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02.05.2010

85: 5.2.10; 12:05PM Part 2: Mental Institution in the Old West. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I'm out at a Burger King with a friend who works at McDonald's, so we decide to make a scene and run off.

I wind up back at my mom's house and see Sarah leaving, and I start looking around the house and leaving some items in hidden places that I'd removed from the premises earlier.

The dream transitions again and I'm in what appears to be a mental institution combined with a hospital, and I'm talking with a woman who is very thankful for my kindness and for talking with her. I walk down the long room and through the doorway when I hear her ask, "Who are you?" I turn back and after a moment's thought, reply, "I'm just trying to help everyone."

In the next room I discover, and one of the mentally unstable patients is out in the street below (this dream takes place on the second floor, and the town is looking every bit like an old Western town, by the way) with a shield and sword, and apparently requested a fight with me. Others in the room aim their rifles toward the window to shoot down at him, but I tell them to lower their weapons, that I'd fight him myself. I wake up before the fight starts.

02.05.2010

85: 5.2.10; 10:25AM Part 1: Beaten with a Flamethrower! (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I'm inside a game like Socom 3, my adversaries being humans and some interesting blue and black armoured monsters. I have difficulty killing the humans because no matter how many rounds I pump into their heads, they don't die. I pull out a flamethrower-like weapon and burn some monsters to death, then flip the gun around and begin beating another monster to the ground, stepping on his tail to prevent him from escaping or moving.

01.05.2010

84: 5.1.10; 10:45AM Matt Tuck's Credit Card. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am hanging out with Matt Tuck from Bullet For My Valentine. He's working on what appears to be homework, and sets his credit card down on the table while he works. I clearly see the numbers and consider taking them down, but I decide against it, not wanting to be malicious toward him. He asks me to help him with a worksheet of finding parallelograms, and I wake up thereafter.

I work on my lucid goals and try to ignore my interfering parents.

I'm wandering through a house, and I stop at a piano. There's sheet music open, and it looks interesting, so I sit down and start to play it. I play the song through entirely, and listen to the notes hum and fade away as the song ends. Then I start from the beginning, trying to memorize it.

Still in the house, which I think might belong to a relative. My dad stops me and asks for my help with something, but something feels off. I realize that I'm dreaming and take in my surroundings, surprised by how stable the dream is, and how real everything looks. My dad still wants help, but I tell him that I can't get caught up in the dream-plot.

It was hard to tell, I say to my mom, that this was a dream. Our surroundings have been very stable, and the only part of the house that's changed has been the twin beds that appeared in the living room.

I try to remember my dream goals. Right, I wanted to open a portal. I stretch out my hand and will a circle to form, growing outward from the spot where my hand is. I start to see blue rings form, but the dream fades.

I see title credits. That's it: a black background with words on it. I don't even have a body, though I'm still lucid. My entire awareness is focused within this little black box I've made for myself.

Frustrated, I post the journal entry on the forums, in my old DJ thread. The Cusp (who I don't think I've ever interacted with) makes a few suffestions. He says that if portals don't work for me, I shouldn't force it, and should try another method.

Scare Factor: 2.

With my DCs on a probationary driving period, it's up to me to play chauffeur. Also, black cats and an upcoming apocalypse.



I'm watching a horror movie unfurl through its main character. In this dream, I'm a lonely, middle-aged man who lives in a run-down apartment in the north end of Halifax. I'm taking out the garbage, first thing in the morning, reflecting on the fact that I actually feel happy, for once. I just spent the night with a woman who I really like, and it looks as if the relationship might last.

I feel my heart sink when I step outside. The alley is swarming with black cats. I can communicate with a few of them, and they have nothing but bad news about the supernatural elements moving around town.

And that's all I remember.

***

I'm standing on a rooftop in downtown Halifax, chatting with some of the people who are starting school this year. We talk about the dilapidated, ugly buildings that are most of the school buildings. I say that I actually like them; they're fun to take photographs of.

Some of the buildings, I'm pretty sure I explored in previous dreams. One of them is practically abandoned, and you can scavenge a lot of material from the place, if you're looking for it.

I offer a girl a ride home, and we drive through (rather confusing) one ways without much incident. The roads are practically empty. Our path continues into a parking garage and up a flight of steps, and I have to shake my head at the absurdity. I reverse, and pull back onto the road. Then I start wondering about the unisex bathrooms in the building, and how great it would be if they were everywhere.

***

I'm at the Ixburg swimming pool, swimming away. We have to vacate the pool, though, to make room for the shrimp.

Oh, now there's piles of pineapple and shrimp in the pool. I pick up one of the shrimp and eat it raw, not finding anything strange about this, even though I'm a vegetarian. One of my friends looks at me in horror.

I wander over to talk to the Corrupt Corporate Executive by the lifeguard station, a woman who is obviously planning something evil. I ask her what's going on, and she candidly tells me that they're trying to bring about the apocalypse.

"Oh, well," I say, rolling my eyes. "That's all right, then."

She explains that there's actually eight or nine horsemen of the apocalypse, and how the devil, as our culture knows him, is actually one of them. She gestures at a guy with bright red skin and a scraggly beard, with insects crawling all over him.

"Is that pestilence?" I ask, looking over at him.

"No, that's the devil."

"That's not Lucifer." I say incredulously.

The woman explains that there are several entities in the known universe who have collectively been referred to as "the devil". The mythology just has us all mixed up.

"So, if I decide to kill you all, I won't be inadvertently committing suicide?"

"Not at all," the woman replies with a smile.

"Okay..." I say awkwardly. "Good to know."

Scare Factor: 3.

It's hard to guage the times this morning, because I woke up alot over the course of the night.

10:30am
FA. I woke up, and checked my watch. I somehow slept in until 2pm! At first, I was upset, because I wanted to reset myself back to days (even if I have to switch yet again on Saturday). I vaguely thought, "No, that can't be right." I woke up for real and saw that it was 10:30am. One day, I might learn to use a FA to my advantage

10:30a-10:45a
Hannah and Rudy, sitting in a tree...
I was hanging out with Hannah. She was telling me there's someone she likes. She pointed out this guy who was an albino (and had slightly reddish eyes). I had a false memory tell me that was Policeman-Rudy. My brain was confused. Rudy doesn't look like that!

[Field of WTF]
I'm observing Rudy and his partner in a field. It was snowy (and presumably cold, but I don't ever feel things in my dreams) They were checking up on people. They passed this one homeless guy who was huddled down and sleeping. Rudy told his partner to get the guy a blanket.

They kept going, and saw these two guys who were just generally looking like they were up to no good. The one cop started cuffing the one guy and Rudy was about to cuff the other. The second cuffee made a bird-like cawing sound.

I looked off into the distance and saw this bird swoop in. It was a large and very exotic bird. It came down to eye level with me and hovered, beating its wings. We stared at each other, and I reached out slowly and pet its underbelly. It was okay with that.

I saw the cuffee use the distraction to attempt a getaway. I seemed to be the only person to see it. Do I chase and tackle him? I'm a bit confused at what happened, but it ended up not playing out.

There were a group of people around now, looking at this bird. I said, "I pet it, and it didn't try to bite me, not like this dog is doing." I suddenly had this gnawing puppy on my finger. I dangled him in the air, and asked, "What kind of dog is this?" Aidan (where did he come from?) told me what breed it was. Tamika (where did SHE come from?!!) then asks me for the time. I pulled my turtle necklace out and she told me it doesn't have a clock on it. I said I didn't know what time it was...

Some Fragments
Staff Meeting
I was in a classroom, late for a staff meeting. It seemed like everyone had gotten these scratch tickets and pick 3 numbers, and I missed out on getting some. I asked Kirby about it, and at first, he thought I was suspiciously trying to get an edge up, but I said I just got here. This woman came 'round with a tray. She said I could have 1 of each scratch ticket and a chocolate bar.

Affairs
I don't remember much about this, other than recognizing that people were kissing others that weren't their partners.

80's yoga
I encountered some women doing yoga poses in horrendous looking 80's spandex workout outfits.

Should I re-dye my hair?
I was looking in a mirror and wondered if, when I get my roots touched up, should I refresh the entire colour? My hair looked fine, but I noticed the red was looking a little brassy. I looked in another mirror and saw that the red was completely gone, and I was left with this horrible orangey-blond hair (dream sign = colour-changing hair).

V and I are attending a movie, a biology documentary about wetland habitats. The screen is huge and very high-definition; underwater photography, alligators, and birds are all shown in stunning detail. After watching for a while, we move closer and closer, and finally close to kiss. The ensuing makeout is full of energy and passion, and I vividly feel both tongues writhing. There's so much energy, in fact, that she knocks out the filling from my front tooth. Its texture, hard and ugly, now enters the dream, and my brain pulls me out presumably to avoid that feeling.

I wake up (IRL, not a false awakening, thanks to RCs and my own dream journal), but when I go back to bed the dream has continued with a shift of scenes. We're now in the bathroom of the movie theatre, preparing to have sex. I try to hurry up and begin to piss... and I keep pissing. I notice, too late, that the urinal I chose has someone's shit blocking the drain, and soon the water starts to overflow. I have no choice but to continue, but as V knocks on the door to check on me the urinal breaks out of the ground! Water, piss, and shit start flowing everywhere, and she steps in the refuse with her heavy boots. The mood is, to say the least, ruined. I stumble out of the toilet trying to clean myself up and salvage the night, but another student from the research station, S, is crying to herself and washing glassware in the sink. I have no peace and wake up very frustrated.

1. It's nighttime. I'm sitting around drinking something with a friend, when suddenly I start to feel pretty bad. The dreamview switches to a close-up of my digestive tract, which shows itself to be swollen and red and close to exploding. This continues for an uncomfortable time, showing different organs, when the view suddenly goes third-person. My body explodes, splattering blood on the dream "camera" and causing an elderly couple to comment on my rudeness.

2. My brother, my roommate, and I are chasing the girls who live at my research station around the halls. Eventually they start to fight back, and I do parkour down the (IRL nonexistent) basement stairwell to hide from them.

Mn oudste zus & ik waren op terugweg van Disneyland Resort Paris. De droom daarvoor ging erover dat we er waren. Op een landelijke weg kregen we ruzie, op deze weg waren geen andere wagens of personen. Mn zus zei dat ik uit de wagen in mn rolstoel moest. Toen ik uit de wagen stapte om naar mn rolstoel te gaan besefte ik dat ik droomde. Ik ging dan maar snel bij mn zus vandaan & liep een veld in. Vanaf daar besliste ik dat ik opnieuw wou proberen te vliegen. Ik begon te zweven & vloog heel snel naar boven. Het was donker maar ik kon erg ver kijken, ik zag de lichtjes van verschillende steden. Toen wou ik snel een grote afstand vliegen. Toen ik aan het vliegen was dacht ik eraan om naar de maan te vliegen. Helaas verminderde mn snelheid & verloor ik hoogte. Ik vloog over een gebouw met Egyptische spullen & verloor nog meer hoogte. Om verder te kunnen zou ik door een muur moeten vliegen. Ik wist dat dit kon, probeerde dit ook & het lukte me. Door de muur vliegen gaf een lichte druk op mijn lichaam waar ik de muur passeerde. Daarna verloor ik nog meer snelheid & hoogte, toen werd het helemaal zwart voor mn ogen waarna ik nog twee keer vals wakker werd.

My oldest sister & me were coming back from Disneyland Resort Paris. In the dream before that we were there. On a country road my sister & I argued, on this road there were no other cars or people. She told me to get out of the car in my wheelchair. When I stepped out the car to walk to my wheelchair, I realized I was dreaming. I went away from my sister & I walked into a field. Then I decided I wanted to fly. I started to float in the air & flew very fast higher and higher. It was dark but I could see very far, I saw the lights of several cities. When I was flying I decided to fly to the moon. Unfortunately my speed reduced & I lost height. I flew towards a building with Egyptian stuff & lost even more height. To continue flying I had to fly through I wall. I knew this would be possible & I did it. Flying through that wall gave me a feeling of a soft pressure on my body where it passed the wall. I lost more height & speed. All became black before my eyes, after that I had 2 FA's.

Work Flipped:
I was at work. I served some customers, moved some large tray containers from the floor and there was something about a district manager, possibly me becoming one. The store was different in the back with the big oven on the right side, the large wooden table is horizontal and the exit in located in the north.

Thoughts: Dream fragment again, but, bad night for recall. Still better than nothing

frags

Angel and I are white tigers in a place that looks like a forest in Europe. We are playfully wrestling at the foot of a castle. I feel so natural as a tiger, I have no lucidity.

frag

Angel and I are now in half human half tiger form. We stand at the top of a sea cliff. We are wearing mideavel clothes. The grass is bright green. Everything is vivid and beautiful. We watch a bright orange sunset, and I hold her as the sun dips into the sea.

[I]This dream was so beautiful, I can't really put it into words.[/I]

I attribute this dream of sparse recollection to the extreme amount of stress that's been in my life recently. As most of us know that stress is extraordinarily detrimental to dream recall; and I've been having quite a bit of stress, making dream journal entries difficult

I remember being very upset, I remember this emotion to be surprisingly vivid. I was upset because of my concern for some sort of change in my sleep schedule; I think it was because I wasn't getting enough sleep or something, I don't know for sure (as stated earlier this dream was of very sparse recollection).
I also remember the image of Count Dracula (the literal Count Dracula that actually existed in Transylvania, not the fictional movie character Dracula), and I remember talking about him; asking somebody (I can't remember who I was talking to): "Do you even know what Dracula looks like?!" For some strange reason unbeknownst to me, we were talking about vampirism as if it was an actual disease; and if it's beneficial or detrimental to survival.

Anybody know some tips for helping with dream recall?
And if you do answer, please don't give me that obvious answer "oh you should just read the dream recall tutorial."

Weird and Odd, possibly Scary and Perplexing:
I was on some trip, possibly to Toronto. I was on a ship or a train but with no roof looking at the scenery. I ended up getting onto this train and tried to find a seat. I was signalled by a girl who I knew. I told them I didn't want to be a bother but they said it wasn't a problem. I ended up sitting next to one of the members on this forum(keeping his name anonymous) across from these two girls. I still didn't feel satisified though and they could tell. It was something to do with the guy. I think we were friends but we had a recent fight and weren't talking to each other. The next thing that happened was the strangest thing. While in his seat, he gave me a quick kiss on the cheek(bleh). It was supposed to signal that everything was ok between us and we can be friends again, although, his expression didn't seem to match that. Dreams skips and we have arrived to where we were supposed to go. We walk around near shops and restaurants and it's pretty dark. We pass two girls who are laughing at something.

Thoughts: Soo weird and pretty random. I guess I fufilled the mysterious mind part that I was talking about at the start of my DJ It was pretty quick, so, I don't think much of it. Lucky for him, I wasn't lucid or else Anyways, odd dream and pretty bad recall, since, this was a fragment

I was with Cameron in L4D in real life. We were scared so I went inside a giant building and Cam followed. There were two platform like things across from eachother with cardboard boxes acting as stairs to get up. Zombies were attacking us from all sides. Cameron reminded me of my knockback action to knock them off the platform.

Later we saw a helicopter cutscene were it landed on the opposite platform and dropped 2 healthkits.

Dream ends...

It was the last day of school in a weird school.

I went in the front doors and saw Sydney naked in a fountain with some other girls, I tried not to look (<-That's exactly how I know I wasn't Lucid) I went down a ramp to the left near the commons

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I was in the commons and there were a ton of people going crazy I later found that someone had broken my black glasses in a similar manner as my expensive ray bans.

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I was sitting at a table watching the lunch lady set out lunch choices and I was trying to decide before I got there..