TJ's Turmoils

[TJ Lifeless]

A couple of very lame fragments, I suppose.

Sitting on the floor in my house, watching the cats run around. Eventually a squirrel walked in and was darting around. It let me pet it like it was my own, kept hanging around, wanting the popcorn I had in my hands. Lucky little turd got all of it.

I was in some kind of quest, but it led me to my dad's house. Before I went to see him, I found 3 pill bottles on a desk that were nearly empty. I read the labels: Trititone and Mexaticil (don't remember the third). Somehow I already knew what they were for. I found my dad, the only difference from normal was the completely white hair on his head. He was reclining in his favorite chair, watching TV. He was excited to see me, since he hadn't heard from me in a while. We talked for a little bit, he had a really nasty cough. I told him I found the pills and knew what it was about. Proceeded to break down and begin crying and clinging to him, telling him I didn't want him to die. I latched on and hugged him as tightly as I could,  while he just remained quiet and somber. After a while, he told me I shouldn't worry. That the pills were helping and he was not nearly as bad as he had been before. We both knew the pills only helped delay it, but couldn't stop it. I left, knowing I wouldn't see him again.

[Serenity]

Sitting on the floor in my house, watching the cats run around. Eventually a squirrel walked in and was darting around. It let me pet it like it was my own, kept hanging around, wanting the popcorn I had in my hands. Lucky little turd got all of it.

I bet you thought the squirrel was cute, admit it!

I latched on and hugged him as tightly as I could,  while he just remained quiet and somber. After a while, he told me I shouldn't worry. That the pills were helping and he was not nearly as bad as he had been before. We both knew the pills only helped delay it, but couldn't stop it. I left, knowing I wouldn't see him again.

I hate those kinds of dreams... 

[TJ Lifeless]

Kind of funny that right after having a mini conversation with Serenity about having trouble with recall lately, I'm actually able to recall a dream. It was different circumstances this time around, though. As I was telling her, usually the trouble I have with recall comes from having a dream during my normal sleep cycle, then I wake up well before my alarm clock is set to go off (anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours early). Depending on how much time is left after, I may fall back asleep, and that's where the trouble begins. Usually, since I just dove out of a REM cycle and a dream, when I fall back asleep I end up back in a dream very quickly. Because of that, the second dream tends to block out the first dream for recall. And, since the second dream is shorter and not always as deep a sleep as the first dream, I almost always end up not being able to remember the first OR second dream.

However, this time was a little different because my second dream occurred very early in the night (it was still dark out) so I had a lot of time to have a second, full dream. There's still a lot of hazy and blurry parts, but for the most part, I remember it.

The setting of the dream was a large lake/river (never saw an end one direction or the other, but could have been either). The entire atmosphere of the dream was...hazy? in a sense, like watching an older movie on a new TV, how you can just see the difference in the picture quality. The events were basically centered around a big family gathering at the lake, all sorts of long lost relatives and crazy uncles and whatnot gathered for food and fun on the cloudy day at the lake/river. It is a little hard to remember some of the generalities because most of the scenery was: water, sandbars, dirt cliffs. The important parts came and went as the events of the dream unfolded.

Small parts of the start are missing, but most of it centered around the family meeting and greeting each other, while discussing plans for what to do with the day. The female leading the entire group was from a movie that I did not recognize at first, but did shortly after what came next. Once a general plan of action was developed (fun in the lake, then lunch, then more fun in the lake), the kids of the family get-together decided they wanted to take out the boats and explore. The adults wanted to use the boats as well, so it became a sort of race to see who could get to the boats first and use them. The parents won, laughing at the kids as they started up the engines and began puttering around the lake. The kids were forced to use floaties. It was around the time they started to throw them in the water and talk about how they wish there was some kind of cool adventure they could have that I realized exactly who all the kids were: The Goonies. If you do not know who The Goonies are, I suggest going to IMDB and looking it up, as they will be referenced by their names and it gives a clear picture of how they look.

The parents were off and the kids decided to go to the far shore, seeing an old building halfway in the water having peeked their interest. When they made it, fun was had, they started climbing all over it, and they wanted Data to take a picture of them all to commemorate. Brand kept talking about how unsafe the whole thing was and how everyone should be careful (which was funny considering he was a whole story above them on kind of like a crow's nest area, leaning out to look down at them. Mikey told him not to worry, just in time for the ledge he was sitting on to break and fall into the water. The whole house started to creak and groan, and Brand told them to jump, so they all did and swam away just as the house started shedding boards and collapsing. Feeling it was much safer, they swam over to another worn out building in the water (watterlogged, the wood was black and ashy white, rotted). It was safer, and this time they actually got the photo to keep the memory alive.

At that point, the dream jumped over to the parents. They were wandering a shoreline, frolicking and acting likes kids, splashing water on each other and racing up and down a hillside. At one point, I was up a hill near and old, worn down barn (this one was just sun-bleached, kind of an off-brown color). The group leader from before and myself opened the barn door to have a peak inside. We found a weird creature standing on the far end, eating hay near a cow. The creature had the body of a horse/zebra and the neck/head of a lion. Thinking it was more lion than horse, we both backed away slowly as it began to come toward us. At some point, I got stuck in one place, but the lion/zebra ignored me and wandered past, heading for the shoreline and scaring the rest of the adults. I was going to join them when I stepped on something that hurt like a bitch. Looking down, I instantly called it a "Wild Thornberry" (haha, funny reference in-dream). It was shaped like a triangle, somewhat. Three stems came out the sides (it was a low-laying plant) that ended in thorny bulbs that gave it a triangular shape if you would have connected the bulbs with lines. The main part of the plant that the stems connected two had two parts: one part was sort of the texture/color of the skin of a cantaloupe; the other was a star-shaped, purple fruit (the "berry" part). I had to ignore it because everyone was leaving.

The adults got back to the main house, only to have it collapse as well. The kids were returning and everyone needed a place to go, so they went to a beach house on a sandbar in the middle of the lake/river. Everyone was laughing and having a good time as they landed, ready for food. There was an eating part, that I don't remember very well because nothing too exciting happened except for food, none of which was particularly memorable. Afterward, a bunch of people began to head out to the lake again, but some stayed back. I stood next to a couple of older men and heard someone say something similar to "Well, what did you think of the movie? I thought it was too much like the other ones, mediocre at best, not a lot of plotline or depth to it." The odd part was that none of the people around were the one's talking, it was more of a voiceover than anything.

Since I woke up right after that, I had some confusion. I was not sure if the voiceover was supposed to be someone in the dream that I just didn't see somehow, or if it was supposed to be like a Siskel & Ebert thing where they were critiquing the entire dream as a movie. At least it was a pleasant one. ^^

[TJ Lifeless]

Bit of an odd combination of events that occurred making it difficult to really know what was going on. I was in and out of sleep a lot, which always screws with my recall cycle since it can throw more conscious dreams into my head to try and remember and get muddled with older ones and make it nearly impossible. But this time, I had an occurrence like I've mentioned before on a new scale. And it was...sorta like being lucid? But at the same time, it wasn't.

There was a continuing discussion in the dream about an artifact that had a rich history that few people knew about. Someone was trying to tell what they knew, claiming it was a piece of great significance for many interstellar species, kind of like a good luck charm. The object was semi-big, close to two feet at the base and probably about one foot tall. The carving looked like a very pissed off dragon mixed with a snake and included some people wrapped up in the spaces between its body like they were trapped. I told the person that their explanation of the object wasn't quite right and was about to explain why.

This is where it got weird because I woke up temporarily to my alarm clock, reset it (because of not getting much good sleep) and tried going back to sleep. However, I never really felt like I got fully back asleep. More of a half-sleep daze where I slipped in and out between consciousness and sleep. I was basically having a conversation in my own head, still relating to the statue. I was going through the explanation of it, saying how it was actually a cursed item that brought misfortune. The person from the dream was the other end of the conversation and asked how it got to Earth. Told them that there was a huge battle on a planet that eventually completely destroyed the planet as well as the people attacking it. Another faction, just under a light year away, saw the events unfolding and made their way to the battle (far too late, obviously). When they got there, they found the item and took it with, going through the galaxy at their own pace. Eventually, the same thing happened to them: a space battle where the ship was destroyed. When the ship blew up, the object was hurled through space until it landed safely on Earth. The other person wasn't convinced and sort of scoffed it off.

The reason it was "weird" boiled down to me being in and out of it. I could not tell if I was being lucid since I wasn't exactly dreaming completely, but I wasn't exactly awake either. I kept having flashes like I was back in the dream, seeing the person and events as I told them, but also kept seeing my room as well. I didn't have total control over my thoughts. I knew sometimes I was consciously thinking what I was telling the other person, and other times it sort of flowed without me even trying to think about it. Not really sure what this was. Both a pain and a blessing, perhaps??

[TJ Lifeless]

This is more of a facepalm/frustrating fragment, and perhaps you'll understand why.

I was dreaming I was laying in bed, unboxing clothing (mostly jeans) and laying them out in nice piles, sensoring them, and playing them on a conveyor belt to be put away somewhere at the foot of my bed.

For those that don't know, this is pretty much my daily routine at work: taking clothes out of a box, sensoring them after putting them in nice stacks, then putting them away on the floor or in the back room. Sadly, I don't get to use a conveyor belt...

[TJ Lifeless]

Last night was a long, complicated ball of confusion when it came to my dreams and what happened. I listed this with "lucid" in it because of an event that occurred, but it was extremely odd how it happened and what took place. I shall (again, using horrible color choices) highlight the brief moment that was lucid mid-dream.

My girlfriend and I were going out to eat, deciding on a Chinese restaurant/buffet. We used the back door but were greeted by a waitress right away. She was wearing an apron and a hat, both black, with a white button up shirt underneath and was a little on the heavy side. She asked if it were just the two of us, and took us to find a seat. There was almost no one else in the restaurant at first, but she sat us at a 2-person table with a window view of the outside (I could see the road we drove to the restaurant on, but it was suddenly much darker outside and very foggy). The waitress disappeared for a minute and came back with our plates. And they were huge. They were a glossy brown color with ripples on the sides. The first she brought were more like a dinner plate with a piece of flimsy wood to go with it. The second and third plates were much closer to serving plates (much bigger and oblong shaped). We took the smaller plates and headed up to the buffet area.

I got ahead of my girlfriend and went to the "salad bar" section. They were moving a lot of things around, so a lot of options weren't available because they were about to be put out. I grabbed a lot of the toppings for a salad (cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, etc.) but wanted to grab some actual salad. When they finally brought it out it came in a big dish pan with long leaves of lettuce laid out flat. Before I even got to the lettuce, a group of 5 people swarmed it instantly from out of nowhere and blocked me out. I got frustrated and walked off, content with eating just my veggies. However, on the trip back, the entire restaurant changed instantly, as well the people in it.

The restaurant was now more like a kids restaurant, like a Chuck E Cheez's or what have you. There was a big section for games, lots of kids running around like crazy and being obnoxious, and someone I think that was a school teacher mustering a bunch of kids together in front of the crane game. A second woman dressed in a yellow polo with her hair pulled back in a ponytail ushered me over to the game area and showed me what the game was. My dream did kind of a walkthrough as an older gentleman did it first. One he went through (and fell a few times) it was my turn. I don't remember the exact details of it, but basically it was an obstacle course for balance. I had to walk up some swiveling metal chairs, balance on bouncy balls, walk up tires, etc. I made really good time and got to the end of it, but there were multiple paths you could take once the balance parts were done. I went a much harder, but faster in the long run route. At the end, I had to jump down around 20 feet (basically straight from the ceiling to the floor) and did it without any trouble. When I was plummeting toward the ground, a little machine I could barely see lit up just before I got to the ground.

After I landed, an African American woman came up and said "Congratulations, you made it under the goal time, so you win!" I had no idea what she was talking about because no one told me about it, but she explained that they had a preset time limit, and anyone that beat it automatically won a prize (I think it was free pizza). She also told me that I had a chance at winning $250 million. I asked her how. She told me that if I did the course again and got the exact same time I did in my first run, I'd win the $250 million. I looked at the clock that had the time to beat, and my time was under it. The time to beat was 3 minutes, 3 seconds, and 59 hundredths of a second. My time was 3 minutes, 3 seconds, and 46 hundredths of a second. I asked a bunch of questions about it that I didn't understand, the big one being how close I had to be when the thing would light up. She did not have an answer and kept dodging the questions. I decided against it and wanted to leave.

I had to go to the bathroom first. I walked inside, and the dream started to get a little crazy. There was just a...feeling that it had changed suddenly. It wasn't as bright as before, the colors in the bathroom were more muted and gritty. There was no kiddie theme like the restaurant (red and yellow and checkerboard) and instead had dark, navy blue walls and off-white tiles. I was standing back, kind of an out of body moment where I was watching the events. A woman in a purple shirt was washing her hands when Harry Potter ran in. I kind of jumped into his body temporarily. He was freaked out and panicky and grabbed the woman and told her she needed to leave. She was scared and didn't know what he was talking about and asked why. I had my lucid moment, telling her that this was a dream and she was just a character in it and she needed to leave before something bad happened. She was still confused, but the dream took a sudden, and slightly terrifying turn. As I was in realization that I was dreaming, suddenly Harry's face completely spazzed out, as did the rest of what I could see. Everything got jagged and began to shake violently as he screamed some weird kind of distorted scream that literally woke me up from my dream from how weird and terrifying it was.

Brief pause as I woke up for a moment from all the crap that happened. It was sunny out and warm, which has been known to mess with my dreams on occasion. It took a couple of minutes, but I managed to fall back asleep.

Once back to dreaming, I was now following Harry, Ron, and Hermoine around. We were outside in a place that seemed like a plaza area or part of a campus (or maybe it was a modern day Hogwarts, not sure). It was dark, late at night. Right away there was some sort of little black bugs all over the place. Ron had a specific name for them, but I can't recall. They said to avoid them at all costs because they were extremely dangerous. The bugs scattered all over the place and disappeared into the tall grass. I started to ask them what they did, but they said they didn't know for sure what they could do. There was a brief in-between phase where Ron wandered off to try and find something to help with the bugs, and Harry, Hermoine and myself were wandering toward a broken down car. We got to it just as Ron was coming back, but he was not looking normal. His face was completely white, and giving off an eerie glow. His mouth was also agap, a black hole where the opening to his mouth was. The same for his eyes. Almost looked like a "ghost-face". Harry told me to stay away from him. I half-assed tried to use magic, first was going to be a fire spell, and then I almost used Cruciartis curse, but realized it would be a bad idea because I think Hermoine mentioned she felt like the spells would rebound. I asked her why and she said it was because he was under the control of the bugs.

I don't remember how, but for some reason the bugs left Ron (probably thanks to Hermoine) and he was back to normal. But the rest of the bugs were now coming after us. We started to run and used a fire spell to burn the bugs as they chased us (only getting into clusters of maybe ten at a time). We were all doing well, getting rid of a lot of them. At one point, Ron lit an object on fire that was spreading. I used a water spell to put it out, as Harry and Hermoine finished off the last of the bugs. The sun was starting to rise and people were beginning to show up. Malfoy showed up on a train with a bunch of students. Harry was very angry seeing him. He walked over to Malfoy and they had a mild confrontation. At one point, Malfoy summoned a creature to try and come after Harry. The creature was somewhat like a dragonfly. I got an insanely close view of it with unbelievable amounts of detail. It had a body segmented into 3 seconds (two circular parts and one longer, oblong part). It was colored red, almost like a sunburn look to it, as well as had gray fur that ran the sides and created a kind of wave pattern. It's wings were huge relative to the body size. It had green, segmented eyes. The dragonfly creature flew over to Harry, got turned around somehow, and went back to Malfoy. He started to explain how the bug would fly over people and give off a horrible smell, just as the bug started to hover right over Malfoy. It ended in Malfoy challenging Harry to one last fight to see who was the better wizard. Harry accepted.

A quick trip later and Harry and Malfoy were staring each other down across an arena with people surrounding them in a circle. The sky (and much of the colors in general) were grayed. Malfoy was wearing his Quidditch outfit and Harry had on some combination of his Quidditch clothes and something like battle armor. Malfoy was giving a long speech, and Harry was accusing him of sending the bugs after all of them and Malfoy just smirked. They both raised their wands and started casting magic.

Sadly, I was then rather rudely awakened by something rubbing against my arm. I turned, freaked out, to see my girlfriend staring down at me with her cat rubbing up against my arm. I'll never get to know how the battle turned out......weeping.

[TJ Lifeless]

It all began on an Imperial space colony for training new recruits (damn right folks, we got ourselves a "Star Wars" dream, hoorah!). A young Luke Skywalker had just completed his initial training into the Imperial army as a new recruit and was ready to begin his first assignment (yeah, kind of alternate reality where Luke is on the Dark Side instead of a Mr. Goody Two-Shoes). He exits a building onto the surface of the colony. It is set up a little oddly. There is no visible atmosphere like a planet, and the horizon curves off way too quickly to really be a planet, but it had it's own soil that was about the same color of the moon (very ashen/grey-white colored). In the very very close space around the colonized planet, numerous Empire ships gathered around to refuel and keep guard over the training ground. It was shortly after Luke walked out that a ship in space had a small explosion on it. A recorded voice blared over some unseen speakers and said that the base was under attack by rebels and all personnel were to report immediately to their ships for departure for an early beginning to the Tan'nok mission. Luke ran off to another building as a bunch of smaller ships appeared in the sky (some leaving the various buildings scattered, some coming out of the ships, some seeming to come from nowhere).

Luke reached the building just as the intercom voice said that rebels were on the planet and that all ships would be launched in 2 minutes, with or without pilots. Luke hopped in his ship, which was an X-Wing fighter (apparently they had stolen the fighters from the Rebels as part of a covert mission). All systems were go, and he and another ship darted out of the hanger bay in an instant. Back on the planet (in the dream, I was the omniscient observer, jumping back and forth from place to place), a group of Rebels invaded a small camp area and held up the few gathered troopers. They tried to radio to their commander that they captured the planet, but from behind a bunch of the people they thought were Rebels knocked a few of the actual Rebels out and trained their guns on them. One man that had to have been the head of the base camp radioed to the big ship that they had the Rebels and the undercover agents had infiltrated nicely. The ship asked if they got any information from the Rebels, but the man said they didn't know anything useful so they were disposed of.

Back in space in the ship, Dark Luke was out in front with the other ship that had left with him following very closely on his tail. They were chatting back and forth, and for some reason the big ship was shooting its laser turrets at Dark Luke. His ship was getting hit head on so much that it literally looked like the ship was flying through an invisible wall of fire and smoke that only appeared when he ran into it (his shields were pretty damn good by how much hits he was taking and not flinching). He finally got past the turret and thought he was home free when the view jumped to a transmission tower on top of the ship. A Boba Fett looking character was climbing up, firing a few shots off at Luke's ship. When he got to the top, he raised his laser gun and it went into bullet time, slowing down to almost a crawl as he aimed and fired. The shot scored a hit directly under Luke's ship as he was passing over, not blowing a hole in it but damaging a panel that looked like some kind of vent for the ship. Luke radioed the other ship and said he would have to land and the guy should continue on without him to the mission point. Luke' ship careened off toward a flying space ship, presumably to land.

The dream forgot about Luke for a minute and went to the ship he was headed for. There was a kind of brief synopsis of what happened. Most of the people on the ship had already fled, but a small group had been in cryostasis or suspended sleep or something, and the attack managed to knock their systems out and wake them up after everyone else was already gone and took most of the escape pods. A few people (3 or 4) were in a very small part of the ship (at first it was incredibly small but it changed location/size later on). A very manly looking woman (hair cut rather short, really thick, and very disheveled, prominent cheeks and jaw, sunken eyes that looked like the girl hadn't slept in years, and a very thin/wiry frame) sat inside a cockpit area with a blue, spherical shield around the main part of it was getting ready to jettison into space. While the man-girl was doing final checks, a commander-type person sat at the launch panel, doing her own pre-check for launch to get the man-girl out. On the other side of a glass window in a small room, a man was beating on the window and saying it wasn't fair and that they should all have a chance. The man-girl said she was done, and the commander woman smiled like she was pleased and leaned back in her chair. There was the sound of glass being hit with some sort of object, but the commander woman ignored it and started to muse to herself about how it was funny it would end this way for her. She only got about five words out when, for no apparent reason, a door slid open behind her. Not a big deal, except that the door lead directly into space and she was almost sucked out before she even realized it happened. At the last moment, she grabbed onto the side of the metal frame and held on for dear life.

The man-girl saw what happened and tried to reach her arm out to grab the commander. The commander told her to just leave her and take off. But the man-girl just ignored it and stuck her hand out of the blue force field. Problem was there was likely anywhere from 6 to 8 feet between the girl's hand and the commander. When it first came out, it did not even reach a standing control panel that was barely two feet away from the man-girl. She held her hand out, but was smart enough not to tell the commander to reach for it when she knew there was no way she could. Instead she kept slowly leaning herself out, getting up to her shoulder, then her head, then her torso all sticking out. She was much closer, able to reach past the control panel that stood by itself, but she wasn't close enough. So, the man-girl laid her body down and tried to use her feet to hold on to the edge of the cockpit and give her enough reach. Complete failure as soon as her knees left the blue field as she was sucked out. She quickly grabbed the control panel and swung around (her feet now aimed at the open door the commander was still latched onto). She looked down and carefully positioned herself and let go (the whole place seemed to be listing to the side so that the door was "below" the man-girl). She hit the wall next to the door closest to the commander and immediately grabbed her hand. With a lot of grunting and pulling, the man-girl managed to get the commander halfway back into the room (the commander got a leg up and told her she could manage the rest by herself), which was good because the free-standing control panel came loose, hit the man-girl in the chest/face, and yanked her out of the door. The commander screamed in anger just as the window to the other room broke out, the man inside dove across the room like a champ, and accidentally hit a button the closed the door to the outside. He went for the escape pod, but an explosion of some sort knocked him away and apparently broke everything and made it impossible to use the escape pod (never got explained, but no one came back to it after the next part).

There was kind of like a time gap. The commander, as well as the guy from before and a whole bunch of other people, were now gathered in a huge hanger bay (probably 5 stories tall, 500 feet lengthwise, and 100-200 feet from hanger bay doors to the back doors that led to the main part of the ship). Luke was with them too, having landed on their ship at some point (he might have been the explosion, somehow destroying his ship while surviving himself since his X-Wing was nowhere to be found). On the far end from where everyone was gathered, a single escape pod sat for use. There was dissent among the people, trying to decide who would use the small craft to escape. The commander said they should do a test to see who would go, as they needed everyone for the mission at hand. However, the people that were allowed to go on the mission had to be of the Imperious Class of trainees, which was discoverable through genetic testing. The man who broke the window before objected openly (he looked like the classic bad guy douche: hair cut short, black, with the front gelled almost straight out, perpetual scowl on his face, scruffy beard and mustache with the thicker part on the underside of his chin, and bulky enough to push those around he needed to). He had a companion that was as openly defiant as he, a black gentleman with black dreadlocks and a green shirt. The woman said they had no choice, that if they didn't at least try to send the Imperious Class people out, the Empire would kill the person as a traitor anyway. The man asked why they would not just go to a planet and make a new life, but the woman said they would be hunted down regardless.

There was a montage of people being tested and negative results. Luke, just before it started, asked a man about the Imperious Class and a man said that some people wouldn't do the testing because they would already know if they had been around for the Ban'gogk incident years ago. Blah blah blah, lots of tests later, only a few people were found to be of the Imperious Class. Most that weren't took it in stride, sealing themselves up for their inevitable fate when sweeper teams came in to wipe out everything in the area completely. Back in the hanger, Luke, the commander, and another woman with wavy brown hair stood together trying to decide who would go (they were three of the Imperious Class people). Luke offered that the woman go, but she refused saying that Luke had the training for it and needed to fight. They seemed to reach an agreement and he got in the ship, and it took off. But lo and behold, not all was lost, because there was now apparently a second escape pod! The hanger doors were open now so that everyone could see out into space (some kind of force field again, obviously). The commander and everyone else started talking about if it was maybe possible to modify the ship so that two people could leave instead of just one. She was starting to say maybe when someone pointed behind her to alert her.

Douche guy and his dreadlock friend were running for the other pod. The commander and six other people all ran after them. Douche and Dread barely got to the ship before everyone yanked them off and literally threw them out of the ship from the hanger doors. They started to float out into space. Douche was a true douche and ripped of Dread's helmet, effectively murdering him and pushing his body away to use his oxygen for  himself. Douche then apparently had super strength and started grabbing floating chunks of debris as he floated away from the ship and hurled it at the hangers. Most of it was small stuff but he eventually threw an entire ship at them. It hit the barrier of the hanger door and gained a lot of speed, rocketing inside and hitting the back wall in a fiery explosion, killing some of the people unfortunate enough to be in the way (one of which was the wavy brown haired girl). After the explosion, the entire ship started to fall apart for no real reason. People ran through the corridors and apparently the walls and much of the amenities were actually holographic projections. The holograms began to flutter and die one at a time. As they did, weird balls of glowing blue fuzz (like the snow channels on a TV in the shape of what could have been viewed as a troll) were littered everywhere and started to run around. They would fade in and out of view, fluttering with the holograms. Everyone started to panic and run back to the hanger, jumping over the rapidly increasing number of blue fuzz littered everywhere.

When they got back to the hanger, all of the blue came with them and stood before them. At the center, one of the blue things suddenly appeared before them as a normal(ish) looking creature (having actual definition instead of being a blue shape of static). The creature looked like a cross between a human, a chimpanzee, and a mogwai (Gizmo from Gremlins). It had drooping, large ears that ended in points, blue and white colored fur, eyes like a mogwai and facial features like a chimpanzee (the feet were also ape-like). The creature spoke, saying it and all of its people had been on the ship Douche threw in, and they thought they would have died sooner if not for that. They wanted to live though. However, they saw that the odds of survival at this point were minimal (the creature was incredibly smart) and told the woman that she should be the one to go so she could relay what had happened and maybe, somehow, get help in time. She stood there, not sure what to make of it, saying that he deserved a chance to live just as much as her, but the creature kept denying the chance.

This was weird, because I actually woke up here, but the dream didn't end. I was in a daze and it continued on in my head. I heard, and saw, in the back of my mind the woman and the creature talking. It got incredibly depressing as she begged, pleaded, bargained, wept, all kinds of things in utter sadness of wanting to save everyone else instead of herself. But the creature, and eventually the rest of the people, all reassured her it was the best thing despite knowing it spelled their almost certain doom. She steeled herself up, but I could still feel how damn sad she was to the point it was physically depressing me as I was awake. I know she got on the ship and left. And the weirdest part was that my half-dazed awake mind heard her name and saw her face in perfect clarity right before it finally ended. Her name was Arwquewen. And she looked like this:

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[TJ Lifeless]

Set inside of a gigantic banquet hall and surrounding building, likely a historical one by the various gathered fancy looking floors, hallways, archways, etc. The dream was apparently a personal parody of the "Scrubs" episode where Dr. Kelso leaves Sacred Heart. It started in the banquet hall, huge with many people sitting at hundreds of tables gathered in front of a large stage. Most people were standing around near the tables, but not actually sitting at any of them. Food was laid out buffet-style. The main cast was there: JD, Elliot, Turk, Dr. Kelso, but that was it, sadly. JD was ending his shift (this was also apparently part hospital) and getting ready to head home but doing some wandering around to see what everyone was up to. Elliot was swamped with work, about to have a breakdown. Turk was talking to JD and said he didn't have much going on tonight, just a basic procedure that would take no time. JD ran into Elliot and could see she was busy as shit, so he offered a helping hand since he didn't have anything going on and could use the overtime. Elliot halfway flipped out on him and told him she didn't need his help and could do it on her own cause she was a capable person/doctor. She stormed off, JD shrugged (and now magically had a backpack on), and turned to walk away.

Dr. Kelso brushed past him with a gaggle of wealthy investors close behind. He started to show them around the hallways. He explained about how the money they put into it went to this/that/and the other, how long he had been with the hospital, how charitable their donations were and the good it did for everyone. The investors sort of spaced out and looked every which direction, not exactly paying attention to him. Eventually he went into a lounge/lobby area and found another important hospital person and pawned them off. When the investors left, he flopped down on a couch and looked exhausted, and was now wearing a button-up shirt with vertical stripes and slacks (previously he had on a doctor's coat). Next to him was the intern from the episode (don't know his name or how to look him up, though). He started to ramble on a little about how the investors cared only about the money and not the hospital and such. He eventually asked the kid if everyone hated him. The kid was blunt and said yes, repeatedly, even as Kelso kept trying to ask various things that made him look less like the bad guy. Kelso looked hurt and downtrodden, but the kid tried to cheer him up by telling him that even though people may have hated him, they respected him more than anyone else in the hospital. And even in their hate, they loved him too for all he had done. He smiled a little and stayed on the couch.

The dream then jumped to two interns scrambling in front of a nurse's station. One of them was dressed in teal scrubs, the other was wearing only his underwear (he was the guy from Dodgeball: An Underdog Story, I'll post a picture to better get a visual, except he had shoulder length brown hair instead of his normal short hair). The two were talking about how swamped they were and how Elliot was doing her best but not able to keep up with everything. The teal scrubs intern told the underwear man that he was only wearing underwear. Apparently unaware of that fact, the guy said "Dangit" and started to run off to try and find some clothing. The dream then jumped again, this time to Turk. He walked into an operating room to a black man laying on a table with his stomach cut open, and the guy was awake. He was moving around, looking for something. Turk asked Carlton(the guy's name was apparently Carlton) what he was trying to do. Carlton told him he needed to sew himself up to help them out cause he needed to get going. Turk told him to stop and that he and the Todd (who was with Turk at the time) would fix him up. Turk looked over at the Todd and told him to put some damn clothes on. Todd told him there was no time, and he'd rather be naked and save the guys life than get clothed and have him die. Turk respected him for it, and they went to work sewing the guy up.

[TJ Lifeless]

In an older style, village setting. Harold and Kumar (Kal Penn and John Cho) were dressed in burlap sacks and wandering through a village that seemed to be a farming community. It had to be some kind of foreign country because the other people spoke in an accent I did not recognize, and a few referred to Harold and Kumar as "Americans". They found their way to an area where a few men were standing around with vases near a pig pen. When they got close enough, one of the guys talked to them and spoke perfect English (assumed he was American too, possibly the person who had brought Harold and Kumar to the village to start with). He told them they would have to contribute to the village if they wanted to stay. Also told them it wasn't a huge endeavor to be accepted, but being Americans would be tough because the customs were pretty different. They laughed like high, silly people and told him they would do their best.

The man told them they would be helping with the pigs as their job. Basically all they had to do was dump the stuff they needed into the pen, and collect water and more pig manure from a cave nearby to keep the pigs content. They started dumping the vases, some filled with pig manure, some filled with food, and a couple filled with human hair. They asked what the human hair was for and the man said it was basically for fiber for the pigs. Another laugh, and the man told them they needed to go collect manure from the cave. They complied and headed for the cave. Didn't take long to get there. The inside was carved out nicely, an exit on the far side up a few rocky platforms from where they entered. It was kind of a hot spring/bath area, because there were a group of naked women bathing in a pool of water not far from the entrance. They were just talking and bathing when the guys entered, not caring. But the guys saw them and stared like idiots for a while and the girls eventually got uncomfortable that the guys were staring at them. They kept staring and the girls eventually got out and left.

There was a time jump to a few weeks later. Harold and Kumar had settled into life in the village and things weren't that big of a deal. They had obviously been chastised for staring at the women earlier and learned from it. They were going about their normal pig duties. Everyone in the village greeted them in a friendly manner. They knew a few of the villagers names. Once they dumped the stuff in the pens, Kumar asked Harold if they needed to go to the cave again. Harold said they could probably do a run just to be safe and that he would go up ahead and Kumar said he would follow soon. Harold disappeared and Kumar was talking to the American guy for a little before he decided to head out (and was annoyed that Harold went without him). I remember him leaving the village and seeing an awesome looking loaf of freshly baked/cut bread sitting on a table for anyone to grab a slice if they wanted. Kumar was tempted but decided not to and headed to the cave.

The cave was now completely different. Suddenly it was made like a supermarket (white walls, tile/linoleum floors, the baths were now actual bath areas like a pool instead of just water-carved pits, and there were boxes of random produce everywhere). No one seemed to notice the sudden and extreme change. Kumar completely ignored another group of bathing women (they may have had bathing suits this time, not sure) and looked for Harold. He found his way over to a legitimate looking pool. Harold was in the pool with a girl, both of them fully dressed. And the best part, Harold, the girl, and Kumar were all now kids of probably 8 or 9 years of age at the oldest. The girl was dressed in a school uniform, burgundy button up jacket top, black skirt, white undershirt, green and yellow diagonal stripe tie. She had mid-neck length black hair and round glasses. Harold was still dressed in his burlap bag. He was also washing his face with a cloth that I could for some reason read the name brand on (Prissell Pearls). They were wading in the pool and talking about general stuff, all the while Kumar was muttering to himself for Harold to just go ahead and kiss her already.

[TJ Lifeless]

I totally blame this whole thing on Rebel_Seven...

I was at work, going about my daily usuals on the floor: folding clothes, welcoming people, keeping the store in semi-order. I went toward the front and the first table was overloaded with way too many sweaters (purple being the most prominent). I silently cursed to myself at how horrible it looked and got work trying to organize it. Halfway through, one of the managers came up and said the setup wouldn't work, and she needed to come up with a new plan. There was kind of a twitch/jump where she was outside the store, lining up the excess number of sweaters in a row in front of the store. I walked out and told her that was probably a bad idea because people could just easily steal it if she put it out of the store. She said it didn't matter, she hated them enough that if people wanted to steal them, they could. I was keeping an eye on the sweaters anyway.

The store suddenly changed design and I found an Asian man standing in front of what looked like a wall of PO boxes. I asked if he needed help and he looked at me extremely suspiciously but eventually caved in and said he was looking for some jeans. I brought him over. Someone else took him off my hands and I went back toward where he had been to start with. Another Asian man standing in almost exactly the same place. He gave me "the head motion" to come over so I did, with much suspicion. He brought me to the PO boxes and and started speaking in a language I was unfamiliar with. When he stopped, I was confused and made it clear. He told me not to act like I didn't understand him and I repeated that I had no effing clue what he was saying. He looked shocked and flipped out and tried to make a break for it/attack me.

We ended up outside somehow and the criminal now had a sledgehammer and another accomplice. The main guy came at me and I managed to knock him back. In the recoil, he swung the sledgehammer backward and hit a little kid in the face, which literally KNOCKED THE KID'S FACE OFF. It went flying through the air in slow motion and landed in the grass (it wasn't like the bone and stuff, just the skin). As the dream view focused on the face, there were sounds of a struggle and faded out images in the background fighting. The kid wandered over and picked his face up. He put it back on and adjusted it and it fit perfectly. Then it went back into the kid that has his face knocked off. For a second, I could feel as he was adjusting his face. He actually pushed into the flesh to make it fit and it physically hurt but it was to push out air bubbles that felt really awkward. In the background, the guy with the sledgehammer went flying into a fence. The kid mentally swore vengeance. So, his vengeance was to attack the two Asian men. He went after the first guy and somehow defeated him. The second, still laying across the fence face-down, was his next target....and to my horror, the kid lowered his head and charged. He aimed carefully and...yes, you guessed it, thoroughly lodged his head UP the RECTUM of the second guy and was walking around with him as a literal human hat. A crowd of horrified onlookers made noises of "ugh" and such. The dream view shifted away from anyone and there was a wet "schlooop" sound and everyone let out another horrified gasp. Someone explained what happened, citing that the kids face had come off UP THE GUY'S ASS. He retrieved it and someone said "make sure you wash it before putting it back on..."

The dream watched as the kid walked toward a house, blue with silver trim. After a period of a few minutes, the dream went from the house he was in to the one next door (it was sort of a time/place transition). The new house had the kid in it, a teenager now. He was wondering his house, with lots of angles hiding his face from direct view. He eventually went to a mirror that was warped and distorted but could make out his face. It was scar tissue pretty much from upper lip to forehead (kinda looked like the pig-faced people in a Twilight Zone episode). He put his prosthetic face on and some hair and actually looked like a handsome kid. He did a quick look around and had a cat, apparently. Someone rang the doorbell and he answered. A girl walked in like she owned the place and started talking to him. He was kinda creepy acting and really "creepily smooth" if that makes sense. She saw the cat and pet it and started up some stairs behind the cat. The teenager followed, talking creepy, and they got up to his room. It had almost nothing in it but he explained the stuff he had. His bed, and a desk with a computer that he used for all his entertainment. He also apologized for the smell of rats cause he had rats/pets (I could actually smell it in the dream, which was a bit disturbing.

There was another outside moment where it went to the house next door and was a time/place transition. Now the teenager was fully grown. He looked like the guy from Hobo with a Shogtun

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He had scars in a few places and his face was constantly attached. He wore kind of like a big canvas bag/potato sack as his only form of visible clothing. He stared into a mirror, looking extremely pissed off. There was a flashback scene of a man picking up a girl and carrying her out of the house, screaming back at the now fully-grown faceless man to leave her alone. Looked a bit like:

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. The flashback ended and there was a knock on the door. A young, attractive blonde was waiting. She went inside like it was no biggie and faceless man closed the door behind her after looking around suspiciously. She wandered the house and they sat at a table. After some brief conversations, the girl screamed at him saying "you're a terrible father" and tried to leave. He wouldn't let her. Other guy that took her out of the house before came over and pulled her out and away from her dad(faceless man). He carried her away and called out again. Faceless man looked extremely pissed and had quick flashes of the past and got really angry. For some reason soon after, savior man and a group of kids were in the house of the faceless man to try and capture him considering him to be a danger to the girl. (Found out at this point that faceless man just lived basically across the street from his daughter/ex-wife so it was dangerous since he seemed unstable).

It was very dark and creepy in the house and there were secret passages that the faceless man kept ducking into and out of. At one point, everyone was on the second floor and a weird, impossible to get into from the room door opened slowly and creaked. I walked over and tried to push it closed, making a comment about how it was weird since no one was on the other side. Right before it closed completely, the door was stuck and wouldn't move. I tried to push hard and it flew open and hit the wall that made it impossible to get into from the room and I fell back. The faceless man jumped out and took out a prosthetic arm/hook hand and tried to attack me with it (he pulled it out of a small flap opening in his canvas bag clothes). He scratched me up a few times but the savior guy from before scared him away for a bit. But faceless man suddenly came out of the ceiling and threw the savior man out the window and scared the kids off. He came after me again, this time producing a extendable prosthetic arm and hand and attacked me with it. I knocked it away but he pounced on me and pinned me. I could see his hands moving around under the canvas clothing and I thought he had a knife so I grabbed for his hands . Grabbing felt odd, like his body was disfigured under the clothing in some way. I grabbed his hands and tried to hold him off but he was too strong. Whatever was under the clothing, he managed to bring it down against my chest slowly which caused me to wake up.

[TJ Lifeless]

Just a quickie:

I had some sort of a celebrity run around dream. I started by visiting Zach Galafianakis in his 3rd floor apartment in a lovely little suburb. Drinks were shared, laughs were had, witty retorts abounded on both sides. Somehow we ended up on the first floor drinking lemonade. The second stop was at Mark Hamill's place, also in a suburban setting. Only one floor, lovely ivory interior, very homey feel. His wife was there and she was lovely and he had a little too much fun with her while company was present and accidentally managed to strip her dress off (of which she was naked beneath). I turned my head in respect.

[TJ Lifeless]

To start with, my dream had a habit of jumping around in time very quickly and without any connective space (partially due to the repeated awake/asleep moments before I finally woke up for the day).

I was in a car with my brother and another guy I didn't recognize, driving to a place we'd all been too before (been to before as in past dreams have ended up in this place). We were in some part of Kansas according to my past recollections, and turned on a road that would take us to our friend's place. We stopped at their place of business (a common occurrence in past visits) that was an Animal Husbandry Farm (a sign that said so). The other person and I got out of the car, followed by my brother who told us to get back in because we were almost there anyway. [brief waking up moment here]

We were at the friend's house, with a bunch of other people from my fraternity. The friend showed us around the house, and all the new additions. In past dreams, his house had been a work in process with a whole bunch of projects going on. Originally it was just a small farm house that was partly run down. At the last visit, he had the first floor almost done, but had an entire downstairs section still needing work. It was blackened out before and I wasn't allowed down. Not, it was complete. The walls were painted a salmon color. It was very spacious, not filled with furniture in the huge space just yet. There was a lovely, ornate doorway, closets that had some fancy designs, and one separate room that was rapidly being turned into the vanity room for the wife of the friend (she was absent until just after this). We looked around, someone grabbed a pair of her shoes (of which there was an abundance) and started to try them on, but she showed up and they scattered. I came out and started to talk to her. It took a moment to realize (at first, I thought she was just carrying something in front of her and always only saw her elbows) she had lost her arms just past her elbows. She was self-conscious about it but we kept the topic of conversation away from how it happened. [another quick awakeness break]

We were all downstairs, sitting at various tables, waiting for dinner. Food was brought out and the table i was at got dismissed first to go up. It was just appetizer style stuff. I grabbed some cheese and vegetables and some other stuff, but had to hurry because everyone behind me was hungry and pushing through the line to get food. I went and sat down. A black man in a white button up and black pants was running around, trying to keep everyone focused and organized and looking very stressed. I got up, walked over to him and pulled him aside. We had a conversation about how he was working too hard and needed to give himself a break every once in a while because he was a much more of a fun person when he wasn't so stressed. He halfway agreed and went back to the kitchen. I followed. As soon as I entered the kitchen, everyone that I could see inside it was suddenly gone. I looked around at the changes they had done. There was no longer a shower where it had once been, the countertops were refurbished and looked like black with white speckled marble. There was an island counter in the middle too. A small back closet housed a bucket...which was apparently a piss bucket because that's what I ended up using it for. @_@" [yet another time warp]

There was a party happening out back by a pool. Everyone was dancing, drinking, and having fun. Blah blah blah, nothing fun happened until SHE showed up. She came over to me and asked if I remembered a few nights ago what happened. I was completely confused. She mentioned a drunken night with her friends that she came back to the house from. I had kind of a flashback and told her all I remembered was waking up in the middle of the night, looking out my window and possibly seeing her and some friends being drunk and swimming before I went back to bed and that as it. She told me I should stop by and see what I did to her bed, cause she was "a little annoyed by it". [and another warp for good measure]

The party was over and most people went home. Everyone was going to their bedrooms. I had a few moments where I was standing outside of people's rooms, halfass checking to see if people were sleeping peacefully and half ass spying it seemed. I could see the wall to the left of me. I had to peak in and look around to the right to see the people. All the rooms were the same setup. Two bunk beds (one over the other attached to the wall), a closet area at the foot of the beds, and a desk under the beds. I would peak in briefly, see if the person was asleep, and then duck back around the corner so they could not see me. The rooms changed instantaneously, the only way I knew was because the wall I could see that would change suddenly, like a scene change in a movie with no transitions. After about 10 room transitions, I finally peaked in and saw HER room. She was laying in bed and saw me and I started to walk in. The room suddenly changed. Where before the bed would have been close to eye level, I was now crawling on the floor and she no longer had a bed at all and was laying on the floor as well. When I got to her, she asked if I wanted to see what I did. I said sure. She pulled up her blanket to reveal she was completely unclothed beneath. She laughed and said that it was hard to see now because it happened so long ago. I had no idea what she was talking about and she said I came into her room on the drunken night and sniffed her bewb. I was dumbfounded because I didn't remember it and didn't believe it. (I've had a concern with sleepwalking for a long time, and this was sort of a manifestation of that). I told her there was no way it could have happened. She asked if I would want to go out and date sometime. I had a long conversation with her about how I would have considered it in another life. At his point, I indicated that apparently I was a time traveler and knew what the future had for me if I tried to go out with her. I told her that I knew she would only break my heart and ruin me, so I couldn't put myself through it again knowingly. She looked more like she was annoyed that I had rejected her than that I somehow knew she would hurt me in the future. [T-t-t-time warp]

It was the next day. I was in the kitchen with my girlfriend. Apparently the house was a car now, as I started to drive down the road. She was in the passenger seat. We were going around corners and such and I told her I needed to use the bathroom. She looked at me like I was crazy. I told her just to steer and then get off to the side of the road if the car was about to stop. I ran into the kitchen again and to the side closet and yep, you guessed it, used the bucket again. I ran back to the "car" and saw we were stopped at the side of the road facing a fence. I asked her if she wrecked and she said she did not. So I took the wheel to start driving again.

My alarm went off after that, so there ended the rather strange series of events in my dream.

[Serenity]

Jumpy dreams are both entertaining and slightly confusing (especially when trying to recount the events)... good job though, that still seemed fairly concise!

I had no idea what she was talking about and she said I came into her room on the drunken night and sniffed her bewb.

[TJ Lifeless]

Weird concoction of events that are hard to remember because of all sorts of reasons. But I shall do my best....for the children!

The first part of the dream came in a number of bits and pieces, so it is hard to say exactly how much was the dream and if it was just fragments or actually most of the whole dream. It started out that my brother, my mother, and myself were all heading into a city. Something major was happening in the city, like a crisis/hostile takeover by a greater power. The way we came in was a huge suspension bridge that wasn't really over water, it was over a gigantic canal/drainage ditch. I've often crossed this bridge in past dreams, usually walking on the outer edge or climbing up the steel beams that were scattered across the length of the bridge. This time, thanks to the crisis, enough cars were blocking the way that we could simply walk across the main section of it without any trouble.

When we got to the other side of the bridge, two men, one that looked Chinese and one that looked Japanese (both older men), that were the "hostile takeover". They ended up chasing me up a ladder to a high point of the bridge where they had a confrontation, and apparently I had been working with both sides to try and help with the takeover. Each of the men thought I was working with them and wanted me to finally prove it by killing the other. At first I didn't know who to kill. Then I had dream moments where I saw what would happen depending on who I would kill. For one of them, I had some weird kung fu (even though I know nothing of martial arts) move that I hit them in the stomach just under their ribcage, did something, then dug my fingertips through their chest/ribs and tore out their heart. For the other one, I had to battle them hand to hand, and eventually tossed them off the top and they fell to their death. It went back to the start, with both of them still staring me down. So I did the only logical thing: I tore out the first man's heart and threw him off the ledge, and when the second man's guard was down, I dropped him down the ladder shaft to his death.

I was awakened at this point, so the dream pretty much ceased to be. The second set of dreamy events had a small connection to the first, but not really.

The second dream connected to the first through my brother. He and I were in my car, driving as part of a mobile traveling road team (I think it was a sports team, but not sure). We were crossing the country and in Iowa, stopping at the leg for a game. We went in, there was a time jump to after the game was over, and we were all piling in our cars. Everyone was starting to leave, and I could not find my car anywhere to save my life. There were various cars that look like mine, but were not even close when I got close. Eventually I ran out into the street to try and find my car, only to see a tow truck with what appeared to be my car, but I could see something was extremely wrong. I flipped out like a crazy man and literally started running after the tow truck, screaming and flailing my arms. It got away, but I managed to see where it was heading long enough to have a passerby tell me where the truck went and it wasn't far away.

When I got there, the driver was just parking and got out of his car, looked me over and I told him it was my car, and he smiled smugly and walked off laughing. I was pissed and was planning to steal my own car, but I looked it over and saw it had been completely stripped of everything strippable. No tires, hood, engine, nothing. Just what was left of the frame. I asked the driver about it and he started saying I'd have to pay the tow fee, but it wouldn't do any good, to get my car back. I asked how long and how much it would cost before it was repaired to be able to drive away with it, but we both knew there was no reason to answer. He got in another car, a nice looking one and started to drive it and crashed into a stack of tires (still have no idea why). He backed up and parked it where it was to start with, and walked away. I looked at him like "wtf was that" and he just ignored me. I got an idea and decided to ask him if I could test drive the car he just wrecked. He said go for it, but that it had some problems that he hadn't fixed yet so I wouldn't be able to do much. He then jumped in the back of an old ice cream truck and started banging away at something on the inside. I hopped in the car, planning to make a getaway.

Total failure. There was something dragging under the car and the driver's side front tire was flat. I only got out of the driveway before I turned it around and pulled it back in. I stopped and parked. When I got out, I inspected the damage. I looked around for replacements. Saving some time, I managed to get the tire replaced, got what was hanging safely secured under the car, and attached some kind of metal plate to the underside of it. The man was still messing around in the ice cream truck, but I needed screws to hold the metal plate to the car (it was loosely attached). It took forever to dig through hundreds of screw heads and way oversized screws until I finally found 4 that would fit. I screwed them in (even though they weren't the same type, but did the job). I jumped in the car, and took off, getting back in time to pick up my brother and the two other people traveling with us.

I stole a car after my car was stolen from me....a vicious cycle.

[TJ Lifeless]

Well....this certainly is an odd one to talk about, and a lot of details will be omitted....FOR THE CHILDREN!

An orgy

.....that is all. >.>'''''