Dream - Lucid I was at work talking to Taylor about going to Oregon together on a trip. I then remember being in an apartment with him at night and seeing what looked like a small tornado hit the glass on the floor-to-ceiling window. "Take cover! It's a tornado!" I said as the thing pounded on the window once before disappearing. It left an indentation in the glass and some debris behind that stuck to the window. It looked like machine parts. I then felt silly for freaking out about it because it apparently wasn't a tornado. Something about a stag and these waves of dirt on the Earth that had to do with the stag. ~ I was working in the coffee shop again. It was under new management like it is IWL and was inside of an apartment instead of a shop. It was really slow, as you would imagine business would be. I knew it was only a matter of time before the shop went under. I didn't understand why they would do this when they had had a perfectly good shop in the first place. I was talking to someone about this. I then noticed that there was more room towards the back for people to sit down in, a little area with tables and chairs. Maybe this place wasn't so small and insignificant after all. It was then liked I was in the bakery, and we had to make all these special orders for people. There was one for a therapist that I stopped seeing awhile ago. I didn't recognize that at first until I saw her. I hoped she didn't see me, but too late, she did. She said "You need to come back and see me!" in a cheerful tone. I didn't respond. I was then preparing these cupcakes/brownies with cookies on top. Shannon showed me how to put the cookies on top. I started to put one cookie on some and three on others, but decided that two was the best choice to make them all even. I fixed the ones with one and that had one and three and made them all have two. I then came out with an extra cupcake/brownie thing and had to cut it and the edges to make it the same size as the others. I clipped the edges off the way I thought they looked best. I wasn't sure at first if I was doing it right, but I compared it with the others and thought it looked passable. I was then outside. There were chairs, tables, and umbrellas. It was sunny and daytime out. I knew what was going to happen next: Someone was about to open fire on the coffee shop and go on a shooting spree. I even knew there would be some people who wouldn't make it. Then, a man's voice yelled "GET DOWN ON THE GROUND!" I dropped to the sidewalk, and other people there did as well. I was underneath a table and heard the gun going and going and going. It just kept shooting. I was afraid for my life. The shots then ended and I got up. Inside at a table there were some dead people, some black men that were from Africa. I walked around a little and started to notice a wet feeling on the back of my neck. I then saw blood dripping down my leg. I had been shot in the back of the neck! I needed help before I lost too much blood. A man found me, I think it was Keith, one of the previous owners of the shop. He was so upset that I had gotten hurt. He helped me to a hospital. At some point, I saw blood dripping onto the floor. At another point, I saw the wound after the bullet was taken out. It was quite small and looked to be scabbed over already. At another point, I felt that this wasn't real, and I became lucid. There was a guy with me who looked like my husband's best friend, and I said "This is a dream!" He was quite close to my face and he just looked at me. I then woke up. ~ I was at work at the bakery. It was nighttime. I was working with Taylor and Kaitlin. I was supposed to get off of work at 9, but we were so slow and caught up that I clocked out at almost 8 o'clock. As I was leaving, I saw Taylor and Kaitlin working on something. I hoped that they didn't need my help. I had to be at work by 6am the next day anyway. I was thinking about how Shannon would probably be mad at me for leaving early, but oh well, too late now. I then briefly woke up and thought that that had really happened. I then went back to sleep. I was back at work, and the computer screen there was a buttery yellow color. I had left it that way; I was supposed to clean it off before I left. There was a note typed up in the top left corner of the screen with some quote about cleanliness from the assistant CS manager. I started to scrape the yellow stuff off with my fingernail. ~ Again, I was working at the coffee shop, though it looked different. Two girls came in, one about 12, the other a teen, and ordered some drinks, a cafe' au lait for the older one, and some kind of latte for the younger one. I realized that we had no milk. We also had these weird milk steamers that were hand-held. I looked in vain for milk. I remember seeing some black coffee that looked steamed and bubbly. I felt bad for making the girls wait. What kind of coffee shop runs out of milk?? I had to apologize for the wait to the girls. The younger girl then changed her order to an amaretto latte. I then ran to another coffee shop to borrow milk. I told the guy working that I needed enough milk for a cafe' au lait and a latte. He poured some milk into a steaming pitcher for me and gave it to me. I looked inside the pitcher, and it didn't look like there was barely any milk, and it looked like it was separated; the white part was on the bottom, and on the top it looked like water. Ok...weird... I then was back in the coffee shop and looked in the pitcher again and saw that it was full of orange juice! What...the heck. I didn't want to make these girls wait any longer, so I decided to change the OJ into milk by thinking about it. I realized I was dreaming for a split second while doing this, but quickly faded back into the NLD. I was kind of succeeding at the beverage change. I eventually steamed it, which I remembered how to do surprisingly well. It now definitely looked like milk. I gave them the drinks. I couldn't remember exactly what the younger girl had said she wanted in her latte. She then went over to a self-serve area and put some kind of amaretto powder into her drink. Alright, whatever! ~ I was in the library in college. I was getting on a computer. Jason was next to me on a computer. He was playing Starcraft. I then also started to play. My base was right next to his. We were both playing as the Zerg race. I was literally trying to build on his land. I built some kind of something, honestly I don't remember what it was, I think it was to make the most basic attack Zergs (can't recall what they're called). His drones started to attack them. I then started to try building a base around his, but he kept attacking me as I was doing so. I would succeed, but his drones would kill off any progress I was making. I decided to quit because I didn't think we were supposed to be playing Starcraft on the library computers anyway. It then showed a screen that had the word FEMALE on it inside of a bar and the bar filled up almost all the way in a lime green color. It was a bonus for being one of the few female Starcraft players. I went on there again and immediately got attacked by more advanced Zerg fighters. I quickly quit again, this time receiving no bonus.
Dream 1(fragments): I was playing some game and there were important statistics i was looking at. Dream 2(fragments): I was playing some game that was kinda mix of rts and fps, we were doing some research about hats and i was talking to some scientist dude. Then there was one enemy hiding on our base and spying and we had to take him out. Dream 3(fragments): I was playing starcraft 2 and there was a big battle.
Dream 1(fragment): There was some kind of school. Dream 2(fragment): I was on train station and i was searching for someone specific that i had mission to kill. Dream 3(fragments): I was playing starcraft 2 and all units could shift between two forms, i was reading some tips and there was a missile launcher tank unit that everyone considered useless.
Updated 11-17-2013 at 02:15 PM by 59854
Dream 1(fragments): I was playing some platformer. Dream 2(fragments): I was playing some rts that was like mix of warcraft 2 and starcraft, at one point Dream 3(fragments): There was something about getting out of some dungeon and opening doors using keys and some special ability that manipulated keys and positions.
Dream 1(fragments): I was watching a few yogscast minecraft videos, one of them was about some kind of pvp castle level and there were more weapons than usual minecraft. Dream 2(fragments): I was playing some FPS, going through some indoor areas and there were some characters, later i was on rooftops, searching for path and jumping between them, and was complaining that skybox ceiling is too low. Dream 3(fragments): I was playing some shmup which was horizontal danmaku style, i was controlling spaceship and enemies were using some kind of abstract designs. Then there was boss fight. Dream 4: I was testing what apparently was some warcraft 3 level that was created by me and SilentEternity was helping. The map was coop in some castle and we were controlled some hero units and had to survive against waves of enemies with increasing difficulty. Enemies were some kind of mutants and enemy had hero unit as well, which was more powerful than our with SilentEternity heroes together, also there were some AI controlled ally units, but they were pretty weak. We ended up running our heroes around whole map and the play was interrupted by a few cutscenes where some dwarf with huge hammer was teleporting in and trying to attack the enemy hero. Then later on, another cutscene activated, but this time our heroes were together with dwarf, then cutscene screwed up because i apparently made an error in some script, so i had to go fix it. After that we have switched to starcraft 2, another custom map which immediately started with some cutscene about heroes and some talk, when it ended the map itself started and it was pretty snowy. We started in south part and had three heroes under our control, one of which was some kind of assassin with a hood, cyan hair and a tatoo on one of arms, SilentEternity was curious about him. We moved north-west and reached river, i took control of some building that could produce some units including one unit that looked green dragon-like. After some scouting we have found out that there are three AI zerg bases on the map which we had to destroy, and they were expanding quickly, then suddenly SilentEternity had zerg base under his control as well so we started attacking enemy base to the north, then we found out about backdoor path to enemy bases through some mountains.
Some good recall today. Dream 1: I was doing some stuff at home, was going into bathroom but was constantly interrupted, then i was going to some kind store with some people, i didn't know way so was just following. Eventually we found it and it was kinda arabian store, we were searching for a specific movie but haven"t found it. We went through some city places and soon reached another store, which looked exactly the same. Vendor had that movie and he really liked it so he joined us in watching it. That movie was not a normal movie, but some kind of combination between movie and anime. It was about a group of badass dudes who were traveling through wasteland mountainy areas on the pickup truck and were fighting mutants and talking inbetween the fights. At one point the strongest looking dude got some kind of 'overcharge' power and started destroying lots of enemies, then there was one sniper dude with an irokez who had electrical powers that he should not be using, but then he got 'overcharge' as well, gaining yellow lightning around himself and his sniper rifle turned into laser rifle with red laser. It was quite awesome. Dream 2: I was playing some video game that looked like Spore creature stage, except there were some kind of tree mazes and platformer elements all over the place and it was more like usual 3D platformer/adventure game, also there was huge city in background, i had trouble finding the right path around the level. At one point i kinda found the way 'into' background and there were weird statues around. Then after that level it turned to be RTS and was looking more like Starcraft 2 graphically, i was controlling group of soldiers and was scouting in some jungle-like place. Then i found some kind of enemy base but it was guarded by some creatures that looked like dinosaurs but had insect-like eyes and metallic roar. There were like four big ones than were glowing red or blue when angered, depending on target, and that was switching them to really overpowered mode, plus there were alot of smaller ones. Eventually i figured out the way to get group through, but it there were simply not enough forces to deal with them all. Dream 3(fragments): I was playing some japanese shmup and i had weird problems setting resolution, the screen was glitching out while i was trying to fix it. Dream 4: I was playing some game and there was global world map, i was able to control nukes and bombers all over the place and i was targeting a few places while fighting off enemy bombers. Then it transitioned into some flat land forest and i apparently could summon trees and they kinda had low gravity, plus there was a level boundary, trees summoned into level boundary were launched at crazy force. I still had access to global map and nukes so i was kinda switching between both, at times global map looked similar to waking world, at other times it was different.
Dream 1(fragment): I recall being in some kind of futuristic vehicle and then visiting some kind of a base. Dream 2(fragments): I was in team of villains and we were doing some stuff and i had some type of ability, we had an hideout and there was some kind of mechanism, but it was not working anymore. Then something went wrong and i was kicked off the team. Then i was in some video game, that was some first person shooter with guns, but later it transformed into an RTS. It looked like an combination of Warcraft 3 and Starcraft, there were units and buildings from both. The mission was to protect the base, but most of the attackers were SCVs for whatever reason, though they were rather powerful SCVs. Marines were defending the base and there were bunkers too, some mages were supporting them and workers were building more buildings. I was controlling some special builder that was technically helping the base, but he had other plans and the objective was to not let anyone discover that it's special builder till certain point in the game. Enemy units were becoming more powerful with time and base was getting more buildings with more powerful units too, but in the end, very massive dark thing arrived at the mountain to the north. That was the time to use special abilities of builder, i morphed him into 'living' building and started made a special unit. As it was ready video game switched back to first person and i was controlling that unit. Game got to the point where there was mass of the buildings that were spawning black dragons to attack that huge enemy, but there was not much success until i attacked it with my unit. The size of that enemy was so huge that it was bigger than the whole base, he was attacking using dark energy projectiles but he ended up destroying units on his side as i was dodging them with my unit, making me laugh. Then i started throwing series of huge fireballs at him, that were so powerful, they were knocking him back! In the end, the enemy was destroyed. And dream skipped. Can't recall much after that but there i was in tunnels and there was some problem for which i had to hire a lawyer apparently.
Pretty fragmented recall once again. Dream 1(Fragments): I recall i was with group of people and we were planning something. We were in outdoor area with lots of big containers and we were talking that this position is unfair in some way. Then there was police trying to capture us, and i was fighting with them by biting them. Then there was scene in some tight and dark technical futuristic area where starcraft marine was hunting for an zergling that was hiding in there and escaping through vents. Then i was trying to find something in the same area. Dream 2(Fragment): I recall some kind of open area.
24.07.2011Starcraft II (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I was spectating from the player's view of an RTS game. I was "defender of the casle" (yes, the screen mispelled it) A Command & Conquer Generals homebase was up, as well as four others. I told the builder to make roads between them. These roads carved out massive canyons to make the roads, oddly. I was quickly swarmed by an opposing team with two units -- a rusher. he took me out. A grenade was chucked high up and bounced off the sky ceiling, back to ground. My camera changed to just behind the grenade and controlled it until it hit a target. Fade.
Police Car Chase (non-lucid) Kenan & Kel (or should I say Kel & Kenan) and I rob a convenience store for drug money. I was more or less just along for the ride. They pulled a gun and things got real. "Let's go!" I yell. "Someone call the cops!" a customer said. We jump in our car and take off. The cops in hot pursuit. We lose them at an intersection. They had to stop to avoid crashing. I get dropped off at my house with my share. Bush's Starcraft Challenge (non-lucid) I win a contest. Bush writes a check for $85, 000. Next a SC2 tourney for money. I face an unknown. Everyone plays random. PvP. Early base race. I win. Then I fight QXC. T(me)vZ. A long, close match but he won with some mutas. I used a BC, a tank, seigeable hellion, and a squad of marines but its wasn't enough. He had weird cloaked, worm units that forced my units to burrow. Disorder (non-lucid) People crashing cars into other cars, people getting pinned by cars. Store owners with guns. Rape and murder. I was with a group of people being ushered up into a parking garage. I was in shock. I didn't know what was going on.
not much going on. move along. Starcraft 2's (non-lucid) I start playing Starcraft and see I have a partner We are both sitting in my living room.. That is odd. Must have click the wrong button. I try to build the hatchery but can't. That is really strange too. The game continue and we aren't attack. I go scout the opponent and see who we are playing by going into the kitchen. My family is out there eating pizza. We scout the map and have no opponents. yeah
fixed. new video game dreamsign? Vancouver or Korea (non-lucid) I was in Vancouver or Korea at some big convention. I entered an elevator and up to the second floor where I was playing Starcraft at some computer lab. Some on screen text read "hacking". I felt my account was unsafe and went to the first floor. I was looking at marijuana edibles. Some guy offered free real hash browns but it had a hair on it. I went to another booth and got a giant piece of cake and sat down to eat it as the dream ends. My uncle was there. Frags: 1. I was hanging out with a friend playing xbox. I was thinking "Last time I saw you I was dreaming." 2. I was playing mw2 and seriously destroying the opponents. 3. forgotten dream: I was at blizzon and just sort of waiting in a big line. Then I got to computer lab room with a big projector. Playing sc2.
Updated 09-13-2010 at 08:15 AM by 29419
PART 1 - DAY9 Starcraft 2 Day9 commentary, something about Mutalisks... real life story behind it... ANALYSIS Triggered by a comment on the DV forums about Day9 that I made shortly before bed. - - - PART 2 - ZEN FOR BROTHER My brother sees a commercial on TV for a Zen meditation program. It advertises increased productivity, he seems interested. ANALYSIS A manifestation of my feeling that my brother doesn't spend his time productively. I don't think it would catch his attention IRL. - - - PART 3 - HARNESSES IN THE SKY With mom and brother... high in the sky, like "top of a mountain" height... in harnesses suspended by cables. Sin (internet personality) teaches how use them properly. Scary and unpleasant. ANALYSIS A metaphor for a sense of risk... possibly some sort of preparation leading into "taking the fearful way" below. - - - PART 4 - THE IMPENETRABLE PYRAMID Playing Starcraft, losing to Zerg... there is a pyramid on the map, it's out of place, doesn't belong in the game... it's glowing a neon light purple, possibly pink. It's supposedly "impenetrable." I hit it (suddenly I'm physically "inside" the game), and a wall caves in. I enter, it's dark, like a tomb to explore. A giant skeleton statue lifts me off the ground ("telekinetically"), and pulls me flying up toward it. Next there is a small bedroom... there are old clothes. The previous occupants are long gone, years and years ago. To get to a narrow closet in the corner, I have to go around behind the bed - and giant sheets which take up half the room - which would be a difficult position to escape from if I had to... but I take the fearful way at each point. The closet has 2 doors, one leads to next room. There are more clothes left behind, hanging on the closet hook. I look through them, check each one out, the colors. Suspenders? Old country clothes, possibly farmer clothes... ANALYSIS Impenetrable pyramid - represents lucid dreaming, seems almost impossible, a glass wall, trapped in routine. The neon purple/pink represents excitement, emotional stimulation of going outside the norm. Telekinetic statue - key factor is the sense of flight, reminds me of old childhood dreams. Old bedroom, old country clothes - a return to my roots, re-experiencing familiar dream sensations from childhood. I remember dreams involving clothes coming to life from back then... this is the reason for the clothes, their oldness is an expression of how long ago I experienced these things. Fearful way at each point - beginnings of lucidity, semi-conscious decision making! - - - PART 5 - JEE AND KEE Driving with Jee and Kee afterward, I tell them about the whole experience of breaking in and exploring super enthusiastically. I end with "yeah, it was quite a dream"... they don't respond, silent, then they start talking about something else. Later, walking with them through a jungle area, I see this big (4-5 feet tall) colorful (mainly red, with others mixed) bird with shaggy feathers trying to jump upside down and catch a branch with its feet from the ground. I say that I like the colors, Kee says the name of bird. ANALYSIS Ignored - probably just literal. Jungle and bird - an expression of my focus on color earlier. - - - PART 6 - TEACHER EMAILS Class, teacher (50s, grey hair and beard, glasses, like "Durant") asks the class for their emails. He hands out sheets of paper for each student to write them on. I'm conscious that the girl sitting beside me might see mine. One more seat over, "bioking" (email) guy who is obsessed w/chemistry. Mine has "king" in it as well, possibly also something to do w/bio... ANALYSIS Was "bioking" another dreamer? Everyone in the class? Have I been enrolled in some sort of "dream school"? Taking my email - perhaps this part of my mind wanting to "keep in contact"... Debating, in the analysis portion of these entries, whether to leave ambiguity ("this is possibly an expression of that") or to be more firm ("this means that, period.") Tried more firmness this time, will continue to experiment. Also, with so much more remembered, it's necessary to write more in point form. I used the voice recorder for the first time last night, and WOW. HUGE impact. This thing is KEY. Very interested to see how its use will develop over time...
Updated 08-17-2010 at 12:55 PM by 30838
PART 1 - MIK HILARITY At work. My friend Mik goes through a checkout. As they do, they say something absolutely hilarious, in a casual way where they don't laugh at their own joke, offhand as they're passing through. I think it's like the funniest thing ever. ANALYSIS Mik has randomly dropped into my work places before, so it would fit with that pattern. The main element here seems to be how nonchalant they were. - - - PART 2 - COLB WC3 Playing an old friend I haven't seen in years at WC3. He is Orc, I think I'm human? It's both of us against the computer. At one point I use chain lightening and he likes the ability. I say we should start over both as a race with chain lightening so we could both do it (which is odd as IRL orc actually has it and humans don't.) He decides against this. ANALYSIS This felt like an expression of their "polarity responder" nature. They're the type of person who, whatever you say, will tend to take the opposite position. - - - PART 3 - BINGE LIMITED FUNDS I'm back and forth between the grocery store and current home, trying to make the money I have last for 3 days of junk food. I decide against 3 pizzas and go with 2, use the extra money for other things, for "variety." ANALYSIS I haven't eaten anything unhealthy in almost 4 months now. I think the idea did surface in my mind yesterday, which may have been the trigger, but was quickly negated as it's an impossibility due my ailment anyway. I tend to take thoughts of binging as a sign that I'm not managing my emotional state well enough, not keeping occupied enough. - - - PART 4 - CEE Something about talking to Cee... ANALYSIS Still an "open loop" in my life, undoubtedly they will continue to surface in dreams periodically until some form of resolution is achieved. - - - PART 5 - MISSED SC2 PARTY I find out that there was a big SC2 party held at the local theatre, but I've missed it. For some reason this is quite devastating. I think Jo from work may have been there. ANALYSIS I plan on gradually phasing out my SC2 playing time (which isn't that much to begin with) in favor of other pursuits (drawing), perhaps this is a metaphor for that, the sense of loss. - - - PART 6 - DANCING AND 9/9/09 In a room full of people (one is Melinda, an acquaintance from Jr High), all the chairs and tables have been cleared away to free space for dancing. I "dance" (stepping along in small circles) along with everyone, which I remember finding surprising even in the moment, as I wouldn't normally expect myself to go along with something like that. Later, the room is filled with tables, each having a computer. I look at mine, and notice a pattern in the time and date - it's 9/9/09, 9:09:09. I remark about this to the person next to me (Borges?), they simply say "no it's not" because by then the time has passed. ANALYSIS The first part could be looked at one of two ways: surprising myself by following along with others, or surprising myself by going outside my comfort zone. It definitely feels like the latter. The main idea of the last bit seems to be, remarking about something amazing to someone, and them not appreciating it. Borges may represent superficiality, which would also be congruent with the theme.
Updated 08-14-2010 at 01:02 PM by 30838
PART 1 - GUN AND SWIMMING WITH COP PARTNER I'm a cop. We're in the middle of some operation. For some reason I don't have a gun, but I want one, and tell my partner this. I walk up to the higher up girl - long black hair - to ask for one without thinking, but she's in the middle of some important process with someone else. She has an imposing presence, I feel embarrassed for interrupting and back off. I'm working with a female partner... I'm on her back as we swim somewhere. Uh, something about a purple Godzilla-like creature... not sure where this fits. ANALYSIS Perhaps the gun represents empowerment, but I'm too afraid to take it. This would reflect my current social life. Swimming on partner's back, depending on them... I was thinking about asking someone for support yesterday ("Ker"), perhaps that is a metaphor for that. - - - PART 2 - LI MEDITATION At the corner between home and work. One of my IRL coworkers, Li, is stretching and meditating, cross legged. ANALYSIS My shift was right after hers yesterday, and I remember thinking she was very attractive. I assume the impression she left was the trigger. The meditation and stretching would seem to reflect a certain "divine" presence. Interesting that it was at "the corner," to which previously only negative experiences were associated (mugging & deception, etc.) There must be some broader meaning to this location. - - - PART 3 - NIK Someone that I vaguely know, Nik... she seems younger and thinner than IRL. Portrayed as a "free spirited" character... ANALYSIS The trigger for this must have been looking over some old (almost two years now) Livejournal messages yesterday involving this person. - - - PART 4 - WORK At work. Customer, older lady, late 40s/early 50s, says "Mutalisks are always good." Don't remember how the conversation turned to this... She wants to hand in another resume, says there's already two more of hers "in the cabinet" (where resumes are kept.) I wonder why she wants to hand in another if we already have two. ANALYSIS Perhaps the "stupid question" and slight irritation is simply a reflection of the norm IRL. I ended up waking up at about 3:30, when I wrote everything down. Having a voice recorder would have been MUCH more convenient for this type of "middle of the night" recording. Unfortunately I forgot my MP3 downstairs. Tonight I will borrow my mother's electronic voice recorder and keep it by my bed - waking up in the middle of the night with dreams seems to be becoming more common.
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