The Adventurer

I had a relatively boring dream last night about test scores?!?!? (7.20.10)

I remember being anxious about how I had done on a test compared to my other classmates. The test is a real test that I have already taken and gotten back the scores for, which were relatively good. I remember driving in the car with my teacher and one of my classmates (actually an old girlfriend of mine that has appeared in several of my other dreams (dream sign?!?!?). Anyhow, she scored better on the test than me. Which didn't surprise me because she is a bit of a nerd.
I then remember running and training for soccer with one of my best friends. He is also in my class but for some reason I couldn't find out what he scored on the test.
The rest of the dream was fragmented and included flashes of my other classmates and their scores.

This was my second dream from a couple days ago (7.18.10) and took place when I fell back to sleep after my first two-second lucid experience.

In the dream I woke up, I was in the exact same house that I was ACTUALLY in I noticed that the location of the house was completely different. I was in a city, a very dry city. I have no idea where it was. Maybe I was in a fantasy world? I went down stairs and started doing stuff. My uncles then appeared, interrupting the doing of stuff. I went with them outside (very dry, like a desert) and we started playing a game. We played the game for a little while and then started heading back. I walked with a friend from school (This is the only part of the dream I remember seeing him in) and we talked about places I've traveled and places I would like to travel. Somehow i got separated from the rest of the group and became lost. I wanted to go home but I had no idea how to get there. I finally found a way through and as I was walking through a truck full of archers zoomed by and started shooting arrows at me. I ran and they continued to shoot. One arrow eventually grazed the top of my head (OW!) and I woke up.

Or at least I thought I woke up. Some man was sitting beside the bed and he asked, "What happened?!?!" It turns out this was a false awakening which triggered my waking up for real.

This is from a two nights ago. I didn't have access to a computer so I am just now recording it (took place on 7.18.10)

I remember starting non-lucid but somehow knowing that I was dreaming (first time i've done this!), I was in a kitchen and there was some suspicious looking chef. Anyhow, I knew that I had to do a reality check. I looked at the time on my watch, and then looked away, before looking back (as advised on DV). The time had changed! So It was at that point that I knew for sure I was dreaming. I was lucid! For two whole seconds And then I got so excited that I woke up. It's a start though. Definitely progress.

I'm just waking up at 5:45. I can remember two of my dreams so far. Maybe this is because of the waking journal started last night? The date is 7.17.10.

1- I'm playing a game of... dominoes? I'm playing with my mom, my brother, cousin, and also uncle (we are taking turns sitting out since it's a 4 person game). It is extremely competitive and there is a big prize for the winner. I think my uncle knows what it is, and I think he likes it because I is extremely motivated to win. We are all in large cabin/vacation home in the woods... deep in the woods. Don't see any other houses. The game is like an event, one event in a much larger competition: family olympics. I remember making my cousin really angry. He claims i'm not playing to win and i'm just making it so that he can't win. He shouts and cries and eventually up and down the stairs a few times to release some of his pent-up energy and anger. I don't remember who won... but it wasn't him

2- Now I'm in a race, but is it really a race? I'm chasing a few other people up a very steep hill. Its just another part of a road. There are quite a few houses coming off of the road. The abundance of woods feel similar to the house I was just in. I feel exhausted and worn out from all the running. I don't know what we are running to... YET. I remember seeing another group of people running from the opposite direction. They have a soccer ball!??! It's like we are two teams playing soccer on one REALLY long field (better call it 'the street'). I remember my team winning the ball. I can't remember or recognize any of my team mates and none of them look as tired as I feel (maybe i'm just out of shape :'(... We push forward. It's like the field is never going to end, i'm never going to see the goal. I do however see the goalie eventually (so far from his goal?!?!?) But it doesn't matter that he's far from his goal because I never even reach his goal. I get over run by the opponents.

That's all I can remember for now... Also, I feel tired writing this, I feel exhuasted. It's not from the lack of sleep, I feel like it's from the race. Maybe my subconscious needs a rest.

I woke up ate 5:45 after 5 hours of sleep... I'm trying the WBTB method and this Non-Lucid is the only bit of dream i can remember from this first five hours... I know that I'm missing a lot.

All I remember is sitting in a room with a father. His son is in trouble and instead of being angry at his son all he can think about is how to send him to New Zealand. He's trying to determine the price of tickets and travel. There is some sort of clock contraption on the wall, not used to tell time. Instead it determines the price of the trip depending on a couple of key factors. The total price comes out to be somwhere around $770. That's all I remember of the room...

Going to be going back to sleep soon for phase two of the WBTB method... hopefully the rest of my morning will be successful and maybe even trigger more memory of this dream.

All still non-lucid.

So i woke up at 7:30 earlier and was able to recall one dream about an airport experience... I felt like there was something missing, another dream that perhaps I should have remembered. I went back to sleep for another 4 hours. Still non-lucid experience but something clicked, it was like my most recent dream (from 7:30-12) was a part 2. Like I had dreamed a part 1 before. I THINK that the part one was what i seemed to be missing from my first 5-6 hours of sleep. maybe coming before my airport experience. so now I want to try to put the two parts together. Part one still feels very jumbled but this is what I can remember:

part one- I remember being somewhere. felt like I was out of the country. Somewhere tropical. I think It was Ecuador. I was with a bunch of teachers. some of which I had met before and not liked in the slightest. We went to the top of an observation tower and saw a huge city. My grandmother was also there for some weird reason I remember saying "good thing she didn't come up to the top of the observatory tower, she hates heights" This is one of my only memories with the teachers and my grandmother. Somehow I feel like I went somewhere else, but still in Ecuador. I was deep in the rain forest with many of my classmates including a previous girlfriend. We were being chased by something i can't remember now. I was driving some sort of car... but through rivers... over the surface of rivers. somehow my foot got chopped off along the way. I didn't feel any pain and perhaps this would have been the best moment to do a DILD and realize what was going on. The next thing i remember was still with my classmates and we were at a bathing spring standing around. I thought it would be funny to pull down an old mans shorts. I did this and the next thing I know everyone is extremely mad at me and all of my classmates expect me to apologize.

Part two- While connected to some events that occurred in part one, part two had a different setting once again. I was in a huge mansion located in Mexico with my mom and brother (i don't ever remember him appearing but my mom did talk about what he was doing and it was still in Mexico), most of the same classmates as in the previous dream, and one of my old teachers?!?!? My mom and I were getting a flight out of the country that night (for some reason I don't think the other people were). It would take months to get home... which didn't make sense to me but I never questioned it. first scene I remember from this dream is when my teacher was giving us all some kind of speech or lecture. I sat through it with the rest of my friends and classmates until the end. Everyone left except for me and my old girlfriend. I believe that she was not involved in the previous sequences of events that took place in my earlier dream, part one. She told me that I needed to apologize to all the people who had been there with me. all the people I had hurt. I listened and accepted that it should be done, however i still can't remember what I had done (was it pulling down the old man's pants?!?!?). She wanted to go for a walk so that we could talk about it. We got ready to go for a walk and were about to leave when my mom interrupted us and started talking about our flight. This is my last memory of the dream.

So now I'm pretty confused and I have a lot of questions.... but somehow two dreams from different times are related? I also probably missed a couple good chances to go lucid.

7.15.10

Non-Lucid

3. I'm in an airport, getting ready to travel to New York. I'm with my mom and brother and we are fighting and bickering. I don't feel bad about the fighting. I feel like its a normal part of our dysfunctional family (not in the waking world). I have more family in the airport, waiting to board. My aunt, uncle, two of my cousins, and strangely... the grandparents that I am going to visit. The airport feels different, i don't remember why... but there were definitely some strange characteristics that aren't normal. This is my only dream that I can remember for the night. only got 5-6 hours of sleep.

First Night of Dreams Recorded

Non-Lucid
1- I'm at school, I think it's the first day and I'm trying to find my classes. I end up in my Spanish Class, with almost all of my real classmates there. No teacher that I can remember. Nelson and Lucas are there. Both leave after a little while to go to (?) New Jersey (?) I'm texting Marik, she's mad because of something that happened between me and Ann.
2- In my best friends house, I can't remember what we were doing. He's talking on the phone to his mom, he asks 'How long can you stay'. I say Forever... I can't remember anymore.
I wake up thinking about Angels Landing.