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When i first joined DV i use to have the longest and most detailed dreams ever. In hope to inspire myself again I made this thread. I hope this inspires more dream recall and lucids.

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the dream: i'm at my Apartment. it's morning so i decide to go and get my morning coffee from country style. the place winded up being Tim Hortons. i should've noticed the obvious sign that IT WAS ONLY A DREAM! anyway i go in and walked back out again. the person working there was the girl i had a HUGE crush on in junior high. (don't get me wrong Even I can approach intimidating women in clubs and stuff. but whenever i run into this girl i get tounge tied). anyway i sneak back in to get served! ummm coffee. and then i'm walking around outside again. i go into a random building and get lost for a while. i go up and down corriders and around strange corners. i find this little crawlspace leading to a door but i can't fit through. I'm suddenly back at my apartment!! Dan (my roomy) is playing video games. He has a Shady friend with him. i go into the other room and on the t.v. i can see what game they are playing! i Go back to the other room where Dan is and i pull him aside and tell him i don't like his friend and that he should leave. because i can tell the guy is a drug addict and only wants to scam his next fix out of us. his friend leaves and then dan starts to cry because he brought another danger into our apartment. (there is a real story behind this: Dan went to the bar one night and brought home a crack fiend. this guy told Dan and my other roommate that he could get them good deals on weed. which involved a bike and over $400 dollars on their part. They never saw their weed and money. nor were able to keep the bike). i wake up and go to dan to tell him the dream. (i didn't actually wake up yet). and there his friend is again!. i tell dan "Holy shit i just dreamt this i must be psychic." i sit around perplexed about the strange dream i had. then i REALLY woke up and sat around for a moment perplexed about the strange dream i had! Dream 4: Betrayal: This whole dream was very long. i can't remember all specifics. first i was visiting my brother. he was moving away. he said goodbye and boarded a boat journeying down a river into the wilderness. i had the general feeling EVERYONE i knew was going somewhere. I went to see Dave (a childhood friend.) he was mad that i showed up, he too was moving away. I apologised for last time that i had talked to him. but i came by to explain to him what was going on. we walked around calgary talking about things. i told him that i had broke the sober pact: that after the long time i had known him i was having the odd beer and smoking up once in a while - i assured him there was no addiction, just an odd time thing. i don't remember if he was worried. He left on his trip and i was left alone in calgary. barely anyone was around. I waited by the Tim Hortons to see if my old co workers would come by - perhaps i would be able to persuade them to give me a job. I thought i had spotted their yellow truck but it was parked alone and lying on it's side. a gust of wind placed it back on it's tired. I roamed the streets until night time. i came to a subdivision street where there were nice houses. One of them looked to be on fire. I heard a number of young girls yelling "LOOK!". i stood by to watch the house burn. but it wasn't a house. I saw fireworks suddenly launch. i focused my eyes more and i saw they were missiles. It seemed that they were infared. i looked harder, a jolt of panic swept through me. T.V. screens popped up. there was a computer graphic display telling the public that the missiles were for destroying a building. Then i saw a Flash. the Graphic display was only to keep people from panicking. I ran to hide against a house. ground zero was luckily far away. but i wondered if the flash would cause radiation poisoning. i looked through the glass of the house Door. i saw another flash through the small triangle window on the other side of the house. I knew i was doomed. Everyone I knew had left me to die. they never told me what was coming. i sat down against the door of the house and closed my eyes waiting to embrace the shockwave that would return me to dust.

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First Lucids: .more Hands It was pitch black, i saw and sensed waves of energy going through my body. i thought i was just passed sleep paralysis. i was suddenly looking into a dark room. i was trying to look for my hands. i didn't sense them at first but then i saw them riseing towards my face. i faded out. 3.CC Table I was looking at a screen. i knew i was dreaming so i looked at the different objects on the screen in a systematic fashion to keep the objects from changing. the objects were staying constant for about 15 seconds and then began to change. i was losing my dreaming attention. fade out... 4. Old Skool: first thing i remember is that i'm in a classroom. Dan (see DC list on first page of DJ) was using a computer. i wanted on the computer. but he said he'd be a few minutes. so i left. after roaming the halls i got scared by these read feathery things that were floating around. i went back to the class room and i noticed the room was different. both Dan and the Computer were gone. i thought he was mad and took my computer. I'm in another classroom suddenly and i'm facing a friend i knew from junior high. i think "why haven't i seen him in so long." as it turns out i'm in the wrong classroom. so i start roaming the halls again. i go into the basement of the school looking for the right classroom. i turn a corner and there's more of these red feathers floating and moving about 7 inches from the floor. they look so strange. i look harder and i see they are rats wiith red feathers that stick out like quills on a hedgehog. They are disgusting rats. they had huge teeth and were shitting all over the floor. i ran upstairs grossed out. i go into a classroom that i think is mine. i see a friend there on his computer. i tell him about the band Sonata Arctica. he seems interested so i play him an mp3. it turns out it's not an actual song but a midi rendition spiced up with soundfonts to make the midi sound better. i get dissapointed since i wanted him to hear the studio version. but he seemed to like it. As it turns out i was in the wrong classroom again. so i left again to find the right class. i roamed for a few minutes and then it suddenly hit me : i Finished highschool 3 years ago! WHY would i be at school? I became lucid. the dream suddenly felt real. i opened the door to the outside and realised that i actually feel with my hands the texture of the door. I excitedly ran up to a huge window and just spent minutes just feeling the window and admiring how REAL it felt. i could even differentiate between hot and cold and where peoples breath had warmed spots on the windows I suddenly woke up on a beach. i looked around stunned, this wasn't my apartment. but it looked like somewhere in southern ontario (i've never been south of mississauga so how would i know what southern ontario is like?) the sand was about 5 feet away from a 4 ft high sandcliff. past the cliff was grass. i looked to my right and in the distance i saw some people coming. i climbed up the cliff and it seemed the cliff wasn't solid. but i managed to make it up. i found a path that looked like it hadn't been used for weeks so i tried to walk along it. further in the grass i saw a brown dog or wolf prowling. he was running in circles chasing something. he looked freaky so i jumped back down the cliff so he wouldn't spot me. The people i saw earlier were a few minutes walking distance away. Perhaps i could ask them how to get home from here. but i tried my luck and climbed back up the cliff almost falling down again. i didn't hear the wolf. so i started walking. I spotted him AGAIN. and he seemed really angry i knew if he spotted me he would take his anger out on me. i went back down the cliff again. The people were there. there was a man that appeared to be in his early 30's but his maneurisms were that of someone much older. He had a light medium build, with short blonde hair. with him was a stunning blonde woman that seemed to be his wife. they sat down a few yards away. i think they had children playing in the distance but i payed no attention "'scuse me" i said. "This may sound strange but i was dreaming and then i woke up here! WHERE the hell am i exactly?". the blonde woman ignored me but the man gave me a scrutinising look and said. " HUH? son! how could you NOT know where you are". he then smiled and laughed. "dreaming and then woke up here?!?!?" he laughed again. "Uh yeah, iw as having the most amazing dream and then i woke up here. And i don't know where here is..." end of dream.

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2nd Lucid: Calgary: I was walking around in what i thought was calgary. i was walking outside up some outdoor staircase that led to a large platform where people seemed to be mingling. when i got up to the top some cute girl said something to me. what she said made no sense. i looked at her quizically then smiled and said "OOOOK then" and kept walking. pretty soon another girl pulled me aside and said something even more stupid. this kept happening for minutes girls kept walking up to me and pulling me aside to say the most ridiculous things. everytime i talked back they would ignore me and then re-ingage me when i showed dissinterest in their retardedness. Some big guy noticed what was going on and he tried to be the big Alpha male on me. he kept threatening me (musta been jealous of all the attention i was getting). i go "yeah whatever man, i'm just here to socialise you don't need to act that like that." this angered him more. i started to walk down the stairs again but he kept cutting me off and yelling obsenities at me. it was obvious i wouldn't get away without having to fight him. i didn't have time for this. i jsut kept walking away from him and not even acknowledging him, which angered him more. I suddenly realised it was a dream. as soon as i knew i looked straight at this guy and i began to rise into the air and put my arms down and out like Jesus coming back to earth. i looked at him and laughed. he was suddenly scared and ran away! i began flying at breakneck speed all over the city. i had a nagging sensation that i was supposed find someone so i flew out of town at jet speed. i came back to the small town i had been in another dream earlier but i forgot who i was supposed to find. oh well, this is my dream and i'm gonna have fun in it. I flew back to the city and i noticed a harbor. as soon as i was over the water i saw everything as infared. I remembered to look at things in a systematic fashion. so i flew all over the water just looking at everything in brief glances. i saw objects more clearly as they flew past me. the sense of vagueness of the dream was gone. i could feel the wind as i sliced through it. since iw as flying over water i wondered if i could go under the water without drowning. i hesitated for a few moments and then i dove under the water. i could breathe! everything was going black so i just kept going deeper and deeper enjoying this freedom until the dream was over Edit: i had a 4th dream where i woke up and wrote the LD down. then i really woke up and had to re-remember. so i may have lost some recall because of that.

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Me and my sexy dreams xD: Fourplay: I was sitting on a bed across from a woman. can't be 100% sure but i think it was x 'cause of the nature of the banter we were exchanging. we're both unclothed, talking and kissing. i don't remember anything that was said. i was playfully teasing her until she was ready She then looks me in the eye and grabs my hand, puts it up to her mouth and puts saliva on my index and middle fingers. she then pushed my hand towards her crotch. i remember thinking back to my seminar when the one instructor mentioned that saliva doesn't suffice for lubricant. but it appeared i had none. I took my hand back and said "uh uh. i have a better idea, lay back". she obeyed and i wetted , with my spit, the middle and ring finger of my right hand. (something i also had learned from the seminar). put her left leg over my shoulder and put my left arm around her left leg so i could pull her belly skin up so i had better access. i began putting my fingers inside her. and i don't rember the rest.... DAMNIT! This one was wierd. I was physically awake yet my head was dreaming still dreaming awake: i was in a bath-tub and someone was in there with me. the person was instructing me how to wash my hair. i realised it was a middle aged man and i got grossed out. i began waking up and on my bed was sitting the same guy. i told him to get the fuck out, he said something, but i don't remember. something about if i wanted something i would have to do something. I was CLEARLY awake but dreaming at the same time. after he saw that i wasn't interested and that i couldn't understand him the image of him faded and my room came into focus. i lay back and wondered if the schitzophrenia from my mothers side was kicking in. as i thought this i felt like i was falling and spinning, my ears buzzed and i became normal again.

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one of my Best recalls: Dream 1. Richard. I was in Toronto at night time. I was walking across a plaza when i spotted my childhood friend richard. "Richard!!!!" i called out to him. the man turned around and i saw he wasn't richard. a second later the REAL richard showed up on his bike. he was wearing the same old white columbia sports jacket he always wore in highschool. He slowed his pace on his bike allowing me to walk with him. we talked about many things. after a half an hour we turned down an alley way. the alleyway seemed very familiar. i said "Hey richard? i've never been here before but i'm positive i was here in a dream before" he said. "yes, you've dreamt this before". he then sped off with his bike into the darkness. i called after him and ran into the pitch black alleyway and woke up. *** when i awoke i looked at my alarm. it read 1:45 AM. i thought "perfect!". i layed awake until around 2:15 am. dream 2. X in a bed: i was on the ceiling in X's room. i watched her get into bed and fall asleep (didn't see anything i shouldn't have tho ). i hope she hadn't of spotted me and thought i was some peeping wierdo or something. that wasn't my intention i just happened to wind up there. Dream 3 Meeting X: i was at home on my computer. i was looking at a forum. the posts seemed to scroll sideways instead of Up to down. i was reading a message from X. it said she was coming to meet me. the next day i met up with her in Toronto. She looked like i had imagined her to be. but her attitude was quite the opposite. She barely spoke a word to me. i couldn't get anymore than small talk out of her which is unusual because we always seem to talk just fine. I remembered i had to pick up some Honey dust from S, the female instructor from the seduction seminar i took a month ago. so i took X along with me to get my product. X still didn't say anything to me but followed. i thought mayb she was just shy or something but i also felt ill at ease about this interaction in general. S met me at her store. i walked in and she put my product in a bag. when she saw X was with me, she immidiately offered me social proof by saying what an awesome guy i am. she told X "He's REALLLY GOOD with his fingers, you're in for a treat." I was embarrased she had said that because that's not the reason i wanted to hang out with X. X pretended like she didn't hear a thing and looked around the store. S told me "awww don't worry, her box is gonna be too much trouble to fix . feel free to fix mine anytime. Finger boy". i laughed and agreed with her on that remark. S started signing my reciept. she was putting down the word "Kisses" but stopped halfways through as if she forgot how to write. i watched her hand shake and struggle as if she had suddenly lost the ability to write. later on that night i took X. to a friend of mines. he was throwing a party. X still said nothing but small talk and it was making me feel more ill at ease. we went inside and she talked and flirted with everyone at the party and completely ignored me. i then walked outside a little concerned. i made small talk with all my friends and we got into some convos i don't remember. X suddenly appeared out of nowhere and in a whiny voice said. "I'm hungry. can you give me some money so i can go to the store and get myself some junk food." That was the last straw. there was plenty of junk food at the party and i knew she was making an excuse to leave and not only that, take my money. which i don't have much of anyway. i turned away from her and i turned back and pointed at her. i didn't realise she was only a foot away from me and i ended up accidentally smacking her in the eye. i said "look i don't know who you think i am but i'm not that kind of guy, sorry." and i walked inside. i was a bit furious i had put all that time and energy into setting up meeting her and trying to provide a fun time and so far she was being an ungratefull brat. i did feel bad for accidentally hitting her. so i went outside to apologise for that and maybe let her hit me back. She was gone. I saw a red limo pulling away and i knew what it meant. I had a restless sleep that night. i was highly dissapointed with the fact that the person i had met up with as X, was nothing like the one i knew from the internet. After lying awake a while i decided to go on my computer again. i had a new email and it was from X. i relucently read it. It read: "Hey Ranma, it was GREAT meeting you. i hope we can do it again very soon! funny, i noticed your eyes were dark. i wonder if that has anything to do with the sex dream you had about me. I have a few new forum posts that i think you should check out. Anyway thanks for putting your # in the book you sent me. I had lost The # you had given me earlier. i will Definately have to call you very soon. Kisses, ~X" I was appalled at her performance. she again wasn't acting like the Her that i had met earlier that day. I decided it would be best to forget her. i wondered why i was so angry about it. did i become attatched in some way. well if it did, that would teach me a lesson. i then removed X from my MSN list and blocked her. and went to all the sites where i knew her and removed her from all my contact lists. It was time to be a man. I then dialed S's phone number. i knew she was waiting for me.

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Dream1: I was walking in Calgary somewhere. There was snow on the ground and it was late at night. I was walking a few blocks until i spotted some people. for some reason i followed them into an alley way. I decided to turn back but the route i came in was gone. I was cold and i found shelter in a warehouse. As i was looking around the warehouse the realization struck me that I am dreaming. I was so excited that i began to run around cheering that i'd finally done it. I was so excited that i almost forgot what to do. I looked at my hands and began making quick glances at everything, starting from my hands and looking at other objects in a systematic fashion. Every object seemed to be stabalising until i spotted a goulish looking jacket of some sort, made of a rough cloth. It was hanging up and seemed to be moving around. Curiosity got the better of me and i went to grab it. As soon as i touched it it seemed to wrap around me. i began spinning, or everything began to spin around me, the dream was changing. I was being pulled into a vortex of some sort and lost lucidity. Nagual Stew: I was on a ranch somewhere isolated from any city. I was with a Nagual, don't remember his name. But i remember talking with him and amybe someone else. He mentioned he had to leave this place. As he was talking he was mixing up some herbs in a pot and making some sort of tea or stew. i asked him what it was for. He said that drinking the substance he was making was the gateway out of this this place. He then poured teh substance into three separate bowls. He handed one for me and instructed me to drink it only after he had drunk his portion. I don't remember who or what the third bowl went to. I watched him drink it. i turned my head away for a second and looked back. he was gone. Then i drank my portion. as soon as i drank the last protion i woke up.

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Dream1: I was in a dream and Twoshadows was there! In the dream TS was having amnesia about a particular car accident she had gotten into recently. I was a hypnotist trying to help her recall lost details, but not of the accident. but of the dreams she was having the night before the accident. And as i was helping her recall her dreams she began to giggle at some of the details she was remembering. I remember them being quite funny but i forgot what they were. This dream probably had something to do with the NLP book i was reading the other night, because in one of the passages i read just before bed they were talking about amnesia and getting the memories back through NLP. Dream 2: I was at a Club with Steve, the seduction seminar instructor, he kept selling me bags of tobacco for $5. lol. I spotted a set of 2 beautiful women talking nearby a wrestling rink. What a wrestling rink was doin in a club is beyond me LOL. Anyway i roll up and i forget what i say. I'm talking about some sort of event and one of the women says " Yeah i went to a thing like that in LA called blah blah blah. it was a blast!" she kept talking but i got distracted by her Cat costume. For some reason i was pleased when her fake tail began to wag. I wanted to say "I LOVE it when women wag there tails" but before i said anything i thought " wait a minute... Women DON'T have tails... that doesn't make sense." I ALMOST became lucid but i was distracted by Steve again.

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Dream 1: I was standing outside of a building with my mother and grandfather when i looked up at the sky and began to see clouds forming. My mother said "look! a tornado is forming!" and indeed the clouds began to spin around forming around 3 twisters. I said "wow they are getting pretty big" Grandpa: Oh no those are small. they aren't harmfull, they'll dissapear shortly. Me: Well out in ontario it is known to see some twisters. i saw a small one that did some damage and it wasn't as nearly as big as tho.... CRASH! I looked up and the twisters were gone. I saw a building begin to tip over. I saw the top fly off it revealing people inside. It was as if an invisible force ripped the entire top section of the building off. Mother: OH NO! that's so and so up there. That building is an old folks home... how terrible! The building suddenly tipped the other way sending an old couple flying. The Old man hit the wall and a split second later the bed smooshed him against the wall. The woman got flung almost over the wall edge but she somehow managed to grab onto the edge of the wall where it was ripped off. The force was so great i could see it dislocated one of her shoulders and she was now hanging on with only one hand. I thought, "Damn! for and old lady she sure got some grip on her!" But to no avail. The rest of the building fell crushing everyone inside. And all around i saw many buildings get torn apart from invisible twisters. a whole bunch of sky scrapers began to fall. I could see people getting flung out of buildings. It was like a cross bnetween 911 and Titanic. Dream 1: I had a dream where Twoshadows was listening to my induction. and i was inside her headphones saying "Hey, Twoshadows.... It's me! Ranma, Wake up!!!!" and then i heard twoshadows thoughts say "wait, my real name isn't twoshadows. What's he doing in my headphones?!?!?!?"

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Dream2: Get this: TS CB and i are roomates in this dream. wierd huh. anyway, i wake up and look around my room and it's all messy. I'm disgusted with it, i really want to clean it up, i didn't want TS to think that i was a slob. I go upstairs and pour myself a coffee. CB is at the table and i sit down. Suddenly my brother walks in and says i have to go to work soon, and to bring some extra money because Anthony?... didn't make a lunch. I said " well, ok just don't make a habit out of it because, i can't afford to be buying his lunch all the time. there's a sequence that i forget, and then i go downstairs to get something from my room. TS and my bro are fixing an electrical thing in the hallway. I woke up for a bit and tried to wild. i saw my hands for a bit and moved them around in the HI for a while. then i had another dream. Dream3: I'm at the breakfast table with CB. I start eating something and suddenly these strong arms come from behind and trap my arms to my sides. in one hand is a toothbrush, It's TS and she says "you better brush your teeth" and then she starts brushing my teeth. LOL this is one WIERD dream. and then She starts talking to CB and forgets that her arm is still in my face with the toothbrush inches from my face. so i lean forward and try moving my head around to brush my teeth

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A good night of recall: Unmasked: I was at Steve's house (a friend of mine). we were talking in his living room when he said he wanted to demenstrate something to me. I followed him outside to his back yard. It was night out. I forget what we were talking about but he kept trying to force me to see an opinion of his. I was suprised by his tone. But he seemed insistent. I said we should go back inside 'cause he's starting to freak me out. I stepped down from the cement landing and began to walk towards his back door, when he suddenly grabbed me. He seemed forcefull about what he was trying to say. I resisted him and told him to take his hands off me. He quickly lifted up my left leg and pinched one of my testicles. His movements were so cunning that by the time i realised what he was doing i was yelping in pain. I started screaming at him, but he pinched harder. I tried the vulcan neck pinch like i seen off star trek. that didn't work so with my free arm, i began hitting him in the head. He wouldn't let up. I saw a sillouette behind him. My dad's face appeared. I knew he was behind this, that would explain everything. My dad said "I want you to stop hating me. just stop hating." i'm thinking, "how can i stop hating someone who resorts to such sneaky measures?" Hypnotica's new CD: I was listening to a trance CD done by Hypnotica. I was lying in bed in my dream room. His words kept weaving riddles i conciously couldn't keep track of. As usual the effect was putting my mind to sleep. but somehow i remained concious. I turned over in my bed. and He started talking about an ancient practice of heirarchical Ascencion. That those who experienced...The ascension...wouldn't remember....anything about it...yet...The changes...they experienced...were life changing... Skywalk: The dream began as i was looking at a console or t.v. screen. on the screen it said there were minerals at a certain part of the planet. A substance needed to interact with the minerals in the ocean to show humanity something important. On the screen i saw a space ship pouring white triangualar things onto an island in the ocean. then it showed that the reaction would cast a reflection up in the sky of the planet. I went outside the computer room. I was perhaps miles up in the air on some sort of large airbourne structure. I heard Mechanics moving. I wanted to find out what they were. so i climbed on the railing and grabbed onto a mesh pillar that led to a landing. I got to the landing and i got a better view. I saw a sand like substance, tons and tons of it, were being poured off of the ship. I looked down and saw the island that i had seen on the computer screen. Suddenly an image flashed across the sky. I looked up to my left and saw earth perfectly reflected in the sky. It was the most spectacular sight i have ever seen. I saw another flash and looked to my right. I saw the same reflection. The interesting thing about these reflections is that they appeared solid. Each reflection was connected by a series of metallic beams. The beams were even connected to the planet. It appeared one could even walk across the beams to and into the reflections. I felt a sudden jolt and i fell over. I almost fell of the landing. My glasses were gone. the mesh arm was moving and i had to move fast if i were to make it back to the computer room. I found my glasses and held onto them. i didn't have time to put them on so i ran. Luckily the arm was gonna pass right by the landing of the computer room. I waited and carefully calculated my time to jump. I landed on the roof of the room. and began to climb down the window, well aware of my glasses in my right hand. when i got down i looked at them. they were cracking. I thought it was strange because these didn't look like my usual glasses. Air balloon: I was on a landed air balloon. The space in which to move was much larger than usual. I lit a smoke after the captain said it was ok. And as i stood over the railing, looking down below, i looked to my right and saw all these old cassette tapes. I asked the captain what these were for? He said they were the dreams that most people forgot. And his job was to archive those lost dreams. When he wasn't looking i snuck a look at one of the tapes. It said "Moonbeam".I got so excited! i began to wonder if i came along on one of these air balloon trips, would it take me to some of the dreamers that i read about? I began to put the tape back and one of my fingers accidentaly touched the tape. The tape almost came out, but i carefully put it back in and put the cassette with the others. I finished my smoke and the captain began to climb up. I guess it was time to go so i began to clomb down. False Awakening: I woke up in calgary at my old place. It was dark out so i decided to go for a walk to the store. I turned from 17A st SW to 24th ave SW and began walking. I walked, and walke, and walked, and walked, until i found a building that i had never seen before. It looked open so i walke in through the door. There was a Safeway, grocery store on both sides. I was looking in and people were shopping. I thought it was a strange hour to go grocery shopping. I left through the other side and found myself in an alleyway. i side stepped a couple puddles. and suddenly remembered i was walking through a dangerous part of town. Just the i saw a group of hoodlums approach. I walked past them making eye contact to not pass myself off as a victim. One asked me if i had any weed, but i said no. I turned back when they left and I went through the walkway between the safeway. As i walked past a window, an older janitor lady gave me a dirty look. I may have been a bit hungry but i wasn't about to shop in there. I walked out and headed back for home. Hands: I was on a wooden platform i grabbed onto something and a abunch of pai went through my hand. I looked at my left hand and there at least ten slivers. i pulled them all out, they were in pretty deep that my hand was getting covered in blood. still a few of the piece i pulled were only broken off. i tried for a few minutes to pull them out. Reality Check. I had a sensation i was dreaming. I put my fingers to my nose and plugged it. i could breathe!!!!, unfortunanelty my REAL hands came up a second later and plugged my real nose. i woke up and gasped for air.