Thread: Starting A Dream Journey

I havn't been having any dreams that I could recall for awhile. It is still hard to recall a lot of detail from dreams, this dream was vivid and some of it I remembered. Alot of my dreams are very 'domestic' but some are unusual. If the dreams are very day to day like it might make it harder to become lucid in them as they feel like day to day stuff.

The first part was at a very big cinema. It was like an octagonal shape inside. Have been to this place in dreams quite a few times - always looks a little different.
Went inside a screening room - was big with very steep seating. Nothing else recalled.
- I could reality check whenever I am inside a cinema and see if I see this one.

We were supposed to meet my grandfather he would take us to the fair. There was someone else with me at the cinema but no recall about who.

We were at the fairgroud, there was one street with brightly coloured tents on each side. There were entertainers on the street. A clown like guy in long coat drove past on a childs push scooter, way to small for him. At the end of the street there were people in evening clothes swimming in a swimming pool.

The third and final part, I was at my old university with my wife, I was showing her around as she was going to meet her lecturers and look around the course. Went up to second floor walked through a door surrounded by a group of lectures, some familiar faces old and new. I said to one we would be back to meet them when it was closer to the start time 2pm. I said to my wife they must be eager when we went through the door. Walked down a corridor looking into the classrooms.

I will record possible dream signs here:

Holding Pillows or Lack Of Clothing in a Outdoor / Social Situation

My Grand Parents

Where I am sitting in the office at work - which desk!

Anything to do with School or people from school

Our Old House in the Countryside

I will have to look into Dream Signs a bit further so I can see if I can indentify somethings in particular. I am sure I would have another DILD if another pillow or clothing lack presented itself! But I don't dream about that kind of thing very often. Still struggling to find something that is recurring through most of the dreams!

Saturday: Woke up by alarm and decided to have another attempt at WILDing. Got comfortable and relaxed. Imagined dream scene. Did a relaxation technique on my body, similiar to the 61 point relaxation technique, but something I did as a kid before sleeping. I knew I could relax to the point where I pretty much couldn't feel my body. It was just like a warm glow. Hadn't done it in years so was pleased it was easily accomplished. Focused on breathing. Tried to relax mind but it kept coming up with thoughts Managed to get to the point where I saw a few small balls of light about 7 of them. But that was as far as I got. I tried for about 1 hour and then gave up.

Will try again once a week I think on Saturday mornings so I don't loose too much sleep.
Got to try and clear my mind, perhaps I was too awake.

Sunday: Woke up and recalled a very vivid dream, it was very clear.

Was at work but I was using the computer inside the alcove of a castle wall at the
bank of a dry moat. Looking up at a castle mound(green) to the fortified walls. (This isn't too surprising as I just had a trip to York(Uk) a few weeks ago (a fortified city). As I was looking up at the walls a group of students were doing a re-enactment of a battle along the walls. Using trampolines to bounce off!!!

My wife wanted to see the student societies so we went into a big hall. She didn't join anything. We went to the shops and my wife stayed behind to buy a movie called, "The Elephant and I". I walked back home I was going to wait for her there. I went up a tower up a spiral staircase, met someone but didn't see them. I had a thought that the university was trying to seperate their students into areas to create colleges like Cambridge.

Should have been home but outside my grandparents house. Met a postman, Japanese guy, like a thin beardless Mr Miyaga (from Karate Kid). He said he was good at martial arts, he showed me a move. My brother came out of my grandparents house. He is a good martial artist, he practices Aikido and Ju Jitsu and is a Black belt in Karate. Him and the postman started to spar. The postman got in close and slapped his face then grabbed his hands and forced him to his knees then executed a sleeper or something. My brother went to sleep. I rushed over and woke him up.

The postman had left, I rushed after him. He was sweeping leaves. I reassured him to think about the good in his past. He offered me a black pot arm with musical notes on it. I was about to slip it on as you could put your arm inside. I assumed it gave you some kind of power. I didn't put it on as I sensed some evil.

I woke up. Quite a detailed dream and very vivid - great colours.

Monday Recall - Quite a Vivid Dream but not as good as last one.

Started off in a massive office with the typical cubicles (a cube farm!) Was with a group of people walking through the office - we were all lost. We had to get over a partition between one corridor through the cubes to a corridor running alongside some big outside windows. I found a way by using a big green square as a trampoline to get over the wall, everyone else followed me over.

We all got around a meeting table - we were all part of a debating/speaking competition. We were doing preparation for it and I refused to talk and so I failed. I didn't progress any further. Tom Cruise was in the competition and the character Paul Lassiter (from Spin City).

Went to my old university, was called the same name but looked different, I was in an emergency service, uniforms of the other people looked like fire-brigade.
It was a meal for the emergency service - all getting together. Before meal sat down
at a table with many others and started talking to Margaret Thatcher!!!!! (AKA The Iron Lady - the first women prime-minister of the Uk for those who don't know - Scary lady)

She was saying what her favourite books where, Tom Clancy and another author I didn't know. I said Clive Cussler. A german guy next to me at the table was reading a Clive Cussler book, the titles were in German but it was Inca Gold. When I pulled the book from his hand I was transported to a snowy mountain and thousands of cars where plummeting down from the top of the mountain! I was in a car with the Iron Lady driving past the University she was asking more questions. One more person got into the car and she disappeared. I was back to the meal. I was late and piled the plate high. I asked for my favourite sitcom to be shown on the Tv in the room & everyone watched.

Dreamsign?: University seems to be a frequent occurence - I am not at University any more and so any references to University could be questioned in dreams. The dream where I realised I was dreaming took place in University/Classroom setting.


Tuesday Recall

A family dream type thing. Very small immediate family. So my family and my Dad's brothers family went to my grandparents house. I only remember everyone in the house looking around and myself choosing where to sit on the small sofa. Ended up next to my huge cousin and giving him a hug.

Dream Sign?:Grandparents / Grandparents house - seems to be featuring alot at the moment. Although I have only just visited them before Christmas.

Thursday - woke up before alarm, thought about trying to WILD, was too tired and uncomfortable so just went back to sleep. Here's the dream:

Was with a group of people at the entrance to the student union building, a lot left. A person I was with at school & college who I didn't like was second to last to leave to travel somewhere. The remaining person persuaded me to go to the student union club. When we got there they disappeared. The room was big and totally round. Lots of people, dancing and some sitting on the seating surrounding the dance floor. I sat on some almost empty seating. The person closest to me, female but I couldn't see her face' persuaded me to go upstairs to the other floors of the student union. We watched the dancing a bit more then left right through the middle of the dance floor, I had furry brown wide boots on (a bit russian dancing like) and leaving the room turning into a bit of a dance with these boots swinging around all over the place.

We wanted to go to the higher levels so we got on the rotating spiral clingway (should have been a walkway but because it was rotating and spiralling you had to cling on!) It looked like the back of a snake - like snake skin. Went up and up past the third level which was made of sugar! Past men/women bathroom doors embedded high in a wall, not really reachable.

Came to the top of the student union building which I had been told was the best in the world (and certainly was!) The top was flat and was like a huge swimming pool - more like a lake. There was parts you could walk on - transparent blocks you could see water under - like walking on water! There were swim ways like pathways. One person was in a deep one and was struggling to keep above water.

There were green areas, some small islands and some little mounds near the edges. We went to one of these mounds near the edge. We looked over the edge and saw we were on a mountain looking down at the fantastic views. The other person sat down tried to get comfortable and was putting her hand down to the grass. I saw she was going to put her hand in some sheep poop and opened my mouth to say but I was too late. She told me off for not telling her, I said it happened too fast. Another person from my school days who didn't go to college, a farmers son, came over, he was a big kid back then and so he seemed to morph backwards and forwards between a human and big white bear. He said he had run out of money to study, I said I wasn't surprised if you spent a lot of time in the student union. He said his year long probation had finished and he could return to work and he would leave. The dream ended.

Dream Sign: Another University dream - anytime I am in Uni that is wrong and so hopefully I will be able to realise this and use it as a way to realise I am dreaming.

Friday morning Recall - two dreams (not as vivid as the last few)

I was a journalist and I was with many other journalists at a very large supermarket. I was there to watch the resignation speech of Ex Liberal Democrat Leader Charles Kennedy. I was going to write an article about it. The speech finished and he said that he had been clearing out his office and there was a table of stuff that people could take away free because he didn't want it. I went to the table. It was a very big table full of cakes. There were only three kinds although they all looked different. Cup Cakes, Cinammon Cakes and DILD Cakes!!!!! ( I didn't pick up on the DILD cakes unfortunately and I chose a cup cake, it was small, covered in white icing with nice decoration on the top though! I wonder what would have happened if I had chosen the DILD cake Maybe I would have had a DILD! Well at least it is showing that my mind is throwing out clues for me! ) After that I walked around the supermarket shopping, I put down my cupcake somewhere and shopped more then I realised I had lost my cupcake Phoebe Buffet from Friends rushed over with a trolley and we zoomed around the isles looking for the cake, but couldn't find it. Dream Ends...........

I was back at our old house in the countryside. I had heard that there was going to be a vintage vehicle fair(rally) in the fields around our house. I was looking out towards a muddy track that ran by the side of the house and my GrandDad (possible dream sign!) drove past in a vintage blue hard topped Hummer like vehicle with others inside. The vehicle was followed by a convoy of others. My wife and I had to go out to lend someone some pepper and we walked down the little road through the fields to the main road, it was starting to get dark. We got to the gate and saw many vehicles queued on the road waiting to get into the fields for the fair/rally. We saw a big lorry try to get in but it couldn't so it drove away, then a bus reversed in and the back came open and a full load of passengers streamed up the road. My viewed switched to a camera above the scene in like a heat seeking mode / inverted colour mode. My wife left to take the pepper to the person who wanted it. I waited in a hallway with a steep staircase that lead to the room at the top with a light on inside. I went up the stairs and looked into the room there was two beds. One one bed was my uncle but he looked like Kevin Kline with a very big mustache. On the other was Phoebe Buffet (from Friends) dressed as a French Maid but I thought it was a Waitress outfit. She was pretty suggestive! I made my exit, it was scary! Phoebe is so annoying! I went down the stairs. My wife came in and wanted to go up the stairs but I didn't want her to see what was going on upstairs so I tried to distract her. She heard Phoebe's loud voice and rushed out of the door. I didn't realise she was upset at first but I called her on her cell and we tried to work it out on the phone as I ran around in the dark looking for her. When we resolved the problem she appeared in front of me and we hugged. Dream ends................

Friday Night Recall - Quite a big recall in three parts not very detailed or Vivid

At a very big hotel, very luxurious. The elevator in the hotel not working and I needed to take two people out of the building (man and woman over 50) I took the role of exercise coach and ran behind them down 20 flights of steps shouting at them to keep going. The guy was soaked in sweat at the bottom of the stairs. We went to the lobby the man was meant to be going on a date he abandoned his plans, the woman did too.

I was going towards a very big school - it was an all glass building (been there before in another dream) - educational stuff - dream sign! I was riding a push scooter (possible dream sign - as it has appeared before - 2nd occurence) I was looking for someone. Lots of kids in uniform going to school. Many late and rushing and making bad comments about me riding a scooter. Saw my old plastic childrens bike on it's side in the playground among boxes of plants. It was a concrete tiled playground.

The dream had apparently been a battle between good and evil, the good characters met, myself, the man & woman from earlier and a priest. We find out we have been tricked in a plan involving the pope and the vatican (maybe a Dan Brown reference!)

-- end --

Saturday Night Recall - Only one recollection

We were at our wedding reception dinner only it was a totally different hotel and dining area. The room was a very long thin room shaped like two L's joined together with one L inverted. It was very cramped. The design of the carpet was old-fashioned. The hotel staff put up a screen that blocked our view of half of the guests and so we asked them to take it away, we closed the window to that was just behind and above the table. I was walking near the entrance to the hotel and went into the door of the kitchen. There were about 30 women around a huge table all holding glass bowls, they were passing items around the circle from bowl to bowl as they made the meal! We looked over the back of the seats which had now changed to a fixed quarter of a circle seat with a wooden back. We saw my wife's very young cousin walked along next to one of my uncles. She didn't like her doll and threw it down. I lifted her over the back of the seat and she sat with us.

Upstairs in the hotel was our dog (looked like a black and white sheep dog - but we don't have a dog) There was something about if the dog ate a pill it would take on the properties of an alien dog. It ate it and looked like a big grey wolf, but with legs about three times longer than usual (very wobbly!) It had huge crazy eyes. It was fast and could jump high. There was a competition between it and another alien dog. -- end --

Sunday Night Recall - Many dreams only a tiny snippet of each one - felt like the descriptions were the ends of the dreams. Woke up and went back to sleep quite a few times - didn't seem to join old dreams.

Was in the old house in the country. I was trying to store some water in the roof above the stairs in a wooden container that was missing a side (so there was no way it could hold it) I was putting the water in and it was holding it at first even though the side of the box was missing the water just keep filling up. When it got near the top of the box, almost full, all the water drained out of the box all over me and the carpet and stairs. I kept trying to fill it over and over with the same results (it is amazing what you will believe in a dream) My parents told me to stop because there was too much water around, they were worried the floor would collapse. I put down loads of newspaper to soak up the water and tried one more time. -- end --

The next dream ended with me giving a presentation - the content of the presentation seemed to be in Japanese with Kanji and cute anime characters. I think it was a presentation about a portable handheld gaming device. -- end --

My wife, myself, my wife's very young cousin (and some others) where at my old school field (where the children used to play games in their break time). We are in the corner of the field, the little cousin has found a little cave under a large rock and a hedge and wanted to go inside. She went inside and found something. -- end --

Myself and other person (hazy) were running through a hospital but through inter-connecting offices inside a hospital (so no long corridors) We were being chased but not sure by who. The offices seemed to go on and on, in an L - shaped way. We got to a final room there was a doctor inside (like a mad doctor) we got past him and out into one of the big long corridors. We locked the door and kept the key -- end --

No really big Vivid dreams over the weekend - Very little recall.

Monday recall - had a series of short recalls since Saturday

I was shopping in a very big supermarket with someone (I think my wife). I remember that there was a few problems we encountered around the store but don't remember the details (had watched Airline USA in the evening and saw all the confrontations). We went to the supermarket cafe and ordered chicken and fries. The man serving was in a white apron and very big, towering over us. He was mostly bald with a goatee beard. He looked a little stupid and was incredibly slow to serve the meals onto the plates. We arrived at the cash desk to pay and I found I only had taken the chicken! so I rushed back to get the plates that had the fries and peas on them! The two women at the cash desk didn't look impressed.

Going to a garden centre with my work colleagues, my boss, senior and someone else. My senior bought a room freshner which was shaped like a short round vase. We were standing outside a cinema in a queue talking about unemployment in countryside areas. I said where I used to live was a poor area but they had an 'Oxford Shop' (selling oxford university merchandise). We were all travelling back in the bosses car, three people in the back, it was crowded. My senior broke the room freshner. It was cracked - she apologised to the boss. I said at least the car will smell nice. Kept getting a 3d isometric map of the trip as we were driving, saw the house we were going to as a 3d model and in front of it a 3d petrol tank for storing alot of fuel. Dream ended with me flying down and landing on top of the large petrol tank.

WILD Experience

When I woke up first in the night I was out of bed for about 5 minutes. I felt quite sleepy. I got back into bed and though maybe I should try to do a WILD. As soon as I though about doing it my body felt as if it had disappeared, all relaxed, and I started to get wierd sensations, not vibrations, like waves passing through my body. I started to hear some unusual sounds only twice. The sounds disappeared and the sensations eventually disappeared. While the sensations where there I was doing the 1..2.. I am dreaming stuff. Everything seemed to have stopped so I opened my eyes. I reality checked on the bedside clock but it was working as usual. Nothing seemed any different so I hadn't become Lucid. Still it was an interesting experience. Of course trying to WILD before even having a proper Lucid Dream may be a bit premature.

Tuesday Recall

Myself and my wife were on honeymoon. We had decided to go to Russia. We had rented a car, an old yellow citroen (strange looking car), and were driving to were we wanted to go (didn't recall a place name). It was countryside, the road only really able to support one car (very thin), with stones along the side of it. The road seemed to be getting steeper, like we were climbing up. We realised we were very lost. My wife wanted to see the snow and so it started snowing. But not normal snowflakes, they were glistening white bubbles, when it laid on the ground it looked like white frogspawn, a suddsey - foamy appearance. The sun was still high and bright. We saw a big black Oxon in one of the snowy fields. We kept driving up higher, through small villages, many with cobbled streets. The people seemed unfriendly so we didn't want to stop. We finally got to a big courtyard and stopped. There was a tin shack shop which looked like it sold sweets and cakes. We went inside to ask for help. The woman owner was very nice she gave us food and invited us to dinner. We were in a big mansion for the meal, it was a very big old room with high ceiling and stone floor. The seats where like church pews all joined together with a high back. My uncle and three cousins were also at the meal! The woman invited us to stay the night and in the morning drove us in her car where we wanted to go. The woman was older than us but seemed very youthful, tall and elegant with a long flowing dress. Didn't seem like she should work in a tin shack shop.

-- end --

I found myself in a big pub/restuarant I didn't remember how I got there. There was lots of people there. I was sitting on a curving seat next to other people. I was watching what was happening around me. I saw a big fat man with a mustache. I found out it was my birthday party but there didn't seem to be a lot of celebrating or even acknowledging me. Someone from work was leaving and asked if I wanted a lift home. I said yes. I went out into the car park and he was driving away in a white car. I ran after the car but gave up when I realised I couldn't catch it. I looked across the car park I saw my boss who offered me a lift. I got into the car and got comfortable then I realised I had come in my car so I got out.

-- end --

Another tiny recall where I was getting ready for my wedding on the night before the wedding. I was dressed in a suit. I was standing near a bathroom. Then I was in a massive Internet cafe in the hotel, it was dark, one computer on, I was using the Internet, the machine and myself seemed to be illuminated by a single light from above. -- end --

Wednesday - Nothing - Too tired only 4 hours sleep

Thursday - An unusual night

A large building complex, like a hospital but it wasn't. Like a retirement home or a retreat - a place to rejuvenate. I was watching the nurse that used to come most often to help my Mum each morning (she died of cancer a few months ago) The nurse unlocked a door and went into a building. She went to a room where my Mum was. Then I was there and the nurse wasn't. Eventhough the nurse had been I knew my Mum was dead. She was lying on her back looking quite peaceful. I thought I saw her move which was strange then she turned onto her back facing away from me. She had two marks on the back of her neck - i think abit like the Matrix - like she is disconnected from the Matrix. I tried to jam open the door with a wedge as I am doing that she turns back towards me - opens her eyes, we start to communicate without talking - in our minds. There are lots of questions and answers (no recall) apart from she said, I don't like it here. I said where are you? she said in a garden at the womens institute. I woke Up. I thought that she would like being in a garden. It was upsetting dream. I went to bathroom. The last scene very clear in my mind felt like still emotional connection to dream. I started seeing letters in my head WBTB and my mind starting saying great time to try WBTB technique. I didn't want to go back into that scene though too upsetting even though Mum was distressed and I wanted to help. I got an extra bit of recall Mum and someone else in an elevator with me walking towards the elevator. I thought I would try that as the scene for WBTB. I lay down and was very sleepy, imagined the scene. I felt the all over body feeing like a buzz or mild vibration, it increased and then decreased. I reality checked a clock I made up in my head it said I was dreaming as the numbers changing all over the place. I reality checked the clock on the side in reality and it said I wasn't dreaming, it was normal. I tried to move my arms and legs I could move them but they felt extremely heavy (possibly got close to sleep paralysis!) So an interesting experience with WBTB.

I think that it is only a matter of time before I have a DILD if I keep up recall and reality checks. WILD and WBTB I seem to be getting close but not there yet.

Quite Low Recall over the weekend - especially tired

Friday
I was a Oliver Hardy character and there was another character like Stan Laurel that I was trying to best. We were competing against each other. The competitions are very sketchy in my mind but I have a vague recollection of driving cars up walls! We both came out of a hotel that I had been in recently and there was a very large hamster cage where people were meant to put money into a slot in the front as a donation to the poor. My character said that he was going to make a big donation of about 40 pence to best the other character. He saw some money on the ground about 10p in copper coins and picked them up and said he would donate them as well. But when he went up to push the money into the cage he only put in the coins he found!

An appearance of the cast of Fresh Prince of Bel Air, all aged quite dramatically. They were all at the antartic wearing warm coatsm bobble hats and scarves - singing!

-- end --

Saturday

My wife and I were asked to participate in a Tree Planting competition. We went down to the bottom of a field (suspiciously like my old school field). There was a tutor there who would host the competition and a tractor/digger machine (I think it was yellow!) There were four contestants myself, my wife and two people from work. We all had a big cardboard box in front of us full of soil and a shovel/spade each for digging. For some reason we had to plant the tree in the box! We were told we would be timed and that we could dig down at least 1 metre (which would have gone through the base of the box!) the trees looked like shrubs (or garden flowers!) The host of the show left! We started digging, it was surprisingly hard to dig the soil out of the box. I was particularly slow. While we were digging there was a TV set on showing a video about tree planting, my wife had a remote control that she used to change the channel, I said don't do that because the host might be angry when they return so she changed it back. The competition ended. My wife and I could see the bottoms of our boxes as the soil had been cleared, the work peoples boxes were about half full. They won! I though we were closer especially as they had said one metre down

I drove my car into a carpark near the beach. There was an old quite small building that was closed down and the car park was in a U shape around the front of it. There were quite a few cars, hard to park. I knew I wanted to go to swim in the sea. I made my way toward the beach. I saw a massive cliff face on the left of me and it curved around along the coast line - the scenery was beautiful. I realised I was holding a soapy washcloth in my hand and that I was going to the sea for a bath!!! There were a lot of people down on the beach and in the water. As I got closer a life guard/official got everyone out of the water and closed down the beach. I was disappointed. (It wasn't a sandy yellow beach - it was a grey stone pebble, dirty soil - british beach).

-- end --

Sunday

Was up in a space station orbiting the earth. Wierd looking station like four doughnut shapes orbiting a cylindrical mid section. Trapped on the space station trying to get off before got killed. Sort of a classic being chased dream. There were robitic hands like spiders running around. There was also a room full of crazed robotic dolls. I also saw the creator of the space station in a circular room with see-through walls.

-- end --

Monday - No Recall At All (That is Unusual Now! So that is Good - I can usually recall something for each night - sometimes better than others)

Tuesday

I was going to the centre of a big town/city. I wanted to get something from the centre but I didn't know what it was. I was wearing a very big coat. The kind of coat you might wear to the Antarctic. It was huge and brown, fur inside and fur at wrists and collar. I was also wearing a thick furry brown hat, with the flaps that come down over the ears!!!

I knew that I was wanted by the Police so I had to be careful as I walked down the streets. I got on a street that looked suspiciously like the old street of a small town where I used to live. I saw that there was a police blockade. I walked straight up to it thinking I would be stopped but I walked straight through.

I got to the centre but knew I couldn't find what I wanted to find as I didn't know what it was. I started to walk back to were my car was so I could leave the town. I was being cautious still because of the Police. I ducked into a book shop to hide. I picked up a book and held it in front of my face. On the front cover of the book was two eyes (a picture of a face). It was a woman's eyes. The book was called 'The Oneironaut' and was written by Michaela Laberge - How did I miss that one!!! LOL Another clue that I was dreaming that I didn't pick up on like the DILD Cakes!

I got back to the car and drove away and saw a co-worker drive past in their car.

-- END --

Wednesday

Was being chased (don't know by who) I was walking quickly down a street that seemed to have similarities to the frontage of a shopping complex close to our house. I wanted to hide somewhere, I chose a building on the corner, like a shop with clear glass windows (no markings). It was locked but I managed to get inside some how. The room inside looked empty, it wasn't light but not terribly dark, couldn't see the back of the room. It was a long thin rectangular room. I hid and looked out of the window to see if I could see what/who was chasing me. I turned around and looked at the room. There were three thick blankets next to each other on the floor in the middle of the room. The blankets started to raise up tall forming into the shape of ghosts. The blankets were thrown off and underneath where three Afrodities (Hot Black Women). They were wearing party dresses/evening gowns. I found out that the building was a hair dressing shop. I stayed in the shop causing a nuisance by being around as customers came to get their hair cut.
There were two rooms in the building, the front room for the hairdressing and a small room at the back that contained a bath and a chair. I went to the back room. The fourth hairdressing staff member (another Afrodity) was taking a bubble bath. I sat on the chair and watched, the big white bubbles did a good job of the 'censorship'.

I was back in the main room looking out of the window. A repairman was outside wearing a grey coverall uniform. He was on the pavement doing something. I walked outside with two small cups of water . I put them down on the pavement quite close to the guy. He moved closer and reached out for the cups. I said No, No and shooed him away with my hands. My brother was next to me he said, "Look what you have done now, he thinks you brought them for him". I heard a loud screaming sound of something being launched. I looked up into the sky something was flying up into the air like a missile from a shoulder held rocket laucher. I zoomed in on the object, it was a black cylinder with small helicopter rotor blades on the top. I looked at my brother he was holiding the lauch device it was small. He said that the device used water to work. The helicopter cylinder came back down towards us slowly.

-- END --

Friday

My wife and I were contestants on Celebrity Big Brother. It was the last day of the incarceration in the house, the contestants had forgotten the cameras were there alot and were worried that what they had done might have been seen by the viewers. I rembered that myslef, another man and David Hasselhoff had been in a 'Who's More Gay' competition, posing in silly poses, David Hasselhoff had won. One guy was worried. Himself, his girlfriend and her mother were on the show too. He had kissed his girlfriends mother on the show when she wasn't in a room and he was worried she would see the TV coverage and find out.

I was in the gift shop buying an oval wooden box with a heart engraved on the top for my wife. The man came in looking frantic and worried searching for a gift. I let him have mine. I went back to look for another and was disappointed that was the last one.

My wife and I walked around the houses rather large Japanese Garden with different levels and a pagoda. We came back to the house to watch the final show with the rest of the house mates. As it played the guy was trying to distract everyone so his girlfriend wouldn't see the show. He was succeeding, the TV even went off at one point.

In Grandparents House (got to be dream sign!) had a small torn edged piece of paper with a 'secret' written on it. Suddenly a panic about the house, people running around, some bad people coming looking for secrets. I rushed up stairs, looking into side rooms, people swallowing pieces of paper. As I ran I scrubbed out secret with a pen and rolled up the paper into a ball. I got to the top floor and threw it through an open window into another window of a house opposite. The house had many more floors that it has. Then rushing through a DIY store. It was absolutely huge, following another guy. Looking for the bathroom. Kept walking and walking and walking.

-- ENDS --

2nd Dream - very little recall (woke at 4pm)

Remembered being in office at work. There were a lot of people in the office all chatting. The finance woman came into the office. She was wearing a woolen cardigan, with just one button left at the bottom, it looked loose. I pulled at the cardigan and the button came off. She complained loudly about it.

I woke up - I still had the image clear in my mind so I tried to WBTB - some body sensations and flashes behind eyes but must have falled asleep again.


Saturday

-- Could tell that I had been dreaming, little flickers of images but no recall that would solidify enough for me to remember.


Sunday

My family won a competition, the prize was to live in a house in the countryside. We moved to the house as we now owned it. It was my Grandparents house (possible dream sign). It isn't really in the countryside but a town in the countryside. I was upstairs in my new room (my grandparents back room) I was a teenager again. There were many children playing outside in the yard. The window overlooks a school but the kids are playing in the house;s back yard behind the house, not the school yard. There are two younger kids in the room with me. One was wearing glasses. They had opened the window slightly and both had magnifying glasses. They were burning ants that were crawling through the open window. I saw that there could be a big problem as a thick black line of ants was running up the outside of the wall and hundreds were streaming through the window. I felt that the room would soon be overwhelmed.

My family won another competition to stay in a penthouse suite of a big city hotel in America. There were only 6 of us going but it seemed cramped in the private jet with us and all the lugguage (there was tons of lugguage). We arrived in New York and were on the sidewalk with all the luggauge. There wasn't enough space in the transport for me and all the luggauge so I was to travel with a man who was coming to help us carry the lugguage to the hotel room. The man looked like Jesus but wearing coveralls. I wasn't allowed to travel in the front of the van so I had to go in the back. The back was 3/4 full of medium sized, broken, sharp pieces of solid looking wood (Cross?) It was an uncomfortable trip to the hotel.

When I got there I saw one of the penthouse rooms. It looked like a small boardroom - the kind of meeting room Ally McBeal used to use. There wasn't enough people to help unpack so I had to go to the university to collect my brother. I waited in the foyer. It looked familiar but couldn't place it. He came down a square spiralling staircase. We went to the hotel. When we got there there was a wedding in progress in the penthouse. I could see the bride in her wedding dress from the back but not her face. My uncle's family was there so I assumed it was a relatives wedding. I sat down and waited for the wedding party to finish. The penthouse had altered to our old house in the countryside I was waiting until I could be free to go and play out in the fields.

-- ENDS --

Monday - kept waking up and setting my alarm for another 15 minutes not wanting to get up. This is a small recall from the last 10-15 minute nap. Nothing else recalled (monday)

Everyone was in our office at work at their computers. I was sitting at my old desk. The big boss came in with an entourage of guests. It was like a doctor taking medical students on ward rounds. She was telling the guests what our department does. The big boss and a few guests gathered behind my senior and the rest behind me. It was un-nerving having all the guests looking at my screen. I switched into coding mode on the program so they wouldn't be able to understand anything. The man behind me said 'It is great you have all these computer wizards to get stuff done'. The big boss agreed. As the guests were leaving I turned to the man who had spoken and said "I like my job but the wages are low". He said something like 'Never mind' and smiled a wry smile. He was the last guest going out of the door, as it was closing I said, "I like my job". I remember my stomach was showing and I thought that wasn't appropriate.

-- ENDS --

Tuesday - Woke up - tried to stay awake - Tried to MILD - Fell asleep!

My wife was on holiday in her home country, we were sending sms messages constantly to stay in touch. It was late afternoon, I sent a message to say that I would like to go to the local shop to buy a snack. She didn't like that idea so I decided not to go. My brother said that I should take out the rubbish bags. I opened the door and stepped into a dark, dank, slimy alleyway. I picked up the bags and walked towards the light at the end of the alley. When I got outside I realised that we must be living above a shop as the building was a shop on one of the main shopping streets in the local town. The shop was dark and closed. I put the three black rubbish bags down in front of the shop and moved away. As soon as I moved away people walking past came up to the bags opened them and started to take things out and walk away with them. One medium sized woman with short sandy blonde hair and glasses stopped by the bags picked something out and started to eat it. I couldn't see what it was but I imagined it wouldn't be too pleasant.

Everyone was in the office and we were called to the office of the big boss. The big bosses office was pretty big, no windows, it had a basic pale blue carpet. It didn't look personalised. It had an empty desk and looked like a store room as there was odd bits of furniture and equipment dotted around the edges of the room. My immediate boss, the HR manager, my senior, myself and the other office staff sat cross legged on the carpet in a straight line in order of rank, in the corner. The IT guy was standing in the room with his usual round chubby face, impassive as usual apart from when breaking out into chuckles. The big boss and two bigwigs (didn't know them) were standing behind the empty desk. The big boss told us that there was something we couldn't do (I don't recall what that was).

One of the guys from the office who is ususally impeccably neat was wearing one earring and his hair was a little shocked. The earring looked like a deformed piece of popcorn. I said that I could fix the earring. I touched it and it moved to a better angle and turned into a silver dragon (although it looked more like a porcupine!) I touched his other ear and an identical earring appeared. I started to work on his face, my hands moving around. When I had finished he looked very wierd, like a cross between a cat, the Hunny Monster and a bee! I had used silver tinsle (Xmas tree decoration) around his mouth under his nose around his eyes, on top of his head and under his chin. He had pointed ears and one of those childrens hair bands with the bee like springy feelers coming out of the top. I showed him his new look and he wasn't impressed.

I finally ended up standing outside my old infant school, looking at the garage in which the headteacher would park their car. I wondered if the garage was still being used or not as the roof looked unstable even back then.

-- ENDS --

Wednesday Recall - Went to sleep late - very tired. Had an ok recall but there was alot more that I couldn't remember.

I was on an Alien World, however it looked alot like the Earth and everyday life. I was lost on this planet and I was looking for a way home (Quantum Leap!) I was travelling with a female DC she seemed familiar but I couldn't think who she was. She had pointed ears like an Elf. She did have long hair but it wasn't dark(so not Arwen!) We were travelling to the next place she was taking me too. I was hoping I would be able to find some clues how to return home there. We were flying down a road/highway in the style of Futurama (but without the pipe!) The road was wide, the view good, nice and bright. We could do some manoerves while flying, we were going pretty fast. We stopped at what I thought was some kind of Terminal (like an airport). We stopped in the same way as Futurama, flying and then just into walking like we have flipped to a standing position.

There were a lot of people in the Terminal, the road had been quite quiet. People milling around everywhere. We went through what looked like a customs area and up and down some elevators. We came out into a huge cafe with an open side, columns and a natural roof. The sea was on the left, the waves breaking onto the beach. We were walking through the cafe weaving around the hundreds of tables. I felt a hand in my pocket. The DC had stolen my wallet and had take out my credit card. I snatched it back. I was upset with the DC, I felt that the credit card was my way off the Alien Planet. I said to the DC she was only hurting her self as well by that action (although I don't see how it would have).

I put the card back in the wallet and held it as we walked to protect it. After awhile I put it back in my pocket but kept my hand on it just in case, not trusting the DC. We were in a room that was semi dark and had big pipes running above us, the room was quite small. I was with the DC on a desk at the front of the room. It seemed to be a council of elders to resolve the attempted theft issue. The DC said she wouldn't try to steal my card again if I bought her beauty treatments. All the Elders, who were a group of old women, who looked like they were wearing sacks, chanted that I should get her the beauty treatments. It was annoying she was getting rewarded for the attempted theft but it appeared to resolve the issue.

We started off travelling again. This time were were flying a space craft along the road/highway. We were in a glass bubble on the top of the craft, it was like riding a stage coach (in an old western). The sky was dark, it felt ominious outside. The craft speeded up and it started to feel like the Playstation game Wipeout. Other craft flying along dropping mines and explosives we had to avoid. There were some big armoured craft flying along that seemed to be alive like animals. The road seemed to become more dangerous. The DC put our craft into Fast Forward, so we went along really quick and ahead of everything else but for some reason when we were safe she hit rewind and we were flying backwards again and approaching a large amount of explosives. We managed to stop and continue and flew off the road towards a dark, evil looking mansion.

-- ENDS -- Shame recall ended here because I knew there was more in the mansion and it had been interesting but I couldn't recall it even though I tried hard.

Thursday Recall - very poor

I was travelling and I wanted to go somewhere which involved going to the airport.
I somehow got a lift in the car of quite an old man (maybe 50 - 60) he had grey hair
with parts going white. He also had a large grey/white mustache. His wife was quite posh, impeccably dressed, with a head scarf. They had a son with them. The man was a chain smoker, he smoked the entire dream time. The woman smoked too but not as much. I didn't notice if their son smoked or not. We were travelling along in the car and we stopped at the beach (but don't remember much about that). I remember the man sitting on a bench and coughing and coughing like he was going to loose a lung or two! I found out that he was the next president of the United States! We got to the airport and we were sitting in a departure lounge. It was like a corridor with seats on opposite sides and a gate at the top. The man, his wife and son were sitting opposite me. Next to me sat an Asian couple both holding newspapers. I was worried I might be in the wrong place for the flight I wanted.

-- ENDS -- There was so much more but couldn't get any recall of it, just little flickers that didn't turn into solid images to remember.

Friday - No recall - But it was interesting when I woke up as I couldn't move my arms or legs. My arms came back pretty quick but it was 2 or 3 seconds before my legs had some control back and then it was like moving them through sticky treacle. I thought it might be good to try WILD but I didn't get any further than any of my other attempts. I must have woken up into sleep paralysis!

Saturday

We were at the hospital my wife said that she needed an operation (I couldn't recall what for). I thought that it was un-neccesary surgery so I was not keen on it. We were sitting in the hospital foyer reading what would be done, two columns of procedures, it sounded horrific. She decided to do it anyway, she must have really wanted the outcome of the operation.

After the hospital appointment, I went back to the office. I walked in and saw that a casual worker that sometimes works at the office was sitting at my desk (my old desk!)
I went over to him and said "Hello". I asked if he had had a good week, he said he had had a bad week. I went over to the desk in the corner to use the computer there as there is a worker who always arrives late so I knew the computer would be free for awhile.

As I was sitting at the desk the Ultra Big Boss walked in and another man who was either his clone or his twin brother. They mistook me for the person who usually sits at this desk and started to ask me to do a project. I could hardly hear what they were saying so I kept leaning forward and forward and forward. The project was some kind of diagram where a line curving up to the right with an arrow on the end had to be intersected by another line with an arrow on the end (Exciting Stuff!). They wrote some useless notes on a scrap of paper. Then decided to leave. Before they could leave everyone from the building had to go outside and we all had a TEAM photograph together. Everyone stood in a line, there was some confusion about where I should stand but I was eventally next to the Ultra Big Boss, we were standing so close we were eventually holding hands. The photographer asked for another picture with two lines of staff rather than one I had to stand on the back row. The ultra big boss asked me to let go of his hand I tried to let go but I couldn't I eventually got my hand away but he looked upset and annoyed. It was a very nice summer day, a great day for a photograph.

I went back into the office. The casual worker said that he was going for a walk. He put on his huge winter coat and left. I was jealous he was getting to go for a walk. The late worker came back in and I said there was a project for him. I tried to find the scrap of paper with the notes on I couldn't find it. I looked everywhere and eventually found it. I went back to my desk. I looked in the desk drawers and they were jammed full of cakes and biscuits. My desk was covered in confectionery too. I thought the casual worker must have put them there (most likely because I just started my diet LOL!)

Thinking about the food reminded me that my Dad had made an order of some meat. He had ordered it from a country in the Far East and I was supposed to go there to collect it. My wife and I appeared in the other country but where we were standing looked like in a street of a damp, dingy British Council Housing Estate. We walked through the estate to a big shed. A man greeted us and said he wold help us to carry the meat back to our house. He started off in front of us carrying a huge piece of raw meat slung over his shoulder! I had a big piece too it was slippery and hard to hold. My wife was also having trouble with her piece. We walked awhile.

I looked behind me but my wife wasn't there. I was worried that she had been left behind as I thought it might be a dangerous area. I rushed back along the route and saw her walking up the road with a group of chinese women, they were all laughing and talking together. I had my piece of meat in a cardboard box balanced on my head, steadying it with my hand. I introduced myself and excused myself and my wife. We walked around a few corners. My wife said the women hadn't been nice and she was upset. We kept walking until we were on a straight road (which is an actual road running through a housing estate in my grandparents town). She started crying and ran off. I turned to my wife at my side and said we better catch up with her. My wife and I ran after my wife! My wife was having difficultly with the pace. I said, "We better not let her out of our sight". She speeded up and went around a corner. We got around the corner but we couldn't see her. We stopped and looked around.

-- ENDS --

Sunday

Us and our neighbours were living in a big apartment block. There was a big car park outside the apartments. The carpark had steep green banks with small trees planted at
intervals along the banks (looks like a pub carpark I know). Myself and a woman from work where checking the trees. Some were ok but some looked unwell and diseased. The woman tried to pull the unwell trees out of the ground. She succeeded in getting one small one out by it's roots but not the others. Another person from work pulled up in their car and said the trees could be helped by watering them

My wife and I decided to go shopping in the city. We went to a very big shopping centre. We were looking around and I noticed an old looking bookshop, out of place, among the other shops. We went inside and it sold very modern products, books, DVD's and games. I looked at a few books and even bought one. I saw an alcove at the back of the shop that seemed to have an opening secluded around a corner. We went over and there was a tunnel and some steps going down.

We went through the tunnel and started going down the steps. There was a massive room under the book shop (and shopping centre) that looked like a massive cathedral in size. We climbed down a lot of steps and eventually reached the bottom. It turned into an episode of 'Time Team' an archeological show. The presenter was telling how the show was investigating what the shopping centre was build on top of. We turn back towards the stairs and saw a big mound of earth. The long haired aging archeologist was brushing away with a brush and suddenly he went wow! All the soil seemed to have cleared and he was talking about a significant find.

The soil had been cleared away and revealed what looked like a Mayan Temple or an Eygptian Pyramid. The archeologist called it a terraced alter. Each of the terraces or steps was twice as high as the architect with frescos in an Eygpto-Roman style carved into the stone, pictures of people and scenerary. It was breath-taking and massive. You could feel the history or the spirtual energy of the place. After awhile we climbed back up the steps to the bookshop.

The book shop had changed into a classy upscale restuarant that was full of people in evening dress. There seemed to be a party going on, perhaps celebrating the archeological find. There were people sitting and eating, music, a few celebrities wandering past. We went to one corner of the restaurant. There was a TV celebrity there called Tommy Walsh (from Ground Force), he was sitting down surrounded by a group of people. He didn't seem pleased. One person was reading him a list of bad things viewers of the show had to say about him. He was complaining loudly about some kind of altercation at the restaurant. A guy that looked like Mafia said in his sing song mafia voice, "You should have seen the management". Tommy said, "The management isn't in" The mafia guy said (like in God Father), "The management is always in!". Tommy's arch enemy a haggard faced man in an overcoat stepped out to calm the situation singing a love song. After a few minutes Tommy started laughing loudly at the man and he got angry as he was trying to help Tommy. The argument changed into the usual love / hate relationship as usual. We got tired of watching so we left through the back door of the restaurant.

Outside the door was some covered streets (about three). They were full of queues of people leaving the restaurant, the streets were heaving. We joined one of the queues down a street. We saw a large tall glass window in the side of a building. We looked inside and saw a long desk with many receptionists with headsets behind it answering calls. An old school friend said that he would go inside and get through the building to an empty street to beat the queues (he could talk himself in and out of anything) We followed and we got past the desk and were walking through the buildings corridors.

We got to a big room, empty apart from a huge projection screen and q U shaped seating arrangement with people sitting on about 3/4 of the seats. We saw a door but didn't want to disturb the presentation that a man was giving. We sat down. My wife was telling me that her grandfather and her other little cousin would be visiting us in 6 months. The presentation on the screen was a Virtual 3D City which looked great, the presenter was exploring the city selecting areas and accessing learning activities. The one he selected was a quiz on a grey screen - dry and boring. My wife got bored and asked me if we could leave. Everyone was interacting with the presentation using handheld devices. I picked up mine, quickly completed the quiz and started to move around the city. I planted some explosives around and pressed the trigger. The city started to explode (extremely VIVID) tops of sky scapers were being ripped off by the explosions, bricks and glass flying as clouds through the air, whole buildings were detonating and vapourising. The sound was amazing. (If I had been LUCID I would have believed I was actually there).

-- ENDS --

Monday

Absolutely Nothing - Bed too late - Must have been too tired -_- ZZZZZzzzzz

Tuesday

Absolutely Nothing again, bed too late! I have got used to recalls once every other day or every day and so not having recall two days in a row feels strange!!!

Wednesday - Phew! Broke through the 2 day recall dry spell with a little recall. I think that Saturday and especially Sunday's recall was so big that i needed a break for two days!!!!!

I was driving a motorbike around some countryside lanes. The roads seemed familiar. I think I dreamt of these roads in another dream before.

I found myself walking into the kitchen (which looked completely different) there was a long rectangular table up against the wall in the middle of the room (sticking out into the room). A notice board on the wall at the head of the table. I had a drink of juice from a jug on the table. My Mum came into the room wearing her dressing gown. She looked ill and very tired. We talked (I don't recall much of it) She asked me, "Am I going to be ok, will I make it?". I paused for a second, doubt surfacing, and I said, "Of course you will, you aren't getting any worse". A Radio DJ walked into the room, I knew he was a DJ because he picked up some sound equipment from the corner. He said, "A lot of illness is in the mind!". I said, "I agree with him". I asked his name. He said his name was 'my middle name'. I said, "Yes I agree with 'my middle name''.

I was back on the motorbike and driving through a city. I bus speeded past me in a rush almost colliding with me. The bus looked very full but it stopped to pick up passengers and I speeded up and past it again. I stopped further up the road where the road turned in an L Shape. The building was an L Shape, a very large office block looking construction. I parked the bike and got off. I had taken off the helmet. The bus approached the building very fast. There was the sound of a massive collision. I ran over. The bus had smashed through the automatic doors at the front of the building. It was jammed in the front of the building, it's windows shattered. It was empty. I went into the building there was lots of people inside. (Recall gets sketchy) In this building it was my wedding, a registry office wedding (not a church), It turned out I was a prince and some kids where getting on a stage to put on a show to celebrate the wedding.

-- ENDS --

Thursday - very small recall but I felt that there was a lot more there I couldn't get too.

I was watching a movie or TV show in bed with my wife. The show ended and we went to sleep. As I fell asleep I felt my skin changing through a different variety of colours. We woke up and the curtains were open, the bed was right by the window. I went to the bathroom and we were getting up for the day. I came back to the bedroom and we realised that opposite this building (which we had a flat in) was a school, very close. Looking at different windows on different floors we saw that many students were looking into the room. Luckily they hadn't seen much. We closed the curtains.

I then became a student again in the school, the inside which looked like my old secondary school. I was misbehaving and rushing around the corridors (like the cartoon character Billy Whizz). I explored the corridor that we weren't allowed up as kids towards the staff room and got told off by a teacher.

Then I became a teacher, the school got a lot bigger, and the corridors looked alot like the ones in the local hospital. I was searching for another teacher that had a few problems. There had been a big commotion, the teacher may have been driven mad by the students (an all too common occurence in UK schools!!!!!) I saw the teacher in a corridor in front of me. He was holding a lit blow torch the flame long and blue. He was trying to set fire to a gas canister and I assumed kill himself (and blow up the school). I screamed 'No!' and ran towards him to try to stop him. When I got there the flame turned out to be from a hand held lighter. He was trying to burn the canister and hadn't attempted to open it!!!

-- ENDS -- Other sketchy images - something about a garage and the teacher.

Friday - Large Recall

My wife and I went to collect my brother when he was to finish his martial arts lesson. When we got there we found out that my brother had arranged a private 20 minute session for us with his Sensei. The sensei put our names in his booking book and we put our bags and coats off the mat. First we did some exercises and then the sensei appeared to become a mime with a painted face and business suit and we copied him as he danced. Then back to normal for some rolls and moves. The lesson was fine and we all left the dojo together, my brother, sensei, my wife and I.

We were walking to the car but had to walk through the dock area which was on two levels, we were on level two. We saw what looked like a huge basketball court and many people gathered around for an illegal martial arts 'fight club' like thing. There were two combatants fighting and many people around the outside of the fighting area. My brother and sensei just walked straight through the middle and through the middle of the fight. We had to follow, worried we would be attacked at any time. As we walked across the big court all the fight club members started to count 1.2.3. etc all loudly chanting together. For some reason I knew the last number was 30 and that would be when we got to the other side of the court. I didn't know what to expect but thought all the fighters would come at us. It got to 30 and we just walked on. Nothing.

We had lost my brother and sensei somewhere and myself and my wife were walking through a corridor made entirely of metal like on a nuclear submarine but we were still on level two of the docks. Behind us two huge rugby player women in their rugby shirts came out of a side door. They started to harrass us and verbally abuse us and got very threatening and intimidating. Then they got violent. I am not normally a violent person but it took me over the line of self defense for myself and my wife. I kicked some ass but it was a hard fight. They were like two huge men. I got a bit carried away with some banging heads on the floor. Finally they were lying their beaten. I squirted tomato sauce all over them!!! Maybe meant to be blood! They started to move again, a bit like Terminator. We ran away. We got to the first level and were going down a ramp to exit to the carpark. We looked back up at level two, my brother and sensei were looking over the railings, we motioned them to hurry up.

I was part of a tour group inside an ancient ship, we were being guided around. In the centre of the ship on the lower decks was a huge brass bell and then along the middle of the ship where long cylindrical bells. I kept kicking them and making them chime to annoy the tour guide. We went upstairs to the captain's cabin. We were all in period costume and were having a large meal. There were huge cooked and stuffed animals.

I was in an airport waiting for a flight as I moved around the airport I kept bumping into an old woman, wherever I went or sat. She thought that I was following her and trying to annoy her. When it was time to get on the plane I thought that was the last I would see of the old woman. On the plane, it was a bit like a 12 passenger private jet but a lot bigger, I was sitting on a swivelling chair. I turned and next to me was the old woman. She looked very annoyed. She called over a stewardess and asked her to set up the entertainment system. She said, "and make sure there is no 'Airplane Porn' " and then looked at me smuggly as if she had won. I turned my seat again and my Dad, brother and Uncle were all sitting on the plane on soft seats next to me.

-- ENDS --

Saturday

We were at our old house in the countryside. Three groups of people came to see my Dad all wanting money. Neighbours, friends and another nurse we knew(and two assessors). I wanted nothing to do with the nurse and hid. I looked out of the window and it was the view out of our current kitchen window. It was not possible to avoid all the people. They weren't satisfied and left with nothing.

I was using the computer to design a perfect Guinea Pig cage and run for a National Competition. The competition was today. I had to travel there by bus. I went to wait for the bus, walking down the country lane that used to lead to our old house, the bus eventually came, the weather was quite bad. On the front of the bus it said 'Lullaby Bus Company' (Arrrrrrrrrrrggggghhhhhh... Another clue that I was dreaming and I missed it A lullaby is a song you sing to someone to help them to go to sleep - Well my mind is still throwing clues out there for me - but this one was quite obscure). I got on the bus and there was a kid causing lots of noise and problems. I moved the kid next to him and sat down. I stared him out and intimidated him into behaving better.

The National Competition was held in a big school. We arrived. I went into the foyer which was well decorated and there was a greeting party for the competition entrants and guests. My shook the hand of the organiser of the competition, my old programming lecturer from university. Strange looking guy. I was carrying two guinea pigs in a small cardboard box. I asked the tutor if he wanted to see them. He did. I opened the box. There was now four guinea pigs coloured neon blue, green, yellow and white. The tutor said, "Are they waiting to die!" I tried to stop the guinea pigs jumping out of the box.

We were outside in the semi twilight, the sun fast disappearing. The guinea pigs were in the outdoor run. There was a huge garden and all the outdoor runs were being tested and judged. The competition was well underway.

Then I turned into a super hero with rubber like powers, being able to transform my body into pretty much any shape/form. I lead the police on a merry chase. I remember wearing a cape like over coat and wide brimmed hat.

-- ENDS --

Sunday - Bed too late - too tired - No Recall

Still No LDs I need to improve my RT's.

Monday - Very small recall

My friend asked me to play on a game that was a virtual reality game. They told me that it was very realistic. They said that they had just lost because they ran out of bullets. I was eager to try it so that I could show that I could do better.

I started to play the game and it was so realistic (I should have recognised that the game was too good) It was a first person shooter, like Quake or Doom. I had a huge shotgun. I was fighting against characters that were like the 'Thing' (from the Fantastic Four') Only they were much more yellow. I started to run out of ammunition so I had to make every shot count. I finished my last three bullets into the body and head of the last 'Thing' I could see at very close range, weaving behind pillars, finishing in a small room that had alcoves in the wall. I came out of the room and explored around a bit and found some loose ammunition on the floor.

I ran into another room and was faced with three guys with huge unwieldly hair, white Nerd scientist guys with glasses and shaggy black afros. They were shooting around electricity. I finished all my ammunition and didn't advance.

-- ENDS --

Tuesday - Too Tired - Absolutely No Recall - At least I have determined with this journal so far that there is a lot of truth in that more rest equals more recall - no LDs yet

Wednesday - Bed too late - Tiniest of recalls. Chandler (from Friends) was at a party in a posh hotel there were people sitting around tables around the room. There was a door with curtains on either side. He was talking to a young boy who was worried about doing something (I think a presentation) and Chandler offered support. After the boy left a guy came up to Chandler and said he thought Chandler was under confident and would he like some confidence training. He embraced him when he greeted him. He had a beard.

-- ENDS -- Small recall of a much larger dream

Thursday - Very small recall - slow recall week

Was having to move a cage of rabbits around very quickly. Picking it up and putting it down over and over. There was about 12 quite big rabbits in quite a small cage but the cage was too big for me to realistically pick up in real life. The rabbits were getting flung around inside the cage. Eventually I stopped moving it (I have no idea why I had to move it around up and down so quickly anyway - i think so avoid danger!). One of the rabbits looked injured like it's back was broken. It was wearing a multi-coloured woolen jumper and had a very human like face! It tried to move and collapsed and then rolled into a ball. I came back later and the rabbit was walking around but very slowly, still pained. I noticed another rabbit was not too well. It was at the end of some kind of event possibly related to work. There were only about 6 people left tidying and packing things away. A gay guy from work was there complaining he was one of the last to leave. There was a scramble for some chocolate bars that had been left behind. There was also something that I thought that I should have remembered but I couldn't. There was also something that happened in a dark hallway (but no recall about what happened).

-- ENDS --

Friday - One of the best recalls so far but also one of the strangest!!!!!

Was in a house a bit like a house in a Sims game (Isometric). I was walking around and doing everyday things. I went into the bedroom and there was a huge king sized bed (The view went 1st person) Sitting on the bed were two young women with long blonde hair. I thought, "I must be having a lucid dream" (However, this all came out in recall when I woke up, I don't remember becoming concious or having any of the sensations the last time I thought I was LDing). I thought as long as I am having an LD I should create something. I tried to think of something to create but I couldn't. I could only think of creating more women.

So I imagined the basic form of a woman in my mind and tried to crystalise the image into a real form. It worked. I changed the colour of her hair to brown. I decided to keep on creating so I did the same thing with another 7 women. Changing the hair colour of each. The first woman created was quite good but by the eighth they were starting to get bad. I had 10 women on the bed but decided to try to create one more. The creation turned out to be a bald headed man who was badly formed and who started to disintegrate very quickly (not a pretty sight). He got behind me and I was worried he was going to touch me.

Was I having a Lucid Dream or was I dreaming I was having a Lucid Dream???

Then I was in the bedroom of another house. The room was very small and quite dark. Not much light from the window. There were many packed boxes. Some huge and some very small. My brother and two other men were there to help me to move the boxes into a white van outside. I was going to be starting a PHd at a University in Scotland and so I had to move up there. My brother picked up the biggest box it was huge. He shouldn't have been able to physically pick it up (unless it was very light of course). He managed to carry it out of the door despite it's shape and size. After all the boxes had gone the room looked empty and a lonely place. I decided that I didn't want to do the course and I wanted to stay when I was. I went on the Internet to the university site and selected the course. I used the mouse to click a big red button that said 'CANCEL' and that was it.

I hadn't told my wife that I wasn't going to take up the place on the course. So we got in the white van and started on the drive to Scotland. On the way I told her about my decision. She was upset at first but when I explained I didn't want to be away for too long and about the cost then she didn't mind. We continued on the drive through the country lanes. A very small lane with beautiful trees and fenced road (It looked like a painting).

We finally found ourselves on the top of a very tall mountain. The mountain didn't drop away as normal but was more like a cliff mountain, with a sheer drop all the way down!
We looked at the view. It was spectacular (I can see why LDers can do flying when the mind can make such a scene - although I have looked out of enough aircraft windows!)
It was very high, we could see wispy clouds floating along. I thought I recognised a part of the view as where we had come from and I thought I saw where we wanted to be but there was no recognisable roads. We were lost. I decided we would just try to drive back the way we had come.

In a short while we were closer to home and walking down a very steep hill through a posh and rich area. The side of the road was lined with trees and we passed many expensive houses. The side of the road was also full of parked cars with no gaps at all. We saw an old man outside one of the cars. He looked a little drunk or ill and confused. We offered to help. There was something wrong inside the car so I got in and fixed it (Don't know what it was!) I was in the back seat. The old man got into the front seat. I said I had fixed the problem and he had to get out so I could get out. He got out and I did too. He said goodbye to us and thanked us and got into his car. We continued to walk.

As we got half way down the hill we heard a vehicle coming along the road. We turned to look. We could see the old man driving but not his car. The car had turned into a medium sized truck with a cab and trailer. It looked like it was out of control. It ploughed up a steep green embankment and rocketed through the back of an empty tennis court, sending the net flying and smashing through the other side. As it came through the other side the old man seemed to slam on the brakes. The truck stopped dead and we saw the old man smash through the windshield in slow motion and then crumple quickly to the ground. We rushed over but he was very dead. We walked around the side of the tennis court, the truck had vanished. In the front of the court was a small lop earred rabbit and in the back of the court was a Llama. My wife didn't know what it was so I said "It is a Llama, it is well known for spitting!" and it did, the spit was like white bullets.

We got back home and I went to talk to my Dad. I said "I won't be going to do the PHd". Dad said that he knew and that someone special had already told him. I looked on his cupboard shelves and found a piece of paper it said 'Supernatural Occurences'. I read the list (I don't remember the other writing). It turned out my Mum had already told him.

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