Queen Zukin's Dream Journal

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Originally Posted by XT-421

YOU HAD A DREAM ABOUT SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!? LOL! You haven't even played any of the games though, right?

~Joe

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I have never played a Sonic game.

Yesterday: I was running from ghosts.

Today

Archeological Bitch

I was at a dig site. It was really dark. I found a humerus bone in the dirt. And then a jaw. The diggers were connected by vests with pullies, forgot their specific name, but one of the girls there was stalking me and kept cutting the string so I kept falling into the cliff. Eventually some shit went down.

Sorry that my dreams have been "blah" lately, and my lucidity. I've been so tired in waking life I feel like I could sleep days.

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Sorry that my dreams have been "blah" lately, and my lucidity. I've been so tired in waking life I feel like I could sleep days.

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I know the feeling. It's great that you still DJ, though! Helps with recall!

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Originally Posted by XeL

I know the feeling. It's great that you still DJ, though! Helps with recall!

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:lol: How ironic

Only recalled a fragment last night, too weird too post. Not in a bad way, just anyway I write it will make me sound like a creep. :P

I'm about 99.62% now that I fail by nature of just being. You see, yesterday I forced myself to wake up at 7am so that I could fall asleep on time last night. Well, I came down with a cold like instantly that night, and I couldn't even fall asleep anyways. Wasted sleep. :(

Fever dreams

I can't understand you!

I was running around with a bunch of other people on a video game. They were all speaking a foreign language. If I was to guess the language, I would say Arabic but I'm unsure. I couldn't understand anything they were saying.

Low Humming

I was sitting in class when we start hearing a really low pitched humming noise. It sort of sounded like a phone on vibrate, but deeper in pitch.

"Do you hear that?" Someone said next to me.

"Yeah...Strange noise."

I'm pretty sure there was another dream, but I CBA to find my dream journal.

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Originally Posted by Nephanim

That sucks. My sleeping patterns are all messed up lately (and I keep ending up getting half the sleep I'm used to), so I know how that feels. I hope you feel better soon so you can sleep comfortably. :) I'm still focusing on getting to the Great Pyramids for now... Meet me there if you can!

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Yuck! Hope you sleep better soon. I'll try to meet up at the pyramids, it should be a lot of fun. If you perceive me as a guy - that is normal. In half my dreams I am a guy. It is crazy.

Return of the Blue Goddess Sex

Yep I was a guy in this one. I don't remember the entire dream, but from what I DO remember my house had disconnected from land and it was floating out at sea. I was trapped there with a blue goddess with orange hair (think AVATAR + those freaky Lucid Crossroad people).

We were stranded in the house together and we were in the middle of the ocean. She was restless and wanted to leave, but there wasn't really a way out. I think we were partners. Not sure, but then we had some strange "magical sex".

Why do I keep having sex with blue goddesses LOL

Just another flirty dream

Had a dream that I was flirting with Steven, a guy I knew two years ago. This dream was actually pretty long, but the majority of it was dialogue that I can't remember. :P

So about a year ago, Jan 2009, I took interest in "Dream Cartography". I was sick so I stayed home for a day and recorded hundreds of dream locations onto a a giant paper. I finished it, half way colored it, and then forgot about it.

Today I stumbled upon a thread about Dream Cartography, and remembered my map that I made. I found it in my closet and decided that I would finally finish it up. All I need to do is finish the coloring that I left off on.

It is creepy that the map is so precise that it still matches up with dreams I have recently. In fact on the map I can locate hotspots - where I visit often. Some of these places are places that I have never been in real life but I continue to visit in the dreamscape.

In a few days I will try to scan and upload my dream map to my DJ. Watch this space.

Dreams for tonight:

I remember waking up halfway through the night thinking: Wow! What an interesting dream. I don't really feel like trying to find my DJ...I think that I will remember this dream cause it was vivid. Forgot it.

I also remember having a dream about having car trouble. I was with Sam and I was trying to take her to school, but when the car was in idle it would continue to turn itself off.

I finished my dream cartography! My scanner was a little weird, so it makes the little desert near the pyramids look peculiar. If you want a bigger version, MSG me.

CLICK FOR MY DREAM CARTOGRAPHY

I'll put it on the front page of my DJ as well.

Dreams -

Last night and the other night - absolutely nothing. I think I'm in a dry spell. I'm a bit anxious about finals and I haven't switched beds in awhile, so that may be a cause. I'll probably remember something tomorrow. I feel like I may have had a lucid last night, I keep getting that "spacious" feeling.

Being Taught to Fight

I was going door to door trying to get donations. I came to one house where they had a swimming pool directly in front of their driveway. They asked me if I wanted to swim with them, but I couldn't because I didn't want to get my jeans wet.

I saw my grandmother walking down their driveway and ran up to her.

"Hey! What are you doing here?" I asked.

"I am practicing walking before they try to get me again," She replied solemnly. I didn't understand what she meant but I walked with her anyways.

I scene began to turn into video game graphics. It looked like something out of minecraft, but better.

We walked in front of a building and I saw a yellow car behind it. It was watching us. I hid behind the tree and waited for the car to move somewhere else and assume that I had passed the building.

I quickly turned the corner in front of the building and nearly ran into a man! He was also hiding. He had a desperate look on his face. He was hiding from the same people.

"Do you know what's going on??" I asked him. We heard the car engine creeping in the distance. We would have to move again soon.

"The war is about to start," He replied while looking around. I didn't ask what that was supposed to mean, I sorta knew.

We started running, and armies of people filled the surroundings. They were shooting arrows at each other and killing each other with swords. We tried to run through this mess but I was shot with an arrow and respawned.

I respawned in a building. I wondered how I was going to help fight in the war. I left the red and yellow building and sneaked around the war.

I came to a building with a purple swirling vortex on the side. At first I was shocked, but then a voice invited me inside - if I dare.

Of coursed I dared to go inside, so I stepped inside the purple vortex and was teleported inside a medium sized room.

In front of me there was a man. Like, a big man. He was overly fit and he wore two large, black boxing gloves on his hands.

"You are here to fight me?" He asked.

"I could never." I replied.

"You could, but you have yet to learn."

"Do I need boxing gloves?" I asked.

"They are not necessary." I put my hand up to his. My hand was about 1/4th the size. I wondered how I was ever going to fight this guy.

"I do not teach lightly. You either learn and win or you don't."

Upon saying that, he immediately threw me to the ground. WTF. It didn't even take him a split second.

"You must try harder and be aware."

I waited for him to make the next move. I waited like a snake.

He threw a punch and I immediately blocked it - I did a front kick but he grabbed my leg and threw me to the ground - I flipped back up in the air - He tried to put me in a head lock and I blocked it - I swiftly used this position to turn around and punch him in the ribs - He threw me to the ground.

All in less than a split second.

"Good. Try harder." He repeated.

We repeated the same actions, but I was pulling out martial artistry that I didn't even know I could do! We were so fast it was incredible. We might have tried 500 moves on each other and not more than 5 seconds had passed. Despite his incredible sized, I was able to wrap my arms around his neck and break it, I knew it wouldn't "hurt" him.

"Very good. You are now ready." He said to me. We bowed to each other, and then I left the room via the portal.

Outside, the war was still continuing. An army of warriors dressed in white came at me but I instantly killed them using a few arrows. HAHA.

A team of a few other people and I instantly killed the entire opposing army.

An elderly man flew over to us.

"Hahaha! I see that you have found the old arena of ours!" He said to the man next to me. They were both wearing the same outfit. They were looking at an old ruined building. We went inside and started on the 2nd floor.

The inside was similar to the place I had trained with the insane fighter. It had a different color scheme and there was large holes in the floor, probably from the war.


"This is where he trained as well," The elderly man said to me, clearly referring to his younger successor. The young one had jet black hair.

We jumped down from the holes in the floor down to the next lower floor. The bottom floor was more ruined that the one above it.

"And...this is where I trained. So many years ago." The elderly man said. The floor was lavender and provided a little cushion. The two man sat down in a meditative position and I joined them.

Looking out one of the windows...I noticed that the building was hovering slightly.

I turned my attention back to the inside of the room, but in my peripheral vision I caught sight of a Japanese man shooting an arrow through the window. He looked as if he was the last remaining opponent, trying to kill at least one in revenge or retrubution.

The arrow hit the young man in the neck. His body 'vaporized' and became translucent. His aura glowed a neon green.

"Haha, don't tell me that you are going to lose your awareness over that!" The elderly man exclaimed to the younger one.

"You are very right." He became flesh again, and pulled the arrow out of his neck. He handed the arrow to me. It was green and white with black tips.

The Dream Creator

I was at school, but outside. I think Joe was inside the school and was trying to create the dream. Whatever he thought directly impacted our dream.

My other friend and I were outside. The dream was getting very hot. It seemed like summer. I realized something didn't seem right as it is dead winter where I live. But the heat felt nice so I remained.

I bring the heat!

:D

~Joe

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Originally Posted by XT-421

I bring the heat!

:D

~Joe

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I read that, I didn't understand the reference, and thought something completely sexual.

I get it now.

I didn't get much sleep last night so I didn't really have any good dreams. I do have a new dream goal though. This is for either lucid or nonlucid dreams, I don't think it matters. My new dream is to find the "Big Building". According to Phantasos:

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One of the most interesting and crucial element is the Big Building. It is also known like Iggdrasil, World Tree, Tree of Life etc. It is usually connect different worlds - from lower to higher. So it was obvious it is very archetypical thing, no wonder it is featured on a lot of maps.

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I'm not sure where mine is, but I have a hunch it is either in the mountains or it is in the Transit house (which leads to the council of dreamers). So, this is my newest goal. I would like to see what is there.

Short dreams of last night:

I have no idea what I meant by this in my dream journal, but this is what I wrote: "In a store, there was a section for kids."

With my sister (frag)

I was in a Buddhist temple with my sister. We had to retake a test and afterward we were to take part in a play. I remember a wooden horse.

Ok - I almost did it. This was a semi-lucid. Dreaming of being lucid sort of made me lucid, but I got caught up in the backwards dream logic.

The Big Building Attempt 1

I was an explorer! I was looking for the Big Building in the mountains. I was using the highway to get there, which makes me believe that I probably wasn't lucid/aware, but yet I knew it was a dream.

Also, I was convinced that surrounding the Big Building would be zombies. :?

I was speeding along the highway, passing up many mountains and fields because there were not zombies there. I'm not sure how I conceived the notion that Big Building = zombies.

I had a false awakening, and this actually triggered the real lucidity. I absolutely hate having a false awakening in a dark room, but I knew it was an FA because I woke up in the wrong bed. I shielded myself, and went back to sleep, knowing that it would lead into a different dream.

Went into a different dream, which I remembered but then forgot.

Just fragments. Really busy studying for tomorrow.

I dreamed that I was sitting on a hard floor. It wasn't wood but maybe it was really hard concrete. It looked like a dance studio.

In the other dream I was now in a computer lab. I think this may have been a part of the previous dream. I was trying to text someone, but the guy sitting next to me took away my phone.

Either Psychosis or a Vampire Demon

I was at a TSO concert in a large room with no seats. I was sitting on a stair case with a few other people. There was barely anyone there. Their music sounded strange, I have heard it before, but not in real life. Maybe I have heard it before in another dream.

There was a man staring at me. He was creepy acting, but good looking. He had short black hair and looked to be a little older than me. He was probably around 19. His eyes were a little red in the corners.

He kept staring, so I eventually just decided to leave. My friends followed. We thought about chilling out at a book store or something.

We were in a fancy city. In the middle I remember clearly a fountain. I sensed someone else and looked behind me. He was there, staring again. He started walking towards me.

"What are you staring at?" One of my friends asked. I tried not to look suspicious.

"That man, behind us, he is staring like a stalker," I whispered back. They looked behind.

"There is no one there," they claimed. They exchanged worried looks within their group.

That man kept approaching, so I decided to try and walk away. But he continued to follow.

So I ran. And he freaking teleported.

"What are you running from??" My friends continuously asked. They couldn't see him.

There was no escape from this man. I would have to talk to him. I finally let him approach me.

I was in the middle of the city, next to the fountain. To the left of us was a large mirror for decoration.

As he approached I noticed something very strange:

If I looked at him, I could not see his reflection in the mirror in my peripheral vision.

If I looked at the mirror, I could not see him in my peripheral vision.

It was an either-or, but he could not exist in both "realities" at the same time. This was very frightening to me. Looking back on it, I hadn't realized it then, but it reminds me of how, according to myth, vampires do not have reflection. And, according to culture, you usually see a ghost in the mirror but when you turn around they are no longer there. He was doing both.

He talked to me (my friends more worried than ever that I was losing it), and absolutely insisted that I come to his "realm". He told me that he was similar to a vampire/demon. As he said the word realm I felt a shiver of cold and being trapped. I refused to go.

Building a house with Puffin

I'm not sure how she seeped into my dreams, but nonetheless we were building a house :P. It was on a video game. You would log in on the server, then redirect yourself to your house using a command and a password. I named my password/command by the street that I live on.

Unfortunately some people trashed the house (it was on Minecraft, I think), and we didn't bother trying to rebuild it.

Mysteriously Quitting

Our German 4 class was transferred to a Spanish class because our German teacher decided that she would mysteriously quit.

Showing someone my Bruise

In real life I have this weird/cool U-shaped bruise on my leg. No clue how it got there though. In the dream, I was showing it to someone when I realized that now it looked like a W. :roll:

Wrong Dream Journal

I realized that I had been using the wrong dream journal (in waking life). I looked for my actual dream journal which was sitting on my old bed. It had green stickers on it and was almost metallic.

TM is at my house?

I am not very fond of TM, we do not resonate...at all. We used to be good acquaintances.

Anyways, he was in one of the spare rooms. I'm not going to go into this very much...it was...Bizarre.

Joe: remind me to tell you this dream tomorrow or sometime. It was disturbing, but at the end I was thinking "Ah crap, now I have to explain all this to Joe! He's gonna be pissed." :P

TM? PM me, I guess I need more details. The Vampire Demon Dream was freaky, but a little interesting.

Since you mentioned dream cartography my dreams went crazy vivid. (This is not a good thing. I had three freaky nightmares Wed-Thur night.)

~Joe

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TM? PM me, I guess I need more details. The Vampire Demon Dream was freaky, but a little interesting.

Since you mentioned dream cartography my dreams went crazy vivid. (This is not a good thing. I had three freaky nightmares Wed-Thur night.)

~Joe

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Sure. I will email the dream to you, not PM.

What have your dreams been? You haven't updated your dream journal since the 15th. Do you think that the dreams were a direct result from my mentioning it or what? I have got a new large poster board that I will be using for my new dream cartography, but since I know now that North and South are switched I am trying to find out if that means that everything cold should go in the south now or if it should just remain in the north...

Anyways - dreams. None. I slept pretty hard, I really needed it. Midterms are finally over with! I remember a fragment of looking to the sky and seeing big clouds coming. A storm was on the horizon.

Elevators

I was in a hotel and there were a lot of people using the elevators. The elevators were large, perhaps the size of a room. All of the elevators in the building were synchronized. When we were in the elevators, they stopped midway. It was an attack. For some reason, people were trying to figure out who was going to die and who wasn't. I lost one of my front teeth too, and was surprised at how small it was.

Hair cut

I remember looking in the mirror and seeing that I had thinned out my hair and got blonde highlights. I felt disgusted. I hated being blonde, and I wasn't sure why I had gone back to it. There was more to the dream, such as me running around in a SpongeBob costume but I CBA to go into it.

Polluters in the Lake

I was in a lake that was connected to the ocean. The waves were pretty good. There were some men in the corner of the lake that were being jerks. They were polluting and throwing random things in the lake such as mayonnaise. I asked them why they were doing this and they told me that they were doing a science experiment. They demonstrated it for me: When they put X substance into the water it had Y reaction. Sometimes it fizzled etc.

Later I was shown the rest of the lake. We were standing on a large platform. I realized that the entire scene was the ocean and it was separated by little islands. There was a swan in the ocean.

Apologies for not posting last night. I typed up the entire thing, and then my internet crashed.

1/31/2011

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Originally Posted by Zukin

In the middle of the night I was startled by a bizarre noise. It sounded as if someone was running their fingernails down my wall. It was really creepy. I listened as this noise continued...Until I heard a large bang in front of me. Apparently my dream cartography poster board began to start falling off the wall and it hit a lamp knocking a lot of stuff over.

While I was awake I decided to just record my dreams - but I found that I didn't have a pen.

I actually remembered the dreams though.

Stupid Cape

My 6th hour teacher let us out of the class early. I wondered about this, because something didn't seem right. I got in the car to go home but Cal appeared. He asked me for a ride home. I said that was ok, and my car turned into a bike.

We were biking down town trying to get home, but I was wearing a stupid black cape and it kept getting caught in the gears. I finally had enough of that cape, and revealed a secret hiding place beneath my seat. I folded up the cape and put it in that compartment.

Lucid? (frag)

I remember standing in some room and everything was mirror clear. I remember something about a pot or a pan. I'm not sure if this was lucid but it seems like it.

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I need to remember to start using a light when I try to write in my dream journal in the middle of the night (that completely rhymed).

Christine's Party!

Christine was having a party at her house. I'm pretty sure it was her birthday. We were gathered around and playing games. One of the games we were playing was flashlight tag. But, I partly remember something going mysteriously wrong. There was someone or something not "after" us, but with us. It is hard to describe since I don't entirely remember, but it wasn't on our side. There was something else about my dream cartography and dropping my car keys in the toilet.

Joe's Party!

Joe and I were on a road trip to his party.

HH

"You're hallucinating all over my carpet!"

"The military are psychics"

Driving in the Blizzard

I was driving home from some kind of party in the blizzard. There was a girl who needed a ride so I let her in the passenger seat of the car. She was going close to where my house was (we were a few hours away) and she fell asleep as we continued on the highway.

I was getting pretty hungry and there was a leak somewhere in the car. Cold snow was blowing in. I decided to pull off at a gas station and get a snack. I left the sleeping girl in the car.

I walked down the street and two kids commented on my hair (I recently changed it so a lot of people have been surprised). They thought it was cool.

I went inside the gas station but they didn't really have anything but chips.

@ a Beach

I was at a really funky beach. The beach sloped upwards and turned into a pool. We saw SB trying to get out of the pool.

Minecraft Rollercoaster

I was in Minecraft and I saw that they had made a really epic red rollercoaster. The people were trying to tell me how to operate it, but they weren't making any sense.

Sims - The Grudge

The Grudge was one of those movies that I watched when I was still...easily scared by horror movies. A lot of those movies still scare me, but any new horror movies really don't. The Grudge is one of those that still haunts me, even though it is so dumb. :(

Anyways, EA had came out with a new version of The Sims called The Sims - The Grudge. It really seemed more like a mix of The Ring and The Grudge. In the video game your avatar might receive a phone call with the 7 Days message. But really, there was no escaping it. You couldn't give the video to someone else, it was coming for you no matter what.

I remember at the end my avatar person was dieing and that creepy Grudge person was standing over her. *shivers*

Dinner Party

I've been doing such a bad job with recall lately arrgh.

There was a whole dream around this, I just only remember the ending. In the end, I was at a restaurant. The table was an 8-seater, maybe more. I saw a certain DV member there, but he didn't look as I expected. In fact, I'm nearly sure that he doesn't look like this.

A lot of doors

We were living with a lot of people. My sister was trying to find something to hang on the outside of her door. I just decided to take whatever was left over. We were decorating our doors with glitter, beads, and crafty things. I was left with a silver button and a light green glitter thing. I liked it because it had the same colors that a song I was listening to had.

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I saw a certain DV member there, but he didn't look as I expected. In fact, I'm nearly sure that he doesn't look like this.

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who was that?

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who was that?

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MoSh, a whole bunch of DV members were having a dinner party. I don't remember all of them, just MoSh because of the funny look he gave me.

Alright, a lot of dreams! :D

ESP with the Trees

Joe and I wanted to drive to the other campus instead of walking. We hopped into my car and I made an illegal short cut out of the parking lot. In the dream there were two shortcuts though and I just happened to take the wrong one.

We we driving through a town in which we did not recognize. It was raining, foggy, and cloudy and I couldn't see right. I think I was running reds. Joe curled up in his seat out of fear.

"I can't even see right!" I exclaimed.

"Do you want me to drive??" He asked.

"Yes! But you can't drive from the backseat." I replied. It's very interesting that I said this. About a week or more ago, in real life, Joe said that he has a lot of dreams in which he is driving from the backseat. I don't know if this means I knew something or what.

Joe and I traded places and he drove a lot better. But we were still lost. We pulled over at a small shop. Upon awakening, I realized this was the exact same shop from a dream in which Bree was buying balloons. And in fact, in the inside, they were selling balloons!

"Do you know how to get to the other campus?" I asked the clerk.

"Yeah! You were very close. Just keep going straight."

We left the building, and now instead of just Joe and I being in the car, his brother and a young-young girl had joined us.

We looked straight ahead. There was a forest in front of us.

Realizing we were about to be over an hour late to class, I jokingly said "Just remember. It's not about whether we get there or not. It's about the journey."

Joe went forward in the car, and we discovered that there wasn't a road in this forest. Instead, there was steep steps. Steep, icy steps into a dark dark forest.

We slowly managed to descend the steps with the car. Joe's brother was having a panic attack.

There were steps to ascend as well, but those were...different.

"The trees...they are talking to me..." Joe whispered.

"And what do they want?" Joe's brother said sarcastically.

"There is a purple man inside of that tree trunk..."

"Oh brother..."

"No...He wants us to get him...He says it is very lonely inside the tree..."

"Fine," His brother sighed. Joe reached inside the tree trunk and pulled out some weird purple stuffed animal of a man. It was apparently talking to him telepathically.

We got to the top of the hill where we saw an aboriginal man.

"I think I've dreamed this before," I thought. I knew the goal here was to make music, or else he would kill us.

I started tapping my feet to make a beat. I clued the others on. We made awesome music and the man was distracted.

Goat Block'd

Joe and I were, again, trying to make it to the other campus. We were attempting to leave the building but there was a goat in our way. WTF?

There was pretty much no conceivable way around the goat, so Joe went upstairs and jumped out of the window. Joe turned into a vampire.

We ran to the other building, but we missed the bus (there is no bus?), and a girl thanked me for letting her borrow my car.

Clinically Insane Chick in the Bathroom

I was in my old 4th hour. I looked at the clock. It was 1AM. Our schedules were all messed up and we were going to school at night. I decided that I had to go to the bathroom.

I took the 3rd stall. A girl shouted out that she needed toilet paper. I handed her a large section.

"I need more!" She shouted again. I handed her more...

"Still more!!" She yelled. DAMN how much toilet paper could she need? :shock:

I heard a shower turn on...But there were no showers in the school bathroom? I saw a shadow between the cracks of the stall. The shadow got closer. It was the shadow of the girl. HOLY SHIT. Her shadow had teeth like a piranha. She started screaming frantically.

My Favorite Play!

I read in the newspaper that one of my classmates was going to star in my favorite play (which isn't a play). I wanted to ask him how the play was going, but the elevators were getting stuck.

I <3 U

One of my teachers had lost a stack of papers in her room and wanted us to help her find them. We looked in the closet where we found a stack of our old papers. Sorting through them, my helper found a paper that said

I <3 [his name here]. He thought it was cute so he kept it. :P

Reality Check

This is just a fragment :(. Everything was mirror clear, and I needed to do a reality check. I'm pretty sure it passed and I had 5 fingers.

You know what else I've noticed from your dreams? You stress about getting across the campuses A LOT. Lol, one of these days (after swimming) I'm going to pick you up and run you over there just for shits and giggles.

~Joe

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You know what else I've noticed from your dreams? You stress about getting across the campuses A LOT. Lol, one of these days (after swimming) I'm going to pick you up and run you over there just for shits and giggles.

~Joe

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Yeah. It's always so cold. lol :(

I was having a party last night so I didn't really write anything down, but I remember having a dream about the logistics of being a ghost. Apparently, when a ghost died, they had 2 weeks to torment or whatever and then they became an "all-knowing" entity. It was a kinda creepy dream.

I went to sleep around 8PM last night, and meant to listen to some HH for about an hour and write some of it down. I only got one line though and completely passed out.

HH

"There's nothing worse than another bowling ball!"

Trying to Remember Dreams

Yep. I dreamed that I was trying to remember my dreams. In this dream though, I was in my dad's bed. I think we were in the New York house. It just felt kinda strange.

I found my phone!

I found my lost phone in this dream! I remember thinking: Wow, it was in such an obvious place too! Too bad I don't remember more of this dream, especially where I found the phone.