Trial and Error

[PetraArkanian]

The dream started out with me realizing that I needed to get a final project I had lent to a teacher back from said teacher. (I need to get it back IWL too)
I find the teacher and comfort her about it and she tells me to hold on and goes to get it. She brings it out with over half of it missing. I am furious and ask were the rest of it is, she says that that is all I gave her and I begging to confront her about how unorganized she is and how she needs to come prepared to class. (if only it had been in reality ^_^)

I realize about half way through my rant that I am talking to the wrong teacher. I know instantly I must be dreaming but finish up my rant anyway since I was already going, but get bored with it and want to so some other things since I was lucid. I tell her not to worry about the notebook and move on.
Suddenly someone I go to school with is there is some sort of kitchen cooking something. He asks me if I am going to get the rest of my project and I tell him it doesn't matter because it is a dream. Since he was there I decide to ask him some questions.

Me: "Evan, what is the meaning of life?"
Evan: "Eh!...Nothing."
Me: "Nothing?"
Evan: "Yeah, nothing."
Me: "Ok then. When did the universe begin?"
Evan: "Eh!...It's always been here."
Me: "Always?"
Evan: "Yeah, you know, its the universe."
I had a long moment where I could not think of any questions that were not cliche but I didn't want to stop asking so I just went with the next thing I thought of.
Me: "Fair enough. Then tell me some secrets about zombies."

Instantly a movie starts playing and takes over my entire range of vision. It starts out with a few families in the suburbs getting kids ready to go somewhere and talking to the neighbors about the trip. I realize that I am lucid dreaming and could not care less about watching a film by one of my DCs. I turn to him and ask what this has to do with zombies. "Shh!" he says. I get irritated and tell him that I don't care and I want to know secrets about zombies. He says "I don't want to give it away" I glare and him and he sighs. "You see those two kids" he says. "Yeah" I reply. (they had strange names like Zunie and Boben or something )"They're zombies, now the ending is ruined!" he leaves the dream. The dream collapses and a new one begins.


There is a large strangely shaped swimming pool with a young boy swimming in it. There is a small island in the pool that is a cylinder of concrete going to the bottom of the pool that is only wide enough for someone to stand on. The kids swims up to it and sees that it has writing on it. It says "Off limits, can't stand here" or something of the like. He begins to wonder what could possibly happen if he were to get on it so he does. A large metal gate comes from beneath the pool and surrounds the little island and some of the surrounding water. He begins to panic and more gates appear completely encasing him.

His dad swims toward him laughing and the gates begging to recede.
"That is to bad" the dad says "it is such a great water fountain too"
The little kid responds "What? It is a water fountain?" and jumps onto it again, and begins to be encased as the dad laughs again.

From a different night:
One of my teachers was playing the piano at some kind of show while another teacher was running sound, I begin to back her up off stage with some shakers but have a ton of trouble keeping track of the rhythm for some reason.

[PetraArkanian]

From late last week:

The whole dream was an episode of Xena.
Xena was fighting this guy that had been involved with the death of one of her friends and they where in a heated sword fight. He appears as though he is going to get her so I yell to her and realize I am yelling in Gabriele's voice. Xena finally gets the upper had and stabs the guy through the chest. She smiles, but at a second glance her smile fades. She looks down to see her friend at the end of her sword and Xena removes the sword. Her friend falls to the ground having changed back into the guy and we stand in silence.

[PetraArkanian]

From the 2 nights ago

Frag #1: One of my peers from school was pregnant. She was getting self conscious about it, but people were supporting her. I asked if I could feel her belly and she said yes. I couldn't help but think that I had only done this in dreams, and that I was stocked to be able to IWL ( ) I watched as the babies head pushed against the edge of the belly and was fascinated.

Frag #2: We were on a film shoot and we get to the location with a ton of gear and hunker down. The director sits at a computer. I realize all we are getting for this shoot is stock footage and am confused. The director begins to download a bunch of clips and turns to the crew "This is going faster than expected, we may get to take a half day!" The crew begins to celebrate. I stand there confused as to why we are there with gear, and gawk at all these fools that are happy for a half day.

[PetraArkanian]

I have not been sleeping well and have only had pieces of dreams :(

In one I was season 6 Gabriel from Xena. I was super pregers to the point that my movement was very limited.
I began to get attacked by a group of men and began to fight them off with my staff. Each movement ripping and my tight muscles and skin.

Another short one I spent trying to keep a baby from falling over. He kept standing up and falling with no indication he was not going to fall on his head. It was extremely stressful.

One I spent on the set of my senior film when a (very much unliked) peer shows up and begins to mess of the equipment. I deal with him for awhile until he is keeping me from shooting and I tell him to get off my set. Everyone jumps to his case to defend him (which should have made me lucid honestly) and I spend the rest of the dream trying to get him to leave.

I can't wait to graduate so I can have some real dreams. XD

[PetraArkanian]

I have not had a decent dream in a while since I am not sleeping.
Close to Finnish college, these things tend to happen.

BUT FRAGMENT!
I was on my way to a screening in a film festival, and was ditching work to do it! (may become a true story) The movie is called "Chasing Ice" and I was really looking forward to it. I get to the theater, super stoked since I am doing that instead of working, and the theater is a giant ice berg. There are many twists and turns through the ice to find the line, and me and my DC friends made our way through. We get to the front of the line and start heading for the end to get in line, and I notice that the first person in line is Seth Green. I turn and say "OZ?" He turns to me looking confused, and I explain to him that I have been watching A LOT of Buffy the Vampire Slayer lately. He understands and retorts "Oh my gosh that was so long ago," I tell him I know, but I still love it. I turn to leave and realize that I am missing my chance. I turn back to him and ask him if I can give him a hug. He seems confused but agrees and I hug him and head to the back of the line yelling "Thanks Seth" worrying that he thought I didn't know his real name.

[bluebird]

That seems very long for a fragment so I wouldn't be too unhappy with it Good luck with college and hopefully you can get back into a regularly sleep pattern soon ^_^

[PetraArkanian]

Thanks! I needed to hear that.
I guess I am just irritated because I want to practice getting lucid. XD

[bluebird]

Focus your mind on it and you will be lucid again, I find that just 10 minutes each morning spent journalling can be a great help to recall, and with good recall comes more lucid dreams as you know

[PetraArkanian]

A few from a few different nights!

1-One of my friends S got really drunk at my house. (I think it is due to my curiosity of what she is like) I had to go to work, my current job being a door to door canvasser.  She grabs my clip board in a drunken sway and precedes to make 4 or 5 large donations for me to get my quota. I worry that she will regret that later...

2-I left my apartment, which coincidentally was an apartment I had canvassed the day before, and walked by a large group of people and waved to them saying hi. I get outside to realize that I do not have a shirt on, and am completely uncovered. I realize I had just walked through a group of people and was embarrassed. I turn out to be wearing some kind of onesy and begin to try and cover my pride. It is a little to small but I force it on anyway.

I suddenly notice that sitting on the grass close to where I am is one of my teachers from school sitting and chatting with Leonard Nimoy. I begin to nerd out and run over to him letting him know that I am a huge fan. He sighs and begins to say "Let me guess, you love" and begins to rattle off a bunch of things I do not understand accompanied with unknown hand motions. I realize the inadequacy of my trekkieness and then tell him "Oh! I am not a super trekkie or anything, I just really like the show". He seemed to really like that and we talked for awhile until the dream ended.

3-Me and my mom, and a random DC were on some kind of farm. A disaster was about to happen and we were reacting as though it was a disaster on an annual cycle, where we would have to flee from some kind of great terror to survive every year. We both knew what it was in the dream, but as a dreamer I didn't know what to expect. We began to formulate a plan to rally the animals together which included goats and cows. She asked the dc to go to a specified place (had a name in the dream and forgot it) to get a large truck with a plastic lining to haul the animals away. He took off and we spent a while trying to figure out how to get all the widespread animals in different pens into one place to load up before the terror came.

For some reason, at some point in the dream I was pole vaulting to peer over the gates and noticed that the animals the furthest away were fake, stuffed (but no, lets not RC or anything...) My panic was not slowed.

A giant truck plows its way over the main fence. My mom says "Finally! I thought he would never get back." It is only when the truck has entered that we see that it is in many sections like a circus train of sorts, and is already filled with animals. Formless and shapeless, creatures begin to emerge and grab up our animals to add to their collection. One rips the DC guy to shreds while another comes to us. He supernaturally flys right up to us panting in our faces. I hide behind my mom, which is the first time I realize that I am a child and come only up to her waist.

The creatures form different black shapes that take whatever form they need. The creature is called off by the leader to approaches. He separates my and my mom and begins to torment me. Although I do not see it, I know that he has killed my mom. I silently go along with him and begin searching for a weak point so I can escape.

[PetraArkanian]

"Drunk Sa"

I was sitting with one of my friends Sa who was getting progressively more and more drunk. (I have never seen her drunk iwl) I was thinking that I should not drink much more since I had work the next day. And she grabs my clip board I was suddenly holding and begins to make donations to the campaign I was canvassing for until I had quota. I thought it was such a nice gesture, but worried she would regret it in the morning. I jokingly offered her another beer for a laugh and she started to get up saying "we have more beer?!" I stopped her and said "I was joking! I am cutting you off" She sat back down disappointed.

[PetraArkanian]

"Leonard Nimoy"

I left my apartment and headed down the hallway (an exact apartment I canvassed the day before )
I walked through a few groups of people congesting the hallway all of them turning to look at me.
It wasn't until I got outside that I realized I didn't put a shirt on only strange overalls. More like jeans with jean suspenders. I frantically pull at them until awkward sleeves emerge and I force them around my body.

I sigh and look over to see a current teacher sitting on the grass having a conversation with Leonard Nimoy. I approach my teacher waving and saying hi. I ignore her and take a seat next to Leonard. The conversation goes something like this.

Me: "I am such a huge fan"
LN: "Oh great another crazy person"
Me: "No I'm not crazy! I am a normal Trekkie"
LN: "What do you mean?"
Me: "Like I haven't seen ALL the episodes and don't have the most famous lines memorized or anything. But I really enjoy the show."
LN: "Oh, well, that's cool"

We talked for a bit more but I don't remember what was said ^_^

[PetraArkanian]

"Farm Life"

Me my mom and another DC were on some kind of farm, and a disaster was about to happen.
We were acting like it was some kind of yearly evil was coming upon the farm, like we have to annually run in fear for reasons we don't question.
We both knew, but it was not specified.

We began to formulate a plan to rally the animals together which included goats and cows. She asked the DC to go to a place (it had a name in the dream, but I don't recall   ) to get a large truck and plastic to line it with to haul the animals away. He took off and we spent awhile trying to figure out how to get the widespread animals in different pens together so quickly. At some point I was almost pole vaulting to look over to the farthest pens and noticed that the animals that were the farthest away were fake. They were just stuffed goats and cows. But it did not slow my panic at all.

A giant truck plows its way over the main fence. My mom is like "Finally! I thought he would never get here!" It is only then that we realize that the truck is in many sections, almost like a circus train, and it is already filled with animals. Creatures begin to emerge and grab our animals. They are just these black forms of different shapes and sizes that form into what they need. One ripped the dc guy to shreds, living only pieces to fall to the earth, while another comes for us. He supernaturally flys in a gliding motion up to us, panting in our faces. I hide behind my mom (it is only then in the dream I realize I am only up to her waist, prob like 8yrs old). The creature is called off by the leader as he approaches. He separates us and begins to torment me. Since I was a child in the dream it makes it hard to interpret, even though I know what is happening while it was going on. And although I did not see it happen, I know that he has killed my mom. I quietly go along with what he does, searching for a weak point and an escape strategy.

[PetraArkanian]

"Memory Wipe"

It starting with me on a boat. I slowly crawled to the front of the boat so that I could look over the side and see the water, when 2 small hose-like things bend over the side and spray me in the face with water. I am irritated and confused until I hear mild laughter in the background. Realizing it is just a prank I laugh with them.

I join them in the office on the ship and we begin to talk. Suddenly the conversation is ending and I am soaking wet. They shake my hand goodbye and I realize that I have a gap in my memory of what we talked about and how I got soaked. As I walk away the back of the boat turns into a market place where I hear almost a voice over of a friend asks me if I am wearing a lav since he is getting interference on his end. I look and there is one clipped to my shirt. I unhook it and pull it out by the wire and follow the wire to an H4N in my pocket. I decide that I should dump the audio to see if it will fill in the gaps.

I go and sit next to another friends at a desk that is suddenly there with 2 laptops. We make small talk about projects and such when I notice that my computer already has an SD card in it. I ask him if we have shot anything recently and if it is his card. He begins to stammer and say he doesn't know (I can tell he knows more than he is letting on, but it didn't bother me at all). I dump the footage on the card to see what it is and it is a strange compilation of footage of me. Edited like the tracy fragments in many different views at once. I was dancing, trying on different clothes and different wigs. Some of it was me sitting nearly naked and depressed in the corner of a room. It was all very unsettling and creepy and I head back to the market place.

I run into Giles (from buffy the vampire slayer XD) and I ask him what is going on. He sushes me and leads me to talk in a closet that is suddenly there. I tell him what is going on, and he takes of his glasses and starts to clean them saying "You're remembering, that is really a bother" I asked him what the purpose of wiping my memory was and why he couldn't tell me, but he said nothing more. I left, going back into the market frustrated.

I hear the voice of a guy on the other side of the market and walk toward him. He is draped in robes and a turban of many different, solid, shiny colors. His surrounding matched him. It looked like he was standing in the inside corner of a cloth tent. Next to him was a exit half draped in beads leading to what looked like blackness. He begins to explain how crazy it is that no one can just leave. The door is right there, and no one can leave. A few touristy looking teenage girls with hands full of shopping bags peer out through the opening and leave to continue shopping. "See" he says "They are too dependent"

The rest of the dream was ruined by a false awakening of telling a co-worker the dream

[PetraArkanian]

"Ritual Kidnapping"

I was kidnapped along with many others and put in a strange house alone. They would periodically add animals like cats once a week or so. Whenever they came to check on us we would always dart away to our hiding spaces of choice, mine being squished next to the washer of the back laundry room. (Looked really close to a laundry room from my childhood home).

We hid and dodged for weeks until finally they were back and let us out into the front yard. It was rectangular and surrounded by a short fence, that in hindsight would not trap us like it did. It had the feel of a mario party minigame. The guy began to fire strange blue slimy balls at us that were extremely painful. The yard had definitely become some sort of arena and he began firing rapidly.

We realized this was part of some sort of anual ritual. A ponfar of sorts for the kidnapper and we had become sacrifices to this biological timebomb.

Suddenly! A doctor appears, completely changing this into some sort of nightmare parody XD
He says he has found the cure and stops the guy from firing and has him prop his foot up on a chair that is suddenly there. He proceeds to slice the inside section of his ancle open and ask the guy if he would hold it open for him. He does, and the doctor begins to insert what looks like a piece of paper with some writing on it. It looks like some sort of Japanese incantation of sorts. He slides it under the muscle and in and around the bottom of his foot, and closes up the hole.

The kidnapper proclaims to the sky that he is cured! And that we can all go home. But we all stand there confused, not sure what to make of what just happened.

[PetraArkanian]

"Smokin weed"

I was offered some weed and thought "What the hell I haven't ever done this before!" (I haven't ) My body was nice enough to make up a sensation for me XD I spent the rest of the dream being a dead beat smoker until I could not even keep my eyes focused anymore. But was offered cotton candy flavored weed at the end that actually tasted like cotton candy!

Felt very strange for the whole day afterward XD