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March 28th, 2018 (A long lucid dream)

I was in my parent’s car, sitting in the backseat, and they pulled it into our garage. Out the window, I saw a reddish brown guinea pig sitting on a small pile of flat cardboard boxes. I asked my parents if I could go get it, and they reluctantly said yes. Trying to catch the guinea pig was difficult. It was dark in the garage, and my cat, Louise was also searching around the garage, and I didn’t want her to hurt the guinea pig. Finally, I caught the guinea pig and brought it inside and up to my bedroom where I expected to find a guinea pig cage with some other guinea pigs in it. I did not see a guinea in cage, and when I looked at the animal in my arms, it had become a small kitten. 

I went downstairs into the kitchen area, between the breakfast bar and the living room, and I told my parents that the guinea pig had become a cat and that the cat looked like it could be one of Louise’s kittens (although that would be impossible, since Louise was fixed when she was too young to have had kittens). Telling my parents about the guinea pig turning into a cat is what made me become lucid. I excitedly told them, “This is a dream!” They were excited too. My dad said, “I wonder if we are real and also dreaming!” I said, “I wonder that too.” And he said, “Maybe sometimes people in dreams are real but not always.” My mom and I agreed. (I now realize I was basically talking to myself.) I then noticed that my dad was missing some teeth and I said, “In real life, my dad has more teeth.” My dad in the dream said, “Oh!” and he grew more teeth. Then Cocoa (my Chihuahua who passed away almost a year ago and who is in my dreams a lot) walked into the kitchen from the living room, and I said, “Hi, Cocoa!”

That’s when it started to thunder storm outside, and a helicopter appeared. Someone with an assault rifle started shooting into our house. My dad was sitting on the counter next to the sink, and he had large, helmet shaped headphones on, so he didn’t know to duck. He got shot in the back and fell back into the sink. My mom screamed in horror. Somehow, I stayed calm, said, “it’s okay; I will fix it,” and walked to the backdoor. Before opening the door, I said outloud, “when I go outside, they will tell me this was all a joke.” I opened the door and a tall woman with sandy blonde hair told me it was all a joke. I said, “you thought we were having a party here and you were just trying to scare us?” She said, “yeah!” and then everyone left.

When I went back inside, my dad was still dying in the sink. I went over and put my hand on his chest where the bullet wound was. A little less confidently this time, I looked away and said, “when I look back, you will be healed.” I looked back and my dad breathed in life and sat up a bit, but he kind of looked like a zombie with grayish skin and completely black eyes. I looked away again and said, “when I look back, you will have your normal brain.” I looked back and his skin looked more normal and his eyes changed from all black to just grey.  He sat up more and smiled slightly. My mom looked happy. I decided to leave before I found out if it worked completely, because I didn’t want to know if I had failed and I knew it was a dream anyway.

When I got to my front door I said out loud, “When I open the door, it will be a bright and sunny day.” I was a little less confident in my lucid dream powers after the struggle of healing my dad, so when I opened the door and walked outside, it was a nice, warm day on my block and the trees all had pretty leaves, but the sun was starting to go down and the sky was turning slightly pink. I looked down and sort of covered my view of the sky with my hands and said, “When I look up, it will be a bright and sunny day.” I looked up, and it was the same. Frustrated, I tried again, with no luck. I heard a voice from the sky (which sounded a lot like a guy I listened to talking about lucid dreams on youtube) say, “Remember to add more detail.” So I said, “When I look up, the sky will be bright yellow.” It still didn’t work, and I think it was because I lacked confidence. I decided to forget about making it sunnier and walked down the street in the direction of my girlfriend’s house.

While walking down the street, I remembered learning that rubbing your hands together can help keep a dream clear, so I rubbed my hands together. Then I decided to try licking my hands to see if it felt real. I could feel it on my tongue and on my hands. I passed a house in which I saw a scary creature talking to some children in the window. The creature looked like a goblin from Harry Potter, but it was as tall as a tall human. I decided to ignore it and keep walking. After a bit, the goblin was walking behind me. I heard it say it wanted to “get” (as in murder) Tack, the cobbler. I thought to myself, “it makes sense that Tack’s in my dream. I was just looking at gifs from that movie.” I went into a house that I thought was Alyss’s (my girlfriend’s), but inside it looked like Tack’s cobbler shop from the movie, “The Thief and the Cobbler.” Everything was black and white, and there were differently patterned cloths hanging everywhere. I heard the goblin follow me into the house. Instead of trying to make the goblin go away or change him so he wasn’t evil, I was very self indulgent and said out loud, “Tack will look like Alyss.” I saw her for a moment. Alyss was dressed in Tack’s clothes and she was all in black and white. She looked so cute that I woke up.

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Lucid dreaming update

I have neglected this dream journal for a while but I decided to start it up again because I’ve been working on my lucid dreaming skills. I’ve had quite a few recently! Before recently, I was never able to control anything other than myself in lucid dreams, but I’ve been experimenting and getting better at manipulating my environment.

The other day, I had a lucid dream that I was in a sparse, mostly abandoned, Las Vegas inspired carnival with Mark, my girlfriend’s brother. I knew I was dreaming because I could fly. We were about to go into a haunted house, and I love haunted houses in real life, but I was worried it might turn into a nightmare. I turned away from the door, said out loud, “I don’t want to go to a haunted house. I want to go to a musical. And I want it to be Cabaret.” I turned around and the haunted house was now a theatre with a huge marquee that said, “Cabaret!”

A few night’s ago, I had a lucid dream in which I was in a desert next to a small, artistic looking house. I decided to just sit down and observe. There were mountains in the distance and a slight, pink sunset. I played with the sand in my hands, and I could feel it just like in real life. I rubbed my hands together and felt the sand between them. Then I got up and walked under a brick archway into a pretty garden terrace. It was nighttime and my girlfriend was there. I kissed her and then I woke up.

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February 10th, 2017

I was having a birthday sleepover at my house at home and it was suppose to last three days. It was the morning after the first party. Alyss had gone home instead of sleeping over, for some reason, and she was really late coming back to the party. I remember it was around 1:00 and she still hadn’t come back, and I was sad, plus we were all going to leave for a trip soon, and I didn’t want her to miss it. (Side note: Alyss does not have a habit of being extremely late, I just dream about waiting for her when I miss her.) Alyss finally arrived in time for us to go to a place that looked like a mixture of New Orleans and Florence, Italy. There were crowds of people shopping. Alyss and I stopped in a little glass jewelry shop. Alyss found an amethyst necklace with a heart pendant that had a key hole in it. She loved it. Then I found a necklace with an amethyst key shaped pendant! She bought it for me, so that I’d have the key to her heart. She also bought me a brown, plastic newsboy hat that could blow up balloons for balloon animals, for some reason. Then we came upon an open field with little stands of artists selling things - very hippie like. Someone put a flaming halo on my head, but they stumbled a little, and my hair caught on fire. I stumbled, and a laundry line caught on fire, and that started a forest fire. We all ran away and saw that the city had caught on fire and buildings were collapsing while black goo oozed out of the windows. I saw a man flush a woman down a large toilet in the hopes that it would take her to safety.

The dream then cut to me and my friends (from the previous party) in a small, private movie theatre with black velvet seats. I was crawling around in the balcony to try and change the movie. I found a pair of rubber gloves used when changing the movies. Then, a bunch of security guards busted in on me, and one of them hit me over the head with a baton. I thought I might die, but I didn’t, and I ran away. I was then in a hotel, and I found my parents frantically packing up to flee from the fire and destruction. I asked if Cocoa and Louise (our chihuahua and cat) were okay and if we could bring them. They said yes, and my dad carried Louise in his jacket. My mom put Cocoa in a clear makeup bag with her little nose poking out, and I carried Cocoa. Then I woke up.

#dream #dream journal #birthday #sleepover #alyss #necklace #new orleans #amethyst #italy #florence #fire #hotel #parents #cocoa #louise

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January 27th, 2017

tw: misgendering, cancer 

I dreamed that I had a bunch of tiny kittens in my mouth and I was worried I was going to hurt them, so I was slowly taking them out and returning them to their mother. 

Then I dreamed that I went back in time and I was at this beautiful old building that looked like it might be in Spain. There was a family there, and I knew someone was going to get murdered, but I didn't know who. Then I think the murderer figured out I knew something and he kept giving me menacing looks. I locked myself in a bedroom with Cocoa, my chihuahua. He threatened to tattoo Cocoa when I came out, which was a very weird threat, but it freaked me out in the dream. 

Then I had a really realistic sex dream about my girlfriend, but it made me kind of sad because I knew it was a dream and I could wake up at any moment. (My girlfriend and I are long distance and I miss her.) 

And then I dreamed that I was at the hospital with Alyss's family because her ankle was hurting her. Mark was wearing a button down crop top, and I told him he looked very cute and gay. We were sitting in really big, tall armchairs. Then I overheard that Alyss was having ankle cancer removed, which I hadn't known, and I freaked out a lot inside but tried to hold myself together. I hid my face under a white face cloth to cry. Then the doctor came out to tell us the procedure went well, but he kept misgendering Alyss, and Alyss's mom and I yelled, "She! She's a girl!" at him in unison. And he said something like, "stop distracting my brain; I'm doing important work here" as he left the room. Then Alyss came out and I hugged her and cried, and then I woke up.

#small animals #murderer #mansion #alyss #hospital #dream #dream journal #misgendering

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January 24th, 2017

I was a little kid at a block party. There was a group of boys that was trying to hit me and my friends with corks using slingshots, and they were specifically aiming for our necks. (Probably because I hate anything that could hurt my neck as a vocal performance major.) My friends and I were running around looking for a place to hide and we decided to climb a big tree in front of a neighbor's house. The slingshot boys found us and they started shooting at us, but they were missing a lot. I said, "collect the corks!" so we collected the corks so they would run out of amo. Then all our parents found us and made us go home, and I thought it was dumb that the slingshot boys didn't get in trouble. I went into our garage with my parents, and for some reason, Alyss's aunt was there dressed as Mrs. Claus and sitting in a floating chair which deposited her into a fancy, red sports car. Then I woke up.

#block party #little kid

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January 22nd, 2017

I was seeing a play with my parents. The theatre was decorated and painted all white and we were sitting on white stairs. The play ended with two women in beautiful, poofy wedding dresses walking onstage from glamorous staircases, and it looked like they were getting married, but it turns out they were about to do sexy photoshoots to make their ex boyfriends jealous. Even in my dreams, there is queerbaiting. 

Then I dreamed that I was trying to teach a giraffe to do a summersault, but it turned into a giant, scary metal tunnel with bolts all over it. It was huge.. like the diameter of four houses, and it was a bridge leading to a giant, old, seemingly abandoned ship. Underneath the tunnel bridge was a deep valley. It was raining, and I turned into a pirate man. There was another pirate man with me. He ran across the roof of the tunnel towards the ship, and I followed him even though it was very slippery. When we got to the ship, we climbed along the edges of it like spiders. Pieces of the ship kept breaking off in our hands as we climbed. I found a window and crawled inside. It was a small room with a fire and a table and a lot of gold treasure. I didn't notice the captain of the ship was there sleeping! He was a green blob with a face, and he woke up to the sound of me coming through the window. He was angry that we were trespassing, and he started to chase me. I climbed out the window, and he followed. Then I woke up.

#theatre #giraffe #pirate ship #dream #dream journal #queerbaiting

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January 14th, 2017

I was going camping and it was night time. Me and a friend were exploring. We had been told not to go in the "Ribbon Woods," but we went anyway. The ribbon woods had old, fraying ribbons hanging from the branches of trees. There were creepy, paper mâché animatronics everywhere. There was a giant tree with a face. Its eyes moved and it seemed to be laughing at us. I also remember two animatronic corpses that were perpetually giving birth on a bench. Suddenly, all the animatronic corpses started laughing at us and mocking us. We had turned into little kids, and we were on tricycles. My friend picked up a DVD of a cartoon from the ground. Then a corpse kid started to try and follow us. I told my friend to drop the DVD, and we tried to bike away. My friend dropped her bike to just run. I biked away between two short wooden fences. 

In this next dream, I was in a class in which I had to do a research report. The class took place in a dusty old mansion. Amy, Christina, and Hayley were my partners, and we decided to research Candle Cove. In the house, we found some clues. I found a big, black skeleton key, and Christina found a Candle Cove board game. We planned to go to Candle Cove together once it was daylight, to investigate. The next thing I remember was going to someone's house, which was on the school campus. On the way there, I saw some Eevees having a birthday party. At the house, I was having lunch between classes. Amy was babysitting Cocoa (my chihuahua) and a turtle, and she brought them over to say hi. The turtle's legs had fallen off, but he grew new ones. As I was holding the turtle, the bottom of his shell fell off. His organs were falling out, and I was desperately trying to put them back in place to keep him alive. Then, before I could stop her, Cocoa took a bite out of the turtles organs.

#woods #school #candle cove #cocoa #small animals

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January 12th, 2017

I was at the beach with some friends. I was wearing a periwinkle colored bathing suit that was shaped like a romper, and the shorts of it kept riding up. I remember there was also a baby on the beach. The tide kept bringing a bunch of trash onto the beach. I said we should do something about it. Someone said their dad was a hippo/alligator highbred and that he could stop the trash. We followed this person under a giant pier with hippo/alligator highbreds all over the place. I was worried that they wouldn't be able to know which one was their dad, but they did. He came back to the beach with us, and I guess he magically stopped the trash from coming in with the tide. There was a big movie screen showing a movie on the beach. I sat up front next to my mom and my girlfriend's mom. I asked my girlfriend's mom, "Do you know where your daughter is?" And she was like, "right next to me!" And I looked around her and Alyss was there! Then I snuggled up next to Alyss on a towel to watch the movie. I had another dream that I was back in middle school and I was walking through the hall looking for a cup of water because I was thirsty. I saw my friend Noah through the door to a classroom. There were also cups in this classroom. Noah saw me and came out, and I asked him if he thought I could take one of the cups. He said probably not. I said that was okay, I could just drink from the water fountain, and I did. Then I went back into my classroom, and there were three vampire kids that tried to bite me. And this last dream I barely remember, but I remember that I was in a large greenhouse made to look like the rainforest, and it was dark and "raining" (as in the ceiling was spraying water to water the plants). I remember cats were everywhere and also my friend Bennett was there wearing an elaborate costume made out of giant succulent plants that could open and close.

#beach #alyss #middle school #greenhouse #dream #dream journal

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January 11th, 2017

I was at a party in an apartment building with a lot of friends. Some from college. I was sitting on the floor with a pillow in my lap and a friend was resting her head on it. Some guy I was talking to asked if I wanted to chill on the balcony. That sounds like a come-on, but it wasn't. We were having a serious conversation and wanted to hear each other better. I forgot what it was about though. On the balcony, we sat on the edge of a covered pool. A helicopter that kind of looked like giant, black binoculars was circling the apartment and taking photographs. Somehow I knew that some people at the party were involved in something sketchy, but I didn't know what it was. Then the helicopter landed halfway on the balcony and halfway in the apartment and two young women got out. I think they told us we had to leave. Everyone left their stuff and headed immediately for the big elevator. One of the young women from the helicopter held my cellphone. She saw me looking at it and said, "Is this yours?" I nodded and she said she was sorry I couldn't have it back. I said, "All it has on it is a bunch of cute pictures of my girlfriend.." She seemed sympathetic and handed me my phone back, and I could tell she wasn't suppose to do that but she knew I wasn't involved or something. I sat next to Katie on the ground while waiting for the elevator. Some people were having an awkward, casual conversation with the helicopter women. On the elevator, a voice came through a speaker and said, "a family has been shot and killed in the lobby." I was terrified that it could be my parents because I knew they planned to pick me up around then. In the lobby, there was a man on the ground, but it wasn't my dad. There were several people around, and I saw my parents. They were both wearing wigs as a disguise - my mom's grey and my dad's blond. We walked outside together and my dad pointed across the street saying, "my car's right over there." Then we got in a different car and my mom got on a bus home. I think it was to confuse any bad guys that could be watching. In the car, my dad held my hand to comfort me, and then I woke up.

#party #helicopter #parents #dream #dream journal

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January 7th, 2017

I was with my friend Amy at a new theme park in our hometown. It was cotton candy themed. I had a light green teddy bear with me. We then got on a light green roller coaster. I accidentally dropped the teddy bear while on the roller coaster. While looking for the teddy bear I got a call from my mom saying that we won some sort of contest and we had to have dinner with Donald Trump, whom no one in my family supports. I decided that I was going to be polite but not hold back on sharing my political opinions. Then I woke up.

#amy #roller coaster #donald trump #dream #dream journal #mom

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January 6th, 2017

I was in an old mansion with a theatre in it. I had organized and produced a dance show. I don’t know why I decided to do that. I didn’t dance in it, nor did I choreograph any of it; I had my dancer/choreographer friends do that. I just decided I wanted to make a dance show happen, I guess. Before the show, I was chatting with friends in the furnished attic. Somehow we accidentally missed the whole performance. We found out because Emilia joined us in the attic, and she was in the show. I was really sad that I missed what I had worked on. Emilia didn’t seem mad at me. She was glad it was over, said it went well, and she was excited to come to my birthday party which was to be after the show. Then we all went down to the theatre. It was still full. The front row was full of my friends from middle school.. as middle schoolers. I somehow knew that the front row turned people into middle schoolers, but they changed back as soon as they left that row. Caroline waved at me. I went to sit with them, and felt myself get shorter and my hair grow long as I turned back to my middle school age. I sat next to the boy I “dated” in middle school, and he awkwardly ignored me. I didn’t care though, especially when I looked behind me and saw my current girlfriend, Alyss, looking super hot in a tie dye crop top. Then everyone made their way to the lobby, and I saw my friend John, who was in the show. I told him that I was sorry I missed the show I organized, but I heard it went well, and that I hope to get to see him as Colehouse in Ragtime at Carnegie Mellon where Alyss goes to school.

#theatre #attic #alyss #dream #dream journal

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January 4th, 2017

I only remember bits and pieces again. I remember going to a spa with Christina and getting facials and then watching Hayley open her birthday present from me.

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January 3rd, 2017

All I remember is the piano in my house playing a creepy song by itself, and then my dad showing me a video he took on his phone of plastic bags floating around in our house and him saying he thought the house was haunted.

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January 2nd, 2017

I was walking home and saw a little kid in yellow footie pajamas standing in front of my house surrounded by a few human sized easter eggs. For some reason, I felt it wouldn't be safe to walk into my house, so I ran the other way and around a corner. Then I called an uber who took me to my grandma's house (which is in Michigan). I remember the uber lady was nice. At my grandma's house, there was a baby bunny. My grandma was showing it to me. I was holding the bunny and then it turned into a mouse and ran away. A bunch of relatives showed up with big boots on, and I was worried that the mouse would get stepped on by accident. I caught the mouse and put it in a pringles can which conveniently already had air holes in the lid. Then I went into the hallway to call the police about the boy in pajamas in front of my house. The police told me there had been a murder in front of that address and I was right to have stayed away. Then the mouse turned into a vampire mouse with big, curling teeth, and it was trying to escape the pringles can. And then it turned into a giant crab/scorpion. Its scorpion tail came out of the container (which was now a plate sized, carry-out tupperware container) and tried to sting me. I needed to let it go outside, but first I went downstairs to my friends Jake and Chris's room (because downstairs was like a college residence hall) to show them the scorpion crab. I asked them to take a picture of it, but their phones were dead. Then I went outside. My friend Amy came outside with me. The backyard was a beach. Amy commented on how beautiful the day was. I set the scorpion crab free in a patch of tall grass. Then I noticed a bunch of weird veiny things attached all over my arms and legs. I pulled them all off and it hurt a little. The other dream I had was a typical actor's nightmare. I was in a show and I was late to call. I was rushing to put on my costume in a large walk-in closet with a bunch of other girls. My costume was a townsperson costume, very Beauty and the Beast-ish. I didn't have time to put makeup on. I ran upstairs and found my friend Caylee. She knew I didn't know what was going on, and she said I could follow her movements onstage. Our number was a dance. It wasn't too hard and I stayed in the back, copying Caylee's moves. I had thought this was a dress rehearsal, but the audience was full.

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