Tuesday 8/12/4 Last night bed at 11:15pm - 5:45 am Alarm woke me up right when my brother was explaining to me how he broke my phone... We are sitting on a bus, still parked outside of our place. Portugese police came to arrest us. Me, my brother, mom and dad, and I think others. It's not a police for criminals, but more like political police, for opposition and stuff. We are in large upstairs room, when we hear an explosion. Someone grabbs binoculars to look at the perimeter of the city. Some soldiers were there protecting the town from rebels, or vice versa. We are wondering if this is a sign that they are coming for us. A military jeep full of people drives by quickly and we think they will pass us, but they stop and then few more military vehicles stop in front of us and they turn sideways to block the road. So we know they would be coming and when I hear many footsteps coming upstairs, I take off my black work uniform pants and start looking for my jeans I had on earlier. Many people walk in and they tell us we have to go with them. I ask if I can get dressed and feed the cats and stuff and they say yes. They are keeping an eye on us while they let us finish up. I can't find the jeans I had on recently, but find another pair. I fill the food bowl with cat food and have my brother give them more water. They are taking our computers and we are half-jokingly taking with them. Telling them what cables they will need for them, and how I'm not gonna remember the password for my old computer. We are joking with them, but I know it's serious, and the gonna make me remember the password one way or the other. I'm still looking for more things to take with me, but they finally usher us outside. There are two buses. Outside of the one on the left are dozens of cardboard boxes with our things in them. I joke that next time we move, we should hire them, because they did it so fast. We get on the bus on the right side. Bus is full of us and agents. We are still not going anywhere. Not sure what we waiting for. A huge moth flies in and starts fluttering on my brothers shirt. It's so big, we all think it's a small bird. I pick it up and marvel about it. I show it to the agents and I'm so upset that I don't have my camera. I ask them I could get it, but they are amuzed that I still don't get how much trouble I'm in and what they gonna do to me. So I ask them to take my picture with this moth. I tell them a friend of mine found a 5 inch long caterpillar called Hook Worm and these moth are from it. (Ophelia talked about these and linked pic to it, she has them oh=n her tomatoes). I ask two young agents for a pic, but they don't do it. I tell them I love takeing pictures in other countries on bus rides, but they are thinking "well, you not exactly on a tour bus, are you". A woman agent gets on and starts checking me with handheld metal detector. My teeth beep slightly and I tell her I have screws there, so they don't try and find out what it is : (. I have a feeling they will maybe anyway, but now they don't worry about it too much. I tell them I have a friend in Portugal on the forum, but I don't remember his name. And also in Spain, but don't remember name as well. My brother hands me my red phone and I ask him why is the back part of the case peeling off and he starts explaining whey alarm wakes me up.
· NON-DREAM · NOTES · DREAM · LUCID · I am in Portugal on holiday. I am playing in an old shack, and we are playing dodgeball. I can't see who is throwing the balls. I am walking outside, up onto a roof where I glance out over a vast lake and lean on the railings. My friend Aimee comes up to me, holding a fish in her fingers by its tail. We talk about Portugal, a lively conversation. We watch as people swim up a water treadmill catching koi. Aimee says its a Japanese tradition. I ask my dad if I can try, but he says no because it is our last night on holiday. I talk with my dad about how the fair and lake was open at night even though the workers went home. In the distance there are twinkling lights, most probably lights of a nearby town. I an at an airport. Dad mentions something about me and my friend Skye watching a movie about T-rexes. He says that my little sister can't, so she has to go make posters and colouring pages of dogs. She is about to go off with a little posh girl, coated in fur and with voluminous blonde hair. She has an English accent, and looks snooty and rich. End.
My recall was terrible last night so I only remember a short fragment which is too bad. But I think in general it is getting a lot better. (3 months ago I couldn't even remember any dreams.) I'm still at only 1 lucid but all day awareness and RCs are definitely helping, I actually ended up doing an RC in one of my dreams the other night but I never became lucid. Anyway, still practising. My goal is to achieve lucids almost everyday, which would be amazing. Definitely trying to make it happen. Anyway, that's it for today! -Cheers! October 17, 2011 - At the train station - Portugal Vividness: 5/10 lucid: No. # of Dreams Recalled: 1 Fragment Dream Time: ~30minutes Guide: [-] Lucid [-] Non - Lucid [-] DC talk [-] Notes Fragment 1 I’m in a train station bathroom in Portugal with a guy named Sandro. We had to wait for the train so we used the bathroom in the meantime. The bathroom looked very dark. I remember being really hot and dry so I took off my shirt and put it underneath the tap. Sandro asked what I was doing but we soon realised the train was here so we rushed out of the bathroom and got on this red – looking, double decked bus; Similar to the ones seen in London. I had a glasses case with me on the station platform just before we got on. The glasses case held our tickets. Sandro just rushed on the tram heading upstairs while I showed the woman who was driving our tickets. Sandro looked quite surprised. I guess he was surprised that I actually still held the tickets because he thought I lost them. When we get off the tram, we are at the beach. I see one of my friends from school, Alex and say hi to him. The station we get off at looks very much like a beach area. I remember it being sunny and quite busy.
Fifth DJ entry! However, I still havent had a lucid experience yet. I'm not sure what it could be, I've been trying so hard lately to do a DILD however I can't get my mind to recognise I'm in a dream. MILD next, we'll see how that goes. Anyway, my insomnia has been gone for the past month because of routine and consistency with my sleep schedule. Its totally awesome just being able to sleep normally again and fall asleep within a half-hour. Also I'm thinking of drawing some sketches on paper and uploading them here so you guys can sort of have a visual element when you read this journal. Just trying to make it a bit more interesting. That's it for news today! -Cheers! September 16 - 17, 2011 - Train Crash. Vividness: 8.5/10 Lucid: No # of Dreams Recalled: 1 Guide: [-] Lucid [-] Non - Lucid [-] DC talk [-] Notes Had a weird dream last night but I loved it because it was like an action packed movie. Anyway, not much which I wrote down because I couldn't force myself to do a full DJ entry at 4:00am. Dream 1 I remember being in Portugal riding on a newly built transit infrastructure project which they had just implemented. I was on this single track line of what seemed to be an above ground subway train. This train would take you all over the city that you were in. I boarded the train with my family and it was going pretty smoothly for a while until the driver jumped out the window while the train was still going at really high speeds. I remember hearing all this screaming as the train needed to go through this tight corner. Finally, someone opened the door and and he said, "Quick! Jump off!" And we jumped off as fast as we could while we pushing to get off the train and we had just made it. The train then derailed itself and crashed into a glass pane before catching on fire. ...And that was really all I remember because I didn't write much down.
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