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[Big Moot]

For Now: Dreams are blue. Lucid Dreams are green August 14th 1: A friend in need..... A toucan tells me that he has lost his friend, whom is a zebra. He tells me that he is going to find his friend. I decide to help him, because I've got nothing better to do. The toucan takes off and strangely I can see things from his perspective. We see a clearing in the woods and decide that it's a good place to start searching for the zebra. When we arrive we notice that there are three persons baiting the clearing with peeled apples. I think they are also trying to capture the zebra. Suddenly, one of the men turns in my direction and says something in a strange language, which I do not understand. I turn and look behind me, and there is a giant tiger stalking the three people in some tall grass. The tiger begins to chase the men and they start to run in different directions. I notice an old, broken down car next to a tree and wonder why the men are not trying to get inside of it to escape the tiger. The zebra darts right past me...........that's all I remember. 2: Too many controls and candles that don't light I'm walking to the workshop in my back yard. When I open the door I see an old friend. He is smoking crystal meth. from a small glass pipe. I tell him of the dangers of smoking that stuff, and bid him to leave. He leaves. I notice that there is a bass guitar on the workbench that is disassembled. I examine the electronics and notice that there are too many controls. So, for a while I try to figure out what is wrong. It's getting dark and my wife enters. I ask her if she has seen our daughter. She tells me she's playing at a friend’s house. We decide to call her to tell her that it's time to come home. Just then a car stops on the road in front of the house. A woman and small girl get out and approach me. The woman tells me that it's her daughter’s birthday and she would like to swing on our tire swing. I give them permission to do so and return to the workshop. I notice that there are several candles on the window. I try to light them but they won't stay lit. I notice that there are two or three children in the shop with me. I start thinking, "Where the hell did all these kids come from?" Then I woke up.

[Big Moot]

August 15th 1: I should get paid for dreaming I'm at work I’m at work, coordinating a major maintenance outage. I notice that there are a lot of broken electrical conduit jobs on my schedule. Technicians that are assigned to these jobs are complaining that they do not have the material to complete the jobs. I’m frustrated because planning didn’t prepare for these jobs. I go into the field to inspect some of the jobs, when I see the drafting department secretary climbing a scaffold. I’m very surprised because she works in the administration building. I stop to observe for a while. She climbs down from the scaffold and proceeds to pick up some pieces of broken glass at the base of the scaffold. She signs her name on the glass and puts them back on the ground. When I ask her what she was doing, she said, “I want the big wigs to know that I’ve been out here. Don’t you?” I tell her, “Mrs. C. I really don’t give a flying rat’s *** what the big wigs think.” She laughs at my remark. I wake up.

[Big Moot]

August 16th Trains A friend and I are talking. A train passes in the distance. I had a stressful day so that's all I can remember.

[Big Moot]

August 17th 1: Technical Cloves I'm walking down a major highway with a friend. We are disscussing technology. He gives me some mold spores that are the size of cloves. We walk a little further, then I plant them on the side of the road. 2: Thunder There is a Mexican woman watching my children. I hear a clap of thunder. I wake up.

[Big Moot]

August 20th 1: Dead Skin Mask I'm under some stairs hiding. It's very gloomy. There is a huge man on the step right above me, I think he's looking for me. He moves along and I can see him clearly. He's wearing the skin of small children over his head. He smells awful. I realize that he is blind and can't see me. I sneak past him to make my escape. I exit the building that we're in and run toward a train that is headed toward me. I climb on board. The train is full of children. There is a set of twin girls in front of me. I notice that the train is headed for a small town. The environment is still gloomy, the sky is black with hints of dark clouds. When we get to the town one of the twins tells me that they're going back to the huge man's house to help him. I told the girls that he would skin them and use them for a hat, but they are determined to go. I agree to go with them. The girls are wearing metal shoes. They travel on the high voltage lines that pass over the huge man's house. I'm standing in the yard and don't know where the girls are now. A grey haired man, with a BB gun approaches me. He tells me, "If you are going to come on our property, keep moving. If you stop, he will get you. I'm his brother." He shoots a seagull with the BB gun. The huge man picks the bird up and holds it to his chest which brings the bird back to life. The bird is alive but is now in a advanced state of decay. That's all I can remember. 2: Cool new amp I am approaching a stage. David Chastain is going to play. There is a guitar player setting up some equipment. His name is Mark, and his amplifiers have his name on them. I ask him if he designed his amps. He tells me he did. He says he had a hard time finding the tone that he wanted so he designed his own amp and cabinet. He turns the cabinet around and I notice that it has about 30 one-inch speakers in it. I ask him about the small speakers. He said that the small speakers sound great, but he had to use a bunch to get the volume he needed. I depart. The band starts playing. Mark is right; it’s one of the best guitar sounds I’ve ever heard! I wake up.

[Big Moot]

August 21st Not much interesting today. I'm at a car dealership shopping for a new truck. I really like the Nissan Titan. That's it.

[Big Moot]

Sharks and Stooges A friend and I are fishing on the bank of a bayou. He catches a shark. I tell him that I would like to catch a shark also. Suddenly I hook a large fish. It's a 25 ft. Great White. I land the fish and begin trying to remove the hook from it's jaw. When I return the fish to the water it begins flipping around and making three stooges noises (Bwu Bwu Bwu Bwu......Neuk Neuk.......). I awoke laughing!

[Big Moot]

05.08.2009 Great Deal on Nukes (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID A friend and I are talking and he mentioned that one could buy nuclear bombs over the internet. I found the site and purchased a 3 MTon warhead for $100.00. There was an option to purchase it "armed" or "unarmed". Of course, I chose "armed". The company delivered the warhead to my place of employment. They were not really happy about that. They told me I had to keep it in the middle of the room so no one would trip over it and accidently set it off. Wakey Wakey

[Big Moot]

07.08.2009 Fight in the Supermarket (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I'm in a supermarket doing some shopping. An older man begins picking a fight with me. He takes a swing at me and misses. I put him in an arm lock and bring him to the floor. I awake.

[Big Moot]

07.08.2009 Strange Gigs (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I'm playing a gig with Blues Tonic. We are set up on a huge stage and the concert is outdoors. I notice that there is a set of drums set up, but no drummer in sight. I'm using a bass amp that I don't own anymore (DS). My mic stand boom will not tighten and it keeps falling (DS). We begin to play and I notice that not all of the members of the band are there. Just Jason and Travis are playing. Even though there is no drummer I can hear drums (DS). We play about two songs and Jason decides to re-arrange the instruments. We do so and it begins to rain. My amp is soaked with water. When I turn it on, there is a flash of light and smoke. My amp is fried. I turn to Jason and say, "Gig's over". He agrees. My wife is there to pick me up. The car that she is driving is not our car (DS). We load my equipment and as I'm driving off I notice that the car is very hard to control (DS). I awake.

[Big Moot]

09.08.2009 Sunday Morning Headcount (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I'm in a hotel room. There are garden hoses running everywhere. My boss is there. We are discussing gig cloths. He shows me a shirt that he wares at his gigs. It's like a shirt that has a chrome job. I tell him that that is a really cool shirt. Two people arrive. I don't know who they are, but they want to listen to the new Sunday Morning Headcount CD. We go to my truck to listen to it. We get to a part of a song that's got some really fast kick work. One of the guys says that Shane (SMHC's durmmer) is playing the part wrong. I tell him, "I doubt it, he wrote the damn thing". He said there should be six beats, not five beats. So we count them, there are six beats. He says, "Maybe I'm mistaken". Suddenly we look at the sky and notice that there is a huge mushroom cloud in the distance. I comment on how tall it is saying, "It looks like they set it off way too high". One of the people with me asks, "Do you think that we are far enough away"? I respond, "How the hell should I know". I wake up.

[Big Moot]

14.08.2009 More Money than God (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I'm very rich. My assistant tells me that I'm worth over 100 Billion dollars. We are in a boat just riding around. We come upon my brother who is having trouble with his boat. He says that the hull is cracked. We tow him to the dock a and see that there are cigerette burn holes in the bottom of his boat. I tell him that I will fix it and not to worry. I see that there is a band setting up. It's a band named Choke and my cousin is playing bass with them. I help him change his bass strings which are square(DS). I stay and listen for a while. I take a beer from the guitar player's ice chest. Then my assistant and I leave. He is asking me how much to pay someone who has done something for me. I tell him 100 Million. He ask me if I really think that their services were worth 100 Million dollars. I say, "You're right, make it 125 Million". We arrive at my home. Woke up.

[Big Moot]

19.08.2009 Tattoos (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I'm in a boat fishing. I throw my cast net and pull up some bait fish. I'm sorting them in a 5 gallon bucket. Suddenly the tide begins to move. We decide to fish from the bank. I realize that I'm at my family's estate. There is a canal that runs through it. I notice that the tide is running very fast. The water is roaring through the canal. Suddenly, I'm in a car that my mom owed when I was growing up. It's a Malibu classic. I'm driving on a levee and end up in someone's yard. I stomp on the gas and the tires squeal. I remember that the person that lives here has children so I stop driving recklessly. The car stops and there is an old truck in front of me. I get out of the car and begin shooting my rifle. The owner of the yard approaches me and asks me what I'm hunting. I tell him that I'm looking for rabbits. He comments on the Malibu. He says that he really likes it. I leave in the car and go to a store. There are some folks that I work with in the store. They are troubleshooting an analyzer. They cannot find the problem with the analyzer. I recommend that they check the bench. Two young ladies begin looking at the bench. They find a problem in a pre-amp and repair the analyzer. They give me a temporary tatoo. I lick my arm and apply the tattoo. I wake my wife and ask her if my forearm is wet. She says yes and inquires why. I tell her that I was dreaming about a temporary tatoo and licked my arm to apply it. We both laugh because we realize that I really licked my arm. I fall back to sleep. I'm talking to my grandmother who passed away about 8 years ago. We are discussing my great-grandmother. I tell my grandmother that she used to watch Mid-South wrestling and get very upset when the Junkyard Dog would loose. She would jump up and down on the sofa and carry on like a wild woman. Hearing this upset my grandmother. She said it was completely out of character for her. Then she said, "Maybe this was after she decided to have more fun". That's all I can remember.

[Big Moot]

21.08.2009 Convolution (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID A friend, whom has passed away, and I are walking along a road. The road is next to a lake. We are searching for bait to go fishing. We come upon a man and woman that are trapping crawfish in some small traps. I ask them if we can buy some crawfish from them. They tell me that they cannot spare any crawfish but, they would give me some material to build my own traps. I thank them for the material. We are again walking down the road. We come upon a wharf. I see some extremely large fish next to the dock. They are floating above the water. My brother-in-law is standing on the wharf and looking into the water. I ask him what he is doing and he tells me that he is looking at a large bear that is under. I cannot see the bear. He looks at me and says, "I'm going to try to ride that bear". He jumps into the water onto the bear's back. The bear begins running toward the shore with my brother-in-law on his back. Suddenly I'm at work. One of our former employees is there. He ask me if I still have his essay. I tell him yes, and that I kept it in a safe place for him. We depart for my office to get the essay. I tell him that I have added to the esay. He said that he didn't mind. The alarm clock rings.

[Big Moot]

24.08.2009 Missed Dream Signs (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I'm outside of the Creole Kitchen in my home town. A man that I don't know and Dan Rather are walking out. I hear the stranger tell Dan Rather that they are going to go to my dad's house to do a story. They are going to report that my dad has been building this house for 15 years and try to embarrass him. (DS it did take 15 years to build the house, but dad completed the house 15 years ago.) I'm aggravated that they are going to try to make a fool of my dad, because there are good reasons for taking so long to build the house. Dad would work on the house when he could afford to buy material, instead of borrowing money to buy it. I decide to follow them. They cross the road into my dad's yard. I see my son playing in the back yard. When we get to the front of the house, I see my mom, dad, and myself (DS) on the front porch. Dan Rather asks my dad if he can interview him. My dad says, "Sure, come on it". Dan Rather, my dad, and I go to his office. Dan Rather ask my dad, "Mr. Mouton, why is it taking so long to complete this house"? My dad pulls out a Colt .45 and points it at Dan Rather and says, "Get the f*** out of my house, Dan Rather"! Dan Rather screams like a girl and runs out of the house onto the drive way. Dan pulls out a pistol and it's obvious that he doesn’t know what he is doing, because he's waving it around and crying. Dan drops the gun and is running around and freaking out. My dad and I are laughing at him, because Dan and the stranger's plan backfired. I tell dad, "I'll handle it from here". I pick up the pistol that Dan dropped, unload it, then give it back to Dan Rather who is still shaking like a leaf and crying. I tell Dan, "You get the hell out of here, and never come back, you big sissy". Somehow, I'm back in Lake Charles. I'm standing on the top of the 210 bridge, which is not a bridge but an enormous slide. I decide that I'm going to go down, head first. I slide down and begin walking to work. My alarm clock rings!

[Big Moot]

31.08.2009 Red Clouds (DILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I'm laying on my back looking up at the sky. It is overcast and the clouds are moving fast overhead. The clouds are colored red, not like at sunrise or sunset, they are a darker shade. (DS) I realize that I must be dreaming. Suddenly everything stops. The clouds are now frozen in the sky. Things begin to fade. I awake thinking I wish I could have stayed in longer.

[Big Moot]

09.09.2009 Pretty good for kids (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID My friend, Ryan and I are in a truck driving somewhere. We exit the interstate and take a wrong turn. We decide to follow the road to see where it leads us. We end up at a park where some teen band are setting up to play some music. They start to do a sound check and to my supprise they sound and play really well. The drums look weird, some technology that I've never seen before. (DS) When they finish sound check, I go to the lead vocalist for a chat. He's a pretty cool dude. I tell him that Ryan and I are going to hang around to hear them play, but I'm going to make a beer run first. He gives me $20 bucks to buy some beer for his band. I leave without Ryan. I arrive at a store, not far from the park. The store is long and narrow. Someone tells me that the beer is located in the back of the store. I get the beer and pay for it, then start heading back to the park. On the way, the sun sets quickly. (DS) I decide to sleep on the ground. I lay on the ground and can hear coyotes in the distance. I fall asleep. (DS) The sun rises and I awake. Ryan is there and we are discussing something. End of dream.

[Big Moot]

16.09.2009 Fire, Smoke, Reality, and Dream Induction. (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID Allan and I are in a house that belongs to me, but looks nothing like my home. (DS) We are trying to light the fireplace. We get the wood to light and figure out that the damper is stuck. Smoke starts to fill the room. We get the damper to move and the smoke starts to travle up the chimney. I tell Allan that we should go up stairs to check on my kids due to the smoke. We are walking up the stairs, the air has cleared but, the smell of smoke is still pungent. I am awakened by a knock at my front door. I can smell smoke! It's 2:30 AM. I grab my pistol and go to the door. On the way, I see fire, glowing through the curtains in my daughters bed room. There is a woman knocking on my door. I open the door and she tells me that my neighbors house is burning. There are 4 firetrucks there. By 3:30 AM the house had burned to the ground. I stayed up to, help the Firecheif locate my neighbor. We finally find him, he was working the night shift at the hospital. He arrived at 4:00 AM. Everything he owned is gone, except his car and the scrubs that he's wearing. I gave him a couple of changes of cloths, and then went to work at 5:00 AM. I think that my dream was induced by the actual smell of smoke. That's pretty cool!

[Big Moot]

22.09.2009 Documentation of Dream Signs (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID Dad and I are fishing. I throw a cast net and catch some bait fish. They are tubular and black with a white head. They have no eyes, fins, mouth, or gill plates. They are not like anything I've ever seen before. (DS) Dad says that these should be good bait for Red Fish. We travle to a dock where some men are fishing. I try to ease the boat in gently, so as not to disturb the other fishermen, but the boat is hard to control. (DS) Dad is catching fish and, as usual, I'm not. We go home and we're in Dad's old house that he and mom haven't lived in for over 15 years. (DS) It's late, about 2:30 AM. I don't have a clock but it's dark and feels late. I notice that there is a light on in the house behind dad's house. Ms. Dora lives there. I wonder what she is doing up so late, because she's so old. (DS, Ms. Dora passed away several years ago, and the house is no longer there.) The alarm clock wakes me.

[Big Moot]

23.09.2009 Pioneer (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID My boss and I are consulting for a company that I used to work for. We are trying to improve the controls on the Pioneer dive support vessel. We get to a beach and see that the Pioneer is some distance offshore. We swim to the Pioneer. (DS) When we get to the wheel house my boss makes some changes to the programs and begins to test drive the vessel. The vessel is responding very well. One of the company's chief executives arrives and starts commenting on the number of alarms that the systems are generating. My boss is trying to explain that these parameters need to be adjusted, but the executive is confused by the technical jargon and his accent. I grab a small model of the vessel and begin to show the executive what we have accomplished. He realizes that the vessels current performance has greatly improved and thanks us. Wake up time!

[Big Moot]

24.09.2009 Artificial Memories (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I walk into a bar. There are some people polishing the wooden floors, by hand. I can see that they have completed half of the floor. The part that they have already done looks wonderful. I go to the bar and order a beer. There is a man on the other side of the bar. We begin to talk about the floor and how beautiful it is now. I tell him that I play music here on ocassion. I begin to tell him about how different the bar is form the last time that I came. I'm discribing these changes in great detail. After I woke up, I realized that the changes I was discussing were from a dream that I had previously. I can't remember when I had a dream about the same place, but it seemed like it had been quite some time. Pretty cool stuff!

[Big Moot]

01.10.2009 Foward facing trailer (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID My Dad asks me if I would drive his truck home, because he has other stuff to do. I tell him that I will. I go to his truck and notice that there is a trailer attached to the back and front of the truck! I remember thinking that there is no way that this is going to work. I start the truck and begin to drive. About one block down the road, I loose control of the forward trailer and drive into a large ditch. I get out of the truck and look for a way to get out of this bind. There is a ramp at the end of the ditch. I decide that the best way to do this is to floor the truck and get to Dad's house as quickly as possible. So that's what I do. I make it out of the ditch and steer the vehicle towards Dad's house, which is only two blocks away. I remember screaming, "Get the Hell out of the way", as I'm driving down the side walk. Bystarders are literaly diving out of my way. I arrive at dad's, doing a power slide into his yard. I remember thinking, "Thank goodness that's over"!

[Baron Samedi]

Omigod. That truck dream is hilarious!!!

[Big Moot]

Omigod. That truck dream is hilarious!!! Yeh, sometimes I wake up laughing. I love those.

[Big Moot]

06.10.2009 Swimming Pool (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I'm on a levee and walking through some large tomato plants. There are green worms on some of the plants. I have a can of wasp and hornet spray so I begin to kill the worms with the spray. Some guy decides he is going to be funny and starts asking me, "Is it pronounced tō-mā-tō or is it pronounced tō-mä-tō?" I remember thinking, "This dope thinks he's cute." To throw him off, I fire back, "Is WHAT pronounced tō-mā-tō or tō-mä-tō? You need to be more specific." The guy gets frustrated with my attitude and leaves. I walk down the levee to a swimming pool. The water is full of purple, coagulated matter. There is some girl next to the pool. She asks me why the pool has coagulated matter in it. I say, "I think they put some flocculent in the pool to remove the suspended solids in the water". The girl then asked me of what did the coagulant consist. I say, "Probably fecal matter." She is extremely disturbed by my comment, which is the reaction that I was hoping for, so she leaves. Workey time!