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Wow. Five good recalls in one single night. A new high for me! They were decently vivid too, at least the longer ones were, and a few of the fragments were literally flash in the pan. What makes me really happy about this is that I did not perform WBTB. I simply remembered that many different dreams upon waking. Hopefully I'm getting close! I'm RCing about 10 times a day, on a guess. As well as perusing the forums occasionally. Every time I RC I repeat to myself "If I'm dreaming, I will become lucid" and I look around the room for any signs of dreaming. Does that, coupled with my daily DJ, seem like enough to incite a DILD?

Anyways: onto the dreams.

I'm walking through some sort of in between that goes from rural Illinois to downtown Chicago. The goal is to meet a bunch of friends as well as my wife's dad at a place to eat dinner. We are trying to decide where to eat when i decide that a steakhouse sounds good. So I go through this in between and end up in a little long room with two wide red couches and two wide tvs. It doesn't say it anywhere but I know this is a Blackhawks fanclub.

I wee Vern there and we decide to go on ahead. He asks me where I want to eat. I think a moment and decide on this steak house. With my steak knife with me for some reason we set out to walking out of the club and down the street.

And now for sole reason I'm doubling back. I've walked back through the in between to go get my friends. I'm looking for Jake Chris and Lawrence. For some reason I know they have begun to cross the I'm between, which now looks like a corn field, so I head back to cross it.

I try to wade through it but it is too thick now. I decide to walk along side it instead and i soon make it halfway across when suddenly Chris, wearing dress pants a button up and a tie, emerges and greets me. Jake is right on his heels. We have a short discussion about some rapper before I tell them what's for dinner.

Nate Phil and I are hanging out in the basement of what I assume is my parents house. There is a punching bag hanging from the ceiling and the other posts have wrap around them for more martial arts.

Phil and Nate are hanging out when I come in with my laptop and a fresh recording of one of our songs but this Time with drums on it. I start to play it and Phil is instantly annoyed cause he is tired of hearing that song over and over again.

I play it anyways and he says it is actually pretty cool outside of the timing issues. As he is saying this I am tending to a small hydroponic garden in a tent. The floor of the tray in the tent is covered in a milky orange substance. I start cleaning it out when the guys decide they want to go outside.

So we do and it's really late and dark out. I bring my laptop with me but through the walls I can hear the music we were blaring. It's avenged sevenfold. I go back inside a few times to turn it down.

Eventually my mom comes out for a minute after we head back in and says she will wake me up at nine. Phil is closed to passing out when he, alarmed, asks if they have to leave then as well. I tell him no and not to worry about it and to enjoy sleeping in.

Randall Cropp


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Fragment. I'm with some group of people when this creature called the Machi appears. It looks like a monster of the Seachen People out of the Wheel of Time series. It looks like a dragon but the size of a horse. Someone kills it and I remember getting very sad.

Leah and I are watching some sort of talk show with Keanu reeves on it. There are a bunch of kids that he starts to play fight with. We are watching the event from overhead and at an angle. Keanu is diving around and throws a marker at this little girl. It nails her in the forehead and she drops like a bag of rocks. I remember laughing in my dream. This happens to three kids.

Fragment. I dream I make myself admin on Militate.

I dream I'm driving up some road at night and turning on corners. I'm out in the country. There is a car right behind me. I have my laptop out and am trying to catch a WiFi signal. I finally do catch one and I pull over. The car behind me passes.

8/21/2010
Bill Murrey and Andy McDowell having a conversation she asks him to house sit and he goes off on how that he is a man and doesn't want to be seen as a chic,.she then goes off on how she has done stuff for him and that she can't believe he's so selfish. He likes her but won't do it. They are standing around houses that are in my neighborhood.

I am shopping in a store like toys r us and I am shopping for video games I have a stack of video games and I purchase the games when I do some kids come by and see all the games and I get the feeling they want to take them. They eye my games as the basket of paid for games lay on the ground. I pick them up and for some reason feel like putting them behind the glass shelves will make them safe. I saw madden and spiderman game in the pile. I could have become lucid in this one.

8/22/2010

Searching for ruth as she has gone missing. Forgot to type dreams out but I had a few since I slept in late.

Type: regular dream.
Lucidity: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Vividness: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

I was in a busy chocolate store that looked like the picture below, but it had more nooks and crannies.

Outside the store I could see a strip of average-looking mall, but I didn't go outside. After all, I was looking at different packages of chocolates. I looked for a few moments and then saw a package of milk chocolate Lindt truffles. I picked it up and began to look for a cash register. I couldn't find one, so I decided to shoplift. There was an exit on the left-hand wall of the store; it was a square archway that led into another room; more specifically, the store (or whatever it was) beside it.

I walked through the door, briefly looking behind me as I did, and walked right into a swimming pool area with small tiles on the floor and a few people swimming around. Standing in the doorway, I then opened the package and proceeded to unwrap the very realistic chocolates. The plastic wrapping was twisted at the ends of each chocolate ball, just like in real life. I popped one into my mouth and ate it, then I took another one. This one was pretty much melted, so when I pressed on it just a little to unwrap it, it broke in half and chocolate spilled out onto the floor.

I then heard shouting behind me. "Get back here!" I heard a man say in a rather deep voice, and this was the signal to get out now. I saw a door on the other side of the room, with one square window on either side. On the other side of the windows were trees and sky, so I knew it was the exit to the building. I briskly walked around the pool, continuously looking behind me, and then got to the door. I turned the shiny brass doorknob and when I pulled on the door, it caught, as if a chain was stopping it from opening on the other side.

I turned around as the man, dressed in a suit, walked closer and closer...

Had a bad dream about a haunted television set. Woke up and tried to go back to change it but even in that fuzzy half-dream state the narrative of the dream had way more control than I did. Bothered me enough that I lost the rest of the night.

August 23, 2010,

Note to reader: James is a very old friend of mine we used to be really close now we only talk every once in a while. He seems to be one of my dream signs.

I keep a physical journal with me where I usually write my dreams but here's my first one on DV. I had 4 dreams that I could remember last night:

First Dream (Lucid I think):

I was in an empty room. I could recall it was the room in which I have done a lot of volunteer and community service. It was completely empty and it was just me there. I remember seeing some other teens that volunteered with me there, they came out of nowhere. But that's about all I remember. I was fully aware that I was dreaming for about 1 second then I woke up. It was a bit hazy. I went back to sleep and entered my 2nd dream which was non-lucid.


Second Dream (Non-lucid):

It took place in a forest, kind of like in avatar except greener with more light, the trees were normal size and there was a road through the middle that James, some girl (don't remember who), my father and I were walking through.



All of the sudden we were all ambushed by some native americans. They seemed to look like mayans except they had weapons like guns and such. They shot the girl and James and they both fell to the ground. I turned to see 2 mayans pointing a gun at my father. I yelled "NO!" and I reached out and I must have used telekenisis to grab a gun from one of the mayans. I shot one of the mayans and turned and the other had shot my father. I killed the one who shot my father, I shot him right in the chest. Then I noticed I was surrounded..and everything went black. I woke up (in the dream) next to all the people who were shot. We were all still alive. Apparently they were only tranquilizers..I felt as though I was caged, tied up or something and we couldn't move. We witnessed an entire city of these mayans, it was night time and there were tons of torches and music and a celebration going on.



I could easily spot who ran this place..a giant. It was a giant woman about 100x the size of you and me. She was a statue that could move around and on her back she had 2 sheiths that held 2 giant swords. She wore leather and had a giant refined saphire jewel centered on her chest. All the people here worshipped her. She was a bitch! We all tried to escape and they caught us and then they made us eat horrible food and they made us watch them torture some other people that they had caught earlier. Then an army of regular people came and fucked up the mayan city with tanks and soldiers and mortars etc. and we escaped. We ran down the road we came from and eventually we were far enough that it was safe. We went back into walking, which brings me to my 3rd dream.

Third Dream (Non-lucid):

We were walking down the road and eventually we came to what seemed to look like New York City. At this point it was only me, James, and a girl, I can't remember who she was. When James and I found out we had Spiderman's powers, we started showing off to impress the girl and so I made one of those web balls that Spiderman used to make and I threw it at James and he threw one back and we were fooling around for a while. We were web swinging through the city and there was a huge Godzilla. Like HUGE. It was roaring and destroying the city by crushing cars, small buildings and people with its feet and shooting power beams from its mouth. James and I dodged enough of the beams and made it safetly right behind Godzilla, inside a parking garage. There was a big emerald that the Godzilla was guarding behind its foot, James went to go get it, and I made a noise on purpose so the Godzilla would stomp on James. He did and James wasn't hurt at all. So I went to go get the emerald, and I look up and there is a huge Godzilla foot right above me (INSIDE the parking garage?) and it came down and crushed me. This is when I entered my 4th dream.

Fourth Dream (Non-lucid):

This dream doesn't make sense to me at all...we were on the roof of the parking garage and godzilla was gone and we were playing soccer and some indian kid was telling me that if he had done the soccer moves that i was doing in real life, he would have broken a bunch of limbs in a video game. Then there was a birthday party and everyone was wearing costumes and James and I didn't have any costumes, so we went to some closet and on the way there I saw this kid Tyler Ellwood, which I dont really know at all but he goes to my school, and he was wearing some stupid looking overalls. We got to the closet and james picked out the same overalls, there were a bunch of the same overalls hung up in the closet, then there was one standing out, and I took it and it was a Super Mario costume! All of the sudden Super Mario music was playing and I was head banging to it with the costume in my hand. Then it stopped and then I opened to costume to put it on and there was like rotting rice in it for some reason..so I dropped it, and turned to James and I was like what the f*** is that?? Rotting rice?? And he responded..dude..I don't know..then I woke up this morning at around 11 AM.

Type: DILD.
Lucidity: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Vividness: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Notes:
This one feels pretty similar to my last recorded dream. The vividness decreased when I became lucid, but I still managed to complete the evasive TOTM and witness a terrorist attack.

This dream started off with me being on a long rope of grassy hill. It was a hill that rose only ten or fifteen feet from the ground, so walking back down to the ground would take less than a minute. It was probably later in the day, but it had yet to become noticeably dark.

The rest of the land was flat and covered in grass, and you couldn't see anything in any direction except a road traveling along the base of the hill that led to a very nearby city. The tall buildings started at the end of the hill, so you can visualize how close the city was; I was right on the outskirts of it.

I looked around and suddenly became lucid, shouting "yes" rather excitedly and doing the nose-plug reality check, which obviously failed. But then, the dream suddenly decreased in vividness. Things became slightly hazy and the lighting became dim, although it was still light outside. I rubbed my hands for stabilization and touched the blades of grass on the ground, but it didn't help. So, still being on the hill and in no position to move, I decided to summon a white unicorn that I could ride. After all, I had no idea how long the dream would last but I didn't want to flip out. I used the familiar turn-around-and-expect-it-to-be-behind-me technique, and it was.

However, although it was a bit harder to see, I could tell that the unicorn was a bit smaller than normal. I don't know how to measure horses in terms of hands, but it was probably only four feet tall. It also looked like its skin was made of white velvet, and I couldn't see its muscles moving as it walked over to me. It looked sort of like a toy, but that didn't bother me. I got up on it with a jump and landed square on its back, without having to reposition myself.

There was no harness so I looked away, out towards the city, and then back again; there was now a single metal hoop around its neck. I rolled my eyes and expected it to walk forward, and it did. The dream still wasn't fading, so I got off it to do something else.

That was when I lost most of my lucidity, with only a bit lingering. The road on the base of the hill had now changed to a six- or seven-lane highway with cars traveling quickly along them. All the lanes were in one direction, I observed. Although I wasn't lucid, I then chose to summon a random DC to test my dream control. I tried to summon it, but nothing appeared. I looked at the sky and then, at that very moment, two large gray planes flew overhead at an incredible speed, directly into the buildings in the city. There was an explosion which blew me backwards quite a bit, and the city buildings were now on fire.

The dream ended.

Just a brief fragment today - working on getting back into lucid dreaming.

Myself and a few other people were playing a strange card game where you drew a card from a deck, and then acted out whatever was written on the card. Each card had a "medieval siege" theme telling you to do things like, "Attack the enemy's castle with catapults and ballistas." Sometimes they would also include a little story like, "You are a knight of the castle lord, and your family is starving do the siege."

The only card I remember reading was one I drew from the deck and said something about a harlot inside the city. However, when I tried to read the card, the words kept rearranging themselves on the card, making it impossible for me to determine what I was supposed. I handed the card over to someone else, and they looked similarly confused.

I had more dreams but this short sort of lucid dream is all I remember.

Sexy Time (dild)

I was at my Aunt's house and I was looking at my hands and they were normal but I knew I was dreaming. I went into the basement where I found a woman. This quickly turned into romance. I felt the dream slipping so I just focused on the woman but shortly woke up anyways.

Took some melatonin last night and had two lucids. The lucids maybe lasted 5 seconds. But my awareness in dreams to me at least is getting better.

I havent posted in a while, this is from the 20th

Every time i dream that im in a public place, no matter where, i always dream about the same bathroom that ive never actually been to. I can remember exactly how it looks but its too hard to describe, so im just going to say it's a public bathroom. That was all i could recall from my first dream..

Second dream of the night, i was at a big dinner with family and friends at a restaurant. I was part of some sort of graduation, but it wasnt school. I knew i didnt expect to actually graduate tho, but i was still part of the ceremony and we were all wearing the graduation gowns.. I remember before the ceremony, in the dinning room, there were two toddlers running around, one of them was in a yellow onesie and the other was in red. The red one was a HUGE baby boy, he was under a year old but looked like a 2 year old. And my ex was the server for that table and every time i looked over he was playing with the baby. That all i remember specifically, but after dinner i remember waiting in the lineup to file into our seats for the ceremony.

21st,
went to a friend's party, so now i have learned that drunk sleep doesnt allow me to dream.
Had one recall in the morning, after i had gotten up and went back to sleep. It was a continuation of the night, and i walked down the hall to one of the bedrooms that i hadnt seen during the tour of the house. There was a light on under the door, so i opened it, and just saw a very empty looking bedroom, very plain, so i was like *sigh* and turned around. My cousin Kristen was in the doorway of the room across the hall. I said Hi and woke up, its odd because Kristen wasnt at the party, i always dream that shes with me.

I am walking down a high street and see a bunch of people about to cross the road. I decide to follow them as they seem to know where they are going. We all go into a shop which sells meats and cheeses.

I arrive at an airport or train station and it is dark and raining. I have a suitcase with me. A man offers to let me share his taxi (it is a British black cab). I get in the cab and sit with my case on the floor in front of me.

I posted an amusing story of me killing myself in a lucid the other day and thought id post this one that i had a while back..

SO im in a dream on a building blabla and then i become lucid and i thought it would be.. i dont know cool to see what it would feel like to jump off a building..because when i hit the ground id die and wake up anyway.. kay WRONG!

I brace myself for the jump and smile as im falling down.. yeh then i hit the ground..
but instead of waking up.. i actually HIT the ground and lay there with the worst pain imaginable.. all my bones are broken and sticking out and crumbled.. and then AFTER
ive felt all this pain.. then i wake up. fml.

I'm a rabbit. That's odd enough.

Well, I'm an anthropomorphic rabbit - kind of like a furry, but more realistic; I'm actually a rabbit walking on two legs, just human-sized. I'm very light-colored and I'm somehow aware that I have a strip of dark orange fur down my back, though at no point in the dream do I look at my back. I am also a cowboy rabbit (cowgirl, really, though I wasn't really wearing the stereotypical cowgirl suit) and as such I am dressed up in desert cowboy gear. Two fox tails are hanging off of the back of my hat as a testament to my hunting skills.

I am sitting in the wide open desert, on a rug outside of a tent, fiddling with my gear. Even though it is the desert, it isn't burning hot, oddly enough - the wind's blowing crisp and pleasantly cool, like on a nice Fall day. I look up and a yellow-furred mouse I recognize to be my elder and mentor is walking towards me. I wave, turn to back up my stuff into my satchel, and then begin to walk towards him. He tells me that this desert is different from others and he needs to teach me some of the dangers.

We walk in a straight line, on a path that is edged by dunes. As we go along, chatting casually, I notice that the dunes are getting more and more detailed - I'm seeing wildlife and strange, colorful plants growing out of them. At one point, in between two dunes on my right, there's a long rectangular pond edged by stones with blooming cherry trees and grass surrounding it. Underneath the cherry trees, the sky is different - there are large, puffy clouds slowly moving across the blue, reflected in the water. It's a bit like a Japanese garden, and very vivid.

We keep walking, however. One other landscape stands out in my memory. Between two dunes, there are several large leafed-out trees and colorful plants poking up from the sand. Eagerly, I step forward to walk through, curious to see what's on the other side - but my mentor pulls me back, and several seconds later a group of predatory venomous frogs between the sands. He reminds me to always look before you leap, and then says that that's enough for the day.

There's a small timeskip and suddenly I'm at home, in the kitchen, near my mother - an older plain brown rabbit wearing a blue dress. I remember the kitchen being a very dingy, small version of my grandmother's, with much less color. The windows over the sink have a view of tree-covered mountains, surrounded by gray mist and an overcast sky. (Last time I looked out in a window in a dream, I saw this same view and it was also in a dark, dingy room, over a sink. Potential dreamsign, maybe?) There is a ladder behind me leading to the attic/my room, so I climb up it.

The room is made of dark, slightly faded wood, and the ceiling seems like it was in a pattern like a wicker basket. I can still hear my mentor's voice in my head, though I didn't see him any more - he is telling me that it is almost Christmas. Indeed, as I look around the room, there are various shelves and my dresser topped Christmas ornaments, though they are scattered and disheveled. My mentor tells me to clean them up to make my mother happy, because she is sad for some reason, so I do - I go around the room and polish and arrange them. There is one set of chesslike pieces of Christmas figures that stand out in my mind for some reason; they are slightly worn and made of frosted blue glass.

Eventually, I sit back down on my bed to observe my handiwork - the room is considerably brighter and cheerier. In fact, the color itself seems more vivid, and the lighting is as if someone turned off a harsh, sterile white light like one you would see in a doctor's office and turned on a yellowier, friendlier one. I feel happier and warmer on the inside, and I am aware that relatives are coming into the house downstairs. I head back to the kitchen, which is bright and happy once more.

Then I wake up.

At first I was at school, in Mrs. G's classroom. I saw Mrs. M walk into our class. She briefly waved and said hi, but then left to the other classes. I asked Mrs. G why she wouldn't come in or anything, and she said that there had apparently been some quarrel between Mrs. M and the "higher-ups."

She walked to the doorway again. She was wearing that green jacket again. I ran to her and greeted her. Then we went to the hallway, and we embraced. I started crying.

"It was so horrible that last year..."

I said it so quiet that I don't know if she heard. She seemed really upset too.

Then I was at school, but in a different room. It had a big projector screen. We were watching or listening to something. Mrs. G was telling us an assignment, something to do with picking a song. Earlier I had walked by the hallway and heard Mrs P's class doing it, and they got to pick their songs. And so I raised my hand and told Mrs. G that we should get to pick too. After a bit of hesitation she agreed. I decided that I would probably pick "The Old Ways" by Loreena Mckennitt, since it's probably my all time favorite song. Then the projector started playing random songs, as if it knew our favorites. One came on that was a LM song, and I thought it was The Old Ways at first, but then I realized that it wasn't.

Then I was outside, in my mom's car. She was dropping me off at school, even though it was apparently after school. I saw MA on her bike waving at me. I waved back. When I got out, everything was snowy. Then MA biked toward me with a bag of candy, but she seemed to be angry with me for some reason, and she went right past me.

The last part is just a fragment; I remember seeing a square of rainbows.