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+ preparing to fight an under-water fire-breathing dragon, in a swamp-like territory
+ I'm looking through the notebook of a [2nd grader?], I see lots of hand-written cursive sentences, I see the word "can't" and I'm impressed that the child knows that word.
+ [long, vivid, much dialogue] Dealing with public school bureaucracies (on behalf of my "daughter?"), multiple meetings, arguments, hearings with school officials, across several locations.
+ (fragment) playing baseball
+ hanging out with some boy scout buddies -- I see pitched tents (kind of flat looking) strewn around a campsite -- they've saved a goodies basket of tasty looking baked goods for me, I approach and look it over and want to eat it!
Two nights ago:
+ [long, vivid, stressful] I'm taking a calculus test, there are several pages, there is a section that you can skip if you get one of the above questions right, I'm not remembering or recognizing anything, I think I should have studied more.
+ Climbing up a hillside, get to the top, I toss my blue motorbike/scooter over a railing onto the sidewalk nearly hitting somebody, walk in the street, slide down a chute with my dog into the water, I pull him out and save him
bunch of short dreams
+ flying from CH to seaside, find a cave to hide in, low/claustrophobic but should be able to lie down and waves won't reach head
+ (f) outside, cabin, countryside, some people (man and a girl?), I have a special key
+ outside, special computers, made from sausage-in-a-blankets, with people at a fence opening and closing sharp jaws, flies living in fingernail fly out, rush to pack to catch the train
+ wake with wife, light switch in hallway, head to bed in yard, see young people peeing down the road on the way back into the house.
+ cleaning machine #1, there are chunks of (food) outside it, I have a hose to clean it with, since the machine (and the hose) are electronic I have to be careful not to let the water drip back down into the mechanism, I start to clean it carefully.
+ cleaning machine #2: I have a pressure hose and there is a large piece of commercial cooking equipment with lots of left over chunks of food in it, I see brightly colored breakfast sausage links (green, blue, red), I try not to spray the tourists walking past.
+ choose the dessert at the celebration
+ noodles & salmon at the buffet table, and older woman is blocking access as she reaches for the far-away noodles plate.
+ driving in the town near the mountain, odd mining demonstration of microscopic worms
Some dreams, some fragments
+ in house, look outside, want to go somewhere, but it's a blizzard outside -- too far to go on foot to where I want to go in that weather, and no way do I want to drive
+ Look out of my house and see my car parked outside, someone found it unlocked and rifled through the things inside, leaving the unwanted stuff piled all around the car on the street
+ in church, dejected, slumping in the pew, I look around and decide I should sit up and not look so miserable
+ I'm planning to fix a stairway all by myself, I'll have to do it in stages since the lumber will be heavy, I plan to start with the posts that do not reach all the way to the ground, I'm making mental measurements.
+ Christmas at CH with sister and son2, close inspection of his little present, go to my room, I have same present, small cat on bed and bottle of olive oil that leaves an oil stain on the bedspread, in my parents empty closet, list of chores
+ I'm traveling somewhere imagining what it would have been like if (something) hadn't happened with jr high school friend DD
1. Dreamt that I was re-wiring some control panel, getting zapped, in the rain, Janet/ Hope worried about me, while hanging on for dear life in hurricane-force winds on a lake somewhere in San Francisco.
2. Getting INTO a fight with someone at Joe's.
earlier:
+ building with rooms with high up glass walls (glass walls = dream sign) and 45-degree mirrors so that from the outside you get a top-down view of the room; a panel opens to reveal a large movie projector system
+ looking for terry-cloth robes, they're gone, check closet; return to room later, a maid is cleaning it, there are piles of cleaning powders and creams on the ground around the room waiting to be scrubbed in
later:
+(f) driving home with PaKi (boy scout buddy, brass player), he surprises me by getting in the right hand front seat, I had no idea he had a right-hand drive car
+ big party in a house with a lot of people, long adventure, conflict
+ return to big party house, the people there are not happy to see me, I get upset about this
+ in a hostel(?) room sort-of high up with widely open windows very close to an adjacent room full of people, I think they can get in the windows; some discussion about the purpose of this hostel and what about all the free-loading guests people have brought in
+ [long, vivid, near epic level] at home with the Gl gaggle in their huge new house, exploring inside, outside, breakfast, meeting with them in different rooms, life in the outdoor pond (fish, crabs, crayfish)
+ political / social meetings (Putin, chocolate soup for breakfast, try to grab the whisky, kid barfs, giving an engagement ring to my beloved)
+ stealing office supplies from a cabinet high above a lecture hall, teacher catches us and grills us about algebra
+ rifling through and taking things from the equipment pack of my college roommate, he catches me and shows me the vibration feature on his flip phone with a big wink
earlier:
+ at boy scout camp boulder careens downhill; car interrogation about drunkenness, I leave in disgust, walk around block, back into parking garage in underwear, avoid people to not freak them out, swarm of tiny sharp needles stab into in arm, reach boy scout car again, VH drives me away
+ drive bus back into parking garage at hotel, super steep and inconvenient parking garage, drive around looking for a space; scaffolding at bottom of garage/amphitheater, the guide is taking passports, I complain that my flight schedule is domestic so why give my passport, he asks my destination and I say "Seattle"
+ crab corner (possibly of above parking garage): picking up small tiny bits of dried things, the other guy there says they are crab shells (and mentions keeping them, and eating them later?), I keep finding more and more and keep picking them up and putting them into a bag
later:
+(f) gathering at childhood home (CH) neighborhood park, the guys there are surprised when our big group arrives
+ arrive in car to mall with EW, I'm wearing tattered shorts and I think I should change but everything is tattered shorts, I look back at EW and see her face and think it's sort of accurate but bloated looking, discussing shopping/the mall
+ bus ride with argument about paint (me: "how many times have you painted?" him:"13!" me: "That's nothing!") to music lesson, climb hill to teacher's house, I forgot my instrument, but can't she loan me her extra one that she promised me?
less recall, worse sleep
+ "China Town": arriving there by car, then walking around, then planning (observing?) a foot race: it is a narrow (1 block) but very long (miles) commercial area in town, not much content there
+ [long, vivid] The Cruise Ship: my kids and I are forced labor, we're trying to escape: narrow corridors, anchor hoisting, tying off upstairs in the wooden dock, close-up views of inside the bar/kitchen tools (I find my "avocado scoop" they took), long narrow hallway with cupboards & glasses, movie night (star wars), signing birthday cards for people (including mom?)
A long dreaming night, lots of fun...
earlier:
+ cat at CH jumps on other cat, jumps to garden, I catch it; faces of people; on the endless slide in the foggy night with tins of meat that when we finally stop I perch on top of ice, the policeman thinks it's pointless
+ our car is pranked on Ced st. in B by the large groups of Halloween pranksters, water balloon ends up going through the sunroof, I'm FURIOUS and yell at the pranksters; friend MkRb sniffs the privates of the knitted animal; cousins on the way back up Ced; driving on high sidewalks on Spr st., reach the block; I climb the block & guard dog morphs to attack woman; woman morphs to small girl and we go to Chinese restaurant; fly in the milkshake, waiter freezer demo
+ cooking on an outdoors multi-layer wok/grill, cooking chili (smell it!) and it's sizzling and ready but things are in the way preventing me from serving, I think it might burn
later:
+ tree falling pulled down by lumberjacks with their arms/legs, almost lands on me, I imagine its weight; discussing wallet and valuables with MkRb, I think I should sleep with my wallet in my sleeping bag
+ former GF SB, we discuss how since we already know how to be buddies we could date again, close look at the salad she made and I try to guess the striped, radish-like vegetable (get it wrong), think it's like one my parents made [FM]
+ in the large outdoor pool/lake, I'm critiquing the lessons a young woman is giving a child, I jump in the water and demonstrate how the hand and arm should exit the water in the crawl stroke, we race to the side [short] and tie, we might race all the way across, packing our belongings so my wallet doesn't get wet, someone brings by a large clear cooler the woman waves it away but I wanted to use it, it was perfect
worse recall today
earlier:
+ [horror-style] stranger threatens woman, he's an imposter, his face is covered with blonde hair (wookie-style) but it's the wrong color
+ walking rural road with friend, comment about shotgun, I sense an ambush, prepare to shoot my shotgun, friend triggers traps all around us and falls down hole covered by cow, I hide behind door
+ EW is running naked calling for a towel, I tell her not to run fast or she'll fall down and scrape her skin, she appears wearing purple robe, "oh you found it", I go to sleep in the back seat of a car, uncomfortable, large cat is perched on top of the seat back
later:
+ sitting with a group in a restaurant (hotel lobby?) trying to decide from which local take-out place to order, I want Chinese
+ two guys working with the attorney general(?) stealing beer (they get caught)
- Shadows: dudududu dududu, dudududu dududu dudu!
Explanation: I’m singing the song by Lindsey Stirling
- No Game No Life: I try to get my subconscious for teleport me to the world of NGNL, he says it’s not that simple and turns the world into NGNL instead
- Piano Campaign: I play the hardest piano piece in the world for the best pianist (fictional), who is impressed despite my mistakes
my world famous 6th-hour-waking insomnia strikes again, but I stuck in there and got back to sleep for a few more fragments and a near WILD
earlier:
+ scene outside on rolling green hills, up high there are dogs jumping and one injures its "wrist" and someone is talking about options for treating it
+ in some underground bunker with running water, a comrade opens a trap door to reveal a boobytrapped chest of items, and triggers the traps as a demonstration which results in long black heavy iron bars slamming down on the person
+ getting ready to drive on a race course, I need to provide my "chip" to a technician
later:
+ walking on crowded boardwalk with many revelers, I catch a glimpse of a scantily-clad young woman, and alter my pace to keep her "assets" in view
+ a guy/woman pick up my bag of bread and walk off with it, I get it back but the woman insists on taking some of the tastiest strips off of one of the loafs, I think that's rude
+ [super short] there is a train of little kids formula one race cars on a track, the spacing of the cars reflects some sort of investment progress, narrator says "you can get the two to the two..."
Recall bump -- some nice dreaming :)
earlier:
+ with WFH guys, call from dad mom's in bad shape; at CH see mom, then really confused about how dad changed the upstairs bathroom sink; standing outside the neighbor's house I meet PG's kids and hope they notice my improved physique
later:
+ observe a softball game from beside right field beyond first base, lots of base stealing and run-downs; I think I should absolutely join an extra-curricular team (softball, chess, etc) to build up a circle of friends
+ watch finale and curtain call of ballet performance (ballerina's final impressive gymnastic leaps&rolls), conductor come up for bow and sheds hair on stage and is revealed to be trans-gender
+ competitive dress putting-on, I tire of this girly game quickly and head for the potato chips
+ The Tale of "Mair Baku" -- a Welsh aristocracy party: observe strange billiards, wedding photos, outside past the farm, outside castle views, head to the beach (man with dog), take off flying like Iron Man (with trouble but eventually gain altitude), head to the pool, brief sexy time encounter
short night, 5th-hour insomnia strikes again
+ strange change: people making change at a bank teller into tiny little cardboard coins and some larger coins
+ mountain jets: on the mountain range across from me, there are two jets that take off and land in support of some other object(?), I follow their path through the night sky
Only 1 cycle of recall, fairly long, a number of short disjoint scenes
+ hawaii off the coast on a raft with a guy, talking about scaling the cliff (look back at it), tall waves and crashing rocks, he says "something touched my butt!" I say it was probably a fish or kelp, look inland and see a vista of tall, dilapidated apartment buildings going off into the inland distance
+ trying to use magic to break through a wall where I think a door should be, LaurNikPav opposes me, saying it would make the scanner be too far from the copier
+ (f) team competition/fight, the corridors are super narrow in some places
+ sitting 2-on-2 with professional (my instrument) players in a hall, discussing who could play louder/stronger (I suspect it's the professionals), someone is playing a piece of music on a recorder very, very badly
+ (f) looking down on a cart with herbed farmer's cheese
+ in an (airport?) a guy is being chased by authorities, I see some other drug dealers in the way break up their transaction when they see the fuss, eventually the perp is caught by walking by chance right by the detective looking for him
3-ish wakings with recall
4 hrs:
+ (f) Programmer 'Pocolypse -- walking through a post-apocolyptic cityscape with some guy, making an impassioned case that programming is a viable (art-form)?
6 hrs(?):
+ work celebration, they've made
8 hrs:
+ walking up to home, dark night, city lights very bright in the distance
+ strange sex club with mirror/screens interface
+ boss's workspace -- he's shielded his monitor behind two layers of screen (vertical and horizontal bars), mentions that he's moved his knife collection back home
Finally, back to longer, vivid dreams with increased presence (reflection still low):
earlier:
+ break-in: they've stolen all the major appliances and large items from my childhood home, call the cops, confront hiding burglars in the dining room with a cop and MkRbkn, I disarm the 2nd one
middle:
+ (f) guy who grows his own goats, chickens, etc., I see the animals
later:
+ fired again: shortly after being re-hired, I'm fired again in a mass layoff situation; meeting with first level manager (college friend) and HR, I receive a package, go back to manager to ask a question about the stock I thought I'd be able to sell and he tells me "you'd better get out of here before [???, some executive] sees you"
+ at picnic tables with group of friends, they're eating stuff, I grab a slice from a plate stacked high with sliced peaches, someone says it's from [??]'s tree, I look at it it's more like a nut/fruit-cake with chunks of chopped nuts
+ [vivid] skiing on the mountain, ski positioning, cliffs, level area, ski patrol place, staircase, study surrounding mountain rocks, look at trees, "Pterodactyl tree," see inflated pterodactyls flying, show mom; in elevator with sister she says she wants chips, pterodactyl tree musical performance with young woman and man singers, she's trying to hit high notes but no applause; after performance party with cocktails, I try to get more, friend stuffs a pizza into my large cup
Decent dreaming night concluded with a WBTB followed by a super-vivid & present, alternate-life level dream
earlier:
+ [dreamt but forgot]
later:
+ sleeping outside (in field of garbage?) with EW, violent battle with aggressive wild dog, I use a broken swiss army knife
+ swamp escape: [Disembodied Observer] following flight of young man through a swamp, observe people living in and among thick tree stumps
+ outside some hut, play (snowball catch?) with (robot/automaton?), get phone call in [foreign language], try to converse, give up, give phone to EW, she's still really mad at me; robot comes with shovel of manure and covers roof of house; figure arrives by canoe, people on shore hide food(?); walk past figure, we shake hands, "we've done well but have a long road yet to go"
+ at a vigil praying for some important church artifact which has been desecrated (?), avenging church choir group arrives, cleanses object with champagne, we all begin to sing a hymn, I sing bass part
WBTB
+ [super vivid/present, alternate life level immersion] in room on bed, ST, talk with girl about where to go, room fills with people, get up, walk around island in room loaded with an Indian buffet, eat some, think about what to do next
Medium recall, short-ish scenes
+ (f) football story
+ walking through neighborhood with homes and fences along path, go through trying to find way back, boy scout question
+ in adult CA home with young kids and EW
+ see TZ, weird ST with S1 saying "blush"
+ old FF car, scarf, doors won't stay locked, EW drives with column locked, walk with her talking about our "dock", van with dual canoe/boat rack and worker guys, walk on path with EW and young S2 and see fish pond with clear water and sparkling fish, look through side of "tank" and S2 asks "what's your favorite one?"
+ outdoor patio with tables, people seated/eating, man is leaving for a walk, plates of very strange fruit (giant strawberry)
+ MondSalzr is trying to pay me back and scam me at the same time while I'm trying to walk away from him, he offers to make up what he owes me with a TaeKwonDo progress belt
+ playing old/weird video games in some kind of arcade while a father/sons watch and take over the games, I try again and again to exit the games but they keep running; old star wars apple2 game, then wireframe base storming game
Restful night, not emphasizing recall, dreamed a fair bit, but memories have faded to fragments (f)
earlier:
+ (f) on a river, throwing (pebbles?) at a bird on a branch in the distance?
middle:
+ (f) on a plane with a (youth?) group, there's a dance, looking at shoes, walking around corners
late:
+ (f) sinking power boat in the river with some women, I manage to pull the boat up?
+ (f) walking through building, there are people playing piano in different rooms, each piece/performer is telling a different story
+ (f) moving van: I see my/our stuff is all packaged up high on a shelf in a warehouse, wrapped in blue packing paper, the moving truck has pulled up and the movers are loading it
I hit it off with a girl who is probably Virsieras and get invited to her world to have sex with her.
Great dream
+ recall @2nd waking, [forgot]
+ picking up poop in a yard, go inside the house looking for a bag, don't want to use a transparent zip-loc because then it will be visible
+ (f) adventure dream, some story about building a contraption or escaping from a complex [forgotten]
+ (f) observe a guy attempting bargaining with a mafia kingpin over a large sum of money, the kingpin gives him a very small piece, much less than the guy initially proposed
+ in a gathering in a house -- my young kids and others -- I am using "powers" to blow streams of large soap bubbles out of my mouth with a "force push" hand gesture
+ kissing two YW outside CH, one on right on a stool with bright blue eyes very tentative, one on the left more receptive
late, final dozing dreams:
+ view of an aquarium with little aggressive fish, guy squashes a fruit fly on a wall
+ [DO] film(?) of a guy's house, small one room, views of nature and long roads and fog outside the windows, views of his naked woman companion, she speaks but I'm confused about her intent, their white fluffy dog pees in the snow and rubs his fur off in the snow
The feeling of being watched by unwelcome guests and the overwhelming feeling of being stalked which made me very nervous, in the dream.
earlier:
+ on old, large bike outside childhood home
+ big development: the "S" series of chips is going to have its documentation on-chip burned into ROM!
+ picking which preserved food to eat from a shelve: corn/peas mix
later:
+ at work "remembering" former colleagues, "Ashish Azul," lots of big pieces of cake on plates, I don't want to take it because of my diet, but accept a plate anyway
+ on a back porch putting a sliding screen door back on to its rails on a step; soldier approaches in uniform with cat carrier and batteries, the "9th army" is approaching; go inside, EW wants me to take multi-generational family photo: dad is sitting on bed with his great grandson, me, my two sons.