Queen Zukin's Dream Journal

Just...Slipped my Mind

I was with my mother at the theater. I needed to drive the car back home. I realized that it had been well over 2 months since I have driven a car. Wow.

I got in the car, started to drive off, and realized...that I completely forgot how to drive.

I was swerving all over the place and couldn't control the car. Every turn was an overshoot.

After having a few rollover accidents, I made it home. Nobody was there yet.

I went to the basement to put my stuff in the corner but the light switch didn't work.

"This is creepy," I thought.

Only a single lamp worked and it was near brown-out levels. The notion that this is a dream sign briefly crossed my mind...

nightmare-ish

The Failed Experiment

The old shared dreaming class had gotten together again. We were trying to prove that there was a parasite attacking us. A research team had gotten interested in our idea and invited us to participate in a controlled setting.

The parasite would only attack us while we were sleeping. While we were asleep, it would appear in the physical realm and cause chaos.

The researcher divided us up into partners and split us off into rooms. The rooms were old solitary confinement rooms that had been semi-converted into something barely acceptable. The door had not been converted from its original form, and thus would still lock us in. We would need someone to unlock the door for us if we wanted to leave.

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The researcher had prepared a presentation the next day to prove or disprove the existence of this parasite. If no findings were found, then she would tell her colleagues that we were loonies.

I was in the room. My partner had dozed off but I couldn't sleep just yet.

There was a picture of an alien hanging on the wall. I watched it's face transform before my very eyes, as if I was tripping out.

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...CKET/alien.gif

I knew that the parasite had been unleashed in this room because my partner had dozed off. I didn't want to stay in this room anymore! I couldn't fall asleep if there was some freaky ass ghost thing walking around!

The parasite appeared in front of me and started laughing and I felt powerless. She began to attack and the other shared dreaming students appeared in their dream-bodies in front of me. She was surprisingly powerful and mindbending, but we took her down.

I woke up the next morning, excited to tell the researchers what happened. I attempted to open the door to leave, but remembered that I was locked in. I looked at my watch, it was 9am!

The researcher's presentation started at 9am, and if we could not leave the room to tell her what happened, then she would regard our experiment as failed.

I knocked on the door trying to be let out, but no one ever came and I had to remain in the solitary confinement cell.

Strange Substitute

I arrived at Pokemon's house. We were going raving tonight with Ganryu. She lead me to the back bedroom because she wanted to show me something she had made.

She pointed to a jar sitting on the floor. Inside the jar was a pinkish green liquid.

"What is it?" I asked.

"It's an X substitute," she replied, "I've been testing it out on myself to see if it works. You should have a go."

I was really hesitant about this. I wouldn't know if I was swallowing a strong acid or something extremely toxic.

She caught on to my hesitation and said, "here, I'll show you that it's safe."

She took a small sip of the mixture. Her tongue didn't catch on fire and she didn't writhe in pain.

Before proceeding, I checked her chemistry. It looked relatively safe and was somehow just a synthesis reaction between two binary compounds, but I couldn't be 100% certain that it was safe. Despite the lack of information, I decided to give it a go.

I took a small sip of the mixture. Instead of digesting the liquid, it seemed to be instantly absorbed into my blood stream when it hit my mouth. I instantly felt a head rush and had a small bodily high. It only lasted for a few minutes and then went away. It really wasn't anything special and didn't know why she had compared it as a substitute to X.

Ganryu tried it as well and he also stated that he didn't feel much from it. Pokemon was relatively disappointed.

Pit Stop to Germany

I woke up and started getting dressed so that I could head to my German lecture. I realized though, that my father needed to give me something that I forgot and so I would need to make a pit stop to Germany to pick up this item.

I boarded a plane to Germany, which took only a few minutes, and got the item from my father.

Fully realizing that I was in Germany, I decided to stay awhile -- cause hey, my German professor would understand if I skipped her class to explore a city in Germany.

:shadewink:

I walked around until I came to a store that was half library. I was talking to a young woman in German, trying not to give off the fact that this wasn't my native language. I accidentally muttered something in German though, and she looked shocked for a moment before responding to me in English!

"English is actually my native language too!" She yelled out to me. I was shocked, and a little bit disappointed too, that I had came all the way to Germany to have a conversation with a woman who didn't even natively speak German. :P

Karate Again?

I was checking out the karate branch in my campus town. They were a sister school of the one I had attended in my home town. They really wanted me to join.

I remember fragments of a guy in black robes who was trying to meet up with me. He did karate with the school as well, but I had never met him before.

Springtime Swamp

My mother and I were at the neighborhood pond. It was springtime and all of the snow from the winter had melted and left the pond very large and deep. It had grown many times larger than it is in real life.

My mother wanted to show me something near the outskirts of the swamp, but to get there we had to walk through it. I put on my rain boots and we treaded through the swamp. I was careful not to walk in too deep of water and get my jeans wet. It was still cold outside.

We walked for a little bit in the swamp but we couldn't get to where we needed to be because the winter flooding made the swamp too deep to cross without getting our jeans all wet. The surface of the swamp water had turned green and was actually really pretty.

It would have been a picturesque scene had it not been for the random man on a lawnmower plowing through the swamp. :wtf:

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Judge and the Jury Cult

I was scheduled for court for something that I had done.

They took me to a basement of an office building. In the middle of the room were about twenty chairs aligned in a circle.

The judge, jury, and opposition took their seat.

"We shall begin," the judge announced.

Immediately, the jury started chanting and bowing their heads repeatedly. They looked as if they were viciously worshiping something.

After about ten minutes of this, the judge handed me a paper and said, "Now, here, sign this document." And I was released.

:wtf:

Blast from the past! :shadewink:

Auditory Hypnagogia:

"D is windy! C...B...E! E! E!"

"Thank you, stoichiometry!"

"Viel spaβ on the internet!"

piano with dalmatian legs

"Dolphin tale!" *people burst out laughing*

"They dress you up as a goose, and you go around town, and squeal!"

"want some cookies?"

"spinach...Spinach...SpInAcH...SPINACH!"

"I rode a cop!"

:shock:

We Broke Up

I was in the auditorium with Ganryu and Pokemon. I noticed that Pokemon was sitting and flirting with another guy, and I asked Ganryu why this was.

"We broke up," Ganryu whispered.

"But why?"

"She beat me in Metal Gear Solid," He returned. I thought this was the strangest reason to break up with someone and was almost positive that I had misheard him. He kept reassuring me that what I heard was true.

Ganryu and I went outside where people were bellydancing. There was an old man who kept inviting me to join the party, but I declined.

I forgot how much fun recording hypnagogia is! I want to get back into this again. :)

Auditory Hypnagogia:

"flesh paint"

"You know what would be real cool now? If we had a candle flame, like, a flame ON a candle."

"kind of vindictive"

"dig for yourself, man"

"peace and love would be the way to do it"

~randomly remembered an old dream, which I will post later~

Wrong Gazebo, BITCH!

I was supposed to pick out a random place to spend a mini vacation with two other strangers. I don't know them, but in my dream we were almost friends.

I decided that we should go to a stunning landscape/scene.

We teleported there.

Oh, it was beautiful and strange.

It felt like we were in a square dimension - that the scene around us was all there ever was to this world.

It was winter and we were on an island in a small lake, that was surrounded by a forest. There was a layer of snow on the ground and more was falling, it seemed to be morning.

In the middle of this snow covered island was a gazebo. The water around the small island had not yet frozen.

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I tried to draw it out...Obviously, my sister got all of the artistic genes.

Trees just faded into more trees, so it was as if this gazebo was the center of the universe and it was all that was ever in this dimension.

Despite the beauty of this scene which my MSpaint drawing does not reflect :P, the man I was traveling with got horribly upset.

"It's not THIS gazebo! WRONG GAZEBO! Now we're STUCK HERE!" He angrily shouted.

He punched the woman that we were also traveling and took out a knife and looked at me.

I ran inside the gazebo.

The calm winter lake caught on fire and the gazebo extended upwards so far and high that an elevator became a necessity.

I jumped into the elevator and punched the buttons that would take me to the roof. I panicked, hoping that the elevator doors would close before he could catch up to me.

I was taken up to the roof of the gazebo. I ran out of the doors, hoping that he would not find me up here, but I knew available hiding spots were limited here in this small dimension.

I stood on the roof and watched how the winter lake had turned into rushing streams of lava and the trees had grown infinity higher as well.

Alarm woke me up here.

You have one of the best DJ's on DV IMHO. So awesome!

This one reminded me of a movie called The Innocents - there's a little island in a lake with a gazebo on it. That's about where the similarities end though.

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You have one of the best DJ's on DV IMHO. So awesome!

This one reminded me of a movie called The Innocents - there's a little island in a lake with a gazebo on it. That's about where the similarities end though.

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That's very kind of you! :hug:

I've never seen or heard of that movie before. Worth watching?

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Wednesday nights are not my good nights.

Auditory Hypnagogia

I had JUST relaxed and closed my eyes. I thought, "I wonder what I will dream of tonight?"

A subtle voice answers, "Bon Jovi."

"Why don't you give your grandma a spoonful of sugar?"

"The dentist is food and the telephone is a delinquent"

No, Really - Please

I was visiting my karate school that I went to when I was in high school. It really hasn't been too long since I left, so the majority of the same people were there.

One of them, a young man around 19 or 20, was there on the day that I visited. I remembered him from karate. We never really got to know each other that well. He was insistent on giving me some strange small gift.

"I can't accept this," I told him.

"No, really - please do," He quickly answered back. He seemed desperate to get it off his hands.

The dream skips here, and I remember a SHIT TON of flooding everywhere. Houses were flooded several feet deep and everything.

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That's very kind of you! :hug:

I've never seen or heard of that movie before. Worth watching?

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Oh definitely if you appreciate a beautifully shot good old fashioned Gothic ghost story! It's based on Hawthorne's classic Turn of the Screw, and for my money it's just a gorgeously designed film, with amazing crisp blacks and layered shadows... ah I need to stop!! Made in the 50's so effects (including some of the sound effects) are kinda hokey, but it's not an effects movie - it builds the horror slowly.

Here's a vid showing how amazing the cinematography really is: The Innocents (1961) - Scariest scenes - YouTube. This one actually shows the gazebo really well and also just how powerful the movie really is. Wow, I had actually forgotten how amazing this movie looks and is! I need to see if there's a Blu_Ray available, or at least get the DVD!!

But then I'm a fan of old black and white movies in general, so it may well not appeal to you.

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Oh definitely if you appreciate a beautifully shot good old fashioned Gothic ghost story! It's based on Hawthorne's classic Turn of the Screw, and for my money it's just a gorgeously designed film, with amazing crisp blacks and layered shadows... ah I need to stop!! Made in the 50's so effects (including some of the sound effects) are kinda hokey, but it's not an effects movie - it builds the horror slowly.

Here's a vid showing how amazing the cinematography really is: The Innocents (1961) - Scariest scenes - YouTube. This one actually shows the gazebo really well and also just how powerful the movie really is. Wow, I had actually forgotten how amazing this movie looks and is! I need to see if there's a Blu_Ray available, or at least get the DVD!!

But then I'm a fan of old black and white movies in general, so it may well not appeal to you.

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The scene with the gazebo...It looks so much like what I saw from my dream. :shock:

It is an extremely dreamlike scene, and movie, isn't it? So atmospheric.

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It is an extremely dreamlike scene, and movie, isn't it? So atmospheric.

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I will have to add it to my list of movies to watch. :cheeky:

I was expecting some good dreams and HH last night, but I guess I was too tired from only having a few hours of sleep the night before. As soon as I relaxed my mind just took off into dreaminess and I didn't have a chance to right any HH down.

I only remembered a small dream. My friend and I were smoking pot in the dorm, when we realized that we might accidentally set off the fire alarm if we continued. I'm not sure if we continued or not. :P

HH

"is there any way we can just switch up the papers without getting skin disease?"

Seriously, Zukin?

I was at a water park and I had a spaceship. It was a good sized spaceship, too. I could ride around to Mars in that thing.

I decided that it would be a wonderful idea to ride my spaceship down a waterslide.

I flew up to the top of the waterslide in my UFO shaped ship when my doppleganger told me that this was going to be a horrible idea.

"Zukin - this is a seriously bad idea."

"But it will be fuuuuuuuuuuuun!" I replied.

"If you want fun, you should take your spaceship to the kiddie corner of the park and play around there. These rides are too dangerous for a spaceship of that size," my doppleganger warned.

I looked at the ride I was about to get on. Yeah, it was a little hardcore. It was pretty much a straight drop down.

"What ever!" I yelled out and got inside my spaceship. My doppleganger looked horrified.

I aligned my spaceship to the waterslide and let it flow, as if it were a dingy.

My doppleganger was all like -> :eek: , and tried to reach out to stop me, but it was too late.

My amazing spaceship went really fast on the waterslide, but because it didn't align to it properly like a dingy would have, it was a bit wild and unsafe.

The waterslide track banked and because my cool spaceship did not want to follow the laws of physics, it fell off the waterslide, hit the sidewalk, and crashed.

And I snapped my neck.

"Shit," I whispered. I got out of my spaceship with a broken, bleeding neck.

A police officer ran up to me and asked, "Are you alright, ma'am?"

"Yeah. I'm okay. But this is the third time I've crashed my spaceship doing this, so I'm getting a little annoyed," I responded casually. :roll:

I decided to text Akira to let him know that I crashed my spaceship again and that I had a broken neck.

The text I received back was "Seriously, Zukin? -.-"

:chuckle:

That Was Completely Unexpected

My chemistry GSI was arrested for being the leader of a ring of drug dealers.

Eating Dinner

I was eating dinner with Pokemon and Ganryu.

Hula Hooping Hoop Off

I had a hula hoop. It was pretty cool cause it lit up.

I was in one of the campus buildings. I ran into a small group of people who also had hula hoops.

"Are you here for the hula hooping club?" A girl asked.

What a coincidence!

"I am now!" I replied, surprised.

"We're having our tournaments today," she whispered. I panicked when I realized that I really can't hula hoop that well, and would be a disgrace to others.

"SSHH! HE HAS GREEN POISON!!!" One of the members yelled out and hid behind a wall, indicating that there was someone coming...with poison?

"Why do they have poison?" I asked.

"Argh, you noob. The type of hula hoop that our opponent has is called Green Poison. It's like, the best hula hoop EVAR!"

The Electron Doctor

My parents were suddenly very ill and had shrunken down to the size of dolls. I needed to find a doctor!

I ran around the campus trying to find a doctor that could help.

Eventually, I came to a door that read "The Electron Doctor."

I went inside. The doctor was very young as she seemed to be only in her 20s.

She told me exactly what to do, but I kept wondering why she was called the Electron Doctor.

Auditory Hypnagogia (is all I got tonight)

"I love Batman's closet"

"Wanna come make some bad decisions with us?"

I literally slept less than two hours last night.

I'm just now starting to feel it.

CRASH.

I was so tired from complete lack of sleep yesterday I thought I would just rocket into sleep. I went to bed ridiculously early at 9pm. An hour later I think a slamming door woke me up and I checked my phone. My chem lab partner had called me to check some data, but I had been asleep so I missed her call. I texted her the information and went back to sleep.

Sort of.

For about the next six hours I had Chemistry Nightmares. Not fun. They feel like I can't get into the deeper levels of sleep, I am stuck in a state between of deep hypnagogia and can't escape. Infinitely solving chemistry problems...Believing that there were ions attacking me (lol) and all this other shit. Worst thing ever.

When I finally got to REAL sleep...

Pretty Much Screwed

I was at a stadium and I was waiting for Konsento. He was supposed to trip-sit me this time around. I had already eaten the stuff (whyy) and was waiting for him to come, I knew that he'd be there before I started tripping out so I'd be OK.

My phone vibrated and I realized that I had a text from Konsento. He was angry about something that I had said, and told me that he would not trip-sit me this afternoon because of it.

SHIT.

I was in an unknown place, about to trip out, and I had no trip sitter. FUCK.

I realized that when I started tripping, there was no way that I would be ever able to find my way back to my dorm. The stadium was filled with many people as a big game had just been let out. I considered the notion of trying to run back to my dorm before it hit me and then fly solo, but I would have very little time and I would most likely get lost in the city.

I decided that the best strategy would be to find someone that I knew amongst the crowd and hang out with them for the day. It wasn't ideal, but it would work as well.

I was already starting to trip a bit when I started looking for anyone I knew. I only found a few people from one of my chem lab's, but I didn't trust them enough to go with them.

Sacrifices

I was with Konsento in the park. We were sitting on the park bench. It was windy and the leaves were rushing past us.

"What would you sacrifice to be my friend?" He asked.

I didn't understand what he meant.

"I don't think...We should be friends anymore..." He whispered, and just got up and left.

Leaning Tower of Lucidity

I was with Jin in what looked to be like the Leaning Tower of Pisa. We were watching clouds go by.

I looked at my hands and noticed that I had six fingers.

"Ahhh, wonderful. This is all a dream," I said outloud. I sat back up.

"Well, I ain't just staying here. If you want to come, then go ahead, otherwise I'm out and TTYL," I told Jin, and left.

:P

Aaarg!! I had almost exactly the same f'ed up sleep situation over the last 2 nights! I got 3 hours the night before, and went to bad at 9:30 last night - and then I lay awake for like two hours feeling almost feverish because my brain was so fried from loss of sleep. When I finally did get to sleep I woke after about ten minutes feeling all panicky - I call this part burning off the sleep fever. It always happens to me if I go on about 2 or 3 hours of sleep.

No dream-tripping or lucidity for me though - just some messed-up dreams that I barely remember. Oh well, at least I can read your always entertaining DJ!

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Aaarg!! I had almost exactly the same f'ed up sleep situation over the last 2 nights! I got 3 hours the night before, and went to bad at 9:30 last night - and then I lay awake for like two hours feeling almost feverish because my brain was so fried from loss of sleep. When I finally did get to sleep I woke after about ten minutes feeling all panicky - I call this part burning off the sleep fever. It always happens to me if I go on about 2 or 3 hours of sleep.

No dream-tripping or lucidity for me though - just some messed-up dreams that I barely remember. Oh well, at least I can read your always entertaining DJ!

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AAH!! Usually I only get it when I'm sick. I don't pull off near-allnighters very often so it's acceptable that that might also be a cause. Really sucks though, when you can't sleep because your mind is literally out of your control. Hopefully sleeping was better for you last night?

I slept a lot better last night, a LOT. Maybe I just needed to transition into sleeping more again? I don't know, that sounds like a silly hypothesis.

Though I may have slept great, my recall sucked.

The only dream I remembered last night was a dream in which I was in somebodies front yard. It was nighttime. They were showing a movie in their front yard and we all had gathered to watch it. After that, I went home and found that my friend was living at my parents house. The dream is all kinda sketchy and blurry.

Oh yeah, I'm sleeping a lot better now! It's always just that next night after a (near) all-nighter. Gets me every time! But then I'm all sleepy the next day and can barely stay up - sometimes I'll jus go ahead and crash at like 7:00 or so if I really need to (stayed up till around 10 though this time).

And my recall is total crap lately!! :mad:

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Oh yeah, I'm sleeping a lot better now! It's always just that next night after a (near) all-nighter. Gets me every time! But then I'm all sleepy the next day and can barely stay up - sometimes I'll jus go ahead and crash at like 7:00 or so if I really need to (stayed up till around 10 though this time).

And my recall is total crap lately!! :mad:

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AHHHHH I caught the recall bug!

:panic:

That sucks. Hope you didn't get it from me! :paranoid:

Just lately hare I've been waking up remembering fragments of my last dream. I this keeps up I might start to get my recall back!

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That sucks. Hope you didn't get it from me! :paranoid:

Just lately hare I've been waking up remembering fragments of my last dream. I this keeps up I might start to get my recall back!

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Pfft I won't blame you for the recall bug. It's partly by fault for being laaazy...and a few other reasons. :paranoid:

Rice Sculptures

I was visiting my elementary school. I was at their art class and they were making small sculptures out of rice that was dyed green. I'm fairly certain that I did this when I was in second grade.

I was making sculptures with them, but mine really sucked. I started too late in the class period anyways to really make anything good. :P

I also remember something about being at the "Hands-On Science Museum," and I think the floor tilted on me or something. I remember flooding and a pirate ship.

:P

Right as I began thinking that I had grown out of gory dreams...of course..:paranoid:

How Everything Fell Apart

This dream was in 3rd person, so I was not in the dream. The dream was being narrated by a woman as if she was telling her story on a TV show.

Her story was of how her family fell to pieces. And her body consisted solely of her head and a bunch of loose organs laying on the floor.

"Our family was almost all grown up, my eldest daughter had moved to China while my younger daughter and son were about to leave for college. My younger daughter was creating a lot of tension within the family, and my older daughter was also refusing to answer phone calls. Our family seemed to be falling apart, so I decided that it was time to try to get us back together on a nice family vacation."

The scene zoomed to the eldest daughter flying back home from China and talking to her mom, who, in this scene, actually had a functional body.

The family piled in the car, which had a distinct European style. The two teens were being hormonal and complaining the entire way. The mother was stressed out. She closed her eyes and put her hand out the window, just trying to relax for a minute.

Her hand hit a sign post that was stationed too close to the road, and her head was severed from her arm. Upon seeing the catastrophe, the husband lost sight of the road and crashed into a tree and was instantly killed.

The son flew out of the car window and was impaled by a sign post. The sign post went through his throat.

The daughter also flew out the window, and landed on a convenient stretcher that was rolling down the side of the road. The stretcher already had a rotting corpse on it. The daughter screamed and the corpse came to life. The rotting corpse starting fighting her for its spot on the stretcher, and the daughter slowly merged with this corpse.

"And that's how my family fell apart." The woman, who consisted only of loose organs,
concluded. Woke up immediately and was like WTF.

Throughout the dream, I was hearing a bunch of backwards noises, sort of like the ones in the video below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il_yQdZ1tDk