta has to teach them. I notice Neville Longbottom sitting off to the side, watching everyone training from a distance. Vegeta tries to get him to join in, but instead he turns around and runs away. Vegeta watches him go and then returns to our training.

Inside Information
I am in a small room with Draco, we are sitting at a table discussing ways to proceed through the challenge that will soon be happening. I am really not sure what preparation is possible, since we don't know any of the specifics of what obstacles might be in the way. On the table is an assortment of snacks and a map of the area the challenge will take place in. The course has been laid out for us, so everyone will know where to go, but that is it, no other details are included. There are several possible paths to take through the course, so not everyone will take the same path or meet the same challenges. So now Draco starts placing different things on the map of the course, he places small animated figurines that represent obstacles we will encounter, or maybe just obstacles we might encounter. I think this is strange since I had thought the specific obstacles were secret. I ask Draco about that, and he says his dad knows people… so in other words this is cheating? I comment that if anyone finds out, he will be disqualified, or maybe we would both be disqualified, which would eliminate any chance of Slytherin having the tournament winner. He says no one will find out, unless I am planning on telling someone… I tell him I'm not planning on telling anyone, but that doesn't mean no one will figure it out… well, he already has the information now, so we spend the time figuring out what the best path through the challenge course is.

Congradulations! It's Twins!
I am in my bedroom at home, but there is one main difference, and that is the fact there is a cradle there. It is a single unit, but there is a separator in the middle of it and it is larger than the normal cradle, it is specifically made for two babies at once. On top of that, there is a baby in each side of the cradle, one is a boy, one is a girl, and I know for a fact they are twins… and they are mine! I have no children IWL, so this should be a giveaway that it is a dream, but I do not do a reality check. I have to go to class now, and I know I have to take my babies with me, as there is nowhere else to leave them for the day. I get everything ready to go, then I walk out without them, heading off to school. I get to class before I realize I completely forgot about the babies, I hadn't even checked on them before leaving the house, wow… I am a shitty mother… I am heading to the library at the school, suddenly ITT has a really nice library, and my mother meets me there with the babies. I take the babies, one in each arm, they are sleeping peacefully in my arms, I hope they stay that way. When I get inside the library, they tell us we'll have to move to a new building while the library is being remodeled, so I have to try to pick up both my stuff and the babies to go next door. Tigress meets me there, and she takes one of the babies, and we go next door. There is a large pillow next to the table we set up on, so we lie both babies on the pillow where they play quietly, looking up at us and smiling. I am thinking both of the babies were born on Christmas day, and the strangest thing is I don't remember even having sex, so was I raped? Was it some kind of immaculate conception? Abducted by aliens? My babies don't look like aliens…

Sadly the fact that I only obtained 3-4 hours of sleep was upsetting. Though I do feel as though progress is being made. One of my friends has change a persons sex in her dream so that a couple could be together, and the other has also done 3rd person. We're all working on our dream recall so we tend to go over our day before we go to sleep.

I also found out that my old favorite drink contains several usefull vitamins to help with my dream recall. (Vitamin Water, XXX)

Tonight I plan on finishing one before I lay down for sleep and chant "I will have a lucid dream". i've also been performing 2 reality checks more often through out the day. Though people still look at me funny when i just randomly say I'm dreaming. XD. Oh, and I've been back tracing how I get to the room I'm in when I remember.

i am hoping that as my dream recall increases I'll be able to find my dream symbol to help me becoming lucid. Going to start a list of the little things that show up to see if I can pin point it after a few weeks.

Advice Welcomed,
Lag

I don't remember much of the details:

I lived in Mexico and was going to a really fancy college. I remember an auditorium with all gray and white. I was sitting there surrounded by other international students and we all looked really bored. I was sitting with a paper notebook and a yellow pencil. I was suddenly in a bar with adobe style surroundings. There was a tan tiled floor below, and a fountain the in the background. The bar was a circle bar and standing there was a Mexican woman. I asked "do you have some sort of lunch special?" she said "like basic stuff?" and I ordered a taco with some beans, rice and chips. I ate the food and went on my way.

*blurred stuff I can't remember*

Then that last I can remember I went back and ordered the same thing again.

There was a portion early on in my dream where I was using my computer. For some reason, one of the video cards burned out and whenever I plugged it in the computer crashed. One of my programmer friends was sitting next to me trying to help me figure out the problem. Never did thought as the scene turned into the core of the death star from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. The energy core was shot and began to explode as I fly out of the chamber into the long corridor to the surface. Zerg Mutalisks were hot on my tail most of the way out. I got out of the death star, but it never exploded. Memory fades around this point.

Another portion of the dream: I was dead, or dying or something. There were funeral preparations going on... for me! I was really scared, but I don't remember much from this dream. It's really too bad I couldn't get lucid at this point.

Last dream Very Disturbing: I was babysitting some kid who's mom I apparently knew. The kid kept sneaking red ants into the house via cups with dirt. I kept grabbing the cups and emptying them outside, but on one of these trips, I got stopped by the police. Apparently they were gonna execute me summarily. (Continuation of the last dream maybe? Even though they were in 2 separate REM cycles) My family eventually appeared and were confused but complying with the police. I was PISSED at this point. The officers began to talk to me, in fluent Spanish (which I cannot speak or understand in real life) telling me the process leading up to my execution. I began hurling every verbal incendiary I could at everyone around me because NOBODY was defending me. I had almost given up, when (Starcraft again.. surprise surprise) Protoss warriors swept into the scene and began carving up everyone who wanted me dead. They kept saying I was the 'chosen one from the prophesy' or something, I didn't care. All I cared about was that I wasn't going to die. I even joined in, destroying the ones who wanted to destroy me. It was a bloodbath towards the end, everyone around me except for me, my family, and the protoss, were dead.

Then I woke up.

6-12 ---- 7-12
Non-lucid

-Dreamed about a guy that first had to sacrifice himself for a girl by jumping from an ice floe. But i spoke to the guy and after that, they both survived

- Some sort of game, a picture made out of balls. (quite hard to explain). The main point was you had to find out where the object in the picture was (sort of minesweeper) by choosing a ball that would be next to the object. But, when you'd choose a ball within the picture, it would say nothing it all.

- There was some sort of party, first i had a normal talk with a girl, after that i danced with a girl i met in Romania (good friend of mine). After that a flight instructor from my Aero Club entered the party with a cycle and almoost drove me over.

-I was on a tour trough a huge building (also with parlement inside)

non-lucid
[Noticifcations]

- <- dreams

3-12 ---- 4-12
[Very short one (first dream i was trying to recall)]
Called my aunt with a phone, no response [I guess my brain was waiting for informations/a responde]

4-12 ---- 5-12
- My dad was reading funny RC's [ Why didn't i show them to him!! ]

Woke up at 4 and thought my windows were covered with orange A4's [thought it was a false awaking the morning i woke up. But then i remembered the time had changed when i looked on my clock (at 4)]

- Was looking on the website of my Aero club and Tiska (girl from the Aero club) had become the person who controls the money from the club [Forgot the word]


5-12 ---- 6-12
[I'm getting the hang of this!]
-I was walking through a building [school?] and i saw a poster of a (boy?) band one of them had a black shirt with some sort of dragon or so on it. I walked outside [it was daytime] And saw a lot of teachers, it looked like they were playing some sort of game. They were sitting in groups of 2 spread out over the quarter. My dad was one of them. I looked and saw a girl from my primary school playing with 2 little kids. I threw my bag of my back and started playing with them

- Some cards were given away to enter a party (?) as first. Of course i won a card.. When i entered a blonde girl asked me if i wanted to be on a picture with 'him' (she pointed at a guy standing in the middle infront of the doors). I said 'sure, if he also wants to'. I had no idea who it was, but since they were playing the 'Burn Baby Burn' clip on a TV hanging there i thought it would've been a band member. When i stood next to him, suddenly the doors opened and the whole hall became very busy. After moving to right and left, the photographer finally made a picture. After a while i went to the photographer and asked him if i could see the picture (had the feeling it was a scam) After a conversation in english, which i understood and spoke (i'm not english) i said 'nevermind' and then my dream ended

07.12.2010

WILDing to Snooker (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I got in from class and flopped down on the sofa, still wearing shoes and a coat. Somebody else was watching snooker, and after a while I lay back and closed my eyes. After that it gets a bit hard to tell what was real and what wasn't.

I felt a light sensation in the middle-front of my head, which I can only describe as "a bit like falling". Kind of a tingle. It came in tiny, split-second bursts, and went away immidiately after I noticed it. It startled me slightly each time it happened- having the effect of making me a tiny bit more alert for a few seconds. I felt like I needed to let it happen uninterrupted to fall properly asleep. I was very careful the next time it happened, and it went on for a couple of seconds, bringing sleep paralysis with it. It felt like my whole body suddenly lost any muscle tension, and my head drooped forward- even though I was sure it was completely supported already.

I had a visualisation then of the crane outside. I looked at it intently, trying to keep focused on what I was doing. I could hear the sound of snooker on TV still, it never seemed to have gotten blocked out. But then it got a whole lot louder. I suspected this was purely my mind playing tricks, as I doubted whoever was watching it has maxxed out the volume while I was sleeping there. It got louder, and combined with a high-pitched whine. My jaw then seemed to clench of its own accord. But it felt like the teeth of my lower jaw were in front of my top front teeth. It was a bit uncomfortable, and I wondered if I could fix it without ruining the WILD. Turns out not. They weren't even stuck in that position anyway.



It struck me then that I had actually been pretty far away from awake. The difference I felt when waking up was like resurfacing after being underwater. During the transition to sleep I thought I had been basically aware and connected to the outside world thoughout, but it certainly didn't feel that way now!

I was dreaming that i was back in Vegas with my sister and my dad and a friend. We were walking around an area that seemed really familiar, maybe a place i played at when i was a kid. We were walking around and i saw 2 fighter jets fly over our heads and there was an explosion following. We wanted to see what was going on so we walked around for a while. I dont remember what happened on the way but we eventually got around a corner and saw a large plume of smoke. There was some sort of large foreign building with smoke coming off it. There were a couple of people on the side walk celebrating and throwing fire crackers. I asked what was going on and they said that we bombed the terrorists building. I guess i knew what that meant because i started to celebrate. Than one of them threw a really big firework that looked like and over sized stick of dynamite. The explosion coming from it was the weirdest thing. I fell on the ground covering my head and when i got up, it felt like my head was full of helium. It kind of felt like i was high. We all laughed at it and began to run away fearing that cops would come to the explosion. I dont remember the walk home but when we got there it was the same as the house im living in now. I dont remember anything else.

Non-lucid dream, [Commentary made while awake]

Night of December 5-6

I'm attending a service at an unfamiliar church. I'm in the choir. The bishop is there, and he shushes the choir, ending the song we're singing early. Two other famous people are there: Arnold Schwarzenegger and H. [a writer who is on the Internet and likely to search for himself]. The two of them and the bishop pose for a group picture. H. is wearing a big, floppy USC baseball cap. We all tell him to turn it around and wear it so that the logo is showing, or else there's no point in having it on at all. He actually looks more like my real-life friend Victor K. than he looks like H.

The service also involves honoring some military people. There is a man in a very highly decorated, green military dress uniform there.

Night of December 6-7

[This was a long, fun, interesting dream with a really cool setting and particularly good recall, especially for dialog.]

This dream is set within the world of a TV show called “Cruiser Island.” Cruiser Island is one of a small group of small, tropical islands, very close together, located just off the coast of Florida and connected to each other and to the mainland by bridges. One of its neighboring islands is called Alo Island. There is a large, single-story building there that says “Alo Island Public Hospital” on the sign on the front.

House #1 is located on Cruiser Island. My family is hosting a sort of sleepover there. I'm in my bedroom, in the top bunk (which is mine), wearing pajamas, ready to go to bed. A boy who's maybe 8 or 9 years old climbs up the end of the bunk bed to get into the top bunk, and we talk. He says he's afraid of some kind of wild animal, and I reassure him by saying that we're in the middle of downtown, and no wild animals are coming here. The rest of the conversation goes something like this:

Me: What's your name?
Boy: Thomas.
Me: Yeah, I thought you kinda looked like a Thomas. I'm (Emiko). (we shake hands)
Thomas: You know that guy who sings with the Parish girls... I'm his younger brother.
Me: Oh, you're Dom's brother!

I decide I enjoy spending time with kids.

[Note: In the dream, when Thomas mentioned his older brother, I knew who we were talking about and knew that he shared a first name with, but wasn't, the protagonist from Inception. In real life, both brothers sang with the Parish girls, but only once, two days ago. They also have different first names in real life.]

I'm standing on the floor next to the foot end of the bunk bed. There are two Vietnamese women, a mom and a grandma, who are sleeping on the lower bunk. Two more Vietnamese moms are standing around in the room and in the hallway, along with a whole bunch of their kids. One of the moms says something about how she doesn't have magical Japanese eyes [I don't even know.] and then sternly commands all the boys to go and brush their hair, now, so that they can go to bed. All the girls have their hair in braids or pigtails, so they'll need their moms' help to comb it out. I think, With all these people in the house for the sleepover and all this excitement, my sleep cycle is getting completely thrown off. I'm not going to get a chance to try to lucid dream tonight. That's too bad. [And yet, I still somehow managed not to realize that I was dreaming at this point. I laughed when I remembered this thought upon waking up.]

I go into the bathroom to toss a few of my stray hairs into the trash can. I don't just toss them on the floor because of all the guests we have in the house. While I'm in the bathroom, I see that my gold cross necklace has fallen into the toilet. Also, I find some bedbugs somewhere in the house, crawling all over some white paper thing. I take it outside, showing it to my mom and explaining to her, as we walk along a sidewalk outside, what they are and what it's like to have them in the house. I say that I'm pretty sure I just got rid of all of them.

My mom and I continue walking through Cruiser Island's downtown, which looks a lot like San Luis Obispo's downtown, until we reach a small light rail station on the street. We look at the big, dark-blue metal signboard there to find out what its schedule is. We continue walking along the streets, turning at least one corner and passing one more light rail station. The street signs are white on blue like in L.A. [not white on brown like in the real SLO]. I talk to someone I pass on the street about which of the streets will be closed for the parade that's going to start soon.

Still no progress in terms of having another LD, but I am gaining a lot of experience and have come across very interesting things during this journey.

I now downloaded another application to help me track my progress for the iPhone called Sleep Cycle Alarm. This is not an endorsement, I'm just writing down what's real.

I went to sleep at 12:15 woke up at 8:57.

I recalled one dream at 6am when I set my deffered CAN to wake me up. I got out of bed, went to the bathroom, posted in my DJ the one dream I remembered and then went back to sleep. I didn't recall any extra dreams after going to sleep like this. I'm interested in my own sleeping/recall abilities because I never get any dreams when napping or in light sleep. It appears that I need very deep sleep to have dreams, and then I can recall very many and in great detail. I'm wondering if maybe I really do dream in naps but I simply cannot remember or if my brain just doesn't reach the deepest parts of sleep necessary to dream. How would I test this hypothesis out?

Tonight's mistakes:
1) No plan of action upon becoming Lucid.
2) Woke up at 7 but didnt perform the indirect techniques aggressively enough.
3) Took too many naps during the day and went to bed in a not-so-tired state. I think this might have detracted from my overall ability to recall and have deep sleep.

Solutions:
1) Create a plan of action slash plot out an entire Lucid Dream.
2) Do 5 reality checks today based on the anchors of opening a door and checking the time on my iPhone.
3) Practice doing the indirect and separation techniques sometime before bed tonight.
4) Be physical during the day (i.e. workout or run) so that I won't be tempted to take a nap and will be more tired come bedtime.
5) Perform the indirect and separation techniques aggressively!

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