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Had the nuttiest dreams last night. 2 Fragments and 2 full dreams:

Fragments:
1. Gypsies (I watched an American Gypsy marathon so that explains why my first dream was about them).
2. A girl in a car (think this has to do with helping my mom purchase a new car).

Full Dream:
1. I was some kind of assistant to a woman of wealth in Paris. There were lots of shops and ornate buildings around. I had to take my bosses dog to the vet but it (the dog) was cold and wanted its mommy.

Another assistant convinced me to tell everyone our bosses were in meetings so we could enjoy an extended lunch break.

2. Some guy was really sick...possibly dying. He wanted to smell the clean shaven wrist of Whitney Houston before he died or passed out. I didn't see WH but there was a detached silky smooth scented wrist for him to inhale at the end of the dream.

I tried SSILD for the 2nd night in a row. Though I have yet to experience lucidity my dreams have taken on a new quality. They're more vivid and full. Extremely realistic. I had two full dreams and a couple of fragments I can't recall:

1. Dream #1 - I was having a conversation with Mitt Romney's mom (though he looked like George Bush). She was really old with white hair. We talked about her long marriage to her husband. How he was sick and can't get around the way he used to. And she spoke about her Mormon faith. Nice lady. Though I'm not sure why I'd dream about her.

2. Dream #2 - My family and I were in the dining room preparing for supper. Everything and everyone looked exactly as they do IRL except my husband. My dream husband was quite large (like a linebacker) and unsmiling. As I pushed myself from the dinner table I notice my huge pregnant tummy! Somehow I knew I was carrying a boy. My hubby and I were happy about the baby but not with each other. There was polite tension that made me feel uneasy around him.

The thing that got me about dream #2 is how real it seemed! I can't stress that enough. It totally felt like it was happening. The action was so mundane and familiar. By the time strange things began to register the dream was over! Unfortunately my son woke me up before the dream naturally ended.

No lucids. But I sure had a lot dreams! Five dreams/fragments in total. Which is probably a record for me. There seemed to be a cluster of them in the hour before waking up.

As usual I was woken up separately by my dog and both kids. Which was fine as I'd planned to just sleep and not worry about LD's or AP's. However I had my dream #1 early on (around midnight) about reality star I'm not fond of.

After waking up the first time I fell into dream #2 about a mother getting shot at a graduation ceremony and the ensuing panic among students and faculty. There was a brief discussion about the culprit. And I actually saw a DC's mouth move. - I woke up at the end. But was so bothered by the shooting I imagined a different scenario and ended up in dream #3.

Dream #3 took place in the same auditorium only this time it was full of younger kids. School was letting out and I had equipment to take to my car. It was raining and I had to walk down a slippery hill to get to my car. Kids were playing football with sanitation workers on the hill. Since my trunk was wet I carefully broke my equipment down and placed it in the back seat.

Dream #4 was a fragment about working out. I looked awesome!

Dream #5 was about a woman on Long Island letting her teenage son have an overnight visit with his girlfriend at an Island Resort on "Pia" Island. I looked at her like she had two heads (LOL)!

The last 3 dreams occurred in the last hour of sleep....like a dream chain. Seemed as if each of them lasted a long time. But they had to be just a few minutes long. Not sure why I couldn't remain lucid when the dreams kicked in. One minute I was imagining something and the next I was dreaming. I don't recall any transitions at all!