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In my junior year of college I lived with a chronic lucid dreamer. He had lucid dreams three or four times a week, and suffered from sleep paralysis at least once a week. I had in the past experienced lucid dreaming, but while living with him the frequency increased greatly. We discussed this several times, as his jerking awake from paralysis was surprising at first. Could his frequent lucid dreams have influenced my own?

A man was standing in an entryway to the garage with a green watering can on his head, covering his eyes and hair. He was doing a strange dance, but I decided to just hurry past him since the theater had devolved into a huge fight. I was walking with my sister to the car and didn’t want to get caught by the mob inside. After I passed the man he grabbed my shoulder and spun me around, punching me in the face at the same time. I stumbled backwards confused. One of my coworkers was suddenly with me, and he mentioned that he liked when things like this happened. The man tried to punch my coworker but was dispatched with some well timed judo moves.

Eventually I came to a house on the side of the road that was overgrown with ivy and vines, much like the rest of the landscape. Inside a family was relaxing. I talked to the daughter and found out she had an old website that she wanted to start maintaining again after a long break. I helped her update the registrar information so she could reclaim it from an old company she used to work with, but no longer had any contact with. After the site was set up I checked a map on my phone and realized it would be faster for my friends (who had suddenly caught up with me) and I to walk back the way we came rather than continuing on and connecting to a highway to loop back to where we started.

The line was long and the number if tickets was limited, so some people were trying to trick their way farther up in line. I decided this was unacceptable so when I got up to the machine the woman got our tickets while I held the crowd at bay by acting completely insane and spitting half chewed food in them. I was particularly annoyed with one man and told him I was going to stalk him after we got our tickets.

Having printed the tickets we checked a table full of travel goods. The woman I was with was extremely sullen and pawed through some medicine on the table. She consulted me and then chose a small vial of that seemed to be some kind of illegal drug in pill form. No one was working at the table so we left a Sacajawea dollar coin and walked off.

When we all turned onto the street it was much steeper than I expected, and covered in patches of ice. Both of the other drivers were ahead of me having problems when another man on a green snowboard came speeding up from behind, careening across the ice. He lost control and wiped all three of them out completely.

Up ahead of the crash I saw all the trees lining the street had fallen on the road knocking all the power lines on to the street. I got out of my car and climbed through the trees to avoid the tangle of live wires on the road. Eventually I had to carefully walk across some yards, tiptoeing through the sparking wires. The residents of one house were spraying water out of hoses through their windows to try and push the wires off their lawn with water pressure, which made it tricky for me to navigate.

When we got out of the bus the man and woman I was traveling with started to fight about which way to go. We wandered around until it started to get dark, but made no progress. Eventually the man decided to enter a building that turned out to be a house.

Inside the house we spoke with an Irish couple who gave us accurate directions. They also told us to stay away from the south side of the concert venue. I realized at that point I didn’t have a place to sleep that night. My companions seemed to be angling for a room in this family’s house but I dragged them out because I didn’t want to impose. While we were talking the family’s two small kids ran out the front door but were caught by their mother.

After we left we found a set of stairs we hadn’t seen before and walked down. On a landing in the stairwell we met a group of three women who we seemed to know and were antagonistic. They gave me some strange business cards and told us they were working with “that man” which seemed to be a threat, though I didn’t understand the implication in the dream.

I sent my friend a text message and he assured me he was on his way. At this point I somehow knew his wife had used a kind of meditation to change her shape to a small piece of food that was floating in a bowl outside of the residential lobby. I thought this was odd and tried to wake her up, but I didn’t know how to communicate with her in that state. My girlfriend called me and sounded upset because of the delay. I walked across the street and up some steep stairs to a restaurant she was waiting at.

The restaurant looked like a wooden Japanese historic building from the outside. Inside it was very dark. My girlfriend was sitting at the bar and was visibly irritated with me. I was surprised to see her not wearing her glasses. She told me she was very tired and had been waiting for me for a long time. I decided to take her home and when we walked outside it was raining steadily.

After we left we walked to a night club with a huge line waiting to get in the front door. Johnny Depp was there with his siblings and was happy to see us. He was obviously very drunk, which his brother was embarrassed about. Instead of waiting to get into the club we all sat down at a picnic table just outside the door and talked with each other.

Back at the party all the food was taxidermy animals that I didn’t think we’re edible. A rat king, a multi-headed white snake, a large blue rodent and other anomalies. When everyone else arrived I tried to slip out without eating anything.

I remember being very concerned about being infected but later in the dream I had the ability to change things without having been transformed myself. I demonstrated this for some high school friends.

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I woke up with my girlfriend in my bedroom and we got dressed to go out. She was wearing a white boy scout uniform shirt covered with medals. I asked her how she found it with so much decoration and she explained the meaning of each medal.

We met my family at Target and waded through the crowded aisles until we found the line for a concert that was being held in the building. When we sat down in a room that looked similar to an elementary school auditorium I noticed we had changed clothes and my girlfriend was wearing a blue evening gown.

The next morning I was driving through a neighborhood during the day when I heard police sirens. At an intersection ahead of me a Volkswagen slid around the corner and started to speed down the road towards me. Since there was some traffic in both lanes going slowly the speeding car got into my lane and was coming straight at me. I put my car in reverse and sped away, swinging quickly into a driveway to avoid the VW. The other car slid into the same driveway and came to a stop with our cars facing nose to nose. I could see a man wearing a hat and a featureless white mask with long brown hair was driving. Although I couldn’t see his eyes because of the mask I could tell he was staring at me, as if he had stopped running from the police and started chasing me. I quickly maneuvered my car and slammed into the side of his, sending it tumbling down the driveway. I got out of my car and had to duck behind a hill because the driver was now out of his car shooting at me. I suddenly had a gun and shot the driver, killing him.

The police finally arrived, but when the female officer got out of her car she started to shoot at me too. I had an overwhelming feeling that she was not an actual police officer, but was just wearing the uniform. She got closer to the hill I was hiding behind and I jumped down on her, stabbing her in the shoulder. The three people from the earlier scene appeared, again carrying gas but this time in stranger containers like flower vases and large cups. They calmly strolled up to the house and recognized me from before. I was exasperated from all the sudden violence but they didn’t seem to care and continued up to the house. I followed them as they told me they were once again burning their business partner’s house. The speeding driver was their partner and they thanked me for removing him from the business. I asked why they were burning his house again but they could only tell me it was “just what they do.” Their calm demeanor was annoying me, and I told them if they had set up the earlier violence they would regret it.

Suddenly we were on a school bus being driven by the clean cut man. I agreed to go off with them because I was going to need to hide out after what happened earlier. I reminded them that they should not try to double cross me like they did to their partner and the scruffy man told me he didn’t think I could get to all of them. I reminded him I had just killed several people earlier that day. At this point I could see my own face as if I were watching a movie. The right side of my face was cleanly shaved but the left had a full beard.

I left my apartment to find my girlfriend. Everything in the town was situated on one road with tall buildings on either side. This means the wave was going to start at the “top” of the town and travel straight down washing everything away. I found my girlfriend and we waded to the entrance of the town. There was already water chest deep and a group of people waiting for the wave. The idea was if we stood up before the wave broke we could pass over it without it crashing down on us, similar to wading out into the ocean past the breakers. There was a lot of debris floating in the water. Furniture, books, various pieces of junk. The wave came and we all bounced up and over it exactly as planned. We did this several more times to avoid some smaller aftershock waves.

Several other people gathered on the bridge wondering how to get around the snow pile. I considered climbing the pile, but it seemed unstable and I wasn’t sure if I could make it to the top. One man decided to walk in the parts of the bridge that were submerged. He wandered out onto a round section, but I had to yell to tell him that he was about to step off it into the water. He and I then walked on a thing section, and entered a stairway that lead down inside the bridge.

Inside the bridge was a multi-level structure reminiscent of an open factory floor. There were catwalks on each level that the man and I walked on. We took the elevator and ended up on the other side of the bridge. We also had several electronic devices that we must have taken from the various floors of the building, including a new TV and the next iPad called the “iPad Apex.”

I was visiting a small town known for its antique malls with my girlfriend. We had actually visited this town in reality a few weeks prior to the dream. The shops in the actual town line a very steep street along with other old buildings. In the dream they were set on a sloping hill, with green mounds of grass spaced between the buildings. I was walking into the main antique mall when my girlfriend decided to check a different building. I wandered around the crowded stalls of junk when I found something I had heard about on a podcast I listen to. I remembered I had the phone number of one of the podcast hosts in my phone, so I decided to call him and let him know what I found. Unfortunately I couldn’t manage to do anything with my phone because as is usual in my dreams I couldn’t consistently read anything.

I walked out of the building and back down the street when I noticed something on top of the grassy hill. It was a gigantic alligator, but one with a very short snout. It was rolling around on its back when it noticed me. Unlike a normal alligator with short stumpy legs this one had a more cat-like athletic body. It noticed me and ran down the hill to attack me. I managed to grab its snout and hold its mouth open, then stab it through the bottom jaw with a large metal spike on the end of my knee.

I browsed some of the other hallways and found myself looking at a very complex comic sketch. Every time I looked at it the art changed, so I spent an extended time just watching the revisions.

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I was climbing a mountain by walking up a small path. I passed a wooden hut with a thatched roof and an old monk poked his head out of the door. He asked me to come inside and told me that it was arranged for me to stay in the hut. He said staying would bring me a higher level of understanding about many things. He showed me a small bamboo mat that I would sleep on and said I would not eat or drink anything for my three day stay. He said in order to survive this I would need to spend all my waking moments meditating to lower my body’s need for nourishment.

Dreamed on October 3, 2007

Transformers
- cat + bird
- car + plane

|-colonial town
| birthday party at pizza joint
| Dexter’s Lab discussion
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|-> small trees twist together to form mature large trees

Dreamed on October 11, 2007

Mihoko a teacher in America last name Feigenbaum

Dreamed on October 16, 2007

Gun from Portal replaced by 2 giant worms that shoot portals.
Escape from govt. medical facility.

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I actually remember this portal dream as being mostly free fall between different locations, shooting portals onto things with giant Tremors style sand worms. The buildings I passed through were white with exposed pipes and beams that looked similar to a boiler room. I don’t remember escaping from that area, just passing through several rooms.

Homer: So have you seen the penis parade in this town?
Bart: No.
Homer: It’s getting hard to watch.

I was playing a game with someone. The game was played on a board similar to chess. Instead of the normal statue chess pieces the players controlled a set of cards. The cards had characters drawn on them and each served a specific purpose. The main rule of the game was if a player wanted to eliminate an opponent’s character there was a specific card that the attacker needed to consult with first. After telling this boss card about their plans the attacker could then carry out their kill. The characters all had specific movement patterns, so planning out a route that passed by the boss card was vital to winning.

I was walking down a stairway that looked similar to the one in my office. The walls are white, the stairs and handrails are gray. I saw a girl who looked like a combination of two girls in my office running down the stairs wrapped in a red cloth. The cloth covered her head and body like a large cape. She ran and jumped onto the handrail and started sliding down each of the floors extremely fast. I walked down the stairs after her, turning to the left and walking down every floor. On one of the floors the girl flew off the end of the rail and slammed onto the floor instead of the next rail. I assume she had built up too much speed to land safely. I picked her up and walked her down to the ground floor while remarking that she was even lighter than she looked.

I was driving to a mall to see a movie. The mall was set down lower than the highway I was driving on and I noticed there was a bar with a patio on the top level. I focused on it as I was driving and found myself standing on it instead of in my car. I walked through he bar back into the main part of the mall. The mall itself was actually inside the movie theater. A gigantic screen with multiple sides sat in the middle of a multistory room while people ate at restaurants, shopped at stores and had conversations in the dimly lit structure. The floors were staggered down like stairs instead of extending across the entire room since the screen in the center extended from floor to ceiling. I walked from area to area and met up with my girlfriend who had come to watch the movie with a group of friends. The decor of the building was similar to an older rich family home with velvet curtains and large portraits hung on small segments of wall that delineated some of the areas in the mall. There was a general buzz in the room since there were so many people and such high ceilings, but the movie was still easily seen and heard from any angle.