non-lucid

I was walking outside in a neighborhood full of houses and all of the sudden the world I was in suddenly became underwater. I felt peaceful though. At the same time this beautiful song started playing in the background.


It was the exact same song but instead of the lyrics "Put your back into it" it was "Paint the world red and black"

At the same time the houses, buildings, and architecture dissolved into threads of black and red paint that danced around me in artistic graceful movements as I swam. It was incredibly beautiful and comforting. I was in bliss and felt so happy.

After the song ended I became lucid, the trigger was me realizing that I was breathing underwater.

I sank below into the darkness of the water and soon felt my feet hit a wooden floor. The water had somehow vanished and I was in an old home. It was a bit dark and lit with candles. I walked out the front door and saw my sister.

"Did you know I was dreaming this whole time?" I asked her.

She smiled and nodded reassuringly, walking down the road past where I was.

I yelled after her. "My keyword is...Asshole! Remember Asshole! (I couldnt think of anything but the first word that came to mind that would be easy to remember was asshole. Because it was shocking and 2 syllables.)
I hope that one day she tells me that I told her to remember this word in a dream...

I went back into the house and started dancing. I'm a pretty great solo dancer in the dream world. I was just mainly happy to be lucid again. It's been a long time. After a few minutes Ray walked into the room.

"I'm lucid Ray! Isn't this amazing?"

"Yes," he said. "Make sure to write this down."

Then I woke up instantly.

When I woke up a lot of the dream was lost. It was much longer than this and more detailed. So much of it left me when i woke up but I think I got the most important parts and I am so glad that I was able to do it again. I was starting to think I lost my ability..

"Do you see those bright stars up there?"

The dark-haired girl was staring into the night sky as she spoke. Five vivid abnormally bright stars beamed in the distance.

"They're actually UFOs."

"I know," I responded. "Do you think they mean to harm us?"

"Well, I think that if they meant us harm they could probably destroy us all with the push of a button. We probably wouldn't even know it happened and we'd be dead... I mean with all their technology who knows what they're capable of. So I'm not sure. Maybe they haven't decided themselves."

I thought about what she said for a moment. Images came to my mind of aliens wiping us out or turning the human race into slaves. I could picture them removing portions of our brain, to make us docile...emotionless. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed there was one staring at me. It was a female alien, although I'm not sure how I could tell. She had translucent blue skin and was hairless. Her build was human-like - not disproportionately small or thin. However the eyes were huge like most alien depictions show. For some reason I wasn't afraid.

My family and I are spending time at Disney World. We are heading toward the Haunted Mansion. It looks a little different than the real thing. There's a small "vampire house" in front of the main building overlooking a large stone fountain. There is also a man wearing a mask there who's performing magic tricks for people walking by. He waves his hand and my little brother Jared's right shoe disappears and teleports into the water of the fountain. Jared runs forward to take back his shoe but right before he reaches it, his entire body is flung backward by some invisible force of magic. The magician starts giggling, clearly having fun with it. Jared takes another try. This time pnce he gets close to the fountain streams of water shoot up and splash his face. Eventually he gives up and leaves the shoe. It was pretty comical.

I am at what appears to be a large outdoor festival at night. There’s a bonfire with big open air tents scattered throughout the area. I notice that there are quite a lot of beautiful young women. Interestingly they are wearing armor so I assume it is some kind of renaissance festival.

Anyway they are very seductive with people that pass by. One of them grabs me by the hand and presses me against the wall kissing my cheek. She looked kind of like this:

“Tell me your dreams,” she whispers in my ear.

Something doesn’t feel right. I look over at another man that was enamored with one, and as he speaks to her, a blue energy leaves his head and is absorbed into the girl. Then it hits me. They feed off of the memory of people’s dreams. If I told her any dream memory – she would steal it from my mind and erase any recollection of the experience I had.

“No,” I say and push her away

“Please!” she begs and grabs my hand. I just shake it away.

I decide to fly above the crowd and notice there were a lot of these women. I wonder what they are. I dub them “dream sirens”. There is a big contraption in the middle of the gathering that they would turn on when they pushed people in - to forcibly suck dream memories out of their souls.. It’s actually kind of scary. I have a hard time remembering what exactly this machine looked like.

My dreams are obviously extremely important to me so there was no way I was going to allow that. After a while of trying to escape from these girls (each kept trying to pull me toward them) a bell rings.

“It's time for the final and most important extraction,” one of them looks at me. “And we choose you.”

Now all of them are grabbing me and pushing me toward the center of the pit to force my dreams out of my head. I scream and kick, trying to get them off of me but it didn’t work and they keep pushing me toward the center.
Before I reach it the dream ends.

I text Tom to come pick me up and go out to grab some lunch. He pulls up to the driveway of what appears to be my mom’s house and Ray comes out and says bye (even though neither he or I live there)….but I don’t tell him who Tom is and wonder if he will get jealous. Tom is kind of a bad driver and almost hits the car parked in the driveway before we pull out. We start driving through town headed toward a restaurant.

“How have you been?” he asks me

“Good. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you.”

“Yeah I haven’t seen you since….when was it that we dated?”

“I wouldn’t really call it dating - we just went out that one day. I was really too naïve and not ready for a relationship at that time so…”

He nods and asks me if I liked a picture on his facebook… in which he was pretending to poop. (There really is no such picture – on facebook he is pretty vain and narcissistic, posting pictures of himself and criticizing others a lot – so maybe my dream subconscious was referring to his pictures as crap or something.)

“Don’t you take a lot of pictures like that?” I ask jokingly

“Nope that’s the only one.”

He looks good in person compared to what ive seen online, and better looking than when I first met him. Although in this dream he has long hair – in reality his hair is buzzed and doesn’t look as nice. While I am thinking about this he almost hits the curb, and a car nearly hits us.

I yell at him, “Oh my god, your driving skills are awful!”

But we laugh it off. I tell him we should go to Genghis Grill. Then I wake up.

I'm in my hometown. I'm here for my best friend Summer's wedding. For some reason I visit the local high school. There is a job fair event going on and they are providing lunches. I grab my food and begin eating. It's a plate of spaghetti with pieces of sausage and bread rolls with butter spread. It's very filling and I feel guilty about eating everything because I don't want to gain weight. I notice a lady arguing with a clerk behind an office table.

"My daughter should be getting an hour lunch break! You are telling me she works here and only gets thirty minutes?! That's ridiculous," she yells. "Think about it. It'll take her ten minutes to get to the nearest fast food place to eat. She barely has time to eat, nevermind how eating will probably mess with her makeup! That takes time to fix before she can come back to work. She needs at least an hour!"

I finish my food and leave. I start driving in my car but before I get on the highway a huge thundercloud rolls past heading in the direction of Summer's house. It moves at an impossible speed and is gone within a matter of seconds. I pull out my cell phone and call Summer. I tell her that there is a storm headed her way and to call me when it passes so I can come over. Then I drive the opposite direction toward the beach.

Once I get to the bridge that goes over the bay I notice several police cars ahead, and a military helicopter flying overhead. I park my car and get out. There is a crowd of bystanders looking at something. All of the sudden a motorcycle flies past them - only there is no one riding it. It heads straight for a concrete barrier but instead of crashing, it passes straight through as if it were a hologram. Then it comes back, but this time an older man (probably late fifties) is riding it. He stops in front of the group. He's wearing a purple futuristic looking suit, and another woman (I can only assume is his spouse) shows up next to him dressed in similar attire. All of the sudden she falls through the road up to her shoulders - like it's water or something. She motions everyone to come forward and touch her so she can show us it is not an illusion. It's weird feeling my hand run down her neck to be stopped abruptly by the cement ground. I assume they are demonstrating some kind of top secret technology and that it is very illegal - hence the police cars and military personnel closing in.

"We have to leave now," a man in the crowd yells, "The military is recording the names of all of the people witnessing this!"

"The government should not be allowed to suppress technology like this," I say out loud.

It doesn't matter though. Everyone starts scattering. I walk back to my car to drive away in a hurry.

[UPDATE: This dream setting took place when I was to be in my hometown to attend my best friend Summer's wedding. That has come and gone now in real life. Oddly enough, during the wedding ceremony on the beach (i.e. the same beach I was driving to in the dream) the exact same military helicopter did a flyover. I had never seen one fly over the beach in all my years growing up there. I just found it an odd coincidence that one just happened to do so after I just dreamed about it happening within the same time frame.]

I am with Ray at a mall. We go into a nice restaurant and as we walk we pass by my old art teacher Ms. Greene. She's sitting at a table with a glass of wine.

"If you want some wine it's free over there at the bar," she says pointing toward it.

Ray starts heading in that direction, but he goes a weird alternate route that doesn't make any sense and took much longer than needed.

....I start exploring on my own and find an opening to a secret unused part of the mall. It looks like several kid rides were constructed in this area. It kind of looks like a carnival in the mall- but abandoned...

...Ray and I are back walking through the mall again....

I start to question my reality. Am I dreaming? Everything looks so real though! I try to do a reality check. I look at a Starbucks coffee shop and study the logo. I look away and look back. Everything is still the same and perfect. So much for looking at text! I look at shoppers and study their faces trying to find flaws. They all look normal and vivid. The racks of clothes in the shops look perfect. I even widen my eyes in an attempt to wake up. Nothing happens. Everything is so realistic - more real than I've ever experienced in a dream before and I've had some pretty good ones! Unsure of myself I walk up to a man who looked to be in his 50s. He was slightly overweight with long graying hair.

"What do you represent?"

He gives me a strange look, "Uh...What? What a weird question!"

I start doubting myself. This might not be a dream after all...I turn around and see Ray.

"Ray, I know this is going to sound crazy but I can't tell if I am dreaming or if this is real life!"

He rolls his eyes,"You're losing it Nick. Of COURSE this is real! I'm real! You're not sleeping!"

"But that's what a Dream Character would say!!!" I yell, clearly frustrated. I feel like I am going mad. Everything then fades away - confirming that I was in fact dreaming.

I have a false awakening. I am on the floor in a sleeping bag and I hear my sister Ashley getting up. The clock reads 7:00. Apparently I am at her place and we are getting up early to go to the beach. I look around for my dream journal....

Then I wake up for real.

I am at my mom's house. For some reason Summer's Bengal cats Mako and Myra are in a pen in the backyard. My mom told me Myra was hurt and bleeding - a result of Mako being too aggressive while breeding. I go to the back sliding door and look out at them. It's raining pretty hard - so much so that the entire yard starts flooding. The water level continues to rise and the cats and one of our dogs are forced to swim in the yard. The wind starts getting stronger and suddenly I see the swirling formation of a tornado directly above our house. The walls start creaking, and are soon ripped away sucking me out. My feet are dangling up in the air and I have a grip at the base of the house. My mother wasn't taken away - apparently she was immune to the wind's effects, but she was screaming trying to help me climb back inside. The dream gets too intense and causes me to wake up.

Couldn't really title this dream because it didn't make sense and there wasn't any one prevailing theme I could think of..

I was watching a movie that was similar to the 80s movie "Ghost". Except I think the female character was the one who becomes a ghost or something.

The dream scene changes and I am in the future working for a big corporation. I think the corporation dealt with time travel, and as part of an experiment I walk through a tunnel that was built to facilitate the time traveling. There are workers behind a control panel guiding the process. As I come out onto the other side of this tunnel I know I am in the past. The building I was working at is now a different company I couldn't recognize. There is a man working there that I recognize in the dream as being Kiefer Sutherland - a more attractive version. When I meet him he asks me for my phone number. I specifically remember giving him a wrong area code at first and then going back over and correcting it. There is a brief scene where an attractive edgy-looking girl shows up and I basically throw her at him and they start making out in a stairwell.
While this is happening I leave and go back into the main company room because I was afraid of being caught with those two. It turns out in this dream reality Kiefer Sutherland builds miniature models of monsters and houses for old 80s movies. He shows up again shortly and starts showing me around. I tell him if I had the money I would invest in this business because apparently in the 'dream future' miniature models are a big deal. He asks me a few questions about that (specifically how physically large the props might get?) , and seems to clue in that I might be from the future.

He asks me,"What is the formula for going through the tunnel of time?"

I don't tell him. Instinctively I know it's time to leave and return to the future. I head back to the area where "the tunnel" is. I see a vision of a girl working in the future who says I am about to get trapped in an separate dimension.

Somehow my gender changes and I am now female. I think I have successfully entered the future because I see the corporation I work at and all the people I work with. However, as I walk toward the building everyone disappears. I walk up a ramp that leads to a roof. There are three identical women standing on different corners. They are small, a little overweight and have long black hair, and a little too much makeup caked on. They are each holding onto a chain connected to some kind of pulley system. Somehow I "know" that these three women are the same person and she is being punished somehow. There is another female entity who states she is the "master of this realm". She also makes it known somehow that I will be punished in a similar way to the girl holding the chains. Then I wake up

......SO MUCH WEIRDNESS o.O

It's been awhile since I have posted on here. This is mostly to do with me having horrible recall lately. It's crazy how weeks of experience can be lost in only a matter of days due to bad recall! -_-' Anyway I thought I would at least show a little activity by posting a compilation of several dreams I've had since the last post. None of them are that profound but they are interesting enough for me to keep a record of.

1. I was driving to work and I get a call on my cell phone. The person on the other line asks for Anthony. In the dream I recall Anthony as being the employee who was the hiring manager for our store, so I assume the call is in reference to that. He tells me that he was available to come in for an interview at 2:20 and I tell him that's perfectly fine. When I show up to work I walk over the the DC Anthony and tell him about the call. I walk back to my desk to answer phone calls so they aren't forwarded to my manager. A male coworker is sitting next to me who is also answering calls for the store. He has the same brand cell phone I do but it's a different model. We began to discuss the differences between the two of them. As we are talking the phones completely vanish into thin air. I'm really confused and a little creeped out. The guy sitting next to me has a worried look on his face.
"Don't act scared, but look out the window behind me," he says.
I can see through the window beside us - it pretty much scales the entire wall. Up in the sky behind him I see a flying saucer. My heart starts pounding. I can only assume that our phones disappearing happened because of whatever was in the UFO. I don't know what to think other than they were attempting to break off our communications. The dream ends.

2. It was the evening of Halloween. I was at my old high school and I see a bonfire burning from across the street. I'm texting my sister Ashley - something about how I owe her some money. She meets me up and tells me the that the fire was some kind of religious protest against Halloween.

Somehow I become lucid. The dream scene changes a little bit and I am watching a man trying to escape a building near the bonfire. He's running around with a knife, stabbing and killing people in his effort to break out. Somehow I feel like I'm on his side. My sister and I follow him outside. I remember texting my sister about money and ask her if she still wants me fake dream money. She laughs and says no. Four benches in the courtyard outside catch fire. There are lots of people around celebrating the man's escape. Medieval gypsy music starts playing and we go to a bar and start drinking. The man who escaped stands on the bar and starts toasting to a few things. The only thing I can recall that he drinks to is "the end of celebacy" - which gives me the impression that it was against some sort of religious practice. I start dancing to the gypsy music because it sounds awesome - and it's the last thing I can hear after the dream fades off.

3. (This was the most recent I've had) I was at work at Best Buy and I saw these cars shaped like the best buy logo. In the dream they were "store pickup/delivery vehicles". I run up to my boss Shannon and tell her about them because I think they are very innovative. She tells me a girl named Jenni already told her about them. The dream starts fading and it triggers my lucidity.

I concentrate on pulling myself back into the dream. I get my footing and I'm back in the store - and in the back of the store which is particularly annoying since the last place i want to be in my dream is in my workplace. I begin walking toward the front. I keep trying to imagine going into a more interesting place. As I walk toward the front doors vines and plant life starts growing over the store walls and electronics. Strings of lights are hung around the place. Everything is much more pleasing and gets even better once I step outside. I see a vast grassy plain before me dotted with round tangled trees. The sky is a deep purple color and contrasts perfectly with the bright green trees and long blades of grass. It's drizzling a little but the sun is shining through the clouds causing everything to have a yellow glow around it. I feel extremely happy but the dream fades away again.

I have a FA and I am back in Best Buy lying on the floor. Two coworkers are staring down at me. One of them says "Woah, I want to do what you just did!"
Then I wake up for real...

Red Lobster seems to be on my subconscious a lot lately... Probably because I used them as a reference for one of the restaurants I applied to...and when that restaurant called them, they were told it had been too long since I had worked there for them to give a reference for me (only 2 years). So I didn't get that job - and I guess my subconscious mind just hasn't gotten over that. But this dream ended up being an exact play by play of me confronting my general manager LeeAnn about this happening.

I walk up to the front doors of the Red Lobster I used to work at. I look at the sign at the right of the door that displays the name of the general manager who works there. LeeAnn's name is still there - good. I go inside and look to see if I can find her. The layout is definitely different than what I was used to when I worked. I spot LeeAnn in the doorway to the kitchen. She has an apprehensive anxious look about her, which tells me she probably knows why I am here. But unlike on the phone, she can't exactly ignore my presence. She sits down with me at one of the empty tables.

"How are you?" I ask her.

"I'm good. Look. I have to cut down right to the chase. I can't give you a reference from me. It's been too long since you've been here."

"It's only been two years though," I say, "I wanted to transfer to a Red Lobster where I live now, and I couldn't find any that were accepting transfers. So I applied to Best Buy and was hired there. I've been with them for two years, but I've always wanted to go back to serving. Now that I had that opportunity, I couldn't get hired because you guys refused to give me a reference!"

"Yeah, the other managers told me they get a lot of reference calls about you though."

"Why does that matter? To be honest, I know I was a great employee. I gave you 2 MONTHS notice when I left. I never made any trouble for you and always did a good job."

"Well, why get back into serving again?" she asks.

"Because it's the best pay for the time spent working that I can get right now. Not only that - you get to interact with many different people and it's never boring. It's fun, and not monotonous whatsoever."

She laughs, "You are so passionate about it we should get married!"

We get up and walk together, down a corridor and into a seperate room. There is a queen bed in the middle and I can see my friend Brittany laying down in it. She makes a joking comment about how me and LeeAnn better not be having sex. LeeAnn gets out a piece of paper and asks what I want her to write for a reference letter. She ends up writing down a list of good qualities I have. I don't remember what exactly they were. I just remember that I wasn't too impressed - but it would do.

Brittany speaks up to her, "Don't forget to sign it for him!"

She quickly signs it and then hands me the slip of paper. I feel accomplished right before I wake up.

Summer asked me to help a friend of hers she knew to move into her new home. I thought it would be a great way to earn extra money so I agreed and showed up at her house. It was a huge blue home that looked like it was self-designed. I walked into the home and there were bout three different cats hanging around. They were long-haired, like my cat Luna, and I decided to pet a few of them. I looked around at the interior of the house. Everything was very open and spacious. I walked up to the owner and complemented her on the design. She had most of the decorations up. There were still many boxes and bags all over the place though. There was a man she introduced me to who was also helping her with the moving process - probably to lift the heavier furniture. I asked her if she knew Summer well and that she was interested in how things were coming along. That seemed to remind her of something and she hurried off into her bedroom. I almost followed her inside but stopped at the door thinking she might want privacy.

"It'll be just a second. I'll be right back." she told me

When she came back out she had a small digital camera. She took a picture of her newly furnished living room.

"I'll give you a copy of this picture. Show it to Summer. I want her to see how the place looks now!"

After that I helped her gather a huge trash-bag up and put it on the side of the road. It was raining outside.

"When do you want me to come back?" I asked her.

"As soon as the weather lets up. Probably tomorrow morning. You'll be spending the night a few times to watch the house as part of the deal as well."

I agreed. After I drove away I worried about how I was going to get off work for that time. The dream then ended.

I was in the passenger seat of Summer's car - she was driving. We were in a city that I imagine looked a lot like Paris. There were cobblestone roads and bright street lamps lighting up the alleys. We decided to stop at a drive-through cafe to get a couple of sandwiches. However the man who worked there was obnoxious and started yelling at us about being closed and that he didn't have time to serve us. Summer called him a fuck-face and then we left. We drove to our place, it was a nice studio flat with wooden floors and a stone fireplace. My snake Virgo was out of his cage and was curled up on the floor. I went to go pick him up but he tried to bite me several times (my snakes are always aggressive in my dreams) so I left him alone. We also had a pretty large black lizard walking around. I tried to pick him up too but he sprayed this pretty strong musk that smelled like bleach.

"At least it smells clean," Summer said, and shrugged her shoulders.

It smelled clean but a couple of droplets got into my mouth and it tasted horrible, bitter, and disgusting.

"Hey Summer. why don't I go down the road and stop at one of the cafes there? Ill find us something to eat." I figured we were living in an area that probably had some kind of small restaurant on every block. There was bound to be something.

"Sure" she said.

The dream faded away.

For some reason I was moved into a new neighborhood. I remember walking around and the neighbors next door to me lived in a Spanish Villa-type house with a balcony and vines growing down the walls. They were a celebrity couple - I don't remember who. I had the ability to fly and there was a huge antique warehouse I was flying over. There were a lot of power lines though that I had to avoid. I remember hitting a couple of them but I wasn't shocked - because like a bird, I was not grounded. Then I started falling and i held on to a piece of jump-rope that was tied to one of the power lines. I slowed myself and when I hit the ground I was still holding the rope, but I felt no electricity which I thought was odd (but that still didn't trigger my lucidity). There was a little girl who caught me flying. She found out my little "secret". Her two front baby teeth were missing. She let me know that it was okay and she wouldn't tell. She also said that all young kids had the ability to fly and that the talent fades with age and we forget how to do it. There was another little girl DC that went out of her way to find my dream journal. I think it was lost in the pile of antiques that was in the warehouse. She was my boss Shannon's daughter and she looked exactly like the chubby blonde girl from the movie "The Help". She had my dream journal in her hands but never had the chance to hand it to me, and I remember worrying that she would read it and how I had inappropriate adult dreams that were written in there. Shannon showed up and was trying to get her daughter to stop spending time with me and telling her that "there were a lot of new people she should meet in this place". I think her daughter looked up to me though and didn't want to make friends with anyone else. Then I left and sat down on a bench next to my brother and sisters. A picture was taken of us, and then the dream ended.

I was at a marina. There was a boat and the guy inside had a loudspeaker connected to a microphone that he probably used for guided tours in the bay. He was making jokes with an attractive guy in a jet-ski next to his boat. I don't remember the words they exchanged. The guy with the jet-ski had black hair and a goatee and was wearing a dark wetsuit. I remember he waved at me. Another person appeared who had long brown hair and was fairly stocky. I remember thinking he was my brother (even though he wasn't Jared and I have no other brother than Jared.) He said something to the guy in the wetsuit about meeting at the hill. I knew they were referring to the hill across the marina, so I made a gigantic jump across the water in the marina and landed on it. It just so happens that this hill was in the backyard of my mom's house. Then the thought occurred to me that it might be creepy and stalker-ish to keep following these guys around so I went into the backdoor of my home. My mom was in the kitchen cooking some type of macaroni pasta. My "brother" in the dream came inside shortly after me.